Custom Clearance Processing Time Analysis and Factors Affecting Clearance Time for Goods in Birgunj Custom of Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (3&4) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Abhishek Jha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Processing Time ◽  
Freight Transportation ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Clearance Time ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Key Informant Interview

Trade plays a fundamental role in shaping the country’s economy and for this imported goods must be delivered to the market in the quickest possible time without unnecessary delay. This study covers the freight vehicles, which clears the custom clearance process for Kathmandu and transports the same goods to Kathmandu from Birgunj. In this study average processing time in Birgunj customs areas (Birgunj customs, Birgunj Inland Clearance Depot (ICD) and Birgunj Integrated Check-Post (ICD)) as well as factors affecting processing time in Birgunj customs area has also been explored. Custom Clearance time at the particular points was collected using the trained enumerators. Key Informant Interview (KII) was carried out to explore the factors affecting the processing time and the questionnaire survey was done to identify the factors affecting clearance time. The average processing time for vehicles in Birgunj customs, ICD and ICP for different types of, vehicles, goods and lanes assigned for goods were analyzed. Various factors that are affecting the processing were identified. In Birgunj customs, ICD and ICP in average approximately 30.1 hours, 2.8 hours and 19.2 hours respectively, extra time is being spent by freight vehicle inside the custom yard, other than actual processing time, which shows that there is mainly delay in-between the process other than in actual processing unit and the major factors for this are: owner not clearing the goods on time, due to lack of enough number of agents and unseen syndicate within the freight transportation system.

Effect of Rainfall Intensity and Road Crossfall on Skid Resistance of Asphalt Pavement

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haryati Yaacob ◽  
Mohd Rosli Hainin ◽  
Sudesh Nair A/L Baskara
Keyword(s):  
Weather Condition ◽  
Water Film ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Road ◽  
Pendulum Test ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sand Patch ◽  
Wet Weather ◽  
Major Factors

Skidding is one of the major factors to road accidents during wet weather condition. Skidding during wet weather happens when water film presents between the tyre and pavement reducing the friction of tyre onto the road surface. This laboratory study was carried out to investigate the factors affecting Pendulum Test Value on Asphaltic Concrete surfaces. The main objective of this study is to determine the pavement type and the crossfall percentage that best resist skid during wet weather condition. Three different types of dense graded mixes were used in this study which are AC10, AC14 and AC20. Those three constructed mixes were tested using Sand Patch Test (SPT) and were then subjected to various rainfall conditions and crossfall percentages using Rainfall Simulator. The rainfall conditions are categorized as low rainfall, medium rainfall and high rainfall while the crossfalls were increased 2% from 0% to 10% crossfalls. During the event of rainfall on each pavement surfaces, a British Pendulum Tester (BPT) was used on the pavements to obtain the Pendulum Test Value (PTV) at different crossfalls. Collected data are analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) to justify the objectives. Results from PTV shows that 4% to 10% crossfall is the best crossfall and AC20 is the best surface type in resisting skid.

Women's in Leadership Position “Issues and Challenges”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Getachew Alebachew Mekonnen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Design ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Key Informant Interview ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Women face multi-faceted challenges in participating in management position due to different factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that affect participation of women in leadership positions in Bahir dar city administration. To address this objective, the study adopted mixed research methods with descriptive survey design. A total of 190 women public civil servants were taken as a sample. Moreover, a key informant interview with women in leadership positions was conducted. In addition, FGD were also a very important data-gathering instrument for this study. The findings revealed that there are three major factors for women's low participation in leadership positions, i.e. institutional, socio-cultural and individual factors. Those factors have decisive contributions for low participation of women in leadership positions. With proper implementation of women's policies in the organization, equal treatment during assignment leadership positions, and creating awareness in society that woman are capable for leadership positions.

Women's in Leadership Position “Issues and Challenges”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Getachew Alebachew Mekonnen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Design ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Key Informant Interview ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Women face multi-faceted challenges in participating in management position due to different factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that affect participation of women in leadership positions in Bahir dar city administration. To address this objective, the study adopted mixed research methods with descriptive survey design. A total of 190 women public civil servants were taken as a sample. Moreover, a key informant interview with women in leadership positions was conducted. In addition, FGD were also a very important data-gathering instrument for this study. The findings revealed that there are three major factors for women's low participation in leadership positions, i.e. institutional, socio-cultural and individual factors. Those factors have decisive contributions for low participation of women in leadership positions. With proper implementation of women's policies in the organization, equal treatment during assignment leadership positions, and creating awareness in society that woman are capable for leadership positions.

scholarly journals What Is the Justification for the Practice of Examination Under Anesthesia Plus Biopsy for Suspected Cervical Cancer?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. 75s-75s ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Lawal ◽  
G. Olatunji ◽  
K.O. Adeyemo
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
Cervical Biopsy ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Choice Of Treatment ◽  
Histologic Evaluation ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Key Informant Interview

Background: Management of suspected cervical cancer involve diagnosis by way of histologic evaluation of biopsy specimen and subsequent staging to determine spread to guide the choice of treatment modality. It is not uncommon to find examination under anesthesia plus biopsy as a single procedure in an operating theater list in Nigeria. The rationale for combining diagnostic procedure with staging procedure is hereby queried. Aim: To understand the rationale for the practice of combining examination under anesthesia with biopsy of suspected cervical cancer in Nigeria and project possible impact of such practice on quality of care to the patient. Methods: The study adopted combination of structured questionnaire and key informant interview. Structured questionnaires were administered to doctors below the level of consultants in departments of obstetrics and gynecology of 2 tertiary health institutions where examination under aneasthesia plus biopsy is being practiced. The questions were in four domains to assess the following; 1. Demographics 2. Any difference between knowledge and the practice of evaluation of suspected cervical cancer 3. Why combine examination under anesthesia with biopsy 4. Willingness to perform outpatient biopsy while key informant interview was conducted on randomly selected 10 consultants with interest in gynae-oncology. Results: Fifteen doctors from 2 departments of obstetrics and gynecology in 2 tertiary health institutions completed the questionnaire. Majority of the respondent were male 12/15 (80%), with average year of practice experience of 4.7 years (SD 3.5). While 100% of the respondents are duly aware of the role of cervical biopsy in confirming diagnosis of cervical cancer, none, 0% have done or witnessed cervical biopsy as an outpatient procedure. Majority 87% were not comfortable to perform outpatient biopsy of the cervix mainly because of fear of bleeding. While all the consultants were willing to perform outpatient cervical biopsy none routinely does it because of logistics. Conclusion: There is no evidence to support routine combination of examination under anesthesia and biopsy of suspicious cervical lesion. Unfounded fear of uncontrollable bleeding and lack of outpatient biopsy services are the major factors promoting the practice. Consequently, there is need for sensitization of gynecologic departments on safety of outpatient biopsy services.

Mixed-mode database miner classifier: Parallel computation of graphical processing unit mining

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098849
Author(s):  
Soumya Ranjan Nayak ◽  
S Sivakumar ◽  
Akash Kumar Bhoi ◽  
Gyoo-Soo Chae ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Gpu Computing ◽  
Graphical Processing Unit ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Minimal Processing ◽  
Graphical Processing

Graphical processing unit (GPU) has gained more popularity among researchers in the field of decision making and knowledge discovery systems. However, most of the earlier studies have GPU memory utilization, computational time, and accuracy limitations. The main contribution of this paper is to present a novel algorithm called the Mixed Mode Database Miner (MMDBM) classifier by implementing multithreading concepts on a large number of attributes. The proposed method use the quick sort algorithm in GPU parallel computing to overcome the state of the art limitations. This method applies the dynamic rule generation approach for constructing the decision tree based on the predicted rules. Moreover, the implementation results are compared with both SLIQ and MMDBM using Java and GPU with the computed acceleration ratio time using the BP dataset. The primary objective of this work is to improve the performance with less processing time. The results are also analyzed using various threads in GPU mining using eight different datasets of UCI Machine learning repository. The proposed MMDBM algorithm have been validated on these chosen eight different dataset with accuracy of 91.3% in diabetes, 89.1% in breast cancer, 96.6% in iris, 89.9% in labor, 95.4% in vote, 89.5% in credit card, 78.7% in supermarket and 78.7% in BP, and simultaneously, it also takes less computational time for given datasets. The outcome of this work will be beneficial for the research community to develop more effective multi thread based GPU solution in GPU mining to handle large set of data in minimal processing time. Therefore, this can be considered a more reliable and precise method for GPU computing.

scholarly journals Relationship between Land Use Mix and Walking Choice in High-Density Cities: A Review of Walking in Seoul, South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 810
Author(s):  
Eun Yeong Seong ◽  
Nam Hwi Lee ◽  
Chang Gyu Choi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Neighborhood Environment ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Land Use Mix ◽  
Family Housing ◽  
Mixed Land Use ◽  
Major Factors

This study confirmed the general belief of urban planners that mixed land use promotes walking in Seoul, a metropolis in East Asia, by analyzing the effect of mixed land use on the travel mode choice of housewives and unemployed people who make non-commuting trips on weekdays. Using binomial logistic regression of commuting data, it was found that the more mixed a neighborhood environment’s uses are, the more the pedestrians prefer to walk rather than drive. The nonlinear relationship between the land use mix index and the choice to walk was also confirmed. Although mixed land use in neighborhoods increased the probability of residents choosing walking over using cars, when the degree of complexity increased above a certain level, the opposite effect was observed. As the density of commercial areas increased, the probability of selecting walking increased. In addition to locational characteristics, income and housing type were also major factors affecting the choice to walk; i.e., when the residents’ neighborhood environment was controlled for higher income and living in an apartment rather than multi-family or single-family housing, they were more likely to choose driving over walking.

scholarly journals Equitable Access of Naloxone Programs in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Martignetti ◽  
W Sun
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Environmental Scan ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Timely Access ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Key Informant Interview

Abstract Background In 2019 there were over 1500 opioid-related deaths in the province of Ontario, Canada. While the opioid crisis is affecting many socioeconomic groups and communities across Canada not all are being affected equally despite the presence of naloxone distribution programs in Ontario. This qualitative exploratory study seeks to understand facilitators and barriers that influence equitable access of naloxone programs in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. Methods An environmental scan will be conducted to examine the availability and distribution of naloxone across community pharmacies and organizations in Durham Region. A qualitative descriptive phenomenology will be the methodological approach where key informant interviews will explore experiences of users and providers of naloxone programs. Key informants will include service providers and clients of both Ontario Naloxone Program and Ontario Naloxone Program for Pharmacies in Durham Region. The harm reduction framework will be used to guide data analysis where thematic analysis will be conducted to generate overarching themes about the phenomenon. Results The environmental scan will result in the creation of a map outlining availability and distribution of naloxone programs to examine possible gaps that exist in Durham Region. It is expected that key informant interview findings will help understand where inequity exists in accessing Ontario's naloxone programs in Durham Region by highlighting its barriers and facilitators. Conclusions Findings generated will be used for larger scale studies in the future examining equitable access of naloxone distribution programs in Canada. This study will have implications to provide recommendations to policymakers for developing new policies to facilitate timely access of naloxone to mitigate risk of opioid-related harms. Key messages This research will help to better understand the inequities that exist in Ontario's naloxone distribution programs. This research will help to inform recommendations to improve policies surrounding Ontario's naloxone distribution programs.

scholarly journals Is it possible to estimate the need for surgical management in patients with a tubo-ovarian abscess at admission? A retrospective long-term analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Gözüküçük ◽  
Esra Gülen Yıldız
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Antibiotic Therapy ◽  
Treatment Failure ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Length Of Hospital Stay ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Laboratory Findings ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Laboratory Infection ◽  
Major Factors

Abstract Background This study aimed to determine the possible prognostic factors correlated with the treatment modalities of tubo-ovarian abscesses (TOAs) and thus to assess whether the need for surgery was predictable at the time of initial admission. Materials and methods Between January 2012 and December 2019, patients who were hospitalized with a TOA in our clinic were retrospectively recruited. The age of the patients, clinical and sonographic presentation, pelvic inflammatory risk factors, antibiotic therapy, applied surgical treatment, laboratory infection parameters, and length of hospital stay were recorded. Results The records of 115 patients hospitalized with a prediagnosis of TOA were reviewed for the current study. After hospitalization, TOA was ruled out in 19 patients, and data regarding 96 patients was included for analysis. Twenty-eight (29.2%) patients underwent surgical treatment due to failed antibiotic therapy. Sixty-eight (70.8%) were successfully treated with parenteral antibiotics. Medical treatment failure and need for surgery were more common in patients with a large abscess (volume, > 40 cm3, or diameter, > 5 cm). The group treated by surgical intervention was statistically older than the patients receiving medical treatment (p < 0.05). Conclusions Although the treatment in TOA may vary according to clinical, sonographic, and laboratory findings; age of patients, the abscess size, and volume were seen as the major factors affecting medical treatment failure. Moreover, TOA treatment should be planned on a more individual basis.

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