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Does Knowledge Sharing and Technopreneurship Affect Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Developing Economies? Using The SME and ANOVA Approaches
No full textThis study on technopreneurship aims to reconfigure entrepreneurial outcomes, but how knowledge sharing moderates the interaction is an academic and practical concern. This study focuses on how knowledge sharing and technopreneurship affect the entrepreneurial outcome in Bangladeshi small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This research has established the following aims to establish a meaningful association between technopreneurship, knowledge sharing, and the outcomes of entrepreneurial endeavours. In pursuit of knowledge, data were collected through primary sources after establishing the questionnaire's validity and reliability. Findings revealed that technopreneurship and knowledge sharing individually affected entrepreneurial outcomes. However, knowledge sharing could not significantly moderate the interaction between technopreneurship and entrepreneurial outcomes. Hence, the recommendation was anchored on improving knowledge sharing, technopreneurship, and managerial dexterity of owners and managers
More than Meets the Eye: A Qualitative Investigation of the Complex Weight History Constructions of Brazilian Women Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery
No full textMost studies on bariatric surgery identify personal factors such as “non-compliance” to lifestyle changes as the cause of weight gain and subsequent inability to lose weight. Prior qualitative studies suggest that weight loss patients have complicated relationships with both self and weight, with significant emotional and psychological implications. But how do patients themselves understand the trajectories of their weight gain as related to intrinsic versus extrinsic factors? A qualitative analysis examined the aspects involved in the construction of higher body weight from the perspectives and life experiences of Brazilian women who underwent bariatric surgery, considering that Brazil has previously been reported as a highly anti-fat society. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty women (15 aged 33-59 and 15 aged 63-72). Data were analyzed identifying the regular, expressive, and meaningful significance units identified through the interviews. Although it was expected that different life events were reported as crucial to the perceived aetiology of individual weight gain stories, the participants reported that the emotional aspects had more impact. The extremely high value attached to having a particular body weight negatively influenced the participants’ concept of identity and harmed their interactions and understanding of what it meant to be fully loved and accepted. Most of the participants underscored the importance of food in women’s lived experiences and explanations of weight gain. Despite this somatic response being dysfunctionally directed to food, this mechanism seemed to be vital to keeping them alive and engaged in the world. Finally, the participants faced layered vulnerabilities, which decreased their opportunities to access resources aimed at better body weight management. Broad approaches that consider emotional and physical care strategies must be proposed to this population
Data, Analytics, and Intelligence
No full textWe are living in an age of big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). After reviewing a dozen different books on big data, data analytics, data science, AI, and business intelligence (BI), there are the current questions: 1) What are the relationships between data, analytics, and intelligence? 2) What are the relationships between big data and big data analytics? 3) What is the relationship between BI and data analytics? This article first discusses the heuristics of the Greek philosopher Plato and French mathematician Descartes and how to reshape the world. Then it addresses the above questions based on a Boolean structure, which destructs big data, data analytics, data science, and AI into data, analytics, and intelligence as the Boolean atoms. Data, analytics, and intelligence are reorganized and reassembled, based on the Boolean structure, to data analytics, analytics intelligence, data intelligence, and data analytics intelligence. The research will analyse each of them after examining the system intelligence. The proposed approach in this research might facilitate the research and development of big data, data analytics, AI, and data science
Thermal Analysis of Concrete Mixtures with Recycled EPS Aggregates
No full textReusing recycled waste materials in buildings is gaining more and more attention for what it offers economic, environmental, and energy benefits; and many researchers are nowadays working on producing new sustainable construction materials incorporating recycled wastes. In this scope, this work uses an experimental approach aiming at understanding the effect of incorporating Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) beads in concrete and proposing thermally improved concrete mixtures for the production of hollow blocks in Lebanese constructions by substituting fine aggregates with recycled products such as EPS in order to promote their insulating properties. Three different diameters of EPS beads (2 mm ~ 3 mm, 3 mm ~ 4 mm and 4 mm ~ 5 mm) are studied with different volumetric ratios (20%, 40%, 60% and 80%) in order to investigate the effect of EPS on the thermal properties of concrete. The results showed that the only the percentage of incorporated EPS beads impacted the thermal performance of the concrete mixtures while the EPS diameters have a negligible effect on the thermal properties of the concrete samples
Global Effect of Climate Change on Seasonal Cycles, Vector Population and Rising Challenges of Communicable Diseases: A Review
No full textThis article explains ongoing changes in global climate and their effect on the resurgence of vector and pathogen populations in various parts of the world. Today, major prevailing changes are the elevation of global temperature and accidental torrent rains, floods, droughts, and loss of productivity and food commodities. Due to the increase in water surface area and the longer presence of flood water, the breeding of insect vectors becomes very high; it is responsible for the emergence and re-emergence of so many communicable diseases. Due to the development of resistance to chemicals in insect pests, and pathogens and lack of control measures, communicable zoonotic diseases are remerging with high infectivity and mortality. This condition is becoming more alarming as the climate is favoring pathogen-host interactions and vector populations. Rapid changes seen in meteorology are promoting an unmanageable array of vector-borne infectious diseases, such as malaria, Japanese encephalitis, filarial, dengue, and leishmaniasis. Similarly, due to unhygienic conditions, poor sanitation, and infected ground and surface water outbreak of enteric infections such as cholera, vibriosis, and rotavirus is seen on the rise. In addition, parasitic infection ascariasis, fasciolosis, schistosomiasis, and dysentery cases are increasing. Today climate change is a major issue and challenge that needs timely quick solutions. Climate change is imposing non-adaptive forced human migration territorial conflicts, decreasing ecosystem productivity, disease outbreaks, and impelling unequal resource utilization. Rapid climate changes, parasites, pathogens, and vector populations are on the rise, which is making great threats to global health and the environment. This article highlighted the necessity to develop new strategies and control measures to cut down rising vector and pathogen populations in endemic areas. For finding quick solutions educational awareness, technology up-gradation, new vaccines, and safety measures have to be adopted to break the cycle of dreadful communicable diseases shortly
Analyzing the Effects of Tool Holder Stiffness on Chatter Vibration Reduction in Turning
No full textThis paper investigates the effects of tool holder materials on chatter vibration in turning operations. The study uses a complex dynamic turning model with two degrees of freedom for the orthogonal cutting system. Tool holders made from different materials, including Al 5083, Al 6082, Al 7012, and a standard 4140 material, were subjected to chatter vibration to investigate their process damping capabilities. The study found that the standard tool holder 4140 allows for higher stable depths of cut and produces similar process damping values compared to the other tool holders. Finite element analyses (FEA) were performed to verify the experimental results, and the modal and FEA analyses produced very similar results. The study concludes that future research should investigate the effects of tool holders made from high alloy steel alloys on process damping. Overall, this paper provides important insights into the effects of tool holder materials on chatter vibration and process damping in turning operations, which can help in the design of more efficient and effective cutting systems
Mobile Banking and Commercial Bank Performance Nexus in Zimbabwe (2011-2021): Impact and Implications
No full textThe study investigated mobile banking and commercial banks’ performance nexus in Zimbabwe for the period 2011-2021. The investigation employed a pragmatic approach and a descriptive design. Primary data as well as secondary data were used to achieve the study objectives. Questionnaires, interviews and documentary guides were used to collect primary and secondary data respectively. There were 108 questionnaires distributed to staff members and customers of 6 sampled commercial banks in Zimbabwe having mobile banking experience. The interview guide was administered to bank managers to get a deeper understanding of the topic under research and as a mitigation strategy for addressing the flaws of the questionnaires. Analysis of quantitative data utilised descriptive analysis tools, correlations analysis tools as well as regression analysis tools whereas theme analysis was used for qualitative data. SPSS version 26 was used for this purpose. The study implications established that mobile banking and commercial banks’ performance nexus in Zimbabwe was significant and also enhanced mobile banking security capabilities and strengthened commercial banks’ performance. The investigation concluded that mobile banking’s success in enhancing commercial banks’ performance hinged on its ability to allow the user to get easier, cheaper and timely access to services. However, the study results showed that the cost of mobile banking services, government policies and intense competition inhibited the uptake of banking services. Commercial banks are recommended to continue strengthening the security of mobile banking services and to boost their uptake by bank customers in Zimbabwe. 
Quality Decisions Based on Time between Events Data Analysis
No full textGood decisions (Quality Decisions) depend on scientific analysis of data. Data are collected, generally, in two ways: 1) one sample of suitable size, 2) subsequent samples, at regular intervals of time. Often the data are considered normally distributed. This is wrong because the data must be analysed according to their distribution: Decisions are different. In several cases the data are exponentially distributed: we see how to scientifically deal with Control Charts (CC) to decide; this is opposite to what gives the T Charts that are claimed to be a good method for dealing with “rare events”: The Minitab Software (19 & 20 & 21) for “T Charts” is considered. The author will compare some methods, found in the literature with the author’s Theory RIT (Reliability Integral Theory): We will see various cases found in the literature. Classical Shewhart Control Charts and the TBE (Time Between Events) Control Charts have been considered: it appears that with RIT the future decisions will be both sounder and cheaper, for data is exponentially distributed. The novelty of the paper is in the scientific way of dealing with the Control Charts and their Control Limits, both with normally distributed data and with exponentially distributed data. In this way, a lot of wrong published papers on “Time Between Events” are to be discarded, even if their authors claim “We used Standard Statistical methods, typical in the vast literature of similar papers”. The author had to self-cite because it seems the only one that has been fighting for years for “Papers Quality”; he humbly asked the readers to inform him if some people did the sam
An Analysis of Two Aged Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
No full textWhat methods would you choose apart from purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test and culture for acid-fasting bacilli (AFB) to make a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in an aged patient with possible TB? These are two cases of pulmonary TB, that occurred with persistent low-grade fever, fatigue and anorexia due to a mild toxemia of tuberculosis. A final diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis was established on the basis of mild toxemia(low-grade fever), debilitation and characteristic pulmonary CT imaging, free of PPD and interferon-gamma release assay (T-spot). The authors realized that the dosage of anti-tuberculosis drugs should be carefully controlled and the improvement of their overall nutritional status to gain better efficacy is much more needed
Editorial on Emerging Trends in Polymeric Materials Research and Applications
No full textPolymeric materials especially nanocomposites (Graphene, MXene based) are widely used in food, electronics, biomedical, batteries, energy storage, fuel cells, wastewater treatment, and automotive. Nanocomposites are stronger, lighter, and stiffer and can improve properties such as mechanical strength, electrical conductivity, thermal stability, flame retardancy, surface appearance, optical clarity and chemical resistance. Current research is focusing on nanocomposites applications, CO2 capturing polymers, making polymers degradable especially developing bio composites and green compositeswhich are degradable, use of deep eutectic solvents for biomass pretreatment to manufacture bio composites or green composites and polymeric composites as drilling fluids and their use in developing ceramics and to construct sequence-controlled and complex topological structures through control of polymerization methodologies.