WORK TOGETHER… WHEN APART CHALLENGES AND WHAT IS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS

Increasingly competitive global markets and accelerating technological changes have increased the need for people to contact via electronic medium to have daily updates, the people those who could not able to meet face to face every day. Those who contact via electronic medium i.e. Virtual Team, are having number of benefit but to achieve these potential benefits, however, leaders need to overcome liabilities inherent in the lack of direct contact among team members and managers. Team members may not naturally know how to interact effectively across space and time. By this paper author try to throw some lights on the challenges that virtual team faces and try to elaborate what is needed for Virtual Team

Implementasi Reformasi Birokrasi di Kepegawaian Daerah dalam Penyelenggaraan Good Governance (Studi di Bkdd Minahasa Tenggara)

Bureaucratic reform is basically an effort to reform and fundamental changes to the system of governance, especially concerning institutional aspects (organization), management (business process) and human resources. Various problems / barriers that lead to the system of governance is not running or is not expected to run properly must be reorganized or updated. Bureaucratic reform was implemented in order to realize good governance (good governance). In other words, reform is a strategic move to build the state apparatus in order to be more efficient and effective in carrying out general governance and national development. Therefore, the government must have a concept or new idea in the bureaucracy of policy instruments, as a systemic choice. According to the shape and spatial implementation that have long-term consequences are carefully considering the interests of central and local government, especially the more priority to the public interest for good governance

Low uptake of antiretroviral therapy after admission with human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

A prospective cohort study was conducted among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected in-patients with tuberculosis (TB) or other opportunistic infections (OIs) in South Africa to estimate subsequent antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and survival

Evolution Of Special Ruled Surfaces Via The Evolution Of Their Directrices In Euclidean 3-Space E3

In this paper, evolutions of ruled surfaces that are generated by the normal and binormal vector fields of space curve (normal and binormal surfaces) are presented. These evolutions of the ruled surfaces depend on the evolutions of their directrices. Geometric visualization of these ruled surfaces are presented. In addition, the conditions which make these surfaces of types inextensible, developable and minimal are obtained

Dual amplitude with arbitrary trajectories

A crossing-symmetric amplitude with Regge behavior is proposed. With arbitrary Regge trajectories, it avoids ancestor and ghost difficulties and possesses second-sheet resonances which may be finite in number. The N-point and ππ amplitudes are given

Mutual Fund Performance Advertising: Inherently and Materially Misleading?

Mutual fund companies routinely advertise the pastreturns of their strong-performing, actively-managedequity funds. These performance advertisements implythat the advertised high past returns are likely tocontinue. Indeed, investors flock to these funds despitehigh past returns being a poor predictor of high futurereturns. Thus, fund performance advertising is inherentlyand materially misleading and violates federal securitiesantifraud standards. In addition, the SEC-mandatedwarning in these advertisements that past performancedoes not guarantee future results fails to temper investors\u27focus on past returns.The SEC should do more to prevent investors from beingmisled by fund performance advertisements. It should atleast require a stronger warning that makes clear thathigh returns by actively-managed mutual funds generallydo not persist. The SEC should also seriously considerreinstating its prior prohibition of performanceadvertisements. Such a ban would help investors focus onmore important fund characteristics,such a fund\u27s costs,risk, and the extent to which the fund\u27s investmentobjective matches that of the investor

Recycling of mine wastes as raw materials for the construction sector: Solutions based on materials circularity and sustainable resource governance

The mining industry in general, and the phosphate industry in specific is an important mainstream in terms of waste rocks as it generates huge amounts of waste rocks and tailings during their activities. As a matter of example, the phosphate mining in Morocco produces amounts up to 150 million tons or even more of waste rocks and tailings each year. Non-polluting mine wastes (Tailings and waste rock) must be regarded as an opportunity to create new value. The reuse of these wastes, depending on their chemical, mineralogical and geotechnical properties, as alternative raw material in construction and building materials field constitutes a promising environmental solution. The main objective of our studies in Morocco was to investigate the feasibility of using non-polluting mine wastes to produce materials especially for the construction sector, such as using phosphate mine wastes as cementing materials, as additives in mortars or concrete, or as raw materials for bricks, ceramics and geopolymers or aggregates for roads construction and B25 concrete. The phosphate waste rock has to be classified in the category of natural aggregates that are similar to conventional materials. Laboratory and pilot scale investigations demonstrated that recycling mine wastes from may be feasible. The presentation will be focused mainly will be focused mainly on the valorization of phosphate waste rock an alternative aggregate in the construction sector. In addition, Jerada coal mine wastes recycling investigate the use of an integrated and circular approach based on coal recovery and waste rock recycling as alternative clays and aggregates (gravel and sand) in the construction sector. Froth flotation was used to recover coal particles using diesel as a collector and Methyl Isobutyl Carbinol as a frother. The tailings of coal flotation process (CFT) were used to manufacture fired bricks at a pilot scale. Then, gravel and sand obtained after a CMWR screening were tested as alternative materials for concrete production. The choice of the construction sector is based on its capacity to absorb huge quantity of materials

A note on the integrable discretization of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

We revisit integrable discretizations for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation due to Ablowitz and Ladik. We demonstrate how their main drawback, the non-locality, can be overcome. Namely, we factorize the non-local difference scheme into the product of local ones. This must improve the performance of the scheme in the numerical computations dramatically. Using the equivalence of the Ablowitz--Ladik and the relativistic Toda hierarchies, we find the interpolating Hamiltonians for the local schemes and show how to solve them in terms of matrix factorizations.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX, revised and extended versio