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ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA IN CHILDREN: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE FROM TURKEY
Authors: Aksu Tekin
Published: June 2018

Background and objectives: Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), characterized by tendency to hemorrhage and excellent response to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), is a distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In this retrospective study, we aimed to determine the incidence, clinical symptoms, toxicities and outcome of children with APL in our center. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of children (age < 18 years) diagnosed with APL at our pediatric hematology department between January 2006-December 2016.Results: Pediatric APL represents 20.5% of AML cases in this cohort. Most of the cases presented as classical M3, albeit hypogranular variant was described in 12% of the cohort. Patients with hypogranular variant APL were differed from classical APL by co-expression of CD2 and CD34. About ¾ of APL patients had hemorrhagic findings at admission or at initial phase of the treatment. Severe bleeding manifested as intracranial hemorrhage was present in three patients and intracranial arterial thrombosis was present in one. Five patients showed side effects of ATRA such as pseudotumor cerebri, dilated cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary infiltrates. Six year overall survival (OS) and early death rate was found to be 82.5% and 12% respectively.Conclusions: A high frequency (20.5%) of APL was noted among children with AML in this single center study. The overall mortality rate was 17.5%. Since the induction death rate was 12% and life threatening bleeding was the major problem, awareness and urgent treatment are critical factors to reduce early losses.
Adsorptive batch and column studies of Congo Red onto gulmohar leaf powder
Authors: Patel Himanshu
Published: June 2018

The present manuscript describes the adsorptive batch and column treatment of synthetic Congo Red dye onto naturally prepared adsorbents viz. gulmohar leaf powder and activated gulmohar leaf powder using sulfuric acid. The surface characterizations of naturally prepared adsorbents were performed by various sophisticated analytical techniques. Effect of various process parameters like adsorbent dosage, temperature, initial concentration, and pH for batch study; and flow rate and bed height for column study are explored. All batch adsorption data are analyzed using Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherm model. The Thomas, Yoon-Nelson, Adams and Bohart, and Bed Depth Service Time model are applied to predict the breakthrough curves and to determine the characteristic parameters of the column useful for process design. Activated gulmohar leaf powder is more feasible adsorbent compared to normal gulmohar leaf powder. Maximum adsorption capacity related to Adams and Bohart model; and Langmuir isotherm was found to be 919.4 mg/L; and 434.7 mg/g, respectively, for activated gulmohar leaf powder.
High thermal stability of aliphatic polyurethanes prepared from sesame and peanut oil and their kinetic parameters
Authors: Desappan Venkatesh , Viswanathan Jaisankar
Published: June 2018

Thermo-responsive vegetable oil-based polyurethanes were successfully prepared by poly-condensation reaction in the mixture of polyol and hexamethylene diisocynate. The functionality and high molecular weight of the polyurethanes were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H NMR), Carbon Nuclear Resonance Spectroscopy (13C NMR), and Gel Permeation Chromatography. The viscosity of the polyols was characterized by Rheometry and flow rate of the polyols were derived from power law model. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of synthesized polyurethanes HSCP and HPCP were calculated from by TG curve. Five different mass loss temperature was obtained in the TGA curve of HSCP and HPCP, which corresponded to the decomposition of the physically observed NH and C=O formed between polyol and diisocyanate, respectively. The average value of the activation energy calculated by Murray and White, Coats and Redfern, Doyle’s, and Freeman-Carroll’s method. The success of the investigated different vegetable oil-based polyurethanes, in comparison with the activation energy of the Freeman-Carroll’s method to determine the thermal stability and the lifetime prediction of the peanut and sesame oil-based polyurethanes is 1.87×105 and 1.27×104 s-1.
A mathematical expression for tiemonium methylsulphate in its simultaneous spectrophotometric estimation with ketorolac tromethamine
Authors: Uddin Mohammad Nasir , Kabir Md. Touhidul , Uddin Monir
Published: June 2018

Attempt has been made to develop a new, accurate, precise and economic spectrophotometric method for the simultaneous determination of ketorolactromethamine (KTR) and tiemoniummethylsulphate (TMS) in pharmaceutical formulation and bio-samples. It is noted that KTR shows two absorption peaks at 320 and 245 nm whereas TMS shows maximum absorption at 235 nm. In a mixture solution, peaks at 245 nm for KTR and at 235 nm for TMS are merged into a single peak at 240 nm. Hence KTR might be determined using its calibration equation constructed at 320 nm but the determination of TMS alone in their mixture measuring its absorption at 240 nm is difficult. Therefore, for the determination of TMS, a mathematical expression xT = k1.yK+T - k2.yK + k3 (y = Absorbance, x = Concentration) has been derived. This expression will give its concentration in mixture without having its absorption at 240 nm. Method has been applied to pharmaceutical and bio-samples successfully. Results have been compared to that estimated by new UPLC method developed as to validate this spectrophotometric method. The LOD and LOQ were found to be 0.25, 0.80 μg/mL for KTR and 0.31, 0.95 μg/mL for TMS, respectively.
Co-crystal structure of a dinuclear (Zn-Y) and a trinuclear (Zn-Y-Zn) complexes derived from a Schiff base ligand
Authors: Sarr Mamour , Diop Mayoro , Thiam Ibrahima Elhadj , Gaye Mohamed , Barry Aliou Hamady , Alvarez Natalia , Ellena Javier
Published: June 2018

The present investigation describes the synthesis and structural study of a metal-zinc ligand [ZnL.H2O], which was used to generate three dimensional supramolecular complex formulated as [Y{Zn(L)(SCN)}(SCN)2].[Y{Zn(L)(SCN)}2(DMF)2].(NO3). The title compound crystallizes in the triclinic space group P-1 with the following unit cell parameters: a = 14.8987(7) Å, b = 15.6725(8) Å, c = 19.2339(10) Å, a = 94.610(4)°, β = 103.857(4)°, γ = 101.473(4)°, V = 4234.4(4) Å3, Z = 2, R1 = 0.063 and wR2 = 0.96. For this compound, the structure reveals that one heterodinuclear unit [Y{Zn(L)(SCN)}(SCN)2] is co-crystallized with a heterotrinuclear unit [Y{Zn(L)(SCN)}2(DMF)2].(NO3). In the dinuclear moiety, the organic molecule acts as a hexadentate ligand and in the trinuclear unit, it acts as a pentadentate ligand with one of the oxygen methoxy group remaining uncoordinated. In both units the coordination environment of the zinc metal can be described as distorted square pyramidal. In the dinuclear unit the Y(III) is hexacoordinated while it is octacoordinated in the trinuclear unit. The environment of the Y(III) can be described as a distorted octahedral geometry in the dinuclear and as a distorted square antiprism in the trinuclear units respectively.
Microwave synthesis of some N-phenylhydrazine-1-carbothioamide Schiff bases
Authors: Al-Salami Bushra Kamil
Published: June 2018

We have synthesized and characterized a series of carbothioamide derivatived molecules, obtained by reaction of aromatic aldehyde (Anisaldehyde, 9-anthraldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, indole-3-carboxaldehyde, 1-naphthaldehyde and o-vanillin) with an equimolar amount of 4-phenylthiosemicarbazide with microwave irradiation. The synthesized compounds have been characterized by FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Quantum calculations of the physical properties, based on density functional theory method at B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory, were performed, by means of the Gaussian 09W set of programs. The theoretical 1H NMR chemical shift results of the studied compounds have been calculated at B3LYP method and standard 6-31+G(d,p) basis set using the standard Gauge-Independent Atomic Orbital approach. The calculated values are also compared with the experimental data available for these molecules. A good linear relationship between the experimental and calculated data has been obtained.
Synthesis, characterization and DFT computational studies of new heterocyclic azo compounds
Authors: Almashal Faeza , Jabar Abeer Mohamed , Dhumad Adil Muala
Published: June 2018

New heterocyclic azo compounds were prepared by coupling the diazonium salts with N-(4-methylphenyl)maleimide with various different sulfa compounds. The structure of heterocyclic azo compounds was determined by MS, FT-IR and 1H NMR techniques. The density function theory calculation at the B3LYP method with 6-311G(d,p) basis set is used to investigate the electronic structures of the prepared heterocyclic azo compounds. Mulliken charge distributions and HOMO-LUMO energies of the mentioned compounds have been also computed by same method and basis set.
A series of 1,3-imidazoles and triazole-3-thiones based thiophene-2-carboxamides as anticancer agents: Synthesis and anticancer activity
Authors: Haggam Reda Ahmed , Assy Mohamed Gomma , Sherif Mohamed Hassan , Galahom Mohamed Mohamed
Published: June 2018

By addition of semicarbazide or phenylhydrazine hydrochloride to thienoylisothiocyanate (1) resulted in building of thiosemicarbazide derivative (2), triazole derivative (4) and thiophene-2-carboxamide (5), respectively. Basic cyclization of compound 2 led to formation of oxadiazine (3). Synthesis of thiadiazine derivative (6) was achieved via reaction of compound 5 and maleic anhydride in triethyl amine. Heating of compound 5 with ethyl chloroacetate or sodium ethoxide produced thiadiazine derivative (7) and triazolethione (8), respectively. Thiosemicarbazide derivative 11 was synthesized by addition of nicotinic hydrazide to compound 1. Refluxing of compound 11 with lead acetate afforded triazole (13). Moreover, acid and base mediated cyclizations of compound 11 gave thiadiazole (12) and 1,2,4-triazolethione (14) throughout thiophene intermediate, respectively. Addition of ethyl 2-aminothiophene-3-carboxylate to compound 1 formed thiourea (15) which was refluxed with ethoxide giving thiophene-3-carboxylic acid (16). Lastly, nucleophilic addition of amino phenol or ethylene diamine to compound 1 yielded oxazine structure (18) and imidazole derivative (19), respectively. The yields of the synthesized compounds were 61-95%. The detailed synthesis and spectroscopic data of the new compounds are reported.
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Authors: Arslan Hakan
Published: June 2018

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Factors Affecting Undergraduate Students’ Intention to Become a Chartered Accountant in Bangladesh
Authors: Akter Mohsina , Siraj Muhammad Muhiuddin
Published: June 2018

Purpose-The objective of this paper is to examine the factors affecting Bangladeshi students’ intention to be a chartered accountant. This paper specifically addresses factors like students’ gender, previous major at undergraduate level, CGPA, public vs private university status and family income.Design/methodology/approach - The study was conducted using a questionnaire survey with a sample of 271 students from five different public and private universities in Bangladesh. The 12x2"> test was applied to examine the relationship between these factors and students’ aspiration for a chartered accountant.Findings- The findings of the study show that out of five variables three variables, previous major, public vs private university status and family income, have significant relationship with students’ intention to pursue CA professional qualification. On the contrary, gender and CGPA of the students are considered as insignificant factors.Originality/Value-This research is the first study in Bangladesh which identifies several influencing factors for students’ choice to become a chartered accountant. The findings have implications for professional bodies in Bangladesh and other policy makers in their effort to develop strategies to motivate students to be a chartered accountant.
Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation of Bank Performance in Pakistan
Authors: Nazar Nida , Ramzani Sara Ravan , Anjum Temoor , Shahzad Imran Ahmed
Published: June 2018

The purpose of this study is to empirically test the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and organizational performance in banking sector of Pakistan. A deductive approach of logic was adopted to formulate the hypotheses. A structured questionnaire was administered to the banking staff to elicit responses regarding the study variables. In order to test the hypothesized relationship, Partial Least Square Structural equation modelling technique was used. Results of PLS indicated a positive association three dimensions of EO and organizational performance. This study contributes to theory and practice in terms of Pakistani context.
Factors Affecting a Business Strategy and its Impact on Construction Services in a Special Area of Jakarta: Balanced Scorecard and Malcolm Baldrige Approach
Authors: Salim M. Noor
Published: June 2018

Research in the field of strategic management is intended to test and analyze the influence of the external and internal environment of the organization on the performance of construction service companies through the business strategy of construction service companies. This research uses balanced scorecard and Malcolm Baldrige integration approach. Innovation on performance merging as measured by Balanced Scorecard and Malcolm Baldrige performance. Variable research includes external environment variables, internal environment, business strategy and performance of construction company services. The method of analysis is done by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) model. The external environment influences the performance of construction services through business strategy, it shows that the dynamic influence of the external environment explores the macro strength and competition analysis it is necessary to apply the right strategy through business quality and partnership strategy then the performance of construction services will be increasing. Internal environment affects the performance of construction services through business strategy, it shows that the dynamic influence of the internal environment through the culture, structure and sources of the organization it is necessary for the implementation of appropriate strategies through business quality and partnership strategy so that the performance of construction services will getting up.
Marriage of Inconvenience Between Herders and Farmers in Nigeria: Can Elephant and Hippo Tango?
Authors: Kenneth O. Iloanya , Chukwuemeka Emma E.O. , Ananti Matthias
Published: June 2018

This study sets out to examine the implications of open grazing system on sustainable development in Nigeria. It was necessitated by the unprecedented burning of houses, killing and maiming of farmers across different blocs of Nigeria. The last few years witnessed violent clashes between pastoralists and crop farmers in various parts of the country over grazing resources which has led to the loss of numerous lives and properties, food shortages arising from abandonment of farm lands and destruction of crops, environmental degradation and conflicts of ethno-religious coloration among the various sections that make up the Nigerian State. The study adopted Ex-post facto research method. And content analysis method was used as analytical tool. An in-depth survey was carried out adopting focus group discussion, face- to- face interview to complement data got from records. The study revealed among others that pastoralists perceive cattle breeding as government business which should take preeminence over other agricultural activities in Nigeria. Any slightest attempt to manhandle their cattle leads to violent class between herders and farmers. Flowing from the findings, the following major recommendations were proffered. They include: building of ranches in lieu of the proposed cattle colony. The question is who will provide land? It is also recommended that effective regulation of grazing and farming activities in Nigeria through efficient land use laws/regulations and administration.
Más allá del sueño americano. Jóvenes migrantes retornados a Las Margaritas, Chiapas, México
Authors: Rodríguez Castillo Luis
Published: June 2018

Reseña de la tesis doctoral Más allá del sueño americano. Jóvenes migrantes retornados a Las Margaritas, Chiapas, México.De Iván Francisco Porraz Gómez. Ciudad de México, IMJUVE, SEDESOL,CESMECA-UNICACHAKADEMOS, Año 11, Vol. 1, No 28, Enero-Junio 2017: 115-121
Assessment of the Hypoglycemic Effects of the Aqueous Extracts of Bauhinia forficata in Wistar Rats Fed with a High Fat Diet
Authors: Oliveira Igor F. S. , Neves Hellen S. , Franco Myllena F. , Carlos Aluana S. , Medeiros Simoni M. , Moreno Adalgiza Mafra , Araujo Andressa Nunes , Tenorio Vitor
Published: June 2018

This study aimed at analyzing both body and glycemic parameters resulting from the administration of high fat diet and Bauhinia forficata aqueous extract (AqE) in rats. Initially, sixty-day-old rats were divided into two groups. Group C was fed with normocaloric diet and group D was fed with a high fat diet composed of 20% proteins; 48% carbohydrate, 20% lipid, 4% cellulose, 5% vitamin and mineral salts. On the 120 day-old group D was subdivided with another D + I group, fed a hyperlipid diet plus administration of Bauhinia forficata AqE for gavage. During experimental period, body mass, food intake and glucose were evaluated. The animals were sacrificed at the age of 150 days. Group D, at 120 days, presented higher body mass compared to group C, but there were no changes in dietary intake. The glycaemia of group D increased compared to group C. At 150 days, the D + I group had a decrease in body mass and glycaemia, and group D continued to gain body mass without changing food intake. Therefore, the findings show that the two-month-diet-period increased body weight and blood glucose. AqE of plant B. forficata has pharmacological potential in reducing body mass and decreasing in blood glucose concentrations.
Reviewer acknowledgements for International Journal of Biology, Vol. 10, No. 3
Authors: Liam Bai Liam
Published: June 2018

Reviewer acknowledgements for International Journal of Biology, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2018
Accounting Education for Professional Accountants: Evidence from Italy
Authors: Lucianelli Giovanna , Citro Francesca
Published: June 2018

In the last years, the worldwide changes in global, political and financial contexts have gradually modified the approaches to the accounting of national governments and international institutions. In this varying scenario, the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) and consequently national governments have introduced new accounting standards along with related regulatory changes. These issues are of ever-growing importance when considering that the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) has recently developed “The basis for conclusions document for 2017-2021 IAESB Strategy and 2017-2018 Work Plan” (IAESB, 2017) with the aim of informing the Board’s deliberations on its future strategy and priorities about the future expectations of professional competence. The aim of this paper is to report the findings of an empirical study on this topic and address the following research question: what are professional accountants’ views on quality in accounting education? This primary research question is expanded to consider professional accountants’ beliefs on the present (what is necessary for their workplace) and future (what will be necessary for their workplace) with respect to quality in accounting education. The survey highlights how professional accountants have more expectations than in the past about their skills. The majority of professional accountants have been transforming themselves into business consultants since they are now required to offer more services than accounting and taxation consultancy. Consequently, there is a growing demand for cooperation with the university world in order to broaden the programs of accounting education with new technical competencies for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in an Internet Service Providers
Authors: Joudeh Jamal M. M. , Dandis Ala’ O.
Published: June 2018

The current study aimed at examining the influence of service quality (internet service quality) on customer loyalty through the mediating effect of customer satisfaction. Through employing the questionnaire on a convenient sample of (860) consumer from different malls and commercial complexes in Amman – Jordan; the results indicated that internet service quality has a positive influence on customer satisfaction which in its turn can influence the level of customer loyalty. The study also reached to the results that good and well-built service quality may lead to customer satisfaction which in its turn can lead to a better level of customer loyalty. Consumer loyalty includes highlights or attributes that can fulfill the desires or needs of a client, it is a post utilization encounter which contrasts apparent quality and expected quality, in this way a similar conduct between inputs previously and after utilization. The study recommended to enhance the level of service quality awareness is the best approach to customer satisfaction. Aware employees tend to pay more attention to the idea of service quality which can lead to a better customer loyalty.
The Impact of Culture on Business Negotiation Styles: A Comparative Study between Bangladesh and China
Authors: Gangyi Shen , Hoque Md Rakibul , Zhangwen Peng
Published: June 2018

The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is an emerging and booming trade partner with different countries especially with the People’s Republic of China. China achieved a double-digit GDP which is a remarkable economic record or milestone. A long-term win-win business relationship between Bangladesh and China is being sustained and through this relationship a significant number of business dealings have been made each and every year. One of the greatest challenges that Bangladeshi and Chinese business executives are facing in international business is effective communication with their counterparts during the negotiations. This study aims at investigating the impact of culture in negotiation styles – accommodation, collaboration, competition, compromise and withdrawal. Business executives were the targeted population for this study. About 50 business executives from Bangladesh and 40 Chinese business executives working in Bangladesh were selected for the study. Data has been analyzed by SPSS software. The finding shows that both groups have international business experiences and have completed successful negotiations before. Accommodation, competition, and withdrawal negotiation styles are affected by culture and other two styles – compromise and collaboration – are not affected by culture. Hofstede’s cultural dimension index also supports these hypotheses. The findings of this study will help both Chinese and Bangladeshi business executives to achieve successful negotiations.
Perceiving Competitiveness under the Restructuring Process of Globalization
Authors: Vlados Charis Michael , Deniozos Nikolaos , Chatzinikolaou Demosthenes , Demertzis Michail
Published: June 2018

Currently, it is becoming progressively clearer within the international scientific community that there is no narrow economic reasoning which could lead to an evolutionary conception of globalization. Under such circumstances, the contemporary globalization crisis emerges as a new center of research for all the converging socio-economic sciences.The current article proposes a new analytical architecture to approach the current dynamics of globalization, by trying to comprehend the underlying evolutionary socio-economic process and by placing the living capitalist firm as a central concept in this analytical framework. In particular, it conceptualizes the capitalistic enterprise as an open living systemunder a constant synthesis of Stra.Tech.Man terms (the interconnection between Strategy, Technology and Management). It studies business as an agent of action which both creates and is created by the socio-economic environment within a continuously systemic process, while perceiving all the sectoral and cross-sectoral dynamics as dialectic agents of the globalizing evolution.Finally, we propose perceiving competitiveness as synthesis of business dynamics, socio-economic spaces and sectoral structures in global level, and draw the conclusion that it is analytically useful and fruitful to understand competitiveness as an organic-strategic process.
The Impact of the External Environment on the Growth of the Italian Academic Spin-Offs: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Authors: De Turi Ivano , Garzoni Antonello
Published: June 2018

In the last decade, there has been growing attention of the institutions towards the third mission of Universities. The university, along with their two fundamental goals of education and research, pursues a 'third mission', which means that it works to encourage the direct application, enhancement and use of learning to contribute to society's social, cultural and economic development. An instrument to pursue this mission is the creation by universities of academic spin-offs (ASOs) transferring the research results to the business world. This paper tested how the external environment would affect or not the performances of ASOs and in what terms. The dependent variable that best expresses growth, according to the academia, is the sales and the elements of the external environment. It wanted to test if the presence or not, in the province where the ASOs is located, of technology parks, business accelerators and incubators are influential. In this paper, it conducted a cross sectional analysis using an OLS examining the financial statements (31/12/2014) of 552 Italian ASOs.
Factors Hindering Use of Standard Weights and Measures along Irish Potato Supply Chain in Njombe Region, Tanzania
Authors: Bengesi Kenneth M. K.
Published: June 2018

Non-compliance with standard weights and measures in agricultural marketing in Tanzania compelled this paper to examined factors hindering use of standard weights and measures along Irish potato supply chain. To address this challenge a cross section research design was used to develop data collection plan and probability sampling was used to draw a representative sample from a sampling frame. The findings revealed that weak enforcement of the regulations governing compliance to standard weights and measures, weak extension services that failed to provide reliable market information to farmers, lack of negotiation skills among smallholder farmers against local brokers / traders coupled with inadequate market infrastructure with appropriate weights and measure facilities provide incentives for local brokers and traders to exploit smallholder farmers. For the sake of fair deals in transactions associated with Irish potato along the supply chain this paper recommends the best practices to ensure responsible business practices among actors.
Context-Specific and Firm-Specific Factors and Their Effect on Banking Credit Policies in Post-Unification Southern Italy: A Case Study
Authors: Pina Puntillo , Franco Ernesto Rubino , Domenico Rocco Cambrea
Published: June 2018

The article presents a case study based on the credit policies of a southern Italian bank, the “Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria”, which operated between 1861 and 1998.The choice of “Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria” is not casual. It is the most important local bank in southern Italy after unification. This study addressed the call for an interdisciplinary approach, using Canergie and Napier’s framework to analyze the credit policies of the Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria.Highlighting the logic of the practice, we adapted Canergie and Napier’s framework investigating which contextual and firm-specific factors most affected the way in which the firm adopted its credit policies emerging from bookkeeping (the research question).Document analyses were used as a means of investigation. In detail, archival sources, both public and business -accounting and non-accounting, as well as statutes and notary protocols, old books, journal and ledgers were analyzed in order to address the research question. Actually, the exploration of the historical dimension of banks and financial institutions has a great potentiality within accounting research and it deserves the attention of accounting scholars.The article contributes to enlarging the knowledge of the functioning of the credit sector in southern Italy after unification. The originality of the article lies in the use of an interdisciplinary approach, specifically the Canergie and Napier framework, to analyze credit policies of a bank.
Does Leadership Style Influence Organizational Effectiveness in Non-Governmental Organizations?
Authors: Mwai Grace , Namada Juliana , Katuse Paul
Published: June 2018

This article examines the influence of leadership style on organizational effectiveness. Research design used was explanatory and descriptive. The population of the study was project managers of 5547 NGOs registered in Kenya in the year 2016. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. The study sample size was 374 project managers from NGOs in Kenya. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The descriptive statistics methods used included mean, standard deviation and variance, while the inferential statistics used in the study included analysis of variance (ANOVA), and standardized coefficients. Leadership style construct is in three parameters: Clear instructions, concern for employees, and employee consultation. The construct parameters of organizational effectiveness are organization goals attainment, stakeholder satisfaction, and process efficiency. The linear regression model results explain 15.1 percent of the variation in organizational effectiveness and the 84.9 percent from error term and variables not examined in this research. The F statistic was 49.875 at P value of 0.000, meaning that the leadership style has a significant influence on organizational effectiveness. Clear instructions significantly and positively influenced the attainment of organizational goals (p=0.001). Concern for employees was found to significantly and positively facilitate the attainment of organizational goals (p=0.009) and significantly and negatively influence stakeholder satisfaction (p=0.006). In addition, concern for employees significantly and negatively influenced organizational process efficiency (p=0.009). The study recommends that leaders in an organization should provide distinct instructions and be concerned about employees to achieve process efficiency and goal attainment.
The Governance and Its Impact on the Organizational Intelligence from the Point of View for the Employees of the Social Security Corporation (SSC) in Jordan
Authors: Al Rawashdeh Eyad Taha
Published: June 2018

This study aimed at analyzing the governance and its impact on the organizational intelligence from the point of view of employees of the Social Security Corporation (SSC) in Jordan.To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was developed covering the study's variables. The questionnaire was distributed to the entire community of the study, which had 191 managers, deputy directors, heads of department, heads of division as well as employees.The study used analytical descriptive statistical methods, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).The study reached a number of results, the most important are the following: The general arithmetic mean of the respondents 'perceptions of the dimensions of governance in the SSC came at a medium rating.Also, the general arithmetic mean of the respondents' perceptions of the dimensions of the organizational intelligence in the SSC came at a medium rating. And, there is a statistically significant relationship between the independent variable (governance) and its different dimensions and the dependent variable (organizational intelligence) and its different dimensions.In light of these results, the study recommended a number of recommendations, the most important are: establishing a governance system that is declared to all parties concerned to implement it, and clarifies the duties and responsibilities of each employee in the corporation.Another recommendation is continuing to develop the capabilities that enhance the company's abilities of sensing and responding because of its positive impact on boosting the organizational intelligence.
Social Networking Sites Acceptance: The Role of Personal Innovativeness in Information Technology
Authors: Wijesundara T. R. , Xixiang Sun
Published: June 2018

Current wave of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has become a part of peoples’ daily lives. This study investigates the role of Personal Innovativeness in Information Technology (PIIT), in acceptance of SNS. The theoretical perspective of Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) and PIIT were used to explain the relationships developed in the study. This research is descriptive in nature and is based on primary data collected through self-administered questionnaires, among a sample of 216 undergraduates in Sri Lanka. Findings reconfirmed the relationships in original TAM, enabling to use TAM in SNS context. Further, PIIT significantly predicts the Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU) of SNS. However, PIIT did not moderate the relationship between Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Intention to Use (IU) SNS. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings and directions for further research are discussed.
The Role of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems ERP in Improving Customer Relationship Management CRM: An Empirical Study of Safeway Company of Jordan
Authors: Aljawarneh Nader , Alomari Ziyad Saleh
Published: June 2018

The study aim is identifying the role of ERP systems in improving CRM at Safeway Company of Jordan. Employees (No. 210) at Safeway-Jordan were recruited in the study. The researcher adopted a diagnostic descriptive approach, and constructed two tests to measure; the ERP systems and CRM in Safeway-Jordan. The correlation between ERP systems and CRM at Safeway from employee’s perspective was statistically significant. Considering the aforementioned findings, the study recommended that Safeway and other enterprises to use ERP systems and to implement them in prompting CRM for their effective role in improving CRM; it also recommends carefulness inhiring vendors and sales representatives.
Relative Change in SI Engine Power and Economy with Variable Valve Timing: Simulation and ANOVA Analysis
Authors: Yamin Jehad
Published: June 2018

In this research, a comparison between the performance of Ricardo E6/T variable compression ratio engine was conducted at constant and variable valve timing. This was done at three different speeds. The inlet and exhaust valves timing was varied and the performance was tested using specialized software. Results showed strong dependency of engine power and economy on valve timing and lift for all speeds. Further, higher lifts and durations are favorable for good power and the opposite are favorable for good economy. Valve overlap is affecting the engine power and economy in opposite direction as other factors.
Interactive Placemaking - Prototype of an Intelligent Urban Building Infrastructure for Critical Borderlands / Kinmen
Authors: Hsu Li-Yen
Published: June 2018

Dependable capabilities to counter wicked tasks are proactively needed for borderland placemaking. Initiated recently, in Xiamen, a hub airport is being constructed at Xiangan district’s Dadeng islet, which was taken after the inner war from the outlying borderland of Taiwan - Kinmen. To promote current interactive urbanizing, holistic pervasiveness, and/or resource chaining, a sensor-information infrastructure with availability, reliability, and maintainability features through artificial intelligence -i.e., the plural surveillances, similar in sensing through creatures’ eyes, ears, and nostrils- is prototyped. By plural detection along traffic paths, such dedicated short-range communication networks, evidenced with terrorist uncertainty, can help promote trust, inclusive accessibility, mobile services, and interactive measures, with fault tolerance, Hamiltonian (a mathematical order), connectivity, scalability, electromagnetic interference countering, and reliable accuracy. More flexibility can be justified for the emerging pervasive logistic and security management demand by further applying other network types. The cube-connected cycle is prototyped for the probe application along waterways and in rural areas. The prototyped spider-web network can be resiliently integrated with shorelines and interior paths and configured together into a featured urban building context, radial-ring, whose sustainability is culturally resonated in world heritage, neighboring Tulous; help promote peace developing and evoke economic interactions, globally.
Defensiehulp in het licht van een pluraliserende politiefunctie
Authors: Bervoets Eric , Eijgenraam Sander
Published: June 2018

Military assistance viewed from a plural policing perspective

This contribution focuses on military assistance of the Dutch police with forensic expertise by the army (not being the Dutch gendarmerie, the Koninklijke Marechaussee). The assistance basically consists of helping with search activities, with analysis and observations, all key functions within policing. The central question is: to what extent is this specific military assistance an example of plural policing? Today the armed forces are an essential part of a wider security policy, because the various types of national and international security are increasingly interconnected. This stresses the importance to involve the army in social (national) security. The forensic military assistance the authors studied does, however, not comprise law enforcement or patrolling in public spaces. With that in mind, this kind of assistance cannot automatically be labelled as plural policing. On the other hand, the military assistance contributes to a safe society and from that point of view it is an example of plural policing.
Politie, krijgsmacht en ordehandhaving
Authors: Smeets Jos
Published: June 2018

Police, army and maintaining public order. A historical perspective (1850-2000)

For a century and a half, the Dutch police and the army cooperated in combating civil disturbances. It was common practice that soldiers were called from their barracks to assist in maintaining public order. However, to deploy the army against civilians raised fundamental questions about its legitimacy. As a result some Dutch police forces began implementing military tactics and using military equipment to do the job themselves. The high watermark of this development lies in the years between the two world wars, when revolution and civic unrest always seemed imminent. The post-war years were marked by the Cold War and fear of communist insurrection. Militarized units were always kept in reserve. Nowadays, the army still renders assistance, usually not ‘manu militari’, but on matters that require special expertise.
Il Dio Creatore nelle testimonianze esamerali di Teofilo di Antiochia e Clemente di Alessandria
Authors: Monfrinotti Matteo ,   Instituto Patristico Augustinianum
Published: June 2018

Early Christian authors were challenged by the impenetrable question of the origin of the world, but persevered in tracing the creation of the universe back to the one and only God. Part of their response was to defend the truth of God, the Father and Creator by meditating and commenting on the biblical account of the six days of creation. The commentaries on the Hexameron which we have are by Theophilus of Antioch and Clement of Alexandria. Theophilus, author of the oldest commentary on Genesis 1:1-25, pursues a primarily apologetic aim in favour of Christian monotheism and of faith in God who, through his Logos, is the Creator of all things; Clement, through statements scattered throughout his works, confirms in opposition to Gnostic-Marcionite ditheism that God the Father, working through the Logos, created the universe according to a plan of salvation whose fulfillment will be redemption at the end of time. Exegesis is combined with theology and – on the basis of a philosophical substratum which also includes predominantly Judaic traditions – translates into principles which will later open the way to protological reflection.
Norme, malédiction et forme de vie dans les “règles” de Chenouté
Authors: Vecoli Fabrizio ,   Instituto Patristico Augustinianum
Published: June 2018

In 2014 the coptologist Bentley Layton published a corpus of texts with the title The Canons of our Fathers. Rules of Shenoute. Our article proposes an analysis of these “rules” of the Egyptian abbot Shenoute (348-466 AD). This collection is characterised by the explicit intention of disciplining the conscience of each member of the community. This intention can be discerned in the particular use of curses and in a series of precepts that regulate the monk’s interior life prohibiting certain inner conditions that only the monk himself can detect. This strategy of “internalisation” appears to be original to the rule of this community.
Diakonia et économes au service de l’économie monastique en Égypte (IV e-VIII e siècles)
Authors: Giorda Maria Chiara ,   Instituto Patristico Augustinianum
Published: June 2018

Despite the ideal of dispossession, absolute poverty and the total absence of links with possession and human beings which shaped the myth of the monastic desert, the monastic economy and its management were very similar to the secular economic system, in that both were organised by networks based on families.This article tackles how and where material assets were produced and administered in Egyptian monasteries between the fourth and eighth centuries (the diakonia), and who was responsible for this function (the oikonomos). The history of monasticism is materially related to the institutionalisation of the society’s cultural and material systems of production. Consequently the economy was also transformed by monastic practices: history is linked to the definition and the successful affirmation of the figure of the oikonomos, the steward in charge of everyday life in monasteries.
RESOURCE-SAVING TECHNOLOGY FOR MANUFACTURING OF ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ORGANIC FERTILIZERS
Authors: PETROVNA DRUZYANOVA VARVARA , ALEKSEYEVNA PETROVA SOFYA , KONSTANTINOVNA OKHLOPKOVA MARFA , ANTONOVICH SERGEEV YURII
Published: June 2018

The relevance of the paper is determined by the lack of technology for disinfection and treatment of the produced liquid cattle manure in the arctic regions of Russia (the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)).
The research objective is the development of technology for recycling of the cattle manure with resulting environmentally friendly organic fertilizers in biogas units. The technology allows agriculturalists to establish energy-saving self-contained manufacture.
The primary research methods are the theory of similarity and experimental design theory, mathematical programming and simulation modelling methods. The Excel, Statistica 8, MathCAD programmes were used.
The resource-saving technology for manufacturing biofertilizer from the cattle manure was developed, based on the mesophilic methanogenic microorganisms adapted to psychrophilic conditions. Thus, a psychrophilic anaerobic technology working steadily under low temperatures was obtained for the first time.
Introduction of a new technology in agricultural enterprises of Yakutia enables to yield on average 4.659 tonnes of mineralized organic fertilizer daily; the expected amount of finance from the sale of organic fertilizers will make 0,056 mln USD.
The materials of the paper can be useful for students, lecturers and research scientists of natural and technical specialties, as well as for specialists of the agroindustrial complex and for farmers.

Keywords: liquid manure, biogas unit, anaerobic digestion, psychrophilic mode, biofertilizer.
TRAINING GAPS IN ENGINEERING DEGREES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 IN SPAIN. A PROPOSAL FOR ACTIONS
Authors: HORRILLO TELLO JULIAN , TRIADO AYMERICH JOAN
Published: June 2018

The aim of this paper is to identify the competency requirements of manufacturing resulting from the fourth industrial revolution. The smart factory of industry 4.0 is described in generic form, identifying the main technologies employed, and the implications of their use in the development of new business models and the innovative activity of the company. In this way, we can approximate the main future competencies of the workforce, focusing on the advanced technical and management functions to be developed by the grade industrial engineer. Thus, a typology of competences has been established that distinguishes between: (1) technological ones, related to the knowledge and use of new information, communication and production technologies; (2) technical ones, related to the capabilities for the design and management of the smart factory business processes; and (3) the personal ones, that collect the attitude dimension of the engineers in the development of their functions. Using information from the ANECA, about the competences of Engineering Degrees in Mechanics, Industrial Electronics and Automation, and Industrial Organization, in this paper we identify the competence gap of the grade engineers trained in Spanish public universities in relation to the I4.0 competences (technical and technological) for the smart factory management on the future.
A REVIEW OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY FOR SMART GLOVES
Authors: FRANCES MORCILLO LEIRE , RODRIGUEZ FERRADAS MARIA ISABEL , CAZON  MARTIN AITOR , MORER CAMO PAZ
Published: June 2018

Many industrial companies are now getting on board the new industrial revolution dominated by data acquisition, digitalization and other new technologies. Wearables combine the features of some of the most popular technologies of this revolution: they can monitor specific body regions by tracking information anywhere and anytime. Wearable systems for hands represent a special field of interest since they are the main body region involved in industrial tasks. This paper surveys such wearable systems based on the data from the last years. It collects information about the most important components they incorporate and analyses their features considering that they are devices aimed to be worn on the body.
Thus, this paper is addressed to researchers who want to understand what a wearable is and which the main components and characteristics should incorporate, and also, those who want to explore new trends in this research field.