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Володченко, Aleksandr Volodchenko, Гридчин, Anatoliy Gridchin, Воронов, Vasiliy Voronov, Загороднюк, et al. "TRENDS OF MANUFACTURING OF DRY MIXESIN RUSSIA." Bulletin of Belgorod State Technological University named after. V. G. Shukhov 1, no. 12 (November 11, 2016): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22638.
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A special place among modern materials occupy dry mixes, they have undeniable advantages and high performance, both technically and economically, depends on them architectural expressiveness and urban planning aesthetics, creating comfortable living conditions, the rational use of energy resources and more more. Russia´s accession to the World Trade Company is divergent views and serious concerns among professionals of the construction sector of the country. Joining the building complex of the Russian accession to the WTO will certainly affect the development of innovative processes in the industry application of modern technologies and materials. Considering the trend of development of the production of dry building mixtures can distinguish two main factors hindering development and accelerating their production. Production of dry building mixes in Russia in the near future has favorable prospects as the increasing volume of construction determines the increase in demand for CAS, while an important factor in increasing the capacity of the market is the replacement of competitive domestic products imported counterparts.
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Radukić, Snežana, and Vesna Vučetić. "Comparative Analysis of State Aid and Competitiveness of the Republic of Serbia and the Neighbouring Countries." Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jcbtp-2019-0022.
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Abstract This paper analyses state aid, as a type of measure for intervention in the economy, which should aim to improve competition in market. State aid was analysed in terms of its volume and structure in the Republic of Serbia, as well as comparatively in some neighbouring countries from the region. Special attention was given to specifics of Serbian state aid in the context of the European Union accession, as well as to efficiency of the state aid and its impact on the national competitiveness. The main objective of the paper is to point out the necessity of state aid measures, especially in the case of developing countries, as well as the necessity of more efficient and effective use of state aid. Also, the paper will point out weaknesses that occur when decisions about provision and implementation of state aid are made, and to stress out the need to improve horizontal, sectoral and regional allocation of state aid in order to achieve positive effects on the competitiveness of economy in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally, the paper emphasizes the importance of building an efficient state aid control system in the process of fulfilling the pre-accession obligations of the observed countries in the EU accession process.
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Buday, Š. "Development trends in land market prices in Slovakia." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 51, No. 5 (February 20, 2012): 207–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/5096-agricecon.
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After the accession to the EU, there is a necessity to develop the land market in Slovakia. The achievement of the following conditions is necessary: settlement of estates in lands and unification of the law of real property in the areas of ownership, utilization, change of the land type, soil conservation, land use planning and building multiple-function agriculture with the legislation of the market economy countries as well as its harmonization with the EU legal regulations. It is also necessary to develop an official network to follow transactions on the land market, a regular update of data and their evaluation.
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Zdeněk, Radek, and Jana Lososová. "Investments of Czech farms located in less favoured areas after EU accession." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 66, No. 2 (February 24, 2020): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/212/2019-agricecon.
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This paper investigates the development and structure of the fixed assets of Czech farms and their investment behaviour. We use data from a long-term (2003–2016) survey of farms and categorise farms into three groups according to their share of agricultural land in less favoured areas. The development of tangible fixed assets and their structural development points to the importance of investments to agricultural holdings. Above all, there is an extensive trend of investing in the land, but purchases of land are likely to affect the growth of the relative age of tangible fixed assets, especially the obsolescence of buildings that are not sufficiently modernised by farms. Results of the accelerated model indicate that there is an absence of soft budget constraints but a presence of capital imperfections and high importance of both operating and investment subsidies when deciding on investments in fixed assets.
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L. Beshears, Michael, Michelle L. Beshears, and Mark Bond. "Improving Police Social Media Use Practices." International Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 5 (August 13, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v7i5.4449.
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Phenomenological study findings identified police social media site use practices that law enforcement leadership may wish to consider incorporating. Findings showed that members of the public in their lived experiences desired two-way asynchronous and synchronous interpersonal communication capabilities when accessing social media platforms maintained by law enforcement agencies. Improved police social media use practices in these areas may be a gateway to building stronger community relations and using social media as an instrument to aid in crime solving. The themes identified included crime solving, building community-relations, asynchronous versus synchronous engagement, humanistic branding, and public image.
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Lamboy, Warren F., and Christopher G. Alpha. "Using Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) for DNA Fingerprinting Germplasm Accessions of Grape (Vitis L.) Species." Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 123, no. 2 (March 1998): 182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/jashs.123.2.182.
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The USDA-ARS Vitis genetic resources collections in Geneva, N.Y., and Davis, Calif., contain ≈3600 accessions of >35 species. Accurate and unambiguous identification of these grapes is essential for efficient and effective use of this germplasm. Previous workers have successfully used polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-generated SSRs to fingerprint cultivars of the wine and table grape species, V. vinifera. Building on this work, we conducted a test of five previously characterized SSR loci on 110 accessions of 25 grape taxa (21 Vitis species and 4 hybrids) to determine if they would satisfy our need for identifying cultivars within the USDA-ARS grape collections. Scorable SSR fragments were produced with all 550 primer-accession combinations, with no null loci observed. The loci were highly polymorphic, with 16 to 38 different alleles found at a locus. Heterozygosity values ranged from 0.464 to 0.818, while gene diversity values ranged from 0.875 to 0.955. Discrimination power at a locus varied from a low of 0.947 to a high of 0.987. Combined discrimination power of all loci was effectively 1.000, with 2 chances in 100,000,000 that two sexually, independently derived grape accessions would not be distinguishable using this set of five SSR loci. Two plants in the study that had previously been classified as belonging to different grape species were shown to have identical SSR fingerprints, showing that they almost certainly possessed the same genotype. Because SSR markers are codominant and highly polymorphic and SSR loci are generally conserved across a range of related species, we strongly recommend SSRs for fingerprinting not only grape, but other clonal genetic resources collections as well.
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Azzali, Simona, and Eman Abdel Sabour. "The Way-Finding in Educational Modular Buildings: The Case of the Male Engineering Building at Qatar University." Advances in Civil Engineering 2018 (2018): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6076021.
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Way-finding is the ability of people to perceive routes, flow patterns, or passageways inside and/or around a building. In other words, it is the capability of a person to know their whereabouts in a space. Modular buildings and complex spatial plan structure, in general, can be very confusing, especially from a way-finding point of view. This research attempts to measure the way-finding performance of a modular building by assessing the users’ experience in finding their way inside the Male Engineering Building at Qatar University. The study involved students, faculty, and staff members that utilize that space daily. The research focused on accessing indoor spaces as well as the walkways and spaces connected to the building. Results show that parameters as the use of colours and numbers can improve capability and swiftness in way-finding. In future research, several types of signage and visual elements will be tested, in order to understand how they can enhance way-finding efficiency and user performance within indoor spaces.
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Francis, Krista, and Michael Poscente. "Building number sense with Lego® robots." Teaching Children Mathematics 23, no. 5 (December 2016): 310–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.23.5.0310.
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Lego Mindstorms™ robotics quickly draws children in and provides ample opportunities for engaging them in robust mathematical learning. Two introductory programming tasks empower children to use their creativity and problem-solving skills to build number sense in a fun, engaging learning environment. Contributors to the iSTEM (Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) department share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K–grade 6 classrooms. Send submissions of no more than 1500 words to this department by accessing http://tcm.msubmit.net. See detailed submission guidelines for all departments at http://www.nctm.org/WriteForTCM.
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Chen, Shang-yuan. "A green building information modelling approach: building energy performance analysis and design optimization." MATEC Web of Conferences 169 (2018): 01004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201816901004.
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This study concerning green BIM focuses on the integrated application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and building performance analysis (BPA) software as tools for the design and analysis of building projects, and employs a sequential decision-making cycle and continuously improving design to achieve an optimal proposal consistent with environmental effectiveness. Taking a new Taichung hotel construction project energy consumption design optimization as an example, this study relied on the steps of (1) Determination of the scope of discussion of the proposal within the building life cycle, (2) Setting of energy conservation targets, (3) Accessing to external climate data, (4) Entering internal settings, (5) Implementation of energy conservation calculation module, (6) Visualization analysis and hot spot tracking (7) Proposal Revision, and (8) Optimal proposal, to verify the green BIM concept. With regard to the setting of energy conservation targets, this study recommends that building energy use intensity (EUI) be used as an energy load measurement unit of integrated performance indicators, and employs performance optimization percentage as a rating criterion. In accordance with this method, green BIM combined with assessment of green building indicators is as a means of facilitating integrated design and analysis decision-making.
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Millar, Lanie. "Guest Editorial—“Building Research Communities During a Pandemic”." Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal 19, no. 1 (June 2021): iii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/ourj.19.1.1.
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What does it mean to do research during a global pandemic? Many of us have grappled with challenges and tragedies over the past year, but we also acquired new skills as our educational lives shifted largely or entirely online. Students and professors have learned to use online technologies to create new scholarly communities, to share resources, and to work around limitations to accessing faraway materials. Together, we have explored new kinds of engagements with our scholarly topics through avenues that we might not have discovered if our research had not been interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Načisčionis, Janis, and Algimantas Urmonas. "Administrative Law in the Sphere of Public Policy upon Restoration of Independence of Latvia and Lithuania." Public Policy and Administration 20, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 127–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.20.1.27712.
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The authors of the article explore the multi-functionality of administrative law. Administrative legislation should take into account social realities, recognize the usefulness of social order (when assessing the need for legislative changes or their stability) and transfer them to the level of justice (in terms of the adequacy of legal regulation). After the restoration of independence, administrative law in Latvia and Lithuania had to undergo a transformation of values, abandon the imposed Soviet ideological standards and master new standards of democracies. This strengthened social and legal values, enshrined and protected in the Constitutions of both countries and after accession to the EU, in accordance with the provisions of public administration, allowed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.The article notes that the formation of legislative policy and the creation of legislation usually based on the discretion of the culture of politicians. The authors of the article draw attention to the synergistic knowledge of social reality and the use of this knowledge when building administrative and legal regulation to the level of macro-social regulation.
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Tierney, Stephen. "The Peoples Last Sigh? Referendums and European Integration." European Public Law 18, Issue 4 (December 1, 2012): 683–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/euro2012040.
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The proliferation in the use of referendums in processes of accession to and ratification of European Union treaties is part of a growing trend towards direct democracy in constitutional decision-making. This article addresses the challenge which this important and under-theorized feature of contemporary politics poses for constitutionalism, many of the empirical and indeed normative precepts of which are built upon the implicit presupposition of an exclusively representative model of government and law-making. An important question, made more pressing by this development, is whether constitutional referendums can be truly democratic as an instrument of republican government. The article seeks to explore how referendums on EU integration complicate the democratic issue. This occurs partly by the ways in which referendums cast light on the democratic defects of the EU constitution-making process itself and partly by how they raise the thorny issue of the demos by bringing back the people in direct and vernacular contributions to what is otherwise supposed to be a post-national constitution-building project.
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Sartika, Eka, Suparjo Suparjo, Ihsan Nul Hakim, and Dadan Supardan. "Building Students’ Islamic Characters through Information, Communication dan Technology Literacy." AJIS: Academic Journal of Islamic Studies 3, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.29240/ajis.v3i2.653.
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In today’s digital world, technology has contributed to an expanded understanding of literacy. Besides having literacy skills, today’s students – millennials - also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing, and using information, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media. Teachers and staff development need to learn the use of technology as well as guiding and opening the students’ perspective where the technology will help them to support the Muslim world. The use of ICT is not only to create the generation with the advanced knowledge in technology but also to have the Islamic character in the future. It is bringing about new opportunity for educators, because it can provide powerful support to educational innovation in creating future generation with Islamic characters. In short, this article is mainly about how the convergence of both literacy instruction and ICT in staff development can help in promoting future generation with Islamic characters.
Keywords: Students and teachers, ICT literacy, Islamic Characteremotion
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Hong, S., A. Mylona, H. Davies, P. Ruyssevelt, and D. Mumovic. "Assessing the trends of energy use of public non-domestic buildings in England and Wales." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 40, no. 2 (October 18, 2018): 176–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624418806135.
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Accessing sufficient data for understanding how energy is used in non-domestic buildings is deemed to be a challenge in many countries. In the UK, such a challenge has led to limited understanding of long-term changes in energy use of buildings. This study aims to develop a deeper understanding of the trends in energy use across the public sector non-domestic buildings in England. Display energy certificate (DEC) data which relate to 59,740 public sector non-domestic buildings in England and Wales were analysed. Statistical analyses were carried out to understand both the latest patterns of energy use and how they have changed between 2010 and 2016. The patterns of energy use of various public-sector buildings were found to have gradually changed over the seven-year period. An imminent release of a revised dataset was deemed necessary for understanding the performance of buildings to support the aspirations set out in the clean growth strategy. The study pointed to a need for regularly gathering and sharing data for understanding the changes in the patterns of energy use of the stock. Developing a framework that can facilitate this would enable various stakeholders make informed decisions for improving energy efficiency of the UK’s non-domestic buildings. Practical application: Statistics on electrical and fossil-thermal energy use intensity provide up-to-date reference points for assessing operational energy efficiency of public sector buildings. Principles for developing a framework are provided to support various stakeholders make informed decisions on for example setting design targets or making capital investments.
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Perez-Cortes, Putnam, and Sánchez. "Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars." Languages 4, no. 4 (October 22, 2019): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages4040081.
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In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with alternative explanations for the steady-state representation of these grammars that suggest truncated acquisition or erosion are the primary culprits of perceived language loss. In production and comprehension processes for heritage bilinguals, particular elements are more difficult to access than others, leading to differential ways to access representations and feature values. To illustrate and support this hypothesis, we build on previous work by examining the interpretation and use of obligatory mood selection in Spanish desiderative constructions in three groups of heritage speakers with different levels of language proficiency.
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Foster, G. T., D. E. N. Wenn, W. S. Harwin, and F. O'Hart. "Generating Virtual Environments to Allow Increased Access to the Built Environment." International Journal of Virtual Reality 3, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.1998.3.4.2630.
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The problems encountered by individuals with disabilities when accessing large public buildings is described and a solution based on the generation of virtual models of the built environment is proposed. These models are superimposed on a control network infrastructure, currently utilised in intelligent building applications such as lighting, heating and access control. The use of control network architectures facilitates the creation of distributed models that closely mirror both the physical and control properties of the environment. The model of the environment is kept local to the installation which allows the virtual representation of a large building to be decomposed into an interconnecting series of smaller models. This paper describes two methods of interacting with the virtual model, firstly a two dimensional aural representation that can be used as the basis of a portable navigational device. Secondly an augmented reality called DAMOCLES that overlays additional information on a user's normal field of view. The provision of virtual environments offers new possibilities in the man-machine interface so that intuitive access to network based services and control functions can be given to a user.
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Mamedova, Anastasia. "UK-China Relations: the U.S. Factor." Contemporary Europe 104, no. 4 (August 1, 2021): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15211/soveurope420214757.
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The article explores the evolution of the UK‟s approach to China through the lens of UK-US relations. A deeper UK-China economic partnership amid growing competition between Washington and Beijing has given rise to U.S.-UK divergences. They resulted in mounting pressure on the UK, which exacerbated under the Trump administration. The US wants to form a coalition of countries belonging to the political West (e.g., G7 and Five Eyes) to diversify supplies, decrease its dependence on Chinese goods and prevent Beijing from acquiring cutting-edge technologies. The following cases are described to explore U.S. attempts to influence Sino-British relations: the UK government‟s decision to allow Chinese investors to participate in building Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, the UK‟s accession to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, clearing Huawei technologies for use in the UK‟s 5G networks and US-UK military cooperation to exercise freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. This pressure is especially evident when U.S. national interests are directly affected, as the Huawei case shows. Moreover, the Conservative party is split when it comes to dealing with China. The UK has been trying to make the US position on China more constructive. Unlike the US, the UK‟s approach to China has been changing gradually.
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Durey, Angela, Susan Kaye Lee, Bola Adebayo, and Linda Slack-Smith. "Building oral health capacity in a women's health service." Australian Journal of Primary Health 24, no. 5 (2018): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py17102.
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Adult women in Australia are more likely than men to have no teeth, more missing teeth or have a dental hospital admission. Experiences of war, family and domestic violence, mental health or alcohol and other drug use problems may also negatively affect women’s oral health. Yet, oral health is often excluded from primary healthcare. Little is known about what helps or inhibits primary healthcare service workers to promote oral health to women in need. Identifying the perceptions and experiences of such workers is a step towards a strategy to develop resources to support them in raising oral health issues with disadvantaged clients. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study conducted at a community-based women’s health service, which used focus groups to investigate workers’ perceptions of promoting oral health and accessing services for their clients. Findings indicated how structural issues informed oral healthcare, where workers generally did not consider oral health their responsibility, were reluctant to raise the issue with clients and had limited oral health knowledge and resources. To overcome these barriers, workers identified the need for oral health resources and better linkages to the dental system to help support their clients.
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Cahyanti, Sinta Dwi, Daryati Daryati, and Rosmawita Saleh. "DIFFICULTY FACTORS IN IMPLEMENTING ONLINE TEACHING SKILLS PRACTICE STUDENTS OF BUILDING ENGINEERING EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM JAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY." Jurnal PenSil 11, no. 1 (January 30, 2022): 92–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/jpensil.v11i1.22728.
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The research is to know the difficulty factors implementation teaching practice (PKM) online students Building Engineering Education Study Program State University of Jakarta. The research use quantitative descriptive method. The sample is 54 PKM students and 32 tutor teachers SMK field of Building Engineering expertise in Jakarta. The sample are collected using questionnaire and documentation. The result show that difficulty factors implementation PKM online include: conculting with tutor teachers in the preparation RPP, accessing Video Conference, implementing online learning according to the set time, ensuring students are ready for online learning, activate the camera while using Video Conference, explaining learning material, and provide attitudes and skill assessment.
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Bekemeier, Betty, Seungeun Park, Uba Backonja, India Ornelas, and Anne M. Turner. "Data, capacity-building, and training needs to address rural health inequities in the Northwest United States: a qualitative study." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 26, no. 8-9 (April 17, 2019): 825–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocz037.
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Abstract Objective Rural public health system leaders struggle to access and use data for understanding local health inequities and to effectively allocate scarce resources to populations in need. This study sought to determine these rural public health system leaders’ data access, capacity, and training needs. Materials and Methods We conducted qualitative interviews across Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with individuals expected to use population data for analysis or decision-making in rural communities. We used content analysis to identify themes. Results We identified 2 broad themes: (1) challenges in accessing or using data to monitor and address health disparities and (2) needs for training in data use to address health inequities. Participants faced challenges accessing or using data to address rural disparities due to (a) limited availability or access to data, (b) data quality issues, (c) limited staff with expertise and resources for analyzing data, and (d) the diversity within rural jurisdictions. Participants also expressed opportunities for filling capacity gaps through training—particularly for displaying and communicating data. Discussion Rural public health system leaders expressed data challenges, many of which can be aided by informatics solutions. These include interoperable, accessible, and usable tools that help capture, access, analyze, and display data to support health equity efforts in rural communities. Conclusion Informatics has the potential to address some of the daunting data-related challenges faced by rural public health system leaders working to enhance health equity. Future research should focus on developing informatics solutions to support data access and use in rural communities.
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Gregory, Kelly B., John G. Mielke, and Elena Neiterman. "Building Families Through Healthcare: Experiences of Lesbians Using Reproductive Services." Journal of Patient Experience 9 (January 2022): 237437352210894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221089459.
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The use of assisted human reproduction (AHR) represents a meaningful and important life event for lesbians wishing to create biologically related families. Despite increasing numbers of lesbians utilizing AHR services, barriers to access persist. This qualitative study investigated the experiences of lesbians and their interactions with reproductive services in Ontario, Canada, where limited public funding is available for all AHR patients and where the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community makes up to 30% of clientele. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted, and findings revealed a wide range of experiences. Lesbian patients expressed a desire for more support from their care providers in navigating a complex and costly medical journey through a system largely designed for the needs of heterosexual patients. Additionally, private fertility clinics, as the environment for accessing publicly funded services, were felt to contribute pressure to pay out-of-pocket for add-on medical procedures. To improve the quality of care, participants recommended providing more high-level information on the medical journey and taking an individual approach with lesbian patients, in particular, assuming a patient has sufficient fertility until proven otherwise.
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Grissom, Jason A., Mollie Rubin, Christine M. Neumerski, Marisa Cannata, Timothy A. Drake, Ellen Goldring, and Patrick Schuermann. "Central Office Supports for Data-Driven Talent Management Decisions." Educational Researcher 46, no. 1 (January 2017): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x17694164.
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School districts increasingly push school leaders to utilize multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, such as observation ratings or value-added scores, in making talent management decisions, including teacher hiring, assignment, support, and retention, but we know little about the local conditions that promote or impede these processes. We investigate the barriers to principals’ use of teacher effectiveness measures in eight urban districts and charter management organizations that are investing in new systems for collecting such measures and making them available to school leaders and the supports central offices are building to help principals overcome those barriers. Interviews with more than 175 central and school leaders identify barriers in three main areas related to accessing measures, analyzing them, and taking action based on their analysis. Supports fall into four categories: professional development, connecting principals to sources of expertise, creating new structures or tools, and building a data use culture. Survey analysis suggests that indeed principals in high support systems perceive lower barriers to data use and report greater incorporation of teacher effectiveness measures into their talent management decisions.
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Henig, Martin. "A Jeweller's Die from Alchester; Oxfordshire." Antiquaries Journal 79 (September 1999): 388–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500044589.
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A small lump of copper alloy, roughly ovoid in shape and measuring 45mm in length, 28mm in breadth and 10mm thick (fig I a), was excavated at Alchester in 1927 beneath the courtyard of a building just inside the east gateway, apparently associated with mid second-century pottery. In his report, published in our Journal, J H Iliffe calls it merely an ‘irregular lump of bronze, flat on the back’. It was presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford together with other finds by the Alchester Excavation Committee and the Accession register carries a somewhat fuller description: ‘Bronze object of uncertain use. Oval; flat on one side, convex on the other. On the flat side four hollows with undecipherable decoration within them – a weight? A bronze ingot?’ Over twenty years ago our Fellow, Mr P D C Brown, then Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, took an impression of this face (fig I b). The hollows were clearly identifiable as two confronted pairs of serpent heads, and the object was thus a die for manufacturing the terminals of serpent bracelets and rings. Presumably it was used by taking a strip of gold or silver, bending it into a hoop and hammering the ends into the impressions. One pair is larger, with a width of 10mm, and was certainly employed for bracelets; the other is slighter at 7mm and the heads are closer together and they could well have been employed for rings.
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Hagan, Robert J. "Getting out of the house: the use of community transport as a third place for rural-dwelling older adults." Ageing and Society 40, no. 11 (July 3, 2019): 2519–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x19000722.
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AbstractRural-dwelling older adults experience significant shrinkage in their social networks and capital due to transitions in later life related to poor physical health, mobility difficulties and bereavements. Being rurally located adds an extra layer of disadvantage. This article explores how older adults may use community transport systems to not only facilitate important social tasks but also maintain friendships and other valued relationships. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 11 users of a rural transport community bus service in western Northern Ireland. The interviews identified that participants viewed the transport system as a highly valued conduit for helping escape isolation, maintaining autonomy, and providing an informal space for relationship building and accessing local news.
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Bown, Michael, and Kevin Miller. "The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Sloped Roof Inspections – Considerations and Constraints." Journal of Facility Management Education and Research 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.22361/jfmer/93832.
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Abstract Building roof inspections should be performed periodically to ensure repairs and replacements are done in a timely manner. These inspections get neglected on sloped roofs due to two factors: the inefficiency of manual visual inspections, and the difficulty of accessing sloped roofs. Walking a roof to inspect each tile is time consuming. As roof slope increases so does this difficulty, increasing the time needed for an inspection. Additionally, there is an inherent safety risk involved. Falls from roofs tend to cause serious and expensive injuries. These two factors, safety and efficiency, motivated this study, the purpose of which was to determine whether Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be used to perform sloped roof inspections efficiently, thus eliminating the safety risk involved in manual inspections. The metric for determining whether this is possible was that there is a UAV available on the market that (1) produces images in sufficient quality to make maintenance decisions, (2) can be flown efficiently enough so that the inspection process can be done in less than two hours for a building with a roof of about 30,000 sqft, (3) can be controlled safely by amateur pilots, and (4) is reasonably priced. The study was done in three phases. Phase 1 addressed the choice of UAV. Phase 2 explored image quality and UAV flying. Phase 3 developed the optimal approach. The study found that an economic UAV can be used in a way that makes manual inspections unnecessary. Still images and manual UAV control were sufficient and large roofs could be done in well under two hours using a three-step approach with images taken at various heights. This study has therefore identified an economical and effective technology-based alternative process for sloped roof inspection using UAVs that eliminates the risk of working at height.
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Kostenko, Inesa. "MODERN SPACE POLICY OF UKRAINE AND THE REALITY OF JOINING THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY." Administrative law and process 32, no. 1 (2021): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2227-796x.2021.1.04.
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Today, the question of the probability of Ukraine’s accession to the European Space Agency is becoming quite popular. However, can we observe a real basis for this? Or will it remain at the level of planning and discussion without further implementation? The State Space Agency of Ukraine, and the European Space Agency, are currently working on a roadmap to address this issue. Thus, in two or three years we will have a concrete procedure, and according to the current head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, we will have the opportunity to join the European Space Agency. But, on the other hand, many reasons contradict the reality of such plans, namely: non-compliance of the State Space Agency of Ukraine with many criteria, inadequate level of legal regulation in space, imperfect and not updated under modern forms of government in space, etc. An action plan for Ukraine’s integration into the European Space Agency of Ukraine, aimed at implementing all components of European Space Agency membership, namely the following tasks: ensuring the negotiation process with European Space Agency to expand cooperation at this stage; building the image of Ukraine as an active partner of European Space Agency, the EU, and the Member States and associated with European Space Agency in the implementation of projects in the field of space activities; approximation of Ukrainian and EU legislation in the area of space activities and project implementation procedures; preparation for the conclusion of the Agreement of the state cooperating with European Space Agency; preparation for Ukraine’s membership in European Space Agency. Among the key priorities of long-term cooperation with European partners, experts highlight the cooperation in the field of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in the framework of the pan-European global navigation satellite system EGNOS/Galileo, in the field of global monitoring for security and environment, and in particular in within the GMES project, as well as in the field of remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing). This paper will explore how real this is and how ready Ukraine is to join the European Space Agency. After all, Ukraine’s accession to European Space Agency will give impetus to the development of space science and technology in Ukraine, allow it to join leading European space missions, enable Ukrainian companies to participate in European Space Agency programs and projects, and Ukraine – to use the final products of these programs and projects.
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Remolar, Inmaculada, Cristina Rebollo, and Jon A. Fernández-Moyano. "Learning History Using Virtual and Augmented Reality." Computers 10, no. 11 (November 8, 2021): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/computers10110146.
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Master lectures of history are usually quite boring for the students, and to keep their attention requires a great effort from teachers. Virtual and Augmented Reality have a clear potential in education and can solve this problem. Serious games that use immersive technologies allow students to visit and interact with environments dated in different ages. Taking this in mind, this article presents a playful virtual reality experience set in Ancient Rome that allows the user to learn concepts from that age. The virtual experience reproduces as accurately as possible the different buildings and civil constructions of the time, making it possible for the player to create Roman cities in a simple way. Once built, the user can visit them, accessing the buildings and being able to interact with the objects and characters that appear. Moreover, in order to learn more information about every building, users can visualize them using Augmented Reality using marker-based techniques. Different information has been included related to every building, such as their main uses, characteristics, or even some images that represent them. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed experience, several experiments have been carried out, taking as sample Secondary School students. Initially, the game’s quality and playability has been evaluated and, subsequently, the motivation of the virtual learning experience in history. The results obtained support on the one hand its gameplay and attractiveness, and on the other, the student’s increased interest in studying history, as well as the greater fixation of different concepts treated in a playful experience.
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Cox, Pamela, Susan McPherson, Claire Mason, Mary Ryan, and Vanessa Baxter. "Reducing Recurrent Care Proceedings: Building a Local Evidence Base in England." Societies 10, no. 4 (November 18, 2020): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc10040088.
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Recent studies of public law care proceedings within the family justice system in England and Wales suggest that up to a quarter of all mothers who appear in such proceedings will reappear within a subsequent—or recurrent—set of such proceedings within seven years. In the last decade, new interdisciplinary research spanning social work, clinical psychology and sociology has defined and investigated the previously hidden challenge and social costs of ‘recurrent care proceedings’ (RCP). This article adds to this new field by analysing the core values, practice and impact of three different local services in the northwest of England working with birth parents to reduce the risk of recurrent proceedings. The article combines data gathered from the three distinct services using a common evaluation framework co-produced by the authors working with service leads, practitioners and users. It explores how all three services are seeking to reduce the risk of recurrent care proceedings in their local areas without requiring women to use long acting reversible contraception (LARC) or other forms of contraception as a condition of accessing the service. It concludes that insights gained from these and cognate services can inform an emergent community of practice in the recurrent care field.
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Chung, Chee Oh, Yilun He, and Hoe Kyung Jung. "Augmented Reality Navigation System on Android." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 6, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v6i1.9345.
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With the advent of the Android system, smart phones are rapidly developing and through the conveniency of accessing internet on the smart phones, a user’s location information can be accessed anywhere and anytime easily. Augmented Reality Based Technology enables the provision of variety information such as pictures and location of buildings in the navigation field. Most of the augmented reality program used to Visual Trace Method (Marker method and Markerless Method). For the Visual Trace Method, the marker installation and digital information should be assigned while the Non-visual Trace Method requires the use of hardware (G.P.S, sensors etc). Most navigation systems can only show the path from a user’s current location to their destination. In this paper, the design and implementation of an augmented reality program is discussed. It will use the smart phone’s inbuilt camera and GPS to display a user’s surround information in real time on the smart phone. The proposed system will combine the G.P.S location-based technology and virtual trace technology to provide the user with basic information about a building they are looking for or one in their immediate surrounding.
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Chung, Chee Oh, Yilun He, and Hoe Kyung Jung. "Augmented Reality Navigation System on Android." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 6, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v6i1.pp406-412.
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With the advent of the Android system, smart phones are rapidly developing and through the conveniency of accessing internet on the smart phones, a user’s location information can be accessed anywhere and anytime easily. Augmented Reality Based Technology enables the provision of variety information such as pictures and location of buildings in the navigation field. Most of the augmented reality program used to Visual Trace Method (Marker method and Markerless Method). For the Visual Trace Method, the marker installation and digital information should be assigned while the Non-visual Trace Method requires the use of hardware (G.P.S, sensors etc). Most navigation systems can only show the path from a user’s current location to their destination. In this paper, the design and implementation of an augmented reality program is discussed. It will use the smart phone’s inbuilt camera and GPS to display a user’s surround information in real time on the smart phone. The proposed system will combine the G.P.S location-based technology and virtual trace technology to provide the user with basic information about a building they are looking for or one in their immediate surrounding.
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Smith, Catherine L., and Miriam L. Matteson. "Information Literacy in the Age of Machines that Learn: Desiderata for Machines that Teach." Libri 68, no. 2 (June 26, 2018): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/libri-2017-0025.
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Abstract With the use of machine learning and other advances, modern information search systems make it easy for searchers to access information to meet their most frequent information needs. Building from Kuhlthau’s concepts of exploration and differentiating, this article argues that along with the benefits of greater accessibility, these advances impede the development of information literacy, conceptualized as processes for planning, accessing, judging and communicating information. It is argued that information literacy emerges during interaction with search systems and modern system designs hide or render unworkable the contextual information needed for the judgment processes of information literacy. In response to these concerns, the article contributes desiderata for new designs that facilitate the discovery, navigation and use of context information.
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Keskin, Basak, and Baris Salman. "Building Information Modeling Implementation Framework for Smart Airport Life Cycle Management." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2674, no. 6 (May 18, 2020): 98–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198120917971.
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Connectivity is key in this new era of smart infrastructure. Smart airports utilize new connected technologies to improve end-user experience while ensuring operational feasibility in aeronautical and non-aeronautical segments. The increasing need for digitizing the design-build-operate life cycles of airports can be met by implementing building information modeling (BIM) that enables accessing, managing, utilizing, and connecting physical and operational data in a digital collaborative environment. This study investigates the current state of practice in airport BIM (ABIM) and the use of ABIM processes in digital airport operations and maintenance by connecting existing data sources and integrating smart airport systems. The study proposes a comprehensive and adaptive ABIM management framework that depicts the alignment and connectivity of ABIM processes, resources and stakeholders with airport operational requirements by identifying gaps in the industry and literature, and developing a global understanding in ABIM visions. Research data are collected through literature and industry review, online surveys, and semi-structured interviews with aviation professionals. Mixed methods including non-parametric statistical analysis and qualitative analysis are used to determine the elements of the framework. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles and language are used to generate the framework. For framework validation, a proof of concept (POC) is conducted by development and deployment of a web-based application. The developed ABIM framework is expected to guide major airport stakeholders in their BIM implementation processes to enhance airport operational efficiencies and in strategizing digital initiatives on a connected-BIM platform.
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Eaton, Michael, Kale Harbick, Timothy Shelford, and Neil Mattson. "Modeling Natural Light Availability in Skyscraper Farms." Agronomy 11, no. 9 (August 24, 2021): 1684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11091684.
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Lighting is a major component of energy consumption in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) operations. Skyscraper farms (multilevel production in buildings with transparent glazing) have been proposed as alternatives to greenhouse or plant factories (opaque warehouses) to increase space-use efficiency while accessing some natural light. However, there are no previous models on natural light availability and distribution in skyscraper farms. This study employed climate-based daylight modeling software and the Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) dataset to investigate the effects of building geometry and context shading on the availability and spatial distribution of natural light in skyscraper farms in Los Angeles (LA) and New York City (NYC). Electric energy consumption for supplemental lighting in 20-storey skyscraper farms to reach a daily light integral target was calculated using simulation results. Natural lighting in our baseline skyscraper farms without surrounding buildings provides 13% and 15% of the light required to meet a target of 17 mol·m−2·day−1. More elongated buildings may meet up to 27% of the lighting requirements with natural light. However, shading from surrounding buildings can reduce available natural light considerably; in the worst case, natural light only supplies 5% of the lighting requirements. Overall, skyscraper farms require between 4 to 11 times more input for lighting than greenhouses per crop canopy area in the same location. We conclude that the accessibility of natural light in skyscraper farms in dense urban settings provides little advantage over plant factories.
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Vaidya, Gaurav, Guanyang Zhang, Hilmar Lapp, and Nico Cellinese. "All the Clades in the World: Building a Semantically-Rich and Testable Ontology of Phylogenetic Clade Definitions." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (May 21, 2018): e25776. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25776.
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Taxonomic names are ambiguous as identifiers of biodiversity data, as they refer to a particular concept of a taxon in an expert’s mind (Kennedy et al. 2005). This ambiguity is particularly problematic when attempting to reconcile taxonomic names from disparate sources with clades on a phylogeny. Currently, such reconciliation requires expert interpretation, which is necessarily subjective, difficult to reproduce, and refractory to scaling. In contrast, phylogenetic clade definitions are a well-developed method for unambiguously defining the semantics of a clade concept in terms of shared evolutionary ancestry (Queiroz and Gauthier 1990, Queiroz and Gauthier 1994), and these semantics allow locating clades on any phylogeny. Although a few software tools have been created for resolving clade definitions, including for definitions expressed in the Mathematical Markup Language (e.g. Names on Nodes in Keesey 2007) and as lists of GenBank accession numbers (e.g. mor in Hibbett et al. 2005), these are application-specific representations that do not provide formal definitions with well-defined semantics for every component of a clade definition. Being able to create such machine-interpretable definitions would allow computers to store, compare, distribute and resolve semantically-rich clade definitions. To this end, the Phyloreferencing project (http://phyloref.org, Cellinese and Lapp 2015) is working on a specification for encoding phylogenetic clade definitions as ontologies using the Web Ontology Language (OWL in W3C OWL Working Group 2012). Our specification allows the semantics of these definitions, which we call phyloreferences, to be described in terms of shared ancestor and excluded lineage properties. The aim of this effort is to allow any OWL-DL reasoner to resolve phyloreferences on a phylogeny that has itself been translated into a compatible OWL representation. We have developed a workflow that allows us to curate phyloreferences from phylogenetic clade definitions published in natural language, and to resolve the curated phyloreference against the phylogeny upon which the definition was originally created, allowing us to validate that the phyloreference reflects the authors’ original intent. We have started work on curating dozens of phyloreferences from publications and the clade definition database RegNum (http://phyloregnum.org), which will provide an online catalog of all clade definitions that are part of the Phylonym Volume, to be published together with the PhyloCode (https://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/). We will comprehensively curate these definitions into a reusable and fully computable ontology of phyloreferences. In our presentation, we will provide an overview of phyloreferencing and will describe the model and workflow we use to encode clade definitions in OWL, based on concepts and terms taken from the Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (Prosdocimi et al. 2009), Darwin-SW (Baskauf and Webb 2016) and Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al. 2012). We will demonstrate how phyloreferences can be visualized, resolved and tested on the phylogeny that they were originally described on, and how they resolve on one of the largest synthetic phylogenies available, the Open Tree of Life (Hinchliff et al. 2015). We will conclude with a discussion of the problems we faced in referring to taxonomic units in phylogenies, which is one of the key challenges in enabling better integration of phylogenetic information into biodiversity analyses.
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Sugito, Sugito, Sri Mulyani Endang Susilowati, Hartono Hartono, and Supartono Supartono. "The Learning Syntax Through Edmodo in the Beginners Class." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 6, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v6i4.10773.
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<p>Integrating ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in the learning process is a necessity for a teacher in welcoming the 21<sup>st </sup>century. Knowledge and modern technology require teachers to learn how to use the technology in their teaching. Edmodo application is a very useful technology product in the learning process. Successful use of Edmodo applications in learning is influenced by: (1) teacher factors that include education, length of teaching, age, gender, frequent training, openness of teachers in accessing information, teaching places (city or village), and participation in the organization teachers and pedagogic competencies of educators in delivering materials, (2) facilities and infrastructure factors: building, room, hardware, software, internet connection, infrastructure to school, and instruction on using Edmodo application (3) learner factors that include motivation, courage to explore using Edmodo, and frequency of use of Edmodo app.</p>
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Ratanya, Felicitas Ciabere. "Institutional repository: access and use by academic staff at Egerton University, Kenya." Library Management 38, no. 4/5 (June 13, 2017): 276–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-02-2017-0018.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the access and use of the institutional repository (IR) among academic staff at Egerton University. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a description of the building and development of the IR at the Egerton university and describes expected benefits of the repository to the University and relevant stakeholders. A survey was conducted among 84 academic staff with an aim of examining their levels of awareness on the existence of the IR at the Egerton University and assess their access and use. Through a structured questionnaire both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Findings The study revealed that majority of the academic staff at the Egerton University are still not aware of the existence of the IR. Staff also faced challenges in accessing and using the content available. The paper provided suggestions on how best to enhance the access and utilization of the IRs among the academic staff. Practical implications From a practical point of view, the paper provides implications on the access and use of IRs by the academic staff. The paper points out some challenges faced by this group of users which other academic institutions may try to solve in their respective contexts. Originality/value Findings and discussions provided in the paper will pave way to solving the challenges faced in access and use of IR by the academic staff at the Egerton University.
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MARDIRIS, VASILIOS A., and IOANNIS G. KARAFYLLIDIS. "DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF MODULAR QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA MULTIPLEXERS FOR MEMORY ACCESSING." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 19, no. 02 (April 2010): 349–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218126610006104.
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Multiplexers are extremely important parts of signal control systems. Some critical circuits of computing systems, like memories, use large multiplexers in order to present the value of a specific memory cell to their output. Several quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) circuits have been designed and the need for a QCA memory access system becomes prominent. A modular 2n to 1 QCA multiplexer covering small area could reduce the size of such circuits and conclusively could increase circuit integration. In this paper we present a novel design of a small size, modular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) 2n to 1 multiplexer that can be used for memory addressing. The design objective is to develop a modular design methodology which can be used to implement 2n to 1 multiplexers using building blocks. For the QCA implementation a careful consideration is taken into account concerning the design in order to increase the circuit stability.
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Kolosovych, M. P., L. A. Hlushchenko, and T. L. Shevchenko. "Genetic diversity of medicinal plants." Genetičnì resursi roslin (Plant Genetic Resources), no. 26 (2020): 80–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.36814/pgr.2020.26.08.
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Aim. To study accessions of new medicinal plants, to form and augment collections, to use valuable accessions of the gene pool in breeding and collections for educational and outreach activities. Results and Discussion. We present results of multi-year research work on creating collections of medicinal and essential-oil-bearing plants, their using in breeding, training and educational activities. The collection of the Botanical Nursery of the Experimental Station totals 990 samples belonging to 436 species of 254 genera of 69 families. The following genera are most fully represented: Mentha – 13 species (263 samples), Thymus L. – 11 species, Salvia L. – 6, Echinacea Moench – 6 (29 samples), etc. The collection consists of accessions from 22 countries: 605 from Ukraine, 29 from Russia, 22 from Germany, 12 from Bulgaria, 11 from the USA, 5 from France, etc. Training collections of mint and medicinal plants, trait collections of calendula, thyme, and echinacea and the basic collection of mint were formed and registered with the NCPGRU. Collections are dynamically being formed, and accessions of tree/shrub medicinal species belonging to the genera Sambucus L., Berberis L. and Crataegus L. are being studied. Selected accessions and sources of economically valuable traits are constantly involved in breeding. Ten new varieties of medicinal plants were originated from the gene pool accessions variety Yuvileina (2018) – from Dalmatian chamomile , variety Poltavka (2018) – from blessed milk thistle, variety Berezotitska Soniachna (2020) – from pot marigold, variety Struminka (2020) – from dyer's-madder. Acquisition companies in 14 regions of Ukraine resulted in gathering the gene pool accessions of valuable medicinal species for breeding and investigating: 720 seed samples, 62 planting material samples, 42 raw material samples and 691 herbarium specimens. Conclusions. The exploratory research at the Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants of IAEM NAAS allowed building up unique collections of medicinal and aromatic plants, accessions of which are used in breeding, training and educational activities, as well as to preserve the biodiversity of domestic and wild plants.
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Bearman, David. "Accession." Archives and Museum Informatics 4, no. 1 (March 1990): 19–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02770072.
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P.B., Siti Nurannisaa, Mustaji Mustaji, Bachtiar S. Bachri, and Florens Debora Patricia. "Building Empathy: Exploring Digital Native Characteristic to Create Learning Instruction for Learning Computer Graphic Design." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 15, no. 20 (October 19, 2020): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i20.14311.
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Technology leading to massive changes, include the way of learning. As the digital natives, students have different ways of learning, especially in courses that use technological devices, such as computers graphic design. Exploring information by building empathy from a student's perspective, can give more authentic information and find opportunities for designing better learning instructional that more needed-based. The purpose of this study is to explore student’s characteristics, and find criteria of learning instructional that needed-based and future-orientated. This is qualitative research, using case-study through interviews, focus group discussion, and an instrument of empathy map, with qualitative descriptive analysis techniques. The study showed that students have no difficulty in accessing and using complex technology, this is in accordance with their characteristics as digital native. Students not only need to develop computer graphics capabilities technically, but also need to develop ability operating software in design practice. This is where other study skills related as designer and creating learning environment that suits for students are needed. Empathy framework bring positive impact to find new learning objectives and creating learning instruction. This finding suggests following future research on instructional learning that stimulate student’s ability that concentrate on designer's skills in their future.
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Kantawong, Songkran. "Smart Wheelchair Stair Lift Using RFID Detection Method and Fuzzy-PI with PLC Ladder Control." Advanced Materials Research 931-932 (May 2014): 1313–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.931-932.1313.
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This paper presents the development of wheelchair stair lift with an intelligent control system that aim to apply for helping the mobility of ageing, disabled and wheelchair people who are suffered from any inconvenience causes of building stair usages and also served for the fire stair evacuation path in the same time. The stair lift is controlled by PLC with the fuzzy proportional plus integral (F-PI) controller combined on their driver functions called as fuzzy ladder control which can generate an appropriate setting voltage and torque to maintain a target position and speed of stair lift when it move along the stair path with shorter time of accessing, travelling and dwelling process. To gain the precise value of target position and speed , the DC motor drive with smart steering gear box that are coupled on two stair guide rails is designed for acting easily as a linear moving control by F-PI controller. By several tests of the unknown characteristics of wheelchair users, the F-PI controller can solve this kind of problems with more efficiency because of the main advantage of fuzzy logic is that no mathematical model is required but can be achieved higher performance with the effective tuning parameters especially in an initial setting process. For more efficiency, the RFID detection method is applied to use for identifying and automatically accessing of wheelchair users who want to use this stair lift with some important data such as their name, age or weight as the prior knowledge data of the initial setting process. By applying the proposed system, performance has been improved by mathematical analysis, solid work simulation, matlab simulation and several tests at laboratory room and real building stair. The results are better than the conventional PI control with more accuracy, correctly, smoothly, stability and safety. Finally, the all system can work well as design concept and the future work will further improve the system performance both in mechanical and control part for more practical to use in any real stair usage.
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Ariszki, Fatkul Ikrom, and Nurhayati Nurhayati. "APPLICATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ROOM IN BUILDING A8 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING SURABAYA STATE UNIVERSITY WEB-BASED AND VIRTUAL REALITY." INAJEEE Indonesian Journal of Electrical and Eletronics Engineering 3, no. 2 (February 6, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.26740/inajeee.v3n2.p32-40.
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Technology plays an important role in human life today, the ease of accessing the internet makes information technology a tool to help humans in their daily lives, one of which is a tool that can find new locations. The high use of search engines makes search engines the choice that is often used in finding information. This research was conducted to implement the Information Retrieval system to find rooms in the Engineering Faculty, Surabaya State University. The system will perform keyword indexing (query) to documents that are already stored in the MySQL database. This IR system is loaded on a Web page, equipped with general information about the room, the room's location point (Maps), and a Virtual Reality display that can provide users with a room browsing experience. The results of the study were a room search system website equipped with VR which was rated well by users with an average rating of 78%. From the results of this research, the IR web system is suitable for use as a medium to provide information and instructions for rooms in building A8, Faculty of Engineering, State University of Surabaya. In the management of information media, it is necessary to improve the quality of information and services, to support the needs of users so that information technology media can be used by users who are not familiar with the Surabaya State University environment.
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Asaaga, Festus A. "Building on “Traditional” Land Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Rural Ghana: Adaptive or Anachronistic?" Land 10, no. 2 (February 2, 2021): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10020143.
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Despite the ongoing land administration reforms being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana, as a viable pathway to achieve tenure security and greater efficiency in land administration, the subject of land dispute resolution has received relatively less attention. Whereas customary tenure institutions play a central role in land administration (controlling ~80% of all land in Ghana), they remain at the fringes of the formal land dispute adjudicatory process. Recognising the pivotal role of traditional institutions as development agents and potential vehicles for promoting good land governance, recent discourses on land tenure have geared toward mainstreaming traditional land dispute institutions into the architecture of the formal judicial process via alternative dispute resolution pathways. Yet, little is known, at least empirically, as to the operations of traditional dispute resolution institutions in the contemporary context. This study therefore explores the importance of traditional dispute resolution institutions in the management of land-related disputes in southcentral and western Ghana, drawing on data collated from 380 farming households operating 746 plots. The results show that contrary to the conventional thinking that traditional institutions are anachronistic and not fit for purpose, they remain strong and a preferred forum for land dispute resolution (proving resilient and adaptable), given the changing socio-economic and tenurial conditions. Yet, these forums have differing implications for different actors within the customary spheres accessing them. The results highlight practical ways for incorporating traditional dispute resolution in the overall land governance setup in Ghana and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. This has implications for redesigning context-specific and appropriate land-use policy interventions that address local land dispute resolution.
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Kwok, Sharon Ingrid. "Negotiating access to research on triad society: the importance of Chinese and triad cultural capital." Qualitative Research 20, no. 3 (July 18, 2019): 307–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794119862444.
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Negotiating access to participants presents challenges for researchers of organised crime. Issues in accessing the field of criminal organisations in Western settings have been well-documented. However, strategies for accessing Chinese criminal organisations remain embryonic. This article presents findings that represent the researcher’s first-hand fieldwork experiences in overcoming such challenges, especially the problem of access negotiation when conducting triad society research. As the first ethnographic study of triad society in China, this paper aims to identify the ways in which the effective use of Chinese culture and triad subculture, insider information and knowledge facilitates access negotiation to the field, and helps establish social networks with individuals at different levels of the triad hierarchy. Attention is paid to the ways in which the researcher utilised Chinese networking culture, including guanxi principles and the mechanism of renqing as well as face culture and face-work, in gaining access to and building trust with triad members. Techniques to acquire triad subculture will also be addressed.
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Iadanza, E., F. Maietti, A. E. Ziri, R. Di Giulio, M. Medici, F. Ferrari, P. Bonsma, and B. Turillazzi. "SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES MEET BIM FOR ACCESSING AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL HERITAGE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W9 (January 31, 2019): 381–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w9-381-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Within the EU funded project INCEPTION &ndash; <i>Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling</i>, the key-targeted achievement is the development of a specific cloud based platform, in order to accomplish the main objectives of accessing, understanding and strengthening European Cultural Heritage by means of enriched 3D models. The whole INCEPTION project is based on the close connection between state-of-the-art architectural modeling technologies (BIM, Building Information Modeling) and the latest cutting-edge web technologies. The platform is grounded on semantic web technologies and makes extensive use of WebGL and RESTful APIs, in order to enrich heritage 3D models by using Semantic Web standards. The INCEPTION platform will be a space for interchange of information and for the dialogue among professionals, students, scholars, curators, non-expert users, etc. Furthermore, the Semantic Web structure interlinks the platform with external Cultural Heritage available linked data and makes it gradually enhanced by specific flexible data structures provided as project specific ontologies. The paper will describe solutions based on the match between BIM, Cloud and Semantic Web.</p>
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Semahi, Samir, Mohammed Amin Benbouras, Waqas Ahmed Mahar, Noureddine Zemmouri, and Shady Attia. "Development of Spatial Distribution Maps for Energy Demand and Thermal Comfort Estimation in Algeria." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (July 28, 2020): 6066. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156066.
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Climatic spatial maps are essential for understanding the thermal conditions of cities and estimate their cooling and heating energy needs. Climate maps allow building designers and city planners to get adequately informed without accessing, analyzing or interpreting dense textual information. In this study, a representative residential benchmark model was simulated in seventy-four cities of Algeria. The simulation results were interpolated using geographic information systems to generate six high-resolution maps that spatially estimate and visualize the discomfort hours and cooling/heating energy needs. The unique methodology relies on a reliable weather dataset (2004–2018) and combines the power of building performance simulation and geographic information systems. The results of these analyses provide easy to understand and web-based atlas that can be used to explore regional and local climate and quantify the discomfort hours, the heating/cooling energy needs and energy use intensity. The spatial maps are not a static product, but rather data-rich content, which can be expanded to include the most important cities of Algeria. The capabilities of the tool allow architects and urban planners to understand the climate better and propose practical design guidance.
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Wang, Kening, Sean W. Mulvenon, Charles Stegman, and Travis Anderson. "A Web-Based Interactive Mapping System of State Wide School Performance: Integrating Google Maps Api Technology into Educational Achievement Data." Journal of Educational Technology Systems 36, no. 1 (September 2007): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/et.36.1.c.
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Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface), released in late June 2005 by Google, is an amazing technology that allows users to embed Google Maps in their own Web pages with JavaScript. Google Maps API has accelerated the development of new Google Maps based applications. This article reports a Web-based interactive mapping system building with Google Maps API, to map all Arkansas public schools and linking the school on the Google map with its longitudinal educational achievement database. The goal of this system is to disseminate the longitudinal statistical summaries of school performance produced by experts with the school geographical information to public users. Educators can use this interactive mapping system for local educational research, and for analyses of school improvement through accessing the longitudinal educational achievement data. Parents can use this system to get information for deciding which school would provide the best educational environment, so that they can choose the best and nearest school for their children.
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Yudhanta, Widi Cahya. "PENGARUH KONFIGURASI DAN VISIBILITAS RUANG PADA AKSESIBILITAS, Studi Kasus pada Kawasan XT Square Yogyakarta." Jurnal Arsitektur KOMPOSISI 12, no. 1 (June 21, 2018): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24002/jars.v12i1.1647.
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Abstract: XT Square is a kind of building having cultural commerciality function. The existence of this building is very important in supporting artists who live within it. Layout pattern becomes one of accessibility factors in XT Square area. Configuration and visibility shape influence the use of space pattern and people’s interest pattern in accessing every space in the building. The setting system between indoor space and outdoor space will give an easy effort for the people in living in and recognizing the space that it can be accessed comfortably. Configuration and visibility approachs are used in order to analyse the accessibility level of the space usage in that area. The result of the visibility and configuration analysis shows that there are many spaces having low integration that blocks do not integrated strongly and low visibility influences the appearance of the building in that area. This research suggest to open the visibility barrier and give high visibility that it can be recognized.Keywords: configuration, accessibility, visibility, system setting Abstraksi: XT Square merupakan bangunan dengan fungsi komersial budaya. Keberadaanya menjadi sangat penting guna mendukung pengrajin kesenian dan budaya di Kota Yogyakarta. Pola layout menjadi salah satu faktor aksesibilitas dalam kawasan XT Square. Bentuk konfigurasi dan visibilitas mempengaruhi pola pengunaan ruang dan pola keterarikan orang dalam mengakses setiap ruang dalam kawasan. Sistem setting antar ruang dalam dan ruang luar menjadikan kemudahan penguna dalam menempati ruang dan pengenalan ruang sehingga ruang menjadi nyaman untuk diakses. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan konfigurasi dan visibilitas, guna menganalisis tingkat aksesibilitas pengunaan ruang dalam kawasan. Hasil analisis visibilitas dan konfigurasi menunjukkan bahwa terdapat banyak ruang dengan integrasi lemah sehingga blok tidak saling terintegrasi dengan kuat serta rendahnya visibilitas setiap bangunan dalam kawasan. Penelitian ini memberikan rekomendasi dengan membuka pengahalang visibilitas dan memberi kantung tangkapan visibilitas agar ruang mudah dikenali.Kata kunci: konfigurasi, aksesibilitas, visibilitas, sistem setting
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Meyerowitz-Katz, Gideon, Sian Bramwell, Rajini Jayaballa, Ramy Bishay, Ian Corless, Sumathy Ravi, Linda Soars, et al. "Effectiveness of joint specialist case conferences for building general practice capacity to enhance diabetes care." Journal of Integrated Care 26, no. 3 (July 2, 2018): 199–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-09-2017-0029.
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Purpose Type 2 diabetes mellitus has become a major concern of Australian healthcare providers. From rates of barely more than 1 percent in the mid-90s, diabetes is now the leading cause of morbidity in the country. To combat the growing diabetes epidemic, Western Sydney Local Health District created the Western Sydney Diabetes (WSD) initiative. One of the key components of the WSD initiative since 2014 has been joint specialist case conferencing (JSCC). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the JSCC service including both individual- and practice-based changes. Design/methodology/approach The authors evaluated the JSCC program by conducting an analysis of patient-level data in addition to a discrete practice-level study. The study aim was to examine both the effect on individual patients and the practice, as well as acceptability of the program for both doctors and their patients. The evaluation included data collection and analysis of primary patient outcomes, as well as a survey of GPs and patients. Patient data on primary outcomes were obtained by accessing and downloading them through GP practice management software by GP practice staff. Findings The authors found significant improvements at both the patient levels, with reductions in BMI, HbA1c and blood pressure sustained at three years, and at the practice level with improvements in markers of patient management. The authors also found high acceptability of the program from both patients and GPs. Originality/value This paper provides good evidence for the use of a JSCC program to improve diabetes management in primary care through capacity building with GPs.
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Kennedy, Christopher A., Iain Stewart, Angelo Facchini, Igor Cersosimo, Renata Mele, Bin Chen, Mariko Uda, et al. "Energy and material flows of megacities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 19 (April 27, 2015): 5985–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504315112.
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Understanding the drivers of energy and material flows of cities is important for addressing global environmental challenges. Accessing, sharing, and managing energy and material resources is particularly critical for megacities, which face enormous social stresses because of their sheer size and complexity. Here we quantify the energy and material flows through the world’s 27 megacities with populations greater than 10 million people as of 2010. Collectively the resource flows through megacities are largely consistent with scaling laws established in the emerging science of cities. Correlations are established for electricity consumption, heating and industrial fuel use, ground transportation energy use, water consumption, waste generation, and steel production in terms of heating-degree-days, urban form, economic activity, and population growth. The results help identify megacities exhibiting high and low levels of consumption and those making efficient use of resources. The correlation between per capita electricity use and urbanized area per capita is shown to be a consequence of gross building floor area per capita, which is found to increase for lower-density cities. Many of the megacities are growing rapidly in population but are growing even faster in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) and energy use. In the decade from 2001–2011, electricity use and ground transportation fuel use in megacities grew at approximately half the rate of GDP growth.