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Organizational Silence in State Owned Enterprises: Intermediary Role of the Perceptions of Organizational Politics
Year: 2016

This paper aims to explore how the employees' organizational silence and perception of organizational politics play an intermediary role in the process of generating the organizational silence in the state owned enterprises with specific organizational climate and environment. Using 563 samples from state owned enterprises, a linear structure equation model (SEM) is developed to examine the relationship. The research results show that the leader member exchange has significant negative correlation with organizational silence and that the leader member exchange has significant negative correlation with perception of organizational politics. In addition, the perception of organizational politics partially plays an intermediary role in the formation mechanism of organizational silence. Finally, the countermeasures and proposals are put forward to reduce the organizational silence of employees in the state owned enterprises.
iSEE: Interactive SummarizedExperiment Explorer
Venue: F1000Research
Year: 2018

Data exploration is critical to the comprehension of large biological data sets generated by high throughput assays such as sequencing. However, most existing tools for interactive visualisation are limited to specific assays or analyses. Here, we present the iSEE (Interactive SummarizedExperiment Explorer) software package, which provides a general visual interface for exploring data in a SummarizedExperiment object. iSEE is directly compatible with many existing R/Bioconductor packages for analysing high throughput biological data, and provides useful features such as simultaneous examination of (meta)data and analysis results, dynamic linking between plots and code tracking for reproducibility. We demonstrate the utility and flexibility of iSEE by applying it to explore a range of real transcriptomics and proteomics data sets.
A Review of Energy Efficient Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Year: 2016

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are collection of randomly distributed minute devices mainly named as nodes which interact with each other and base station to transmit the required information to the controller via Internet. These networks sense or track the phenomenon, occurring at an unattended place. The major constraint of the WSN is limited life of sensor nodes due to loss of energy. Several routing protocols are developed to transfer the information or data among these nodes in an efficient way and to enlarge the lifetime of nodes. A thorough review of different categories of routing protocols has been discussed in the presented paper.
Cooperative financial institutions: A review of the literature
Venue: International Review of Financial Analysis
Year: 2020

Financial cooperatives play an important role in the financial systems of many countries. They act as a safe haven for deposits and are major sources of credit for households and small and medium sized firms. A not for profit orientation (in many cases) and a focus on maximising benefits to members have ensured the enduring popularity and sustainability of financial cooperatives. This is particularly evident since the global financial crisis when financial cooperatives continued to extend credit to members as many profit orientated commercial banks restricted credit to households and firms. The overarching theme of the first part of this review is the structural and behavioural characteristics of financial cooperatives. In this part we consider, the origin and diffusion of financial cooperatives, network arrangements, the business model, relationship banking, balancing the interest of members, tax treatment and regulatory framework. The second part has performance and contribution to the real economy as the overarching theme. In this part we consider, efficiency and sustainability, mergers, acquisitions and failures, the benefits (and challenges) of FinTech and the contribution of financial cooperatives to the real economy including during times of crisis. The paper concludes with a summary of what we now know (and do not know) about financial cooperatives and provides suggestions as to where future research may usefully concentrate.
The Optimal Control of Fully Coupled Forward Backward Doubly Stochastic Systems Driven by Ito Levy Processes
Venue: J. Syst. Sci. Complex.
Year: 2019

This paper studies the optimal control of a fully coupled forward backward doubly stochastic system driven by Ito Levy processes under partial information. The existence and uniqueness of the solution are obtained for a type of fully coupled forward backward doubly stochastic differential equations (FBDSDEs in short) As a necessary condition of the optimal control, the authors get the stochastic maximum principle with the control domain being convex and the control variable being contained in all coefficients. The proposed results are applied to solve the forward backward doubly stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem.
Manfred Gurlitt and the Japanese Operatic Scene, 1939 1972
Year: 2016

Manfred Gurlitt (1890 1972) a gifted composer and conductor, came to feel he had to escape his native Germany in the late 1930s, as did many other musicians. Although he had, in an idiosyncratic fashion, come to terms with the National Socialist regime, he exiled himself to Japan in 1939, hoping to obtain a position that would allow him to maintain or even to burnish his reputation in the world of music. His most brilliant earlier successes had been in opera, and in Japan his career was mainly linked with opera. He worked diligently to affirm the "correct" European way of performing the operatic repertoire, and produced many first time productions of high quality. His competent, rigorous work in the field grounded the whole operatic domain of postwar Japan, and indeed his influence continues to be felt to this day. An article in the Mainichi shin bun in 1956 stated that "no musician has had such a vast and important influence over the Japanese musical world." His years in Japan, however, were spent with an underlying sentiment of displacement. His sense of unease was compounded by dissatisfaction with and unfulfilled desire for Western (particularly German) acknowledgment of the merit of his work. In this article I aim to shed new light on the place of Manfred Gurlitt in twentieth century music history by reexamining his Japanese activity, with some reference to his early oeuvre as a composer and success as a conduc tor in Germany.
Cardiac damage after treatment of childhood cancer: A long term follow up
Venue: BMC Cancer
Year: 2007

BackgroundWith improved childhood cancer cure rate, long term sequelae are becoming an important factor of quality of life. Signs of cardiovascular disease are frequently found in long term survivors of cancer. Cardiac damage may be related to irradiation and chemotherapy.We have evaluated simultaneous influence of a series of independent variables on the late cardiac damage in childhood cancer survivors in Slovenia and identified groups at the highest risk.Methods211 long term survivors of different childhood cancers, at least five years after treatment were included in the study. The evaluation included history, physical examination, electrocardiograpy, exercise testing and echocardiograpy. For analysis of risk factors, beside univariate analysis, multivariate classification tree analysis statistical method was used.Results and ConclusionPatients treated latest, from 1989 98 are at highest risk for any injury to the heart (73% Among those treated earlier are at the highest risk those with Hodgkin's disease treated with irradiation above 30 Gy and those treated for sarcoma. Among specific forms of injury, patients treated with radiation to the heart area are at highest risk of injury to the valves. Patients treated with large doses of anthracyclines or concomitantly with anthracyclines and alkylating agents are at highest risk of systolic function defect and enlarged heart chambers. Those treated with anthracyclines are at highest risk of diastolic function defect. The time period of the patient's treatment is emerged as an important risk factor for injury of the heart.
Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight
Year: 2006

Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This article puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate future research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship.
Validation Testing Demonstrates Efficacy of a 7 Day Fluid Record to Estimate Daily Water Intake in Adult Men and Women When Compared with Total Body Water Turnover Measurement.
Venue: The Journal of nutrition
Year: 2017

Mean daily water intake from fluids (WATER FL) has proven to be difficult to measure because of a range of nonvalidated data collection techniques. Few questionnaires have been validated to estimate WATER FL against self reported diaries or urinary hydration markers, which may limit their objectivity. The goals of this investigation were 1) to assess the validity of a 7 d fluid record (7dFLR) to measure WATER FL (WATER FL 7dFLR) through comparison with WATER FL as calculated by measuring deuterium oxide (D2O) disappearance (WATER FL D2O) and 2) to evaluate the reliability of the 7dFLR in measuring WATER FL.Methods: Participants [n 96; 51% female; mean SD age: 41 14 y; mean SD body mass index (in kg/m2) 26.2 5.1] completed body water turnover analysis over 3 consecutive weeks. They completed the 7dFLR and food diaries during weeks 2 and 4 of the observation. The records were entered into nutritional software to determine the water content of all foods and fluids consumed. WATER FL D2O was calculated from water turnover (via the D2O dilution method) minus water from food and metabolic water. The agreement between the 2 methods of determining WATER FL were compared according to a Bland Altman plot at week 2. The test retest reliability of 7dFLR between weeks 2 and 4 was assessed via intraclass correlation ( The mean SD difference between WATER FL 7dFLR and WATER FL D2O was 131 845 mL/d. In addition, no bias was observed  0.484; R2 0.006; P 0.488) When comparing WATER FL 7dFLR from weeks 2 and 4, no significant difference (mean SD difference: 71 75 mL/d; t[79] 0.954; P 0.343) and an ICC of 0.85 (95% CI: 0.77, 0.90) was observed. The main findings of this study were that the use of the 7dFLR is an effective and reliable method to estimate WATER FL in adults. This style of questionnaire may be extremely helpful for collecting water intake data for large scale epidemiologic studies.
Time Contrastive Networks: Self Supervised Learning from Video
Venue: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Year: 2018

We propose a self supervised approach for learning representations and robotic behaviors entirely from unlabeled videos recorded from multiple viewpoints, and study how this representation can be used in two robotic imitation settings: imitating object interactions from videos of humans, and imitating human poses. Imitation of human behavior requires a viewpoint invariant representation that captures the relationships between end effectors (hands or robot grippers) and the environment, object attributes, and body pose. We train our representations using a triplet loss, where multiple simultaneous viewpoints of the same observation are attracted in the embedding space, while being repelled from temporal neighbors which are often visually similar but functionally different. This signal causes our model to discover attributes that do not change across viewpoint, but do change across time, while ignoring nuisance variables such as occlusions, motion blur, lighting and background. We demonstrate that this representation can be used by a robot to directly mimic human poses without an explicit correspondence, and that it can be used as a reward function within a reinforcement learning algorithm. While representations are learned from an unlabeled collection of task related videos, robot behaviors such as pouring are learned by watching a single 3rd person demonstration by a human. Reward functions obtained by following the human demonstrations under the learned representation enable efficient reinforcement learning that is practical for real world robotic systems. Video results, open source code and dataset are available at sermanet.github.io/imitate
Comparative techno economic evaluation of LTE fixed wireless access, FTTdp G.fast and FTTC VDSL network deployment for providing 30 Mbps broadband services in rural areas
Year: 2020

In rural areas in Europe, the deployment of High Speed Broadband access networks lags far behind the urban and suburban areas due to difficulties of fiber rollout in the final meters. FTTC VDSL is the most widespread technology used for NGA network deployments in Europe but the coverage of VDSL networks is still limited in rural areas. FTTdp networks using G.fast have been proposed as a cost effective and future proof alternative to FTTH and FTTB especially in rural areas where FTTC and VDSL cannot always deliver service speeds of 30 Mbps which is the minimum bandwidth defined in the European Digital Agenda as a target to be met by 2020. However, the new target of EU Commission for Gigabit Society and 100 Mbps connections, upgradable to 1 Gbps, for all households in 2025 are unlikely to be achieved by VDSL Vectoring and other copper based technologies. On the other hand, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks based on LTE technology can be used as a "last mile" solution to provide high speed broadband access to areas where fixed broadband is limited. LTE technology offers high speed connections able to support internet browsing and IP services, while it can theoretically support up to 300 Mbps depending on network load and sharing. Thus, it can be considered a viable alternative to other fixed network solutions especially when considering future upgrades to 5G networks that promise gigabit speeds per user. In this paper, a techno economic study is performed to assess the feasibility of an FWA network deployment based on LTE technology in comparison to FTTdp G.fast and FTTC VDSL network rollout for delivering service speeds of 30 Mbps in rural areas. A variety of different population density, competition and regulation policy scenarios is considered. Cash flow results are presented and standard financial indexes for the business cases are discussed. The results are being assessed through a sensitivity and risk analysis to determine the most influential factors on the return on the investment. Furthermore, the (non) profitability of these cases and the subsidization needed from structural funds are analyzed. The results are aimed to contribute to the debate over network evolution scenarios among academia, industry, regulators, policy makers and governments.
Ensembles of Global Climate Model Variants Designed for the Quantification and Constraint of Uncertainty in Aerosols and Their Radiative Forcing
Venue: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Year: 2019

Tropospheric aerosol radiative forcing has persisted for many years as one of the major causes of uncertainty in global climate model simulations. To sample the range of plausible aerosol and atmospheric states and perform robust statistical analyses of the radiative forcing, it is important to account for the combined effects of many sources of model uncertainty, which is rarely done due to the high computational cost. This paper describes the designs of two ensembles of the Met Office Hadley Centre Global Environment Model U.K. Chemistry and Aerosol global climate model and provides the first analyses of the uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing and their causes. The first ensemble was designed to comprehensively sample uncertainty in the aerosol state, while the other samples additional uncertainties in the physical model related to clouds, humidity, and radiation, thereby allowing an analysis of uncertainty in the aerosol effective radiative forcing. Each ensemble consists of around 200 simulations of the preindustrial and present day atmospheres. The uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing in our ensembles is comparable to the range of estimates from multimodel intercomparison projects. The mean aerosol effective radiative forcing is 1.45 W/m2 (credible interval of 2.07 to 0.81 W/m2) which encompasses but is more negative than the 1.17 W/m2 in the 2013 Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project and 0.90 W/m2 in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. The ensembles can be used to reduce aerosol radiative forcing uncertainty by challenging them with multiple measurements as well as to isolate potential causes of multimodel differences.
Towards a better diagnosis and treatment of Rett syndrome: a model synaptic disorder
Venue: Brain a journal of neurology
Year: 2019

With the recent 50th anniversary of the first publication on Rett syndrome, and the almost 20 years since the first report on the link between Rett syndrome and MECP2 mutations, it is important to reflect on the tremendous advances in our understanding and their implications for the diagnosis and treatment of this neurodevelopmental disorder. Rett syndrome features an interesting challenge for biologists and clinicians, as the disorder lies at the intersection of molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation and neurophysiological alterations in synapses and circuits that together contribute to severe pathophysiological endophenotypes. Genetic, clinical, and neurobiological evidences support the notion that Rett syndrome is primarily a synaptic disorder, and a disease model for both intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. This review examines major developments in both recent neurobiological and preclinical findings of Rett syndrome, and to what extent they are beginning to impact our understanding and management of the disorder. It also discusses potential applications of knowledge on synaptic plasticity abnormalities in Rett syndrome to its diagnosis and treatment.
RF22 The role of power in regulating online advertising of high in fat, sugar and salt food and beverages to children: parent and stakeholder perspectives
Venue: Oral presentations
Year: 2019

In the United Kingdom (UK) increasing childhood obesity rates may be indicative of a lack of regulation of corporate influences contributing to an obesogenic environment. A current focus in childhood obesity policy debates is the role that online advertising of high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) food and beverages plays as a driver of childhood obesity and what regulation is required. However, there is a lack of research in this area as to public acceptability of regulation of online advertising of HFSS products as a viable policy solution. This study examines the perceptions of parents and stakeholders in regulating this online environment to answer how the regulation of online advertising of HFSS products to children is viewed in the UK?  Three qualitative methods were triangulated: 1) eight focus groups with parents who have children aged between five and 15 years old; 2) scoping review of 85 responses to a 2016 Committees of Advertising Practice consultation on non broadcast advertising to children; and 3) 11 stakeholder interviews (industry, civil society, academics and government body) Data were analysed inductively and thematically using NVivo.  Parents reported finding it increasingly difficult to attain a healthy diet for their children, competing with a multitude of pressures, including online advertising of HFSS products. Non industry stakeholders agreed with this perspective, whereas industry stakeholders were sceptical as to the influence online advertising had in contributing to an obesogenic environment. In terms of attitudes to regulation, two views emerged from the three data sets: 1) support for increased regulation of online advertising of HFSS products, or 2) the continuation of the current self regulatory model. Underpinning their views were concerns as to the distribution of power within the obesogenic environment, with the majority of parents and all non industry stakeholders describing the food and beverage industry as possessing too much power, and government and parents possessing too little. In contrast, the remaining parents and industry stakeholders argued that government possessed too much power and as such infringed on individual autonomy.  Parents' and stakeholders' views in this study largely aligned with Beauchamp's (1976) theory on social justice versus market justice. Although not generalisable, this study offers insights into how their perspectives on the distribution of power within the obesogenic environment may have informed their views on implementing increased regulation of the online advertising environment as a viable policy solution to tackle childhood obesity.
Human resource management practices on organisational commitment
Year: 2010

Islam urges all Muslims to perform their utmost best when they work. Giving the best requires full commitment. Employees' commitment is influenced by many factors, including the management styles within the organisation. This paper aims to examine the management of human resources from the Islamic perspective and its effects on organisational commitment among selected employees in Islamic organisations in Malaysia. The study employed a self developed questionnaire that was personally distributed to employees. In total, 121 Muslim employees who work in various positions in eight Islamic organisations participated as respondents of this study. The findings revealed that the selected organisations frequently practise the Islamic approach in all its human resource management (HRM) functions. The results of correlation and regression analysis show that the Islamic approach in HRM was highly and significantly correlated to organisational commitment. About 45 per
Investigation on the effect of coulomb friction on nose landing gear shimmy
Year: 2019

Landing gear shimmy remains a challenge in aircraft design despite abundant advances in aircraft engineering in the past few decades. Accurate shimmy prediction is closely tied to availability of dynamic models with all relevant types of motions and key nonlinear elements, a matter which has been accomplished in the present study through including rotational, lateral, longitudinal, and axial degrees of freedom and tire, shock absorber, and Coulomb friction nonlinearities. Using multi body dynamic simulations, stability of the nose landing gear is studied as a function of key system parameters. Influences of nonlinearities are investigated in isolation, with a more in depth look at the Coulomb friction effect, which is modeled as a function of the shock absorber stroke rate and rotational shimmy speed. It is found that Coulomb friction is a key factor in determining the onset and type of shimmy. The effect of friction parameters is then studied using nonlinear sensitivity analyses, and witnessed trends are utilized to draw design recommendations.