Maximising Vmc: The Effects of System Quality and Set-Up on Communicative Success

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Orsolina I. Martino ◽  
Chris Fullwood ◽  
Sarah J. Davis ◽  
Nicola M. Derrer ◽  
Neil Morris
Keyword(s):  
System Quality ◽  
Communicative Success ◽  
Set Up

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of E-Service Quality and User Satisfaction of Public Service Centers in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenghan Ming ◽  
Tao Chen ◽  
Qi Ai
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how as part of the reform of the administrative system of China, most local governments have set up public service centers; meanwhile, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been commonly applied to make e-services more convenient, efficient and transparent. However, the existing studies in the Chinese context are mostly qualitative and the relationship between service quality and citizen satisfaction has not been tested. This article adopted the D&M model to develop an e-service quality model and tested the impact of service quality on citizen satisfaction. A survey was conducted and 364 valid questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that the data fit the model well. Most of the hypotheses formulated in this article was proven. Additionally, an important finding was that the impact of service quality on specific satisfaction is stronger than that of information quality and system quality, which indicates that face-to-face services cannot simply be substituted by electronic systems. Both the theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.

scholarly journals Languages adapt to their contextual niche

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES WINTERS ◽  
SIMON KIRBY ◽  
KENNY SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Iterated Learning ◽  
Systematic Structure ◽  
Communicative Success ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Feature Dimension

abstractIt is well established that context plays a fundamental role in how we learn and use language. Here we explore how context links short-term language use with the long-term emergence of different types of language system. Using an iterated learning model of cultural transmission, the current study experimentally investigates the role of the communicative situation in which an utterance is produced (situational context) and how it influences the emergence of three types of linguistic systems: underspecified languages (where only some dimensions of meaning are encoded linguistically), holistic systems (lacking systematic structure), and systematic languages (consisting of compound signals encoding both category-level and individuating dimensions of meaning). To do this, we set up a discrimination task in a communication game and manipulated whether the feature dimension shape was relevant or not in discriminating between two referents. The experimental languages gradually evolved to encode information relevant to the task of achieving communicative success, given the situational context in which they are learned and used, resulting in the emergence of different linguistic systems. These results suggest language systems adapt to their contextual niche over iterated learning.

scholarly journals PERDAGANGAN BERJANGKA SEBAGAI SARANA SISTEM KETAHANAN PANGAN NASIONAL INDONESIA

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Samsul
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Food System ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
National Development ◽  
Futures Market ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Control Body ◽  
National Defence

The purpose of this research is to optimize the function of futures market to achief the success the National Defence of Food System, The Indonesian government commits that Indonesia to be as an international foodstore. Indonesia has a potensial to be exporter of foods in a globalization era. The negative impact of international free trade can be managed by the futures market to protect the needs of foods of domestic people and industries. The function of National Logistic Body (BULOG) to control the national foodneeds has  not been success eventhough already 40 years operation. The Jakarta Futures Market (BBJ) operated since year of 2000 has many weak of functions. BBJ has not been designed in a comprehensive and a well-thought out plan. BBJ was set up careless and so uncapable to develop herself.The system of BBJ has to be totally reorganized.  BBJ must operate by national trading system. The Futures Market is obligated to trade all durable product of farm, plantation, forestry, fishery, breeding, mining &gas and financial instruments. In developing Futures Market is abligated too create storing system, transportation system, quality control body and arbitrage body. The development of Futures Market involved many departments such as: Trade, Transportation, farm & Plantation, Mining & Gas, Bulog, Indonesia Commercial Body, Sentral Bank, and regional government.The development of Futures Market is to be planned fairly by National Development Body, because many departments involved.The Futures Market is the latest market after money market and capital market. So, it is to be socialized to politicion, all departments involved, market practation and investors via seminar, short course and formal education. The suscces of  National Defence of Food System is very important for Indonesia to face globalization era which will be started at the latest of 2020. Indonesia still has10 years to regulate everything. In the globalization era, no more economic sovereignty of a country.  Each country must obey with the regulation of World Trade Organizatation. The Futures Market with unsuccessful operation now will impact to the failure of economic development in the futures.Keywords: Futures market, Natioanl Defence of Foods System, National Trading System.

scholarly journals Application of ISO 15189 standard on accreditation of medical laboratories

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Postic-Grujin ◽  
Nada Majkic-Singh
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Chemistry ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Iso 17025 ◽  
Iso 15189 ◽  
Medical Laboratories ◽  
Draft Standard ◽  
Good Laboratory ◽  
Set Up ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Calibration Laboratories

Application of external quality control in clinical biochemical laboratories imposed the necessity of introduction of system quality management and accreditation in identical and different medical laboratories. ?Good laboratory practice? and the principals thereof were adopted by the appointed bodies, both international and national ones. In the beginning, ISO 9001 standard was applied to certification, and EN 45001 and ISO Guide 25 to accreditation; both were prepared for testing and calibration laboratories. ISO 17025 standard is the successor of the previous documents and presently used as reference by the listed laboratories. The Working Group of European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry (EC4) set up out the additional requirements for the medical laboratories. The draft standard ISO 15189 was adopted in February of 2003 as the final version of the requirements set forth for all the medical laboratories.

The Effects of Drying Techniques on Clay-Rich Soil Texture

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
T. G. Naymik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen Temperature ◽  
Drying Methods ◽  
Air Drying ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
Critical Point Drying ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quartz Grains

Three techniques were incorporated for drying clay-rich specimens: air-drying, freeze-drying and critical point drying. In air-drying, the specimens were set out for several days to dry or were placed in an oven (80°F) for several hours. The freeze-dried specimens were frozen by immersion in liquid nitrogen or in isopentane at near liquid nitrogen temperature and then were immediately placed in the freeze-dry vacuum chamber. The critical point specimens were molded in agar immediately after sampling. When the agar had set up the dehydration series, water-alcohol-amyl acetate-CO2 was carried out. The objectives were to compare the fabric plasmas (clays and precipitates), fabricskeletons (quartz grains) and the relationship between them for each drying technique. The three drying methods are not only applicable to the study of treated soils, but can be incorporated into all SEM clay soil studies.

Evaluation of Freezing Methods by Low Temperature X-Ray Diffraction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 330-333
Author(s):  
T. Gulik-Krzywicki ◽  
M.J. Costello
Keyword(s):  
Biological Materials ◽  
Molecular Organization ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Glass Capillary ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Freeze Etching ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Set Up

Freeze-etching electron microscopy is currently one of the best methods for studying molecular organization of biological materials. Its application, however, is still limited by our imprecise knowledge about the perturbations of the original organization which may occur during quenching and fracturing of the samples and during the replication of fractured surfaces. Although it is well known that the preservation of the molecular organization of biological materials is critically dependent on the rate of freezing of the samples, little information is presently available concerning the nature and the extent of freezing-rate dependent perturbations of the original organizations. In order to obtain this information, we have developed a method based on the comparison of x-ray diffraction patterns of samples before and after freezing, prior to fracturing and replication.Our experimental set-up is shown in Fig. 1. The sample to be quenched is placed on its holder which is then mounted on a small metal holder (O) fixed on a glass capillary (p), whose position is controlled by a micromanipulator.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

Low-Loss Images in a Stem/Tem Microscope

1976 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 496-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Joy ◽  
Dennis M. Maher
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Surface Topography ◽  
Beam Direction ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Specimen Holder ◽  
Glancing Angle ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Objective Type

High-resolution images of the surface topography of solid specimens can be obtained using the low-loss technique of Wells. If the specimen is placed inside a lens of the condenser/objective type, then it has been shown that the lens itself can be used to collect and filter the low-loss electrons. Since the probeforming lenses in TEM instruments fitted with scanning attachments are of this type, low-loss imaging should be possible.High-resolution, low-loss images have been obtained in a JEOL JEM 100B fitted with a scanning attachment and a thermal, fieldemission gun. No modifications were made to the instrument, but a wedge-shaped, specimen holder was made to fit the side-entry, goniometer stage. Thus the specimen is oriented initially at a glancing angle of about 30° to the beam direction. The instrument is set up in the conventional manner for STEM operation with all the lenses, including the projector, excited.

UHV-TEM studies of laser-induced damage

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 632-633
Author(s):  
T.S. Savage ◽  
R. Ai ◽  
D. Dunn ◽  
L.D. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Surface Science ◽  
Rapid Heating ◽  
Local Heating ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Laser Induced Damage ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Focusing Lens ◽  
Diffusion Of Impurities

The use of lasers for surface annealing, heating and/or damage has become a routine practice in the study of materials. Lasers have been closely looked at as an annealing technique for silicon and other semiconductors. They allow for local heating from a beam which can be focused and tuned to different wavelengths for specific tasks. Pulsed dye lasers allow for short, quick bursts which can allow the sample to be rapidly heated and quenched. This short, rapid heating period may be important for cases where diffusion of impurities or dopants may not be desirable.At Northwestern University, a Candela SLL - 250 pulsed dye laser, with a maximum power of 1 Joule/pulse over 350 - 400 nanoseconds, has been set up in conjunction with a Hitachi UHV-H9000 transmission electron microscope. The laser beam is introduced into the surface science chamber through a series of mirrors, a focusing lens and a six inch quartz window.

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