scholarly journals Systems Approach to Standardisation, Classification and Modelling of Managed Events for Tourism

Organizacija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-197
Author(s):  
Tadeja Jere Jakulin ◽  
Aleksandra Golob
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
National Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
Methodological Principles

Abstract Background and Purpose: The standardisation and classification of managed events provide a legislative basis to distinguish events managed for tourism in their characteristics and quality. The systems approach to standardisation and classification of managed events is a unique, holistic view of event management quality and event organization in tourism. It enables a clear overview of a researched topic and provides adequate support to design and decision-making. In this paper, we explain the meaning of standardisation and classification for Slovenian legislation related to event management. We present the importance of a systems approach methodology for event categorization and classification as it relates to the quality of event management organization, the quality of staff, the quality of the event program and the quality of event services. Objectives: Provide an overview of events in tourism, related definitions and information gathered from scientific authors, which serves as current systems approach principles with which we want to achieve the desired results, positive changes in legislation; in our case-in the field of managed event quality for tourism through standardisation and classification of events on the national level in Slovenia. Method: A descriptive method and systems approach methods are fundamental methodological principles in our analysis. In the context of a systems approach, we used qualitative modelling and constructed causal loop models (CLD) of the legislative system of events and investments in the events. We also used context-dependent modelling (SD model) in a frame of systems dynamics. Results: We present the most appropriate solution to eliminate our problem or question about how to achieve high quality and unique events within event tourism and with event management, thereby creating added value to an event legislative system. We explain suggestions for achieving triple-bottom elements through well-designed quality standards and classification of events, which leads to an optimal categorization of events. Conclusion: From a systems point of view, event tourism processes, including event management, are systems consisting of people and technologies with the purpose of designing, producing, trading and deploying the idea of an event. It is necessary to transform the current Slovenian legislative system of events and prepare a document which standardizes and classifies events based on systems approach methodology.

Exergy Quality of Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 899 ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferenc Kalmár
Keyword(s):  
Energy Content ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Energy And Exergy ◽  
Country Specific

Energy labeling of buildings is accepted and used in all European countries. Depending on the yearly specific primary energy consumption the energy quality of a building is expressed using a country specific method. Consequently primary energy is the basis of building energy class. Primary energy is obtained using different country specific transformation factors for gas, electricity, wood, biomass etc. However different quantities of warm water and steam can have the same energy content. Calculating the exergy content of used energy a better classification of buildings can be achieved. This paper presents a method to analyze residential buildings from exergy point of view. It was found a transformation factor between energy and exergy: 0.075.

scholarly journals Effect of Supplementation with Antioxidants on the Quality of Bovine Milk and Meat Production

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Castillo ◽  
Víctor Pereira ◽  
Ángel Abuelo ◽  
Joaquín Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Animal Health ◽  
Antioxidant Properties ◽  
Bovine Milk ◽  
Preventive Treatment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Antioxidant Supplementation ◽  
Transition Cow

From a clinical point of view, oxidative stress (OS) is considered the primary cause of numerous metabolic processes intransition cow.Thus, the addition of antioxidants has been considered a palliative or preventive treatment. But beyond the clinical perspective, antioxidant supplementation provides an added value to the product obtained being either milk or meat. This paper reviews the beneficial aspects that provide antioxidant supplementation on quality of both products and that fit into the new concept that the consumer has a functional and healthy food. Our approach is from a veterinary standpoint, by reviewing the studies conducted to date and the new perspectives that are interesting and need to be studied in the following years. One of the highlights is that sustainable farming, one in which production is combined with animal health, also impacts positively on the quality of the final products, with beneficial antioxidant properties to human health.

Nondestructive Evaluation of Tubing Closure Welds

1986 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Rehbein ◽  
D. K. Hsu ◽  
R. B. Thompson ◽  
T. A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Bond Line ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Back Surface ◽  
Bond Quality ◽  
Ultrasonic Signals ◽  
Quantitative Understanding ◽  
Control Procedures

Resistance tube closure welds, referred to as pinch welds, are used to reliably seal small stainless steel tubing [1]. The quality of the bond is dependent upon, among other factors, the cleanliness of the tube bore. Post weld inspections are therefore desired as process control procedures. In previous studies, ultrasonics was shown to have considerable promise in this application. Thomas et al. [1] demonstrated that pattern recognition algorithms could be applied to the ultrasonic signals transmitted through the tubes to produce a correct classification of good and bad welds in several different sets of samples. The algorithms were somewhat dependent on the material from which the samples were fabricated, but all showed a good deal of commonality. In a parallel study, Rehbein et al. [2] examined, from a more mechanistic point of view, sets of tubes fabricated at the same time. They observed that gross disbonds could be easily detected from changes in signals either reflected from or transmitted through the bond line. When such disbonds were not present, they observed that signals doubly transmitted through the interface (i.e., the back surface echo) showed a trend to lower values as the bond quality decreased. This paper describes the sequel to that study, having the objective of developing a quantitative understanding of the interaction of the ultrasound with the pinch welds.

Institutionalization of Accounting and Auditing Services in Ukraine: Genesis, Evaluation, Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. s123-s137
Author(s):  
Olena Antoniuk ◽  
Petro Kutsyk ◽  
Iryna Brodska ◽  
Olena  Kolesnikova ◽  
Nataliya Struk
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
National Level ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Actual Structure ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the article is to consider the impact of institutionalization processes and regulations on the development of accounting and auditing services. The research is based on the analysis of the development of the institutional framework for the provision of audit services. Comparisons of the composition of regulatory support with the actual structure of accounting and auditing services on the basis of statistical data of the Audit Chamber of Ukraine for the period from 2011 to 2019 indicate the problems in institutional support. The purpose of the article is to answer the questions: 1) whether the legislative regulation has an impact on the volume of orders for statutory audit; 2) how the regulations have influenced the development of methodological support for the provision of audit services; 3) whether the practice and theory of audit services need convergence at the institutional level. The authors correlate  classification of audit services in normative documents, including documents of the professional organization of auditors. The issue of institutionalization is considered in the context of the interaction of accounting problems at the national level in Ukraine and the practice of auditors. It has been proven that the provision of accounting services and services is a priority in the activities of auditors. A separate area of research is the institutional principles of activity, requirements for quality of work. The study indicated a decrease in the number of audit entities in Ukraine. The results of the study have shown that there are differences between legal regulation and practice. The conclusion of this paper helps to identify vectors in the development of a regulatory framework of audit services national level.

AVAILABILITY OF PRE-SCHOOLING AS AN EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL INDICATOR

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Gediminas Merkys ◽  
Daiva Bubeliene ◽  
Nijole Čiučiulkienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
National Level ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Original Survey

The research paper presents the results of a large-scale longitudinal study which aims to highlight pre-schooling social problems with the help of social indicators. For over a decade, the authors of the research paper have been developing a survey inventory aiming to determine the population’s satisfaction with the public service index. The tool includes 190 original survey indicators that represent all public services. 20 indicators are devoted to education; two of them represent pre-school education. These are: 1) assessment of the quality of pre-school services; and 2) the availability of a child's place in a kindergarten in a residential area (availability). The existing statistical norming base (not older than 2 years) includes 12 municipalities in Lithuania and 88 subdistricts. The total number of respondents is 16202 (n=16202). It has been cleared out that the residents consider the quality of the service "high", but its "availability" is considered to be poor. The statistical regularity found is common to all surveyed municipalities. There is a significant dispersion of measured indicators in separate municipalities and in the subdistricts. Facing the negative evaluation tendency of the “availability“ service some municipalities are more able to handle the problem. For this reason their experience is worth to analyze and to disseminate in a broader way. It is also worth to mention that the results of this study have much in common with EUROSTAT data. In Lithuania, the inclusion of 2-3 years old children in the education system is extremely poor, whereas the inclusion of preschoolers is largely universal. It is possible to state that poor situation of 2-3 years old children inclusion in the Lithuanian education system is related to the problems of Lithuanian social policy. In Lithuania, mother (or father) receives financial benefits for two years after the birth of a child. It is also possible to save one‘s job without receiving a payment for one year more. From the point of view of women's employment and equal opportunities policies, our discovered regularity testifies social policy dysfunctions at the macro national level which, on their turn, indicate a deep-seated demographic crisis in an EU country.  

scholarly journals A Feature-Based Analysis for Time-Series Classification of COVID-19 Incidence in Chile: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7080
Author(s):  
Christopher Flores ◽  
Carla Taramasco ◽  
Maria Elena Lagos ◽  
Carla Rimassa ◽  
Rosa Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
National Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Mechanical Ventilators ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Risk Categories ◽  
Better Than

The 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a current challenge for the world’s health systems aiming to control this disease. From an epidemiological point of view, the control of the incidence of this disease requires an understanding of the influence of the variables describing a population. This research aims to predict the COVID-19 incidence in three risk categories using two types of machine learning models, together with an analysis of the relative importance of the available features in predicting the COVID-19 incidence in the Chilean urban commune of Concepción. The classification results indicate that the ConvLSTM (Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory) classifier performed better than the SVM (Support Vector Machine), with results between 93% and 96% in terms of accuracy (ACC) and F-measure (F1) metrics. In addition, when considering each one of the regional and national features as well as the communal features (DEATHS and MOBILITY), it was observed that at the regional level the CRITICAL BED OCCUPANCY and PATIENTS IN ICU features positively contributed to the performance of the classifiers, while at the national level the features that most impacted the performance of the SVM and ConvLSTM were those related to the type of hospitalization of patients and the use of mechanical ventilators.

scholarly journals The Quality Costs Assessment in the Aspect of Value Added Chain

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Daunoriene ◽  
Egle Katiliute
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Expert Evaluation ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Inductive Methods

<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The main purpose of this paper is to focus on the quality costs influence direction and intensity on the added value in the aspect of value chain.</p><p><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> The article is based on a nomothetic point of view that includes three modules: conceptual, hypothetical – deductive and inductive methods. To formulate theoretical aspects of quality costs evaluation, comparative and chronological analysis of scientific literature is used. Empirical results of the research are obtained by applying method of expert evaluation.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> During expert evaluation procedure is identified and selected significant quality costs elements. It is a useful tool to identify quality costs thought value chain processes. Created model of quality costs assessment in the aspect of value added chain is based on identification and classification of quality costs elements and allows to measure and to evaluate influence of quality costs,<br />its direction and intensity on the added value.</p><p><strong>Research Limitation/implication:</strong> The formulated model of quality costs assessment in the aspect of value added chain is assigned to the models that “are oriented towards the situation”, i.e. diverted towards organizational analyses.</p><p><strong>Originality/Value of paper:</strong> The paper complements the gap between theoretical and practical framework of determining influence of quality costs on added value and proves importance of the assessment of quality costs elements in the aspect of added value chain.</p>

ALLERGY—THE UNANSWERED CHALLENGE IN PEDIATRIC RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND PRACTICE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-654
Author(s):  
William G. Crook ◽  
Walton W. Harrison ◽  
Stanley E. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Allergic Disease ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pediatric Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Pediatric Clinic ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Active Interest

THE NEGLECT OF TRAINING IN ALLERGY Perhaps the most remarkable thing about allergy is its relative neglect in the field of medical research, education and practice. This phenomenon has been recognized by a number of leaders in the field. "Allergy is sadly neglected in the medical schools of this country. Some department heads look upon it as scarcely more scientific than witchcraft. . . . There is no question that medicine either ridiculed or ignored. . . . The chances are overwhelming that as a resident—(the physician) had no exposure whatever to an allergy service or guidance from one trained in allergy." A review of the program of the Society for Pediatric Research for the past several years shows that, while there were many papers on varied subjects, few of them dealt with allergy. THE PROBLEM OF THE PRACTICING PEDIATRICIAN Our discussion of this subject is presented from the point of view of practicing pediatricians who have struggled with the problems of allergy in a general pediatric practice for some 9 years. During this period, the recognition and management of children with allergic disease presented such a problem that we had to take a more active interest in it as a matter of "self defense." In comparing our training with that of other pediatricians, we feel that our exposure, and the quality of the instruction given us in managing the allergic child, was well above the average. Nevertheless, we still were inadequately prepared to meet the needs of countless hundreds of our patients. A recent study of the incidence of allergic disease in our practice during the year 1954 showed that 14% of an unselected, consecutive group of children coming to our general pediatric clinic had major, unquestioned allergic disease, including asthma, hay fever, allergic rhinitis and eczema. An additional 18% had findings which warranted a classification of "probably allergic."

The Activities of Risk Management

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
G. Marino ◽  
O.G. Di Primio ◽  
F.C. Cortese ◽  
M. Pedalino ◽  
R. Vella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
National Level ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Urological Procedures ◽  
Successful Approach

Introduction The activities of Risk Management at a department of urology involve specialist health workers, technical and administrative staff as the common denominator is communication, simplification of processes and the quality of health care provision. The Authors present their experience on the management of risk in urology and an attempted classification of adverse events with possible dysfunction in the clinical management in urology department. Materials and Methods Our analysis included those adverse events that occurred from January to December 2008. A total of 18 adverse events were identified from 638 urological procedures divided according to diagnosis, treatment and type of hospitalization. Results The following events were assessed: number of cases with wound infection: 5 (4.7%), diastasis of the surgical wound: 3 (0.47%), catheter obstructions that required therapeutic endoscopic or surgical haemostatic procedures: 5 (0.78%), delayed administration of treatment: 3 (0.47%) and accidental fall out of bed: 2 (0.31%). Conclusions The transition from a reactive to a preventive system remains the key to provide the citizen with the best health care in safety conditions. The involvement of different organizational and managerial levels in an optimal atmosphere in the absence of stress appears to be the most balanced and successful approach, especially putting aside the attitude of assigning error culpability. The transmission of individual experiences at a regional and national level will allow refining the project, which foresees the identification and classification of possible events and especially the ways and preventive procedures to achieve them.

scholarly journals Factors of Formation of Tax Behavior and Tax Culture at the National Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Tatiana S. Seliutina
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
National Tax

This article is devoted to issues of national tax system effectiveness and overcoming existing problems with it. Under the current conditions, taxes are the integral lever of government influence on the countrys market economy. As a result, the level of development of the national economy and the conditions in its social sphere are directly influenced by the state of the tax system. The author considers it possible to ascertain the efficiency of the tax system in the broadest sense, namely as an aggregate level of achievement, by its goals. Those goals are set in accordance with the functions of taxation. However, when they are realized, significant disparities and even narrowed interpretations of functions arise. As a result, the existing tax system is flawed and unable to achieve high operational efficiency. As one of the most important problems, the author singles out the problem of incomplete fiscal performance due to insufficient tax discipline arising from a low level of tax culture. The author offers a proprietary interpretation of the factors influencing the specific actions of tax decision makers. From the point of view of tax culture, they are divided into factions that make up the tax culture, factions formed and determined by the prevailing tax culture, and others developed under the influence of alternate circumstances. The author considers the most complete and logical understanding of tax culture to be the level of citizen awareness of the importance of taxes as a source of financing the existence of the state and the performance of its functions. With this interpretation, it is justified to assume that citizens compare the degree of decline in their levels and quality of life due to their taxes, and increases in the quality of their lives by means of the implementation of social and other public functions. The prevalence of the latter leads to increased tax disciplineand the former to its decrease. Although these assessments are always subjective, they can serve as bases for the formation of objective directions for improving the activities of tax authorities and educational institutions and, by extension, the tax discipline of citizens and the business community. The effects are economically measurable and long-term.

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