The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of green accounting policies on financial performance of Dube Mines. The main problem that arose and motivated the researchers to investigate this topic was how implementing green accounting policies affects the financial status of mining company, Jena Mines positively or negatively. The study employed the mixed approach which were both quantitative and qualitative. The data were gathered using questionnaires and interviews. Quantitative data gathered were analyzed through descriptive statistical analysis. The study shows a strong positive impact on the financial status of Jena Mine when they incorporate green policies strategies this is because it depicts their true financial status. Also Jena mine has to compensate for the tailings that the company are thought to have been released along the basins of the Gweru River ,which supports the local people The study recommends a guideline for using green tax legislation, working with international boards to promote green accounting, assisting green accounting education and training courses, offering incentives to companies to adopt green accounting methods, mandating green accounting methods, developing green accounting guidelines or standards, distributing resources towards the application of green accounting, and steering regular environmental audits are options the Zimbabwean Government can think through improving environmental accounting.
The Municipality of Orșova benefits from a natural environment whose features have favoured the birth and development of this human settlement. Recently, the evolution of most demographic phenomena in this area, has been mainly influenced by the political, economic and social conditions exiting there, while the influence of the natural environment has been greatly reduced. The town’s population saw a growth in numbers up until 1992, when it reached its peak of 15,944 inhabitants (birth rate growth and decrease of mortality rates). However, the economic hardship encountered after that year caused the population to shrink again (to12,5578 inhabitants in 2018). \nThe natural balance of the population has known a descending evolution, from 1.69‰ in 1992 to -5.10‰ in 2016, when it reached its lowest value, before growing slightly to -4.61‰ in 2018. There were positive values recorded in the migration balance, in 1992 (4.52‰). After that year, all the values became negative and went through a decreasing evolution until 2016, when they reached their lowest level - 10.28‰. In 2018,this indicator was at -0.88‰ .\nThis negative evolution of indicators reflecting both the natural dynamics of the population and the migration trends, was caused by the economic hardship encountered by the town of Orșova, which had a negative impact on the birth rate and prompted the population to migrate towards bigger cities (Timișoara, Bucharest), or to other countries. After 2016, we could see a slight improvement of these demographic indicators, due to a slightly positive trend in the economic, social, administrative area.
This work aims to investigate systematically the influence of alkali (NaOH) pre-treatment on the Hydrochar surface/porous produced by hydrothermal carbonization of corn Stover on the adsorption/sorption of acetic acid (CH3COOH) on the Hydrochar by analyzing the adsorption kinetics, adsorption equilibrium, and sorption equilibrium capacity. The experiments were carried out at 175, 200, 225, and 250 ºC, 240 minutes, heating rate of 2.0 ºC/min, and biomass-to-water ratio of 1:10, using a pilot scale stirred tank reactor of 5 gallon. The experimental data shows solid phase yields ranging from 62.92 to 35.82% (wt.), liquid phase yields between 35.43 and 54.59% (wt.), and gas yields between 1.49 and 9.58% (wt.). The hydrochar obtained by hydrothermal carbonization of corn Stover at 250 °C, 240 minutes, and biomass-to-water ratio of 1:10, analyzed by scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction and BET. The solid phase product (bio-adsorbent) obtained by hydrothermal processing of corn Stover at 250 °C, 240 minutes, and biomass-to-water ratio of 1:10, were activated chemically with 2.0 M NaOH and 2.0 M HCl solutions to investigate the adsorption of acetic acid solutions (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 mg/mL). The adsorption kinetics was investigated at 30, 60, 120, 240, 480, and 960 seconds. The adsorption isotherms show that chemically activated hydrochars were able to recover acetic acid from aqueous solutions. In addition, activation of hydrochar with NaOH was more effective than that with HCl.
Aim: We aimed to investigate relation between high mobility group box-1 protein (HMGB1) levels in peripheral blood and deep vein thrombosis (DVT).\nMaterials and Methods: For this study, HMGB1 levels were compared between lower extremity acute-subacute DVT patients and healthy volunteer subjects. Fifty-three patients (18 to 65 years of age) presenting to the cardiovascular surgery clinic of Private Gaziantep Medikal Park Hospital between April 2018 and April 2019 and 47 controls were included in the study. Biochemical analyses were conducted by the hospital laboratory using the ELISA method. The SPSS for Windows, version 25.0 software was used for statistical analyses of the study data.\nResults: Increased HMGB1 protein levels were found both in the entire patient group and in patients with proximal and distal DVT versus healthy controls. In the patient group, HMGB1 levels did not significantly differ in relation to age, gender and comorbidities.\nConclusion: Increased HMGB1 protein levels as detected in patients with acute/subacute deep vein thrombosis compared to the normal population may be due to inflammation caused by the disease itself as well as the effects of HMGB1 on platelet functions to promote thrombus formation.
Abstract:\nThe purpose of this study was to investigate and introduce the ways of interaction and their role in increasing the effectiveness of advertising, and seek to find ways to apply the attraction of this method in the field of Social Marketing. According to the ability to engage the audience in advertising, by engaging in two-way communication, the audience can be concerned with the promoted topics more than before. This research attempts to explore the role of technology in creating a new platform for interactive advertising as a new method in the field of global marketing focused on teaching cultural norms. In this way, after a brief overview of concepts such as culture, advertising and Social Marketing, the concept of interaction and the necessity of using this element in advertising, as well as its role in attracting cultural patterns were discussed. The questions are as follows:\n• In recent decades, which techniques have designers used for creating interactive works in the field of culture?\n• Interactive advertising has what features that will affect the way this type of interaction affects audiences more?\nTo find the right answer after expressing the research basics, several popular sample of interactive-Social Marketing implemented between 2000 and 2016 were studied by descriptive-analytic method, using tools such as index sheet, view, computer, Image documents including photos and videos were obtained. In order to answer the first question, the most used tools and digital media during this time period were introduced and their performance method were expressed. After observing the feedbacks, the results of the research indicate that the obvious feature of interactive advertising can be identified in innovation, stimulating the curiosity and identification of the audience, which leads to engage the audience to the advertised message more, therefore, an influential method in the field of cultural relations was introduced.
The large-scale, distributed, open environment of online applications through huge recent networks may need to obtain reasonable results from the analysed data of multiple inputs that inputs may represent different sources. These sources/sensors of data may work with different data types, inconsistent, and heterogeneous. Hence, this data of multiple sources require integration and data fusion. In such applications, agents may work with applications that work in the field for monitoring the system status that dynamically reacts with the current events for taking the corresponding actions. An agent may have various possibilities to sense that environment. The situation will be hard in case of the proposed agents require to communicate between them in a secure manner. In addition, the agent systems get different props from using ontologies such as interoperability, reusability, and support in all agent development stages like system analysis and agent knowledge modelling.\nIn this work, the proposed information fusion framework in this work can afford four levels. These levels are varying from the signal level that is low to the knowledge level that is high. This framework uses multiple input data sources/sensors with a secure multi-agent. Therefore, this work introduces an approach for securing a multi-agent platform called \"SMASP\". It uses ontology for obtaining acceptable information fusion. In addition, Ontologies support a secure multi-agent system with different operations such as reasoner agents and query agents.
Introduction: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric recognitions. The aim of this study was to determine the association between dietary patterns and major depression in adult women.\n\nMethod: This study was conducted on new cases of major depressive women aged 19-65 years (170 cases and 340 controls). Dietary intakes collected by a validated semi-quantitative 168-item food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Household food security measured using a locally adapted HFI access scale (HFIAS). Women\'s depression status assessed by a validated “Beck” questionnaire. Logistic regression was used for assessing the association between dietary patterns scores and depression.\n\nResults: Five major dietary patterns were extracted. The “Healthy pattern” was inversely associated with the risk of depression. As the OR in the last adjusted model was (OR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.46-0.81, p=0.001). The “Western pattern” increased 29 % of depression in women. “Traditional pattern” was positively associated with depression by increasing 16 % of this risk in the last adjusted model. There is no significant association between “Sugar and fast food” and “red meat and oils” dietary pattern with depression. \n \nConclusion\nHealthy dietary pattern reduces the risk of depression in women, while the western and traditional dietary patterns increase its risk.
The present study reveals that the greener synthesis and corrosion inhibition study of Phenylamino cyclohex-2-enone (PAC) derivatives. This is the one of the safe and ecological method to synthesis cyclohex-2-enone compounds in presence of sodium bisulphate used as a catalyst and highly it is a highly economical one. The cyclohex-2-enone compounds corrosion inhibitive effect proved with the help of its weight loss and synergetic process and electro chemical impedence and potentiodynamic polarization studies are carried out for the target compounds. The synthesized cycloexenone compounds are structure elucidated with the help of IR, 1H and 13C NMR values. The type of adsorption isotherm confirmed by using synergetic process, the synergetic process done by observed correlation between halides and our inhibitor. The final results show that the compounds follow the Langmuir adsorption isotherm.