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Building Customer-Centric Brands In Asia: How To Compete Globally, Martin Roll

Asian Management Insights

One crucial factor that would differentiate winning businesses from the others is the equity of a strong brand. They must learn to compete globally, sustain competitiveness, and master customer loyalty by building customer-centric brands.

Konkola Copper Mines Plc V Nyasulu And 2000 Others Appeal No. 1/2012, Pamela Towela Sambo

SAIPAR Case Review

No abstract provided.

Vedanta Resources Plc And Konkola Copper Mines Plc V Lungowe And Others 2019 Uksc 20, Pamela Towela Sambo

SAIPAR Case Review

This case was initiated in the court of first instance, the England and Wales Technology and Construction Court (hereinafter referred to as the UK High Court Division) on 31 July 2015, by 1, 826 Zambian citizens who are resident in Chingola, Zambia. The claimants sought damages for personal injury, wide ranging environmental harm, damage to property, loss of income and amenity and enjoyment of land arising out of alleged pollution and environmental damage caused by the second appellant, Konkola Copper Mines (hereinafter referred to as ‘KCM’) at its Nchanga copper mine from about 2005 to date.

The first appellant, Vedanta …

Biosecurity Research And Development In Western Australia - Report By The Biosecurity Council Of Western Australia, Biosecurity Council Of Western Australia

Biosecurity published reports

Research and development (R&D) is crucial to managing Western Australia’s biosecurity risks and threats. There is a perception, however, that these risks and threats could be better recognised nationally, which may result in greater levels of funding for biosecurity R&D activities relevant to Western Australia (WA).

The purpose of this work was to provide advice to the Minister for Agriculture and Food on the status of biosecurity R&D in WA and opportunities to enhance biosecurity R&D funding in the State.

Mckee Minute November 2019, Southern Adventist University

McKee Minute – McKee Library This Month

The November 2019 McKee Minute features information on the Marge Seifert Scholarship and the LibKey Nomad Google Chrome browser extension. This month's recommended items include the book Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier by Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. and the Issue & Controversies database. Honey advertisement lantern slides are on digital display on KnowledgeExchange.

Guidance On Protection From Sexual Exploitation And Abuse, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by humanitarian workers are some of the most serious failures of protection and are grave violations of the responsibility of humanitarian personnel to do no harm. Whereas instances of SEA are not a new occurrence, the pervasiveness of this phenomenon was only exposed to the public eye in 2002 following allegations of SEA by aid workers against refugees and displaced women and children in West Africa. Acknowledging that the problem was global, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) was established in 2002 with the short-term purpose …

Ipulse: November 2019, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• November 4, 2019: Philosophy of Space and Time, Creating Comics, Coco Gauff takes WTA Title
• November 11, 2019: Founders Day Festivities, Veterans Day Ceremony, Next Gen Creators
• November 18, 2019: Darlene Superville Comes to Campus, Saari and Colato's New Campaign, NCAA Finalist Krissy Ortiz

Exercise Capacity May Affect Cognitive Health Of Survivors Of Childhood Leukemia

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal A Correlation Between Genome Architecture And Gene Family Evolution In Ciliates, Ying Yan, Xyrus X. Maurer-Alcalá, Rob Knight, Sergei L.Kosakovsky Pond, Laura A. Katz

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Ciliates, a eukaryotic clade that is over 1 billion years old, are defined by division of genome function between transcriptionally inactive germline micronu-clei and functional somatic macronuclei. To date, most analyses of gene family evolution have been limited to cultivable model lineages (e.g., Tetrahymena, Paramecium, Oxytricha, and Stylonychia). Here, we focus on the uncultivable Karyorelictea and its understudied sister class Heterotrichea, which represent two extremes in genome architecture. Somatic macronuclei within the Karyorelictea are described as nearly diploid, while the Heterotrichea have hyperpolyploid somatic genomes. Previous analyses indicate that genome architecture impacts ciliate gene family evolution as the most diverse …

Third Quarter 2019 Groundwater Assessment Monitoring Report September 2019 Monitoring Event, Tennessee. Department Of Environment And Conservation.

Groundwater Assessment

No abstract provided.

Whither Extensive Genomic-Based Microbial Taxonomic Revision?, Erik Munson, Karen C. Carroll

Clinical Lab Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Rescinding Inclusion In The Administrative State: Adjudicating Daca, The Census, And The Military's Transgender Policy, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

From Suffrage To The Senate: Expanding Inclusion In Women's Rights To Achieve Women's Health Equality., Frances Grimstad

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

No abstract provided.

Moving Forward From The Scoop Era: Providing Active Efforts Under The Indian Child Welfare Act In Illinois, Cassandra Crandall

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Comment argues that Illinois should adopt the view that active efforts are a higher standard than reasonable efforts and implement procedures encouraging state agencies and courts to implement these requirements. Following the Supreme Court's rationale in Mississippi Choctaw Band of Indians v. Holyfield, one of the only Supreme Court cases addressing the ICWA, this Comment argues that a uniform definition and application of "active efforts" should exist in every jurisdiction. Furthermore, this Comment emphasizes that "active efforts" require more than "reasonable efforts," and that these standards are different. Part I of this Comment reviews the history of the ICWA. …

Of Dangers, Conditions, Children, And Maturity: A Plea For A Comprehensible Standard In Long-Standing Rules, Maureen Straub Kordesh

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Article explores the common law doctrine of attractive nuisance in Illinois and proposes a more detailed explication of the rule. The doctrine lies in the junction between tort and contract, which might account for the incompleteness of its presentation. It argues that because law students are a significant audience for case law, the language of such rules should be as detailed and clear as possible.

Online News Representation Of Missing/Murdered Indigenous Women In Washington, New Mexico, And Arizona, Kelli Bowers

McNair Scholars Manuscripts

There is limited research on the rates of violence against the many missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) in the United States, especially in urban areas. There is also little news coverage given to women who are victims of this violence. The absence of research on this topic and the shortage of news coverage leads to a lack of understanding by the general public on the issue as a whole. This is a qualitative content analysis of the representation of MMIW in Washington, New Mexico, and Arizona. I will analyze the newspaper reporting of MMIW in these states and the …

Issue Classing--The Express Checkout Of Class Actions, Shaquille Grant

SMU Law Review Forum

No abstract provided.

Binge Eating Disorder And The Nutrition Care Process, Kaddie Levine

Nutrition & Dietetics Student Publications

Exploring the fundamentals of the nutrition care process in binge eating disorder patients. A student dietitian's take on binge eating disorder treatment and what to look for when making nutrition therapy recommendations.

Und Today: November 2019, University Of North Dakota

UND Today Archive

No abstract provided.

A Deep Learning Approach For Tweet Classification And Rescue Scheduling For Effective Disaster Management, Md. Yasin Kabir, Sanjay Kumar Madria

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Every activity in disaster management demands accurate and up-todate information to allow a quick, easy, and cost-efective response to reduce the possible loss of lives and properties. It is a challenging and complex task to acquire information from diferent regions of a disaster-afected area in a timely fashion. The extensive spread and reach of social media and networks such as Twitter allow people to share information in real-time. However, gathering of valuable information requires a series of operations such as (1) processing each tweet for the text classiication, (2) possible location determination of people needing help based on tweets, and …

Smrtfridge: Iot-Based, User Interaction-Driven Food Item & Quantity Sensing, Amit Sharma, Archan Misra, Vengateswaran Subramaniam, Youngki Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present SmrtFridge, a consumer-grade smart fridge prototype that demonstrates two key capabilities: (a) identify the individual food items that users place in or remove from a fridge, and (b) estimate the residual quantity of food items inside a refrigerated container (opaque or transparent). Notably, both of these inferences are performed unobtrusively, without requiring any explicit user action or tagging of food objects. To achieve these capabilities, SmrtFridge uses a novel interaction-driven, multi-modal sensing pipeline, where Infrared (IR) and RGB video sensing, triggered whenever a user interacts naturally with the fridge, is used to extract a foreground visual image of …

Stressmon: Scalable Detection Of Perceived Stress And Depression Using Passive Sensing Of Changes In Work Routines And Group Interactions, Nur Camellia Binte Zakaria, Rajesh Balan, Youngki Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Stress and depression are a common affliction in all walks of life. When left unmanaged, stress can inhibit productivity or cause depression. Depression can occur independently of stress. There has been a sharp rise in mobile health initiatives to monitor stress and depression. However, these initiatives usually require users to install dedicated apps or multiple sensors, making such solutions hard to scale. Moreover, they emphasise sensing individual factors and overlook social interactions, which plays a significant role in influencing stress and depression while being a part of a social system. We present StressMon, a stress and depression detection system that …

Nutrinews: November, 2019, Department Of Nutrition And Dietetics, University Of North Florida

NutriNews

This issue features Students Look to Give Back Food fighters and meals on wings collaboration, Celebration of Celery, Food science highlight: split pea week, Can our bodies over protect us?

Assessing The Adherence Of Obstetricians Towards Postpartum Diabetes Screening Guidelines: A Pre- And Post-Intervention Study At Secondary Care Hospital In Karachi, Pakistan, Sadiqa Munir Razzaqui, Neelofur Babar, Zaib Un Nisa Memon, Sarah Rafiq

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Objective: To assess the adherence level of obstetricians towards postpartum diabetes screening guidelines.
Methods: The quasi-experimental pre- and post-intervention study was conducted from May 2014 to April 2015 at Aga Khan Hospital for Women-Karimabad, Karachi, and comprised all obstetricians practicing at the time. All the booked women with gestational diabetes delivered in the 6 months before refresher lecture (group 1) and those delivering in the 6 months following the intervention (group 2) were included. Data was analysed using SPSS 19.
Results: Of the 550 cases, 275(50%) each were in groups 1 and 2. All pregnant women had live-birth. The intervention …

Rethinking Education Choices: The Effect Of Surveys, Luca Facchinello, Juanna Schroter Joensen, Gregory Francisco Veramindi

Research Collection School of Economics

Can surveys affect human capital investments? This paper examines whether individual education choices and outcomes are affected by a survey posing questions related to expectations and forward-looking behavior. We have administrative data for the whole Swedish population to which an extensive education survey was administered to randomly drawn samples of 3rd graders. This constitutes a randomized social experiment for testing whether responding to survey questions alters behavior. We observe complete educational and labor market histories until the individuals are 31-41 years old. We have exogenous variation in the timing of first surveys and when an additional survey was administered to …

Prenatal Yoga In Pregnancy, Ashleigh Clingenpeel

Senior Honors Theses

Prenatal yoga has emerged as an advisable, beneficial, and supportive addition to birth preparation. Many studies have linked participation in prenatal yoga with both maternal and infant benefits. Physical benefits for the mother include decreased labor time, decreased labor pain, and improved comfort during pregnancy. Significant emotional and mental effects have also been correlated, such as lowered rates of depression and anxiety, increased self-efficacy in labor, and easier transitions into the postpartum period. Finally, prenatal yoga has demonstrated benefits to the neonate, with a greater number of vaginal deliveries, which are less traumatic for the infant, an increase in gestational …

Hspa12a Is Required For Adipocyte Differentiation And Diet-Induced Obesity Through A Positive Feedback Regulation With Pparγ, Xiaojin Zhang, Xuan Chen, Tao Qi, Qiuyue Kong, Hao Cheng, Xiaofei Cao, Yuehua Li, Chuanfu Li, Li Liu, Zhengnian Ding

ETSU Faculty Works

Obesity is one of the most serious public health problems. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) plays the master role in adipocyte differentiation for obesity development. However, optimum anti-obesity drug has yet been developed, mandating more investigation to identify novel regulator in obesity pathogenesis. Heat shock protein 12A (HSPA12A) encodes a novel member of the HSP70 family. Here, we report that obese patients showed increased adipose HSPA12A expression, which was positively correlated with increase of body mass index. Intriguingly, knockout of HSPA12A (Hspa12a−/−) in mice attenuated high-fat diet (HFD)-induced weight gain, adiposity, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia compared to their wild type (WT) …

A Diagnostic Condition And Its Implications [Physical Therapist Assistant Program], May Tom

Open Educational Resources

SCT 101: Introduction to Physical Therapy

Assignment Description: This assignment was designed during Learning Matters 2018-2019 Digital Communication sub-seminar. The assignment was originally a written paper based on the clinical manifestations and pathogenesis of a diagnostic condition. As the profession of physical therapy is inherently a teaching profession, an oral and digital component was incorporated to facilitate the student’s ability and confidence in oral communication and use of media. The presentation of a diagnostic condition and implication in the performance of activities for an individual can be variable depending on the individual’s physical status, medical/health history, and psychosocial status. To …

November 2019: Launching A New Strategic Plan, Gardner-Webb University

President William Downs' Blog

Gardner-Webb University is now due for its next five-year plan. GWU 2020-2025 will map out our institutional priorities and help guide resource allocations across a range of essential areas. Too frequently, complex organizations such as universities can get so mired in the daily minutiae that they fail to take time to think big…to aspire…to dream. We are going to make sure that GWU does not fall into that trap; instead, this month we will launch an intentional and inclusive process that will transform vision into action. I am excited about engaging with you to chart a path for our shared …

Food Insecurity And The Unsustainable Hunting Of Wildlife In A Unesco World Heritage Site, Cortni Borgerson, Be Noel Razafindrapaoly, Delox Rajaona, Be Jean Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Christopher D. Golden

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Madagascar faces dual challenges in biodiversity conservation and public health. In order to identify strategies to reduce the unsustainable hunting of threatened species while maintaining or improving child nutrition, we quantified interactions among ecosystem indicators (lemur density and habitat biodiversity indices), health indicators (stunting, underweight, wasting, and anemia), nutrition, food security, and wildlife hunting through interviews of 1,750 people in 387 households and surveys of 28 wildlife transects with 156 habitat plots at 15 sites on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The surveyed population ate 6,726 forest animals (mammals and birds), or a mean of 3.27 kg …