There is much controversy surrounding the poverty-environmental degradation nexus. The predominant school of thought argues that poverty is a major cause of environmental degradation and if policy makers want to address environmental issues, then they must first address the poverty problem. Another school of thought argues that a direct link between poverty and environmental degradation is too ...

Determination of copy number variants (CNVs) inferred in genome wide single nucleotide polymorphism arrays has shown increasing utility in genetic variant disease associations. Several CNV detection methods are available, but differences in CNV call thresholds and characteristics exist. We evaluated the relative performance of seven methods: circular binary segmentation, CNVFinder, cnvPartition...

VoIP applications are getting popular due to their features of low cost and convenience. They have a high business potential over Wi-Fi or 3G network for smartphones applications. One possible barrier to the widespread adoption could be the high power consumption. And this in turn is due to higher CPU utilization introduced by sophisticated encryption algorithms for the sake of security. In thi...

This article explores the development of sales tax on e-business. It points out that the problem was rooted in the fact that the seller is required to collect and remit the tax to the buyer’s state government. If the seller and the buyer do not reside in the same state, the buyer’s state government has no jurisdiction over the seller, unless there is a “physical presence” of the seller in the b...

The energy–water nexus has been studied predominantly through discussions of policy options supported by data surveys and technology considerations. At a technology level, there have been attempts to optimize coupling points between the electricity and water systems to reduce the water-intensity of technologies in the former and the energy-intensity of technologies in the latter. To our knowled...

STUDY OBJECTIVE A number of clinical decision aids have been introduced to limit unnecessary computed tomographic scans in patients with mild traumatic brain injury. These aids differ in the risk factors they use to recommend a scan. We compare the instruments according to their sensitivity and specificity and recommend ones based on incremental benefit of correctly classifying patients as havi...

The ISAW software development project at IPNS has produced software now used to visualize, correct, and transform data for several classes of instruments at IPNS and ISAW software is beginning to be used elsewhere. During the last year improvements have been made which greatly enhance the usefulness of ISAW. Recent advances include 1) a data analysis package for Single Crystal Diffractometers, ...

Gender has long been recognised as important within environmental issues, but there has been considerable debate over how to conceptualise the gender ^ environment nexus. As feminist theorising around women and gender has changed, so have conceptualisations about gender and environment, leading to a key debate within ecofeminism and related literatures about whether there is an essential or a c...

The spatial imaginations of media studies and urban studies are becoming increasingly aligned, illustrated by a growing and diverse literature on what can be identified as a media-urban nexus. This nexus has attracted scholarly interest not only as a social or cultural phenomenon, but also as a site of emergent political dynamics. We reconstruct the shared terrain in which the phenomenology of ...

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