Double balloon catheter for induction of labour in Chinese women with previous caesarean section: one-year experience and literature review

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Contributos do Ensino - Aprendizagem do Inglês, nos 3º e 4º anos do Ensino Básico, para os resultados obtidos pelos alunos na disciplina de Inglês, no 5º ano do Ensino Básico, no distrito de Évora.

O presente artigo dá conta da investigação que verificou a relação entre a frequência da Atividade de Enriquecimento Curricular (AEC) de Inglês, pelos alunos dos 3º e 4º anos do Ensino Básico, dos agrupamentos de escolas do distrito de Évora, no biénio 2005-2007 e os resultados obtidos, pelos mesmos, no final do ano letivo 2007/2008, na disciplina de Inglês, no 5º ano do Ensino Básico, nos agrupamentos de escolas do distrito de Évora que frequentaram. Dá, ainda, conta das relações entre esses resultados, a assiduidade, as retenções, o desenvolvimento cognitivo e o género desses mesmos alunos, nos resultados observados no referido 5ºAno

Rural Tourism Destination Performance in East Malaysia: Influencing Factors from the Communities’ Perspective

Rural tourism is a rapidly growing tourism segment and has been given increasing importance, in view of its potential to contribute economic growth to the rural areas. However, any rural tourism destination development should be implemented in a way that maximises destination performance. In our study, we examine the relationship between support and participation of the local government, community leadership in tourism, community attitudes towards tourism, and community support towards tourism with destination performance (from the economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspects), from the local community perspective. We obtained, as voluntary respondents, 176 residents of a local community at a rural tourism destination in Sabah, Malaysia. SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) was applied to assess the developed model. Thereafter, to generate the standard error of the estimate and t-values, bootstrapping with 200 re-samples was applied. The findings suggested that community attitudes and community leadership in tourism have a significant positive impact on destination performance, whereas local government participation and support, and community support for tourism, had little impact on the same. Implications of these findings were further discussed

Tanjung Datu National Park, Sarawak: Communities’ Perceptions towards Its Rural Competitive Advantage

Rural tourism is a rapidly growing tourism segment and has been given increasing importance, in view of its potential to contribute economic growth to the rural areas. However, any rural tourism destination development should be implemented in a way that maximizes destination competitive advantage. This study examine the relationship between stakeholder involvement, community knowledge about tourism, and the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts on tourism with rural competitive advantage, as perceived by the local community. This study obtained, as voluntary respondents, 87 residents of a rural tourism destination in Sarawak, Malaysia. To assess the developed model, SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) was applied based on path modelling and then bootstrapping with 200 re-samples was applied to generate the standard error of the estimate and t-values. The findings suggested that stakeholder involvement in tourism, community knowledge about tourism and the environmental impact of tourism have had a significant positive impact on rural competitive advantage, whereas economic and socio-cultural impacts of tourism, as well as community support for tourism, had little impact on the same. Lastly, such study would benefit the tourism implementers and decision-makers in tourism industry, in the sense that tourism activity can be proactively detected and curbed once critical mass is reached

Spin-dependent scattering in a silicon transistor

The scattering of conduction electrons off neutral donors depends sensitively on the relative orientation of their spin states. We present a theory of spin-dependent scattering in the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) of field effect transistors. Our theory shows that the scattering mechanism is dominated by virtual transitions to negatively ionized donor levels. This effect translates into a source-drain current that always gets reduced when donor spins are at resonance with a strong microwave field. We propose a model for donor impurities interacting with conduction electrons in a silicon transistor, and compare our explicit numerical calculations to electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) experiments. Remarkably, we show that EDMR is optimal for donors placed into a sweet spot located at a narrow depth window quite far from the 2DEG interface. This allows significant optimization of spin signal intensity for the minimal number of donors placed into the sweet spot, enabling the development of single spin readout devices. Our theory reveals an interesting dependence on conduction electron spin polarization p_c. As p_c increases upon spin injection, the EDMR amplitude first increases as p_{c}^{2}, and then saturates when a polarization threshold p_T is reached. These results show that it is possible to use EDMR as an in-situ probe of carrier spin polarization in silicon and other materials with weak spin-orbit coupling

3rd ASIA International Conference (AIC 2017) Conference Program and Abstract Book

Rural tourism hasbeen shown to benefit local communities from the economic perspective. Digitalmarketing allows marketing information to be transmitted directly to potentialvisitors without the need for an intermediary, in a low-cost but effective way.Rural tourism destinations in Sarawak now have an opportunity to benefit from the Sarawak state government’sinitiative, the Digital Sarawak Centre of Excellence, in terms of digitalcontent creation and website maintenance. However, the current level of adoption is zero to minimal in ruraltourism destinations. This study examines the barriers towards digital marketingadoption from the perspective of rural tourism providers. Fieldwork was performed at two sites,Ba’kelalan and Long Lamai, in July 2016 and February 2017 respectively. A total of 19 respondents were interviewedin-depth. The study revealed thattourism providers currently depended on word-of-mouth or direct contact forbookings, but were willing to adopt digital marketing with the assistance ofknowledgeable parties. However, certainphysical, logistical and social constraints may have a detrimental effect onthe community’s readiness level to entertain tourists on a larger scale and mayfurther impede the overall progress of digital marketing adoption, at both theindividual and destination levels

Barriers to digital marketing adoption at remote rural tourism destinations in Sarawak: an exploratory study

Rural tourism has been shown to benefit local communities from the economic perspective. Digital marketing allows marketing information to be transmitted directly to potential visitors without the need for an intermediary, in a low-cost but effective way. Rural tourism destinations in Sarawak now have an opportunity to benefit from the Sarawak state government’s initiative, the Digital Sarawak Centre of Excellence, in terms of digital content creation and website maintenance. However, the current level of adoption is zero to minimal in rural tourism destinations. This study examines the barriers towards digital marketing adoption from the perspective of rural tourism providers. Fieldwork was performed at two sites, Ba’kelalan and Long Lamai, in July 2016 and February 2017 respectively. In-depth interviews were conducted with a total of 19 respondents. The study revealed that tourism providers currently depended on word-of-mouth recommendations or direct contact for bookings, but were willing to adopt digital marketing with the assistance of knowledgeable parties. However, certain physical, logistical and social constraints may have a detrimental effect on the community’s readiness level to entertain tourists on a larger scale and may further impede the overall progress of digital marketing adoption, at both the individual and destination levels

Community perceptions on the usage of digital marketing for homestays: the case of Ba'Kealan, Malaysia

Rural tourism has become a dynamically developing area in tourism. Apart from developing physical infrastructure, a national priority is to develop ICT in rural areas to improve the local communities’ communications with the outside world. It is believed that with the help of ICT, rural tourism industries have risen up and tourist behaviour, when making purchases for tourism activities, has changed (Buhalis and Law, 2008). In other words, the internet helps tourists and rural destination suppliers to interact and make arrangements. The objective of this study is to examine the perceptions and attitudes of rural homestay owners and other tourism service providers in Ba’kelalan in setting up websites in order to facilitate the promotion of their premises and services. A structured questionnaire was used as a guide to conduct in-depth interviews. Fieldwork was carried out in July 2016 and a total of 7 people were interviewed. The study revealed that homestay owners and other tourism suppliers largely depended on word-of-mouth or direct contact (either via phone calls or emails) for accommodation bookings, and were generally not aware of the potential of digital marketing to promote their businesses. This is a first baseline study on communities’ attitudes towards the usage of digital marketing with respect to their tourism products in this area. The findings will be relevant to future studies of community-based ICT initiatives. Implications from the study and recommendations therefrom are further discussed

Exploring the barriers to digital marketing adoption at the rural tourism destination of Long Lamai, Sarawak

Rural communities have been envisaged to benefit from tourism economically and socially, and digital marketing has been noted as a low-cost and effective method to promote a tourism destination. For rural tourism, it aids to leapfrog the barriers of information transmission to the intended tourist markets. The Sarawak government’s initiative to set up the Digital Sarawak Centre of Excellence to accelerate Sarawak’s economic growth, reduce the socio-economic divide and increase youth employment, represents an opportunity for rural tourism destinations to piggyback on and profit from, especially in the areas of digital and content marketing. Long Lamai, Sarawak, is currently being developed as an eco-tourism site and has been equipped with internet service for mobile devices. However, none of the tourism service providers have adopted digital marketing of their services. The objective of this study is to examine the barriers towards digital marketing adoption by rural tourism service providers in Long Lamai, Sarawak, based on the perspective of the service providers themselves. In-depth interviews were conducted with the aid of a structured questionnaire. Fieldwork was carried out in February 2017 and a total of 12 people were interviewed. The study revealed that the Long Lamai community is largely willing to adopt digital marketing, with the assistance of outside parties in digital content creation, website design and website maintenance. However, tourism itself is largely held back by physical constraints, which in turn affects the readiness of the community to receive and entertain tourists on a large scale. The collectivist nature of the community, aimed at ensuring equal participation in economic benefits, may slow down the process of digital marketing adoption as a whole