EFFECTS OF QUALITY OF BANK PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN MAKUENI COUNTY

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of enhanced quality of bank products and services on the performance of commercial banks in Makueni County. Methodology: This study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population was all the 219 employees from the commercial bank branches in Makueni County from which 130 study participants were sampled; 65 bank managers and 65 assistant managers. A questionnaire was designed, piloted and used to collect data from the study participants. All necessary ethical issues were considered during and after data collection process. Statistical Package for Social Scientists Version 21 was used in data analysis to generate both descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings: There was a positive relationship between the quality of services and products and performance of commercial banks in Makueni County. The regression results also revealed that quality of products and services had a significant influence on the performance of commercial banks at p = 0.015. Unique contributions to theory, practice and policy: The quality of bank services and products is a major determinant of the performance of commercial banks in the area of study. The findings were similar to those of another study carried out by Odeny (2016). Since contingency theory argues that there is no single best approach in the management of institutions, the study recommends that continuous research is necessary in commercial banks to establish areas of service and product improvement for their continued high performance.

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Performance Measures of Different Gate Oxide Materials in Gate All Around Fet

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.a2626.079220 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 23-25

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Field Effect Transistors ◽

Gate Oxide ◽

Oxide Semiconductor ◽

Oxide Materials ◽

Performance Limits ◽

Short Channel ◽

Advanced Technique ◽

And Performance

The classical planar Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) is fabricated by oxidation of a semiconductor namely Silicon. In this generation, an advanced technique called 3D system architecture FETs, are introduced for high performance and low power quality of devices. Based on the limitations of Short Channel Effect (SCE), Silicon (Si) FET cannot be scaled under 10nm. Hence various performing measures like methods, principles, and geometrics are done to upscale the semiconductor. CMOS using alternate channel materials like GE and III-Vs on substrates is a highly anticipated technique for developing nanowire structures. By considering these issues, in this paper, we developed a simulation model that provides accurate results basing on Gate layout and multi-gate NW FET's so that the scaling can be increased few nanometers long and performance limits gradually increases. The model developed is SILVACO that tests the action of FET with different gate oxide materials.

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Quality Maintenance and Monitoring using Azure CI pipeline and .Net Technologies

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit2063166 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 642-648

Author(s):

Ishwarya S ◽

S. Kuzhalvaimozhi

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Test Driven Development ◽

Quality Maintenance ◽

Continuous Integration ◽

Agile Methodology ◽

Annual Basis ◽

Continuous Delivery ◽

And Performance ◽

Software Development Practices

<p>The paper is about how the application is maintained and monitored using Azure CI pipeline. Maintaining and monitoring the quality of the software plays an important role in company’s growth and performance. This is achieved using DevOps. Few years back agile methodology was playing a major role in the industry, software were deployed in monthly, quarterly or annual basis, which is time consuming. However, now industries are moving towards DevOps methodology where in the software deployed multiple times a day. This methodology provides the organization to constantly and reliably add new features and automatically deploy them across various platforms or environment in order to gain high performance and quality assurance products. Continuous integration and Continuous delivery/ Continuous deployment are the pillars of DevOps. Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and Continuous deployment are the continuous software development practices of industry. By automating the build, test and deployment of software, CI/CD bridges the space between development and operation teams. This paper also concentrates on how the Test Driven Development features of .Net technologies supports the quality maintenance and monitoring of the application.</p>

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Text Analysis of Assembly Work Instructions

Volume 1B: 35th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference ◽

10.1115/detc2015-47246 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rahul Sharan Renu ◽

Gregory Mocko

Keyword(s):

Natural Language Processing ◽

Natural Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Lead Times ◽

Parts Of Speech ◽

Assembly Work ◽

And Performance ◽

Quality Of Products ◽

Speech Tagging

The objective of this research is to investigate the requirements and performance of parts-of-speech tagging of assembly work instructions. Natural Language Processing of assembly work instructions is required to perform data mining with the objective of knowledge reuse. Assembly work instructions are key process engineering elements that allow for predictable assembly quality of products and predictable assembly lead times. Authoring of assembly work instructions is a subjective process. It has been observed that most assembly work instructions are not grammatically complete sentences. It is hypothesized that this can lead to false parts-of-speech tagging (by Natural Language Processing tools). To test this hypothesis, two parts-of-speech taggers are used to tag 500 assembly work instructions (obtained from the automotive industry). The first parts-of-speech tagger is obtained from Natural Language Processing Toolkit (nltk.org) and the second parts-of-speech tagger is obtained from Stanford Natural Language Processing Group (nlp.stanford.edu). For each of these taggers, two experiments are conducted. In the first experiment, the assembly work instructions are input to the each tagger in raw form. In the second experiment, the assembly work instructions are preprocessed to make them grammatically complete, and then input to the tagger. It is found that the Stanford Natural Language Processing tagger with the preprocessed assembly work instructions produced the least number of false parts-of-speech tags.

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The life of high-level athletes: The challenge of high performance against the time constraint

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/1012690216647196 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 234-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Fabrice Burlot ◽

Rémi Richard ◽

Helene Joncheray

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Elite Athletes ◽

Time Constraint ◽

Sport Expertise ◽

Pace Of Life ◽

And Performance ◽

High Level ◽

State Of Tension ◽

Sporting Performance

The conditions for high performance have changed considerably over the last few years. Athletes must spend more time training and competing, devote a lot of time to mental, physical and nutritional professionals and continue to respond to some constraints such as studying, spending time with their families, friends and quality of life. In this context and based on the work of Rosa, we wonder about the capacity of elite athletes to combine all these constraints, namely to manage the acceleration in their pace of life, in order to be able to achieve always more and better in the same time unit. To address this issue, we interviewed 42 French high-level athletes who train at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP). Results show that to suit their goals, athletes implement arrangement and adjustment strategies aimed at making the time they have wholly useful and efficient. This time constraint puts athletes in a perpetual state of tension, on the verge of a good or poor life. The paper shows how the question of time, and particularly the acceleration of pace of life, is vital for modern sporting performance.

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Massively multi-user online platform for large-scale applications

10.32920/ryerson.14645280 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Allen Yen-Cheng Yu

Keyword(s):

Grid Computing ◽

High Performance ◽

Large Scale ◽

Distributed Applications ◽

Service Architecture ◽

Online Application ◽

Online Platform ◽

Massively Multiplayer Online Game ◽

And Performance

Many large-scale online applications enable thousands of users to access their services simultaneously. However, the overall service quality of an online application usually degrades when the number of users increases because, traditionally, centralized server architecture does not scale well. In order to provide better Quality of Service (QoS), service architecture such as Grid computing can be used. This type of architecture offers service scalability by utilizing heterogeneous hardware resources. In this thesis, a novel design of Grid computing middleware, Massively Multi-user Online Platform (MMOP), which integrates the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) structured overlays, is proposed. The objectives of this proposed design are to offer scalability and system design flexibility, simplify development processes of distributed applications, and improve QoS by following specified policy rules. A Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) has been created to validate the functionality and performance of MMOP. The simulation results have demonstrated that MMOP is a high performance and scalable servicing and computing middleware.

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Massively multi-user online platform for large-scale applications

10.32920/ryerson.14645280.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Allen Yen-Cheng Yu

Keyword(s):

Grid Computing ◽

High Performance ◽

Large Scale ◽

Distributed Applications ◽

Service Architecture ◽

Online Application ◽

Online Platform ◽

Massively Multiplayer Online Game ◽

And Performance

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Distinguishing Between Fresh and Frozen-thawed Smoked Salmon: Histology to Detect Food Adulteration in High-Value Products

Journal of Food Protection ◽

10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-19-346 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 52-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

MARZIA PEZZOLATO ◽

ELISA BAIONI ◽

CRISTIANA MAURELLA ◽

KATIA VARELLO ◽

SERENA MEISTRO ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Accurate Method ◽

Food Adulteration ◽

Smoked Salmon ◽

Different Types ◽

Group A ◽

Quality Of Products ◽

Group B ◽

Sensitivity Specificity

ABSTRACT The issue of food safety has acquired increased importance, and fraud is a major concern for the food industry. Among different types of food adulteration, there is the sale of frozen-thawed smoked salmon product as fresh, which not only decreases the quality of products but also misleads consumers and may involve associated health risks. In response to this problem, we tested the performance of histology to identify smoked salmon as fresh or frozen-thawed as a valid analytical method, so food business operators and official controllers can reliably and correctly classify the storage state of the product. Three groups of samples were prepared: group A (n = 36), fresh samples; group B (n = 36), frozen at −18°C for 30 days; and group C (n = 36), stored at −3°C for 30 days after packaging. Two histopathologists examined all samples in blind evaluations and classified them as fresh or frozen-thawed. Sensitivity, specificity, and interrater agreement were calculated. Results show high performance with the test: 80.6% sensitivity (95% confidence intervals [CI]: 64 to 91.8%); 95.6% specificity (95% CI: 89.1 to 98.8%); and Cohen's kappa was 0.81 (95% CI: 0.64 to 0.98%). Histology is a reliable and highly accurate method to differentiate fresh from frozen-thawed smoked salmon and could be used by the industry and official controllers to verify the labeling of the commercial product. HIGHLIGHTS

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VECTOR MODEL FOR MULTI-CRITERIA SCORING

Scientific Review: Theory and Practice ◽

10.35679/2226-0226-2020-10-10-2245-2253 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 2245-2253

Author(s):

A.V. Ganicheva ◽

◽

A.V. Ganichev ◽

Keyword(s):

Optimal Solution ◽

Educational Process ◽

Vector Model ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Mean Values ◽

The Face ◽

Scalar Products ◽

And Performance ◽

Quality Of Products

To assess the performance of economic systems, criteria and performance indicators are used that show the degree of achievement of the desired performance result. To characterize complex systems in most real cases, one criterion is not enough. Therefore, several criteria are used to comprehensively characterize the system. The multi-criteria problem raises the problem of matching individual criteria when used together. There are many ways to select alternatives in the face of multiple decision criteria. This article discusses the multi-criteria comparison of objects with Pareto dominance, vector estimates with arbitrary non-negative coordinates of vectors. The advantages of vector estimates in comparison with average estimates are considered. In this work, three important theorems of multi-criteria estimation are proved. The theorems define the conditions for the equivalence of three options for comparing objects by a variety of attributes: 1) arithmetic mean values; 2) the lengths of the corresponding vectors; 3) scalar products of vectors. As the research results, the application of the developed methods for aggregating the quality indicators of the educational process into a single assessment is shown. The following indicators of the educational process were used: coefficient of diligence, coefficient of interest, coefficient of difficulty of mastering the studied material, assessment of academic performance. A four-criteria optimization problem is formulated. It is shown that the objective function reaches its extreme value at the point that is as close as possible to the point of the optimal solution of the formulated problem. The issues of multi-criteria assessment developed in the article can find application in the management of the educational process in the formation of individual trajectories of trainees, in the tasks of working with the personnel of firms and organizations (selection, training, retraining), in assessing the quality of products and in other areas of activity.

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A Mini Review on Carbon Molecular Sieve Membrane for Oxygen Separation

Journal of Modern Manufacturing Systems and Technology ◽

10.15282/jmmst.v4i1.3800 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 23-35

Author(s):

Fatin Nurwahdah Ahmad ◽

Norazlianie Sazali ◽

Mohd Hafiz Dzafran Othman

Keyword(s):

Molecular Sieve ◽

High Performance ◽

Separation Performance ◽

Carbon Membrane ◽

Carbon Molecular Sieve ◽

Carbon Membranes ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Polymer Precursors ◽

And Performance

Membrane-based technology has proved its practicality in gas separation through its performance. Various type of membranes has been explored, showing that each type of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. Polymeric membranes have been widely used to separate O2/N2, however, its drawbacks lead to the development of carbon molecular sieve membrane. Carbon molecular sieve membranes have demonstrated excellent separation performance for almost similar kinetic diameter molecules such as O2/N2. Many polymer precursors can be used to produce carbon molecular sieve membrane through carbonization process or also known as heat treatment. This paper discusses the variety of precursors and carbonization parameters to produce high quality and performance of carbon molecular sieve membranes. This paper covers the evaluation in advancement and status of high-performance carbon membrane implemented for separating gas, comprising the variety of precursor materials and the fabrication process that involve many different parameters, also analysis of carbon membranes properties in separating various type of gas having high demand in the industries. The issues regarding the current challenges in developing carbon membrane and approaches with the purpose of solving and improving the performance and applications of carbon membrane are included in this paper. Also, the advantages of the carbon membrane compared to other types of membranes are highlighted. Observation and understanding the variables affecting the quality of membrane encourage the optimization of conditions and techniques in producing high-performance membrane.

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Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluations Using Indigenous Research Workers

American Journal of Evaluation ◽

10.1177/1098214007313023 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 73-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Leslie B. Alexander ◽

Kenneth A. Richman

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Research Work ◽

Target Population ◽

Indigenous Research ◽

Social Risk ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Street Level ◽

Study Participants

This article addresses ethical dilemmas experienced by street-level research and evaluation workers recruiting and gathering data in community-based research projects. The authors focus on a subgroup of street-level research workers, whom they call research extenders (REs), employed because they share important characteristics with the target population. Like other street-level research workers, some REs are single role (only do research work) and others are dual role (do research work and provide services). They discuss relevant literature and findings from pilot focus groups exploring how REs understand responsible ethical conduct in their research work in the community. REs face ethical issues somewhat different from those of more traditional, non-indigenous street-level research workers. These issues increase social risk for study participants and could compromise the validity of data. Researchers need to be aware of and address the distinctive set of ethical issues raised by research and evaluation projects employing indigenous, street-level research workers.

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