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Guha Biswas, Aniruddha, Raveesh Tandon, and Anurika Vaish. "A CASE Tool Evaluation and Selection Methodology." International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications 4, no. 2 (April 2013): 48–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2013040104.

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CASE Tools have been considered as the most advanced technique to derive quality products. The cost associated with CASE tools is generally high due to their steep learning curves and is a matter of concern for software engineering houses. This makes it imperative that the right set of CASE tools are evaluated and selected for a particular set of tasks. This research paper proposes a methodology for the purpose of comparison and selection of various CASE tools available in the market. The proposed methodology allows its users to easily identify and select the best CASE tool suited to their purpose. The paper proposes a matrix based model, mapped across parameters and their attributes that produces an optimised score card that supports the decision making process.
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McCool, Isaac E., Jeannie M. Muir, and Barbara E. C. Knollmann-Ritschel. "Educational Case: Point-of-Care Testing." Academic Pathology 7 (January 1, 2020): 237428952093558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289520935587.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 . 1
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Stowman, Anne M. "Educational Case: Vitiligo." Academic Pathology 6 (January 1, 2019): 237428951988871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289519888719.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .1
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Bryant, Britni R. E., Juli-Anne Gardner, and Katherine A. Devitt. "Educational Case: Cytogenetics." Academic Pathology 7 (January 1, 2020): 237428952093558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289520935588.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .1
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Chandler, Gregory, Isaac E. McCool, and Alison R. Huppmann. "Educational Case: Thymoma." Academic Pathology 8 (January 1, 2021): 237428952110219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23742895211021980.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 . 1
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Nguyen, Julie-Ann, and Darren Salmi. "Educational Case: Pneumoconiosis." Academic Pathology 8 (January 1, 2021): 237428952110135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23742895211013530.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .1
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Knollmann-Ritschel, Barbara E. C., and Morri Markowitz. "Educational Case: Lead Poisoning." Academic Pathology 4 (January 1, 2017): 237428951770016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289517700160.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .
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Petriceks, Aldis H., and Darren Salmi. "Educational Case: Primary Osteosarcoma." Academic Pathology 6 (January 1, 2019): 237428951882033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289518820337.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .
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Rogers, Kelly M., and Richard M. Conran. "Educational Case: Pediatric Osteosarcoma." Academic Pathology 6 (January 1, 2019): 237428951983390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289519833902.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .
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McDaniel, Mackinzie, and Richard M. Conran. "Educational Case: Barrett Esophagus." Academic Pathology 6 (January 1, 2019): 237428951984808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289519848089.

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The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040 .
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "CASE tool set"

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Zürcher, Marcel. "Extraction of a set of roles, activities and tools used in a process from a case study to support change : a jigsaw puzzle piece in the framework of ITIL /." Fribourg/Suisse : iimt-Univ.-Press, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/399624708.pdf.

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Barallat, Gimeno Eva. "Validació de l'escala Palliative Performance Scale Versió 2 (PPSv2) per ser utilitzada en pacients pal·liatius." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/120703.

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OBJECTIUS: Traduir el qüestionari PPSv2 al català i castellà. Validar l’instrument en la nostra població.METODOLOGIA:Dissenyat en 3 fases: Fase 1: Traducció al castellà i català. Correcció lingüística, gramàtica. Traducció inversa. Fase 2: Anàlisi de llegibilitat mitjançant l’Índex de llegibilitat de Hesch-Szigrist IFSZ. Anàlisi de intel.ligibilitat. Fase 3: Estudi Pilot i Estudi Transversal amb 250 pacients. En l’estudi Pilot, anàlisi de fiabilitat test-retest i fiabilitat interobservador mitjançant coeficient de correlació intraclasse (CCI).En l’estudi Transversal, anàlisi de validesa de constructe diferenciant grups de pacients. Avaluat mitjançant Kruskall Wallis i coeficient correlació de Pearson. Comparació amb Karnofsky i Barthel. La validesa interna de l’escala, es va calcular mitjançant anàlisi correlacional “pairwise” entre les puntuacions obtingudes per ítem i el total de l’escala mitjançant correlació de Spearman. La validesa externa es va mesurar realitzant anàlisis correlacionals pairwise entre puntuacions al PPSv2 i puntuacions al Karnofsky i Barthel mitjançant coeficient de correlació Spearman. Anàlisi de la practicabilitat del test mitjançant consens entre cinc professionals i la tècnica “debriefing” durant la sessió de formació als professionals.
OBJECTIVES:To translate the questionnaire (PPSv2) into Catalan and Spanish. To validate the instrument in our population. METHODOLOGY: Prospective Inferential study of validation in three phases: Phase 1; Translation into Spanish and Catalan of the english questionnaire. Two trilingual english speakers made the reverse test translation. The Szigrist-Pazos formula measured the linguistic complexity. Phase 2: Measure of the test readability by using the Hesch Szigrist Index. Phase 3: A pilot study on 15 patients was first conducted followed by a sectional study including 250 patients. Investigators were previously instructed to homogenize the criteria. Demographic data were collected. The pilot study analyzed the test-retest reliability and interobserver reliability, analyzed by intraclass correlation coefficient.
OBJETIVOS: Traducir el cuestionario PPSv2 al catalán y castellano. Validar el instrumento en nuestra población.METODOLOGÍA: Diseñado en 3 fases:Fase 1: Traducción al castellano y catalán. Corrección lingüística, gramática. Traducción inversa. Fase 2: Análisis de legibilidad mediante el Índice de legibilidad de Hesch-Szigrist IFSZ. Análisis de inteligibilidad. Fase 3: Estudio Piloto y Estudio Transversal con 250 pacientes. En el estudio Piloto, análisis de fiabilidad test-retest y fiabilidad interobservador mediante coeficiente de correlación intraclase (CCI).En el estudio Transversal, análisis de validez de constructo diferenciando grupos de pacientes. Evaluado mediante Kruskall Wallis y coeficiente correlación de Pearson. Comparación con Karnofsky y Barthel. La validez interna de la escala, se calculó mediante análisis correlacional “pairwise” entre las puntuaciones obtenidas por ítem y el total de la escala mediante correlación de Spearman. La validez externa se midió realizando análisis correlacionales pairwise entre puntuaciones en el PPSv2 y puntuaciones en el Karnofsky y Barthel mediante coeficiente de correlación Spearman. Análisis de la practicabilidad del test mediante consenso entre cinco profesionales y la técnica “debriefing” durante la sesión de formación a los profesionales.
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Martins, Susana Isabel da Costa Oliveira. "Contributos para o estudo da participação em crianças com incapacidade, por comparação aos seus pares sem incapacidade, nos contextos de casa, da escola e da comunidade : visão dos pais." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/8649.

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Orientação: Manuela Sanches Ferreira ; co-orientação: Alcina Manuela Oliveira Martins
A presente investigação inscreve-se na linha de estudos que têm por base o conceito de participação, enquanto expressão vital da condição humana e como essencial para o desenvolvimento global, físico e emocional, mais especificamente, a participação de crianças com incapacidade. Assim, com esta investigação pretendemos, estudar a perceção dos pais acerca da participação dos seus filhos, nos contextos de casa, da escola e da comunidade de forma a contribuir com um conjunto de resultados que possam iluminar o processo de inclusão. Para tal, e através de revisão de literatura identificamos um instrumento, Participation and Environement Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY), que foi traduzido e culturalmente adaptado para o contexto português. Participaram neste estudo 390 pais, com crianças e jovens entre os 5-17 anos de idade, dos quais 152 apresentavam algum tipo de incapacidade. A partir dos dados recolhidos procedemos por um lado ao estudo psicométrico do instrumento que revelou validade e fidelidade adequadas para o estudo da participação, por outro ao estudo da participação nos diferentes contextos. Assim, e no que se refere à participação, verificase que em Portugal, os resultados seguem a mesma tendência que nos países onde já foram realizados estudos desta natureza, com as crianças com incapacidade a apresentarem menor diversidade, menor frequência e menor envolvimento do que os seus pares sem incapacidade nos três contextos estudados.
The present investigation it’s related to the research field on the concept of participation, which is a vital expression of the human condition and essential to global, physical and emotional development, specifically the participation of children with disabilities. With this research we intended to study parent’s perspective in what concerns their children’s participation in home, school and community settings, and by doing it, contributing with a set of results able to enlighten the inclusion process. Trough literature review we have identified an instrument, Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY) which was translated and culturally adapted to Portuguese. Three hundred and ninety parents of children and youth aged 5 to 17, being 152 children reported as having some kind of disability, have participated in this study. From the data collected we proceeded to psychometric studies of the translated version, which pointed the Portuguese version to have adequate validity and reliability in the study of participation. In what concern participation, data collected showed that Portuguese results follow the same tendencies as other countries, where studies of this nature haven been made, that is, children with disabilities present less diversity, less frequency and less involvement than their peers without disabilities.
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Horne, Maria, G. McCracken, A. Walls, P. J. Tyrrell, and C. J. Smith. "Organisation, practice and experiences of mouth hygiene in stroke unit care: a mixed methods study." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7373.

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Aims and objectives To (1) investigate the organisation, provision and practice of oral care in typical UK stroke units; (2) explore stroke survivors', carers' and healthcare professionals' experiences and perceptions about the barriers and facilitators to receiving and undertaking oral care in stroke units. Background Cerebrovascular disease and oral health are major global health concerns. Little is known about the provision, challenges and practice of oral care in the stroke unit setting, and there are currently no evidence-based practice guidelines. Design Cross-sectional survey of 11 stroke units across Greater Manchester and descriptive qualitative study using focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Methods A self-report questionnaire was used to survey 11 stroke units in Greater Manchester. Data were then collected through two focus groups (n = 10) with healthcare professionals and five semi-structured interviews with stroke survivors and carers. Focus group and interview data were recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using framework approach. Results Eleven stroke units in Greater Manchester responded to the survey. Stroke survivors and carers identified a lack of oral care practice and enablement by healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals identified a lack of formal training to conduct oral care for stroke patients, inconsistency in the delivery of oral care and no set protocols or use of formal oral assessment tools. Conclusion Oral care post-stroke could be improved by increasing healthcare professionals' awareness, understanding and knowledge of the potential health benefits of oral care post-stroke. Further research is required to develop and evaluate the provision of oral care in stroke care to inform evidence-based education and practice.
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Books on the topic "CASE tool set"

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Napier, Rick. Information engineering & application development: Using KnowledgeWare's CASE tool set. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1991.

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Braxton, Gloria J. Gender budgeting as a tool for poverty reduction: Concepts practices and capacity implications : the case of South Africa. Harare]: African Capacity Building Foundation, 2007.

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Gender budgeting as a tool for poverty reduction: Concepts, practices, and capacity implications. Harare, Zimbabwe: African Capacity Building Foundation, 2009.

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Weidmann, Jim. Simple science--family nights tool chest: Creating lasting impressions for the next generation. Colorado Springs, Colo: Chariot Victor Pub., 1999.

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Roberts, Benjamin. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983021.

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Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about the generation of young men that came of age in the Dutch Republic during the economic boom of the early seventeenth century. Contrary to their parents' wishes, the younger generation grew up in luxury and wore extravagant clothing, grew their hair long, and squandered their time drinking and smoking. They created a new youth culture with many excesses; one that we today associate with the counterculture generation of the 1960s. With his engaging storytelling style and humorous anecdotes, Roberts convincingly reveals that deviant male youth behavior is common to all times, especially periods when youngsters have too much money and too much free time on their hands.
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Romanova, Yuliya, Pavel Muzychkin, Nataliya Zhenova, Lyudmila D'yakonova, Galina Eydlina, Konstantin Miloradov, Svetlana Vokina, and Al'bina Antonenkova. Modern information and communication technologies for successful business. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1073931.

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The textbook contains a verified set of materials about the opportunities and technologies of doing business on the global Internet. Technologies and means of the electronic market, electronic cash flows and possibilities of their management are considered. Special attention is paid to the issues of site construction: tips and step-by-step instructions are given for the direct creation of a site, setting a task and implementing it to order, as well as numerous opportunities and tools for promoting a site on the web. The basics of the security of electronic business activity are presented. The material is presented in a clear and accessible form. For students and undergraduates of various profiles, studying in the fields of "Economics" and "Management", graduate students, as well as entrepreneurs who want to promote their business via the Internet.
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Watson. Data Management 3e with Visisble Analyst Case Tool Set. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001.

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Brown, Alan W., David J. Carney, Edwin J. Morris, Dennis B. Smith, and Paul F. Zarrella. Principles of CASE Tool Integration. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195094787.001.0001.

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Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools typically support individual users in the automation of a set of tasks within a software development process. Such tools have helped organizations in their efforts to develop better software within budget and time constraints. However, many organizations are failing to take full advantage of CASE technology as they struggle to make coordinated use of collections of tools, often obtained at different times from different vendors. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the CASE tool integration problem, and describes practical approaches that can be used with current CASE technology to help your organization take greater advantage of integrated CASE.
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Dennis. System Analysis & Design with Oracle Software and Visible Analyst Case Tool Set. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000.

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Dennis. System Analysis and Design with Uml and Visible an Alyst Case Tool Set. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002.

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Guimarães, Cristina Machado, and José Crespo de Carvalho. "Lean, a Tool Set or a Mind Set? A Healthcare Case Study." In Contributions to Management Science, 313–28. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2747-7_16.

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Varga, Stefan, Joel Brynielsson, Andreas Horndahl, and Magnus Rosell. "Automated Text Analysis for Intelligence Purposes: A Psychological Operations Case Study." In Lecture Notes in Social Networks, 221–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41251-7_9.

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Abstract With the availability of an abundance of data through the Internet, the premises to solve some intelligence analysis tasks have changed for the better. The study presented herein sets out to examine whether and how a data-driven approach can contribute to solve intelligence tasks. During a full day observational study, an ordinary military intelligence unit was divided into two uniform teams. Each team was independently asked to solve the same realistic intelligence analysis task. Both teams were allowed to use their ordinary set of tools, but in addition one team was also given access to a novel text analysis prototype tool specifically designed to support data-driven intelligence analysis of social media data. The results, obtained from the case study with a high ecological validity, suggest that the prototype tool provided valuable insights by bringing forth information from a more diverse set of sources, specifically from private citizens that would not have been easily discovered otherwise. Also, regardless of its objective contribution, the capabilities and the usage of the tool were embraced and subjectively perceived as useful by all involved analysts.
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Hsu, Tzu-Han, César Sánchez, and Borzoo Bonakdarpour. "Bounded Model Checking for Hyperproperties." In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, 94–112. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2_6.

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AbstractThis paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL, which — to the best of our knowledge — is the first such algorithm. Just as the classic BMC technique for LTL primarily aims at finding bugs, our approach also targets identifying counterexamples. BMC for LTL is reduced to SAT solving, because LTL describes a property via inspecting individual traces. Our BMC approach naturally reduces to QBF solving, as HyperLTL allows explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple traces. We report on successful and efficient model checking, implemented in our tool called , of a rich set of experiments on a variety of case studies, including security, concurrent data structures, path planning for robots, and mutation testing.
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Behuet, Sabrina, Sebastian Bludau, Olga Kedo, Christian Schiffer, Timo Dickscheid, Andrea Brandstetter, Philippe Massicotte, Mona Omidyeganeh, Alan Evans, and Katrin Amunts. "A High-Resolution Model of the Human Entorhinal Cortex in the ‘BigBrain’ – Use Case for Machine Learning and 3D Analyses." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82427-3_1.

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AbstractThe ‘BigBrain’ is a high-resolution data set of the human brain that enables three-dimensional (3D) analyses with a 20 µm spatial resolution at nearly cellular level. We use this data set to explore pre-α (cell) islands of layer 2 in the entorhinal cortex (EC), which are early affected in Alzheimer’s disease and have therefore been the focus of research for many years. They appear mostly in a round and elongated shape as shown in microscopic studies. Some studies suggested that islands may be interconnected based on analyses of their shape and size in two-dimensional (2D) space. Here, we characterized morphological features (shape, size, and distribution) of pre-α islands in the ‘BigBrain’, based on 3D-reconstructions of gapless series of cell-body-stained sections. The EC was annotated manually, and a machine-learning tool was trained to identify and segment islands with subsequent visualization using high-performance computing (HPC). Islands were visualized as 3D surfaces and their geometry was analyzed. Their morphology was complex: they appeared to be composed of interconnected islands of different types found in 2D histological sections of EC, with various shapes in 3D. Differences in the rostral-to-caudal part of EC were identified by specific distribution and size of islands, with implications for connectivity and function of the EC. 3D compactness analysis found more round and complex islands than elongated ones. The present study represents a use case for studying large microscopic data sets. It provides reference data for studies, e.g. investigating neurodegenerative diseases, where specific alterations in layer 2 were previously reported.
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Sisto, Raffaele, Javier García López, Julio Lumbreras Martín, Carlos Mataix Aldeanueva, and Linos Ramos Ferreiro. "City Assessment Tool to Measure the Impact of Public Policies on Smart and Sustainable Cities. The Case Study of the Municipality of Alcobendas (Spain) Compared with Similar European Cities." In Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions, 81–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57764-3_6.

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AbstractData analytics is a key resource to analyze cities and to find their strengths and weaknesses to define long-term sustainable strategies. On the one hand, urban planning is geared to adapting cities’ strategies towards a qualitative, intelligent, and sustainable growth. On the other hand, institutions are geared towards open governance and collaborative administration models. In this context, sustainability has become a global concern for urban development, and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), defined by United Nations, are the framework to be followed to define the new city goals and to measure the advances of the policies implemented over recent years. The main objective of this research is to explain the methods and results of the application of a city assessment tool for measuring the impact of public policies on the socioeconomic and environmental structure of a city. It addresses the case study of the evaluation of the strategic plan “Diseña 2020” of the municipality of Alcobendas (Madrid, Spain, with 116.037 inhabitants), the document used to communicate the actions needed to achieve the city goals during the planning exercise. A selection of urban indicators has been aligned with the SDGs defined in the Agenda 2030 to develop a tool for the measurement of the impacts of policies in economic, social, and ecological terms. Through this set of indicators, the tool is able to quantify the impact of the policies on the city and the SDGs and to support the decision-making processes of the administration. The set of urban indicators is divided into five areas: economic development and employment, sustainable development, open government, social responsibility, and quality of life. The data evolution, across the recent years 2012–2018, is used to monitor and benchmark the effects of the applied policies. In addition, Alcobendas can be compared with other Spanish and European cities with similar characteristics; it makes possible assessing the achievement of the city’s strategic areas, incorporating the current trends and fostering the SDGs. Thanks to the quantitative comparable results and the objective approach, this research shows a methodology based on indicators that could be applied and scaled to other cities to generate a common framework for measuring the impact of public policies on cities.
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Bayless, S., J. Backes, D. DaCosta, B. F. Jones, N. Launchbury, P. Trentin, K. Jewell, S. Joshi, M. Q. Zeng, and N. Mathews. "Debugging Network Reachability with Blocked Paths." In Computer Aided Verification, 851–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81688-9_39.

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AbstractIn this industrial case study we describe a new network troubleshooting analysis used by VPC Reachability Analyzer, an SMT-based network reachability analysis and debugging tool. Our troubleshooting analysis uses a formal model of AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) semantics to identify whether a destination is reachable from a source in a given VPC configuration. In the case where there is no feasible path, our analysis derives a blocked path: an infeasible but otherwise complete path that would be feasible if a corresponding set of VPC configuration settings were adjusted.Our blocked path analysis differs from other academic and commercial offerings that either rely on packet probing (e.g., tcptrace) or provide only partial paths terminating at the first component that rejects the packet. By providing a complete (but infeasible) path from the source to destination, we identify for a user all the configuration settings they will need to alter to admit that path (instead of requiring them to repeatedly re-run the analysis after making partial changes). This allows users to refine their query so that the blocked path is aligned with their intended network behavior before making any changes to their VPC configuration.
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Gomes, Pedro, Francisco Gutierres, Jorge Rocha, and Ana Cláudia Teodoro. "Assessment of Potential Impacts in Tourism of the Increase in the Average Sea Level." In Beach Management Tools - Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies, 349–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58304-4_18.

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Tenera, Alexandra Maria Baptista Ramos, Carina Maria Oliveira Pimentel, Rui Manuel Ferreira Dias, and João Carlos de Oliveira Matias. "Lean Tools Contribution to Sustainability Outcomes: Insights from a Set of Case Studies." In Lean Engineering for Global Development, 161–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13515-7_6.

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Kaszubowski, Leszek J. "Evolutional Trends and the Current Management of the Beach-Dune Systems Along the Western Polish Coast (Southern Baltic Sea)." In Beach Management Tools - Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies, 101–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58304-4_6.

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Brown, Alan W., David J. Carney, Edwin J. Morris, Dennis B. Smith, and Paul F. Zarrella. "The Role of Process In Integrated CASE Environments." In Principles of CASE Tool Integration. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195094787.003.0012.

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Early work on CASE environment integration concentrated on the mechanistic aspects of integration between tools. The process context in which those integrated tools would be used was less of a concern. In recent years, however, the process aspect of integration has grown in importance in the eyes of most members of the software community. The role of process, and hence of process integration, is now generally regarded as critical. Such issues as determining the impact of process on the choice of tools to be integrated, how those integrations should be implemented, and how a CASE environment will be used in the overall life of an enterprise are now increasingly seen as being of paramount importance. As an example, while one could assert that a particular analysis tool should be integrated with a documentation tool, this is of little real value. A more meaningful assertion is that the analysis tool must make use of documentation services to generate documentation in some standard life-cycle model form (e.g., DoD-STD-2167 document sets). The three-level model of integration proposed in this book reflects this interest in process. In our three-level model, process integration is orthogonal to mechanism- level integration and service-level integration. In this view, we see that integration is not just an amalgamation of related tools, but is the combination of several integrating mechanisms, used over some set of services (as implemented by tools) to achieve some specific process objective. Put another way, we view software processes as defining a design context, i.e., a set of integration requirements. When implemented, they can be expressed as a coordinated set of environment services, i.e., unified through a combination of control, data, and presentation mechanisms. In this chapter, we explore the broad subject of process integration in more detail. We first consider several divergent views on the nature of process integration itself, and particularly the question of process in the context of “process improvement.” We then examine the relationships between process integration and CASE tools and environments. We next look at some idealized examples of how processes and tools interact, and some issues raised by these examples.
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Sun Jie, Wong Yoke San, Hong Geok Soon, Mustafizur Rahman, and Wang Zhigang. "Identification of feature set for effective tool condition monitoring — a case study in titanium machining." In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2008). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/coase.2008.4626410.

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Unglert, Johannes, Sipke Hoekstra, and Juan Jauregui-Becker. "Evaluating a computational support tool for set-based configuration of production systems: Results from an industrial case." In 2017 12th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sysose.2017.7994939.

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de Haan, Ronald, and Marija Slavkovik. "Answer Set Programming for Judgment Aggregation." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/231.

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Judgment aggregation (JA) studies how to aggregate truth valuations on logically related issues. Computing the outcome of aggregation procedures is notoriously computationally hard, which is the likely reason that no implementation of them exists as of yet. However, even hard problems sometimes need to be solved. The worst-case computational complexity of answer set programming (ASP) matches that of most problems in judgment aggregation. We take advantage of this and propose a natural and modular encoding of various judgment aggregation procedures and related problems in JA into ASP. With these encodings, we achieve two results: (1) paving the way towards constructing a wide range of new benchmark instances (from JA) for answer set solving algorithms; and (2) providing an automated tool for researchers in the area of judgment aggregation.
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Anandan, Srinivasan, Murty Srirangam, and Joshua D. Summers. "A Case Study in the Use of Design Exemplar as a Search and Retrieval Tool." In ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2008-49975.

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This paper presents a case study examining the utility of design exemplar technology as a search and retrieval tool with respect to retrieving mold inserts for a tire manufacturing company. Limitations of using the geometric-based exemplar approach such as tediousness of authoring exemplars and time complexity are identified. These limitations are addressed by developing a new parametric-based exemplar approach. This approach calculates a set of maxima and minima based on the specifications of the query mold insert. The design exemplar is essentially useful to prototype the query mechanism. However due to time complexity, the parametric approach was implemented as a dedicated software package.
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Qi, Huihui, Euihark Lee, and Hae Chang Gea. "Decision Making Tool in Life Cycle Assessment for Packaging Sustainability." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13680.

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The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method to measure the environmental impact of a product’s life stages from the cradle to the grave, and is widely used for packaging sustainability. Although many successful applications using LCA have been reported, the current state of LCA tools still has many limitations. For example, it is difficult to select the best design among the LCA results of design sets. Moreover, the LCA tool cannot implement a decision maker’s preference into the process easily. To overcome these limitations, we developed a decision making tool using LCA for packaging sustainability. First, Pareto Active Set Selection (PASS) method is proposed to find Pareto Front of packaging options. Additionally, Design Preference Function (DPF) is introduced to implement the designer’s preference for selecting the best packaging options. Case studies are presented to demonstrate this decision making tool.
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Nordland, Kate, and Edward Hensel. "A Design Tool for Distributed Concept Development." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-67751.

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This paper provides an overview of a database tool to support collaborative concept development in an asynchronous, distributed design environment. This paper will illustrate how an ideation method, such as as brainstorming, can be applied to a desired set of functions for a new design. The result of the brain-storming session for each articulated function can then be used in conjunction with a collaborative weighted voting tool to develop a rank-ordered morphological chart of the design space. A case study will be presented to illustrate how the information and knowledge generated in a prior working session by a design group can be introduced into a subsequent design session. The case study will illustrate how knowledge can be effectively transferred from one design project to the next, and preserve design intent over time.
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Picard, Cyril, and Jürg Schiffmann. "Automated Design Tool for Automotive Control Actuators." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22390.

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Abstract Automated design tools are seldom used in industry. Their potential, however, is high, especially in companies mostly active in variant design, where custom tools could help cut down development time in the early stages. The design of geared electro-mechanical actuators for the automotive industry is such a case. These actuators are simple examples of coupled multi-disciplinary systems that can be hard to design, since they need to follow strict specifications in terms of performance and packaging. This paper presents an automated design and optimization tool tailored for such systems based on an integrated modeling approach, multi-objective optimization and an interactive reporting tool. The focus is set on the impact of system-level constraints on the usability by industry of the generated designs. In two case studies, the tool is able to find competitive actuator candidates that are cheaper (−3.6% and −11%) and more compact than similar existing products in less than an hour on a state-of-the-art laptop computer. More powerful options or actuators using different technologies have also been proposed. Compared to optimizations done without system-level constraints, the generated actuators are immediately usable by engineers to get accurate insights into the design problem and promote informed decision-making.
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Eddy, Douglas, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Maxwell Perham, Jack Wileden, and Farhad Ameri. "Knowledge Management With an Intelligent Tool for Additive Manufacturing." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-46615.

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Manufacturers face the challenge of deciding when additive manufacturing technology offers a suitable process to produce a given product. Information needed about process capabilities is constantly evolving and usually not organized well enough to support such decisions. This work introduces an ontological framework which identifies and semantically models the most applicable concepts of additive manufacturing relevant to process planning applications. Another salient feature includes the fit of this structural framework with both the new ASTM standard for additive manufacturing vocabulary and existing taxonomies for traditional manufacturing processes. Finally, within this framework we implemented description logic rules to identify the optimal set of processes for a product, the rationale for selecting this set of processes, and a logical link between a product’s features and its process plan. The reliability of the knowledge representation and its process planning capabilities are each tested and demonstrated by a case study example of the selection of the best processes to produce a steel spur gear.
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Casner, Didier, Rémy Houssin, Dominique Knittel, and Jean Renaud. "Proposal for a Design Approach for Mechatronic Systems Based on Optimization Design and Case-Based Reasoning." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13052.

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Multidisciplinary systems, such as mechatronic systems, are particularly complex to design because the designer needs knowledge in many fields. This paper is part of a routine process design to optimize the topology of a multidisciplinary system, which is difficult when dealing with more than one discipline or when solutions must be chosen within a set of components and combined. To solve this problem, an approach for the design and optimization of such systems is proposed. It is based on topology optimization, which combines the parametric optimization, using tools like genetic algorithms or particle swarm optimization, and the Case-Based Reasoning to find the best possible solutions by combining and adapting cases within a database or a set of components. This approach is then applied to the design of a gripping tool which will be mounted as a robot effector. This system belongs to the family of mechatronic systems which integrates mechanical, electrical, control and software engineering.
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Cnapelinckx, Pierre, and Fanny Castillo. "IDEA: An Integrated Set of Tools for Sustainable Nuclear Decommissioning Projects." In 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone17-75699.

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Projects Decommissioning of nuclear installations constitutes an important challenge and shall prove to the public that the whole nuclear life cycle is fully mastered by the nuclear industry. When ceasing operation, nuclear installations owners and operators are looking for solutions in order to assess and keep decommissioning costs at a reasonable level, to fully characterize waste streams (in particular radiological inventories of difficult-to-measure radionuclides) and to reduce personnel exposure during the decommissioning activities taking into account several project, site and country specific constraints. In response to this need, Tractebel Engineering has developed IDEA (Integrated DEcommissioning Application), an integrated set of computer tools, to support the engineering activities to be carried out in the frame of a decommissioning project. IDEA provides optimized solutions from an economical, environmental, social and safety perspective. IDEA is based on the integration of the following computer tools: LLWAA-DECOM, VISIMODELLER/VISIPLAN and DBS. The LLWAA-DECOM module has been developed for the radiological characterization of contaminated systems and equipment. The module constitutes a specific part of more general software that was originally developed to characterize NPP radioactive waste streams in order to assist the Operators when declaring the radiological inventory of critical nuclides, in particular difficult-to-measure radionuclides, to the Authorities. In the case of LLWAA-DECOM, deposited activities inside contaminated equipment (piping, tanks, heat exchangers ...) and scaling factors between nuclides, at any given time of the decommissioning time schedule, are calculated on the basis of physical characteristics of the systems and of operational parameters of the nuclear power plant. The VISIMODELLER tool, a user friendly CAD interface developed to ease the introduction of lay-out areas in a software named VISIPLAN. VISIPLAN is a 3D dose rate assessment tool for ALARA work planning, developed by the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN. The DBS computer tool has been developed to manage the different kinds of activities that are part of the general time schedule of a decommissioning project. For each activity, when relevant, algorithms allow to estimate, on the basis of local inputs, radiological exposures of the operators (collective and individual doses), production of primary, secondary and tertiary waste and their characterization, production of conditioned waste, release of effluents, ... and enable the calculation and the presentation (histograms) of the global results for all activities together. Based on design and operating data from the Nuclear Power Plant to be dismantled and on the specificities of the country regarding radioactive waste management and disposal routes, IDEA will enable to prepare and manage a decommissioning project, in a sustainable way, leading to a greenfield or a reuse of the nuclear site after decommissioning of the plant. Moreover thanks to the characterization and definition of the optimal waste treatment and conditioning techniques, IDEA contributes to the long term safe management of the radioactive waste.
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Reports on the topic "CASE tool set"

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Sanz, E., P. Alonso, B. Haidar, H. Ghaemi, and L. García. Key performance indicators (KPIs). Scipedia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23967/prodphd.2021.9.002.

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The project “Social network tools and procedures for developing entrepreneurial skills in PhD programmes” (prodPhD) aims to implement innovative social network-based methodologies for teaching and learning entrepreneurship in PhD programmes. The multidisciplinary teaching and learning methodologies to be developed will enable entrepreneurship education to be introduced into any PhD programme, providing students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to engage in entrepreneurial activities. However, the use of the output of the project will depend on the nature and profile of the research or scientific field. In this context, key performance indicators (KPIs) form the base on which the quality and scope of the methodologies developed in the project will be quantified and benchmarked. The project’s final product will be an online tool that higher education students can use to learn entrepreneurship from a social network perspective. Performance measurement is one of the first steps of any project and involves the choice and use of indicators to measure the effectiveness and success of the project’s methods and results. All the KPIs have been selected according to criteria of relevance, measurability, reliability, and adequacy, and they cover the process, dissemination methods, and overall quality of the project. In this document, each KPI is defined together with the units and instruments for measuring it. In the case of qualitative KPIs, five-level Likert scales are defined to improve indicator measurability and reliability. The KPIs for prodPhD are divided into three main dimensions, depending on the stage of the project they evaluate. The three main dimensions are performance and development (which are highly related to the project’s process), dissemination and impact (which are more closely correlated with the project’s output), and overall project quality. Different sources (i.e., European projects and papers) have been drawn upon to define a set of 51 KPIs classified into six categories, according to the project phase they aim to evaluate. An Excel tool has been developed that collects all the KPIs analysed in the production of this document. This tool is shared in the Scipedia repository.
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Tidd, Alexander N., Richard A. Ayers, Grant P. Course, and Guy R. Pasco. Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): work package 6 final report development of a pilot relational data resource for the collation and interpretation of inshore fisheries data. Edited by Mark James and Hannah Ladd-Jones. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/10023.23452.

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[Extract from Executive Summary] The competition for space from competing sectors in the coastal waters of Scotland has never been greater and thus there is a growing a need for interactive seascape planning tools that encompass all marine activities. Similarly, the need to gather data to inform decision makers, especially in the fishing industry, has become essential to provide advice on the economic impact on fishing fleets both in terms of alternative conservation measures (e.g. effort limitations, temporal and spatial closures) as well as the overlap with other activities, thereby allowing stakeholders to derive a preferred option. The SIFIDS project was conceived to allow the different relevant data sources to be identified and to allow these data to be collated in one place, rather than as isolated data sets with multiple data owners. The online interactive tool developed as part of the project (Work Package 6) brought together relevant data sets and developed data storage facilities and a user interface to allow various types of user to view and interrogate the data. Some of these data sets were obtained as static layers which could sit as background data e.g. substrate type, UK fishing limits; whilst other data came directly from electronic monitoring systems developed as part of the SIFIDS project. The main non-static data source was Work Package 2, which was collecting data from a sample of volunteer inshore fishing vessels (<12m). This included data on location; time; vessel speed; count, time and position of deployment of strings of creels (or as fleets and pots as they are also known respectively); and a count of how many creels were hauled on these strings. The interactive online tool allowed all the above data to be collated in a specially designed database and displayed in near real time on the web-based application.
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Beck, Tanya, and Ping Wang. Morphodynamics of barrier-inlet systems in the context of regional sediment management, with case studies from West-Central Florida, USA. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41984.

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The temporal and spatial scales controlling the morphodynamics of barrier-inlet systems are critical components of regional sediment management practice. This paper discusses regional sediment management methods employed at multiple barrier-inlet systems, with case studies from West-Central Florida. A decision-support tool is proposed for regional sediment management with discussion of its application to barrier-inlet systems. Connecting multiple barrier islands and inlets at appropriate spatio-temporal scales is critical in developing an appropriately scoped sediment management plan for a barrier-inlet system. Evaluating sediment bypassing capacity and overall inlet morphodynamics can better inform regional sand sharing along barrier-inlet coastlines; particularly where sediment resources are scarce and a close coupling between inlet dredging and beach placement is vital to long-term sustainable management. Continued sea-level rise and anthropogenic activities may intensify the need for investigating longer-term processes and expanding regional planning at a centennial timescale and are acknowledged as challenging tasks for RSM studies. Specifically, we suggested that a regionally focused, multi-inlet study was necessary for management plan of individual inlet for the west-central Florida case studies. Key recommendations based on the case studies are included.
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Haider, Huma. Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.004.

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This review examines evidence on the key design features and impact of programmes that use Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) or baby bonds to reduce female infanticide, child marriage and promote girl’s education. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes have been adopted to promote the survival and well-being of girls. They provide parents with financial incentives to raise daughters; to delay marrying them until age 18, and to reduce the gender imbalance in school. Given that many CCT programmes aimed at addressing girl children are relatively new, it has in many cases been too early to evaluate their effectiveness. There is thus limited evidence of the impact of their implementation and outcomes. This helpdesk report focuses on recent studies, published in the past five years, on select programmes implemented in South Asia, particularly in India, for which there is the most available information. Evidence suggests that CCT programmes aimed at supporting the girl child have succeeded in promoting school enrolment and delaying marriage in South Asia. It is less clear, however, the extent to which these transfers have affected gender-biased sex selection.
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Runyon, Amber, Gregor Schuurman, Brian Miller, Amy Symstad, and Amanda Hardy. Climate change scenario planning for resource stewardship at Wind Cave National Park: Climate change scenario planning summary. National Park Service, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2286672.

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This report explains scenario planning as a climate change adaptation tool in general, then describes how it was applied to Wind Cave National Park as the second part of a pilot project to dovetail climate change scenario planning with National Park Service (NPS) Resource Stewardship Strategy development. In the orientation phase, Park and regional NPS staff, other subject-matter experts, natural and cultural resource planners, and the climate change core team who led the scenario planning project identified priority resource management topics and associated climate sensitivities. Next, the climate change core team used this information to create a set of four divergent climate futures—summaries of relevant climate data from individual climate projections—to encompass the range of ways climate could change in coming decades in the park. Participants in the scenario planning workshop then developed climate futures into robust climate-resource scenarios that considered expert-elicited resource impacts and identified potential management responses. Finally, the scenario-based resource responses identified by park staff and subject matter experts were used to integrate climate-informed adaptations into resource stewardship goals and activities for the park's Resource Stewardship Strategy. This process of engaging resource managers in climate change scenario planning ensures that their management and planning decisions are informed by assessments of critical future climate uncertainties.
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Bagley, Margo. Genome Editing in Latin America: CRISPR Patent and Licensing Policy. Inter-American Development Bank, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003409.

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The power and promise of genome editing, CRISPR specifically, was first realized with the discovery of CRISPR loci in the 1980s.i Since that time, CRISPR-Cas systems have been further developed enabling genome editing in virtually all organisms across the tree of life.i In the last few years, we have seen the development of a diverse set of CRISPR-based technologies that has revolutionized genome manipulation.ii Enabling a more diverse set of actors than has been seen with other emerging technologies to redefine research and development for biotechnology products encompassing food, agriculture, and medicine.ii Currently, the CRISPR community encompasses over 40,000 authors at 20,000 institutions that have documented their research in over 20,000 published and peer-reviewed studies.iii These CRISPR-based genome editing tools have promised tremendous opportunities in agriculture for the breeding of crops and livestock across the food supply chain. Potentially addressing issues associated with a growing global population, sustainability concerns, and possibly help address the effects of climate change.i These promises however, come along-side concerns of environmental and socio-economic risks associated with CRISPR-based genome editing, and concerns that governance systems are not keeping pace with the technological development and are ill-equipped, or not well suited, to evaluate these risks. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) launched an initiative in 2020 to understand the complexities of these new tools, their potential impacts on the LAC region, and how IDB may best invest in its potential adoption and governance strategies. This first series of discussion documents: “Genome Editing in Latin America: Regulatory Overview,” and “CRISPR Patent and Licensing Policy” are part of this larger initiative to examine the regulatory and institutional frameworks surrounding gene editing via CRISPR-based technologies in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions. Focusing on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, they set the stage for a deeper analysis of the issues they present which will be studied over the course of the next year through expert solicitations in the region, the development of a series of crop-specific case studies, and a final comprehensive regional analysis of the issues discovered.
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Kuiken, Todd, and Jennifer Kuzma. Genome Editing in Latin America: Regional Regulatory Overview. Inter-American Development Bank, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003410.

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The power and promise of genome editing, CRISPR specifically, was first realized with the discovery of CRISPR loci in the 1980s.3 Since that time, CRISPR-Cas systems have been further developed enabling genome editing in virtually all organisms across the tree of life.3 In the last few years, we have seen the development of a diverse set of CRISPR-based technologies that has revolutionized genome manipulation.4 Enabling a more diverse set of actors than has been seen with other emerging technologies to redefine research and development for biotechnology products encompassing food, agriculture, and medicine.4 Currently, the CRISPR community encompasses over 40,000 authors at 20,000 institutions that have documented their research in over 20,000 published and peer-reviewed studies.5 These CRISPR-based genome editing tools have promised tremendous opportunities in agriculture for the breeding of crops and livestock across the food supply chain. Potentially addressing issues associated with a growing global population, sustainability concerns, and possibly help address the effects of climate change.4 These promises however, come along-side concerns of environmental and socio-economic risks associated with CRISPR-based genome editing, and concerns that governance systems are not keeping pace with the technological development and are ill-equipped, or not well suited, to evaluate these risks. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) launched an initiative in 2020 to understand the complexities of these new tools, their potential impacts on the LAC region, and how IDB may best invest in its potential adoption and governance strategies. This first series of discussion documents: “Genome Editing in Latin America: Regulatory Overview,” and “CRISPR Patent and Licensing Policy” are part of this larger initiative to examine the regulatory and institutional frameworks surrounding gene editing via CRISPR-based technologies in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions. Focusing on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, they set the stage for a deeper analysis of the issues they present which will be studied over the course of the next year through expert solicitations in the region, the development of a series of crop-specific case studies, and a final comprehensive regional analysis of the issues discovered.
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García-Mantilla, Daniel. PLAC Network Best Practices Series: Target-Income Design of Incentives, Benchmark Portfolios and Performance Metrics for Pension Funds. Inter-American Development Bank, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003599.

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In defined contribution systems, at the end of the accumulation phase the assets in the retirement account are exchanged for a pension. The conversion rate from assets to retirement income (which depends on the level of interest rates) is very volatile, and its variations constitute the main investment risk facing pension fund affiliates. In this sense, performance metrics, management fees and benchmark portfolios that focus on assets (and asset returns) and ignore the variations in the conversion rate, embed several problems: i. they send wrong signals to regulators, fund managers and workers, ii. they provide wrong incentives to pension fund management companies, and iii. they leave pension fund affiliates exposed to their largest risk factor, even during the last few years preceding their retirement date. We find that regulatory incentives with these fundamental problems are ubiquitous in the region. The document presents a series of best practices, and delivers a practical set of tools to assist regulators and supervisors in designing a framework that improves security and sufficiency of retirement income, and provides relevant and timely information to pension fund affiliates. The framework achieves that by fostering an integration of the accumulation and the payout phases, and an alignment of the regulatory incentives for pension fund management companies with the retirement income objectives of pension fund affiliates. Using historical data from Colombia as a case study, the document illustrates and quantifies the improvements in terms of pension benefits and retirement income security that the proposed framework could bring.
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Katz, Sabrina, Miguel Algarin, and Emanuel Hernandez. Structuring for Exit: New Approaches for Private Capital in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003074.

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Structured financing solutions encompass a range of investment approaches that provide liquidity to investors without the need for a traditional equity exit event, such as a strategic sale, sale to another financial investor, or public market listing. Structuring mechanisms across the debt-to-equity spectrum determine the exit terms of the deal, therefore providing considerable downside protection to investors. Structured financing solutions are an incipient but increasingly important set of tools for investors active in Latin America to address the financing gap for companies that lack access to bank financing and are not attractive targets for traditional PE and VC players. Many investors employing these strategies are in an experimental phase, reporting new lessons learned with each deal completed. Impact investors have been among the top drivers of these structuring innovations, as they have grappled with the additional limitations associated with the straight equity model for environmental or social enterprises. However, the use of structured financing is by no means restricted to the impact investing space. Fund managers have invested USD4b in private credit deals in Latin America since 2018, more than the previous ten years combined. PE and VC investors have also increasingly employed quasi-equity and debt instruments. ACON Investments, for example, has employed mezzanine structures in several deals from its latest funds. Brazil-focused venture capital firm SP Ventures has recently begun investing from its debut venture debt fund. Growing experimentation by fund managers demonstrates the opportunity for investors across ticket sizes, strategies, and the impact-to-commercial spectrum. The structures discussed and the case studies highlighted in this report contain some of the major lessons applicable to a wide group of private capital investors in Latin America targeting certain and timely exits with consistent returns.
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Rosato-Scott, Claire, Dani J. Barrington, Amita Bhakta, Sarah J. House, Islay Mactaggart, and Jane Wilbur. Incontinence: We Need to Talk About Leaks. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2020.005.

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Anyone, of any gender, at any age, can leak urine or faeces. What would you do if it happened to you? Imagine if you’d woken up this morning and you’d wet the bed. What would you do? Have a wash, put on clean clothes, change the bedding and put it in a washing machine? You may go to the shop and buy an incontinence pad. And perhaps if you knew that there was help available for leaking urine you’d make an appointment to see a doctor next week and then just carry on with the rest of your day, dignity intact. Now imagine if you’d woken up this morning and you’d wet the bed. But to have a wash, or clean your clothes and bedding, you’d have to walk for an hour to collect water. Imagine you are frightened to walk there alone, the path is steep and you struggle to use the hand pump. Even if you did get water, you don’t have enough soap so the smells would linger anyway. And after all that effort, you have nothing to wear to soak up urine if it happens again. What if you didn’t know that leaking urine was common, and you spent the rest of the day worried about your health and too embarrassed to go to work in case people could tell? What if you were worried that your partner would hit you again for making a mess so you had very little to drink all day for fear of it happening again? What can you do to support people living with incontinence? To start, we need to talk about leaks.
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