Pengaruh antara Penggunaan Teknologi Informasi, Implementasi Strategi Diferensiasi, dan Kualitas Layanan dalam Mencapai Keunggulan Bersaing pada Rumah Sakit Haji Makassar

Perkembangan persaingan antar Perusahaan semakin ketat baik pada tingkat regional maupun global. Pada sebagian besar industri jasa, kualitas layanan secara umum diterima sebagai suatu faktor penentu (key factor). Zeithaml dan Berry menyatakan bahwa kualitas layanan merupakan strategi yang mendasar dalam upaya Perusahaan meraih sukses dan keberlanjutan dalam lingkungan bisnis yang ketat. Kualitas pelayanan dapat dipengaruhi oleh faktor-faktor seperti penggunaan teknologi informasi dan implementasi strategi diferensiasi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis pengaruh penggunaan teknologi informasi terhadap kualitas pelayanan, pengaruh kualitas pelayanan terhadap keunggulan bersaing, dan pengaruh implementasi strategi diferensiasi terhadap keunggulan bersaing. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian explanatory adalah untuk menjelaskan hubungan kausal antara variabel melalui proposisi konfirmatory dan pengujian. Dalam penelitian ini teknik analisis yang digunakan Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Perwakilan jumlah sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian yang sesuai dengan menggunakan teknik analisis SEM.Teknologi informasi memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kualitas pelayanan, strategi diferensiasi memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keunggulan kompetitif, kualitas layanan memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keunggulan kompetitif. Teknologi informasi dan strategi diferensiasi dapat memengaruhi kualitas pelayanan dan kualitas pelayanan itu sendiri akan memengaruhi keunggulan bersaing rumah sakit. Kesimpulannya adalah penggunaan teknologi informasi berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kualitas pelayanan sedangkan strategi diferensiasi dan kualitas layanan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keunggulan bersaing

Improving the Smart Cities Traffic Management Systems using VANETs and IoT Features

This paper discusses the creation of an integrated worldwide system based on integrating and linking automobiles with VANET, IoT, and AI technologies, which will have a substantial impact on the smart, safe transportation system. This paper aims to apply a proposed project to a specific area in Jordan to examine the projects viability and its impact on reducing the accident rate by controlling traffic with special traffic rules in the study area using a cloud database that stores all the private information for each car and receives information about the cars speed as it travels. When a driver exceeds the speed established by the Traffic Department, he receives warning messages informing him that he has over the speed limit, and if he does not respond to the warning messages, he gets a fine. The research focuses on optimizing the utilization of VANET network services, which is crucial for enhancing public safety applications involving data exchange between automobiles and RSUs. The simulation was conducted using OMNeT++ version 5.7 on Debian 11, Linux 5, and GNOME 3 operating systems. As a network simulator, it is a scientifically approved open-source too

STEM through Authentic Research and Training Program (START) for Underrepresented Communities: Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The STEM Through Authentic Research and Training (START) Program is a new program integrating academic, social, and professional experiences, in the theme of exomedicine, to build a pipeline into college for first generation and traditionally underrepresented students by providing year-round authentic opportunities and professional development for high school students and teachers. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the START Program has worked with the local Fayette County public school and community partners to provide content to over 300 students through: virtual laboratory tours with community partner Space Tango, meet a scientist discussions, and online near-peer student demonstrations aimed at making the practice of STEM disciplines approachable. Furthermore, the START Program has partnered with Higher Orbits to provide at-home, space-themed learning kits for students to develop teamwork, communication, and STEM principles while engaging in online content with teachers, professionals, and astronauts. Finally, the START Program has moved its training platforms online, including receiving College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) Peer Educator accreditation for our near-peer mentoring and coaching training. As a result, the START Program is better positioned to address this critical need in STEM education, while reaching more students in the community than possible with face-to-face interactions alone

Rich Situated Attitudes

We outline a novel theory of natural language meaning, Rich Situated Semantics [RSS], on which the content of sentential utterances is semantically rich and informationally situated. In virtue of its situatedness, an utterance’s rich situated content varies with the informational situation of the cognitive agent interpreting the utterance. In virtue of its richness, this content contains information beyond the utterance’s lexically encoded information. The agent-dependence of rich situated content solves a number of problems in semantics and the philosophy of language (cf. [14, 20, 25]). In particular, since RSS varies the granularity of utterance contents with the interpreting agent’s informational situation, it solves the problem of finding suitably fine- or coarse-grained objects for the content of propositional attitudes. In virtue of this variation, a layman will reason with more propositions than an expert

Imaging of SNR IC443 and W44 with the Sardinia Radio Telescope at 1.5 GHz and 7 GHz

Observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) are a powerful tool for investigating the later stages of stellar evolution, the properties of the ambient interstellar medium, and the physics of particle acceleration and shocks. For a fraction of SNRs, multi-wavelength coverage from radio to ultra high-energies has been provided, constraining their contributions to the production of Galactic cosmic rays. Although radio emission is the most common identifier of SNRs and a prime probe for refining models, high-resolution images at frequencies above 5 GHz are surprisingly lacking, even for bright and well-known SNRs such as IC443 and W44. In the frameworks of the Astronomical Validation and Early Science Program with the 64-m single-dish Sardinia Radio Telescope, we provided, for the first time, single-dish deep imaging at 7 GHz of the IC443 and W44 complexes coupled with spatially-resolved spectra in the 1.5-7 GHz frequency range. Our images were obtained through on-the-fly mapping techniques, providing antenna beam oversampling and resulting in accurate continuum flux density measurements. The integrated flux densities associated with IC443 are S_1.5GHz = 134 +/- 4 Jy and S_7GHz = 67 +/- 3 Jy. For W44, we measured total flux densities of S_1.5GHz = 214 +/- 6 Jy and S_7GHz = 94 +/- 4 Jy. Spectral index maps provide evidence of a wide physical parameter scatter among different SNR regions: a flat spectrum is observed from the brightest SNR regions at the shock, while steeper spectral indices (up to 0.7) are observed in fainter cooling regions, disentangling in this way different populations and spectra of radio/gamma-ray-emitting electrons in these SNRs.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication to MNRAS on 18 May 201

Diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains in Culicine mosquitoes from Madagascar.

Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria are widespread throughout insect species and Wolbachia transinfected in Aedes mosquito species has formed the basis for biocontrol programs as Wolbachia strains inhibit arboviral replication and can spread through populations. Resident strains in wild Culicine mosquito populations (the vectors of most arboviruses) requires further investigation given resident strains can also affect arboviral transmission. As Madagascar has a large diversity of both Culicine species and has had recent arboviral outbreaks, an entomology survey was undertaken, in five ecologically diverse sites, to determine the Wolbachia prevalence. We detected diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains within the Aedeomyia, Culex, Ficalbia, Mansonia and Uranotaenia genera. Wolbachia prevalence rates and strain characterisation through Sanger sequencing with multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and phylogenetic analysis revealed significant diversity and we detected co-infections with the environmentally acquired bacteria Asaia. Mosquitoes were screened for major arboviruses to investigate if any evidence could be provided for their potential role in transmission and we report the presence of Rift Valley fever virus in three Culex species: Culex tritaeniorhynchus, Culex antennatus and Culex decens. The implications of the presence of resident Wolbachia strains are discussed and how the discovery of novel strains can be utilized for applications in the development of biocontrol strategies

Physics and chemistry of hydrogen in the vacancies of semiconductors

Hydrogen is well known to cause electrical passivation of lattice vacancies in semiconductors. This effect follows from the chemical passivation of the dangling bonds. Recently it was found that H in the carbon vacancy of SiC forms a three-center bond with two silicon neighbors in the vacancy, and gives rise to a new electrically active state. In this paper we examine hydrogen in the anion vacancies of BN, AlN, and GaN. We find that three-center bonding of H is quite common and follows clear trends in terms of the second-neighbor distance in the lattice, the typical (two-center) hydrogen-host-atom bond length, the electronegativity difference between host atoms and hydrogen, as well as the charge state of the vacancy. Three-center bonding limits the number of H atoms a nitrogen vacancy can capture to two, and prevents electric passivation in GaAs as well

Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names?

This essay is devoted to an analysis of the semantic significance of a fashionable view of proper names, the Predicate Theory of names (PT), typically developed in the direction of the Metalinguistic Theory of names (MT). According to MT, ‘syntactic evidence supports the conclusion that a name such as ‘Kennedy’ is analyzable in terms of the predicate (general term) ‘individual named ‘Kennedy’’. This analysis is in turn alleged to support a descriptivist treatment of proper names in designative position, presumably in contrast with theories of names as ‘directly referring rigid designators’. The main aim of this essay is that of questioning the significance of PT and MT as theories of designation: even granting for the argument’s sake that names are analyzable as (metalinguistic) predicates, their designative occurrences may be interpreted in consonance with the dictates of Direct Reference—indeed, in consonance with the radically anti-descriptivist version of Direct Reference I call Millianism

Reciprocity as a foundation of financial economics

This paper argues that the subsistence of the fundamental theorem of contemporary financial mathematics is the ethical concept ‘reciprocity’. The argument is based on identifying an equivalence between the contemporary, and ostensibly ‘value neutral’, Fundamental Theory of Asset Pricing with theories of mathematical probability that emerged in the seventeenth century in the context of the ethical assessment of commercial contracts in a framework of Aristotelian ethics. This observation, the main claim of the paper, is justified on the basis of results from the Ultimatum Game and is analysed within a framework of Pragmatic philosophy. The analysis leads to the explanatory hypothesis that markets are centres of communicative action with reciprocity as a rule of discourse. The purpose of the paper is to reorientate financial economics to emphasise the objectives of cooperation and social cohesion and to this end, we offer specific policy advice