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Women in Top management: Role Models from around the Globe share their Paths to success/ Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski.
No full textIn English.Ask 110 top female executives from five nations to reflect on their careers and leadership as part of an international scientific study and you will uncover a set of recommendations for women who want to become and remain international business leaders. There is also invaluable advice for corporate managers wanting to recruit skilled women into executive positions. This book is based on the authentic experiences and original words of the interviewees - all of whom are senior female executives - and on the author's analytical insights, all set within a qualitative, scientific framework. In this international research project, the Global Women Career Lab, the author analyzes what motivates these fascinating role models, how they plan their career trajectories, what mechanisms they use to overcome obstacles and what leadership strategies have enabled these women to reach senior management positions. The book offers the reader a remarkable insight into the experiences of women in top business positions in Russia, China, Japan, France and Germany. About the author: Dr. Bettina-Al-Sadik-Lowinski is a researcher, author and certified international mentor-coach (MCC). Following a long management career in multinational companies, she has worked as an international executive coach and expert on diversity in Germany, France, Japan and China. Reviews: "A wealth of testimonials from female role models from all over the world, with valuable advices for women pursuing professional development as well as for companies leveraging diversity for competitive advantage."Hong Chow, China CEO Roche Pharma, Member of Supervisory Board Beiersdorf "Women need other women as role models in management in order to plan their careers more strategically and understand that the sky is unlimited for them. In this book, 110 role models from various countries share their experiences and I was especially impressed by the examples from Asian female leaders."Mari Nogami, President Takeda Consumer Healthcare Japan, Ex (the first) Chair of Women in Business AmCham Japan "As a big advocator for global diversity I recommend this book to all women who want to rise up their careers globally and to corporate leaders who support diversity in their companies worldwide!"Rosa Lee, Executive Vice President of Bosch China, Member of the Board and Corporate HR Head APAC "It's not right to think that business is a man´s world. Women are more sensitive and calmer - this makes us different, helps us to balance and makes ladies the best partners for men."Natalia Ryzhkova, CEO Gulliver&Co Int., Russia " International, authentic reports from female top managers from different countries combined with a sound scientific analysis of the growth factors for women in management. Insights across countries. Highly recommended!"Professor Dr. Jutta Rump, Managing Director, Institut of Employability (IBE), University of the Economy and Society Ludwigshafen, Germany "Women need to understand the country specific codes and create their best image as topmanager- using language, their look and body postures. This books shows us the similarities and the differences of female images in top positions in the five nations. Great findings!"Muriel de Saint Sauveur, President Women Masterclass France, former International Marketing, Communications and Diversity Director, Mazars Group, France "Les femmes doivent oser prendre leur juste place dans l'economie, que ce soit en tant qu'entrepreneure ou en tant que cadre dirigeante. C'est une question d'equilibre social mais plus encore de potentiel de performance. Plus de femmes signifie plus de croissance et plus de diversité dans les choix stratégiques. Osez, osez, c'est le maitre-mot à mettre en pratique!"Marie-Claire Capobianco, Ex membre du Comité exécutif du groupe BNPParibas, Membre du Haut Comité de Gouvernement d'Entreprise, France "Chinese female executives have many strengths. Great learnings also from women around the world. A treasure book!"Shelley Chen, Senior Director Human Resources, Communications and Public Relations, Saint-Gobain Pipe, APAC, Head of PAM-LAN- Diversity Institute, China " Top managers from five nations provide insights into how they strategically plan their careers, and break down barriers. The author Dr. Bettina AL-Sadik-Lowinski has managed to work out the cultural differences and similarities between these women. Very educational, worth reading and scientifically sound."Prof. Manuela Rousseau, Deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board and Author, Germany " Finally. International role models report what women need to advance further. The "es contain a global fund that helps women successfully overcome barriers."Christine Rittner, former Global CHRO, Executive board member, Lidl, Germany " A journey through the career worlds of women of different cultures. Solidarity from women for women. Highly recommended." Dr. Marion Welp, Attorney at Law, Chief Human Resources & Legal Affairs Officer, Member Executive Management Team, Board member, Esprit, Germany "Women in top management positions speak plain language. A great initiative. "Sonja Mechling, Head of Global Marketing, UX & Digital Innovation, Schindler Group, Germany "This world deserves more ladies in the leadership positions as a driver of positive changes. Dr. Bettina and her ladies had found their way to the Top and generously shares it in the book."Evgeny Bazhov, Chief Representative, Russia, Financial Association of EuroAsian Cooperation "Full of valuable insights. A must read to understand how women career paths work. Read it. Implement it."Christine Hesse, CEO Hesse Design, Germany.Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Forging careers around the world - role models for women in top management from five leading economies -- 2 Chinese women: Strong through flexibility and global mindsets -- 3 Chinese women in Europe: The conflict between fitting in and meeting their own performance targets -- 4 The French women: Intellectual warriors against role conflict -- 5 Japanese female executives: Beating the system -- 6 German women: Shaping strategists in the middle of men′s clubs and motherhood stereotypes -- 7 Russian women: Succeeding through intuition and forging opportunities -- 8 The ideal female executive: A résumé based on the global analysis -- 9 Recommendations for the next generation of female executives -- Annex -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Methodology at a glance: The Global Women Career Lab -- Bibliography1 online resource (VII, 274 p.
Validation of the Reflux Disease Questionnaire for a Turkish Population
No full textBackground & Aims: Achieving the correct diagnosis and therapeutic success in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) depends on the patient's self-assessment. Therefore, valid and reliable patient-reported questionnaires are very important. When designing such measurement tools, researchers should focus on their validity, reliability, sensitivity, and, applicability. The reflux disease questionnaire (RDQ) largely meets these important requirements. This study aims to examine The RDQ's psychometric characteristics for the Turkish society (RDQ TR) and its validity in symptoms' evaluation. Methods The sample of this study comprised 81 patients who were admitted to our institution, GERD study group outpatient clinic. The data collection forms used in the study were the case report forms and RDQ. Three weeks after the first interview, 30 patients were re-interviewed by the phone and the RDQ was re-administered. For the validity studies of the scale, language validity, content validity, and construct validity studies were used, and for the reliability studies, internal consistency and test-retest reliability methods were used. Results: The content validity index of form was 0.95 (0.93-0.98). The performed factor analysis indicated 3 factors with an eigenvalue over 1.0. Those factors were responsible for 77.66% of the variance. The Cronbach's alpha values were 0.88 for regurgitation sub-dimension, 0.91 for dyspepsia sub-dimension, 0.86 for heartburn sub-dimension, and 0.92 overall. Intraclass correlation coefficient value of the scale was 0.94. Conclusions: Our study highlights that the RDQ TR is reliable, valid, and responsive to change in Turkey patients with GERD symptomatology
Validity and reliability of the Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia (QoLRAD) questionnaire in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease for the Turkish population
No full textBackground/Aims: Gastroesophageal reflux disease negatively affects quality of life. The aim is to improve quality of life because of high recurrence rate. There is a strong need for patient-reported outcome measures. The present study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia Questionnaire (QoLRAD) to adopt it into Turkish. Materials and Methods: A total of 142 patients with complaints of heartburn or regurgitation once a week or commonly diagnosed with 24-hour intraesophageal impedance-pH monitoring and/or upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were included in this study. Sociodemographic Data Collection Form, QoLRAD-TR, and Short Form-36 (SF-36) were applied to patients who were off proton pump inhibitors. Results: The Cronbach's alpha coefficient value of the questionnaire was 0.97, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) value of the result of test-retest method was between 0.97 (Vitality) and 0.99 (Eating/Drinking Disorders). There was a positive correlation between all subdomains of QoLRAD-TR and SF-36 scales. The lowest correlation (0.10) was between Emotional Distress and Role-emotional Limitations, and the highest (0.34) was between Energy and Vitality. Conclusion: The QoLRAD test measuring quality of life, except some subdomains in our study that we performed on patients diagnosed with GERD, was found to be valid and reliable
Assessing psychometric properties of Turkish version of the stressor scale for emergency nurses
No full textOBJECTIVES: This study was carried out as a methodological study to adapt the stressor scale for emergency nurses to Turkish and to test its validity and reliability. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data were collected between April 2019 and December 2019 from 250 emergency nurses working in the emergency department of two different universities and two state hospitals. the scale was reapplied to 40 emergency nurses from the sample group 3 weeks after the first application. For the validity studies of the scale, language validity, content validity, and construct validity studies were used, and for the reliability studies, internal consistency and test-retest reliability methods were used. RESULTS: It was found that the content validity index of the final form was determined as 0.92 (0.78-1.00) according to expert opinions, the scale explained 69.19% of the total variance in four subdimensions, the Cronbach's alpha value was 0.90, and the test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient value was 0.97. CONCLUSION: It was concluded that the reliability and validity of the scale was high for Turkish society
The interaction of electric fields with vesicles and cells: a study on electrodeformation and electroporation
No full textThe application of electric pulses to cells or vesicles induces complex responses. When electric field shocks are applied, a lipid membrane may become porated, which is a phenomenon known as electroporation. The lipid membrane may also deform under electromechanical and electrohydrodynamic forces, applied via electric fields,which is a phenomenon known as electrodeformation. Electroporation is widely employed in both biological research and clinical applications including areas such as drug and gene delivery, protein insertion, cancer therapy, and other processes where access to the cytoplasm is desired. Electrodeformation, on the other hand, can be harnessed as a means to probe the membrane's properties, and to detect pathological changes in cells. Despite its broad applicability, electroporation still suffers from low delivery efficiency and cell viability, in part due to a lack of a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms involved in this technique. Meanwhile, the electrodeformation phenomenon only received attention in the past decade, and therefore, a significant body of data only became available in the recent years. This is mainly due to the development of high-performance optical imaging systems which gave the opportunity to capture the dynamics associated with electrodeformation. In this work, we have designed and implemented experiments to study the electrodeformation of giant unilamellar vesicles, and to investigate the complex transport mechanisms involved in electroporation-mediated molecular delivery. In addition, we quantified the molecular uptake and cellular viability in electroporation experiments. First, we characterized the prolate deformations of giant unilamellar vesicles under strong DC electric fields. The vesicles exhibited prolate elongations along the direction of the electric field. In some cases, the aspect ratio of a deformed vesicle exceeded 10, representing a novel strong-deformation regime never before explored. Second, we studied the spatial and temporal transport of molecules via fluorescence microscopy, at the single cell level. The experimental results demonstrated that electrophoresis, not diffusion, is the dominant mode of of delivery during the pulse. Furthermore, we found that an electrokinetic mechanism known as field-amplified sample stacking (FASS) mediated an inverse correlation between delivery and the extracellular electrical conductivity. Following our accomplishment in the second task, we investigated a two-stage pulsing electroporation protocol that delivers separate pulses to porate the membrane and to electrokinetically-mediate species transport across the cell membrane. We found that while both delivery and viability are linearly dependent with respect to the duration of the second pulses, they both show a strong dependence on field strength. Moreover, a critical regime for maximized delivery and viability is achieved. This dissertation contributes to the electroporation and electrodeformation fields by generating explanations to several experimental observations based on physical mechanisms which were not previously available. In addition, the experimental tools for quantifying delivery and viability may help develop and improve the efficacy of electroporation protocols.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Mohamed M. Sadi
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Experimental investigation of two-phase flow phenomena in horizontal convective in-tube boiling system
No full textThe objective of this study was to investigate experimentally the thermal and hydrodynamic behavior, and dynamic instability in two-phase flow associated with refrigerant-11 in a uniformly heated horizontal in-tube convective boiling system.The experimental set-up used in this study was designed and built by the author. The test section was placed horizontally, and the stainless steel heater tubes were heated uniformly by a DC power source.Two major parts of experimental work were conducted: (1) Two-phase flow stratification due to gravity effects, and consequently its thermal and hydrodynamic behavior in a single horizontal tube under steady state conditions, was determined by measuring the top and bottom wall temperatures. A dimensionless number was found for the prediction of the occurrence of different flow patterns (Chapter 5). (2) Two-phase flow dynamic instabilities in a single tube configuration were found to bear similarities to vertical upflow systems. It was concluded however, that the entire unstable region was shifted to the right, compared to vertical flow, on the steady state characteristic plane (Chapter 6). Another important part of the work done was the application of dimensional analysis towards the steady state characteristic curves conventionally plotted in a P-G plane (Chapter 7). An infinite number of curves corresponding to different heat inputs could be converted to a single curve in a new coordinate system represented by two dimensionless numbers. PI theorem was used to perform this analysis.</p
Time-dependent AdS backgrounds from S-branes
No full textAbstractWe construct time and radial dependent solutions that describe p-branes in chargeless S-brane backgrounds. In particular, there are some new M5- and D3-branes among our solutions which have AdS limits and contain a cosmological singularity as well. We also find a time-dependent version of the dyonic membrane configuration in 11-dimensions by applying a Lunin–Maldacena deformation to our new M5-brane solution
Robust small area estimation of poverty indicators using M-quantile approach (Case study: Sub-district level in Bogor district)
No full textSmall area estimation of per capita expenditures using robust empirical best linear unbiased prediction (REBLUP)
No full textCluster information of non-sampled area in small area estimation of poverty indicators using Empirical Bayes
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