Recent years have seen increased attention paid by geographers to the phenomenon of household waste recycling. Much of this attention by geographers has focused on contemporary recycling, especially contemporary policy and behaviour. This article takes a wider temporal perspective and considers the antecedent ‘National Salvage Campaign’ of the Second World War. It considers the conceptual lesso...

Wireless communication is truly indispensable for us in our daily life. It is reported that the number of subscribers of cellar phone in Japan is approaching 118 million as of the end of July this year, which corresponds to the penetration rate of 92%. With this situation, LTE (Long Term Evolution) system will be put into commercial use very soon to provide high speed signal transmission for ub...

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) established an effectiveness evaluation to assess the efficiency of measures taken by Parties under the Convention. Among these measures, a Global Monitoring Plan requires countries to analyze core matrices for POPs. To assist countries in setting up networks for these core matrices and to generate high-quality, comparable results...

TERENCE is an FP7 ICT European project that aims at developing an adaptive learning system for supporting learners and educators. The TERENCE learners are 7-8 to 11 year old children with poor reading comprehension skills. The TERENCE educators are primary-school teachers, support teachers and parents. This paper describes the stimulation plan for the TERENCE learners, based on clinical practic...

service failure can put companies out of business if attention is not paid to this problem. the purposes of this study were to investigate the explanatory relationships between hotel guests’ perceptions of (a) service failure; (b) service recovery strategies in each service failure situation and behavioral intentions. this study explained the components of service recovery strategies used when ...

This paper is a proposal for PhD level research into brain controlled film. I place brain computer interfaces (BCI) in a historic and then an artistic context before exploring instances of research where film and BCI overlap. I then define what has not been covered by research and propose a way to contribute to that gap in knowledge. I explain my interest in the subject, and the methodologies I...

When data disaster happens, the disaster recovery system (DRS) can respond automatically and real-time, and quickly restart the application system in the redundant device to keep the processing of the business. The construction principle of the disaster recovery system has been studied, and combining the base function and national standard of the hospital information system (HIS), the data disa...

In many industrial settings, managers face the problem of establishing a pricing policy that maximizes the revenue from selling a given inventory of items by a fixed deadline, with the full inventory of items being available for sale from the beginning of the selling period. The items unsold by the deadline have a constant salvage value, which we assume to be zero for simplicity. Pricing must b...