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Educational Misdirections: Attending to Levinas’s Call for Ethics as First Principle

ABSTRACTThis essay examines a shift of significance, movement from faculty to increasing administrative impact. The consequence of this change is not only structural but impacts the very nature of an academic calling and vocation. The university is increasingly a business run by an ever-expanding pool of managers. The lament of Benjamin Ginsberg, in The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, provides the background conversation for this essay. Emmanuel Levinas’s framing of ethics as first philosophy offers a response to this historical shift in higher education. The task of this essay is modest and perhaps fundamental; there is no attempt to change this historical moment of higher education. This essay explores Levinas and ethics with a hope of sustaining educational commitments in the midst of an educational era of misdirection.
Ebola clinical trials: Five lessons learned and a way forward

Background Little progress was made in advancing Ebola-specific therapies during the epidemic that began in West Africa in late 2013. Throughout the last quarter of 2014, which saw the greatest numbers of cases, only a handful of clinical trials were underway. Subsequently, as incident cases dwindled, the number of clinical trials increased dramatically, but few, were destined to recruit to their accrual targets. The predictable barriers to implementing clinical trials in resource-constrained settings are compounded by unique characteristics of Ebola — including its high fatality rate, its swift transmission through populations, and the grave risks for exposed health care workers. Methods As members from a group hastily configured as the Ebola Clinical Research Consortium, we sought to implement two clinical trials beginning in late 2014 in Liberia and Sierra Leone: one to evaluate the efficacy and safety of convalescent plasma for Ebola treatment ( ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02333578) and another, an adaptive platform protocol to evaluate multiple treatments for Ebola Virus Disease ( ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02380625). Results Here, we offer five lessons learned from our experiences that may help inform future efforts to conduct clinical trials targeting Ebola or Ebola-like outbreaks: (1) Research should be an integral part of the public health emergency response in outbreak settings; (2) conducting emergency clinical trials requires experienced research staff at all levels from the start; (3) public health officials should coordinate with scientific leadership to direct resources towards the most meritorious research questions; (4) a platform trial design is well-suited to ethically and efficiently identify effective therapies in the setting of a high-fatality, dynamic outbreak; (5) to advance therapeutics in the midst of an emerging outbreak, academic and research communities need to respond as boldly and as swiftly as the humanitarian community. Conclusions Clinical research to evaluate Ebola therapeutics in the West Africa Ebola epidemic was initiated too late to yield optimal results. In seeking to conduct two clinical studies in this region, we learned valuable lessons and suggest a way forward for implementing therapeutic clinical trials in the next epidemic.
Sustainable development of alpine open spaces by enhancing spatial planning governance

Near-natural open spaces are the basis of human well-being, biodiversity and the livelihood of future generations (i.e. all spaces outside of settlements free from modern technical development, extensive traffic, noise). These essential spaces are decreasing in the Alps due to raising human impact and landscape fragmentation. To maintain these open spaces, coherent transnational cooperation of spatial planning in the Alpine Space (AS) is highly necessary to avoid a race to the bottom regarding minimum standards. This fits the EU-goal of an alpswide network of near-natural areas as part of the EUStrategy on Green Infrastructure (GI) and the EU Urban Agenda. OpenSpaceAlps fosters sustainable development in the core AS and the EUSALP area by maintaining open spaces as part of the alpine GI. We strengthen the transnational multi-level spatial governance by improving the capacities of spatial planners e.g. integrating sectoral planning (e.g.nature conservation) and other stakeholders, through the exchange on approaches for open space maintenance. We interlink spatial planning strategies in local and 2 transnational pilot areas and draw conclusions for improving spatial governance at regional, national and transnational levels. Main outputs:
- Alpine Open Spaces Planning Handbook as a tool for spatial planners on how to better incorporate open spaces in land use decision making.
- Basic visualization (i.e. map) for alpswide spatial planning provides a first tool going beyond the regional and national planning tools for better multi-level transnational spatial governance.
- Strategic recommendations for more efficient coordination of maintaining open spaces at all levels.
- Establishing and institutionalizing a transnational cooperation structure for spatial planning experts, the "Alpplan Network".
Beneficiaries: public administrations in charge of spatial and sectoral planning, non-state actors, associations and policy makers.
Between Natisone and Isonzo: history and archaelogy of a territory

The current project aims at enhancing and spreading the knowledge of the historicalarchaeological heritage and reconstructing the ancient landscape in the territory located across the Italian-Slovenian border, and in particular in the area of the upper Natisone and Isonzo rivers. In this framework, the territory involved has a remarkable historicalarchaeological potential: suffice it to mention the important findings made at the beginning of the twentieth century (necropolises of S. Quirino and Dernazzacco, village of Most na Soči, hill settlement of Tonovcov Grad near Kobarid). From the caves to the castellieri and their necropolises, from the Roman border fortification to the walled sites of the early Middle Ages, the territory shows a long continuity of settlements; some archaeological sites offer wide opportunities of enhancement. The strategic importance of the area through the centuries is clearly shown by the continuity of the defence lines up to the First World War. After the drawing up of a common archaeological map, based on the systematic cataloguing of sites and finds and carried out with the same criteria on both territories, the project will implement a careful analysis of specific issues linked to the peculiar structure of the area involved. In particular, the technical features of the Roman road system are studied, together with the relations between routes and settlements. Identifying the ancient routes and the sites connected to them offers a significant contribution to the progress of knowledge and makes it possible to ouline thematic and educational tourist itineraries, in order to enhance and recover memories and traditions of the territory.
IT INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION PROJECT

THIS PROJECT STEMS FROM THE NEED TO ACQUIRE A NEW VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE. COMPARED TO THE CURRENT STATE, THIS NEW INFRASTRUCTURE BASED ON AN EMC POWEREDGE T440 SERVER WILL OPTIMISE WORKLOADS AND INTRODUCE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF USER POLICIES AND PERMISSIONS INTO THE COMPANY. A NEW BACKUP MANAGEMENT WILL ALSO BE INTRODUCED: THIS FUNCTION WILL BE ENTRUSTED TO THE STANDARD VEEAM BACKUP ESSENTIALS SOFTWARE, WHICH WILL ALLOW GES
The digest and the exploitation of the countryside  in the western roman empire (2d cent. bc-3rd cent. ad). evidence of the water control

Every aspect of the ancient world depended on the control and exploitation of the countryside, but scholars have until recently failed to engage with an abundant and detailed material on the subject: the legal texts of the Digest. The thought of the Roman jurists constituted a powerful model for all the minor and local institutions and legal documentation reveals not only rules, but also actual practices and issues of unquestionable historical interest. Amongst the significant amount of legal texts concerning the countryside, the issues of water sharing and that of erosion and flood risks management are particularly well represented, constituting a key element of an essential aspect of the ancient economy, i.e. the agricultural production. However, an overall underestimation has led to a serious insufficiency of methodology concerning these texts, an evident obstacle to its exploitation in a historical perspective. This research proposes to demonstrate how relevant the study of Roman law is for our knowledge of the Roman countryside, by confronting the strikingly unexplored jurisprudential documentation with more traditionally exploited archaeological and environmental sources. The focus on water control is motivated by a will to concentrate on a crucial condition of the exploitation of the countryside, which has raised sufficient interest from the ancient jurists themselves, as well as from the scholars in the past decades, so as to generate enough primary and secondary sources for us to consider. The objective is twofold: first, to establish a clear and consistent methodology for the historical study of the jurisprudential sources; second, to apply it to case studies in order to produce new insights into a fundamental issue of the Roman world.
Origin of enhanced catalytic activity of oxygen reduction reaction on zirconium oxynitrides: A first-principle study

Abstract To clarify the origin of the enhanced catalytic activity of zirconium oxynitrides, the first-principle calculation method is carried out to study the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on monoclinic ZrO 2 and cubic Zr 2 ON 2 (011) surfaces. The relation of the d -orbital occupation of nonequivalence Zr atoms and the electron transfer between ORR intermediates and nonequivalence Zr atoms and the mechanism of ORR on the both (011) surfaces are investigated. The calculated results show that the d -orbital occupation of nonequivalence Zr atoms on cubic Zr 2 ON 2 (011) surface is 32.60, which is higher than that on monoclinic ZrO 2 (011) surface (30.00). The mechanism of ORR on cubic Zr 2 ON 2 (011) surface is a “dissociative mechanism”, whereas that on monoclinic ZrO 2 (011) surface is an “associative mechanism”. Compared to monoclinic ZrO 2 (011) surface, the enhanced catalytic activity of the ORR on cubic Zr 2 ON 2 (011) surface is associated with the increase of electron transfer and the change of ORR mechanism, which is caused by the increase of the d -orbital occupation of its nonequivalence Zr atoms. Moreover, the Gibbs free energy calculated results show that the desorption process of OH ⁎ on both (011) surfaces is the rate-limiting step of ORR.
An Adaptive Partition Method for Handling Skew in Spark Applications

In the parallel computing framework of Hadoop/Spark, data skew is a common problem resulting in performance degradation, such as prolonging of the entire execution time and idle resources. What lies behind this issue is partition imbalance, which causes significant differences in the amount of data processed by each reduce task. This paper proposes a key reassigning and splitting partition algorithm (SKRSP) to handle skew, which considers both the partition balance of the intermediate data and the partition balance after shuffle operator. We design two partition algorithms for different applications: the range-based key splitting partition method (KSRP) for sort operation and hash-based key reassigning partition method (KRHP) for the other operations. We implement SKRSP in Spark 2.2.0 and evaluate its performance through three benchmarks exhibiting significant data skew: Sort, Join, and PageRank. The experimental results verify that our algorithm not only can achieve a better partition balance but also reduce the execution time of reduce tasks effectively.
Study of Fuel Injection Quantity Fluctuation of High Pressure Common Rail System with Electronic Control

High pressure common rail (HPCR) injection system not only enables the diesel engine to meet the increasingly strict emission criterion, but also enhances its economic efficiency and comfort ability. Its simulation model is established in AMESim environment and it is calibrated to ensure the accuracy. The influences to cycle fuel injection quantity (CFIQ) of electromagnetic valve lift, control piston clearance, needle valve lift, open pressure and flow coefficient are analyzed in details with the simulation model in the whole working conditions. The results show that electromagnetic valve lift, needle valve lift, open pressure and flow coefficient are the key characteristic parameters on fuel injection quantity fluctuation (CFIQF).
A revolutionary and patented compact device that recovers the majority of the heat from waste water in residential and commercial places

Hot water costs a lot of energy to heat, yet most of that heat goes down the drain. Due to lack of effective and efficient solutions at small scales in residential buildings and small businesses, still a huge amount of energy is wasted for heating the water. In Europe alone, that’s a €15B waste every year and this is as high as €18B in North America. Current solutions are mostly focusing on more efficient boilers and not heat recovery, and the heat recovery solutions don’t have high efficiency and are suffering steady loss of efficiency therefore their payback periods are so long.
EHTech developed and patented a fully automatic filter-less system, Obox®, which recovers 71% of the heat and use it to heat the water again therefore, cuts the hot water bill by 63%. Using Obox® will lead to major saving in energy (264TW/yr) and CO2 emissions (150 million tons of CO2/yr) if every dwelling in EU28 is equipped with an Obox®.
Asynchronous logiс one-level LUT design based on partial acknowledgement

Abstract In the paper, asynchronous logic design targeting LUT of custom size (number of inputs) implementation is proposed. It is based on conventional Sum-Of-Product terms (SOP) what differs from existing methods where Sum-Of-Minterms (SOM) and Disjoint SOP are supposed. It is shown, that LUT architectural features and delays ensure SOP hazard-free implementation. Nowadays reconfigurable chips contain multiple LUTs that can be combined using so called dedicated multiplexers. It implies producing LUT-based structure of various inputs number to match design needs. As a result, a function can be implemented using one-level LUT which increases the circuit performance. It is in contrast to the conventional approach where multi-level implementation is supposed. The model consists of functional and completion detection (CD) blocks. Both blocks are implemented using LUTs. LUTs total size is an optimization criterion. The method of LUTs total size minimization is proposed where inputs are removed from CD block and partially acknowledged via functional one. The problem is formulated as a covering task. Two sets of benchmarks are processed and comparison is done. Using our method, improvement w.r.t mention criterion is achieved.
Instruction Cache in Hard Real-Time Systems: Modeling and Integration in Scheduling Analysis Tools with AADL

Cache prediction for real-time systems in a preemptive scheduling context is still an open issue despite its practical importance. In this paper, we propose a modeling approach for taking into account the cache memory in realtime scheduling analysis. The goal is to have a simple but practical implementation to handle the cache memory with a real-time scheduling analyzer. The proposed contribution consists of three main parts: (1) modeling the targeted system with the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL), (2) applying the cache analysis methods in a real time scheduling analysis tool and (3) performing scheduling simulation to access schedulability. For such a purpose, we present an extension of both the scheduling analysis tool Cheddar and of the AADL modeling language in order to integrate the cache modeling and analysis methodology we proposed. Experiments are presented to illustrate our propositions. They provide results on analysis that show examples of the timing impact of task preemption as well as the increase in overall responses time of the task set. This impact is important and the developed tool provides means to precisely assess it.
Losses, Expansions, and Novel Subunit Discovery of Adaptor Protein Complexes in Haptophyte Algae

The phylum Haptophyta (Diaphoratickes) contains marine algae that perform biomineralization, extruding large, distinctive calcium carbonate scales (coccoliths) that completely cover the cell. Coccolith production is an important part of global carbon cycling; however, the membrane trafficking pathway by which they are secreted has not yet been elucidated. In most eukaryotes, post-Golgi membrane trafficking involves five heterotetrameric adaptor protein (AP) complexes, which impart cargo selection specificity. To better understand coccolith secretion, we performed comparative genomic, phylogenetic, and transcriptomic analyses of the AP complexes in Emiliania huxleyi strains 92A, Van556, EH2, and CCMP1516, and related haptophytes Gephyrocapsa oceanica and Isochrysis galbana; the latter has lost the ability to biomineralize. We show that haptophytes have a modified membrane trafficking system (MTS), as we found both AP subunit losses and duplications. Additionally, we identified a single conserved subunit of the AP-related TSET complex, whose expression suggests a functional role in membrane trafficking. Finally, we detected novel alpha adaptin ear and gamma adaptin ear proteins, the first of their kind to be described outside of opisthokonts. These novel ear proteins and the sculpting of the MTS may support the capacity for biomineralization in haptophytes, enhancing their ability to perform this highly specialized form of secretion.
Methods and apparatuses for selectively disabling functionality of a device

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses for selectively disabling functionality of a device detect a device; detect a device type of the device; and transmit a signal to the device for selectively disabling a function of the device based on the device type.
NON-AQUEQUS SOLDER FLUX COMPOSITION

Non-aqueous solder flux compositions are disclosed. In some aspects, the compositions comprise: (a) an alkylbenzene sulfonic acid or an acidic phosphate ester; and (b) an alkanolamide, an ethoxylated alkanolamide, an alkanolamine, or an ethoxylated amine. Methods of making solder flux compositions and methods of using the compositions as components of tacky solder fluxes are described. The solder flux compositions have excellent wettability, oxide removal capability, and rheological characteristics for high-speed, pick-and-place manufacturing processes and can be made from a simple combination of two components, thereby avoiding the need for solvents, polymeric thickeners, and other components of traditional tacky solder fluxes.
Compiler directed write-mode selection for high performance low power volatile PCM

Micro-Controller Units (MCUs) are widely adopted ubiquitous computing devices. Due to tight cost and energy constraints, MCUs often integrate very limited internal RAM memory on top of Flash storage, which exposes Flash to heavy write traffic and results in short system lifetime. Architecting emerging Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a promising approach for MCUs due to its fast read speed and long write endurance.However, PCM, especially multi-level cell (MLC) PCM, has long write latency and requires large write energy, which diminishes the benefits of its replacement of traditional Flash. By studying MLC PCM write operations, we observe that writing MLC PCM can take advantages of two write modes --- fast write leaves cells in volatile state, and slow write leaves cells in non-volatile state. In this paper, we propose a compiler directed dual-write (CDDW) scheme that selects the best write mode for each write operation to maximize the overall performance and energy efficiency. Our experimental results show that CDDW reduces dynamic energy by 32.4%(33.8%) and improves performance by 6.3%(35.9%) compared with an all fast(slow) write approach.
Etnoecologia e o campesinato no sudoeste paulista: práticas tradicionais e saber ambiental em perspectiva

O sudoeste do estado de São Paulo é fortemente marcado por seus produtores rurais de base familiar, com sua economia, história e cultura tradicional singulares. Este artigo traz pela primeira vez, que é do nosso conhecimento, um registro etnoecológico sobre práticas produtivas tradicionais e conhecimento ambiental entre produtores rurais dessa região. Entrevistas informais e semiestruturadas foram aplicadas, além da realização de caminhadas guiadas. Nove famílias, nos municípios de Angatuba, Buri e Campina do Monte Alegre, participaram da pesquisa, totalizando 22 pessoas, entre homens e mulheres, de 27 a 81 anos de idade. Um extenso conjunto de práticas e conhecimentos locais sobre solo, vegetação, clima e agricultura foi registrado. O repertório local registrado é discutido a partir da vivência ambiental dos indivíduos em seu cotidiano, à luz de outros repertórios já registrados no Brasil, bem como na sua interface com o conhecimento científico formal. As informações aqui apresentadas podem contribuir para projetos de extensão junto aos produtores familiares da região.
China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Energy Security and SLOC Access

In recent years, the Chinese leadership has increasingly turned its attention towards the maritime domain. This article discusses Beijing's latest attempts to secure China's maritime energy supply chain across the Indian Ocean region and the South China Sea through which the majority of its seaborne energy imports transit. As China increasingly relies on the seaborne energy trade, Beijing has come to attach more importance to the security of the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) and has a growing strategic interest in ensuring unimpeded access in these two areas. In this paper, the author discusses Beijing's efforts in the context of China's maritime power aspirations, particularly the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative which is promoted by the current Chinese President, Xi Jinping. The author argues that Beijing's latest maritime agenda will be hampered by the strategic distrust and political risks China faces in the Asian region.
Vegetation coverage change and stability in large open-pit coal mine dumps in China during 1990–2015

Abstract Ecosystem reconstruction via vegetation restoration is key to comprehensive renewal of the fragile ecological environment of an open-pit mine dump. To investigate vegetation coverage change and stability after mine dump land reclamation, three dumps in the Antaibao open-pit coal mine, northern Shanxi province, China, were used. This region has a typical temperate arid to semi-arid continental monsoon climate. Vegetation coverage was calculated from 11 Landsat remote images taken 1990–2015. Methods included calculation of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), decomposition of mixed pixels, calculation of variation trends, and a transition matrix. The results show that vegetation coverage in the dumps increased dramatically from 1990 to 2015 (with NDVI rising from −0.02 to 0.02 in 1990 to 0.24 to 0.31 in 2015). The change in NDVI was classified mainly as significantly improved, to mostly moderately high coverage, by 2015. Water is a restrictive factor that greatly influenced the growth and development of vegetation. There was greater vegetation coverage and rate of improvement in coverage at higher elevations, and less coverage on steep slopes. Stability analysis of vegetation coverage succession and its recovery after a fire indicate that post-reclamation vegetation coverage in the dumps is relatively stable.