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Improving Customer Satisfaction For Smes In Emerging Countries: A Comparative Study Of Hungary And Indonesia, Santi Setyaningsih, Peter Kelle

Faculty Publications

Improving Customer Satisfaction (CS) is a key strategical goal for companies, especially for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The objective of this research is to find and rank the major factors supporting CS. We focus on SMEs in two emerging markets located in two countries with different geographical and supply chain environments. We test a conceptual framework that includes several factors supporting CS. The data were collected from Hungarian and Indonesian SMEs by online questionnaire. We used statistical analysis such as Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and Structural Equation Model (SEM) to test our model and hypothesis. …

Angles Between Subspaces And Nearly Optimal Approximation In Gfem, Robert Lipton, Paul Sinz, Michael Stuebner

Faculty Publications

The Generalized Finite Element Methods (GFEM) are known for accurately resolving local features in heterogeneous media. Recent numerical experiments have shown that the use of local bases made from A-harmonic extensions of well chosen boundary data have nearly optimal approximation properties. In this paper we show that the explanation is geometric and given by the angle between any finite dimensional approximation space and the optimal finite dimensional approximation space introduced in (Babǔska and Lipton, 2011). The effect of the angle is quantified by an upper bound on the convergence rate. This rate is seen in the numerical simulations where local …

Nuclear Forces For Precision Nuclear Physics: A Collection Of Perspectives, Ingo Tews, Zohreh Davoudi, Andreas Ekström, Jason D. Holt, Kevin Becker, Raúl Briceño, David J. Dean, William Detmold, Christian Drischler, Thomas Duguet, Evgeny Epelbaum, Ashot Gasparyan, Jambul Gegelia, Jeremy R. Green, Harald W. Grießhammer, Andrew D. Hanlon, Matthias Heinz, Heiko Hergert, Martin Hoferichter, Marc Illa, David Kekejian, Alejandro Kievsky, Sebastian König, Hermann Krebs, Kristina D. Launey, Dean Lee, Petr Navrátil, Amy Nicholson, Assumpta Parreño, Daniel R. Phillips, Marek Płoszajczak, Xiu Lei Ren, Thomas R. Richardson

Faculty Publications

This is a collection of perspective pieces contributed by the participants of the Institute for Nuclear Theory’s Program on Nuclear Physics for Precision Nuclear Physics which was held virtually from April 19 to May 7, 2021. The collection represents the reflections of a vibrant and engaged community of researchers on the status of theoretical research in low-energy nuclear physics, the challenges ahead, and new ideas and strategies to make progress in nuclear structure and reaction physics, effective field theory, lattice QCD, quantum information, and quantum computing. The contributed pieces solely reflect the perspectives of the respective authors and do not …

Smart Quantum Statistical Imaging Beyond The Abbe-Rayleigh Criterion, Narayan Bhusal, Mingyuan Hong, Ashe Miller, Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez, Roberto De J. León-Montiel, Chenglong You, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza

Faculty Publications

The wave nature of light imposes limits on the resolution of optical imaging systems. For over a century, the Abbe-Rayleigh criterion has been utilized to assess the spatial resolution limits of imaging instruments. Recently, there has been interest in using spatial projective measurements to enhance the resolution of imaging systems. Unfortunately, these schemes require a priori information regarding the coherence properties of “unknown” light beams and impose stringent alignment conditions. Here, we introduce a smart quantum camera for superresolving imaging that exploits the self-learning features of artificial intelligence to identify the statistical fluctuations of unknown mixtures of light sources at …

The Rotor-Vibrator Plus Multi-Particle-Hole Description Of 154gd, Yingxin Wu, Aoxue Li, Feng Pan, Lianrong Dai, Jerry P. Draayer

Faculty Publications

Based on the well-known rotor-vibrator model and the particle-plus-rotor model, multi-particle-hole excitations from a collective even-even core described by the rotor-vibrator is considered to describe well-deformed even-even nuclei. Like the particle-plus-rotor model, the intrinsic Vierergruppe (D2) symmetry is still preserved in the rotor-vibrator plus multi-particle-hole description. It is shown that a series of experimentally observed 0⁺ states in these nuclei may be interpreted as the multi-particle-hole excitations in a complementary manner to the beta and gamma vibrations described by the rotor-vibrator model. As a typical example of the model application, low-lying positive parity level energies below 1.990 MeV in …

Health Physics Workforce In The United States, Michael A. Noska, Caridad Borrás, E. Vincent Holahan, Shaheen A. Dewji, Thomas E. Johnson, Jerry W. Hiatt, Wayne D. Newhauser, John W. Poston, Nolan Hertel

Faculty Publications

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Medical Physics Workforce In The United States, Wayne D. Newhauser, Dustin A. Gress, Michael D. Mills, David W. Jordan, Steven G. Sutlief, Melissa C. Martin, Edward Jackson

Faculty Publications

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Anisotropic Superconductivity Of Niobium Based On Its Response To Nonmagnetic Disorder, Makariy A. Tanatar, Daniele Torsello, Kamal R. Joshi, Sunil Ghimire, Cameron J. Kopas, Jayss Marshall, Josh Y. Mutus, Gianluca Ghigo, Mehdi Zarea, James A. Sauls, Ruslan Prozorov

Faculty Publications

Niobium is one of the most studied superconductors, both theoretically and experimentally. It is tremendously important for applications, and it has the highest superconducting transition temperature, Tc=9.32 K, of all pure metals. In addition to power applications in alloys, pure niobium is used for sensitive magnetosensing, radio-frequency cavities, and, more recently, as circuit metallization layers in superconducting qubits. A detailed understanding of its electronic and superconducting structure, especially its normal and superconducting state anisotropies, is crucial for mitigating the loss of quantum coherence in such devices. Recently, a microscopic theory of the anisotropic properties of niobium with the disorder was …

Detecting Quantum Critical Points Of Correlated Systems By Quantum Convolutional Neural Network Using Data From Variational Quantum Eigensolver, Nathaniel Wrobel, Anshumitra Baul, Ka Ming Tam, Juana Moreno

Faculty Publications

Machine learning has been applied to a wide variety of models, from classical statistical mechanics to quantum strongly correlated systems, for classifying phase transitions. The recently proposed quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) provides a new framework for using quantum circuits instead of classical neural networks as the backbone of classification methods. We present the results from training the QCNN by the wavefunctions of the variational quantum eigensolver for the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model (TFIM). We demonstrate that the QCNN identifies wavefunctions corresponding to the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of the TFIM with reasonable accuracy. The QCNN can be trained …

Influence Of State Reopening Policies In Covid-19 Mortality, Ka Ming Tam, Nicholas Walker, Juana Moreno

Faculty Publications

By the end of May 2020, all states in the US have eased their COVID-19 mitigation measures. Different states adopted markedly different policies and timing for reopening. An important question remains in how the relaxation of mitigation measures is related to the number of casualties. To address this question, we compare the actual data to a hypothetical case in which the mitigation measures are left intact using a projection of the data from before mitigation measures were eased. We find that different states have shown significant differences between the actual number of deaths and the projected figures within the present …

Linkages Between Bacterial Community And Extracellular Enzyme Activities Crossing A Coastal Front, Shujie Cai, Feipeng Wang, Edward A. Laws, Yao Liu, Chao Xu, Lingqi Ma, Wupeng Xiao, Bangqin Huang

Faculty Publications

Exploring the responses of microbial communities and their functions to marine frontal systems are the foci of marine ecologists. However, most of the existing studies have focused on only microbial communities or their functions. The relationships between microbial communities and their functions across coastal fronts therefore remain unclear. Here we studied a coastal front in the Taiwan Strait during late spring and examined the bacterial community structure, extracellular enzymatic activity (EEA), and their linkages. The results showed that the coastal front strongly delineated zones of bacterial community composition and diversity and functioned as a transitional zone rather than a hotspot …

Greater Evolutionary Divergence Of Thermal Limits Within Marine Than Terrestrial Species, Matthew Sasaki, Jordanna M. Barley, Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Cynthia G. Hays, Morgan W. Kelly, Alysha B. Putnam, Seema N. Sheth, Andrew R. Villeneuve, Brian S. Cheng

Faculty Publications

There is considerable uncertainty regarding which ecosystems are most vulnerable to warming. Current understanding of organismal sensitivity is largely centred on species-level assessments that do not consider variation across populations. Here we used meta-analysis to quantify upper thermal tolerance variation across 305 populations from 61 terrestrial, freshwater, marine and intertidal taxa. We found strong differentiation in heat tolerance across populations in marine and intertidal taxa but not terrestrial or freshwater taxa. This is counter to the expectation that increased connectivity in the ocean should reduce intraspecific variation. Such adaptive differentiation in the ocean suggests there may be standing genetic variation …

Probiotic Incorporation Into Yogurt And Various Novel Yogurt-Based Products, Douglas W. Olson, Kayanush J. Aryana

Faculty Publications

Probiotics are commonly added to yogurt to provide many health benefits for the consumer. A description is provided for some commonly used probiotics in yogurt. A GRAS (generally recognized as safe) list of probiotic bacteria that can be added to yogurt or similar types of products is provided. Additionally, prebiotics, synbiotics (combination of prebiotics and probiotics), postbiotics, paraprobiotics, and psychobiotics can be added to yogurt. Probiotic yogurt can come in various forms in addition to spoonable yogurt, and yogurt can be used as an ingredient in other food products. Many useful functional ingredients can be applied to probiotic yogurt. The …

A Divide-And-Conquer Approach For Genomic Prediction In Rubber Tree Using Machine Learning, Alexandre Hild Aono, Felipe Roberto Francisco, Livia Moura Souza, Paulo De Souza Gonçalves, Erivaldo J. Scaloppi Junior, Vincent Le Guen, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Gregor Gorjanc, Marcos Gonçalves Quiles, Anete Pereira De Souza

Faculty Publications

Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is the main feedstock for commercial rubber; however, its long vegetative cycle has hindered the development of more productive varieties via breeding programs. With the availability of H. brasiliensis genomic data, several linkage maps with associated quantitative trait loci have been constructed and suggested as a tool for marker-assisted selection. Nonetheless, novel genomic strategies are still needed, and genomic selection (GS) may facilitate rubber tree breeding programs aimed at reducing the required cycles for performance assessment. Even though such a methodology has already been shown to be a promising tool for rubber tree breeding, increased model …

Genetic Trends Estimation In Irris Rice Drought Breeding Program And Identification Of High Yielding Drought-Tolerant Lines, Apurva Khanna, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos, Jérôme Bartholomé, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, John Damien Platten, Daniel Joseph Pisano, Alaine Gulles, Ma Teresa Ma, Joie Ramos, Gem Faustino, Sankalp Bhosale, Waseem Hussain

Faculty Publications

Estimating genetic trends using historical data is an important parameter to check the success of the breeding programs. The estimated genetic trends can act as a guideline to target the appropriate breeding strategies and optimize the breeding program for improved genetic gains. In this study, 17 years of historical data from IRRI’s rice drought breeding program was used to estimate the genetic trends and assess the breeding program's success. We also identified top-performing lines based on grain yield breeding values as an elite panel for implementing future population improvement-based breeding schemes. A two-stage approach of pedigree-based mixed model analysis was …

Labrad : Vol 47, Issue 2 - December 2022, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

LABRAD - Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Radiology Archives

• From the Editor’s Desk
• Case Quiz
• Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography Clinical Usefulness of Biochemical Parameters in Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome In First and Second Trimester
• The Science of Efficiency in a Clinical Laboratory
• Updates in new WHO Blue Book
• Monkeypox vs. COVID-19
• From the Diary of a Researcher- Notes on Understanding Beta-Thalassemia and Metabolic Bone Disease
• Significance of Audit in a Clinical Laboratory
• Microsatellite Instability (MSI) Testing
• Pre-Analytical Variables Affecting Coagulation Testing
• Grading of Soft Tissue Sarcomas
• Recent Updates in 2022 WHO Classification of Thyroid Neoplasms
• MMR and MSI Testing in Malignancies
• Transforming Pedagogical Framework of Pathology through Social …

Inspire : Vol 5, Issue 12, Department Of Medicine

INSPIRE – Department of Medicine Archives

• Message from the Chair
• 7^th WOHC Singapore
• World Stroke Day
• PZP Hospitalist Grand Round
• PADCON
• PZP Hospitalist Grand Round
• International Kidney Transplant Symposium
• UPDATES ON COPD
• In-depth- featuring Assistant Prof. Dr Mehreen Arshad
• What are Academics Around the World Reading This Month?
• Publications

Environment And Sustainability: December 2022, Environment And Sustainability, Office Of The President

Environment and Sustainability Archives

• Recently installed solar panels in Nairobi;

• Upcoming “Meatless Mangal” campaign;

• Engagement of leaders and employees in sustainability workshops;

• Closing of President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions;

• Plastic bag phase-out at BASIC shop;

• And much more…

Disease Recognition In X-Ray Images With Doctor Consultation-Inspired Model, Kim Anh Phung, Thuan Trong Nguyen, Nileshkumar Wangad, Samah Baraheem, Nguyen D. Vo, Khang Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The application of chest X-ray imaging for early disease screening is attracting interest from the computer vision and deep learning community. To date, various deep learning models have been applied in X-ray image analysis. However, models perform inconsistently depending on the dataset. In this paper, we consider each individual model as a medical doctor. We then propose a doctor consultation-inspired method that fuses multiple models. In particular, we consider both early and late fusion mechanisms for consultation. The early fusion mechanism combines the deep learned features from multiple models, whereas the late fusion method combines the confidence scores of all …

Aligning Instruction With Extension Professional Competencies For An Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor, Joseph L. Donaldson, Wendy Warner, Jacklyn Bruce, Joy Morgan, Harriett Coleman Edwards, Rose Vaughan

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum and faculty changes and (b) aligning eight Extension Education courses’ units of study with Extension professional competency domains. The described processes helped understand the Extension Education curriculum by mapping competency domains and showing which domains were and were not taught in the eight courses. A key recommendation is to incorporate the alignment of Extension Education curriculum and Extension professional competencies …

Consumer Embeddedness And Motivations For Farmers Market Patronage: A Qualitative Exploration In Minnesota, Usa, Alanna Norton, Hye-Young Kim, Virginia Zuiker

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

The rise in popularity of farmers markets in the United States reflects consumers’ negative response to more traditional food distribution systems. Farmers markets provide consumers with a more local and often more personal food purchasing experience. The purpose of this study was to examine consumer motivations to patronize farmers markets through the lens of social, spatial, and natural embeddedness. A qualitative approach was employed utilizing semi-structured, in-depth interviews. These interviews were conducted in person using a set of predetermined questions and revealed nine themes. The findings indicate that two types of consumer choices with different properties exist in farmers market …

Synthesis Of Cyclopropyl Fluorescein Esters For Biochemical Assay, Gabriella Pilar Ruiz

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Fluorescent molecules have recently been used to observe and quantify biochemical processes. Within the last ten years, these molecules have been used to study serine hydrolases to learn more about how each one functions and what type of chemical groups they prefer. The data from the research on the BS2 serine hydrolase has revealed that there is a need to look further into the fluorogenic ester substrates that contain a cyclopropyl ring after data showed a strong preference to these substrates. This research project focused on the synthesis of fluorogenic cyclopropyl esters in preparation for biochemical assays. The synthesis was …

Smce Model For Commercial Areas Suitability In Serang City, Salsa Muafiroh, Adi Wibowo

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Commercial areas refer to specific zones designated for business activities, such as trade, retail, and industry, which play a critical role in supporting regional economic development. In the case of Serang City, the government has planned its development as a hub for commerce and industry. However, selecting an optimal location for commercial areas involves addressing challenges related to multiple criteria and alternative options, each with varying advantages and trade-offs, which often complicates the decision-making process. This research aims to analyze spatial modeling using simulations based on the Spatial Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) method, supported by ILWIS software to determine the most …

The Pacifican December 2022, University Of The Pacific

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December 2022 Newsletter

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P-Charts For Statistical Process Control, Hilary Perrey Mha, Lssbb, Cphq

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Hot Topics

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Management Of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (Mis-C) In Resource Limited Settings: The Kenyan Experience, Angela Migowa, Pauline Samia, Del-Rossi Sean, Oliver Ombeva Malande, Jasmit Shah, Chemutai Kenei, Joy Ayaya, Daisy Jeruto, Laura Oyiengo, Laura Lewandowski

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Background: Since the onset of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, there have been growing concerns regarding multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). This study aims to describe the clinico-epidemiological profile and challenges in management of MIS-C in low-middle income countries by highlighting the Kenyan experience.

Methods: A retrospective study at the Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Avenue Hospital Kisumu and Kapsabet County Referral Hospital was undertaken to identify cases of MIS-C. A detailed chart review using the World Health Organization (WHO) data collection tool was adapted to incorporate information on socio-demographic details and treatment regimens.

Findings: Twenty children with MIS-C were …

Blackwater Fever And Acute Kidney Injury In Children Hospitalized With An Acute Febrile Illness: Pathophysiology And Prognostic Significance, Andrea Conroy, Michael Hawkes, Aleksandra Leligdowicz, Ivan Mufumba, Michelle Starr, Kathleen Zhong, Sophie Namasopo, Robert Opoka, Chandy John, Kevin C. Kain

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) and blackwater fever (BWF) are related but distinct renal complications of acute febrile illness in East Africa. The pathogenesis and prognostic signifcance of BWF and AKI are not well understood.

Methods: A prospective observational cohort study was conducted to evaluate the association between BWF and AKI in children hospitalized with an acute febrile illness. Secondary objectives were to examine the association of AKI and BWF with (i) host response biomarkers and (ii) mortality. AKI was defned using the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes criteria and BWF was based on parental report of tea-colored urine. Host …

Table Of Contents, University Of The Pacific, Mcgeorge School Of Law

University of the Pacific Law Review

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Board Of Editors, University Of The Pacific, Mcgeorge School Of Law

University of the Pacific Law Review

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