Bioelastomers: current state of development

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilse Rivera ◽  
Ricardo Lopez ◽  
Francisco Javier Enríquez-Medrano ◽  
Sugam Kumar ◽  
Andrea Aguilar-Sanchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Trend ◽  
Current State

Considering the current trend of finding sustainable alternatives to the exisitng fossil-based plastics, in this review we describe what makes a bioelastomer to be considered “bio”, and what does this...

Word Sense Disambiguation

2013 ◽  
pp. 22-51
Author(s):  
Pushpak Bhattacharyya ◽  
Mitesh Khapra
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Current State ◽  
Sense Disambiguation ◽  
State Of Affairs

This chapter discusses the basic concepts of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and the approaches to solving this problem. Both general purpose WSD and domain specific WSD are presented. The first part of the discussion focuses on existing approaches for WSD, including knowledge-based, supervised, semi-supervised, unsupervised, hybrid, and bilingual approaches. The accuracy value for general purpose WSD as the current state of affairs seems to be pegged at around 65%. This has motivated investigations into domain specific WSD, which is the current trend in the field. In the latter part of the chapter, we present a greedy neural network inspired algorithm for domain specific WSD and compare its performance with other state-of-the-art algorithms for WSD. Our experiments suggest that for domain-specific WSD, simply selecting the most frequent sense of a word does as well as any state-of-the-art algorithm.

scholarly journals CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RISK IN NHS ENGLAND: PREDICTING THE IMPACT OF BUILDING PORTFOLIO AGE

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant R. W. MILLS ◽  
Lipika DEKA ◽  
Andrew D. F. PRICE ◽  
Sameedha RICH-MAHADKAR ◽  
Efthimia PANTZARTZIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Current State ◽  
Asset Portfolio ◽  
Age Profile ◽  
The Impact

NHS Trusts in England must adopt appropriate levels of continued investment in routine and backlog maintenance if they are to ensure critical backlog does not accumulate. This paper presents the current state of critical backlog maintenance within the National Health Service (NHS) in England through the statistical analyses of 115 Acute NHS Trusts. It aims to find empirical support for a causal relationship between building portfolio age and year-on-year increases in critical backlog. It makes recommendations for the use of building portfolio age in strategic asset management. The current trend across this sample of NHS Trusts may be typical of the whole NHS built asset portfolio and suggests that most Trusts need to invest between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent of income (depending upon current critical backlog levels and Trust age profile) to simply maintain critical backlog levels. More robust analytics for building age, condition and risk-adjusted backlog maintenance are required.

The Paradigmatic Crises in China’s Minzu Studies: Reflections from the Perspective of Human Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Current State ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Research And Policy

The field of minzu 民族 studies is currently in a state of disarray. This article proposes to discuss three paradigmatic crises—the one-dimensional interpretation, problematization, and de-ethnicization of the term minzu—from the perspective of human development. Although the meaning of minzu is, as this article argues, ambiguous, it has mostly been reduced to its political and ideological meaning. To solely rely on this one-dimensional interpretation in an academic discussion has led to a paradigmatic crisis in minzu studies. From the perspective of human development, minzu is the carrier and basic cultural unit of a pluralistic global culture. Although the concept of minzu is not inherently problematic, the word is being problematized by subsuming a number of extraneous issues. Problematization thus constitutes another paradigmatic crisis in current minzu studies. Opposing the current trend of de-ethnicizing the minzu question, this article proposes to de-problematize the concept of minzu instead, thereby preventing it from being used as a political tool. This article intends to shed light on the current state of crisis in China’s minzu studies, discuss a suitable research methodology, and provide an academic basis for ethnic research and policy implementation.

scholarly journals Production of Recombinant Proteins in the Milk of Transgenic Animals: Current State and Prospects

Acta Naturae ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Shepelev ◽  
S. V. Kalinichenko ◽  
A. V. Deykin ◽  
I. V. Korobko
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Genome Editing ◽  
Recombinant Proteins ◽  
Retrospective Review ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Transgenic Animals ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Creation ◽  
A Current

The use of transgenic animals as bioreactors for the synthesis of the recombinant proteins secreted into milk is a current trend in the development of biotechnologies. Advances in genetic engineering, in particular the emergence of targeted genome editing technologies, have provided new opportunities and significantly improved efficiency in the generation of animals that produce recombinant proteins in milk, including economically important animals. Here, we present a retrospective review of technologies for generating transgenic animals, with emphasis on the creation of animals that produce recombinant proteins in milk. The current state and prospects for the development of this area of biotechnology are discussed in relation to the emergence of novel genome editing technologies. Experimental and practical techniques are briefly discussed.

Education in the Age of Marginalism and the Alienation of Knowledge

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Anton O. Zakharov ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Multistage System ◽  
Current State ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Contemporary Education

Global changes of contemporary education are so large-scale that they need a se­rious reconsideration. Philosophy of education has viewed education as a highly valued human activity and form of socialization, though philosophers may have had different views on the aims and methods of education. The importance of ed­ucation was based on the fact that a society could develop if and only if its mem­bers had an appropriate education. Nowadays education is discussed in journals, like the Philosophy of Education published in Novosibirsk, in annual confer­ences and by various associations of thinkers, teachers and professors. The abso­lute majority of philosophers since Plato emphasizes the fundamental value of education and wants to make its quality better. But a current state of humankind does not require a universal education of population. Robots and neural networks force the humans out of production. The humans are lacking a long-time mem­ory as information turns easily accessible by means of Internet. Growth rates of innovations, discoveries and changes are so high that adaptation to them requires daily efforts of any individual. Many professions are dying. The current trend of social development is growing marginalization of humans, their societies and countries. Knowledge alienates from its creators and, in a much greater degree, from public. Humans are first of all consumers but consumers do not need edu­cation: why one should spend many years in school and institute to buy food or see a clip on a smartphone? A multistage system of education looks outdated. The need of such an institution is dying step by step, as complex operations may be more effectively made by machines with stable, reliable and efficient neural networks, than by humans who have to spend years to become specialists. Colos­sal growth of information makes its learning by an individual impossible. Alien­ated knowledge turns external force regarding an individual.

Network Functions Virtualization

2015 ◽  
pp. 383-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego R. López ◽  
Pedro A. Aranda
Keyword(s):  
Current Trend ◽  
Network Services ◽  
Service Provisioning ◽  
It Services ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Current State ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Network Provider ◽  
Network Functions ◽  
Cloud Technologies

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a new paradigm for designing, deploying and operating network services. It is a natural evolution of the current trend of applying cloud technologies to Information Technology (IT) services, bringing them to network provider environments. While this is true for the most simple use cases, focused on the IT services network providers rely on, the nature of network services and the physical anchors of network themselves impose additional, unique requirements on the virtualization process in this environment. At the same time, NFV provides an opportunity to network providers, reducing operational costs and bringing the promise of dramatically easing the development of new services, reducing their time-to-market, and opening new possibilities for service provisioning. This chapter analyses these requirements and opportunities and the challenges NFV brings to network providers, and reviews the current state of the art in this new way of dealing with network services.

scholarly journals Research of Opportunities for the Prospective Development of the Crimean Tourist Destination

Federalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
V. V. Selivanov
Keyword(s):  
Current Trend ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The West ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Local Budget ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Tourist Flow

In 2019 6.6 million people rested in the Crimea. Most of them – 45,2%, rested on the southern coast of the Crimea; 26,8% on the West Coast and 16,3% on the East. However, this figure is 3% less than the tourist flow in 2018, and is still quite far from the peak of popularity of the Crimea in 1988, when 8,3 million people arrived in the region for vacation. The current trend cannot be considered effective enough for the Crimean economy, where tourism is considered one of the priorities.in addition, as the study shows, only 12,4% of the local budget was replenished through taxes on tourism activities. This suggests that a significant part of the tourism industry works in the shadows. In this regard, it is necessary to analyze the current state of the tourism industry in the Crimea and consider the possibilities of the existing tourist potential for the further effective development of the industry. The article reflects the results of the author’s empirical research, reflecting the factors limiting the implementation of innovative projects strategically significant for the tourism industry of the Republic of the Crimea. 

scholarly journals University-business cooperation: adapting the curriculum and educational package to labor market requirements

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-349
Author(s):  
Manuela Epure
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
National Level ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Curriculum Adaptation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Educational Package ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
The University

AbstractThe paper explores the current state of the university-business cooperation at EU, and national level, and it seems that a more structured university-business cooperation might enable universities to adapt their curricula to meet labor market requirements better. A project was designed to address this issue and received funding on a national merit-based competition. During project implementation, exploratory surveys have conducted, findings-based solutions have adopted in practice with promising results. The paper presents the conceptual framework of the Adapt2jobs project, the main activities, and results and how these converged with the current trend in university-business cooperation. The study limits emerged from the scale of the project implementation, and from the response rate registered at the business cohort. Nevertheless, the paper has a clear, practical value which demonstrates that the university-business cooperation can be efficient in curriculum adaptation to the labor market requirements. The study has a real potential for duplication in a wider context, and a comparative analysis is needed to identify good practices in the field, nationally and internationally.

scholarly journals Developments in Centrifugal Compressor Surge Control: A Technology Assessment

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. K. Botros ◽  
J. F. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Current State ◽  
Control Schemes ◽  
Natural Gas Transmission ◽  
Compressor Surge ◽  
Surge Control ◽  
On Line ◽  
And Control

There are a number of surge control schemes in current use for centrifugal compressors which are employed in natural gas transmission systems. Basically, these schemes consist of a set of detection devices which either anticipate surge or detect it at its inception, and a set of control devices which act to prevent surge from occurring. A patent search was conducted in an attempt to assess the level and direction of technology development over the last 20 years and to define the focus for future R&D activities. In addition, the paper presents the current state of technology in three areas: surge control, surge detection and surge suppression. Patent data obtained from on-line databases showed that most of the emphasis has been on surge control rather than on detection and control and that the current trend in surge control will likely continue towards incremental improvement of a basic or conventional surge control strategy. Various surge suppression techniques can be grouped in two categories: i) those which are focused on better compressor interior design, and ii) others which attempt to suppress surge by external and operational means.

ON THE PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACT OF ADDING MEMORY CONTROLLERS IN MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 341-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSE CARLOS SANCHO ◽  
DARREN J. KERBYSON ◽  
MICHAEL LANG
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Application Performance ◽  
Memory Controller ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Technological Impact

The increasing core-count on current and future processors is posing critical challenges to the memory subsystem to efficiently handle concurrent memory requests. The current trend is to increase the number of memory channels available to the processor's memory controller. In this paper we investigate the advantages and disadvantages of this approach from both a technological and an application performance viewpoint. In particular, we explore the trade-off between employing multiple memory channels per memory controller and the use of multiple memory controllers with fewer memory channels. Experiments conducted on two current state-of-the-art multi-core processors, a 6-core AMD Istanbul and a 4-core Intel Nehalem-EP, using the STREAM benchmark and a wide range of production applications. An analytical model of the STREAM performance is used to illustrate the diminishing return obtained when increasing the number of memory channels per memory controller whose effect is also seen in the application performance. In addition, we show that this performance degradation can be efficiently addressed by increasing the ratio of memory controllers to channels while keeping the number of memory channels constant. Significant performance improvements can be achieved in this scheme, up to 28%, in the case of using two memory controllers each with one channel compared with one controller with two memory channels.

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