cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Affecting Distribution Performance Of Pharmaceutical Products Distributors In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Getachew, Netsanet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This study examines the factors that affect distribution performance of pharmaceutical products distributers in Ethiopia. . The main objective of the study is to analyze the factors affecting distribution performance of pharmaceutical products and identify problems in order to redesign and improve the distribution chain. It investigates the effect of financial capacity, transport outsourcing, third party relations and use of information technology on the distribution performance of distributers in Addis Ababa. To this effect, a total of 185 samples of responders were selected from Addis Ababa pharmaceutical products distributers and 170 sample of population were returned back the questioner. The study uses sample survey for data collection through purposive random sampling for ensuring representativeness of the sample. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis are used. Descriptive statistics as well as correlation analysis are used for examining the relationship between variables of interest. The findings indicate that relations with government, donors and transport outsourcing followed by information technology and financial capacity have the greatest influence on distribution performance respectively. The finding of the study implies that information technology, transport outsourcing, relations with government and donors and financial capacity should be given due attention. It is thus critical to explore the current supply chain distribution trends in the pharmaceutical industry of some distribution centers in Ethiopia Finally this research mitigates the distributions problems, by proposing effective and efficient distributions of the pharmaceutical products at distribution company in Ethiopia after conducting a critical analysis to re -designing the existing distribution network using a mathematical model that increases the availability of pharmaceutical products at the right time and right place.
Tall tattooed women : an exploration of belonging and place
Creators: name: Foster, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Spin-polarizing interferometric beam splitter for free electrons
Creators: name: Dellweg, Matthias M.
name: Müller, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin-polarizing electron beam splitter is described which relies on an arrangement of linearly polarized laser waves of nonrelativistic intensity. An incident electron beam is first coherently scattered off a bichromatic laser field, splitting the beam into two portions, with electron spin and momentum being entangled. Afterwards, the partial beams are coherently superposed in an interferometric setup formed by standing laser waves. As a result, the outgoing electron beam is separated into its spin components along the laser magnetic field, which is shown by both analytical and numerical solutions of Pauli's equation. The proposed laser field configuration thus exerts the same effect on free electrons like an ordinary Stern-Gerlach magnet does on atoms.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Quantitative modeling of streamer discharge branching in air
Creators: name: Wang, Zhen
name: Dijcks, Siebe
name: Guo, Yihao
name: van der Leegte, Martijn
name: Sun, Anbang
name: Ebert, Ute
name: Nijdam, Sander
name: Teunissen, Jannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Streamer discharges are the primary mode of electric breakdown of air in lightning and high voltage technology. Streamer channels branch many times, which determines the developing tree-like discharge structure. Understanding these branched structures is for example important to describe streamer coronas in lightning research. We simulate branching of positive streamers in air using a 3D fluid model where photoionization is included as a discrete and stochastic process. The probability and morphology of branching are in good agreement with dedicated experiments. This demonstrates that photoionization indeed provides the noise that triggers branching, and we show that branching is remarkably sensitive to the amount of photoionization. Our comparison is therefore one of the first sensitive tests for Zheleznyak's photoionization model, confirming its validity.
Pressure Ulcers/Injuries Prevention in Emergency Services: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: De Pinho Mouta, Laura Ferreira
name: Sardo, Pedro Miguel Garcez
name: Ramos, Rita Conceição
name: Santos, Marta Silva
name: Moreira, Inês
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Critical Care Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Pressure ulcers/injuries management continues to be a challenge in different care settings (Dealey et al., 2015; Sardo et al., 2018, 2023) and represents an important health care quality indicator (Kottner et al., 2018; McEvoy et al., 2021; Padula & Delarmente, 2019; Silva et al., 2013; Soares & Heidemann, 2018). Although there is no evidence that the use of pressure ulcer risk assessment scales reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers by itself (Moore & Patton, 2019) the systematic use of pressure ulcer risk assessment scales allows the early identification of patients “at risk” and their specific risk factors (Braden, 2012; Sardo et al., 2015, 2018). International guidelines (EPUAP et al., 2019) recommends that the pressure ulcer risk assessment should be performed (using a validated tool) as soon as possible and periodically reassessed. Besides, a comprehensive skin and tissue assessment should be performed in all health care settings and should include techniques to identify blanching response, temperature changes, oedema, and changes in tissue consistency in relation to surrounding tissue (EPUAP et al., 2019). Furthermore, the skin under and around medical devices should also be inspected at least twice daily for the signs of pressure-related injury on the surrounding tissue (EPUAP et al., 2019). Being admitted to a hospital is an important measure of frailty (Sardo, Simões, Alvarelhão, Simões, & Melo, 2016) and nursing team should manage several pressure ulcer risk factors (Sardo, Simões, Alvarelhão, Simões, Machado, et al., 2016) in different care settings, namely in emergency services. A recent systematic review (Sardo et al., 2023) concluded that the prevalence of pressure ulcers/injuries in emergency services ranges from 5.2% (at admission) to 12.3% (at discharge) and the incidence of pressure ulcers/injuries in emergency services ranges from 4.5% to 78.4%. Thus, pressure ulcer/injury prevention protocols (that comprise early nursing care/interventions) should be implemented as soon as possible (Denby & Rowlands, 2010; EPUAP et al., 2019). So, the management of pressure ulcers/injuries (risk) in hospital emergency services is a real and current problem/challenge, and nursing team should implement preventive measures based on the best available evidence (Alshahrani et al., 2021; Marques et al., 2023). Thus, the main objective of this scoping review is to map the available evidence of nursing care provided to prevent the development of pressure ulcers/injuries in emergency services.
Analysis of the Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices on Customer Satisfaction: A case of Ethio Telecom Enterprise Customers
Creators: name: Solomon, Selam
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: In the face of growing worldwide interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), this paper explores how CSR factors influence customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to investigate CSR's effect on customer satisfaction in order to increase the understanding of CSR as a marketing tool, within the service industry. The research questions of the study are "What is the relationship between corporate social responsibilities and customer satisfaction? And how do the different CSR dimensions practices affect customer satisfaction? "The most common and widely used conceptual framework of Carroll's pyramid was used. A quantitative research design was applied to research the casual relationship of the corporate social responsibility dimensions to that of customer satisfaction. A stratified random sampling technique was conducted to select the respondents. Appling a structured questionnaire written in Amharic the researcher together with Ethio Telecom customer service management (CSM) section distributed to 325 peoples through their e-mail and face to face at enterprise sales office. The analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS version 20 software. The finding shows that CSR model can be applied in a monopolist company as well. Ethical Responsibility, Philanthropical Responsibility and Consumer Protection were found to be positively and significantly affecting customer satisfaction as they were hypothesized. The results showed that the causal effect of the consumer protection dimension on customer satisfaction was rather strong. The ethical responsibility variables, on the other hand, turned out to have a weak effect on customer satisfaction. Moreover, there is a strong positive relationship between all the CSR dimensions and customer satisfaction. As both CSR and customer satisfaction are quite complex concepts, a qualitative research approach could be conducted for further research.
The Effect Of Cause Related Marketing On Customer's Attitude: The Case Of Eden Spring Water
Creators: name: Bezabih, Emebet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric to being consumer-centric. Today we see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues, and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility. Now more and more companies use the cause-related marketing strategy as a way out of saturated markets and growing consumer awareness. Because it is a relatively new approach many researches have shown interest in this marketing communication strategy. Eden Spring Water Company is one of the pioneer in launching this marketing strategy in Ethiopia. However, no market survey was conducted to know consumer attitude. This is also the field of interest for this thesis and in particular how does cause related marketing affect consumer attitudes case of Eden Spring Water. In order to find out the answer for this question, the researcher used different theories, models, journals and books. The research approach was mixed research approach, data collection instruments was questioner and interview. A total of 400 questioners was distributed, but only 254 was used for the data analysis. The sampling technique was non-probability sampling technique (convenience sampling). The sample population of the study were consumer/customer of both individual and business firms of Addis Ababa. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, regression analysis and independent t-test. As the regression analysis result reveals, both three independent variables, consumer awareness, cause-fit and brand-fit have a significant effect on customer's attitude towards brand purchase intention. The other result shows, there is no significant difference between individual and business customers of Eden Spring Water in their attitude towards brand purchase intention. Qualitative data was collected through the interview from company management. Both qualitative and quantitative data was analyzed separately. Data triangulation was done for confirm validity of the research findings.
Tangent cones to generalised theta divisors and generic injectivity of the theta map
Creators: name: Hitching, George H.
name: Hoff, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H60, 14H51, 14M12, 14B10, 13D10, 14C34

description: Let $C$ be a Petri general curve of genus $g$ and $E$ a general stable vector bundle of rank $r$ and slope $g-1$ over $C$ with $h^0 (C, E) = r+1$. For $g > (2r+2)(2r+1)$, we show how the bundle $E$ can be recovered from the tangent cone to the theta divisor $Θ_E$ at ${\mathcal O}_C$. We use this to give a constructive proof and a sharpening of Brivio and Verra's theorem that the theta map $SU_C (r) -rightarrow |r Θ|$ is generically injective for large values of $g$.
description: 19 pages; assumptions in main theorem slightly changed because of a gap in v1; Section 2 rewritten; Section 3 removed
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 15/84
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Wahlordnung für die Wahlen zum Studentenparlament der Studentenschaft der Universität Dortmund vom 29. 11. 1984
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 15, 1984
Quantum leaps of black holes: Magnifying glasses of quantum gravity
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
name: Lochan, Kinjalk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show using simple arguments, that the conceptual triad of a {\it classical} black hole, semi-classical Hawking emission and geometry quantization is inherently, mutually incompatible. Presence of any two explicitly violates the third. We argue that geometry quantization, if realized in nature, magnifies the quantum gravity features hugely to catapult them into the realm of observational possibilities. We also explore a quantum route towards extremality of the black holes.
description: This essay received honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2016 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
Returning the ethnographer's gaze : a studio investigation into representations of Italian Australian identity as the "Other"
Creators: name: Creenaune, Jane.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Determinants Of Market Efficiency Of Commodity Exchange The Case Of Ethiopian Commodity Exchange
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Tewodros
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The objective this study is to examine the determinants of market efficiency of Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) that the market institution (ECX) promised and work toward achieving market efficiency. Of course, it is after eleven years of establishment that this research was conducted to analyze the operation of ECX and find out the fulfillment of the promised 'making an efficient market work for everybody'. The variable that used to examine were Trading Platform, Trade Contracts, Counterparty Risk Management, Brokers Market Participation, Product Integrity, Viable Regulation and Enforcement that the data was analyzed through descriptive analysis and binary regression model using SPSS version 20. The research methodology is descriptive and explanatory designs and used multiple linear regression analysis to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Correlation analysis is useful to measure linear association relationship between variables with the intention their coefficient indicates the strength of linear association between two variables. The finding indicates that these six independent variables are found to have a positive correlation with market efficiency that revealed from the Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. The coefficients of the variables indicated that these variables have different magnitudes of correlation with each other too. As the finding reveals, product integrity and viable regulatory and enforcement have the highest and strong positive relation where as trading platform relatively recorded moderate
title: Development of an LC-MS/MS Method For Evaluating Lipid Lowering Drug Use and Reporting in Medical Records
Creators: name: Kusovschi, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description: The main driver of cardiovascular disease risk is atherogenic low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles in addition to other risk factors. Patients with elevated risk are prescribed lipid modifying drugs like statins and fibrates for preventing potential atherosclerotic plaque accumulation. In conjunction with a CDC study investigating association between atherosclerosis risk and lipoprotein levels, a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and optimized to screen for the presence or absence of statins or fibrates in the plasma samples collected from study participants. The comprehensive panel of statins, fibrates, and their metabolites were identified with a high sensitivity, 4-minute-long method, using a low plasma volume of 10 µL. The presence and identification of the medications were compared to medical records. The comparison revealed many discrepancies that had significant impact on scientific conclusions concerning correlations between LDL levels and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk score determined by cardiac catheterization.
Floquet states and optical conductivity of an irradiated two dimensional topological insulator
Creators: name: Dabiri, S. Sajad
name: Cheraghchi, H.
name: Sadeghi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the topology of the Floquet states and time-averaged optical conductivity of the lattice model of a thin topological insulator subject to a circularly polarized light using the extended Kubo formalism. Two driving regimes, the off-resonant and on-resonant, and two models for the occupation of the Floquet states, the ideal and mean-energy occupation, are considered. In the ideal occupation, the real part of DC optical Hall conductivity is shown to be quantized while it is not quantized for the mean energy distribution. The optical transitions in the Floquet band structure depend strongly on the occupation and also the optical weight which consequently affect all components of optical conductivity. At high frequency regime, we present an analytical calculation of the effective Hamiltonian and also its phase diagram which depends on the tunneling energy between two surfaces. The topology of the system shows rich phases when it is irradiated by a weak on-resonant drive giving rise to emergence of anomalous edge states.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 11/85
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Promotionsordnung der Universität Dortmund für den Fachbereich Sondererziehung und Rehabilitation vom 21. März 1985
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 11, 1985
The UK Met Office GCM with a sophisticated radiation scheme applied to the hot Jupiter HD 209458b
Creators: name: Amundsen, David S.
name: Mayne, Nathan J.
name: Baraffe, Isabelle
name: Manners, James
name: Tremblin, Pascal
name: Drummond, Benjamin
name: Smith, Chris
name: Acreman, David M.
name: Homeier, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study the complexity of hot Jupiter atmospheres revealed by observations of increasing quality, we have adapted the UK Met Office global circulation model (GCM), the Unified Model (UM), to these exoplanets. The UM solves the full 3D Navier-Stokes equations with a height-varying gravity, avoiding the simplifications used in most GCMs currently applied to exoplanets. In this work we present the coupling of the UM dynamical core to an accurate radiation scheme based on the two-stream approximation and correlated-k method with state-of-the-art opacities from ExoMol. Our first application of this model is devoted to the extensively studied hot Jupiter HD 209458b. We have derived synthetic emission spectra and phase curves, and compare them to both previous models also based on state-of-the-art radiative transfer, and to observations. We find a reasonable a agreement between observations and both our day side emission and hot spot offset, however, our night side emission is too large. Overall our results are qualitatively similar to those found by Showman et al. (2009) with the SPARC/MITgcm, however, we note several quantitative differences: Our simulations show significant variation in the position of the hottest part of the atmosphere with pressure, as expected from simple timescale arguments, and in contrast to the "vertical coherency" found by Showman et al. (2009). We also see significant quantitative differences in calculated synthetic observations. Our comparisons strengthen the need for detailed intercomparisons of dynamical cores, radiation schemes and post-processing tools to understand these differences. This effort is necessary in order to make robust conclusions about these atmospheres based on GCM results.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. 11 pages, 11 figures, 1 table
Surface deconstructions : an investigation of surfaces from 'decon' to 'digital', and their effects on glass sculptures and the spaces they create
Creators: name: King, Jennifer Ashley.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Large-Scale Traffic Congestion Prediction based on Multimodal Fusion and Representation Mapping
Creators: name: Zhou, Bodong
name: Liu, Jiahui
name: Cui, Songyi
name: Zhao, Yaping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the progress of the urbanisation process, the urban transportation system is extremely critical to the development of cities and the quality of life of the citizens. Among them, it is one of the most important tasks to judge traffic congestion by analysing the congestion factors. Recently, various traditional and machine-learning-based models have been introduced for predicting traffic congestion. However, these models are either poorly aggregated for massive congestion factors or fail to make accurate predictions for every precise location in large-scale space. To alleviate these problems, a novel end-to-end framework based on convolutional neural networks is proposed in this paper. With learning representations, the framework proposes a novel multimodal fusion module and a novel representation mapping module to achieve traffic congestion predictions on arbitrary query locations on a large-scale map, combined with various global reference information. The proposed framework achieves significant results and efficient inference on real-world large-scale datasets.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 23/97
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Beitragsordnung der Studierendenschaft der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 23, 1997
Towards a Localised S-Matrix Theory
Creators: name: Karamitros, Dimitrios
name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate an S-matrix theory in which localisation effects of the particle interactions involved in a scattering process are consistently taken into account. In the limit of an infinite spread of all interactions, the S-matrix assumes its standard form. To better understand the significance of the emerging quantum phenomena in this formalism, we consider a solvable field-theoretic model with spatial Gaussian spreads at the interaction vertices. This solvable model, which was previously introduced in the literature, enables accurate descriptions of detection regions that are either close to or far from the source. In close analogy with light diffraction in classical optics, we call these two regions near-field and far-field zones, or the Fresnel and Fraunhofer regions. We revisit the question whether mixed mediators produce an oscillating pattern if their detection occurs in the Fresnel region. Besides corroborating certain earlier findings of the S-matrix amplitude in the forward Fresnel and Fraunhofer regimes, we observe several novel features with respect to its angular dependence which have not been accounted before in the literature. In particular, we obtain a ``quantum obliquity factor'' that suppresses particle propagation in the backwards direction, thereby providing an explicit quantum field-theoretic description for its origin in diffractive optics. Present and future colliders, as well as both short and long baseline neutrino experiments, would greatly benefit from the many predictions that can be offered from such a holistic localised S-matrix theory.
description: 34 pages, 7 figures; v2: changed title to more accurately reflect the content, added extensive discussion on possible experimental probes, additional references included; v3: added comments to clarify some points in the paper, matches published version in PRD
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 01/98
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Benutzungsordnung des Informationszentrums Technik und Patente der Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund gemäß § 12 der Benutzungsordnung für die Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund vom 4. Juni 1997
description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Lernbereich Sachunterricht Gesellschaftslehre an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Primarstufe" vom 21. 01. 1998
description: Studienordnung zum Lehramtsstudiengang Geschichte Sekundarstufe I an der Universität Dortmund vom 21. 01. 1998
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 1, 1998
A novel ALK fusion sensitive to ensartinib in a patient with advanced lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: 闫娜(Na Yan)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Medical

description: The ALK gene fusion is a mighty oncogenic trigger event in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), accounting for 4%-6% of LUAD. ALK-positive LUAD exhibits ALK dependence and are usually responsive to ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The most common ALK fusion partner gene is EML4. More and more new fusion types and partner genes have been discovered and reported. However, only ALK fusion products with constantly active kinase domains can drive tumor formation and respond to ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In this case report, we present a rare case of cT2N3M1a IVa lung adenocarcinoma patient with ALK gene fusion accompanied by a rare partner long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) AC068490.2. This patient responded positively to ensatinib and had a progression-free survival period of over 31 months as of publication.
ترسيخ أخلاقيات الأعمال من خلال برامج المسؤولية الاجتماعية في منظمات الأعمال- دراسة حالة شركة المراعي بالمملكة العربية السعودية
Creators: name: خلوفي, سفيان
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Corporate social responsibility
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour not elsewhere classified
Human resources management
Human resources and industrial relations not elsewhere classified

description: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعريف بدور برامج وسياسات المسؤولية الاجتماعية في منظمات الأعمال في ترسيخ أخلاقيات الأعمال، حيث تم تسليط الضوء على شركة المراعي بالمملكة العربية السعودية، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن برامج المسؤولية الاجتماعية تساهم في ضبط السلوك الأخلاقي لمنظمات الأعمال، وبالتالي ضبط تطلعات المنظمة مع بيئتها الداخلية والخارجية، وأوصت الدراسة في الأخير بضرورة أن تقوم منظمات الأعمال بوضع أطر التطبيق والتسهيل والتوعية وخلق بيئة مواتية ومحفزة وتوسيع برامج المسؤولية الاجتماعية، من خلال تحقيق ورفاه المجتمع، بالاهتمام بالجوانب المشاكل الاجتماعية التي يتخبط فيها، وكذا خلق بيئة تفاعلية ووسائل للحماية البيئية، من أجل توفير إطار أخلاقي يتمشى وأهداف المنظمة والمجتمع الذي تنشط فيه. الكلمات المفتاحية: مسؤولية اجتماعية، أخلاقيات الأعمال، منظمات الأعمال، شركة المراعي. This study aims at defining the role of social responsibility programs and policies in business organizations in establishing business ethics. Almarai Company was highlighted in Saudi Arabia. The study concluded that social responsibility programs contribute to controlling the ethical behavior of business organizations, Internal and external, and recommended in the final need for business organizations to develop frameworks of application and facilitation and awareness and create an enabling and stimulating environment and expand programs of social responsibility, through the achievement of the welfare of the community attention to aspects of social problems As well as creating an interactive environment and means of environmental protection, in order to provide an ethical framework consistent with the objectives of the organization and the community in which it is active. Key words: Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Business Organizations, Almarai Company.
An Assessment Of Customers' Satisfaction With New Product Innovation: The Case Of Awash Bank
Creators: name: Dejene, Tilahun
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The general objective of the thesis was to measure the level of customer satisfaction of customers of Awash Bank in relation to new product innovation. The study had tried to assess level of customer satisfaction in relation to customer centricity, attractive and innovativeness and price of the new product. Moreover, it explored the relationship among the three dimensions of the independent variables. Sample size of the study was 384 and a convenience sampling technique was used. The researcher used a qualitative type of research approach and a closed structured questionnaire was used to collect data based on the research questions. Descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistic, analysis of variance (ANOVA) were employed. In addition, pearson correlation analysis was used to assess relationship among the three dimensions of customer satisfaction. As a key finding, the result depicted that those senior customers and qualified ones were not as such satisfied with new product innovation of the bank and generally, it is recommended that the bank should work hard and evaluate its performance so as to understand customers' need and to get continuous competitive advantage in the banking industry
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 01/99
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Beitragsordnung der Studierendenschaft der Universität Dortmund i. d. F. der Neubekanntmachung vom 18. Dezember 1997
description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Architektur und Städtebau an der Universität Dortmund vom 9. März 1998
description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Bauingenieurwesen an der Universität Dortmund vom 9. März 1998
description: Richtlinien für die Darstellung der Universität im World Wide Web (WWW)
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 1, 1999
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 02/99
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Dritte Satzung zur Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Maschinenbau an der Universität Dortmund vom 29. Oktober 1998
description: Satzung zur Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Dortmund vom 23. September 1998
description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Evangelische Religionslehre an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluss "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II" vom 4. Februar 1999
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 2, 1999
Negative-pressure-assisted ventilation reduces driving pressure and mechanical power in a preclinical ARDS model
Creators: name: Rohrs, Elizabeth
name: Bassi, Thiago G.
name: nicholas, michelle
name: Ornowska, Marlena
name: Fernandez, Karl
name: Gani, Matt
name: Reynolds, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Study set up and minor findings for study investigating the use of transvenous neurstimulation of the phrenic nerve during mechanical ventilation to reduce ventilator induced lung injury in pigs with moderate ARDS.
Low Complexity Multiply Accumulate Unit for Weight-Sharing Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Garland, James
name: Gregg, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful deep machine learning technologies for processing image, voice and video data. CNNs require large amounts of processing capacity and memory, which can exceed the resources of low power mobile and embedded systems. Several designs for hardware accelerators have been proposed for CNNs which typically contain large numbers of Multiply Accumulate (MAC) units. One approach to reducing data sizes and memory traffic in CNN accelerators is "weight sharing", where the full range of values in a trained CNN are put in bins and the bin index is stored instead of the original weight value. In this paper we propose a novel MAC circuit that exploits binning in weight-sharing CNNs. Rather than computing the MAC directly we instead count the frequency of each weight and place it in a bin. We then compute the accumulated value in a subsequent multiply phase. This allows hardware multipliers in the MAC circuit to be replaced with adders and selection logic. Experiments show that for the same clock speed our approach results in fewer gates, smaller logic, and reduced power.
description: 4 pages
Light-struck : metaphor and materials : sensing in the digital environment
Creators: name: Lade, Jennifer.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 03/99
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderungen der Studienordnungen für das Studium des Unterrichtsfachs Musik an der Universität Dortmund mit den Abschlüssen "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Primarstufe, Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II" vom 19. 02. 1999
description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Fertigungstechnik (berufliche Fachrichtung) an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluss "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II" vom 18. 02. 1999
description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Maschinentechnik (berufliche Fachrichtung) an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluss "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II" vom 18. 02. 1999
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 3, 1999
Electrical tunability due to coalescence of exceptional points in parity-time symmetric waveguides
Creators: name: Wang, Jin
name: Dong, Hui Yuan
name: Wu, Raymond P. H.
name: Mok, T. C.
name: Fung, Kin Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate theoretically the electric tunability due to coalescence of exceptional points in PT-symmetric waveguides bounded by imperfect conductive layers. Owing to the competition effect of multimode interaction, multiple exceptional points and PT phase transitions could be attained in such a simple system and their occurrences are strongly dependent on the boundary conductive layers. When the conductive layers become very thin, it is found that the oblique transmittance and reflectance of the same system can be tuned between zero and one by a small change in carrier density. The results may provide an effective method for fast tuning and modulation of optical signals through electrical gating.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 11/99
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berichtigung der Promotionsordnung für die Fakultät Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte vom 21. Januar 1997
description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Chemie an der Universität Dortmund vom 6. Mai 1998
description: Satzung zur Änderung der Promotionsordnung der Universität Dortmund für die Fakultät Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte vom 11. August 1999
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 11, 1999
title: Vasolin-Containing Protein (VCP) in Cardiomyocyte Survival and Growth via MTOR Complex Mediated Signaling
Creators: name: Siri, Sharadhi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description: Recent studies have demonstrated that the Valosin-containing protein (VCP), an ATPase – associated protein, plays a protective role in the heart against cardiomyopathies and injuries caused by various cardiac stresses, including ischemia and pressure overload. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. It has been shown that VCP presents in stressed hearts. Our hypothesis is that VCP plays an essential role in cardiomyocyte growth and survival through a dual regulatory effect on the signaling of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). Thus, we used a functional gain and loss strategy to determine the critical role of VCP in regulating mTOR signaling in cardiomyocytes in vitro. By using recombined adeno-virus system (Ad-CMV-GFP-VCP for overexpression and Ad-U6- siRNA-VCP for knockdown), we successfully overexpressed VCP and knocked down VCP in H9C2 cells respectively. This study aimed to better understand how VCP overexpression and knockdown affected certain proteins involved in the mTOR pathway – in particular phosphorylated Akt (pAkt T308 and pAkt S473), Raptor, Rictor and mTOR. Western blots were also done to confirm VCP knockdown and overexpression with GaPDH as the loading control. This preliminary study, although did not yield substantial results, can be designed as an in vitro system to better understand VCP and mTOR interactions.
Analyzing Factors Influencing Customers Preference To Use Training Services Of Ethiopian Aviation Academy
Creators: name: Tadesse, Menbere
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this research paper was to examine factors influencing customers' preference to use training services of Ethiopian Aviation Academy. The researcher thus tried to analyze the applicability of Jackson's (1982) hybrid model in regards to brand preference of Ethiopian aviation academy. The selected conceptual framework was on factors affecting students' college choice preference; from college characteristics which are costs/price, reputation of the institution, academic program/availability, facilities and advertizing was analyzed. A quantitative research design was applied to research the causal relationship of the college choice preference and determinants of college choice. A stratified sampling technique was conducted to contact the sample respondents' form the five training schools of the academy. Applying a structured questionnaire written in English the researcher distributed to 170 trainees in person. The analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS version 20. The research finding clearly indicates that College Reputation has positive relationship with college choice decision/preference. Price has a negative relationship with customers' college choice preference. This means that a one unit increase in price will result a decrease in customers college choice preference. Advertising has also a positive relationship with college choice decision/preference. Therefore, the academy has to work on its branding to maintain its reputation, must increase its promotional activities on Television and Radio and design best pricing policy to maintain and attract customers brand preference.
Donne, migrazione e gender gap sul lavoro in Alto Adige
Creators: name: Tomaselli , Alexandra
Publisher: name: Eurac Research
Year: 2023

description: Perché in luoghi dove il tasso di disoccupazione è uno dei più bassi in Italia, se non in Europa, esiste ancora un gender gap nel mondo del lavoro? Cos’è che impedisce l’entrata nel mercato del lavoro delle donne, e, in particolare, di quelle con un background migratorio? Un’analisi intersezionale che s’incentra su come determinati fattori e condizioni sociali si rafforzano a vicenda e creano situazioni di svantaggio e discriminazione ci può aiutare a trovare delle risposte.
Factors that influence the effectiveness of mobile banking adoption: The case of Commercial Banks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Bruke
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that influence the effectiveness of mobile banking adoption in the case of commercial banks in Ethiopia. A sample of 400 respondents was drawn from both public and private banks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where a structured questionnaire was distributed to these samples. However, the response rate from among the intended samples was only 95.5% therefore; around 382 responses were found to be workable by this study. SPSS V 24.0 was used to analyze the data collected and to test the hypotheses put forward. The findings of this study then show that factors namely convenience and relative advantage have a positive and significant relationship with mobile banking adoption in Ethiopia which led to, the acceptance of hypothesis two and four. From Hypothesis three, perceived risk was found to have a significant negative influence on mobile banking adoption, meaning hypothesis three was supported. Whereas hypothesis one trust has no significant relationship with the dependent variable mobile banking adoption. And this was found by running multiple linear regressions on SPSS. The testing of the fifth and final hypothesis, which set out to find any significant difference between the different factors (trust, convenience, risk and relative advantage) of public and private banks show that there is no significant difference on trust, convenience and relative advantage between public and private banks but perceived risk was found to be significantly different between public and private banks in Ethiopia. This led to the partial acceptance of the fifth hypothesis. These findings are beneficial for both public and private banks in Ethiopia to identify factors that influence the effectiveness of mobile banking adoption. The study recommends more studies on mobile banking adoption to be conducted in other areas of the country to find out if there could be any similarities.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 12/99
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berichtigung der Studienordnung für das Studium der beruflichen Fachrichtung Sozialpädagogik für das Lehramt der Sekundarstufe II an der Universität Dortmund vom 11. September 1996
description: Fortschreibung der Anlage 1 zur Dienstvereinbarung zwischen der Kanzlerin der Universität Dortmund und dem Personalrat der nichtwissenschaftlich Beschäftigten der Universität Dortmund zur Einführung der gleitenden Arbeitszeit in der zentralen Hochschulverwaltung vom 01. 12. 97 (AM 2/98 vom 13. 02. 98 - Stand: 01.12. 99)
description: Satzung zur Änderung Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Chemie an der Universität Dortmund vom 9. September 1999
description: Zweite Satzung zur Änderung Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Angewandte Informatik mit dem Schwerpunkt Ingenieurwissenschaften (Ingenieurinformatik ) an der Universität Dortmund vom 8. Juli 1999
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 12, 1999
Neutron Star Mass-Radius Constraints using Evolutionary Optimization
Creators: name: Stevens, A. L.
name: Fiege, J. D.
name: Leahy, D. A.
name: Morsink, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of state of cold supra-nuclear-density matter, such as in neutron stars, is an open question in astrophysics. A promising method for constraining the neutron star equation of state is modelling pulse profiles of thermonuclear X-ray burst oscillations from hotspots on accreting neutron stars. The pulse profiles, constructed using spherical and oblate neutron star models, are comparable to what would be observed by a next-generation X-ray timing instrument like ASTROSAT, NICER, or LOFT. In this paper, we showcase the use of an evolutionary optimization algorithm to fit pulse profiles to determine the best-fit masses and radii. By fitting synthetic data, we assess how well the optimization algorithm can recover the input parameters. Multiple Poisson realizations of the synthetic pulse profiles, constructed with 1.6 million counts and no background, were fitted with the Ferret algorithm to analyze both statistical and degeneracy-related uncertainty, and to explore how the goodness-of-fit depends on the input parameters. For the regions of parameter space sampled by our tests, the best-determined parameter is the projected velocity of the spot along the observer's line-of-sight, with an accuracy of $\le3$% compared to the true value and with $\le5$\% statistical uncertainty. The next best-determined are the mass and radius; for a neutron star with a spin frequency of 600\,Hz, the best-fit mass and radius are accurate to $\le5$%, with respective uncertainties of $\le7$% and $\le10$%. The accuracy and precision depend on the observer inclination and spot co-latitude, with values of $\sim1$ % achievable in mass and radius if both the inclination and co-latitude are > 60 degrees.
description: Supplementary online only tables are also available by contacting the authors