Hasil untuk "Office management"

Wil M.P. van der Aalst, A. Weijters

E. Miguel, Colin Camerer, K. Casey et al.

N. Chawla, Darcy A. Davis

D. Heimbigner, D. McLeod

Matthew W. Jones, Adam J. P. Smith, R. Betts et al.

Jian Zhang, K. Howard, C. Langston et al.

Tushar Andriyas, Nisa Leksungnoen, Pichaya Pongchaidacha et al.

Saline lands pose significant environmental and agricultural challenges due to high soil salinity, which disrupts water uptake and ionic balances, limiting conventional crop productivity. Yet, certain endemic plants thrive under these conditions and may offer untapped bioactive compounds. This study proposes a novel platform that integrates species distribution modeling (SDM) and advanced metabolomics to screen for bioactive secondary metabolites, using Buchanania siamensis, a rare native species, as a case study. An ensemble SDM model incorporating environmental and soil parameters identified salinity as a critical factor influencing the species’ distribution. Leaf samples were collected from naturally growing trees at both saline (SS) and non-saline (NS) sites. LC-QTOF metabolomic analysis annotated a total of 1106 metabolites across the leaf samples, with 175 found to be significantly different between the groups. Among them, 108 metabolites exhibited higher abundance in the SS group. Additionally, antioxidant assays including DPPH, FRAP, and total phenolic content tests, were conducted. Data were further analyzed using O-PLSR models to identify key metabolites most relevant to antioxidant properties. The results indicated that afzelin was the key metabolite responsible for the antioxidant properties of B. siamensis, with significantly higher levels in SS compared to NS samples (p < 0.05), as determined by peak area. By leveraging this multidisciplinary approach, we propose a framework to support both bioactive compound discovery and saline land reclamation, offering potential environmental and pharmaceutical benefits. This integrated platform may support pharmaceutical research, particularly in drug discovery efforts.

Yessengeldina Anar, Baibussinova Zhanar, Kylbayev Yerlan

In recent years, Kazakhstan has actively adopted project management practices in the public sector to improve the efficiency of government programs, optimize resource use, and enhance transparency. A central element of this transformation has been the establishment of project management offices (PMOs) within government agencies. However, the maturity of these PMOs – and their capacity to support strategic objectives through advanced project management methods – remains underexplored, particularly in the context of developing and transitional economies.

Girlly Marchlina Listyono, Adi Wibowo

Pesatnya pertumbuhan penduduk di Kota Bekasi mendorong konversi lahan yang signifikan dan memunculkan kawasan aglomerasi pendidikan di Jalan K.H. Agus Salim, Bekasi Timur. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan dinamika spasial-temporal perkembangan fasilitas pendidikan dasar hingga menengah serta perubahan tutupan lahan pada periode 2001, 2012, dan 2023. Data citra resolusi tinggi Google Earth Pro, informasi sekolah dari Dapodik, serta validasi lapangan digunakan untuk klasifikasi tiga kategori lahan: vegetasi, terbuka non-vegetasi, dan lainnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan peningkatan jumlah sekolah dari 9 unit pada 2001 menjadi 15 unit pada 2023, seiring penurunan luas vegetasi, terutama di zona tengah dan timur. Sementara itu, zona barat relatif stabil dengan adanya pemulihan vegetasi pada lahan eks industri. Temuan ini mengungkap bahwa perkembangan fasilitas pendidikan tidak selalu sejajar dengan perubahan lahan, melainkan dipengaruhi faktor tata ruang, aksesibilitas, dan pertumbuhan penduduk usia sekolah. Penelitian ini menekankan pentingnya integrasi perencanaan kawasan pendidikan dengan perlindungan ruang terbuka hijau dan pengendalian alih fungsi lahan untuk mendukung keberlanjutan lingkungan perkotaan.

Chisomo Salangwa, Reston Munthali, Lusungu Mfune et al.

Background: PPPs are crucial in addressing healthcare challenges in Malawi, a low-income country. These partnerships, including those with CHAM, help improve access to health services by complementing the public sector, especially in areas with inadequate infrastructure and limited healthcare resources. Method: This study employed qualitative methods, including interviews, focus groups, and document analysis, to investigate the impact of PPP on healthcare infrastructure and access. Purposive and snowball sampling selected 30 interviewees and 20 focus groups. Thematic analysis revealed insights into PPP dynamics, resource allocation, stakeholder interactions, and socio-economic factors in healthcare. Results: Government officials recognise PPPs’ positive impact on healthcare access, especially in rural areas, but raise concerns about sustainability due to policy inconsistencies, financial instability, and service duplication. CHAM and district health professionals highlight delayed payments, cost management, and infrastructure issues. While PPPs increase healthcare utilisation, challenges like drug shortages, staff shortages, and financial strain threaten long-term sustainability without better coordination. Conclusion: This study explores PPPs in Malawi’s health sector, focusing on healthcare quality, efficiency, equity, and access. It identifies challenges like mistrust, misaligned incentives, data inflation, contract renegotiations, staffing shortages, and infrastructure issues. The study emphasises improving transparency, aligning incentives, and addressing sustainability through better resource management and financing.

Ken S. Cavalluzzo, C. Ittner

E. Deelman, T. Peterka, I. Altintas et al.

Matteo Fresia, Tommaso Robbiano, Martina Caliano et al.

The integration of renewable energy sources in the European power system is one of the main goals set by the European Union. In order to ease this integration, in recent years, Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) have been introduced that aim to increase the exploitation of renewable energy at the local level. This paper presents an Energy Management System (EMS) for an industrial microgrid owned and operated by a greentech company located in the north of Italy. The company is a member of an REC. The microgrid is made of interconnected busbars, integrating photovoltaic power plants, a fleet of electric vehicles, including company cars and delivery trucks supporting Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), dedicated charging stations, and a centralized battery energy storage system. The industrial site includes two warehouses, an office building, and a connection to the external medium-voltage network. The EMS is designed to optimize the operation of the microgrid and minimize the operating costs related to the sale and purchase of energy from the external network. Furthermore, as the company is a member of an REC, the EMS must try to follow a desired power exchange profile with the grid, suggested by the REC manager, with the purpose of maximizing the energy that is shared within the community and incentivized. The results demonstrate that, when minimizing only costs, local self-consumption is favored, leading to a Self-Sufficiency Rate (SSR) of 65.37%. On the other hand, when only the adherence to the REC manager’s desired power exchange profile is considered in the objective function, the SSR decreases to 56.43%, net operating costs increase, and the energy shared within the REC is maximized.

Fan Li

Background: To explore the mediating effect of smartphone addiction between psychological resilience and insomnia among university students. Methods: This study included 581 clinical medical students from the Dalian Medical University, enrolled between September 2020 and May 2023. The Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS-SV), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), and Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) were used to assess smartphone addiction, insomnia, and psychological resilience among the students. The Process macro and Bootstrap methods were employed to analyze the mediating effect of smartphone addiction between psychological resilience and insomnia. Results: The detection rate of smartphone addiction was 28.06% (163/581), and the detection rate of insomnia was 26.17% (152/581). The total SAS-SV score was 27.60 ± 14.27, the total ISI score was 6.60 ± 5.33, and the total CD-RISC score was 72.86 ± 6.88. There was a significant negative correlation between the total CD-RISC score and the total SAS-SV score (r=–0.4129, P < .0001), and a significant negative correlation between the total CD-RISC score and the total ISI score (r = –2.942, P < .0001). The total SAS-SV score and the total ISI score were significantly positively correlated (r=0.5687, P < .0001). Psychological resilience was used as the independent variable, insomnia as the dependent variable, and smartphone addiction as the mediating variable in the mediation effect analysis. Psychological resilience negatively predicted insomnia (β=–0.0940, P < .0001), smartphone addiction positively predicted insomnia (β=0.1564, P < .0001), and smartphone addiction mediated the relationship between psychological resilience and insomnia (effect value=–0.1339, 95% CI: –0.1680 to –0.1034), with an effect size of 58.75%. Conclusion: Psychological resilience directly affects insomnia and also indirectly affects insomnia through the mediating effect of smartphone addiction.

Andrew J. Johnson, David S. Chen

Abstract Botulinum toxin is a potent neuromodulator commonly used for cosmetic applications in the clinic. In this article, we reviewed the various formulations of botulinum toxin type A commercially available in the United States, as well as clinical pearls for preprocedural planning, common in‐office injections, and management of complications.

Ruijuan LIU, Siyang CHEN, Jun YU et al.

Dissolved oxygen is an important biogenic element in marine ecosystem, and the variation of its content and distribution could affect marine life activities directly or indirectly. In this paper, the spatial and temporal variaton characteristics were systematically analyzed and the occurrence of hypoxia was preliminarily discussed based on the seawater field monitoring data in Zhejiang coastal area from 2014 to 2018. The results showed that the spatial and temporal variation characteristics of dissolved oxygen and its saturation were obvious in Zhejiang coastal area. The spatial span analysis showed that the horizontal distribution of dissolved oxygen and its saturation presented different characteristics in different seasons, and the vertical distribution showed that dissolved oxygen and its saturation in the surface layer was higher than that in the bottom layer, and the difference between the surface layer and the bottom layer was larger in spring and summer, but smaller in autumn and winter, which was related to surface photosynthesis and seasonal thermohalocline. The time span analysis showed that the highest dissolved oxygen content in surface layer appeared in winter and the lowest in summer, which were affected by water temperature and surface photosynthesis, and the highest dissolved oxygen in surface layer in summer appeared in 2018 and the lowest in 2015, which was mainly caused by sea surface temperature. In addition, hypoxia was also found in some areas outside the coastal area, and its potential risks are being further tracked and monitored.

Lu Wang, Dandan Zhang, Junjie Liu et al.

ObjectivesPromoting improvement in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is an important part of improving the quality of care. The influence of leadership attention and incentives on the self-perceived continuous improvement in IPC has drawn a lot of attention, but relevant academic research is still lacking. The objective of this study is to explore the effect of leadership attention on self-perceived continuous improvement in IPC among medical staff and its underlying mechanisms.MethodThe 3,512 medical staff from 239 health facilities in Hubei, China, were surveyed online during September 2020. Data on leadership attention, incentives, and improvement in Infection Prevention and Control were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between leadership attention, incentives, and improvement in Infection Prevention and Control. Amos 24.0 was used to analyze the mediating role.ResultsThe scores of leadership attention, incentives and self-perceived continuous improvement in Infection Prevention and Control were all high. The score of leadership attention was the highest (4.67 ± 0.59), followed by self-perceived continuous improvement (4.62 ± 0.59) and incentives in Infection Prevention and Control (4.12 ± 0.83). Leadership attention positively affected self-perceived continuous improvement in Infection Prevention and Control (β = 0.85, 95% CI = [0.83, 0.87]). Moreover, incentives partially mediated the effect of leadership attention on self-perceived continuous improvement in Infection Prevention and Control among medical staff (β = 0.13, 95% CI = [0.12, 0.15]).ConclusionLeadership attention positively affects self-perceived continuous improvement in Infection Prevention and Control among medical staff, and incentives mediates this relationship. The present study has valuable implications for self-perceived continuous improvement in Infection Prevention and Control from the perspective of leadership attention and incentives.

Swarnima Dey, Alok Saxena, Yogesh Kumar et al.

Kodo and little millet (Kutki) have a variety of phytochemical constituents including derivatives of hydroxybenzoic acid and hydroxycinnamic acids, myricetin, catechin, luteolin, apigenin, daidzein, naringenin, kaempferol, and quercetin with vast health benefits and thus can be utilized as functional food ingredients. Millet-based foods and their food products have physiological and health-promoting impacts, notably antidiabetic, anti-obesity, and cardiovascular disease, and based on the actions of phytochemicals, it plays a major role in the body’s immune system. However, antinutrients (tannins, oxalate, trypsin inhibitor, and phytates) present in these millets restrict their utilization since these factors bind the essential nutrients and make them unavailable. Therefore, this review suggested overcoming the effects of antinutrients in these millets, thereby opening up important applications in food industries that may promote the development of novel functional foods. Various methods were discussed to eliminate the antinutrient factors in these millets, and hence, the review holds immense significance to the food industry for effectively utilizing these millets to develop value-added RTE/RTC products/functional food/beverages.

Rony Bonaobra Rony Bonaobra, Manny Macabeo

The safety of the community and the degree of law and order in the state were based mainly on the efficiency of the duties and functions performed by the agent of the state. Being a public officer with state-given powers, a police officer must strictly adhere to organizational discipline. The study aims to determine the prevalent Administrative Cases in Police Regional Office 5 for CY 2019 to 2021 and identify the factors leading to the commission of administrative offenses based on the available data on the nature of cases, specific offenses, and disposition of administrative cases. It will also analyze the effects of decided administrative cases on police officers’ work performance, social relationships, and family relations. Content analysis on reliable data on the nature of cases and specific offenses and qualitative method with a phenomenological approach based on the responses of the participants were utilized to analyze the factors and effects of decided administrative cases on police officers. The study revealed that negligence, incompetency, anger management, and sexual misconduct are among the factors leading to the commission of the administrative offense. The study concludes that neglect of duty (nonfeasance) and misconduct (malfeasance) are the two (2) prevalent administrative offenses committed by a police officer. There is a need for cohesive preventive measures that enhance police discipline based on morale and spiritual upliftment, psycho-social intervention program and skill-focused activities to address the increasing number of administrative cases in PRO5.

Ready Wicaksono, Mispiyanti Mispiyanti

Audit quality is the probability of an assessment given by the auditor about the discovery of a violation in the client's accounting system and reports the violation. The purpose of this study is to obtain empirical evidence of competence, independence, spiritual quotient, emotional quotient, and audit tenure variables on audit quality. This research is quantitative. The population in this study is the Public Accountant Office in Yogyakarta with the sample selection method that is convenience sampling. The data is taken from respondents' responses to positive and negative statements contained in the questionnaire. Data processing and hypothesis testing techniques using SPSS version 22. The results of this study prove that competence, independence, spiritual quotient, emotional quotient, and audit tenure have a significant positive effect on audit quality. This shows that an auditor must have good personal quality, adequate knowledge, and special expertise in his field, not influenced by other parties, and is obliged to be honest not only to the management and owners of the company but also users of financial statements, have a spiritual and emotional good, and a deeper and more complete understanding of the company's operational activities, along with the increase in the number of years of the audit engagement with the company so that it has an impact on the quality of audits produced.