bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Botulinum Toxin Injection Into the Lacrimal Gland for Treatment of Proximal Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions in Children
Authors: Eustis H. Sprague , Babiuch Allison
Published: November 2014

The authors retrospectively evaluated the use of botulinum toxin injections to treat epiphora in children secondary to proximal obstruction of the nasolacrimal drainage system. Three patients (ages 8, 9, and 16 years) received botulinum toxin injections in the palpebral portion of the lacrimal gland. Two patients experienced symptomatic relief immediately following botulinum toxin injection. Both required subsequent injections, with an average symptomatic relief lasting 7 months. The only noted side effect was papillary conjunctivitis in one patient that resolved without treatment. The third patient was lost to follow-up. Although conjunctival dacryocystorhinostomy with Jones tube is the surgical procedure of choice for treating proximal lacrimal system obstruction, complication rates in children are high. Botulinum toxin injections provide a safe and effective alternative.
[J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2014;51:e75–e77.]
Los megalópteros de la Península Ibérica (Insecta, Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Sialidae)
Authors: Monserrat Víctor J.
Published: November 2014

Se actualiza toda la información bibliográfica relativa a la Península Ibérica y relacionada con las tres especies de megalópteros presentes en su fauna (Insecta, Neuropterida, Megaloptera: Sialidae). Partiendo de los datos generales conocidos sobre estas especies, y en base a esta información ibérica, se aporta una clave de identificación de imagos y larvas de estas especies, y se anotan y se recopilan los datos conocidos sobre su morfología, su biología, sus estadios larvarios y su distribución geográfica, fenológica y altitudinal en la zona estudiada.
Un análisis inferencialista de la co-autoría de artículos científicos
Authors: Zamora-Bonilla Jesús , González de Prado Salas Javier
Published: November 2014

La co-autoría es muy frecuente en la mayor parte de las áreas científicas. Sin embargo, la autoría plural tiende a complicar la atribución de mérito a cada científico individual (una atribución que es la base de la evaluación científica). En este artículo, argumentamos que la colaboración no implica necesariamente co-autoría: cada autor podría publicar en artículos separados su contribución individual al proyecto colaborativo (o los artículos conjuntos podrían especificar la contribución individual de cada autor). La cuestión que nos planteamos en este artículo es por qué los científicos prefieren fusionar sus contribuciones en lugar de mantenerlas separadas – teniendo en cuenta que su objetivo es, entre otras cosas, el reconocimiento individual –. Nuestra respuesta, enmarcada en una visión inferencialista de la práctica científica, se basa en la idea de que los artículos científicos han de ser vistos como argumentos, en vez de como colecciones de conocimiento.
Ética y revistas científicas españolas de Comunicación, Educación y Psicología: la percepción editora
Authors: Fonseca-Mora Mª Carmen , Tur-Viñes Victoria , Gutiérrez-San Miguel Begoña
Published: November 2014

El incremento de actividad en la publicación científica y su globalización están ocasionando una problemática relacionada con la ética de los procesos editoriales. Paralelamente, la presión que sufren los editores de revistas, motivada por los procesos de promoción académica y el contexto internacional de los autores, requieren una labor de aproximación consensuada en las formas de actuación ante los casos recurrentes de conductas poco éticas que se producen en la práctica. Este estudio tiene por objeto conocer la opinión de editores de revistas españolas de los ámbitos de Comunicación, Educación y Psicología sobre 16 tipos de mala praxis. Un 39,9% de los 203 editores encuestados respondieron al cuestionario online. Los datos permiten conocer el nivel de preocupación de los editores por aspectos éticos de la publicación científica: la frecuencia de cada mala praxis, la facilidad en su identificación, la gravedad percibida y su posible tendencia futura.
Perfil de colaboración científica del sistema español de educación superior. Análisis de las publicaciones en Web of Science (2002-2011)
Authors: De Filippo Daniela , Marugán Sergio , Sanz-Casado Elías
Published: November 2014

Este trabajo analiza la colaboración interuniversitaria en el sistema universitario español (SUE) a través del estudio de las publicaciones recogidas en Web of Science en el período 2002-2011. Se presenta la evolución anual de la producción de las 81 universidades públicas y privadas y se profundiza en las redes de colaboración institucional en 6 grandes áreas temáticas: Ciencias Experimentales; Ingeniería y Computación; Ciencias de la Vida; Medicina y Farmacia; Ciencias Sociales; Artes y Humanidades. A través de la visualización de las publicaciones en co-autoría se han detectado las instituciones más relevantes en cada área y sus interacciones. Los resultados muestran que la producción del SUE asciende a 299.887 documentos en 10 años con un 200% de incremento. El área de Ciencias Experimentales es la que concentra mayor número de publicaciones (40% del total). Los patrones de colaboración muestran que se ha pasado de un modelo en el que prevalecía la autoría de instituciones únicas a otro en que la colaboración –especialmente internacional- es predominante.
La colaboración científica: principales líneas de investigación y retos de futuro
Authors: González Alcaide Gregorio , Gómez Ferri Javier
Published: November 2014

La construcción del conocimiento es un proceso cooperativo que se ha intensificado considerablemente a lo largo de las últimas décadas, involucrando cualquier iniciativa de investigación a un número cada vez mayor de investigadores, instituciones, disciplinas y países. El presente estudio realiza una revisión bibliográfica de la literatura sobre colaboración científica. Se identifican los trabajos pioneros del área, el tipo de estudio y las variables analizadas. Se comenta la aproximación “clásica”, basada en la obtención de indicadores bibliométricos, que ha adquirido una nueva dimensión analítica con el Análisis de Redes Sociales así como con las aproximaciones cuantitativas y cualitativas que tratan de indagar en las motivaciones y en las dinámicas del trabajo cooperativo. El estudio de la colaboración científica se ha abordado con metodologías y desde ópticas disciplinares muy diversas, según se puso de manifiesto en el Congreso “La colaboración científica: una aproximación multidisciplinar”, celebrado en la Universitat de València en noviembre de 2013, que reunió a los principales expertos españoles en el tema. El presente ejemplar monográfico de Revista Española de Documentación Científica recoge una selección de diez trabajos presentados en el citado evento. Finalmente, se reflexiona sobre los principales retos que debe abordar la investigación en relación con la colaboración científica.
Study on Development Strategies of Remote Vocational Education
Authors: Chen Peijiang
Published: November 2014

Remote vocational education is the combination of remote education and vocational education, playing an important role in training applied talents and lifelong education. The healthy development of vocational education can be achieved and the workers meeting the social need can be trained through the platform of remote education, which has become a new issue that the modern remote vocational education faces. The main models and ways of remote vocational education in several western developed countries are analyzed, and their advanced experiences are summarized. Making Linyi City, China as an example, the problems of the current remote vocational education are focused on, especially in the view of the government management, social recognition, remote training, professional setting and the exchange between teachers and students. In order to promote the speedy and orderly development of remote vocational education in China, the corresponding suggestions and countermeasures are put forward.
Equivalent Modeling of Double-fed Wind Farm Based on Flow Field Characteristics
Authors: Gu Bo , Hao Hu , Hui Huang , Xinyu Liu
Published: November 2014

The entire wind farm is regarded as a large-capacity wind turbine for modeling double-fed wind farm. The influence of flow field characteristics in the wind farm has been ignored. In order to reflect the influence in double-fed wind farm equivalent modeling, an equivalent modeling method of double-fed wind farm based on the flow field characteristics has been proposed. A calculation model of the double-fed wind farm flow field has been built considering the influence of terrain and wake. The wind speed was calculated at each wind turbine installed point based on the flow field calculation model, and using the wind speed as the input wind speed for each wind turbine, the dynamic characteristics of the wind farm production process has been studied. The simulation analysis has been done for the proposed modeling method, and the simulation results show that the proposed modeling method can reflects the dynamic characteristics of the wind farm production process more accurately.
An EUD Approach to the Design of Educational Games
Authors: Ardito Carmelo , Lanzilotti Rosa
Published: November 2014

Distance education has experienced profound changes due to the introduction of new technologies, especially mobile devices of different types. It is necessary to define new learning techniques which are able to capture students’ attention and to engage them in their learning activities, reducing problems like distraction generated by the use of the device itself and/or by the surrounding environment. Game-based learning is a valuable possibility. The excursion-game has been recently proposed to support pupils learning history during visits to historical sites; its goal is to make the visit and the overall experience of cultural heritage more engaging. This paper describes the approach followed in the design of the system implementing the excursion-game; it takes into account an end-user development perspective in order to allow domain experts, i.e., experts in history and cultural heritage, contributing to design excursion-games for a wide set of historical sites.
A Novel System Oriented Scheduler for Avoiding Haste Problem in Computational Grids
Authors: Saleh Ahmed I.
Published: November 2014

Scheduling is an important issue that must be handled carefully to realize the “Just login to compute” principle introduced by computational grids. Current grid schedulers suffer from the haste problem, which is the inability to schedule all tasks successfully. Accordingly, some tasks fail to complete execution as they are allocated to unsuitable workers. Others may not start execution as suitable workers are previously allocated to other tasks. This paper introduces the scheduling haste problem and presents a novel high throughput grid scheduler. The proposed scheduler selects the most suitable worker to execute an input grid task. Hence, it minimizes the turnaround time for a set of grid tasks. Moreover, the scheduler is system oriented and avoids the scheduling haste problem. Experimental results show that the proposed scheduler outperforms traditional grid schedulers as it introduces better scheduling efficiency.
An Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems Using Task Duplication
Authors: Agrawal Amrit , Chaudhuri Pranay
Published: November 2014

Task scheduling in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing environment is a challenging problem. Applications identified by parallel tasks can be represented by directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs). Scheduling refers to the assignment of these parallel tasks on a set of bounded heterogeneous processors connected by high speed networks. Since task assignment is an NP-complete problem, instead of finding an exact solution, scheduling algorithms are developed based on heuristics, with the primary goal of minimizing the overall execution time of the application or schedule length. In this paper, the overall execution time (schedule length) of the tasks is reduced using task duplication on top of the Critical-Path-On-a-Processor (CPOP) algorithm.
Dynamic Rightsizing with Quality-Controlled Algorithms in Virtualization Environments
Authors: Yang Ming-Jeng , Kuo Chin-Lin , Yeh Yao-Ming
Published: November 2014

Virtualization and partitioning are the means by which multiple application instances can share and run multiple virtual machines supported by a platform. In a Green Cloud environment, the goal is to consolidate multiple applications onto virtual machines associated by fewer servers, and reduce cost and complexity, increase agility, and lower power and cooling costs. To make Cloud center greener, it is beneficial to limit the amount of active servers to minimize energy consumption. This paper presents a precise model to formulate the right-sizing and energy-saving mechanism, which not only minimizes energy consumption of the server but also maintains a service quality through the Mt/M/Vt strategy of queuing theory. The authors map the complicated formula of the energy-saving mechanism to an approximation equation and design the fast decidable algorithms for calculating the right size of virtual machines in constant time complexity for power management systems.
Cost Efficient Implementation of Multistage Symmetric Repackable Networks
Authors: Chakrabarty Amitabha , Collier Martin
Published: November 2014

Symmetric rearrangeable networks (SRN) (Chakrabarty, Collier, & Mukhopadhyay, 2009) make efficient use of hardware, but they have the disadvantage of momentarily disrupting the existing communications during reconfiguration. Path continuity is a major issue in some application of rearrangeable networks. Using repackable networks (Yanga, Su, & Pin, 2008) is a solution to the path continuity problem in SRN. These networks provide functionality comparable to that of strict sense no blocking networks (SNB) but with minimum increase in the hardware than SRN. This paper proposes an efficient implementation of multistage symmetric repackable networks requiring optimum hardware cost than the method proposed in the literature. Cost optimization is achieved through the use of minimum number of bypass link(s). Investigated method works for networks built with more than three switching stages and shows promise of scalability.
On Construction of Cluster and Grid Computing Platforms for Parallel Bioinformatics Applications
Authors: Yang Chao-Tung , Shih Wen-Chung
Published: November 2014

Biology databases are diverse and massive. As a result, researchers must compare each sequence with vast numbers of other sequences. Comparison, whether of structural features or protein sequences, is vital in bioinformatics. These activities require high-speed, high-performance computing power to search through and analyze large amounts of data and industrial-strength databases to perform a range of data-intensive computing functions. Grid computing and Cluster computing meet these requirements. Biological data exist in various web services that help biologists search for and extract useful information. The data formats produced are heterogeneous and powerful tools are needed to handle the complex and difficult task of integrating the data. This paper presents a review of the technologies and an approach to solve this problem using cluster and grid computing technologies. The authors implement an experimental distributed computing application for bioinformatics, consisting of basic high-performance computing environments (Grid and PC Cluster systems), multiple interfaces at user portals that provide useful graphical interfaces to enable biologists to benefit directly from the use of high-performance technology, and a translation tool for converting biology data into XML format.
Moving with Time and Strategy
Authors: Bhaskar Sandeep
Published: November 2014

This chapter presents evidence of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) towards the goal of sustainable community development. It argues that the biggest impediment to the growth of communities in the developing world is a lack of information and a fair incentive system, both of which can be addressed through ICTs. A three pronged action plan comprising of a development strategy, an information strategy, and a technology strategy is proposed towards this effect. The chapter also showcases how a for-profit business, ITC Limited, transformed the face of agriculture in some parts of India, and how this model can be replicated in other parts of the world. It concludes with a description of the agricultural sector in Bangladesh and show how lessons drawn from the Indian case can be applied to Bangladesh and other developing countries.
Quest for Economic Empowerment of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania
Authors: Semali Ladislaus M.
Published: November 2014

Microbusiness decisions of marketing food crops depend on critical information in a rapidly changing supply chain environment. Because rural women deal with mostly perishable goods, the uses of cell phones have emerged as important communication tools in the supply chain particularly in decision-making and managing risk-taking. A variety of anecdotal evidence suggests that cell phones have leapfrogged the technology and seem to overcome transport deficits that were for centuries endemic to rural and remote areas which have been poor and underdeveloped. As with any new technology, cell phones provide opportunities as well as challenges. However, little is known about Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the role Cell-phone Mediated Communication (CMC) play in the context of high demand of information that is critical to small-scale marketing of perishable goods. Consequently, what happens in this precarious business environment when women are confronted with risk-taking and decision-making? Do they use CMC to augment stakes or expedite the enterprise? This case describes field research investigations that were conducted in Tanzania from June 2008 to June 2009 to examine access to, and use of cell phones by women residing in rural villages and in a nearby urban center. Rural villages were considered critical in this study as key players in the wellbeing of traditional rural families.
Experiencing the Functionality of Mathematical Indigenous ICTs on Community Development
Authors: Garegae Kgomotso G.
Published: November 2014

The use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agriculture is fundamental to rural development especially in the 21st century (Rashid, et al., 2007). This chapter thus illustrates the use of an indigenous technology using the case of Madila production in a Dairy House Farm at Molapowabojang, a rural village in Southern District of Botswana. The Dairy House Farm started production in 2002 with the aim of producing both fresh and sour or curdled milk (Madila). Although traditionally madila was for subsistence family consumption, the use of community-compatible ICT, namely, sieve like plastic bag, natural sun beam and cooling system made from a wooden shelter, combined with modern machines such as milking machines (milk tubes attached to the cow’s udder) have enabled the Dintwa family to convert the practice into commercial industry.
Towards a Customer Centric E-Government Application
Authors: Thominathan Santhanamery , Thurasamy Ramayah
Published: November 2014

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has played an important role in today’s global economy. Many countries have gained successful growth due to the implementation of ICT. In Malaysia, increased utilization of ICT has contributed significantly to the total factor productivity. One of the main contributing factors is the e-commerce and Internet based services. Therefore, this case study aims to examine the contribution of the newly introduced E-government application namely E-filing system. E-filing system is a newly developed online tax submission services offered by the government to the tax payers in the country where they are able to easily, quickly and safely file their tax returns. The primary discussion in this case study concerns on the Malaysian’s ICT revolution, followed by the introduction of E-Filing system, the challenges and barriers faced by the government, concluding with the future trends in the implementation of this system.
Vision Impairment and Electronic Government
Authors: Suomi Reima , Krebs Irene
Published: November 2014

Visually impaired people are in a distinctive disadvantage when using computer screens based on visual presentation of data. Their situation becomes increasingly critical, as most society services, including issues such as e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Health, and e-Government go online. Yet modern technologies can also offer solutions to their problems, both at hardware and software level, and often with reasonable cost. Effective ICT can open up new communication channels and functionalities for say totally blind people, which would not have been available for them otherwise. General sensitivity for this issue, and especially sensitivity among designers of governmental e-services, must be developed. E-Government is an especially demanding activity area as it comes to all sorts of imparities (not just vision impairment), as governmental services are often in a monopoly service delivery situation: citizen have to use them, and there is often no other alternative. The issue binds it to the wider discussion on digital divide, where vision impairment is one cause for digital divide, and often very devastating, especially if still combined with other sources of digital divide.
Turkey
Authors: Efeoğlu I. Efe , Christiansen Bryan
Published: November 2014

The Republic of Turkey represents solid business opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and local investors within the so-called CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa) economic bloc, an entity which has relatively little coverage in extant academic literature. This chapter outlines 12 disruptive industries that can play a major role in Turkey's future economic development by providing business and job opportunities from project-based export-import activities. The chapter also covers other important subjects such as human resource management, building global Turkish brands, and education/training. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for future research directions regarding research and development, diversity management, English as a Foreign Language training, and cultural intelligence.
Globalization of Latecomer Asian Multinationals and Theory of Multinational Enterprise
Authors: Kittilaksanawong Wiboon , Dai Weiqi
Published: November 2014

The fast globalization of latecomer multinationals from Asian emerging economies with impetus has appeared to challenge the established theories of Multinational Enterprise (MNE). This chapter reviews extant theories of MNE and provides areas of refinement and extension to these theories to reflect highly contextualized and unique internal and external conditions of these MNEs. In particular, this chapter provides an analysis of the key theoretical perspectives of MNE and highlights four areas that extend existing theories. These areas include country-of-origin effects, ownership advantages, learning processes, as well as global and industry context for internationalization. These areas of refinement are then illustrated by seven case studies of MNEs from mainland China and Taiwan in their accelerated internationalization and their focus on acquisitive growth strategy in terms of speed of internationalization, target countries, and mode of entry.
Bank vs. Bond Finance
Authors: Breuer Wolfgang , Quinten Benjamin , Salzmann Astrid J.
Published: November 2014

This chapter enhances the growing research field of Cultural Finance by analyzing the relationship between cultural value types—in particular, Autonomy and Embeddedness—and the corporate debt choice of either bank or bond financing. The authors derive their hypotheses from a slight modification and re-interpretation of the Chemmanur and Fulghieri (1994) approach of “relationship lending.” Referring to the importance of specific human capital investments and individuals' future orientation, they show that firms in autonomy cultures tend toward bank finance, whereas firms in embeddedness cultures show a preference for financing by issuing bonds. In a cross-country analysis with 71 countries, the authors find empirical evidence for their established hypotheses.
Eminent Domain in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Authors: Shankar Arun , Das Rituparna
Published: November 2014

All states cherish eminent domain, which is the power to assert dominion over the resources in their territory. How eminent domain is exercised in a region may be used as a test to gauge the attitude of a state to business. Eminent domain also has deeper influence on the economy of a state beyond direct percepts. Invoking eminent domain scintillates social crisis. How a state manages its social crisis marks the difference between continued growth and economic collapse. This chapter anatomizes a few relevant and recent eminent domain developments in the Latin American states of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, contrasting it with the scenario in the USA wherever appropriate.
Innovation Scope and the Performance of the Firm
Authors: Bortoluzzi Guido , de Luca Patrizia , Venier Francesco , Balboni Bernardo
Published: November 2014

Innovation is a key factor for surviving and competing in the global scenario. However, findings from existing studies provide conflicting evidence in this regard, and the relationship between company innovation and performance remains undetermined. This chapter aims to deepen our understanding of this subject by looking at a less studied topic: the relationship between the innovation scope of a firm and its performance. The study is based on empirical research carried out in a sample of 74 firms belonging to the Friuli Wine Cluster located in northeastern Italy. Empirical results support the view that the most successful winemakers are those who have a wider innovation scope and who, in the last years, have considerably revised their innovation-related processes in a more market- and experience-related way.
Semantic Synchronization in B2B Transactions
Authors: Fengel Janina , Paulheim Heiko , Rebstock Michael
Published: November 2014

Despite the development of e-business standards, the integration of business processes and business information systems is still a non-trivial issue if business partners use different e-business standards for formatting and describing information to be processed. Since those standards can be understood as ontologies, ontological engineering technologies can be applied for processing, especially ontology matching for reconciling them. However, as e-business standards tend to be rather large-scale ontologies, scalability is a crucial requirement. To serve this demand, we present our ORBI Ontology Mediator. It is linked with our Malasco system for partition-based ontology matching with currently available matching systems, which so far do not scale well, if at all. In our case study we show how to provide dynamic semantic synchronization between business partners using different e-business standards without initial ramp-up effort, based on ontological mapping technology combined with interactive user participation.
Course Management Meets Social Networking in Moodle
Authors: Crosslin Matt
Published: November 2014

Moodle is currently one of the more popular opensource course management systems in online education. Some evaluations have also indicated that Moodle is one of the top-rated programs when compared to other open-source course management systems (Graf & List, 2005). The creators of Moodle describe their program as a course management system built on social constructivist pedagogy. Social constructivist pedagogy is a collaborative approach to learning based upon the works of Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and Jean Piaget. Moodle’s unique focus on pedagogy allows online learning to cross over from the traditional educational realm of factual recall and rote memorization into the realm of social networking. Social networking has recently become one of the more popular uses of the Internet, with sites like MySpace and FaceBook attracting millions of users every month. Social networking Web sites began to appear on the Internet around 2002 (Downes, 2005). Social networks are now seen as an important component of modern society – even in educational contexts (Finin, Ding, Zhou, & Joshi, 2005). Current online social networking sites thrive on social constructivism pedagogy – whether the users or designers know this or not.
Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Banking in India
Authors: Singh Sindhu , Srivastava R. K.
Published: November 2014

The advancement of mobile communication and wireless technologies has made a rapid development in the sector of banking services using their mobile phones. A fine system with great potential has the capacity to attract a huge block of customers to opt for banking services through their mobile phones. The dynamism in the present era of technology, where many other channels are available, this mobile banking system stands alone to attract more customers to come in the net of using mobile banking services. This paper meticulously aims to investigate the factors influencing the intention of the customer to use mobile banking. It suggests an integrated model that incorporates the five antecedents namely, perceived ease of use, compatibility, social influence, security, and perceived cost on its influence on customers' decision to use mobile banking. The study results revealed that compatibility, social influence, and security in their order of influence significantly affect the customers' decision to use mobile banking. The theoretical model is empirically validated and explained 62 percent of the variance in intention to use mobile banking. The implications of this study's findings for the future research and practice are described.
Conceptual Model for Specialized Learning Systems within Organizations
Authors: Mendes Isabel , Santos Henrique , Leão Celina Pinto
Published: November 2014

This study is focused on the potentiality and benefits that intelligent learning systems can bring to knowledge intensive organizations, in particularly software houses. Therefore the authors will present a conceptual model for the foundation of specialized knowledge systems with dynamic content regulation, oriented to self-learning. Its structure is based on the combination of semantic technologies (e.g. ontologies) and social networks, from where interaction lasts. To achieve that goal, it is important to know how to explore the information in this type of environments, as well as understand which behaviors and trends influence the individuals learning in the digital era. The connectivist theory offers an important contribution to the understanding of this phenomenon, being therefore one of the basic reference in the development of this work.
Issues about the Adoption of Formal Methods for Dependable Composition of Web Services
Authors: Mazzara Manuel , Ciavotta Michele
Published: November 2014

Web Services provide interoperable mechanisms for describing, locating and invoking services over the Internet; composition further enables to build complex services out of simpler ones for complex B2B applications. While current studies on these topics are mostly focused - from the technical viewpoint - on standards and protocols, this article investigates the adoption of formal methods, especially for composition. The authors logically classify and analyze three different (but interconnected) kinds of important issues towards this goal, namely foundations, verification and extensions. The aim of this work is to individuate the proper questions on the adoption of formal methods for dependable composition of Web Services, not necessarily to find the optimal answers. Nevertheless, the authors still try to propose some tentative answers based on our proposal for a composition calculus, which they hope can animate a proper discussion.
Sustainable Construction in the Conservation Area
Authors: Halirova Marcela , Tymova Petra , Peřinková Martina
Published: November 2014

Contemporary large cities have valuable historical centres from an architectural point of view, which are protected by the Heritage Offices. There can be found a lot of underused lofts under the roofs of those houses, and this is the place where we can find suitable premises for the recovery of the existing environment in its entire environmental context. A sensitive attic unit implemented into the existing generously built roofs in houses following the style Sorela is feasible. Sorela has been widely applied in newly emerging urban areas as for example Ostrava and its suburb Poruba which has been started to be built according to a building plan by Vladimír Meduna since 1951.
Czech Countryside and Small Production Facilities
Authors: Student Aleš , Nedvěd Martin
Published: November 2014

Today, the small and medium-sized production facilities form a regular part of countryside. Many of them, however, lost their original function: they are abandoned, unattended, they dilapidate. As such, they have become a problem issue for villages and the country in general. No matter how slow and complicated there are solutions to this dire situation, nevertheless.
Conversion of Industrial Hall Buildings
Authors: Peřinková Martina , Twrdá Markéta , Kolarčíková Lenka
Published: November 2014

Ostrava as a post-industrial city has many brownfields, black fields and industrial areas. Brownfields are one of the most important problems, which today’s cities have to solve. Regeneration of them and then reintegration back to the city organism are very time-consuming and expensive. Theme conversion of listed industrial hall buildings, the assessment made solutions, converting three historic buildings, the former power station. Looking at the history of the buildings, the technical condition before reconstruction. Using qualitative analysis used to evaluate the progress of our selected objects. Using the principles of similar objects in other post-industrial cities and their historic buildings.
Automobile in the Disposition of Energy-Saving Houses
Authors: Chybík Josef
Published: November 2014

In the disposition of energetically economic houses, automobile abandons its stereotype held for so many years according to which it was placed to rest “under one roof” with other residential and utility rooms. However, this diagram shows a range of collisions manifesting with difficult building details, with occurrence of thermal bridges and thermal relations. This results in increased financial demands for drafting efficient thermal insulation layers or higher demand for energy consumption necessary to heat up the building. Generally, architects and structural engineers are not sufficiently aware of the fact that at the same time this is a factor that provides higher potential for faster ageing of car bodies and chassis when cars are parked “inside the house” than in means of transport parked in open carports or in an open space. This Paper deals with analyses of this important, yet often omitted or less-known fact.
From Functional Areas towards Metropolitan Structure: Public Space in Sustainable Development Context
Authors: Sourek Michal
Published: November 2014

If sustainable life on Earth is the goal (today), the Mankind cannot head towards it living in cities that are not sustainable. Localities that have lost the ability, unduly frequent in our cities, call the nature and causes of the phenomenon to be revisited. Once perceived in a city context, brownfields appear as places where the city failed: the communication, both material and social-cultural values´ exchange – that is the fundamental principle of a city - reduced and finally stopped between the locality, its surroundings and the polis. Identified as a platform for the communication, public space creates the basic framework of a city – the metropolitan structure. Vital public space claims to be the base of sustainable development of a city thus: the paper verifies the hypothesis and provides essential description of functions and types of public space. Principles and methods of its formation are demonstrated on examples in a nutshell. Eventually, the paper contributes both to the positive and to the normative theory of urban public space. Richly documented both in literature and the author's own work, commonly accessible reality of the built environment is the platform of explorative research plan of the paper. New, revising conclusions do not result from new findings on the situation, but from new perspectives on familiar issues. The same platform allows easy verification of hypotheses and new explanations.
What to Do with Alvar Aalto?
Authors: Paajanen Ilkka
Published: November 2014

In Finland the influence of the Alvar Aalto has been very strong. It is not easy to say, what to do with Alvar Aalto and his buildings? Let’s take three cases: Library in Vyborg was built just before the Second World War. The former Finnish town was after the war one part of the Soviet Union. During the soviet era the building was in very bad condition. During the last 20 years it has been renovated. Now it looks like it was in the 30es. Some details remind the soviet renovations. Should we have a building like this in his earlier presentation or should we see also the history of the building? Sunila area in Kotka was built by one wood company in the middle of the 20thcentury. In the 60es the company sold the buildings. The flats are small, in the flats there are toilets but not showers. The situation especially in the 70es was miserable. In the last decades the Pro Sunila society has developed the area and the flats (for example two small flats together as a big one with bigger showers etc.). How we can develop an area? Nano laboratory building in Otaniemi was built in 60es as wood laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology. There are many very fine architectural details in the building. For about eight years ago the building was renovated as nano laboratory. How to renovate a laboratory building, when you should in the same time use renovation, conservation and build high tech laboratory?
Slovak Retail Facilities in the Postwar Period
Authors: Andráš Milan
Published: November 2014

Retail units built in Slovakia after the war have continued in the tradition of the functionalist pre-war production, where the emphasis was on the rational operation. Their solutions: disposition-spatial, material-construction and operational were determined by socio-economic and political conditions of a totalitarian regime. Directional management of construction has been focused on building-up sale units in central urban areas, in areas of newly-formed residential dwellings and conditions of rural settlements. Insufficient design capacities led to the creation of typified designs. Sterile cubic solutions conditioned by building-material base of society were reflected in the austere architectural embodiment. The transformation process of the nineties significantly affected overall the retail structure. The possibility of entrepreneurship and free pricing encouraged vendors to build large numbers of different small-scale devices. Globalization tendencies with an internationalization of trade and the free movement of capital caused by the turn of the century building of major shopping centers with super and hypermarkets. The building was focused initially to the remote large settlements and later to wider centers of towns. Architecture of modern suburban retail buildings is marked by utility of function, low-floor construction, high volume mass. By typological and material-constructional solution and by austere architectural expressions shall have the adjective "ephemeral".
The Influence of Colour Solution of the ETICS Surface on its Thermal Exposition
Authors: Pasek Jan
Published: November 2014

The colour solution of the surface of the façade is one of the basic factors for reaching the requested aesthetic and architectonic expression of the building. This target is sometimes reached by using very saturated tones of colours or changing dark and light tones on one façade. Such solution is often risky as one of the characteristics of dark colour tones is high absorption of solar and scattered radiation. Its thermal compound causes warming of the outer layers of the façade proportionally to the surface colour saturation. This consequence is very serious especially for thin-layer plaster of external thermal insulation composite systems (ETICS) immediately exposed to dynamic effect of external environment temperature changes, which can be even increased by inappropriate colour solution of the ETICS surface. This paper focuses on evaluation of the influence of ETICS surface colouring on the thermal load.
The Beauty of Skylight
Authors: Safarova Vendula
Published: November 2014

It is commonly claimed that the modern secularized society worships consumption and fetishism of things and that consumerism has become a substitute to religion. Is that still true? Is our society really nonreligious? Has not secularization exceeded the stage of atheism? It might not need being defined to the old religion any more. Maybe again without remorse the new paganism indulges, for its faith is not ashamed. How are these trends reflected in architecture? The paper presents details of a particular architectural work - skylight in an the Avion shopping center (Ostrava), as a case study, which analyzed and interpreted with help two opposite principles. It is also said that a hypermarket (English only knows the word: supermarket.) became a temple of consumerism. Temples traditionally used to have specific lighting - more of chiaroscuro. Windows allowed only little sunlight to enter, artificial light was imperfect. On to contrary a hypermarket has no windows - and the artificial light is even of better quality than the daylight. Still there is a skylight in a building of a shopping center. This modern temple is open to the sky, lets sunshine enter into the own inner. The skylight is shaped as a pyramid. Through skylight tradition meets with new practice: a popular symbol of free Masons is reinterpreted by nowadays builder/designer - steel rods have inverted bearing system, going from thin to thick profile. Skylight refers to himself - connects the earthly closed space with the air vertical (strengthens the axis mundi). It is an archaic work or on the contrary postmodern anachronistic?
Study on Preparation of Metal Sm by Metal Thermal Reduction Method
Authors: Xue Ping
Published: November 2014

In this paper, thermodynamic calculations and reaction process for the production of metal Sm by metal thermal reduction method were analyzed. Two main factors effecting reducing yield were determined, namely: heating system and briquetting. By changing the conditions of heating system and briquetting, the direct yield of metal Sm increased to over 95%.
Experimental Investigation of In-Plane Mechanical Performance of Carbon/Glass Hybrid Woven Composite
Authors: Lu Jia Hai , Zhu Ping , Ji Qing Hui , Cheng Zhang
Published: November 2014

Woven composites have been increasingly employed in engineering applications. For effective use of woven composites in engineering applications, it is essential to fully understand the mechanical behavior. In the present study, both tensile and compressive behavior of a carbon/glass hybrid woven composite manufactured by vacuum infusion process was experimentally investigated under in-plane quasi-static loading. The experiments were performed at both the axial and off-axial directions. The results indicated that the in-plane mechanical performance of the studied composite was highly directional dependent and tension/compression asymmetric.
Research on Monitoring Fatigue Life of Mechanical Parts Based on Danger Theory
Authors: Meng Qing Hua , Huang Shu Chen , Zheng Hui Feng , Guo Si Chen
Published: November 2014

Currently, there are less online monitoring forecast methods about running condition and fatigue life of mechanical parts, and the current methods have higher false alarm rate. To solve this problem, danger theory of artificial immune system were introduced into condition monitoring methods. An algorithm to predicting the using state or fatigue life of mechanical part was proposed. In this algorithm, the definition and the generation of danger signals are proposed combined with fatigue life and reliability of mechanical parts. According to the results of simulation and experiment, the theoretically residual fatigue life and reliability calculated from simulation analysis kept accordance with the actual residual fatigue life and the real reliability. This verified the validity of this algorithm proposed in this paper.
A Research of Mobile Machinery Based on Closed Hydraulic System
Authors: Lou Xi Yin
Published: November 2014

The closed hydraulic transmission system is composed of a variable hydraulic pump, hydraulic motor, quantitative integrated valve and fuel tank and other components. The system has the advantages of compact structure, good sealing, stable transmission, high efficiency, low failure rate, it can realize the stepless speed regulation, convenient commutation, widely used in walking machinery working environment is bad, the speed of uniform.
Finite Element Analysis for Performance of Cap Seal Rings in the Stirling Engine Piston Rod
Authors: Chang Jun
Published: November 2014

Cap sealing reciprocating seals are dry friction conditions, the paper separately from the main factor moving the cap seal sealing mechanism, wear mechanism, elastic modulus theoretical analysis of its sealing properties and tribological law. Mathematical model, derived cap seal stress and Von-Mises stress distribution in the contact pressure under different quality work through finite element analysis software.Keywords: Rod seal; cap seal structure; stress analysis; Finite Element Analysis.
Sealing Performance Analysis of Cap Seal Rings in the Stirling Engine Piston Rod
Authors: Chang Jun
Published: November 2014

When the Stirling engine piston rod for reciprocating motion at a high speed under dry friction conditions, the temperature fall or pressure drop is mainly caused by uneven sealing ring deformation, increased wear and sealing performance fall. This article is introduced a cap seal rings of Stirling engine piston, study for friction and wear in theory under dynamic seal condition, and establish a rod seal test equipment to analysis the cap seal structure distortion and gauge wear in different working environments by experimental methods. Finally, come to the conclusion that when working medium pressure at 7 mpa, the cap seal performance is best.Keywords: Rod seal; cap seal structure; stress analysis
Research of Design Theory on the Key Components of Transmission System of Electric Vehicle
Authors: Yang Ren Hua
Published: November 2014

The modern design theory and method of the differential case is discussed in this paper. The various factors affecting on the reliability of differential case are analyzed. The influences of these factors on the reliability of differential case are found to be a nonlinear relationship. The reliability calculation model of differential case is established on the basis of the theory of fuzzy-neural network. After the model was established, samples are used to train the network to determine the weight and threshold in the model. After using the sample parameters to train the network model, and then using the sample parameters to test the network, the results need to meet the requirements.The reliability of differential case of an electric car is calculated. The result shows that the model is correct and effective. Key Words: model; differential; reliability; fuzzy neural network