117 research outputs found
Learning needs assessment examining current infection prevention and control knowledge, readiness, and training preferences among healthcare providers
No full textNicholas Ida, MPH; Judith A. Guzman Cottrill, DO; Roza Tammer, MPH, CIC; Rebecca Pierce, PhD, MS, BSN; Dat Tran, MD, MS.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Incorporating the core international labour standards on freedom of association and collective bargaining into Vietnam's legal system
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This Dissertation evaluates the potential opportunities, challenges and outcomes attendant on Vietnam’s modernisation effort through the incorporation of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Core International Labour Standards (CILS) on freedom of association and collective bargaining into Vietnam law. The Dissertation shows that although Vietnam is likely to benefit from incorporating the CILS on freedom of association and collective bargaining into its legal system, its constitutional value system is not currently consistent with those of particular ILO CILS. It offers recommendations on pre- substantive and procedural measures necessary to ensure the successful reception of ILO CILS on freedom of association and collective bargaining into Vietnam legal practice.I wish to convey my sincere thanks to the Vietnamese Government for awarding me the 322 Project Scholarships and the British Government for granting me the Overseas Research Students Awards (ORSAS) that made this research financially possible
Community Forestland Management, Outside Interventions and Local Responses: The case of the Thai ethnic group in the Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Vietnam
No full textIn an increasing interaction between indigenous or isolated ethnic communities and outside actors, a lack of confirmation of local forestland rights is seen as one of the most critical issues. Does the outsiders’ occupancy of land for rent seeking and authoritative patronage for forest management meet the dispossessed people’s aspirations? How and to what extent should local communities be involved in forestland management and play a determining role in their own future? To answer these questions, this research is based on in-depth interviews focusing on the folk traditions, cultural beliefs, customary laws, local knowledge, and comments and recommendations of the local Thai ethnic people and some outsiders residing in the Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, Nghe An province, Vietnam. In addition, a number of previous case studies and reports from the archive of SPERI (Social Policy Ecology Research Institute) and its alliance members have been synthesised and analysed.
The essential findings and arguments in this thesis comprise the local Thai people’s cultural traits, chronicles of outside interventions, local responses, and cognitive and methodological approaches to the study of indigenous cultures and their forestlands. It was found that local people have been upholding their holistic and unique perspectives, beliefs, customary laws, traditional organizational and institutional practices and that these inherent values and strengths can contribute effectively to forest protection and improvement of local people’s livelihood. However, it was also observed that the increasing imposition of the mainstream top-down approaches have not recognized or encouraged, that is to say, have undermined local strengths and values. In addition, on the basis of an ethnocentric view, superficial perceptions of the ethnic minority peoples and their values have pervaded in the Vietnamese media. These phenomena raise questions as to cultural rights, human rights, and the quality of the policy making process and law enforcement which are inevitably affected by these ethnocentric views and approaches.
To counteract the hurtful effects of mainstream interventions, local people have responded in a subtle and implicit way. As a result of outside interventions, they have had to find ways to adjust their productive and cultural settings. However, there remain wishes to recover traditional cultural values, especially in the minds of the elders. In an alternative bottom-up approach facilitated by SPERI, the people are stimulated to promote their own institutional and organizational strengths towards their brighter future. In a democratized and decentralized process, community’s land rights and customary rights should be officially recognized and confirmed. But official recognition should not be seen as the final goal, only as a supportive factor while the local community’s strengths and self-enforcement of their rights are determinant. To this end, indigenous peoples need further opportunities for networking, capacity building, and taking part in thorough socio-cultural ethnographic research in order to ensure that they are more truly and fairly represented
ASSESSMENT OF GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES AND ACTIVE TECTONICS IN CON VOI MOUNTAIN RANGE AREA (NORTHERN VIETNAM) USING THE HYPSOMETRIC CURVE ANALYSIS METHOD
No full textthe Day Nui Con Voi (DNCV) area of Vietnam. For this purpose, a spatial database was collected and constructed, including DEM (Digital Elevation Model) and a geological map. The hypsometric curve (HC) analysis method and its statistical moments were adopted to use for the assessment. These methods have been widely used for the assessment of geomorphic processes and active tectonics in many areas in the world showing promising results. A total of 44 sub-basins of the Red River and the Chay river were analyzed. The result shows that 3 curve-types such as "straight- shape", "S- shape", and concave were found; with the concave curve being the dominant and widely distributed in the northeast side and in the south of the southwestern side of the study area. The hypsometric integral (HI) values are rather small with the largest value is 0.37 and the smallest one is 0.128. Other statistical moments of the hypsometric curve, i.e. skew (SK), kurtosis (KUR), and the density function (density skew - DSK and density kurtosis-DKUR) show great values, which increased in the south direction of the area study. Accordingly, recent active tectonics (uplift-lower) in the study area is generally weak; however, they are also not completely homogeneous and can be distinguished by different levels. The southwestern side is being lifted higher than the northeastern side. The northern part is being lifted larger than the southern part. In the region, the uplift activities were increased gradually in the Pliocene-Quaternary and could have stopped at certain time in the past. The current geomorphic processes are mainly headward erosion in the upstream.References Allen, C.R., Gillepie, A.R., Han, Y., Sieh, K.E., Zhu, C., 1984. 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Service failure recovery on customer recovery satisfaction and attitude loyalty for airline industry: the moderating effect of brand authenticity
No full textAbstractThe study aims to investigate the relationship between service failure recovery, customer recovery satisfaction, and attitude loyalty for airline industry. The author propose an experimentally determined model of service recovery based on the function of brand authenticity as a moderator in this study. On a sample of 250 customers in Vietnam, the current study aims to determine the connections between service recovery strategy, service recovery satisfaction, and attitudinal loyalty. This study found that apologies, politeness, and recovery speed all have a substantial impact on service recovery satisfaction, with only recovery speed having a positive relationship with attitudinal loyalty. Brand authenticity has a moderator influence on the relationship between attitudinal loyalty and service recovery satisfaction, which is an unique trait of this study. This study contributes insights into how seven service recovery strategies influenced customer loyalty and service recovery satisfaction in terms of attitudinal characteristics. Managers could strive to improve service failure at their airlines in order to increase brand authenticity now that they are aware of the recovery strategies for service failure. Furthermore, for the aggrieved clients, service providers should give sufficient recovery efforts for resolving problems caused by other customers
Metaphire mangophila Nguyen 2011, comb. nov.
No full textMetaphire mangophila (Nguyen, 2011) comb. nov. Pheretima mangophila Nguyen 2011b: 24, fig. 2. Pheretima sp.2 — Nguyen T.T. & Tran 2008: 61; Nguyen et al. 2011: 1025. Pheretima mangophila— Nguyen et al. 2012: 146; Nguyen 2013: 58; Nguyen 2014: 110. Type locality. Vietnam (An Giang: Cho Moi). Type material. CTU (EW.h017), Vietnam. Examined material. 10 C (CTU-EW.012.01) plantation, Thien Ton, Vinh Cuu Distr., Dong Nai Prov., 13/09/ 2012, coll. Duong Chi Trong; 5 C (CTU-EW.012.02) fruit tree gardens, Phu Ngoc, Dinh Quan Distr., Dong Nai Prov., 14/10/2013, coll. Le Van Nhan. Records from Vietnam. Tay Ninh (Ba Den Mt.); Dong Nai (Vinh Cuu; Xuan Loc; Dinh Quan); Dong Thap (Cao Lanh); Can Tho (Vinh Thanh); Kien Giang (Hon Dat; Kien Luong; Ha Tien, An Son Isl.); An Giang (Cho Moi: Duyen Isl.; Chau Doc; Tinh Bien; Tri Ton); Tra Vinh (Chau Thanh) (Nguyen 2011b; Nguyen 2014). Distribution. Only known from Vietnam. Vietnamese name. Giun ưa đất xoài.Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25650
Attention-Augmented Multilinear Networks For Time-series Classification
No full textTime-series analysis has long been a challenging problem and has been studied extensively over the past decades. In fact, several phenomena possess the dynamic nature of time, with related data collected and expressed in the form of time-series data. While the current development of hardware and software infrastructures provides us a tremendous amount of data to build and validate our models, the noisy and stochastic nature observed in many data modalities still prevent us from having definite solutions. This is especially true for chaotic systems such as the stock market in which the involvement of actors with different goals in the feedback loop leads to complex behaviors.
In this thesis, the author proposes a neural network layer design that incorporates the intuitive idea of bilinear mapping to multivariate time-series, as well as an attention module that enables the layer to automatically calculate and focus on important temporal instances. The contribution of the new design is two-fold. Firstly, the proposed layer is highly interpretable thanks to its ability to quantify the contribution of different instances encoding temporal information. In the post-training and inference phase, the attention quantities can be visualized to highlight the time instances of interest, opening up the opportunity for further analysis. Secondly, the new layer design requires both lower memory and fewer computations compared to the popular attention-based Long-Short-Term-Memory design, which is the state-of-the-art solution.
In order to validate the proposed architecture, the author has conducted experiments on the problem of stock mid-price movement prediction using information available in Limit Order Book. In the algorithmic trading regime, an automated forecasting system is required to be both accurate and efficient since the market operates on nanosecond resolution. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed architecture establishes new state-of-the-art forecasting performances in the problem of interest while running much faster than previously proposed solutions
An approach for UAV indoor obstacle avoidance based on AI technique with ensemble of ResNet8 and Res-DQN
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