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Objective. To understand subjectivity as linking self-organization with families and adolescents in vulnerability/ generativity contexts, enabling the emergence of autonomy and differentiation with gender perspective as diversity. Methodology. Qualitative approach with complex-systematic orientation. Participants: 19 teenagers, their families and IELCO institution. Place Ciudad Bolivar, Bogotá, Colombia. Results and conclusions. Understanding the linking dynamics that limit and enhance subjectivity as self-organization, allowing the design of a clinical - social interventional proposal in which conversational scenarios are rituals for change, and self-reference is a creative and reflexive driving force of experience and context. The main finding is the configuration of change by mobilizing ritualization in adolescentfamily bonds and its sustainability from the re-signification processes, emphasized in emerging narratives, thus contributing, from clinical psychology interventions with adolescents and families, to the mental health and family development in clinical, community and institutional contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the properties of the Kauffman bracket skein module (KBSM) of are investigated. Links in lens spaces are represented both through band and disk diagrams. The possibility to transform between the diagrams enables us to compute the KBSM on an interesting class of examples consisting of inequivalent links with equivalent lifts in the -sphere. The computations show that the KBSM is an essential invariant, that is, it may take different values on links with equivalent lifts. We also show how the invariant is related to the Kauffman bracket of the lift in the -sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the links between tariff protection and wage protection. These two areas of regulation were linked politically by a coalition of the Protectionist Party and the Labour Party which supported both policies together. In the regulatory systems themselves there were links through New Protection Policy and the major influence it had on the hugely important Harvester Judgment of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. By 1910, these developments had laid down the foundations of Australian tariff policy and labour market regulation which became among the most highly regulated markets in the non-communist world for many decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The North-Central region and South-Central coast have many similarities to develop sea and island tourism, associated with their unique cultural heritages and diverse ecosystems. In the past, the Central coast region suffered serious damages caused by natural disasters and floods; thus, people's lives were very difficult there. Despite these hardships, in the recent years, this area has been gradually improving by the strong investment. Tourism development has stimulated the social-economic growth in many ways. However, the tourism development of the North-Central and South-Central coast in reality still does not commensurate with its potential because the products and services are not comprehensive; the state's management in tourism is not effective, lacks overall vision as well as tourism development in linking regional areas and inter-regional areas. Therefore, the main objective of the tourism development at the North-Central and South-Central coast is to build synchronized products and service systems and construct inter-regional tourism routes. By doing so, the tourism itself can contribute to promoting the value of heritage systems, optimizing the exploitation of tourism resources as well as orienting sustainable tourism development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study unitary braid group representations associated with Majorana fermions. Majorana fermions are represented by Majorana operators, elements of a Clifford algebra. The paper proves a general result about braid group representations associated with Clifford algebras and compares this result with the Ivanov braiding associated with Majorana operators and with other braiding representations associated with Majorana fermions such as the Fibonacci model for universal topological quantum computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dispersal is one of the key mechanisms affecting the distribution of individuals, populations, and communities in nature. Despite advances in the study of single species, it has been notoriously difficult to account for dispersal in multispecies metacommunities, where it potentially has strong effects on community structure beyond those of local environmental conditions. Dispersal should thus be directly integrated in both basic and applied research by using proxies. Here, we review the use of proxies in the current metacommunity research, suggest new proxies, and discuss how proxies could be used in community modelling, particularly in freshwater systems. We suggest that while traditional proxies may still be useful, proxies formerly utilized in transport geography may provide useful novel insights into the structuring of biological communities in freshwater systems. We also suggest that understanding the utility of such proxies for dispersal in metacommunities is highly important for many applied fields such as freshwater bioassessment, conservation planning, and recolonization research in the context of restoration ecology. These research fields have often ignored spatial dynamics and focused mostly on local environmental conditions and changes therein. Yet, the conclusions of these applied studies may change considerably if dispersal is taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are recognized as the solution to address the communication bottleneck in a Multi-processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). As NoCs represent a significant part of system consumption, MPSoC designers expect accurate power models in order to produce energy efficient systems. Nowadays, NoC simulators rely on power models that integrate link models without crosstalk modeling. In this study, we present Noxim-XT, a NoC simulator based on Noxim that embeds a link power model with crosstalk modeling. We show that the crosstalk effect has a deep impact on NoC energy consumption since our results demonstrate that classical models generate errors up to 45.5% on the whole NoC energy consumption estimation. In addition, this tool is able to run application-based traffic and we show that under application-based traffics, the energy estimation made by classical models overestimates the NoC energy consumption by up to 50%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Call a smooth knot (or smooth link) in the unit sphere in $$\mathbb {C}^2$$ analytic (respectively, smoothly analytic) if it bounds a complex curve (respectively, a smooth complex curve) in the complex ball. Let K be a smoothly analytic knot. For a small tubular neighbourhood of K we give a sharp lower bound for the 4-ball genus of analytic links L contained in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Mad weave (anyam gila) is a type of basketry originating in Indonesia. There is very little literature on the technique, and it is not widely used, but it produces a very pleasing fabric. It has atriaxialstructure (the weaving strands are in three directions in contrast to the more usual warp and weft structure), and as a consequence it belongs to symmetry group p6 (or632in orbifold notation), making it particularly suitable for the construction of baskets, including closed polyhedral shapes, with triangular and hexagonal faces. Polyhedral baskets constructed with a small number of strands can be created if the edges do not lie along strand directions. The structure will decompose in various ways into combinations of different substructures, in particular the more common open hexagonal weave (orkagome) or its variants. A limited range of patterns, related to the possible decompositions, can be created by the use of different coloured strands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Online journalism is negotiated and renegotiated in the newsroom of Journalen, the training website for students in journalism at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, the paper examines three spring terms of online news production by journalism students, particularly looking at sources, links and their multimedia news production. The findings are compared to the students’ professional peers in four news sites in the same period. All five sites are moving towards a convergent news modality. But the students tend to use more sources than their professional peers.

Since the democratic transition of 1994, the promotion of the small, medium and micro-enterprise (SMME) economy has been a core focus of South African government policy. With high levels of unemployment and poverty in urban areas, the impact of this policy intervention is most critical for city development. Given South Africa’s chequered history, the national government’s focus is on transforming the prospects for enterprises owned by black South Africans, who were disadvantaged under apartheid. This article examines the range of contemporary policy initiatives to address business constraints on market access and catalyse new market opportunities for black-owned enterprises in urban South Africa. The article concentrates on two themes: 1) building links into private sector supply chains, especially through supplier diversity, and 2) building links into public sector markets through public procurement. It is shown that current policy directions recognise that the national government has a limited capacity to implement SMME improvement and build competitive black-owned SMMEs by itself, which has prompted support for private sector initiatives. In addition, the government is struggling to practice what it preaches and use its own procurement capacity to assist black-owned SMMEs.

With the advent of VoIP transport and videoconferencing/telepresence equipment at relative low costs, companies started to use a single provider for data, telephony and video, thus causing three types of transport –with different characteristics and requirements- to converge in a single hard link. The current converging networks carry packages related to three different kinds of services (data, voice and video) and one of the usual classification criteria draws a distinction between traffic with strict time requirements and all other services. As bandwidth is always limited, it is necessary to identify and give priority treatment to this kind of traffic over others sharing the same medium. This paper discusses the assessment and application of different QoS tools on the free internet infrastructure for public spaces in the city of Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

So far most of the food webs lack parasitism. It has been found that parasites can profoundly affect food web properties. In this study we tried to consider parasitism in the food web analysis in order to provide a basis for further and more complete theory development. The data for topological analysis of food webs was from the food web studies of Lafferty et al. Pajek software was used to conduct topological analysis on food webs. The results revealed that in the food web the number of base species kept to be constant but the number of top species declined remarkably and the number of intermediate species increases sharply when parasitism was considered. Parasitism increased the food chain cycles. There were 508 cycles in the parasite-parasite sub-web but not any cycle was found in the predator-prey sub-web. The connectance and link density increased after parasitism was added. The links between predators and parasites were greater than the links between predators and preys. The connectance of predator-prey sub-web, predator-parasite sub-web, parasite-host sub-web, and parasite-parasite sub-web is 0.29, 0.16, 0.24, and 0.34, respectively. The link density of predator-prey sub-web, predator-parasite sub-web, parasite-host sub-web, and parasite-parasite sub-web is 11.95, 9.84, 15.5, and 7.64, respectively. Chain length increased slightly and omnivorous species and omnivory increased also. The present study revealed that parasitism would yield substantial effects on food web structure.

The author considers journalism as a modern model of mediation and examines how this model was disseminated in societies other than the one in which it was devised and institutionalized. Thus what constituted, at its origin, the internal “logic” of journalism can be understood. As shown in the case study of the Arabic language newspaper Al Hoda, published in the United States at the end of the 19th century, the transfer of this model of mediation to other pre-modern societies became an agency of communication and of a specific mode of social discourse production ensuring an effective articulation between a new configuration of politics and human migration.

O presente trabalho apresenta um conceito derivado da Biologia do Conhecimento aplicado metaforicamente aos grupos humanos. Trofolaxes denomina o processo de comunicação química utilizado por determinados animais, os insetos sociais, para comunicar uns aos outros as necessidades de sua comunidade, seja em termos de defesa, seja de alimentação ou de reprodução. Aplicada aos grupos, a noção de trofolaxes permite entender determinados mecanismos de regulação grupal pelos quais, através principalmente da linguagem, os indivíduos conseguem produzir a identidade grupal, as fronteiras delimitadoras do grupo e os elementos da dinâmica que possibilitam as interações interindividuais. Se aos insetos, a trofolaxes permite a comunicação, as alterações ontogenéticas e a adaptação filogenética, para os grupos humanos, a trofolaxes simbólica implica na possibilidade da geração da ontogênese específica das distintas psiques, necessárias ao convívio humano.El presente trabajo presenta un concepto derivado de la Biología del Conocimiento aplicado metafóricamente a los grupos humanos. Trofolaxis denomina el proceso de comunicación química utilizado por determinados animales, los insectos sociales, para comunicar unos a los otros las necesidades de su comunidad, sea en términos de defensa, de alimentación o de reproducción. Aplicada a los grupos la noción de trofolaxis permite entender determinados mecanismos de regulación grupal, por los cuales, a través principalmente del lenguaje, los individuos consiguen producir la identidad grupal, las fronteras delimitadoras del grupo, y los elementos de la dinámica que posibilitan las interacciones inter-individuales. Si a los insectos, la trofolaxis permite la comunicación, las alteraciones ontogenéticas y la adaptación filogenética, para los grupos humanos, la trofolaxis simbólica implica en la posibilidad de la geración de la ontogênesis específica de las distintas psiques, necesarias a la convivencia humana.Current essay discusses a concept from Biology of Knowledge and metaphorically applied to human groups. Trophallaxis refers to the chemical communicational process used by certain animals, such as social insects, to communicate the needs of their communities in terms of defense, feeding or reproduction. When applied to groups, trophallaxis explains certain mechanisms of group regulations in which, mainly through language, individuals may produce the group identity, the group’s restricting borders and the dynamic elements that permit inter-individual interactions. If trophallaxis permits communication, ontogenetic alterations and phylogenetic adaptation in insects, symbolic trophallaxis in human groups makes possible the generating of specific ontogenesis of distinct psyches, required for human relationships.

Social Work with groups or Social Community Work is not easy to support without the approach to human being experiences in their current context. Talking about the person and their relations means that it’s necessary to try to understand their life strategies considering the circumstances in life process. This work is dealing with an approach to our postmodern society characteristics in order to facilitate the knowledge of new facts that support reasons for being and acting with others.

What is the context of our archaeological blogging? When we blog, are we merely shouting into the void? Do archaeological bloggers link only to one another, and do we shout only to each other (which, it must be admitted, is what our journals and conferences do, too, albeit at a slower pace)? Assume a person knows nothing about archaeology: would that person find your blog? Your project website? Your department's website? Does academic blogging matter? One way to answer these questions is through a mapping of the archaeological web. When a layperson finds a site, she might signal its perceived value through linking, retweeting, commenting (once upon a time, on the blog post itself; now more likely via a tweet), and writing her own blog posts about it. Therefore, various network metrics of this map of the archaeological web can be taken as a kind of proxy for evaluating the likely impact of our blogging. Given that these blogs are all publicly available (if one knows or can find the address), blogging is a kind of public archaeology. Not necessarily an archaeology done for the public, but rather an archaeology done in view of the public (cf Richardson and Almansa-Sánchez 2015 on the variety within public archaeology). It would be interesting to know if this kind of public archaeology has an impact at all. These signals and linkages in the general noise of the Internet are the subject of this article. In order for us as archaeologists to generate the strongest possible signals on the web, we need to understand the structures that have emerged within the web to best facilitate dissemination. This can help us increase our signals' visibility, even though all roads eventually lead to Wikipedia.

This paper aims to take into account the process of annotation as it can be inserted in a literary text driven by digital culture. Focusing on a corpus of digital literary texts, it will study how writers use hyperlinking as a way to build a network of allusions or commentaries inside the boundaries of their own text, or as support of reading of an another text. Three ranges of use are to be exposed. The first acts as a mediated reading of one's own work. Guillaume Vissac's Accident de personne, published as a twitter feed in 2010, has been edited as a (digital) whole by digital editor publie.net. The author used hyperlinks to reinforce patterns of similarity between characters and specific circumstances. The second use of semantic links inserts essayistic discourse and urban fabulation, as it can be found in François Bon's Tiers livre, in the web of its tentacular work and in a discursive ground of the social and literary environment of the writer. The third range of use covers writing-as-reading works, where links enact a set of commentaries or a way of rewriting a prior text. Philippe De Jonckheere's site, Désordre.net, and more specifically his project "Tentative d'épuisement de Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien de Georges Perec," build on this idea. This project takes Perec's own reading of an urban place which tries to exhaust the real world by description, and adds a layer of hyperlinks giving back a reading of the reality depicted by Perec. These three uses show how literary writing in a digital context inherit from the tradition of marginal annotation and inscribe it in the most basic function of electronic publication, which is linking. In that perspective, links appear as a way to build a multidimensional textuality based on the depth of a virtual network. Cet article vise à examiner les façons dont l'annotation est mobilisée dans un texte littéraire en contexte numérique. L'étude d'un corpus d'oeuvres littéraires numériques permet de mieux comprendre comment les hyperliens construisent des réseaux d'allusions ou de commentaires à l'intérieur des textes, ou agissent comme support pour la lecture d'autres textes. Trois principaux usages sont ici abordés. Le premier se présente comme la médiation de la lecture qu'une personne fait de sa propre oeuvre. D'abord un fil twitter paru en 2010, Accident de personne, de Guillaume Vissac, a été publié comme un livre (numérique) par l'éditeur numérique publie.net. L'auteur utilise des hyperliens pour renforcer les similarités entre les personnages et des circonstances apparentées. Le deuxième usage de liens sémantiques permet d'insérer un propos essayistique et une fabulation urbaine au sein d'une œuvre tentaculaire comme le Tiers livre de François Bon, marquée par l'environnement socio-littéraire de l'écrivain. Le troisième type d'usage s'inscrit dans le cadre d'oeuvres où la lecture devient écriture, où les liens introduisent des commentaires dans un texte antérieur ou le réécrivent. Participe à cette logique le site Désordre.net de Philippe De Jonckheere, et plus particulièrement son projet "Tentative d'épuisement de Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien de Georges Perec." Ce projet s'appuie sur l'oeuvre de Perec, qui vise à épuiser le monde réel par sa description, ce qui est une forme de lecture, et d'ajouter une couche d'hyperliens qui proposent leur propre lecture du monde dépeint par Perec. Ces trois usages illustrent comment l'écriture littéraire en contexte numérique se place dans la continuité de la tradition des annotations marginales pour l'inscrire dans la fonction fondamentale de la publication numérique qu'est l'hyperlien. Les liens apparaissent ainsi comme un moyen d'élaborer une textualité riche qui repose sur l'ampleur d'une réticulation virtuelle.

With the growing awareness of environmental sustainability, reverse logistics is a very timely and critical area. Traditionally, the use of supply chain contracts has been proven to be effective in enhancing the performance of logistics systems. However, the current literature on supply chain contracts in reverse logistics is scattered. As a result, we aim to review in this paper the recent state of the art literature (2006–2016) on supply chain contracts with a focus on reverse logistics systems. We explore the popularity of different kinds of supply chain contracts, and identify the most productive researchers in the area. We classify and examine the literature with respect to the supply chain structure (i.e. the involved supply chain links), and channel leaderships (i.e. who acts as the leader). Finally, we identify the research gaps, suggest five major categories of future research directions and discuss the respective research challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we show that if a knot diagram admits a non-trivial coloring modulo 13 then there is an equivalent diagram which can be colored with 5 colors. Leaning on known results, this implies that the minimum number of colors modulo 13 is 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With advancement in technology, many individuals are getting familiar with the internet a lot of users seek for information on the World Wide Web (WWW) using variety of search engines. This research work evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and Baidu. Precision, relative recall and response time were considered for this evaluation, a total of 24 search queries were sampled based on information queries, navigational queries and transactional queries. They are categorized into single word queries, double word queries, sentence queries and alphanumeric queries. Finally the overall average of all the designated queries shows Bing has the best score based on relative recall with 0.54, Google has the best response time with 0.39s and has the highest precision with 1.37. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the research conducted on steel eccentrically braced frames (EBFs). Both component level and system level responses for such braced frames are treated and discussed. For the component level response, a thorough review of the investigations on links, which are the primary sources of energy dissipation in EBFs, has been presented. The results of experimental and numerical studies on strength, rotation capacity, and overstrength of links are discussed. Furthermore, studies on the effects of axial force, the presence of a concrete slab, the loading history, compactness, link detailing, and the lateral bracing on link behavior are summarized. Relevant available research on link-to-column connections is revisited. Different approaches for the numerical modeling of links are also given. For the system level response, characteristics of EBF systems are discussed in light of the capacity design approach. Findings of numerical studies on the seismic performance of EBFs are discussed to provide insight into suitable response factors utilized in the design of these systems. Additionally, special topics and emerging applications of EBFs, such as replaceable links, are provided. The impact of research findings on the design of EBF systems is demonstrated considering the AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings. Finally, future research needs for improvement of EBF design and application are identified and presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]