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Journal articles on the topic "Living entity"
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Morgan, Alastair. "The ‘living entity’." European Journal of Social Theory 17, no. 4 (May 23, 2014): 377–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431014536092.
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Swanson, G. A. "Living systems theory and an entity-systems approach." Systems Research and Behavioral Science 25, no. 5 (January 7, 2009): 599–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.935.
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Trapanese, Francesco. "Id/entity and performance: a new living work of art." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 11, no. 1 (July 29, 2014): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2014.940238.
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Moore, Corey L., Fariborz Aref, Edward O. Manyibe, and Evia Davis. "Minority Entity Disability, Health, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Productivity Facilitators." Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin 59, no. 2 (January 23, 2015): 94–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034355214568527.
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Glotko, A., S. Shelkovnikov, I. Kuznetsova, and I. Klyueva. "DIRECTIONS OF REGIONAL POLICY TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE POPULATION (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE ALTAI REPUBLIC)." TRANSBAIKAL STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL 27, no. 10 (2021): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/2227-9245-2021-27-10-94-102.
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The article is devoted to improving state policy to improve the living standards of the population at the regional level and the mechanism for developing state policy in this area. The mechanism of implementation and the powers of the authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the implementation of state policy to improve the standard of living of the population at the regional level has been studied. The effectiveness of the implementation of the regional policy to improve the standard of living of the population in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation has been determined. Problems were identified and recommendations were developed to improve the efficiency of the development and implementation of regional policies to improve the living standards of the population in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation
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Fisher, Ebon. "Wigglism: A Philosophoid Entity Turns Ten." Leonardo 40, no. 1 (February 2007): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2007.40.1.37.
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The author describes The Wigglism Manifesto, a work authored amidst the fury of early exchange on the World Wide Web. The term Wigglism refers to a quality shared by biological and artificial life forms alike. The manifesto has taken an open-source approach to its cultivation, allowing numerous voices to nurture the entity into being. This collective approach to truth cultivation embodied by the manifesto was inspired, in part, by the author's experiences with community-based media rituals in the North Brooklyn community before it gentrified in the mid-1990s. The project has affirmed its initiator's sense that cultivating a living system can be a vital alternative to traditional creative practices more aligned with manufacturing and commerce.
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Miltiade, Stanciu. "Education-Healthy Development Binomial from the Health of Whole Living Entity Perspective." International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management 4, no. 3 (July 2015): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsem.2015070103.
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Social life including economic life should evolve in harmony with live world ecology. The economy, as human society product should harmonize with the exigencies of “the health of whole living entity”. However, the realities of the present lived at local and global level reveal: inhuman social inequalities, frustrating consumerism, systemic pollution, poverty in the middle abundance, science without humanism, wealth without honest work etc. generated by negative human behaviors. The transition towards healthy development defined by the win-win principle, assumes that everything healthy for the natural environment is also healthy for man-created environment. This complex and long process is based on the re-spiritualization of the current educational model based on skills with the educational model in the cause of life.
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Lagorio, María Gabriela, Gabriela B. Cordon, Analía Iriel, Juan Manuel Romero, Julián Faivovich, and Carlos Taboada. "Biophotonics. Fluorescence and Reflectance in Living Organisms." Science Reviews - from the end of the world 2, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 18–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.52712/sciencereviews.v2i1.36.
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The light that emerges from a biological entity is relevant from many aspects. In the first place, it allows the construction of the organism’s image and consequently it is responsible for visual perception and communication. Secondly, it can become an important tool in obtaining both physiological and chemical information from the observed entity, in a non-destructive way. When an organism is illuminated, the non-absorbed energy emerges as transmitted or reflected light. Additionally, fluorescence, phosphorescence or bioluminescence may be emitted. In our research group, we have studied and modelled the light released as reflectance and fluorescence for different biological systems like flowers, fruits, plant leaves, canopies, bird’s plumage and amphibians. In this review, we present the advances we have made in this area. They range from the development of theoretical approaches to the implementation of optical methodologies for practical applications. The analysis of light interaction with biological material, which is the domain of biophotonics, has recently acquired great importance in view of the increasing use of optical techniques to the study of living tissues. However, the interpretation of the photophysical and spectroscopic properties of these systems is usually complicated by several factors: elevated chromophore’s concentration, optical inhomogeneity, multi-scattering of photons and presence of multi-layered structures in most cases. Because of these, the accurate modelling of the interaction with light helps to avoid artifacts and to better interpret the processes that take place. Physical models used in the analysis of chlorophyll fluorescence in leaves and canopies with application in remote sensing, optical methodologies for food control and quantification of fluorescence in vivo for evaluation of its biological relevance are examples of the use of the emission of light and will be presented in this review.
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Panigrahi, Sibasish, Bishnu Prasad Patro, Ayesha Mohapatra, and Saroj Kumar Patra. "Ribbing disease of tibia: a rare entity." BMJ Case Reports 14, no. 10 (October 2021): e244868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-244868.
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Establishing the cause of unilateral leg pain is difficult in the settings of tibial diaphyseal sclerosis. This patient, a 36-year-old woman presented with unilateral pretibial leg pain for past 7 months without history of trauma, infections, systemic or metabolic disease. Besides local deep tenderness, other clinical findings and blood investigations were normal. Radiograph and CT scan showed both periosteal and endosteal cortical thickening with obliteration of medulla of the tibial midshaft. MRI scan detected marrow oedema and bone scan revealed increased tracer uptake at the affected site of tibia. She was treated by saucerisation and re-establishment of the medullary canal. Biopsy of the harvested tissue had trabecular bone without any sign of inflammation. Patient was pain free after 3 months of operation and was able to perform her activity of daily living without any difficulties. Ribbing disease is a disease of exclusion and need high degree of suspicion for its diagnosis.
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Goyal, S., KK Singal, and B. Singh. "Gummatous ulcer of leg: an uncommon entity in present era." Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science 10, no. 3 (August 15, 2011): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i3.7514.
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Gummatous ulcer due to Treponematoses is quite rare in present era of potent antibiotics, increased social awareness and due to improvement in living standards of society .Better hygiene and improved medical care have contributed to containment of late benign syphilis or gummas. However, pockets of endemic treponematoses is still persisting in the underdeveloped, third world countries.Key words: Gummatous ulcer, treponematoses, antibiotics.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i3.7514BJMS 2011; 10(3): 209-210
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Living entity"
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Cherbonneau, Francois. "Development of new engineering methodologies for cell sequencing landscape : unbiased mRNA sampling of living cells by TRanscriptomic Analysis Captured in Extracellular vesicles (TRACE)." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2021. https://wo.app.u-paris.fr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TheseWeb.woa/wa/show?t=4387&f=28882.
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L’Hétérogénéité cellulaire et les expressions génétiques fluctuantes dans un microenvironnement spécifique restent mal comprises. Ainsi, afin d’apporter un début de réponse à toutes ces questions, beaucoup de paradigmes scientifiques ont été développés, permettant de toujours repousser plus loin les limites du possible. Ainsi, l'objectif de ce premier projet de thèse fut de développer une méthode innovante pour l'analyse épigénétique multiplexée de cellules à une résolution cellulaire unique. En reliant la protéine transposon Tn5 à des anticorps ciblant des facteurs épigénétiques clés, il pourrait être possible d'identifier le site de liaison de facteurs de transcription spécifiques à l'échelle du génome. Néanmoins, en raison de la relative concurrence dans le développement d’une nouvelle technologie dans ce domaine, cet outil très prometteur fut breveté par une autre entreprise et ce projet de thèse a donc été interrompu au profit d’un autre projet dans cette même thématique. Ainsi, beaucoup de progrès importants en biologie sont fortement corrélés avec de nouvelles méthodologies toujours plus innovantes et qui permettent de définir le destin cellulaire au niveau moléculaire. Mais une grande majorité d'entre elles nécessite l'utilisation de procédures destructrices. Pour ces raisons, nous avons développé une nouvelle technologie permettant une analyse transcriptomique dans le temps sans aucune destruction cellulaire. Nommée TRACE pour l'analyse «TRanslatomique» par capture dans des vésicules extracellulaires, elle est caractérisée par l’expression d’un transgène fournissant une translation d'une partie représentative du transcriptome cellulaire à l'intérieur des vésicules extracellulaires. Ainsi, ce «translatome» des cellules qui expriment TRACE peut être suivi dans le temps de manière non destructrice in vitro et in vivo, ce qui est un outil puissant pour de nombreux domaines de recherches fondamentale et translationnelleCell heterogeneity and fluctuant genetic expression in specific microenvironments remain poorly understood. Thus, to address a beginning of answer to all of these general questions, a lot of new scientific paradigms were developed and enable to push the limits of the possible. Thus, the goal of this first thesis project was to develop a highly innovative method for multiplexed epigenetic analysis of cells at a single cell resolution. By linking the Tn5 transposon protein with antibodies targeting key epigenetic factors, it could be possible to identify the binding site of specific transcription factors at a genome wide level. Nevertheless, due to the relative competition to develop a new technology in the field, this very promising tool has been patented by another company, thus the decision was taken to abort this project and focus on another one. A lot of progress and discovery in Biology is strongly correlated with new methodologies that provide the ability to define cell fate at molecular level, but a large majority of them require the use of destructive procedures. For these reasons, the second research project was to develop a new technology allowing transcriptomic analysis over time without any cell destruction. Named TRACE for “TRanslatomic” Analysis Captured in Extracellular vesicles, it is characterized by a cell-type specific transgene expression providing a translation of a representative part of the cell transcriptome inside Extracellular vesicles. Thus, “Translatome” of cells which express TRACE can be followed over time by non-destructive manner in vitro as well as in vivo, which is a powerful tool for many fields of fundamental and translational research
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Janse, van Rensburg Ulrich. "Do local firms have a competitive advantage over multinational enterprises?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30608.
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This study describes the factors that drive competitiveness between local firms and multinational enterprises (MNE) in a retail consumer market of an emerging country. It also seeks to identify the approaches and strategies the competitors consider and adopt to maintain the advantage in the consumer market.The objective of this study is to identify the factors local firms and MNE’s will consider when competing with each other. The study also wants to identify the preferred mode of entry of MNE’s.The study will be a quantitative study where relationships between competitors and their performance in the market are measured.The results revealed that local firms do have a competitive advantage over MNE’s in the retail consumer market due to the local firm’s knowledge of the market, rather than the technology and skills. It’s also clear that MNE have a preferred mode of entry and they chose to compete in the industries where they are stronger than the local firms.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Perin, Marco Aurelio Alves. "Aspectos ecológicos do cervo do-pantanal Blastocerus dichotomus (Illiger, 1815) (Mammalia: cervidae): animais reintroduzidos e ou nascidos na estação ecológica de jataí, nordeste do estado de São Paulo, município de Luís Antônio." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2010. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/4418.
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O cervo-do-pantanal (Blastocerus dichotomus) é um mamífero de grande porte, sendo considerado o maior cervídeo nativo da America do Sul. Esta espécie encontra-se extinta em 60% da sua área de distribuição histórica que compreendia as várzeas naturais dos grandes rios entre o sul do Amazonas e o norte da Argentina. Apesar de se encontrar ameaçado de extinção, pouco se sabe acerca dos aspectos ecológicos do cervo-do-pantanal. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo, busca investigar a sazonalidade no comportamento espacial desta espécie, como também analisar informações relacionadas à fidelidade de habitat e relações intra-específicas através da sobreposição de áreas núcleo. Para tanto o mesmo contém uma revisão introdutória e dois capítulos abordando os seguintes temas: 1- estudo comparativo para o efeito da sazonalidade entre animais reintroduzidos e ou nascidos na Estação Ecológica de Jataí (EEJ) e animais de população natural, localizados na bacia do rio Paraná; 2- relações espaciais através da sobreposição de áreas núcleo para animais reintroduzidos e ou nascidos na EEJ. Ao todo 39 cervos-do-pantanal marcados sendo 9 da área de reintrodução e 30 da área de população natural, contribuíram para as análises do presente trabalho. Os resultados revelam que ambas as populações estudadas tiveram áreas de vida maiores para machos do que para fêmeas, o que pode ser reflexo das diferenças nas estratégias de utilização do ambiente por indivíduos de ambos os sexos. Para os animais da EEJ as áreas estimadas para a estação chuvosa geralmente foram menores do que as estabelecidas na seca, já para os animais da bacia do rio Paraná observou-se uma inversão na ordem desses valores, ou seja, a média na estação chuvosa foi maior do que a média no período de seca. Tal inversão pode estar relacionada com a dinâmica das características ambientais promovida pela sazonalidade para cada região. A análise de fidelidade de habitat na área de reintrodução revelou uma sobreposição de suas áreas núcleos estimada para as duas estações seca e chuvosa, com fêmeas apresentando porcentagem de fidelidade maior do que machos. A análise envolvendo a sobreposição de áreas núcleo entre os animais desta região revelaram que dois animais, sendo um macho e uma fêmea, sobrepuseram seus núcleos de atividade mesmo quando estimados com concentração média harmônica (30%) de distribuição de utilização das localizações espaciais. Os dados utilizados neste trabalho fazem parte dos resultados obtidos pelo Projeto Cervo-do-Pantanal de Porto Primavera, coordenado pelo NUPECCE (Núcleo de Pesquisa e Conservação de Cervídeos), localizado na Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias FCAV/UNESP de Jaboticabal, como parte das ações compensatórias referente ao reservatório formado pela usina hidrelétrica Sérgio Motta ou “Porto Primavera”.
Marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) is a large mammal and is considered the largest deer native to South America, this species is extinct in 60% of its historic range that included the natural flood plain of the great rivers between the southern Amazon and northern Argentina. Despite being threatened with extinction, little is known about the ecological aspects of deer marsh. In this context, this study aims to investigate the seasonality in the spatial behavior of this species, but also analyze information related to habitat use and intraspecific relations using overlapping core areas. To this end it contains a review and two introductory chapters covering the following topics: 1 - comparative study for the seasonality effect of reintroduced animals and / or born in the Ecological Station (EEJ) and animals natural population located in the River Paraná; 2 - spatial relations using overlapping core areas to reintroduced animals and / or born in the EEJ. A total of 39 deer-billed and 9 marked the reintroduction area and 30 in the area of natural population, contributed to the analysis of this work. The results show that both populations studied areas of life were higher for males than for females, which may reflect differences in strategies for using the environment of individuals of both sexes. For animals of the EEJ areas estimated for the rainy season were generally lower than those established in the dry season, as for animals of the Paraná River basin showed a reversal in the order of these values, ie, the average during the rainy season was higher than the average during the dry season. This reversal can be related to the dynamics of environmental characteristics promoted by the seasonal pattern for each region. The analysis of habitat use of reintroduction area revealed an overlap in their core areas estimated for both dry and wet seasons, with females showing higher percentage of fidelity than males. The analysis involving the overlap of core areas among the animals of this region revealed that two animals are one male and one female overlapped its core activity even when estimated harmonic mean concentration (30%) of distribution of use of spatial locations. The data used in this work are part of the results obtained by the Project Cervo-do-Pantanal de Porto Primavera, coordinated by NUPECCE (Núcleo de Pesquisa e Conservação de Cervídeos), located at the Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias FCAV/UNESP de Jaboticabal, as part stock compensation related to the reservoir formed by the Sergio Motta or "Porto Primavera Dam.
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Chen, Yin-Jhen, and 陳尹甄. "Monitor Drug Entry and Metabolism in Living Cells by Raman Spectroscopy." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79617870023156578573.
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In this thesis, the character of Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect the drug and to monitor the pathway of drug in living cells. This technique has some advantage that the drug does not need any treatment before used, and because it’s not fluorescence so the photon bleaching won’t became the problem, therefore we can do long-time observation. We also got the enhanced Raman scattering of drug in vivo, therefore, we desire to apply surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to improve the temporal resolution and decreased the concentration of the drug.
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Hsu, Chia-Hauo, and 許家豪. "Monitoring Drugs Entry and Metabolisms in Living Cells by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01982627831196403378.
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The successful development of new drug brings enormous business，and costs a lot of time 。Researchers need high-speed and convenient method to detect drug entry cells for understanding the properties of drug and saving time. Previously, researchers detected drug entry cells by fluorescence microscopy. For drugs which can’t auto-fluorescent, fluorescence microscopy can the change of cells after drugs treading. For auto-fluorescent drugs, the distribution of drugs in cells can be detected. Both they can’t demonstrate the process of drug entry into living cells. The frequency shift of Raman Scattering depends on the vibration energy level of scattered molecular. Using Raman Scattering to detect drug entry cells can improve the defect by using Fluorescence Microscopy。Besides, Raman signal provides the structural information of moleculars. The defect of Raman Scattering, weak signal, can be improved by replace it with Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. In this thesis, we successfully monitored the process of nocodazole entry living CHO cells by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. 100uM nocodazole entry in to living CHO cells after drugs treading for 204 sec.
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Thiombiano, Bilampoa. "Ruptures d'unions conjugales au Burkina Faso : causes et effets sur les femmes et leurs enfants." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6514.
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Edwards, Steven F. Sole ownership of living marine resources. Woods Hole, Mass: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Region, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 1993.
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Comfort, Philip W., ed. Genesis, Exodus: With the entire text of the New Living Translation. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2008.
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Hanrahan, Maura. Living on the dead: Fishermen's licensing and unemployment insurance programs in Newfoundland. St. John's, NF: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University, 1988.
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Hanrahan, Maura. Living on the dead: Fishermen's licensing and unemployment insurance programs in Newfoundland. St. John's, NF: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University, 1988.
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Hanrahan, Maura. Living on the dead: Fishermen's licensing and unemployment insurance programs in Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1988.
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Hanrahan, Maura. Living on the dead: Fishermen's licensing and unemployment insurance programs in Newfoundland. St. John's, NF: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University, 1988.
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The 4 foot farm blueprint: How to feed your entire family off 4 sq ft for a measly 10 bucks a month. Austin, Texas: Crisis Education, LLC, 2013.
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Biagioli, Raffaella, and Stefano Oliviero, eds. Il Tirocinio Diretto Digitale Integrato (TDDI). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-587-5.
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The integrated direct digital apprenticeship represents a new and crucial experimental apprenticeship modality with the primary function of guaranteeing everyone the possibility of living this entire pre- professional experience through virtual modalities and widening and enriching training opportunities for future pre-primary teachers and primary teachers. The experimental project arose from the need to respond to the need to guarantee the practicability of professional training courses at a time when, due to the pandemic, it was not possible to accommodate all students in schools. It was designed with the Regional School Office of Tuscany and resulted from the degree course constant commitment to the USR Tuscany to guarantee students; right to study and enhance the schools; willingness to accommodate trainees.
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Ismailov, Nariman. Globalism and ecophilosophy of the future. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1212905.
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From the point of view of the new science of globalism, the problems of the ecological, socio-economic state of the world and countries are considered through the prism of the interaction of the human psyche and society and the inhabited world. The criteria of ecological civilization of countries and peoples are justified. Optimizing the consumption of natural bio-and energy resources is becoming a fundamental environmental factor for sustainable development. The "Law of the maximum for humanity" as the law of the biosphere can be the arbitration court, the neutral force that will explain the historical need for mutual understanding, taking into account the interests of ecology and economy for the survival of man as a biovid on Earth; a new reality will begin to form — the phenomenon of co-residence of the world society with the biosphere. The world's population, its energy and bio-consumption, as well as all living matter on the planet, must correspond to the biological capacity of the Earth and not go beyond its boundaries. The task of the society is to implement a worldview breakthrough at the current stage of development, its own cultural mutation, which in the future will create the basis for adaptive technological and socio-cultural development. The task is to classify the entire Earth as a "Green Book" and to solve systemic environmental problems of a global nature. An integral part of sustainable development should be the principle of "vital consumption" at both the personal and social level, instead of the dominant principle of"expanded production and consumption". The indicator of the" culture of consumption "of natural resources, both at the individual level and at the level of society, should be included as an integral part of the integral indicator in the "True Indicator of Progress" and the "Human Development Index".
The book is interdisciplinary in nature; it is a kind of scientific and philosophical poetic essay intended for teachers and students of universities in the field of sociology, ecology, biology and related fields, as well as for everyone who cares about the future of society.
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Gill, Rhea Taylor. A School as Living Entity: The Growth and Development of a School as a Living Entity. Waldorf Publications, 2015.
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Kelly, Janette, Marion Dekker, Kathryn Hawkes, Fiona Mackay, Julie Sullivan, and Gill Wright. "‘It’s a Living, Breathing Entity’." In Realising Innovative Partnerships in Educational Research, 157–67. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-062-2_17.
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Ingegnoli, Vittorio. "The Landscape as a Specific Living Entity." In Landscape Ecology: A Widening Foundation, 3–28. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04691-3_1.
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Fidalgo-Blanco, Ángel, María Luisa Sein-Echaluce, and Francisco José García-Peñalvo. "The Neuro-Subject: A Living Entity with Learnability." In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing Learning Experiences, 127–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21814-0_11.
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Nkemnkia, Martin Nkafu. "The World as an Eternal Entity and Vitalogical Living Reality." In Does the World Exist?, 683–704. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_43.
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Sajwan, Samridhi, Shabana Urooj, and Manoj Kumar Singh. "Design and Implementation of Unauthorized Object and Living Entity Detector with PROTEUS and Arduino Uno." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 560–67. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7512-4_55.
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Ross, Paul. "Living to Work." In Barriers to Entry, 129–56. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9566-7_5.
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Trager, William. "Site Selection within the Host: Entry into Specific Organs and Cells." In Living Together, 41–69. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9465-9_3.
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Templeman, Charles, Francisco Javier Ordoñez Morales, Mathias Ciliberto, Andrew Symes, and Daniel Roggen. "Lessons from Hands-Free Data Entry in Flexible Cystoscopy with Glass for Future Smart Assistance." In Smart Assisted Living, 63–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25590-9_4.
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Bognon-Küss, Cécilia. "Metabolism in Crisis? A New Interplay Between Physiology and Ecology." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 193–216. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_11.
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AbstractThis chapter investigates the hybrid relationships between metabolism, broadly and a-historically understood as the set of processes through which alien matter is made homogeneous to that of the organism, and forms of vitalism from the eighteenth century on. While metabolic processes have long been modeled in a reductionist fashion as a straightforward function of repair and expansion of a given structure (either chemically, or mechanistically), a challenging vitalist view has characterized metabolism as a creative, organizing, vital faculty. I suggest that this tension was overcome in Claude Bernard’s works on “indirect nutrition”, in which nutrition, rightly conceived as a general vital phenomenon common to plants and animals, was both characterized as an instance of the general physico-chemical determinism of all phenomena and as the sign and condition of the “freedom and independence” of the organism with respect to the environment. I propose that Bernard’s theory of indirect nutrition was central in the elaboration of his general physiology and has, at the same time, underpinned a self-centered view of biological identity in which the organism creates itself continuously at the detriment of its external milieu. I further argue that this conception of biological individuality as metabolically constructed has since, and paradoxically, supported a view in which the organism appears as an autonomous and self-creating entity. I then contrast this classical view of the metabolic autonomy of the organism with the challenges raised by microbiome studies and suggest that these emerging fields contribute to sketch an ecological conception of the organism and its metabolism through the reconceptualization of its relationship with the environment. The recent focus on a “microbiota – host metabolism” axis contributes to shift the focus away from the classical concept of organism, somehow externalizing vitalism out of the autonomous individual in favor of an ecological, collaborative, and interactionist view of the living.
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Meyer, Carola W., William Blessing, and Gerhard Heldmaier. "Ultradian Episodes of Thermogenesis in Mammals: Implications for the Timing of Torpor Entry and Arousal." In Living in a Seasonal World, 219–29. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28678-0_20.
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O'Donoghue, J. "Towards Lightweight and Int erop erabl e Trust Models: Th Entity Attestation Token." In Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2019.0167.
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Sarumi, Jerry A. "A Review of Encryption Methods for Secure Data Communication." In Advances in Multidisciplinary and Scientific Research Journal Publication. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams/lasustech2022v30p7.
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We are living in the new era of information, and information is an important aspect of our living. So, the need of security is to ensure that our information remains confidential and only authorized users can access it, and ensuring that no unauthorized user has changed our information, so that it provides full accuracy and efficiency. To be secured, information needs to be hidden from unauthorized access i.e. confidentiality and protected from unauthorized change and also available to an authorized entity when it is needed. Cryptography is a technique that can be employed to ensure the security of transmitted information. This papers reviews existing tecgniques for cryptography and identified salient attributes of each method. Keywords: Cryptography; Symmetric key; ciphered text; Public Key; Private Key; Encryption; Decryption, Security, Transmission, Cyber Security.
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Porwal, Charles. "Exploring the spatial tools to generate social inclusive and empowered space for people living in margins." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/poca4957.
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A good public space must be accommodative for everyone including the marginal, the forgotten, the silent, and an undesirable people. With the process of development, the city leaves behind the marginalized section of the society especially urban poor, who constitute about 20-30 percent of the urban population and are majorly involved in informal settlement like congested housing typologies and informal economy in which they face the everyday social, physical and economic exclusion. Thus, the informal sector and the marginalized becomes the forgotten elements in urban space. ‘Cities for the Citizen’ a slogan described by Douglas address the same issues of democratization, multicultural/gender difference between humans. Though these people have strong characteristics and share a unique pattern and enhances the movement in the city which makes a city a dynamic entity. The lack of opportunities and participation to such section leaves the city divided and generates the negative impacts in the mind of victims which further leads to degradation of their mental health and city life because of their involvement in crime, unemployment, illiteracy and unwanted areas. The physical, social, cultural and economic aspects of space should accommodate the essential requirements for the forgotten and provide them with inclusive public environment. It is very necessary that they generate the association and attachment to the place of their habitation. We can easily summarize that the city which used to be very dynamic and energetic is now facing the extreme silence in the present pandemic times. The same people are returning back to their homes after facing the similar problems of marginalization and exclusion even during hard times where they had no place to cover their heads. So, we have to find the way in which they can be put into consideration and make them more inclusive and self-sustaining. With the economic stability, social stability is also equally necessary for the overall development of an individual. So, the paper tries to focus upon the idea of self-sustaining livelihood and social urbanism which talks about development of cities aiming to the social benefit and upliftment of their citizen. The social urbanism strategy in any project tries to inject investment into targeted areas in a way that cultivates civic pride, participation, and greater social impact. Thus, making the cities inclusive and interactive for all the development. The paper will tries to see such spaces as a potential investment in term of city’s finances and spaces to generate a spatial & development toolkit for making them inclusive by improving the interface of social infrastructure.
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Anatolevna Matafonova, Yulia, and Tatyana Nikolayevna Gordeeva. "Negative Migration Balance as an Indicator of Regional Political System Sustainability before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic (The Case Study of the Trans-Baikal Territory)." In Fifth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture. Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31410/itema.2021.191.
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The article deals with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on indicators of migration outflow from the Trans-Baikal Territory and interpretation of the results obtained based on the authors’ theoretical provisions concerning the sustainability of a regional political system (a constituent entity of a federal state). The analysis of theoretical approaches to sustainability of the political system allowed us to formulate the essence of the sustainability towards the regional political system operating within the framework of the federal organization of political and territorial space of the state. The analysis of migration processes and comparison of the results of the similar periods (before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the pandemic) revealed a general trend of non-decreasing migration outflow of the population from the Trans-Baikal Territory. The restrictive conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic had little impact on the quantitative indicators of migration in the Trans-Baikal Territory, without reducing negative migration balance. The obtained results allowed us to conclude that the regional political system is unstable – it is unable to create comfortable and attractive living conditions for the regional community.
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Al Saeed, Mahmoud, and Fodil Fadli. "Smart Interactive Buildings [SIBs]: The use of Ambient Intelligent Systems [AMIS] to enable Smart Interactive Settlements [SISs]." In International Conference on the 4th Game Set and Match (GSM4Q-2019). Qatar University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/gsm4q.2019.0019.
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The 21st Century is witnessing the dawn of Industry [I4.0], or the fourth Industrial Revolution. With burgeoning technological inventions linked to smart interactive cities and intelligent buildings, where humans-machines-spaces interact continuously. Our ambition in this explorative study is to design and develop a sophisticated interactive computational platform that interacts and responds to humans' [users] needs and aspirations, which are increasing exponentially, in complete synchronization with machines, spaces and buildings' capacities. Consequently, there is a demand and necessity to develop Ambient Intelligent Systems (AMIS) which enable the creation of intelligent settlements that efficiently ease the communication between users/ users, users/machines and users/buildings. This is importantly needed in order to reduce the ascending consumption rate of energy in an integrative design manner. The aim of this study is to investigate the current technological solutions that address the subject of human/buildings [includes machines and spaces] interaction through sensory devices and computational systems. This can be achieved through the design and development of a comprehensive understanding of the human/buildings interactions, in the form of Ambient Intelligent Systems that enable the interaction of different stakeholders and users with the building they live/work in, at realtime. This will solve any problem related to energy usage and hence environmental quality control indoor-outdoor of the building. The findings of this study demonstrate the necessity of integrating AMIS solutions into the early stages of buildings design as a primary method of Design, Build and Operation (DBO). Earlier computational design technologies would help develop an Advanced Design, Analysis and Management System (ADAMS). This system has been simulated and validated effectively to enable human-buildings constant interactivity at all time in real-time reaction. AMIS solutions through ADAMS model lead us as designers, architects, planners and users to consider our buildings as an interactive living entity rather than a static conventional mass. Humans-Buildings-Spaces interaction through AMIS platforms will be capable of collecting, analyzing, synthesizing and developing adequate customized decisions at their own, as Artificially Intelligent [AI] constituents of the Smart Interactive Buildings [SIBs] network, which would undoubtedly lead to reduced energy consumption and healthier livable Smart Interactive Settlements [SISs].
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Kroon, Martin. "Assessment of Three Possible Criteria for Remodelling of Collagen Gels and Collagenous Tissues." In ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2010-19064.
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Collagenous tissues are living structures, in which new material may be added and the structural organisation may change over time. The maintenance of the collagen matrix is accomplished by fibre-producing cells, such as fibroblasts. During maintenance, the extracellular matrix (ECM) influences the development, shape, migration, proliferation, survival, and function of the cells. The mobility of the fibroblasts and their ability to contract the ECM are important properties for a proper maintenance of the ECM [1,2]. The purpose of the present paper is to shed some more light on the interaction between the ECM and the fibre-producing cells. The fibroblasts remodel the collagen gel by reorienting the individual collagen fibres. This reorientation of fibres is described by an evolution law, which depends on a continuum mechanics entity. Three possible choices are assessed: reorientation towards increasing Cauchy stress, increasing elastic stretch, and increasing current stiffness of the material. The model is compared with experimental results, and the three different criteria are evaluated in terms of the predicted distribution of collagen fibres after remodeling and resulting stress-strain relations. Experimental results from tissue equivalents in the form of collagen gels are used when assessing the three criteria [3]. We consider a network of collagen fibres, where the fibres are embedded in a matrix fluid. The collagen fabric and the surrounding fluid are assumed to be the only load-carrying constituents in the material. Embedded in and attached to the collagen fabric is also a population of fibroblasts. The collagen fabric is composed of collagen fibres, which in turn are bundles of collagen fibrils. The deformation of a line element in the matrix is described by the deformation gradient F(X) = ∂x/∂X, which is decomposed according to F = FelFlfFr, see Fig. 1. The fibroblasts’ remodelling of the collagen fabric results in a new matrix configuration Ωr. This deformation of the matrix is described by Fr. The configuration Ωr does not necessarily fulfill equilibrium, and the deformation gradient Flf takes the matrix to the state Ωlf, that fulfils global equilibrium with no external loads applied. Finally, if external loads are applied to the material, the configuration Ωel is attained, and this deformation is described by the deformation gradient Fel.
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Ramirez, Angel D., Karla Crespo, Daniel A. Salas, and Andrea J. Boero. "Life Cycle Assessment of a Household in Ecuador." In ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2020-23199.
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Abstract The life cycle assessment (LCA) of a middle-class household of 5 members in Guayaquil, Ecuador was performed in order to identify the life cycle stages and activities with higher environmental burdens. LCA is a quantitative tool for assessing the environmental performance of products or systems during its life span, through the compilation and further evaluation of the inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts. The life cycle of the house included a 50-year lifespan house divided into three stages: pre-occupation, occupation, and post-occupation stage. The type of house chosen for the analysis represents the current trend of urban growth and planning of the city, which is pointing towards residential zones and housing plans far away from central areas. The notion of household metabolism is associated with the occupation stage. Household metabolism refers to all flows of matter and energy related to anthropogenic activities conducted on a household, which is a socio-economic entity that consists of people living together occupying a dwelling or part of it. Households are key entities of the anthroposphere because the sum of all private households is the process on which all other processes depend on and serve directly or indirectly. The total energy use and emissions for which the sum of households is responsible reflects the importance of considering its influence when assessing the environmental impact of dwellings. Five energy case scenarios were analyzed. These included different energy mixes and the use of inductive cookers as an alternative to those that use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which are the most used in Ecuador. The influence of the energy production structure of the country on the environmental impact of the household is supported by the results. A higher share of hydroelectricity in the energy mix, compared with the share of thermal electricity, presented lower environmental impacts in most categories. Public policies that encourage a shift towards a cleaner electricity production technology may decrease the overall environmental impact of households and buildings. The occupation stage entails the highest contribution to all impact categories, e.g. 88% of global warming potential (GWP), followed by the pre-occupation stage, contributing 10% of GWP. Food consumption has not been considered in reviewed studies, although it represents the highest environmental burden within the occupation stage of the house, followed by electricity, and gas use: 43, 27, and 20% of GWP respectively. The results support the importance of including household metabolism in LCA studies due to the high environmental burden associated with it, and the influence of the electricity production structure of the country on the life cycle impact of households.
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Nascimento, Raul Batista, and Valzeli Sampaio. "Prenda da Mangueira." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.100.
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Prenda da Mangueira is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) in the process of production in which uses the Mangueira Desejo project as a base to bring back a well known children’s game called Boca de Forno, that consists of one of the children being the leader which will be called mãe (mom), that will be in charge of giving errands to run by the other children as fast as they can right after singing a song together led by mãe. ARGs are transmedia analogic games that gather a community together to interact and play, solving puzzles, mysteries, quests and so on. They all have a strong narrative that extends our current reality and evolves as the players’ progress. The game is normally managed by their designers. The ARG’s definition is quite open, but some authors agree on the use of the term transmedia “the aggregate effect of multiple texts/media artifacts” as the defining attribute of ARGs. Even being a game, designers and players tend to bring a sentiment of that not being a real game but the reality itself. As adulthood comes we start to leave behind those games we used to play as children. Each generation has their own games and to those people who lived during the times with little or no internet, the trees still had some meaning and an importance, they were either a physical point of reference and a stage for children to gather and play around its shelter. Many of our already known children's games were born, taught and learned in scenarios like that, together with a handful of nostalgic memories that are getting harder and harder to bring back due to the decreasing social contact brought by many factors of our current way of life. As Mango Tree (Mangueira Desejo) project already brings us the observation of our current reality through an alternate digital one, bringing back and setting new meanings to the city’s mango trees, done over the idea of Yoko Ono’s project Wish Tree which encourages us to express ourselves through the written wishes hung up on any living tree. The project’s intent is to add a new expression to Mangueira Desejo project which is a new narrative that comprises the mãe (mom) played by the designers through the tree entity that brings errands for the players to run. As the base project uses trees, this project will stick to it and place physical markers on city’s trees in order to let anyone with an AR ready mobile device with the app installed to play the game.
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Pirker, Michael, Regina Bernhaupt, and Thomas Mirlacher. "Investigating usability and user experience as possible entry barriers for touch interaction in the living room." In the 8th international interactive conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1809777.1809808.
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Clouse, Carey, Stephen Schreiber, and Caryn Brause. "Housing the Urban Animal." In 2017 ACSA Annual Conference. ACSA Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.amp.105.9.
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The topic of housing design, interpreted in the broadest sense, could be conceived of as any space that hosts a living creature. Thus, in this entry-level design studio, students began by designing a dwelling space for an animal client. Animals were selected because our cohabitation with with them improves, supports, and sustains not only human life, but also our biosphere. These clients provide a range of productive services, such as their ability to pollinate, or to provide food, clothing, pest control, or fertilizer.
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Petrie, John, Yan Qi, Mark Cornwell, Md Al Adib Sarker, Pranesh Biswas, Sen Du, and Xianming Shi. Design of Living Barriers to Reduce the Impacts of Snowdrifts on Illinois Freeways. Illinois Center for Transportation, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36501/0197-9191/20-019.
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Blowing snow accounts for a large part of Illinois Department of Transportation’s total winter maintenance expenditures. This project aims to develop recommendations on the design and placement of living snow fences (LSFs) to minimize snowdrift on Illinois highways. The research team examined historical IDOT data for resource expenditures, conducted a literature review and survey of northern agencies, developed and validated a numerical model, field tested selected LSFs, and used a model to assist LSF design. Field testing revealed that the proper snow fence setback distance should consider the local prevailing winter weather conditions, and snow fences within the right-of-way could still be beneficial to agencies. A series of numerical simulations of flow around porous fences were performed using Flow-3D, a computational fluid dynamics software. The results of the simulations of the validated model were employed to develop design guidelines for siting LSFs on flat terrain and for those with mild slopes (< 15° from horizontal). Guidance is provided for determining fence setback, wind characteristics, fence orientation, as well as fence height and porosity. Fences comprised of multiple rows are also addressed. For sites with embankments with steeper slopes, guidelines are provided that include a fence at the base and one or more fence on the embankment. The design procedure can use the available right-of-way at a site to determine the appropriate fence characteristics (e.g., height and porosity) to prevent snow deposition on the road. The procedure developed in this work provides an alternative that uses available setback to design the fence. This approach does not consider snow transport over an entire season and may be less effective in years with several large snowfall events, very large single events, or a sequence of small events with little snowmelt in between. However, this procedure is expected to be effective for more frequent snowfall events such as those that occurred over the field-monitoring period. Recommendations were made to facilitate the implementation of research results by IDOT. The recommendations include a proposed process flow for establishing LSFs for Illinois highways, LSF siting and design guidelines (along with a list of suitable plant species for LSFs), as well as other implementation considerations and identified research needs.
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Baird, Natalie, Tanushree Bharat Shah, Ali Clacy, Dimitrios Gerontogiannis, Jay Mackenzie, David Nkansah, Jamie Quinn, Hector Spencer-Wood, Keren Thomson, and Andrew Wilson. maths inside Resource Suite with Interdisciplinary Learning Activities. University of Glasgow, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/gla.pubs.234071.
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Maths inside is a photo competition open to everyone living in Scotland, hosted by the University of Glasgow. The maths inside project seeks to nourish a love for mathematics by embarking on a journey of discovery through a creative lens. This suite of resources have been created to inspire entrants, and support families, teachers and those out-of-school to make deeper connections with their surroundings. The maths inside is waiting to be discovered! Also contained in the suite is an example to inspire and support you to design your own interdisciplinary learning (IDL) activity matched to Education Scotland experiences and outcomes (Es+Os), to lead pupils towards the creation of their own entry. These resources are not prescriptive, and are designed with a strong creativity ethos for them to be adapted and delivered in a manner that meets the specific needs of those participating. The competition and the activities can be tailored to meet all and each learners' needs. We recommend that those engaging with maths inside for the first time complete their own mapping exercise linking the designed activity to the Es+Os. To create a collaborative resource bank open to everyone, we invite you to treat these resources as a working document for entrants, parents, carers, teachers and schools to make their own. Please share your tips, ideas and activities at info@mathsinside.com and through our social media channels. Past winning entries of the competition are also available for inspiration and for using as a teaching resource. Already inspired? Enter the competition!
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DiGrande, Laura, Sue Pedrazzani, Elizabeth Kinyara, Melanie Hymes, Shawn Karns, Donna Rhodes, and Alanna Moshfegh. Field Interviewer– Administered Dietary Recalls in Participants’ Homes: A Feasibility Study Using the US Department of Agriculture’s Automated Multiple-Pass Method. RTI Press, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2021.mr.0045.2105.
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of administering the Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM), a widely used tool for collecting 24-hour dietary recalls, in participants’ homes by field interviewers. Design: The design included computer-assisted personal interviews led by either a nutritionist (standard) or field interviewer. Portion estimators tested were a set of three-dimensional food models (standard), a two-dimensional food model booklet, or a tablet with digital images rendered via augmented reality. Setting: Residences in central North Carolina. Participants: English-speaking adults. Pregnant women and individuals who were fasting were excluded. Results: Among 133 interviews, most took place in living rooms (52%) or kitchens (22%). Mean interview time was 40 minutes (range 13–90), with no difference by interviewer type or portion estimator, although timing for nutritionist-led interviews declined significantly over the study period. Forty-five percent of participants referenced items from their homes to facilitate recall and portion estimation. Data entry and post-interview coding was evaluated and determined to be consistent with requirements for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Values for the number of food items consumed, food groups, energy intake (average of 3,011 kcal for men and 2,105 kcal for women), and key nutrients were determined to be plausible and within reasonably expected ranges regardless of interviewer type or portion estimator used. Conclusions: AMPM dietary recall interviews conducted in the home are feasible and may be preferable to clinical administration because of comfort and the opportunity for participants to access home items for recall. AMPMs administered by field interviewers using the food model booklet produced credible nutrition data that was comparable to AMPMs administered by nutritionists. Training field interviewers in dietary recall and conducting home interviews may be sensible choices for nutrition studies when response rates and cost are concerns.
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Sheridan, Anne. Annual report on migration and asylum 2016: Ireland. ESRI, November 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/sustat65.
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The Annual Report on Migration and Asylum 2016 provides an overview of trends, policy developments and significant debates in the area of asylum and migration during 2016 in Ireland. Some important developments in 2016 included: The International Protection Act 2015 was commenced throughout 2016. The single application procedure under the Act came into operation from 31 December 2016. The International Protection Office (IPO) replaced the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) from 31 December 2016. The first instance appeals body, the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT), replacing the Refugee Appeals Tribunal (RAT), was established on 31 December 2016. An online appointments system for all registrations at the Registration Office in Dublin was introduced. An electronic Employment Permits Online System (EPOS) was introduced. The Irish Short Stay Visa Waiver Programme was extended for a further five years to October 2021. The Second National Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking was published. 2016 was the first full year of implementation of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP). A total of 240 persons were relocated to Ireland from Greece under the relocation strand of the programme and 356 persons were resettled to Ireland. Following an Oireachtas motion, the Government agreed to allocate up to 200 places to unaccompanied minors who had been living in the former migrant camp in Calais and who expressed a wish to come to Ireland. This figure is included in the overall total under the IRPP. Ireland and Jordan were appointed as co-facilitators in February 2016 to conduct preparatory negotiations for the UN high level Summit for Refugees and Migrants. The New York Declaration, of September 2016, sets out plans to start negotiations for a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration and a global compact for refugees to be adopted in 2018. Key figures for 2016: There were approximately 115,000 non-EEA nationals with permission to remain in Ireland in 2016 compared to 114,000 at the end of 2015. Net inward migration for non-EU nationals is estimated to be 15,700. The number of newly arriving immigrants increased year-on-year to 84,600 at April 2017 from 82,300 at end April 2016. Non-EU nationals represented 34.8 per cent of this total at end April 2017. A total of 104,572 visas, both long stay and short stay, were issued in 2016. Approximately 4,127 persons were refused entry to Ireland at the external borders. Of these, 396 were subsequently admitted to pursue a protection application. 428 persons were returned from Ireland as part of forced return measures, with 187 availing of voluntary return, of which 143 were assisted by the International Organization for Migration Assisted Voluntary Return Programme. There were 532 permissions of leave to remain granted under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 during 2016. A total of 2,244 applications for refugee status were received in 2016, a drop of 32 per cent from 2015 (3,276). 641 subsidiary protection cases were processed and 431 new applications for subsidiary protection were submitted. 358 applications for family reunification in respect of recognised refugees were received. A total of 95 alleged trafficking victims were identified, compared with 78 in 2015.