Green Service Level Agreement under Sustainability Lens in IT Industry

Nowadays, when most of the business are moving forward to sustainability by providing or getting different services from different vendors, Service Level Agreement (SLA) becomes very important for both the business providers/vendors and as well as for users/customers. There are many ways to inform users/customers about various services with its inherent execution functionalities and even non-functional/Quality of Services (QoS) aspects through negotiating, evaluating or monitoring SLAs. However, these traditional SLA actually do not cover eco-efficient green issues or IT ethics issues for sustainability. That is why green SLA (GSLA) should come into play. GSLA is a formal agreement incorporating all the traditional commitments as well as green issues and ethics issues in IT business sectors. GSLA research would survey on different traditional SLA parameters for various services like as network, compute, storage and multimedia in IT business areas. At the same time, this survey could focus on finding the gaps and incorporation of these traditional SLA parameters with green issues for all these mentioned services. This research is mainly points on integration of green parameters in existing SLAs, defining GSLA with new green performance indicators and their measurable units. Finally, a GSLA template could define compiling all the green indicators such as recycling, radio-wave, toxic material usage, obsolescence indication, ICT product life cycles, energy cost etc for sustainable development. Moreover, people’s interaction and IT ethics issues such as security and privacy, user satisfaction, intellectual property right, user reliability, confidentiality etc could also need to add for proposing a new GSLA. However, integration of new and existing performance indicators in the proposed GSLA for sustainable development could be difficult for ICT engineers. Therefore, this research also discovers the management complexity of proposed green SLA through designing a general informational model and analyses of all the relationships, dependencies and effects between various newly identified services under sustainability pillars. However, sustainability could only be achieved through proper implementation of newly proposed GSLA, which largely depends on monitoring the performance of the green indicators. Therefore, this research focuses on monitoring and evaluating phase of GSLA indicators through the interactions with traditional basic SLA indicators, which would help to achieve proper implementation of future GSLA. Finally, this newly proposed GSLA informational model and monitoring aspects could definitely help different service providers/vendors to design their future business strategy in this new transitional sustainable society.

Documents relatifs à la bataille de Lens.

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Radiation-induced changes in the export of photoassimilated carbon /|nBarry Jess Shelp. -- 260 0 St. Catharines, [Ont. : s. n.],

Low levels of ionizing radiation induce two translocation responses in soybean: a reduction in photoassimilate export from leaves and a change in the distribution pattern of exported photoassimilate within the plant. In this investigation these responses have been further studied specifically to ascertain the site of radiation damage and to better understand the physiological responses observed. Experimentally the primary data was obtained from studies in which a mature trifoliate leaf of a young soybean plant (Glycine ~ L. cultivar Harosoy '63) is isolated in a closed transparent chamber and allowed to photoassimilate 14C02 for 15 minutes. This is followed by an additional 45 ~_il'1;ute period before the plant is sectl.o ne d an d 14 C-ra dl' oactl.v.l ty d eterml. ne d'l n a 11 parts. Such 14c data provides one with the magnitude and distribution pattern of translocation. Further analyses were conducted to determine the relative levels of the major photosynthetic products using the techniques of paper chromatography and autoradiography. Since differences between control and irradiated P 1 ants were not 0 b serve d l' n t h e par tl't"lo nlng 0 f 14 C between the 80% ethanol-soluble and -insoluble fractions 14 or in the relative amounts of C-products of photosynthesis, the reduction in export in irradiated plants is not likely due to reduced availability of translocatable materials. Data presented in this thesis shows that photoassimilate export was not affected by gamma radiation until a threshold dose between 2.0 and 3.0 krads was reached. It was also observed that radiation-induced damage to the export process was capable of recovery in a period of 1 to 2 hours provided high light intensity was supplied. In contrast, the distribution pattern was shown to be extremely radiosensitive with a low threshold dose between .25 and .49 krads. Although this process was also capable of recovery,lt" occurred much earlier and was followed by a secondary effect which lasted at least for the duration of the experiments. The data presented in this thesis is interpreted to suggest that the sites of radiation action for the two translocation responses are different. In regards to photoassimilate export, the site of action of ionizing radiation is the leaf, quite possibly the process of photophosphorylation which may provide energy directly for phloem loading and for membrane integrity of the phloem tissue* In regards to the pattern of distribution of exported photoassimilate, the site is likely the apical sink, possibly the result of changes of levels of endogenous hormones. By the selection of radiation exposure dose and time post-irradiation, it is possible to affect independently these two processes suggesting that each may be regulated independent of the other and involves a distinct site.

Global Education in the Shifting Classroom: Refocusing the Teacher Lens Through Study Abroad

Academic exchange programmes provide opportunities for teacher candidates to study at educational institutions abroad wherein they are able to learn more about different cultures, teaching practices, and build cross-cultural relationships. This paper is an exploration into my teacher candidate experience abroad. The relevant research on this topic indicates that teacher certification should take an active role in creating opportunities for teacher candidates to participate in educational experiences abroad because of their benefits. The knowledge that a teacher gains through abroad experiences is one of the strongest factors in helping to build authentic global classrooms. In addition, these programmes allow for fuller understanding of a global context and the chance to understand someone else’s story. This review and synthesis of literature and research findings prepares a foundation for how teacher candidates, and hopefully, how policy makers can work toward creating a more inclusive global classroom for students.

Identificación de problemas críticos en el área de sistemas de información [por] José de Jesús Romero Alvarez

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Administración, con especialidad en Investigación de Operaciones) U.A.N.L.

Desarrollo de un proceso cliente-proveedor interno aplicado a las principales áreas operativas de la unidad VF-2 de la empresa Vitro Flotado [por] Marcelino de Jesús Guerra Alanís

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Administración con Especialidad en Producción y Calidad) U.A.N.L.

Manual de calidad para una empresa dedicada a la fabricación de transformadores [por] Jaime Jesús Navarrete Lara

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Administración, con especialidad en Producción y Calidad) U.A.N.L.

Cálculo simbólico para análisis de sistemas no lineales [por] Jesús Aureliano Esquivel Cárdenas

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias en Ingeniería Eléctrica, con especialidad en Control) U.A.N.L.

Industria maquiladora mexicana y generación de empleo un estudio de los ciclos del empleo : 1978-1985, y la demanda de trabajo : 1975-1985, de la industria maquiladora en la frontera norte de México [por] Jesús Héctor Amozurrutia Cabrera

Tesis (Maestro en Economía) U.A.N.L.

Fatiga de metales con cargas de amplitud variable por el método de Strain-Life [por] Javier de Jesús García Villarreal

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias) U.A.N.L.

Estudio de la reducción de cloranilo a tetraclorohidroquinona utilizando hierro de reducción directa (HDR) [por] Ma. Teresa de Jesús Castillo Escobedo

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias con Especialidad en Ingeniería Química) U.A.N.L.

Análisis de la estabilidad de voltaje para sistemas eléctricos de potencia mediante herramientas gráficas (por) Jesús Avila Montes

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias en Ingeniería Eléctrica, con Especialidad en Sistemas Eléctricos de Potencia) U.A.N.L.

Análisis experimentales de esfuerzos aplicaciones con galgas extensométricas (por) Felipe de Jesús Hidalgo Cavazos

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Ingeniería Mecánica, con Especialidad en Diseño Mecánico) U.A.N.L.

Diseño de estrategias para la orientación familiar en el ámbito de educación especial [por] Gloria de Jesús Díaz Tomelloso

Tesis (Maestría en Formación y Capacitación de Recursos Humanos) U.A.N.L.