Human Resources Transformation in the Digitalization Professional Era in North Sumatera

The readiness of the Province of Sumatera utara in the era of digitalization in the face of free market competition inevitably starts from the transformation of human resources (HR). Digital HR transformation is very important in an era where technological disruption is the usual norm where revolutionary changes occur but also the phenomenon of evolution in organizations. In addition to digitalization, the transition to business with technology at the centre also requires changes in technology, education, skills and organizational innovation. This cannot be denied, including the government in increasing human resources is one way that can be done to be able to compete in the international world. This study is intended to obtain data and information about the transformation of HR in Sumatera utara in order to increase competitiveness in the digital era. The transformation of HR in Sumatera utara in the digital era was shaped by the dimensions of the technology and innovation.

Language Antinomies Concerning Spelling of Short Forms of Verbal Adjectives with н or нн

According to the Russian orthography, the spelling of short forms of verbal words in -нный with н (n) or with нн (nn) before a non-zero ending depends on the grammatical status of the word: participle or adjective. It is believed that writing expresses a systemic opposition of grammatical categories, i.e. the reflective vector of the antinomy “reflective – conditional” operates in this area. But is it possible to check whether the antinomy was chosen correctly to describe a particular picture of the studied area of writing? Are there any distinctive features of the types of spellings obtained as a result of the action of one or another antinomy? We attempt to answer the latter using the example of the spelling of short verbal adjectives. Proceeding from the fact that short forms of participles are always written with only one letter н, and short forms of adjectives with a non-zero ending are threefold: either with нн, or with н, or both with н and with нн, depending on the meaning and / or model management, — we will evaluate the quantitative ratio of these groups, how they are recorded in different dictionaries, compare the codification and the usual norm, as reflected in the texts of the RNC resources and Google books, we will determine what is being implemented in writing steadily and what is not. Based on the results obtained, one can try to understand whether the letter regularly reflects precisely the grammatical opposition.

Angle in the space of $ p $-summable sequences

<abstract><p>The aim of this paper is to investigate completness of $ A $ that equipped with usual norm on $ p $-summable sequences space where $ A $ is subspace in $ p $-summable sequences space and $ 1\le p &lt; \infty $. We also introduce a new inner product on $ A $ and prove completness of $ A $ using a new norm that corresponds this new inner product. Moreover, we discuss the angle between two vectors and two subspaces in $ A $. In particular, we discuss the angle between $ 1 $-dimensional subspace and $ (s-1) $-dimensional subspace where $ s\ge 2 $ of $ A $.</p></abstract>

A Comparative Study of the Effects of Anterior Nasal Packing versus Trans-Septal Suturing in Post-Septoplasty Patients

Introduction Following septoplasty, the usual norm is to pack the nose using polyvinyl alcohol or white petroleum jelly impregnated gauze. But due to side effects like pain, respiratory problems, headache or pain during pack removal, trans-septal suturing is recommended as it provides stability and prevents septal hematoma formation without causing the above mentioned complaints. This study aims to conduct an in-depth comparison of the outcomes of the two aforementioned methods in an Indian population.Materials and Methods A prospective randomized comparative study was done for 30 patients between 18-50 years undergoing septoplasty, while excluding those requiring additional surgical interventions. Trans-septal suturing was done for 15 patients and polyvinyl alcohol nasal packing for the rest. Visual Analogue Scale was used to record discomfort levels 1 day post-operatively. A vast multitude of symptoms were assessed during regular visits for 3 months after surgery. Results Post-operatively, nasal pain, headache, dyspnoea, sleep disturbance, post-nasal drip, crusting, and epiphora were found to be reduced in patients who underwent trans-septal suturing when compared with packing, deeming it to be a superior choice of method. However, nasal bleeding was comparable in both groups. Conclusion Trans-septal suturing reduces pack related problems and post-operative complications, without significantly increasing the duration of surgery. Hence, we recommend the practice of placing sutures to positively improve patients’ quality of life post-surgery.

CARLOS POTENCIANO REYES, MD (1940 - 2020) Little-Known but Significant Pioneer

Consultants and more senior co-resident physicians at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) would call him “Caloy.” Hardly would I hear anybody (including our ENT department secretary) address him as Dr. Reyes. This was not because he was not a respected faculty member. Rather, he was everybody’s friend and he probably preferred to be addressed by his nickname. Dr. Carlos P. Reyes was a tall, friendly guy, easily recognizable while walking through the short PGH corridor stretching from the old ENT Ward (Ward 3) to the old ENT operating room (OR) called Floor 15, later designated as the PGH Nursing Office. He would almost always be holding either an expensive photography camera, electronic gadget, ENT OR instrument, or car magazines – suggesting his varied interests aside from having good knowledge of Otolaryngology, particularly Otology. He would usually stop and chat with an acquaintance about his new medical or non-medical interests. I first met Dr. Caloy when I was the first year resident assigned to the Otology section. He would call me “Ging” while presenting the ear patients at the outpatient department (OPD) Ear Clinic, only to learn later that he would address all unfamiliar persons by that name. He was kind, helpful and very understanding. Equipped with ample information in Otology he gathered from postgraduate studies abroad, he would selflessly share these with the residents in order to sharpen our diagnostic acumen. He would instruct us to rely on concise yet complete clinical examination, involving audiologic evaluation tools and meager radiologic information in considering differential diagnoses. He was quite willing to assist us in our learning processes, particularly on how to distinguish middle ear from inner ear disorders, and cochlear versus retrocochlear diseases. Since we did not have any audiologist at that time, he admonished us to carry out the needed audiometric evaluations on our ear patients ourselves in order to learn both the techniques of the procedures and their limitations. Hence, after the OPD clinic we would not only perform routine pure tone and speech audiometric tests but also special examinations like the Bekesy test, short increment sensitivity index (SISI) test, alternate binaural loudness balance (ABLB) test and the test for tone decay. We would then discuss the test results during our next ear clinic and we would listen and be amazed at how Dr. Caloy would integrate the information and arrive at the complex diagnosis. Dr. Caloy was our mentor at the time when refinements in tympanoplasty and mastoidectomy aroused the excitement and imagination of budding otologists worldwide. Whereas canal down mastoidectomy was the usual norm to safely remove common mastoid pathology like cholesteatoma, Dr. Caloy introduced the concept of intact canal wall mastoidectomy that avoids or mitigates recurrent postoperative cleaning of the mastoid bone. The period was also the dawn of neuro-otology when Dr. William House popularized the transmastoid approach for acoustic neuroma and the endolymphatic mastoid shunt as treatment for Meniere’s disease. In order to teach us the anatomical and surgical principles of performing these procedures, Dr. Caloy set up the first temporal bone dissection laboratory in the country at the mezzanine above the ENT conference room. He would offer the course to all ENT residents-in-training and consultants nationwide. He practically revolutionized the method of otologic surgery by requiring ENT surgeons to practice doing ear surgery in the temporal bone dissection lab prior to performing ear surgeries in the operating room. In addition, he advocated the use of the operating microscope and dental drills in place of the old bone gouges, chisels and bone ronguers. His ideas were later adopted by other ENT training institutions as we see today. The requirement that every ENT resident must undergo temporal bone dissection in the course of his training obviously stemmed from the efforts of Dr. Caloy. Many senior ENT consultants who are still with us today were former students of Dr. Caloy in his temporal bone lab Unfortunately, before finishing my residency training, Dr Caloy expeditiously left the PGH ENT department for unknown reasons. He then set up his private clinic in Quezon City and later joined the ENT department of University of Santo Tomas. Reflecting on the significant yet probably unknown achievements of Dr. Caloy toward the advancement of otology and neuro-otology in our country, I realize how blessed I was to be one of his students during that brief period when he was still with us at UP-PGH. With our profound gratitude Sir, we will always remember you.

c0 can be renormed to have the fixed point property for affine nonexpansive mappings

P.K. Lin gave the first example of a non-reflexive Banach space (X,||?||) with the fixed point property (FPP) for nonexpansive mappings and showed this fact for (l1,||?||1) with the equivalent norm ||?|| given by ||x|| = sup k?N 8k/1+8k ?1,n=k |xn|, for all x = (xn)n?N ? l1. We wonder (c0, ||?||1) analogue of P.K. Lin?s work and we give positive answer if functions are affine nonexpansive. In our work, for x = (?k)k ? c0, we define |||x||| := lim p?? sup ?k?N ?k (?1,j=k |?j|p/2j)1/p where ?k ?k 3, k is strictly increasing with ?k > 2, ?k ? N, then we prove that (c0,|||?|||) has the fixed point property for affine |||?|||-nonexpansive self-mappings. Next, we generalize this result and show that if ?(?) is an equivalent norm to the usual norm on c0 such that lim sup n ?(1/n ?n,m=1 xm + x) = lim sup n ?(1/n ?n,m=1 xm) + ?(x) for every weakly null sequence (xn)n and for all x ? c0, then for every ? > 0, c0 with the norm ||?||? = ?(?)+?|||?||| has the FPP for affine ||?||?-nonexpansive self-mappings.

The Asean Charter: An Analysis

The adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 was believed to have transformed ASEAN to become a more institutional organisation with a profound framework and inclusive principles that act as a guideline to assist the process of disputes settlement and decision-making between the member countries. When the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) representing each of the countries addressed two main issues related to the recommendations to reform the norm and principles of ASEAN as well as the rights of the member countries to be put into the Charter, the ASEAN leader were not very receptive with the concept of using consensus decision-making process to impose sanctions and changes. Therefore, a watered-down ASEAN Charter was adopted portraying the un-readiness of the member countries to diverge away from the ‘ASEAN Way’ that had been implemented for the past 40 years. Despite the addition of two new principles that touches on the collective responsibility and enhancing consultation, the ASEAN Charter still does not exhibit the transformation of ASEAN as crafted by the EPG. The Charter also fails to provide pertinent mechanisms to address certain issues such as security and safety disputes. Hence, this article is written to confer the weaknesses of the ASEAN Charter and how important it is for ASEAN to move away for the usual norm of the ‘ASEAN Way’ in order to become a puissant organisation. Keywords: ASEAN Charter, EPG

Square Functions for Ritt Operators on Noncommutative $L^p$-Spaces

For any Ritt operator $T$ acting on a noncommutative $L^p$-space, we define the notion of completely bounded functional calculus $H^\infty(B_\gamma)$ where $B_\gamma$ is a Stolz domain. Moreover, we introduce the 'column square functions' \[ \|x\|_{p,T,c,\alpha}=\Bigl\|\Bigl(\sum_{k=1}^{+\infty}k^{2\alpha-1} |T^{k-1}(I-T)^{\alpha}(x)|^2\Bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Bigr\|_{L^p(M)} \] and the 'row square functions' \[ \|x\|_{p,T,r,\alpha}=\Bigl\|\Bigl(\sum_{k=1}^{+\infty}k^{2\alpha-1} |(T^{k-1}(I-T)^{\alpha}(x))^*|^2\Bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\Bigr\|_{L^p(M)} \] for any $\alpha>0$ and any $x\in L^p(M)$. Then, we provide an example of Ritt operator which admits a completely bounded $H^\infty(B_\gamma)$ functional calculus for some $\gamma \in \mathopen{\big]}0,\frac{\pi}{2}\mathclose{\big[}$ such that the square functions $\|{\cdot}\|_{p,T,c,\alpha}$ (or $\|{\cdot}\|_{p,T,r,\alpha}$) are not equivalent to the usual norm $\|{\cdot}\|_{L^p(M)}$. Moreover, assuming $1<p<2$ and $\alpha>0$, we prove that if $\mathop{\rm Ran}\nolimits (I-T)$ is dense and $T$ admits a completely bounded $H^\infty(B_\gamma)$ functional calculus for some $\gamma \in \mathopen{\big]}0,\frac{\pi}{2}\mathclose{\big[}$ then there exists a positive constant $C$ such that for any $x \in L^p(M)$, there exists $x_1, x_2 \in L^p(M)$ satisfying $x=x_1+x_2$ and $\|x_1\|_{p,T,c,\alpha}+\|x_2\|_{p,T,r,\alpha}\leqslant C \|x\|_{L^p(M)}$. Finally, we observe that this result applies to a suitable class of selfadjoint Markov maps on noncommutative $L^p$-spaces.

The Source of Jus Cogens Obligations – How Legal Positivism Copes with Peremptory International Law

If legal positivists wish to sustain their account of the international legal system, arguably, they have yet to explain how jus cogens obligations can derive from the usual norm-creating processes recognized by international law. This article provides such an explanation exactly. The explanation builds on the distinction between first order rules of jus cogens (commanding or prohibiting some certain action) and second order rules of the jus cogens regime (specifying the legal consequences ensuing from the postulated superiority of jus cogens over ordinary international law). As argued in this essay, the jus cogens status of a rule of law (R) derives from the existence of the second order rules of the jus cogens regime and from the application of those rules to R. Consequently, the explanation of the source of jus cogens obligations lies in the source of the second order rules, rather than in the source of the first order rules themselves. The second order rules are general customary international law, why this must also be the source of jus cogens obligations. This essay ends by inquiring into the implications of this analysis for the concept of jus cogens and for international legal theory in general.

TEOREMA TITIK TETAP PADA RUANG NORM-n STANDAR

On the standard n-normed space,i.e an inner product space equipped with the standard n-norm, one can derive a norm from the n-norm in a certain way. The purpose of this note is to establish the equivalence between such a norm and the usual norm on standard n-normed space. Further, this fact together with others use to prove a fixed point theorem on the standard n-normed space.