Implementation of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Based on The Classification of Food Ingredients Content of Nutritional Substances

Health is something very precious. Maintaining health can be done in many ways, one of them by keeping your diet. The correct diet will keep your immune system so that it can avoid various diseases. The proper diet will also put the body in a balanced nutrition state, which all need to be nourished. Nutrient requirements include calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C with a mass of 100 grams each. To facilitate the search for nutrients needed, then build a system that can categorize food based on its nutritional status and calculate the average value of nutrients in agglomerative hierarchical clustering using average linkage. Calculation of intermediate linkage methods produces data that has some similarities to the data sought nutrients that can be seen from its index, so precise data are in each group.

The Effects of Benzene Substituents and Intermediate Linkage on Local Anesthetic Effectiveness

<p> There are many experimental studies on the effectiveness of clinically effective local anesthetics (LA). Although an atomic analysis of LAs would contribute to understanding the factors that influence their effectiveness, there have been no theoretical studies performed thus far. Previous prominent papers in the field have examined the aromatic ring and amine terminal of LAs in great detail. In this paper, I establish which type of intermediate linkage – ester or amide – lends to a relatively greater effectiveness. I also elucidate the extent to which substitutions on the LA’s benzene ring differentially influence amino esters’ and amino amides’ relative effectiveness. Using novel structure-based drug design (SBDD) techniques, I observed that LA effectiveness is influenced more by benzene ring substitutions and, to a lesser degree, by the type of intermediate linkage.</p><div><br></div>

The Effects of Benzene Substituents and Intermediate Linkage on Local Anesthetic Effectiveness

<p> There are many experimental studies on the effectiveness of clinically effective local anesthetics (LA). Although an atomic analysis of LAs would contribute to understanding the factors that influence their effectiveness, there have been no theoretical studies performed thus far. Previous prominent papers in the field have examined the aromatic ring and amine terminal of LAs in great detail. In this paper, I establish which type of intermediate linkage – ester or amide – lends to a relatively greater effectiveness. I also elucidate the extent to which substitutions on the LA’s benzene ring differentially influence amino esters’ and amino amides’ relative effectiveness. Using novel structure-based drug design (SBDD) techniques, I observed that LA effectiveness is influenced more by benzene ring substitutions and, to a lesser degree, by the type of intermediate linkage.</p><div><br></div>

Unraveling the black box

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential mediators that operate in the black box between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and employee outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The relationships the authors developed were assessed via data obtained from a time-lagged sample of customer-contact employees and their direct supervisors in the Romanian hotel industry. The study employed bias-corrected bootstrapping analysis to gauge the mediating effects. Findings The findings reveal that psychological capital mediates the impact of HPWS on work engagement. As hypothesized, both psychological capital and work engagement mediate the impact of HPWS on quitting intentions, creative performance and extra-role performance. In short, the findings underscore both psychological capital and work engagement as the two mediators that operate in the black box between HPWS and the aforesaid employee outcomes. In addition, the empirical data support the impact of work engagement in the intermediate linkage between psychological capital and these outcomes. Originality/value The study enhances current knowledge on HPWS by examining the potential mediators between HPWS and motivational outcomes and job outcomes.

Intermediate-linkage steps used to obtain longitudinal data (containing heath service use, morbidity and mortality) for a large cohort of patients who are homeless that visited, and were discharged from hospital in England.

IntroductionIn England, details on hospital admissions and mortality are recorded nationally, but housing status and patients’ hospital discharge arrangements are only recorded locally within discharge services. These data are required to evaluate specialist homeless hospital discharge (HHD) services in England, and can be obtained through linkage within and across sectors. Objectives and ApproachWe aimed to improve linkage to enable the evaluation of HHD schemes. 16 sites with a scheme were recruited along with a specialist facility that deliver screening and treatment services to homeless hostels (Find\&Treat). Linkage fields including National Health Service number (NHS number), name, gender and birthdate for clinical contacts between November 2013 and November 2016 were collected and linked to national hospital data, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES). To improve linkage with HES, intermediate-linkage to a gender-names dictionary and a national demographic database (NDD) was performed. Ethics, access permissions were obtained through HRA-REC (REC16/EE/0018) and NHS CAG (16/CAG/0021). Results47,569 clinical contacts among people who were homeless were collected from Find&Treat and 12,931 from sites. The median age at mid-study period (15th May 2015) among contacts with sites compared to Find&Treat were similar at 44 (IQR 34-53, n=12,905) and 45 (IQR 35-54, n=47,569), respectively. Among Find&Treat, 82% (n=38,905) were contacts with Males and 18% (n=8,650) with Females. Gender was not collected at all HHD sites or for all admissions. 70% of contacts had missing gender and among these contacts, gender was assigned using the gender-names dictionary. After imputing gender, 52% of contacts all linkage fields and 47% had all but NHS number. These data were linked to the NDD, an approximate 60% linkage rate was achieved retrieving complete linkage fields for these contacts. Conclusion/ImplicationsIntermediate linkage steps described here provides the largest dataset of it’s kind, enabling investigations into effectiveness of hospital discharge schemes in England. The study provides generally a proof of concept that large cohorts of hard-to-reach population groups can be obtained through data linkage.

Antecedents and outcomes of job insecurity among salespeople

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of job resources, as manifested by selective staffing, training (TR), and career opportunities, on job insecurity and the influence of job insecurity on hope, job satisfaction, and creative performance. By investigating these relationships, the present study also aims to provide the managers the ways by which they can foster job resources, reduce job insecurity, and activate hope and job outcomes of their salespeople. Design/methodology/approach Data came from hotel salespeople in Iran. Structural equation modeling was used to test the aforesaid relationships. Findings The empirical data lend support to the overwhelming majority of the relationships. Specifically, job insecurity and hope act as mediators of the impacts of job resources on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction mediates the impacts of job insecurity and hope on creative performance. Contrary to what has been hypothesized, job insecurity positively influences salespeople’s hope. Such salespeople in turn exhibit higher job satisfaction. In addition, job resources do not significantly influence hope via job insecurity. Practical implications Management should invest in job resources to reduce job insecurity. Management should also try to hire individuals high on hope since hope is treated as a malleable variable and can be developed via TR interventions. Workshops can be organized to enable junior salespeople to learn senior salespeople’s practices regarding the solutions to new customer requests and problems. Originality/value Job insecurity is an endemic problem in many industries and there is a lack of empirical research about the intermediate linkage between job insecurity and employees’ job outcomes. There is also a need for more research to ascertain the factors influencing job insecurity.

Structure en taille des crustacés planctoniques d'un lac dimictique du Bouclier canadien

From May 1981 to July 1982, 28 zooplankton samples were taken from the pelagic zone of Lake Cromwell, Quebec. Seasonal variation in the size structure of the planktonic crustacean community was studied using three different multidimensional analyses: intermediate linkage clustering, principal coordinate analysis, and chronological clustering. The results of these analyses showed the existence of distinct patterns in the size distribution of planktonic crustaceans during the annual cycle. During winter, the community was dominated by intermediate-sized organisms (0.51–0.60 mm), and by a few of larger size (0.96 mm). In springtime, nauplii appeared, and the larger size classes were reduced, giving the size spectra a characteristic shape. Small organisms (0.06–0.22 mm) dominated the population throughout the summer. The fall season was characterized by the opposite observation: small organisms slowly decreased in number while the intermediate classes (0.51–0.60 mm) increased in number to reach their peak in winter. These size–frequency patterns may be related to varying food levels and composition throughout the year.

Postglacial Dispersal of Freshwater Fishes in the Québec Peninsula

The possible postglacial dispersal of freshwater fishes in the Québec peninsula is described. We tested the hypothesis that fish dispersal was controlled more efficiently by movements of the earth crust and by morphological peculiarities of the peninsula than by upland divides presently found between river basins. Based on the actual distributions of 109 species of freshwater fishes, the presence and absence of these species was noted for each of 289 one-degree-square pixels of the peninsula. A geographical intermediate-linkage clustering was run with a spatial constraint, that is, only neighbouring pixels were allowed to cluster. Five main ichthyogeographic regions and 21 subregions were thus defined. The regional limits seem to be highly correlated with climatic, vegetational, and geomorphological limits or gradients. Knowing the fish species present in each subregion made it possible to deduce their pattern of postglacial dispersal, after computing a coefficient of dispersal direction between neighbouring subregions. The pattern of fish dispersal so derived assumes that the stenohaline species have crossed the centre of the peninsula. This can be explained by the isobasic movements since the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age, and also by a network of river headwater interconnections still extant today.

Effect of a Nonionic Detergent on the Spectral Absorption of Oxyhemoglobin in the Presence of Bilirubin

The presence of the nonionic detergent Brij 35 in a solution of oxyhemoglobin and bilirubin has been found to change the spectral transmission curve of the oxyhemoglobin. The major change is in the 475 mµ region, where the transmission is greatly increased. A combination of the bilirubin with the oxyhemoglobin by an intermediate linkage with the Brij is postulated.