Contextual Footbridge Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Beade-Pereda
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Points Of View

<p>The design of footbridges, paradigmatic cases of human transformation of the environment, should go beyond their main function as pieces of infrastructure, always aspiring to improve the quality of the built world. How a design relates to its specific context and its evolution through time is crucial to that respect. A positive response to the context in the design can lead to footbridges that are, for example, fitting additions to valuable environments, or catalysers for the transformation of declining areas. A less successful response, on the contrary, may just lead to crossings without further contribution to the site or, in the unfortunately not unusual worst-case scenario, to elements in conflict with the built environment from various points of view.</p><p>The article describes different strategies to successfully respond to the particularities of different contexts in footbridge design, using examples of the author’s experience ranging from first designed pieces of ambitious urban transformation projects, to a footbridge in a natural environment nearby a historic crossing, or a movable footbridge in one of the main financial districts in the world.</p>

scholarly journals Vulnerability and risk assessment for operating system (OS) with framework STRIDE: comparison between VulnOS and Vulnix

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1643
Author(s):  
Adityas Widjajarto ◽  
Muharman Lubis ◽  
Vreseliana Ayuningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Network Function ◽  
The World

<p><span lang="EN-US">The rapid development of information technology has made security become extremely. Apart from easy access, there are also threats to vulnerabilities, with the number of cyber-attacks in 2019 showed a total of 1,494,281 around the world issued by the </span><span lang="EN-US">national cyber and crypto agency (BSSN) honeynet project. Thus, vulnerability analysis should be conducted to prepare worst case scenario by anticipating with proper strategy for responding the attacks. Actually, vulnerability is a system or design weakness that is used when an intruder executes commands, accesses unauthorized data, and carries out denial of service attacks. The study was performed using the AlienVault software as the vulnerability assessment. The results were analysed by the formula of risk estimation equal to the number of vulnerability found related to the threat. Meanwhile, threat is obtained from analysis of sample walkthroughs, as a reference for frequent exploitation. The risk estimation result indicate the 73 (seventy three) for the highest score of 5 (five) type risks identified while later on, it is used for re-analyzing based on the spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, denial of service, and elevation of prvilege (STRIDE) framework that indicated the network function does not accommodate the existing types of risk namely spoofing.</span></p>

COVID-19: WHAT PEDIATRICIANS LEARNED ABOUT PECULIARITIES OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION AFTER YEAR OF FIGHTING IT

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
L.S. Namazova-Baranova ◽  
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A.A. Baranov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Impact

A year ago, the world heard about an outbreak of a new severe coronavirus infection in China, which later, after its rapid spread across the globe, WHO defined as a pandemic. Pediatricians, of course, expected the worst-case scenario and mass illness of the most vulnerable patients – children and people of older age groups with a new infectious disease. From the immunological point of view, everything is obvious – the new pathogen is most dangerous for those who have not yet formed a defense against it, or for those with weakened defense. But it quickly became clear that, unlike, for example, a flu pandemic, there is an unexpected situation when adults, including elderly and senile patients, become seriously ill and die, and children remain practically outside the spread of the infectious process. During a year of living «in a new reality», not only physicians, but all of humanity learned to respond to a new infectious challenge, empirically looking for possible therapeutic or diagnostic interventions and at the same time trying to plan and implement scientific research that would help shed light on the questions posed. For the first time, the international medical community united to perform serious clinical trials of drugs that were proposed for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. As a result of actions of scientists and clinicians around the world, answers to some questions were obtained, however, most of the information on the impact of the new coronavirus on the human body, including children, is still unavailable to medical practitioners. The review presents latest data on the causative agent of the new coronavirus infection, its effect on the body of children and adults, describes peculiarities of immune response to the new virus, and outlines basic principles of managing such patients in real clinical practice.

scholarly journals New pages of the history of national librarianship

Bibliosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
I. V. Lizunova ◽  
A. S. Metel'kov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Further Development

The paper includes speeches of the participants of discussion platform «Independent book publishing: realities, prospects for the future»: theorists and practitioners of books-publishers - writers, poets, editors, kulturträgers, bibliologists. This article describes different points of view on the problems and prospects of developing the independent book publishing in various Russian regions and in the world. It emphasis on the history of the independent book publishing in Russia and Germany, new opportunities emergence for independent authors’ expressions: online publications, electronic publications, etc. Particular attention is paid to discussing the definitions, what is meant by «independent publishing», «self-publication», «self-edition», «self-printing», «self-editor», «kulturträge», «zine culture». The central topic of discussion was the problem of determining the quality of literature, self-promoting publications and distribution of professionals’ published books: bookselling network, social media, activity profitability, etc. Participants attempted to identify the place of Siberian independent publishers in the all-Russian and international publishing space, prospects for further development of independent book publishing in Siberia.

scholarly journals NHS Nightingale North West: A Medical Student on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Holt
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Support Worker ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
North West ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up

Seemingly overnight, on the 12th of March 2020, healthcare systems the world over changed as the World Health Organisation deemed COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. I was moved directly into the fourth year of my medical studies without examination, and applied to work in one of the few field hospitals set up across the United Kingdom, designed to handle to worst case scenario of COVID-19. Here I tended to the most basic needs of patients as a care support worker and witness first hand the relentlessness of this awful disease.  Being able to help and work in a role I was not familiar with has given me great insight into the needs of patient’s whether they are going home or in their final days of life.  As the pandemic cools down and the incidence curve flattens, we have all been put on standby, hopefully not to be required again.

scholarly journals Can negative word-of-mouth have any impact on brand sustainability?

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
Lukas Kakalejcik ◽  
Richard Fedorko ◽  
Beata Gavurova ◽  
Radovan Bacik
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Negative Word ◽  
Product Reviews ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Positive Word Of Mouth ◽  
The Impact

Companies invest large amounts of funds to support their image as an incentive to make customers purchase the company's products. This paper's main objective is to estimate the impact of negative word-of-mouth on brand/product sustainability. As word-of-mouth represents customers' conversation regarding the quality of the company's products, the customer's voice is often analyzed to avoid negative experience outreach. History has carried several cases in which outreach could endanger a company's bottom line or even existence. The purpose of our study was to find out if this assumption could be supported. Approximately 100000 product reviews were collected in six selected categories in the Slovak market. The quantity of positive and negative word-of-mouth (PWOM/NWOM) was analyzed. It was found that there are approximately 15 times more positive reviews than negative ones. Based on previous studies' results, worst- and best-case scenarios were modeled to determine the possible impact of both PWOM and NWOM. It was found that in both cases, the direct reach of PWOM is higher than that of NWOM. On average, in the worst-case scenario, the reach of PWOM is 3.93 times higher than the reach of NWOM. In the best-case scenario, the reach of PWOM is 8.85 times higher than the reach of NWOM. According to the results, brand managers should focus on getting more positive reviews and thus positive word-of-mouth as it may have a stronger effect on the brand's sustainability. In other words, getting more ambassadors from the pool of customers satisfied with the brand might seem a reasonable strategy to avoid the potential danger from customers who were not satisfied with the products and willing to spread the word about their dissatisfaction.

scholarly journals Being an Italian medical student during the Covid-19 outbreak

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolo Giuseppe Biavardi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Worst Case Scenario ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The One

Many students around the world have been wondering how their life will change since the very first outbreak of Covid-19. In my experience article I have tried to give a flavor of how has the academic world changed in quarantine. Difficulties and opportunities have been analyzed. Questions regarding the validity of e-learning have been posed. In an arduous period as the one we are experiencing, having an idea of what life could be in worst case scenario could be helpful.

Language Endangerment in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Shigeki Kaji
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Language Endangerment ◽  
African People ◽  
Worst Case Scenario ◽  
The World

The aim of this chapter is to lay a foundation so as to  consider the issue of language endangerment in the world. Approximately 30 years ago, various scholars stated that in the worst-case scenario, 90%–95% of the present living languages of the world would become defunct by the end of the 21st century. The assumption of this argument was that minority languages may become defunct easily. However, in this chapter, this thesis is questioned by taking into account the language situations in Africa where most languages, whether small or large, are vigorously spoken. In African countries, people do not impose majority languages on other people. More importantly, African people in general esteem others because they understand their value to them.

The role of 3D-CFD simulation in optimizing pre-emergency responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Nugrahanto Widagdo, MSc, MBA ◽  
Teguh Cahyono, MSc
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Emergency Preparedness And Response

Consequences of an incident resulted from the release of hazards shall be mitigated to limit the undesirable effects. Emergency preparedness and response should address the duration and severity of the events and also prevent escalation. Therefore, emergency response plans are prepared, along with other related procedures, which are commonly called as preemergency responses. These plans or procedures are quick guidance used by the response team to handle emergency cases especially when it deals with critical equipment or condition. Each plan or case must involve related protection equipment available on site along with sequence for emergency command and hazard analysis.Common analysis provides only the highest magnitude of case or event (worst case scenario), therefore,this information could drive sequential preventive/mitigative actions which require significantly huge company resources to be deployed. To improve efficiency and effectiveness of this strategy, a review of consequence analysis using computational fluid dynamics approach is proposed. Several advantages of using this method are high quality presentation and visualization of phenomenon, ability to provide result monitoring over the period of time, and capacity to use several parameters on the analysis which were not available using the standard approach. Furthermore, this approach can enrich the information contained on the plans/procedures and enhance the quality of the plan representation to match with the actual scenarios. Hence by upgrading this pre-emergency response plans and procedures, it is expected that the emergency preparedness measures will be more comprehensively assessed and ready to provide best and optimum responses in emergencies.

scholarly journals Literary cum Philoso-Religious Periscope on the Nature of Man

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Ndubuisi H. Onyemelukwe ◽  
Chidiebere E. Irolewe ◽  
Catherine O. Ogbechie ◽  
Abosede O. Ogunnaike
Keyword(s):  
Positive Response ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Religious Sects ◽  
African Writers ◽  
Life On Earth

The self-evident truth that man is a mystery to himself generates justifiable intellectual curiosity. Giving expression to such curiosity would help to further unravel the mysterious nature of man by means of philoso-religious investigations into the personality of some purposively selected major characters in the literary works of prominent African and non-African writers. Consequently, this study undertakes to investigate some creative works of world-acclaimed fame. Purposively selected for the study in this regard include Profs. Chinua Achebe and Isidore Okpewho’s fictions, Prof. Ola Rotimi’s The gods Are not to Blame, George Orwell’s narratives, Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Micere Githae Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Marie Correli’s The Sorrows of Satan and Cheik Hamidou Kane’s The Ambiguous Adventure. These classics are selected, because besides being philoso-religiously oriented, their geographical settings cut across the world to validate the findings of the study. The objective of the investigation focused on the selected works is to help man understand himself now more than previously ever, especially in relation to the will of God, his creator. This objective is pursuant to the expectation that achieving it would significantly improve the quality of life on earth, and by extension, man’s eternal destiny. The theoretical premise which drives the investigation of man and his nature in the novels used for the study conceptualises man in relation to ethics and the metaphysical world. It, therefore, provides appreciable insights into man’s identity profile which distinguishes between the created man as an enemy of God and the redeemed man as a friend of God. Relying on some scientific basis, the theoretical framework establishes that God is an undeniable reality, concluding, therefore, that it translates to stark ignorance or gross senselessness not to know Him. The analysis done as part of the study confirms its hypothesis, namely, that literature is a mirror of life which is largely a reflection of the natures of the created man rather than those of the redeemed man. The confirmation of this hypothesis proves that humanity is farther away from God than she is close to Him. In other words, the final destiny of mankind, hereafter, is largely threatened. The pragmatics of this worrisome major finding is that the near-countable redeemed people of God in this generation, especially the clergy, should and must commit themselves to intensified effective creative evangelisation to forestall evil from overtaking the world. Positive response to this clarion call by the redeemed people of God found in all authentic religious sects is imperative, else, evil will eventually overtake the world and provoke God’s devastating wrath on humanity.

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