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THE EFFECT OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC FACTORS ON JOB SATISFACTION IN MYANMAR ORIENTAL BANK ( Su Mon Aung, 2019)
Get PDFThis study attempts to identify the intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors provided by Myanmar Oriental Bank and how it affects employees’ job satisfaction. This research sample size is 100 employees who were taken from the total number of 385 at Head Office of MOB bank. Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors of job satisfaction have been analysed in the study. Intrinsic factors such as achievement, recognition for achievement, work itself, responsibility and personal growth were used, on the other hand, extrinsic factors such as job security, supervision, working condition, compensation and interpersonal relationship were used to conduct the study. Results showed that employees were more satisfied with interpersonal relationship factors, and Intrinsic factors in general have more potential than Extrinsic factors on determining employees’ job satisfaction. Moreover, it was also found that the pay and security factor was the least satisfied factor of the respondents. Therefore, it is recommended that the leaders of MOB bank should consider revising the compensation policy of the organization to have high employee job satisfaction
A Study on Working Womens' Percrption on Work and Life Balance (Case Study: Cantonment Area Development Committees, Yangon Region)(Su Mon Aung, 2024)
Get PDFThis study analyzes the current working conditions and perceptions on work
and life balance (WLB) among female employees in three specific Cantonment Area
Development Committees: Yangon, Mingalardon, and Hmawbi. This research
employs descriptive methods, utilizing primary as well as secondary data. The
primary data are collected from 146 women employees, including both permanent and
daily wage workers within the three CADCs with a structured questionnaire. The
secondary data are gathered from relevant literature, textbooks, previous research
papers, documents, and websites. The findings reveal that the factors such as
workload, social support, and organizational policies significantly influence on WLB
of these women. Suggestions include career development support, childcare and
working women facilities, review leave policies, promote work-life balance (WLB)
initiatives, address work interference and support personal responsibilities to worklife
balance (WLB) policies. Addressing these challenges is crucial for successful
working conditions for women in the CADCs, supporting their contributions to public
administration, and promoting overall gender equality in the workforce
Improvement of Cell Counting Program by using Image Processing Methods
Get PDFMaster of Science (Biomedical Engineering), 2017Cell counting is one of the most important, common tasks in experiments that
deal with cell. Traditionally, manual cell counting uses hemocytometer which is the gold standard for cell counting for biomedical research. However, manual cell counting is time consumed; this may also lead to inaccurate counting results, especially if the counting operators have many samples to analyze over a short period of time. In particular, computer-
assisted programs can reduce time consumption, as well as avoiding manual artifact about cell
counting. Furthermore, it can diminish the variation of counting results among the counting operators which sometimes is related to personal judgment. For this study, input data are microscopic images that are stained with Trypan Blue dye. The main objectives of this study are to propose a computer-assisted cell counting approach based on image processing techniques and to improve the accuracy and reliability of cell counting, especially dead cells counting. The proposed computer-assisted cell counting algorithm works in four stages. First, image denoising is applied by using image guided filter, since original microscopic staining images have background noise and small debris. Secondly, a thresholding method is used to
extract background and foreground objects, and then the third stage is to apply the
morphological operations for image analysis. The final stage is to analyze and identify live and dead cells by using object analysis. There are two approaches in this study: the first cell counting algorithm by using morphological operations of digital image approaches and image segmentation and the second algorithm by using the detection of live and dead cell based on
adaptive K-means clustering. The first approach gave 83+6% and 63+10% for the accuracy of
live cell counting and dead cell counting respectively when compared with the experts. The results show that the performance of the second approach using an adaptive K-means
clustering reaches 8914% of live cells from three experts, showing a good likelihood in clusters of live cells and 6123% for dead cells accuracy, whereas ImageJ obtained 491%
for total counting cells only compared with manual counting.
The correlation coefficients between the counting results from the first
approach and the experts were 0.99 and 0.74 for the living cells and dead cells. The second
counting algorithm also displayed the highest correlation (r = 0.99, r-0.99, r=0.99) with three
manual counting for live cells while the ImageJ did not correlate well with manual counting (r-0.91, r=0.92, r=0.91). In addition, the second approach has a good correlation with manual counting for dead cells (r=0.93, r=0.80, r=0.85) which is higher than the first approach.
Therefore, both proposed computer-assisted show that the reliability and accuracy of counting are increased, especially live cells when compared with the experts. Finally, Graphical user
interface (GUI) is developed to make this a user-friendly application for Trypan Blue stained microscopic image cell counting
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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