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Managing the dynamics of change the fastest path to creating an engaged and productive workforce
Year: 2006

This action oriented book presents the revolutionary J Curve model, which tracks people's performance, thoughts, and emotions at each of the five stages of the change process, from resistance through positive acceptance key knowledge you need to lead your team and speed implementation. Used by leading companies such as IBM, Chevron, Toyota Lexus, and 3M, the J Curve gives you proven tactics and tools for quickly getting employees to a positive stage on the curve. In this groundbreaking book, Jellison introduces a new approach to change Activation. Communication and persuasion aren't enough to help people overcome their doubts and anxieties. You'll put these Activation techniques to work immediately as you learn how to Communicate at ground level breaking change down into doable steps so people can achieve the goal Front load rewards motivating people to persist through the most difficult phases of change Create accountability linking performance to larger organizational goals Personalize praise tailoring approval to individuals to motivate higher levels of performance Managing the Dynamics of Change presents an innovative method for getting employees to quickly commit to change efforts and simultaneously ramp up their performance. Drawing upon his extensive field research and consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies, Jerald Jellison, Ph.D. reveals how effective change occurs and shows you how to manage your employees' reaction to change, engage your team's emotions and actions, and move employees up the curve as fast as possible.
Changes in spatial patterns of PM2.5 pollution in China 2000 2018: Impact of clean air policies.
Venue: Environment international
Year: 2020

To improve air quality, China has been implementing strict clean air policies since 2013. These policies not only substantially improved air quality but may also modify the spatial distribution of air pollution, since urban emission sources were under stricter control and some were moved to rural regions with lower air quality improvement targets and lacking of monitoring. Here, we predicted satellite based monthly PM2.5 concentrations during 2000 2018 at a 1 km resolution with complete spatial temporal coverage to analyze changes in the spatial pattern of PM2.5 pollution in China. We found that the PM2.5 concentration in urban regions was higher than that in rural regions of the same city by an average of 3.3 mg/m3 during 2000 2018. This urban rural disparity in PM2.5 concentration significantly increased from 2.5 mg/m3 in 2000 and peaked in 2007 of 3.8 mg/m3, then it sharply declined by 49% during 2013 2018 with the implementation of clean air policies. This shrinkage in the urban rural PM2.5 gap was partly due to the 1.3 mg/m3 greater average decrease in the PM2.5 level in the urban region than in the rural region of the same town during 2013 2018 on average. We also observed that cities that started monitoring earlier experienced greater decreases in the urban rural PM2.5 difference, and regions surrounding monitor showed significantly greater PM2.5 decrease than regions far away from monitor during 2013 2018. Additionally, clean air policies modified the relationship between PM2.5 concentrations and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) leading to a lower PM2.5 level with the same per capita GDP after 2013. Emissions in rural and suburban regions should be considered to further improve air quality in China.
Cyber Insurance Against Electronic Payment Service Outages A Document Study of Terms and Conditions from Electronic Payment Service Providers and Insurance Companies
Venue: STM
Year: 2018

Society is becoming increasingly dependent on IT services. One example is the dependence of retailers on electronic payment services. This article investigates the terms and conditions offered by three electronic payment service providers, finding that they only guarantee best effort availability. As potential mitigation, five cyber insurance policies are studied from the perspective of coverage of electronic payment service outages. It is concluded that cyber insurance does indeed give some protection, but that coverage differs between insurers and between different policy options offered. Thus, a retailer who wishes to purchase cyber insurance should take care to understand what is on offer and actively select appropriate coverage.
The Contribution of Women Entrepreneurship in Family Socio Economic Development in Rural Areas, Rwanda
Year: 2016

The study on women entrepreneurs and family social economic development aimed at assessing whether there was a positive correlation between women in entrepreneurship and their family socioeconomic development. This research targeted women members of a handcraft making cooperative in Muhanga District and Women's Opportunity Center in Eastern province (Rwanda) with a connection to Gahaya Links Company. The study used stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The data entry and management was undertaken using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, 16 version) where both descriptive and correlational statistics were used in the study. The study revealed that women entrepreneurs affect social economic development at the rate of 78.3% This research concluded that there was a positive and strong relationship between women entrepreneurship and family socio economic development. The research recommends that women entrepreneurs must minimize all loss caused by lack of training and low level of education that leads to lack of managerial skills in order to achieve high level of performance in their routine activities of business.
"We Make Our Own Rules Here" Democratic Communities, Corporate Logics, and "No Excuses" Practices in a Charter School Management Organization
Venue: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Year: 2019

Recently, there has been growing debate over the managerial and leadership practices of expanding charter school networks, often referred to as Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs) CMOs which typically serve low socioeconomic status students of color are deeply tied to education reform efforts in the United States. Many CMOs consistently promote the belief that education can and should borrow heavily from the "best practices" of corporate culture and many have unlimited resources to enact their vision of educational success, closely aligned with what has been called "no excuses" schooling. Research on the daily practices of leaders working in a CMO remains limited; we know very little of how corporate ideologies are enacted in schooling. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, I explore the daily life in one school within a CMO network considering to what extent corporate practices de democratize education, produce neoliberal subjectivities, and shape experiences with learning for disadvantaged populations.
Women in Africa: Leveraging ICT in Closing the Gender Gap through Ethics and Values
Year: 2020

Significant shreds of evidence from literature revealed that women constitute half of the world's human capital. Shreds of evidence also show that women have the potentials to redress gender gaps if empowered through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) favourable laws, ethics, and values. Despite these important virtues, numerous investigations have shown significant gender gaps in internet use (23% literacy rate (48.6% pay gap (22% political ambition, educational outcomes, etc. resulting majorly from restrictions placed by customary laws, ethics, and values that failed to incorporate no gender sensitive ICT policies in Africa. This study highlights the strategy to leverage the economic empowerment of women in Africa through ICT adoption, and favourable ICT policies, culture, ethics, and values. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was adopted as the conceptual framework. In this study, the authors explored a narrative review methodology of related research findings from peerreviewed articles to draw holistic findings that revealed significant information on strategies for leveraging ICT in closing the gender gap. Results show that gender gaps may result from women diverting time for circular works, due to unfavorable customary laws, ethics, and values, to meet family responsibilities or having less control over finances, which negatively impact their affordability of ICTs. Results also show that empowering women in ICT may advance sustainable goals, leverage their literacy abilities for ICT adoption; leverage ICT in closing gaps in gender discrepancy in sociability capital resources.
Barriers to Care: The Challenges for Canadian Refugees and their Health Care Providers
Year: 2010

Much of the existing research literature on the health of immigrant populations does not address the health care experiences of refugees, even though they likely experience unique and different health care needs relative to economic or family class immigrants. The objective of this paper is to explore the systemic barriers to health care access experienced by Canada's refugee populations. The paper focuses on understanding these challenges as expressed by health and social service providers at the local level in Hamilton, Ontario. Data from interviews illustrate the impact of these systemic barriers for both refugees and providers. The paper examines issues of interpretation/language, cultural competency, health care coverage, isolation, poverty, and transportation in terms of health care and availability of services.
The Association Between Ethnic Identity and Non Medical Prescription Drug Use Among A Sample of College Students: Does a Sense of Ethnic Belonging Matter?
Venue: Substance use misuse
Year: 2019

National data demonstrate significant differences in non medical prescription drug (NMPD) use, with Whites seeming to be more likely to use compared to non Whites. College students also appear to be at an increased risk for NMPD use.  This study examines NMPD use using a component of social identity theory. We propose that a stronger sense of ethnic identity may reduce the likelihood of NMPD use among college students due to ethnic identity's ties to self esteem and self efficacy. We also propose that the protective power of ethnic identity may vary according to one's race.  Data for this study were collected from a survey of undergraduate students at a Midwestern university (N 530) Poisson regression analyses were used to test the relationship between ethnic identity and NMPD use. Of our sample, 135 participants (25.5% indicated NMPD use over the past year. This percentage is high compared to findings from national college data.  Results indicate that a stronger sense of ethnic identity reduced the frequency of NMPD use among young adults. The findings also reveal that the relationship between ethnic identity and NMPD use is moderated by race. Ethnic identity was found to be a protective factor for non White participants only.  This study suggests that ethnic belonging may act as a protective factor against NMPD use among non White young adults. These findings build upon our understanding of the relationship between ethnic identity and substance use. We conclude with a discussion of directions for future research and intervention programs
Substantial role of macroalgae in marine carbon sequestration
Year: 2016

Marine macroalgae are dominant primary producers in coastal zones. A review of the published literature suggests that macroalgae may play an important role in carbon sequestration. Vegetated coastal habitats have been identified as important carbon sinks. In contrast to angiosperm based habitats such as seagrass meadows, salt marshes and mangroves, marine macroalgae have largely been excluded from discussions of marine carbon sinks. Macroalgae are the dominant primary producers in the coastal zone, but they typically do not grow in habitats that are considered to accumulate large stocks of organic carbon. However, the presence of macroalgal carbon in the deep sea and sediments, where it is effectively sequestered from the atmosphere, has been reported. A synthesis of these data suggests that macroalgae could represent an important source of the carbon sequestered in marine sediments and the deep ocean. We propose two main modes for the transport of macroalgae to the deep ocean and sediments: macroalgal material drifting through submarine canyons, and the sinking of negatively buoyant macroalgal detritus. A rough estimate suggests that macroalgae could sequester about 173 TgC yr 1 (with a range of 61 268 TgC yr 1) globally. About 90% of this sequestration occurs through export to the deep sea, and the rest through burial in coastal sediments. This estimate exceeds that for carbon sequestered in angiosperm based coastal habitats.
Algorithms for Hyper Parameter Optimization
Venue: NIPS
Year: 2011

Several recent advances to the state of the art in image classification benchmarks have come from better configurations of existing techniques rather than novel approaches to feature learning. Traditionally, hyper parameter optimization has been the job of humans because they can be very efficient in regimes where only a few trials are possible. Presently, computer clusters and GPU processors make it possible to run more trials and we show that algorithmic approaches can find better results. We present hyper parameter optimization results on tasks of training neural networks and deep belief networks (DBNs) We optimize hyper parameters using random search and two new greedy sequential methods based on the expected improvement criterion. Random search has been shown to be sufficiently efficient for learning neural networks for several datasets, but we show it is unreliable for training DBNs. The sequential algorithms are applied to the most difficult DBN learning problems from [1] and find significantly better results than the best previously reported. This work contributes novel techniques for making response surface models P(y|x) in which many elements of hyper parameter assignment (x) are known to be irrelevant given particular values of other elements.
Information extraction framework to build legislation network
Venue: Artificial Intelligence and Law
Year: 2020

This paper concerns an information extraction process for building a dynamic legislation network from legal documents. Unlike supervised learning approaches which require additional calculations, the idea here is to apply information extraction methodologies by identifying distinct expressions in legal text in order to extract network information. The study highlights the importance of data accuracy in network analysis and improves approximate string matching techniques to produce reliable network data sets with more than 98% precision and recall. The applications and the complexity of the created dynamic legislation network are also discussed and challenged.
S 4 W: a problem solving environment for wireless system design
Year: 2007

This work describes the Site Specific System Simulator for Wireless System Design (S4W) a problem solving environment (PSE) that integrates visualization and computational tools with a high level graphical user interface. S4W improves the ability of wireless system engineers to design an indoor wireless system by encouraging them to think in terms of designing the system for optimal performance. Issues of computation management, data management, and location of resources are hidden from the user. The complex nature of data sets in the domain of wireless simulations calls for a customized set of visualization tools. Therefore, a number of ad hoc visualizations were developed for S4W. A study comparing the integrated system with an earlier, unintegrated version is presented. This helps to demonstrate the productivity gains that a PSE provides.
Equivalent Electrical Model of a Ferrite Core Inductor Excited by a Square Waveform Including Saturation and Power Losses for Circuit Simulation
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Year: 2013

We propose a model of an equivalent electrical circuit specifically designed for a ferrite inductor excited by a nonsinusoidal waveform valid for use in an electronic circuit simulator. We estimate the model parameters by means of Finite Elements in 2 D which leads to significant computational advantages over the 3 D model. We carry out the validation of the procedure for an RM14/I core by comparing the experimental and simulated output waveforms obtained at different frequencies and levels of excitation from the linear to the saturation regions. In addition, we consider the effect of power losses in the core.
Attentive Sequential Neural Processes
Year: 2019

Sequential Neural Processes (SNP) is a new class of models that temporally extends Neural Processes (NP) and can meta learn a sequence of stochastic processes. This learned function however under fits the provided contexts as is also the case in NP. Applying attention to the contexts resolves this in NP but simply extending this to SNP and applying attention on a buffer of context history is sub optimal as our findings show. In this paper, we propose Attentive Sequential Neural Processes (ASNP) which resolves the under fitting in SNP by introducing a novel imaginary context, modeled as a latent variable, over which the attention can then be applied. We evaluate our model on 1D Gaussian Processes regression and 2D moving MNIST/CelebA regression. We apply ASNP to implement Attentive Temporal GQN and further evaluate on the moving CelebA task.
Survey of machine learning techniques in spacecraft control design
Year: 2021

In this paper, a survey on the machine learning techniques in spacecraft control design is given. Among the applications of machine learning on the subject are the design of optimal interplanetary trajectories, the synthesis of controllers to stabilize orbital or angular motion, formation control, the design of control laws for landing on the surface of a celestial body. All the works are classified into two almost equal groups the supervised learning (stochastic and deterministic methods) and the reinforcement learning (direct and value based approaches) Stochastic supervised learning methods are based on stochastic optimization procedures, random initialization of neural networks weights, and stochastic nature of the obtained results. Deterministic methods are based on the Lyapunov theory; the network training is a deterministic process. The division of reinforcement learning methods into direct and value based approaches is similar to the separation into direct and indirect methods in the optimal control theory. We discuss the main ideas, advantages, and drawbacks of the techniques and give some recommendations for future investigations. We also highlight interesting ideas and approaches in the application of machine learning methods that can be used in a broad variety of astrodynamical problems.
Basilio Martin Patino, "Desde lo mas hondo" una reflexion sobre tecnologia y flamenco
Year: 2016

espanolIncluidos dentro de la serie Andalucia, un siglo de fascinacion, dirigida por Basilio Martin Patino y emitidos por Canal Sur Television, encontramos dos capitulos dedicados al flamenco en los que haciendo uso del genero del falso documental el director presenta en el primero de ellos la posibilidad de recuperar una de las voces miticas del flamenco del siglo XIX, la de Silverio Franconetti, gracias al hallazgo de una plancha de estano, mientras que en el segundo trata de la creacion en el Japon de un museo dedicado al flamenco a partir de la plancha de estano del episodio anterior. En el presente articulo mostramos como la construccion filmica de Martin Patino entraria de lleno en aspectos fundamentales tratados por las investigaciones sobre el flamenco. En primer lugar, el de los origenes miticos del flamenco que, tal vez, quedarian aclarados con la grabacion "encontrada" de Silverio, planteandose incluso la posibilidad de sintetizar esta voz para crear flamenco por medios artificiales. Y en segundo lugar, la creacion de un espacio museistico en un lugar tan lejano como Japon cuyo soporte basico seria uno de los marcadores culturales propios de Andalucia. EnglishWithin the Series Andalucia, one century of fascination, directed by Basilio Martin Patino and broadcast by Canal Sur Television, we find two episodes about flamenco in which the director, using the fake documentary genre, presents the possibility in the first one of recovering one of the mythical voices of the nineteenth century, that of Silverio Franconetti, thanks to the finding of a tin plate; whilst the second is about the creation in Japan of a museum dedicated to flamenco music and dance, following the finding of the tin plate from the first episode. In the present article, we demonstrate how the film construction of Martin Patino would look in depth at fundamental aspects studied in research work into flamenco. Firstly, the mythical origins of flamenco, which could possibly be clarified by the "supposedly found" recording of Silverio's voice, considering the possibility of synthesizing this voice to create flamenco by artificial means. Secondly, the creation of a museum in such a geographically distant place as Japan based on one of the cultural indicators which are typical of Andalucia.
Looking into Death: An Evolution through Time in England to 1800
Year: 2017

Death has long been a topic in concern of the entire humanity. Regardless of gender, nationality or time period, we all reach the same destination: death. However, the interpretation of death itself does not always stay the same, but radically evolves throughout history, as reflected in multiple literary works. This paper, therefore, will examine the evolution of death notions with special regards to England from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century from the time of persistent threat of the Black Plague to the modern colonial period. Exploring the death of the three rioters in "The Pardoner's Tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece Canterbury Tales (1387 1400) and the protagonist's death in "Oroonoko" of Aphra Behn (1688) the paper will dissect each death to illustrate its relationship with the contemporary common belief. Following the indepth multi dimensional analyses of other critical book and journals besides the primary texts, this research will also prove the shift from the Medieval romantic and religious mindset to the dominance of realism and humanistic world before the 1800s in England a representative of Western civilization. Over time, we cease to perceive death as a destiny by the Plague, a necessary means to pay for sins and only granted by God, but witness the replacement of a totally different frame of mind, in which the colonists become "the Almighty" and death for justice disappears from scene.
ASSESSMENT OF HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECT OF POLYHERBAL COMBINATION OF PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI (MENIRAN) CURCUMA XANTHORRHIZA (WILD GINGER) AND CURCUMA LONGA (TURMERIC) AGAINST LIVER DYSFUNCTION DUE TO ANTI TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS
Year: 2014

PROCEEDING The International Conference Pharmaceutical Care "New Development of Pharmaceutical Care In a Pharmacogenetic and Pharmacogenomic Approach" University of Muhammadiyah Malang, April 19th 2014