bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessment of an ICU-specific, electronic medical summary tool against traditional dictation to reduce communication gaps during ICU-to-inpatient transitions-in-care
Authors: Amarbayan Mungunzul , Whalen-Browne Liam , Brundin-Mather Rebecca , Kashyap Devika , Sauro Khara , Soo Andrea , Parsons Leigh Jeanna , Stelfox Thomas
Published: October 2019

Background: Transition from the intensive care unit (ICU) to an inpatient unit is a vulnerable period where communication gaps between medical teams may be associated with preventable adverse events. The transition-in-care (TIC) summary encompasses essential clinical information and facilitates seamless continuity of patient care between sending and receiving healthcare teams. Yet, current dictation practices often produce summaries of suboptimal quality that result in delayed or incomplete information. An electronic TIC summary tool, an alternative method to dictation, standardizes information, which may ensure more timely and complete communication to reduce information breakdowns and delays.

Objective: In order to standardize information communicated during ICU-to-inpatient transitions, an ICU-specific, electronic TIC summary tool was implemented in four adult ICUs in the Calgary zone. It is hypothesized that implementation of the electronic summary will improve completeness and timelines of TIC summaries. 

Methods: A multiple baseline study design was used to evaluate the implementation of the electronic TIC summary. ICUs continued dictation practices for a baseline period, until the electronic tool was implemented sequentially (in a randomized order) to each ICU and evaluated for six months following implementation. Post-implementation, providers had the option to dictate or use the electronic summary. The primary outcome was a binary measure of both completeness of four critical elements and availability of the TIC summary at ICU release.

Results: Preliminary results were obtained for two months of baseline (n=48) and post-implementation (n=48) from one ICU. Post-implementation summaries contained four critical elements and were more frequently available at ICU transfer than pre-implementation dictations (73% versus 2%, p<0.001). More post implementation summaries contained completion of essential information (median 88% versus 63%, p<0.001) and had greater availability during transition (90% versus 73%, p=0.04) than pre-implementation dictations. With data collection scheduled to end in June 2019, we anticipate full study results to be available fall 2019.

Conclusions: Preliminary results post-implementation suggest greater completion and faster availability for the receiving clinicians. It is anticipated that full study findings will add to the current literature on the effect of computerized tools for reducing communication gaps between ICU and inpatient units during transitions-in-care to ultimately improve patient safety.
PRÁTICAS DE FORMAÇÃO DO ALUNO AUTOR MEDIADA PELAS TIC: A CONTRAPARTIDA ESCOLAR
Authors: Figueiredo Lílian Kelly de Almeida , Silva Ivanderson Pereira da
Published: October 2019

Este relato evidencia a necessidade da integração das TIC no currículo escolar por meio de práticas didático-metodológicas que permitem a ação dos alunos, tendo em vista, a construção do conhecimento. Baseia-se na reflexão acerca do cenário atual, da inserção das TIC e integração das mídias ao currículo escolar, o papel do professor e do aluno diante deste cenário e das relações entre estes atores em práticas pedagógicas mediadas pelas TIC. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa do tipo exploratório tendo como método de investigação o estudo de caso. O caso analisado é o de uma experiência de implantação de uma web-rádio em uma escola pública alagoana. Como resultados deste estudo, é possível afirmar que desde a formação inicial de professores e para além dela, deve-se trabalhar o emprego de metodologias que favorecem exatamente a autoria dos alunos e a formação de sujeitos autores. Palavras-chave: integração das mídias, currículo, tecnologias da informação e comunicação.
Necesitamos hablar de esto: educación ambiental crítica y enseñanza del derecho en Brasil
Authors: Grohs Freire Simone , Alves Pereira Vilmar , Pereira da Silva Marcia
Published: October 2019

Este artículo trata de la relevancia de la inserción de una Educación Ambiental Crítica en la enseñanza del Derecho en Brasil. Para tanto, utiliza la perspectiva filosófica de la hermenéutica gadameriana y, desde un enfoque epistemológico y ontológico de la Educación Crítica Ambiental en contraste con un modelo positivista de la enseñanza del Derecho en Brasil, presenta las posibilidades de resignificación de la educación jurídica para incluso asumir, el mismo, el protagonismo de la transformación de la realidad planteada.
La dinámica del rediseño curricular desde la perspectiva de la formación profesional basada en competencias dentro del marco de la globalización en una institución de educación superior pública
Authors: Vergara Palma Juan Sebastián
Published: October 2019

Este artículo presenta un análisis reflexivo respecto de los impactos que tuvieron las políticas de inserción internacional para la formación profesional y las implicancias que tuvieron en la formulación curricular basada en competencias en el proceso de innovación curricular en una institución de educación superior. Para ello, se establecen dos marcos de referencia: uno, referido al concepto de la globalización y el otro, desde la perspectiva curricular, a partir de la cual se genera una reflexión en torno a las consideraciones contextuales y demandas sociales que orientan la selección y transmisión de la cultura, como también las competencias asociadas a las necesidades de la comunidad educativa en su conjunto. Como conclusión, se plantea una crítica en torno al rediseño curricular basado en competencias en una institución pública de educación superior, por una tensión producida a nivel teórico entre el plano epistemológico y metodológico en su implementación.
ANALISIS STRATEGI PENINGKATAN LOYALITAS CUSTOMER B2B E-COMMERCE, STUDI KASUS: GMF AEROTRADE DI PT. GMF AEROASIA
Authors: Muslim Erlinda
Published: October 2019

PT. GMF AeroAsia menawarkan salah satu Business-to-Business E-Commerce terbesar di Indonesia yang bergerak di bidang MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) memiliki bisnis maintenance pesawat dan sebagai distributor material komponen pesawat yang bernama GMF AeroTrade. GMF AeroTrade merupakan bentuk platform E-Commerce berbentuk web store yang baru berdiri sejak awal tahun 2017. Meningkatnya kebutuhan material setiap tahunnya memberikan dampak yang cukup besar terhadap kompetitifnya pasar distributor kebutuhan komponen pesawat terbang. Dengan perubahan baru dengan diadakannya platform berbasis E-Commerce ini di GMF AeroTrade dan juga melihat adanya banyak kompetitor lainnya di dunia, peran loyalitas pelanggan sangat berpengaruh terhadap keuntungan perusahaan. Maka dari itu GMF AeroTrade membutuhkan strategi yang kuat untuk dapat meningkatkan loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty). Dalam pembuatan strategi tersebut akan diteliti dari pengaruh faktor Image, Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, dan Customer Satisfaction terhadap loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty) dengan menggunakan metode SEM-PLS. Selain itu, digunakan metode Importance-Performance Analysis untuk mendapatkan action items beserta tingkat prioritas pelaksanaan untuk setiap action items. Penelitian ini mengambil pelanggan yang aktif melakukan transaksi pembelian di GMF AeroTrade. Hasil dari penelitian ini merupakan strategi untuk meningkatkan loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty) GMF AeroTrade, sehingga dapat bersaing dengan kompetitor distributor material komponen pesawat lainnya yang ada di dunia
Analysis of Administrative Decisions of Foreign Regulatory Authorities
Authors: Relevant Information
Published: October 2019

Analysis of administrative decisions of foreign regulatory authorities on the limitation of circulation of medicines and/or the need for changes in the instructions for their medical use due to changes in the safety profi le, conducted by experts of the Scientifi c Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products revealed 27 administrative decisions of foreign regulatory authorities. These decisions contained information on the following medicines registered in Russia: sartans (irbesartan, candesartan, losartan, olmesartan), hydrochlorothiazide, dimethylfumarate, human normal immunoglobulin, omalizumab, tacrolimus, terifl unomide, tofacitinib, ustekinumab, fi ngolimod, everolimus, atezolizumab, pembrolizumab, vinorelbine, daratumumab, imatinib, ipilimumab, lenalidomide, lenvatinib, methotrexate and ramucirumab.
GROWTH AND RESULTS OF CORN AND NUTS IN THE INTERCROPPING SYSTEM
Authors: Sari Lili Agustina
Published: October 2019

The purpose of this study was to determine the growth and yield of corn and cowpea after planting in the intercropping system. Conducting research at the Kalitirto Agricultural Research and Development (KP4) Educational Garden, Berbah, Yogyakarta friend. A Complete Randomized Block Design with 3 replications was used in the study. Experimental intercropping of corn and cowpea based on additive series system. The first factor is the population of cowpea is without cowpea, 1 row, 2 rows, and 3 rows of cowpea. The second factor is the spacing is 100 cm x 20 cm and 80 cm x 25 cm. Research on cowpea monoculture as a comparison.The results obtained (1) insertion of cowpea, and spacing of corn did not affect the yield of corn per hectare, but affect the yield of cowpea. (2) The combination of 100 cm x 20 cm corn spacing treatment with the insertion of 2 rows of cowpea gives the highest Land Equity Ratio value of 1.42.
On communities of later succession stages of ruderal vegetation in urban territories of Kursk region
Authors: Arepieva L. A.
Published: October 2019

The article gives the results of the studies of ru­deral vegetation in urban territories of Kursk region. The characteristic of association Convolvulo arvensis–Elytrigietum repentis Felföldy 1943 is presented, 2 new subassociations are proposed. Communities of the association growing on the slopes of highways and railway embankments, as well as on barren lands are described.
The notes about two prodromuses of vegetation of Russia (1998, 2012)
Authors: Mirkin B. M. , Naumova L. G.
Published: October 2019

The changes in the structure of the higher unit system from class up to suballiance within the Braun-Blanquet system are assessed on the base of comparison of two Prodromuses of the vegetation of Russia (Solomeshch, 1998; Ermakov, 2012).
Changes of alpine meadow and heath phytocoenoses in the Lagonaki upland (West Caucasus) during the last 15–20 years
Authors: Akatov V. V. , Akatova T. V.
Published: October 2019

Six sites representing the alpine heaths (ass. Pediculari comosae–Eritrichietum caucasici Minaeva et Onipchenko 2002) and four sites of subalpine meadows (ass. Betonici macranthae–Calamagrostietum arundinaceae Onipchenko 2002) located on the Lagonaki upland (West Caucasus) were described in 1989–1992 and 1994, 1995 correspondingly. Altogether 250 relevés were made. In 2010 all sites were re-described. Some changes in total coverage, frequency of plant species and species richness of plant communities were analyzed. Two possible reasons of the changes are discussed: climatic warming on the West Caucasus and a sharp decrease in the intensity of livestock grazing.
Small-leaved herbaceous forests in galley and ravine systems of Priobskoe plateau (West Siberia)
Authors: Lashchinskiy N. N. , Lashchinskaya N. V.
Published: October 2019

Small-leaved forests of the galley and ravine systems on the Priobskoe plateau (West Siberia) belong to the Brachypodio pinnati–Betuletea pendulae class and the Calamagrostio epigei–Betuletalia pendulae order. All forest types were classified according to the Braun-Blanquet approach. Three new associations and four subassociations were described. Floristic composition presented by mixture of forest, meadow and steppe species reveals the geographical position and the environmental conditions of forest habitats. Forest distribution depends on the slope exposition and steepness. In spite of strong anthropogenic pressure many of forest patches could be considered as refuges of natural biodiversity in forest-steppe zone.
Subalpine meadows of the alliance Aconito delphinifolii–Caricion podocarpae all. nov. in the mountain systems of the norh-east Asia (Magadan region, Chukotka)
Authors: Sinelnikova N. V.
Published: October 2019

Classification of subalpine meadows of the Chersky and Kolymsky mountain ranges (Magadan region, Chukotka) has been performed according to the Braun-Blanquet approach. The plant communities belong to 2 associations and 4 variants. The new alliance — Aconito delphinifolii–Caricion podocarpae and two new associations — Tilingio ajanensis–Festucetum altaicae and Spiraeo beauverdianae–Calamagrostietum purpureae are described. Distribution of the alliance Aconito delphinifolii–Caricion podocarpae in the Russian North-East is discussed. Chorological analysis of coenoflora of the alliance has been done.
Alpine vegetation of the Ivanovskiy, Prokhodnoy and Rossypnoy Ridges (Western Altai)
Authors: Zibzeev E. G. , Nedovesova T. A.
Published: October 2019

The mountain systems are characterized by diverse ecological conditions (climate, geomorphological, soil, etc.). The wide spectrum of environmental conditions entails a rich diversity of plant communities growing on the small territory and determines the different flora and vegetation geneses. The uniqueness of floristic and coenotic diversities of the high-mountain vegetation of the south of Western Altai (Ivanovskiy, Prokhodnoi, and Rossypnoi Ranges) are associated with the effect of two climate-forcing factors such as the westerly humid air mass and dry warm airflow from the inner Kazakhstan regions. The paper summarizes the data on coenotic diversity (Zibzeev, 2010, 2012) and gives a syntaxonomic analysis of the high-mountain vege­tation in the Ivanovskii, Prokhodnoi, and Rossypnoi Ranges (Western Altai, Kazakhstan).

The classification of plant communities was carried out using the Braun-Blanquet approach (Westhoff, van der Maarel, 1973). The relevés records were stored in the TURBOVEG database and classified by ­TWINSPAN (Hill 1979).
Vegetation on technogenic habitats in the far-north taiga and south forest-tundra of the European North-East of Russia. Alliance Chamerio angustifolii–Matricarion hookeri A. Ishbirdin et al. 1996
Authors: Likhanova I. A. , Shushpannikova G. S. , Turubanova L. P.
Published: October 2019

The results of floristic classification of technogenic vegetation (alliance Chamerio angustifolii–Matricarion hookeri A. Ishbirdin et al. 1996, order Chamerio–Betuletalia nanae Khusainov et al. in Sumina 2012, class Matricario–Poetea arcticae A. Ishbirdin in Sumina 2012) conducted by the Braun-Blanquet method (Braun-Blanquet, 1964; Mirkin, Naumova, 1998) are given. 98 geobotanical relevés, made in 1981–2013 on areas of oil fields and suburbs of the Usinsk city (Komi Republic) (56–60о N, 67–66о E), were involved into analysis (Fig. 1). The ecological parameters like moisture (F) and mineral nitrogen soil enrichment (N) were assessed using the Ellenberg ecological scales (Ellenberg, 1974).
Motivators of Employee commitment in Organisations in Emerging Economies: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
Authors: Inegbedion Henry
Published: October 2019

Primary data was employed. The primary data were coded using SPSS. The coded data are included in this submission
اثر النظام الصوتی و بنیة الكلمات في اللغة العربية والانجليزية علي التمییز الصحیح بین الحروف وکتابتها لدي المتكلمين باللغة الفارسية
Authors: زاده مریم عبدالله
Published: October 2019

يعتبر التمییز الصحیح بین الحروف و کتابتها في اللغتين العربية و الانجليزية بعد الأداء بها من المتکلم، احدي المشاكل التي يواجهها المتكلمون باللغة الفارسية في تعلّم هاتين اللغتين. تتناول هذه المقالة دراسة موضوعات كالاصوات الساکنة و اصوات اللین، البنية الهجائية(المقاطع) ، الحروف الزائدة، المشترک اللفظی ، تشابه و اختلاف الحروف في النطق و الكتابة و تهدف الي الاجابة عن هذا السوال الرئيس الذي يطرح نفسه في هذا السياق و هو: ما هي الحروف التي يواجه المتكلمون باللغة الفارسية صعوبة اقلّ في تمییزها و كتابتها في هاتين اللغتين. تشير نتائج هذه المقالة بعد دراسة الموضوعات المذكورة و الاختبار السمعي (اختبار ذو خیارات اربعة) و الاختبار السمعي ـ الكتابي(الإملاء) بين 15 من طلاب اللغة العربية و 15 من طلاب اللغة الانجليزية، أن الطلاب كانوا اكثر نجاحا في تشخيص الحروف العربية مقارنة مع الحروف الانجليزية اكثر من مرتين و النتيجة الاخري التي استخلصناها في هذه المقالة هي أنه يجب ان يكون التركيز الأكثر في اللغة الانجليزية علي الممارسة فی الإملاء لكن في اللغة العربية يجب أن يكون التركيز الاكثر علي الادراك السمعي و تمییز الحروف.
Hydrogen isotopic evidence for early oxidation of silicate Earth
Authors: Pahlevan Kaveh , Schaefer Laura , Hirschmann Marc M.
Published: October 2019

The Moon-forming giant impact extensively melts and partially vaporizes the silicate Earth and delivers a substantial mass of metal to Earth's core. Subsequent evolution of the magma ocean and overlying atmosphere has been described by theoretical models but observable constraints on this epoch have proved elusive. Here, we report calculations of the primordial atmosphere during the magma ocean and water ocean epochs and forge new links with observations to gain insight into the behavior of volatiles on the early Earth. As Earth's magma ocean crystallizes, it outgasses the bulk of the volatiles into the primordial atmosphere. The redox state of the magma ocean controls both the chemical composition of the outgassed volatiles and the hydrogen isotopic composition of water oceans that remain after hydrogen loss from the primordial atmosphere. Whereas water condenses and is retained, molecular hydrogen does not condense and can escape, allowing large quantities (~10^2 bars) of hydrogen - if present - to be lost from Earth in this epoch. Because the escaping inventory of H can be comparable to the hydrogen inventory in the early oceans, the corresponding deuterium enrichment can be large with a magnitude that depends on the initial H2 inventory. By contrast, the common view that terrestrial water has a carbonaceous chondrite source requires the oceans to preserve the isotopic composition of that source, undergoing minimal D-enrichment via H2 loss. Such minimal enrichment places upper limits on the amount of primordial H2 in contact with early water oceans (pH2<20 bars), implies oxidizing conditions for outgassing from the magma ocean, and suggests that Earth's mantle supplied the oxidant for the chemical resorption of metals during late accretion.
Planck Gravitation Theory
Authors: lin li xiao
Published: October 2019

The author proposes a new gravitation theory, the Planck gravitation theory. The theoretical name is in honor of Planck proposing the Planck Length. Gravitation is a force in 4-dimensional space, or a force in 5-dimensional space-time. Every quantum particle produces gravitation. Gravitation is not actually related to the mass of particles. Every quantum particle produces the same gravitation, regardless of the type of particle. The origin of gravitation is quantum, and gravitation is a quantum force. In 4-dimensional space, gravitation is inversely proportional to the cubic of distance, not square of distance. The strength of gravitation is entirely determined by the Planck Length. The Planck Length is the identification constant of gravitation. The author's earlier projection gravitation theory is only a derivation of the Planck gravitation theory. From the theory, we deduce the gravitation of photons. Planck gravitation is separated into two different patterns in 3-simensional space. For particles with rest mass, Planck gravitation translates into projection gravitation, which is inversely proportional to the square of distance. For particles with zero rest mass, gravitation is inversely proportional to the cubic of distance. Every quantum particle is an empty hole in space, the radius of empty hole is Planck Length. This brings the effect of the quantization of space-time. Planck gravitation theory can solve the problem of ultraviolet divergence in quantum field theory without the need for renormalization. If the Planck gravitation theory is true, human need to rethink the gravitation, and need to rethink the way of gravitation quantization. The author finally discusses the projection action, it is the key to human understanding of the truth about gravitation.
Marie (forthcoming). Moral Rigidity and tribalism, in What is extremism?
Authors: Marie Antoine
Published: October 2019

Cognitive processes of moral 'moral rigidity' or moral absolutization play a central role in coordinating individuals around common prosocial prescriptions, in particular in group conflict and extremism. This short article proposes to view sacralisation and moral objectivism as the two complementary facets of humans' propensity to moral rigidity, and as having evolved as parsimonious solutions to the joint challenges of reliably signaling trustworthiness while protecting oneself from exploitation in ancestral coalitions.
FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (ICFARS) October 2019: сб.науч.тр./ RELF Group&OEAPS Inc.; редкол.: Флора Бертран (отв.ред.) [и др.]. - Берлин, Германия : OEAPS Inc., 2019. -144 C. ISBN: 9781702015622
Authors: OEAPS Inc.
Published: October 2019

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Tindakan Sosial
Authors: UNIQBU PSPM
Published: October 2019

Tindakan sosial yang dimaksud Max Weber dapat berupa tindakan yang nyata-nyata diarahkan kepada orang lain, dapat juga tindakan yang bersifat membatin atau bersifat subyektif yang mungkin terjadi karena pengaruh positif dari situasi tertentu
Microarticles
Authors: Lobo Matheus Pereira
Published: October 2019

Microarticles are short versions of scientific articles without the need to add an introduction and context. Its most important feature is that it can be updated even after its publication. We believe this will foster the Open Science culture, attracting new collaborators in order to improve the article significantly.
Cheating Customers in Grocery Stores: A Field Study on Dishonesty
Authors: Vranka Marek , Frollova Nikola , Pour Marek , Novakova Julie , Houdek Petr
Published: October 2019

The study measures how often customers are cheated in real-world transactions. In a pre-registered field study in Prague, Czech Republic, hired confederates posed as foreigners unfamiliar with local currency. While buying snacks in grocery stores (N = 259) either in the morning or in the evening, they provided cashiers with an opportunity to steal money from them by keeping more change than they were supposed to. The customers were cheated in 21% of stores, the median overcharge was 54% of the value of an average purchase, and overcharging occurred more often in the stores with on-line reviews mentioning dishonesty of employees. Although males cheated and were cheated slightly more often than females, gender differences were not significant. In contrast with predictions of the Morning Morality Effect, dishonest behavior occurs slightly more often in the morning than in the evening. The results show that cheating of customers in grocery stores is relatively widespread and it is especially prevalent in the central city district where the odds of being cheated are more than three times higher in comparison with the rest of the city.
Инфраструктурные перегрузки как дисбаланс городской среды// Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences 5(14), 2019/ RELF Group & OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Vitaly Yakovlev- Berlin, Germany. 26.09.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - PP. 37-43.
Authors: Водчиц Татьяна Андреевна
Published: October 2019

В предложенной статье поднята на рассмотрение общераспространённая проблематика напряженного состояния социальной инфраструктуры города на примере Москвы. Также берется к рассмотрению тот факт, что растущая инфраструктура – одна из глобальных проблем мегаполиса. Выявлены основные причины формирования дисбаланса городской среды. Предложен ряд способов возможного решения данной задачи.In the proposed article, the widespread problems of the tense state of the social infrastructure of the city are raised for consideration. Also taken into consideration is the fact that the growing infrastructure is one of the global problems of the metropolis. The main causes of the imbalance of the urban environment are revealed. A number of possible solutions to this problem are proposed.
Deep Learning Architectures for Automated Image Segmentation
Authors: Sengupta Debleena
Published: October 2019

Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object localization and boundary delineation for salient object segmentation in natural images and for 2D medical image segmentation. First, we propose and evaluate a novel dilated dense encoder-decoder architecture with a custom dilated spatial pyramid pooling block to accurately localize and delineate boundaries for salient object segmentation. The dilation offers better spatial understanding and the dense connectivity preserves features learned at shallower levels of the network for better localization. Tested on three publicly available datasets, our architecture outperforms the state-of-the-art for one and is very competitive on the other two. Second, we propose and evaluate a custom 2D dilated dense UNet architecture for accurate lesion localization and segmentation in medical images. This architecture can be utilized as a stand alone segmentation framework or used as a rich feature extracting backbone to aid other models in medical image segmentation. Our architecture outperforms all baseline models for accurate lesion localization and segmentation on a new dataset. We furthermore explore the main considerations that should be taken into account for 3D medical image segmentation, among them preprocessing techniques and specialized loss functions.
TELAAH PENERAPAN SEGMENTASI PASAR PADA UKM SARUNG TANGAN
Authors: Rosita
Published: October 2019

Perusahaan yang bergerak di segmentasi pasar usaha kecil. Saya Aas Suryana 45 Tahun, saya mulai mendirikan usaha ini pada tahun 1 Februari 2011 dalam bidang sarung tangan untuk kebutuhan lingkungan, pribadi dan lain lain. Untuk memberikan pelayanan terbaik kepada semua konsumen, kami memberikan penawaran harga terbaik dan kompetitif. Untuk menarik minat konsumen pada usaha kecil masih sangatlah sulit. Salah satu cara yang dapat di gunakan untuk mengembangkan usaha kecil tentunya dengan fokus pada strategi pemasaran.Dengan terbatasnya anggaran marketing yang dimiliki usaha kecil, bukan berarti menjadikan usaha kecil kalah dengan usaha skala besar. Untuk itu perusahaan kami harus lebih kreatif dengan anggaran biaya yang minim untuk menghasilkan strategi pemasaran yang tepat.Bersama dengan 4 karyawan saya kita semua berusaha meningkatkan budaya
STRATEGI SEGMENTASI PADA INDUSTRI KERIPIK
Authors: Muslimah
Published: October 2019

Industri Kecil Menengah (IKM) Madani adalah perusahaan yang bergerak dibidang makanan dengan konsentrasi produk oleh-oleh Khas Ende dalam bentuk produk Kripik berbagai jenis seperti singkong, pisang, ubi ungu dan keladi dengan bermacam-macam rasa
Evaluasi Kesesuaian Elemen Taman terhadap Tujuan Pembangunan Taman Aktif di Kecamatan Bogor Utara
Authors: Felle Ammy Adolfina
Published: October 2019

Taman kota adalah taman yang berada di lingkungan perkotaan. Taman kota dapat mengantisipasi dampak negatif yang akan timbul dengan perkembangan kota dan dapat dinikmati oleh seluruh warga kota. Taman kota juga merupakan bagian dari ruang terbuka hijau (RTH), yang dapat meningkatkan kualitas hidup lingkungan perkotaan dengan berbagai fungsi sebagai atraksi, fungsi estetika, fungsi ekologis, dan nilai pendidikan. Saat ini, taman kota di Kota Bogor sedang dikembangkan, salah satunya,di Kecamatan Bogor Utara. Berdasarkan intensitas taman kota, taman terbagi menjadi taman aktif dan pasif. Dengan bertambahnya jumlah pengunjung,perlu dilakukan pemeliharaan, pengelolaan,dan evaluasi untuk mencegah penurunan kualitas dan fungsi taman. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan selama enam bulan dan berlokasi di dua taman kota di Kecamatan Bogor Utara, yaitu Taman Palupuh, dan Taman Corat-Coret. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengevaluasi kesesuaian elemen taman terhadap tujuan pembangun Taman Palupuh, dan Taman Corat-Coret. Tahapan yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah persiapan, inventarisasi/pengumpulan data, analisis data, sintesis,dan rekomendasi penyesuaian elemen taman dengan tujuan taman. Hasil akhir penelitian ini berupa rekomendasi yang diberikan pada masing-masing taman yang akan dijadikan acuan bagi pemerintah daerah dan pihak terkait, dalam pemeliharaan fasilitas dan vegetasi pada taman kota. Berdasarkan hasil penilaian terhadap vegetasi, Taman Palupuh memiliki skor kesesuaian 373%, sedangkan Taman Corat-Coret memiliki skor kesesuaian 349%. Maka vegetasi pada kedua taman ini di nilai cukup sesuai. Selanjutnya, penilaian terhadap fasilitas, Taman Palupuh memiliki 12 fasilitas yang tersedia, lima diantaranya tidak berfungsi dengan baik (rusak). Taman Corat-Coret memiliki 9 fasilitas dan semua berfungsi dengan baik. Maka fasilitas yang terdapat pada kedua taman dinilai cukup sesuai, namun perlu perawatan yang intens agar semua fasilitas dapat berfungsi dan digunakan oleh pengunjung.
ANALISIS SEGMENTASI PASAR TERHADAP FAKTOR FAKTOR SEGMENTASI PADA TOKO JAJANAN HITS PURWOKERTO
Authors: Asih Kristina Tri Budi
Published: October 2019

Makanan ringan atau cemilan merupakan makanan yang memiliki maksud untuk menghilangkan rasa lapar sesorang sementara waktu. Saat ini sudah banyak makanan ringan yang beredar di Purwokerto yang mempunyai bentuk, rasa, pengemasan, dan tampilan yang berbeda beda yang dibuat semenarik mungkin untuk menarik perhatian para konsumen. Konsumen dapat memilih dua macam tipe makanan yaitu makanan modern atau makanan tradisional. Makanan tradisional banyak dijumpai di pasar sedangkan makanan modern hanya dpat ditemukan di Mall, café ataupun tempat makan lainnya. Banyak masyarakat lebih memilih makanan modern karena lebih praktis, murah dan beranekaragaman.Untuk tetap maju dalam persaingan perlu ditingkatkan kualitas produk, kualitas pelayanan, dan kepuasan para konsumen yamg akan mengacu kepada loyalitas konsumen. Kualitas produk adalah keunggulan produk yang berkaitan dengan apa yang diharapkan pelanggan.
Analisis Penurunan Berat Badan Penderita Obesitas Setelah Melakukan Terapi Akupunktur dengan Menggunakan Regresi Logistik Ordinal
Authors: Azies Harun Al
Published: October 2019

Obesitas menjadi masalah kesehatan yang bersifat epidemi dan sudah menjadi masalah di hampir semua negara di dunia. Wabah obesitas tidak terbatas dihadapi oleh negara-negara maju , tetapi peningkatan lebih cepat justru terjadi di negara-negara yang sedang berkembang. Organisasi kesehatan Dunia (WHO) mencatat pada tahun 2005, secara global ada sekitar 1,6 miliar orang dewasa yang overweight dan 400 juta diantaranya dikategorikan obesitas. Obesitas sering menjadi penyebab utama munculnya risiko penyakit kronis seperti diabetes tipe 2, kardiovaskuler, darah tinggi dan stroke, serta berbagai jenis kanker serta menurunkan kualitas hidup manusia. Terapi dengan akupunktur merupakan salah satu cara yang sekarang mulai banyak diminati dan digunakan untuk mengatasi obesitas oleh masyarakat. Akupunktur dapat menurunkan berat badan dengan merangsang pusat kenyang hipothalamus dan menekan pusat lapar akan menurunkan asupan makanan sehingga mengurangi jumlah kalori yang masuk sehingga tubuh akan membakar simpanan kalori berupa lemak tubuh sebagai sumber energi. Dengan melakukan terapi akupunktur secara rutin dan teratur akan menurunkan berat badan dan tanda inflamasi sehingga terhindar dari resiko komplikasi dari obesitas. Keberhasilan penurunan berat badan dengan menggunakan akupunktur juga disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor antara lain status pernikahan penderita, tingkat kegemukan, umur, frekuensi pengobatan akupunktur, dan pekerjaan penderita obesitas. Data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini merupakan data sekunder dengan lima variabel penelitian. Berdasarkan hasil uji independensi maka ada hubungan antara lain status pernikahan, tingkat kegemukan dan frekuensi pengobatan akupunktur dengan hasil penurunan berat badan penderita obesitas. Hasil pengujian signifikansi parameter secara parsial menunjukkan bahwa variable frekuensi pengobatan akupunktur berpengaruh terhadap model. Hasil pengujian kesesuaian model menunjukkan bahwa model sesuai, sehingga model yang didapat cukup baik karena model yang terbentuk hanya dapat menjelaskan variabilitas data sebesar 61,4% serta sisanya dijelaskan oleh variabel prediktor yang tidak termasuk dalam model. Penderita obesitas yang melakukan pengobatan akupunktur kurang dari 5 kali cenderung dapat menurunkan berat badannya lebih dari 5 kg sebesar 29,815 kali dibanding penderita yang melakukan pengobatan akupunktur sebanyak 5-10 kali dan lebih dari 10 kali
False memories for scenes using the DRM paradigm
Authors: Dechterenko Filip , Lukavsky Jiri , Štipl Jiří
Published: October 2019

When we are exposed to a large number of scenes, we are remarkably good at memorizing them. The precise nature of large memory capacity is still an unresolved issue. Because visual scenes involve complex stimuli, it was difficult, until recently, to evaluate the similarity of two scenes. Researchers required a crucial manipulation check to decode this remarkable memory performance. One possible tool for helping us express how two scenes are perceptually similar are deep neural networks. In this study, we explored the extent to which we can create false visual memories using tasks inspired by the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. The similarity of scenes was evaluated by creating similarity space defined by a pre-trained deep network. The distances defined by the deep network were evaluated in a simple validation experiment. Results showed increased false alarm rates for scenes close to the averaged representation of the presented stimuli. A similar approach can be used for further studies regarding visual memory for complex scenes.
The Importance of High Spatial Frequencies for Exogenous Consciousness. Evidence from the Attentional Blink Paradigm.
Authors: Perrier Mickaël Jean Rémi , Kauffmann Louise , Peyrin Carole , Vermeulen Nicolas , Dutheil Frederic , Mermillod Martial
Published: October 2019

We attempted to highlight the respective importance of low spatial frequencies (LSFs) and high spatial frequencies (HSFs) in the emergence of visual consciousness by using an attentional blink paradigm in order to manipulate the conscious report of visual stimuli. Thirty-eight participants were asked to identify and report two targets (happy faces) embedded in a rapid stream of distractors (angry faces). Conscious perception of the second target (T2) usually improved as the lag between the targets increased. The distractors between T1 and T2 were either non-filtered (broad spatial frequencies, BSF), low-pass filtered (LSF), or high-pass filtered (HSF). The spatial frequency content of the distractors resulted in a greater disturbance of T2 reporting in the HSF than in the LSF condition. We argue that this could support the idea of HSF information playing a crucial role in the emergence of exogenous consciousness in the visual system. Other interpretations are also discussed.
PREPRINT: Contact and Psychological Adjustment following Divorce/Separation
Authors: O'Hara Karey , Grinberg Austin , Tackman Allison Mary , Mehl Matthias R. , Sbarra David
Published: October 2019

This study examined the association between naturalistically-observed in-person contact with one’s ex-partner and separation-related psychological distress (SRPD). 122 recently separated adults were assessed using the Electronically Activated Recorder (Mehl, 2017) on three occasions across five months. The association between in-person contact with one’s expartner, as a between-person variable, and concurrent SRPD was not reliably different from zero, nor was the time-varying effect of in-person contact. However, more frequent in-person contact with one’s ex-partner predicted higher SRPD two months later, above and beyond the variance accounted for by oncurrent in-person contact, demographic, relationship, and attachment factors. Follow-up analyses yielded that this effect was only present for people without children; a one standard deviation increase in in-person contact offset and slowed the predicted decline in SRPD over two months by 112%. Our discussion emphasizes new ways to think about the role of interpersonal contact in shaping adults’ psychological adjustment to separation over time.
Digital detox: The effect of smartphone abstinence on mood, anxiety, and craving
Authors: Wilcockson Thomas , Osborne Ashley , Ellis David Alexander
Published: October 2019

Whether behavioural addictions should be conceptualised using a similar framework to substance-related addictions remains a topic of considerable debate. Previous literature has developed criteria, which allows any new behavioural addiction to be considered analogous to substance-related addictions. These imply that abstinence from a related object (e.g., smartphones for heavy smartphone users) would lead to mood fluctuations alongside increased levels of anxiety and craving. In a sample of smartphone users, we measured three variables (mood, anxiety, and craving) on four occasions, which included a 24-hour period of smartphone abstinence. Only craving was affected following a short period of abstinence. The results suggest that heavy smartphone usage does not fulfil the criteria required to be considered an addiction. This may have implications for other behavioural addictions.
Linguistic and individual factors in meaning comprehension
Authors: Lai Yao-Ying , Makuuchi Michiru , Piñango Maria Mercedes , Sakai Hiromu
Published: October 2019

Sentences like “The athlete jumped for 20 minutes / jogged for 2 years.” engender an iterative meaning that is well understood yet morpho-syntactically unsupported—a case manifesting “meaning underspecification.” We argue that such underspecified meaning results from a costly meaning search in the sentential context by evaluating (a) the conventional event duration denoted by the verb, (b) the interval length denoted by the for-adverbial, and (c) the discourse context if there is one. In a naturalness-rating questionnaire and a self- paced reading experiment, we crossed two verb types (Punctual: jump / Durative: jog) and the interval-lengths denoted by for-adverbials (Short: for 20 minutes / Long: for 2 years). In addition, we investigated the impact of individuals’ cognitive styles indexed by autistic tendency on real-time meaning computation. Results showed that, in the absence of discourse context, (i) the harder a specific meaning could be determined from sentential context, the less natural the sentence was perceived, (ii) all sentences with underspecified meaning engendered significantly longer reading times regardless of verb type. Moreover, (iii) individuals with higher autistic tendency lingered significantly longer at the sentence-final region, likely reflecting a difficulty in information integration or a tendency towards deliberative reasoning. These findings suggest that meaning comprehension is lexically-guided and context-constraining, while the online processing profile vary with individuals’ autistic tendency.
Designing Graphs for Decision-Makers
Authors: Zacks Jeffrey M. , Franconeri Steven
Published: October 2019

Data graphics can be a powerful aid to decision-making—if they are designed to mesh well with human vision and understanding. Perceiving data values can be more precise for some graphical types, such as a scatterplot, and less precise for others, such as a heatmap. The eye can extract some types of statistics from large arrays in an eyeblink, as quickly as recognizing an object or face. But perceiving some patterns in visualized numbers—particularly comparisons within a dataset—is slow and effortful, unfolding over a series of operations that are guided by attention and previous experience. Effective data graphics map important messages onto visual patterns that are easily extracted, likely to be attended, and as consistent as possible with the audience’s previous experience. User-centered design methods, which rely on iteration and experimentation to improve a design, are critical tools for creating effective data visualizations.
Dealing with multivariate missing data in principal component analyses and subsequent model estimation: a two-step worked example using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging
Authors: Hämäläinen Anni , Mick Paul
Published: October 2019

Missing data can be a significant problem for statistical inference in many disciplines when information is not missing completely at random. In the worst case, it can lead to biased results when participants or subjects with certain characteristics contribute more data than other participants. Multiple imputation methods can be used to alleviate the loss of sample size and correct for this potential bias. Multiple imputation entails filling in the missing data using information from the same and other participants on the variables of interest and potentially other available data that correlate with the variables of interest. The missing data estimates and uncertainty associated with their estimation may then be taken into account in statistical inference from those variables. A complication may arise when using compound variables, such as principal component loadings (PC), which draw on a number of raw variables that themselves have non-overlapping missing data. Here, we propose a sequential multiple imputation approach to facilitate the use of all available data in the raw variables contained in compound variables in a way that conforms to the specifications of the multiple imputation framework. We first use multiple imputation to impute missing data for the subset of raw variables used in a principal component analysis (PCA) and perform the PCA with the imputed data; then, use the factor loadings to calculate PC scores for each individual with complete raw data. Finally, we include these PC scores as part of a global multiple imputation approach to estimate a final statistical model. We demonstrate (including annotated Stata code) the use of this approach by examining which sensory, health, social and cognitive factors explain self-reported sensory difficulties in the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging (CLSA) Comprehensive Cohort. The proposed sequential multiple imputation approach allows us to deal with the issue of having large cumulative amount of data that is missing (not completely at random) among a large number of variables, including composite cognitive scores derived from a battery of cognitive tests. We examine the resulting parameter estimates using a range of recommended diagnostic tools to highlight the potential and consequences of the approach to the statistical results.
The Philosophy of Perception : an explanation of Realism, Idealism and the Nature of Reality
Authors: Forrester Rochelle
Published: October 2019

This paper investigates the nature of reality by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics and at recent studies of animal senses, neurology and cognitive psychology. The concept of perceptual relativity is examined and this involves looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual relativity in science. It will be concluded that the universe is observer dependent and that there is no reality independent of the observer, which is knowable to the observer. The paper concludes by an investigation of what an observer dependent universe would be like and that recognition of an observer dependent world would lead to a more open minded and tolerant world.
What Should Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Starving the Beast, the Reagan Tax Cuts, and Modes of Historical Explanation
Authors: Berman Elizabeth Popp
Published: October 2019

Review essay on Monica Prasad's 2018 book, Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution.