VIGOUR AT WORK: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES

While often used in everyday exchanges, feeling vigorous at work, that is, individuals' feelings that they have physical strength, emotional energy, and cognitive liveliness, has hardly been subjected to any conceptual inquiry or empirical research. Also, while its opposite construct, burnout syndrome, has rece_ived ample theoretical and empirical attention, vigour at work has received very scanty mention. In this chapter, we pursue the following objectives: to present a positive psychological construct of vigour at work; and to explore the antecedents of vigour and its consequences, including vigour s possible effects on individuals 'mental and physical health, and job performance. We conclude by pointing out a few open research questions that concern the study of vigour at work

Segmentation of Retail Mobile Market Using HMS Algorithm

In the modern world of marketing, analyzing the trends in market is a key point towards to scope of improvement of any company. Considering the analysis of a retail market where market trends change very frequently based on customer needs and interest is highly challenging. Market segmentation is one of the approaches included in analysis of market trends which gives a diverse view of the market.  The research here concentrates, especially on a case study based on fast moving consumable goods market and identifying market change patterns by applying a novel data mining approach. Data mining includes a wide variety of techniques and algorithm which can be effectively used in the process of market analysis. The research work carried out coins a new algorithm which combines various association rules and techniques, the HMS (Hybrid market segmentation) algorithm with some specialized criteria is used to support the market segmentation. The primary data needed for the analysis and operation are collected through a questionnaire based survey conducted on people from various demographic regions as well as various age groups. Used a quota based sampling approach for the research, The data mining approach here helps to study the large dataset collected and also to extract the useful information required to model the system. The system here is a learning system which improves the market segmentation functionality as data set improves, The paper implements a hybrid data mining approach which effectively segments the retail mobile market in to various customer and product groups and also provides a prediction and suggestion system for company as well as customer.

Claiming space in post-apartheid urban planning in South Africa

This research investigates the claim for space to practice initiation in the African townships of Cape town, South Africa. These spaces were not initially provided for when African townships were developed and the status quo persists during post-apartheid urban planning. The research draws on the tools of post-modernist planning theory to investigate and analyze the claim for space. Thus the study commences with a critical analysis of modem and apartheid urban planning theories and practices with the aid of post-modern theory concepts in general, and post-modem urban planning theory concepts in particular. This reveals an oppressive and biased system in favor of certain groups in society and a privileging of a rational discourse in planning deliberation processes. Post-apartheid urban planning is also subjected to a similar critical analysis for relying on the same shaky epistemological foundations of modem urban planning theory. Modern urban planning methods and practices are thus rejected as inappropriate for a new context that is characterized by cultural diversity and consequently, different ways of knowing and being. Instead, a post-modern approach that is more accommodating and sensitive to the demands of a multi-cultural context is deemed more appropriate. A case study method was selected partly to provide evidence for persisting marginalization under modern urban planning, during the post-apartheid, and partly to enrich a theoretical understanding derived from the phenomenon under investigation. A semi-structured interview approach was adopted in order to facilitate a more deliberative and dialogical interaction with respondents. The selection of interviewees was based on membership of the relevant groups i.e. affected communities, relevant public officials, academics and consultants, which were identified during early stages of research. The findings reveal: an ambivalent profession in terms of planning for multi- culturalism/cultural diversity; the limited capacity of a haltingly modernist state to effect necessary changes befitting a culturally diverse post-apartheid society; and the realities and limits of power that have prevented idealism and vision of post-apartheid urban planning, instead redirecting them to less attractive ends

Kinematics of fault-related folding derived from a sandbox experiment

We analyze the kinematics of fault tip folding at the front of a fold-and-thrust wedge using a sandbox experiment. The analog model consists of sand layers intercalated with low-friction glass bead layers, deposited in a glass-sided experimental device and with a total thickness h = 4.8 cm. A computerized mobile backstop induces progressive horizontal shortening of the sand layers and therefore thrust fault propagation. Active deformation at the tip of the forward propagating basal décollement is monitored along the cross section with a high-resolution CCD camera, and the displacement field between pairs of images is measured from the optical flow technique. In the early stage, when cumulative shortening is less than about h/10, slip along the décollement tapers gradually to zero and the displacement gradient is absorbed by distributed deformation of the overlying medium. In this stage of detachment tip folding, horizontal displacements decrease linearly with distance toward the foreland. Vertical displacements reflect a nearly symmetrical mode of folding, with displacements varying linearly between relatively well defined axial surfaces. When the cumulative slip on the décollement exceeds about h/10, deformation tends to localize on a few discrete shear bands at the front of the system, until shortening exceeds h/8 and deformation gets fully localized on a single emergent frontal ramp. The fault geometry subsequently evolves to a sigmoid shape and the hanging wall deforms by simple shear as it overthrusts the flat ramp system. As long as strain localization is not fully established, the sand layers experience a combination of thickening and horizontal shortening, which induces gradual limb rotation. The observed kinematics can be reduced to simple analytical expressions that can be used to restore fault tip folds, relate finite deformation to incremental folding, and derive shortening rates from deformed geomorphic markers or growth strata

Outcome of implantable loop recorder evaluation

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate implantable loop recorders (ILRs) in an unselected cohort in order to determine diagnostic yield, time to pacemaker/implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation, predictors thereof, safety issues, and syncope management including usage of preceding diagnostic tools. Methods: Patients who underwent ILR evaluation in any of three centers in Region Gävleborg, Swe­den, between April 2007 and April 2013 were included and their medical records retrieved. Logistic regression was used to evaluate predictors of pacemaker/ICD outcome expressed as odds ratios (ORs) and Kaplan-Meier estimates for time-dependent analysis. Results: A total of 173 patients (52.6% females) with a mean age of 56.2 years received an ILR dur­ing a mean follow-up of 605 days. In the 146 patients evaluated for syncope/presyncope, 28.1% received a pacemaker (n = 39) or ICD (n = 2). The cumulative incidence at 6, 12, and 18 months were 8.8%, 21.3%, and 26.7%, respectively. Age > 75 years was the only significant predictor for outcome (p = 0.010) and the following variables showed a tendency toward significance: abnormal elevation of the biomarker B-type natriuretic peptide (OR 2.05, p = 0.100), a history of trauma (OR 1.71, p = 0.179), and patho­logic electrocardiogram (OR 1.68, p = 0.231). A computerized tomography of the skull was performed in 52.1% of the syncope cases. Conclusions: In syncope evaluation in an unselected cohort, 28.1% were diagnosed with an arrhyth­mia necessitating a pacemaker/ICD. The only significant predictor was advanced age. Time to diag­nosis is unpredictable and prolonged ILR monitoring is warranted in addition to optimal use of other diagnostic tools

Reversable Afore Encoding For Revocable Data Spanking In Encoded Images

Nowadays, information is rapidly available through the Internet. Companies have the ability to communicate with a worldwide audience through the World Wide Web. The extraction is performed in the reverse order as the embedding process. The side information (peak/zero points) should be additionally transmitted to the receiver for reversible recoveryThe original cover can be losslessly restored after the embedded information is extracted. In some applications, even any degradation of the original cover is not allowed, such as medical imagery, military imagery and law forensics.All early methods embed assemblage by reversibly vacating space from the encrypted reflections, which may be thing to both errors on data extraction and or appearance refurbishment. Data hacking is very challenging problem in today’s internet world. There are number of techniques to secure the data. So, the data hiding in the encrypted reflection comes into the picture, but occurrence of distortion at the time of data extraction is a main problem. In this article, Due to the modification on the pixel differences to hide secret data, the marked differences may be not in the normal range [0, 255] for a 8-bit grayscale image

Delays in lung cancer referral pathways between rural and urban patients in North Queensland: a mixed methods study

INTRODUCTION: Aims of this study were to examine time delays in lung cancer referral pathways in North Queensland (NQ), Australia, and explore patients' perspective of factors causing these delays. METHODS: Prospective study of patients attending three cancer centres in Townsville, Cairns and Mackay in NQ from 2009 to 2012. Times along referral pathway were divided as follows: Onset of symptoms to treatment (T1), symptoms to general practitioner(GP) (T2), GP to specialist (T3), and Specialist to treatment (T4). Quantitative and qualitative methods were used for analysis. RESULTS: 252 patients participated. T1 was influenced by remoteness (125 days in Townsville vs. 170 days for Remote, p=0.01), T2 by level of education (91 days for Primary education vs. 61 days for Secondary vs. 23 days for Tertiary/TAFE, p=0.006), and age group (14 days for 31-50 years, 61 days for 51-70 years, 45 days for >71 years, p=0.026), T3 by remoteness (15 days for Townville and 29.5 days for remote, p=0.02) and T4 by stage of disease (21 days for stage I, 11 days for Stage II, 34 days for Stage III 18 days for Stage IV, p=0.041). Competing priorities of family and work and cost & inconvenience of travel were perceived as rural barriers. CONCLUSION: Remoteness, age and level of education were related to delays in various time lines in lung cancer referral pathways in NQ. Provision of specialist services closer to home may decrease delays by alleviating burden of cost and inconvenience of travel

Токсикологические свойства корневищ с корнями сабельника болотного

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Sand, salt, and models : The legacy of Bruno Vendeville

Acknowledgements We are grateful for the support of numerous colleagues who contributed, either materially or simply with encouragement, to putting together this memorial to our friend Bruno. The important task of reviewing and editing manuscripts was carried out by the co-editors along with Jürgen Adam, Ian Davison, Tim Dooley, Carl Fiduk, Pablo Granado, Geoffroy Mohn, Webster Mohriak, Van Mount, Josep Anton Muñoz, Thierry Nalpas, Fabrizio Storti, Gabor Tari, Lei Wu, and 16 reviewers who chose to remain anonymous. And of course, this volume would not have happened without the hard work and persistence of the many authors and coauthors who contributed their manuscripts. We also thank Lorna Stewart and other staff at the Journal of Structural Geology for their help and guidance, as well as Tim Dooley for supplying original versions of the figures used here.Peer reviewe