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Psychological Contract Breaches and its Impact on Employee Turn over Intention and Job Satisfaction
Year: 2015

Psychological contract breach has achieved the attention of both academics and practitioners in recent few years. This study addresses the question to what extent does psychological contract breach Impact on employee turnover intention and job satisfaction. The objectives of the study were to find that Psychological contract breaches have impact on turn intention and job satisfaction. The research was conducted in the Private Sector school of the Peshawar district.380 questionnaire were distributed among the male and female teacher working in private school of district Peshawar non probability convinces sampling technique was used for data collection. 276 questionnaires were return which is 72 of the sample. The ist hypothesis of the study was that there is significant relation between psychological contract breaches and turnover intention and the second hypothesis of the study is that there is insignificant relation between psychological contract breaches turnover Intention. The ist hypothesis was rejected and the second was accepted and the result shows that there is insignificant association between psychological contract Breaches and turn over intention. Which mean that psychological contract breaches have significant impact on job Satisfaction. The study is quantitative in nature and the data collected and analyzed through SPSS.
Convolutional Oriented Boundaries: From Image Segmentation to High Level Tasks
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Year: 2018

We present Convolutional Oriented Boundaries (COB) which produces multiscale oriented contours and region hierarchies starting from generic image classification Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) COB is computationally efficient, because it requires a single CNN forward pass for multi scale contour detection and it uses a novel sparse boundary representation for hierarchical segmentation; it gives a significant leap in performance over the state of the art, and it generalizes very well to unseen categories and datasets. Particularly, we show that learning to estimate not only contour strength but also orientation provides more accurate results. We perform extensive experiments for low level applications on BSDS, PASCAL Context, PASCAL Segmentation, and NYUD to evaluate boundary detection performance, showing that COB provides state of the art contours and region hierarchies in all datasets. We also evaluate COB on high level tasks when coupled with multiple pipelines for object proposals, semantic contours, semantic segmentation, and object detection on MS COCO, SBD, and PASCAL; showing that COB also improves the results for all tasks.
Machine Vision System for 3D Plant Phenotyping
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Year: 2019

Machine vision for plant phenotyping is an emerging research area for producing high throughput in agriculture and crop science applications. Since 2D based approaches have their inherent limitations, 3D plant analysis is becoming state of the art for current phenotyping technologies. We present an automated system for analyzing plant growth in indoor conditions. A gantry robot system is used to perform scanning tasks in an automated manner throughout the lifetime of the plant. A 3D laser scanner mounted as the robot's payload captures the surface point cloud data of the plant from multiple views. The plant is monitored from the vegetative to reproductive stages in light/dark cycles inside a controllable growth chamber. An efficient 3D reconstruction algorithm is used, by which multiple scans are aligned together to obtain a 3D mesh of the plant, followed by surface area and volume computations. The whole system, including the programmable growth chamber, robot, scanner, data transfer, and analysis is fully automated in such a way that a naive user can, in theory, start the system with a mouse click and get back the growth analysis results at the end of the lifetime of the plant with no intermediate intervention. As evidence of its functionality, we show and analyze quantitative results of the rhythmic growth patterns of the dicot Arabidopsis thaliana (L. and the monocot barley (Hordeum vulgare L. plants under their diurnal light/dark cycles.
Out of grade sawn pine: A state of the art review on challenges and new opportunities in cross laminated timber (CLT)
Venue: Construction and Building Materials
Year: 2019

Plantation softwood is the future timber material resource for building and construction. However, significant volumes of sawn softwood are considered out of grade and sold at a loss. New approaches and methods need to be implemented to value add out of grade timber and increase structural yield from existing plantations. This paper provides a critical review of out of grade characteristics of pine timber to gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of this resource as a structural building material. Methods to incorporate out of grade timber into current building systems are presented and building technologies that can facilitate this use are identified. Finally, it discusses developments and important considerations for design of cross laminated timber (CLT) as a prime example of a building system with good capacity to incorporate high volumes of out of grade timber. This provides critical information for the maximum utilisation of sawn out of grade pine and is anticipated to create new opportunities that can effectively incorporate this renewable and sustainable material resource into innovative building systems and technologies.
The worldwide epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus present and future perspectives
Venue: Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Year: 2012

Over the past three decades, the number of people with diabetes mellitus has more than doubled globally, making it one of the most important public health challenges to all nations. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and prediabetes are increasingly observed among children, adolescents and younger adults. The causes of the epidemic of T2DM are embedded in a very complex group of genetic and epigenetic systems interacting within an equally complex societal framework that determines behavior and environmental influences. This complexity is reflected in the diverse topics discussed in this Review. In the past few years considerable emphasis has been placed on the effect of the intrauterine environment in the epidemic of T2DM, particularly in the early onset of T2DM and obesity. Prevention of T2DM is a 'whole of life' task and requires an integrated approach operating from the origin of the disease. Future research is necessary to better understand the potential role of remaining factors, such as genetic predisposition and maternal environment, to help shape prevention programs. The potential effect on global diabetes surveillance of using HbA1c rather than glucose values in the diagnosis of T2DM is also discussed.
Trust management and reputation systems in mobile participatory sensing applications: A survey
Venue: Comput. Networks
Year: 2015

Participatory sensing is an emerging paradigm in which citizens everywhere voluntarily use their computational devices to capture and share sensed data from their surrounding environments in order to monitor and analyze some phenomenon (e.g. weather, road traffic, pollution, etc. Interest in participatory sensing systems has risen since a large mobile sensor network can now be opportunistically constructed with much less cost and effort than it was the case a decade ago. However, relying on citizens who share their contributions raises many challenges. Participants can disrupt the system by contributing corrupted, fabricated, or erroneous data. Consequently, monitoring the participants' behavior in order to estimate their honesty is an essential requirement. This enables to evaluate the veracity and accuracy of participants' contributions and therefore, to build robust and reliable participatory sensing systems. Recently, several trust and reputation systems have been proposed to trace participants' behavior in these systems. This survey presents a study and analysis of existing trust systems in participatory sensing applications. First, we study the nature of participatory sensing applications by surveying existing systems and outlining their common features. We then analyze the main vulnerabilities and attacks that can be launched in these systems. Furthermore, we discuss the concept of trust and we introduce a classification of existing trust systems. The two main classes of trust assessment methods for participatory sensing (i.e. Trusted Platform Module and reputation) are discussed. In addition, we analyze the merits as well as the limitations of each of them. We then derive a comparative study of several existing trust systems for participatory sensing. From this study, we identify many trust problems that have not been solved and many attacks have not been addressed yet in the literature. Finally, we list future research directions regarding trust management in participatory sensing systems.
A new video magnification technique using complex wavelets with Radon transform application
Venue: Signal Image Video Process.
Year: 2018

Magnifying micro movements of natural videos that are undetectable by human eye has recently received considerable interests, due to its impact in numerous applications. In this paper, we use dual tree complex wavelet transform (DT CWT) to analyze video frames in order to detect and magnify micro movements to make them visible. We use DT CWT, due to its excellent edge preserving and nearly shift invariant features. In order to detect any minor change in object's spatial position, the paper proposes to modify the phases of the CWT coefficients decomposition of successive video frames. Furthermore, the paper applies Radon transform to track frame micro movements without any temporal band pass filtering. The paper starts by presenting a simple technique to design orthogonal filters that construct this CWT system. Next, it is shown that modifying the phase differences between the CWT coefficients of arbitrary frame and a reference one results in image spatial magnification. This in turn, makes these micro movements seen and observable. Several simulation results are given, to show that the proposed technique competes very well to the existing micro magnification approaches. In fact, as it manages to yield superior video quality in far less computation time.
Nanoscale resistive switching devices: mechanisms and modeling.
Venue: Nanoscale
Year: 2013

Resistive switching devices (also termed memristive devices or memristors) are two terminal nonlinear dynamic electronic devices that can have broad applications in the fields of nonvolatile memory, reconfigurable logic, analog circuits, and neuromorphic computing. Current rapid advances in memristive devices in turn demand better understanding of the switching mechanism and the development of physics based as well as simplified device models to guide future device designs and circuit level applications. In this article, we review the physical processes behind resistive switching (memristive) phenomena and discuss the experimental and modeling efforts to explain these effects. In this article three categories of devices, in which the resistive switching effects are driven by cation migration, anion migration, and electronic effects, will be discussed. The fundamental driving forces and the stochastic nature of resistive switching will also be discussed.
A Proposal for Formative Assessment with Automatic Feedback on an Online Mathematics Subject
Venue: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Year: 2015

This article presents a new teaching methodology implemented on a basic mathematics course for Engineering students at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) The experience of its implementation in the 2010/11 academic year is described and the results are discussed. This methodology is based on formative assessment. As well as doing the activities contained in the course materials, students take weekly practice and assessment quizzes and receive automatic feedback. Not only are they told whether their answers are correct, but they also receive suggestions and comments on the possible sources of their errors. The results suggest that this teaching methodology gives students the opportunity to regulate their own learning processes while allowing lecturers to identify and react to problems in a responsive, timely manner. They also suggest that it fosters interaction among students and between students and lecturers. Moreover, since the teaching methodology was introduced, the number of students dropping out of the subject has fallen considerably.ResumenEn este articulo se presenta una nueva estrategia docente en un curso basico de matematicas para estudiantes de ingenieria de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; se describe la experiencia de su implementacion en el curso 2010 2011 y se discuten los resultados obtenidos. Esta metodologia, basada en la evaluacion formativa, se concreta en la realizacion semanal de cuestionaries de practica y de evaluacion con feedback automatico, ademas de la realizacion de actividades propias del material del curse. En la retroalimentacion del sistema, ne solamente se informa de la validez de la respuesta, sine que se proporcionan sugerencias y cementarios del posible origen de su errer. Per un lado, les resultados obtenidos sugieren que la metodologia docente implementada da a los estudiantes la oportunidad de regular su propio proceso de aprendizaje y al profesorado, la posibilidad de detectar problematicas y reaccionar con agilidad; por otro lado, fomenta las interacciones con contenide matematico tanto entre estudiantes como entre estudiante y profesor. Ademas, con esta estrategia docente, el numere de estudiantes que abandonan la asignatura se ha reducido notablemente.
The validity and reliability of an iPhone app for measuring vertical jump performance
Venue: Journal of sports sciences
Year: 2015

The purpose of this investigation was to analyse the concurrent validity and reliability of an iPhone app (called: My Jump) for measuring vertical jump performance. Twenty recreationally active healthy men (age: 22.1 3.6 years) completed five maximal countermovement jumps, which were evaluated using a force platform (time in the air method) and a specially designed iPhone app. My jump was developed to calculate the jump height from flight time using the high speed video recording facility on the iPhone 5 s. Jump heights of the 100 jumps measured, for both devices, were compared using the intraclass correlation coefficient, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) Cronbach's alpha (a) coefficient of variation and Bland Altman plots. There was almost perfect agreement between the force platform and My Jump for the countermovement jump height (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.997, P 0.001; Bland Altman bias 1.1 0.5 cm, P 0.001) In comparison with the force platform, My Jump showed good validity for the CMJ height (r 0.995, P 0.001) The results of the present study showed that CMJ height can be easily, accurately and reliably evaluated using a specially developed iPhone 5 s app.
The Spanish Catholic Church from the Zapatero Era to the Rajoy Government
Year: 2013

Since 1983, the year of John Paul II's visit to Spain, the church in Spain has organized collectively through the pastoral plans. In this regard, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's years in government are located within the coordinates laid down by a document drawn up during the Jose Maria Aznar government in 2002, Una Iglesia esperanzada. "iMar adentro!" (Lc 5:4) and above all by the plan Yo soy el pan de vida (Jn 6:35) written in the midst of a controversy with the Socialists in 2006. There is strong continuity between the two documents, but it is certainly the second one that had a greater influence on the decisions made by the church during the years the Socialist Party (PSOE) was in government. The 2006 plan moves between warnings about the danger of an "immanent humanism" and of "internal secularization," referring, respectively, to the idea that man can live independently from God and the confusion and doubts that are increasingly affecting priests. According to the bishops, on the one hand, Spain was under attack from "laical tendencies as far as the organization of society is concerned, a disregard for the reality of marriage and family, attacks on the life of unborn conceived, restrictions on freedom of education, the drifting of young people, now subjected to new forms of slavery." On the other hand, they state that "the main issue that the church in Spain must face today is not to be found in society or in the cultural environment, but within itself; it is an internal problem and not an external one.
THE EFFECT OF LOGO DESIGN ON BRAND PERSONALITY PERCEPTIONS
Year: 2008

Henderson and Cote (1998) investigated the effect of logo design on consumer responses. They focused on logo graphic design to develop guidelines for logo selection and modification. Drawing on the logo strategy literature and input provided by graphic designers, Henderson and Cote (1998) identify a set of subjectively measured logo design characteristics (i.e. a logos' naturalness, elaborateness, harmony, and roundness) as well as a set of objectively measured design characteristics (i.e. the number of parallel and repeated elements, and the logo's proportions) They then examined the impact of these logo design characteristics on consumer responses to the logo: positive affect, familiar meaning, correct recognition, and false recognition. Results suggest that positive affect is evoked by moderately natural, moderately elaborate, and highly harmonious logos. Familiar meaning arises from highly natural and moderately proportional logos; false recognition is more likely for artificial looking, highly harmonious logos at moderate levels of parallel elements and proportion. Correct recognition, on the other hand, is furthered by highly natural, moderately harmonious logos with many repeated elements. Positive affect and familiar meaning also increase correct recognition. Janiszewski and Meyvis's (2001) research on the impact of stimulus characteristics (logo complexity) and stimulus presentation (repetition) on processing fluency also has implications for the logo design consumer response relationship. Results indicate that logo meaning, logo familiarity, and exposure presentation schedule affects consumers' sensitization and habituation to the logo. These, in turn, impact processing fluency and consumer preferences for and judgment of logos in terms of their expensiveness. The authors also suggest that more meaningful logos are more resistant to wear out when due to repeated exposure.
Mobile phone applications for diabetes management: A systematic review.
Venue: Endocrinologia, diabetes y nutricion
Year: 2019

The number of mobile applications (apps) related to health is increasing, and diabetes mellitus (DM) is not an exception. The aim of this study was to assess the free mobile applications for the management of diabetes available, in Spanish, in the Spanish market.  GooglePlay (Android) and AppStore (iOS) were reviewed to identify free apps, in Spanish, aimed at people with diabetes. Their main functions and a series of quality and usability features were evaluated and scored. These scores were used to make a top list with the best apps.  Out of 794 registered apps, 42 were evaluated and included in the quality assessment, while 34 apps were included in the usability assessment. The main function of most of the apps was to act as a blood glucose diary (n: 30; 71.43% As for privacy, most of the applications (33 apps; 78.6% access device/personal data. Only a minority of apps [3 (7.1% reported being based on evidence, and only 3 apps (7.1% had a quality label. The top scored apps were: OneTouch Reveal(tm) Social Diabetes(tm) mySugr: App Diario de diabetes(tm) Diabetes menu(tm) Tactio SALUD(tm) and Diabetes:M(tm)  There are few free apps for diabetes management available in Spanish, most lack quality certification and very few provide scientific references about their content. Furthermore, most of the apps access personal/device data.
Translation Technique and Quality of the Indonesian Culture Terms in Bilingual Tourism Booklet of Badung Bali
Year: 2017

The objectives of this research are: 1) to identify the kinds of translation technique of the Indonesian culture terms in Bilingual Tourism Booklet of Badung Bali, and 2) to assess the translation quality in form of accuracy, acceptability, and readibility aspect of the Indonesian culture terms in Bilingual Tourism Booklet entitled Holiday to Badung Bali. The objects of the research are the technique that used and the translation quality in form of accuracy, acceptability, readibility aspect. This research applies descriptive qualitative. The Techniques of collecting data are documentation, questionnaire, and interview. Then technique of analyzing data applies Miles and Hubberman's Model (1984) such as data reduction, data display and drawing conclusion or verification. The results show that: First, there are eigth techniques which are applied by translator. They are that; 1) transposition, there are 39 total data or (24.22% 2) addition there are 7 total data or (4.34% 3) reduction there are 9 data or (5.60% 4) estabilished equivalence there are 21 data or (13.04% 5) Pure Borrowing found 50 data or (31.06% 6) literal translation found 13 data or (8.085) 7) adaptation found 12 data or (7.4% And the last naturalized borrowing found 10 data or (6.22% Second, the translation quality aspects show that a) in accuracy aspect, it is found 125 data or 77.64 belong to accurate and less accurate consists of 36 data or 22. 36% b) in acceptability aspect, it is found 111 data or 68.94% belong to acceptable and less acceptable consists of 50 data or 31.05% and c) in readibility aspect, it is found 112 data or 69.56% belong to readable and 49 data or 30.43% belong to less readable. Finally, the translation quality of the Indonesian culture terms in Bilingual tourism booklet of Badung Bali assessed by Nababan et al (2012) It shows that the average score consists of 2,54 and it is considered into good translation. It means that the translation is accurate, acceptable, and readable.
Etat des lieux des pratiques de l'episiotomie au CHU de Nice dans quelles circonstances les sages femmes realisent elles une episiotomie
Year: 2019

Introduction l'episiotomie est fortement remise en cause par la litterature, les professionnels et les usageres. La realisation de l'episiotomie et sa suture est une competence des sages femmes. Objectifs mesure de la pratique de l'episiotomie du service, et evaluation de la pratique des sages femmes et ses determinants. Methodes etude monocentrique, quantitative et qualitative, par le biais d'un recueil de donnee sur dossiers obstetricaux associe a un questionnaire aux professionnels. Population de 265 patientes ayant eu une episiotomie dans le cadre d'un accouchement voie basse non instrumentale, et de 33 professionnels. Resultats le service a montre une decroissance de son taux d'episiotomie entre 2016 (16,9% et 2018 (8,1% Les sages femmes suivent les RCP du CNGOF. Ils realisent des episiotomies dans un contexte neonatal non rassurant, de primiparite, de suspicion de poids foetal augmente, d'antecedent perineale et d'APD. La formation initiale, l'experience et l'environnement de travail sont des determinants de la pratique de l'episiotomie. Conclusions ce memoire a mis en evidence un besoin d'harmonisation des pratiques pour palier a l'heterogeneite des pratiques et d'un rappel des recommandations d'episiotomie et de protection perineale. L'episiotomie est un acte multifactoriel qui depend des caracteristiques de la patiente ainsi que de l'experience et vecu du professionnel.