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The art and science of seismic interpretation
This book demystifies that art and science of seismic interpretation for those without formal geophysical training. From geologists to managers and investors, The Art and Science of Seismic Interpretation is a guide to what seismic data is, how it is interpreted, and what it can deliver.
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Frameworks of Movement Sciences
This article is composed of two parts. In the first part, a review is conducted on how research concerning human movement has been performed on Japanese subjects with newly developed methods in the last 60 years. In the second part, the frameworks of human movement sciences, such as exercise physiology, biomechanics, sports performance, and health, are proposed mainly based on the research results obtained by the author and his colleagues. It is expected that this article will be helpful to researchers in the fields of physical education, sports, and health.
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The Size and Scope of Collegiate Athletic Training Facilities and Staffing
Athletic training facilities have been described in terms of general design concepts and from operational perspectives. However, the size and scope of athletic training facilities, along with staffing at different levels of intercollegiate competition, have not been quantified.
To define the size and scope of athletic training facilities and staffing levels at various levels of intercollegiate competition. To determine if differences existed in facilities (eg, number of facilities, size of facilities) and staffing (eg, full time, part time) based on the level of intercollegiate competition.
Cross-sectional study.
Web-based survey.
Athletic trainers (ATs) who were knowledgeable about the size and scope of athletic training programs.
Athletic training facility size in square footage; the AT's overall facility satisfaction; athletic training facility component spaces, including satellite facilities, game-day facilities, offices, and storage areas; and staffing levels, including full-time ATs, part-time ATs, and undergraduate students.
The survey was completed by 478 ATs (response rate = 38.7%) from all levels of competition. Sample means for facilities were 3124.7 ± 4425 ft
(290.3 ± 411 m
) for the central athletic training facility, 1013 ± 1521 ft
(94 ± 141 m
) for satellite athletic training facilities, 1272 ± 1334 ft
(118 ± 124 m
) for game-day athletic training facilities, 388 ± 575 ft
(36 ± 53 m
) for athletic training offices, and 424 ± 884 ft
(39 ± 82 m
) for storage space. Sample staffing means were 3.8 ± 2.5 full-time ATs, 1.6 ± 2.5 part-time ATs, 25 ± 17.6 athletic training students, and 6.8 ± 7.2 work-study students. Division I schools had greater resources in multiple categories (P < .001). Differences among other levels of competition were not as well defined. Expansion or renovation of facilities in recent years was common, and almost half of ATs reported that upgrades have been approved for the near future.
This study provides benchmark descriptive data on athletic training staffing and facilities. The results (1) suggest that the ATs were satisfied with their facilities and (2) highlight the differences in resources among competition levels.
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The Socio-Economic Embeddedness of the Circular Economy: An Integrative Framework
Global economies have been characterised by a large dependency of material inflows from natural stocks, an exponential growth of material stock-in-use in the built environment, and the extensive disposal of waste material outflows to anthropogenic sinks. In this context, the concept of the circular economy has emerged, promising to circulate the stock-in-use of materials and transforming output waste material flows back into useful resources while promoting job and value creation. These promises have drawn the attention and interest of policymakers and industry, and gained popularity across society. Despite its apparent emergent legitimacy and diffusion, a few essential adjustments still need to be addressed so that circular economy initiatives can actually deliver on their promises without leading to negative unintended effects. First, a complete entanglement with the existing formal economy is fundamentally needed; this implies valuing the preservation of natural stocks and pricing material input flows adequately. Secondly, a recognition of its socio-economic embeddedness is essentially necessary. The decision-making of societal actors affects material configuration, which in turn affects societal actors; this important feedback loop needs to be explicitly taken into account in circular economy initiatives. The aim of this short communication paper is to explore these pervasive challenges in a broad context of sustainable physical resource management. An integrative framework for recognising the socio-economic embeddedness of the circular economy in practice and the role of the formal economic system in realising its ambitions is proposed.
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The relationship between intellectual capital and financial statements readability: the role of management characteristics
Purpose
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and the readability of financial statements with the mediating role of management characteristics of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. In other words, this research tries to find the answer to whether intellectual capital can positively affect the readability of financial statements.
Design/methodology/approach
A multivariate regression model was used to test the hypotheses for this purpose. The research hypotheses were tested using a sample of 1,309 observations listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2012 to 2018 and a multiple regression model based on panel data and fixed-effects models.
Findings
The results indicate that intellectual capital has a positive and significant relationship with the readability of financial statements, which means that with increasing intellectual capital in companies, financial statements’ readability also increases. Based on the hypothesis test results, it has been determined that narcissism, accrual and real earnings management have a negative effect on the relationship between intellectual capital and the readability of financial statements.
Originality/value
Since the present study examines such an issue in emerging markets, it provides users, analysts and legal entities with useful information about management’s inherent and acquired characteristics that significantly impact the purchase of audit opinion. This study’s results also contribute to developing science and knowledge in this field and close the literature gap.
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Performance evaluation through the effectiveness of resources and reputation: A case study of hospitals in Indonesia
This study aims to examine the impact of emergency clinic assets and its reputation on the operation of health clinics that provide health facilities for the community. The unit of analysis in this study is a medical clinic in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The unit of perception is executives of a medical clinic. The perceptions were taken in one shoot time, particularly in 2021. The population covered 36 general hospitals from various classes, and the samples were taken from as many as 30 hospitals. The examination procedure for the exploration targets in this study used partial least squares. The experimental outcomes support the speculation that clinic assets and medical clinic reputation significantly affect clinic performance either all the while or somewhat. However, emergency clinic reputation has a more prominent commitment to emergency clinic performance, contrasted with emergency clinic assets. The findings of this review provide administrative ramifications to the medical clinic executives with an end goal to further develop emergency clinic performance with endeavors that depend on the improvement of the organization’s standing and upheld by the advancement of emergency clinic assets. Hospital reputation development needs to be prioritized and supported, especially hospital reliability aspect, as well as trustworthiness, credibility, and responsibility should be increased. Hospital resource development needs to be carried out by prioritizing organizational resources, which are upheld by improving human resources and tangible assets. AcknowledgmentThe authors would like to thank the health administrations in several hospitals as officers in charge of hospital management in West Kalimantan helped complete the various data and information needed.
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Intelligent Supply Chain Integration and Management Based on Cloud of Things
The fierce global competition and market turbulence has been forcing the enterprises towards to the integration and intelligence for supply chain management, and the seamless information sharing and collaboration as well as operation agility are the challenges which need to be conquered, in terms of the highly distributed and heterogeneous resources located in separated warehouses. Although a number of works have been done to achieve the aforementioned targets, few of them are able to provide an overall integration and intelligence support for such system management. In this context, a novel intelligent supply chain integration and management system based on Cloud of Things is presented, in order to provide flexible and agile approaches to facilitate the resource sharing and participant collaboration in the whole supply chain life cycle. Furthermore, the enabling technologies, such as intelligent supply chain condition perception, heterogeneous network access convergence, and resource servicisation, are also studied. Finally, a case study together with the prototype system is implemented and demonstrates that the developed system can efficiently realise the integration of supply chain processes in the form of services, and also provide the effective intelligence support for physical resource management, so as to achieve an overall performance assurance for the system operation.
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