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Assessing the financial implications of quality management system accreditation on small training providers in KwaZulu Natal
Year: 2018

A quality management system (QMS) in education and training is designed in accordance with industry quality models of ISO 9001. Its techniques ensure quality in skills development. However, training providers incur significant costs to obtain QMS accreditation. Therefore, the discourse on the economic effect of QMS accreditation in small training providers is crucial.  This paper investigates the influence of QMS accreditation on the financial performance of small training providers in KwaZulu Natal (KZN)  The South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) is a statutory body, regulated in terms of the National Qualification Framework (NQF) Act No. 67 of 2008 to oversee the development and implementation of the NQF. They are responsible for accrediting 21 sector based Education and Training Quality Authorities (ETQAs) for the purpose of monitoring and auditing training achievements in terms of the national standards and qualifications.  For this study to achieve its objectives, the ETQAs belonging to 12 different Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) provided the sample frame of accredited training providers in KZN. The SETAs are responsible for administering education and training within their industrial sectors. Of the 89 small training providers, 81 participated in the study. Descriptive and correlation analysis were used to test the two objectives. That is, to examine whether the management and marketing practices of QMS accredited small training providers improve their financial performance.  The study indicates that there is no statistical significant relationship between the management and marketing practices of QMS accredited small training providers and their financial performances. This shows that small training providers do not incorporate financial measures during QMS implementation. The accounting departments are not covered in the QMS strategy.  Small training providers should take advantage of QMS accreditation for their business's financial performance. They should incorporate financial indicators during QMS implementation and measure QMS's economic effects on an ongoing basis. The original value of this paper is in its approach in uncovering the strengths and weaknesses of QMS accreditation in the financial performances of accredited small training providers in KZN.
Star cluster catalogues for the LEGUS dwarf galaxies
Venue: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2019

We present the star cluster catalogues for 17 dwarf and irregular galaxies in the HST Treasury Program 'Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey' (LEGUS) Cluster identification and photometry in this sub sample are similar to that of the entire LEGUS sample, but special methods were developed to provide robust catalogues with accurate fluxes due to low cluster statistics. The colours and ages are largely consistent for two widely used aperture corrections, but a significant fraction of the clusters are more compact than the average training cluster. However, the ensemble luminosity, mass, and age distributions are consistent suggesting that the systematics between the two methods are less than the random errors. When compared with the clusters from previous dwarf galaxy samples, we find that the LEGUS catalogues are more complete and provide more accurate total fluxes. Combining all clusters into a composite dwarf galaxy, we find that the luminosity and mass functions can be described by a power law with the canonical index of 2 independent of age and global SFR binning. The age distribution declines as a power law, with an index of 0.80 0.15, independent of cluster mass and global SFR binning. This decline of clusters is dominated by cluster disruption since the combined star formation histories and integrated light SFRs are both approximately constant over the last few hundred Myr. Finally, we find little evidence for an upper mass cut off <2s) in the composite cluster mass function, and can rule out a truncation mass below 104.5M but cannot rule out the existence of a truncation at higher masses.
'On the ground' in Sidi Bouzid: investigating social media use during the tunisian revolution
Venue: CSCW
Year: 2013

We present a study conducted in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the Arab Revolution, also known as 'Arab Spring' started, and where the role of Web 2.0 and social media applications in the people's uprising have been much discussed. We identify four relevant phenomena: (1) the publication of classified materials via WikiLeaks challenged the regime's legitimacy, (2) Web 2.0 connected local activists with Arab satellite TV, (3) social media linked the young activists with actors in other cities in Tunisia, (4) social media allowed organizing resistance inside Sidi Bouzid. Methodologically, we question a too deterministic view of the role of the new media and the representativeness of investigative techniques that uniquely use the new media in order to assess their impact. At the same time, rigorous investigations 'on the ground' are extremely difficult. We present a modest and initial attempt to provide such an 'on the ground' approach, cognizant of necessary limitations. We compare our findings with studies which analyze data downloaded out of social media applications and suggest that studies of the kind we describe offer additional insight and play an essential role in better understanding political uses of social media.
Antifeedant activity and some biochemical effects of garlic and lemon essential oils on Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Year: 2017

The present study was aimed to evaluate the larvicidal activity, antifeedant activity and some biochemical studies of garlic and lemon essential oils on Spodoptera littorals (Boisduval) larvae by leaf dipping method. The results showed that both garlic and lemon oils have larvicidal effects against S. littoralis larvae, with LC90, LC50 and LC30 of 39.18, 19.95 and 16.60% for garlic oil, respectively; and it was 47.04, 24.20% and 20.09 for lemon oil, respectively. The antifeedant activity and the starvation percentage decreased significantly in larvae treated with garlic and lemon oils. Biochemically, the total midgut proteins and lipids contents decreased significantly while the carbohydrate levels increased in larvae treated with LC30 of both garlic and lemon oils. a amylase and lipase decreased significantly in treated larvae. The present study showed that both garlic and lemon essential oils were toxic to S. littoralis larvae and these results could be useful for the development of new insecticide formulations to control this pest. The effects of essential oils on larvicidal and antifeedant activities are discussed.
A systematic review of neighbourhood economic context on child obesity and obesity related behaviours
Venue: Obesity reviews an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Year: 2019

Childhood obesity is of great importance given a third of children in the USA are overweight or obese. Previous research has examined neighbourhood economic context in relation to children's obesity and obesity rated behaviours. However, different definitions and measures of neighbourhood context make it difficult to compare findings and make definitive conclusions. This review is to synthesize studies assessing the associations between neighbourhood economic context and children's obesity or obesity related behaviours. The review included 39 studies investigating the relationship between residential neighbourhood economic context and children's obesity, dietary habits or physical activity after controlling for family level economic status. Studies reported mixed results in the relationship between neighbourhood economic indicators and child obesity outcomes. Of reviewed studies, 60% showed an inverse association between higher neighbourhood economic status and obesity, and 33% and 14% showed positive associations between higher neighbourhood economic status and healthy dietary habits or physical activity. Several studies suggested gender, age, race/ethnicity, individual level economic status, rurality and social connectedness as moderators in the neighbourhood obesity association. Findings suggest that, in order to move towards causal inferences and inform interventions, future research should examine neighbourhood impacts longitudinally and test theory driven mediators and moderators to clarify the mechanisms by which neighbourhoods influence child obesity.
Power and Size analysis of Co integration tests in Conditional Heteroskedascity: A Monte Carlo Simulation
Year: 2017

This paper investigates the finite sample performance of power and size properties of several major co integration tests using simulation analysis. These tests include; the co integration Regression Durbin Watson test (CRDW) Eagle Granger test, Dicky Fuller unit root test with statistics, Johansen likelihood ratio tests, and Phillips Ouliaris test. Comparisons of tests are evaluated based on the proportion of rejects of the hypothesis of a no co integration. This study answers the question of which co integration test is better, particularly between the Eagle Granger two step test and the Johansen's tests for co integration, when the sets of parameters in models are persistence and spiky. The bivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH(1,1) model with Gaussian innovations, is used in the data generating process (DGP) Our simulation results reveal that there is size distortion in the different co integration test considered. The Eagle Granger two step test shows good robustness with respect to heteroskedasticity for the different sample sizes applied. However, the Johansen's test for co integration still proves to be powerful in capturing co integration relationship, particularly for large sample when the co integration innovations are Gaussian.
Intercomparison of MODIS, MISR, OMI, and CALIPSO aerosol optical depth retrievals for four locations on the Indo Gangetic plains and validation against AERONET data
Year: 2015

This study provides an intercomparison of aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from satellite based Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) instrumentation over Karachi, Lahore, Jaipur, and Kanpur between 2007 and 2013, with validation against AOD observations from the ground based Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Both MODIS Deep Blue (MODISDB) and MODIS Standard (MODISSTD) products were compared with the AERONET products. The MODISSTD AERONET comparisons revealed a high degree of correlation for the four investigated sites at Karachi, Lahore, Jaipur, and Kanpur, the MODISDB AERONET comparisons revealed even better correlations, and the MISR AERONET comparisons also indicated strong correlations, as did the OMI AERONET comparisons, while the CALIPSO AERONET comparisons revealed only poor correlations due to the limited number of data points available. We also computed figures for root mean square error (RMSE) mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean bias (RMB) Using AERONET data to validate MODISSTD, MODISDB, MISR, OMI, and CALIPSO data revealed that MODISSTD data was more accurate over vegetated locations than over un vegetated locations, while MISR data was more accurate over areas close to the ocean than over other areas. The MISR instrument performed better than the other instruments over Karachi and Kanpur, while the MODISSTD AOD retrievals were better than those from the other instruments over Lahore and Jaipur. We also computed the expected error bounds (EEBs) for both MODIS retrievals and found that MODISSTD consistently outperformed MODISDB in all of the investigated areas. High AOD values were observed by the MODISSTD, MODISDB, MISR, and OMI instruments during the summer months (April August) these ranged from 0.32 to 0.78, possibly due to human activity and biomass burning. In contrast, high AOD values were observed by the CALIPSO instrument between September and December, due to high concentrations of smoke and soot aerosols. The variable monthly AOD figures obtained with different sensors indicate overestimation by MODISSTD, MODISDB, OMI, and CALIPSO instruments over Karachi, Lahore, Jaipur and Kanpur, relative to the AERONET data, but underestimation by the MISR instrument.
Emerging Trend, Opportunities, Challenges and Creating Awareness for Green Marketing in India
Year: 2017

Keeping our environment safe is one of the biggest n eeds of the time today. Environmental issues across the globe have gained prominence in both business and p ublic life as well. Businesses have certainly begun t o modify their behaviour in an attempt to address society's "new c on erns" as society becomes more concerned with the natural environment. Some businesses have been quick to acc ept oncepts like waste minimization eco friendly pr oducts and environmental management systems and also have inte grated environmental issues into all organizational ctivities. In the modern market green marketing is a phenomenon wh ich has developed prominent importance and also has emerged as an important concept in India as in other parts of the developed and developing countries and also seen as an important strategy of facilitating sustainable deve lopment. Analyzing the need of environment protectio n as a vital and necessity component for their long term objectives in business many enterprises today are marketing su stainable products and services and also by promoting co efficient pro duction activities are termed green businesses. Gre en products may be defined as products or services that which have a le sser or reduced bad effect on human health and also the environment when compared with services or competing products tha t serve the same purpose. Green business surely is an enterprise that has no negative effect on economy, environment society and community. It certainly also meets th e triple bottom line such as natural world betterment and social advantag es for employees and members of the local community f nancial benefits of the company. Green business today is pr actically existent everywhere around us. Companies su ch as General Electric and Wal Mart are transforming their busines s practices into green ones. Many of the companies are working on the development of green marketing which in turn ha s opened the door of opportunities in terms of co b randing their products into separate line. In the wake of global wa rming the present paper identifies three particular segments of green consumers and also explores opportunities and chall enges businesses have with green marketing. The pape r also examines the present trends of green marketing in I ndia and also describes the reasons as to why compan ies are trying to adopt it. Present article focuses on various organi zations or the corporate that are actually taking t he initiative needed to keep our environment free from harmful pollutants. In order to tap the market opportunities in the mar ketplace many organizations today are adopting green marketing te chnologies which emphasizes on the fact that there i s a future of green marketing in India. Paper also focuses some o f the problems with green marketing and concludes on the note that green marketing is something that will continuously grow in both practice and demand in the near future ahead.
Learning Informative Representations of Biomedical Relations with Latent Variable Models
Venue: SUSTAINLP
Year: 2020

Extracting biomedical relations from large corpora of scientific documents is a challenging natural language processing task. Existing approaches usually focus on identifying a relation either in a single sentence (mention level) or across an entire corpus (pair level) In both cases, recent methods have achieved strong results by learning a point estimate to represent the relation; this is then used as the input to a relation classifier. However, the relation expressed in text between a pair of biomedical entities is often more complex than can be captured by a point estimate. To address this issue, we propose a latent variable model with an arbitrarily flexible distribution to represent the relation between an entity pair. Additionally, our model provides a unified architecture for both mention level and pair level relation extraction. We demonstrate that our model achieves results competitive with strong baselines for both tasks while having fewer parameters and being significantly faster to train. We make our code publicly available.
The Multilingual Student Translation corpus: a resource for translation teaching and research
Venue: Lang. Resour. Evaluation
Year: 2020

The Multilingual Student Translation (MUST) corpus is a corpus of translations produced by foreign language learners or trainee translators collected collaboratively by a large number of partner teams internationally. The corpus represents a prime example of community sourcing, as the data are collected and shared by the members of the MUST network. Two key characteristics of the corpus are that it involves a large number of language pairs and that each text is accompanied by a rich set of standardized metadata related to the source texts, the translation tasks and the students. The web interface on which the corpus is stored allows the data to be aligned and annotated with a purpose built translation annotation system. The resulting corpus data lend themselves to a range of applications (translator training, materials design, pedagogical lexicography) and can also be used to advance empirical research in corpus based translation studies.
Terminology, Technology and Design Intent of 20th Century Architectural Lighting and Establishing Criteria for Guidelines for Its Preservation
Year: 2013

The advent of advanced electrical technology by the mid 20th allowed for an architectural fusion with what was once a secondary consideration for builders, ultimately culminating in lighting design as a profession. The development of electric light, and later, lighting design in America had many influences which drew from the realms of architectural design, engineering and the theatre and performing arts. The selected case studies characterize the overall progression occurring in the realm of integrated architectural lighting, as the architects utilized electric light as a building material. With a case study from the 1930s, one from the 1940s and one from the1950s, the lighting goals, early intent of the lighting design, installation and technical considerations of each are presented. As a secondary component to the case studies, their later (and more present day) renovations or restorations are evaluated for their relative success or failures in regards to the care and consideration of the original lighting schemes. In the revisiting of many of the interiors of this era, the now fugitive lighting systems have been disregarded or replaced with less compatible, less complementary systems, thus destroying the ambience of the original space. If we are to accurately restore or renovate these unique American interiors, the process of researching, specifying and applying the original integrity through lighting must be achieved. Addressing these in further detail, the author has developed a series of criteria for guidelines for the preservation of early twentieth century lighting systems, which are a confluence of the previous mentioned historical research, in depth case studies and an analysis of existing relevant guidelines. Keywords mid century, electric light, retrofit, lighting guidelines, lighting design Disciplines Historic Preservation and Conservation Comments Suggested Citation: Garcia Kellar, Alison Joanna (2013) Terminology, Technology and Design Intent of 20th Century Architectural Lighting and Establishing Criteria for Guidelines for Its Preservation. (Masters Thesis) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This thesis or dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http:/repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/226 TERMINOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN INTENT OF 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING AND ESTABLISHING CRITERIA FOR GUIDELINES FOR ITS PRESERVATION Alison Joanna Garcia Kellar A THESIS in Historic Preservation Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION 2013 _________________________________ Advisor Michael C. Henry, PE, AIA Adjunct Professor of Architecture _________________________________ Acting Program Chair Frank Matero Professor of Architecture ii Dedication "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift I dedicate this thesis to the gift of eyesight.
Projeto de Extensao Iande Guata: vivencias de estudantes de Medicina com indigenas Potiguara
Year: 2019

Experiencias de formacao medica com a insercao de estudantes em contextos interculturais populacoes indigenas, quilombolas e ribeirinhas sao ainda escassas no Brasil. Este artigo traz um relato de experiencia sobre as vivencias significativas de academicos de Medicina junto a comunidade indigena Potiguara,  A partir da elaboracao de mapas conceituais, as vivencias mais significativas foram descritas e discutidas, utilizando se narrativas e relatorios produzidos pelos extensionistas ao longo do projeto. As vivencias relatadas expressam que o processo de aprendizagem dos estudantes os aproximou do universo indigena, permitindo superar o imaginario romantico, mediante a imersao na cultura local, reconhecendo se nesses alunos um compromisso com a transformacao social. Espacos dialogicos como o desta experiencia permitem desenvolver competencias para o trabalho comunitario e o reconhecimento e a valorizacao de saberes tradicionais.
Web application security analysis using the Kali Linux operating system
Year: 2016

The Kali Linux operating system is described as well as its purpose and possibilities. There are listed groups of tools that Kali Linux has together with the methods of their functioning, as well as a possibility to install and use tools that are not an integral part of Kali. The final part shows a practical testing of web applications using the tools from the Kali Linux operating system. The paper thus shows a part of the possibilities of this operating system in analysing web applications security, which presents the goal of this work.