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Dynamic Activity Analysis Model Based Win-Win Development Forecasting Under the Environmental Regulation in China
No full textPorter Hypothesis states that environmental regulation may lead to win-win opportunities, that is, improve the productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel dynamic activity analysis model to forecast the possibilities of win-win development in Chinese Industry between 2009 and 2049. The evidence reveals that the appropriate energy-saving and emission-abating regulation will result in both the improvement in net growth of potential output and the steadily increasing growth of total factor productivity. This favors Porter Hypothesis.Dynamic Activity Analysis Model, Energy-Saving and Emission-Abating, Environmental Regulation, Win-Win Development
Differences in male and female athletes and their perceptions of an ideal coach with respect to locus of control, competitiveness, goal-orientation and win-orientation
No full textPlan BThe current study examined differences between male and female athletes and their perceptions of an ideal coach. The study focused on internal vs. external locus of control, competitiveness, goal-orientation and win-orientation as a basis to determine possible differences in an ideal coach. An paired-samples t-test was run to test the similar-to-me effect that states that people will choose a leader or manager like themselves. 104 female and 98 male athletes participated in the study from track and field, baseball, softball and basketball. Results indicated that men preferred a more internal locus, competitive and win-oriented coach than women did. Analysis of the self-reports of the athletes reflected these same findings with men scoring significantly higher on internal locus of control, competitiveness and win-orientation. Analysis of the similar-to-me effect indicated that the athletes did not prefer a coach that is similar to themselves. Each variable in this analysis was significantly different at the .001 level from the ideal coach scale to the self-report scale. Findings thus indicate that men and women will prefer different coaches, but will not choose that ideal coach according to their own personality
The T-win® technology:immune-modulating vaccines
No full textThe T-win® technology is an innovative investigational approach designed to activate the body’s endogenous anti-regulatory T cells (anti-Tregs) to target regulatory as well as malignant cells. Anti-Tregs are naturally occurring T cells that can directly react against regulatory immune cells because they recognize proteins that these targets express, including indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), tryptophan 2,6-dioxygenase, arginase, and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1). The T-win® technology is characterized by therapeutic vaccination with long peptide epitopes derived from these antigens and therefore offers a novel way to target genetically stable cells with regular human leukocyte antigen expression in the tumor microenvironment. The T-win® technology thus also represents a novel way to attract pro-inflammatory cells to the tumor microenvironment where they can directly affect immune inhibitory pathways, potentially altering tolerance to tumor antigens. The modification of an immune regulatory environment into a pro-inflammatory milieu potentiates effective anti-tumor T cell responses. Many regulatory immune cells may be reverted into effector cells given the right stimulus. Because T-win® technology is based on the immune-modulatory function of the vaccines, the vaccines activate both CD4 and CD8 anti-Tregs. Of importance, in clinical trials, vaccinations against IDO or PD-L1 to potentiate anti-Tregs have so far proved to be safe, with minimal toxicity.</p
Network navigation with scheduling: Distributed algorithms
No full textNetwork navigation is a promising paradigm for enabling location awareness in dynamic wireless networks. A wireless navigation network consists of agents (mobile with unknown locations) and anchors (possibly mobile with known locations). Agents can estimate their locations based on inter- and intra-node measurements as well as prior knowledge. With limited wireless resources, the key to achieve high navigation accuracy is to maximize the benefits of agents’ channel usage. Therefore, it is critical to design scheduling algorithms that adaptively determine with whom and when an agent should perform inter-node measurements to achieve both high navigation accuracy and efficient channel usage. This paper develops a framework for the design of distributed scheduling algorithms in asynchronous wireless navigation networks, under which the algorithm parameters are optimized based on the evolution of agents’ localization errors. Results show that the proposed algorithms lead to high-accuracy, efficient, and flexible network navigation
Prisons, dietetic services, research and training : win win
No full textLearning Outcome: Gain knowledge in the area of dietetic training in Australia and the benefits of collaborative partnerships between government and universities to achieve improvements in dietetic service delivery, evidenced based practice, and student placements.\ud
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Prisoners have high rates of chronic disease, however dietetic services and research in this sector is limited. Securing high quality professional practice placements for dietetic training in Australia is competitive, and prisons provide exciting opportunities. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has a unique twenty year partnership with Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) with a service learning model placing final year dietetic students within prisons. Building on this partnership, in 2007 a new joint position was funded to establish dietetic services to over 5500 prisoners and support viable best practice dietetic education. Evaluation of the past three years of this partnership has shown an expansion of QUT student placements in Queensland prisons, with a third of final year students each undertaking 120 hours of foodservice management practicum. Student evaluations of placement over this period are much higher than the University average. Through the joint position student projects have been targeted on strategic areas to support nutrition and dietetic policy and practice. Projects have been broadened from menu reviews to more comprehensive quality improvement and dietetic research activities, with all student learning activities transferrable to other foodservice settings. Student practice in the prisons has been extended beyond foodservice management to include group education and dietetic counseling. For QCS, student placements have equated to close to a full-time dietitian position, with nutrition policy now being implemented as an outcome of this support. This innovative partnership has achieved a sustainable student placement model, supported research, whilst delivering dietetic services to a difficult to access group.\ud
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Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Dematerialisation of consumption: a win-win strategy?
No full textA dematerialisation of the economy can provide a crucial contribution toward sustainable devel-opment. It can take place in the production sphere through technological change or in the con-sumption sphere through altered consumer behaviour. This paper focuses on the second case, a shift of expenditure from material consumption (e.g. manufactured products) to non-material consumption (e.g. services). Since all production requires material, an input-output model is used to account for indirect material use. The model features post-Keynesian macroeconomic founda-tions, which make it possible to study the effects of altered consumption patterns on total con-sumption, output, and income distribution. The empirical application for the case of Germany shows that a dematerialisation of consumption might be considered a win-win strategy from an ecological and economic viewpoint. However, its effects on the distribution of income and inter-national trade may be problematic.Sustainable consumption, input-output model, social sustainability, income distribution
Energy effciency of dense wireless sensor networks: To cooperate or not to cooperate
No full textDecentralized detection in a network of wireless
sensor nodes involves the fusion of information about a phenomenon
of interest (PoI) from geographically dispersed nodes.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of binary decentralized
detection in a dense and randomly deployed wireless sensor
network (WSN), whereby the communication channels between
the nodes and the fusion center are bandwidth-constrained. We
consider a scenario in which sensor observations, conditioned on
the alternate hypothesis, are independent but not identically distributed
across the sensor nodes.We compare two different fusion
architectures, namely, the parallel fusion architecture (PFA) and
the cooperative fusion architecture (CFA), for such bandwidthconstrained
WSNs, where each sensor node is restricted to send
a 1-bit information to the fusion center. For each architecture,
we derive expression for the probability of decision error at the
fusion center. We propose a consensus flooding protocol for CFA
and analyze its average energy consumption. We analyze the
effects of PoI intensity, realistic link models, consensus flooding
protocol, and network connectivity on the system reliability and
average energy consumption for both fusion architectures. We
demonstrate that a trade-off exists among spatial diversity gain,
average energy consumption, delivery ratio of the consensus
flooding protocol, network connectivity, node density, and PoI
intensity in CFA. We then provide insight into the design of
cooperative WSNs
Unified Analysis of UWB Transmitted-Reference Schemes in the Presence of Narrowband Interference
No full textTransmitted-Reference (TR) signaling, in conjunction
with an autocorrelation receiver (AcR), offers a lowcomplexity
alternative to Rake reception in ultrawide bandwidth
systems. This paper provides a unified performance analysis
of various TR schemes by developing an analytical framework
based on the sampling expansion approach. Specifically, we
derive the uncoded bit error probability (BEP) of different
TR signaling schemes, including TR and differential TR (DTR)
signaling valid for a broad class of fading channels. We consider
both AcRs and modified AcRs with noise averaging. We further
develop a quasi-analytical method as well as an approximate
analytical method to extend the BEP analysis to include the
effect of narrowband interference (NBI). We show that the
approximate analytical method is particularly useful in obtaining
BEP expressions that provide insight into the effect of NBI.
We quantify the effects of NBI and channel power dispersion
profile on the optimum integration interval of an AcR. Finally,
we compare TR and DTR signaling in terms of their sensitivity
to NBI
"Tecnologie per il recupero dell’edilizia rurale. Disamina tecnologica finalizzata all’individuazione di alcune possibili strategie d’intervento basate su logiche prestazionali".
No full textSaggi nella Sezione tecnologica (di cui Theo Zaffagnini è Responsabile Tecnico) presente in AA.VV.,"Manuale di riuso e valorizzazione dell'edilizia e del paesaggio del delta", CD-Rom Win/Mac., 2001, Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara. Cd-Rom a cura di Gaiani A. con la collaborazione di Rinconi M.
Si tratta di un manuale tecnico progettuale sul riuso dell’edilizia rurale del basso delta ferrarese. Composto di diverse sezioni, l'autore Zaffagnini T. è, oltre che autore di diversi saggi e disegni esplicativi, curatore e responsabile dell'intera sezione tecnologica dedicata all'individuazione delle invarianti tecnologiche presenti in un ampio campione censuario delle costruzioni storiche rurali del delta ferrarese. I suoi contributi spaziano dalla lettura tecnologica del patrimonio costruito ad analisi sui materiali e sui sistemi costruttivi frutto del genius loci padano, quindi ad indicazioni progettuali d'intervento finalizzate - contemplando un approccio progettuale di tipo esigenziale prestazionale - ad un riuso capace di lasciare nitide tracce delle preesistenze testimoniali
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