Abstract In the context of sextuple model, this chapter presents a metrics system with 11 indicators to measure objective information. Under measurement, potential, and features set, each indicator is mathematical explored from methodological foundations, specific definitions, related propositions for quantitative information analysis systems applications.

The moduli spaces of Yang-Mills connections on finitely generated projective modules associated with noncommutative flows are studied. It is actually shown that they are homeomorphic to those on dual modules associated with dual noncommutative flows. Moreover the method is also applicable to the case of noncommutative multi-flows.

Resilience is often regarded as an attribute of communities rather than of individual buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure facilities. Previous research to support development of resilient infrastructure has considered, for the most part, actions and policies to achieve resilience objectives at the community level. While it is clear that a community cannot be resilient without resi...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 R I. Economic Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 R A. The Movement Toward Market Liberalization: Benefits . . 213 R B. Benefits of FDI to Emerging Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 R C. The Costs of Liberal...

WHO reacts to countries' immediate needs and initiates sustainable measures such as the development of laboratory networks and active surveillance systems. Photo credit: WHO The regional strategy for communicable disease surveillance, forecasting and response depend s on national, regional and global surveillance and containment plans for emerging and re-emerging disease threats. The main strat...

In this issue Health by Numbers explores asthma hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visit rates in relation to Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) goals. Two HP2010 objectives for asthma are specific to hospitalizations and ED visits. Objective 24-2 sets the following targets for asthma hospitalizations by age group: (1) an age-specific rate of 25 per 10,000 children under age 5 years, (2) ...

People around the world know more about tsunamis than they did 10 years ago, primarily because of two events: a tsunami on 26 December 2004 that killed more than 200,000 people around the shores of the Indian Ocean; and an earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan on 11 March 2011 that killed nearly 15,000 more and triggered a nuclear accident, with consequences that are still unfolding. Th...

Landscapes are often patchworks of private properties, where composition and configuration patterns result from cumulative effects of the actions of multiple landowners. Securing the delivery of services in such multi-ownership landscapes is challenging, because it is difficult to assure tight compliance to spatially explicit management rules at the level of individual properties, which may hin...