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A Bi Projection Neural Network for Solving Constrained Quadratic Optimization Problems
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

In this paper, a bi projection neural network for solving a class of constrained quadratic optimization problems is proposed. It is proved that the proposed neural network is globally stable in the sense of Lyapunov, and the output trajectory of the proposed neural network will converge globally to an optimal solution. Compared with existing projection neural networks (PNNs) the proposed neural network has a very small model size owing to its bi projection structure. Furthermore, an application to data fusion shows that the proposed neural network is very effective. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed neural network is much faster than the existing PNNs.
Pengembangan Pariwisata Berbasis Budaya Berdasarkan Ketentuan Undang Undang Nomor 10 Tahun 2009 Di Kabupaten Sleman

The research under the title "The Development of Cultural Tourism Under the Provisions of Regulation No.  Year 2009 In Sleman " will discuss the efforts of the local government of Sleman in tourism development based on culture and the extent of community involvement in the development of culture based tourism in Sleman. The research method used in discussing the results of this research is qualitative descriptive method. There are various efforts made by the local government of Sleman in developing culture based tourism, those efforts include the increasing of promotional activities through various ways such as through local printed media newspapers, through electronic media, the distribution of brochures leaflet, banners in strategic places. As much as possible try to facilitate a group of people who want cultural activities that they have been reappointed as a local cultural activities that can be used as a tourist attraction. Immediately draft of the Master Plan for Tourism Development (Rencana Induk Pengembangan Kepariwisataan (RIPP) can be endorsed so that the local government of Sleman District will have a clear direction on development plans for tourism in the area until 2025, which will come. Soon, the draft Regulation (draft) (Rancangan Peraturan Daerah (RAPERDA) regarding the conduct of tourism, fiscal year 2017, planned to be proposed in the incensement of the promotion budget as an effort to increase the number of tourist visits to Sleman. The community is involved in planning activities of Sleman tourism calendar. The community is involved also in the promotion of tourism and sustainable development conducted against groups in society that has the cultural potential of which is used as a tourist attraction.
Challenge of mitigating bank frauds by judicious mix of technology: experience of a developing country

Banks are the engines that drive the operations in the financial sector, money markets and growth of an economy. With the rapidly growing banking industry in India, frauds in banks are also increasing fast, and fraudsters have started using innovative methods. A questionnaire based survey was conducted in 2013 14 among 345 bank employees to know their perception towards bank frauds, degree of their compliance level, and integration of technology to detect, control and prevent frauds. This study provides discussion of the attitudes, strategies, and the technology that bank specialists will need to combat frauds. Banks that can leverage advances in technology and analytics to improve fraud prevention will reduce their fraud losses. In 2015, the RBI introduced new mechanisms for banks to check loan frauds by taking pro active steps by setting up a Central Fraud Registry, introduced the concept of Red Flagged Account, and Indian investigative agencies will soon start sharing their databases with banks.
The Role Of Technology In Combatting Bank Frauds: Perspectives And Prospects

Banks are the engines that drive the operations in the financialsector, money markets and growth of an economy. With the rapidly growingbanking industry in India, frauds in banks are also increasing very fast, andfraudsters have started using innovative methods. As part of the study, a questionnaire basedsurvey was conducted in 2013 14 among 345 bank employees to know theirperception towards bank frauds and evaluate the factors that influence thedegree of their compliance level. This study provides a frank discussion of theattitudes, strategies and technology that specialists will need to combatfrauds in banks. In the modern era, there is "no silver bullet for fraudprotection; the double edged sword of technology is getting sharper,day in day out." The use of neural network based behavior models in real timehas changed the face of fraud management all over the world. Banks that canleverage advances in technology and analytics to improve fraud prevention willreduce their fraud losses. Recently, forensic accounting has come into limelightdue to rapid increase in financial frauds or white collar crimes.
Growth of Bank Frauds and the Impact on the Nigerian Banking Industry

Banks all over the world have through their unique position in an economy, contributed immensely to the economic growth and development of a nation. The significance of the banking sector in any country stems from its role of financial mobilization from surplus to deficit units of any economy, provision of a competent payment system and facilitation of the implementation of monetary policies. In intermediation, banks mobilize savings from the surplus units of the economy and channel these funds to the deficit unit, particularly private business enterprises, for the purposes of expanding their productive capacity. As intermediaries to both suppliers and users of funds, banks are effectively situated in a continuum that determines the pulse of the economy.
Consequences of Bank Frauds on the Growth of Nigerian Economy

This paper analyzes and examines the consequences of bank frauds on the growth of the Nigerian economy. In recent years, frauds in Nigeria banking sector seemed to have assumed a frightening dimension and to a large extent, the confidence the general public reposes in it, is put in jeopardy. The scope of the study is 1995 to 2014. Secondary data is being used for the study. Regression analysis and SPPS application soft ware is being used for data analysis. The study reveals that bank fraud have negative and significant consequences on the growth of Nigerian economy. The ability of banks to promote growth and development in any economy is a function of the extent to which financial transactions are carried out with trust, confidence and least risk. These no doubt requires a safe and sound banking practice which many of the banks in Nigeria today have despised to their own peril. The study recommends that the regulatory authorities of banks in Nigeria need to improve on their supervision, careful when recruiting employees, wonderful results alone is not enough, but fear of God and integrity of employees should be considered. The paper concludes that the battle for the preclusion, uncovering and retribution of fraud offenders must be fought to reduce the temptation to commit fraud and to increase the chances of detection. While a positive work environment will help to achieve the former, the latter can be achieved by sound internal control system
Web Ontologies to Categorialy Structure Reality: Representations of Human Emotional, Cognitive, and Motivational Processes
Venue: Front. Psychol.

This work presents a Web ontology for modeling and representation of the emotional, cognitive and motivational state of online learners, interacting with university systems for distance or blended education. The ontology is understood as a way to provide the required mechanisms to model reality and associate it to emotional responses, but without committing to a particular way of organizing these emotional responses. Knowledge representation for the contributed ontology is performed by using Web Ontology Language (OWL) a semantic web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. OWL is a computational logic based language such that computer programs can exploit knowledge expressed in OWL and also facilitates sharing and reusing knowledge using the global infrastructure of the Web. The proposed ontology has been tested in the field of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to check if it is capable of representing emotions and motivation of the students in this context of use.
A content focused method for re engineering thesauri into semantically adequate ontologies using OWL
Venue: Semantic Web

The re engineering of vocabularies into ontologies can save considerable time in the development of ontologies. Current methods that guide the re engineering of thesauri into ontologies often convert vocabularies syntactically only and ignore the problems that stems from interpreting vocabularies as statements of truth (ontologies) Current reengineering methods also do not make use of the semantic capabilities of formal languages like OWL in order to detect logical mistakes and to improve vocabularies. In this paper, we introduce a content focused method for building domain specific ontologies based on a thesaurus, a popular type of vocabulary. The method results in a semantically adequate ontology that does not only contain a semantically rich description of the entities to be modeled, but also enables non trivial consistency checks and classifications based on automated reasoning, and can be integrated with other ontologies following the same development principles. The identification of membership conditions, the alignment to a top level ontology and formal relations, and the consistency check and inference using a reasoner are the central steps in our method. We explain the motivation and sub activities for each of these steps and illustrate their application through a case study in the domain of agricultural fertilizers based on the ACROVOC Thesaurus. Foremost, our method shows that simple syntactic conversions are insufficient to derive an ontology from a thesaurus. Instead, considerable structural changes are required to derive an ontology that corresponds to the reality it represents. Our method relies on a manual development effort and is particularly useful where a highly reliable is a hierarchy is crucial.
Three Landmark Symposia on Theory Development in Nursing: Celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Publication of the Proceedings in Nursing Research.
Venue: Nursing research

Nursing theory arose with collective self awareness amidst vigorous debate among early nursing scholars that, over the years, produced metatheory, grand theory, and middle range theory for nursing research and practice (Henly, 2016) Position statements of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) have emphasized the established centrality of theory in nursing research, scholarship, and PhD education (AACN, 1998, 1999, 2010) Publication of texts on nursing theory into as many as six editions (e.g. Meleis, 2012; Reed& Shearer, 2011) alongwith a recent proposal for reorientation of the philosophical context in which theory is situated (Risjord, 2010) is evidence of continuing interest in theory in nursing. Three symposia held at the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the University of Colorado School of Nursing in 1967 and 1968 were "landmarks" in the development of theory in nursing for two reasons (Nicoll, 1986) First, the symposia brought "together a unique group of people" who described the meetings as "'electrifying," "stimulating," and "challenging," as it seemed "that everyone at these conferences recognized the importance of the events" (Nicoll, 1986, p. 92) Second, the proceedings were published in Nursing Research in a series of issues in 1968 and 1969. As the first journal to have as its dedicated mission the publication of original research in nursing, Lucille Notter, Editor in 1968, took on the task of ensuring that papers from the conference proceedings underwent rigorous and objective peer review to ensure they were of the highest quality. The success of the efforts of authors, reviewers, and the Editor is obvious from the vast and lasting impact of the papers on the development of nursing as an academic discipline. In the 50 years since publication of the proceedings, lively dialogue documented in the academic, professional, and scientific literatures in nursing reveals a wide range of opinion about theory in fact, so broad have the viewpoints been that DeKeyser and Medoff Cooper (2001) asked the question "Is nursing theory dead?" even as they argued that the basis of all nursing endeavors lies in theory! Today, changes in the health illness profiles of people across the globe, changes in nursing practice, and advances in technology and the sciences relevant
Concept analysis and the building blocks of theory: misconceptions regarding theory development.
Venue: Journal of advanced nursing

The purpose of this article is to discuss the attempts to justify concepts analysis as a way to construct theory a notion often advocated in nursing.  The notion that concepts are the building blocks or threads from which theory is constructed is often repeated. It can be found in many articles and well known textbooks. However, this notion is seldom explained or defended. The notion of concepts as building blocks has also been questioned by several authors. However, most of these authors seem to agree to some degree that concepts are essential components from which theory is built.  Literature was reviewed to synthesize and debate current knowledge.  Our point is that theory is not built by concepts analysis or clarification and we will show that this notion has its basis in some serious misunderstandings. We argue that concept analysis is not a part of sound scientific method and should be abandoned.  The current methods of concept analysis in nursing have no foundation in philosophy of science or in language philosophy. The type of concept analysis performed in nursing is not a way to 'construct' theory. Rather, theories are formed by creative endeavour to propose a solution to a scientific and/or practical problem. The bottom line is that the current style and form of concept analysis in nursing should be abandoned in favour of methods in line with modern theory of science.
Understanding Influence within the Context of Nursing: Development of the Adams Influence Model Using Practice, Research, and Theory
Venue: ANS. Advances in nursing science

Acquiring influence, and knowing how to use it, is a required competency for nurse leaders, yet the concept of influence and how it works is not well described in the nursing literature. In this article, the authors examine what is known about influence and present an influence model specific to nurse leaders. The Adams Influence Model was developed through an iterative process and is based on a comprehensive review of the influence literature, expert commentary, multiple pilot studies, evaluation of nursing theories, and validation by an external data source. Rather than defining "how to" influence, the model serves as a guide for personal reflection, helping nurse leaders understand and reflect on the influence process and factors, tactics, and strategies they can use when seeking to influence others.
Is it really theoretical? A review of sampling in grounded theory studies in nursing journals.
Venue: Journal of advanced nursing

Grounded theory is a distinct method of qualitative research, where core features are theoretical sampling and constant comparative analysis. However, inconsistent application of these activities has been observed in published studies.  This review assessed the use of theoretical sampling in grounded theory studies in nursing journals.  An adapted systematic review was conducted.  Three leading nursing journals (2010 2014) were searched for studies stating grounded theory as the method. Sampling was assessed using a concise rating tool.  A high proportion (86% of the 134 articles described an iterative process of data collection and analysis. However, half of the studies did not demonstrate theoretical sampling, with many studies declaring or indicating a purposive sampling approach throughout.  Specific reporting guidelines for grounded theory studies should be developed to ensure that study reports describe an iterative process of fieldwork and theoretical development.
A theory based approach to nursing shared governance.
Venue: Nursing outlook

The discipline of nursing uses a general definition of shared governance. The discipline's lack of a specified theory with precepts and propositions contributes to persistent barriers in progress toward building evidence based knowledge through systematic study.  The purposes of this article were to describe the development and elements of a program theory approach for nursing shared governance implementation and to recommend further testing.  Five studies using multiple methods are described using a structured framework. The studies led to the use of Lipsey's method of theory development for program implementation to develop a theory for shared governance for nursing.  Nine competencies were verified to define nursing practice council effectiveness. Other findings reveal that nurse empowerment results from alignment between the competencies of self directed work teams and the competencies of organizational leaders. Implementation of GEMS theory based nursing shared governance can advance goals at the individual, unit, department, and organization level.  Advancing professional nursing practice requires that nursing concepts are systematically studied and then formalized for implementation. This article describes the development of a theoretical foundation for the systematic study and implementation of nursing shared governance.
Shared Decision Making Models Acknowledging an Interprofessional Approach: A Theory Analysis to Inform Nursing Practice
Venue: Research and Theory for Nursing Practice

Patient engagement in collaboration with health professionals is essential to deliver quality health care. A shared decision making (SDM) approach requires that patients are involved in decisions regarding their health. SDM is expanding from the patient physician dyad to incorporate an interprofessional perspective. Conceptual models can be used to better understand theoretical underpinnings for application in clinical practice. The aim of this article was to conduct a theory analysis of conceptual models using an interprofessional approach to SDM and discuss each model's relevance to nursing practice. Walker and Avant's theory analysis approach was used. Three conceptual models were eligible. For all models, the decision making process was considered iterative. The development process was described for 1 model. All models were logical, parsimonious, and generalizable. One was supported by empirical testing. No model described how partnerships are enacted to achieve interprofessional SDM. Also, there was limited articulation as to how nurses' roles and contributions differ from other team members. This theory analysis highlights the need for a model that explains how partnerships among interprofessional team members are enacted to better understand the operationalization of interprofessional SDM. Implications for nursing practice at all system levels are offered and supported by the 3 models.
Critical Reflection in Cultural Competence Development: A Framework for Undergraduate Nursing Education.
Venue: The Journal of nursing education

Nursing faculties are urged to adopt a curriculum that supports culturally competent care and to mentor students to provide care that promotes social justice, particularly for the marginalized members of society. This article describes the development of a framework for critical reflection in cultural competence development among undergraduate nursing students.  Following the Medical Research Council guidelines for developing complex interventions, empirical and theoretical literature was reviewed to define the framework rationale and its components.  The resulting framework is grounded in Blanchet Garneau's constructivist model of cultural competence development and Mezirow's transformative learning theory. It clarifies the desired outcomes, the main steps to foster critical reflection among students, and the contextual conditions and prerequisites for teachers and learners.  Education oriented toward critical reflective practice promotes a full reflection about Western social and clinical practices and points out the role of nurses in reducing health inequities.
Impact of nurses' cross cultural competence on nursing intellectual capital from a social cognitive theory perspective.
Venue: Journal of advanced nursing

To understand the relationships among certain key factors such as organizational climate, self efficacy and outcome expectation on registered nurses, with regard to the development of registered nurses' cross cultural competence. The focus is specifically on the use of a social cognitive framework for nurses for providing intercultural nursing care to international patients. This study also aims to examine the relationship between nurses' cross cultural competence and nursing intellectual capital.  Given the influence of globalization on healthcare services, healthcare providers need to have enough cross cultural competence to effectively care for patients from different cultures. Thus, the development of cross cultural competence in nursing care has become an important issue.  A quantitative method and a cross sectional design were employed in this study.  Data were collected from 309 RN working in 16 healthcare institutions in Taiwan from May to August 2013. Structural equation modelling, in combination with the smart partial least squares method, was used to measure the relationships in the research model.  The results show that outcome expectation has a stronger impact on nurses' cross cultural competence than self efficacy. In addition, it was found that the cross cultural competence of nurses has a positive impact on nursing intellectual capital.  Nursing supervisors should promote a higher level of outcome expectation on nurses to enhance the improvement of their cross cultural competence. Raising the cross cultural competence of nurses will aid in the accumulation of nursing intellectual capital.
Building the capacity of nursing professionals in Cambodia: Insights from a bridging programme for faculty development
Venue: International journal of nursing practice

To upgrade nursing instruction capacity in Cambodia, two bridging programmes were opened for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing simultaneously in country and out of country (Thailand) A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to assess effectiveness of both programmes jointly and to explore needs concerning the further development of nursing education. This study included interviews with 34 current or previous programme participants (nursing instructors or hospital preceptors) and 10 managers of collaborating institutions. New learning content, personal outcomes, challenges and obstacles and future needs were qualitatively coded to create categories and subcategories of data. Findings show that programme participants were most influenced by the new content areas (e.g. nursing theory and professionalism) active teaching learning strategies and the full time educational immersion afforded by the out of country programme. Programme participants who had returned to their workplaces also identified on going needs for employing new active teaching learning approaches, curriculum revision, national standardization of nursing curricula and improvements in the teaching learning infrastructure. Another outcome of this study is the development of a theoretical model for Nursing Capacity Building in Developing Countries that describes the need for intermediate and long term planning as well as using both Bottom Up and Edge Pulling strategies.