Strategies for the survival of ABC Produce

Small-scale vegetable shops are facing a scenario of stiff competition, posing threat to their viability and existence. The ongoing trend and customer behaviour have made it apparent to research as to what needs to be done to ensure the survival of the vegetable business and further make it a profitable venture. To research on the same, a study is conducted on the operations of ABC Produce, a vegetable and grocery shop in Hamilton. It is jointly owned. They acquired the business around two years ago. The aim of the project is to ascertain factors, strategies, and techniques which can attribute to performance and enhanced productivity. Mixed methods are used to carry the research project as it will give the opportunity for both Qualitative and Quantitative research. Qualitative research will assist in understanding the intricacies of the business by interviewing Employer and Employee. Quantitative research will help to get feedback from customers through a questionnaire that includes both open-ended and closed sample questions. The research results show that they have a good footfall and most customers prefer shopping during evening time. The maximum sale is of vegetables, which constitute around 40% of sales, followed by fruits and dairy produce. More than 70% of the customers were satisfied by quality and services. A better product mix is expected by customers. Some of the key strategies that are recommended include pricing and promotion strategy, waste management strategy, customer retention, attracting new customers, partnership and collaboration

Expression and Function of Prostaglandin E2 Receptors in Human Myometrium

Preterm labour occurs in approximately 10 % of pregnancies and shows no signs of abating. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis plays a regulatory role in a number of important processes that are necessary for successful labour. One role for PGE2 is the activation of contractility in the muscle that contracts during labour, the myometrium. The myometrium is theorised to separate into two functional compartments during pregnancy and parturition. During parturition, the fundal region contracts downwards, whilst the lower segment relaxes. PGE2 binds to four G-protein coupled receptors, termed E-series (EP1-4), which modulate a dynamic range of responses due to differential binding of G proteins. The accepted theory for the function of EP receptors in the myometrium, at the time of labour, is that EP1 and EP3 are procontractile receptors whilst EP2 and EP4 receptors are anti-contractile. This thesis studied the compartmental expression of the EP receptors and the signalling pathways they couple to in the pregnant myometrium. EP receptor mRNA and protein do not alter in expression between sample groups, before or after the onset of labour. Further experiments identified EP2 receptors to activate both pro- and anti-labour responses (expression of COX-2 and inhibition of myometrial contractility), interestingly by two distinct G protein signalling pathways, questioning its role as an anti-labour receptor. A novel EP4 receptor agonist also activated cell signalling pathways not previously associated with this receptor. An EP3, but not an EP1, antagonist inhibited spontaneous and PGE2 induced contractility, despite the activation of similar signalling pathways. Overall, this study indicates that the action of an individual EP receptor is more diverse than anticipated, indicating that the myometrium is a complex, dynamic system enabling efficient reprogramming of responsiveness during pregnancy and labour

Remarks on the non-equilibrium effects and collision dynamics in heavy-ion collisions

We study the beam energy dependence of equilibration process and space-time characteristics of participant and spectator matter. For this, we simulated the semi-central collisions of $^{40}Ca+ ^{40}Ca$ at incident energies of 400, 600 and 1000 AMeV within the \emph{quantum molecular dynamics} (QMD) approach. Our numerical calculations based on the molecular dynamics approach show that incident energy of the projectile influences the reaction observables drastically. The effect is more visible for transverse expansion of the nuclear matter and transparency behavior. The degree of thermalization of participant matter, however, remains independent of the incident energy. The characteristics of the trajectories followed by the nucleons suffering maximal and minimal binary collisions are also analyzed.Comment: 6 pages; 5 figures; Accepte

Adoption of technology in teaching of language: A critical assessment of Punjabi(mother tongue)

Mother-tongue plays a paramount role in child’s development. It is the heart and soul of child's education. It is the foundation on which the personality of the child is built. The study of mother- tongue is of dire necessity on psychological, intellectual, emotional and cultural grounds. It is our duty to adopt and adapt mother-tongue as medium of all non-linguistic subjects, thereby making it easy and interesting for the child to learn these subjects. Teachers rarely use teaching technology like multimedia, instructional technology etc. They adopt lecture cum text book method-a boring procedure. Students are made to mug up even stories and poems. Students are passive partners in the learning process. No attempt is made to arouse their creativeness or encourage their self-expression so what they learn is poor learning. This calls for drastic changes. Language learning is a part of education in the wider sense. One of the important causes for the deterioration of the standard of mother-tongue (Punjabi) in Punjab is inadequate provision of teaching aids. In the present study, an attempt has been made to arrive at some precise conclusions.Punjabi,mother tongue, technology

New Congruences Modulo 2, 4, and 8 for the Number of Tagged Parts Over the Partitions with Designated Summands

Recently, Lin introduced two new partition functions PD$_t(n)$ and PDO$_t(n)$, which count the total number of tagged parts over all partitions of $n$ with designated summands and the total number of tagged parts over all partitions of $n$ with designated summands in which all parts are odd. Lin also proved some congruences modulo 3 and 9 for PD$_t(n)$ and PDO$_t(n)$, and conjectured some congruences modulo 8. Very recently, Adansie, Chern, and Xia found two new infinite families of congruences modulo 9 for PD$_t(n)$. In this paper, we prove the congruences modulo 8 conjectured by Lin and also find many new congruences and infinite families of congruences modulo some small powers of 2.Comment: 19 page

Hybrid Profiling in Information Retrieval

Abstract-One of the main challenges in search engine quality of service is how to satisfy the needs and the interests of individual users. This raises the fundamental issue of how to identify and select the information that is relevant to a specific user. This concern over generic provision and the lack of search precision have provided the impetus for the research into Web Search personalisation. In this paper a hybrid user profiling system is proposed -a combination of explicit and implicit user profiles for improving the web search effectiveness in terms of precision and recall. The proposed system is content-based and implements the Vector Space Model. Experimental results, supported by significance tests, indicate that the system offers better precision and recall in comparison to traditional search engines

The Impact of Modes of Mediation on the Web Retrieval Process

This paper is concerned with the investigation of mediation between users and Web search engines and the impact of different modes of mediation on the Web search effectiveness. This involves the integration of explicit, implicit and hybrid modes of mediation within a content-based framework, facilitated by the adoption of the Vector Space Model. The work is supported by an experimental evaluation of the impact of different mediation modes on documents retrieval process in terms of recall and precision. The results of the experiments indicate that the mediation framework improves the quality of the retrieval process, and that the difference in the quality of the results is statistically significant

PERANCANGAN E-BUSINESS BERBASIS WEB PADA CV. SETH SPORT

CV. Seth Sport merupakan perusahaan yang bergerak dibidang penjualan alat olahraga dan alat musik. Semakin lama perusahaan yang sejenis bermunculan menyebabkan persaingan yang semakin tinggi. Oleh karena itu, CV. Seth Sport harus menemukan inovasi untuk mendongkrak pendapatan perusahaan. Dimana perusahaan harus bisa memenuhi keinginan pelanggan dan bertransaksi baik ke mitra dan konsumen lebih cepat dan aman. Tujuan skripsi ini untuk membangun e-business pada CV.Seth Sport untuk menampilkan produk kepada konsumen yang berada di area penjualan perusahaan, memudahkan konsumen untuk melakukan transaksi serta untuk melihat promosi, diskon, dan stok produk, mempercepat pengelolaan data dan hubungan ke mitra/supplier, meningkatkan dan mempertahankan hubungan kepada konsumen dan pengelolaan data baik dari segi penjualan dan pembelian bisa dilakukan dengan efektif dan efisien. Sistem yang dibangun menggunakan metodologi pengembangan iterasi yang dimana didalamnya menggunakan beberapa alat pengembangan yaitu diagram konteks, data flow diagram dan ERD. Sistem informasi dibangun menggunakan bahasa pemograman PHP dan MYSQL sebagai DBMS. Sistem e-business yang dibangun dapat menjangkau konsumen di luar area, menjadi media promosi dan mempermudah mendapatkan informasi laporan per period