Innovation paradigms for the steel industry of the 21st Century. Future directions for steel industry and CC

2002 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 957-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-P. Birat
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M. Little ◽  
Kristen A. Pickett ◽  
Rachel Proffitt ◽  
Jana Cason

The use of telehealth to deliver occupational therapy services rapidly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are frameworks to evaluate services delivered through telehealth; however, none are specific to occupational therapy. Therefore, occupational therapy would benefit from a framework to systematically evaluate components of telehealth service delivery and build evidence to demonstrate the distinct value of occupational therapy.  The PACE Framework outlines four priority domains to address areas of need: (1) Population and Health Outcomes; (2) Access for All Clients; (3) Costs and Cost Effectiveness; and (4) Experiences of Clients and Occupational Therapy Practitioners. This article describes the development and expert reviewer evaluation of the PACE Framework. In addition, the PACE Framework’s domains, subdomains, and outcome measure examples are described along with future directions for implementation in occupational therapy research, practice, and program evaluation. 


Author(s):  
Jennifer Lawn

This article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism.


Author(s):  
Matthew A. Brown

ABSTRACTVertebrate fossils have been converted from natural history objects into research specimens through the act of preparation for over 200 years. All of the basic techniques applied to specimens in the 21st Century were already in use in palaeontological laboratories by the first decade of the 1900s. It behoves any worker in the field to be intimately familiar with processes for treatment of specimens, as these procedures almost always permanently alter material available for interpretation. Historic treatments also complicate attempts to re-treat or re-prepare specimens. Sometimes this results in damage to fossils and loss of information, and often in wasted resources. Most palaeontologists are unaware of the historical evolution of laboratory methods through this time; much of the documentation of this process is considered to be obscure. However, there is in fact a robust body of literature that chronicles the development of procedures for the preparation of fossils. Awareness of the past development of methods is crucial to guiding future directions in the palaeontological laboratory. Regular reporting of laboratory methods in the technical literature at a pace matching that of other analytical methods is integral to the function of palaeontology as a science.


2013 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 455-459
Author(s):  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Ping Wu ◽  
Zhen Li ◽  
Dong Zhang

In the 21st century, with the further deepening of informationalization, competition among the steel industry chain has gradually upgraded to that of its e-commerce service. On the basis of bus-based industry chain theory, the architecture of integrated e-commerce platform in the steel industry chain is built. The platform involves upstream and downstream enterprises, including manufacturers, processing centers, trading companies, third-party logistics companies, and customers, etc. different from previous decentralized model of e-commerce platform, through the integrated e-commerce platform, customers can complete all business with one-stop, and improved their service perception and satisfaction. And new model is more promoted and implicated in other industry. The system has been applied in the enterprises, and the result is very good. The bus-based integrated e-commerce platform will become one of the paths for enterprise to further development.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Branco ◽  
André G. Ferreira ◽  
Jorge Cabral

The number of devices connected to the Internet is increasing, exchanging large amounts of data, and turning the Internet into the 21st-century silk road for data. This road has taken machine learning to new areas of applications. However, machine learning models are not yet seen as complex systems that must run in powerful computers (i.e., Cloud). As technology, techniques, and algorithms advance, these models are implemented into more computational constrained devices. The following paper presents a study about the optimizations, algorithms, and platforms used to implement such models into the network’s end, where highly resource-scarce microcontroller units (MCUs) are found. The paper aims to provide guidelines, taxonomies, concepts, and future directions to help decentralize the network’s intelligence.


Author(s):  
Roy Ladner ◽  
Fred Petry ◽  
Frank McCreedy

In this article we provide an overview of e-government as it pertains to national security and defense within the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We discuss the adoption of Web services and service-oriented architectures to aid in information sharing and reduction of IT costs. We also discuss the networks on which services and resources are being deployed and explain the efforts being made to manage the infrastructure of available services. This article provides an overview of e-government for national security and defense and provides insight to current initiatives and future directions.


Author(s):  
Yongzhong Sha ◽  
Wenjing Hu ◽  
Wei Guo

The rapid technological development of the 21st century brought with it the rise of the digital library, which has become a global trend in university libraries. This chapter examines the construction and development of university digital libraries in western China. By investigating the current samples, consisting of 100 universities in the region, we try to reveal problems which arise during the construction process and discuss the future directions of university digital libraries in western China.


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