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A Review On The Advertisement Effectiveness In Service Sector:High Education Attractiveness

Advertisement is one of the marketing technique for promoting service to the prospective customers that often been used by many service companies. The main objective of an advertisement is to escalate the number of customers but in many service companies it does not turns into that favorable result. This is due to the effectiveness of the advertisement itself whereby the advertisement made fail to reach the prospective customers and fails to achieve the main objective of advertising. The objective of this paper is to review recent research into the understanding of the advertisement effectiveness in service companies particularly in high education institution and to provide conceptual framework on factors that lead to the attractiveness of the high education institution. Purpose – This paper aims to review recent researches in the nature of effectiveness of marketing in service sectors, particularly in the point of attractiveness of a high education institution as a service sector business, in order to overcome the challenges on attracting students to further studies. Design/methodology/approach – A variety of recent research outputs are reviewed including the topics of factors attracting students to study in universities, marketing and promotion and barriers of education. Findings – The paper concludes that there are many factors that may contribute to the attractiveness of a high education institution. But to sustain the three factors which are the promotional activities, perceived reputation and customer relationship will escalate the number of students enrolled in a high education institution. These are the most recent factors that have been the key factors in many recent researches on marketing a high education institution. Research implications/limitations – The research reported in this paper would benefit from further in-depth study especially in the marketing of a service business issues. Originality/value – The paper summarizes the most recent literature review regarding the factors attracting student to enter the high education institution and come out with three main contributing factors to the issues. The paper gives guidance on the related factors that may contribute to the effectiveness of promotions. Keywords : Higher education, marketing, promotion, advertisement.
Quantitative Aspects of Labile Diabetes

Eighteen diabetic patients representing a spectrum from hyperlabile to stable forms of this disease were investigated under metabolic ward conditions. Hyperlabile patients had the greatest daily and hourly variation in glycosuria and the most marked ketonuria. In our hyperlabile patients, multiple daily injections of short-acting insulin proved to be the only therapeutic measure that provided significant improvement in diabetic regulation when dietary and general health measures were already optimal. In more stable patients, longer acting insulin injected less frequently was found to be satisfactory therapy if careful adjustments to individual needs were made. Blood glucose and serum ketone-body and free fatty acid concentrations as well as qualitative estimates of glucose and ketone bodies in small samples of freshly voided urine were found to be suitable indicators of the immediate state of metabolic regulation. These parameters correlated with one another to a satisfactory degree, but they proved to be poorly correlated with measurements of urinary glucose and ketone bodies during periods of five to twenty-four hours. Quantitative analysis of individual blood samples or qualitative estimates of glucose or ketone bodies in freshly voided urine specimens proved to be unreliable indices of the patients' long-term metabolic compensation except in the most stable patients. Quantitations of urinary glucose and ketone bodiesin five, nine, and twenty-four-hour collections of urine, on the other hand, give satisfactory data to assess diabetic regulation, both as to accuracy of compensation and stability.
Quantitative Effects of Carbohydrates and Aromatic Amino Acids on Clostridium botulinum Toxin Gene Expression Using a Rapid Competitive RT/PCR Assay

A rapid competitive RT/PCR assay was developed to determine the effects of nutrients on Clostridium botulinum type E toxin gene expression. The type E strain (EVH) was grown in a nutrient-rich broth containing 1% glucose (base medium). Toxin gene expression was quantified at both mid and late exponential phases of growth. It was found that toxin encoding mRNA levels were highly growth phase dependent with elevated levels found in late exponential phase compared to mid exponential phase. Changing the carbohydrate source had a smaller effect on toxin encoding mRNA levels but as earlier results have suggested, toxin encoding mRNA levels show a strong correlation with type E growth rate. The results have important implications for the food industry whereby risk of type E botulism could be correlated to the nutrient composition of the contaminated food or assessed from C. botulinum growth rates in challenged foodstuffs.
The development of total quality management (TQM), work culture and employee performance relationship in Malaysia manufacturing industry

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management philosophy and operating approach that aims to consistently exceed the current and future expectations of all stakeholders, based on continuous improvement in all processes, goods and services.TQM is very important to the organization in order for them to survive in the global market. Korean companies have had incredible achievement by implementing quality as their competitive advantages compared to Malaysian companies. Moreover, sales value of the Malaysian manufacturing sector in February 2013 has decreased compared to last year. The main objective of this study is to develop a TQM performance model with the work culture as mediator, and ownership as moderator. A total of 350 questionnaires have been distributed to 10 manufacturing companies in Malaysia and effective sample of 294 usable completed surveys (84.0 percent usable response rate). Reliability and validity testing were conducted to test the questionnaire before pilot test was done. Statistical analysis and regression were used to predict and estimate the relationship. The model was assessed using Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The findings showed that TQM practices have a significant impact on employee performance with mediating effects of work culture and ownership as a moderating factor. The results also show that work culture partially mediated the relationship between TQM and employee performance. The study also showed that there were slightly differences of TQM implementation level towards employee performance between Korean and non-Korean companies.
Open innovation laboratories for social modeling sustainable society sensitive to social needs

This research is framed in the field of laboratories citizens, especially those who are driven by private institutions of higher education. The variables are going to study the interaction of participants of laboratories, the use of technology and how to participate in a working group when different disciplines are integrated. The main objective is to analyze how the collaborative knowledge construction is achieved when you have a common problem or social impact. Since the mixed paradigm is to enrich the information to be retrieved and analyzed to answer the research question. The instruments are designed questionnaires, in-depth interviews, non-participant observation and analysis of the productions of the participants. This project seeks to find information to know in depth the mechanisms of collaborative knowledge construction. Such construction will be used as input for participants to be active in the ways of responding to societal challenges.
University as new entrepreneurial finance player: A search for the new role

How to cite this paper: Mariani, G. (2018). University as new entrepreneurial finance player: A search for the new role. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 7(4), 19-26. http://doi.org/10.22495/jgr_v7_i4_p3 Copyright © 2018 The Authors This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
Docking and scoring: applications to drug discovery in the interactomics era

Background: Computational approaches such as docking and scoring are becoming routine in drug discovery as a complement to other more traditional techniques. However, so far, computer drug design methods have been applied to inhibit the function of individual proteins, and there is little available data on the use of these computational techniques to target protein–protein interactions. Objective: To establish a strategy for the use of current computational tools in drug discovery targeting protein–protein interactions. Method: Individual techniques applied to specific cases could be studied to derive a general strategy for targeting protein–protein interactions. Conclusion: Protein docking, interface prediction and hot-spot identification can contribute to the discovery of small molecule inhibitors targeting protein interactions of therapeutic interest, especially when little structural information is available.
Next Steps for Value Sensitive Design? A Practitioner's Progress

Over the last 20 years, value sensitive design (VSD) as a framework and approach based in theory has been widely applied, and also contested, in HCI. In this presentation, I draw on 8 years of practice to show how VSD is a suitable and productive methodological framework for research on social change and social impact. My goal is to promote discussion at HCIC of the connection of theory and practice, and how bridging the gap between theory and practice can, in turn, bridge the gap between academic and industry research.
Micro-inverter for photovoltaic modules

A new architecture of a microinverter for the direct junction of photovoltaic modules to the electric network at industrial frequency has been presented in the paper. The conversion of the energy generated by the photovoltaic module into the alternating current is performed in a single stage. It has been achieved the yield of the microinverter equal to 97%, which was experimentally determined. The parameters of the experimental sample of the microinverter are the following: input voltage 48V, output voltage 230V at the frequency of 50 Hz, nominal power 300 W. The switching frequency of power semiconductor device is 100 kHz.
Modeling Creative Processes for Business Performance

The main aim of the paper is to explore the use of creative processes, primarily in service-providing businesses. Creative processes could be considered one of the ways to improve the company’s performance, as well as increase the motivation of employees. A company’s performance not only depends on routine work processes, but also on the ability to use the creative resources in the most efficient way. In this case, is it true that creativity is widely used in large companies? Is it more beneficial to be creative when the competitiveness is tough? What are the attitude towards creativity as a tool for boosting business development? Implementation of new ideas, resource reallocation, improvement of product line efficiency and other activities can be optimized with the help of creative processes. This paper studies the implementation of creative processes in business development, covering theoretical and practical business aspects for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Screening phage-displayed combinatorial peptide libraries.

Among the many techniques available to investigators interested in mapping protein-protein interactions is phage display. With a modest amount of effort, time, and cost, one can select peptide ligands to a wide array of targets from phage-display combinatorial peptide libraries. In this article, protocols and examples are provided to guide scientists who wish to identify peptide ligands to their favorite proteins.
Feedback Regulation of Transcriptional Termination by the Mammalian Circadian Clock PERIOD Complex

The Inner Workings of a Clock Eukaryotic circadian clocks are built at least in part on transcriptional feedback loops, but the mechanisms underlying circadian feedback are poorly understood. Padmanabhan et al. (p. 599, published online 5 July) explored the transcriptional feedback mechanism at the heart of the mammalian circadian clock. The proteins PERIOD (PER) and CRYPTOCHROME suppress transcription of their own genes. PER complexes do so in part by recruiting a histone deacetylase to promoters of clock genes. But PER is also present on DNA in a complex with Senataxin, a helicase that functions in transcriptional termination. Senataxin appears to be inhibited in the PER complex, thus inhibiting termination and further reducing the rate of transcription. A circadian rhythm regulator acts by altering the elongation stage of gene expression. Eukaryotic circadian clocks are built on transcriptional feedback loops. In mammals, the PERIOD (PER) and CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) proteins accumulate, form a large nuclear complex (PER complex), and repress their own transcription. We found that mouse PER complexes included RNA helicases DDX5 and DHX9, active RNA polymerase II large subunit, Per and Cry pre-mRNAs, and SETX, a helicase that promotes transcriptional termination. During circadian negative feedback, RNA polymerase II accumulated near termination sites on Per and Cry genes but not on control genes. Recruitment of PER complexes to the elongating polymerase at Per and Cry termination sites inhibited SETX action, impeding RNA polymerase II release and thereby repressing transcriptional reinitiation. Circadian clock negative feedback thus includes direct control of transcriptional termination.
Wireless Network-Coded Accumulate–Compute-and-Forward Two-Way Relaying

For the physical-layer network-coded wireless two-way relaying, it was observed by Koike-Akino et al. that adaptively changing the network coding map used at the relay according to channel conditions greatly reduces the impact of multiple-access interference, which occurs at the relay, and all these network coding maps should satisfy a requirement called exclusive law. We extend this approach to an accumulate-compute-and-forward protocol, which employs two phases: a multiple access (MA) phase consisting of two channel uses with independent messages in each channel use and a broadcast (BC) phase having one channel use. Assuming that the two users transmit points from the same 4-phase-shift keying (PSK) constellation, every such network coding map that satisfies the exclusive law can be represented by a Latin square of side 16, and conversely, this relationship can be used to get the network coding maps satisfying the exclusive law. Two methods of obtaining this network coding map to be used at the relay are discussed. Using the structural properties of the Latin squares for a given set of parameters, the problem of finding all the required maps is reduced to finding a small set of maps for the case. Having obtained all the Latin squares, a criterion is provided to select a Latin square for a given realization of fade state. This criterion turns out to be the same as the one used by Muralidharan et al. for two-stage bidirectional relaying.
Examining the effects of source selection method on procurement outcomes

Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of supplier selection method on key procurement outcomes such as procurement lead time (PLT), supplier performance and buyer team size. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a sample of 124 archival contract records from the US Department of Defense. A multiple regression model and multivariate analysis of covariance/analysis of covariance models were used to test the effects of source selection method on pertinent procurement outcomes. Findings The trade-off (TO) source selection method increases PLT, as does the number of evaluation factors and the number of proposals received. Substantially larger sourcing teams are also associated with the TO source selection method. Nonetheless, the TO method results in better supplier performance. Practical implications TO source selections yield superior supplier performance than low-bidder methods. However, they are costly in terms of time and personnel. Any assessment of supplier value should consider not only the price premium for higher performance but also the transaction costs associated with the TO method. Originality/value Very little research addresses a buying team’s evaluation of supplier-offered value ex ante and whether that value assessment materializes into actual value-added supplier performance. Low bidder tactics are pervasive, but price (i.e. sacrifice) is only one component of value. Benefits from superior supplier performance may yield greater overall value. If value is critical to the buyer, a TO source selection method – versus a low-bidder approach – is the appropriate tool because of higher supplier performance ex post.
Glucose utilization by Streptomyces griseus.

SUMMARY: Glucose utilization by a strain of Streptomyces griseus was studied. Under highly aerobic conditions, glucose was converted mainly to structural material and CO2, but under restricted aeration, lactic acid was formed. Pyruvic acid was also formed during the stages of most rapid growth. The metabolism of glucose was dependent upon the presence of phosphate, and the optimal hydrogenion concentration for both glucose oxidation and the rate of disappearance of inorganic phosphate was about pH 7. Phosphate esters, tentatively identified as glucose-1-phosphate and glucose-6-phosphate, were obtained in fluoride-inhibited systems. Glucose oxidation was depressed by 10-3 m-sodium iodoacetate and 10-2 m-sodium arsenite but was stimulated by 10-2 m-sodium arsenate; 10-3 m-2: 4-dinitro-phenol and 10-3 m-sodium azide had no effect. Streptomycin production was decreased by 3 x 10-3 m-sodium arsenate but not by 10-2 m-sodium fluoride or 10-2 m-sodium iodoacetate. S. griseus metabolized members of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, although citrate and α-ketoglutarate gave much lower values of Q 02 at pH 7.3 than pyruvate, acetate, succinate, fumarate or malate. Ketoacids were produced in presence of arsenite from fumarate, malate, glucose, lactate, acetate, succinate, glutamate and citrate in descending order of yield. Except from fumarate, which yielded some material behaving like α-ketoglutarate, the product was chiefly pyruvate.
Assessment of corporate culture and employee commitment at UT Bank

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv DEDICATION v TABLE OF CONTENT vi LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 Background to the study 1 Problem statement 3 Purpose of the study 4 Objectives of the study 4 Research questions 5 Significance of the study 5 Scope of the study 6 Organization of the study 6 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 7 Introduction 7 The meaning of culture 7 The Development of corporate culture 9 Corporate culture defined 12 Components of corporate culture 13 Digitized by Sam Jonah Library ©University of Cape Coast
Explorations of Semantic Space : The Case of Light Verb Constructions in Persian

Il existe un phenomene linguistique etonnant dans la langue persane. La grande majorite des verbes se presentent comme des formes composees a partir d'un verbe support (VS), et d'un autre element lexical, appele preverbe (PV). Chaque VS se combine avec une grande variete de PV pour former des constructions a verbe-support (CVS) differentes avec une grande variete de sens. En raison du caractere quasi-compositionnel de ces formes, les CVS persanes presentent une ouverture interessante sur le processus de construction de sens. Dans cette these, j'etudie le probleme de la construction du sens d'un enonce compose, afin d'examiner des proprietes fondamentales des langues humaines : la productivite linguistique, la compositionalite, la polysemie, et la construction des expressions composees. Cette these propose que l'espace semantique des constructions verbales persanes est organises en « ilots » notionels representes par des constructions exprimant des proprietes linguistiques et cognitifs.
Robust detector for amplify-and-forward with noncoherent frequency-shift keying

In this paper, we develop a simple closed-form generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) detector for a multi-relay amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative network employing noncoherent M-ary frequency-shift keying (M-FSK). The proposed detector is robust in the sense that it does not require any prior knowledge about the channels such as the variance of the additive white Gaussian noise, the fading model, and the channel statistics. To analytically evaluate the proposed detector, focusing on the single-relay case with a direct source-destination link, we derive an exact expression of the bit-error rate (BER) for binary FSK in Rayleigh fading. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed detector.
Are CoCo Bonds a Good Substitute for Equity? Evidence from European Banks

Following the 2008-9 financial crisis, large banks increasingly issued contingent convertible bonds (CoCo bonds) to increase their capital buffers – a policy supported by national bank regulators. This paper examines whether the issuance of CoCo bonds provides the same reduction in bank default risk as the corresponding issuance of common equity by analyzing the premium reduction in (single name) credit default swaps (CDS) around the corresponding issuance announcement events. We find that the default risk reduction associated with issuance crucially depends on the CoCo bond’s design features: Only CoCo bond designs with permanent write-down features provide a default risk reduction similar to equity. CoCo bonds with equity conversion features come with a lower subsequent volatility of the bank asset value, but are inferior to equity in terms of their default risk reduction.
The visual system of zebrafish and its use to model human ocular Diseases

Free swimming zebrafish larvae depend mainly on their sense of vision to evade predation and to catch prey. Hence, there is strong selective pressure on the fast maturation of visual function and indeed the visual system already supports a number of visually driven behaviors in the newly hatched larvae. The ability to exploit the genetic and embryonic accessibility of the zebrafish in combination with a behavioral assessment of visual system function has made the zebrafish a popular model to study vision and its diseases. Here, we review the anatomy, physiology, and development of the zebrafish eye as the basis to relate the contributions of the zebrafish to our understanding of human ocular diseases. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 72: 302–327, 2012
The recent evolution of human L1 retrotransposons

L1 elements are the most successful retrotransposons in mammals and are responsible for at least 30% of human DNA. Far from being indolent genomic parasites, L1 elements have evolved and amplified rapidly during human evolution. Indeed during just the last 25 million years (MY) five distinct L1 families have emerged and generated tens of thousands of copies. The most recently evolved human specific L1 family is currently active and L1 copies have been accumulating in the human genome at about the same rate per generation as the currently active L1 families in Old World rats and mice. At times during the last 25 MY L1 activity constituted a significant enough genetic load to be subject to negative selection. During these same times, and in apparent response to the host, L1 underwent adaptive evolution. Understanding the molecular basis for these evolutionary changes should help illuminate one of the least understood but most important aspects of L1 biology, namely the extent and nature of the interaction between L1 and its host.