cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HIGH Horizons - Report on the carbon emission assessment of selected health facilities in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Sulaiman, Zeenat
name: Mung'atia, Aquinius
name: Maimela, Gloria
name: Parker, Craig
name: Chersich, Matthew
name: Luchters, Stanley
name: Machingura, Fortunate
name: Muronzie, Thabani
name: Tsvaki, Jetina
name: HIGH Horizons Study Group
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: carbon emissions
health facilities
Kenya
South Africa
Zimbabwe
CARBOMICA
climate change
mitigation
carbon footprint
health sector

description: The purpose of this carbon assessment report (Deliverable 2.11) is to quantify and understand the carbon emissions associated with private and public healthcare facilities in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The report highlights the importance of conducting carbon assessments in healthcare settings, supported by relevant sources and citations.

The assessments aim to provide valuable insights into the environmental impact of these facilities. We additionally developed a modelling tool, CARBOMICA, which assists in the strategic allocation of resources to optimize the reduction of carbon emissions at these health facilities. By identifying the key sources of carbon emissions and recommending targeted mitigation measures using CARBOMICA, the report seeks to support the transition towards sustainable and low-carbon healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

This report is linked to two other HIGH Horizons reports:

Protocol for mitigation interventions evaluation in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe (Deliverable 5.7, April 2023), which outlines the approach and tools for assessing and evaluating carbon emissions from health facilities in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe;

Development of a Resource Allocation Tool for Carbon Mitigation Intervention in HealthCare Facilities (CARBOMICA) (Deliverable 3.7, September 2023), which will support the identification and selection of mitigation interventions in the three countries.
About the Effectiveness of Several Dissimilarity Estimators used in Damage Assessment
Creators: name: Vasile, Iancu
name: Gilbert, Rainer Gillich
name: Cristian, Paul Chioncel
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Euler-Bernoulli beam
damage assessment
natural frequency
dissimilarity estimation

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: This paper introduces a robust method for vibration-based damage assessment, which is based on a mathematical relation contrived by the authors that involves the frequency shifts, the damage size and position. Databases containing damage indicators for all possible damage scenarios, for three types of beams, were developed by involving this mathematical relation. The proposed damage indicator is expressed using the relative frequency shifts. The damage location and severity can be assessed if the relative frequency shifts are derived from measurements at the initial state and periodically afterwards. The paper investigates the effectiveness of several dissimilarity estimators, to find damage involving frequencies measured without and in the presence of noise.
Dynamics of Flexible Wind Power Generator with Unbalanced Rotor
Creators: name: Jivkov, Venelin
name: Zahariev, Evtim
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: rotor dynamics
non-stationary vibrations
wind power generator

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: The paper deals with dynamic analysis of a wind power generator as a large flexible structure with high speed rotating machines and considerable masses. The dynamic model is considered as a multibody system of rigid and flexible bodies. Nonstationary and transitional processes caused because of eccentricity of the high speed rotating machines, as well as, of the propeller vibrations are simulated and analyzed. Analytical method is applied for dynamic simulation. The results are verified by numerical procedures. Example of wind power generator with three propellers is presented.
Fuzzy Logic Method for Enhancement Fault-Tolerant of Cluster Head in Wireless Sensor Networks Clustering
Creators: name: Pakdeland, Farnaz
name: Esmaeilpour, Mansour
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wireless sensor networks
clustering
Cluster head selection
Fuzzy logic system
Fault-Tolerant

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: Wireless sensor network is comprised of several sensor nodes. The retaining factors influence the network operation. In the clustering structure the cluster head failure can cause loss of information.The aim of this paper is to increase tolerance error in the cluster head node. At first, paying attention to the producing balance in the density of the cluster cause to postpone the death time of the cluster head node and lessen the collision due to the lack of the energy balance in clusters. The innovation in this stage is formed by using two fuzzy logic systems. One in the phase of evaluation of the cluster head chance, and the other in the phase of producing balance and the nodes migration to the qualified clusters to increase balance, Then the focus is on recognizing and repairing the cluster head fault.
Experiments towards Editing Otherwise
Creators: name: Kiesewetter, Rebekka
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: In the context of my own position as a humanities scholar in the UK, in this article, I look at the way in which universities have operationalised a system in which the measures of scholarly prestige, success, and distinction are increasingly monopolised by large publishing corporations, mainly based in the West. This evolution has reinforced a productivity-driven and competitive framework of academic work, which significantly influences the subjectivities, interpersonal dynamics, and emotional landscapes of humanities scholars. Through my editorial work in the  ontext of the Culture Machine special issue ‘Publishing after Progress’, I try to move away from systemic pressures on academic work and their effects. With this, I aim to create conditions under which thinking (and doing) ‘Publishing after Progress’ becomes possible, or at least plausible, as an experimental, intellectual, and political quest beyond the immediate demands of productivity-driven and competitive  academic environments. My approach horizontally engages a heterogeneous range of knowledge creating actors not merely as competitive producers of research outputs but as active agents in shaping the conditions of academic work, by means of a creative, non-utilitarian, and collaborative publishing undertaking.
Research of Block-Based Motion Estimation Methods for Video Compression
Creators: name: Andrey, Tropchenko
name: Alexandr, Tropchenko
name: Van Truong, Nguyen
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Video compression
spatial redundancy
temporal redundancy
motion estimation
motion compensation

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: This work is a review of the block-based algorithms used for motion estimation in video compression. It researches different types of block-based algorithms that range from the simplest named Full Search to the fast adaptive algorithms like Hierarchical Search. The algorithms evaluated in this paper are widely accepted by the video compressing community and have been used in implementing various standards, such as MPEG-4 Visual and H.264. The work also presents a very brief introduction to the entire flow of video compression.
Gottesschmunzeln: Was wollte Maria...?! ,SOKO-Halleluja’ : Franziskaner-Ordensschwestern erfolgreich auf den Spuren von Miss Marple...!
Creators: name: Schuchardt, Erika
name: Oberin Georgia
Publisher: name: Berlin : [k.A.]
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::200 | Religion, Religionsphilosophie

description: [no abstract available]
Vorwort: 'Per Aspera ad Astra’ – Durch Krisen zu den 'Sternen’ – Krisen-Management – Chance für die Ökumene
Creators: name: Schuchardt, Erika
Publisher: name: Frankfurt am Main : Lembeck-Verlag
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie

description: [no abstract available]
Properties of the Surface Layer of Thin Films of Polyaniline Doped With Phosphoric Acid
Creators: name: Modrić-Šahbazović, Almedina
name: Gazdić, Izet
name: Sulejmanović, Suada
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: polyaniline
phosphoric acid
thin films
contact angle
surface free energy

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: This study deals with estimation of the surface free energy of thin films of polyaniline doped with phosphoric acid, by measuring contact angles. Synthesis of polyaniline (PANI) with phosphoric acid (PA) was performed at room temperature of 20°C, and at 0°C. Thin films were obtained by means of a spin coater, applying the synthetized mixture on a glass substrate. By measuring the contact angle, first between ethylene glycol and a film and then between distilled water and a film, we thus calculated the polar, dispersion and total surface free energy. It was proved and demonstrated that the surface free energy depends on the temperature at which the solution (from which the thin films are obtained later) was synthesized.
Guest-Editorial Notes (after Progress?)  (introduction for special issue 'Publishing after Progress' Culture Machine 23)
Creators: name: Kiesewetter, Rebekka
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: The special issue 'Publishing after Progress' brings together a series of reflections and discussions that illuminate the current state of scholarly publishing. It highlights the field's ongoing commercial and technological consolidation, evolving under the rhetoric of internationalisation, excellence, and modern capitalist progress as an unequivocal benefit. The issue includes analyses of the wide-ranging geopolitical, epistemic, social, and cognitive effects of this evolution, marked by a focus on quantifiable outcomes, productivity- and visibility-driven metrics of success, and individual achievement. Beyond its diagnostic and analytical scope, ‘Publishing after Progress’ explores the tension between contemporary institutional expectations related to publishing (including research, writing, editing, reviewing, designing, and licensing) and how individuals and communities actually want to – or already do – engage in their work, based on their values, expertise, and understanding of their work's needs in light of persistent inequalities in scholarship, scholarly publishing, as well as planetary crises and emergencies. The issue tentatively maps out emergent types of 'resistant' research, publishing, and scholarship, unveiling diverse and ongoing stories from activist, artistic, and academic authors. These contributors have begun to address the conflict between institutional expectations and their own situated visions of what their work requires in an increasingly troubled and troubling world. Collectively, the articles grapple with the possibility of a politics of engagement in publishing beyond a prevailing capitalist ethos of competition and individual performance evaluation – celebrated by many contemporary institutions as 'progress'  – while practically facilitating spaces to experiment with what such politics could entail.
Reframing the "International" in UK International Scholarship: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity beyond English as Lingua Franca and Multilingualism
Creators: name: Kiesewetter, Rebekka
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: This article critically examines dominant models of internationalization in UK higher education, focusing on how initiatives such as the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund and the UK Government’s Turing Scheme, along with evaluation frameworks such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF), emphasize uniformity, competitiveness, and broad scope. This approach can lead to a homogenization of academic collaboration, often overlooking the diverse operational, sociocultural, linguistic, and epistemic contexts of scholars involved in the United Kingdom’s increasingly internationalized scholarly environment. Drawing on an expanded notion of diaspora influenced by intersectional feminist theory, this article proposes a reconceptualization of what internationalization means in the United Kingdom. Through the case study of two experimental online reading events, The Re-Reading Room at Coventry University, it demonstrates how diasporic academic communities can actively co-create more inclusive and equitable collaborative environments in praxis, challenging the prevailing norms of competition, alignment, and uniformity underlaying the way international scholarship is framed in the United Kingdom.
Managing User Access to Cloud Services by Company Administrators
Creators: name: Lazarova, Vanya
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: cloud services
user access
administrator roles
administrator permissions

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: The number and power of administrator services has been growing lately. In order to perform their job, administrators acquire rights to access user data such as names, addresses, occupations, passwords and so on. The maintenance of user accounts is designed in a manner so that consumers are protected in a situation like this - administrators cannot access anyuser passwords if auser has changed it during the registration process. However, to carry out his normal activities, anadministrator canchange the current user password, even if he does not know it. This situation requires special measures to be taken by company’s management to protect their employees’ data.
Efficient Dynamic Capacity Management Approach for Guarantee SLAs in Clouds
Creators: name: Alasaly, Mahfoudh
name: Al-Sanad, Ahmed
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cloud computing
Service Level Agreement CPU Utilization
Response Time
Load balancer
EC2
RBE

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: Recently, Cloud computing has created new dimensions for computing. The process of providing service – enabled connection is considered to be the most important function of clouds. This paper which we have carefully thought about, takes into consideration dynamic capacity planning for cloud systems. The objective is to dynamically accommodate computing capacity in order to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and, in addition, to minimize the total costs incurred in the cloud services. In this paper, we propose an improvement of a capacity planning scheme to make sure that perfect performance targets of SLAs are always met. The scheme employs threshold-based techniques to guarantee that the SLAs are met and the run-up costs are created to operate on cloud environments and thus has to deal with these environments specific obstacles.
A Critical Study of Evolution of Laws & Conventions on Hijacking: An Indian Perspective
Creators: HC User
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: The invention of the aeroplane has to rank among the greatest stories in human history. This is a result of the lengthy travel times before this discovery. Nevertheless, the length of travel time has significantly decreased due to this technology. Its use has grown massively since it is the most convenient means of getting around and because it has dramatically lowered a significant inconvenience, namely travel time. Interestingly, nothing about civil aviation is carefree. Frequent instances of aircraft hijacking have tainted the reputation of this practical mode of transport. Hijacking an aircraft is regarded as a crime against humanity under international law. The world community ultimately condemns it because this crime has traumatised human values, endangered lives, and destroyed property. The motives for this crime could be personal, involve taking hostages, political or administrative, etc. According to international law, the state should assume full responsibility for resolving the problems associated with aeroplane hijacking. Only via worldwide networks, bilateral agreements, and the conviction of those responsible for aeroplane hijacking can an attempt be made to address this hijacking issue. This paper highlights the problem of aircraft hijacking, its history, and international laws & conventions related to it in contemporary times. It also discusses how India has adopted these conventions & anti-hijacking laws passed by the government.
Supplementary document for Topologically optimized concentric-nanoring metalens with 1 mm diameter, 0.8 NA and 600 nm imaging resolution in the visible - 6245440.pdf
Creators: name: Jin, Zhao
name: Lin, Yu
name: Wang, Chengmiao
name: Jia, Ping
name: Han, Yeming
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Hu, Yueqiang
name: Li, Bowen
name: Zhang, Jianyu
name: Korvink, Jan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
title: Vascular sheath as an alternative technique for encrusted nephrostomy tube exchange
Creators: name: Maleyko, Igor
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 76-year-old gentleman was diagnosed with bladder pseudosarcoma following new episodes of haematuria. After resection, a follow-up magnetic resonance imaging showed recurrence, resulting in the insertion of bilateral retrograde ureteric stents followed by bilateral nephrostomies with 8-French drains. This was managed with routine nephrostomy catheter exchanges. However, at this presentation, none of the previously performed techniques were successful.

description: 76 years, male
Okanagan Charter : An international charter for health promoting universities & colleges
Creators: name: International Conference On Health Promoting Universities & Colleges (7th : 2015 : Kelowna, (B.C.))
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: A new international charter, an outcome of the 2015 International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges / VII International Congress, signals a challenge to universities and colleges to create healthier campuses and healthier communities. People from 45 countries drafted the Charter, an indication of a global desire to confront increasingly complex issues related to the health, well being and sustainability of people and the planet. The Okanagan Charter puts higher education at the forefront of this movement. Conference delegates committed to take the Charter back to their countries and organizations to mobilize health promotion action locally and globally. [Translations available in: English, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Irish, Turkish]
Investigation of Partially Crystalline Zr77Ni23 Metallic Glass
Creators: name: Salčinović Fetić, Amra
name: Gazdić, Izet
name: Ostojić, Gordana
name: Sulejmanović, Suada
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: metallic glass
crystallization
activation energy
electrical resistance

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: This paper presents the results of an extensive research of partially crystalline Zr77Ni23 metallic glass (indicated numbers refer to atomic percentages). The partially crystalline Zr77Ni23 samples were prepared by melt-spinning using a device constructed in the Metal Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Science in Sarajevo. XRD pattern shows crystalline peaks which correspond to an orthorhombic structure of Zr3Ni superimposed on an amorphous pattern. Homogeneity and chemical composition were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Crystallization was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). DSC analysis indicated a simple thermally activated process. Overall activation energy of the crystallization was calculated using Kissinger's model for nonisothermal process and compared with those given by the Augis-Bennett model. By monitoring of the electrical resistance in the temperature range 80 – 270 K a small and negative thermal coefficient of electrical resistance was observed. This means that electrical resistance varies slightly with temperature and it makes this metallic glass suitable for application in electronic circuits for which this property is an important requirement.
title: Obesity: A Study of the Body in Popular Science Discourse
Creators: name: Price, Suzanne
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Obesity
subject: Discourse
subject: Body
subject: Fat
subject: Popular science

description: This thesis evaluates how the fat body is constructed in the popularizations of scientific obesity studies. This is accomplished through discourse analysis, including examination of the vocabulary used in describing the fat body and analysis of the narratives of causation- causes of obesity and consequences of obesity- in the news articles. This study found that the fat body is viewed as Other, an idea strengthened by the characteristics of popularizations as outlined by Fahnestock and Carosso, which increase the ability of the narratives to name causes and consequences of fat bodies. Furthermore, the portrayal of obesity as contagious demonizes the obese as bodies to be avoided. Finally, the deprivation of agency for the obese denies the fat body a voice and power within the circulating fatness debate.
Few-Shot Histopathology Image Classification: Evaluating State-of-the-Art Methods and Unveiling Performance Insights
Creators: name: Sekhar, Ardhendu
name: Gupta, Ravi Kant
name: Sethi, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a study on few-shot classification in the context of histopathology images. While few-shot learning has been studied for natural image classification, its application to histopathology is relatively unexplored. Given the scarcity of labeled data in medical imaging and the inherent challenges posed by diverse tissue types and data preparation techniques, this research evaluates the performance of state-of-the-art few-shot learning methods for various scenarios on histology data. We have considered four histopathology datasets for few-shot histopathology image classification and have evaluated 5-way 1-shot, 5-way 5-shot and 5-way 10-shot scenarios with a set of state-of-the-art classification techniques. The best methods have surpassed an accuracy of 70%, 80% and 85% in the cases of 5-way 1-shot, 5-way 5-shot and 5-way 10-shot cases, respectively. We found that for histology images popular meta-learning approaches is at par with standard fine-tuning and regularization methods. Our experiments underscore the challenges of working with images from different domains and underscore the significance of unbiased and focused evaluations in advancing computer vision techniques for specialized domains, such as histology images.
Modified Variational Iteration Method for Sine-Gordon Equation
Creators: name: Saeed, Umer
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Variational iteration method
Chebyshev polynomial
Sine-Gordon equation

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: In this paper, we introduce a modified variational iteration method for solving nonlinear differential equations. The main advantage of this modification is that it gives stable and relatively accurate results while increasing the domain of unknown function in differential equation, where variational iteration method becomes unstable. The proposed method is based on Chebyshev polynomial approximations in the correction functional of variational iteration method. To show the advantages of the proposed method, we use the sine-Gordon equation as a test problem.
A cultura de autoarquivamento de Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA)
Creators: name: Vieira Junior, Nilson Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Repositório Institucional
Autoarquivamento
Trabalho de conclusão de curso (TCC)

description: Como se deu os procedimentos para implementação da cultura de autoarquivamento de Trabalho de conclusão de curso (TCC) por discentes dos cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA)
Assessing and Evaluating UBT Model of Student Management Information System using ANOVA
Creators: name: Fetaji, Bekim
name: Fetaji, Majlinda
name: Jashari, Xhelal
name: Ebibi, Mirlinda
name: Ljajic, Samir
name: Kamberovic, Hamza
name: Iseini, Bekim
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Student Management Information System
ANOVA regression analyses
conceptual model of e-services

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: The research study focus is set in assessing the efficiency and impact of Student Management Information System in facilitating students during registration and examination periods in the aspect of efficiency, performance and usability. As Case Study is chosen University for Business and Technology-UBT, where the system has been designed and tailored to, implemented, tested, evaluated and re-engineered. The analyses tries to identify whether the developed UBT model shows improvement in student services, data centralization, data security, and the entire process of student eservices. Through the Case Study investigated several impacting factors. Afterwards evaluated the usability and user-friendliness of the developed UBT model and solutions of Management Information System and used ANOVA regression analyses to determine the impact. Insights and recommendations are provided.
title: Article: Anonymous, November 23, 1964
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Article: Black and white original, 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm)
description: Article reprint titled New Towns: Shape of Utopia?, Anonymous, originally printed in Newsweek, November 23, 1964. At the time of publication, approximately twenty new towns were being constructed across the country, offering profound changes in community planning; the goal was no longer just urban renewal it is urban "newal." City planners, architects, engineers, realized that a solution to the auto-sclerosis afflicting urb and suburb is to build a planned town from privately supplied scratch, where residents can live, work, and play without having to turn an ignition key. This article examines the roots, varieties, and lifecycle of new towns; case studies of Reston and a few new towns in California; maps and pictures accompany article. Planned Community Archives Collection, 444.04.
title: Experimental Theatre Producing Committee Meeting
Creators: name: Caro, Warren
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Experimental Theatre
subject: Actors' Equity
subject: Dramatists' Guild
subject: Crawford, Cheryl
subject: Houghton, Norris
subject: Breen, Robert
subject: Helburn, Theresa
subject: Caro, Warren

description: Meeting minutes.
title: Green International Political Economy: Issues And Policy Concerns
Creators: name: Gopalan, Sasidaran
name: Liu, Jeremy
name: Tefera, Temnite
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmentl Policy

description: olicy-makers across the global spectrum and in the United States (US) in particular, are grappling with the classic problem of an ‘environment-economy tradeoff.‘ The phenomenal increase in the emission of greenhouse gases has contributed to erratic climate changes. The insatiable appetite for energy due to an exploding global population has also led to a gross mismatch of energy demand-supply dynamics. With the US struggling to recover from the global financial crisis, there is an ever-increasing pressure on the US government to take urgent measures culminating in economic recovery. But any such acceleration could also come at the cost of our environment. So how does government effectively design optimal policies that would simultaneously address both of these problems? This policy brief suggests economically viable and politically feasible policy instruments that the US could consider in order to solve this conundrum.
Optimization of Time Structures in Manufacturing Management by using Scheduling Software Lekin
Creators: name: Balog, Michal
name: Dupláková, Darina
name: Szilágyi, Erik
name: Minďaš, Miroslav
name: Knapčíková, Lucia
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Scheduling
Time structures
Production process
Lekin

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: In each manufacturing plant it is one of the basic requirements to produce the largest quantity of products in the shortest time and at the lowest price. In performance of these requirements used are diverse modern methods, technologies and software which ensure the efficiency improvement of manufacturing, costs minimization, production time minimization etc. Presented article is focused on time structures optimization of real manufacturing process of engineering component by using scheduling software Lekin. It is based on theoretical scientific knowledge on which is afterwards found the optimal layout of the manufacturing process in practice. The optimal layout it created by construction and analysis of Gantt charts in scheduling software Lekin with minimum production time condition.
Okanagan Charta : eine internationale Charta für gesundheitsfördernde Universitäten & Hochschulen
Creators: name: Internationalen Konferenz Zu Gesundheitsfördernden Universitäten Und Hochschulen (VII : 2015 : Kelowna, (B.C.))
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Eine neue internationale Charta, ein Ergebnis der Internationalen Konferenz für Gesundheitsfördernde Universitäten und Hochschulen / des VII. Internationalen Kongresses von 2015, fordert Universitäten und Hochschulen heraus, gesündere Hochschulen und gesündere Gemeinschaften zu schaffen. Menschen aus 45 Ländern haben die Charta verfasst, was ein Zeichen für den globalen Wunsch ist, sich zunehmend komplexen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Gesundheit, dem Wohlbefinden und der Nachhaltigkeit von Menschen und Planeten zu stellen. Die Okanagan-Charta stellt die Hochschulbildung an die Spitze dieser Bewegung. Die Konferenzteilnehmer verpflichteten sich, die Charta in ihre Länder und Organisationen zurückzubringen, um eine Gesundheitsförderung auf lokaler und globaler Ebene zu mobilisieren. [Übersetzungen verfügbar in: Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch, Bulgarisch, Chinesisch, Irisch, Türkisch]
The language of shipping forecasts: A corpus-driven study of specialized terms and phraseological units
Creators: name: Bocanegra-Valle, Ana
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2024

description: This chapter is divided into six main sections. The first section provides a definition of a shipping forecast and then explains its purpose and genre structure. After this, research questions are posed and the way data has been collected and analyzed is explained. The next two sections present and discuss the main find ings from the corpus-driven and frame-based approaches that have been adopted. Finally, pedagogical implications and study limitations are addressed.
title: Net-Centric Adapter for Legacy Systems
Creators: name: Thomas, Alan
name: Turner, Thomas
name: Soderlund, Scott
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Legacy system
subject: Software technology
subject: Service oriented architecture (SOA)
subject: Software engineering
subject: System engineering

description: The Net-Centric Adapter for Legacy Systems (NCALS) is a software technology that makes legacy system data and services available in near real-time to the Global Information Grid (GIG). The intent of NCALS is to lower the cost and risk, and to decrease the time required for legacy systems to comply with DoD net-centric technical standards. Many different systems could use a common, configurable NCALS software component to comply with these standards. The benefit to the warfighter is improved interoperability with joint and coalition forces. NCALS enables legacy systems to move to a Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) compatible with the GIG without requiring a costly and risky re-architecture of their legacy software. In addition, NCALS enables mission critical systems such as weapon systems to segregate their real-time, mission critical software from enterprise integration software. This maintains the safety and security required by such systems, while accommodating rapid changes in Internet-based, enterprise technologies. This paper discusses the legacy system challenge and describe a technology prototype developed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren to realize the NCALS concept. The prototype works automatically, behind the scenes, to expose legacy data to the GIG and to make GIG data available to legacy systems.
History of the European Conference Series on Digital Pathology: Memories and Perspectives
Creators: name: Kayser, Klaus
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016
Subjects: European Conference on Telepathology; Digital Pathology; Telepathology; Virtual Slides

description: Background

Digital pathology is based on both quantitative analysis of microscopic images and electronic communication (telepathology). Herein we report its development in close relationship to the European conference series on telepathology, virtual slides, and digital pathology that started in Heidelberg 26 years ago.

Telepathology, Virtual Microscopy and Digital Pathology

The author founded the conference series in Heidelberg in 1992, and has participated all of them. This report can give an insight of conferences’ information and data exchange in relation to available technological and medical knowledge. The digital world was still in its childhood at the date of the first conference. Most pathologists were not aware of its medical, technologic, and financial power at that time. Technological research and medical application investigated in electronic communication and digital acquisition of colored pictures. Frozen section services and its need for fast information transfer between different institutes and the surgical theatre dominated the application of technological development. Consecutively, all issues of telepathology were in focus at the start of and the following conferences. The pioneers of that time tried to convince their colleagues of the promising perspectives and the increasing technological influence on pathology. It took several conferences in this series until the majority of or nearly all pathologists recognized the power of this new technology. Retrospectively, some conferences remained at the scientific level of their preceding meetings, whereas others substantially promoted electronic (digital) knowledge and application in research and routine pathology.

Perspectives

At present, digital pathology is well implemented and mainly used for education and enhancement of molecular biology methods such as next generation sequencing, predictive diagnosis, or risk associated investigations. Implementation in routine diagnostic pathology (virtual slides, etc.) is on its way. Digital pathology seems to move forward to explore still unknown areas in surgical pathology, and tissue – based diagnosis. These include considerations on morphology, function and order of structures, which can detect potentially endangered factors or repair of live threatening breakdowns, as well as biostatistics, data mining, or self recognition algorithms.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 2 No 1 (2016): 2016
title: Information Transparency in Nonprofit Settings
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: In 1913, Justice Louis Brandeis writes in Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” At that time the word "publicity" referred both to something like what we think of as "public relations" as well as to the practice of making information widely available to the public, what we call transparency. This dissertation investigates transparency as a method of regulation and sheds light on the effectiveness of such transparency on behavior. This dissertation examines the behavior of figure skating judges. Figure skating marks are transparent to the public with marks identified by judge. We provide evidence from natural data to examine variations in affiliation bias. Using data from figure skating, we test whether judges are biased by affiliating with the same club as skaters, and under which conditions this bias may increase or decrease. We find that belonging to the same skating club correlates with higher marks. This finding is robust to a number of alternative specifications. Further, judges assign both positive and negative strategic markings in program segments with more than one favored skater. We find that under higher visibility of skating performance and judging marks, the bias goes to zero. In addition, we find more bias when marking guidelines are flexible. Finally, we find that judges show greater favoritism when judging teams, which is consistent with the salience associated with a team sport.
Management of Human Resources and Quality in Materials Supply Process in Construction Projects
Creators: name: Žileska – Pančovska, Valentina
name: Blaževska-Stoilkovska, Biljana
name: Hanák, Tomáš
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: construction project
Human resources management
Quality management
materials supply process
satisfaction

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: Construction projects participants were surveyed to assess how coordination and communication among stakeholders and quality control in building materials supply process were managed, as well as to evaluate their satisfaction with the structures quality. It was found that the participants’ role and working experience had a statistically significant interaction effect on satisfaction with the structures quality, but their effect on perceived coordination and communication among stakeholders and materials’ quality control wasn’t statistically significant. The results were discussed in light of their importance for effective construction project management from the aspect of human resources, building materials quality and satisfaction with the quality of structures.
title: Licht und Schatten im EU-Antidiskriminierungsrecht
Creators: name: Giegerich, Thomas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Prof. Giegerich hat am 11.4.2024 im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz im Rahmen der neuen Veranstaltungsreihe „Europarecht im Gespräch“ an einer Podiumsdiskussion über „Der Schutz vor Diskriminierung – vom Grundrecht zum Grundwert“ teilgenommen. Sein Saar Brief „Licht und Schatten im EU-Antidiskriminierungsrecht“ ist die überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung seines Eingangsstatements.
description: Saar Briefs
title: Haftung englischer Konzernmütter international und national
Creators: name: Prof. Dr. Peter, Jörg
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Entwicklungsländer
subject: Menschenrechtsverletzungen
subject: Umweltschädigungen
subject: Deliktsrecht
subject: England
subject: Konzernmutter
subject: Durchgriffshaftung
subject: 346

description: 1) Die Entscheidungen Vedanta Resources PLC v Lungowe und Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc des UK Supreme Courts werden im Schrifttum regelmäßig als dogmatische Neuerungen im englischen Recht in Bezug auf eine direkte deliktsrechtliche Haftung der englischen Konzernmutter gegenüber Gläubigern in Entwicklungsländern, die aufgrund wirtschaftlicher Tätigkeit von Tochterunternehmen geschädigt wurden, dargestellt. Hier zeigt die Studie, dass diese Wertung unzutreffend ist, die o.g. Entscheidungen und auch vergleichbare innerenglische Entscheidungen (Chandler v Cape, Thompson v Renwick) vielmehr auf einer Linie mit gleichartigen Fällen seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre (Ngcobo v Thor Chemicals, Connelly v RTZ, Lubbe v Cape) liegen. 2) Im Zuge der Untersuchung unter 1) werden auch die Fälle AAA v Unilever, Kalma & Others v African Minerals Limited & Others, Rihan v Ernst & Young Global Ltd and others, Begum v Maran und Municipio de Mariana v BHP Group Plc & Others herangezogen, eingeordnet und z.T. abgegrenzt. Sie betreffen ebenfalls ganz überwiegend Personen- und Umweltschädigungen in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern, die vor englische Gerichte gekommen sind. 3) Obwohl sich also insoweit Kontinuität zeigt, hat die Duty of Care der Konzernmutter rein tatsächlich aber an Bedeutung gewonnen, da es keine anderen einschlägigen Haftungsinstrumente (mehr) gibt, insbesondere hat sich im englischen Recht die Durchgriffshaftung (Piercing the Veil) seit den Entscheidungen Petrodel Resources v Prest, VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp und Hurstwood Properties (A) Ltd v Rossendale Borough Council tatsächlich erledigt. Dies wird ebenfalls aufgezeigt. 4) Schließlich wird untersucht, ob sich eine Systematik der Duty of Care der Konzernmutter erkennen lässt. Dies ist nicht der Fall. Es sind Einzelfallentscheidungen unter Anwendung der Grundsätze des allgemeinen Deliktsrechts (Leitentscheidung ist hier Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd), die allerdings derzeit einer Reinterpretation unterliegen (besonders sichtbar an Caparo Industries plc v Dickman), was aber eine Entwicklung im englischen Deliktsrecht an sich ist. 5) Über das englische Recht hinaus zeigen die Fälle, wie Privatrecht instrumentalisiert werden kann, um Menschenrechtsrechtsverletzungen und Umweltschädigungen zu verhindern bzw. zu verringern, nämlich aufgrund Haftung der Konzernmutter im Heimatland für Schädigungen durch Tochterunternehmen in Entwicklungsländern.
title: Geo-Demographic Analysis of the Alabama Black Belt 1910 -2010
Creators: name: Prior, John W
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Central Place System
subject: Geography
subject: Alabama
subject: Zipfs Law
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Black Belt

description: This thesis determines that the Alabama Black Belt evolved differently than other regions in Alabama during the post-cotton era 1910-2010. This thesis first quantifies the extent of Alabama Black Belt during the ante-bellum era and the cotton credit system era. It then analysis the population histories of counties inside the Alabama Black Belt relative to other Alabama counties with similar economic characteristics during the Post-Cotton era 1910-2010. The analysis uses population processes of migration, natality and mortality to determine that rural Black Belt counties despite having significantly higher birth rate lost 56% of their population during the post cotton period, while the population of similar rural counties outside the Black Belt increased by 8%. Analysis of mixed and urban counties showed similar differences. The thesis then uses two measures of population distribution taken at decadal intervals to determine if the hierarchical market system within the Black Belt evolved differently than the market system in similar counties outside the Black Belt. This analysis uses a graph of the Pareto coefficient for xii rank-size distribution of settlements within each group of counties as one measure. Rural population density is a second measure. Together these two measures are proxies for employment and by extension the relative health of the regional economy. The results indicate the Black Belt counties, especially rural counties experienced centralizing markets with downgrading of market levels and a contracting economy in four of ten decades, while rural counties outside the Black Belt experienced decentralizing markets with upgrading market levels and an expanding economy in two decades. Similarly, mixed Black Belt counties experienced negative growth in two decades and strong growth in only one decade, while mixed counties outside the Black Belt experienced strong growth and upgrading markets in five decades. Comparative population analysis and measures of population distribution confirmed that the Alabama Black Belt counties evolved differently due to demographic differences, economic opportunities, and governance.
title: The Lumber Mill and Other Stories
Creators: name: Haber, Alex
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Michigan
subject: Short stories
subject: Lumber mills

description: This thesis is a collection of short stories written over the course of eight months. Many of these short stories involve close relationships – the kind that form between two people – and the moments, often disconcerting, that define them. A particular afternoon, a conversation, a way of looking, can signify a timespan, a relationship, much greater, much more involved, and it is the author’s intention to portray a timespan of great length in as small a space as possible.
Is the Continuance a New Buzz Word? Bibliometric and Co-citation Analysis of E-learning Continuance
Creators: name: Kapo, Amra
name: Kacapor, Kemal
name: Mujkic, Alisa
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2016
Subjects: Continuance
e-learning
bibliometric
co-citation

description: TEM Journal; Vol 5, No 3, 2016. ISSN 2217-8309
description: Through the bibliometric and co-citation analysis, this paper offers a review of science achievements in the area of e-learning continuance, with focus on identification of the field relevance, authors and most cited and co-cited papers, as well as the identification of roots this research area is based on. Based on co-citation network, which chronologically starts with Ajzen’s theory of 1975, another contribution can be drawn from this paper. That contribution leads to a conclusion that Ajzen’s Theory of planned behavior is a starting and adequate basis for all identified research and creates a main recommendation for upcoming researches.
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels
Creators: name: Lazzari, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: This essay explores the representation and theorisation of the city in Teju Cole’s novels – Every Day Is for the Thief (2007), Open City (2011), and Tremor (2023). It argues that Cole’s writing articulates a new grammar of city-ness premised on historicised relationality and comparative thinking, thus challenging paradigms of urban representation that universalise the Western city. In particular, I propose that Cole’s novels offer a rewriting of Lagos and New York as specifically textual constructions, in which histories of modernity and colonisation get crystallised into their social geographies and cultural infrastructures. By close reading these texts and by drawing from the insights of postcolonial and literary urban studies, I analyse the formal devices – from variations in perspective to restricted focalisation – that Cole employs to textualise the city and its political histories. Through form, Cole’s novels raise crucial questions, both ethical and narrative, about representability, language, and historical violence in urban settings.