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Foster, Ian, and Carl Kesselman. "Globus: a Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit." International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing 11, no. 2 (1997): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109434209701100205.
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Petcu, Dana. "A Comprehensive Development Guide for the Globus Toolkit." IEEE Distributed Systems Online 9, no. 6 (2008): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mdso.2008.15.
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Schopf, Jennifer M., Laura Pearlman, Neill Miller, et al. "Monitoring the grid with the Globus Toolkit MDS4." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46 (September 1, 2006): 521–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/072.
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Jackson, Keith R. "pyGlobus: a Python interface to the Globus Toolkit?" Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 14, no. 13-15 (2002): 1075–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.683.
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Foster, Ian. "Globus Toolkit Version 4: Software for Service-Oriented Systems." Journal of Computer Science and Technology 21, no. 4 (2006): 513–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11390-006-0513-y.
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Budiharto, Widodo. "Implementasi dan Evaluasi Penerapan Globus Toolkit untuk Aplikasi Grid Computing." ComTech: Computer, Mathematics and Engineering Applications 3, no. 1 (2012): 695. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/comtech.v3i1.2469.
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Grid computing is a distributed computing technology that utilizes resources connected through a free computer network, yet coordinated with a specific mechanism. The development of grid computing infrastructure is not easy because it takes skill and experience in the installation and configuration of both Linux-based and open source program. In this study, the author built a grid computing infrastructure based on Debian 4, and used Globus Toolkit 4.1.2 on three computers. The WSRF technology was tried to run as an indication that the grid infrastructure has been successfully built. Based on some experiments in this study, grid computing can run well on the three computers with a user interface of web-based grid system using the UCLA Grid Portal. Overall the system runs fine, but it requires high experiences and comprehensions upon the Linux operating systems as well as computer networks in the installation process.
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Ellert, M., A. Konstantinov, B. Kónya, O. Smirnova, and A. Wäänänen. "The NorduGrid project: using Globus toolkit for building GRID infrastructure." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 502, no. 2-3 (2003): 407–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9002(03)00453-4.
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Alex, Tenschert, and Kubert Roland. "SLA-BASED JOB SUBMISSION AND SCHEDULING WITH THE GLOBUS TOOLKIT 4." Computer Science 13, no. 4 (2012): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/csci.2012.13.4.183.
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Irawan, Irawan, Irmawati Irmawati, and Syarif Al Qadri Syahrir. "ANALISIS SISTEM KOMPUTASI PARALEL PADA INFRASTRUKTUR GRID COMPUTING." Jurnal Teknologi Elekterika 1, no. 1 (2022): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31963/elekterika.v1i1.1213.
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Grid Computing merupakan salah satu sistem komputasi paralel terdistribusi dengan menggunakan banyak sumber daya komputasi yang dikelolah secara bersama dan terpisah secara geografis. Grid computing saat ini menjadi suatu bentuk solusi untuk melakukan komputasi dalam skala besar.Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa komputer yang dibagi menjadi dua klaster yang terpisah. Menggunakan pustaka OpenMPI untuk lingkungan komputasi paralel dan Sun Grid Scheduler sebagai gridengine, Globus Toolkit sebagai middleware, Gridsphere dan Vine Toolkit sebagai portal grid. Penelitian ini dapat digunakan sebagai panduan untuk membangun sistem komputasi paralel pada infrastruktur grid computing dan mengetahui cara kerja sistem grid computing untuk dapat dilakukan pengembangan sistem untuk mendukung proses pembelajaran.
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Irawan, Irawan, Irmawati Irmawati, and Syarif Al Qadri Syahrir. "ANALISIS SISTEM KOMPUTASI PARALEL PADA INFRASTRUKTUR GRID COMPUTING." Jurnal Teknologi Elekterika 14, no. 1 (2017): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31963/elekterika.v14i1.1213.
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Grid Computing merupakan salah satu sistem komputasi paralel terdistribusi dengan menggunakan banyak sumber daya komputasi yang dikelolah secara bersama dan terpisah secara geografis. Grid computing saat ini menjadi suatu bentuk solusi untuk melakukan komputasi dalam skala besar.Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa komputer yang dibagi menjadi dua klaster yang terpisah. Menggunakan pustaka OpenMPI untuk lingkungan komputasi paralel dan Sun Grid Scheduler sebagai gridengine, Globus Toolkit sebagai middleware, Gridsphere dan Vine Toolkit sebagai portal grid. Penelitian ini dapat digunakan sebagai panduan untuk membangun sistem komputasi paralel pada infrastruktur grid computing dan mengetahui cara kerja sistem grid computing untuk dapat dilakukan pengembangan sistem untuk mendukung proses pembelajaran.
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Ummah, Izzatul. "Pengembangan dan Pengujian Sistem Grid Computing Menggunakan Globus Toolkit di Universitas Telkom." Indonesian Journal on Computing (Indo-JC) 2, no. 1 (2017): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21108/indojc.2017.2.1.19.
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In this research, we build a grid computing infrastructure by utilizing existing cluster in Telkom University as back-end resources. We used middleware Globus Toolkit 6.0 and Condor 8.4.2 in developing the grid system. We tested the performance of our grid system using parallel matrix multiplication. The result showed that our grid system has achieved good performance. With the implementation of this grid system, we believe that access to high performance computing resources will become easier and the Quality of Service will also be improved.
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Liang, Feng, Hao Ming Guo, Sheng Wei Yi, and Shi Long Ma. "LURR as a Grid Service." Applied Mechanics and Materials 155-156 (February 2012): 940–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.155-156.940.
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Load-Unload Response Ratio (LURR) is one of the parallel applications for seismological analysis and requires large amount of computation resources for simulation. In order to accelerate the LURR calculation and optimize the resource allocation, this paper presents a REST style Web Service LURR-Grid. Based on Globus Toolkit, AIS and MyProxy, LURR-Grid is able to accept LURR job request and conduct LURR calculation tasks on Grid Resources. Using MDS in Globus for resources and GRAM5 for job execution engine, LURR-Grid schedule the task using the SED algorithm. The Experiments proves the LURR-Grid is scalable and efficient in resource allocation.
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Hu, Wei Wei. "Research on Large Equipment Resource Sharing Platform Virtual Network Based on OGSA." Applied Mechanics and Materials 543-547 (March 2014): 3352–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.543-547.3352.
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To promote large equipment resource sharing, collaborative sharing, utilization and maximize utilization of the instrument, this study uses OGSA grid architecture in all major instruments sharing network on the basis of the existing resources services, application Globus Toolkit establish grid platform, so that large instruments sharing network of compute power resources, storage resources, programs and services such as shared databases.
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Coveney, Peter V., Jamie Vicary, Jonathan Chin, and Matt Harvey. "WEDS: a Web services-based environment for distributed simulation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 363, no. 1833 (2005): 1807–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2005.1608.
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Web services have the potential to radically enhance the ability of researchers to make use of distributed computing resources, but jargon and a plethora of standards make their use almost impossible for the scientist without prior experience of the necessary technologies. A powerful and simple WSRF-based middleware scheme is presented, designed to let scientists remotely deploy single or multiple instances of a pre-existing code across multiple resources, and giving steering, visualization and workflow functionality with only simple modifications to program code. It is hoped that the development and implementation of such a toolkit will be relevant not only to the problem of deploying workstation-class codes in real time, but also the move towards more tractable alternatives to the Globus toolkit for deployment of processes in a high-performance computing environment.
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Ceccanti, Andrea, Enrico Vianello, and Diego Michelotto. "Token-based authorization in StoRM WebDAV." EPJ Web of Conferences 245 (2020): 04020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024504020.
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At the end of May 2017 the Globus Alliance announced that the open-source Globus Toolkit (GT) would be no longer supported by the Globus team at the University of Chicago. This announcement had an obvious impact on WLCG, given the central role of the Globus Security Infrastructure (GSI) and GridFTP in the WLCG data management framework, so discussions started in the appropriate forums on the search for alternatives. At the same time, support for token-based authentication and authorization has emerged as a key requirement for storage elements powering WLCG data centers. In this contribution, we describe the work done to enable token-based authentication and authorization in the StoRM WebDAV service, describing and highlighting the differences between support for external OpenID connect providers, groupbased and capability-based authorization schemes, and locally-issued authorization tokens. We discuss how StoRM WebDAV token-based authorization is being exploited in several contexts, from WLCG DOMA activities to other scientific experiments hosted at the INFN Tier-1 data center. In this contribution, we also describe the methodology used to compare Globus GridFTP and StoRM WebDAV and we present initial results confirming how HTTP represent a viable alternative to GridFTP for data transfers also performance-wise.
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Luo, Feng Ji, Zhao Yang Dong, Can Wan, Ying Ying Chen, Ke Meng, and Kit Po Wong. "Applying Computational Grid Technology to Power System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 58-60 (June 2011): 1442–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.58-60.1442.
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This paper proposes a computational grid platform for solving the large-scale power system applications. The platform is based on Globus Toolkit middleware and GridWay meta-scheduler. It can enable large-scale sharing of computational resources across institutional boundary. This paper first discusses the architecture and each component of the platform, and then the test bed is described. Finally, the test results of probabilistic load flow (PLF) by Monte-Carlo simulation are presented. The test results show that the computational Grid system can provide comparable performance.
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Petcu, Dana, Marcin Paprzycki, and Diana Dubu. "Design and Implementation of a Grid Extension for Maple." Scientific Programming 13, no. 2 (2005): 137–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2005/653638.
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One of the important issues facing the development of the grid as a computational framework of the future is availability of grid-enabled software. In this context, we discuss possible approaches to constructing a grid-enabled version of a computer algebra system. Our case study involves Maple: the proposed Maple2g package allows the connection between Maple and the computational grids based on the Globus Toolkit. We present the design of the Maple2g package and follow with a detailed discussion of its implementation. Finally, we illustrate performance of Maple2g in a number of experiments.
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Purwinarko, Aji, and Reza Pulungan. "Komputasi Grid Menggunakan Globus untuk Menghitung Opsi Put Amerika dengan Simulasi Monte Carlo." Scientific Journal of Informatics 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/sji.v1i1.3637.
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Internet dan teknologi komputasi grid mengubah cara kita mengatasi masalah yang kompleks. Komputasi grid terus menjanjikan untuk memberikan kemampuan yang tinggi dari berbagai sistem dan teknik komputasi. Kemampuan mendistribusikan aplikasi pada beberapa mesin adalah salah satu aspek kunci dari komputasi grid. Salah satu penyedia librari komputasi grid adalah Globus Toolkit. Komputasi grid ini dapat dimanfaatkan untuk menjalankan aplikasi opsi put Amerika dengan menggunakan simulasi Monte Carlo. Simulasi Monte Carlo dapat meramalkan harga saham yang akan terjadi. Dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan, menunjukkan bahwa semakin banyak simulasi yang dilakukan maka semakin akurat nilai rata-rata harga saham. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa semakin banyak simulasi yang dilakukan, akan menghasilkan nilai opsi put yang konvergen dengan standard error yang kecil dan proses komputasi dengan menggunakan jumlah prosesor yang besar akan lebih cepat.
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Wang, Wei, Hui Yan Wang, Shen Jie Jia, and Shi Min Wei. "Rescue Robot Navigation in Grid Computing Environment." Advanced Materials Research 267 (June 2011): 848–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.267.848.
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To obtain the optimal path in a unknown disaster field,a rescue robot needs to build an environment map. The information of the disaster field is collected by the sonsors of different robots, all signal from sensors (mounted on all robots and signal form GPS) are sent to the bakeside parllel processors with wireless network. A grid computing environment serves as the backside parallel processors with Globus Toolkit, the grid computing processor process all the signals and construct the global map to help robot for navigation path planning.The rescue robot get control signal from the grid computing processor with wireless network,thus, the robot is not necessary to be sophisticated. New computing methods are given for parallel algorithm on grid environment. The navigation control is implemented with the cooperation among heterogeneous agents, the advantages of large seale computing on grid are shown.
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Bockelman, Brian, Andrea Ceccanti, Fabrizio Furano, Paul Millar, Dmitry Litvintsev, and Alessandra Forti. "Third-party transfers in WLCG using HTTP." EPJ Web of Conferences 245 (2020): 04031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024504031.
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Since its earliest days, the Worldwide LHC Computational Grid (WLCG) has relied on GridFTP to transfer data between sites. The announcement that Globus is dropping support of its open source Globus Toolkit (GT), which forms the basis for several FTP client and servers, has created an opportunity to reevaluate the use of FTP. HTTP-TPC, an extension to HTTP compatible with WebDAV, has arisen as a strong contender for an alternative approach. In this paper, we describe the HTTP-TPC protocol itself, along with the current status of its support in different implementations, and the interoperability testing done within the WLCG DOMA working group’s TPC activity. This protocol also provides the first real use-case for token-based authorisation for this community. We will demonstrate the benefits of such authorisation by showing how it allows HTTP-TPC to support new technologies (such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, Macaroons and SciTokens) without changing the protocol. We will also discuss the next steps for HTTP-TPC and the plans to use the protocol for WLCG transfers.
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Afsarmanesh, H., R. G. Belleman, A. S. Z. Belloum, et al. "VLAM-G: A Grid-Based Virtual Laboratory." Scientific Programming 10, no. 2 (2002): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2002/594253.
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The Grid-based Virtual Laboratory AMsterdam (VLAM-G), provides a science portal for distributed analysis in applied scientific research. It offers scientists remote experiment control, data management facilities and access to distributed resources by providing cross-institutional integration of information and resources in a familiar environment. The main goal is to provide a unique integration of existing standards and software packages. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of the VLAM-G platform. In this testbed we applied several recent technologies such as the Globus toolkit, enhanced federated database systems, and visualization and simulation techniques. Several domain specific case studies are described in some detail. Information management will be discussed separately in a forthcoming paper.
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Wang, Wei, Xin Jian Shan, and Shen Jie Jia. "Rescue Robot Navigation Parallel Algorithm in Grid Computing Environment." Advanced Materials Research 271-273 (July 2011): 114–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.271-273.114.
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In a disaster field, to obtain the optimal path in unknown environment,a rescue robot needs to build an environment map. Sensors mounted on the robots cooperate to monitor the environment, the information of the disaster field is collected by the sonsors of different robots, all signal from sensors (mounted on all robots and signal form GPS) are sent to the bakeside parllel processors with wireless network. A grid computing environment serves as the backside parallel processors with Globus Toolkit, the grid computing processor process all the signals and construct the global map to help robot for navigation path planning.The rescue robot get control signal from the grid computing processor with wireless network,thus, the robot is not necessary to be sophisticated. New computing methods are given for parallel algorithm on grid environment.The experiments show that the method is more practical and helps the path planning problem to be solved more efficiently, the advantages of large seale computing on grid are shown.
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Chivukula, Sreerama Prabhu, Rajasekhar Krovvidi, and Aneesh Sreevallabh Chivukula. "Eucalyptus Cloud to Remotely Provision e-Governance Applications." Journal of Computer Networks and Communications 2011 (2011): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/268987.
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Remote rural areas are constrained by lack of reliable power supply, essential for setting up advanced IT infrastructure as servers or storage; therefore, cloud computing comprising an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is well suited to provide such IT infrastructure in remote rural areas. Additional cloud layers of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can be added above IaaS. Cluster-based IaaS cloud can be set up by using open-source middleware Eucalyptus in data centres of NIC. Data centres of the central and state governments can be integrated with State Wide Area Networks and NICNET together to form the e-governance grid of India. Web service repositories at centre, state, and district level can be built over the national e-governance grid of India. Using Globus Toolkit, we can achieve stateful web services with speed and security. Adding the cloud layer over the e-governance grid will make a grid-cloud environment possible through Globus Nimbus. Service delivery can be in terms of web services delivery through heterogeneous client devices. Data mining using Weka4WS and DataMiningGrid can produce meaningful knowledge discovery from data. In this paper, a plan of action is provided for the implementation of the above proposed architecture.
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Barba, M. C., E. Blasi, M. Cafaro, S. Fiore, M. Mirto, and G. Aloisio. "A Web Service-based Grid Portal for Edgebreaker Compression." Methods of Information in Medicine 44, no. 02 (2005): 233–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1633953.
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Summary Background: In health applications, and elsewhere, 3D data sets are increasingly accessed through the Internet. To reduce the transfer time while maintaining an unaltered 3D model, adequate compression and decompression techniques are needed. Recently, Grid technologies have been integrated with Web Services technologies to provide a framework for interoperable application-to-application interaction. Objectives: The paper describes an implementation of the Edgebreaker compression technique exploiting web services technology and presents a novel approach for using such services in a Grid Portal. The Grid portal, developed at the CACT/ISUFI of the University of Lecce, allows the processing and delivery of biomedical images (CT – computerized tomography – and MRI – magnetic resonance images) in a distributed environment, using the power and security of computational Grids. Methods: The Edgebreaker Compression Web Service has been deployed on a Grid portal and allows compressing and decompressing 3D data sets using the Globus toolkit GSI (Globus Security Infrastructure) protocol. Moreover, the classical algorithm has been modified extending the compression to files containing more than one object. Results and Conclusions: An implementation of the Edgebreaker compression technique and related experimental results are presented. A novel approach for using the compression web service in a Grid portal allowing storing and preprocessing of huge 3D data sets, and subsequent efficient transmission of results for remote visualization is also described.
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Goswami, Sukalyan, and Kuntal Mukherjee. "High Performance Fault Tolerant Resource Scheduling in Computational Grid Environment." International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies 15, no. 1 (2020): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwltt.2020010104.
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Virtual resources team up to create a computational grid, which is used in computation-intensive problem solving. A majority of these problems require high performance resources to compute and generate results, making grid computation another type of high performance computing. The optimization in computational grids relates to resource utilization which in turn is achieved by the proper distribution of loads among participating resources. This research takes up an adaptive resource ranking approach, and improves the effectiveness of NDFS algorithm by scheduling jobs in those ranked resources, thereby increasing the number of job deadlines met and service quality agreements met. Moreover, resource failure is taken care of by introducing a partial backup approach. The benchmark codes of Fast Fourier Transform and Matrix Multiplication are executed in a real test bed of a computational grid, set up by Globus Toolkit 5.2 for the justification of propositions made in this article.
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Furano, Fabrizio, Nurcan Oliver Keeble, Andrea Manzi, and Georgios Bitzes. "A milestone for DPM (Disk Pool Manager)." EPJ Web of Conferences 214 (2019): 04018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921404018.
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The DPM (Disk Pool Manager) system is a multiprotocol scalable technology for Grid storage that supports about 130 sites for a total of about 90 Petabytes online. The system has recently completed the development phase that had been announced in the past years, which consolidates its core component (DOME: Disk Operations Management Engine) as a full-featured high performance engine that can also be operated with standardWeb clients and uses a fully documented REST-based protocol. Together with a general improvement on performance and with a comprehensive administration command-line interface, this milestone also brings back features like the automatic disk server status detection and the volatile pools for deploying experimental disk caches. In this contribution we also discuss the end of support for the historical DPM components (that also include a dependency on the Globus toolkit), whose deployment is now only linked to the usage of the SRM protocols, hence can be uninstalled when these are not needed any more by the site.
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Anikin, Nikolay A., Alexander Y. Muskatin, Mikhail B. Kuzminsky, and Alexandr I. Rusakov. "GRID-system Based on European EGI Standards for Large-scale Calculations Using the Original Accelerated Method of Quantum Chemistry." Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems 26, no. 3 (2019): 360–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.18255/1818-1015-2019-3-360-364.
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Based on the analysis of modern tools for creating GRID-type information systems that are part of the European EGI “standard” – UMD repository (including new versions of Globus Toolkit, ARC, dCache, etc.), the applying of GRID systems for computational chemistry is briefly discussed. The GRID system created by the authors combines two clusters with Linux CentOS 7 and is based on software from UMD-4. The relevance and effectiveness of batch processing systems (we use Torque 4.2.10) in quantum chemical calculations is increased for mass calculations of docking complexes (including for drug modeling problems), for which an improved semiempirical method with more efficient approximations was proposed, implemented in the Fortran-95 LSSDOCK software package. For such calculations, new approximation methods have been developed, including for DFT functionals, and their software implementation is carried out. Converters of calculation results by LSSDOCK into a natural for GRID XML-based format CML version 3 are developed. Using the CML format based on dCache software, a single tree of a virtual GRID filesystem distributed between heterogeneous nodes is used to store the results of LSSDOCK calculations.
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Huedo, E., A. Lepinette, R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente, and L. Vázquez. "Development and Execution of an Impact Cratering Application on a Computational Grid." Scientific Programming 13, no. 1 (2005): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2005/387521.
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Impact cratering is an important geological process of special interest in Astrobiology. Its numerical simulation comprises the execution of a high number of tasks, since the search space of input parameter values includes the projectile diameter, the water depth and the impactor velocity. Furthermore, the execution time of each task is not uniform because of the different numerical properties of each experimental configuration. Grid technology is a promising platform to execute this kind of applications, since it provides the end user with a performance much higher than that achievable on any single organization. However, the scheduling of each task on a Grid involves challenging issues due to the unpredictable and heterogeneous behavior of both the Grid and the numerical code. This paper evaluates the performance of a Grid infrastructure based on the Globus toolkit and the GridWay framework, which provides the adaptive and fault tolerance functionality required to harness Grid resources, in the simulation of the impact cratering process. The experiments have been performed on a testbed composed of resources shared by five sites interconnected by RedIRIS, the Spanish Research and Education Network.
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LARSSON, O., M. FEIG, and L. JOHNSSON. "SOME METACOMPUTING EXPERIENCES FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS." Parallel Processing Letters 09, no. 02 (1999): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129626499000232.
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We demonstrate good metacomputing efficiency and portability for three typical large-scale parallel applications; one molecular dynamics code and two electromagnetics codes. The codes were developed for distributed memory parallel platforms using Fortran77 or Fortran90 with MPI. The performance measurements were made for a testbed of two IBM SPs connected through the vBNS. No change of the application codes were required for correct execution of the codes on the testbed using the Globus Toolkit for the required metacomputing services. However, we observe that for good performance, it may be necessary for MPI codes to make use of overlapped computation and communication. For such MPI codes, a communications library designed for hierarchical or clustered communication can yield very good metacomputing efficiencies when high-performance networks, such as the vBNS or the Abilene networks, such as the vBNS or the Abilene networks, are used for platform connectivity. We demonstrate this by inserting a thin layer between the MPI application and the MPI libraries, providing some clustering of communications between platforms.
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Bockelman, Brian, Andrew Hanushevsky, Oliver Keeble, et al. "Bootstrapping a New LHC Data Transfer Ecosystem." EPJ Web of Conferences 214 (2019): 04045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921404045.
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GridFTP transfers and the corresponding Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)-based authentication and authorization system have been data transfer pillars of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) for more than a decade. However, in 2017, the end of support for the Globus Toolkit - the reference platform for these technologies - was announced. This has reinvigorated and expanded efforts to replace these pillars. We present an end-to-end alternate utilizing HTTP-based WebDAV as the transfer protocol, and bearer tokens for distributed authorization. This alternate ecosystem, integrating significant pre-existing work and ideas in the area, adheres to common industry standards to the fullest extent possible, with minimal agreed-upon extensions or common interpretations of the core protocols. The bearer token approach allows resource providers to delegate authorization decisions to the LHC experiments for experiment-dedicated storage areas. This demonstration touches the entirety of the stack - from multiple storage element implementations to FTS3 to the Rucio data management system. We show how the traditional production and user workflows can be reworked utilizing bearer tokens, eliminating the need for GSI proxy certificates for storage interactions.
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Pardi, Silvio, Takanori Hara, Michel Hernandez Villanueva, et al. "Migration to WebDAV in Belle II Experiment." EPJ Web of Conferences 295 (2024): 01038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429501038.
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The usage of WebDAV protocol has become more and more popular within the physics experiments using grid middleware in the last decade, and today it represents a valid alternative to the GridFTP currently supported at best-effort level after the retirement of Globus Toolkit. Belle II experiment established the adoption of WebDAV protocol as the main protocol for data access and third-party-copy transfers, without relying on Storage Resource Manager interface (SRM). The migration process, carried on with continuous and gradual steps, has required a large effort to guarantee a smooth transition maintaining the production infrastructure fully operational. In this contribution we show the transition process, the tool of support developed to monitor step by step the status of third-party-copy support with WebDAV protocol by storages of the collaboration tested in both case pull and push, the strategy adopted to configure DIRAC and the solutions put in place for the corner cases. Finally, we will present some statistics of utilization and we will analyse the achieved results.
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Baker, Janet, Caroline Barnett, Lesley Cavalli, et al. "Management of functional communication, swallowing, cough and related disorders: consensus recommendations for speech and language therapy." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 92, no. 10 (2021): 1112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-326767.
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Communication problems (eg, dysphonia, dysfluency and language and articulation disorders), swallowing disorders (dysphagia and globus), cough and upper airway symptoms, resulting from functional neurological disorder (FND), are commonly encountered by speech and language professionals. However, there are few descriptions in the literature of the most effective practical management approaches. This consensus document aims to provide recommendations for assessment and intervention that are relevant to both adults and young people. An international panel of speech and language professionals with expertise in FND were approached to take part. Participants responded individually by email to a set of key questions regarding best practice for assessment and interventions. Next, a video conference was held in which participants discussed and debated the answers to these key questions, aiming to achieve consensus on each issue. Drafts of the collated consensus recommendations were circulated until consensus was achieved. FND should be diagnosed on the basis of positive clinical features. Speech and language therapy for FND should address illness beliefs, self-directed attention and abnormal movement patterns through a process of education, symptomatic treatment and cognitive behavioural therapy within a supportive therapeutic environment. We provide specific examples of these strategies for different symptoms. Speech and language professionals have a key role in the management of people with communication and related symptoms of FND. It is intended that these expert recommendations serve as both a practical toolkit and a starting point for further research into evidence-based treatments.
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NANDAGOPAL, MALARVIZHI, S. GAJALAKSHMI, and V. RHYMEND UTHARIARAJ. "SCHEDULING WITH JOB CHECKPOINT IN COMPUTATIONAL GRID ENVIRONMENT." International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing 02, no. 03 (2011): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793962311000517.
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Computational grids have the potential for solving large-scale scientific applications using heterogeneous and geographically distributed resources. In addition to the challenges of managing and scheduling these applications, reliability challenges arise because of the unreliable nature of grid infrastructure. Two major problems that are critical to the effective utilization of computational resources are efficient scheduling of jobs and providing fault tolerance in a reliable manner. This paper addresses these problems by combining the checkpoint replication based fault tolerance mechanism with minimum total time to release (MTTR) job scheduling algorithm. TTR includes the service time of the job, waiting time in the queue, transfer of input and output data to and from the resource. The MTTR algorithm minimizes the response time by selecting a computational resource based on job requirements, job characteristics, and hardware features of the resources. The fault tolerance mechanism used here sets the job checkpoints based on the resource failure rate. If resource failure occurs, the job is restarted from its last successful state using a checkpoint file from another grid resource. Globus ToolKit is used as the grid middleware to set up a grid environment and evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. The monitoring tools Ganglia and Network Weather Service are used to gather hardware and network details, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that, the proposed approach effectively schedule the grid jobs with fault-tolerant way thereby reduces TTR of the jobs submitted in the grid. Also, it increases the percentage of jobs completed within specified deadline and making the grid trustworthy.
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Tekbiyik Tekin, Bedia, and Ozgur Dincyurek. "Exploring the Use of the AEDET Hospital Evaluation Toolkit to Create a Better Healing Environment for Cancer Patients beyond the Global North." Buildings 13, no. 10 (2023): 2588. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13102588.
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Today, numerous studies have shown that the physical environment in hospitals can significantly influence patients’ well-being, comfort, and recovery. However, this is currently neglected in hospitals in the Global South. Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase awareness to make it more applicable worldwide. Thus, this study focuses on improving the healing environment standards by exploring the impact of evidence-based design and patient-centered care in hospitals for cancer patients, particularly the architectural space quality, on patient health outcomes as well as hospital staff health and well-being. In Global North countries such as the UK, the achieving excellence design evaluation toolkit (AEDET) is used by their National Health Services to assess the effectiveness of various environmental attributes. However, these toolkits have not been designed for and do not work well within Global South countries, such as Northern Cyprus. To examine and compare the effectiveness of different physical environmental attributes and to evaluate user responses, the post-occupancy evaluation method and the AEDET toolkit were used in this study. These were applied to both public and private hospitals in Northern Cyprus, involving cancer patients, staff, and professionals (n = 220). The findings reveal the strengths and weaknesses in terms of environmental comfort based on the aspects of the evidence-based design of the hospitals such as natural light, air quality, noise, view, infection control, etc., to create a more optimal physical environment for better psychological outcomes. They also reveal that these toolkits are not fit for purpose for Global South contexts and require adaptations. This is the first study to propose an adaptation of the AEDET toolkit to assist architects in designing healthcare facilities that are responsive to the requirements of hospital patients and staff and to promote the quality of a healing environment for improved health and well-being outcomes.
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Zhou, Z., M. Gutierrez, J. Documet, L. Chan, H. K. Huang, and B. Liu. "The role of a Data Grid in worldwide imaging-based clinical trials." Journal of High Speed Networks 16, no. 1 (2007): 21–33. https://doi.org/10.3233/hsn-2007-305.
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Clinical trials play a crucial role in testing new drugs or devices in modern clinical practice. Medical imaging has become an important tool in clinical trials because images provide a unique and fast diagnosis with visual observance and quantitative assessment. A typical imaging-based clinical trial consists of: (1) A well-defined rigorous clinical trial protocol, (2) a radiology core that has a quality control mechanism, a biostatistics component, and a server for storing and distributing data and analysis results; and (3) many field sites that generate and send clinical trial image studies to the radiology core. With ever-increasing number of clinical trials, it becomes a great challenge for a radiology core which handles multiple clinical trials to have a robust server to administrate multiple trials as well as satisfy the requirements to quickly distribute information to participating radiologists/clinicians worldwide to assess trials' results. Data Grid in the grid computing technology can satisfy the aforementioned requirements of imaging-based clinical trials. In this paper, we present a Data Grid architecture for worldwide imaging-based clinical trials. The Data Grid testbed has been set up in three international sites: Image Processing and Informatics (IPI) Laboratory at University of Southern California, USA; the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and InCor (Heart Institute) at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The three chosen sites are connected with high speed international networks including the Internet2, the HARNET (Hong Kong Academic and Research Network), and the Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP2). The concept, design and implementation of the Data Grid are presented. Grid computing technology open source software Globus Toolkit 4.0 and DICOM technology were used to implement the DICOM compliance Data Grid. This paper also describes results of using Data Grid in imaging-based clinical trails for fault tolerance image data backup. The successful implementation and evaluation of the Data Grid for imaging-based clinical trials provide three major benefits: (1) an understanding of the methodology for using data grid technology and high speed networks in clinical trails; (2) an establishment of the performance benchmarks of Data Grid over high speed networks; and (3) a Data Grid test bed for performing worldwide imaging based clinical trials.
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von Grünigen, Sandrine, Ludivine Falaschi, Nicolas Guichard, Sandrine Fleury-Souverain, Antoine Geissbühler, and Pascal Bonnabry. "Development and Proof of Concept of an Audit Toolkit for the Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." JCO Global Oncology, no. 7 (September 2021): 1480–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/go.21.00205.
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PURPOSE Chemotherapies are considered high-risk drugs for patient and staff safety. Considering the rising burden of cancer and the increasing use of chemotherapy drugs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), promoting continuous improvements in the safety and quality of practices in these settings is essential. This paper describes the development and proof of concept of a toolkit to audit chemotherapy handling practices in the health care facilities of LMICs. METHODS A steering committee defined the audit method and the toolkit content. Several checklists were developed to facilitate the audit and data collection. Items included in checklists were derived from key reference works on safe handling. Different tools were validated using Delphi surveys and expert reviews. Audits of pilot sites were performed to test the toolkit's applicability and relevance. RESULTS The toolkit contains a 134-item global assessment tool for the different processes at each step of the medication pathway and three step-specific observation checklists to assess different health workers' practices during the prescription, preparation, and administration of chemotherapies. The toolkit also proposes using a surface-wipe sampling method to measure any cytotoxic contamination of the immediate environment. The toolkit was tested in three teaching hospitals in Africa. CONCLUSION The toolkit developed was successfully implemented in a variety of LMIC settings, providing a comprehensive evaluation of the quality and safety of the chemotherapy drug handling practices in participating health care facilities. This toolkit can help facilities in LMICs to implement a new approach to continuously improving the quality and safety of their practices and ultimately ensure patient and staff safety.
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von Grünigen, Sandrine, Ludivine Falaschi, Nicolas Guichard, Sandrine Fleury-Souverain, Antoine Geissbühler, and Pascal Bonnabry. "Development and Proof of Concept of an Audit Toolkit for the Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." JCO Global Oncology, no. 7 (September 2021): 1480–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/go.21.00205.
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PURPOSE Chemotherapies are considered high-risk drugs for patient and staff safety. Considering the rising burden of cancer and the increasing use of chemotherapy drugs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), promoting continuous improvements in the safety and quality of practices in these settings is essential. This paper describes the development and proof of concept of a toolkit to audit chemotherapy handling practices in the health care facilities of LMICs. METHODS A steering committee defined the audit method and the toolkit content. Several checklists were developed to facilitate the audit and data collection. Items included in checklists were derived from key reference works on safe handling. Different tools were validated using Delphi surveys and expert reviews. Audits of pilot sites were performed to test the toolkit's applicability and relevance. RESULTS The toolkit contains a 134-item global assessment tool for the different processes at each step of the medication pathway and three step-specific observation checklists to assess different health workers' practices during the prescription, preparation, and administration of chemotherapies. The toolkit also proposes using a surface-wipe sampling method to measure any cytotoxic contamination of the immediate environment. The toolkit was tested in three teaching hospitals in Africa. CONCLUSION The toolkit developed was successfully implemented in a variety of LMIC settings, providing a comprehensive evaluation of the quality and safety of the chemotherapy drug handling practices in participating health care facilities. This toolkit can help facilities in LMICs to implement a new approach to continuously improving the quality and safety of their practices and ultimately ensure patient and staff safety.
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Effendy, Nurlaila, and Desak Nyoman Arista Retno Dewi. "Brief meaning toolkit: increasing meaning for the Millennial Generation in the workplace in the era of the New World Order." ABDIMASKU : JURNAL PENGABDIAN MASYARAKAT 7, no. 1 (2024): 278. http://dx.doi.org/10.62411/ja.v7i1.1873.
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In the post-pandemic era, current geoeconomic and geopolitical changes will have global, regional, and local impacts. Companies must adapt to rapid changes. This condition causes a person to experience disturbances or even be able to adapt and see opportunities in the new world order in the company. The ability to think reflectively that oneself is crucial, understand life, and determine broader goals for life with meaning is important in responding to situations. The millennial generation dominates the workforce in Indonesia, so millennial employees need to have meaning to support the organization's strategic plan in overcoming difficult situations. This service aims to provide interventions to increase meaning in millennial generation employees. The solution method is to provide an understanding of the meaning and a brief meaning toolkit online for millennial employees based on the Meaning toolkit from Mcquaid & Peggy and developed according to Indonesian Culture. Measurements were carried out by pre-test and post-test with The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI) instruments. The intervention results showed increased meaning among participants, although not high, with three sub-toolkits in short sessions and through online media. There is the lowest question, which is related to individual goals and organizational goals. The role of the organization is needed in building meaning in the organization. Based on the initial results of this short intervention, the meaning module can be developed into a more complete sub-toolkit and implemented face-to-face for a longer duration.
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Thomas, Philip S. "Double Loop Process: The Next Innovation Paradigm." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 28, no. 1 (2003): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920030107.
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A turning point in the innovation process may have been reached with the appearance of arecent proposal to emphasize customer toolkits in a bid to alleviate the dilemma between customer dissatisfaction and supplier overextension in the innovation process. This proposal is based on two decades of experience with software toolkits (including simulation) by the semiconductor industry. In the present article, the focus is on the main implication of a double loop innovation process involving the concurrent design of a base (or general purpose) product as well as the toolkit used by customers to optimize customization. A historical perspective reveals that the precedent for the double loop process can be found in two areas of concurrent engineering (CE) (viz. of product and process technologies) and in the concurrent evolution of markets for innovations. All three are clubbed together as “CE” and all three emphasize rapid knowledge transfers (including on a global basis) and rapid problem-solving (including via simulation). Thus, CE, along the three foregoing dimensions, provides a quasi-analytical framework for shaping the emerging double loop innovation process. However, it becomes necessary to evaluate a potential drawback which might negate the prospects of the double loop process at this stage. This lies in the observation that: with the transfer of design work from firms to their customers, there would be a decline of design in the supplier firms, and with a tendency for “followers” to simply replicate toolkits developed by “leaders,” the double loop process would get pre-empted. To bypass this, the additional category of “strivers” is proposed, especially given the obvious shortcoming of relying on a “one best way” philosophy. Having placed the double loop process (referred to interchangeably as CE II) in the historical context and in order to overcome a potential drawback to its viability, an attempt is made to apply it to a strategic societal issue. In the past, CE has helped expand markets for a variety of developed-country products such as cars and computers mostly in developed country markets. Thus, it is believed that CE II will help boost business in the so-called “base-of-pyramid” (BOP) markets around the world. The software and services industry of India may be well placed to apply the customer toolkit concept. This is because: It basically involves the extension of existing practices in the computer industry. There is a huge global need for lower cost, lower complexity software applications that need to be customized. Software toolkits should thus help leverage scarce personnel resources in the software industry as well as accelerate customization in other industries worldwide.
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Shu, Lele, Paul Ullrich, Xianhong Meng, Christopher Duffy, Hao Chen, and Zhaoguo Li. "rSHUD v2.0: advancing the Simulator for Hydrologic Unstructured Domains and unstructured hydrological modeling in the R environment." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 2 (2024): 497–527. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-497-2024.
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Abstract. Hydrological modeling is a crucial component in hydrology research, particularly for projecting future scenarios. However, achieving reproducibility and automation in distributed hydrological modeling research for modeling, simulation, and analysis is challenging. This paper introduces rSHUD v2.0, an innovative, open-source toolkit developed in the R environment to enhance the deployment and analysis of the Simulator for Hydrologic Unstructured Domains (SHUD). The SHUD is an integrated surface–subsurface hydrological model that employs a finite-volume method to simulate hydrological processes at various scales. The rSHUD toolkit includes pre- and post-processing tools, facilitating reproducibility and automation in hydrological modeling. The utility of rSHUD is demonstrated through case studies of the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in the USA and the Waerma watershed in China. The rSHUD toolkit's ability to quickly and automatically deploy models while ensuring reproducibility has facilitated the implementation of the Global Hydrological Data Cloud (https://ghdc.ac.cn, last access: 1 September 2023), a platform for automatic data processing and model deployment. This work represents a significant advancement in hydrological modeling, with implications for future scenario projections and spatial analysis.
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Chen, D., A. Demichev, D. Foster, et al. "OGSA Globus Toolkit3 evaluation activity at CERN." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 534, no. 1-2 (2004): 80–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.063.
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Anker, Lane. "Canada's Defence Intelligence Toolkit." Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 6, no. 1 (2023): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v6i1.5408.
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On November 22, 2022, Lane Anker, Acting Assistant Chief of Defence Intelligence (ACDI) Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (CFINTCOM), presented on Canada's Defence Intelligence Toolkit. The key points discussed were the role and structure of CFINTCOM, the major global disruption points impacting Canada, and the means available to Canadian defence intelligence to address these challenges. Received: 2023-05-12 Revised: 2023-05-22
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Golunov, S. "The Energy Toolkit of Statecraft." International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy 19, no. 1 (2021): 56–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17994/it.2021.19.1.64.3.
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While employing their energy potentials for advancing their foreign policy interests, Russia and the USA apply various political tools and practices, that can be classified as “positive”, “negative”, regulating energy markets, and reinforcing one’s own potential. The author argues that in both cases the application of energy-related statecraft is largely related either to energy security or to advancing ideologically inspired political interests. These two kinds of incentives can both work together or conflict each other. To pursue their relevant interests, both Russia and the USA have distinctive potentials, resources, and instruments that to a large extent were developed under influence of geopolitical and economic shocks: dramatic growth of global oil prices in 1970s for the USA and centrifugal post-Soviet geopolitical processes in 1990s for Russia. As a negative tool, the USA most often uses various kinds of sanctions to target energy sectors of their opponents, while the strongest Russian weapon is energy supply restrictions. To safeguard one’s own energy security and solidify their political influences both states manage bilateral complementary “producer–consumer” relations, while to stabilize global oil price, both states participate in international energy alliances. For instrumental purposes, both states also take advantage of purposeful or spontaneous transformations of their energy sectors (e.g. consolidation of the Russian energy sector and the U.S. ‘shale revolution’) for foreign policy purposes. In most cases, the effectiveness of applying statecraft tools for advancing energy-related interests proved to be limited. Those sanctions and other ways of pressure that targeted opponents’ energy sectors (especially if applied unilaterally) themselves rarely led to desirable alterations in those opponents’ policies. The results of energy alliances building also have proved to be limited both for Russia and for the USA as those alliances do not secure full-fledged control over global oil prices and are not solid or representative enough.
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Rimal, Anisha, Mara Minguez, Anna Zuckerman, Ann Behrmann, Sanjeev Jain, and Nan Peterson. "Development of a Global School Based Health Toolkit." Pediatrics 147, no. 3_MeetingAbstract (2021): 213–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.147.3ma3.213b.
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Miao, Melissa, Emma Power, Rachael Rietdijk, Melissa Brunner, Deborah Debono, and Leanne Togher. "A Web-Based Service Delivery Model for Communication Training After Brain Injury: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Prospective, Hybrid Type 2 Implementation-Effectiveness Study." JMIR Research Protocols 10, no. 12 (2021): e31995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/31995.
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Background Acquired brain injuries (ABIs) commonly cause cognitive-communication disorders, which can have a pervasive psychosocial impact on a person’s life. More than 135 million people worldwide currently live with ABI, and this large and growing burden is increasingly surpassing global rehabilitation service capacity. A web-based service delivery model may offer a scalable solution. The Social Brain Toolkit is an evidence-based suite of 3 web-based communication training interventions for people with ABI and their communication partners. Successful real-world delivery of web-based interventions such as the Social Brain Toolkit requires investigation of intervention implementation in addition to efficacy and effectiveness. Objective The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation and effectiveness of the Social Brain Toolkit as a web-based service delivery model. Methods This is a mixed methods, prospective, hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness study, theoretically underpinned by the Nonadoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) framework of digital health implementation. We will document implementation strategies preemptively deployed to support the launch of the Social Brain Toolkit interventions, as well as implementation strategies identified by end users through formative evaluation of the Social Brain Toolkit. We will prospectively observe implementation outcomes, selected on the basis of the NASSS framework, through quantitative web analytics of intervention use, qualitative and quantitative pre- and postintervention survey data from all users within a specified sample frame, and qualitative interviews with a subset of users of each intervention. Qualitative implementation data will be deductively analyzed against the NASSS framework. Quantitative implementation data will be analyzed descriptively. We will obtain effectiveness outcomes through web-based knowledge tests, custom user questionnaires, and formal clinical tools. Quantitative effectiveness outcomes will be analyzed through descriptive statistics and the Reliable Change Index, with repeated analysis of variance (pretraining, posttraining, and follow-up), to determine whether there is any significant improvement within this participant sample. Results Data collection commenced on July 2, 2021, and is expected to conclude on June 1, 2022, after a 6-month sample frame of analytics for each Social Brain Toolkit intervention. Data analysis will occur concurrently with data collection until mid-2022, with results expected for publication late 2022 and early 2023. Conclusions End-user evaluation of the Social Brain Toolkit’s implementation can guide intervention development and implementation to reach and meet community needs in a feasible, scalable, sustainable, and acceptable manner. End user feedback will be directly incorporated and addressed wherever possible in the next version of the Social Brain Toolkit. Learnings from these findings will benefit the implementation of this and future web-based psychosocial interventions for people with ABI and other populations. Trial Registration Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12621001170819; https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?ACTRN=12621001170819, Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12621001177842; https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?ACTRN=12621001177842, Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12621001180808; https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?ACTRN=12621001180808 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/31995
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Saja, Aslam, and Prasad Bhagwan Sevekari. "Needs and vulnerability assessment (NAVA) indicators for specific hazards in the context of Sri Lanka." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 6, no. 1 (2016): 184–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2016.105.
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Development of a four hazard-specific toolkit (drought, flood, landslide and chronic kidney diseases of unknown aetiology) for needs and vulnerability assessment in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector included community consultations with district, divisional and community stakeholders in four selected districts of Sri Lanka, which are highly prone to the respective hazards. Existing global WASH tools such as sphere and global WASH cluster indicators are contextualized, and the toolkit covers three different displacement scenarios: no displacement, temporary displacement (short and medium term), and camp-based displacement. This toolkit focuses on four key sections of WASH: water supply, sanitation, waste management and control, and hygiene practices and promotion. The toolkit consists of a set of indicators in the areas of WASH that are relevant to the selected scenario in the Sri Lankan context for the specific hazard, a checklist for initial and rapid assessment before and after disasters, and some guide notes for the field works.
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Ujunwa, Augustine, Ifeoma Nwakoby, and Chinwe Okoyeuzu. "Adoption Of Macroprudential Policy In An Inflationary Economy: Implication For Developing Economies." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8, no. 2 (2014): 1301–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijmit.v8i2.682.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critique the suitability of macro prudential policy as a proactive and effective toolkit for mitigating financial system risk in developing economies.Design/methodology/approach: The author first discusses the causes of the 2007/2008 global financial crisis in developed and developing economies. The narration is to demonstrate that the causes, duration and amplitude of the crisis differ across jurisdictions, and any regulatory model that will be effective in mitigating future crises must take into cognizance the institutional peculiarities of those countries. Findings: The paper provides evidence on the difficulties of implementing the macro-prudential policy toolkits in developing economies because of their institutional and structural characteristics such as inflationary pressure, undiversified economy, lagging supervision, among others.Research Limitations/implication: There is paucity of substantial local literature on macro-prudential policy in developing economies, especially Africa. While this study is meant to close this gap, literature reviewed however, relied extensively on studies on developed economies. Practical implication: The extrapolation of prudential tools from developed economies requires serious caution by developing economies because of dissimilarities in economic structure, financial system, governance structure and causes of systemic risk, which may not be mitigated by macro-prudential toolkits.Originality and Value: The study adds value to the global discourse on regulatory models for mitigating systemic crisis by introducing the perspective of developing economies to the macro-prudential debate.
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Reid, Corinne, Clara Calia, Cristóbal Guerra, et al. "Ethics in global research: Creating a toolkit to support integrity and ethical action throughout the research journey." Research Ethics 17, no. 3 (2021): 359–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747016121997522.
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Global challenge-led research seeks to contribute to solution-generation for complex problems. Multicultural, multidisciplinary, and multisectoral teams must be capable of operating in highly demanding contexts. This brings with it a swathe of ethical conflicts that require quick and effective solutions that respect both international conventions and cultural diversity. The objective of this article is to describe the process of creating a toolkit designed to support global researchers in navigating these ethical challenges. The process of creating the toolkit embodied the model of ethical research practice that it advocates. Specifically, at the heart of ethical decision-making is consideration of the following: Place, solutions must be relevant to the context in which they are to be used; People, those impacted by the outcomes must be partners in co-creation; Principles, ethical projects must be guided by clear values; and Precedent, the existing evidence-base should guide the project and, in turn, the project should extend the evidence-base. It is the thesis underlying the toolkit that consideration of these 4Ps provides a strong basis for understanding ethical conflicts and allows for the generation of potential solutions. This toolkit has been designed in two phases of collaborative work. More than 200 researchers participated from more than 30 countries and more than 60 different disciplines. This allowed us to develop a model for contextual, dynamic analysis of ethical conflicts in global research that is complementary to traditional codes of ethics. It emphasizes the need to consider ethical analysis as an iterative, reflective, process relevant at all stages of the research journey, including, ultimately, in evaluating the legacy of a project. The toolkit is presented as an open access website to promote universal access. A downloadable “pocket guide” version is also now available in 11 languages.
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Gardiner, Edward P., David D. Herring, and James F. Fox. "The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit: evidence of progress." Climatic Change 153, no. 4 (2018): 477–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2216-0.
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Jowitt, Paul. "ICE ‘Engineers’ toolkit for a developing world’ gets global recognition." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 164, no. 3 (2011): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/cien.2011.164.3.100.
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