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Measuring and analyzing German and Spanish customer satisfaction of using the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud service
Full text linkThis paper presents the customer satisfaction analysis for measuring popularity in the Mobile Cloud, which is an emerging area in the Cloud and Big Data Computing. Organizational Sustainability Modeling (OSM) is the proposed method used in this research. The twelve-month of German and Spanish consumer data are used for the analysis to investigate the return and risk status associated with the ratings of customer satisfaction in the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud services. Results show that there is a decline in the satisfaction ratings in Germany and Spain due to economic downturn and competitions in the market, which support our hypothesis. Key outputs have been explained and they confirm that all analysis and interpretations fulfill the criteria for OSM. The use of statistical and visualization method proposed by OSM can expose unexploited data and allows the stakeholders to understand the status of return and risk of their Cloud strategies easier than the use of other data analysis
Proceedings of the 18th IPSAPA/ISPALEM International Scientific Conference - The Usefulness of the Useless in the Landscapecultural Mosaic: Liveability, Typicality, Biodiversity
No full textThis year's IPSAPA/ISPALEM conference urged attendees, as usual, to critically reflect on certain fundamental concepts for the analysis of the landscape-cultural mosaic, by encouraging on the one hand, methodological analysis, and on the other, their application in the field. The fundamental concepts for this year were the true, the beautiful, the good and their counterpoints (false, ugly, bad) viewed in their relationship with the two ambiguous parameters of useful and useless. The last two conferences were decidedly oriented towards the '"useless", as they were titled Wonderland and Utopia, while in this edition the orientation was directed towards the equilibrium between the two worlds of the useful and the useless (first volume), with the operative corollaries of biodiversity and of typicality, in a frame of liveability (second volume)
Erratum to: Effect of moderate red wine intake on cardiac prognosis after recent acute myocardial infarction of subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Diabetic Medicine, (2006), 23, 9, (974-981), 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01886.x)
No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
The Rural World: a Lost Paradise between Technology and Intensive Exploitation
No full textThis study examines the ability of technology to "save" the world from hunger.
Technological progress in the last two centuries has increasingly become exogenous with
inventions and innovations introduced by productive fields unrelated to agriculture, such as
chemistry, mechanics and biotech. These innovations are all labor-saving and capital-using
and therefore out of the economic possibilities of small farmers whose revenues are
compressed upstream by input producers. The agricultural squeeze is a myth that needs to be
debunked due to the increase in agricultural productivity, while the most important is the
agricultural spread, a consequence of the elimination of agriculture from the downstream
phases of the food chain to the benefit of industrialists and traders. The most important
landscape-environmental impacts were the social and human desertification of the
countryside and the uniformization of the rural landscape. Despite the reference to the myth
of the rural world, the problem remains and it is not known where it will go with the
explosion of the population in 2050. What are the long-term strategies able to give results?
This is one of the questions this study has tried to answer
Proceedings of the 21st IPSAPA/ISPALEM International Scientific Conference
No full textSince 2005 the IPSAPA conference focuses on the successful keyword
"landscape-cultural mosaic." Sometimes it prevailed realism, sometimes
economics, sometimes evolutionary dynamics, sometimes the pursuit of
excellence. This edition confirms the return to the domain of imagination and
fascination of discovery, taking the line of the conferences of 2009 and 2010,
named respectively "The backstage of the landscape-cultural mosaic . Invisible,
Inaccessible, Inexistent" and "Wonderland in the landscape-cultural mosaic.
Idea, Image, Illusion". The fantastic invention was present in part in the 2013
conference entitled "Utopias and dystopias in the landscape-cultural mosaic.
Visions, Values, Vulnerability". The unstructured reality was the subject of the
previous conference (2016) entitled "Erratic of the landscape-cultural mosaic.
Emotion, Energy, Experience
[Memo from Lieutenant Colonel M. F. Hass, Civil Affairs Division, with amendments to an evacuation proposal]
No full textA memorandum sent form Lieutenant General M. F. Hass, Civil Affairs Division, which has two corrections from a an evacuation proposal originally sent on May 13, 1942. The correction changes the destination to the Merced Assembly Center.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942
Mauriesia Chang, 2010, gen. nov.
No full textMauriesia gen. nov. Diagnosis: Differs from the other genera of Glomeridae in the following combination of characters. Mediumsized Glomeridae with all four palps of gnathochilarium subequal in length. Organ of Tőmősváry suboval, short. Antennae with four normal apical cones. Collum with two transverse striae. Thoracic shield with a small hyposchism field and numerous transverse striae, of which several crossing the dorsum. Colour pattern vivid. Tegument smooth and shining, devoid of pilosity. Male pygidium with a median lobule at caudal margin. Male leg 17 with a high outer coxal lobe and a 4 -segmented, somewhat reduced telopodite. Male leg 18 with an ogival, or arcuated, syncoxite notch and a 4 -segmented, less strongly reduced telopodite. Male leg 19 (telopod) unusually stout, prefemur especially short (Figs 10 and 11); syncoxite horns high, central lobe present; prefemur medially with a membranous sac and a strong seta near its base on caudal face; femur with a peculiar, long, basal, mediad directed apophysis (a) and a very conspicuous, strongly sclerotized, distal finger (f) on caudal face, as well as with a setose bulge (s) medially; tibia with a smaller but evident, likewise strongly sclerotized, distal finger (p) caudolaterally; tarsus with a strong seta apically. Type species: Mauriesia splendida sp. nov. Name: Honours Jean-Paul Mauriès, the globally renowned specialist in Diplopoda and the author of the modern classification of the Glomerida.Published as part of Chang, Hsueh-Wen, 2010, Pill-millipedes (Glomerida, Diplopoda) in Taiwan, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2477 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19531
Proceedings of the 19th IPSAPA/ISPALEM - International Scientific Conference. The Turning Point of the Landscape-cultural Mosaic: Renaissance Revelation Resilience
No full textTurning Point is the provocative term geologist and (today) opinion leader Gregg Braden uses to encourage all of us to reflect on the ways that science and culture are traveling. In his work "he is known internationally as a pioneer in building a bridge between science and indigenous skills in view of real solutions for today's world." This is not the first laudator temporis acti (admirer of the past) but his characteristic is to challenge many stereotypes of the contemporary world from the inside, and not just as a confused outside observer as sometimes happens in nostalgic literature. For him the turning point is the obliged moment to bring back the world before it falls into a chaotic structure no longer controllable. Experts of complexity however tell us that progress can only be born in a world that hovers on the brink of chaos. Braden, after living as an expert in the world of complexity, casts doubts on this statement and sets limits beyond which the risk of uncontrollable fall becomes too high. Its wide reflection on resilience shows the need to maintain, while there is still time, a reserve capacity, unexpressed but accessible
Proceedings of the 20th IPSAPA/ISPALEM International Scientific Conference. The Erratic Behavior of the Landscape-cultural Mosaic: Emotion, Energy, Experience
No full textThe 20th IPSAPA conference was held in Reggio Calabria on July 7-8, 2016.
The call for papers was followed by the participants more faithfully than usual,
and the papers cover most of the foreseen items in a balanced way. The call for
papers therefore is also a good outline for the introduction to this book.
Since 2005 IPSAPA conference focuses on the successful keyword "landscapecultural
mosaic". Sometimes it prevailed realism, sometimes economic
sustainability, sometimes the evolutionary dynamics, sometimes the pursuit of
excellence. This time we went back to the domain of the imagination and to the
fascination of discovery, taking the line of the conferences of 2009 and 2010,
called respectively: "The backstage of the landscape-cultural mosaic: Invisible,
Inaccessible, Inexistent" and "The Wonderland in the landscape-cultural mosaic:
Idea, Image, Illusion". The fantastic invention was present in part also in the
2013 conference entitled "Utopias and dystopias in the landscape-cultural
mosaic: Visions, Values, Vulnerability"
Corrigendum to “Presence and function of kisspeptin/KISS1R system in swine ovarian follicles” (Theriogenology (2018) 115 (1–8), (S0093691X1830147X), (10.1016/j.theriogenology.2018.04.006))
No full textThe authors regret the following changes to the author group G. Basinia, F. Grassellia, S. Bussolatia, R. Ciccimarraa, M. Maranesib, A. Bufalarib, C. Dall'Agliob, F. Parilloc,#, M. Zeranib,c,*. a Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Veterinarie, Università di Parma, 43126 Parma, Italy. b Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Perugia, 06126 Perugia Italy. c Scuola di Bioscienze e Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Camerino, 62024 Matelica Italy. # Deceased. * Corresponding author: tel.: +39 0755857642; fax +39 0755857654. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Zerani). And to the acknowledgements and figures
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