Measure Of Success Research Articles

Developing Researchers with Expertise in Sex as a Biological Variable through SCORE Career Enhancement Core Center Programs.

There is a critical need for interdisciplinary and translational scientists to apply sex as a biological variable (SABV) research to address knowledge gaps in the health of women. In 2018, the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) partnered with several National Institute of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers to expand the Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) Excellence (SCORE) Programs (together referred to as SCOR/E) with an important feature-the Career Enhancement Core (CEC). The SCORE CEC mentors early career investigators to become the next generation of biomedical and behavioral researchers focused on SABV and women's health. In this article, we outline our approach at the Yale University SCORE to support early career trajectories through the provision of salary support, educational curricula, translational mentorship, pilot project funding, and professional development. Using the Yale-SCOR/E CEC Programs as instructional models, we highlight critical measures of academic success, namely grant funding and publications, among early career investigators. At Yale University, 12 pilot projects funded by the SCOR/E Programs resulted in 14 extramural grants, amounting to an $80 return on every $1 invested in "seed" funding. So far, our SCOR/E Programs have resulted in 129 publications, 83% of which were first-authored by trainees, and 100% of trainees continued research careers with an emphasis on SABV. Finally, we provide recommendations on how biomedical scientists can apply SABV in their studies of major medical conditions in an interdisciplinary and integrative way.

Recovery systems architecture for cyber-manufacturing systems against cyber-manufacturing attacks: Reinforcement learning approach

Cyber-manufacturing attacks are cyber-attacks that identify a vulnerability in cyber entities and exploit it to impact manufacturing systems. The cyber entities inside manufacturing systems consist of operational and information technology. The number of cyber-manufacturing attacks continues to rise every year by taking advantage of weaknesses in cyber entities. The widespread impact of these attacks has attracted researchers towards developing solutions against cyber-manufacturing attacks. Additionally, it is recognized that some of the cyber-manufacturing attacks cannot be prevented, and solely adopting prevention measures are not sufficient. On the other hand, detection measures do not guarantee the functioning of the cyber-manufacturing systems after the cyber-manufacturing attacks. Hence, to ensure the attacked manufacturing systems are achieving operational goals a systematic recovery measure should be implemented. To implement a successful recovery measure an architecture is required. Thus, this work proposes a four-layer recovery architecture. The architecture consists of a systems layer, attack identification layer, data auditing and detection layer, and reinforcement learning based recovery layer. This work explains the advantages of implementing a reinforcement learning based recovery layer compared to the state of the art recovery methods. The implementation of the recovery architecture is demonstrated by conducting a simulation of the conveyor system constructed inside the Unity3D physics platform.

SiC Doping Impact during Conducting AFM under Ambient Atmosphere.

The characterization of silicon carbide (SiC) by specific electrical atomic force microscopy (AFM) modes is highly appreciated for revealing its structure and properties at a nanoscale. However, during the conductive AFM (C-AFM) measurements, the strong electric field that builds up around and below the AFM conductive tip in ambient atmosphere may lead to a direct anodic oxidation of the SiC surface due to the formation of a water nanomeniscus. In this paper, the underlying effects of the anodization are experimentally investigated for SiC multilayers with different doping levels by studying gradual SiC epitaxial-doped layers with nitrogen (N) from 5 × 1017 to 1019 at/cm3. The presence of the water nanomeniscus is probed by the AFM and analyzed with the force-distance curve when a negative bias is applied to the AFM tip. From the water meniscus breakup distance measured without and with polarization, the water meniscus volume is increased by a factor of three under polarization. AFM experimental results are supported by electrostatic modeling to study oxide growth. By taking into account the presence of the water nanomeniscus, the surface oxide layer and the SiC doping level, a 2D-axisymmetric finite element model is developed to calculate the electric field distribution nearby the tip contact and the current distributions at the nanocontact. The results demonstrate that the anodization occurred for the conductive regime in which the current depends strongly to the doping; its threshold value is 7 × 1018 at/cm3 for anodization. Finally, the characterization of a classical planar SiC-MOSFET by C-AFM is examined. Results reveal the local oxidation mechanism of the SiC material at the surface of the MOSFET structure. AFM topographies after successive C-AFM measurements show that the local oxide created by anodization is located on both sides of the MOS channel; these areas are the locations of the highly n-type-doped zones. A selective wet chemical etching confirms that the oxide induced by local anodic oxidation is a SiOCH layer.

Demonstration and Comparison of On-Chip High-Frequency Test Methods for RSFQ Circuits

On-chip high-frequency test for Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) circuits without external high-frequency equipment is very attractive and promising. The test method based on Shift Register (SR) is widely used for long time. Recently, we have proposed two test methods based on Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) generator. In this paper, a Full Adder (FA) is taken as an example of circuit under test and the design methodology of the above approaches is presented. For FA with the traditional and two proposed approaches, the high-frequency test circuits are fabricated and tested. We demonstrate the successful measurement of the three circuits with the maximum operating frequency of the full adder at 23.3 GHz, 26.2 GHz and 27.4 GHz respectively. Based on the experimental results, the clock frequency measurement in the proposed two PRBS based test systems is more accurate and time-saving, which is advantageous for high-frequency RSFQ circuits measurement.

The dynamics of street-level marketing: Engaging urban audiences with interactive strategies

Street-level marketing has become a dynamic approach for engaging urban audiences through interactive and experiential strategies. This paper explores the effectiveness of street-level marketing, examining its evolution, theoretical underpinnings, and the impact of urban environments on marketing strategies. Key interactive methods, including guerrilla marketing, experiential campaigns, and flash mobs, are discussed alongside the critical role of technology and social media in enhancing audience engagement. Additionally, the paper addresses the challenges marketers face, such as regulatory constraints, audience diversity, and measurement of success. Despite these challenges, opportunities for leveraging community involvement, cultural relevance, and real-time feedback are abundant. By analyzing current trends and successful campaigns, the paper offers practical recommendations for businesses seeking to capitalize on urban marketing strategies and build authentic connections with city-based consumers.

Implementation of Student Management in Malaysian and Indonesian Special Education Middle Schools

Indonesia and Malaysia are countries that build quality education in a sustainable manner. The quality of education, which is a measure of educational success, is related to the ability or intelligence of students. In order to be able to manage students in a special education secondary school, student management is needed. The research process uses qualitative methods with a multi-site research type design. Data collection techniques are by interview, observation, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the management of students carried out in special education secondary schools both in Indonesia and in Malaysia is carried out in accordance with the regulations in force in each country, because the two schools that are used as research subjects are national schools in Malaysia and public schools in Indonesia so that the rules from the government must be fully implemented, the difference lies in the grouping of students where in Malaysia they are grouped permanently according to the type of skill interest while in Indonesia they are grouped based on the level and type of disability

Toward a social justice model of inclusion for university–community engagement

ABSTRACT University-community engagement often professes to center the shifting needs and issues that communities face but these are often pushed to the periphery in knowledge creation. The methods of engagement, research agenda, outcomes, as well as the measures of success are typically grounded in the academe and universities can almost always pinpoint immediate benefits for the co-creation of this knowledge. Universities are usually able to secure funding and gain prestige to undertake these engagements and projects are put forth as testaments of universities commitments to social change. Communities often struggle to do the same and many are often not equipped with the resources to translate the new knowledge into practice-based initiatives such as programming, funding applications for staffing, services and service delivery. While there are unquestionable merits in the longstanding histories of university-community engagements, more needs to be done for research to be mutually beneficial for both parties. This article outlines five key principles of social justice and inclusion as a preliminary stage of a conceptualized first step necessary to frame university-community engagement. It reiterates consultations with communities through research as a requirement to develop an actual model of university-community engagement to embody social justice and inclusion for true social change.

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH AS A SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEMS AT ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION STUDY IN CLASSROOMS

Each teacher is required to be able to carry out Classroom Action Research activities. The teacher's ability to carry out Classroom Action Research activities is a measure of the teacher's success in the process of improving classroom learning. On the other hand, to fulfill teacher competence, in carrying out duties as an educator. Classroom Action Research , one of the research activities to solve problems in Islamic Religious Education (PAI) learning materials. Islamic Religious Education (PAI) learning materials include: Aqidah-Akhlaq, Al-Qur'an and Hadith, Fiqh, History of Islamic Culture and Arabic.

Digital Marketing Information System of Plantation Research Company (Case Study: PT XYZ's E-Commerce)

E-commerce has great potential in supporting the success of a company's digital marketing. However, some problems are thought to have an impact on the low percentage contribution of e-commerce sales transactions to non-e-commerce transactions. This study aims to examine the conditions of PT XYZ's e-commerce success using the success model and to see the effect of the variables in the model on the success of e-commerce. Data were obtained by interviewing techniques and filling out questionnaires that were distributed online. This study adopts the theoretical framework of DeLone and McLean (2003) to assess the success of PT XYZ's e-commerce information system implementation. Research data analysis using SEM-PLS. The results showed that users assessed the measurement of e-commerce success as a whole in the good category. Service quality improvement can be prioritized to increase e-commerce success. Keywords: DeLone & McLean, e-commerce, information system, plantation

A Theoretical Framework for Developing a National Transportation Strategy

Developing the surface transportation systems the United States needs will require asking and answering a series of questions, beginning with the most basic:What is the main purpose of surface transportation?What resources are available and what is the best way to deploy those resources?How do we measure success?Determining what future transportation systems should look like will require analyzing a range of economic, demographic, technological and socio-political variables.As management guru Peter Druker famously said, “The primary goal of every enterprise should be to create customers”. Transportation leaders must undertake the critical task of determining what transportation customers want and are willing to pay for. In doing so, they must understand that there are many categories of customers—such as commuters, businesses, and logistics companies—each with different priorities. Measurements of success should also be customer-focused.Finally, state departments of transportation—not their federal counterparts—are often best positioned to ask these questions and develop the right answers for their own states.

The toolkit disaster preparedness for pre-disaster planning

The University of L'Aquila “Territori Aperti” (Open Territories) project deals with the topics of prevention and management of natural disasters and the reconstruction and development processes in the affected areas. One of its tasks is developing research on the Toolkit Disaster Preparedness (TDP) aimed at Pre-Disaster Planning. The TDP is structured in this study as a support for the construction of Recovery Strategies and Actions, and concerns the collection and analysis of good practices on post-disaster reconstruction management (Experience Sheets (ESs)), their elaboration into Disaster Preparedness Recommendation Sheets (DPRSs), and the transposition of these into the Recovery Plan.The methodology for the construction of the Recovery Plan was structured in two macro-activities. The first concerns structuring the Toolkit and the related set of sheets (ESs→DPRSs). The second concerns the transfer of the DPRSs to the Recovery Strategies, so that the recommendations and success measures of the former become the actions of the latter. The Toolkit methodology was applied to the case studies of the Abruzzo 2009 earthquake and the Central Italy 2016–17 earthquake. The next steps of the research will concern testing the methodology in the second macro-activity, i.e. the construction of the Recovery Plan, again in the territorial context of the two aforementioned areas.

Coping With the Cost of Caring, Part 2: Individualized Strategies to Help PE and Health Teachers Persist

A collective priority of teachers is to facilitate students in thriving academically, personally, and socially. However, the challenges associated with compassion fatigue (i.e., the mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion that comes with working with and caring for individuals who are impacted by distress and trauma) combined with personal and occupational stressors are quickly pushing teachers outside of the profession (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022). Until present educational systems are reformed in a way that provides relief to teachers, the second part of this series offers teachers guided opportunities to explore, personalize, and practice practical self-care strategies related to managing compassion fatigue and promoting overall well-being within the educational setting. Considering the personal, sociopolitical, and cultural limitations of practicing capitalistic self-care, the following guided activities include (a) self-awareness exercises that examine possible patterns of personal and contextual emotional distress; (b) the identification and promotion of protective factors that mitigate occupational stress including collegial social support and strengthening self-efficacy through defining and celebrating personal measures of success; (c) self-regulation strategies that relieve the stress response and enhance emotional resilience including deep breathing, and mindful self-compassion; and (d) planning for implementation inside the school setting. Teachers will reflect on techniques and strategies that best support their occupational well-being. Finally, implications in support of protecting teachers against compassion fatigue are discussed, including proactive recommendations for pre-service and early-career teachers. Additional resources that may assist teachers in seeking support for emotional well-being are included.

Assessing replicability with the sceptical p$$ p $$‐value: Type‐I error control and sample size planning

We study a statistical framework for replicability based on a recently proposed quantitative measure of replication success, the sceptical ‐value. A recalibration is proposed to obtain exact overall Type‐I error control if the effect is null in both studies and additional bounds on the partial and conditional Type‐I error rate, which represent the case where only one study has a null effect. The approach avoids the double dichotomization for significance of the two‐trials rule and has larger project power to detect existing effects over both studies in combination. It can also be used for power calculations and requires a smaller replication sample size than the two‐trials rule for already convincing original studies. We illustrate the performance of the proposed methodology in an application to data from the Experimental Economics Replication Project.

Developing an Inclusive Scholarship Curriculum for Medical Students.

As part of a curriculum renewal, in 2020, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sought to create an integrated curriculum that allows students to explore 4 academic career pathways (advocacy/global health, education, innovation, and research) and engage in scholarship activities-the Inquiry Curriculum. The curriculum needed to focus on foundational scholarship skills that would be applicable to all pathways. This article describes the process used to develop the curriculum learning objectives and lessons learned from initial implementation. The authors used a modified Delphi process to survey faculty experts from the 4 pathways to determine the objectives (March-May 2020). Twenty-four faculty were surveyed about 48 initial objectives created using Glassick's scholarship criteria. After 2 rounds, 28 objectives met consensus. Further oversight committee review and revisions by session leads resulted in 77 unique objectives for 23 sessions in the curriculum that launched in spring 2021. Four themes were identified from student feedback: (1) the Inquiry Curriculum framework creates opportunities for students to gain exposure to various approaches to understanding and addressing health care problems, (2) the curriculum targeted higher-level objectives for traditional research content and lower-level objectives for nontraditional content, (3) Glassick's criteria provided a useful structure for students to understand the rationale for and ordering of content, and (4) the curriculum had natural overlap with content often taught elsewhere in the curriculum, including evidence-based medicine, health equity, public and population health, and quality improvement and patient safety. The authors plan to consolidate sessions where there is redundancy, expand other sessions that require more time, and more purposefully discuss prior content when redundancy is intentional. Exploring other potential measures of curricular success, such as student learning outcomes, scholarly productivity, and impact on future scholarship engagement and career paths, is part of ongoing work.

Career success of expatriates: the impacts of career capital, expatriate type, career type and career stage

PurposeThis paper investigates whether career capital (CC) development abroad, expatriate type, career type and career stage affect expatriates' career success in terms of perceived marketability and the number of promotions.Design/methodology/approachThe study presents findings from a 2020 follow-up study among 327 expatriates, including assigned expatriates (AEs) (n = 117) and self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) (n = 220), who worked abroad in 2015 and 2016. Among that group, 186 had continued their international career, while 141 had repatriated. Structural equation modeling with robust maximum likelihood estimation was used to test this study's hypotheses. MPlus 8.6 software supported the analysis.FindingsThe study outlines that CC developed abroad positively impacts perceived marketability and the number of promotions. Second, repatriates reported a greater degree of perceived marketability than those continuing an international career. Career type did not predict the number of promotions. The expatriate type did not influence any of the career success measures. Finally, expatriates in their late-career stage did not achieve a similar level of career success as those in other career stages.Research limitations/implicationsAll the expatriates were university-educated Finnish engineers and business professionals, and the career benefits of expatriation could differ for different sample groups. The study calls for more context-sensitive global careers research. The findings have positive implications for self-guided career actors considering working abroad. Organizations could focus more of their global talent attraction, management and career efforts on SIEs.Originality/valueTo analyze the impacts of these four antecedents on the career success of expatriates, the authors cooperated with two Finnish labor unions in 2020 to explore the careers of 327 expatriates, having surveyed the same group in 2015/2016. Such follow-up studies are not very common in expatriation research since it is difficult to keep track of expatriates who change locations and employers.

Modified Needleman-Wunsch algorithm for trauma management performance evaluation

BackgroundTrauma injuries are one of the leading causes of death in the world, representing approximately 8 % of all deaths. Therefore, trauma management training is of great importance and new training courses have arisen during the last decades. However, actual training courses do not typically analyze compliance with the protocols and guidelines available in the literature. Considering general trauma management guidelines such as the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) manual and the expertise of trauma specialists, a trauma management automated evaluation system has been designed in this paper. MethodsA modification to the Needleman-Wunsch (NW) algorithm is developed, including all relevant aspects of trauma management to automatically evaluate how a trauma intervention has been implemented according to trauma protocols. This allows to consider more information with respect to the order of the actions taken and the type of actions performed than current evaluation methods, such as checklists or videos recorded in simulation. A web-based trauma simulator is used so that it can be used at any setting with internet connection. Final-year medical students and first- and second-year residents performed an experimental test, where a trauma score is obtained with the modified NW algorithm. This automatic score relates to how similar the actions are to trauma protocols. ResultsThe results show the best combination of the scores used for the modified NW variables. This combination has an error, for the different case scenarios created, below 0.07 which verifies the values obtained. Additionally, trauma experts verified the results obtained showing a median difference of 0 between the protocol adherence evaluation using the algorithm and the one provided by the trauma experts. ConclusionsThe best set of score values to apply to the modified NW algorithm show that the modified NW algorithm provides a successful objective measurement with respect to the protocol compliance.

Analysis of inhomogeneous magnetization using a spinner magnetometer

The assumption for measuring a discrete sample by spinner magnetometer in paleomagnetism is that the sample under study is a magnetic dipole so that the magnetization vector can be calculated by successive measurements of components along three orthogonal axes. This assumption may not hold for samples with inhomogeneous magnetization, irregular shape, or both, where non-dipole components are no longer ignorable. This study draws attention to their effect on the measurement of remanent magnetization based on an offset dipole model using multipole expansion of magnetic potential. Results from this model are compared with the experimental data measured by a new type of spinner magnetometer featured by high spatial resolution and the capability of measuring the fundamental wave component as well as the harmonic wave components. By using the relative amplitude of the harmonic waves to the fundamental wave, the contribution of non-dipole components can be quantified, leading to assessing how dipolar a sample is. The new analyses and instrumentation will be useful as a new diagnostic tool to obtain more reliable data from the samples collected from tectonically active regions with complicated geological histories.

Shear wave elastography using high-frequency linear probe for kidney transplant monitoring: A methodological study.

To investigate the influencing factors of the image quality of shear wave elastography (SWE) performed using a high-frequency probe and its reproducibility for renal allografts. A total of 211 patients with transplanted kidneys who underwent SWE examination performed using high-frequency or low-frequency probes were recruited for the study. The reproducibility of inter- and intraobserver agreements were analysed by using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). According to the colour filling of the area of interest and imaging noise when conducting SWE, the image quality was classified as three grades: "good", "common", and "poor". A logistic regression was used to analyse the independent factors for SWE quality. In the comparative analysis, high frequency, transection measurement and middle pole were selected as the appropriate measurement methods. Regarding reproducibility, the ICCs) of the intra- and interobserver agreements were 0.85 and 0.77, respectively. Multivariate analysis indicated that only the skin allograft distance and kidney width were independent variables for SWE quality. In the subgroup analysis of the skin-allograft distance, the "good" and "common" rates of images decreased as the distance increased, but the CV (coefficients of variation) showed the opposite trend. The SWE quality of kidney width <5.4 cm was significantly better than that of kidney width ≥5.4 cm. High-frequency SWE can be used in the evaluation of transplanted kidneys due to its good repeatability and high successful measurement rate, but we should pay attention to the influence of the skin-allograft distance and kidney width on SWE quality.

Some of the variables, some of the parameters, some of the times, with some physics known: Identification with partial information

Experimental data is often comprised of variables measured independently, at different sampling rates (non-uniform Δt between successive measurements); and at a specific time point only a subset of all variables may be sampled. Approaches to identifying dynamical systems from such data typically use interpolation, imputation or subsampling to reorganize or modify the training data prior to learning. Partial physical knowledge may also be available a priori (accurately or approximately), and data-driven techniques can complement this knowledge. Here we exploit neural network architectures based on numerical integration methods and a priori physical knowledge to identify the right-hand side of the underlying governing differential equations. Iterates of such neural-network models allow for learning from data sampled at arbitrary time points without data modification. Importantly, we integrate the network with available partial physical knowledge in “physics informed gray-boxes”; this enables learning unknown kinetic rates or microbial growth functions while simultaneously estimating experimental parameters.

Swot Analysis Approach To MSME Development

Development in the era of globalization depends heavily on the economic sector as a measure of government success. The role of society in national development especially in economic development is micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. (UMKM). SWOT analysis is the right way to solve problems in marketing management. This analysis is based on logic that can maximize strengths and opportunities, but at the same time can minimize weaknesses and threats. This research method was carried out using survey methods with interviews and quizzes on UMKM perpetrators in Cinunuk Village in particular in RW 25. Data collection is carried out by disseminating quizzes and conducting direct interviews with UMKM enterprises. Each of them has its own weaknesses and shortcomings. There are 4 problems: lack of technology mastery, not using product branding, has not used e-payment, and the location of UMKM is not listed on Google maps.