91 research outputs found
Longitudinal dynamics of high gain free electron laser amplifiers
No full textWe consider the dynamics of a coherent seed undergoing a free electron laser high gain amplification. We discuss the dispersion of the optical packet during the interaction and study the problem using different formalisms, including that of the Wigner distribution. The analysis we develop is mainly based on a 1D procedure; the inclusion of transverse longitudinal interplay is also briefly discussed. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI
Customer relationship management: A case study on ITS Labtest Bangladesh Ltd.
No full textThis internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Business Administration, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report.Includes bibliographical references (page 61).Now a day, service providers realize the importance of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its potential to help them acquire new customer, retain existing ones and maximize their lifetime value. This paper deals with the role of Customer Relationship Management in testing sector and the need for Customer Relationship Management to increase customer value by using some analytical methods in CRM applications. The main objective is to identify the key factors that influence the extent to which CRM helps to improve the service quality of ITS Labtest Bangladesh Ltd. which is widely known as Intertek.
Intertek is one of the leading inspection, verification, testing and certification companies. This organization is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. But the market is now very much competitive. To survive in the market, there is no other option than providing best services and going a way forward to manage good relationship with customers. However, Intertek maintains electronic CRM, Microsoft dynamics, to manage customer relationship. Through Outlook, employees can access Microsoft CRM sales, marketing and customer service modules to know about target customers, make sales decisions, market competitions, solve problems and get strategic views of the business. Moreover, at the end of every year Intertek arranges a survey to figure out the customer satisfaction level towards its services and encourages expressing their recommendations and expectations from the company. From the survey, it seems to have acceptable level of satisfaction with its customers.
But there is always a room for improvement. At the end of this paper, some suggestions have been given as recommendation to make its services even better.Sabia SultanaM. Business Administratio
Sevilha andando, com “A sevilhana que não se sabia” / Sevilha andando, with “A sevilhana que não se sabia”
No full textResumo: Em 1987, quando foi publicada a coleção de poemas de João Cabral de Melo Neto intitulada Crime na Calle Relator, “A sevilhana que não se sabia” era o segundo na ordem de exposição, logo após o poema homônimo ao livro. Aquele poema foi reproduzido como o primeiro da coleção seguinte do autor, intitulada Sevilha andando (1989), ao passo que deixou de figurar nas reedições do livro em que constara de início. Assim, o poema que era de um livro passou a compor outro, exclusivamente, por iniciativa do próprio autor, para quem importava a constituição do artefato estético que o livro vem a ser. Este traço diferencial na trajetória do autor incide retrospectivamente sobre toda sua obra, a partir desse evento marcante que interfere na compreensão do que constitui um livro, seja sua publicação ou a reunião de poemas que demanda uma apreciação particularizada, de caso a caso, dos poemas entrelaçados entre si. Acompanhando a repercussão do poema no contexto da obra poética em pauta, será feito um cotejo entre as edições disponíveis dos volumes implicados para se chegar a uma compreensão mais palpável do poema, perspectivado ao longo daquela produção poética.Palavras-chave: poesia brasileira moderna; João Cabral de Melo Neto; estilo; editoração.Abstract: In 1987, when the João Cabral de Melo Neto’s collection of poems was published under the title of Crime in Calle Relator (1987), “A sevilhana que não se sabia” was the second in the order of exhibition, shortly after the poem of the same name to the book. That poem was reproduced as the first of the author’s next collection, titled Sevilha andando (1989), while it ceased to appear in the reissues of the book in which it was initially listed. Thus, the poem that was from one book began to compose another, exclusively, at the initiative of the author himself, for whom it mattered the constitution of the aesthetic artifact that the book comes to be. This differential trait in the author’s trajectory focuses retrospectively on all his work, from this remarkable event that interferes with the understanding of what constitutes a book, be it its publication or the meeting of poems that demands an appreciation particularized, on a case-by-case basis, of the poems intertwined with each other. Following the repercussion of the poem in the context of the poetic work, it will be made a comparison between the available editions of the volumes involved, to reach a more palpable understanding of the poem, perspectived throughout that poetic production.Keywords: modern Brazilian poetry; João Cabral de Melo Neto; style; publishing
The Knowledge of Palliative Care and the Attitude Toward It Among the Nurses at Sabia General Hospital 2018
No full textBackground: The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge of Palliative Care and the attitude toward it among the nurses working in Sabia General Hospitals and to find out the association between the nursing staff, knowledge, attitude, and selected demographic variables.
Material and Methods: The author performed a cross-sectional descriptive survey using a self-administered questionnaire. The total number of completed and returned questionnaires was 53, giving a 100% response rate. The study was conducted between December 2017 and January 2018 and a simple random sampling was performed among 53 nurses working in the Sabia General Hospital.
Methodology: For data collection, a self-administrative questionnaire was developed and used for assessment by the researcher. Nurses' socio-demographic characteristics such as their age, gender, nursing qualification, department of work, work experience, training in caring terminally ill clients, and their knowledge of and attitude toward palliative care were assessed; the relation between socio demographic data and knowledge and attitude was also assessed. Results showed that respondents had fair knowledge of palliative care 27 (50.9%) and fair attitude 30 (56.6%). It was proved that there is a significant relation between knowledge and demographic data; p-value is 0.004.
Conclusion: Nurses showed poor knowledge toward palliative care and half of them showed a fair attitude
FHC por Cony : uma construção discursiva em O presidente que sabia javanês
No full textOrientador : Iara Bemquerer CostaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná. Setor de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes. Curso de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa : Curitiba, 31/03/2003Inclui referênciasÁrea de concentração : Estudos literáriosResumo: Esta dissertação consiste em uma análise das crônicas de O presidente que sabia javanês, de Carlos Heitor Cony, publicadas entre 1994 e 2000 na Folha de S. Paulo, e cujo enfoque primordial é o Presidente da República, Fernando Henrique Cardoso. A pesquisa tem como embasamento teórico os conceitos de Mikhail Bakhtin e a Análise do Discurso Francesa, principalmente no que se refere à heterogeneidade, intertextualidade e dialogismo; a noção de linguagem como processo reflexivo e sócio-interativo, tendo o dialogismo como sua característica essencial e princípio constitutivo de todo discurso. Conduzido por estes conceitos, o objetivo deste trabalho é investigar: i) a multiplicidade de vozes sociais que se encontram nas crônicas e que efeitos de sentido podem ser resgatados pelos seus interlocutores através do entrecruzamento das vozes aí instauradas; ii) de que forma as diferentes vozes sociais são enquadradas nas crônicas; iii) como a voz do outro (discurso de Fernando Henrique Cardoso) é articulado pelo autor; iv) como o autor constrói, pelo discurso, uma imagem social de seu objeto. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, seu governo e o "contexto extraverbal" da política brasileira durante o período 1994-2000 constituem objeto de depreciação de Carlos Heitor Cony que, para efetivar essa desvalorização do discurso/imagem de FHC, dialoga com uma grande variedade de discursos sociais. A fala do autor não reflete uma realidade pré-existente, mas ele constrói seu objeto através do ponto de vista da carnavalização, utilizando paródia, ironia e humor. De um lado, há o discurso que é dito, criando uma imagem social de Fernando Henrique Cardoso como um mau, hipócrita e corrupto presidente; em contrapartida, outro objeto do discurso é constituído pelo não-dito, construindo, assim, uma auto-imagem do próprio autor, como uma pessoa boa, honesta e respeitável. Portanto, as crônicas de O presidente que sabia javanês são constitutivamente diaiógicas, em constante embate com o já-dito e apresentam, no interior do mesmo discurso, dois objetos que são instituídos por meio dos múltiplos discursos sociais. Enquanto um objeto é absolutamente desqualificado, o outro é exaltado.Abstract: In this dissertation, it is investigated the chronicles that composed the literary and journalistic work O presidente que sabia javanês written by Carlos Heitor Cony. These chronicles were published on Folha de São Paulo newspaper from 1994 to 2000. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the President of Brazil, is the main object focused in the chronicles. The investigation is based upon Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical background and French Discourse Analyses, mainly, the concepts of heterogeneity, intertextuality, dialogism, meaning achieved by social struggle among discourses and language as dialogue and interaction and the discourse as rooted in social experience. Guided by these concepts the analyses aimed: i) establish the multiplicity of social utterances that constitute each chronicle, aiming to search the possible meanings through that multiplicity; ii) search how the multiple social utterances are located and assimilated in the chronicles; iii) investigate how the other's utterance (Fernando Henrique Cardoso's speech) is articulated by the author; iv) how the author creates, through discourse, a social image of his main object. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, his presidential term and the "extraverbal context" of Brazilian Politics during that period (1994-2000) constitute Carlos Heitor Cony's object of depreciation. They are delivered through a great variety of social discourses, aiming to depreciate and devaluate them. The authors language does not reflect a pre-existing reality but generates his object through a carnivalesque point of view, using parody, irony and humour. On one hand there is what is said, creating a social image of Fernando Henrique Cardoso as a bad, hypocrite, corrupt president and, on the other hand, there is another object of the discourse that constitutes the unsaid discourse, creating a self-image of the author as a good, honest and respected person. Thus, the chronicles of the book O homem que sabia javanês are dialogic because they present inside the same utterances two objects that fight through the multiple social discourses to be established. One object is absolutely disqualified and the other one is exalted
Una sabia decisión, ¡Ser un economista ecléctico!
No full textEl autor de este artículo analiza brevemente la historia del pensamiento económico y los aportes de cada doctrina a los sistemas económicos con el fin de rescatar lo mejor de cada teoría, argumentando con
bases y observando de una manera crítica las políticas actuales del gobierno de turno.The author of this article analyze the history of economic thinking and the contributions of each doctrine to economic systems in order to rescue the best of each theory, arguing with bases and critically observing the current government turn politics
Sexual Orientation and Earnings in Young Adulthood: New Evidence from Add Health
No full textUsing data from a rich new data source, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author examines the sensitivity of the estimated earnings penalty faced by sexual minorities to 1) the use of multiple measures of sexual orientation, including both identity/attraction and behaviorally based definitions, and 2) controls for family and individual heterogeneity. Baseline regression results show that gay males and bisexuals earn less than their heterosexual counterparts, a result that persists after controlling for family-level observables. However, after controlling for personality and isolating self-identified sexual minorities who are most likely to be observed as such by employers, the estimated wage penalty for bisexuals falls sharply in absolute magnitude while the wage penalty for gay males persists. Preferred specifications show that relative to heterosexual males, gay males earn wages that are 13.1% lower, a result that is consistent with labor market discrimination. Neither lesbians nor bisexual females earn significantly less than their heterosexual counterparts
BETTY GLAD
No full textDr. Betty Glad, 82, died August 2, 2010. She enjoyed a truly distinguished career as a scholar of American politics and foreign policy. Betty was the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina. She was an exemplary scholar and an expert on the American presidency, U.S. foreign policy, and political leadership. She was the author of Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence; Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider; and, most recently, An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2009). Betty was also editor or co-editor of The Psychological Dimensions of War, The Russian Transformation, and other books. In addition, she published dozens of articles, book chapters, and commentary. Her first book, Charles Evans Hughes, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.</jats:p
Los sistemas selváticos, un marco de referencia ecológica para el manejo fitosanitario en el trópico
No full textGiven the immense environmental costs of phytosanitary practices in tropical regions, in this dissertation, the author presents, with a pedagogical and dialectical integration approach, from multiple scientific and technical perspectives, the importance of refocusing basic aspects of the management of phytosanitary Tropical agroecosystems, which are immersed in megadiverse forest ecosystems. The sequence covered includes, in the first part, aspects such as agriculture and simplification of forest systems, basic aspects of the natural condition of the Neotropic, consequences of the ecological simplification of forest ecosystems as a result of agriculture, the added value of singular agrobiodiversity derived from jungle ecosystems and their implications on plant health, the advantages of jungle exuberance: phytochemistry, allelochemicals, industrial precursors, pesticides, gene banks and germplasm, with such aspects as the agri-environmental benefits of this resource, something Which is widely explained in the second part when weeds are dealt with, which are assumed with a criterion of natural resource of great ecological possibilities, a dissertation that exposes many aspects of the wrong of despising the spontaneous vegetation, ending in a epilogue re-examines the mismanagement approach given to jungle ecosystems and the agro-ecosystems derived from them, given the artificial, eurocentric and ecologically erroneous external view of this natural condition and the consequences of introducing technologies originating in temperate regions that are implement and market in mega-diverse tropical ecosystems, with negative consequences for the ecosphere and human survival.Dados los inmensos costos ambientales de la fitosanidad en las regiones tropicales, en esta disertación, el autor expone, con un enfoque pedagógico y de integración dialéctica, desde múltiples ópticas científicas y técnicas, la importancia de reenfocar aspectos básicos del manejo de limitantes fitosanitarios en los agroecosistemas tropicales, los cuales están inmersos en megadiversos ecosistemas selváticos. La secuencia abordada incluye en la primera parte aspectos como agricultura y simplificación de los sistemas selváticos, aspectos básicos de la condición natural del neotropico, consecuencias de la simplificación ecológica de los ecosistemas selváticos a raíz de la agricultura, el valor agregado de la peculiar agrobiodiversidad derivada de ecosistemas selváticos y sus implicaciones en la fitosanidad, las ventajas de la exuberancia selvática: fitoquímica, aleloquímicos, precursores industriales, de pesticidas, banco de genes y germoplasma, matizando tales aspectos con las poco valoradas bondades agroambientales de dicho recurso, algo que queda ampliamente expuesto en la segunda parte cuando se aborda el tema de las malezas, las cuales se asumen con un criterio de recurso natural de grandísimas posibilidades ecológicas, disertación que expone múltiples aspectos de lo errado de menospreciar a la vegetación espontanea, finalizando en un epílogo que replantea el enfoque equivocado de manejo dado a los ecosistemas selváticos y a los agroecosistemas de ellos derivados, dada la mirada externa, artificiosa, eurocentrista y ecológicamente equivocada, que se tiene de esta condición natural y a la consecuencias de implantar tecnologías originadas en regiones templadas, que se implementan y comercializan en ecosistemas tropicales megadiversos, con consecuencias nefastas para la ecósfera y la supervivencia humana
María Magdalena Campos-Pons – Una artista sabia y extraordinaria
No full textMaría Magdalena Campos-Pons is an Afro-Cuban multidisciplinary artist with a unique and provocative style that makes use of a variety of materials. The human form is a recurring theme appearing in her work. Campos-Pons\u27 art is displayed in museums worldwide. The artist was recognized as one of 2023\u27s MacArthur Fellows in recognition of her body of work. This essay provides some general information about Campos-Pons\u27 life and art, introducing the reader to Campos-Pons\u27 three-panel self-portrait, Secrets of the Magnolia Tree, as an example of the artist\u27s use of art to elevate the nobility, strength, and caring nature of women - particularly Black women of the world. The essay also provides insight into the student author\u27s own love and appreciation for art and her reflections on the art style of María Magdalena Campos-Pons in particular. The essay is written in Spanish and is an adaptation of an assignment submitted as a requirement for clas
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