Pleading for the management controller profession in the trade area

Generalizing a reflection on strategy and controlling within the Romanian companies is rather recent. The environment changes and especially the changes in the nature and the dimensions of the markets due to the globalization and regulation put real questions for companies, generate a strategic thinking and make compulsory the appearance of an efficient management control. Generally, the scientific papers concerning the concept of management control deal with the production companies more than with the trade ones. This is why we chose to present the importance of the controller within a trade company. The management control has to assure the coherence between the adopted strategy (where the company in the trade domain wants to go) and the practical means of achieving it (what it has to do and what it is used for). The management controller is the person that contributes to obtain this coherence. There is plenty of information available, but for the decision making purposes only a restricted number of facts are correlated, namely the relevant ones. The trade management controller takes part in creating the information system useful for the decision making. Such a system has to offer reliable information in due time to the decision making persons concerning the profitability of certain markets, distribution areas, products, clients, the analysis of margins, distribution costs, advertising expenses etc. The trade management controller plays the role of a manager's copilot, he assists him in the management of the activity, alerts him when problems are encountered, helps him to make the necessary decisions to correct the trajectory. These are a few reasons that allow us to sustain the important role played by the management controller in the activity of the companies in the trade area.management controller, trade, customers, management, strategy, analysis, decision

Kajian Tentang Aplikasi Augmented Reality Berbasis Marker

In this paper, marker detection and pose estimation algorithms are presented for Augmented Reality applications. This marker detection algorithm was designed specially for square-shaped marker. It consists of line detection, corner detection, and square-shaped detection. The pose estimation algorithm is used involving intrinsic and ecstrinsic paramater of camera. The position of a marker can be known from the ectrinsic parameter of camera which is translation and rotation. Translation and rotation ocurr in three coordinate axes, which is x,y,and z.The translation value can be obtained from the midpoint of the marker, and the rotation value can be calculated with rotation matrix. Several experiments have been conducted on various images and video sequences. The results of the experiments show that the algorithms can detect marker in various angles and estimate the pose well that the user of the application can interact with the object from digital world

Distributions and Abundances of the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella in the Eastern Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy in Relation to Diatoms in June, July and August of 2019

A series of three oceanographic survey cruises were conducted in June, July, and August of 2019 in the northeastern Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy. Surface water samples were collected and analyzed for enumerations of cell densities of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella in relation to cell densities of diatoms. Hydrographic profiles of temperature, salinity, and nutrients (silicate and nitrate) were also made at each station. Data were analyzed to determine if there was any statistically significant evidence of allelopathic interference imparted by diatoms that impede A. catenella. A. catenella cells were most abundant in June, reaching 6,195 cells per liter at the surface (1 m), with the highest densities occurring at offshore stations. Diatoms were also most abundant in June (681,667 cells/L), reaching highest cell densities at inshore stations, spatially separated from A. catenella maximal densities, which suggested an allelopathic inhibition of A. catenella by diatoms, as had been suggested by earlier workers; however, there was no statistically significant inverse relationship (according to Pearson correlation analysis; r=-0.42, P=0.131). Distributions of A. catenella and diatoms were similar to one another in July, with the highest densities occurring at shallower inshore stations (3,378 A. catenella cells/L and 108,333 diatom cells/L). The August survey cruise was limited in coverage and occupied fewer stations. A. catenella cell densities were highest in the interior Bay of Fundy in August (867 cells/L) while diatoms were more abundant in shallower, coastal waters off of Maine, and Nova Scotia (66,111 cells/L). The highest surface cell densities of both A. catenella and diatoms occurred in waters low in both nitrate and silicate in all three months, which is consistent with previous observations. The dominant diatom genera included (in order): a) in June: Thalassiosira, Chaetoceros, Cylindrotheca, Pseudonitzschia, Thalassionema, and Rhizosolenia; b) in July: Chaetoceros, Thalassiosira, Cylindrotheca, Pseudonitzschia, Rhizosolenia, Guinardia, Thalassionema; and c) in August: Skeletonema, Chaetoceros, Thalassiosira, Cylindrotheca, Pseudonitzschia, Guinardia, Cylindrotheca, and Achnanthes. Pearson correlation analyses also showed that there were no statistically significant correlations between either A. catenella or diatom cell densities and surface concentrations of the nutrient silicate; however, in June, A. catenella did show a statistically significant inverse correlation with nitrate (P=0.0187). Overall there was a seasonal decline from June to August, which contrasts with earlier reports that showed seasonal increases from June to August in the NE Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy. In June, there was a positive correlation between A. catenella and salinity, which corresponded with the time of greatest A. catenella densities offshore (r=0.44; p= 0.003). In July, A. catenella were significantly inversely correlated with temperature where cells are usually most abundant in the colder waters of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current (r=0.32; p=0.036). August had fewer stations making it difficult to draw conclusions. Overall the data did not support the original hypothesis of allelopathy, as there was no statistically significant Pearson correlation between diatoms and A. catenella for any of the three summer surveys

Reducing parental anxiety using a family based intervention for youth mental health : a randomized controlled trial

This paper presents findings on parent anxiety and attachment relationship style from the Deakin Family Options (DFO) pilot study, a randomized controlled pilot study comparing a family-based treatment (BEST Plus), versus a youth only treatment (CBT) versus a group who received both of these treatments (COMBINED). Eligible participants were families with a young person (aged 12 - 25 years) with a high prevalence mental health problem. Youth from participating families scored in the clinical or subclinical range for depression, anxiety and/or substance misuse symptoms on standardized measures during the initial assessment. The collected sample was drawn from regional and urban centers in Victoria, Australia and allocated to treatment condition using a simple randomization procedure (parallel design). It was hypothesized that families receiving the BEST Plus would experience greater reductions in youth and parent mental health symptoms, and improved parent-child relationships, compared with those in the CBT condition. This paper describes and discusses changes in parent anxiety and parent attachment, according to whether the parent participated in a treatment (BEST Plus) or did not (NONBEST Plus). Participants were blind to the study hypotheses. In total 71 parent participants returned pre data and were allocated to a treatment group. In this paper, data from parent participants who completed pre and post measures (n = 48) and pre, post, and 6-month follow-up measures (n = 28) on anxiety and attachment were analyzed by group (BEST Plus versus NONBEST Plus). The results of this study suggest that parent anxiety decreased significantly more following parent involvement in a group treatment, than for parents that did not receive treatment. Unexpectedly, avoidant attachment increased in the no treatment group, but remained relatively stable following the BEST Plus group. There were no significant findings in relation to compulsive traits and anxious attachment. These findings are discussed in light of the study limitations.<br /