The Student Dust Counter (SDC) experiment of the New Horizons Mission is an impact dust detector to map the spatial and size distribution of dust along the trajectory of the spacecraft across the solar system. The sensors are thin, permanently polarized polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) plastic films that generate an electrical signal when dust particles penetrate their surface. SDC is capable of ...

The aim of this paper is to revisit an ongoing controversy within the so called “Science Wars”; more specifically, I will address a particular topic within the “human nature” debate: the ontological and epistemological status of homosexuality. I claim that, in this particular chapter of the “Science Wars”, we are continually left in an explanatory impasse even when more data are collected, more...

A people counter is a device used to count the number of pedestrians walking through a door or corridor. Most of the time, this system is used at the entrance of a building so that the total number of visitors can be recorded. People counting system is important for marketing research (pedestrian traffic management, tourists flow estimation) or in security application (in the case of an evacuat...

Enterprises need high-quality data in order to meet a number of strategic business requirements. Permanent maintenance and sustainable improvement of data quality can be achieved by an enterprise-wide approach only. The paper presents a Maturity Model for Enterprise Data Quality Management (Enterprise DQM), which aims at supporting enterprises in their effort to deliberately design and establis...

The ‡uctuations in incomes inherent in rural communities can be attenuated by reciprocal assistance. A model of reciprocal assistance based upon rational action and voluntary participation is presented. Individuals provide assistance only if the costs of so doing are outweighed by the bene...ts from expected future reciprocation. A distinction is made between general reciprocity where the count...

Overall HIV Trends The HIV epidemic in Latin America is stable, and the adult HIV prevalence, at 0.4 percent, has remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. The epidemic in the Caribbean has slowed significantly since the mid-1990s. The adult HIV prevalence in the Caribbean declined from 1.0 in 2001 to 0.9 in 2010. In 2010, about 76,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries d...

abstract background and aim: visual impairment affects people's quality of life. since the effect of rehabilitation services is measured by improving in quality of life, this study was performed to evaluate the effect of rehabilitation services on quality of life in the blind. materials and methods: 121 blind and low vision people who covered by zahedan welfare organization were studied by...