Enterprise Collaboration Framework for Managing, Advancing and Unifying the Functionality of Multiple Cloud-Based Services with the Help of a Graph API

Part 5: Service Orientation in Collaborative Networks

Prevención de las dificultades de lectoescritura en educación infantil: Una aproximación integral de intervención (API-L)

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en estimular la lectura y escritura en Educación Infantil con el fin de prevenir dificultades en la adquisición de las mismas, creando hábitos lectores, respetando el ritmo evolutivo y la motivación de los alumnos. Con este objetivo, en primer lugar se ha realizado una revisión de la literatura sobre este tema, encontrando que existen test para la detección de dificultades de lectura y escritura en esta etapa, así como también programas para la estimulación de estas áreas instrumentales básicas. En segundo lugar, se presenta un programa que considera y aúna los principales criterios de intervención en esta etapa. La propuesta tiene en cuenta estrategias metodológicas como la utilización del cuento, el juego y la adquisición de hábitos para conseguir que sean los propios alumnos los que quieran aprender a leer y escribir. La propuesta presentada se basa en una Aproximación Integral a la Lectoescritura (API-L) estimulando todas aquellas áreas necesarias para su desarrollo.

Análisis de la influencia del programa de mejoramiento integral de barrios de Bogotá en el territorio del API El tesoro de la localidad de Ciudad Bolívar

La expansión urbana mediante asentamientos de origen informal ha ido aumentado en los últimos años debido al déficit en la oferta de vivienda formal, el costo del suelo urbano y factores económicos, sociales y culturales. Estos asentamientos no cuentan con infraestructura básica y los terrenos que generalmente son invadidos se encuentran en zonas de riesgo y no ofrecen las condiciones físicas y habitacionales adecuadas para el habitar de las personas. El distrito a través del Programa de Mejoramiento Integral de Barrios (PMIB) busca intervenir sobre los aspectos críticos en cada barrio, habilitar la infraestructura básica que permita su integración a la ciudad y mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes. Este proceso parte de delimitar las zonas críticas y definir las intervenciones físicas, sociales y ambientales que deben ser llevadas a cabo por diferentes entidades distritales. En este estudio se hace un análisis de las intervenciones que se han llevado a cabo en la Área Prioritaria de Intervención (API) El Tesoro, para analizar cuales intervenciones llevadas a cabo han sido exitosas y cuales requieren de ajustes para lograr un mejor impacto. Se encontró que estas intervenciones no han sido suficientes para mejorar las condiciones habitacionales de las personas, razón por lo cual es necesario revisar la política y formas de intervención.

What Bees Want: Algorithm-Aided Design di un'arnia progettata per le api e realizzata in Additive Manufacturing

L’importanza delle api per la vita sulla Terra ed il rischio alle quali sono sottoposte per via dell’azione dell’uomo sono ormai un dato di fatto. La concezione antropocentrica della natura e l’allevamento al solo fine produttivo di questi piccoli insetti, ha da sempre danneggiato il loro habitat e interferito con i loro cicli biologici. L’apicoltura, nata come un rapporto mutualistico in cui l’uomo offriva un rifugio alle api e loro in cambio provvedevano al suo nutrimento, si è trasformato in una dannosa dipendenza ed in un assoggettamento di questi insetti ai ritmi artificiali e tutt’altro che naturali della produzione rapida e seriale volta all’ottenimento di un profitto. Un’evidente prova di questa condizione, sono i rifugi per le api, le arnie. Ci siamo mai chiesti perché le arnie hanno questa forma? È quella che preferiscono le api, o quella che rende più pratici e veloci processi di costruzione, gestione e produzione? In natura le api colonizzano cavità quali tronchi cavi di alberi, forme lontane, per non dire diametralmente opposte a quelle in cui le vediamo vivere negli allevamenti. In questa ottica, il design e le nuove tecnologie, poste al servizio della Natura, conducono ad un punto di incontro tra le esigenze umane e quelle degli altri esseri viventi, delle api in questo caso. I concetti di Additive Manufacturing e Design Computazionale, permettono processi di produzione simili a quelli evolutivi naturali e trovano per questa motivazione un’applicazione ideale per progetti che si pongono come fine quello di discostarsi da una visione troppo artificiale, per riavvicinarsi alla perfezione e all’armonia delle leggi della Natura.

Dati meteorologici su Web: analisi delle API e sviluppo di un’applicazione mobile per il confronto

Lo scopo di questa tesi è analizzare le API disponibili sul Web che forniscono dati meteorologici e in particolare analizzare i servizi che esse offrono. La tesi include la descrizione di confronti già presenti sul Web ed è seguita dalla definizione di una griglia di valutazione con cui sono state analizzate le API meteo e le varie funzionalità che esse offrono. Infine il lavoro si completa con lo sviluppo di un’applicazione mobile realizzata in React Native, in cui è possibile leggere e confrontare in modo interattivo i dati attuali e storici forniti dalle API, inoltre permette di filtrare le API meteo in base alle caratteristiche che si cercano.

Evaluation Of Different Treatment Methods Against Denture Stomatitis: A Randomized Clinical Study.

The aim of this clinical study was to determine the efficacy of Uncaria tomentosa (cat's claw) against denture stomatitis (DS). Fifty patients with DS were randomly assigned into 3 groups to receive 2% miconazole, placebo, or 2% U tomentosa gel. DS level was recorded immediately, after 1 week of treatment, and 1 week after treatment. The clinical effectiveness of each treatment was measured using Newton's criteria. Mycologic samples from palatal mucosa and prosthesis were obtained to determinate colony forming units per milliliter (CFU/mL) and fungal identification at each evaluation period. Candida species were identified with HiCrome Candida and API 20C AUX biochemical test. DS severity decreased in all groups (P < .05). A significant reduction in number of CFU/mL after 1 week (P < .05) was observed for all groups and remained after 14 days (P > .05). C albicans was the most prevalent microorganism before treatment, followed by C tropicalis, C glabrata, and C krusei, regardless of the group and time evaluated. U tomentosa gel had the same effect as 2% miconazole gel. U tomentosa gel is an effective topical adjuvant treatment for denture stomatitis.

X-ray diffraction data of tibolone Delta(4) isomer (isotibolone)

Tibolone is used for hormone reposition of postmenopause women and isotibolone is considered the major degradation product of tibolone. Isotibolone can also be present in tibolone API raw materials due to some inadequate synthesis. Its presence is then necessary to be identified and quantified in the quality control of both API and drug products. In this work we present the indexing of an isotibolone X-ray diffraction pattern measured with synchrotron light (lambda=1.2407 angstrom) in the transmission mode. The characterization of the isotibolone sample by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and thermal analysis are also presented. The isotibolone crystallographic data are a=6.8066 angstrom, b=20.7350 angstrom, c=6.4489 angstrom, beta=76.428 degrees, V=884.75 angstrom(3), and space group P2(1), rho(o)= 1.187 g cm(-3), Z=2. (C) 2009 International Centre for Diffraction Data. [DOI: 10.1154/1.3257612]

An engineering methodology to assess effects of weld strength mismatch on cleavage fracture toughness using the Weibull stress approach

This work describes the development of an engineering approach based upon a toughness scaling methodology incorporating the effects of weld strength mismatch on crack-tip driving forces. The approach adopts a nondimensional Weibull stress, (sigma) over bar (w), as a the near-tip driving force to correlate cleavage fracture across cracked weld configurations with different mismatch conditions even though the loading parameter (measured by J) may vary widely due to mismatch and constraint variations. Application of the procedure to predict the failure strain for an overmatch girth weld made of an API X80 pipeline steel demonstrates the effectiveness of the micromechanics approach. Overall, the results lend strong support to use a Weibull stress based procedure in defect assessments of structural welds.

Prediction of Crude Oil Properties and Chemical Composition by Means of Steady-State and Time-Resolved Fluorescence

Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements are reported for several crude oils and their saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes (SARA) fractions (saturates, aromatics and resins), isolated from maltene after pentane precipitation of the asphaltenes. There is a clear relationship between the American Petroleum Institute (API) grade of the crude oils and their fluorescence emission intensity and maxima. Dilution of the crude oil samples with cyclohexane results in a significant increase of emission intensity and a blue shift, which is a clear indication of the presence of energy-transfer processes between the emissive chromophores present in the crude oil. Both the fluorescence spectra and the mean fluorescence lifetimes of the three SARA fractions and their mixtures indicate that the aromatics and resins are the major contributors to the emission of crude oils. Total synchronous fluorescence scan (TSFS) spectral maps are preferable to steady-state fluorescence spectra for discriminating between the fractions, making TSFS maps a particularly interesting choice for the development of fluorescence-based methods for the characterization and classification of crude oils. More detailed studies, using a much wider range of excitation and emission wavelengths, are necessary to determine the utility of time-resolved fluorescence (TRF) data for this purpose. Preliminary models constructed using TSFS spectra from 21 crude oil samples show a very good correlation (R(2) > 0.88) between the calculated and measured values of API and the SARA fraction concentrations. The use of models based on a fast fluorescence measurement may thus be an alternative to tedious and time-consuming chemical analysis in refineries.

AUTOCHTHONOUS MICROBIOTA OF RAW MILK WITH ANTAGONISTIC ACTIVITY AGAINST LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES AND SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS

The objective of this study was to detect and identify the autochthonous microbiota of raw milk with antagonistic activity on Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Enteritidis. Three hundred sixty colonies isolated from 15 raw milk samples were tested for antagonistic activity for L. monocytogenes and S. Enteritidis using the ""spot-on-the-lawn"" method. The colonies detected as antagonistic were identified using API 20 Strep. Two types of inhibition were observed: total, characterized by the formation of a well-defined halo around the colony, and partial, with the formation of a diffused halo. Ninety-one (25.3%) colonies presented antagonistic activity for L. monocytogenes and 33 (9.2%) for S. Enteritidis. Most of the antagonistic cultures were lactic acid bacteria, mainly Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis and Enterococcus faecium. The results indicate that microorganisms in the natural microbiota of raw milk may play an important role in the inhibition of key pathogens in dairy products.

Dress for Dissent: Reading the Almost Unreadable

The changing ways of clothing in Australia, which has communicated disaffection within the public sphere, is enquired. The relationship between clothes as protested in everyday public life, and those exceptional, socially disruptive clothes on view at specific protest gatherings, are also explored. It is shown that dissident dress in the 1980s demonstrated a greater degree of solidarity in its radical difference from mainstream dress of 2000s. It is suggested that building on reconceptualised notion of protest dressing as process not fixity, the relationship of dissident dress to the mainstream has become, for the most part, less dichotomous.

Programming internet based DAI applications in Qu-Prolog

This paper presents the unique collection of additional features of Qu-Prolog, a variant of the Al programming language Prolog, and illustrates how they can be used for implementing DAI applications. By this we mean applications comprising communicating information servers, expert systems, or agents, with sophisticated reasoning capabilities and internal concurrency. Such an application exploits the key features of Qu-Prolog: support for the programming of sound non-clausal inference systems, multi-threading, and high level inter-thread message communication between Qu-Prolog query threads anywhere on the internet. The inter-thread communication uses email style symbolic names for threads, allowing easy construction of distributed applications using public names for threads. How threads react to received messages is specified by a disjunction of reaction rules which the thread periodically executes. A communications API allows smooth integration of components written in C, which to Qu-Prolog, look like remote query threads.

Rhodotorula spp. isolated from blood cultures: clinical and microbiological aspects

The emergence of less common fungal pathogens has been increasingly reported in the last decade. We describe 25 cases of Rhodotorula spp. isolated from blood cultures at a large Brazilian tertiary teaching hospital from 1996-2004. We also investigated the in vitro activity of four antifungal drugs, using a standardized method. The median age of patients was 43 years. The majority of patients (88%) had a central venous catheter (CVC) and 10 (40%) were recipients of a bone marrow transplant. The episode was classified as a bloodstream infection (BSI) in 80% of the patients. Amphotericin B deoxycholate was the most common antifungal used and CVC was removed in 89.5% of the patients. Death occurred in four patients (17.4%), all classified as BSI. All strains were identified as R. mucilaginosa by conventional methods. Misidentification of the species was observed in 20% and 5% of the strains with the Vitek Yeast Biochemical Card and API 20C AUX systems, respectively. Amphotericin B demonstrated good in vitro activity (MIC(50/90), 0.5 mu g/ml) and the MICs for fluconazole were high for all strains (MIC(50/90), 64 mu g/ml).