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Tinker, Audrey, Urs Kreuter, Richard Burt, and Sherry Bame. "Green Construction: Contractor Motivation and Trends in Austin, Texas." Journal of Green Building 1, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.1.2.118.
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The purpose of this paper is to describe and assess one of the first comprehensive residential green-builder programs in the U.S. It compares trends of items used in residential construction during the past five years and reports why participating builders chose to incorporate specific items and their level of commitment to the program. This description provides a baseline of strategies to investigate the effect of this program in developing sustainable communities. The builder study population was derived from a database of registered “green” residences built during 1998-2002 in greater Austin, Texas (2,335 homes and 73 listed builders). Almost half the builders constructed just one “green” home, whereas two builders built almost 75% of the green homes during the 5-year study period. Less than 1% of the homes received a perfect 5-star rating, whereas 87% were rated 1 or 2 stars. The frequency of implementing the 122 green features were compared over time and analyzed for correlation with cost and their associated star-value. Cost was the primary factor determining item use frequency. Participating builders generally concurred that the program was successful and beneficial to homeowners but that the additional work required for participation provided little financial reward for builders. While much can be done with low-cost interventions to reduce the negative environmental impacts of residential construction, builder participation may be enhanced by promotion of some of the higher cost features. In addition, public education about the long-term benefits of green homes is needed to increase homeowner participation, and encourage builders to incorporate more environmentally friendly features in the homes they construct.
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Georgiou, J., P. E. D. Love, and J. Smith. "A comparison of defects in houses constructed by owners and registered builders in the Australian State of Victoria." Structural Survey 17, no. 3 (September 1999): 160–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02630809910291343.
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Benhadi-Marín, Jacinto, Diogo Félix Oliveira, Alberto Fereres, and José Alberto Pereira. "Observations on the Potential of Spiders as Natural Enemies of Trioza erytreae (del Guercio, 1918; Hemiptera: Triozidae) in the Citrus Agroecosystem in Portugal." Biology and Life Sciences Forum 4, no. 1 (December 3, 2020): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/iecps2020-08877.
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The “citrus greening disease” or huanglongbing is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Candidatus liberibacter spp. One vector of HLB, the African citrus psyllid Trioza erytreae (del Guercio, 1918), was recorded for the first time in 2014 in mainland Spain and since then it has spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Measures against T. erytreae include chemical treatments and quarantine although eradication programmes have been of limited success or even failed. The biological control of T. erytreae has been little developed yet. Among natural enemies, spiders may encompass a promising group of predators. The objective of this work was to assess the potential of spiders as natural enemies of T. erytreae. A Citrus limon orchard was selected in northwestern Portugal in the area colonized by T. erytreae. A total of 100 webs (50 above and 50 below 1.5 m) were visually inspected throughout the orchard in August 2020. The family of the web-builder, web size, number of adults of T. erytreae captured by each web, and the temperature and humidity were registered. Temperature and humidity did not significantly differ between the two vertical strata. Web size was significantly higher in the lower strata whereas the number of captured adults of T. erytreae was significantly higher in the upper strata. The dominant family in the upper strata was Theridiidae corresponding with the most successful webs capturing adults of T. erytreae. Our results suggest that web architecture was the only factor driving the number of captured adults of T. erytreae. Thus, space web builders could be the most successful natural enemies of T. erytreae among aerial web builders.
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Mugiyatno, Mugiyatno, Amin Purnawan, and Achmad Sulchan. "RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEED LAND BUILDERS OFFICERS (PPAT) BUY SELL IN MAKING DEED LAND DISPUTE (Analysis of Supreme Court Decision No. 826 K / Pdt / 2018)." Jurnal Akta 7, no. 1 (March 30, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/akta.v7i1.7899.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze 1) Liability Land Deed Official (PPAT) in the manufacture of the deed of sale of land. 2) .Menganalisis the validity of the deed of sale made by PPAT.3). Analyzing the legal consequences Supreme Court Decision No. 826 K / Pdt / 2018 against the Land Deed Official (PPAT) who manufacture a deed of sale of land disputes.The approach method in this research is the empirical jurisdiction. Specifications of this research is descriptive analysis. The source of the data used is primary and secondary data. The primary source is the Supreme Court decision number 826K / Pdt / 2018, while secondary data sources are taken from books and other related iteratorr, obtained through interviews and literature, while data analysis is a descriptive analytic. The method of data collection is the engineering library (library research).Results of the research results can be concluded: 1) Obligation PPAT is a deed as evidence has implemented a legal act of buying and selling, and registered under the name of the office to Pertanahan.2) Validity of PPAT Deed governed and determined by the current Minister of National Land Agency, it is affirmed in Article 21 paragraph (1) of Government Regulation No. 37 of 1998 which states that the PPAT deed made in the prescribed form of the National Land Agency. 3). The legal consequences Supreme Court Decision No. 826 K / Pdt / 2018 is the Deed of Sale and Purchase of Land Disputes number 186/2015 and certificate of land with 1394 numbers became invalid / void and not legally binding and PPAT and Land Agency may be penalized for committed an unlawful act.Keywords : offense, purchase agreement, land deed official
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Liu, Tong, Anuradha Mathrani, and Jasper Mbachu. "Benefits and barriers in uptake of mobile apps in New Zealand construction industry." Facilities 37, no. 5/6 (April 1, 2019): 254–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-08-2017-0078.
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Purpose Mobile apps offer construction workers a quick, affordable and user-friendly platform for meeting their information, communication and computing needs, with nearly 13,000 construction apps currently available in the market. This study aims to report construction managers’ perspectives on the uptake of mobile apps in the New Zealand construction industry. Design/methodology/approach Exploratory research methods were used in two stages. First stage involved interviews with 14 construction managers who were registered with the New Zealand Registered Master Builders Association, followed by an online questionnaire in the second stage. The link of online questionnaire was sent to all members of participating professional organisations by their administrators. In total, 228 responses were received, of which 60 per cent participants completed the entire questionnaire. Findings Results show an overall positive attitude towards the use of apps. Perceptions of top management personnel differed slightly from those of middle managers; the former expressed interest in apps usage at strategic level such as improving long-term client relationship management and satisfaction; while the latter were more interested in the apps use at operational and tactical levels such as task- or project-level productivity improvement. Research limitations/implications Though bias has been minimised by giving equal opportunity to each member of trade and professional organisations to participate in this survey, of the 228 responses received, only 60 per cent participants completed the entire questionnaire. This is below the minimum requirement for a holistic representation of views. As a result, the findings might not be generalised beyond the study’s scope. Originality/value The study provides new insights on the uptake of smartphone apps in New Zealand’s construction sector from the perspective of construction managers who make strategic decisions. The findings have implications for policy formulation and implementation in regards to the use of mobile apps for productivity improvement in the sector. Mobile apps developers could also gain understanding on functional needs and preferences of the construction workforce, which will help in development of more relevant apps.
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Önal, H. Inci. "Archives as Builders of Civic Partnerships." Atlanti 26, no. 2 (October 25, 2016): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/2670-451x.26.2.181-188(2016).
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Archives and archivists can participate in rekindling civic engagement from many venues. The implementation of a modern civil registration service is at the heart of providing better archival public services. The modernisation of civil registration system in Turkey culminated in 2000 with the introduction of the Central Civil Registration System or MERNIS, as is known by its abbreviations in Turkish, set up after long and arduous work. This paper describes the process of establishing, extending, and improving MERNIS services through national and international cooperation and collaboration. The focus of this paper provides examples of using archives by the public agencies accessing MERNIS are as follows: Economic and financial; planning and investment; security; military service; health services; education; social security; electoral registers; justice. As a result, it was found out that access to central civil registration system and archival databases to citizens eager to find and use vital services within their communities.
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ARSLANTAŞ, Süleyman, and Ahmet KURNAZ. "Classifying Master’s and PhD Theses Whose Titles Contain Concept of “Critical Thinking” by Different Variables." International Journal of Modern Education Studies 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2017): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.51383/ijonmes.2017.9.
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Independent and original thinking are the concepts which define critical thinking. A critical thinker doesn’t passively accept other people’s views and thoughts, on the contrary he constitutes his own thoughts by analyzing them. This independence liberates his mind, heart and actions (Doğanay and Ünal, 2006). In this context, the definition of critical thinking can be summarized as reaching a conclusion by reasoning (collecting information for a present situation, defining assumptions and evidences, discussing the defined evidences and inferring and synthesizing) on a problem or a situation (Demirel, 2006). Critical thinking becomes a basic skill in occupational groups. To improve the quality of the services people get, all professionals, especially doctors, teachers, architects, lawyers, nurses, builders, must have the ability to think critically.This study aims to classify the master’s and PhD theses whose titles contain the concept of “critical thinking” by different variables. The data were collected from the 211 master’s and PhD theses completed between 1999 – 2014 and registered to database of Council of Higher Education. This study was conducted through descriptive survey model and descriptive statistics were used in the analysis process. Thesis were examined and classified under the following topics; (1) academic level, (2) the universities in which they were prepared, (3) preparation year, (4) research method, (5) research model, (6) education level of the participants, (7) departments in which they were prepared (8) gender of the researchers, (9) degree of the supervisors (10) number of pages.At the end of the study it was found that most of the theses about critical thinking were master’s theses and they were prepared in well-established universities. There are hardly any theses prepared in private universities. The number of theses about critical thinking reached its top point between 2009-2012. While most of the master’s theses were conducted through quantitative method, most of the PhD theses were conducted through mixed and experimental designs. The participants of most of the theses about critical thinking were university and primary school students. Teachers and nurses participated in more theses than other occupational groups. Most of the theses about critical thinking were conducted in the field of education. nursing and heath care departments takes the second place. However, it is interesting that hardly any theses were conducted in the fields of law, politics, public administration, sociology and psychology. Another interesting point is that most of the theses were prepared by female researchers.
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Aalto-Korte, Kristiina, Kirsi Koskela, and Maria Pesonen. "Boat builders' occupational contact dermatitis - 11-year data from the Finnish register of occupational diseases." Contact Dermatitis 78, no. 5 (January 31, 2018): 370–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cod.12965.
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Sadler, Grace, and Sina Shahab. "Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Registers in England: A Transaction-Cost and Effectiveness Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (April 27, 2021): 4912. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13094912.
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The development of the self and custom housebuilding sector can work towards increasing the supply of housing and alleviate some of the strain on the housing market in England. Although it is not a solution for everyone, improving self and custom housebuilding can add diversity to the market, increase housing affordability, and produce sustainable homes. This has been recognised by the UK Government, which has introduced legislation which aims to assist self and custom builders on the journey to building their own home. The goals of the legislation are to ensure every local authority in England keeps a register of individuals who want to build their own home, to consider this register when carrying out other planning functions, and to grant sufficient planning permissions for those on the register. This paper evaluates the ‘self-build and custom housebuilding registers’ from the perspective of transaction costs and perceived effectiveness. This is achieved through semi-structured interviews with local authority planners, private-sector planners, property developers, and national bodies. The findings of this study identify that the primary transaction costs occur in the eligibility tests stage of the register application and relate to the uncertainty felt by applicants post application. The paper concludes that these could be rectified by implementing a more consistent and fair system. The perceived effectiveness of the register varies considerably. The paper determines that the policy requires significant change in order to meet the goals it set out to achieve, which includes model Supplementary Planning Guidance documents and a robust support system for applicants.
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Nesbit, Rebecca. "Society of Biology launches new professional registers." Biochemist 34, no. 4 (August 1, 2012): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03404048.
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In June, the Society of Biology launched a new professional register to support the development of biologists. This builds on its current provision of Chartered Biologist status, and now there are three levels of recognition suitable for those at different stages of their scientific career.
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Rahm, Henrik, Magdalena Andersson, and Anna-Karin Edberg. "The collective voice: Legitimation strategies in focus group discussions with nurses in municipal palliative care for older people in Sweden." Communication and Medicine 11, no. 2 (August 17, 2015): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cam.v11i2.20116.
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This paper explores focus group discussions of registered nurses in municipal palliative care for older people, using data collected by researchers with an interest in health sciences. The linguistically based discourse analyis builds on a combination of Bakhtinian notions of dialogicity, the Other and addressivity, the use of quotations, and also van Leeuwen’s framework for legitimation in discourse. The aim is to investigate strategies of addressing and legitimizing palliative care. Three types of narrative are discerned: the cautionary tale, fictionalization of professional experiences and the enactment of a fictive dialogue. The other professions involved (physicians, assistant nurses) are positioned as the Other as a means of legitimizing the perspectives of the registered nurses. As the patients and their next of kin are the objects of professional activities, the notion of the Third (connecting to the Other) is proposed. The objectification is a manifestation of commitment with routinized and professional distance to the patients.
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Wilkinson, Jill. "Proposals for registered nurse prescribing: perceptions and intentions of nurses working in primary health care settings." Journal of Primary Health Care 7, no. 4 (2015): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc15299.
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INTRODUCTION: In 2013, the Nursing Council of New Zealand consulted on a proposal for introduction of registered nurse (RN) prescribing at two levels (specialist and community) within the designated class of prescriber. The proposal builds on the success of the diabetes nurse specialist prescribing project and the experience of other countries where RN prescribing is well established. AIM: To describe the views and intentions of nurses who work in primary health care (PHC) settings about the two levels of RN prescribing proposed. METHODS: The study involved a self-reported survey using a non-probability sample of RNs working in PHC settings (N=305). Quantitative and qualitative data were analysed descriptively. RESULTS: The respondents were experienced nurses. Overall, 82.3% expressed interest in becoming a community nurse prescriber, and 62.6% expressed interest in the specialist prescriber level. RN prescribing was expected to improve efficiency and access to medicines for high-needs populations, clarify accountability and improve nurses' autonomy. The education requirements for the specialist level were viewed as appropriate but too onerous for many. Requirements were viewed as inadequate for the community level. Concerns were raised about funding for education and support for RN prescribing roles. DISCUSSION: Nurses were positive about the proposals and see a potential to meet significant unmet health need. Nurses are already engaged in the provision of medicines to patients and prescribing authority would ensure they are suitably qualified to engage in these tasks. A clear policy platform will be needed if the proposed levels of RN prescribing are to be successfully implemented. KEYWORDS: New Zealand; prescribing; primary health care; registered nurses
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An, Ning, Shi-Ying Sun, Xiao-Guang Zhao, and Zeng-Guang Hou. "Remember like humans." International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 172988141769231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1729881417692313.
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Visual tracking is a challenging computer vision task due to the significant observation changes of the target. By contrast, the tracking task is relatively easy for humans. In this article, we propose a tracker inspired by the cognitive psychological memory mechanism, which decomposes the tracking task into sensory memory register, short-term memory tracker, and long-term memory tracker like humans. The sensory memory register captures information with three-dimensional perception; the short-term memory tracker builds the highly plastic observation model via memory rehearsal; the long-term memory tracker builds the highly stable observation model via memory encoding and retrieval. With the cooperative models, the tracker can easily handle various tracking scenarios. In addition, an appearance-shape learning method is proposed to update the two-dimensional appearance model and three-dimensional shape model appropriately. Extensive experimental results on a large-scale benchmark data set demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art two-dimensional and three-dimensional trackers in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and robustness.
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Free, David. "News from the Field." College & Research Libraries News 79, no. 8 (September 5, 2018): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.8.406.
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ACRL Signature Initiative on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion poll resultsThe Librarian Parlor builds a community of researchersFour libraries sign GPO preservation steward agreementsLYRASIS announces six Catalyst Fund winning projects2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service nominationsOCLC awarded Mellon Foundation grant to register library retention commitments for print serials in WorldCatRevised Guidelines for Media Resources in Academic Libraries
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Barrette, Amy L., Neal R. Brendel, and Wadih El-Riachi. "The Availability in the UAE of Liens to Secure Payment under Construction Contracts." Arab Law Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2010): 309–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157302510x504953.
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AbstractWhile much attention has been devoted to curbing the rise of lawsuits surrounding Dubai’s struggling construction industry, surprisingly little attention has been focused on another option available to contractors who seek payment for failed or troubled projects. Contractors, architects, and engineers may find relief under a seldom-reported UAE federal law that establishes qualified rights for contractors to secure payment for work under non-governmental contracts by filing a priority lien against the project itself. This article discusses the remedy, known in many common-law jurisdictions as ‘mechanic’s liens’ or ‘builders’ liens’, and why it is important for contractors to be familiar with the applicable Civil Code and Civil Procedure Code provisions. Those who first exercise their lien rights and seek to register liens with the Land Department will be treading new ground and will want to be well- prepared and educated on their rights provided under existing law.
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Dubernet, M. L., G. Rixon, M. Doronin, and VAMDC Collaboration. "Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre: Level 3 Service and Future Prospects." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10, H16 (August 2012): 685–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921314012903.
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AbstractThe Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC, http://www.vamdc.eu) is an international Consortium that has created an interoperable e-science infrastructure for the exchange of atomic and molecular data. The VAMDC defines standards for the exchange of atomic and molecular data, develop reference implementation of those standards, deploys registries of internet resources (yellow pages), designs user applications in order to meet the user needs, builds data access layers above databases to provide unified outputs from these databases, cares about asynchronous queries with workflows and connects its infrastructure to the grid. The paper describes the current service deployment of the VAMDC data infrastructure across our registered databases and the key features of the current infrastructure.
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Khalid, Hasnan Bin, Saesar Budi Luhur, and Yudhistira Adhi Prima. "A Size-Bed Wheelchair Design Manufacture with Scaled Prototype and Kinematic-Virtual Reality Model Simulation." Advanced Materials Research 488-489 (March 2012): 1207–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.488-489.1207.
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This paper presents the design verification of a novel concept wheelchair using SimMechanics toolboxes. A wheelchair-sized bed concept (patent pending) with 3 modes of ability (sitting-lying-standing) is proposed. Design begins by deciding the actuator and the component integrated in reality. The 3D wheelchair model was done in AutoCAD 3D and in Vrealm builder to connect with simulink. All components like joint, frame, actuator, gear box and any other part of wheelchair was register in SimMechanics. To verify the kinematics model, a joystick input was connected to the model for visual movement and collision verification. Finally from virtual reality simulation and SimMechanics kinematic modeling, the movement and collision can be verified, and also the actuator condition can be reported.
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Ebensgaard Jensen, Kim. "Cross-domain variation in the X itself as a grammatical construction." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 177–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.3.2.01ebe.
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The X itself is a nominal construction that has not received much attention within cognitive linguistics despite it having a quite interesting function, as it serves to select a core part in a partonomy and thus specify lexical relations within a text. Apart from being mentioned in passing in Croft & Cruse (2004), one of the few treatments of this construction in cognitive linguistics is Jensen (2014) who builds on the comments in Croft & Cruse (2004) and proposes a hypothesis pertaining to the cognitive and discursive function of the construction. However, that hypothesis does not take into account an important aspect of the reality of language — namely, variation. This article investigates, within the framework of usage-based construction grammar, the X itself in the Open American National Corpus (OANC) to see whether the construction displays variation across the nine domains that the data in OANC are divided into. Applying quantitative techniques, including lexical diversity measures and multidimensional scaling, this article explores aspects of the discursive behavior of the X itself across these domains and addresses the extent to which the construction interacts with the registers associated with the domains. Focusing on use-based varieties (McArthur 1992, see also Quirk 1989 and Halliday et al. 1964: 77), the present article argues that the X itself is not a constructional monolith, but that it is characterized by register-sensitive functional variation and that its core selection function very likely serves a information-structural discourse-pragmatic purpose.
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Perdomo Marín, Juan Camilo. "The ancient mythology of modern science : a mythologist looks (seriously) at popular science writing, por Gregory Schrempp." Revista de Antropología y Sociología: Virajes 22, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 296–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.17151/rasv.2020.22.2.14.
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Anthropology has a complex relationship with science modern. On the one hand, this discipline registers its investigative work within a scientific bet that monitors and builds criteria of validity, rigor and generality to objectively understand the social reality. On the other hand, anthropology not only studies scientific the multiple possibilities of existence of human beings, but in turn critically assesses disputes, legacies, and limits by means of which modern science thinks, represents and interrogate the world.
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Gao, Ming Peng, and Ying Xu. "Hierarchical and Hybrid Topology P2P Model Based on Chord Protocol and Interest Subnet." Advanced Materials Research 219-220 (March 2011): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.219-220.8.
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Structured and unstructured p2p topology model both have their own advantages and disadvantages. According to this issue, hierarchical and hybrid topology p2p mode based on chord protocol and interest subnet is proposed and established, whose upper layer makes use of bilateral search on chord loop and lower layer builds interest subnet where register node records search requests and results and stores popular resource table. It is also important to maintain model. The secondary distribution and networking strategy about new node help it join in interest subnet quickly. And the way of backing up register node and super node make the system’s robustness strong. It is showed by performance evaluation that this model can reduce query delay and improve the efficiency of resource location to some extend.
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de la Torre, Beatriz G., and Fernando Albericio. "The Pharmaceutical Industry in 2019. An Analysis of FDA Drug Approvals from the Perspective of Molecules." Molecules 25, no. 3 (February 9, 2020): 745. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25030745.
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During 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 48 new drugs (38 New Chemical Entities and 10 Biologics). Although this figure is slightly lower than that registered in 2018 (59 divided between 42 New Chemical Entities and 17 Biologics), a year that broke a record with respect to new drugs approved by this agency, it builds on the trend initiated in 2017, when 46 drugs were approved. Of note, three antibody drug conjugates, three peptides, and two oligonucleotides were approved in 2019. This report analyzes the 48 new drugs of the class of 2019 from a strictly chemical perspective. The classification, which was carried out on the basis of chemical structure, includes the following: Biologics (antibody drug conjugates, antibodies, and proteins); TIDES (peptide and oligonucleotides); drug combinations; natural products; and small molecules.
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Qiu, Jun Qiang, Zeng Fu Song, Huai Yu Su, Shu Ting Yang, Kun Hu, and Pei Min He. "Research of the Unknown Cause of Death of Caesio diagramma." Advanced Materials Research 1051 (October 2014): 373–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1051.373.
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To find out the etiology and prevention methods of the death ofCaesio diagramma. Isolate the pathogen from the fester surface, liver, kidney , intestinal and other organizations of the diseasedCaesio diagramma; After the purification of the predominant strains, the phylogenetic analysis of genetic relationships was done by determining 16s rDNA gene and Homology comparison was done with the BLAST sequence detected and registered in GenBank sequence ; In the end, phylogenetic trees were constructed and the drug sensitivity experiment and pathological observation were taken.Aeromonas hydrophilais the cause of the death ofCaesio diagramma, it is highly sensitive to chloramphenicol, florfenicol, cefotaxime, gentamicin, amikacin; The pathological results indicate that the wax buildups causes increasing energe consumption ofCaesio diagramma,which decreased the resistance ofCaesio diagrammaand even leads to secondary bacterial infection. Pathogen infected the liver and spleen tissues which causes the disease and death ofCaesio diagramma.Aeromonas hydrophilacauses the death ofCaesio diagramma, and the results have an important guiding significance for the healthy breeding ofCaesio diagrammaand other ornamental fish
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Linz, Jess. "Where crises converge: the affective register of displacement in Mexico City’s post-earthquake gentrification." cultural geographies 28, no. 2 (February 17, 2021): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474021993418.
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Affect theory suggests that imagining different futures for cities begins by feeling the present differently. This article considers the political potential of the affective register in the context of gentrifying Mexico City, where the 2017 earthquake, as a crisis-event, burst onto the ongoing crisis-ordinary of gentrification-based displacement. I argue that this convergence of crises opened an affective impasse, or a time and space lived in excess of predictability. This affective impasse both interrupted business-as-usual gentrification and channeled historical affects across 32 years from the 1985 earthquake, and in turn generated new political energies. Informed by affect theory and trauma studies, I use qualitative data to invite the reader into the impasse and observe its affective dynamics. The empirical sections describe the entry points to the impasse, the affective activities that subjects engage in there, and the role of historical trauma in reshaping the atmospheres that emerge from this space. The resulting research investigates how affective ways of navigating an impasse offer the potential to reshape ongoing struggles against displacement. This builds on recent work in urban geography that uses psychoanalysis and affect theory to understand gentrification’s complexities, contradictions, and ambivalences.
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Borić, Laris. "Fortificiranje grada Cresa u 16. stoljeću." Ars Adriatica, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/ars.433.
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The unstable political situation in which Venice found itself at the time of the League of Cambrai, but also the more frequent incursions and attacks of the Uskoks in the later sixteenth century, were responsible for the surrounding the town of Cres, its medieval nucleus and the newly formed town areas with a wider and stronger fortification system of a regular square plan, with four round towers at the angles and one rectangular tower located in the north-east area, and four town gates. The only angle tower that still survives is the north-west land tower based on which other towers can be reconstructed. Three of the four town gates have been preserved: the Harbour gate, on the ground floor of the Clock Tower, and two east gates: Porta Marcella and Porta Bragadina. All three are constructed in the mannerist style of the classical architectural language, with rusticated arches flanked by two Tuscan or Ionic half-columns articulated with stone rings. These half-columns carry an architrave with coats of arms, which terminates with a projecting cornice. Most reliable sources for the dating of the building phases of the Renaissance fortifications, and for the identification of the master-carvers who worked on them are the register of the decisions of the Town Council, and the Book of the Building of the Walls (Libro della fabbrica delle mura) which is in the State Archives at Rijeka and contains records of payments for the construction expenses for individual parts of the walls. The book covers the period between 1514 and 1610, the year when the construction expenses were concluded, although the works on the finishing of the individual parts continued until 1689, the year carved in the inscription referring to the completion of the wall. The article analyses the building phases of the individual segments, and the groups of master-carvers who worked on them. It identifies the stone-cutting family workshops Stošić, Zvonarić, Soldatić and Mladinić, but also a number of local and foreign master-carvers who appeared in the individual building phases. Among them, a special place belongs to Izidor Stošić who was mentioned between 1521 and 1559 as the Protomagister of the structure and, based on the commission of the Town Council; he is identified as the builder of the town’s Clock Tower. The mentioned town portals clearly demonstrate the way in which the local builders, gathered around the local workshops, applied the projects embodying contemporary stylistic tendencies which were doubtlessly works of the yet unidentified Venetian architects.
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Lončar, Jelena. "Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 30, no. 4 (July 25, 2016): 703–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325416650252.
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This article examines under what conditions descriptive representatives of national minorities can also act as substantive representatives. It provides an empirical analysis of the behaviour of the representatives with ethnic minority backgrounds in the eighth National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. Specifically, the article builds upon a content analysis of all interventions in the plenary parliamentary debates of the thirty-one minority MPs in the period between June 2008 and March 2012. The analysis suggests that having a minority ethnic background or political party registered as a political party of national minority are not sufficient conditions for substantive minority representation. The findings show that minority representatives elected on minority electoral lists engage more in substantive representation of minorities than descriptive representatives elected to parliament either as members of mainstream parties or through pre-electoral arrangements of minority parties with mainstream political parties.
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Khurana, Indu. "Legitimacy and Reciprocal Altruism in Donation-Based Crowdfunding: Evidence from India." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 5 (April 25, 2021): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14050194.
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The donation-based crowdfunding platforms witness a mix of different entities seeking funding for numerous campaigns, adding complexities in understanding the donor behavior and factors that motivate donation. This study builds upon the economic theory of charitable giving and examines the ethical dilemma that donors face during the selection process. Using the data from Ketto.org, the biggest crowdfunding platform in India, this paper investigates the rank-order preference of donors while making a selection across heterogeneous entities and campaigns. The results show that campaigns run by non-profit organizations registered with causes that qualify for a tax-deduction receive a higher level of funding. Donors then fund unregistered non-profit organizations, followed by campaigns run by individuals. Demonstrating legitimacy by using subtle cues, like tagging “with tax-benefit,” motivates the donors to provide a higher amount of funding.
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Kaddumukasa, Mark, Josephine Najjuma, Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda, Martin N. Kaddumukasa, Jane Nakibuuka, Christopher Burant, Shirley Moore, Carol Blixen, Elly T. Katabira, and Martha Sajatovic. "Reducing stroke burden through a targeted self-management intervention for reducing stroke risk factors in high-risk Ugandans: A protocol for a randomized controlled trial." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 22, 2021): e0251662. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251662.
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Introduction Stroke burden is rapidly increasing globally. Modifiable risk factors offer an opportunity to intervene, and targeting hypertension is a key actionable target for stroke risk reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. This 3-site planned randomized controlled trial builds on promising preliminary data. Methods A total of 246 Ugandan adults will be recruited randomized to experimental intervention vs. enhanced treatment control. Intervention participants will receive six weekly group-format stroke risk reduction self-management training sessions, and the controls will receive information on cardiovascular risk. The primary study outcome is systolic B.P. measured at baseline, 13-week, 24 weeks (6 months). Secondary outcomes include other biological and behavioral stroke risk factors. Discussion The curriculum-guided self-management TargetEd MAnageMent Intervention (TEAM) program is anticipated to reduce the stroke burden in Uganda. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04685408, registered on 28 December 2020.
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Shukri, Salma T., and Kate G. Willink. "Interpretive Discernment and Performative Listening." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 3 (2020): 48–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.3.48.
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By highlighting a collaborative praxis between performative interviewing and affect theories, this essay theorizes interpretive discernment as an orientational and conceptual foundation that paves the way for performative interviewing. Interpretive discernment—the process of sensing and interpreting affective registers—encompasses both a methodological orientation and an analytical heuristic. We argue that interpretive discernment builds an interpretive architecture that expands our vocabulary, heightens our ability to listen for the affective in interviews, homes in on methodological nuances that enrich critical qualitative approaches to interviewing, and provides a structure to performative interviewing analysis.
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Coats, Lauren, Matt Cohen, John David Miles, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Rebecca Walsh. "Those We Don't Speak Of: Indians in The Village." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 2 (March 2008): 358–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.2.358.
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American literary studies has shown that the symbolic exclusion of Native Americans from the Puritan and early national imaginaries was an essential component of the making of an American identity. This argument builds on reading practices that stress literary-historical contextualization. Our essay considers how M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village (2004) addresses the continuing relevance of Native American exclusion from the national imaginary not by faithfully representing “history” but by layering its narrative with multiple historical registers. Realized through editing, cinematography, and set design, these registers—seventeenth-century Puritan, turn-of-the-twentieth-century utopian, and “the present”—are stage-managed by a group of idealistic elders who wish to protect their community from the evils of the world outside. While most critics have reduced The Village to an allegory of post-9/11 United States political culture, we propose a viewing of the film as parable that marks historical collapses and exclusions as the limits of utopia.
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Mogilner, Marina. "ARA relief campaign in the Volga region, Jewish anthropometric statistics, and the scientific promise of integration." Science in Context 32, no. 1 (March 2019): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889719000012.
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ArgumentThe article builds a case for the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (Obshchestvo Okhranenia Zdorov’ia Evreiskogo Naselenia [OZE]) as a project of medicalized modernity, a mass politics of Jewish self-help that relied on a racialized and medicalized vision of a future Jewish nation. Officially registered in 1912 in St. Petersburg, it created the space for a Jewish politics that focused on the state of the collective Jewish body as a precondition for Jewish participation in any version of modernity. OZE futurism survived the years of World War I and the Russian Civil War, when the organization had to concentrate on rescue and relief rather than on facilitating the development of new bodies and souls. New archival evidence reveals how race science, medical statistics, and positive eugenics became composite elements of the Jewish anticolonial message and new subjectivity.
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Mytsyk, L. P. "PROPAGANTION, ECOLOGICAL-BIOLOGICAL FEATURES, SIGNIFICANCE OF RED FESCUE (FESTUCA RUBRA L., POACEAE)." Питання степового лісознавства та лісової рекультивації земель 45 (October 24, 2016): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/411601.
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It is shown that red fescue form (Festuca rubra var. genuina Gr. et Godr.) is the long root-curtin cereal and a perfect «builder» of turf couver. This type contains more mezophytes than another types, though there are forms from gigrophytes to mezokserofit. In Ukraine it’s the common type of meadow herbage which can be find in forest, foreststeppe zone, in Carpathians. In the steppe zone it is mostly adventitious.
Original never described before property of Festuca rubra var. genuina Gr. et Godr. is the optional ortotrophnyh ( vertical growth). This phenomenon contributes to the formation of vertical orientation turf (registered in shading conditions and increased air humidity). Support and the basis for this are the Tree trunks and rocks are herewith its support.
Festuca rubra is one of the most applicable plants for making of high quality lawns and antierosion sod cover in the steppe zone including the industrial pollution conditions, in the zone of spraying by sea spray as well as for growing of “roll turf”.
Ecological-biological properties of Festuca rubra give the big possibilities for improvement of its range, the most closely adapted to the specific conditions of habitat in the steppe zone and introduction of high-performance seed here.
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Mytsyk, L. P. "PROPAGANTION, ECOLOGICAL-BIOLOGICAL FEATURES, SIGNIFICANCE OF RED FESCUE (FESTUCA RUBRA L., POACEAE)." Питання степового лісознавства та лісової рекультивації земель 45 (October 24, 2016): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/441601.
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It is shown that red fescue form (Festuca rubra var. genuina Gr. et Godr.) is the long root-curtin cereal and a perfect «builder» of turf couver. This type contains more mezophytes than another types, though there are forms from gigrophytes to mezokserofit. In Ukraine it’s the common type of meadow herbage which can be find in forest, foreststeppe zone, in Carpathians. In the steppe zone it is mostly adventitious.
Original never described before property of Festuca rubra var. genuina Gr. et Godr. is the optional ortotrophnyh ( vertical growth). This phenomenon contributes to the formation of vertical orientation turf (registered in shading conditions and increased air humidity). Support and the basis for this are the Tree trunks and rocks are herewith its support.
Festuca rubra is one of the most applicable plants for making of high quality lawns and antierosion sod cover in the steppe zone including the industrial pollution conditions, in the zone of spraying by sea spray as well as for growing of “roll turf”.
Ecological-biological properties of Festuca rubra give the big possibilities for improvement of its range, the most closely adapted to the specific conditions of habitat in the steppe zone and introduction of high-performance seed here.
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Song, Limei, Siyuan Sun, Yangang Yang, Xinjun Zhu, Qinghua Guo, and Huaidong Yang. "A Multi-View Stereo Measurement System Based on a Laser Scanner for Fine Workpieces." Sensors 19, no. 2 (January 18, 2019): 381. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19020381.
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A new solution to the high-quality 3D reverse modeling problem of complex surfaces for fine workpieces is presented using a laser line-scanning sensor. Due to registration errors, measurement errors, deformations, etc., a fast and accurate method is important in machine vision measurement. This paper builds a convenient and economic multi-view stereo (MVS) measurement system based on a linear stage and a rotary stage to reconstruct the measured object surface completely and accurately. In the proposed technique, the linear stage is used to generate the trigger signal and synchronize the laser sensor scanning; the rotary stage is used to rotate the object and obtain multi-view point cloud data, and then the multi-view point cloud data are registered and integrated into a 3D model. The measurement results show a measurement accuracy of 0.075 mm for a 360° reconstruction in 34 s, and some evaluation experiments were carried out to demonstrate the validity and practicability of the proposed technique.
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Wolf, Gabrielle. "Machinations of the British Medical Association: Excluding Refugee Doctors from Queensland’s Medical Profession, 1937–1942." American Journal of Legal History 59, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 513–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njz020.
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Abstract When medical practitioners fled from the Nazi regime in the 1930s, the British Medical Association (hereafter BMA), the representative body of the medical profession in the British Empire, agitated strenuously to prevent ‘refugee doctors’, as they were described, from practising medicine throughout the Empire. Prominent BMA representatives pursued this agenda in Australia through their appointment to statutory state-based authorities that registered and regulated doctors'. This article investigates how, between 1937 and 1942, they sought to use those bodies’ registration and disciplinary powers in Queensland to exclude refugee doctors. They were particularly persistent in this state given its government's resistance to BMA pressure to pass legislation restricting refugee doctors’ eligibility for registration. In so doing, the article contributes new perspectives to scholarship that analyses the BMA’s effectiveness as a pressure group. This article’s exploration of motives for the BMA’s animosity towards refugee doctors also builds on histories of the medical profession and of ethnicity within it.
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Rizzello, Alessandro, and Abdellah Kabli. "Social Finance and Sustainable Development Goals: A Literature Synthesis, Current Approaches and Research Agenda." ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 9, no. 1 (2020): 120–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2020.9.1.010.
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The debate, especially in policy circles, around the emergence of Social and Sustainable Finance (SSF), depict as ‘paradoxical’ the contrast between SSF as a relatively under-developed field of knowledge and thought, and yet as an area of practice with ‘vast potential’ that is experiencing an ‘explosion’ in practitioner numbers. Such potential, in term of economic and social value that SSF can deliver, is reflected in the increasing of interest within the public policy-making arena in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More in detail, it is also underlined by the raising of public and private investment into promoting and supporting them. Within such evolving arena, the exact scale and scope of SSF’s contribution to the improvement of SDGs worldwide is difficult to delineate and measure accurately, but there seems to be universal agreement that SDGs represent an ideal and widespread area where SSF can register a significant growth. However, limited research addressed the marriage of these two fields. The purpose of this research are: i) to shed light on existing academic literature embracing both Social and Sustainable Finance and SDGs issues, ii) explore emerging trends deriving from international policy-making actors, market builders, managers, senior academics and, iii) to identify the main areas for further research focusing on SSF and SDGs. In order to derive a research agenda about such emerging research topic, the study adapts a triangulated approach based on qualitative mixed methods. With such objectives in mind, the study provides an extensive literature review in order to depict a comprehensive overview of existing knowledge considering both SSF and SDGs topics. The analysis is therefore enhanced by the trends identified from literature deriving from public policy-making actors and market-builders as well as from invited commentaries on SSF from senior scholars and managers. Thus, a holistic perspective on SSF experience, useful to identify the main areas for further research on SSF in the sustainability industry, was derived. The study, therefore, aims to provide, through a triangulated analysis of the concepts, frameworks and trends, a detailed understanding of the mechanisms for managing the interplay between SSF and SDGs, by highlight future avenues of research in this field.
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Bennett, Gregory A. "Say what? (xiao): the representation of laughter as a contextualization cue in online Japanese discourse." Linguistica 52, no. 1 (December 31, 2012): 187–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.52.1.187-199.
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In this paper, I compare two variants for representing laughter in synchronous Japanese Twitter discourse: (xiao), the kanji symbol meaning "laughter "situated between two parentheses, and w, the first letter of the romaji transliteration of that same word wara. I argue that they are digital equivalents of what Gumperz (1982) calls contextualization cues and that users employ each variant to convey a pragmatic tone, or what Goffman (1981) refers to as linguistic keys. To demonstrate, I analyze the public Tweets of saywhat327, a male Japanese university student. I find that saywhat327 (1) uses (xiao) to key his utterances as warm/friendly in the formal register of Japanese, (2) uses w to key his utterances as playful in the informal register of Japanese, and (3) uses both variants with informal Japanese to key two separate utterances within the same Tweet as warm/friendly and playful, respectively, based on the semantic content of each utterance. In each of these cases, I argue that @saywhat327 builds rapport with his interlocutor by keying his utterances via the (xiao) and w cues.
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Bentein, Klaas. "Perfect Periphrases in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek: An Ecological-Evolutionary Account." Journal of Greek Linguistics 12, no. 2 (2012): 205–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-00000002.
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I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs “be” (εἰμί) and “have” (ἔχω) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The approach adopted in this article builds on insights from recently developed ecological-evolutionary models, which recognize the fact that language change is a two-step process, consisting of innovation and propagation, and that multiple ‘ecologogical’ factors influence the spread of a construction through the population (what I discuss in terms of ‘register’).
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Capasso, Marco, and Antje Klitkou. "Socioeconomic Indicators to Monitor Norway’s Bioeconomy in Transition." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 15, 2020): 3173. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083173.
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Bioeconomy is a concept increasingly used to circumscribe that part of the economy which depends on the utilisation of biomass. Recent empirical analyses of the European Union bioeconomies have adopted a definition of bioeconomy which also encompasses activities in “hybrid” sectors; inputs for these sectors include not only biomass, but also a relevant share of other materials. We use the same definition to assess the features and evolution of the bioeconomy in Norway. The Norwegian bioeconomy is complex, both in terms of sectoral composition and of technological development. Our analysis builds upon national statistics on value added and employment as well as on expert interviews, aimed at detecting Norway’s peculiarities in terms of biomass utilisation. We find that the Norwegian bioeconomy has strongly increased its productivity in recent years. An astonishingly high peak in productivity is registered for fishing and aquaculture, whose value added has evolved massively; at the same time, pharmaceuticals are experiencing a dramatic shift toward bio-based production. General trends in the country’s bioeconomy have thus emerged from different transformation pathways across sectors. Our empirical analysis leads to formulating a general reflection about the definition of bioeconomy and its implications for socioeconomic quantitative studies.
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GARRISON, Jim. "Mahayana Buddhism and Deweyan Philosophy." Beijing International Review of Education 1, no. 4 (December 6, 2019): 609–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25902539-00104003.
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My paper examines some of the many similarities between Mahayana Buddhism and Deweyan philosophy. It builds upon two previously published works. The first is my dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda President of Soka Gakkai International, a UN registered ngo currently active in one hundred ninety-two countries and territories, and the Director Emeritus of the Center for Dewey Studies, Larry Hickman (see Garrison, Hickman, and Ikdea, 2014). My paper will first briefly review some of the many similarities between Buddhism and Deweyan pragmatism. Second, I will also briefly review additional similarities in the published version of my Kneller Lecture to the American Educational Studies Association (see Garrison, 2019). In the present paper, I will introduce some new similarities of interest to educators. Among these are Dewey’s surprisingly Buddhist notions of language and logic as merely useful conventions. Secondly, I examine Dewey’s argument that “causation as ordered sequence is a logical category,” not an ontological category (LW 12: 454). The similarity to the opening chapter of Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, is striking. I will suggest a logical reading has some interesting implications for student-teacher relations.
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Keresi, Zuzana, Gunilla Carlsson, and Elisabeth Lindberg. "A caring relationship as a prerequisite for patient participation in a psychiatric care setting: A qualitative study from the nurses' perspective." Nordic Journal of Nursing Research 39, no. 4 (August 26, 2019): 218–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057158519866393.
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The participation of patients in their treatment and care is perceived as desirable; however, patients with mental illnesses experience limited opportunities to participate in their own care. As nurses play a key role in taking care of patients with mental illnesses, this study aimed to investigate how nurses within psychiatric care settings experience patients' participation and how they act to increase it. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight registered nurses, four of whom worked in a psychiatric institutional care setting and four of whom worked with outpatients. Data were analysed using a qualitative content analysis approach. The analysis identified a theme: a caring relationship is a prerequisite for patient participation. This theme was further developed through five subthemes. The findings illustrate critical aspects of the caring relationship by which the nurse–patient relationship can either facilitate or impede patient participation. A caring relationship builds trust and increases the patient's sense of responsibility for their own condition. Because patients with mental illness are cared for in many different contexts, the results of the present study have implications for a broad range of healthcare environments.
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Blum, Virginia, and Heidi Nast. "Where's the Difference? The Heterosexualization of Alterity in Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Lacan." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14, no. 5 (October 1996): 559–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d140559.
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It has been largely overlooked that Henri Lefebvre in his book The Production of Space draws heavily upon Lacanian psychoanalytic accounts of the emergence of subjectivity in theorizing political relations, Lefebvre implicitly repudiates at the same time that he builds upon Lacan's distinctions between real, imaginary, and symbolic registers of subjectivity. For Lefebvre, Lacan's registers give primacy to visuality and heterosexualized familial dynamics while lived material, spatial, and political experience arc incidental to subject formation and systems of meaning Lefebvre transforms Lacan's registers by historicizing them in spatially dialectical terms, loosely replacing them with distinct forms of evolutionary spatialities which he calls natural, absolute, and abstract, In the process, he both subverts and reproduces Lacan's paternal–maternal (heterosexual) order. We hold that Lefebvrc's critique provides powerful theoretical tools for understanding how alterity and signification are always and inevitably politically and materially mediated through corporealities and ‘space’. Nonetheless, Lefebvre can only work out his spatial dialectic of history in heterosexist terms: although he usefully identifies maternal–paternal metaphors in different Western social formations over time, he fails to interrogate directly the very hetero-sexuality that gives these metaphors their relational significance and force. In short, he brings us to the brink of a nonheterosexist domain, but never enters it. In this paper then, we outline the striking parallels in the theoretical frameworks of Lefebvre and Lacan in order to illustrate how both theorists focus on gender construction as the fundamental social process through which alterity is achieved. At the same time, we unpack the underlying phallocentrism and heterosexism that sustain their versions of alterity, subjectivity, and agency, in the process showing how Lefebvre deftly undermines the apolitical stance of Lacan. In conclusion, we strive to recuperate the crucial liberatory aspects of Lefebvre's project through considering how we might go on to dislocate received versions of capitalism and sexual difference.
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Mat Isa, Che Maznah, Hamidah Mohd Saman, and Christopher Nigel Preece. "Entry Location and Entry Timing (ELET) Decision Model for International Construction Firms." Construction Economics and Building 14, no. 3 (September 13, 2014): 34–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v14i3.4156.
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This paper proposes a model for entry location (EL) and entry timing (ET) decisions to guide construction firms in accessing targeted international markets. Neglecting to properly choose the right combination of the entry location and entry timing (ELET) decisions can lead to poor performance of the firms’ international ventures. The sampling frame was from the Malaysian construction firms that have undertaken and completed projects abroad. Survey questionnaires sent to 115 firms registered with Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Malaysia, operating in more than 50 countries, achieved a 39.1 per cent response rate. Based on a comprehensive statistical analysis of survey data it was found that the mutually inclusive significant factors that influenced the firms’ ELET decisions were: the firm’s ability to assess market signals and opportunities, international experience, financial capacity, competencies and capabilities (project management, specialist expertise and technology), resources (level of knowledge based on research and development), experience in similar works, financial support from the home country banks, technical complexities of projects and availability of funds for projects. Hence, the present research builds on and extends the literature on the ELET decisions in a more integrated way. Keywords: Entry location, entry timing, resource-based view, international markets, Malaysian construction firms.
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Preoteasa, Cristina Teodora, Anca Axante, Anca Diana Cristea, and Elena Preoteasa. "The Relationship between Positive Well-Being and Academic Assessment: Results from a Prospective Study on Dental Students." Education Research International 2016 (2016): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9024687.
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Background. Presumably, the academic stress that builds throughout the academic year has a negative effect on dental students’ psychological well-being and may have a relationship with academic performance. This research aimed to analyse the variation of positive well-being in second-year dental students, across the academic semester, in relation to consecutive examinations as part of academic assessment system (1) and to observe the relationship between academic performance during semester evaluation period and dental students’ positive well-being (2).Methods. A prospective study was conducted on second-year dental students, data on positive well-being being collected with WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5), at the beginning of the semester and after three consecutive mandatory examinations.Results. One hundred and forty-six dental students were included (77% response rate). Repeated ANOVA showed a significant progressive decline of positive well-being over the semester, which was clinically significant for an important part of them. Students who performed better in the semester evaluation period registered higher well-being levels at the beginning of the semester but a more pronounced decline of it until the semester evaluation period.Conclusion. Based on this research, a relationship between positive well-being, academic assessments, and academic performance is suggested, when evaluating them in a prospective frame.
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Drange, Eli-Marie D. "No me banco la gente así. Un estudio comparativo del uso de palabras coloquiales y malsonantes en conversaciones informales en tres comunidades de habla hispanohablantes." Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 10, no. 1 (November 15, 2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v10i1.1502.
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The present article aims at describing and comparing the use of slang words and swearwords in teenage talk from three different Spanish speaking communities. The analysis builds on spontaneous teenage conversations from the corpus of teenage language Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA). This corpus contains informal conversations from Madrid, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile; and for this study one conversation from each city has been selected. The aim of the analysis is twofold, in the first place to describe and compare the slang words and swearwords registered in the three conversations, and secondly to study the pragmatic functions of these words. The analysis of the slang words shows that there is variation in the informal words and expressions used in the three communities, and that these expressions seem to be mostly regional. Regarding the swearwords used, there are similarities in the three communities. There are also similarities in the pragmatic functions of the slang words and swearwords in context. The conclusions that can be drawn from the analysis, is that the Spanish speaking communities have a common system regarding how the slang words are used, but each community uses their creativity in developing words and expressions. For swearwords, the system and the words used are more similar, which might indicate that the communities share the cultural aspects that are reflected in the swearwords.
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Zhu, Qingyuan, Jinjin Wu, Huosheng Hu, Chunsheng Xiao, and Wei Chen. "LIDAR Point Cloud Registration for Sensing and Reconstruction of Unstructured Terrain." Applied Sciences 8, no. 11 (November 21, 2018): 2318. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app8112318.
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When 3D laser scanning (LIDAR) is used for navigation of autonomous vehicles operated on unstructured terrain, it is necessary to register the acquired point cloud and accurately perform point cloud reconstruction of the terrain in time. This paper proposes a novel registration method to deal with uneven-density and high-noise of unstructured terrain point clouds. It has two steps of operation, namely initial registration and accurate registration. Multisensor data is firstly used for initial registration. An improved Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is then deployed for accurate registration. This algorithm extracts key points and builds feature descriptors based on the neighborhood normal vector, point cloud density and curvature. An adaptive threshold is introduced to accelerate iterative convergence. Experimental results are given to show that our two-step registration method can effectively solve the uneven-density and high-noise problem in registration of unstructured terrain point clouds, thereby improving the accuracy of terrain point cloud reconstruction.
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Saraee, M., B. Theodoulidis, J. A. Keane, and C. Tjortjis. "Using T3, an Improved Decision Tree Classifier, for Mining Stroke-related Medical Data." Methods of Information in Medicine 46, no. 05 (2007): 523–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1160/me0317.
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Summary Objectives: Medical data are a valuable resource from which novel and potentially useful knowledge can be discovered by using data mining. Data mining can assist and support medical decision making and enhance clinical managementand investigative research. The objective of this work is to propose a method for building accurate descriptive and predictive models based on classification of past medical data. We also aim to compare this method with other well established data mining methods and identify strengths and weaknesses. Method: We propose T3, a decision tree classifier which builds predictive models based on known classes, by allowing for a certain amount of misclassification error in training in order to achieve better descriptive and predictive accuracy. We then experiment with a real medical data set on stroke, and various subsets, in order to identify strengths and weaknesses. We also compare performance with a very successful and well established decision tree classifier. Results: T3 demonstrated impressive performance when predicting unseen cases of stroke resulting in as little as 0.4% classification error while the state of the art decision tree classifier resulted in 33.6% classification error respectively. Conclusions: This paper presents and evaluates T3, a classification algorithm that builds decision trees of depth at most three, and results in high accuracy whilst keeping the tree size reasonably small. T3 demonstrates strong descriptive and predictive power without compromising simplicity and clarity. We evaluate T3 based on real stroke register data and compare it with C4.5, a well-known classification algorithm, showing that T3 produces significantly more accurate and readable classifiers.
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Stachowiak, Monika. "Plucked-keyboard instruments built in Flanders as based on the collection of the Muziekinstrumentenmuseum in Brussels." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 10 (December 20, 2018): 73–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.9813.
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The article touches on the topic of keyboard-plucked instruments, which were made in one of the most significant European centres – Flanders. The Ruckers family working there created unique works serving as an inspiration for subsequent generations of instrument makers as well as modern makers of copies of historical instruments. The text is aimed at presenting the history of Flanders and instrument building in that region, and analysing selected exhibits from the Muziekinstrumentenmuseum in Brussels. The names of authors of numerous old instruments still need to be determined or confirmed, and a thorough study of connections between families of builders, their relations with other makers, and the ornaments placed on instruments, may facilitate the identification. The article describes the history of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp, uniting artists and instrument makers. The most recognised representatives of this group were the Ruckers and the Couchet families, and biographical sketches of their selected members are presented further along in the article. There is also a description of different instruments from that region, such as: harpsichord (Flűgel), virginal, spinet, muselar, de moeder met het kind and ottavino. The conclusion includes an analysis of selected items from the Belgian museum which come from the region of Flanders and were built by the Ruckers and Rouchet families. These exhibits are distinguished by their structure, external appearance and history. The descriptions and photos will allow readers to learn more about the presented material. The text is addressed to people interested in the topic of the plucked-keyboard instrument making, as well as to harpsichordists who need to know about the origin of instruments. This kind of information is crucial for adjusting the right temperament, registers and articulation in a given piece. The knowledge about the types of historical keyboard instruments is equally important.
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Hsy, Jonathan. "Language Ecologies: Ethics, Community, and Digital Affect." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 2 (March 2016): 373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.2.373.
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The global linguasphere is in a state of ecological and humanitarian crisis. In a powerful meditation in pmla, simon gikandi notes that the loss of any language (and of a culture sustained by it) is worthy of mourning and that language death around the globe is a matter of urgent collective concern. Relating great emotion when the “UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger confronted me with the bleak reality of language endangerment measured in maps, graphs, and data sets,” he ponders the ethical and political stakes of widespread language loss (9). He ends by quoting (and translating) a poem by the anthropologist Miguel León-Portilla “captur[ing] what happens when a language dies” (13), and he builds to a stark closing dictum: “Letting a language die is an injustice, a denial of will to those who speak it” (14). In this forceful essay, metaphorical discourse of language death gives way to a poignant elegy that registers a strong affective and political investment in the sustainment of languages.
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Cerbelaud, A., L. Roupioz, G. Blanchet, P. Breil, and X. Briottet. "SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC DAMAGE DETECTION CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINFALL USING MULTITEMPORAL HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGERY AND AUXILIARY DATA." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIII-B3-2021 (June 29, 2021): 693–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b3-2021-693-2021.
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Abstract. In the context of climate change and rising frequency of extreme hydro-meteorological events around the world, flood risk management and mapping of heavy rainfall-related damages represent an ongoing critical challenge. For decades now, remote sensing has been largely used to investigate spatial and temporal changes in land use and water resources. Today, different satellite products provide fast and crucial knowledge for the study of hydrological disasters over large areas, possibly in remote regions, with high spatial resolution and high revisit frequency. Yet, until now, few works have sought to detect the full range of extreme rainfall-related damages with optical imagery, especially those caused by intense rainwater runoff beyond the direct vicinity of major waterways. The work presented in this paper focuses on the Aude severe weather event of October 15th, 2018, in the South of France, for which more than a thousand claims for agricultural disaster were registered, both related to river overflowing and rainwater runoff.The full resources of ground truths, contextual information, land use as well as digital elevation model (DEM) combined to high resolution and high frequency optical imagery (Sentinel-2, Pléiades) are used to develop an automatic damage detection method based on supervised classification algorithms. Through the combination of several indicators characterizing heterogeneous spectral variations among agricultural plots following the event, a Gaussian process classifier achieved various classification accuracies up to 90% on a large comparable and independent photo-interpreted validation sample. This work builds great expectations for applications in other areas with contrasted climate, topography and land cover.
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Piga, Claudio, and Giuseppe Melis. "Identifying and measuring the impact of cultural events on hotels’ performance." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 33, no. 4 (March 22, 2021): 1194–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-07-2020-0749.
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Purpose Focusing on two beer festivals held in Nottingham, England, this study aims to evaluate their indirect impact on the performance of city hotels. This study builds on theoretical insights from the revenue management literature to shed empirical light on the potentially beneficial effects of events on the hotels’ performance. This study investigates the impact of the differential support offered by the destination management organisation (DMO) over two years. Design/methodology/approach Using online prices posted in advance of the events on an online travel agent, the authors assess hotel performance for each day of the events relative to the same day of the week in a week with no event. A similar comparison is made to assess the impact across two different years. In both cases, an ordinary least squares methodology was used. Findings Both events appear not to have had a strong impact on hotel prices and occupancy in 2016, i.e. when the DMO’s promotional effort was more proactive. Instead, in 2017, one event registered higher hotel prices and occupancy both relative to the year before and to the “business as usual” week. Practical implications The study identifies the existence of an indirect positive economic impact of the events on the hospitality sector. Originality/value The investigation adopts a more naturalistic experimental design to collect the data, which allows the authors to control for both the impact on prices and occupancy at the level of the single hotel. The evidence is therefore micro-founded. Moreover, results shed light on the role played by the DMO.