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Parents in Search for Quality Basic Education: Consumption or Investment?
Get PDFPost-2015 development and education agenda is expected to shift emphasis from education for all to access to quality education for primary, secondary and selected tertiary students. This paper defines the indicators of quality basic education, using multiple correspondence analysis. Prior to this, a log-linear demand model is specified to determine the economic factors behind the parental choice for quality basic education. The non-economic factors are incorporated using a logistic regression model. The indicators for quality basic education are defined, using multiple correspondence analysis. Data are obtained from interviews of high-income parents from the least developed regions in southern Philippines. Age, income and education of parents are important determinants in the decision of parents to enroll in private schools. Logistic regression results show that the parental choice of the best primary and secondary schools for their children include both consumption and investment considerations
Cold water extraction of codeine containing combination analgesics available prescription free in Australia
Get PDFThe abuse of codeine containing combination analgesics leads to significant non-opioid toxicities. Cold water extraction (CWE) reduces these side effects but can also provide access to highly restricted codeine phosphate. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of CWE for a range of drug combinations available on the Australian market as ’pharmacist-only’ medicines. Six products containing codeine phosphate in combination with paracetamol, ibuprofen or aspirin as well as an excipient free mixture of codeine phosphate and ibuprofen lysinate were treated by CWE and the resulting drug content in the filtrate analysed by HPLC. The effect of an additional acidification step was also assessed for combinations containing aspirin and ibuprofen lysinate. It was found that CWE is able to remove almost all ibuprofen (up to 97%), but significant amounts of paracetamol (between 70% and 80% depending on the formulation) and aspirin (nearly 60%) remain in the filtrate. An additional acidification step can reduce the residual amount of dissolved aspirin to about 42%. The substitution of ibuprofen with ibuprofen lysinate allows the removal of the NSAID from the filtrate (via CWE followed by acidification) but lysinate as a water soluble impurity remains
The embeddness of media education in the Hungarian education system Edifications of school fieldwork
Get PDFAbstract—In the study we are interpreting the concept of Hungarian media education in a wide range: we observed the professional work of the courses, the solutions of the course concentration, the curricular and extracurricular activities. The observation was completed with three focus group interviews recorded on film- according to the conversations with the parents
Approaching the issues of Urban Waterstreams Organization as a New City Landscape: Focused on Case Studies in Seoul, South Korea
No full textNowadays many cities set priorities to shift fromautomobile-centered towards more bicycle and pedestrianorientedplanning directions followed by high-cost infrastructurechange projects. Open spaces (recommended to be 15-20% of cityland) have greater importance for social interaction andrelaxation especially for middle-income communities. Seoul has ahistorical network of Cheonggyecheon water stream and itstributaries. The transport traffic is linked it and with pedestrianand cyclist circulation along natural and artificial lines. Thispaper considers different conditions of existing urban pathwaysin Seoul through the case studies: Chyonggyecheon as a largestwater stream restoration project in a city; Seongbukcheon waterstream as a linear open space for local residents;Jeongreungcheon under the Naebu expressway as a hybridlandscape. This paper aims to correlate the issues of existingwater streams condition, local neighborhood condition (landvalue change), and community planning. Cost-effectiverevitalizing of high-dense downtown areas is a challenge for a citythat incorporates multifunctional urban environment of hybridlandscapes and community planning
Human-Based Design and Digital Fabrication: Behavioral Mapping Parametric Knitter (BMPK)
No full textReducing human stress has become a critical issue incontemporary architecture. The design of the physicalenvironment plays an important role in the ease of wayfinding aspeople navigate a path through their surroundings. The goal ofthis project is to create an automated system that can analyzehuman behavior within a building, generate architectural formsbased on the results, and then fabricate an optimal interior spacedesign for facilitating the observed behaviors. The BehavioralMapping Parametric Knitter (BMPK) juxtaposes keycharacteristics of biological design (modularity, robustness,homeostasis, and adaptation) with smart technologies. TheBMPK Robot is an aggregated system that observes humanbehaviors, analyzes this behavioral data, designs parametricpatterns, and then weaves spatial designs. The robot extractsdata about complex human behaviors using intelligent sensorsembedded within the environment. Knowledge extracted fromthis behavioral data is then used to design a parametric pattern.Finally, the robot employs this pattern to determine an optimalspace structure to make the observed human behaviors as easy aspossible. The spatial designs produced by the BMPK Robot arethus intended to help optimize the dynamic human behaviorsthat are already observed within the built environment. Theresults from this research project will lead to reduced stress andimproved wayfinding among end-users. In addition, the researchwill produce a design tool capable of measuring the performanceof different architectural forms in regard to how well theyfacilitate human behavior
Economic vitality of Polish suburbs
No full textSince 1989, Poland has been undergoing major political, social and economic transformations. The effects of these changes are visible on several levels, including the field of urban planning, where they manifested themselves as the birth of the suburbanization process. In the field of economics, it could be noticed that since 1989, the SME sector has been awakening very dynamically. Correlation of the parallel development of these two phenomena has led the authors to pose a question about the emerging potential links between the occurring processes i.e. - the process of the urban sprawl and the development of the SME sector. In this context, a thesis was established about emergence of the so-called "entrepreneurship nests", made up of a dispersed urban tissue with residential functions intermixed and high intensification of economic entrepreneurship, in the Polish suburb areas. To identify the research problem, a two-pronged research in the fields of urban planning and economic research was adopted. The Tricity Metropolitan Area (TMA), consisting of three central cities and 31 towns and adjacent municipalities, was the subject of research. Municipalities with the highest suburbanization rate were established on the basis of the migration balance. Subsequently, business entities in those areas were identified with their business activity measured by the location quotient (LQ). The results of the classification of the units within TMA (cities, town village communities, village communities) according to the migration rate and the construction activity index indicated 7 communities with the highest intensity of the suburbanization process. Our analysis of LQ in all units within TMA (cities, town village community, village communities) and its core cities allowed identification of the communities with the highest SME activity. Additionally, based on statistical data of selected suburban areas, 2 municipalities (Chwaszczyno, Straszyn) with the highest entrepreneur potential were found, which we refer to as the nests of entrepreneurship. Our study confirms that communes characterized by the highest intensity of the suburbanization processes present higher business activity than other communes. However, this is just preliminary study, which offers incomplete explanation of the suburbanization process in a metropolitan area in Poland and will be further developed, using the CATI method, in additional studies. The article is part of the project UMO-2013/09/B/HS4/01175 financed by The National Science Centre in Poland
An Analytical assessment of Lean Manufacturing Strategies and Methodologies Applied to Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Get PDFEffluent water is one of the significant volume waste streams in the industry of oil manufacturing; this report addressed the effluent water management in the Kuwait oil Company (KOC). A Research methodology adopted quantitative and qualitative analysis, in order to focus on the difficulties and barriers facing the process of effluent water management, it may be abridged that the parts of effluent water have an alternate possible effect on the surroundings. Subsequently, decreasing these segments, particularly the destructive ones, all together to achieve the most reduced level regarding diminishing the rate released with generated waste water, is the essential objective of the oil manufacturing industry, Due to effluent water disposal & injection practice which is being carried out at KOC can be observed some problems can be summarized as The water cut (W/C) in oil wells start increasing dramatically after water injection back to the reservoir which reduces the oil rate productivity of the wells, Scaling issue in the flow lines start taking place recently at KOC which also reduces the productivity of the wells and need some costly projects to resolve it., There is a great impact on the integrity of our facilities (corrosion issues) . It has been observed that the salinity of the brackish water which is produced from artesian wells is increasing dramatically as well due to effluent water disposal into shallow layers underground
An investigation into the factors governing the degree of dissolution enhancement of solid dispersion for poorly soluble drugs
Get PDFSolid dispersion (SD) formulation has attracted muchattention due to its potential in enhancing dissolutionperformances of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients(API). Recently, a review on dissolution performances of SDsclassifies the improvement into 3 categories, where 82 % of thestudies showed improved bioavailability, 8 % showed reducedbioavailability and 10 % revealed similar bioavailability ascompared to pure APIs. This indicates the inconsistent degrees ofdissolution improvement of poorly soluble APIs in SD. Althougha few factors related to the choice of carriers have been suggestedto contribute to the dissolution improvement, however, theunderlying factor determining the discrepancy in the degree ofdissolution improvement remains in vague. It is hypothesizedthat the API contributes to the degree of dissolutionimprovement of SD. Hence, the factor of amorphous solubilityadvantage of API which leads to the different degrees ofdissolution enhancement of SD is investigated in this research.Polyvinylpyrrolidone vinyl acetate (PVPVA)-based SD isprepared with three poorly soluble APIs. Physicochemicalproperties of SD were characterized using infrared spectroscopy,differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray powderdiffraction. The dissolution efficiency of each SD was calculatedand compared to physical mixture and pure API. Theoreticalamorphous solubility advantage for each API was calculatedusing the thermal properties obtained from DSC. The calculatedvalues were found to be correlating well with the dissolutionenhancement of the respective SDs. Hence, this theoreticalapproach can be utilized as an initial screening tool of APIcandidates in SD formulation during early pharmaceuticaldevelopment
Noam Chomsky and the History of Ideas1 An Elucidatory Exposition
Get PDFAbstract: Noam Chomsky incarnates rationalism in the study of language like no other man has or does in man’s history, it seems to me. I will attempt to elucidate this position, however inchoately and incompletely, by enumerating his revolutionarily perceptive contributions to the study of language as a phenomenon. There is so much conventional perceptual deadwood about language that its position in epistemological space needs to be clarified, and perspectivised, deadwood that has come down and continues to float down the canons in the social sciences and the humanities. Once clarified, people could agree or disagree. People now seem to disagree with some of these positions without understanding them! The paper will position Chomsky in his niche in the history of ideas about language, a niche which is noticeably distinctly different from that of a Panini, the great Indian grammarian or a Sibavahi, the great Arabic grammarian, the three of whom together form the great grammarian trio the world has seen 2 . The intervention is clearly more an elucidatory, albeit argumentative, exercise than an originally researched paper although of course it has to do with placing language in epistemological space
IDIOPATHIC NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS’ OUTCOME AFTER CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to evaluate the clinicaloutcome of patients diagnosed with Idiopathic Normal PressureHydrocephalus (INPH) after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting.Thirty patients diagnosed with INPH were treated with CSFshunting. The patients were evaluated preoperatively and 6months postoperatively, in terms of their clinical outcome of gait,cognitive function and urinary incontinence. Sixteen patients(53%) showed an average improvement of their clinicalsymptoms and 6 months after shunting were able to functionindependently. Ten patients (34%) were able to return to theirevery day functioning. In four patients (16%) there was noclinical improvement. Our data suggest that patients diagnosedwith INPH and subjected to CSF shunting had a significantclinical improvement in the 6-month postoperative follow-up.Positive outcome on patients with INPH after CSF shunting ishighly correlated with immediate and accurate diagnosis basedon the presence of the classic clinical “Adam-triadâ€, preoperativecerebrospinal fluid pressure monitoring and drainage response