Innovative Methods for Rehabilitating Sanitary Sewer Service Laterals

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. This book looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating at the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. The book shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy. The book opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. It illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation. Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, the book maps the transnational life of fetal cell therapies.

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Extended F-Expansion Method for Solving the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) Equation

Al-Jabar Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika ◽

10.24042/ajpm.v11i1.5153 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 93-100

Author(s):

Vina Apriliani ◽

Ikhsan Maulidi ◽

Budi Azhari

Keyword(s):

Wave Equation ◽

Exact Solutions ◽

Internal Waves ◽

Water Waves ◽

Wave Equations ◽

Elliptic Functions ◽

Expansion Method ◽

Mkdv Equation ◽

Innovative Methods ◽

De Vries

One of the phenomenon in marine science that is often encountered is the phenomenon of water waves. Waves that occur below the surface of seawater are called internal waves. One of the mathematical models that can represent solitary internal waves is the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. Many methods can be used to construct the solution of the mKdV wave equation, one of which is the extended F-expansion method. The purpose of this study is to determine the solution of the mKdV wave equation using the extended F-expansion method. The result of solving the mKdV wave equation is the exact solutions. The exact solutions of the mKdV wave equation are expressed in the Jacobi elliptic functions, trigonometric functions, and hyperbolic functions. From this research, it is expected to be able to add insight and knowledge about the implementation of the innovative methods for solving wave equations.

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Payment Habits as a Determinant of Retail Payment Innovations Diffusion: the Case of Poland

Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.24840/2183-0606_001.002_0007 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 86-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Janina Harasim ◽

Monika Klimontowicz

Keyword(s):

Financial Institutions ◽

Success Factors ◽

Market Development ◽

Opportunities To Learn ◽

Payment Systems ◽

Global Trends ◽

Innovative Methods ◽

Preferred Providers ◽

Polish Experience ◽

Empirical Foundation

New and innovative methods for electronic funds transfer are emerging globally. These new payment tools include extensions of the established payment systems as well as new payment methods that are substantially different from traditional transactions. They have made the retail payments faster, cheaper, easier and more convenient for customers. Simultaneously, these payment innovations influence retail payment market around the world. During the last few decades it has changed remarkably and has become a very competitive one. Financial institutions are increasingly in competition with technology companies and other organizations to be the preferred providers of consumer payment services. There are huge differences between retail payment markets in developing countries and those in the mature markets. Payment habits are mostly influenced by local cultural drivers, so global trends are few and far between. Nevertheless, as consumer expectations and habits are becoming more homogenized and financial institutions start to be interested in new markets, the opportunities to learn from the experiences of other economies appear. The paper discusses theoretical and empirical foundation of retail payment innovations diffusion, presents the retail payment taxonomy and the results of a survey held in Poland in 2013. It is concluded that Polish experience can be assessed as a benchmark for searching determinants of retail payment markets development. However, copying success factors for sustainable market development is rather impossible with regard to payment culture, experiences and habits.

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