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Mobile commerce has emerged as an innovative and consequential improved method of business over e-commerce. Mobile payment service is a modern innovation in this direction. M-Payment popularly known as ‘Pay with your mobile’ is a revolutionary, easy, convenient, and secure mobile payment service. According to Capgemini report 2008, there are approximately 30 million users of m-payments all over the world. Though it accounts for merely 1 percent of the value of gross global non-cash payments, the mobile payments market is growing very fast. In the background of these developments and changing scenario, the study examined the attitude of respondents about the new revolutionary M-payment technique. The study found that more than three fourth of the respondents have awareness and requisite know-how about introduction of M-payments facility. Retail purchases and bill payments have emerged as the two top preferences for M-payments. The survey conducted on the basis of gender of the respondents observed no significant difference in their motives and attitudes regarding the applicability and the concerns of this most far-reaching M-payments mode. It is found that the success of M-payment in principle depends on the wider acceptability of m-payments by merchants, clear picture about the settlement platform, and enactments of legislation and rules governing M-payments.

Clinical research competencies are enhanced when there is synergy and strong internal cohesion, with the appropriate level of clinical expertise in recruitment of participants and undertaking a study from initial stages, to conclusion. When a study sponsor approaches a site to conduct a clinical trial, the site must convey accurately that it has the resources and capability to undertake a study. The clinical research site should be able to demonstrate competencies in meeting minimum clinical and research capabilities in conducting a study.  Explicit and optimal utilization of available resources and capabilities to meet clinical, regulatory, ethical, and other mandates will reflect this capability. The United States Food and Drug Administration regulatory process is demanding, exacting, time consuming and complicated.  Clinical research sites must conform to regulatory clinical research standards.  The interaction and collaboration of researchers in different roles and functions in a clinical research study may necessitate studying the factors that promote or constrain inter-professional synergy. The complex human interplay of many diverse and dedicated professionals, comprising clinical site coordinators, researchers, physicians, and research subjects, engaged in clinical research is not fully understood and merits further study. The aim of this scientific paper is to present research to map and assess human dynamics in a clinical research site, so that the results may contribute to reducing the human factors which constrain clinical research. Clinical research sites must cope with intense scrutiny and copious FDA and other regulations, which often limits clinical discovery, lowers financial success and often impedes successful research execution.  The exploratory outlook of a future and recommended research study may be deemed important, to examine the positive and negative factors that may facilitate, or impede internal team cohesion within clinical research sites, using a quantitative method and a descriptive design. A comprehensive description of a research plan and data collection methodology is detailed herewith. A study is recommended herewith, based on a research method and design founded on extensive experience in organizational management, review of pertinent literature, and the best practices in clinical research study management.   

Entrepreneurship is a growing phenomenon in the competitive markets. In the past, marketing and entrepreneurship have been regarded as two distinct fields of study. A growing awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation to marketing, and of marketing to successful entrepreneurship, has recently led to attempts to combine the two disciplines as “entrepreneurial marketing”. The purpose of this paper is to address entrepreneurship perspectives, differences between small firms and entrepreneurial firms, entrepreneurial marketing processes, determinants of entrepreneurship and its implications for marketing, and finally, opportunities for marketers.

Micropapillary carcinoma (MPC) of urinary tract is an uncommon histological variant of urothelial carcinoma. It is characterized by an aggressive clinical course, an advanced stage at first presentation and a high metastatic potential. Though MPC shows characteristic microscopic features, there exists interobserver variability and controversies concerning certain aspects of this rare tumor. The aim of our study is to present four cases of MPC treated by radical cystectomy in the Department of Urology, at the University Hospital Center of Rabat Morocco, during the period from January 2014 to December 2017. The clinical and morphological features of this rare and aggressive variant of urinary badder carcinoma, as well as a brief review of the literature are all presented.

The Dilute solution viscometric (DSV) technique is employed to find the molecular interactions between the non-Newtonian Doxycycline hyclate and the essential unsaturated fatty acid, Ricinoleic acid in the common solvent Ethyl methyl ketone. The viscometric parameters as improved by chee and Sun et. al., identifies the molecular interactions at physiological temperatures. The conformity of interaction is attempted by the ultrasonic velocity; and the related acoustical parameters at temperatures 303, 310 and 313K. The behaviour of these parameters explains the molecular interactions on the basis of solute-solute and solute-solvent interactions.

The regular maintenance of the fields and harvesting of the pods had in itself made it possible to maintain a good sanitary state of the Congolese plantations. Black rot and mirid diseases were still under control at that time. The plantations managed by the planters under the supervision of the "CABEN" Company, Cacaoyère de Bengamisa, were well maintained and monitored. However, in recent years, farmers, especially those in the Bengamisa cocoa zone, have observed their production to be declining.In order to accurately determine the level of this disease in this zone, where abnormal production losses have been reported, observations were carried out in the cocoa farms at the Kisangani, Kapalata and Yangambi posts in the Banalia Territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo "DRC".Weekly passages during which pods affected by black rot and healthy pods were counted revealed very high and increasing levels of infection over two successive harvest seasons (2018 and 2019) (i.e. a growth rate of 17.5 in Kisangani, 14.08 in Kapalata and 9.25 in Yangambi). These rates are similar to those recorded in countries where Phytophtora megakarya, a species known for its aggressiveness, regularly occurs. This serious disease becomes more important in 2019, which evokes the evolution of the latter from year to year. However, it remains understood that the environmental conditions created by the demotivation of coffee and cocoa growers from 1980 onwards, combined with the lack of maintenance of orchards, would have favoured a rapid emergence of black rot. Lasiodiplodia theobromae is becoming a major constraint to cocoa production in DRC. This study is the first to report the effects of L. theobromae causing the decline of cocoa pods in DRC.

This study assesses the impact of urbanization on the Jakara stream channel - a semi arid area that has received little attention. The proportion of the catchment under impervious cover was determined along the Jakara catchment using black and white air photographs taken in 1961and 1981 satellite imagery of 1987, 1995 and 2006. These were used together with land use maps, road maps and layout plans and ground truthing. Consistent and significant differences in the sites were demonstrated in bankfull width, depth, cross section and wetted perimeter. Channel density increased by 28.6% due to storm sewers, culverts and other runoff removal. About 99 percent of the Jakara channel banks in the urban reach and 30 percent n the semi urban reach are artificially reinforced to prevent channel widening by bank erosion. In addition, residential and commercial landowners filled the channel margins to increase property acreage. Physical channel structure has changed from a pool/riffle sequence to a uniform pattern. Results obtained here show that there are major alterations to the morphology of drainage systems. They need to be taken into account to better understand the hydrologic response of anthropogenic basins, and to improve the modeling, planning and design of sub-urban and urban areas. Finally, a series of advantages of this approach are also discussed.

This contribution aims to validate a newly developed add-on module to a commercial simulation software, which enables the prediction of the microstructure and mechanical properties of aluminum cast alloys under different casting conditions. The simulation of the casting process and the resulting microstructure and mechanical properties, permits a reduction of experimental testing and providing the best solution of process and material selections, thereby making the design and development process more cost efficient. The simulation results are compared with the investigation of the micro structural and mechanical behaviors of an As-Cast Aluminum cylinder head processed by semi permanent gravity die casting. It is demonstrated that the predictions made by the simulations are comparable to the experimental results. In order to further enhance the quality of the simulation tool, it is of significance to gain more experience from comparisons with complex castings of different aluminum alloys, where the microstructure as well as the mechanical properties are carefully evaluated.

In the changing world, today's complex and competitive, successful and effective organizations that can provide a variety of factors to create the demand, among the factors governing the ability of employees and corporate culture of an organization has a special place in Kermanshah. The data collection questionnaire to measure organizational culture, organizational culture Hafstd 43 items (1990) and to assess the ability of the questionnaire, 12 questions, capability Asprytzr (1996) is used. Hypothesis test to By Spearman correlation test were positive and significant relationship was demonstrated in total, meaning that the result-oriented and component principle easy to control the hardware capabilities.