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Understanding the Drivers and Consequences of Global Urbanization using Emerging Remote Sensing Technologies
No full textFrom April 1-3, 2011, two parallel, international workshops were held in Scottsdale, Arizona, devoted to Urban Remote Sensing (URS) and Forecasting Urban Growth (FORE). The URS workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Arizona State University, was devoted to understanding the drivers and consequences of global urbanization using emerging remote sensing technologies. The organizers were Elizabeth Wentz and Soe Myint, both at the Arizona State University, and Maik Netzband from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (Figure 1).
Given the focus on urban areas and their dynamics, it was natural to co-locate the URS workshop with a complementary workshop, sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and organized through Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC), on forecasting urban land use change. Karen Seto and Michail Fragkias led the FORE effort. This paper is a summary of the main points emerged from the workshops
A STUDY OF EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION ON PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY ON MYINT AND ASSOCIATES CO., LTD.) ( Nan Khin Pyone Myint, 2019)
No full textEffective Performance Management System can help to deliver the sustained success to organizations by improving the performance of the people who work in them by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors through a combination process of strategic and integrated approach. This thesis is intended to study the importance of employee performance management by identifying the effects of employees’ performance management and to analyze the employees’ perception on performance management system in one of the well-organized private service company in Oil and Gas Service Sector of Myint and Associate Company Limited (M&AS). The descriptive method with quantitative approach and primary data was collected by semi structured questionnaires and secondary reference data of M&AS. The study findings revealed that the well-organized performance management system has significant influence on its employee performance to be efficient and effective and in achieving individual’s goals and organization’s goals effectively and efficiently. The result of this study provide important highlight that strategic and well organized Performance Management System serve as an essential tool in achieving organization’s sustainable goals in win win situation
Does the spatial arrangement of urban landscape matter? Examples of urban warming and cooling in Phoenix and Las Vegas
No full textabstract: This study examines the impact of spatial landscape configuration (e.g., clustered, dispersed) on land-surface temperatures (LST) over Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. We classified detailed land-cover types via object-based image analysis (OBIA) using Geoeye-1 at 3-m resolution (Las Vegas) and QuickBird at 2.4-m resolution (Phoenix). Spatial autocorrelation (local Moran’s I ) was then used to test for spatial dependence and to determine how clustered or dispersed points were arranged. Next, we used Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data acquired over Phoenix (daytime on 10 June and nighttime on 17 October 2011) and Las Vegas (daytime on 6 July and nighttime on 27 August 2005) to examine day- and nighttime LST with regard to the spatial arrangement of anthropogenic and vegetation features. Local Moran’s I values of each land-cover type were spatially correlated to surface temperature. The spatial configuration of grass and trees shows strong negative correlations with LST, implying that clustered vegetation lowers surface temperatures more effectively. In contrast, clustered spatial arrangements of anthropogenic land-cover types, especially impervious surfaces and open soil, elevate LST. These findings suggest that city planners and managers should, where possible, incorporate clustered grass and trees to disperse unmanaged soil and paved surfaces, and fill open unmanaged soil with vegetation. Our findings are in line with national efforts to augment and strengthen green infrastructure, complete streets, parking management, and transit-oriented development practices, and reduce sprawling, unwalkable housing development.Corresponding Author:
Soe Win Myint
Arizona State University
[email protected]
The Effect of Brand Experience and Customer Satisfaction on Customer Loyalty in M-Plus Lighting Brand(Phone Myint Kyaw, 2024)
No full textThis study aims to examine the brand experience and customer satisfaction on
customer loyalty in M-Plus lighting brand in Myanmar. To reach the study objectives,
this study is specified and tested by using multiple linear regression analysis. In this
study, the simple random sampling method is used to select 162 respondents. Their
responses are gathered through questionnaire surveys with a self-administered
questionnaire. The result of this study indicates that the effect of brand experience of
customers on M-Plus lighting are positively affect to its brand loyalty. It is, however,
found that no significant on two elements of the brand experience, such as affective
experience and intellectual experiences. Moreover, the study found that customer
satisfaction has a high positive significant effect on customer loyalty of M-Plus lighting
in Myanmar. The study also reveals that there is a mediation between the independent
variable of brand experience and dependent variable of customer loyalty of M-Plus
lighting, while customer satisfaction is as a partial mediator, on the relationship between
them. To maintain the customer satisfaction and customer loyalty of M-Plus lighting
users, the brand marketer should consider to advertise its products by using social
influencer to more actively use in their daily activities and to maintain the sensory and
behavioral experience of M-Plus lighting users, the brand marketers should consider
consistent quality, customer education, in-store experience and online engagements
Per-Pixel Versus Object-Based Classification of Urban Land Cover Extraction Using High Spatial Resolution Imagery
No full textIn using traditional digital classification algorithms, a researcher typically encounters serious issues in identifying urban land cover classes employing high resolution data. A normal approach is to use spectral information alone and ignore spatial information and a group of pixels that need to be considered together as an object. We used QuickBird image data over a central region in the city of Phoenix, Arizona to examine if an object-based classifier can accurately identify urban classes. To demonstrate if spectral information alone is practical in urban classification, we used spectra of the selected classes from randomly selected points to examine if they can be effectively discriminated. The overall accuracy based on spectral information alone reached only about 63.33%. We employed five different classification procedures with the object-based paradigm that separates spatially and spectrally similar pixels at different scales. The classifiers to assign land covers to segmented objects used in the study include membership functions and the nearest neighbor classifier. The object-based classifier achieved a high overall accuracy (90.40%), whereas the most commonly used decision rule, namely maximum likelihood classifier, produced a lower overall accuracy (67.60%). This study demonstrates that the object-based classifier is a significantly better approach than the classical per- pixel classifiers. Further, this study reviews application of different parameters for segmentation and classification, combined use of composite and original bands, selection of different scale levels, and choice of classifiers. Strengths and weaknesses of the object-based prototype are presented and we provide suggestions to avoid or minimize uncertainties and limitations associated with the approach.
Unfinished Dip. Ed. M-Z: MCCARTHY - MYINT, NALLY - NOONAN, O'BRIEN - OZIRMAK, PAAS - PUMMEROY, QUILLIAM, RADCLIFFE - RYAN, SAFRAN - SZAFRANKO, TACON - TYSON, UNKLES, VADIVELOO - VUKOVIC, WAHR - WU, YEO - ZWALF
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Item: [2018.0034.00003] "Unfinished Dip. Ed. M-Z: MCCARTHY - MYINT, NALLY - NOONAN, O'BRIEN - OZIRMAK, PAAS - PUMMEROY, QUILLIAM, RADCLIFFE - RYAN, SAFRAN - SZAFRANKO, TACON - TYSON, UNKLES, VADIVELOO - VUKOVIC, WAHR - WU, YEO - ZWALF
Selected short stories of Thein Pe Myint with introduction, translation and commentary.
No full textU Thein Pe Myint is one of the most widely read authors in Burma today, with novels, travelogues, political writings, biographies and plays to his credit, as well as a considerable journalistic output. In addition to writing, he has always taken an active interest in politics and was formerly a politician. This duality of interests is reflected in his belief that literature may legitimately be used as propaganda for political purposes. This thesis presents a translation of eight short stories by Thein Pe Myint. The stories were written between 1934 and 1951 when the short story was becoming established as a literary genre in Burma. The aim of the translation has been to reproduce the spirit of the stories while keeping as close to the text as possible; when there are departures from the literal meaning of the text, these have been noted in the footnotes which are appended. The footnotes have also been used to elucidate linguistic and sociological points in the text, and to provide further background where necessary. The introductory section of the thesis contains a biography of Thein Pe Myint which shows how he has combined writing and politics in his career, and an account of the development of the short story as a literary genre in Burma, as well as a discussion of the stories translated, which form an interesting example of politically committed writing which is also successful as popular literature. Because of the absence of publishers' lists and the infrequency of book reviews in Burma, it was felt that it would be worthwhile to compile a full list of the author's writings, and this bibliography has therefore been included
Geographically structured genetic variation in Ptychozoon lionotum (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and a new species from an isolated volcano in Myanmar
No full textGrismer, L. Lee, Wood, Perry L., Thura, Myint Kyaw, Grismer, Marta S., Brown, Rafe M., Stuart, Bryan L. (2018): Geographically structured genetic variation in Ptychozoon lionotum (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and a new species from an isolated volcano in Myanmar. Zootaxa 4514 (2): 202-214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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