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Media Massa dan Globalisasi Produk Simbolik
The mode of production and consumPtion of the advanced capitalism are marked by the presence of the symbolic product. The advent of the symbolic product cannot dissociated from the changing human consciousness about the time and space. The human importance to subject time and space had invented the communication revolution and the flexible accumulation of capital. These two elements influence the emergence of the symbolic product and disseminating it throughout the globe
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The development and application of Latent Discriminant Analysis to marketing.
ManagementDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
Trade and industrial development of Fiji with special reference to the period since 1970: a review of growth and constraints in an island developing country
This thesis examines the trade and industrial development of Fiji particularly in the post-1970 period and the governmentâs attempts to achieve economic diversification, to assess how successful they have been and to determine how much success or failure is the result of objective constraints imposed by smallness and remoteness and through governmentâs intervention in the economy. In particular, the study investigates the importance of trade and industrial development, both by the public and private sectors, in stimulating economic development, and shows how much each has contributed towards the process of diversification. It is the basic contention of this thesis that the historic economy of island developing countries such as Fiji, and indeed of the South Pacific, has tended to be monocultural, mainly due to the special problems posed by small size, relative isolation and cultural constraints to economic development. These factors inevitably influence investment policy and development priorities. In view of its narrow base, the Fiji economy has been subject to fluctuations, sometimes with high amplitudes, in the wake of supply disturbances, such as following natural disasters, the external shock of commodity price variations, escalations in the oil prices and down-turns in the world economy. The study shows that despite these constraints, Fiji to some extent has been successful in its efforts to diversify by creating a congenial investment climate for both foreign and local investment, by the cultivation of a greater mutual mutual trust between the public and the private sector and by encouraging foreign investment in appropriate areas without any undue restrictions, a feature common to many developing countries. The process of investment by the private (predominantly foreign) sector and the public sector has been regarded as one of partnership to the mutual benefit of both sectors and the nationâs development. This investment has been the major weapon in alleviating the problem of unemployment and under-employment through the creation of more job opportunities and has been an important means of rectifying internal imbalances and inequalities. A number of important industries, albeit still relatively small in size, are in place. These include gold and fisheries, which feature as important employers and the source of foreign exchange. Pine plantations are now being harvested for timber and for conversion into wood chips. It is expected that the timber industry, after the harvesting and the processing of the pine and the hardwood plantation trees peak, will rival sugar as the most important source of foreign exchange for the country. Manufacturing, particularly of garments, has started to grow rapidly, mostly due to favourable trade agreements and the establishment of export processing zones with well-designed incentive packages to attract foreign investors to operate on their own or on a joint venture basis. The study concludes that the governmentâs strategy of diversification of the economy by supporting the development of industry, agriculture and tourism is slowly changing the structure of the Fiji economy, although the process may be a long one due to the fact that sugar is still of fundamental importance as a substantial contributor to governmentâs revenue, a significant provider of employment and the leading export earner
Demanufacturing metrics for industrial fasteners and disassembly process
As the society progresses towards ecological maturity, the issue of reducing the environmental burden imposed by used products becomes increasingly important Environmental issues are becoming increasingly relevant for product designers and manufacturers. Public awareness of the value and fragility of an intact ecology is constantly growing, and the traditional assumption that the cost of ecological burdens to be shared by a society, as a whole is no longer accepted. Environmental protection legislation requiring manufacturers to take back and recycle used products will be a commonplace throughout Europe and the U.S. in the near future.
Demanufacturing involves separating and disassembling a \u27product\u27 into its smaller \u27subassemblies\u27 and \u27components\u27. Unfastening carries out the physical separation itself and other separation techniques are also used to separate the unfastened component. There are two types of Disassembly methods they are destructive disassembly and non-destructive. The term \u27product\u27 means a complete entity, such as an automobile, a washing machine, etc. \u27Sub-assembly\u27 refers to a product .A \u27component\u27 is a subassembly that cannot be disassembled any further.
The principle aims and objectives of this research are to analyze the mechanical aspects of demanufacturing a component with respect to fasteners and disassembly Processes. This research involved developing Disassembly Effort Index Metrics (DEIM) for a wide variety of industrial fasteners, destructive and non destructive disassembly processes.
The industrial Fasteners were separated into four categories i.e. One Piece Fasteners, Two Piece Fasteners, Integral Fasteners and Miscellaneous Fasteners. They were analyzed with respect to the accessibility of a fastener with respect to the part, tools necessary to disassemble them, time needed to unfasten them, part hold and fixturing issues ,forces needed to unfasten them and instructions to the dissemblers to dissemble the fastener. A scoring pattern was developed.
The Disassembly Processes were categorized into Non-Destructive Disassembly and Destructive Disassembly. The Non-Destructive Disassembly methods like Magnetic Separation, Suction and Drainage, Self Removal, Separation of both Fastened and Unfastened Components, and only two of the Destructive Disassembly methods i.e. Weld Breakage and Impact breakage were analyzed using Disassembly Effort Index Metrics (DEIM) parameters. The DEIM parameters, for the Disassembly Processes are, time needed to disassemble the component, tools needed to separate them, Forces (both human and Machine), Part hold , Process Instructions and Hazard Tools. The scoring pattern was developed
Unusual formation and sub-omohyoid course of external jugular vein.
Variations in the origin and termination of external jugular vein are common and are reported in the past. However, variations in the course of external jugular vein are uncommon. During routine dissection classes for medical undergraduates, we came across the unusual formation and course of right external jugular vein and absence of common facial vein, in an approximately 60-year-old male cadaver of Indian origin. External jugular vein was formed by the continuation of undivided trunk of retromandibular vein. Following its formation, it passed vertically superficial to sternocleidomastoid muscle to the lower part of occipital triangle. In the occipital triangle it pierced the investing layer of deep cervical fascia and passed deep to the inferior belly of omohyoid muscle and coursed through the subclavian triangle. Then, it terminated at the junction of subclavian vein with internal jugular vein. Facial vein joined with submental vein and finally drained into internal jugular vein. Further, the posterior auricular vein and anterior jugular veins were absent. Knowledge about the variations of the retromandibular vein, common facial vein and external jugular vein observed in this study, may be important for the surgeons, to prevent inadvertent injury and excessive bleeding during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
Kinetic energy functional for Fermi vapors in spherical harmonic confinement
Two equations are constructed which reflect, for fermions moving
independently in a spherical harmonic potential, a differential virial theorem
and a relation between the turning points of kinetic energy and particle
densities. These equations are used to derive a differential equation for the
particle density and a non-local kinetic energy functional.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Metastable states of a ferromagnet on random thin graphs
We calculate the mean number of metastable states of an Ising ferromagnet on
random thin graphs of fixed connectivity c. We find, as for mean field spin
glasses that this mean increases exponentially with the number of sites, and is
the same as that calculated for the +/- J spin glass on the same graphs. An
annealed calculation of the number <N_{MS}(E)> of metastable states of energy E
is carried out. For small c, an analytic result is obtained. The result is
compared with the one obtained for spin glasses in order to discuss the role
played by loops on thin graphs and hence the effect of real frustration on the
distribution of metastable states.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
Effect of pregnancy on median and ulnar nerve conduction
Background: Pregnancy causes altered function of excitable membranes such as muscle and nerve, due to hormonal changes and edema. We failed to find any studies focusing on the issue of nerve conduction during pregnancy, in India. Thus present study aims to see the difference between nerve conduction parameters viz. motor and sensory conduction, in pregnant and non-pregnant women.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in randomly selected 30 pregnant women, of any age, in 28-40 weeks of gestation and age matched non-pregnant controls. We studied distal motor latency, compound muscle action potential amplitude, motor nerve conduction velocity, F-minimum latency, sensory latency, sensory nerve action potential amplitude and sensory nerve conduction velocity in bilateral median and ulnar nerves using Aleron-RMS.Results: Present study found no statistically significant difference between motor and sensory conduction of above said nerves in pregnant and nonpregnant women, except F minimum latency of left median nerve in pregnant women and sensory latency of left ulnar nerve in non-pregnant women were prolonged significantly (p<0.05).Conclusions: All motor and sensory parameters of bilateral median and ulnar nerves were normal as compared to non-pregnant controls
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