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A New Approach for Quality Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
, 2013 This paper provides an extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive computing environments.
Adel, Alti, Phillipe, Roose
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(Re)Defining language pedagogy activity: A sociomaterialist perspective
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Language pedagogy activity (LPA) is central to the functioning of language classrooms worldwide, and this article (re)defines LPA. While prevailing applied linguistics conceptualizations of “activity” are often theoretical and anthropocentric, our definition of LPA is empirically supported and foregrounds material agency.
Anne Marie Guerrettaz +3 more
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Current and Voltage Mode Multiphase Sinusoidal Oscillators Using CBTAs [PDF]
, 2013 Current-mode (CM) and voltage-mode (VM) multiphase sinusoidal oscillator (MSO) structures using current backward transconductance amplifier (CBTA) are proposed.
Ayten, U. E. +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Patient-based mobile alerting systems- requirements and expectations [PDF]
, 2005 Patients with chronic conditions are not well supported by technical systems in managing their conditions. However, such systems could help patients to self-reliantly comply with their treatment.
Hinze, Annika, Jung, Doris
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS): A technology needs identification workshop [PDF]
The workshop identified a strong commonality between the technology needs for NASA's TOPS program and the technology needs that were identified for NASA's astrophysics program through its Astrotech 21 survey.
Black, David C., Nishioka, Kenji
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
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An imaging system for PLIF/Mie measurements for a combusting flow [PDF]
The equipment required to establish an imaging system can be divided into four parts: (1) the light source and beam shaping optics; (2) camera and recording; (3) image acquisition and processing; and (4) computer and output systems.
Ghorashi, B. +3 more
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Veterinary Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Canine atopic dermatitis (cAD) is a multifactorial, inherited skin disease, estimated to affect ≤ 15% of dogs. Studies of skin messenger mRNA in cAD currently use invasive methods, including blood sampling and biopsy collection, whilst advances in human atopic dermatitis study methodology have demonstrated reliable use of minimally ...
Xavier Langon +5 more
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