259 research outputs found
Investment Feasibility Study for Iron Ore Mining Project (Case Study : PT Ina Touna Mining)
No full textWith increasing industry sector in Indonesia, lead to higher demand for industry raw materials especially in natural resources industry. PT. Ina Touna Mining, a national private company in Indonesia is conducting mineral exploration of iron ore in Tojo, Tojo Una Una regency, Central Sulawesi province for 8 years concession period. In its efforts to get the licence in conducting its business, author create the investment feasibility study which will calculate the cash flow in the 8 years concession period. To calculate the investment feasibility study, author uses capital budgeting approach, sensitivity analysis and risk handling management strategy
Does gaze direction modulate facial expression processing in children with autism spectrum disorder?
No full textTwo experiments investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) integrate relevant communicative signals, such as gaze direction, when decoding a facial expression. In Experiment 1, typically developing children (9–14 years old; n = 14) were faster at detecting a facial expression accompanying a gaze direction with a congruent motivational tendency (i.e., an avoidant facial expression with averted eye gaze) than those with an incongruent motivational tendency. Children with ASD (9–14 years old; n = 14) were not affected by the gaze direction of facial stimuli. This finding was replicated in Experiment 2, which presented only the eye region of the face to typically developing children (n = 10) and children with ASD (n = 10). These results demonstrated that children with ASD do not encode and/or integrate multiple communicative signals based on their affective or motivational tendency
質の高いサービスか、ワーク・ライフ・バランスか : 持続可能な労働環境を考える
No full textThe quality of service provided in Sweden tend not to be as high as that in Japan, which was frustrating for the author during her first 10 years of or so of her life in Sweden. However, when realising how much the worker's work-life balance is respected in society, the author gradually comprehended that the apparent lack of service might be related to the respect on worker's life outside of work life. Where to strike a balance between the two is a matter of societal choice
Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder
No full textRecently, a series of studies demonstrated false belief understanding in young children through completely nonverbal measures. These studies have revealed that children younger than 3 years of age, who consistently fail the standard verbal false belief test, can anticipate others' actions based on their attributed false beliefs. The current study examined whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who are known to have difficulties in the verbal false belief test, may also show such action anticipation in a nonverbal false belief test. We presented video stimuli of an actor watching an object being hidden in a box. The object was then displaced while the actor was looking away. We recorded children's eye movements and coded whether they spontaneously anticipated the actor's subsequent behavior, which could only have been predicted if they had attributed a false belief to her. Although typically developing children correctly anticipated the action, children with ASD failed to show such action anticipation. The results suggest that children with ASD have an impairment in false belief attribution, which is independent of their verbal ability
Is anyone looking at me? Direct gaze detection in children with and without autism
No full textAtypical processing of eye contact is one of the significant characteristics of individuals with autism, but the mechanism underlying atypical direct gaze processing is still unclear. This study used a visual search paradigm to examine whether the facial context would affect direct gaze detection in children with autism. Participants were asked to detect target gazes presented among distracters with different gaze directions. The target gazes were either direct gaze or averted gaze, which were either presented alone (Experiment 1) or within facial context (Experiment 2). As with the typically developing children, the children with autism, were faster and more efficient to detect direct gaze than averted gaze, whether or not the eyes were presented alone or within faces. In addition, face inversion distorted efficient direct gaze detection in typically developing children, but not in children with autism. These results suggest that children with autism use featural information to detect direct gaze, whereas typically developing children use configural information to detect direct gaze
いつ医者に診てもらえれば大丈夫なのか : スウェーデンの医療事情に思うこと
No full textThe author describes the challenges of being examined by medical doctors in Sweden when getting sick, discusses potential background and argues the current system does not seem to be optimal from the perspective of ordinary citizens
Municipal solid waste management in Tehran : Changes during the last 5 years
No full textThe situation of waste management in Tehran was a typical example of it in developing countries. The amount of municipal solid waste has been increasing and the city has depended on landfill for municipal solid waste management. However, in recent years, various measures have been taken by the city, such as collecting recyclables at the source and increasing the capacity of waste-processing facilities. As a result, significant changes in the waste stream are starting to occur. This study investigated the nature of, and reasons for, the marked changes in the waste stream from 2008 to 2012 by analysing the municipal solid waste statistics published by the Tehran Waste Management Organization in 2013 and survey data on the physical composition of the municipal solid waste. The following trends were identified: Although the generation of municipal solid waste increased by 10% during the 5-year period, the amount of waste directly disposed of to landfill halved and resource recovery almost doubled. An increase in the capacity of a waste-processing facility contributed significantly to these changes. The biodegradable fraction going to landfill was estimated by using the quantity and the composition of each input to the landfill. The estimated result in 2012 decreased to 49% of its value in 2008
High quality service or work-life balance? [Elektronisk resurs] : Contemplating on sustainable working environment
No full textThe quality of service provided in Sweden tend not to be as high as that in Japan, which was frustrating for the author during her first 10 years of or so of her life in Sweden. However, when realising how much the worker's work-life balance is respected in society, the author gradually comprehended that the apparent lack of service might be related to the respect on worker's life outside of work life. Where to strike a balance between the two is a matter of societal choice
When is it sufficient to consult a doctor [Elektronisk resurs] : Contemplating on the medical situation in Sweden
No full textThe author describes the challenges of being examined by medical doctors in Sweden when getting sick, discusses potential background and argues the current system does not seem to be optimal from the perspective of ordinary citizens
直して使う文化は戻ってくるのか : 修理・修繕の復興に向けての試行錯誤
No full textSimilarly to many OECD countries, repair has been replaced by purchasing of alternatives which has accrelated production and accompanying environmental impacts. With the re-recognition of the necessity of closure of material loops repair has been receiving renewed policy attention, both at the EU and Swedish level. There are also initiatives such as repair cafe that seek to equip citizens with tools and means to repair their own products, and mindset of some industry actors also started to change. Despite all these development, a recent study shows that the perceptions of citizens on self repair are still negative. The author contemplates on possible reasons
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