Valuable Meaning Research Articles

Excitation – emission matrices and synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy for cancer diagnostics in gastrointestinal tract

We report the development of an improved fluorescence technique for cancer diagnostics in the gastrointestinal tract. We investigate the fluorescence of ex vivo colorectal (cancerous and healthy) tissue samples using excitation – emission matrix (EEM) and synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (SFS) steady-state approaches. The obtained results are processed for revealing characteristic fluorescence spectral features with a valuable diagnostic meaning. The main tissue fluorophores, contributing to the observed fluorescence, are tyrosine, tryptophan, NADH, FAD, collagen and elastin. Based on the results of the Mann – Whitney test as useful parameters for differentiation of gastrointestinal cancer from normal mucosa, we suggest using excitation wavelengths in the range for fluorescence spectroscopy and wavelengths intervals of and for SFS.

Traditional Art Kayori as An Identity of Taa Society in District of Tojo Una-Una in Globalization Era

<p><em>Kayori</em> is someone’s or group’s statement expressed civilly in a particular time, so that the messages delivered are easily internalized and understood to nod in agreement. This research intends to identify form, function, and meaning contained in <em>kayori</em> traditional art of <em>Taa</em> society. This research employed qualitative method with a cultural approach. The results of this study portray that <em>kayori</em> performance periodically held is an introduction media in increasing public awareness. <em>Kayori,</em> embracing aesthetic values, functions to diffuse moral and aesthetic aspects to the society. Education in <em>kayori</em> tradition follows the regeneration process in <em>to</em> society orientating towards the new roles for young generation to maintain their cultural heritages. <em>Kayo</em>ri tradition implies valuable meaning of life and provides chance in understanding historical cultural heritages in tackling down recent issues in <em>Taa</em> society.</p>

Upgrade of the ATLAS Level-1 Trigger with event topology information

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2015 will collide proton beams with increased luminosity from 1034 up to 3 × 1034cm−2s−1. ATLAS is an LHC experiment designed to measure decay properties of high energetic particles produced in the protons collisions. The higher luminosity places stringent operational and physical requirements on the ATLAS Trigger in order to reduce the 40MHz collision rate to a manageable event storage rate of 1kHz while at the same time, selecting those events with valuable physics meaning. The Level-1 Trigger is the first rate-reducing step in the ATLAS Trigger, with an output rate of 100kHz and decision latency of less than 2.5µs. It is composed of the Calorimeter Trigger (L1Calo), the Muon Trigger (L1Muon) and the Central Trigger Processor (CTP). By 2015, there will be a new electronics element in the chain: the Topological Processor System (L1Topo system).The L1Topo system consist of a single AdvancedTCA shelf equipped with three L1Topo processor blades. It will make it possible to use detailed information from L1Calo and L1Muon processed in individual state-of-the-art FPGA processors. This allows the determination of angles between jets and/or leptons and calculates kinematic variables based on lists of selected/sorted objects. The system is designed to receive and process up to 6Tb/s of real time data. The paper reports the relevant upgrades of the Level-1 trigger with focus on the topological processor design and commissioning.

Designing Heterogeneous 1D Nanostructure Arrays Based on AAO Templates for Energy Applications.

In order to fulfill the multiple requirements for energy production, storage, and utilization in the future, the conventional planar configuration of current energy conversion/storage devices has to be reformed, since technological evolution has promoted the efficiency of the corresponding devices to be close to the theoretical values. One promising strategy is to construct multifunctional 1D nanostructure arrays to replace their planar counterparts for device fabrication, ascribing to the significant superiorities of such 1D nanostructure arrays. In the last three decades, technologies based on anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) templates have turned out to be valuable meaning for the realization of 1D nanostructures and have attracted tremendous interest. In this review, recent progress in energy-related devices equipped with heterogeneous 1D nanostructure arrays that fabricated through the assistance of AAO templates is highlighted. Particular emphasis is given on how to develop efficient devices via optimizing the componential and morphological parameters of the 1D nanostructure arrays. Finally, aspects relevant to the further improvement of device performance are discussed.

Competing Reflexive Models of Regional Speech in Northern Ohio

Campbell-Kibler (2012) argued that the “northern” or Cleveland accent has been developing as a register (Agha 2003, 2007) in Ohio, primarily positioned as an unstigmatized and idiosyncratic form of linguistic difference from an imagined central Ohio norm. The current study examines northern Ohioans’ orientation to this construct within a larger understanding of their sociolinguistic imagining of Ohio. Northerners are found to share many language ideologies with other Ohioans, including a focus on north-to-south variation, an emphasis on rural versus urban language difference, and a belief in the local existence of unaccented, educated, normative speech. They differ from other Ohioans in sometimes conceptualizing urban speech as standard, failing to mark central Ohio as a distinct region, and subdividing the northeast (their own region) in a Cleveland-centered small region and a larger northeast corner of the state. Most importantly, they differ from central Ohioans in their treatment of the linguistic difference between central and northern Ohio, i.e., the Inland North/Midland dialect boundary (Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006). Forty-two percent of northerners and 52 percent of others fail to construct a perceptual boundary between central and northeast Ohio, while 27 percent and 48 percent respectively indicate the north as the divergent speech area. Northerners differ, however, in having a third group (31 percent), who position their own speech as normative and the central Ohio speech as marked, counter to the discourses of central Ohioans. These results support Agha’s (2007) point that individuals’ stakes in particular reflexive models are a key influence on models’ circulation and further show the importance of “unremarkable” as a context-bound and often valuable sociolinguistic meaning, rather than a lack of meaning.

Manufacturing lines under surplus-based control: multiple products and bounded buffers

Challenged by the scheduling complexity for production flow processes in industrial facilities, we study the performance of multi-product producing lines. We analyse the performance of multi-product lines that consist a number of machines and bounded buffers with preselected base stock levels. It is assumed that each manufacturing machine in the line is capable of working with several product types, but only operate on one product at a time. The network is operated under a surplus-based production control policy in the presence of perturbations and production demand fluctuations. We derive bounds on the demand tracking accuracy for each product type, regardless its flow direction in the multi-product line. In addition, for a multi-product line with unidirectional product flow, we obtain a quantitative relation between demand tracking accuracy, its inventory levels, numbers of product types, buffer capacity limits and perturbations. The accuracy of the obtained demand tracking bounds is illustrated by numerical simulations. By means of simulation experiments, we show that the obtained results have a valuable meaning and can be used as a reference tool in practice.

Big data: web-crawling and analysing financial news using RapidMiner

Big data today is one of the hottest topics in the ICT field, but still there are many questions around what it is, what it really means, and how it can be used. This paper presents the notion of big data and then attempts to analyse it using a typical analytics tool, which is called RapidMiner. We use actual real-world social media data as an empirical test. Our preliminary result shows that social media data does not provide valuable meaning to predict the future stock market. However, we believe that the analysis of big data is meaningful if more sophisticated methodology and data collection procedures are used.

The Wicked Problem of Design Management: Perspectives from the Field of Entrepreneurship

ABSTRACTInexplicable tensions and paradoxes exist between the underlying assumptions and logics of design and the related management perspectives. This paper aims to contribute to the design management literature by introducing entrepreneurship as an alternative management perspective. Entrepreneurship holds the capacity to add new valuable managerial meaning to the term design management that does not disrupt the uniqueness of design. A differentiation is made between two logics of management – administrative management and entrepreneurial management – and the article argues against a one-management-style-fits-all-design-processes approach. Design associated with complex and wicked problems may be more closely associated with entrepreneurial design management, whereas design based on simpler and tamer design problems may align better with administrative design management. A framework of entrepreneurial design management is introduced and the theoretical and practical implications of entrepreneurship as a platform for design management are brought into perspective.

Lifelong learning: Active ageing at polish universities of third age

The 21st century education should be seen as a lifelong process. Lifelong learning becomes the foundation of human knowledge, their activity, ability to live in a society, but also to create yourself and your own existence. With the growing awareness of the aging population in Europe, the issues of education and active aging have been discussed for years. The announcement by the European Parliament and the Council that year 2012 would be the European Year for Active Ageing and International Solidarity is the appreciation of potential in the hands of senior citizens and the elderly, as well as the opening up to their needs. Poland's parliamentary upper house, the Senate, had recognized senior education as important for the state and declared 2012 the Year of Universities of the Third Age. A large number of UTA students in Poland, a rich and diverse range of educational and activating activities, as well as taking initiative, reinforce the belief that the period of late maturity through an active lifestyle prevents exclusion from the community and improves the quality of life by giving it a valuable meaning.

Meaning of Artistic Creation in terms of Henri Bergson's Theory of Creativity

The purpose of this paper is to understand Bergsons philosophy of creation and its significance in the history of modern aesthetics, through examining his concept of creativity which has influenced on the idea of contemporary art education. Therefore, I will inspect the traits of the concept of creation, namely the irreversible and the unpredictable, and to make a comparison between science and art and between fabrication and creation from the viewpoint of psychological philosophy on the meaning of human creative activity. Further, I will grasp the valuable meaning peculiar to spontaneous creative activity which is connected with the realm of art education. According to Bergson, creation is an activity in the process of becoming, and both of becoming and evolving are the continuity of creation. The phenomena of becoming is unreversible and the same kind of creation cannot be repeatable. He seeks for the incessant creative power in the artistic activity of painter and sculptor. Further, he mention that human being should be an artist or artisan who makes ones own life, and be an existence continuously operating in order to produce original figure. Aesthetic intuition and artistic creation are inseparably related to each other. Spontaneous active behaviour facilitates the manifestation of creativity. Creative activity accompanies the divine great joy. Therefore, the practical dessin education aiming at drawing a draft or map has not concerned with originality or creativity. Bergson highly appreciated Ravaissons idea of dessin education which advocate the unrestricted expression in free painting instead of mechanical technique useful for practise. We could confirm that this idea of free painting put forth buds of creative art education, and is linked together with Bergsons thoughts. Bergsons theory of creativity has played an important role to lay the foundation of art education that respects the expression of individuality and personal psychology.

Sub-Micron-Accuracy Gold-to-Gold Interconnection Flip-Chip Bonding Approach for Electronics–Optics Heterogeneous Integration

High-precision integration has valuable meaning in heterogeneous convergent technology. In this paper we report on a new high-precision low-temperature bonding approach, capable of submicron alignment accuracy, based on the conventional ultrasonic flip-chip bonding technique and modified metal pad and bump elements. The interconnection pair made from a conductive-sloped hollow bonding pad (concave) and metal cone bump (convex) elements, i.e., misalignment self-correction elements, helps in aligning and maintaining the alignment between the chip and the substrate during stacking. By this method, the stacking accuracy can be improved significantly and effectively. Repeatable submicron (i.e., less than 500 nm) bonding accuracies are confirmed through experimental investigation. Moreover, reliable bond characteristics including electrical and mechanical properties are observed, validating the performance of the bonding approach. With these results, the proposed high-precision low-temperature bonding approach shows its suitability for heterogeneous electronics–optics integration applications.

Roadside Inventions: Making Time and Money Work at a Road Construction Site in Mozambique☆

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a road construction site in southern Mozambique, this article explores the peculiar inverse process through which the road project acquired valuable meaning for young Mozambican workers hired by a Chinese construction consortium to rehabilitate the north–south N1 highway. Without viable alternatives, the Mozambican workers were often compelled to accept the intolerable working conditions that the Chinese company presented them with while still acknowledging that it did, in fact, only aggravate an already difficult situation. Hence, given that the problematic connections to their Chinese superiors obviously lacked the qualities of reciprocal relationships, the money received could not be considered as proper salaries and the hardships endured while mixing sand, cement and gravel did not seem to result in the construction of a road. Still, when the monthly payment could be used, say, as down payment for a piece of land, it unfolded a virtual scenario very unlike that experienced in the present. Rather than indexing an untenable social relationship with the Chinese, it actualised a generative connection between the road and a future house. Although we might imagine the initial moment when the money was first received as indexing an employer–employee relationship, this was subsequently obviated by a new significant connection set-up between the road and a future house that was unfolded from the former (relationship) as the ‘real’ manifestation of salaries. The emerging house project thus transformed its own origin, as it were, by eliminating the Chinese counterpart as the source of the paid out money.

DOKUMEN NON-ARAB TENTANG BERITA KERASULAN MUHAMMAD DAN AWAL ISLAM

In the era of the beginning of Islam, Arabia was situated among great imperial countries which are intellectually and culturally more developed as a result of development of religious life especially Jews and Christianity. So, it is not surprising if lots of written artifacts concerning with the emergence of new religion and its Prophet, Muhammad, are found in Arabia. The documents are of course very meaningful in the his­torio­graphy of Islamic history and tradition on its formative period, since the sources proportionally can also be completed by obtaining information from documents of non-Arabic Islamic chronicles. The non-Arabic contemporary sources of this primitive Islam may offer different kinds of account to study on how Islam has developed to the present form, since this kind of testimony is a comparative historical entity rather than a conventional one. The non-Arabic sources concerning Islam imply non-Islamic points of view, nevertheless they are certainly of valuable meaning in the study of any history.

Capturing users’ perceptions of valuable experience and meaning

In this article, we argue that more ‘fit-to-user’ products can be designed by understanding the underlying influential factors of user experience. Those factors go beyond the functional needs of the user, and thus, more ‘fit-to-user’ products can be designed. This is especially important as technology becomes more and more ubiquitous and its usage is only task- and work-related. Usability-related goals of design for devices to be used in leisure and fun activities are not enough to evoke positive emotions and satisfaction. The relevant literature is reviewed to gather an understanding of the notion of the user's impractical needs and aspirations, such as social, hedonistic, and emotional values and the meanings users attach to a product in a certain context. In addition, existing methods with similar aims are reviewed. This article reports a case study of the development of a tool to elicit user values and meanings. The tool is based on a projective psychological technique and it is recommended for use at the beginning of the design process to gather user data. Empirical experience of the usage of the tool is reported with implications for the design process.

Morphologic Changes of L5 Root at Coronal Source Images of MR Myelography in Cases of Foraminal or Extraforaminal Compression

TWO FINDINGS EASILY FOUND AT CORONAL SOURCE IMAGES OF MR MYELOGRAPHY (MRM) WERE EVALUATED : dorsal root ganglion (DRG) swelling and running course abnormality (RCA) of L5 exiting root at foramen or extraforamen. We tried to find the sensitivity of each finding when root was compressed. From 2004 July to 2006, one hundred and ten patients underwent one side paraspinal decompression for their L5 root foraminal or extraforaminal compression at L5-S1 level. All kinds of conservative treatments failed to improve leg symptom for several months. Before surgery, MRI, CT and MRM were done. Retrospective radiologic analysis for their preoperative MRM coronal source images was done to specify root compression sites and L5 root morphologic changes. DRG swelling was found in 66 (60%) of 110 patients. DRG swelling has statistically valuable meaning in foraminal root compression (chi-square test, p < 0.0001). Seventy-two (66%) in 110 patients showed abnormal alteration of running course. Abnormal running course has statistically valuable meaning in foraminal or extraforaminal root compression (chi-square test, p < 0.0001). Three-dimensional MRM provides precise thin sliced coronal images which are most close to real operative views. DRG swelling and running course abnormality of L5 exiting root are two useful findings in diagnosing L5 root compression at L5-S1 foramen or extraforamen. MRM is thought to provide additional diagnostic accuracy expecially in L5-S1 foraminal and extraforaminal area.

Mealtime care on a geriatric- psychiatric ward from the perspective of the caregivers: a qualitative case study design

This study aims to obtain insight into the care process surrounding mealtimes within a geriatric-psychiatric ward from the perspective of the caregivers. A qualitative study was carried out in accordance with the case study method. Data was generated by participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. A mealtime turned out to be a much more complex event than it appears to be, looking at it superficially. The caregivers recognize the valuable therapeutic meaning of the mealtime. Nevertheless, they experience internal conflict when it comes to certain significant problem areas in their search for a balance between the functional-organizational approach and the patient-oriented approach.

Seeing High &amp; Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture

Intended primarily for art historians, Seeing High & Low offers a thoughtful bounty of insight for historians of the United States trained in or ignorant of the rhetoric of the image. We who are not art historians ordinarily pay little attention to nonverbal source material. This disregard signifies ignorance on our part, for visual source materials also hold valuable meaning. If we cannot analyze visual culture, our myopia consigns us to only partial access to what counts in the past—particularly past controversies. To rectify our weakness we must take lessons from our colleagues in art history. A great place to start those lessons, this book also rewards readers already initiated into the study of images. The essays in this anthology span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The artists under thoughtful review include Charles Willson Peale, Edmonia Lewis, Eastman Johnson, and Norman Rockwell. By and large the authors succeed in keeping race, class, and region in mind as well as socioeconomic class and various levels of privilege and prestige.

Molecular genetics in patients with hipertension and stroke

The goal of this study was to see association between angeotensin-convertion enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism, angeotensin II type 1 receptor (ATR 1 ), apoproteine E (APO E), apolipoprotein CIII (APO CIII), methylentetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), fibrinogen (Fb), also endothelial NO-synthesis gene polymorphism (NOS3), and stroke frequency in patients suffering from AH (Arterial Hypertension) (n=41). Also to study the influence of these genes polymorphism on the characterizing parameters of AH (arterial hypertension). Conducted study shown that stroke frequency in patients with AH (arterial hypertension) associated with A1166C ATR 1 gene polymorphism, G-455A Fb gene polymorphism and C677T MTHFR gene polymorphism. And at the same time high risk markers and C- allele of ATR 1 gene and AA genotype of Fb-gene, and protection part in stroke origin in AH (arterial hypertension) patients play A-allele and genotype AA of ATR 1 gene, CC genotype of MTHFRg gene. Also figured out that patients with I/D and DD-genotype of ATR -gene, AC and CC genotypes of ATR 1 gene, TT and CT genotypes of MTHFR gene, AA-genotype of Fb, authentically valuable meaning have parameters of functional condition of cardio-vascular system and metabolic status which determines risk degree of stroke in AH-patients.

Mining frequent tree-like patterns in large datasets

Sequential pattern mining is crucial to data mining domains. This paper proposes a novel data mining approach for exploring hierarchical tree structures, named tree-like patterns, representing the relationships for a pair of items in a sequence. Using tree-like patterns, the relationships for a pair of items can be identified in terms of the cause and effect. A novel technique that efficiently counts support values for tree-like patterns using a queue structure is proposed. In addition, this paper addresses an efficient scheme for determining the frequency of a tree-like pattern in a sequence using a dynamic programming approach. Each tree-like pattern embedded in a sequence is considered to have a certain valuable meaning or the degree of importance used in different applications. Two addressed formulas are applied to determine the degree of significance for a specific sequence, which denotes the degree of consecutive items in a tree-like pattern for a sequence. The larger the degree of significance a tree-like pattern has, the more the tree-like pattern is compacted in the sequence. The characteristics differentiating the explored patterns from those obtained with other schemes are discussed. A simulation analysis of the proposed data mining approach is utilized to demonstrate its efficacy. Finally, the proposed approach is designed and implemented in a data mining system integrated into a novel e-learning platform.

Rethinking the concept of community of practice in relation to schoolteachers’ workplace learning

This paper explores two different ways of understanding communities of practice in relation to workplace learning. This is based upon a case study of secondary school teachers working and learning in four subject departments in two English schools. In spite of institutional similarities, the cultures and working practices of the departments were different, and influenced the learning of the workers significantly. In such contexts, a tight conceptualisation of community of practice can form a valuable intermediate scale of analysis, between the individual learner and wider organisational influences on learning. However, communities of practice can also have a valuable meaning in relation to the wider influences and in situations where close‐knit groupings do not exist.