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Pengaruh Penyuntikan Dosis Minimal Depot Medroksiprogesteron Asetat (Dmpa) Terhadap Berat Badan Dan Kimia Darah Tikus Jantan Galur Sprague-Dawley, Yurnadi Yurnadi, Dwi Anita Suryandari, Nukman Moeloek Nov 2009

Pengaruh Penyuntikan Dosis Minimal Depot Medroksiprogesteron Asetat (Dmpa) Terhadap Berat Badan Dan Kimia Darah Tikus Jantan Galur Sprague-Dawley, Yurnadi Yurnadi, Dwi Anita Suryandari, Nukman Moeloek

Makara Journal of Science

Effect of Injection Minimal Dosages of Depot Medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) to Body Weight and Blood Chemistry Male Rat Strain Sprague-Dawley. Many family planning program focus more on men. Until now, vasectomy has been the commonly used method for male contraception. However, this method creates inconvenience such as irreversibility and psychological problems. One of the alternatives contraception is the combination of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and androgen. The minimum dosage of DMPA could suppress testosterone level that leads to reduced spermatogenesis and sperm viability. Nevertheless, until now it is not known whether minimum dosages of DMPA have an effect to body …

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Deteksi Pemalsuan Citra Berbasis Dekomposisi Nilai Singulir, Dewi Yanti Liliana, T. Basaruddin Nov 2009

Deteksi Pemalsuan Citra Berbasis Dekomposisi Nilai Singulir, Dewi Yanti Liliana, T. Basaruddin

Makara Journal of Science

Image Fakery Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition. The growing of image processing technology nowadays make it easier for user to modify and fake the images. Image fakery is a process to manipulate part or whole areas of image either in it content or context with the help of digital image processing techniques. Image fakery is barely unrecognizable because the fake image is looking so natural. Yet by using the numerical computation technique it is able to detect the evidence of fake image. This research is successfully applied the singular value decomposition method to detect image fakery. The image preprocessing …

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Warts-And-All: The Real Practice Of Service Design, Yoko Akama Nov 2009

Warts-And-All: The Real Practice Of Service Design, Yoko Akama

ServDes Conference Series

Service design practice; discourse and education are still nascent in Australia where most designers are trained in fields such as industrial design; architecture; communication design; and to a lesser degree; interaction design (a field that is equally nascent). Academic research on service design has so far been limited (Kimbell and Seidel 2008) and much of the knowledge generated from business contexts has been proprietary (Tether 2008). These factors have led to a lack of critical engagement in examining and investigating the complex contexts that surrounds service design projects. This also adds to the challenging obstacles for designers seeking to establish …

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Informal Service Offer: Peddling, Dilek Akbulut Nov 2009

Informal Service Offer: Peddling, Dilek Akbulut

ServDes Conference Series

Informal sector; which is defined with several names such as disguised unemployment; illegal economics or marginal economics; emerges as earning opportunities outside the modern system which operates with limited resources. The term “informal sector” does not only imply the processes addressed to manufacturing; but services as well. Informal sector retailing act; which will be mentioned as “peddling” is regarded as an innovative service handled with small capital or none. Thus; the sector operates both in production and distribution of goods which will be mentioned as “catchpenny articles” sold on street peddles. The study introduces peddling as the retail service offered …

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Exemplars In Service Design, Johan Blomkvist, Stefan Holmlid Nov 2009

Exemplars In Service Design, Johan Blomkvist, Stefan Holmlid

ServDes Conference Series

Exemplars play an important role in applied service design but are largely overlooked in academic literature. So far; most design research in other fields has concerned how surface properties of exemplars are incorporated in the current design; but services are different from most other design disciplines in regard to material. To expand the understanding of how exemplars matter to service design; material from recordings and observations of design meetings have been analysed. We observed a pattern that exemplars; in this case; were introduced in communication in the format of micro-narratives that express emotional impact of service elements. This study shows …

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Clinicians As Service Designers? Reflections On Current Transformation In The Uk Health Services, Valerie Carr, Daniela Sangiorgi, Monika Büscher, Sabine Junginger Nov 2009

Clinicians As Service Designers? Reflections On Current Transformation In The Uk Health Services, Valerie Carr, Daniela Sangiorgi, Monika Büscher, Sabine Junginger

ServDes Conference Series

The British National Health Service (NHS) has been involved in profound transformation to keep pace with; and shape; changes in our society. Innovation has been driven by the necessity to transform old hierarchical and paternalistic models into a modern health system; moving care closer to home; mobilizing and tailoring services to individual patients' and their carers' needs through the introduction of radically new services. This paper explores a particular element of ongoing NHS reform: Practice Based Commissioning (PBC). Based on first findings of a research project called “Design in Practice. Change and Flexibility within Health Providers” funded by the EPSRC …

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Bridging The Gap Between Brand Strategy And Customer Experience In Services: The Target Experience Tool, Simon Clatworthy Nov 2009

Bridging The Gap Between Brand Strategy And Customer Experience In Services: The Target Experience Tool, Simon Clatworthy

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes work in progress for the development of a structured process that helps crossfunctional development teams to bridge the gap between a company's brand strategy and experiences for customers. The process is aimed to assist and structure the very early stages of the service development process; the fuzzy front end. Further; it describes a tool that has been developed that can be used to assist this transformation; by scoping the 'target experience' for a proposed service. The tool uses role-playing; using professional actors to improvise upon key experience words such that behaviours and customer experiences are explored. The …

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Exploring Service Blueprints For Multiple Actors: A Case Study Of Car Parking Services, Thomas Wreiner, Ingrid Mårtensson, Olof Arnell, Natalia Gonzalez, Stefan Holmlid, Fabian Segelström Nov 2009

Exploring Service Blueprints For Multiple Actors: A Case Study Of Car Parking Services, Thomas Wreiner, Ingrid Mårtensson, Olof Arnell, Natalia Gonzalez, Stefan Holmlid, Fabian Segelström

ServDes Conference Series

Service blueprints are usually included in listings of standard methods within service design. Still; little research has been conducted on service blueprints. The case study at hand explores how blueprints can be applied in a situation with three key actors; all with different motives and wishes. The case study is within the domain of car parking; a service which at a first glance may seem simple; but is rather complex when scrutinized. Three ways of blueprinting the situation are presented and discussed in the paper. Finally issues which arose from the blueprinting process are discussed in regard to implications for …

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Exploring Overlaps And Differences In Service Dominant Logic And Design Thinking, Katarina Wetter Edman Nov 2009

Exploring Overlaps And Differences In Service Dominant Logic And Design Thinking, Katarina Wetter Edman

ServDes Conference Series

Design tradition takes the user as a starting point and focuses on his or her needs; wants and expectations. Recently; within the service marketing/management area; the user has been highlighted not only as “the king”; but as the only one to determine value. This new logic is termed Service Dominant Logic. Some of the key principles underlying Service Dominant Logic (SDL) and Design Thinking (DT) are strikingly similar. Even if the two concepts stem from different backgrounds; both are deeply concerned with the creation of value and the importance of understanding the users/customers. This similarity could be a fruitful ground …

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Visualtiles: Communication Tools For (Service) Design, Chiara Diana, Elena Pacenti, Roberta Tassi Nov 2009

Visualtiles: Communication Tools For (Service) Design, Chiara Diana, Elena Pacenti, Roberta Tassi

ServDes Conference Series

Taking into account the importance of visualization within service design discipline due both to the limited visual appearance of services and to the heterogeneous group of figures involved in their conception and construction; this research paper proposes an investigation of the representation paths that could help the comprehension and use of visualization during the design process (1). This research topic has been studied from a design perspective and from a design culture background; in order to provide a contribution to the service discipline in the broad sense. The analysis of the representations in terms of level of iconicity (abstract vs. …

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Service Design Leadership, Judith Gloppen Nov 2009

Service Design Leadership, Judith Gloppen

ServDes Conference Series

The service sector is now the dominant part of many western economies – and seems to be growing in importance. To differentiate their offerings; service providers need to be innovative to meet conscious and unconscious user needs. The innovation process to improve and redesign the way organizations deliver services demands collaboration from multiple sources; of which two are competence in design and in strategic leadership. The variety of services offered in the market raises cross-functional internal and external service leadership issues. How businesses understand and organize design activities can have a profound impact on the innovation process and outcome. Organizational …

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Managing Stakeholder Involvement In Service Design: Insights From British Service Designers, Qin Han Nov 2009

Managing Stakeholder Involvement In Service Design: Insights From British Service Designers, Qin Han

ServDes Conference Series

The global shift towards a service-based economy has led many organisations to rethink their operations and strategies from a service-centred point of view; which is intangible; customeroriented and relational (Vargo and Lusch; 2008). Professionals and scholars from different disciplines have subsequently pioneered practices and research in the field of service. As a response; Service Design; with its creative- and people-centred nature emerged as a distinct discipline. Designing a service system requires input from all stakeholders; which include internal stakeholders from the different organisational functions; as well as external stakeholders such as user groups and supply teams. When design specialists are …

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Participative, Co-Operative, Emancipatory: From Participatory Design To Service Design, Stefan Holmlid Nov 2009

Participative, Co-Operative, Emancipatory: From Participatory Design To Service Design, Stefan Holmlid

ServDes Conference Series

In the discourse of service design; terms such as platforms; transformation and co-creation have become part of what seems to be an emergent lingua franca. In the participatory design discourse; and the surrounding design traditions; related terms and ideas were developed. The development of the discourse of participatory design; during the last three decades of the 20th century; influence the way we understand the provisions for and possibilities of service design. The analysis is performed along three themes collected from the development of participatory design; and examples of how the legacy of participatory design has been appropriated are given. We …

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Co-Creating Solutions - Combining Service Design And Change Laboratory, Juha Kronqvist, Korhonen Satu-Mari Nov 2009

Co-Creating Solutions - Combining Service Design And Change Laboratory, Juha Kronqvist, Korhonen Satu-Mari

ServDes Conference Series

This paper is an introduction and reflection of a method integration project in a service development context. In the project; two complementary methods were used to co-create new service offerings and improve the work activity in a ferry line restaurant. The research aim was to test the integration of two different development methods; service design and the Change Laboratory. The assumption behind the work was that new service development requires methods for both creating new concepts and for successfully implementing them in the organization. By combining these methods; the project was able to expand the scope of service design from …

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Someone Else's Shoes - Using Role-Playing Games In User-Centered Service Design, Peter Kaario, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Vilma Lehtinen, Vesa Kantola, Kai Kuikkaniemi Nov 2009

Someone Else's Shoes - Using Role-Playing Games In User-Centered Service Design, Peter Kaario, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Vilma Lehtinen, Vesa Kantola, Kai Kuikkaniemi

ServDes Conference Series

Laugh and enthused voices fill the big lecture room when four groups around the room play a Character Game; a game that combines elements from role-playing and personas. We have decided to share the user study results in a service design project within multidisciplinary group of people from three companies [designers; managers etc.] by playing a design game; a game in which the participants should step into someone else's shoes. We; the researchers who have developed the game; have been anxious about peoples' reactions but now we start to relax; the game seems to work after all. The atmosphere feels …

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Beyond The Experience. In Search Of An Operative Paradigm For The Industrialisation Of Services, Nicola Morelli Nov 2009

Beyond The Experience. In Search Of An Operative Paradigm For The Industrialisation Of Services, Nicola Morelli

ServDes Conference Series

After many years; in which service design occupied some blurred areas in different disciplines; this activity is now creating its own ground and consolidating both practice and research. The increasing number of conferences and publications on service design; the growing number of cases and the emergence of new education programs are contributing to raise service design to the status of an independent disciplinary area. The contributions to the definition of a disciplinary corpus for service design come from two main directions: the first concerns the definition of a methodological framework for service design. This area is developing methodological tools for …

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‘Love Lewisham’, Improving Stakeholder Satisfaction In Local Government Service: A Case Study Of Strategic Public Sector Service Innovation, Alison Prendiville Nov 2009

‘Love Lewisham’, Improving Stakeholder Satisfaction In Local Government Service: A Case Study Of Strategic Public Sector Service Innovation, Alison Prendiville

ServDes Conference Series

This paper will present a case study on how the London Borough of Lewisham is creating 'pull' services using technology to address specific community problems relating to the local environment by opening up new communications channels between residents; council staff and other local government stakeholders. The focus will initially centre on how the service design has been effective strategically; impacting internally on the organisational culture within Lewisham's Environment Office and; at the same time; involving residents in the service provision thus providing a feedback mechanism and voice of local residents. The paper will then explore the specific nature of 'Love …

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Communicating Through Visualizations: Service Designers On Visualizing User Research, Fabian Segelström Nov 2009

Communicating Through Visualizations: Service Designers On Visualizing User Research, Fabian Segelström

ServDes Conference Series

Visualizations are commonly seen as one of the distinguishing features of service design; yet little research has been done on the topic. Building on questions raised by recent research (Segelström & Holmlid; 2009) this paper analyses the results from 14 interviews with practicing service designers. The interviews focus on user research. The analysis is aimed at answering why service designers visualize their material. It is found that the various visualization tools all serve the purpose of communicating user data to different recipients. Additionally the results points towards that there is a set of basic techniques; such as customer journeys and …

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Conceptualising Services - Developing Service Concepts Through At-One, Christian Tollestrup Nov 2009

Conceptualising Services - Developing Service Concepts Through At-One, Christian Tollestrup

ServDes Conference Series

What are service design concepts in AT-ONE and how is the workshop process supporting the generation of these concepts? Based on the ongoing AT-ONE project this paper will outline some of the main methodological and theoretical foundation for generating concepts for services seen from a design perspective. Through the use of a combination of the Vision-based approach (Lerdahl; 2001); the systems perspective and concept definitions (Keinonen & Takala; 2006) a service design concept definition is proposed. The main methods and approach from a design perspective regarding clustering (Tassoul & Buijs; 2006) and approach towards design are summarized to describe the …

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Be Thankful For Our Loved Ones, Near And Far, On This Most American Of Holidays, Diether Haenicke Nov 2009

Be Thankful For Our Loved Ones, Near And Far, On This Most American Of Holidays, Diether Haenicke

WMU President Diether Haenicke

This column was first published Nov. 24, 2004 and reprinted Nov. 24, 2009 in the Kalamazoo Gazette mlive.com/kalamazoo

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Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 11/24/2009, Unm Faculty Senate Nov 2009

Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 11/24/2009, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

No abstract provided.

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11-24-2009 Swosu Medical Professions Club Hears From Program Representatives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Nov 2009

11-24-2009 Swosu Medical Professions Club Hears From Program Representatives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2009

The SWOSU Medical Professions Club recently hosted speakers representing the fields of physical therapy, physical therapy assistant, occupational therapy and radiation therapy during a program on the Weatherford campus.

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Anderson Center Releases Report On Economic Impact Of Chapman U. On Oc, Chapman University Media Relations Nov 2009

Anderson Center Releases Report On Economic Impact Of Chapman U. On Oc, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

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Dodge College Hosts Animation Show Of Shows, Dec. 2, Chapman University Media Relations Nov 2009

Dodge College Hosts Animation Show Of Shows, Dec. 2, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

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El Parque Histórico Nacional Del Campo De Batalla De Palo Alto Conmemora De Manera Muy Genuina Una Batalla De La Guerra Entre Estados Unidos Y México., Bob Janiskee Nov 2009

El Parque Histórico Nacional Del Campo De Batalla De Palo Alto Conmemora De Manera Muy Genuina Una Batalla De La Guerra Entre Estados Unidos Y México., Bob Janiskee

Summer Institute June 2019

Las actividades conmemorativas celebradas en el Parque Histórico Nacional del campo de batalla de Palo Alto recientemente atrajeron la atención sobre un parque nacional poco conocido, pero con una distinción importante: Palo Alto es la única unidad del Servicio de Parques Nacionales (NPS, por sus siglas en inglés) a cargo de la conservación de un campo de batalla perteneciente a la Guerra entre Estados Unidos y México (y hace bien su trabajo).

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Consultative Minutes 11/24/2009, Consultative Committee Nov 2009

Consultative Minutes 11/24/2009, Consultative Committee

Consultative Committee

No abstract provided.

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The Spectroscopic Orbit Of Sao 167450, Visual Companion Of Aa Ceti, Francis C. Fekel, Daryl W. Willmarth Nov 2009

The Spectroscopic Orbit Of Sao 167450, Visual Companion Of Aa Ceti, Francis C. Fekel, Daryl W. Willmarth

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

We have determined a spectroscopic orbit for SAO 167450, which is the visual secondary of the W UMa-type eclipsing binary AA Cet, and so the system is quadruple. Radial velocities from the coudé feed and 4 m telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory produce an orbit with a period of 25.68 days and an eccentricity of 0.50. We classify both the primary and secondary as G0 subgiant/dwarf stars and find that they are somewhat metal rich relative to the Sun. The high lithium abundances of both components argue that the stars are less than 1 Gyr old. If the components …

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Nor'easter News Volume 3 Issue 5, Nor'easter News Staff Nov 2009

Nor'easter News Volume 3 Issue 5, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The eighteenth issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

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A Columnist's View Of Capitol Square: Ohio Politics And Government, 1969-2005, Lee Leonard Nov 2009

A Columnist's View Of Capitol Square: Ohio Politics And Government, 1969-2005, Lee Leonard

University of Akron Press Publications

This carefully-selected collection brings together his columns about the major figures, seminal events, and legends from 1969 through 2005. Leonard, the man with no agenda but the truth, covers campaigns and national political conventions, including the famous Democratic primary battles between John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum in the 1970s. Fully described is the era of the four-term Governor James A. Rhodes, who controlled the Ohio Republican Party for two decades. Among the cast of characters are colorful lobbyist, Tom Dudgeon, who described the legislative process as “The Dance of the Stomping Buzzards,” state Senator Oakley Collins, a southern Ohioan who …

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Spartan Daily November 24, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2009

Spartan Daily November 24, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 133, Issue 44

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