Division Of Section Research Articles

Quality of Work Life and Change Management

The concept of Quality of Work life (QWL) means having a work-environment where an employee’s activities become more important by implementing procedures or policies that make the work less routine and more rewarding for the employee. Results of high QWL are low absenteeism, high performance, and higher morale. To apply a new philosophical foundation in the organization, change management is needed. The objective of this study is to apply the QWL concept in a steel company located in East Java. Change management is needed to start the change process. The construct of QWL used are from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condition (EWON, 2002). The respondents are 24 people as the head of division and head of section. This study uses action research design conducted in a company, by applying the concept of change management from Lewin, which includes the stages unfreeze, move, and freeze. The given program is unfreeze program in a form of training with the aim to establish a self-awareness of employees to deal with change. The results obtained indicate that the program can unfreeze done to raise awareness of employees to change.

Analysis of “Spicy Nine-Grid Hotpot Concerto” for Guzheng Ensembles and Percussion Instruments

The concerto “Spicy Nine-Grid Hotpot” for guzheng ensembles and percussion instruments, composed by the renowned composer Professor Chen Zhe in 2020, is based on the common patterns of Han folk songs from Sichuan. It highlights the fact that Sichuan-Chongqing hotpot and labor songs along the Sichuan River shared the local dock culture as their common origin. The concerto fully showcases the diverseness in polyphony of guzheng ensembles. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the background against which the music was composed, division of musical sections, and performance techniques, aiming to comprehensively and profoundly understand the essence of guzheng ensembles and tuttis.

Rediscovered Fragments Shed New Light on a Proto-Masoretic Torah Scroll

After Edna Engel and Mordechay Mishor had discovered that two fragments with excerpts from the book of Exodus belonged to a single Torah scroll dating from the seventh or eighth century CE, Mordechai Veintrob identified thirteen additional fragments of the same scroll, most of them coming from the Cairo Genizah. This article shows that in the preserved fragments no orthographic differences occur with the (partially reconstructed) text of the more recent Aleppo Codex, while there are such orthographic differences with the other ancient Bible codices. The relationship between the ancient scroll and the Aleppo Codex is looser as far as the sectional division by means of petuḥot and setumot is concerned. However, the tradition according to which five specific lines must be written above the text of the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1–19) seems to have this very scroll as its source. This tradition was followed in the Aleppo Codex and other ancient codices.

Clustering of Asphalt Pavement Maintenance Sections Based on 3D Ground-Penetrating Radar and Principal Component Techniques

Asphalt pavement maintenance section classification is an important prerequisite for accurately determining asphalt pavement maintenance needs and formulating accurate maintenance plans. This paper introduces the three-dimensional (3D) ground-penetrating radar (GPR) pavement internal crack rate index on the basis of an original road surface performance data matrix, and the dimensionality of the road section classification data matrix was reduced through the principal component technique. An analysis of variance was used to compare the significance of the differences in the results for road section classification using different clustering methods and different clustering data and to investigate the influence of the clustering method, principal component technique and crack rate index on the maintenance road section classification results. The results showed that the principal component technique could reduce the dimensionality of the data matrix by 33% and retain more than 84% of the information. There was a genetic relationship between the clustering data and the technical characteristics of the classified sub-sections, and the internal crack rate was important for the characterisation of internal defects in asphalt pavement sub-sections and the determination of maintenance needs. The results of section classification varied considerably between clustering methods, and the choice of clustering method had a relationship to the pavement maintenance objectives. The dynamic clustering method combined with principal component analysis could significantly improve the significance of the differences in the clustering results, effectively improving the division of maintenance sections.

EXPLOITING BERT FOR MALFORMED SEGMENTATION DETECTION TO IMPROVE SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS

Writing a well-structured scientific documents, such as articles and theses, is vital for comprehending the document's argumentation and understanding its messages. Furthermore, it has an impact on the efficiency and time required for studying the document. Proper document segmentation also yields better results when employing automated Natural Language Processing (NLP) manipulation algorithms, including summarization and other information retrieval and analysis functions. Unfortunately, inexperienced writers, such as young researchers and graduate students, often struggle to produce well-structured professional documents. Their writing frequently exhibits improper segmentations or lacks semantically coherent segments, a phenomenon referred to as "mal-segmentation." Examples of mal-segmentation include improper paragraph or section divisions and unsmooth transitions between sentences and paragraphs. This research addresses the issue of mal-segmentation in scientific writing by introducing an automated method for detecting mal-segmentations, and utilizing Sentence Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (sBERT) as an encoding mechanism. The experimental results section shows a promising results for the detection of mal-segmentation using the sBERT technique.

SBD-K-medoids-based long-term settlement analysis of shield tunnel

Long-term settlement is essential to operational tunnel safety. In this study, a systematic method for analysing shield tunnel settlement during the operation period is proposed. First, a new time-series clustering algorithm, namely shape-based distance (SBD)-K-medoids, is proposed to mitigate the limitation of low efficiency. The clustering precision and efficiency of the new algorithm were validated through hypothesis testing. Subsequently, the long-term settlement analysis framework is illustrated in detail, consisting of four parts: data pre-processing, section division and settlement characterisation, similarity clustering, and attribution analysis. A new index, called the incremental tunnel settlement state (ITSS), is proposed to depict a shield tunnel’s long-term longitudinal settlement during the operation period. Finally, a case study of the Shanghai Metro Line 10 (ML10) was conducted to validate the method. The results indicate that the uplink of ML10 is divided into four clusters, which correspond exactly to four situations a shield tunnel section undergoes during operation. Through an attribution analysis, the formation conditions of each cluster are summarised. Corresponding settlement patterns are concluded and engineering countermeasures are proposed for rehabilition. In general, this case exemplifies the rationality and engineering practice value of the study’s approach, and the systematic method offers a new approach for analysing the long-term settlement of shield tunnels.

PERANAN KOMPENSASI PKWT DAN BONUS AKHIR TAHUN DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. SURYARAYA RUBBERINDO INDUSTRIES

PERANAN KOMPENSASI PKWT DAN BONUS AKHIR TAHUN DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. SURYARAYA RUBBERINDO INDUSTRIES

God's Saying: A Comparison Study of Jurisprudence

In addition to the reliance of many financial transactions on this verse, the verse "And God has permitted the sale," which, despite its few words, contained many fundamental and jurisprudential details, is a declaration of the greatness of Qur'anic verses, whose verbal structure is simple while meanings are numerous. This investigation reveals the use of this noble verse as an example of the obvious and of the text clearly denoting the two sections in jurisprudential principles. Based on its clear division of sections in jurisprudential principles, this noble verse was cited as an example of the meeting of the text and the apparent. In jurisprudence, he cited this noble verse on the permissibility of selling and the prohibition of usury, on the permissibility of blind selling and peace, and on convening the sale of favoritism.
 Keywords: Selling the jurisprudence of the Qur'an, the principles of general and special jurisprudence.

Pengaruh Keterampilan dan Karakteristik Kepribadian terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada PT Telkom Akses Sorong

This study uses 3 variables, namely skills and personality characteristics as independent variables, employee performance variables as the dependent variable. This study aims to determine the effect of skills on employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong, to determine the effect of personality characteristics on employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong, and to determine the effect of skills and personality characteristics on employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong. This research is a quantitative research using a correlation approach. The population in this study is the Technician Employees of PT Telkom Access Sorong which is limited to the operation division of the technician section. The sample of this study amounted to 49 people. The sampling technique of this study used non-probability sampling with saturated sampling technique. The results of this study are 1) skills affect employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong, 2) characteristics affect employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong, 3) skills and personality characteristics on employee performance at PT Telkom Access Sorong. In testing the hypothesis, the t-value of skills (X1) is 11.624, and the t-value of personality characteristics is 8.272, then simultaneous testing shows the f-count of 486.854 with a significance value of 0.00, so it can be concluded that skills and personality characteristics on performance employees at PT Telkom Access Sorong

An innovative approach to career development and promotion of diverse faculty.

Women and persons from racial and ethnic populations underrepresented in medicine (URiM) comprise a substantially lower proportion of academic internal medicine faculty, particularly at senior ranks (associate professors and professors). Numerous factors lead to this inequity which has broad implications for medical education and healthcare. The Emory University Division of General Internal Medicine Grady Section (GIMG) formed the Faculty Review Committee (FRC) in 2013 to address low promotion rates to senior ranks as part of a strategy to foster a more inclusive, equitable environment. The FRC systematically and proactively reviews all GIMG faculty years prior to possible promotion to provide tailored recommendations to bolster professional development and with a goal to expedite successful advancement to senior ranks. Deidentified GIMG academic rank data was compared with aggregate data from Emory University School of Medicine and the American Association of Medical Colleges. In 2020, GIMG had significantly more senior faculty compared with pre-FRC intervention (odds ratio [OR]: 3.94, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.65-9.42). Subgroup analyses of non-URiM women GIMG senior faculty compared with preintervention (OR: 11.6, 95% CI: 2.52-53.7), showed a significant increase. A trend towardincreased URiM women faculty was also seen. Descriptive analysis suggests that the GIMG group had a higher promotion to senior ranks among women and URiM compared with national and institutional comparators. The FRC is associated with significant increases in the promotion of all faculty and non-URiM women faculty, and an increasing trend of URiM women faculty, effects which help contribute to an equitable academic medicine environment, fostering a more diverse workforce and improved patient outcomes.

Identifying accident black spots based on the accident spacing distribution

The identification of accident black spots is of great significance for the prevention of traffic accidents. Commonly used accident black spot identification methods divide road sections for the analysis of accident data, the direct result of which is the splitting of accident black spots, which affects the results. This paper is based on three years of traffic accident data from the Beijing–Harbin Expressway, including the time and location of traffic accidents, form of the accident fatalities, severe injuries, slight injuries, and property damage only (PDO). To avoid road division effects, an identification method based on the accident spacing distribution is established by using quality control theory. The results show that the average number of accidents per kilometer by the method proposed in this paper is 42, which is much higher than 10, identified by other identification methods. The method proposed in this paper improves the accuracy of the identification results. This method avoids the problem of road segmentation found in other common methods and can more accurately reflect the spatial distribution of traffic accidents. Thus making the identification of accidents more scientific and accurate. • Reviews and summarizes the identification methods of accident black spots. • Uses the Poisson distribution to avoid the division of road sections. • Introduces the concept of quality control management –3 σ principle provide basis for the method. • Compared with other methods, the accuracy of the method proposed in the paper is higher.

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Analysis of the chloroplast genome and phylogenetic evolution of three species of Syringa

BackgroundBy the time our study was completed, the chloroplast genomes of Syringa oblata, S. pubescents subsp. Microphylla, and S. reticulate subsp. Amurensis had not been sequenced, and their genetic background was not clear.The research contentIn this study, the chloroplast genomes of Syringa oblata, S. pubescents subsp. Microphylla, S. reticulate subsp. Amurensis, and five other species of Syringa were sequenced for a comparative genomics analysis, inverted repeat (IR) boundary analysis, collinearity analysis, codon preference analysis and a nucleotide variability analysis. Differences in the complete chloroplast genomes of 30 species of Oleaceae were compared with that of S. oblata as the reference species, and Ginkgo biloba was used as the out group to construct the phylogenetic tree.ResultsThe results showed that the chloroplast genomes of S. oblata, S. pubescents subsp. Microphylla, and S. reticulate subsp. Amurensis were similar to those of other angiosperms and showed a typical four-segment structure, with full lengths of 155,569, 160,491, 155,419, and protein codes of 88, 95, and 87, respectively. Because the IR boundary of S. pubescents subsp. Microphylla was significantly expanded to the large single copy (LSC) region, resulting in complete replication of some genes in the IR region, the LSC region of S. pubescents subsp. Microphylla was significantly shorter than those of S. oblate and S. reticulate subsp. Amurensis. Similar to most higher plants, these three species have a preference for their codons ending with A/T.ConclusionsWe consider the genus Syringa to be a synphyletic group. The nucleotide variability and phylogenetic analyses showed that Syringa differentiated before Ligustrum and Ligustrum developed from Syringa. We propose removing the existing section division and directly dividing Syringa into five series.

Phylotranscriptomics reveal the spatio-temporal distribution and morphological evolution of Macrozamia, an Australian endemic genus of Cycadales.

Cycads are regarded as an ancient lineage of living seed plants, and hold important clues to understand the early evolutionary trends of seed plants. The molecular phylogeny and spatio-temporal diversification of one of the species-rich genera of cycads, Macrozamia, have not been well reconstructed. We analysed a transcriptome dataset of 4740 single-copy nuclear genes (SCGs) of 39 Macrozamia species and two outgroup taxa. Based on concatenated (maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood) and multispecies coalescent analyses, we first establish a well-resolved phylogenetic tree of Macrozamia. To identify cyto-nuclear incongruence, the plastid protein coding genes (PCGs) from transcriptome data are extracted using the software HybPiper. Furthermore, we explore the biogeographical history of the genus and shed light on the pattern of floristic exchange between three distinct areas of Australia. Six key diagnostic characters are traced on the phylogenetic framework using two comparative methods, and infra-generic classification is investigated. The tree topologies of concatenated and multi-species coalescent analyses of SCGs are mostly congruent with a few conflicting nodes, while those from plastid PCGs show poorly supported relationships. The genus contains three major clades that correspond to their distinct distributional areas in Australia. The crown group of Macrozamia is estimated to around 11.80 Ma, with a major expansion in the last 5-6 Myr. Six morphological characters show homoplasy, and the traditional phenetic sectional division of the genus is inconsistent with this current phylogeny. This first detailed phylogenetic investigation of Macrozamia demonstrates promising prospects of SCGs in resolving phylogenetic relationships within cycads. Our study suggests that Macrozamia, once widely distributed in Australia, underwent major extinctions because of fluctuating climatic conditions such as cooling and mesic biome disappearance in the past. The current close placement of morphologically distinct species in the phylogenetic tree may be related to neotenic events that occurred in the genus.

Numerical method for designing ultrashort and efficient adiabatic mode converters

This paper proposes a fully numerical method for designing adiabatic mode converters (NM-AMCs). The proposed method can help compute efficient adiabatic guided-wave shapes for mode converters using a nonuniform section division technique. Such a scheme reduces the memory requirement and computational time for the design of adiabatic devices. Furthermore, the adiabatic mode converter comprises a ridge waveguide, which is difficult to design using analytical methods. This complex case of an adiabatic mode converter is used to demonstrate how the proposed method can readily generate a guided-wave shape that gives the same mode-connection power transfer with a far shorter length compared with a linear-shape converter. The efficiency of the device designed using this NM-AMC is significantly better than that of linear-shape converters; this designed adiabatic mode converter can enable a broad operating bandwidth. Moreover, the efficiency of the adiabatic mode converter that was designed using the NM-AMC method considerably exceeds that obtained using an analytical method proposed for a strip waveguide.

Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri

Over 155 years after the end of the Civil War, Americans are still struggling with the legacy of the conflict and how it should be commemorated. Different factions continue to see the war through sectional and racial lenses that distort the reality of the country's shared collective memory. But this phenomenon is neither new nor soon to be settled. In Amy Laurel Fluker's Commonwealth of Compromise, she explores the development of competing memories through the experiences of Missouri. She skillfully demonstrates the importance of this border state from the several different perspectives that its geography played. Missouri not only divided North from South, but as a gateway to the Pacific Ocean, it divided East from West. She also explores other internal divisions throughout her work, including those between Blacks and whites, urban and rural, and males and females, creating an in-depth, well-researched view that focuses strictly on primary sources. Missouri's sectional division during the war, which manifests itself in the post-bellum period, becomes the ideal microcosm from which to study the country.Fluker taps into the growing historiography of Civil War memory by demonstrating that Missouri was deeply steeped in all four narrative traditions that historians recognize today: Unionist, emancipationist, Confederate, and reconciliationist. After a summarization chapter of Missouri during the war, she devotes a chapter to each of these narratives and chronologically explores each of them independent from one another. She finally ends with an investigation of the state's need to be at the forefront of reconciliation as Missourians felt it was their obligation to be an example for the country. She examines the unified veteran's monument at Vicksburg Military Park and the eventual state's control over both the Union and Confederate Soldiers’ Homes. In doing so, she demonstrates how the state's white population desired to move forward from the war purely for the political and economic gain of the state and how this made Black Union veterans’ push for racial uplift yet another long-term causality of the war. She argues, “Missourians never arrived at a complete consensus over the legacy of the Civil War in their state and . . . the ways [they] remembered the war largely reflected the ways they experienced it” (p. 10). Missouri experienced the war as a pro-Union, slave state divided over its role within the Union; therefore, that experience translated directly into how Missourians chose to remember their legacy. Those experiences and that legacy were both debated, reconciled, and even legislated by whites, leaving Blacks to once again fight for their rights alone and against an unsympathetic majority. The legacy established in the immediate post–Civil War years still lingers today. Fluker shows that, despite the challenges set before Missouri's Black population, they never stopped fighting and continually made progress when and where they could, thereby unquestionably displaying their character as true American citizens.With her focus predominately on sources from within the state, one might argue that the addition of Missourians effect on non-Missourians’ memory could have been looked at closer, but she identifies early on that this was not her intent and it remains as work to still be investigated. That issue aside, the depth of her research and clarity of her writing makes this monograph accessible to a wide audience. Additionally, the combination of relevancy, historiographical integration, and highly detailed research makes it an important read to historians and lay readers with a broad spectrum of historical interests. Illinois historians should easily recognize the importance of her research as some southern counties also suffered from similar divisions during the era. Her examination of Missouri, where majority consensus on legacy was troubled from the start, gives it a higher place in Civil War memory than cases discussed in other states that were decidedly North or South during the war.

Sedimentology and Geochemistry of the Lower Permian Shanxi Formation Shan 23 Submember Transitional Shale, Eastern Ordos Basin, North China

Shanxi Formation Shan 23 Submember transitional shale in Eastern Ordos Basin is characterized by high TOC value, wide distribution, and large single-layer/cumulative thickness. In this study, based on section division of Shan 23 Submember, petrographic, mineralogical, and high-resolution geochemical analyses were integrated to reveal sedimentary environment, detrital influx, paleoclimate, paleosalinity, and paleoredox conditions. Results indicate that Shan 23 Submember is divided into four sections (Shan 23-1, Shan 23-2, Shan 23-3, and Shan 23-4). The upper part of the Shan 23-1 section is dominated by bay facies, which is characterized by high TOC value (2.75%–10.96%, avg. 6.98%), low detrital influx proxies (Zr, 97–527 ppm, avg. 310 ppm; Ti, 1985–7591 ppm, avg. 3938 ppm), relatively dry paleoclimate condition (CIA*, 41.96–92.58, avg. 75.55; Sr/Cu, 6.23–14.49, avg. 8.87), high paleosalinity proxies (Sr/Ba, 0.39–1.29, avg. 0.62), and relatively anoxic reduction condition (UEF, 0.83–3.00, avg. 1.67; MoEF, 3.95–27.00, avg. 15.56). By comparison, the other three sections are dominated by a combination of transitional facies, including barrier island, lagoon, tidal flat, and swamp. In this interval, shale is deposited in lagoon facies. The paleoclimate gradually tends to be warm and humid, which results in increasing the chemical weathering intensity. Meanwhile, the detrital influx increases, and the paleoredox condition tends to be oxic. The above conditions are not conducive to the preservation of organic matter in lagoon facies shale.

Inbound Marketing Strategy “BNI Tapcash” in the Competition of Electronic Money as a Digital Payment Tool

This study aimed to determine the inbound marketing strategy of PT Bank Negara Indonesia TapCash. This study used a qualitative method with data collection through interviews with the head of the consumer business division of the card section, managers of digital operations, marketing, and customers of Bank Negara Indonesia. The data analysis technique used SWOT analysis so that internal and external factors could be found. Based on the results of data analysis, the inbound marketing strategy implemented by PT Bank Negara Indonesia to market TapCash had four strategies, namely posting blogs, SEO, advertising and networking, while the inbound marketing strategy that used email had not been applied to TapCash marketing and based on the SWOT analysis,it showed that the strategy inbound marketing in TapCash marketing got quite profitable results because of the greater strength and opportunity factors although the strengths and opportunities generated were not too large compared to the weaknesses and threats, but this was enough to help increase the use of TapCash cards because with an increase in the number of advertisements could increase also the number of transactions and TapCash users.

Comparison of the Chloroplast Genome Sequences of 13 Oil-Tea Camellia Samples and Identification of an Undetermined Oil-Tea Camellia Species From Hainan Province.

The comparison of chloroplast genome (cpDNA) sequences among different plant species is an important source of plant molecular phylogenetic data. In this paper, the cpDNA sequences of 13 different oil-tea camellia samples were compared to identify an undetermined oil-tea camellia species from Hainan Province. The cpDNA of the samples was sequenced and resequenced, and divergence hotspots and simple sequence repeat (SSR) variations were analyzed. Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees were constructed based on the full cpDNA sequences. The cpDNA sequences were 156512∼157089 bp in length and had the circular tetrad structure typical of angiosperms. The inverted repeats (IRs) of different species included varying contractions and expansions. The cpDNA sequences of the samples of the undetermined species of oil-tea camellia from Hainan Province and Camellia gauchowensis from Xuwen County were identical. In total, 136 genes were annotated, including 91 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The GC content of the cpDNA was 37.3%. The small single-copy (SSC)/IR boundary was rich in variation. Divergence hotspots were mainly located in the intergenic space (IGS) and coding sequences (CDSs), and there were obvious differences in divergence hotspots among species. The same divergence hotspots were found in Camellia vietnamensis, Camellia gauchowensis and the undetermined species of oil-tea camellia from Hainan Province. A total of 191∼198 SSR loci were detected. Most of the SSRs included A or T, and the distribution of SSRs in the cpDNA was uneven. Different species shared common SSRs and exhibited unique SSRs. Based on the full cpDNA sequences, the evolutionary relationships of different species of Camellia were well identified. The thirteen samples were classified into 2 clades and 6 subclades, and the different sections of Camellia clustered on the same branch in 2 clades and 2 subclades. Camellia vietnamensis was more closely related to the undetermined species of oil-tea camellia from Hainan Province and the sample of Camellia gauchowensis from Xuwen County than to the sample of Camellia gauchowensis from Luchuan County. Camellia osmantha was closely related to Camellia gauchowensis and Camellia vietnamensis. In conclusion, the cpDNA of different oil-tea camellia species has a conserved tetrad structure with certain length polymorphisms. SSRs are expected to be developed as “barcodes” or “identity cards” for species identification. SSR variations and other factors result in abundant divergence hotspots in the CDSs and IGS (one non-CDS region), indicating that full cpDNA sequences can be used for the species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Camellia. Accordingly, the undetermined species of oil-tea camellia from Hainan Province is likely Camellia vietnamensis, Camellia vietnamensis and Camellia gauchowensis may be the same species, and additional genetic evidence is needed to determine whether Camellia osmantha is a new independent species. The previous division of related sections of Camellia may need readjustment based on full cpDNA sequences.

Division of Risky Sections of Railway External Environment Based on TOPSIS

With the rapid development of economy and society, the external environmental problems of railways have become more and more prominent, and external environmental accidents have occurred from time to time. The external environmental problems along the railway have become more and more prominent, which has become one of the important risks that endanger railway safety and affect the order of trains. By analyzing the external environmental risk profile, quantifying the impact of different types of hidden danger points along the line, dividing the hidden danger section of the line, dividing the risk section, and carrying out special rectification of the sections with different risk levels, it will be conducive to efficient and centralized rectification of the external environment and improve environmental governance Efficiency and risk control level.