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Contingent Factors Affecting the Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies: The Case of East Java, Indonesia
Year: 2018

Manuscript type: Research paper.  This study aims to examine how contextual variables which include innovation strategy, management accounting infor mation system and internal business process performance affect the financial performance of manufacturing companies in East Java, Indonesia.  This study employs a quantitative approach to explain the relationship among the variables. The data of 135 managers were collected and then analysed through the partial least squares (PLS) approach.  Results show that management accounting infor mation system and business process performance partially mediate the innovation strategy financial performance relationship.  This study expands on pre vious works by investigating the roles of management accounting information system and internal business process performance as mediating variables between innovation strategy and firm's financial performance.  This study provides insights into how management accounting information system and internal busi ness process performance impact innovation strategy and financial performance. The results imply that managers need to improve the design and implementation of their accounting system and their internal business process performance. This initiative can support the firm's innovation strategy which impacts on the firm's financial performance. The implications drawn from this study justify two things: (1) firms need to be more proactive in their product and process innovations so as to remain competitive in the global market; and (2) managers need to develop intangible assets such as a management accounting information system in the era of knowledge economy.  This study focusses on the manufacturing companies of the East Java Province of Indonesia therefore, general isability of the findings may be restricted. Future studies need to incorporate larger and more diverse samples. This study did not consider the companies' business life cycle hence, the full impact of the firms' financial performance may not have been captured.  Financial Performance, Innovation Strategy, Internal Business Process Performance, Management Accounting Information System.
V2W BERT: A Framework for Effective Hierarchical Multiclass Classification of Software Vulnerabilities
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2021

Weaknesses in computer systems such as faults, bugs and errors in the architecture, design or implementation of software provide vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security of a system. Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE) are a hierarchically designed dictionary of software weaknesses that provide a means to understand software flaws, potential impact of their exploitation, and means to mitigate these flaws. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are brief low level descriptions that uniquely identify vulnerabilities in a specific product or protocol. Classifying or mapping of CVEs to CWEs provides a means to understand the impact and mitigate the vulnerabilities. Since manual mapping of CVEs is not a viable option, automated approaches are desirable but challenging. We present a novel Transformer based learning framework (V2WBERT) in this paper. By using ideas from natural language processing, link prediction and transfer learning, our method outperforms previous approaches not only for CWE instances with abundant data to train, but also rare CWE classes with little or no data to train. Our approach also shows significant improvements in using historical data to predict links for future instances of CVEs, and therefore, provides a viable approach for practical applications. Using data from MITRE and National Vulnerability Database, we achieve up to 97% prediction accuracy for randomly partitioned data and up to 94% prediction accuracy in temporally partitioned data. We believe that our work will influence the design of better methods and training models, as well as applications to solve increasingly harder problems in cybersecurity.
Corporate governance, product market competition and firm performance: evidence from Iran
Year: 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of product market competition and corporate governance on firm's management performance in the Tehran Stock Exchange market. According to the research literature, the governance mechanisms used in this study consist of ownership structure, structure of the board of directors and capital structure. In addition, Herfindahl Hirschman Index and market size were used to measure the product market competition.  This study used one selected sample among the firms in the capital market of Iran from 2004 to 2012.  The results of this study indicated that there is a significant relation among the major governance mechanisms (including ownership concentration, independence of the board of directors and debt ratio) and product market competition and management performance. The findings of this study also showed that product market competition is effective on the relation between corporate governance and the performance, and this is what has been ignored in most of the conducted studies.  In general, the results of this study supported the idea that product market competition is effective on implementation and efficiency of governance mechanisms.
Step voltage optimized Lightning Protection earth termination systems analysis and simulation
Venue: 2011 International Symposium on Lightning Protection
Year: 2011

Earth Termination Systems as an important part of the Lightning Protection Systems must be designed in a way that lightning currents are safely diverted into the ground without generating step voltages on the surface of the soil that would be dangerous to human beings. The paper considers safety limits for step voltages and examines the effectiveness of several design principles of earth termination systems using the possibilities of finite element computer simulations.
Beyond the Screen: How Women's Use of Social Media is Changing the Ideological American Wilderness Landscape
Year: 2018

Historically, American wilderness has been conceived as a profoundly masculine landscape and a threat to femininity. Early wilderness discourse stressed landscapes of risk and danger, certainly no place for a woman. Prior to the Romantic era and Transcendentalism, but even in recent history, it was not uncommon for women to avoid venturing into wilderness alone for reasons including personal safety and possible corruption of body and spirit. The introduction of tourism in wilderness allowed people to experience the thrill of the wild while enjoying an element of safety through mitigated risk, an experience that appealed to the masculine and created socially significant places. While wilderness has historically been tied to these masculine narratives, these and the wilderness identity are increasingly challenged by contemporary feminine discourse working within various social media platforms. As tourism continues to domesticate wilderness, women are simultaneously pushing against social boundaries that dictate their place within, thus, changing both the identity of place and of women's roles therein. This process, shifting both definitions of wilderness and woman, occurs through deconstruction of powerful feminine stereotypes through active engagement with these increasingly accessible landscapes. Social media acts as platform through which this changing discourse is garnering support and social power. Thus, this article argues that women's assertions and performances of power in wilderness directly combat stereotypes of their place in these landscapes. Furthermore, without tourism's promotion of these spaces as extraordinary and powerful in themselves, women's performances therein would lack the social significance and challenge to wilderness as
NATO in a Changing World
Year: 2019

This paper addresses the evolving purpose of NATO in the post Cold War World. This Western defensive alliance has faced strong pressure to change and embrace an array of new tasks to justify its continued existence. This famously led it to engage in a protracted 'out of area' campaign in Afghanistan. Russia's invasion of Crimea in early 2014 and the ongoing civil war in Eastern Ukraine enabled NATO to re focus its attention on combatting its original enemy in the East. In the modern day East West rivalry cyberspace has become an increasingly strategic military domain. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative techniques, this chapter seeks to demonstrate how NATO has influenced the conceptualisation of cyber attacks. The paper is structured as follows. Section 16.1 provides an overview of NATO's structure and evolution over time. Section 16.2 draws on existing scholarship to analyse how shifting role conceptions have shaped this military organisations' ability to adapt to new challenges. Section 16.3 illustrates how cyber threats have been conceptualised in NATO doctrine and strategic communication. Section 16.4 analyses the findings of the content analysis, showing that NATO's organisational culture(s) have played a key role in shaping the Alliance's framing of and response to cyber threats. Finally, an outline of the theoretical and policy implications of the study is made. Broader insights are also given as to how international security organisations adapt to technological, geostrategic, and societal changes.
Nanostructured of SnO2/NiO composite as a highly selective formaldehyde gas sensor
Year: 2020

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Unravelling the photothermal and photomechanical contributions to actuation of azobenzene doped liquid crystal polymers in air and water
Year: 2019

Liquid crystal networks doped with azobenzene molecular photo switches have been commonly used as responsive polymers in untethered soft/micro robots. Understanding the underlying actuation mechanism of azobenzene chromophores in aqueous and ambient environments is crucial for the control of deformation speed and amplitude of the photo responsive actuators. Here, a systematic study is presented that clarifies the outstanding uncertainty in the mechanistic contributions of azobenzene powered actuation. The photothermal and photomechanical contributions in the mechanism are elucidated and the mechanistic dependence on azobenzene chemistry is demonstrated. By connecting mechanical, thermal, isomerization and actuation analysis in both dry and aqueous environments, this study reveals design guidelines for light responsive amphibious soft robots.
Arabic Handwritten Documents Segmentation into Text Lines and Words using Deep Learning
Venue: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops (ICDARW)
Year: 2019

One of the most important steps in a handwriting recognition system is text line and word segmentation. But, this step is made difficult by the differences in handwriting styles, problems of skewness, overlapping and touching of text and the fluctuations of text lines. It is even more difficult for ancient and calligraphic writings, as in Arabic manuscripts, due to the cursive connection in Arabic text, the erroneous position of diacritic marks, the presence of ascending and descending letters, etc. In this work, we propose an effective segmentation of Arabic handwritten text into text lines and words, using deep learning. For text line segmentation, we used an RU net which allows a pixel wise classification to separate text lines pixels from the background ones. For word segmentation, we resorted to the text line transcription, as we have not got a ground truth at word level. A BLSTM CTC (Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory followed by a Connectionist Temporal Classification) is then used to perform the mapping between the transcription and text line image, avoiding the need of the input segmentation. A CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) precedes the BLST CTC to extract the features and to feed the BLSTM with the essential of the text line image. Tested on the standard KHATT Arabic database, the experimental results confirm a segmentation success rate of no less than 96.7% for text lines and 80.1% for words.
NPU based image composition and display in parallel rendering system
Year: 2011

In real time rendering of massive data sets,it is a common solution to use PC clusters for the real time parallel rendering.The image composition of all the results in parallel rendered by the cluster computers is a notorious bottleneck in sort last clustered rendering systems.This paper presented a network processing unit(NPU) based image composition method and a sort last distributed rendering system,called NPUPR.The experimental results show that the NPU based scheme can get three times faster frame rate than the 'direct send scheme' in the case of four rendering nodes.This paper also presented a scheme to extend four rendering nodes to more rendering nodes.Analysis shows that,the system is fully scalable with negligible penalty in frame rate.
The Role of the Medial Olivocochlear Reflex in Acceptable Noise Level in Adults.
Venue: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
Year: 2021

The acceptable noise level (ANL) is a measurement used to quantify how much noise a person is willing to accept while listening to speech. ANL has been used to predict success with hearing aid use. However, physiological correlates of the ANL are poorly understood. One potential physiological correlate is the medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) which decreases the output of the cochlea and is thereby expected to increase noise tolerance.  This study investigates the relationship between contralateral activation of the MOCR and tolerance of background noise.  This study recruited 22 young adult participants with normal hearing. ANL was measured using the Arizona Travelogue recording under headphones presented at the most comfortable level (MCL) with and without multitalker babble noise. The MOCR strength was evaluated in all participants by measuring the cochlear microphonic (CM) with and without 40 dB sound pressure level contralateral broadband noise (CBBN) DATA ANALYSIS The CM observed in response to a 500 Hz tone was measured with and without CBBN, and changes in response to fast Fourier transform amplitude at 500 Hz were used as an indicator of the MOCR effect. The ANL was calculated by subtracting the maximum acceptable background noise level from the MCL. Participants were divided into two groups based on their ANL: low ANL (ANL 7 dB) and moderate ANL (ANL 7 dB) An independent samples t test was used to compare CM enhancement between low ANL and moderate ANL groups. Additionally, Pearson's correlation was used to investigate the relationship between the ANL and the MOCR effect on the CM.  The results indicated that presentation of CBBN increased the CM amplitude, consistent with eliciting the MOCR. Participants in the low ANL group had significantly larger CM enhancement than moderate ANL participants. The results further revealed a significant correlation between the ANL and the MOCR effect on the CM.  This study suggests that a stronger MOCR, as assessed using CM enhancement, is associated with greater noise tolerance. This research provides a possible objective measure to predict background tolerance in patients and adds to our understanding about the MOCR function in humans.
Characterizing the Spatial Determinants and Prevention of Malaria in Kenya
Venue: International journal of environmental research and public health
Year: 2019

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3 is to ensure health and well being for all at all ages with a specific target to end malaria by 2030. Aligned with this goal, the primary objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations to uncover the statistical relationships between malaria incidence rate and environmental and behavioral factors across the counties of Kenya. Two data sources are used Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys of 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015, and the national Malaria Indicator Survey of 2015. The spatial analysis shows clustering of counties with high malaria incidence rate, or hot spots, in the Lake Victoria region and the east coastal area around Mombasa; there are significant clusters of counties with low incidence rate, or cold spot areas in Nairobi. We apply an analysis technique, geographically weighted regression, that helps to better model how environmental and social determinants are related to malaria incidence rate while accounting for the confounding effects of spatial non stationarity. Some general patterns persist over the four years of observation. We establish that variables including rainfall, proximity to water, vegetation, and population density, show differential impacts on the incidence of malaria in Kenya. The El Nino southern oscillation (ENSO) event in 2015 was significant in driving up malaria in the southern region of Lake Victoria compared with prior time periods. The applied spatial multivariate clustering analysis indicates the significance of social and behavioral survey responses. This study can help build a better spatially explicit predictive model for malaria in Kenya capturing the role and spatial distribution of environmental, social, behavioral, and other characteristics of the households.
Treatment of ulcerative colitis by feeding with germinated barley foodstuff: first report of a multicenter open control trial
Venue: Journal of Gastroenterology
Year: 2013

Germinated barley foodstuff (GBF) is a prebiotic foodstuff that effectively increases luminal butyrate production by stimulating the growth of protective bacteria. In the first pilot study, GBF has been shown to reduce both clinical activity and mucosal inflammation in ulcerative colitis (UC) The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of GBF in the treatment of UC in a multicenter open control trial.  Eighteen patients with mildly to moderately active UC were divided into two groups using a random allocation protocol. The control group (n 7) were given a baseline anti inflammatory therapy for 4 weeks. In the GBF treated group (n 11) patients received 20 30 g GBF daily, together with the baseline treatment, for 4 weeks. The response to the treatments was evaluated clinically and endoscopically. Fecal micro flora were also analyzed.  After 4 weeks of observation, the GBF treated group showed a significant decrease in clinical activity index scores compared with the control group (P 0.05) No side effects related to GBF were observed. GBF therapy increased fecal concentrations of Bifidobacterium and Eubacterium limosum.  Oral GBF therapy may have the potency to reduce clinical activity of UC. We believe that these results support the use of GBF administration as a new adjunct therapy for UC.
Ability, motivation and opportunity: managerial coaching in practice
Venue: Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Year: 2019

The practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Using an online survey, we examined the practice of managerial coaching in Australian organisations through Appelbaum et al.'s Ability Motivation Opportunity framework. A thematic analysis of 580 responses revealed that managers regularly coached their own employees and were motivated by the outcomes they achieved through coaching. Emerging strongly from this research was the delight managers took in seeing their employees transform, as well as improved relationships and the (re )building of trust. Furthermore, coaching resulted in employees becoming more innovative and ready for change. However, managers did not always have the opportunity to undertake coaching due to time constraints or their dual role as a coaching manager. We shed further light on the motivation of managers and we offer recommendations for HR departments seeking to foster managerial coaching in their organisations. The key takeaway is that managerial coaching is a powerful approach to leadership. Disciplines Business Publication Details McCarthy, G. Milner, J. (2019) Ability, motivation and opportunity: managerial coaching in practice. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Online First 1 22.  Ability, motivation and opportunity managerial coaching in practice McCarthy, G. University of Wollongong Australia Milner, J. EDHEC, France Abstract The practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Using an online survey, we examined the practice of managerial coaching inThe practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Using an online survey, we examined the practice of managerial coaching in Australian organisations through the Ability Motivation Opportunity (AMO) (Appelbaum et al. 2000) framework. A thematic analysis of 580 responses revealed that managers regularly coached their own employees and were motivated by the outcomes they achieved through coaching. Emerging strongly from this research was the delight managers took in seeing their employees transform, as well as improved relationships and the (re )building of trust. Furthermore, coaching resulted in employees becoming more innovative and ready for change. However managers did not always have the opportunity to undertake coaching due to time constraints or their dual role as a coaching manager. shed further light on the motivation of managers and we offer recommendations for HR departments seeking to foster managerial coaching in their organisations. The key takeaway is that managerial coaching is a powerful approach to leadership. We offer recommendations for HR managers to foster coaching in their organisations.
Small and medium size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint
Year: 2006

This paper presents recent research on access to finance by small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) SMEs form a large part of private sector in many developed and developing countries. While cross country research sheds doubt on a causal link between SMEs and economic development, there is substantial evidence that small firms face larger growth constraints and have less access to formal sources of external finance, potentially explaining the lack of SMEs' contribution to growth. Financial and institutional development helps alleviate SMEs' growth constraints and increase their access to external finance and thus levels the playing field between firms of different sizes. Specific financing tools such as leasing and factoring can be useful in facilitating greater access to finance even in the absence of well developed institutions, as can systems of credit information sharing and a more competitive banking structure.
Reestablishment Of Vertical Dimension Of Occlusion With A 3D Printing Overlay Removable Partial Denture. A Clinical Report.
Year: 2019

Occlusal disease is a common problem characterized by loss of vertical dimension. The features that show the damage are the loss of vertical dimension of occlusion, diminishment of facial profile, and fracture surfaces in the enamel of the rest of the teeth. According to Liu B, for Davarpanah M, the ideal treatment for occlusal disease includes a planning for each tooth involved in the masticatory function and this could be very expensive. However, Dr. Fonseca J, describes the overlay removable partial denture that offers an affordable option to minimize further damage to oral tissues, increase the vertical dimension of occlusion, and can be used as a relief for the muscles of mastication. Furthermore, the new technology of 3D printing and digital impression aid in the precision and esthetics of the overlay (Winter J, 1997) In this clinical report, a 3D printing overlay RPD was constructed to raise the vertical dimension of occlusion and establish a harmonious facial profile.