Employee Engagement and Employee Performance at Myint & Associates Telecommunication Ltd.

This study aimsto examine the influence of job resources on employee engagement and to analyze the effect of employee engagement on employee performance of Myint & Associates Telecommunications Ltd. The study is conducted based on the survey with 140 employees. This study employed a quantitative research design by using self-administered questionnaires. Among the job resources factors, job autonomy and performance feedback have positive impact on employee engagement. Freedom in carrying out work activities, participating in making the strategic decision and providing timely and effective performance feedback can increase employee engagement. In addition, the result of the study describes that the level of employee engagement has positive significant effect on employee performance. Higher employee engagement will lead to higher employee performance. This study highlights the drivers of employee engagement and influence of employee engagement on employee performance, therefore, the management of Myint & Associates Telecommunications Ltd. should more focus on job autonomy and performance feedback than any other job resource factors to increase employee engagement. After that, the management can also increase employee performance through the employee engagement

Searching for the 1912 Maymyo earthquake:new evidence from paleoseismic investigations along the Kyaukkyan Fault, Myanmar

The Great Burma earthquake (MsGR 8.0; Ms 7.6–7.7) occurred on May 23rd, 1912, and was one of the most remarkable early 1900's seismic events in Asia as described by Gutenberg and Richter (1954). The earthquake, focused near Maymyo, struck the Northern Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Contemporary evaluation of damage distribution and oral accounts led to a correlation between the earthquake and the topographically prominent Kyaukkyan Fault near the western margin of the Shan Plateau, although direct evidence has never been reported. This study aims to find evidence of paleoseismic activity, and to better understand the relationship between the 1912 earthquake and the Kyaukkyan Fault. Paleoseismic trenching along the Kyaukkyan Fault revealed evidence of several surface rupturing events. The northernmost trench exposes at least two visible rupture events since 4660 ± 30 BP: an older rupture stratigraphically constrained by AMS 14C dating to between 4660 ± 30 BP and 1270 ± 30 BP, and a younger rupture formed after 1270 ± 30 BP. The presence of pottery, bricks and cookingrelated charcoal in the younger faulted stratigraphy demonstrates Kyaukkyan Fault activity within human times, and a possible correlation between the younger rupture and the 1912 Maymyo earthquake is not excluded. The southern paleoseismic trench, within a broad transtensional basin far from bounding faults, exposes two (undated) surface ruptures. Further study is required to correlate those ruptures to the events dated in the north. These preliminary paleoseismological results constitute the first quantitative evidence of paleoseismic activity along the northern ~160 km of the Kyaukkyan Fault, and support existing evidence that the Kyaukkyan Fault is an active but slow-slipping structure with a long interseismic period.Published75-862T. Deformazione crostale attivaJCR Journa

Developing Word-aligned Myanmar-English Parallel Corpus based on the IBM Models

Word alignment in bilingual corpora has been an active research topic in the Machine Translation research groups. Corpus is the body of text collections, which are useful for Language Processing (NLP). Parallel text alignment is the identification of the corresponding sentences in the parallel text. Large collections of parallel level are prerequisite for many areas of linguistic research. Parallel corpus helps in making statistical bilingual dictionary, in supporting statistical machine translation and in supporting as training data for word sense disambiguation and translation disambiguation. Nowadays, the world is a global network and everybody will be learned more than one language. So, multilingual corpora are more processing. Thus, the main purpose of this system is to construct word-aligned parallel corpus to be able in Myanmar-English machine translation. One useful concept is to identify correspondences between words in one language and in other language. The proposed approach is based on the first three IBM models and EM algorithm. It also shows that the approach can also be improved by using a list of cognates and morphological analysis

ESTIMATION OF SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE BASED ON MICROTREMOR, BORE HOLE OBSERVATIONS AND STOCHASTIC STRONG GROUND MOTION SIMULATIONS IN PALU CITY, CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA: A VALIDATION AND SENSITIVITY STUDY ON THE 23 JANUARY 2005 (PALU) EARTHQUAKE

In this study, we investigated the subsurface structure and strong ground motion parameters for Palu City. One of the major structures in Central Sulawesi is the Palu-Koro Fault system. Several powerful earthquakes have struck along the Palu-Koro Fault during recent years, one of the largest of which was an M 6.3 event that occurred on January 23, 2005 and caused several casualties. Following the event, we conducted a microtremor survey to estimate the shaking intensity distribution during the earthquake. From this survey we produced a map of the peak ground acceleration, velocity and ground shear strain in Palu City. We performed single observations of microtremors at 151 sites in Palu City. The results enabled us to estimate the site-dependent shaking characteristics of earthquake ground motion. We also conducted 8-site microtremor array investigation to gain a representative determination of the soil condition of subsurface structures in Palu. From the dispersion curve of array observations, the central business district of Palu corresponds to relatively soil condition with Vs ≤ 300 m/s, the predominant periods due to horizontal vertical ratios (HVSRs) are in the range of 0.4 to 1.8 s and the resonant frequency are in the range of 0.7 to 3.3 Hz. Three boreholes were throughout the basin especially in Palu area to evaluate the geotechnical properties of subsurface soil layers. The depths are varying from 1 m to 30 m. Strong ground motions of the Palu area were predicted based on the empirical stochastic green’s function method. Peak ground acceleration and peak ground velocity becomes more than 0.04 g and 30 kine in some areas, which causes severe damage for buildings in high probability. Keywords: Palu-Koro fault, microtremor, bore holes, peak ground acceleration and velocity

SITE RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF H/V SPECTRUM BY MICROTREMOR SINGLE STATION OBSERVATIONS AT PALU CITY, INDONESIA

In this study, we estimated predominant period of an H/V spectrum in Palu City, Indonesia, by using microtremor single station observations. Sulawesi Island, eastern Indonesia, is located at the junction between the converging Pacific-Philippine, Indo- Australian Plates and the Eurasian Plate. One of the major structures in Central Sulawesi is the Palu- Koro Fault system, which extends NNW-SSE direction and cross-cuts Sulawesi along more than 300 km from the North Sulawesi trench passing southward through Palu Bay then turn to the southeast, connecting to the Matano and Lawanopo Faults and further eastward both faults join to Tolo trench. Several earthquakes have been known along Palu-Koro Fault system such as Gimpu earthquake (1905), Kulawi earthquake (1907), Kantewu earthquake (1934), and offshore Donggala earthquake (1968) which caused tsunami that destroyed 800 houses and killed 200 people at Donggala district. Palu City, located at the northern tip of Palu depression, is a capital of the Central Sulawesi Province. It is located in the active seismic zone of the Palu-Koro fault. Spectral ratios for horizontal and vertical motion (H/V) from single-station microtremor records were used to identify the predominant periods of the ground vi- brations. Understanding the parameters of predominant period[s] and seismichazard is important for mitigation and environmental planning of the Palu region. Keywords: H/V spectrum, predominant period[s], microtremor single station observatio

Study on Wind Flow Behaviours of High Rise Buildings with CFD Simulation

Wind distribution flows are very important for designer to develop new urban planning and new design buildings. The aim of this paper research was to investigate wind flow behaviours around the buildings cluster.  Present work used a three dimensional scale down model of buildings where transient flow analysis was done. CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is the main research method to investigate the wind environment around building complexes. Numerical investigation of air flow pattern around a cluster of existing high rise structures located in Mandalay city was carried out. It has been implemented through ANSYS Fluent 17.0 using SIMPLE algorithm as solver. Standard k- ɛ model was used for turbulence modelling. The inflow Basic Wind Speed in Mandalay is 80 mph. The inflow wind velocity profile with height is computed by power law equation and imposed by UDF (C+ program). This simulation was carried out to study the effect of wind directions on velocity distribution around the structures and wind pressure coefficient on the face of the L shape building. Analysis was performed at eight wind directions such as N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW. In these simulation results, high stream line velocities are especially entering into the east side of the Condo A building as obstacles on the wind pathway from the interval between Tower building and L-shape building. When wind strikes building, causing a positive pressure zone to be formed on the windward face and a negative pressure zone is created at the sides and leeward face of the building