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Rossiter, N. "Coded Vanilla: Logistical Media and the Determination of Action." South Atlantic Quarterly 114, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2831334.
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Ennaji and Bignami. "Logistical tools for refugees and undocumented migrants: smartphones and social media in the city of Fès." Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation 13, no. 1 (2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0062.
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Wood, Mark A., Imogen Richards, Mary Iliadis, and Michael McDermott. "Digital Public Criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a Mixed Methods Study of Criminologists’ Use of Social Media." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 8, no. 4 (July 29, 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i4.956.
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The proliferation of social media in the ‘post-broadcast era’ has profoundly altered the terrain for researchers to produce public scholarship and engage with the public. To date, however, the impact of social media on public criminology has not been subject to empirical inquiry. Drawing from a dataset of 116 surveys and nine interviews, our mixed-methods study addresses this opening in the literature by examining how criminologists in Australia and New Zealand have employed social media to engage in public criminology. This article presents findings from surveys that examine the practices and perceptions of criminologists in relation to social media, and insights from an analysis that explores the political and logistical issues raised by respondents. These issues include the democratising potential of social media in criminological research, and its ability to provide representation for historically marginalised populations. Questions pertaining to ‘newsmaking criminology’ and the wider performance of ‘public criminology’ on social media are also addressed.
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Limandjaja, Steven. "JAX, THE ARCHITECTURE: Designing a Chatboat Architecture to Reduce Ajax Fancare’s Logistical Problem and Enhance Fan Experience." Nirmana 18, no. 2 (September 27, 2021): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/nirmana.18.2.51-65.
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This paper is the documentation of a graduation internship at Digital Society School (DSS) in which they teamed up with Ajax Fancare to solve their logistical problem and enhance the fan experience. Ajax Fancare is facing a logistical problem in manually answering every fan’s question via calls, emails, social media, or live chat. They believe that chatbot is the solution to this problem. The goal of this project is to research, design, and prototype a chatbot that could tackle the logistical problem and enhance the fan experience. The deliverable is a chatbot prototype and architecture in which Ajax Fancare could build upon for their future customer service chatbot. The main question of the research is answered by the chatbot architecture: Jax the Architecture, a conversational tree of all the possible interactions between a user and the chatbot. The final chatbot architecture answers the research question by mapping together the main elements of the chatbot such as the information fans needed from Ajax Fancare and additional features that create a new and inclusive experience. The prototypes and final chatbot architecture are ready to be tested for further research and serve as a cornerstone for future development of the Ajax Fancare chatbot.
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Bocconcelli, Roberta, Marco Cioppi, and Alessandro Pagano. "Social media as a resource in SMEs’ sales process." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 32, no. 5 (June 5, 2017): 693–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-11-2014-0244.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of social media (SM) adoption in upgrading and innovating selling processes by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) facing complex and rapidly changing market scenarios. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this goal, the paper undertakes an exploratory case study of Gamma, a mechanical company, by actively using SM to start and open a new market. The case-study is analyzed through the industrial marketing and purchasing (IMP) approach, which emphasizes the role of interaction and the interdependencies of resources. Findings The adoption of SM resources helped Gamma to tap into new markets and thus survive and face the downturn of its original market. SM displayed its effects in combination with other resources: a simple and not expensive machinery, capable human resources, effective production and logistical resources. SM represented a strategic resource to implement an effective business networking effort. Originality/value This paper provides novel empirical evidence and conceptual development over the role of SM as a resource in SMEs’ sales processes, using the IMP perspective on combination and development of resources.
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Pavlović, Dragana, Nikoleta Momčilović, and Dina Petrović. "FACEBOOK AS LOGISTIC SUPPORT TO LINGUISTIC INTERACTION." Facta Universitatis, Series: Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education 1, no. 2 (February 27, 2018): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.22190/futlte1702127p.
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New technologies provide significant logistical support to contemporary learning process, particularly in the field of university education. Students, as part of the youth population in the process of education, use new media technologies daily, among which an important place belongs to Facebook. Although Facebook is not characterised as a technology through which one learns, and is primarily used for communication and exchange of information, a number of research point to the importance of Facebook as a logistic support to the learning process. The main objective of the research was to determine students' attitudes about the use of Facebook in learning and sharing information important to learn the German language in the process of university studying. The study included 120 students of Faculty of Philosophy, who learn German as a second foreign language. Data obtained from the research confirmed that students use Facebook to share information related to exams, to exchange translation and other specialised texts in German. As for study purposes, the results of the research show that students mostly use Facebook for information sharing in the field of experience exchange with older colleagues, and least for the exchange of scientific articles. Research findings indicate that more than half of the surveyed students recognised Facebook as a significant support in learning the German language. As a recommendation, the need for greater use of new media for learning and for providing adequate logistics of the learning process stands out, which is particularly important in the current reform of higher education.
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Iliadis, Mary, Imogen Richards, and Mark A. Wood. "Newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a mixed methods study of criminologists’ media engagement." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 53, no. 1 (June 6, 2019): 84–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865819854794.
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‘Newsmaking criminology’, as described by Barak, is the process by which criminologists contribute to the generation of ‘newsworthy’ media content about crime and justice, often through their engagement with broadcast and other news media. While newsmaking criminological practices have been the subject of detailed practitioner testimonials and theoretical treatise, there has been scarce empirical research on newsmaking criminology, particularly in relation to countries outside of the United States and United Kingdom. To illuminate the state of play of newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand, in this paper we analyse findings from 116 survey responses and nine interviews with criminologists working in universities in these two countries, which provide insight into the extent and nature of their news media engagement, and their related perceptions. Our findings indicate that most criminologists working in Australia or New Zealand have made at least one news media appearance in the past two years, and the majority of respondents view news media engagement as a professional ‘duty’. Participants also identified key political, ethical, and logistical issues relevant to their news media engagement, with several expressing a view that radio and television interviewers can influence criminologists to say things that they deem ‘newsworthy’.
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Manzerolle, Vincent R., and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen. "The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 214–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.412.
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This paper argues that questions concerning the circulation of capital are central to the study of contemporary and future media under capitalism. Moreover, it argues that such questions have been central to Marx’s analysis of the reproduction of capital vis-à-vis the realization of value and the reduction of circulation time. Marx’s concepts of both the circuit and circulation of capital implies a theory of communication. Thus the purpose of our paper is to outline the logistical mechanisms that underlie a Marxist theory of media and communication and thereby foregrounding the role new media plays in reducing circulation time. We argue that the necessity of theorizing communication from a circuit and circulation-centric point of view stems from the emergence of a number of new technological phenomena that intensify, but sometimes undermine, the capitalist logic of acceleration. For the purposes of understanding the evolution of digital technologies, ostensibly employed to accelerate the circulation of capital—or put differently, to reduce circulation time—we need to pay attention to volume 2 of Capital, and key sections in the Grundrisse.
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Manzerolle, Vincent R., and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen. "The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 214–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol10iss2pp214-229.
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This paper argues that questions concerning the circulation of capital are central to the study of contemporary and future media under capitalism. Moreover, it argues that such questions have been central to Marx’s analysis of the reproduction of capital vis-à-vis the realization of value and the reduction of circulation time. Marx’s concepts of both the circuit and circulation of capital implies a theory of communication. Thus the purpose of our paper is to outline the logistical mechanisms that underlie a Marxist theory of media and communication and thereby foregrounding the role new media plays in reducing circulation time. We argue that the necessity of theorizing communication from a circuit and circulation-centric point of view stems from the emergence of a number of new technological phenomena that intensify, but sometimes undermine, the capitalist logic of acceleration. For the purposes of understanding the evolution of digital technologies, ostensibly employed to accelerate the circulation of capital—or put differently, to reduce circulation time—we need to pay attention to volume 2 of Capital, and key sections in the Grundrisse.
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Jansson, André. "The mutual shaping of geomedia and gentrification: The case of alternative tourism apps." Communication and the Public 4, no. 2 (June 2019): 166–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057047319850197.
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While the ‘media city’ has gained academic attention for over a decade, the role of the media in urban gentrification processes has been an overlooked issue. Due to the rapid expansion of geomedia technologies, for example, app-based social media and location-based services on mobile platforms, there is a growing need to address this area from a critical perspective. The article develops and tries out an analytical framework for studying the mutual shaping of geomedia technologies and gentrification processes, using alternative tourism apps as its illustration. The middle-class biased appearance of such mobile apps is hypothesized as an articulation of a broader trend, through which geomedia recognizes and gains affordances that fit the ambitions of certain social groups and their spatial norms, preferences and practices. The framework comprises two steps: (1) a media-technological unpacking exercise inspired by affordance theory and (2) a critical consideration of how geomedia play into the distribution of spatial capital in the city. The first step outlines how representational, logistical and communicational affordances of alternative tourism apps represent the broader shift from mass media to geomedia. The second step discusses the social logics whereby alternative tourism apps are adapted to middle-class spatial interests, and thus to gentrification, and how geomedia technologies in general affect the ability of different groups to access, appropriate and define different places and neighbourhoods in the city.
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Miconi, Andrea. "News from the Levant: A Qualitative Research on the Role of Social Media in Syrian Diaspora." Social Media + Society 6, no. 1 (January 2020): 205630511990033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119900337.
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The Syrian emergency, with around 6.7 million people leaving the country, is considered the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. The impact of social media on both the representation of the crisis and immigrants’ behavior has been already analyzed in several works. In this context, the article contains the results of qualitative research on the use of social media by Syrian immigrants and refugees after the civil war and in the diaspora. By mainly focusing on young users, we completed 44 in-depth interviews: 22 in-person interviews in Jordan; 13 in-person interviews in Lebanon; and 9 interviews with immigrant and refugees in Turkey via Skype (for logistical reasons). The article is dedicated to three different uses of social media: collecting news regarding the war in Syria; rediscovering lost ties after the diaspora; and finally, the so-called resettlement or the organization of a new life in host countries. As to the findings, immigrants have been shown to use social media for all purposes, but to a very different degree. In addition, and more interestingly, the results revealed some blind spots of digital sociability, such as the lack of credible sources and the Balkanization brought about by the so-called Web 2.0.
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Vroegindewey, G. V. "(A97) Social Media and Social Networks in Disaster Management: The Haiti Model." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, S1 (May 2011): s26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11000999.
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Social media and social networks are integral components of our daily personal, professional, and community lives with Facebook, Friendster, and Twitter alone having > 750,000,000 registered users worldwide. All types of communication modalities are utilized in disasters for a variety of purposes. Experience with Exercise 24 and the Haiti Earthquake and public health response amplify both the power of social media and social networks and the need to research, understand, refine, and train in their utilization in disaster management. A Haiti Epidemic Advisory System was established to provide a mechanism for care providers to report health status in camps and treatment centers, exchange technical and logistical information, provide reach-back services such as GIS mapping and data shepherding, and provide a platform for emotional support. This information was incorporated into additional platforms including Haiti User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) and Haiti Medical/Public Health Information Sharing Enterprise (MPHISE). Successes in the systems were seen in the early warning provided for cholera and social stress, the ability to link on-the-ground resources with local, national, and international assets, and the ability to inform policy makers through real-time reporting and advanced visualization. Many challenges were highlighted that deserve future study. These include: (1) how to manage the extreme volume of data flow including rating, ranking, filtering, and archiving; (2) how to effectively use social media and networks for response; (3) how to provide visualization in temporal and geospatial terms; and (4) how integrate social media with traditional media and official communications in an effective risk communication matrix.
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Maralack, D. "Enabling disabled participation in sport: Roadrunning." South African Journal of Sports Medicine 28, no. 2 (November 15, 2016): 59–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2078-516x/2016/v28i2a1579.
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The Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon (OMTOM) and Comrades Marathon were challenged by wheelchair participants to enter their ultramarathon races in 2016, despite the ultramarathon being physically challenging over 56 km and 90 km respectively. The terrain for both is mountainous, exacerbating the physical challenge of the distance. Initially both events declined entry to two wheelchair participants, based on procedural, logistical and safety grounds, prompting social media protests and debate. This commentary focuses in brief on the two sides of the same coin: the rights of disabled and specifically wheelchair athletes to be included in ultramarathons in South Africa; and the management and regulatory responsibilities of event organisers in these complex events.
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Kwasnicki, RM, LD Cato, L. Geoghegan, G. Stanley, J. Pancholi, A. Jain, and MD Gardiner. "Supportive technology in collaborative research: proposing the STiCR framework." Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 102, no. 1 (January 2020): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2019.0157.
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Introduction Achieving a standard of clinical research at the pinnacle of the evidence pyramid is historically expensive and logistically challenging. Research collaboratives have delivered high-impact prospective multicentre audits and clinical trials by using trainee networks with a range of enabling technology. This review outlines such use of technology in the UK and provides a framework of recommended technologies for future studies. Methods A review of the literature identified technology used in collaborative projects. Additional technologies were identified through web searches. Technologies were grouped into themes including access (networking and engagement), collaboration and event organisation. The technologies available to support each theme were studied further to outline relative benefits and limitations. Findings Thirty-three articles from trainee research collaboratives were identified. The most frequently documented technologies were social media applications, website platforms and research databases. The Supportive Technologies in Collaborative Research framework is proposed, providing a structure for using the technologies available to support multicentre collaboration. Such technologies are often overlooked in the literature by established and start-up collaborative project groups. If used correctly, they might help to overcome the physical, logistical and financial barriers of multicentre clinical trials.
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Barbosa, Claudio de Lima. "The Time for Parenteral Nutrition is Now: 12 Months Caring for Patients with Severe COVID-19." International Journal of Nutrology 14, no. 01 (March 2021): 021–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1728679.
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AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought new challenges to adequate nutrition, especially in critically ill patients. Physicians caring for these patients face great difficulties, including a different pathophysiology compared with other diseases, inadequately trained personnel, pressure from the media and family members, logistical and economic obstacles, and lack of robust medical evidence. Although the literature on COVID-19 is still limited, evidence demonstrates the need to reevaluate the use of effective nutritional support in this unprecedented, challenging clinical context. Supplemental parenteral nutrition must be considered due to the energy expenditure from COVID-19, the difficulty in achieving protein and energy goals in patients under enteral nutrition in prone position, and the worsened gastroparesis related to high doses of sedative/neuromuscular blocking agents.
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Mohammed Mekki, Dr Mekki, and Dr Murtada Elbashir Osman. "The reality of Sudanese press in the light of the transformation of digital media." علوم الاتصال 2, no. 7 (June 27, 2021): 133–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.52981/cs.v2i7.781.
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This study seeks to explore the vision of academic experts and practitioners of Sudanese journalism profession, to obtain a thorough and scientific diagnosis of the changes in the paper press in the world. To determine its withstand and the possibility of competing with electronic media, relying on the descriptive survey methodology on the way to design a scale of five meter to measure trends, the research contained (16) items; The validity and reliability coefficients were applied, and the questionnaire was a major tool for collecting information from (100) study sample. The study found that political, economic and technological changes, in addition to the administrative and structural imbalance of the press, the increase in publishing costs, the weak financial capabilities, the decrease in advertising revenues, the continuous decline in sales and the general trend towards the internet are the reasons for the decline and suspension of some paper press in the world. The study recommended the need to respond to developments and changes in the global political, economic, social and technical and to keep pace with them. The environment should be created by enacting attractive legislation and providing governmental logistical support to the paper press and facilitating the distribution and advertising movement, and the Sudanese paper press should pay attention to and upgrade its staff in terms of providing career stability methods, and then open the fields of training and development for him to deal with the data and requirements of the digital age.
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Makoza, Frank. "An Exploratory Study on Co-Locating Voter Registration in Telecentres Case of Malawi." International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age 6, no. 2 (April 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpada.2019040101.
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This article explores how co-locating voter registration at telecentres can address some of the challenges in the electoral process of a developing country. A case in Malawi was analysed using secondary data. A general inductive approach was used to analyse media reports on voter registration. The general inductive approach supported the development of themes for explaining the role of telecentres in addressing some of the challenges for voter registration. The study showed that the voter registration process has problems without obvious solutions including operational, social and political issues. Some of the problems can be mitigated utilising the services in telecentres. The services were mainly technical, logistical and communication. The study proposes a model for collaborative service delivery which suggests factors to be considered when co-locating voter registration in telecentres.
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King, Gary, and Nathaniel Persily. "A New Model for Industry–Academic Partnerships." PS: Political Science & Politics 53, no. 4 (August 19, 2019): 703–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096519001021.
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ABSTRACTThe mission of the social sciences is to understand and ameliorate society’s greatest challenges. The data held by private companies, collected for different purposes, hold vast potential to further this mission. Yet, because of consumer privacy, trade secrets, proprietary content, and political sensitivities, these datasets are often inaccessible to scholars. We propose a novel organizational model to address these problems. We also report on the first partnership under this model, to study the incendiary issues surrounding the impact of social media on elections and democracy: Facebook provides (privacy-preserving) data access; eight ideologically and substantively diverse charitable foundations provide initial funding; an organization of academics we created, Social Science One, leads the project; and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard and the Social Science Research Council provide logistical help.
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Wajcman, Judy. "How Silicon Valley sets time." New Media & Society 21, no. 6 (December 24, 2018): 1272–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818820073.
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Digital calendars are logistical media, part of the infrastructure that configures arrangements among people and things. Calendars increasingly play a fundamental role in establishing our everyday rhythms, shaping our consciousness of temporality. Drawing on interviews with Silicon Valley calendar designers, this article explores how the conceptualization and production of scheduling applications codify contemporary ideals about efficient time management. I argue that these ideals reflect the driving cultural imperative for accelerated time handling in order to optimize productivity and minimize time wasting. Such mechanistic approaches treat time as a quantitative, individualistic resource, obscuring the politics of time embedded in what can and cannot be graphically represented on the grid interface. I conclude that electronic calendars are emblematic of a long-standing but mistaken belief, hegemonic in Silicon Valley, that automation will deliver us more time.
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BIBERMAN, YELENA. "How We Know What We Know about Pakistan: New York Times news production, 1954–71." Modern Asian Studies 51, no. 5 (September 2017): 1598–625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000901.
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AbstractThis article explores public knowledge creation by examining how the New York Times produced Pakistan news between 1954 and 1971, the formative period of United States of America (USA)–Pakistan relations. These years encapsulate not only the heyday of cooperation between the two governments, but also the American public's first major introduction to the South Asian country by the increasingly intrepid news media. A leader in shaping that introduction was the New York Times. While most studies of the American media focus on measuring the effect of news exposure and content on public opinion, this article focuses on the theoretically underexplored aspect of news production: foreign news gathering. With a lens on South Asia, it shows that foreign news gathering involves the straddling of on-the-ground political and logistical constraints that generate an atmosphere of high uncertainty. By exploring the limitations on news gathering faced by America's leading newspaper's foreign correspondents in Pakistan in the 1950s and 1960s, this article identifies an important historical source of the ambiguity characterizing USA–Pakistan relations. The findings are based on recently released archival material that offers rare insight into the news-production process.
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Безногих, В. "About the risks of supplying illegal weapons from Ukraine to Europe." Вісник Луганського державного університету внутрішніх справ імені Е.О. Дідоренка 1, no. 93 (March 30, 2021): 264–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.33766/2524-0323.93.264-275.
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The article provides an analysis of the peculiarities of the illegal weapons and ammunition market in Ukraine in the conditions of cessation of the hot stage of the conflict caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the east of country. The article is prepared based on a study of information on the weapon seizures collected from open sources (law enforcement websites and media news resources). Grounded on this analysis, author makes an attempt to assess the likelihood of leakage of illegal military weapons to European countries. The economic and logistical preconditions of the interest of organized crime in the supply of weapons from Ukraine are considered. In general, the materials presented in the article are an additional source of criminalistics information and can serve as a basis for further analysis and research.
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Mohammed, Bahar. "Logic as argumentation in formulation of news." Humanities Journal of University of Zakho 8, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 558–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.26436/hjuoz.2020.8.4.646.
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Argumentation belongs to a group of human actions that seeks to bring about recipients persuasion، it is a path through which the speaker aims to exert a kind of influence on others، one of the two parties in it tries to influence the opposite side to direct their actions or broadcast a belief or by saying it in the process of speech. Hence، it is the study of minds، and the best way to dialogue with and listen to it. If you arguing you prevent the recipients from thinking and then proposing an opinion to them، and supporting them with sufficient justifications to enable them to be convinced، then they also choose the basic features of a certain opinion that can be made acceptable to a specific audience، and this is what media platforms do; media does not share ready-made facts with the public as much as it shares with them convictions that sought to make them look like facts.The object reader has decided to read، so it is our duty to provide it with sufficient justifications to continue to do so، by mobilizing its human teams، electronic and logistical equipment that searches for enhancing mechanisms for influence and persuasion. If the news is based on logical inferences، it necessarily results in certainty.
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AHMED, IMTIAZ, DENISE HUGHES, IAN JENSON, and TASS KARALIS. "Validation of Low-Volume Enrichment Protocols for Detection of Escherichia coli O157 in Raw Ground Beef Components, Using Commercial Kits." Journal of Food Protection 72, no. 3 (March 1, 2009): 669–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-72.3.669.
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Testing of beef destined for use in ground beef products for the presence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 has become an important cornerstone of control and verification activities within many meat supply chains. Validation of the ability of methods to detect low levels of E. coli O157:H7 is critical to confidence in test systems. Many rapid methods have been validated against standard cultural methods for 25-g samples. In this study, a number of previously validated enrichment broths and commercially available test kits were validated for the detection of low numbers of E. coli O157:H7 in 375-g samples of raw ground beef component matrices using 1 liter of enrichment broth (large-sample:low-volume enrichment protocol). Standard AOAC International methods for 25-g samples in 225 ml of enrichment broth, using the same media, incubation conditions, and test kits, were used as reference methods. No significant differences were detected in the ability of any of the tests to detect low levels of E. coli O157:H7 in samples of raw ground beef components when enriched according to standard or large-sample:low-volume enrichment protocols. The use of large-sample:low-volume enrichment protocols provides cost savings for media and logistical benefits when handling and incubating large numbers of samples.
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Burdon, Tom J., Arghya Paul, Nicolas Noiseux, Satya Prakash, and Dominique Shum-Tim. "Bone Marrow Stem Cell Derived Paracrine Factors for Regenerative Medicine: Current Perspectives and Therapeutic Potential." Bone Marrow Research 2011 (December 6, 2011): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/207326.
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During the past several years, there has been intense research in the field of bone marrow-derived stem cell (BMSC) therapy to facilitate its translation into clinical setting. Although a lot has been accomplished, plenty of challenges lie ahead. Furthermore, there is a growing body of evidence showing that administration of BMSC-derived conditioned media (BMSC-CM) can recapitulate the beneficial effects observed after stem cell therapy. BMSCs produce a wide range of cytokines and chemokines that have, until now, shown extensive therapeutic potential. These paracrine mechanisms could be as diverse as stimulating receptor-mediated survival pathways, inducing stem cell homing and differentiation or regulating the anti-inflammatory effects in wounded areas. The current review reflects the rapid shift of interest from BMSC to BMSC-CM to alleviate many logistical and technical issues regarding cell therapy and evaluates its future potential as an effective regenerative therapy.
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Acquaviva, Kimberly D. "Establishing and Facilitating Large-Scale Manuscript Collaborations via Social Media: Novel Method and Tools for Replication." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 5 (May 17, 2021): e25077. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/25077.
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Background Authorship teams in the health professions are typically composed of scholars who are acquainted with one another before a manuscript is written. Even if a scholar has identified a diverse group of collaborators outside their usual network, writing an article with a large number of co-authors poses significant logistical challenges. Objective This paper describes a novel method for establishing and facilitating large-scale manuscript collaborations via social media. Methods On September 11, 2020, I used the social media platform Twitter to invite people to collaborate on an article I had drafted. Anyone who wanted to collaborate was welcome, regardless of discipline, specialty, title, country of residence, or degree completion. During the 25 days that followed, I used Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Forms to manage all aspects of the collaboration. Results The collaboration resulted in the completion of 2 manuscripts in a 25-day period. The International Council of Medical Journal Editors authorship criteria were met by 40 collaborators for the first article (“Documenting Social Media Engagement as Scholarship: A New Model for Assessing Academic Accomplishment for the Health Professions”) and 35 collaborators for the second article (“The Benefits of Using Social Media as a Health Professional in Academia”). The authorship teams for both articles were notably diverse, with 17%-18% (7/40 and 6/35, respectively) of authors identifying as a person of color and/or underrepresented minority, 37%-38% (15/40 and 13/35, respectively) identifying as LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, queer and/or questioning), 73%-74% (29/40 and 26/35, respectively) using she/her pronouns, and 20%-23% (9/40 and 7/35, respectively) identifying as a person with a disability. Conclusions Scholars in the health professions can use this paper in conjunction with the tools provided to replicate this process in carrying out their own large-scale manuscript collaborations.
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Kalinina, Olga, Valery Suschenko, Valery Shchegolev, and Sergey Barykin. "Logistic development and use of personnel motivation system based on the chosen strategy of sports organization." MATEC Web of Conferences 193 (2018): 05063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819305063.
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Logistical approach to the organization system of sport events results in forming new theoretical concept in the specific field regarding the social, economic and political spheres. The study of literature sources suggest the origins of sports events could be seen in models formed in flows of information and participants of contests. The idea of flow concept should be considered as a new approach with some features which played a progressive and positive role in the development of the world community. At present, the modern system of sports events is a complex industry that has global significance in economic, social, technological and political relations. The subjects of management of this kind of sports events, as a rule, are several categories of participants. First of all, these are the athletes who are the main characters in the competitions. In addition to them, managers, sports judges, coaches, medical personnel, representatives of the mass media, service personnel, sponsors, representatives of administrative bodies, spectators, etc. participate in the organization and management of sport events themselves.
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Kneese, Tamara, and Michael Palm. "Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy." Social Media + Society 6, no. 3 (July 2020): 205630512093329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120933299.
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Vintage goods are valued for their nostalgic association with pre-digital modes of production, but their contemporary trafficking is increasingly organized by processes of platformization. The central component of what we call “listing labor in the digital vintage economy” is the online display of collectible merchandise, but listing labor also entails promoting sellers’ brands on social media and using sales platforms and other logistical media to manage inventory, process transactions, and handle shipments. Listing labor is performed by branded merchants and their employees alongside independent entrepreneurs. The digital vintage economy connects brick-and-mortar shops and resale supply chains organized around flea markets, thrift shops and charity bins, estate sales, and consigners, to online clearinghouses like eBay and Craigslist, and to social media and payment apps. In this article, we argue that listing labor in the digital vintage economy further develops the concept of “platform labor.” We focus on vintage clothes and vinyl records, dominated by women and men, respectively, to help us analyze divisions of listing labor organized by gender, race, age, and class. We draw upon 20 semi-structured interviews with shop owners and employees and on participant observation in independently owned clothing boutiques and record stores in several US cities. The digital vintage economy provides another angle for understanding how identity-based distinctions affect the opportunities associated with platform labor, and our account of listing labor highlights the need for studies of platformization that analyze its effects on specific local economies as well as on job markets and commercial sectors.
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Macaluso, Suzie. "THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND STEREOTYPES OF AGING: AN INTERGENERATIONAL STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.488.
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Abstract One of the biggest barriers to encouraging a new generation of students to consider careers in aging are the ageist attitudes that they hold and the negative images of aging that they are bombarded with through the media. Sociologists have learned that an effective way to combat ageism is to bring together individuals from different cultural groups, including different age cohorts, to improve social attitudes. In a 2018 AGHE presentation, Jill J. Naar, explored the idea of promoting age-friendly universities by creating intergenerational education tourism programs. In this presentation I share my experience in leading an intergenerational study abroad in Germany that included five generations studying the creation of public memory on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I will share some of the logistical considerations along with the way that the study abroad helped to meet some of the AGHE competencies for undergraduate programs in Gerontology.
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Brown, Courtney A., Anna C. Revette, Sarah D. de Ferranti, Holly B. Fontenot, and Holly C. Gooding. "Conducting Web-Based Focus Groups With Adolescents and Young Adults." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20 (January 1, 2021): 160940692199687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406921996872.
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This methodologic paper aims to update researchers working with adolescents and young adults on the potentials and pitfalls associated with web-based qualitative research. We present a case study of synchronous web-based focus groups with 35 adolescents and young women ages 15–24 years old recruited from a clinical sample for a mixed methods study of heart disease awareness. We contrast this with two other studies, one using asynchronous web-based focus groups with 30 transgender youth ages 13 to 24 years old and another using synchronous web-based focus groups with 48 young men who have sex with men ages 18 to 26 years old, both recruited via social media. We describe general and logistical considerations, technical platform considerations, and ethical, regulatory, and research considerations associated with web-based qualitative research. In an era of technology ubiquity and dependence, researchers should consider web-based focus groups a potential qualitative research tool, especially when working with youth.
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Shah, Sayyed Fawad Ali, Julia Meredith Hess, and Jessica R. Goodkind. "Family Separation and the Impact of Digital Technology on the Mental Health of Refugee Families in the United States: Qualitative Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 21, no. 9 (September 3, 2019): e14171. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14171.
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BackgroundConflicts around the world have resulted in a record high number of refugees. Family separation is a critical factor that impacts refugee mental health. Thus, it is important to explore refugees’ ability to maintain contact with family members across the globe and the ways in which they attempt to do so. It is increasingly common for refugees to use information and communication technologies (ICTs), which include mobile phones, the internet, and social media sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, and Viber, for these purposes.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore refugees’ perceptions of the impact of communication through ICTs on their mental health, the exercise of agency by refugees within the context of ICT use, especially their communication with their families, and logistical issues that affect their access to ICTs in the United States.MethodsWe used a constructivist grounded theory approach to analyze in-depth interviews of 290 adult refugee participants from different countries, who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of a community-based mental health intervention.ResultsAnalyses showed that communication through ICTs had differing impacts on the mental health of refugee participants. ICTs, as channels of communication between separated families, were a major source of emotional and mental well-being for a large number of refugee participants. However, for some participants, the communication process with separated family members through digital technology was mentally and emotionally difficult. The participants also discussed ways in which they hide adversities from their families through selective use of different ICTs. Several participants noted logistical and financial barriers to communicating with their families through ICTs.ConclusionsThese findings are important in elucidating aspects of refugee agency and environmental constraints that need to be further explicated in theories related to ICT use as well as in providing insight for researchers and practitioners involved in efforts related to migration and mental health.
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de Ville de Goyet, Claude. "Health Lessons Learned from the Recent Earthquakes and Tsunami in Asia." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 22, no. 1 (February 2007): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00004283.
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AbstractThe evaluations following the Tsunami that affected 12 countries (December 2004) and the earthquakes in Bam, Iran (2003), and in Pakistan (2005) offered valuable lessons for public health preparedness against all types of risks (natural, complex, or technological) in all countries (regardless their level of development).The lessons learned, needs assessments, effectiveness of external life-saving assistance, disease surveillance and control, as well as donations management, were reviewed.Although hundreds of surveys or studies were conducted, the needs assessments were partial and uncoordinated. The findings often were not shared by individual agencies.The evaluations in each of the three disasters point to some additional issues:1. Foreign mobile hospitals rarely arrived in time for immediate trauma care. Existing international guidelines for the use of field hospitals often were ignored and must be updated and promoted. Local and neighboring facilities are best at providing immediate, life-saving care;2. Occassionally, the risk of epidemics was grossly overestimated by the agencies and the mass media. Surveillance and improved routine control programs work without resorting to costly, improvised immunization campaigns of doubtless value. Improving or re-establishing water and sanitation must be the first priority;3. Health donations were not always appropriate, nor did they follow the World Health Organization guidelines. The costly destruction of inappropriate donations was a recurrent problem; and4. Medical volunteers from within the affected country were abounding, but did not benefit from the external logistical and material support. The international community should provide logistical and material support before sending expatriate teams that are unfamiliar with the area and its health problems.Investing in the preparedness of the national health services and communities should become a priority for disaster-prone countries and those assisting them in their development.
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Garcia, Abraham Castro, Shuo Cheng, and Jeffrey S. Cross. "Solvolysis of Kraft Lignin to Bio-Oil: A Critical Review." Clean Technologies 2, no. 4 (December 14, 2020): 513–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol2040032.
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Lignin, a component of lignocellulosic biomass, is abundant and is produced extensively as a waste product of the Kraft pulping process, lignin obtained from this process is called Kraft lignin (KL). Lignin’s three-dimensional structure composed of aromatic alcohols (monolignols) makes it a potential source of renewable aromatic chemicals or bio-oil, if depolymerized. Among all the depolymerization methods for KL, solvolysis is the most popular, showing consistently high bio-oil yields. Despite the large number of studies that have been carried out, an economically feasible industrial process has not been found and comparison among the various studies is difficult, as very different studies in terms of reaction media and catalysts report seemingly satisfactory results. In this review, we compare and analyze KL solvolysis studies published, identify trends in bio-oil composition and give a comprehensive explanation about the mechanisms involved in the processes. Additional commentary is offered about the availability and future potential of KL as a renewable feedstock for aromatic chemicals, as well as logistical and technical aspects.
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Hugelius, Karin. "Consular Crisis Management Operations: Special Considerations and Challenges." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 35, no. 4 (May 29, 2020): 447–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x20000655.
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AbstractAssisting the increasing number of tourists and foreign nationals exposed to crises situations in third countries—many of them far from home and extremely vulnerable—presents significant challenges. Despite the need to explore consular crisis management from an operational perspective, there are few studies that address the issue. This paper aims to describe the characteristics and context of consular crisis management operations based on personal experiences, scientific papers, grey literature, and key informant interviews.Consular crisis management operations are conducted in a context where the stakeholders and the legal environment may differ from humanitarian or civil protection operations. The physical distance causes logistical challenges and demands specific considerations for both civilian and medical evacuation. Consular crisis management operations often include medical care, psychosocial support activities, and disaster victim identification (DVI) activities. Political and media interest may also add significant challenges to such operations. Therefore, specific knowledge, skills, and preparations are needed for both diplomatic crisis management professionals and health professionals. Further research on consular crisis management activities—as well as the concept of consular crisis management itself—is strongly needed.
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Lichau, Karsten. "Soundproof Silences? Towards a Sound History of Silence." International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7, no. 1 (November 2, 2019): 840–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/hcm.586.
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This article calls for a sound history of silence. Widely neglected within sound-historical research, exploring the manifold sounds of silence not only fills a lacuna in scholarship, but also poses critical challenges to current discussions in the flourishing field of sound history. This theoretical claim is based on empirical case studies from another still unwritten history: the political and cultural history of the minute’s silence, a political commemoration ceremony established in the aftermath of World War I. A practice theory approach makes it possible to understand how silence was produced in specific historical contexts through a complex set of cognitive, emotional, logistical, media, physiological, sensorial and kinesthetic practices that engage (or not) with the official call for silence and make it into success or failure. Conceiving of silence as a complex acoustical practice, the article aims to establish silence as a full-fledged topic of research at the centre of sound history and to inspire research on the historical and contemporary interplay between political structures and sensory or bodily practices.
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Prawitasari, Ika, and Dewi Erowati. "Efektivitas Pilkada Serentak Tahun 2020 di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19 Indonesia." Journal of Education, Humaniora and Social Sciences (JEHSS) 3, no. 3 (March 3, 2021): 1176–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.34007/jehss.v3i3.517.
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This study examines effectiveness 2020 simultaneous regional elections in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, indicators of success Pilkada are integrity organizers and public participation in exercising their voting rights. Therefore, looking at 2020 Pilkada which was held in midst Covid-19 pandemic is still an important discourse. This study used descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques use primary data obtained from webinars on local political democracy during pandemic and secondary data by citing books, journals, documents and printed media, as well as other supporting materials. The results showed that the 9 December 2020 Pilkada had several threats and opportunities, including; First, threat of high number of positive cases of Covid-19, limited time, process updating voter data, technical guidance for ad hoc administrators, logistical budgets, education and political outreach. Second, opportunities for technology and information as means of political education and political socialization. Third, organizing regional elections by using e-voting, being the right recommendation, seeing use of e-voting can preserve people's voting rights and inhibit spread of Covid-19.
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Bradley, Lucy, Leslie Towill, Jean Stutz, and Robert Roberson. "Conversion of Introductory Plant Biology Course and Lab to Web-Based Distance Ed Course." HortScience 41, no. 4 (July 2006): 1002D—1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.41.4.1002d.
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Conversion of the introductory plant biology course for non-majors from a lecture/lab format to a web-based course was a collaborative project between the Department of Plant Biology and the Instructional Support group at ASU. This course provides an introduction to biology through the world of plants by including lectures and laboratory activities that examine plant systems. The project was undertaken to provide students with an asynchronous opportunity to participate in either the course, the lab, or both. There were three distinct phases of implementation of the multimedia website: Design, Development, and Delivery. The design phase was driven by the faculty, who, along with graduate assistants, developed the course outline and content. They gathered images, identified concepts to be animated, and created storyboards to layout the sequence in the animation. The development stage was driven by the Instructional Designers who selected the appropriate media for animations and worked with developers to create them. The delivery phase was again driven by the professors. They implemented the website as a teaching tool, gathered feedback from students and teaching assistants, and worked with instructional designers and multimedia developers to improve the site. A wide variety of on-line multimedia components were incorporated into the website, including illustrations, images, animations, interactive modules, video and text. Three separate media packages were used: MacroMedia Flash (Macromedia, 2000), Director Shockwave (Macromedia, 2000), and QuickTime (Apple, Inc. 2000). Findings from surveys of students, faculty, and staff identified positive regard for the site as a whole. Several technological and logistical challenges were encountered and addressed.
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Cruz, Miguel A., Mark E. Keim, Joshua G. Schier, Raul Gonzalez, Angel Valencia, and Jana L. Telfer. "Organizational and Command Aspects for Coordinating the Public Health Response to an Outbreak of Acute Renal Failure, Republic of Panama, 2006." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, no. 3 (June 2011): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11006340.
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AbstractThe Ministry of Health of Panama (MINSA) received several reports of ill persons who had clinical presentations of acute renal insufficiency or failure during September and October 2006. On 01 October 2006, the MINSA formally asked the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist with the investigation. Additional agencies involved in the response included the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Gorgas Institute for Health Studies (GIHS), and the Social Security Health System (SSHS) of Panama. Through a joint effort, the MINSA, CDC, FDA, GIHS, SSHS, and PAHO were able to characterize the illness, identify the etiological agent, identify the population-at-risk, and launch an unprecedented media and social mobilization effort to prevent additional cases.International outbreak responses may require familiarity with basic emergency management principles beyond technical or scientific considerations. The management, logistical capabilities, team interaction, and efficiency of outbreak investigations can be enhanced substantially by having staff already familiar with common operational frameworks for incident responses. This report describes the inter-agency coordination and organizational structure implemented during an international response to identify the cause of an outbreak of acute renal failure in Panama.
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M. RUNGE, TROY, and SCOTT PAUL. "Desilication of bamboo for pulp production." November 2015 14, no. 11 (December 1, 2015): 743–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32964/tj14.11.743.
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Bamboo is one of the world’s fastest growing feedstocks. It is a promising nonwood resource that can be used in the pulp and paper industry. Among more than 1200 species of bamboo, the timber varieties can be processed much like trees, allowing current pulp mill logistical systems to be used. Bamboo can be difficult to pulp because of its high silica content, which creates issues for black liquor recovery. This study compares two methods of reducing the silica content of a common species of timber bamboo. Specifically, the dermis layer of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) was removed through mechanical treatment and then chipped. The same species was also chipped without treatment. The two chipped materials were then alkali extracted and subjected to kraft pulping experiments. The pulps were bleached with an OD0(EP)D1 sequence. The material was then refined and formed into handsheets. The results indicate that 80% of the silica could be removed from the bamboo material through a combination of dermal mechanical treatment and caustic chip extraction. Caustic chip extraction removed a significant portion of hemicellulose materials, which in turn lowered cooking yields but had minimal effect on pulp properties.
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Herlina, Ortiz Rodríguez. "Comunicación Integral y transparencia en las organizaciones del tercer sector / Integral Communication and transparency of the third sector organizations." Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas XI, no. 21 (June 28, 2021): 05–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-21-2021-02-05-26.
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Third sector organizations are organizational structures that contribute to the countries social welfare. This type of organizations requires their audiences support and understanding in order to accomplish their organizational objectives and, to obtain such support, they must communicate in a transparent form with their audiences. Transparency must be understood as a third sector organizations ethical duty with a view to announce their audiences not only detailed information about the use of financial resources but also to keep them informed about their actions, decisions and daily behaviors. Third sector organizations must manage their transparency and best practices not as designed action within a logistical or merely operational plan, but as the core idea of a strategic plan that allows them to create bonds of trust with strategic audiences such as: collaborators, donors, volunteers, government, other third sector organizations and society. When the audiences notice that a third sector organization puts their transparency and best practices into practice as an ethical and voluntary attitude for making visible and explaining each one of their actions, decisions, projects, profits and results, they will not hesitate to participate with it and offer their unconditional support. Comprehensive communication plays a fundamental role in the transparency strategic management of the third sector organizations, since it is through it that the audiences are able to know in detail the organization actions. Owing to, currently, digital media own a great reach, third sector organizations transparency and best practices must be communicated using digital media in a proper form. That is, organizations must not only design strategies to strengthen their transparency, but they also must communicate them with their audiences. With that said, the objective of this research was to analyze and to compare through a content analysis the comprehensive communication level in digital media owned by the third sector organizations from Mexico and Spain with NGO certification accredited to communicate their transparency and best practices to their audiences via their website and official social media: Facebook and Twitter. The third sector organizations sample was of 104 Spanish organizations and 104 Mexican organizations. This research was performed through a quantitative content analysis. Such analysis is digital and it was carried out in the official website and in two social media: Facebook and Twitter. It is a cross-sectional research, since the information gathering was performed during the period January-August, 2020. The research stages were: definition of the sample, definition of variables, information coding and analysis and interpretation of results. The study categories were determined from the nine transparency and best practices principles of Lealtad y Confío foundation; indications based on international standards recommended by the ICFO (International Committee on Fundraising Organizations). The main findings were that the communication level in the Spanish third sector organizations was better than in the Mexican organizations; however, both organizations have the challenge to efficiently communicate their transparency using digital media. Although it is true that Spain owns a better level of transparency and best practices comprehensive communication in digital media compared to Mexico, it has merely focused in taking advantage of its website, leaving the advantages of social media, Facebook and Twitter, aside.
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Sindel, Brian M., Paul E. Kristiansen, Susan C. Wilson, Justine D. Shaw, and Laura K. Williams. "Managing invasive plants on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island." Rangeland Journal 39, no. 6 (2017): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj17073.
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The Antarctic region is one of the most inhospitable frontiers on earth for weed invasion. On Australia’s world heritage sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island only three species of invasive weeds are well established (Poa annua L., Stellaria media (L.) Vill. and Cerastium fontanum Baumg.), although isolated occurrences of other species have been found and removed. These weed species are believed to have initially been introduced through human activity, a threat which is likely to increase, although strict biosecurity is in place. All three weeds are palatable and may have been suppressed to some extent by pest herbivore (rabbit) grazing. Given the high conservation value of Macquarie Island and threats to ecosystem structure and function from weed proliferation following rabbit eradication, well targeted invasive plant control management strategies are vital. We propose that a successful restoration program for Australia’s most southerly rangeland ecosystem should integrate both control of non-native plants as well as non-native herbivores. Of the non-native plants, S. media may most easily be managed, if not eradicated, because of its more limited distribution. Little, however, is known about the soil seed bank or population dynamics after rabbit eradication, nor the effect of herbicides and non-chemical control methods in cold conditions. A current research project on this non-grass species is helping to fill these knowledge gaps, complementing and building on data collected in an earlier project on the ecology and control of the more widespread invasive grass, P. annua. With an interest in off-target herbicide impacts, our work also includes a study of the movement and fate of herbicides in the cold climate Macquarie Island soils. Research in such a remote, cold, wet and windy place presents a range of logistical challenges. Nevertheless, outcomes are informing the development of effective, low-impact control or eradication options for sub-Antarctic weeds.
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Romero Pérez, Jonatan. "Estructuras militares y logísticas en la Corona de Castilla durante el siglo XIV = Military and Logistic Structures in the Crown of Castile during the Fourteenth Century." Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, no. 32 (April 11, 2019): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/etfiii.32.2019.24062.
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Durante el siglo XIV comienzan a producirse en la corona de Castilla una serie de cambios y transformaciones profundas en sus estructuras organizativas que conducen a un incremento de los recursos fiscales, logísticos y militares disponibles. Este proceso, contemporáneo a otros territorios peninsulares y europeos, llevó a un aumento de las capacidades de reunión y sostenimiento de fuerzas militares en el tiempo y el espacio, a un cambio en la organización y conducción de la guerra, cuyas dimensiones espaciotemporales crecen, y en definitiva a un proceso evolutivo a largo plazo que conducirá a lo largo de la baja Edad Media a la aparición del ejército permanente como instrumento de poder del naciente estado moderno.AbstractA series of important changes and transformations in the organizational structure of the Crown of Castile took place during the fourteenth century and led to an increase in financial, logistical and military resources. This process which ocurred at the same time in other Iberian and European territories produced an increase in the capability to garner and maintain military forces through time and space. As well, it gave way to a change in the organization and the process of war, whose dimensions grew in every sense. In the end, the changes resulted in a long-term evolutionary process during the late Middle Ages that concluded in the rise of a permanent army as an instrument of power in the nascent modern state.
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Nurhadi, Ali, and Atiqullah. "THE STRATEGY OF PESANTREN LEADER IN MANAGING THE MARKETING OF EXECELLENT EDUCATION." Jurnal Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan 5, no. 2 (December 27, 2020): 168–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24832/jpnk.v5i2.1710.
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Pendidikan berkeunggulan tidak hanya lahir dari sekolah umum tetapi juga dapat lahir dari pesantren yang memiliki konsep pendidikan berkeunggulan seperti di Pondok Pesantren Darussalam Puncak, yaitu IICP (International Islamic Class Program). Tujuan penelitian ini, pertama, mendeskripsikan strategi pemimpin dalam promosi pendidikan berkeunggulan di Pondok Pesantren Darusalam Puncak Pamekasan. Kedua, mendeskripsikan implementasi perencanaan pemasaran pendidikan berkeunggulan. Ketiga, mendeskripsikan pemenuhan kebutuhan logistik untuk pendidikan berkeunggulan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis studi kasus. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan melaluiwawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data menggunakan model interaktif. Keabsahan data dilakukan dengan uji kredibilitas, transferabilitas, dependabilitas dan konfirmabilitas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, pertama, strategi promosi pendidikan berkeunggulan dilakukan dengan sosialisasi pada wali santri. Promosi juga dilakukan melalui media sosial, website resmi pondok pesantren, brosur, dan presentasi kepada berbagai lembaga. Kedua, implementasi perencanaan pemasaran pendidikan berkeunggulan dilakukan melalui analisis SWOT serta melibatkan tokoh-tokoh berpengaruh dan berpengalaman di bidangnya. Ketiga, pemenuhan logistik serta sarana dan prasarana menjadi prioritas utama untuk pendidikan berkeunggulan di Darussalam Puncak. Kesimpulan, strategi pemimpin dalam pemasaran pendidikan berkeunggulan di lingkungan pesantren Darrusalam Puncak Pamekasan dilakukan dengan konsep bauran pemasaran terdiri dari 7P, yaitu: product, price, place, promotion, people, physical evidence, dan process dengan mengedepankan pada promosi, harga, hasil.
Excellence education is not only born from public schools but can also be born from pesantren (Islamic boarding school) with excellent education concept such as at the Darussalam Puncak Islamic Boarding School, namely IICP (International Islamic Class Program). This study aims, first, to describe the strategy of the leader in the promotion of excellent education at Pondok Pesantren Darusalam Puncak Pamekasan. Second, to describe the implementation of excellent education marketing planning. Third, describing the fulfilment of logistical needs for excellent education. This research used a qualitative approach with a type of case study. The data collection method was done through interviews, observation, and documentation. Data were analysed by using an interactive model and the data validity was carried out by testing the credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. The results showed, first, the strategy of promotion is carried out by socializing the IICP to students’ parent. In addition, it is also carried out through social media, the pesantren official website, brochures, and presentations to various institutions. Second, the implementation of marketing planning is analysed through SWOT and involved influentialand experienced figures in their fields. Third, the fulfilment of logistics, facilities, and infrastructure are top priority for IICP. In conclusion, the leadership strategy in marketing excellent education at Pondok Pesantren Darrusalam Puncak Pamekasan is implemented with the concept of a marketing mix consisting of 7Ps, namely: product, price, place, promotion, people, physical evidence, and process by prioritizing promotions, prices, and results.
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Collins, Matthew, Gaurav Yeole, Paul Frandsen, Rebecca Dikow, Sylvia Orli, and Renato Figueiredo. "A Pipeline for Deep Learning with Specimen Images in iDigBio - Applying and Generalizing an Examination of Mercury Use in Preparing Herbarium Specimens." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 3, 2018): e25699. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25699.
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iDigBio Matsunaga et al. 2013 currently references over 22 million media files, and stores approximately 120 terabytes worth of those media files co-located with our compute infrastructure. Using these images for scientific research is a logistical and technical challenge. Transferring large numbers of images requires programming skill, bandwidth, and storage space. While simple image transformations such as resizing and generating histograms are approachable on desktops and laptops, the neural networks commonly used for learning from images require server-based graphical processing units (GPUs) to run effectively. Using the GUODA (Global Unified Open Data Access) infrastructure, we have built a model pipeline for applying user-defined processing to any subset of the images stored in iDigBio. This pipeline is run on servers located in the Advanced Computing and Information Systems lab (ACIS) alongside the iDigBio storage system. We use Apache Spark, the Hadoop File System (HDFS), and Mesos to perform the processing. We have placed a Jupyter notebook server in front of this architecture which provides an easy environment with deep learning libraries for Python already loaded for end users to write their own models. Users can access the stored data and images and manipulate them according to their requirements and make their work publicly available on GitHub. As an example of how this pipeline can be used in research, we applied a neural network developed at the Smithsonian Institution to identify herbarium sheets that were prepared with hazardous mercury containing solutions Schuettpelz et al. 2017. The model was trained with Smithsonian resources on their images and transferred to the GUODA infrastructure hosted at ACIS which also houses iDigBio. We then applied this model to additional images in iDigBio to classify them to illustrate the application of these techniques to broad image corpora potentially to notify other data publishers of contamination. We present the results of this classification not as a verified research result, but as an example of the collaborative and scalable workflows this pipeline and infrastructure enable.
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Annie Manion. "Logistics, Death, and Virtual Media." Discourse 34, no. 2-3 (2012): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/discourse.34.2-3.0348.
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Alatise, Olusegun I., Sara E. Fischer, Omobolaji O. Ayandipo, Akinlolu G. Omisore, Samuel A. Olatoke, and T. Peter Kingham. "Health-Seeking Behavior and Barriers to Care in Patients With Rectal Bleeding in Nigeria." Journal of Global Oncology 3, no. 6 (December 2017): 749–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.2016.006601.
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Purpose Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence rates are steadily increasing in Nigeria. Organized screening is still largely unused because of financial and logistical barriers; most CRCs are detected by symptoms. One symptom of CRC is rectal bleeding. This study sought to determine health-seeking behavior and barriers to care in patients with rectal bleeding in Nigeria. This study also surveyed physicians to determine major breakdowns in access to care. Methods The recruitment process for this study involved patients referred for colonoscopy because of rectal bleeding as well as response to a media advertisement for a free colonoscopy. Physicians were recruited at the African Research Group for Oncology meeting. Patient responses were scored on the basis of knowledge of rectal bleeding. The physician questionnaire was supporting information and mainly descriptive in nature. Results A total of 82 patients and 45 physicians participated in this study. Less than 40% of patients knew that rectal bleeding could be caused by cancer. Major barriers to care were resolution of the symptom (42%), no consideration of the bleeding as problematic (40%), and financial constraint (22%). Education was strongly correlated with knowledge of rectal bleeding and health-seeking behavior. Although physicians regularly saw patients with rectal bleeding, most of them provided a differential diagnosis of hemorrhoids and few referred patients for colonoscopy. Conclusion General awareness about the signs of colorectal cancer is lacking. This demonstrates the strong need for patient education programs about this issue. Physicians should also receive additional training on differentiation of a potential cancer diagnosis from something more benign, such as hemorrhoids.
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Klose, C.P. Hoffmann, D. Corsten, U, M. "New Business Media for Logistics Services." Electronic Markets 9, no. 3 (July 1, 1999): 153–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/101967899359049.
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The Editors. "Notes from the Editors, December 2015." Monthly Review 67, no. 7 (November 30, 2015): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-067-07-2015-11_0.
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Willemse, Gauthier, Joren Raymenants, Céline Clement, and Paul Herijgers. "Surgical residents’ opinions on international surgical residency in Flanders, Belgium." International Health 13, no. 5 (January 29, 2021): 421–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaa102.
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Abstract Background International electives benefit training of medical residents due to exposure to an increased scope of pathologies, improved physical examination skills, communication across cultural boundaries and more efficient resource utilization. Currently there is no mechanism for Belgian surgical residents to participate in international training opportunities and little research has addressed the international mobility of Belgian residents. The goal of this study was to examine the attitudes of Belgian residents towards international training among surgical residents. Methods An anonymous, structured electronic questionnaire was sent to a cohort of Belgian residents, including surgical residents, by e-mail and social media. Results In total, 342 respondents filled out the questionnaire out of a total of 5906 Belgian residents. The results showed that 334 of the residents came from Flanders (10.8%) and 8 came from French-speaking Brussels and Wallonia (0.28%). Surgical specialties represented 46% of respondents and included surgical, obstetric and anaesthesiology residents. The majority (98%) were interested in an international rotation, both in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and in high-income countries. A total of 84% were willing to conduct an international rotation during holidays and 91% would participate even when their international stay would not be recognised as part of their residency training. A minority (38%) had undertaken an international rotation in the past and, of those, 5% went to an LMIC. Conclusion The majority of surgical residents consider an international rotation as educationally beneficial, even though they are rarely undertaken. Our survey shows that in order to facilitate foreign rotations, Flemish universities and governmental institutions will have to alleviate the regulatory, logistical and financial constraints.
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Gaskins, David A., and Todd W. King. "Creating “Memorable Moments” to Excite the Intramural Sports Experience." Recreational Sports Journal 22, no. 4 (October 1998): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155886619802200404.
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While intramural sports contests do not enjoy the same widespread media exposure and attention as collegiate and professional athletics, they still produce special memories for the participants. It is the fun, stress release, joy of teamwork, thrill of competition, opportunity to escape the monotony of everyday life, and the emotional arousal which are generated by recreational sports programs that are the reasons why people participate. The “memorable moments” concept examines strategies on marketing implication and maintaining programmatic quality. The basic components of a “memorable moment” are intangible elements and include enjoyment or exhilaration, personal value, and something that is atypical. While intangibles result from the competition itself a variety of specific tangible techniques such as a public address announcer, spectator seating, campus media coverage, special promotions and activities, a national anthem, game programs, commercial sponsorship, and videotaping, can be employed to further emphasize and complement these aspects. The implementation of these tangibles and increasing the attractiveness of the participatory experience has tremendous positive marketing implications. The foremost advantage is the excitement and heightened awareness of programs that is engendered through expanded word-of-mouth. Tangibles also assist in improving visibility of programs and facilitates elevated recognition and exposure throughout the institution. The benefits of these effects often translated into more participants, greater receptiveness toward budget requests, improved networking opportunities both within and outside the institution, and enhanced respect from upper-level administrators. Although the “memorable moments: concept offers numerous exceptional strengths, its implementation also requires certain important commitments and programming adjustments. Timelines and advance planning are even more crucial when programs include additional enhancements. Furthermore, financial and personnel requirements are increased as well as the time and coordination necessary for special game logistical arrangements. Potential problems and issues must also be addressed. Rescheduling requests, inclement weather, spectator control for large crowds, and decisions related to determining which activities or games will receive special attention, what degree of auxiliary features will be utilized, and how to ensure the “memorable moments” remain something special are the most prominent topics to be considered. The reasons for participating in intramural sports are many and varied. However, fun, enjoyment, and the thrill of competition are usually at the heart of the decision to become involved in these activities. “Memorable moments” represents an excellent strategy to inspire and magnify thee feelings among participants while also displaying the program on center stage in an extraordinary marketing medium.
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de Lima, Marcos, John D. McMannis, Chitra Hosing, Partow Kebriaei, Simon Robinson, Susan Kelly, Leandro de Padua Silva, et al. "Rapid Engraftment of Neutrophils and Platelets with Mesenchymal Stem Cell Based Cord Blood (CB) Expansion (EXP)." Blood 114, no. 22 (November 20, 2009): 3394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v114.22.3394.3394.
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Abstract Abstract 3394 Poster Board III-282 CB transplantation (CBT) is often complicated by delayed or failed engraftment. We conducted a study of ex vivo co-culture of CB mononuclear cells with either third party family member ≥ 2/6 HLA matched marrow derived MSCs (N=8) or off-the-shelf mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) from Angioblast Systems Ltd. (N=9). MSCs provide a microenvironment for the generation of complex molecular cues that direct proliferation and regulate the differentiation and maturation of hematopoietic progeny. Patients had two CB units matched in at least 4/6 HLA antigens, with a minimum of 1×107 TNC/Kg per unit. Methods: Diagnoses were AML/MDS (N=10), ALL (N=3), NHL (n=1), MM (n=1), and CLL (N=2). Five patients (29%) were in CR (CR1, n=1) and 12 (71%) had active disease at CBT. Preparative regimen: myeloablative fludarabine, melphalan, thiotepa and ATG (n=17), with rituximab in the 3 ALL pts. GVHD prophylaxis: tacrolimus and MMF. Median weight was 79.7 Kg (range, 15-102) and median age was 36 years (2-55 years). Donor-recipient HLA matching was 5 of 6 in 29% of the cases and 4 of 6 in 71%. Ex-vivo EXP: 100 ml of marrow was aspirated from the family donor and MSCs generated in ten T175 flasks, which took ∼21 days (n=8) or one vial of Angioblast MPCs was thawed and expanded to confluence in 10 flasks within 4 days (n=9). The CB unit with the lowest TNC dose was then thawed, divided into 10 fractions, and each placed into 1 flask containing the confluent layers of MSCs/MPCs in expansion media with SCF, FLT3, G-CSF and TPO. After 7 days at 37°C, the non-adherent cells were removed from each flask, placed into each of ten one-liter Teflon-coated culture bags (American Fluoroseal) and cultured for an additional 7 days (14 days total), while 50 ml of media/growth factors was added to the flasks to culture the remaining adherent layer during that time period. On day 14 the cells from the bags and the flasks were combined, washed and infused along with a second unmanipulated CB unit. Results: The median number of infused total nucleated cell (TNC) and CD34+ cells per kg in unmanipulated CB was 2.3 × 107 (range, 1.9-8.2) and 1.6 × 105 (range, 0.3-1.26). There were no toxicities attributable to the EXP cells. The median TNC fold-EXP for recipients of family-MSCs was 11.7 (0.7-28) and for Angioblast-MPCs was 15.5 (3.1-22.5); Fold-EXP of CD34+ cells was 11.7 (1.7-50.1) for family-MSCs and 46.6 (3.85-71.9) for Angioblast-MPCs. The median number of infused TNC and CD34+ cells per kg after EXP for all pts was 5.8 × 107 (range, 0.1-1.43) and 6.05 × 105 (range, 0.18-30). Median time to neutrophil and platelet engraftment was 15 days (9-25 days) and 37.5 days (13-56). Sixteen (94%) and 14 (82%) of all patients engrafted neutrophils and platelets, respectively. One patient died before engraftment. All evaluable patients became complete donor(s) chimeras. One CB unit dominated in all patients; on transplant day +21, EXP unit contributed with a mean of 10% of T cell and 24% of myeloid chimerism; on day +40, corresponding proportions were 2% and 4%, and on day +70, 0% and 3%, respectively. Acute grade II-IV and III-IV GVHD rate was 38% and 12%, while 50% of at-risk patients developed chronic GVHD. Ten patients (59%) are alive (3-14 months after CBT), while 7 patients have died due to infections (n=4), relapse (n=2) and GVHD (n=1). Actuarial 6 and 12 month survival is 70% and 50%, respectively. Conclusion: The decreased logistical demands and expansion results demonstrate that off-the-shelf Angioblast-MPCs are the preferred stroma for this CB EXP procedure. MSC/MPC-CB EXP is feasible and may provide rapid engraftment of neutrophils and platelets. Platelet engraftment occurred in a high proportion of patients (80%) in this cohort of high-risk patients with a median weight of 80 Kg. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.