Parametric media: A strategic market analysis and marketing plan for a digital signage, interactive kiosk and content company

This project had two major objectives. The first objective was to conduct a strategic market analysis to serve as the backbone and roadmap for the marketing plan. The second objective was to create a strategic marketing plan to address Parametric Media\u27s strategic marketing and business goals and objectives. This project was designed to fullfill the company\u27s marketing needs. To do so, the author examined the digital signage industry, in order to understand what similar companies have done in the past, explored how consumer-based companies have deployed digital signage systems, and presented statistics and trends within the digital signage industry. The author also offers a brief background on the development of the retail grocery industry and how digital signage and interactive kiosks fit in grocery stores and supermarkets

THE IMPACT OF THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT LEADER MANAGEMENT STYLE ON THE REACHING GOALS OF THE EDUCATION INSTITUTION

The purpose of the research is to investigate the management style of education establishment and its role in attaining education goals. Both theoretical and empirical research methods were used in this study. The study is based on research activities. During the study, questionnaire and test methods were applied. Questionnaire “The required knowledge, skills and personal qualities for the head of the education establishment” (Skaistkalne-Virka, 2004) in this study shows what kind of knowledge, skills and personal qualities are needed for the head of the educational establishment to possess in order to achieve the goals. Test “The head of education establishment, orientation to task or relationship with people” (Pfeiffer Jones, 1974) as an instrument has been used to explain the head of education establishment, orientation to task or relationship with people. The test revealed the type of orientation for each of educational establishment. In conclusion: that head of educational establishment, who is orientated towards the relationship with people, has democratic management style, but who is task-orientated possesses authoritative management style

Letter from Irita Van Doren to Hubert Creekmore (15 January 1954)

Van Doren writes from New York City on New York Herald Tribune Book Review letterhead to Creekmore in Jackson, Mississippi. Van Doren asks Creekmore to review Speed Lamkin\u27s The Easter Egg Hunt.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1197/thumbnail.jp

Irita Van Doren to Professor James Silver

Professional correspondenc

Genetic relationship and allozyme expression of insecticide susceptible and resistant helopeltis theivora populations from Peninsular Malaysia

Helopeltis theivora is a known pest of cocoa and tea in Malaysia. Several mechanisms of insecticide resistance have been proposed such as reduction in the sensitivity of target sites, metabolic detoxification of pesticides and decreased penetration or translocation of pesticides. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) was used to determine the metabolic enzymes involved in the development of resistance in Helopeltis theivora. Adults of Helopeltis theivora were collected from three geographical locations namely Bukit Cheeding (Banting, Selangor), Sg. Palas (Cameron Highlands) and MARDI (Cameron Highlands, Pahang). In total, 25 enzymes were screened for polymorphisms and 8 enzymes were detectable in H. theivora. The dendogram resulting from the cluster analysis grouped the infrequently sprayed Banting and the MARDI populations together while the intensively sprayed Sg. Palas population clustered by itself

Construction of chaotic dynamical system

The first‐order difference equation xn+ 1 = f(xn ), n = 0,1,…, where f: R → R, is referred as an one‐dimensional discrete dynamical system. If function f is a chaotic mapping, then we talk about chaotic dynamical system. Models with chaotic mappings are not predictable in long‐term. In this paper we consider family of chaotic mappings in symbol space S 2. We use the idea of topological semi‐conjugacy and so we can construct a family of mappings in the unit segment such that it is chaotic. First published online: 09 Jun 201

Risk and crisis management in intraoperative hemorrhage: Human factors in hemorrhagic critical events

Hemorrhage is the major cause of cardiac arrest developing in the operating room. Many human factors including surgical procedures, transfusion practices, blood supply, and anesthetic management are involved in the process that leads to hemorrhage developing into a critical situation. It is desirable for hospital transfusion committees to prepare hospital regulations on 'actions to be taken to manage critical hemorrhage', and practice the implementation of these regulations by simulated drills. If intraoperative hemorrhage seems to be critical, a state of emergency should immediately be declared to the operating room staff, the blood transfusion service staff, and blood bank staff in order to organize a systematic approach to the ongoing problem and keep all responsible staff working outside the operating room informed of events developing in the operating room. To rapidly deal with critical hemorrhage, not only cooperation between anesthesiologists and surgeons but also linkage of operating rooms with blood transfusion services and a blood bank are important. When time is short, cross-matching tests are omitted, and ABO-identical red blood cells are used. When supplies of ABO-identical red blood cells are not available, ABO-compatible, non-identical red blood cells are used. Because a systematic, not individual, approach is required to prevent and manage critical hemorrhage, whether a hospital can establish a procedure to deal with it or not depends on the overall capability of critical and crisis management of the hospital

Osteopontin Plays a Critical Role in Interstitial Fibrosis but Not Glomerular Sclerosis in Diabetic Nephropathy

Background/Aims: Osteopontin (OPN) has been implicated in the pathology of several renal conditions. The aim of this study was to clarify the roles of OPN in diabetic nephropathy. Methods: Diabetes mellitus (DM) was induced in wild-type (WT) and OPN knockout (KO) mice by injecting streptozotocin. The mice were killed 20 weeks after induction of DM and their kidneys removed. Results: Renal mRNA expression of OPN was increased in WT-DM mice compared to WT-sham mice. Immunohistochemistry showed high levels of OPN expression in the proximal tubules of WT-DM mice. Kidney weight and urinary albumin excretion increased to similar levels in the WT-DM and KO-DM mice. Interstitial fibrosis was increased in WT-DM mice compared to KO-DM mice. However, there were no differences in the degree of mesangial expansion or glomerular hypertrophy between the two groups. F4/80-positive cells (macrophages) and FSP-1-positive cells (fibroblasts) showed significantly higher infiltration in WT-DM mice than in KO-DM mice. Renal mRNA expression of NADPH oxidase subunits and urinary 8-isoprostane excretion were also increased in WT-DM mice. Conclusions: These results indicated that OPN is a key molecule that induces interstitial fibrosis in the diabetic kidney, but does not induce glomerular sclerosis

Blood Arsenic Levels as a Marker of Breast Cancer Risk among BRCA1 Carriers

Funding Information: Funding: The study was funded by the National Centre for Research and Development Projects. INNOMED/1/16/NCBR/2014 and PBS3/B7/26/2015. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.An important group of breast cancers is those associated with inherited susceptibility. In women, several predisposing mutations in genes involved in DNA repair have been discovered. Women with a germline pathogenic variant in BRCA1 have a lifetime cancer risk of 70%. As part of a larger prospective study on heavy metals, our aim was to investigate if blood arsenic levels are associated with breast cancer risk among women with inherited BRCA1 mutations. A total of 1084 participants with pathogenic variants in BRCA1 were enrolled in this study. Subjects were followed from 2011 to 2020 (mean follow-up time: 3.75 years). During that time, 90 cancers were diagnosed, including 67 breast and 10 ovarian cancers. The group was stratified into two categories (lower and higher blood As levels), divided at the median (<0.85 µg/L and ≥0.85 µg/L) As level among all unaffected participants. Cox proportional hazards models were used to model the association between As levels and cancer incidence. A high blood As level (≥0.85 µg/L) was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing breast cancer (HR = 2.05; 95%CI: 1.18–3.56; p = 0.01) and of any cancer (HR = 1.73; 95%CI: 1.09–2.74; p = 0.02). These findings suggest a possible role of environmental arsenic in the development of cancers among women with germline pathogenic variants in BRCA1.Peer reviewe