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An Accounting Framework on Federated Service-Oriented Architecture
No full textService-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used in more and more scientific and business applications. But self-examination and adaptation are overlooked by most system designers. Extant service accounting functionalities mainly focus on error causes, which are insufficient for history analysis and event prediction. This paper not only analyzes system events from both service consumers and providers, but also, starting from Maslow's needs hierarchy, provides a layered accounting framework for service federations. More than that, in matching and prediction model, a pipeline approach is employed rather than deterministic finite automaton (DFA), and a dependence estimator algorithm is introduced avoiding the deficiency in naive Bayes network for machine-learning and prediction. And then, based on these modules, a self-healing layer is built up to achieve decomposing, ranking, re-composing functionalities
American International Relations: Lessons from Dollar Diplomacy and Caribbean Development
No full textThe United States sprung onto the world stage at the turn of the twentieth century, joining the ranks of the European imperial powers. Two events catalyzed this evolution, both occurring in the Caribbean. The outcome of the Spanish-American War proved the first, with direct possession of Puerto Rico and other territories, as well as virtual control over Cuba as a protectorate. Soon thereafter, primarily associated with President William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy provided a vehicle for U.S. sovereignty over the Dominican Republic and other areas of the Caribbean, substituting "dollars for bullets." The U.S. projected its power into these arenas, seeking to reshape and develop regional Latin American polities into capitalistic, democratic nations in the American image. This laboratory, experimenting with power and economic development, would forge new American foreign policy directions, its echoes today shaping contemporary nation-building projects in places like Iraq and Afghanistan
Professional Role Changes of Graduates from an Online Bachelor Degree Completion Program Based in Dental Hygiene
No full textA poster examining students in online dental hygiene programs
Scholarly Note: American Medical Development in Colonial Puerto Rico
No full textConsistent with its civilizing mission, the United States sought to enhance healthcare development in its new Puerto Rican colony, one of the spoils of the Spanish-American War. American military physicians rapidly cured the population of their devastating hookworm affliction and the Rockefeller Foundation soon began exporting this imperialist triumph to the far corners of the world. Leveraging that success, the Porto Rico Anemia Commission evolved into the Institute of Tropical Medicine, predecessor to the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. Issues of agricultural development would also impact insular healthcare, uniquely driving aspects of medical development. Efforts to export American successes to broader Latin America provide useful perspectives as the United States seeks to influence other underdeveloped global areas in the twenty-first century
The Scribe
No full textThis is the December 2011 edition of the Scribe, Issue 4. The front page features an article on the Academic Resource Center's relocation to Wahlstrom Library. Additional articles cover UB's 6th annual Health Fair and the women's soccer team
Implementing Information Technology (IT) Strategy and Governance
No full textSeminar notes from the University of Bridgeport and SENAC University Four Day Professional Development Seminar for Professor Gad Selig’s presentation “Implementing Information Technology (IT) Strategy and Governance: A Practical Guide to World Class IT Management Using Current and Emerging Best Practices for Competitive Advantage”
Designing and Implementing a Novel CAM Protocol using Laboratory Analysis and Supplementation to Reduce Morbidity Outcomes in the Treatment of Lyme Disease
No full textA poster discussing the potential use of complimentary and alternative medical treatments for Lyme Disease
A Structured Approach for Modular Design: A Plug and Play Middleware for Sensory Modules, Actuation Platforms, Task Descriptions and Implementations in Robotics and Automation Environments
No full textIn this paper, the RISCWare framework is developed and described. RISCWare is a robotic middleware used for the integration of heterogeneous robotic components. RISCWare consists of three modules. The first module is the sensory module which represents sensors that collect information about the remote or local environment. The platform module defines the robotic platforms and actuation methods. The last module is the task-description module, which defines the tasks and applications that the platforms will perform; such as teleoperation, navigation, obstacle avoidance, manipulation, 3-D reconstruction, and map building. The Plug-and-Play approach is one of the key features of RISCWare, which allows auto-detection and auto-reconfiguration of the attached standardized components (hardware and software) according to current system configurations. These components can be dynamically available or unavailable. Dynamic reconfiguration provides the facility to modify a system during its execution, and can be used to apply patches and updates, to implement adaptive systems, or to support third-party modules. This automatic detection and reconfiguration of devices and driver software makes it easier and more efficient for the end users to add and use new devices and software applications. Several experiments, performed on the RISCbot II mobile manipulation platform are described and implemented to evaluate the RISCWare framework with respect to applicability and resource utilization
The Journal of Global Development and Peace Spring 2011
No full textThe Journal of Global Development and Peace for the spring of 2011. This issue contains articles by Darryl Brock on American International Relations: Lessons from Dollar Diplomacy and Caribbean Development, Dr. Argon on Terrorism, Islamism, and Western Liberal Democracies: Prospects for Nonviolent, Proactive Countermeasures to Terror, Dr. Lay on Case Not Closed: A Connecticut Family in King Leopold's Court, Darryl Brock on Scholarly Note: American Medical Development in Colonial Puerto Rico, Dr. Hailu on Multilateral Peacekeeping in Africa: The Role of the UN and African Union, Philip Arthur Njuguna Mwanika on Environmental Conflict Management in Africa: The Natural Resource Conflict Debate and Restatement of Conflict Management Processes and Strategies in Africa, Hongbing Deng on China's Economy and Market, and Mark Wilterding on Is it Time for American Businesses to Re-Define their China Relationships? Learning from Past Experiences and Positioning for Future Global Expansion