Literature Review of The Store Windows Display Influences on Consumers Attractiveness Through the Layout Design

Windows display is one of the important aspect in retail design in order to increase consumer product awareness. The store windows design had been varied especially with the creative visual merchandiser in managing a visual approach of store windows display. Flat type store windows display often used in Bandung Retail, and has characteristic of its own retail brand image to improve attractiveness. Layout design of a store windows display has an important role for the influence of consumer behavior especially in shopping attitudes. This research identify the effects of WAKAI and MANGO store windows display at Trans Studio Mall on consumer attractiveness through the implementation of layout design principles Keywords Store Windows, Retail, Attractiveness, Layout design

On Measuring the top quark mass using the dilepton decay modes

We demonstrate a new likelihood method for extracting the top quark mass from events of the type ttbar-->bW(l+nu)bW(l+nu) This method estimates the top quark mass correctly from an ensemble of dilepton events. The method proposed by Dalitz and Goldstein [1] is shown to result in a systematic underestimation of the top quark mass. Effects due to the spin correlations between the top and anti-top quarks are shown to be unimportant in estimating the mass of the top quark.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB study on new directions for High Energy Physics, Snowmass, Colorad

Low Power Reversible Parallel Binary Adder/Subtractor

In recent years, Reversible Logic is becoming more and more prominent technology having its applications in Low Power CMOS, Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, and Optical Computing. Reversibility plays an important role when energy efficient computations are considered. In this paper, Reversible eight-bit Parallel Binary Adder/Subtractor with Design I, Design II and Design III are proposed. In all the three design approaches, the full Adder and Subtractors are realized in a single unit as compared to only full Subtractor in the existing design. The performance analysis is verified using number reversible gates, Garbage input/outputs and Quantum Cost. It is observed that Reversible eight-bit Parallel Binary Adder/Subtractor with Design III is efficient compared to Design I, Design II and existing design.Comment: 12 pages,VLSICS Journa

HEPATOPROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF ETHANOLIC STEM BARK EXTRACT OF KNEMA ATTENUATA (HOO K. F. AND THOMSON) WARB

Objective: To investigate the hepatoprotective activity of ethanolic stem bark extract (ESBE) of Knema attenuata against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced hepatotoxicity in Wistar rats using both in vivo and in vitro models. Methods: Animals were treated orally with ESBE (250 mg kg-1 and 500 mg kg-1) once daily for 6 d and CCl4 on the 4th d. On the 7th d, animals were sacrificed and the blood samples were collected to measure the serum levels of biochemical parameters, whereas the liver homogenates were utilized for estimating the antioxidant defense. The hepatoprotective efficacy of the extract was further ensured in vitro using human liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cell line against CCl4 induced toxicity. The cell line viability was determined using 3-(4,5-dimethyl thiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Results: ESBE effectively reduced (p<0.001) the elevated serum levels of Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) when compared to the toxicant control group. ESBE 500 mg kg-1significantly raised the antioxidant defense (p<0.0001) by reducing the malondialdehyde (MDA) level and enhancing hepatic reduced glutathione (GSH) level in comparison to the CCl4 control group. The in vitro effect was investigated using CCl4 exposed HepG2 cells. Pretreatment with ESBE showed a dose-dependent increase in percentage cell viability ranged between 44 to 57% at 12.5-100 μg ml-1concentrations (p<0.001, when compared to the control cells).  Conclusion: Present study confirms the hepatoprotective activity of the stem bark extract of K. attenuata against CCl4‑induced liver damage

માનવ અધિકારોના સંદર્ભમાં પ્રવર્તમાન પર્યાવરણ પ્રદુષણ એક વિશ્ર્લેષ્ણાત્મક અભ્યાસ

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ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF KNEMA ATTENUATA (HOOK. F. AND THOMSON) WARB ETHANOLIC STEM BARK EXTRACT IN ALBINO WISTAR RATS

Objective: Knema attenuata (Myristicaceae), popularly known as “wild nutmeg,” is an endemic tree species from Western Ghats, which has been used in folk medicine. Conventionally, the stem bark of K. attenuata is used for treating inflammatory conditions without any scientific information available for the same. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activity of the ethanolic stem bark extract (ESBE) of K. attenuata using in vivo and in vitro screening models. Methods: The ethanolic extract of stem bark was prepared by soxhlation, and its cytotoxicity in RAW 264.7 cell line was assessed using MTT assay method. In vivo anti-inflammatory effect of extract was estimated in rats using carrageenan-induced paw edema model and cotton pellet-induced granuloma model. The in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of the extract was evaluated by cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase inhibition assay, estimation of myeloperoxidase activity, and determination of cellular nitrite levels in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophage cells. Results: Toxic symptoms were not observed for the ESBE. The extract demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory activity in both in vivo and in vitro models. The anti-inflammatory action exhibited by the extract was a result of the inhibition of leukocyte migration and nitric oxide pathway and partially by inhibition of mediators such as prostaglandins and leukotrienes. Conclusion: Findings from the study provide the evidence for the popular use of stem bark extract of K. attenuata as a potential anti-inflammatory agent

Analisis Penerapan Sistem Prosedur Uang Persediaan Dan Ganti Uang Pada Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Ternate Maluku Utara

Bendahara Pengeluaran mengajukan SPP-UP setiap awal tahun anggaran setelah dikeluarkannya SK Kepala Daerah tentang besaran UP. Pada saat Uang Persediaan telah terpakai Bendahara Pengeluaran dapat mengajukan SPP-GU dengan besaran sejumlah SPJ penggunaan Uang Persediaan yang telah disahkan pada periode waktu tertentu. PERMENDAGRI Nomor 13 Tahun 2006 dan PERMENDAGRI No 55 Tahun 2008 telah memberikan Peraturan yang detail tentang Penatausahaan dan Penyusunan Uang Persediaan serta Ganti Uang Persediaan. Tujuan dari Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis apakah penerapan sistem prosedur Uang Persediaan dan Ganti Uang Dinas PU Kota Ternate sudah sesuai dengan Peraturan yang berlaku. Metode Analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan Metode Analisis Deskriptif untuk membahas permasalahan yang sifatnya menguraikan, membandingkan, suatu data atau keadaan, melukiskan dan menerangkan hasil penelitian sehingga dapat ditarik kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Ternate telah sesuai dengan peraturan yang berlaku

Sharps injury in Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM): Experiences of health care workers and students

Sharps injury among health care workers in HUKM has received serious attention lately due to the possible transmission of diseases like HIV, Hepatits B and Hepatitis C, which can cause serious consequences for the victim. The aim of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of the emotional problems experienced by health care workers who had incurred a sharps injury and the coping strategies adopted by them to overcome the problem. A 28 item semi-structured questionnaire was designed by the supervisors and the researcher as there was no existing questionnaire to be adopted, as no research had been carried out in this area prior to this. The target group consisted of 64 health care workers of different categories working in HUKM. Data was collected over a period of five months from November 2000 to March 2001. The results of the study revealed that the most frequently injured were the staff nurses, nearly 90% of whom were emotionally upset and were worried that they might contract a disease. There was no significant difference in the emotional stress experienced by the different categories of the health care workers, all were equally upset about the injury but each category of staff adopted different methods to overcome the tragedy. Open comments and opinions about prevention and the management of the sharps injury in HUKM as given by the respondents here are taken into account. Several views given by the participants were explored and discussed. Finally, several implications for nursing and recommendations have been presente

A Mobile Government Portal for Driving Services in the Malaysian Roads and Transports Department

The use of information technology has been one of the core elements in transforming the way government interacts with its citizens. Mobile government and the delivery of e-services from government are changing the way government governs and interacts with its citizenry. This study was implemented to create a new channel in Malaysia between the Malaysian government and its citizens and residents, to be more interactive with the delivery of e-services from the perspective of the direct service provider. The study examines the current state and the willingness of some developed countries to implement more interactive mobile portal for the delivery of e-services. E-services are present but the sophistication is still in its infancy when used by un-developed countries. Un-developed countries only provide published information and downloadable forms. Most un-developed countries portals provides only one way of communications, all of them still in the basic level of electronic interaction. Delivery of e-services for those countries is far from being mastered by the services provider. It's particularly lacking attention on making the services more interactive. Therefore, there are needs to develop and implement more effective two way of communication between the service providers "Government Ministries" in Malaysia and the users "Citizens"

D2EHPA-sulfuric acid system for simultaneous extraction and recovery of nickel ions via supported liquid membrane process

This research addresses the extraction and recovery of nickel ions from real electroplating wastewater using supported liquid membrane (SLM) process. The process involves three main phase system which are feed, organic and stripping phase. The feed phase containing the nickel electroplating wastewater whereas the organic phase containing the liquid membrane which was immobilized in the membrane support. The liquid membrane was prepared by dissolving certain concentration of D2EHPA in kerosene which acts as a carrier and diluent, respectively. Meanwhile, the membrane support employed was commercial polypropylene membrane with features of 100 µm thickness, 71.9% porosity and 0.10 µm effective pore size. On the other hand, the stripping phase consisting of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) solution which acted as a stripping agent. Parameters such as carrier and stripping agent concentration and feed phase flowrate were examined to obtain the best condition for the extraction and recovery efficiency of nickel. The results revealed that about 44 and 55% of nickel ions successfully extracted and recovered, respectively at the best conditions of 1.0 M of D2EHPA, 3.0 M of H2SO4 and 70 ml/min flowrate of feed phase