General framework and key issues concerning integrated strategies for coping with drought and flood in China in a changing environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 577-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deng-Hua Yan ◽  
Jing Feng ◽  
Chuan-Zhe Li ◽  
Tian-Ling Qin ◽  
Bai-Sha Weng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Integrated Strategies ◽  
Drought And Flood ◽  
Key Issues

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Dodds ◽  
Jamie Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Uncertain Future

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and considers its uncertain future.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Transport ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgita Barysienė ◽  
Nijolė Batarlienė ◽  
Darius Bazaras ◽  
Kristina Čižiūnienė ◽  
Daiva Griškevičienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transport Management

The rapidly changing world determines changes in the business processes. Logistics and transport are the areas facing constant changes. Therefore, an important point is to analyse the current problems of logistics and transport within the context of the changing environment. For many years, the experts of the Dept of Logistics and Transport Management of the Faculty of Transport Engineering from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University have been pursuing research both, in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in Lithuania and foreign countries. This research has been directed toward improvements to logistics and the entire supply chain in pursuit of economic, social and ecological competitiveness, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport system in the context of sustainable development, the impact of this system on the economic and social welfare of society, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport sector of improving the legal framework and the application of innovative technologies (including IT) in the transport sector aimed at implementing economic and social cohesion goals. The article deals with some of the key issues of the above introduced research.

A General Framework for Inclusive Lifelong Learning in Higher Education Institutions with Adaptive Web-Based Services that support Standards

2011 ◽  
pp. 29-58
Author(s):  
Olga Santos ◽  
Jesus Boticario
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Service Adaptation

The chapter introduces some key issues of a general framework to support the full participation of students with functional diversity issues (i.e. disabilities) in the learning process by covering the full life cycle of service adaptation at Higher Education institutions. This support is achieved in terms of combining universal design approaches and personalization techniques. Firstly, standards and specifications that try to cover the wide range of possible user needs are considered. Secondly, dynamic contextual recommendations are applied during the course execution to provide the inclusive personalization support. The approach is designed for Higher Education institutions, which are required to integrate this inclusive support into their existing services infrastructure. This framework is analyzed in the context of the EU4ALL project. In particular, the authors of this chapter describe the key components where the research has focused; specifically service based recommendations in order to support some adaptive and inclusive end-user services at UNED.

scholarly journals Heterogeneous Data Clustering Considering Multiple User-provided Constraints

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Huang
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Data Clustering ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Similarity Measurement ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Multiple User ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Internal Information

Clustering on heterogeneous networks which consist of multi-typed objects and links has proved to be a useful technique in many scenarios. Although numerous clustering methods have achieved remarkable success, current clustering methods for heterogeneous networks tend to consider only internal information of the dataset. In order to utilize background domain knowledge, we propose a general framework for clustering heterogeneous data considering multiple user-provided constrains. Specifically, we summarize that three types of manual constraints on the object can be used to guide the clustering process. Then we propose the User- HeteClus algorithm to solve the key issues in the case of star-structure heterogeneous data, which incorporating the user constraint into similarity measurement between central objects. Experiments on a real-world dataset show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
David Kilcullen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Societal Resilience ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Military Victory

The epilogue traces what happened to James Woolsey after 1993, explores issues of resilience and sustainability in the Western approach to war, and emphasizes the need to look beyond military victory to a better peace, which after all is the ultimate object of war. The epilogue looks at the key issues (including climate, energy, vulnerability to cyber and electronic attack, and political stability) that have become Woolsey’s primary focus since leaving government. It examines the issue of societal resilience, including against natural disasters and events beyond human agency, and emphasizes the need for societies—not just military strategists and planners—to adapt and respond to the changing environment.

scholarly journals A General Framework for Lifelong Localization and Mapping in Changing Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhao ◽  
Xin Guo ◽  
Le Song ◽  
Baoxing Qin ◽  
Xuesong Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Localization And Mapping

Probing vacancies and structural distortions at individual defects in ceramics using EELS

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 678-679
Author(s):  
D. J. Wallis ◽  
N. D. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Structural Information ◽  
Core Loss ◽  
Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Atomic Scale ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Key Issues

In electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), the near-edge region of a core-loss edge contains information on high-order atomic correlations. These correlations give details of the 3-D atomic structure which can be elucidated using multiple-scattering (MS) theory. MS calculations use real space clusters making them ideal for use in low-symmetry systems such as defects and interfaces. When coupled with the atomic spatial resolution capabilities of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), there therefore exists the ability to obtain 3-D structural information from individual atomic scale structures. For ceramic materials where the structure-property relationships are dominated by defects and interfaces, this methodology can provide unique information on key issues such as like-ion repulsion and the presence of vacancies, impurities and structural distortion.An example of the use of MS-theory is shown in fig 1, where an experimental oxygen K-edge from SrTiO3 is compared to full MS-calculations for successive shells (a shell consists of neighboring atoms, so that 1 shell includes only nearest neighbors, 2 shells includes first and second-nearest neighbors, and so on).

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