In this studio and laboratory research study, the suitability of several glazes for use on the earthenware clays used by local potters in the internal provinces of Oman was investigated. The aim was to develop suitable, economic glazes from local materials for use with Omani earthenware clays that could form an adequate adhesive bond with the clay surface and be used in ceramics decoration in local educational institutions. In particular, the experiments in this study mainly evaluated the use of...

Material Experiment  Art 

In real life, we want to understand our own health status and prevent the risk of disease outbreaks. We need to monitor the physical signs in real time, store and analyze the data, and call the police in time if there is an emergency. According to this requirement, this article designed a multifunctional portable smart health tester based on STM32F407, with Cprtex-M4 32-bit high-performance STM32F407ZGT6 microcontroller as the control core, HP-6 heart rate and blood pressure detection module, LC...

Applications of Communication Systems 

This paper begins by describing the main concepts which the research problem of this study is derived. This description of operating profit then leads onto an empirical review, with a view of discovering areas of existing literature that are focusing on evaluating the phenomena in concern. Accordingly, the chapter begins with an explanation of the operating profits and from here the chapter moves on to describe the net profit in organizations. It addresses what the net profit is. How the net pro...

Accounting 

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between online repurchase intention and security, trust, ease of use (EOU) and privacy concerns mediated by e-satisfaction. Since there are few studies that explain online repurchase intention in developing countries. This study is based on Sri Lankan online shoppers. A survey method is used for respondents’ age between 18 - 32 years. To test the hypothesis of this study, a questionnaire is distributed to participants. The data are analyz...

General Management 

Health has become vital in human lives. As a result, there is a huge demand for medical equipment. It has been applied for Sri Lankan context as well. In Sri Lankan context some orgaizations use tenders for purchase of medical equipment. This study sought to investigate the factors influencing the tender hit rate of Medical division of ABC holdings (Pvt) Ltd. ABC holdings has faced a problem that some of their product were having lower tender hit rate for some product categories. This problem ca...

Operations Management 

Good quality urine samples play a crucial role in establishing an early and accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infection in infants. Invasive methods are more reliable but cause pain and discomfort in infants as well as anxiety in clinicians and parents. The current available non-invasive methods are less efficient and produce low quality urine samples being less apprehensive in infants and parents. To date, no studies have been conducted in South East Asia, including Malaysia, to identify the ...

Pediatrics 

The problem of over dependence on foreign raw materials such as Carboxylmethyl cellulose for Nigerian industries has been a big threat to the country’s economy. In order to curtail the menace, this work aims at the production of Carboxylmethyl cellulose which serves as a thickening agent, emulsifier, stabilizer, extender etc. from palm kernel de-oiled cake. Palm kernel de-oiled cake was converted to Carboxylmethyl cellulose (CMC), a derivative of cellulose by two reaction steps, mercerization an...

Biological Chemistry 

The complexity of Chinese language system brings great challenge to sentiment analysis. Traditional artificial feature selection is easy to cause the problem of inaccurate segmentation semantics. High quality preprocessing results are of great significance to the subsequent network model learning. In order to effectively extract key features of sentences, retain feature words while removing irrelevant noise and reducing vector dimensions, an algorithm module based on sentiment lexicon combined w...

Linguistics 

This qualitative research is a case study focusing on leadership style and how leaders in School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University (SES, NNU), carry out their leadership. Interview method is used for the study with 5 questions, 1) What are your major responsibilities? 2) What do you look for when you observe subordinates? 3) What are some ways you provide to support for subordinates? 4) What would you say are the most pressing issues that you are deliberating on now? 5) How would y...

Education 

Due to one of the major tea-producing regions of the country, the quality and brand have been affirmed, Thai Nguyen province has identified tea as the main crop to develop local economy as well as improve farm households income. The main objective of this study is analyzing the financial efficiency of tea farmers in Thai Nguyen province through the data collected from 210 households. The results indicated that the financial efficiency of tea cultivation is quite high with the rate of return on t...

Environmental Economics  Agricultural Engineering  Financial Reporting