Analisa Pengaruh Price Service Quality, Dan Corporate Image Terhadap Customer Loyalty Dengan Customer Satisfaction Sebagai Variabel Intervening Konsumen Ipo Korean Cafe Dan Restaurant Suarabaya

Ipo Korean Cafe dan Restaurant tergolong dalam bisnis restoran yang masih baru di pasar, sehingga perlu untuk mengatur price, service quality, dan corporate image yang tepat agar dapat memberikan kepuasan bagi konsumennya dan pada akhirnya membentuk loyalitas.Penelitian dilakukan dengan membagikan kuisioner kepada 200 responden dengan perhitungan Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa service quality, corporate image dan price berpengaruh signifikan dan positif terhadap customer satisfaction dan customer satisfaction berpengaruh signifikan positif terhadap customer loyalty. Faktor yang berpengaruh dominan terhadap customer satisfaction di Ipo Korean Café and Restaurant Surabaya adalah service qualit

Mitochondria-encoded genes contribute to evolution of heat and cold tolerance in yeast

Genetic analysis of phenotypic differences between species is typically limited to interfertile species. Here, we conducted a genome-wide noncomplementation screen to identify genes that contribute to a major difference in thermal growth profile between two reproductively isolated yeast species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces uvarum. The screen identified only a single nuclear-encoded gene with a moderate effect on heat tolerance, but, in contrast, revealed a large effect of mitochondrial DNA (mitotype) on both heat and cold tolerance. Recombinant mitotypes indicate that multiple genes contribute to thermal divergence, and we show that protein divergence in COX1 affects both heat and cold tolerance. Our results point to the yeast mitochondrial genome as an evolutionary hotspot for thermal divergence.This work was supported by the NIH (grant GM080669) to J.C.F. Additional support to C.T.H. was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Hatch project 1003258), the National Science Foundation (DEB-1253634), and the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE BER Office of Science DE-SC0018409 and DE-FC02-07ER64494 to T. J. Donohue). C.T.H. is a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Vilas Trust Estate, respectively. D.P. is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 747775).Peer reviewe

Penerapan Prinsip-prinsip Good Corporate Governance pada Perusahaan Keluarga di Bidang Distribusi Gula

Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang penerapan Corporate Governance dengan menggunakan prinsip transparansi, akuntabilitas, responsibilitas, independensi, dan kesetaraan. peneliti mengumpulkan data dengan metode wawancara dan observasi. Setelah mendapatkan data, peneliti memastikan keabsahan data dengan metode trianggulasi sumber, yaitu dengan membandingkan hasil wawancara , data- tertulis dan juga hasil observasi. Dari penelitian yang dilakukan oleh penulis, ditemukan bahwa Perusaahaan telah melaksanakan sebagian dari prinsip-prinsip GCG. Rekomendasi penulis kepada Perusahaan adalah agar Perusahaan dapat menerapkan seluruh prinsip GCG dengan baik melalui perbaikan prinsip akuntabilitas dan independensi untuk meningkatkan kinerja Perusahaan

Green Procurement Practices and Barriers in Furniture Manufacturing Companies

Lack of awareness is the most significant barrier to implementing green procurement practices among procurement managers. Procurement managers seldom consider the effects of procurement on the environment. This situation will cause many environmental problems such as carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, greenhouse effects, pollution, and deforestation. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the current practices of green procurement in furniture manufacturing companies. Additionally, this study intends to determine barriers to green procurement practices in furniture manufacturing companies. In this study, 118 procurement officers and managers were chosen randomly from furniture manufacturing companies in Batu Pahat, Johor. This study applied a quantitative method and utilized the Statistical Package Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0 to analyse the data from the responses of questionnaires. Descriptive analysis was employed to achieve the research objectives. The findings of this study have revealed that current practices of green procurement in furniture manufacturing companies include ensuring the safe, incoming movement of product to facilities, followed by ensuring that suppliers locations are operated in a safe manner. Meanwhile, the main barrier to green procurement practices is that procedures for the implementation of green procurement are time-consuming. This study is important for furniture manufacturing companies to use green procurement practices in their operation and production processes

A Systematic Review on Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) as a Biosorbent of Cadmium

Water hyacinth has gained a noteworthy reputation as the worst invasive macrophyte for its alarming proliferation rates, threatening transportation and irrigation systems and ecosystem biodiversity. Sustainable efforts have found the plant to demonstrate efficiency in sequestering toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from marine environments. Cadmium presence in water, primarily caused by anthropogenic sources, poses public health risks due to its toxicity. Consequently, studies on the applications of Eichhornia crassipes and the removal of cadmium have become active research areas in recent decades. This review presents literature related to the Cd sorption capacity of water hyacinth biosorbents. The effects and optimization of parameters including treatment, temperature, pH, initial sorbate and sorbent concentration have been explored in classical and competitive adsorption models. Investigations on kinetics, equilibrium, and desorption studies have also been conducted. From the gathered literature, water hyacinth biosorbents show potential for industrial-scale applications, but its metal recovery and utilization in multi-metal and continuous sorption may require further evaluation

Particle-Based Monte-Carlo Simulations of Steady-State Mass Transport at Intermediate Péclet Numbers

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of dilute particles under diffusive and advective transport involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we present an alternative computational strategy by combining a particle-based rather than a field-based approach with the initialisation of particles in proportion to their flux. This method allows accurate prediction of the steady state and is applicable even at intermediate and high Péclet numbers (Pe>1) swhere traditional particle-based Monte-Carlo methods starting from randomly initialised particle distributions fail. We demonstrate that generating a flux of particles according to a predetermined density and velocity distribution at a single fixed time and initial location allows for accurate simulation of mass transport under flow. Specifically, upon initialisation in proportion to their flux, these particles are propagated individually and detected by summing up their Monte-Carlo trajectories in predefined detection regions. We demonstrate quantitative agreement of the predicted concentration profiles with the results of experiments performed with fluorescent particles in microfluidic channels under continuous flow. This approach is computationally advantageous and readily allows non-trivial initial distributions to be considered. In particular, this method is highly suitable for simulating advective and diffusive transport in microfluidic devices, for instance in the context of diffusive sizing.Financial support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the European Research Council (ERC), the Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged

Performance of a C4F8O Gas Radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector Using Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes

We report on test results of a novel ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detection system consisting of a 3 meter long gaseous C4F8O radiator, a focusing mirror, and a photon detector array based on Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. This system was developed to identify charged particles in the momentum range from 3-70 GeV/c for the BTeV experiment.Comment: 28 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Method

Particle-Based Monte-Carlo Simulations of Steady-State Mass Transport at Intermediate Péclet Numbers

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of dilute particles under diffusive and advective transport numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we present an alternative computational strategy by combining a particle-based rather than a field-based approach with the initialisation of particles in proportion to their flux. This method allows accurate prediction of the steady state and is applicable even at intermediate and high Péclet numbers (Pe>1) where traditional particle-based Monte-Carlo methods starting from randomly initialised particle distributions fail. We demonstrate that generating a flux of particles according to a predetermined density and velocity distribution at a single fixed time and initial location allows for accurate simulation of mass transport under flow. Specifically, upon initialisation in proportion to their flux, these particles are propagated individually and detected by summing up their Monte-Carlo trajectories in predefined detection regions. We demonstrate quantitative agreement of the predicted concentration profiles with the results of experiments performed with fluorescent particles in microfluidic channels under continuous flow. This approach is computationally advantageous and readily allows non-trivial initial distributions to be considered. In particular, this method is highly suitable for simulating advective and diffusive transport in microfluidic devices, for instance in the context of diffusive sizing.Financial support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the European Research Council (ERC), the Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged

Cognitive dysfunction in patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy: a multimodality functional imaging study to evaluate neuroinflammation

BACKGROUND: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer is implicated as a possible cause of cognitive impairment (CI). CI in dementia and Alzheimer's disease is associated with neuroinflammation. In this study, we investigated a potential role of neuroinflammation in ADT-related CI. METHODS: Patients with prostate cancer on ADT for ≥3 months were categorized as having ADT-emergent CI or normal cognition (NC) based on self-report at interview. Neuroinflammation was evaluated using positron emission tomography (PET) with the translocator protein (TSPO) radioligand [11C]-PBR28. [11C]-PBR28 uptake in various brain regions was quantified as standardized uptake value (SUVR, normalized to cerebellum) and related to blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) choice-reaction time task (CRT) activation maps. RESULTS: Eleven patients underwent PET: four with reported CI (rCI), six with reported NC (rNC), and one status unrecorded. PET did not reveal any between-group differences in SUVR regionally or globally. There was no difference between groups on brain activation to the CRT. Regardless of the reported cognitive status, there was strong correlation between PET-TSPO signal and CRT activation in the hippocampus, amygdala, and medial cortex. CONCLUSIONS: We found no difference in neuroinflammation measured by PET-TSPO between patients with rCI and rNC. However, we speculate that the strong correlation between TSPO uptake and BOLD-fMRI activation in brain regions involved in memory and known to have high androgen-receptor expression mediating plasticity (hippocampus and amygdala) might reflect inflammatory effects of ADT with compensatory upregulated/increased synaptic functions. Further studies of this imaging readout are warranted to investigate ADT-related CI