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Interview of Francis Tri Nguyen, F.S.C., Ph.D.
No full textFrancis of Assisi Nguyen von Tri, was born in Shanghai, China in 1938. When the Communists took over China, his family left the country for Hanoi, North Vietnam. In 1954, when the French were defeated, they fled the Communists again, and settled in South Vietnam. He was raised a Catholic, and enrolled in the Christian Brothers order at a young age. While completing his formation for the Christian Brotherhood, Brother Francis began teaching students at various age levels. He entered into higher education, completed a Bachelors degree, and went on to pursue a Masters degree in Sociology after receiving a scholarship to attend the Asian Social Institute in Manila, Philippines. He taught at schools in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and 70s, during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1975, he was a member of the large group of refugees who fled South Vietnam when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Brother Francis arrived in the United States in the summer of 1975. Once he arrived in the U.S., he sustained his role as a Christian Brother by joining the American community, and pursued degrees at several major universities. Brother Francis has conducted research on La Sallian identity around the world, the plight and successes of Vietnamese refugees, and the aging process. He has been a faculty member at La Salle University since 1985, and at the time of the interview served as head of the University’s Sociology Department. His office is located in 361 Olney Hall
Amynthas erroneous Nguyen & Nguyen 2015
No full textAmynthas erroneous Nguyen & Nguyen, 2015 Amynthas erroneous Nguyen D. A. & Nguyen, 2015: 129, Fig. 1. Pheretima multitheca multitheca— Nguyen 1994: 53; Pham 1995c: 68; Thai 2000a: 309; Huynh 2005a: 89; Huynh 2005b: 20; Nguyen V.T. & Tran 2008: 185; Pham 2010: 63. Type locality. Vietnam (Quang Ngai: Duc Pho). Type material. CTU, Vietnam. Examined material. 8 C (SORC-V.153.01), and 13 C (CTU-EW.071.02) garden, Duc Pho town, Pho Minh, Quang Ngai, 15/4/1995, coll. Huynh Thi Kim Hoi. Records from Vietnam. Quang Tri (Quang Tri town); Thua Thien Hue (Huong Tra; Hue; Nam Dong; Phu Loc); Da Nang; Quang Nam (Que Son); Quang Ngai (Quang Ngai city; Duc Pho); Binh Dinh; Dak Nong (Ta Dung Mts) (Nguyen 1994; Pham 1995c, 2010; Huynh 2005a, b; Nguyen & Tran 2008). Distribution. Only known from Vietnam. Remarks. The species had been erroneously identified as Pheretima multitheca multitheca Chen, 1938. It was corrected by Nguyen D. A. & Nguyen (2015).Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25650
Mobile Enterprise Applications: Customisation and Distribution
No full textThis thesis aims to analyse the current state of mobile enterprise applications (MEAs) in the application markets, the customisation process of an application as well as the methods of distribution. The study was commissioned by a SaaS company providing social intranets to their clients, due to many requests from the customers.
The study about MEA consists of a literature review based on many books, articles, research papers and other resources. The customisation implementation was based on the author’s experience in native development, with the help of colleagues and an instructor. Online materials also played an essential role in the research.
A customised application was created, and also the process of customisation was standardised at the client company. The implementation included different visual elements as well as unique features. The distribution of customised applications was carried out using private stores.
In conclusion, customisation became an important service of the client company, as numerous enterprises today require a customised version of their products. This implementation can further be used to develop multiple versions of the client application with specific features, some of which will be free and some paid
Learning tensions – a multilevel model of organisational learning: an empirical study
No full textThere is a growing recognition that the study of Organisational learning needs to be considered across three levels of analysis: individual, group, and organisational levels (March, 1991; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Crossan et al., 1999; 2011). Given the potential of multilevel research to extend the boundaries of the understanding of the field, this thesis aims to address how organisations learn as a multilevel system. The answers to the research inquiry were drawn from both theoretical works and by conducting an empirical investigation.To assist the investigation of the OL phenomenon in multilevel settings, a multilevel model of OL was proposed. The model provides analytical foci by specifying the learning tensions at the individual, group, and organisational levels. The model was employed in a case study of a Vietnamese public organisation, which had successfully undergone a business transformation. Through the contributions of this thesis, the author hopes to spark more interest in multilevel research of OL
Interview of Francis Tri Nguyen, F.S.C., Ph.D. Part 2
No full textFrancis of Assisi Nguyen von Tri, was born in Shanghai, China in 1938. When the Communists took over China, his family left the country for Hanoi, North Vietnam. In 1954, when the French were defeated, they fled the Communists again, and settled in South Vietnam. He was raised a Catholic, and enrolled in the Christian Brothers order at a young age. While completing his formation for the Christian Brotherhood, Brother Francis began teaching students at various age levels. He entered into higher education, completed a Bachelors degree, and went on to pursue a Masters degree in Sociology after receiving a scholarship to attend the Asian Social Institute in Manila, Philippines. He taught at schools in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and 70s, during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1975, he was a member of the large group of refugees who fled South Vietnam when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Brother Francis arrived in the United States in the summer of 1975. Once he arrived in the U.S., he sustained his role as a Christian Brother by joining the American community, and pursued degrees at several major universities. Brother Francis has conducted research on La Sallian identity around the world, the plight and successes of Vietnamese refugees, and the aging process. He has been a faculty member at La Salle University since 1985, and currently serves as head of the University’s Sociology Department. His office is located in 361 Olney Hall
Metaphire dorsomultitheca Nguyen & Nguyen 2015
No full textMetaphire dorsomultitheca Nguyen & Nguyen, 2015 Pheretima dorsomultitheca Nguyen & Nguyen, 2015 (in Nguyen et al. 2015b): 465, Fig.2. Type locality. Vietnam (An Giang: Chau Doc). Type material. CTU (EW.025), Vietnam. Examined material. 1 C (CTU-EW.025.h01) and 8 C (CTU-EW.025.p02) natural forest, Sam Mountain (10 0 40' 06,8N; 105 0 04' 50,2E), Chau Doc Distr., An Giang Prov., Vietnam, 06/11/2010, coll. Nguyen Thanh Tung; 3C (CTU-EW.025.p03) natural forest, To Mountain (10 0 23' 09.2N; 105 0 00' 22.8E), Tri Ton Distr., An Giang Prov., Vietnam, 09/11/2010, coll. Nguyen Thanh Tung. Records from Vietnam. An Giang (Chau Doc) (Nguyen et al. 2015b). Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25650
Practical training logging system
No full textThe objective of this thesis was to develop a program for students to log their practical training experience and working hours. This information can be used to calculate obtain-able credit units during their training, while also help in writing practical training reports.
The application includes two layers. A Client where the user interacts with the possible operations, such as registering contract detail, adding new work diary, tallying working hours. This client was built for Android and Windows computers, using common web technologies at its core, such as HTML, TypeScript, CSS along with modern developing frameworks, such as Ionic Framework and Angular.
Reinforcing the Client is the API layer where logic and methods for communicating with the database of the application is found. The API layer allows the Client applica-tions to read entries from the databases, adding new items, such as a new work diary and work hours and modifying existing data, such as the user information. Built using C#, with support from Entity Framework, this layer was programed following the repos-itory pattern, which allows the application to be detached from Entity Framework in the future as needed.
The project created an application that allows students to log information during their practical training period and calculating the credit units a student can get for their work-ing hours. The program was tested with Android as a native application and Window computer with Google Chrome
The interplay of ranks of submatrices
No full textA banded invertible matrix T has a remarkable inverse. All "upper" and "lower" submatrices of T⁻¹ have low rank (depending on the bandwidth in T). The exact rank condition is known, and it allows fast multiplication by full matrices that arise in the boundary element method.
We look for the "right" proof of this property of T⁻¹. Ultimately it reduces to a fact that deserves to be better known: Complementary submatrices of any T and T⁻¹ have the same nullity. The last figure in the paper (when T is tridiagonal) shows two submatrices with the same nullity n – 3. Then C has rank 1. On and above the diagonal of T⁻¹, all rows are proportional.Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA
Improvement of customer satisfaction through OTAs website: Tri Giao Hotel, Vietnam
No full textThis thesis aims to, first and foremost, gain a more in-depth understanding of customer rates and reviews of Tri Giao Hotel on OTA websites. The author selected six leading OTA websites to conduct the research, i.e. TripAdvisor, Booking, Expedia, Agoda, Facebook, and Google. In addition, the study compared the Tri Giao Hotel with other four hotels, which are also local brand hotel and have 4-star international standard, in a competitive set. Finally, this thesis explored satisfaction and dissatisfaction determinants of service quality can affect customer satisfaction.
Since the main customers of Tri Giao Hotel are charters and from travel agencies, the customers from OTA have not been focused. Therefore, this research-oriented thesis selected Tri Giao Hotel as the commissioning company. This study used qualitative methods such as observation, interview with FOM, data collection on OTA websites, and content analysis. These methods are based on conceptual framework and theoretical framework, especially SERVQUAL model. After that, decisive factors that affect customers’ decisions to book a hotel room online were discovered. Hence, some suggestions on how to improve customer satisfaction through the OTA website were given.
The results revealed that the service quality of Tri Giao Hotel has a significant impact on customer satisfaction. Combining all the reviews on six main OTA websites, the hotel received 301 customer reviews and 199 written comments. The hotel review index was 90.6% and the management response was 58.8%. The service, staff, and value of the hotel makes the customer the most satisfied. However, the location of hotel and quality of the food were the main weaknesses that need to be improved. Besides, some other factors also affected customer satisfaction. Suggestions and new ideas were briefly discussed to improve customers’ satisfaction to Tri Giao Hotel
Understanding the transmission dynamics of a large-scale measles outbreak in Southern Vietnam
No full textOBJECTIVES: Southern Vietnam experienced a large measles outbreak of over 26,000 cases during 2018-2020. We aimed to understand and quantify the measles spread in space-time dependence and the transmissibility during the outbreak. METHODS: Measles surveillance reported cases between January 2018 and June 2020, vaccination coverage, and population data at provinicial level were used. To illustrate the spatio-temporal pattern of disease spread, we employed the endemic-epidemic multivariate time series model decomposing measles risk additively into autoregressive, spatio-temporal, and endemic components. Likelihood-based estimation procedures were performed to determine the time-varying reproductive number Re of measles. RESULTS: Our analysis showed that the incidence of measles was associated with vaccination coverage heterogeneity and spatial interaction between provincial units. The risk of infections was dominated by between-province transmission (36.1% to 78.8%), followed by local endogenous transmission (4.1% to 61.5%). In contrast, the endemic behavior had a relatively small contribution (2.4% to 33.4%) across provinces. In the exponential phase of the epidemic, Re was above the threshold with a maximum value of 2.34 (95% CI: 2.20-2.46). CONCLUSION: Local vaccination coverage and human mobility are important factors contributing to the measles dynamics in Southern Vietnam, and the high risk of inter-provincial transmission is of most concern. Strengthening the disease surveillance is recommended, and further research is essential to understand the relative contribution of population immunity and control measures in measles epidemics.sponsorship: We would like to thank the VLIR-UOS for awarding T.H.T.N. a scholarship to study the Master of Epidemiology at the Univer-sity of Antwerp, Belgium. We are pleased to acknowledge the Pas-teur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City including the Board of Directors for supporting the research endeavor in terms of data use, col-leagues of the Outbreak Control Unit (Pham Duy Quang, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy, Tran Cong Kha, Doan Ngoc Minh Quan, Nguyen Quoc Kien, Tran Anh Tuan, Phan Thi Ngoc Uyen, Nguyen Viet Thinh, Hoang Thi Lien, and Phan Cong Hung), and the EPI Unit (Hoang Anh Thang, Chau Van Luom, Truong Cong Hieu, Vo Ngoc Quang, Nguyen Dieu Thuy, Nguyen Thi Huyen, Phan Thi Quynh Tram, Vien Dang Khanh Linh, Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Nguyen Van Hoang, Tran Quang Trung, Trinh Trung Truc, Tran Thanh Hai) for their huge efforts and enthusiasm in case monitoring, surveillance and contact tracing, outbreak investigation, and launching the sup-plementary immunization activities during the measles outbreak. We would also like to acknowledge the large contribution of 20 Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in two cities and 18 provinces in Southern Vietnam in the EPI National Project. (VLIR-UOS)status: Publishe
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