Compass Rose Research Articles

PENGARUH DIFERENSIASI PRODUK, DIGITAL MARKETING DAN KEBIJAKAN HARGA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN WISATAWAN MENGINAP DI THE COMPASS ROSE UBUD

AbstractThe tourism industry is an important sector in national development. Bali is a province in Indonesia which is well known for having extraordinary tourism potential. Hotel is an accommodation facility that provides lodging facilities as well as food and beverage services which are commercial in nature and are growing rapidly. The beauty of the beaches in Bali can be an added value for the hotel itself and an attraction for tourists who will stay at that place. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of Product Differentiation, Digital Marketing and Pricing Policies on Tourist Decisions di The Compass Rose Ubud.The research location is The Compass Rose Ubud Bali. The method of determining the sample using the method purposive sampling. The sample of this research is consumers or customers who are aged 17 years and over as many as 110 respondents. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis.The results of the study show that product differentiation has a positive and significant effect on tourists' decisions at The Compass Rose Ubud. Digital marketing positive and significant effect on tourists' decisions The Compass Rose Ubud. Pricing policy has a positive and significant effect on tourist decisions. Product differentiation, digital marketing and price policy has a positive and significant effect on tourists' decisions The Compass Rose Ubud. Differentiation variables the product has the most dominant influence on tourists' decisions at The Compass Rose Ubud.

Joseph Conrad in the eyes of Kazimierz Wierzyński: Fearless of the Boundless and Familiar with the Infinite

Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894-1969) is now considered to be one of the greatest modern Polish poets. He was born in Drohobycz (which is now in western Ukraine) and studied literature and philosophy in Cracow and Vienna. During the interwar years he lived in Warsaw, after which for several years (1939-1941) he lived as a wartime refugee before spending more than twenty years in the United States. An émigré for the rest of his life, he finally settled in London, where he died in 1969. Wierzyński’s poetry – like the works of Joseph Conrad – exhibits a particular sensibility to nature (perceived as a living organism) and the outside world, which is full of extraordinary places, objects, people and phenomena that invite us to reflect on the deeper meaning of our existence as human beings. Both writers share a stoic response to adversity and a fidelity to conscience and to the heritage of European culture. In his 1924 sketch entitled “Conrad’s Great Silence,” Wierzyński saw Conrad above all as a writer who yearns for the infinite, whose “maritime reflection is reproduced in his work.” Twelve years later, in a narrative poem entitled Lord Jim (forming part of his 1936 collection entitled Kurhany), Wierzyński brought the eponymous character of Conrad’s novel into the pantheon of the Polish collective imagination. The fate of Lord Jim, who is tormented by nostalgia for his native England (to which he cannot return) would seem to foreshadow that of the émigré poet whom Wierzyński himself was soon to become. In the titular poem of Wierzyński’s wartime collection Róża wiatrów (The Wind Rose – 1942), Conrad appears as a “role model” for all Polish wartime refugees and émigrés, who, like castaways, search for their own guiding light “in the Conradian sky” – a light that could help them find a safe haven where they could live and work in their own artistic realm without the need to care about literary fashions. This poem has been translated into English (under the title The Compass Rose) by Mary Phelps (Kazimierz Wierzyński, Selected Poems, New York: Voyages Press, 1959). In the opinion of the author of the present article, this translation fails to correctly convey certain key images and allusions which enrich the meaning of the poem and which connect it with the poet’s own personal situation as an émigré writer.

The Compass Rose Names: Portuguese Data from Early Dictionaries and Textual Sources

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the origins and evolution of cardinal point names in Portuguese. The authors draw on historical dictionaries and corpora to hypothesize that the shift from Latin to Germanic names was due to the changing paradigm of navigation across the Atlantic Ocean. The text discusses the history of the compass rose and the succession of borrowings in nautical terminology, as well as the importance of studying early dictionaries and corpora to understand lexical change over time. Ultimately, the authors conclude that the adoption of Germanic names was necessary due to the inadequacy of the old names for a new world.

The Maps with X-Ray Eyes: The Sanborn Collection

ABSTRACT: The Sanborn Map Company, established in 1867, was famous for publishing highly detailed maps of the urban areas of the United States. These maps, using data collected by an army of fieldworkers and surveyors, were used by insurance underwriters to remotely assess the risk of potential clients and were bound into regularly updated volumes for each major city in the United States. However, by March 1972, Sanborn began to close shop, disposing of most of their internal archives apart from the most recently updated volumes. Recognizing the inherent value of the volumes to the field of geography, faculty from the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, undertook an expedition to Sanborn's San Francisco office to recover as many volumes as possible. Over the years, the recovered volumes have moved from room to room until finally finding a home in a climate-controlled office in Sierra Hall, on the CSUN campus. Our article highlights three very different endeavors using the Sanborn maps, in an effort to illustrate the value of the CSUN collection to scholarly and artistic projects: Dr. Ron Davidson's exploration of historical change in a small corner of downtown Los Angeles; Dr. Jim Craine's attempt to uncover the "real" 77 Sunset Strip, and Los Angeles-based artist Debra Scacco's Compass Rose Project , an ongoing installation using Sanborn pages as a metaphor for American history.

Integrating Green and Sustainable Chemistry into Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories: Closing and Assessing the Loop on the Basis of a Citrus Biorefinery Approach for the Biocircular Economy in Brazil

One of the keys to achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education is to introduce novel pedagogical strategies into university curricula in order to promote an enhanced acute sense of sustainability in future professionals, teachers, and decision-makers. This paper aims at analyzing the effectiveness of including green and sustainable chemistry on the basis of a systems thinking framework to introduce a glocal (global scale, local impact) hot-type topic in an experimental chemistry course for first-year undergraduate Chemical Engineering students from a public Brazilian university located in Sao Paulo state, Brazil. The enormous amount of waste generated locally by the citrus processing industry was used as a case study for a guided-inquiry laboratory experiment that addressed concepts found in interfaces with other systems, such as biorefineries, biocircular economies, and green technologies and professional education programs. On the basis of student feedback, the alternative procedure proved to be technically and pedagogically effective, showing that problem-based glocal issues can be useful tools for developing sustainability-minded future professionals. Additionally, a set of green and sustainable chemistry education (GSCE) principles composing a new metric called the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education Compass Rose was proposed that could help educators develop and assess novel experiments to modernize and introduce the scientific concepts and tools needed to face the world’s greatest challenges.

Commentary on: Intra-Areolar Pexy: The "Compass Rose" Suture Technique for Small and Moderate Areola Herniation.

Commentary on: Intra-Areolar Pexy: The "Compass Rose" Suture Technique for Small and Moderate Areola Herniation.

Intra-Areolar Pexy: The "Compass Rose" Suture Technique for Small and Moderate Areola Herniation.

Common methods for addressing minor tuberous breast (type 0; normal mammary base breast with isolated areolar herniation) do not solve the underlying pathology and may leave an unsightly scar. To assess the efficacy and safety of a simple, scarless method based on a novel "compass rose" technique, which addresses the etiology of minor tuberous breast and other cases desiring small areolar diameter reductions. The technique uses 3 layers of suturing, 1 in a compass pattern and 2 in round block. Retrospective data are provided for 77 consecutive women (141 breasts) undergoing cosmetic breast augmentation surgery and requiring unilateral or bilateral type 0 tuberous breast correction (n = 22) or areolar width reduction ≤ 15 mm (n = 55). Baseline mean age and body mass index were 29.7 ± 6.0 years and 19.4 ± 1.5 kg/m2, respectively. Patients were followed up for a mean of 27.2 ± 19.5 months. In tuberous breast, mean Northwood Index decreased from 0.55 ± 0.06 at baseline to 0.36 ± 0.02 at ≥ 6 months post surgery, indicating minimal residual deformity. In areolar width reductions without tuberosity, mean width decreases of 11.3 ± 1.8 mm (20.0%) were achieved. Patient satisfaction was high with regard to lack of scarring, stability of the result, and overall breast attractiveness. Eight complications were recorded (n = 2 superficial hematoma; n = 3 hypersensibility; n = 2 knot palpability; n = 1 recurrence); all were resolved. The method is effective and safe, and may be applicable across patients with type 0 tuberous breast or desiring small areolar diameter reductions.

Deteriorating Complexity in Gold Returns: Evidence from the Compass Rose

The compass rose pattern in financial data may indicate the presence of a nonlinear, possibly chaotic, data generating mechanism. Analysis reveals that over four equivalent subperiods, from 1996 to 2015, the compass rose pattern in gold returns fades. This feature provides an opportunity to establish which of several data characteristics is consistent with the observed deterioration in the compass rose pattern. The observed monotonic change in pattern quality, the number of different price moves and the number of zero returns are all consistent with a changing trading environment that has led to improvements in financial market efficiency. We also conclude that it is unlikely that the compass rose pattern is the product of an underlying nonlinear structure, since there is evidence of nonlinearity in all time periods, even those where the compass rose pattern in not evident.

Cloud Hands

Cloud Hands Arthur Sze (bio) A woman moves through a Cloud Hands position, holding and rotating an invisible globe—thud, shattering glass, moan, horn blast—so many worlds to this world—two men dipnet sockeye salmon at the mouth of a river—from a rooftop, a seagull cries and cries; a woman moves through Grasp the Bird’s Tail— someone on a stretcher is wheeled past glass doors—a desert fivespot rises in a wash— and, pressing her tongue to the roof of her mouth, she focuses, in the near distance, on the music of sycamore leaves. [End Page 694] Arthur Sze arthur sze’s latest books of poetry are Compass Rose and Pig’s Heaven Inn, a bilingual Chinese/English selected poems. He received the Jackson Poetry Prize and is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Copyright © 2016 The Massachusetts Review, Inc.

The Compass Rose and Statistical Properties: The Evidence from the Chinese A-Share Market

This article presents a comprehensive examination of the existence, or the lack thereof, of the compass rose pattern in the Chinese A-Share Market. It investigates empirically 1334 A-shares, and discovers the compass rose only in 25 A-shares. It employs the techniques developed by Kopple R and Nardone C to quantify the compass rose and detect the statistical properties in them, and comparing the results of the study with studies on B-Shares in similar environment. It is found that the A-shares, which exhibits the compass rose , reject the null hypothesis of statistical independence (with confidence level of 5%). This is the first large-scope study to surveying the compass rose in the Chinese A-Share market quantitatively. It is of help to overcome the shortcomings in the study of emerging stock markets which have existed since the discovery of the compass rose of stock markets.

Compass Rose: A Rotational Robust Signature for Optical Flow Computation

This paper proposes a new image signature, called Compass Rose, which is particularly suited to optical flow computation. It is differentiable, fast to compute, and robust to additive illumination changes, translation, and fast rotation. We design a sparse flow computation system based on the invariance of the Compass Rose signatures. This is then extended to dense motion estimation by the addition of an optional diffusion step. Quantitative testing on several benchmark sequences shows the Compass Rose attains higher accuracy than the traditional flow signatures under a range of conditions. Finally, we demonstrate its application to human motion estimation, which is challenging for optical flow methods due to fast limb rotation.

The Compass Rose of Social Impact Games

Within games that are meant for more than play, specific processes and procedures lie hidden within game mechanics that are key to gameplay. These keys provide an opportunity for the player to help or guide others, think about moral or ethical issues, learn about a problem in society, and learn about social issues, like a compass rose. This article presents an overview of the research related to persuasive games with a social impact component. The overview begins with a brief introduction of the use of persuasive games in education and concludes with their development over the last ten years. Next the author introduces each of the four compass points and uses examples of current social impact games to support how the processes and procedures within the game are affected by the game design. Finally, three recommendations are discussed for the design of social impact games in respect to the four compass points of social impact games.

Eight-point Compass Rose Underlay Technique in 72 Consecutive Elderly Patients with Large Incisional Hernia

Repair of incisional hernia (IH) in the elderly is a challenge for the surgeon. Primary closure is preferable but is not always possible because of high recurrence rates of IH repaired without a prosthesis and/or possible respiratory and cardiovascular complications due to extreme tension of the margins. We report our experience with underlay mesh placement in elderly patients with large IH. A total of 72 patients from January 2003 to December 2009 underwent IH repair involving placement of an intraperitoneal Gore ® DualMesh ® prosthesis. The prosthesis was first anchored at eight points in a compass rose pattern using a Gore ® suture passer and then firmly secured to the abdominal wall with a 360° internal crown running suture. Two intraoperative intestinal tears occurred during debridement and were immediately sutured. Postoperative complications included seven seromas, four hematomas, and two infections, one of which was resolved with conservative treatment while one required prosthesis removal. This surgical procedure, like laparoscopic treatment, allows the surgeon to avoid dissection of the abdominal layer and improves prosthesis adhesion with reinforcement of the incisional area near the abdominal defect. The reduction in operation time is remarkable. Despite good results in terms of safety and minimal recurrence for laparoscopy in the management of IH, the use of minimally invasive techniques for large incisional wall defects, especially in elderly patients, is still controversial and practiced by few surgeons. This open technique avoids cardiopulmonary complications arising from pneumoperitoneum in the elderly.

The Compass Rose Effectiveness Model

The effectiveness model focuses the institution on mission achievement through assessment and improvement planning. Eleven mission criteria, measured by key performance indicators, are aligned with the accountability interest of internal and external stakeholders. A Web-based performance assessment application supports the model, documenting the impact of strategic planning on continuous improvement.

The Compass Rose in Electricity Prices

The compass rose pattern appears in high-frequency returns of spot electricity prices. Once these returns are filtered using autoregressive filtering, no pattern remains. This is unexpected and suggests that factors other than discreteness contribute to the compass rose pattern. Though the series are non-normal in terms of their distribution, statistical tests fail to identify significant chaotic, or fractal structures, in price returns. The phase diagram of the filtered returns provides a useful visual check on independence, a property necessary for pricing and trading derivatives and portfolio construction, as well as providing useful insights into the market dynamics.

Robust Structure Without Predictability: The "Compass Rose" Pattern of the Stock Market

Robust Structure Without Predictability: The "Compass Rose" Pattern of the Stock Market

Robust Structure Without Predictability: The “Compass Rose” Pattern of the Stock Market

ABSTRACTPlotting daily stock returns against themselves with one day's lag reveals a striking pattern. Evenly spaced lines radiate from the origin; the thickest lines point in the major directions of the compass. This “compass rose” pattern appears in every stock. It is caused by discreteness. However, counter‐examples demonstrate that the existence of exchange‐imposed tick sizes (e.g. eighths) is neither necessary nor sufficient for the compass rose. The compass rose cannot be used to make abnormal profits: it is structure without predictability. Among other consequences, the compass rose may bias estimation of ARCH models, and tests for chaos.

A Compass Rose for Educators

A Compass Rose for Educators

Early Charts and the Origin of the Compass Rose

Sailors as a class may fairly claim to have been the earliest technicians; they were the first, that is to say, to graduate from the stage of simple craftsmanship, involving only the use of tools and rules of thumb, to the employment of instruments and mathematics for solving their problems. For the nautical chart and magnetic compass are instruments of precision while sailing directions, if they are to be useful, must be couched in mathematical language. All these three aids to navigation go back at least seven hundred years, and an Italian ship inventory of 1294 has been quoted which included two charts, a pair of compasses and two lodestones with their accompaniments.