DSML Tool Building Platform in WEB

Author(s):  
Arturs Sprogis
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Author(s):  
Edgars Rencis ◽  
Janis Barzdins ◽  
Sergejs Kozlovics

Towards Open Graphical Tool-Building Framework Nowadays, there are many frameworks for developing domain-specific tools. However, if we want to create a really sophisticated tool with specific functionality requirements, it is not always an easy task to do. Although tool-building platforms offer some means for extending the tool functionality and accessing it from external applications, it usually requires a deep understanding of various technical implementation details. In this paper we try to go one step closer to a really open graphical tool-building framework that would allow both to change the behavior of the tool and to access the tool from the outside easily. We start by defining a specialization of metamodels which is a great and powerful facility itself. Then we go on and show how this can be applied in the field of graphical domain-specific tool building. The approach is demonstrated on an example of a subset of UML activity diagrams. The benefits of the approach are also clearly indicated. These include a natural and intuitive definition of tools, a strict logic/presentation separation and the openness for extensions as well as for external applications.


Author(s):  
William Evans ◽  
Kuyosh Kadirov ◽  
Ibou Thior ◽  
Ramakrishnan Ganesan ◽  
Alec Ulasevich ◽  
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HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to be among the greatest public health threats worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Condom use remains an essential intervention to eradicate AIDS, and condom use is now higher than ever. However, free and subsidized condom funding is declining. Research on how to create healthy markets based on willingness to pay for condoms is critically important. This research has three primary aims: (1) willingness of free condom users in five African countries to pay for socially marketed condoms; (2) the relationship between specific population variables and condom brand marketing efforts and willingness to pay; and (3) potential opportunities to improve condom uptake. Nationally representative samples of at least 1200 respondents were collected in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We collected data on a range of demographic factors, including condom use, sexual behavior, awareness of condom brands, and willingness to pay. We estimated multivariate linear regression models and found that free condom users are overwhelmingly willing to pay for condoms overall (over 90% in Nigeria) with variability by country. Free users were consistently less willing to pay for condoms if they had a positive identification with their free brand in Kenya and Zimbabwe, suggesting that condom branding is a critical strategy. Ability to pay was negatively correlated with willingness, but users who could not obtain free condoms were willing to pay for them in Kenya and Zimbabwe. In a landscape of declining donor funding, this research suggests opportunities to use scarce funds for important efforts such as campaigns to increase demand, branding of condoms, and coordination with commercial condom manufacturers to build a healthy total market approach for the product. Free condoms remain an important HIV/AIDS prevention tool. Building a robust market for paid condoms in SSA is a public health priority.


2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Gervais ◽  
Benoît Fraikin
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2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ralph Spencer Poore
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing

This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen growing calls for more accessible software and tools that better embody geographic science and theory. Urban spatial network science offers one clear opportunity: from multiple perspectives, tools to model and analyze nonplanar urban spatial networks have traditionally been inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This paper reflects on this state of the field. Then it discusses the motivation, experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address this. Next it reviews this tool's use in the recent multidisciplinary spatial network science literature to highlight upstream and downstream benefits of open‐source software development. Tool-building is an essential but poorly incentivized component of academic geography and social science more broadly. To conduct better science, we need to build better tools. The paper concludes with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational data science beyond mere reproducibility and replicability.


Author(s):  
Mrs. Lakshmidevi TR ◽  
Mr. K N Jeevan Reddy ◽  
Mr. Ashrith Rao ◽  
Mr. Dhanush Kashyap S ◽  
Ms. Chandini K

In recent years, we have come across a growing need for the design of low power, long battery life Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC). ADCs are the major component of all the systems which need to process an analogue signal obtained from measuring real world parameters and hence they need to be efficient enough depending on the application and power constraint of the device. Speed is also an important parameter as it is used in many real time applications. The basic components of the SAR ADC can be implemented using circuits of various logics available for the logic gates, adders, comparators utilised in it. This paper presents the working of 4-bit successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR ADC) in three different logics namely, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors (CMOS), Transmission Gates (TG), and Double Pass Transistors (DPL) logics, which were used in the basic components of each major block of the ADC. The aim of this paper here is to compare the various parameters such as area, power consumption and delay between the three different technologies chosen above. The SAR ADCs were implemented for this purpose in 90nm Technology using the Cadence Virtuoso Design Tool building schematics and layouts for the same and calculating the various parameters required for the above-mentioned comparison.


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