Ion beam technology for the resource enhancement of responsible parts of a high speed friction unit

The needles from carbon steel “U10”, a details of high speed couple of friction “needle-thrust plate” of the gas centrifuge is investigated, in the initial, post-operational state and after irradiation by C+ ions different doses on the pulse-frequency “Raduga” accelerator. The purpose of this study is to increase the operability and service life of the responsible friction unit of the gas centrifuge. This purpose is achieved by mod-ification of the working sliding surface of the needle (which is a responsible part of the high-speed friction pair “needle-thrust plate”) by the pulse-frequency implantation with carbon ions. The dose of implantation (1018 cm−2 of C+ ions), was established, at which an optimal combination of mechanical and tribological properties of the working surface is achieved, which provides wear resistance increase during the operation of the friction pair. This method of surface treatment is recommended to use in case of operation of couple of friction “needle-thrust plate” for the purpose of increase in working capacity and a resource of operation of high speed couple of friction of the gas centrifuge.

Enhanced Ecologies and Ecosystem Engineering

Anthropological and archaeological representations of Aboriginal Australians as hunter-gatherers adapting to the natural availability of food resources are simplistic and inconsistent with ethnographic records of active, strategic, and sociopolitically meaningful resource enhancement. Scholarship over the past four decades has documented plant and animal food resource enhancement by Aboriginal Australians that blur socioeconomic boundaries with agricultural societies of New Guinea. Enhancements were achieved by using intimate knowledge of local ecological processes to modify ecosystems through a range of strategies such as landscape burning, animal translocation, protected rearing, shelter creation, and restocking. These strategies were embedded within broader sociocultural and sociopolitical domains that were often accompanied by ritual. Such engineered food enhancement practices reveal that many documented and modelled associations between environment and behaviour are in fact correlations between behaviour and the products of behaviour. The uneven distribution of animal resource enhancement practices across Australia indicates considerable regional diversity and supports existing views that many enhancements are related to regionally specific and historically contingent developments in social complexity.

Comparative Analysis of the Ecological Succession of Microbial Communities on Two Artificial Reef Materials

Concrete and wood are commonly used to manufacture artificial reefs (ARs) worldwide for marine resource enhancement and habitat restoration. Although microbial biofilms play an important role in marine ecosystems, the microbial communities that colonize concrete and wooden ARs and their temporal succession have rarely been studied. In this study, the temporal succession of the microbial communities on concrete and wooden AR blocks and the driving factors were investigated. The composition of the microbial communities underwent successive shifts over time: among the six dominant phyla, the relative abundances of Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria and Gracilibacteria significantly decreased in wood, as did that of Cyanobacteria in concrete. Operational taxonomic units (OTU) richness and Shannon index were significantly higher in concrete than in wood. Non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination placed the microbial communities in two distinct clusters corresponding to the two substrate materials. The macrobenthic compositions of concrete and wood were broadly similar and shifted over time, especially in the first five weeks. The Shannon index of the microbial communities in concrete and wood increased significantly with the organism coverage. The results provide fundamental data on microbial community succession during the initial deployment of ARs and contribute to understanding the ecological effects of ARs.

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILIES AND PEOPLE WITH COLOSTOMY BY CANCER

ABSTRACT Objective: produce and validate an educational technology in the form of video for people and families who experience colostomy and cancer. Method: educational technology development study conducted in two phases: production and validation of audiovisual technology, which includes the stages of construction and validation of the script, video production and audio-visual validation. Twelve people participated in the validation, being seven expert judges and two families (five people). The appearance and content were validated by Content Validity Index greater than or equal to 0.70% (IVC ≥0.7) and interview. Results: the script content has been validated by the expert judges, with a Global Content Validity Index equal to 0.99 and by the target audience with a Global Content Validity Index of 1. The validation of audio-visual content obtained a Global Content Validity Index equal to 0.99. Conclusion: the validated audiovisual educational technology represents a resource enhancement for the educational practices of nursing in the care of people with stoma and their families.

SMART KAMPUNG SEBAGAI WUJUD KEMAJUAN SISTEM ADMINISTRASI DAN MANAJEMEN DI DESA KETAPANG, KECAMATAN KALIPURO, KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

The objective of this research is to learn about the implementation system of “Smart Kampung” Program at Ketapang Village and its methods of publication to all over Indonesia.This IT-based public service and human resource enhancement program, called “Smart Kampung”, is an innovation made by the District Government of Banyuwangi. This program represents the commitment of the district government to bring public service to the most accessible level for the people of Banyuwangi. Since most of them live far from the urban area, which is the governance base or center, the District Government of Banyuwangi set village offices as the centers of public service directly integrated with the District Government. By doing so, the District Government facilitates the society and make them aware of the importance of IT. In addition to being a facility to enhance public service, Smart Kampung Program can also serve as a facility to improve the quality of human resources and the people’s economy, as the village governments are required to empower their respective village’s potentials.There are a number of ways utilized by the District Government of Banyuwangi and Smart Kampung villagesto socialize this program, such as information sharing in seminars, local leaders meeting, and social media. By doing so, they hope they can inspire regions with similar issues to implement Smart Kampung Program so that the goal to have equal welfare level in all villages in Indonesia can be achieved.

Resource integration for co-creation between marketing agencies and clients

Purpose Resource integration is a central idea within service-dominant logic (S-D logic), but there has been little scholarly research on this aspect of theory. This paper aims to explore resource integration between marketing agencies and their clients. Design/methodology/approach In total, nine case studies have been developed using a dyadic approach of interviewing clients and members of their agency teams. This is followed-up with presentations and workshops with over 200 practitioners who validated the findings and added new perspectives. Findings The key operant resources in the client/agency context have been identified. The ways the operant resources of the actors developed during the course of resource integration, building potential resources for future co-creation are shown. The differing perspectives of the actors to each other’s contribution are highlighted. Research limitations/implications This study suggests that resource enhancement and development, as a result of integration, is important. For agency/client research, resource integration and development brings new perspectives complementing existing relationship approaches to research. The findings have implications for relationship marketing theory across business-to-business (B2B) contexts. Practical implications The findings suggest a resource integration approach that could be jointly addressed between agency and client in improving the way they work together. The discourse of co-creation suggests a way for them to talk about how to work together effectively. Suggestions are made for teaching. Originality/value This study develops the S-D logic theory through exploring resource enhancement and development in a B2B co-creation context. The dyadic nature of the research is novel in studying how marketing agencies and clients work together and new perspectives emerge from the approach.

Service-dominant logic as a framework for exploring research utilization

This article links service-dominant (S-D) logic to the call for better theoretical frameworks to understand research utilization in business and management. It contributes to explaining what happens in cocreating knowledge between researchers and research users and also contributes to the development of midrange theory on S-D logic. A framework is utilized, based on Vargo and Lusch’s (2016) update on S-D logic. To demonstrate application, the framework is applied to an example of the authors’ research on marketing agencies and their clients. Implications for theory and academic practice and policy are put forward. The S-D logic framework is not tied to any particular research method or way of working and has benefits in being applicable to marketing research and across the wider field of business and management. The idea of resource enhancement is put forward as a learning process in explaining what happens to the actors’ resources in the course of resource integration.