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Namibian Basketball Federation Marketing Strategy

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This thesis aims to deliver a sport marketing strategy guide for the Namibian Basketball Federa-tion. The primary purpose of this thesis is to provide the Namibian Sports Commission, the Min-istry of Sports, Youth & National Services of Namibia with a marketing strategy to grow the sports of basketball in Namibia. There are a several strategies that would directly factor into making this goal a reality. Some of which include bringing in new players while simultaneously retaining current and former players. With only 2.5 Million citizens, Namibia is a very small coun-try in terms of population; having said that, there is not as much competition to represent the national team. Namibia has had a long run of disappointing seasons when it comes to interna-tional sporting events. As a result, most people in Windhoek and the rest of Namibia associate national team sports with losing. \n \n \nNamibian sports in general needs to re-develop its brand in order to align itself to its new high standard by ensuring that all sectors within the Ministry work in in harmony. This would help be-cause a well-run ministry that shows a lot of promise will be better funded by the government; which in turn will attract the private sector to invest as well. \n \n \nThis thesis will display various strategies that will positively contribute to the development of basketball in Namibia; in particular the Men’s Under 16 & 18 National basketball teams. Focusing on youth basketball will help put emphasis on grassroots level basketball in order to ensure success in future senior tournaments. Marketing is a very powerful tool that can completely transform any organization for the better, if utilized appropriately. There are countless opportuni-ties within the field of sports marketing and this thesis will outline each one of those opportuni-ties and how the Namibian Basketball Federation can explore them in conjunction with the Minis-try of Sports, Youth and National Services to grow the sport of basketball in Namibia.
Analysis of the Relation between Myrica rubra Fruit Thinning Amount and Economic Benefit

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

The comparisons and analyses of relations between various Myrica rubra fruit thinning amounts and input,yield,output value,and benefit accordingly were conducted with relative analysis method and multi-objective optimized method,this paper showed that fruit thinning method might raise M.rubra quality,might increase output value and benefit,the pure benefit was biggest with the fruit thinning amount of 60%,the investment effect was best with that of 70%,the fruit thinning amount of 60%～70% was the best M.rubra fruit thinning seheme.
A communication perspective on teacher socialization

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

A widely held assumption is that the effectiveness of teachers is related to their training, preparation, and early teaching experiences: better a teacher is educated, the better an that teacher potentially can provide. . . the better the teaching environment and the resources provided, the better a teacher's chances of success in helping students obtain a worthwhile and meaningful education (Soltis, 1987, p. 311). Studies of ways to reform teacher continue to abound, with two major reports issued within the last year (The Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, 1986; The Holmes Group, 1986). Although, most assuredly, there is no consensus among critics of reform, there is some agreement that we need greater insight into the teaching experience (Darling-Hammond, 1987; Jackson, 1987). As we develop and refine our understanding of teacher and the teaching process, we may be able to improve our preservice and in-service programs and subsequently, improve the quality of teaching (Veenman, 1984). As college/university students become teachers they experience a process known as socialization, one in which people selectively acquire the values and attitudes, the interests, skills and knowledge in short the culture current in groups to which they are, or seek to become a member (Merton, et al. , 1957, p. 287). Unlike primary socialization which occurs from birth and ends when children are fully functioning individuals, teacher socialization is a form of secondary socialization, a subsequent process that inducts an already socialized individual into new sectors of the objective world of his society (Berger & Luckmann, 1966, p. 130). Within this secondary socialization experience there are two distinct, yet interrelated dimensions: (1) occupational or role socialization, and (2) organizational or cultural socialization.
A Non-Singular Fast Terminal SMC to Enhance the Dynamic Stability of Wind Energy Conversion System-based Microgrids During Grid Faults

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Fast and accurate mitigation of dynamic instabilities resulting from grid faults is critical for the safe and reliable operation of microgrids. This paper proposes a non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC)-based approach to enhance the dynamic stability of wind energy conversion system-based microgrids. The approach combines the fast convergence and robustness of NFTSMC with the fast current controllability of static synchronous compensators (STATCOM) to provide reactive power support and stabilize the grid voltage in the presence of grid faults and mismatched disturbances. The stability of the NFTSMC approach is established using the Lyapunov stability theory. The control approach is implemented in a test microgrid system and assessed in the presence of mismatched disturbances and a symmetrical grid fault. Its dynamic performance is also compared to that of a standard sliding mode controller. The obtained results confirmed the ability of the proposed scheme to effectively mitigate dynamic instabilities resulting from grid faults and provide grid support under faulty conditions.
Universal current correlations induced by the Majorana and fermionic Andreev bound states

Field: Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)

Due to their nonlocality, Majorana bound states have been proposed to induce current-current correlations (CCCs) that are completely different from those induced by low-energy fermionic Andreev bound states. Such characteristics can be used as a signature to detect Majorana bound states. Herein, we studied the Majorana and fermionic Andreev bound states in a two-dimensional topological insulator system. We found that nonlocality occurs for both types of bound states and that their coupling strengths depend on system parameters in the same pattern. Majorana and fermionic Andreev bound states show the same differential CCCs characteristics, thereby indicating a universal behavior for both types of bound states. The maximal cross differential CCCs are robust to the structural asymmetry of the system.
A dedicated place for volume fraud within the current UK economic crime agenda?

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how a large UK police force – Greater Manchester Police (GMP) – sought during a period of continuing budget reductions to take a cost-effective approach to certain types of fraud through the establishment of a central Volume Fraud Team (VFT), which in turn would also have wider operational resource benefits across the force. It then explores the decision to merge that team with its existing serious and complex fraud team. Design/methodology/approach The research was undertaken over a period of two years by interview and desk review to explain the internal processes which underpinned the approach and the initial outcomes. It discusses why the approach was short lived as a consequence of other factors. Findings The paper sets out briefly the context of changes to the policing of fraud since 1979 and describes the GMP decision-making processes that established a centralised response to volume fraud and major (serious and complex) fraud. The paper assesses the available data on the approach and whether the changes facilitated a more effective means of addressing fraud and other internal policing priorities. It then discusses the decision in 2014 to merge the staff resources for volume and major frauds in response to identified policy trends in fraud investigations and changes in fraud reporting. Research limitations/implications The single case study is limited in terms of focus and in applicability to the wider law enforcement response to fraud. Practical implications The research discusses practitioner issues arising from the complexities of balancing resources and priorities against changing trends and patterns of criminal activity in a specific area of policing. Originality/value The research is an original study into the internal and external change agendas, and there are, therefore, wider lessons for the policing of fraud in the UK.
UAlacant word-level machine translation quality estimation system at WMT 2015

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

This paper describes the Universitat d'Alacant submissions (labelled as UAlacant) for the machine translation quality estimation (MTQE) shared task in WMT 2015, where we participated in the wordlevel MTQE sub-task.The method we used to produce our submissions uses external sources of bilingual information as a black box to spot sub-segment correspondences between a source segment S and the translation hypothesis T produced by a machine translation system.This is done by segmenting both S and T into overlapping subsegments of variable length and translating them in both translation directions, using the available sources of bilingual information on the fly.For our submissions, two sources of bilingual information were used: machine translation (Apertium and Google Translate) and the bilingual concordancer Reverso Context.After obtaining the subsegment correspondences, a collection of features is extracted from them, which are then used by a binary classifer to obtain the final "GOOD" or "BAD" word-level quality labels.We prepared two submissions for this year's edition of WMT 2015: one using the features produced by our system, and one combining them with the baseline features published by the organisers of the task, which were ranked third and first for the sub-task, respectively.
e-science on the surface

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Often large amounts of computing power and storage resources are needed to facilitate e-science experiments, and much research has gone into providing software and hardware for these high-end needs. Once datasets are produced by these systems, few tools exist to comprehensively help researchers analyze, share and publish their findings and conclusions. We demonstrate a tool developed to allow the annotation, visualizing and sharing of large related data sets. Based around tangible objects, this system demonstrates a number of novel interactions for scientific research.
A Strategic Question Inquiry System for fuzzy decision of elevators street

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

This paper presents a Strategic Question and Inquiry System (SQIS) as a Decision Support System (DSS) on elevators street for correction of knowledge on Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Action Mode Effect Analysis (AMEA). Then, an example of a numerical experiment for the concept demonstration of the fuzzy decision making is shown. The application to double-deck and multi-car elevator was discussed.
Basal cell carcinoma: Topical therapy versus surgical treatment

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a non-melanoma skin cancer and is one of the commonest malignancies of the skin encountered in daily clinical practice. It derives from non-keratinizing cells that originate in the basal layer of the epidermis. It accounts for approximately 75% of all skin cancer in the world, and 53.2% in Iraqi patients. Generally, most BCC cases are sporadic, but it may also appear in genetic disorders such as Gorlin's syndrome, Rombo's syndrome, and xeroderma pigmentosa (XP). If left untreated, BCC will continue to invade locally and may result in substantial tissue damage that compromises function and cosmetic look. Metastasis is an extremely rare event. The tumor characteristically develops on sun-exposed skin of lighter-skinned individuals. There are two main modalities of therapy including topical like: Imiquimod, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), photodynamic therapy (PDT), radiation therapy (RT), topical & intralesional zinc sulfate and topical 25% podophylline. While surgical one consists of: Moh's Micrographic excision, standard excision, Curettage and desiccation (C&D), and cryosurgery. After extensive reviewing of all modalities of therapy, in addition to our experience, we can conclude that all therapies could be effective in treatment of BCC. As each patient is unique so individualized treatment plan should be tailored to each one.
A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A SHIPBOARD DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM

Field: Engineering (Physical Sciences)

Research is presented on a feasibility study of a shipboar data collection system. The first section describes the background of the study. The second section contains a description of the system that Electric Boat suggested in its proposal; it also contains a description of the system for collec ing and recording ship speed, course, and elapsed time which was designed and assembled by Electric Boat's Human Factors Section and delivered to SubDevGru Two for installation on two submarines. The third section of this report describes the IBM 704 program developed by Electric Boat's Digital Computer Services Division for post-exercise reconstruction of ship tracks from data recorded during operations at sea. (Author)
Age-Dependent Effects C57BL/6 Genetic Mutations under Mice Models of Parkinsonâ€™s Disease on Motor Ability

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

As literature reported, C57BL/6 A53T mutant human alpha-synuclein under the mice is one successful model related to Parkinsonâ€™s disease(PD). In previous studies, over-accumulation of alpha-synuclein which lead to lewy body, were revealed to cause impairment on motor ability in Parkinsonâ€™s disease mouse model. Nevertheless, in the open filed test and the rota-rod test, hyperactivity and motor ability improvements at 12 months old was found in our study.
City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This concise history of New York City municipal unions makes a persuasive case that union leadership in NYC has often behaved like a junior partner in the management structure by conceding to City demands (oftentimes over the protest of the membership); by excluding the rank and file from decision-making; by doing management's job of enforcing workplace discipline; and by undermining and marginalizing militants within the ranks.
Catalonia's referendum on independence: clarity in uncertainty

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

It is difficult to predict how events in Catalonia will play out following the planned referendum on independence on 1 October. However, as Karlo Basta explains, the events of the last month have nevertheless provided some answers to two key questions: how far the Catalan government was willing to go in pursuit of independence, and how far the Spanish government was prepared to go to prevent the referendum taking place. He argues that with positions firming on both sides, the best hope is that the two governments can show the leadership required to prevent any further escalation in tensions.
The effect of competition on the control of invading plant pathogens

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Abstract New invading pathogen strains must compete with endemic pathogen strains to emerge and spread. As disease control measures are often non‐specific, that is, they do not distinguish between strains, applying control not only affects the invading pathogen strain but the endemic as well. We hypothesize that the control of the invasive strain could be compromised due to the non‐specific nature of the control. A spatially explicit model, describing the East African cassava mosaic virus‐Uganda strain (EACMV‐UG) outbreak, is used to evaluate methods of controlling both disease incidence and spread of invading pathogen strains in pathosystems with and without an endemic pathogen strain present. We find that while many newly introduced or intensified control measures (such as resistant cultivars or roguing) decrease the expected incidence, they have the unintended consequence of increasing, or at least not reducing, the speed with which the invasive pathogen spreads geographically. We identify the controls that cause this effect and methods in which these controls may be applied to prevent it. We found that the spatial spread of the invading strain is chiefly governed by the incidence at the wave front. Control can therefore be applied, or intensified, once the wave front has passed without increasing the pathogen's rate of spread. When trade of planting material occurs, it is possible that the planting material is already infected. The only forms of control in this study that reduces the speed of geographic spread, regardless of the presence of an endemic strain, are those that reduce the amount of trade and the distance over which trade takes place. Synthesis and applications . The best control strategy depends on the presence of competing endemic strains. Applying or intensifying the control can slow the rate of spread when absent but increase it if present. Imposing trade restrictions before the epidemic has reached a given area and intensifying other control methods only when the wave front has passed is the most effective way of both slowing down spread and controlling incidence when a competing endemic strain is present and is the safest approach when its presence is unknown.
From the Greenwich Hulks to old St. Pancras: a history of tropical disease in London

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

The expansion of Empire took with it some remark- able men and women who laid the foundations for the study of tropical medicine as a specific discipline.But it was from a different route, the needs of indigent sailors, that facilities for the care of patients with tropical diseases came to be provided in London.A charity was formed to help the hordes of homeless and unem- ployed mariners, many of them ill, who roamed the streets in the depressed post-Napoleonic years, and the Seamen's Hospital Society, founded in 1821, became the 'foster mother of tropical medicine'.For the first 50 years of its life, patients were housed in a succession of converted naval vessels, the hulks of the title, most
Residue-Level Allostery Propagates through the Effective Coarse-Grained Hessian

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)

The long-ranged coupling between residues that gives rise to allostery in a protein is built up from short-ranged physical interactions. Computational tools used to predict this coupling and its functional relevance have relied on the application of graph theoretical metrics to residue-level correlations measured from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. The short-ranged interactions that yield these long-ranged residue-level correlations are quantified by the effective coarse-grained Hessian. Here we compute an effective harmonic coarse-grained Hessian from simulations of a benchmark allosteric protein, IGPS, and demonstrate the improved locality of this graph Laplacian over two other connectivity matrices. Additionally, two centrality metrics are developed that indicate the direct and indirect importance of each residue at producing the covariance between the effector binding pocket and the active site. The residue importance indicated by these two metrics is corroborated by previous mutagenesis experiments and leads to unique functional insights; in contrast to previous computational analyses, our results suggest that fP76-hK181 is the most important contact for conveying direct allosteric paths across the HisF-HisH interface. The connectivity around fD98 is found to be important at affecting allostery through indirect means.
Silver Nanoparticles at Low Concentrations Embedded in ECM Promote Endothelial Monolayer Formation and Cell Migration

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Several scientific studies have reported the opposing effects of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on angiogenesis, ranging from proangiogenic to anti-angiogenic. The widespread use of AgNPs in biomedical applications and the variability of their effects depending on concentration and exposure conditions highlight the need for further research into their impact on vascularization and endothelial cell behavior. This study aimed to investigate the potential influence of AgNPs on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) using a model incorporating a thin layer of an extracellular matrix (ECM). To this end, cytotoxicity was assessed, and endogenous nitric oxide and superoxide levels were measured. Additionally, the effects of AgNPs on HUVEC confluence and migration were evaluated. The expression levels of 43 proteins involved in angiogenesis were also analyzed. The results revealed that ECM enriched with AgNPs at a concentration of 0.5 mg/L enhanced cell coverage, promoted migration, and supported monolayer formation without inducing cytotoxicity.
Non-Interactive Correlation Differential Privacy for Healthcare Data

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

The current differential privacy protection methods for healthcare datasets have achieved some results, but there are still some problems to be solved : (1) Most of the existing methods consider the privacy leakage caused by record correlation, and there are few studies on the privacy leakage caused by feature correlation. (2) Existing research also uses feature extraction methods when dealing with feature correlation, but the set extracted by this method is not the maximal feature set, which reduces the availability to a certain extent. In view of the above considerations, this thesis proposes a noninteractive correlation differential privacy protection method for healthcare data. First, In terms of feature correlation, an undirected graph is constructed with features as nodes, and the concept of feature sensitivity is proposed. Secondly, The Bron-Kerbosch algorithm is used to solve the maximal independent set, which solves the problem of information leakage caused by slow processing speed and feature correlation caused by multiple features. Finally, Experiments on two different datasets verify the effectiveness of the proposed differential privacy protection method.