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Control the temperature and humidity synchronously in operation theater / Muhammad Bashir Mansor
Full text linkPatient comfort, infection control, and drying of mucous coating are some reasons why temperature and humidity control are important in Operation Theater (OT). Health care facility guidelines recommend maintaining 50% to 60% relative humidity in the OT during surgical procedures. It also recommended the OT temperature be maintained in a range of 18°C to 22°C. Three main requirements influence the control of the temperature of OT is to avoid humidities, promote the comfort and working efficiency of the staff, and conserve the patient's resources. Research by ASHRAE has found that 50% relative humidity is ideal for building occupants to avoid the hazards of fungi, bacteria, viruses and respiratory difficulties, and also controls airborne bacteria. Since the OT operate continuously, thus the system of air-conditioning that can automate the controller of ON and OFF the heaters and motorized valve continuously is needed. The PIC Microcontroller controlling technique has been selected for this project. The technique applied programming code that write in programmer tool which is mikro Basic PRO for PIC. The programming code will be simulated in PIC simulator software and then the coding will download into PIC 16873 microchip if there is no error. The PIC 16873 microchip now connected to controller hardware which contains input components, output components, LCD display and main board components. The present overview shows this technique provide the simplest and the cheapest technique for controlling the temperature and humidity simultaneously. Such an overview provides an insight into current control method and has the comprehensive information about a variety of control techniques in the field of HVAC
Filling the constitutional lacunae concerning Islamic banking and finance litigations in Nigeria: Towards national harmony / Muhammad Bashir Alkali
Full text linkThe objectives of this thesis are to fill the gaps in the Nigerian constitution 1999 relating to Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) Litigations, using the system as an inter-faith bridge in pluralist Nigeria as well as using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to supplement the limited court system. The doctrinal methodology was the main method but some interviews were conducted to support it. This research found that the Constitution fell short of, among others, not providing original Jurisdiction to the Sharia Court of Appeal on matters of IBF; rather, it vested the same on the Federal High Court and appellate jurisdictions on the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, whose constitutional requirements for the appointment of their Benchers do not include general knowledge of the Sharia. This work also found that amendments to the constitution, enactment of separate IBF Act, ADR, emulating Malaysia and the establishment of IBF Court or Tribunal will help in filling the lacunae in the Constitution. It was also found that having IBF is within constitutional right to worship and can be used as a bridge to unite Muslims and Christians in Nigeria. The study presented three contributions to legal research on IBF; Firstly, a microscopic view was made in the constitutional problems of incompetent Benchers in IBF litigations. Secondly, proposal was made for the use of ADR, special courts and laws to handle IBF matters. Thirdly, hypothesis was made to prove that IBF is the constitutional right of both Muslims and Christians. In conclusion, it is hoped that these findings and suggestions will be used by the government to legally enhance IBF operations in Nigeria for national harmony
An Analysis of Allocative Efficiency of Wheat Growers in Northern Pakistan
Full text linkRestricted translog production model is used to estimate the allocative efficiency of wheat growers in Peshawar Valley. It is found that average allocative efficiency is 72 percent. To increase the allocative efficiency, farmers need to increase the use of nitrogen and phosphorous and decrease the use of tillage and irrigation.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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