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Erratum: Correction: H<sub>2</sub> as a fuel for flavin- and H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-dependent biocatalytic reactions (Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2020))
No full textCorrection for 'H2 as a fuel for flavin- and H2O2-dependent biocatalytic reactions' by Ammar Al-Shameri et al., Chem. Commun., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/d0cc03229h.BT/Biocatalysi
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Corrigendum to “Enhanced lignin extraction and optimisation from oil palm biomass using neural network modelling” [Fuel 293 (2021) 120485] (Fuel (2021) 293, (S0016236121003616), (10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120485))
No full textThe author Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi shows an affiliation with “Neurocomputation Lab, National Centre of Artificial Intelligence, NED University of Engineering and Technology, 75270 Karachi, Pakistan” which has been incorrectly added. Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi only has one affiliation with the Department of Chemical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, Pakistan. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.</p
Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ
No full textcomplete author list: Ammar R.; Ball S.; Baringer P.; Coppage D.; Copty N.; Davis R.; Hancock N.; Kelly M.; Kwak N.; Lam H.; Kubota Y.; Lattery M.; Nelson J.; Patton S.; Perticone D.; Poling R.; Savinov V.; Schrenk S.; Wang R.; Alam M.; Kim I.; Nemati B.; O'Neill J.; Severini H.; Sun C.; Zoeller M.; Crawford G.; Daubenmeir M.; Fulton R.; Fujino D.; Gan K.; Honscheid K.; Kagan H.; Kass R.; Lee J.; Malchow R.; Morrow F.; Skovpen Y.; Sung M.; White C.; Whitmore J.; Wilson P.; Butler F.; Fu X.; Kalbfleisch G.; Lambrecht M.; Ross W.; Skubic P.; Snow J.; Wang P.; Wood M.; Bortoletto D.; Brown D.; Fast J.; McIlwain R.; Miao T.; Miller D.; Modesitt M.; Schaffner S.; Shibata E.; Shipsey I.; Wang P.; Battle M.; Ernst J.; Kroha H.; Roberts S.; Sparks K.; Thorndike E.; Wang C.; Dominick J.; Sanghera S.; Skwarnicki T.; Stroynowski R.; Artuso M.; He D.; Goldberg M.; Horwitz N.; Kennett R.; Moneti G.; Muheim F.; Mukhin Y.; Playfer S.; Rozen Y.; Stone S.; Thulasidas M.; Vasseur G.; Zhu G.; Bartelt J.; Csorna S.; Egyed Z.; Jain V.; Sheldon P.; Akerib D.; Barish B.; Chadha M.; Chan S.; Cowen D.; Eigen G.; Miller J.; O'Grady C.; Urheim J.; Weinstein A.; Acosta D.; Athanas M.; Masek G.; Ong B.; Paar H.; Sivertz M.; Bean A.; Gronberg J.; Kutschke R.; Menary S.; Morrison R.; Nakanishi S.; Nelson H.; Nelson T.; Richman J.; Ryd A.; Tajima H.; Schmidt D.; Sperka D.; Witherell M.; Procario M.; Yang S.; Balest R.; Cho K.; Daoudi M.; Ford W.; Johnson D.; Lingel K.; Lohner M.; Rankin P.; Smith J.; Alexander J.; Bebek C.; Berkelman K.; Besson D.; Browder T.; Cassel D.; Cho H.; Coffman D.; Drell P.; Ehrlich R.; Garcia-Sciveres M.; Geiser B.; Gittelman B.; Gray S.; Hartill D.; Heltsley B.; Jones C.; Jones S.; Kandaswamy J.; Katayama N.; Kim P.; Kreinick D.; Ludwig G.; Masui J.; Mevissen J.; Mistry N.; Ng C.; Nordberg E.; Ogg M.; Patterson J.; Peterson D.; Riley D.; Salman S.; Sapper M.; Worden H.; Würthwein F.; Avery P.; Freyberger A.; Rodriguez J.; Stephens R.; Yelton J.; Cinabro D.; Henderson S.; Kinoshita K.; Liu T.; Saulnier M.; Shen F.; Wilson R.; Yamamoto H.; Selen M.; Sadoff A.; Ammar R.; Yamamoto H.; Wilson R.; Sadoff A.; Selen M.; Liu T.; Kinoshita K.; Shen F.; Saulnier M.; Yelton J.; Stephens R.; Henderson S.; Cinabro D.; Rodriguez J.; Ammar R.</p
Improving primary healthcare through accreditation: Baseline assessment of readiness and challenges in lebanese context
No full textThe quality of primary healthcare (PHC) has become of high importance. In 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health launched the PHC accreditation program to expand and improve quality across the continuum of care. This study will explore the readiness of PHC centers in Lebanon to implement the newly developed accreditation standards including challenges and required actions-strategies. Seventy-two centers were sampled, and respondents were asked to complete a 65-item questionnaire adapted from the national PHC accreditation standards and two open-ended questions. Descriptive analysis was conducted to assess responses to each item. Thematic analysis was used to analyze open-ended questions. Scale scores were considerably low, particularly for areas that relate to quality of service delivery. Most respondents (59.8percent) indicated not having a strategic plan on the basis of community needs. Close to 70percent of respondents indicated that they do not monitor and investigate trends in rates of sentinel events, near misses, and adverse events. Moreover, 76.2percent indicated not having a system for incident and accident-reporting, and only 22.3percent reported using one. The PHC accreditation in Lebanon can potentially reform this essential health system component. Results provide insights for policymakers and managers to consider in their efforts to improve quality and performance of PHC centers in Lebanon. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. © 2013 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.Accreditation Canada International, 2011, LEB PRIM CAR STAND; Accreditation Canada International, 2007, BAHR HLTH MIN SIGNS; Al-Assaf AF, 2004, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; Ammar W., 2007, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, V13, P138; Ammar W, HLTH REFORM LEBANON; Ammar W., 2009, HLTH POLITICS; Ammar W, 2003, HLTH SYSTEM REFORM L; Audette S, 2011, ENABLING QUALITY IMP; Beaumont M., 2002, ANN C INT SOC QUAL H; Bodenheimer T, 2006, NEW ENGL J MED, V355, P861, DOI 10.1056-NEJMp068155; Buetow SA, 2003, QUAL SAF HEALTH CARE, V12, P129, DOI 10.1136-qhc.12.2.129; Clark LA, 1995, PSYCHOL ASSESSMENT, V7, P309, DOI 10.1037--1040-3590.7.3.309; Delaune J, 2008, WASTE INEFFICIENCY U; Disease Control Priorities Project, 2007, PRIM HLTH CAR KEY DE; El-Jardali Fadi, 2011, Health Policy, V103, P305, DOI 10.1016-j.healthpol.2011.05.006; El-Jardali F, 2007, LEBAN MED J, V55, P39; El-Jardali F, 2010, INT J QUAL HEALTH C, V22, P386, DOI 10.1093-intqhc-mzq047; El-Jardali F, 2008, INT J QUAL HEALTH C, V20, P363, DOI 10.1093-intqhc-mzn023; JOHNSON SM, 1982, J APPL PSYCHOL, V67, P500, DOI 10.1037--0021-9010.67.4.500; Lavis J, 2010, ISSUE BRIEF STRENGTH; Liu XZ, 2008, HEALTH POLICY PLANN, V23, P1, DOI 10.1093-heapol-czm042; Macinko J, 2003, HEALTH SERV RES, V38, P831, DOI 10.1111-1475-6773.00149; Paccioni André, 2008, Int J Health Care Qual Assur, V21, P146, DOI 10.1108-09526860810859012; Primary Healthcare Planning Group, 2011, STRAT DIR STRENGTH P; Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, 2008, 55 SESS AG IT 12 HLT; Russell G, 2009, MAPPING FUTURE PRIME; Sabri Belgacem, 2008, East Mediterr Health J, V14 Suppl, pS12; Schoen C, 2009, HEALTH AFFAIR, V28, pW1171, DOI 10.1377-hlthaff.28.6.w1171; Starfield B, 2005, MILBANK Q, V83, P457, DOI 10.1111-j.1468-0009.2005.00409.x; Supreme Council of Health, 2010, PRIM CAR PHC; Van Hoof TJ, 2012, AM J MED, V125, P869, DOI 10.1016-j.amjmed.2012.04.024; WHO, 2003, QUAL ACCR HLTH CAR S; World Health Organization, 2004, QUAL IMPR PRIM HLTH; World Health Organization, 2009, MIL HLTH PROM STAT G; World Health Organization, 2008, WORDL HLTH REP PRIM; WHO, 2010, WOR HEALT REP, P11
«Management competitiveness enterprises in cyclical and green economy» (on materials of the Volkswagen Group)
No full textThe master's thesis consists of an introduction, three sections, conclusions, list of used sources and appendices. It contains 20 tables, 7 figures, a list of used sources contains 116 references and one appendix.The author proposes ways to increase the effectiveness of marketing management Toyota Motor Corporation, namely: a) formation and development of ecological culture as a factor in improving the efficiency of managing the competitiveness of Volkswagen groups in a cyclical and green economy; b) improving scientific and methodological aspects of assessing the effectiveness of enterprise competitiveness management in a cyclical and green economy; c) development of recommendations for the establishment of a "Green Office" in the activities of the Volkswagen Group.Thesis materials are published in the abstracts of the report and published at the international scientific-practical conference: Bondar-Pidhurska O.V., Karangwa Charles, Ammar Ahmed Omar Ali. Management of competitiveness of enterprises in conditions of hybrid threats of sustainable development: innovative technologies and ecosconsciousness. Управління та адміністрування в умовах протидії гібридним загрозам національній безпеці: матеріали ІІ Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції (м. Київ, 7 грудня 2021 року). К.: ДУІТ, ХНУРЕ. 2021. 694 с. С. 209-211
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
The impact of hospital accreditation on quality of care: Perception of Lebanese nurses
No full textBackground: In developing countries, accreditation is increasingly being used as a tool for government regulation to guarantee quality of care. Although Lebanon is the first country in the East Mediterranean Region to develop and implement accreditation standards, little is known yet on its impact on quality of care. Objective: To assess the perceived impact of accreditation on quality of care through the lens of health care professionals, specifically nurses. This paper also investigates the perceived contributing factors that can explain change in quality of care. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design where all hospitals that successfully passed both national accreditation surveys (I and II) were included. A total of 1048 registered nurses from 59 hospitals were sampled. The survey tool, assessing quality of care and contributing factors, includes nine scales and subscales rated on five-point Likert scale. Results: The high score for the variable 'Quality Results' indicates that nurses perceived an improvement in quality during and after the accreditation process. Predictors of better Quality Results were Leadership, Commitment and Support, Use of Data, Quality Management, Staff Involvement and hospital size. The variable Quality Management, as measured by the scale Quality Management, had the greatest impact in medium-sized hospitals while the subscale measuring Staff Involvement had the greatest impact in small-sized hospitals. Conclusion: According to Lebanese nurses, hospital accreditation is a good tool for improving quality of care. In order to ensure that accreditation brings effective quality improvement practices, there is a need to assess quality based on patient outcome indicators. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved.Aiken LH, 2000, NURS RES, V49, P146, DOI 10.1097-00006199-200005000-00006; Ammar W., 2007, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, V13, P138; Ammar W, 2003, HLTH SYSTEM REFORM L; Buetow SA, 2003, QUAL SAF HEALTH CARE, V12, P129, DOI 10.1136-qhc.12.2.129; Chan C, 2003, BIOTECHNOL BIOENG, V81, P33, DOI 10.1002-bit.10453; D'Andrea Guy, 2006, Lippincotts Case Manag, V11, P249; DONABEDIAN A, 1980, DEFINITION QUALITY A; El- Jardali F, 2003, THESIS CARLETON U CA; El-Jardali F, 2007, LEBAN MED J, V55, P39; Klazinga N, 2000, INT J QUAL HEALTH C, V12, P183, DOI 10.1093-intqhc-12.3.183; McGlynn EA, 1997, HEALTH AFFAIR, V16, P7, DOI 10.1377-hlthaff.16.3.7; Montagu D, 2003, ACCREDITATION OTHER; O'Brien-Pallas L., 2003, LONGWOODS REV, V1, P2; Pomey Marie-Pascale, 2004, Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv, V17, P113, DOI 10.1108-09526860410532757; Salmon J, 2003, IMPACT ACCREDITATION; Seren S, 2007, J NURS SCHOLARSH, V39, P181; Shaw C, 2001, BRIT MED J, V322, P851, DOI 10.1136-bmj.322.7290.851; SHORTELL SM, 1995, HEALTH SERV RES, V30, P377; Viswanathan HN, 2000, AM J MANAG CARE, V6, P1117; Wagner S. E., 2006, NURSING MANAGEMENT, V37, P25; WHO, 2003, QUAL ACCR HLTH CAR S31272
ConCert: Content Revocation Using Certificates
No full textContent reuse on the Web is becoming even more common since the Web 2.0 “phenomenon”. However, each time content is reused certain information is either completely lost (for example through excerpts) or gets harder to verify. This reduces the content’s quality and thus the content’s value for viewers. Among the lost infor- mation are origin, author, creation time, or if the author still endorses the content.
We propose preserving this information in a cryptographically protected content certificate (ConCert). This X.509 compatible certificate binds the content to the author’s public-key. Using a hash tree we allow viewers to verify the properties, even if parts from the original content have been omitted before re-publication. The author can indicate which parts can be omitted during certificate generation in a policy. Furthermore, the author can indicate a change in his consent to the content itself or to its re-publication by revoking the content’s certificate
Urinary Incontinence
No full textManagement strategies are framed within a multidisciplinary team structure and as such a range of specialists ranging from psychologists, specialist nurses, gynaecologists and urologists author the chapters. There are some novel methods outlined by the authors with their clinical application and utility described in detail, along with exhaustive research on epidemiology, which is particularly relevant in planning for the future
Physico- mechanical and micostructural effects of water/cement ratio on the mortars upon heating
No full textThis experimental work studies the effect of the W/C ratio on the mechanical properties of the mortars subjected to the high temperatures. Fours mortars were made according to EN196-1standard. A typical mortar mix with W/C = 0.5 and three others mortars with W/C= 0.3; W/C= 0.4 and W/C= 0.6. They were exposed to a slow heating in a muffle furnace until the target temperature (100, 200,300,400,500,600,700 and 800°C) with a step of 2°C.min-1 and cooling to room temperature took place in the closed and disconnected oven (approximately -0.3°C/min). After thermal stress, mortars with high W/C ratio (0.5 and 0.6) show a decrease in compressive strength much greater than those with low W/C ratio (0.3 and 0.4). The flexural strength of different mortars has a similar shape to those of the compressive strength. The weight loss and water absorption results are consistent with the mechanical behavior. The SEM tests were carried out on samples of unheated control cement and cements heated to 400°, 500° and 800°C. The SEM observations explain the mechanical strength. At upper temperature (800°C), the material is too much damaged and measurements become difficult
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