by Abel J. Gonzalez I he purpose of this report is to present a draft of a coherent set of fundamental principles of protection and safety for nuclear power, which might be considered as a basis for developing formal principles for an eventual de jure adoption by governments. The objective is to facilitate agreements for a global harmonization on criteria to offset perceived threats from nuclea...

The migration of client-server systems to web services using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principles is widespread and likely to dominate the future evolution of computing. Use of web services is especially challenging for streaming content such as that which would be used for sound design. This paper describes the principles of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and ways that ...

In this paper we establish the (1, 2) and (2, 1)-transfer principles for finitely decidable locally finite varieties. A class of structures is finitely decidable if the first order theory of its finite members is recursive. A variety is a class of algebras which is axiomatizable by a set of equations. The transfer principles deal with the local structure of finite algebras and have strong globa...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) became the first university in Canada to develop a strategy for enhancing global access to its technologies. UBC's University-Industry Liaison Office, in collaboration with the UBC chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), established a mandate and developed principles that provide the developing world with access to UBC technologies...

The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases has increased the global need for skilled health promotion professionals, and many professionals working in the field of health promotion lack some of the tools they need to apply in their practice. Health Promotion in Practice by Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin and Joan Arnold provides insight into the principles of health promotion and enables the reader t...

A new gauge theory of gravity on flat spacetime has recently been developed by Lasenby, Doran, and Gull. Einstein’s principles of equivalence and general relativity are replaced by gauge principles asserting, respectively, local rotation and global displacement gauge invariance. A new unitary formulation of Einstein’s tensor illuminates long-standing problems with energy-momentum conservation i...

It is considered that Web services have had a tremendous impact on the web as a potential silver bullet for supporting a distributed service-based economy on a global scale. However, despite the outstanding progress, their uptake on a web scale has been significantly less than initially anticipated due to higher usage thresholds. For instance, it is a hard task for service provider to seek appr...