Cube Framework Research Articles

My Journey: Development and Practice-Based Evidence of a Culturally Attuned Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native Youth.

A clear need exists for teen pregnancy prevention programs that are responsive to the specific needs and cultural contexts of Native American communities. Recent data indicates that the birth rate for Native teens is nearly two and a half times the rate for White teens (32.9 versus 13.2). To address this disparity, we conducted formative research with Northern Plains Native American community members, resulting in My Journey, a culturally attuned curriculum for 6–8th graders. My Journey is grounded in traditional values and teachings to promote self-efficacy in sexual health decision-making and engagement in prosocial behaviors. We conducted a pilot study with 6–8th grade students (n = 45), aged 11–14 years (22 females, 23 males). Pilot study findings confirm program feasibility and acceptability. The process evaluation revealed that teachers liked the curriculum, particularly its adaptability of cultural components and ease of student engagement. The outcome evaluation demonstrated that My Journey provided an avenue for NA youth to increase their sex refusal self-efficacy. Application of the culture cube framework revealed My Journey has made a meaningful practice-based evidence contribution as a community-defined, culturally integrated curriculum that is effective. Future directions include broader implementation of My Journey, including adaption for additional populations.

ONLINE GEOPROCESSING USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GRIDDED DATA

Abstract. Traditional geoprocessing techniques often rely on the use of multiple softwares for data handling and management which consumes almost 80% of the time and requires the user to be well versed with all the intricacies of pre-processing. Therefore, there is a need to reverse the trend on analysis and data management, so as to enable scientists and researchers to focus on the science rather than data handling and pre-processing. The concept of a Data Cube which is a massive multi-dimensional array of raster or gridded data, ‘stacks’ satellite images and addresses the problems faced by traditional remote sensing practices and provides an interactive environment where datasets can be analysed with relative ease as compared to its traditional counterparts. This framework allows multi-format and multi-projection datasets spanning decades to be used in various geoprocessing techniques from simple GIS tasks such as data conversion, time series generation, and to do more complex tasks such as change detection, NDVI generation, unsupervised classification and modelling. LISS III data for the state of Uttarakhand, India was used on an interactive interface called the Jupyter Notebook where scripts written in Python allowed data to be ingested, analysed and visualised. The Data Cube framework hence proved to be a flexible and extensive development environment which can be extended to meet more complex modelling requirements.

Tensor decompositions for the bubbles and cube numerical framework

Canonical decomposition methods and the Tucker decomposition method have been applied to the cube part of the orbitals in the bubbles and cube framework for numerical electronic structure calculations on molecules. The iterative process of two variants of the alternating least squares method for performing canonical decomposition is found to converge rapidly to a given accuracy, whereas the accuracy is not significantly improved by continuing the iterations, implying that the studied canonical decomposition methods are not of practical use in our approach to numerical electronic structure calculations. The Tucker decomposition method of the orbitals is on the other hand found to have relative errors that are smaller than the numerical accuracy of the orbitals. The calculations also show that the reconstruction of the orbitals leads to errors that are well below the required accuracy.

MATH LEARNING THROUGH STUDENT ASSESSMENT PORTFOLIO PGSD USM BANDA ACEH

INTRODUCTION:Mathematics is the science base that has become a tool for studying the other sciences. Therefore the mastery of math absolutely necessary against and math concepts to be understood correctly and properly early on by the student teachers/teacher education primary School. This is because the concepts in mathematics is a series of cause effect. A concept drawn up on the basis of previous concepts, and will be the basis for the concepts further, so that the understanding of a concept, an error will result in an understanding of the concepts (Kahf, Muhammad, & Shohibul., 2005). Superficial concepts of mathematics teacher education students given at primary School does not entirely match fit the context and it is very simple and easy, but it is actually a matter of mathematics SD contains the fundamental concepts and important and should not be viewed lightly (Hudojo, 2001). Required accuracy PGSD students / prospective teachers in presenting these concepts, so that later he taught pupils were able to understand it correctly, because the impression and view student accepted PGSD to a concept in College was the beginning level may continue to be carried away on the next time (at the time of becoming a teacher in the primary) (Johnson, 2002). For example, from beginning students PGSD in a triangular image directed always pointing out that the base of a triangle is the side that is on the bottom and height is always indicated by a vertical line segment perpendicular to the sides of the pedestal and terminate at vantage points on top of that side, then for the next student PGSD as candidates in SD will continue to do similar things (Grinnell, 1988)Therefore, the need for an assessment that could develop whilst aspects (cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and emotional) student PGSD through authentic assessment with portfolio. The mechanism of assessment of learning outcomes students depicted on the following chart:The Primacy of Research:School education is education obtained by a person on a regular basis. The elementary school is the most basic level of formal education is six years all activities arranged that poured into the curriculum. As for the factors that the learning can be through external factors, internal factors and learning approaches (Muhibbin, 2010). Therefore a teacher should be able to apply the model of learning refer to circumstances/conditions, environment about combined with the strategies and methods used and adapted to kateristik the material to be conveyed. As on flat-building concept of planting then the existence of objects existing kongrit in everyday life to instill the concept of building space is important beyond the assessment that could develop whilst aspects (cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and emotional) student PGSD through authentic assessment with portfolio (Reigeluth, C.M. 1996). By using the objects/models of cubes, beams, limas, Prism, cone, tube, or the teacher can provide a concrete description of the abstract concepts (Warkitri et al., 2001). In the planting of this concept of teachers also need to be pointed to concrete objects that exist around the students, such as marbles, ball bead seats, or volleyball to visualize concepts ball; Chalk box, boxes of toothpaste, a thick book or book cupboards to give an overview of the concept of beams or rectangular Prism; milk cans or trash cans to the concept of the tube; Hat pak tani, nasi tumpeng, or Hat Birth day to Cone concept; and so on (Zainul & Mulyana, 2003). After understanding the concrete examples, then turn the students to mention other examples of objects around the school have geometric shapes as has already been mentioned above. An investigation into the properties of the building space with regard to the large number of ribs, side, angle, point angle, diagonal spaces, as well as the field of diagonal can be done by observing the students building space Frame Viewer. This is the following example cube framework. …

INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ICT UTILIZATION IN RURAL INDIA

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in India, and could benefit tremendously with the applications of ICTs especially in bringing changes to socio-economic conditions of the poor in rural areas. Achieving these benefits requires proper institutions for ICT adoption and utilization. Therefore The current state of major Indian institutions (ICT and rural policies) using document analysis is evaluated against supporting progress in areas of the horizontal side of the “cube framework” in rural India. Major finding is that The Five Year Plans, National ICT and Telecom Policies are developing in the right direction and government initiatives are increasingly maturing, but may lack some specific solutions.

Модель управления стейкхолдерами в сделках слияний и поглощений

Авторы: Теймураз Теймуразович Вашакмадзе НИУ ВШЭ
 Эмиль Георгиевич Мартиросян 
 Анастасия Александровна Сергеева
 Стратегическое развитие компании и ее стоимость испытывают на себе воздействие со стороны различных групп стейкхолдеров. В условиях нарастающей интенсивности процессов корпоративной интеграции и трансформации проявляется потребность менеджеров-практиков в системе управления процессами слияний и поглощений, основанной на стейкхолдерском подходе, а следовательно, высока актуальность разработки специальной метрики для выявления и отслеживания интересов стейкхолдеров в этих сделках. В настоящей работе получила развитие модель управления взаимодействием со стейкхолдерами в сделках слияний и поглощений «SUN Cube» (Martirosyan and Vashakmadze, 2013), показаны механизмы ее использования в достижении синергии при последующей интеграции.

Distribution Systems Reconfiguration Using Ant Colony Optimization and Harmony Search Algorithms

One objective of the feeder reconfiguration problem in distribution systems is to minimize the distribution network total power loss for a specific load. For this problem, mathematical modeling is a non-linear mixed integer problem that is generally hard to solve. This article proposes two heuristic algorithms inspired from natural phenomena to solve the network reconfiguration problem: (1) “real ant-behavior-inspired” ant colony optimization implemented in the hyper cube framework and (2) the “musician behavior-inspired” harmony search algorithm. The optimization problem is formulated taking into account the operational constraints of distribution systems. A 32-bus system and a 118-bus distribution were selected for optimizing the configuration to minimize the losses. The results of reconfiguration using the proposed algorithms show that both of them yield the optimum configuration with minimum power loss for each case study; however, the harmony search required shorter simulation time but more practice of the iterative process than the hyper cube–ant colony optimization. Implementing the ant colony optimization in the hyper cube framework resulted in a more robust and easier handling of pheromone trails than the standard ant colony optimization.

A framework for spatio-temporal scales and concepts from different disciplines: the ‘vulnerability cube’

The concept of vulnerability is increasingly used in the fields of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, as well as socioeconomic studies. This paper reviews research inputs into the concept of vulnerability and highlights the challenges of resolving its spatial and temporal variability with building resilience and adaptation. We hypothesise that a clear understanding of scale is key to integrating these related issues, by differentiating three dimensions of scale when analysing relationships between the observed and the intrinsic scale of a given phenomenon, namely space, time and dimensional level. The paper analyses 20 vulnerability assessment approaches, ranging from the global down to the local scale, and positions them with regard to their integration of the spatial component. We then develop a vulnerability cube as a framework to position existing approaches and to map them in a three-dimensional space. The three axes represent space, time and dimension and provide a structure for the different notions of scales and ultimately for a spatial analysis workflow. The vulnerability cube framework helps us to position different vulnerability assessments and to identify overlaps, differences and specific characteristics. Additionally, this three-dimensional conceptualisation allows the identification and discussion of appropriate scaling issues.

A cube framework for incorporating inter-gene information into biological data mining

Large volumes of microarray data are registered daily in public repositories such as SMD (Belkin and Niyogi, 2003) and GEO (Ashburner et al., 2000). Such repositories have quickly become a community resource. However, due to the inherent heterogeneity of the microarray experiments, the data generated from different experiments could not be directly integrated and hence the resources have not been fully utilised. To address this problem, we propose a new microarray integration framework that achieves high-quality integration through exploiting invariant features such as relative information among genes. We also show how the proposed approach generalises the previous frameworks.

Community organizational learning: Case studies illustrating a three‐dimensional model of levels and orders of change

AbstractWe present a three‐dimensional cube framework to help community organizational researchers and administrators think about an organization's learning and empowerment‐related structures and processes in terms of firstorder (incremental or ameliorative) and second‐order (transformative) change at the individual, organizational, and community levels. To illustrate application of the framework, case studies of three different types of exemplary nonprofit organizations (a participatory neighborhood planning organization, a grassroots faith‐based social action coalition, and a larger community‐based human service agency) were based on qualitative interviews and participant observations. Our analysis, rooted in organizational learning theory, suggests that organizations that empower staff and volunteers through opportunities for learning and participation at the individual level are better able to succeed in terms of organizational‐level learning and transformation. Community‐level change is particularly difficult but must be made a more explicit goal. Learning that can lead to second‐order change at each level must help participants engage in critical analysis of (a) the organization's demonstrated goals and values; (b) the power relationships implicit in decision making at each level; (c) the interdependent role of participant stakeholders and organizations as part of a complex, community‐wide (or larger) system; and (d) how to work toward transformative change of all of the above. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Studies on the Trapping and Detrapping Transition States of Atomic Hydrogen in Octasilsesquioxane Using the Density Functional Theory B3LYP Method

B3LYP level optimizations were performed on the structures of the octasilsesquioxane (Si8O12H8, HT8) double four-ring (D4R) cage and single hydrogen atom-trapped HT8 (H@HT8). Moreover, the transition state in the detrapping process of the hydrogen atom from the D4R cage was examined. The basis sets used were 6-31G** for HT8 and (3 1 1/1*1*/1*) for the trapped hydrogen atom. Both HT8 and H@HT8 were structure-optimized with Oh molecular symmetry and the resulting cage conformations were similar. The trapped H atom was located at the center of the D4R cage. The weak interaction between the D4R cage and the trapped H atom in H@HT8 was determined by examining the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) [8a1g] of H@HT8. The SOMO was constructed from an antibonding interaction between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) [8a1g] of HT8 and the 1s orbital of the trapped H atom. For the transition state, the structure was optimized with C4v molecular symmetry. As a result, the position of the Si8 cube framework was unchanged, and four O atoms in a silicon single four-ring were displaced, thereby opening one of the oxygen windows of the D4R cage. The detrapping H atom was located near the center of the oxygen window and the MO illustrations showed a change in shape from spherical to ellipsoid. Consequently, it is clear that the detrapping process is not due to the formation of chemical bonding. The calculated activation and reaction energies of this detrapping process were +98.6 and −26.1 kJ/mol, respectively. In addition, single-point calculations at the MP2 level were done for each optimized structure, and the obtained activation and reaction energies were +128.7 and −9.3 kJ/mol, respectively. Both calculated activation energies were comparable to Stösser's experimental data (+109.6 ± 3.1 kJ/mol) for H•:Si8O12(OSi(CH3)3)8 (Q8M8). Furthermore, additional explanations are given on the IR vibrational frequencies of HT8 and H@HT8 and the hyperfine coupling constant for caged atomic hydrogen by ESR.

Managing interdependency: a taxonomy for business‐to‐business relationships

Market leaders are constantly being forced to evaluate and modify their relationships and interactions with suppliers, buyers, and even competitors, in order to remain competitively viable in response to marketplace, technology, and competitive changes. Presents the Interdependency Cube framework which allows businesses to identify their current positions relative to their partners, and develop an understanding of what needs to be done in order to change their interdependency relationships. Real‐world examples illustrate different cells within the framework and demonstrate how a company can simultaneously, and successfully, have different types of strategic interdependencies with a number of partners, depending on the environment in each case. Managers can learn how vigilance and flexibility are vital to a company’s ability to change as its situation and circumstances change.

A Rationale for Rationing? A Possible Framework

The health needs assessment (HNA) process is being used to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of health and health care services and to continue to make them more sensitive and appropriate for local populations. The process is currently being undertaken in a number of key service areas, and is being followed in one commissioning authority in the United Kingdom with a population of nearly half a million: Bradford uses the Health Care Cube framework for information analysis. This activity is regarded as being essential to the improvement of the health of the population of Bradford and in keeping with the Health of the Nation ethos. It extends the process from assessment of need for a single client group or disease/condition, e.g. heart disease, HIV/AIDS, maternity services, to enable resource allocations to be directed towards one programme for health improvements compared with another, or indeed several others, e.g. heart disease or HIV/AIDS or maternity services.