Grid Added Value to Address Malaria

Through this paper, we call for a distributed, internet-based collaboration to address one of the worst plagues of our present world, malaria. The spirit is a non-proprietary peer-production of information-embedding goods. And we propose to use the grid technology to enable such a world wide "open source" like collaboration. The first step towards this vision has been achieved during the summer on the EGEE grid infrastructure where 46 million ligands were docked for a total amount of 80 CPU years in 6 weeks in the quest for new drugs.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Singapore, 16-19 may 2006, to appear in the proceeding

The Added Value of Corporate Brands

This study shows that different types of associations regarding a company have different effects on customers' product evaluations. Associations with a company's ability influenced quality perceptions of products marketed by the company's subsidiaries, but not intentions to actually buy those products. In contrast, corporate social responsibility associations influenced product purchase intentions, but not quality perceptions.corporate image;survey;Corporate branding;brand strategies;product evaluations

PACKAGING: A KEY ELEMENT IN ADDED VALUE

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The Added Value Of Smoke Catfish ( Pangasius Sutchi ) ( Cases Catfish Processing In Koto Masjid Village XIII Koto Kampar District Riau Province)

Research on Added value of smoke catfish ( Pangasius sutchi ) ( Cases Catfish Processing in Koto Masjid Village XIII Koto Kampar District Riau Province) should be conducted in march 2016 in Koto Masjid village the kabupaten kampar Riau Province. This study attempts to ( 1 ) to know much value added economical catfish after processed into catfish smoke , ( 2 ) know the production and marketing catfish smoke. Methods used is the method case study such respondents in purposive sampling as many as 3 people who have a role as processing catfish smoke. Based on the results of research ( 1 ) added value of smoke catfish is Rp.3.265,6 per kilogram fresh catfish by a ratio of added value of Rp. 18,1422 .The advantage gained catfish processing smoke is Rp. 2.465,6 per Kilogram with operating margin Rp. 3.700 per Kilogram catfish fresh ( 2 ) in once used of fish production catfish fresh with 1.000 Kg , produce 300 kg of smoke catfish .Of processing of smoke catfish is still in traditional. Smoke Catfish produce tea processing factory in the village Koto Masjid was marketed in pekanbaru 20 %, to palembang as many as 5 % , to Malaysia as many as 5 %, to the market Air Tiris 15 % , market kuok 15 % , Bangkinang market as many as 12 % , Kampar market as much as 13 % and in taratak Buluh 15 %

Sonoelastography in the diagnosis of tendinopathies: An added value

BACKGROUND: sonoelastography helps in the detection of abnormalities not yet evident on B-mode exam. METHODS: in this observational study, we report a collection of cases of symptomatic patients without alterations at ultrasound imaging but with evidence of pathological findings at sonoelastography. Patients, with clinical history suggestive for tendinopathies or surgically treated, and negative at the ultrasound exam, were submitted to sonoelastography. Out of 846, 632 patients with positive ultrasound exam were excluded. Sonoelastography was therefore performed in the remaining 214. RESULTS: the examination was positive in 168 cases: 78 patients were affected with shoulder diseases, while elbow pathology was observed in 31 subjects; patellar, Achilles and plantar fascia disorders were reported in 19, 27, and 13 patients, respectively. CONCLUSION: sonoelastography can reveal tendon abnormalities of clinical relevance in a high percentage of cases, where the ultrasound exam was negative, making the method a complementary tool to ultrasound evaluation

The library’s added value

The idea of a library’s added value is the unique social profit of a library’s activity. It is a profit unknown by any other kind of organization or institution. It is generated by the professional activity of the staff and the intentional preparation of library processes. The main expression of this value is mediation within public communication, which takes place principally within the library. The structuralization of the offer is straightforward: arrangement, selection and weeding of the stock, knowledge and all subjects of any commu-nication transmissions, all of which are subsequently conveyed to the public. These transmissions are based both on the library’s own collection and on the collections of other libraries, with the productive addition of the electronic network’s offer. The library’s tender, as one unit, is predestinated for the actual public and proffered in a suitable context. It is promoted and made free to all library users. The library is also a regulator of most communication processes, and it also generates its own in-house information. What is more, the library prepares its own program of various ventures and entertainments for the public, in the facilitation of forms of public communication, assistance to all kinds of formal education, or as an aid to the cultural and social environment. All this, i n s u m, represents the library’s added value, and seems to be a good justification for the social use-fulness of a library as a public institution

Staff + Committees = Added Value

When library committees bring together staff with interests and talents outside their immediate job descriptions, the results can bring added value to the staff and library. Such interests and talents may result in exhibits, displays, and several interest programs for staff and users of the library

Mutual benefit, added value? Doing research in the National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) has recently been the focus of government efforts to retain pharmaceutical research in the UK. Efforts to foster new partnerships between health care providers and industry have been framed with suggestions that clinical trials can offer patient benefit within the NHS, cutting across ethical and sociological concerns with the possible tension between doing research and offering care. This paper draws on ethnographic research to explore the sometimes awkward juxtapositions between trial protocols and everyday care, individual health and commercial profit, and thus the distribution of value produced through trials. While researchers appear to find the distinction between research and care useful, at least some of the time, both formal and informal strategies for living with this distinction may have the unintended consequence of making research appear supplementary to rather than simply different from clinical care