Reply to "Unrealistic nonphysiological amounts of reagents and a disregard for published literature"

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Interactive product browsing and configuration using remote augmented reality sales services

Real-time remote sales assistance is an underdeveloped component of online sales services. Solutions involving web page text chat, telephony and video support prove problematic when seeking to remotely guide customers in their sales processes, especially with configurations of physically complex artefacts. Recently, there has been great interest in the application of virtual worlds and augmented reality to create synthetic environments for remote sales of physical artefacts. However, there is a lack of analysis and development of appropriate software services to support these processes. We extend our previous work with the detailed design of configuration context services to support the management of an interactive sales session using augmented reality. We detail the context and configuration services required, presenting a novel data service streaming configuration information to the vendor for business analytics. We expect that a fully implemented configuration management service, based on our design, will improve the remote sales experience for both customers and vendors alike via analysis of the streamed information

Proving dissemination is only one half of your impact story: Twitter provides proof of real-time engagement with the public

Getting a research story into the broadcast media can be an important opportunity to show impact. Alistair Brown explains how to use Twitter to monitor real time responses to a radio story, in order to assess the effect on a public community

Posttranslational modifications of proteins in the pathobiology of medically relevant fungi

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How-to guide to using web automation tools to collate impact evidence from social media.

With such diffuse streams of web activity and academic engagement, there is a great need for simple ways to capture and record this valuable data, whether for personal use or reporting purposes. Alistair Brown provides an overview on useful automation tools that streamline the process. Over time, depending on the scope of your search and social media activity, setting up these feedback loops can be a relatively straightforward way to collating all online discussions as a method of proving impact and relevance

The Extent of Membership Representation and Non-Representation on the IASB

Status groups abound in financial markets and none more so than in the global accounting market.One such group is the powerful and closed International Accounting Standards Board(IASB). This study empirically examines the social control of IASB membership by consideringthe country affiliation of members, Internet access, and gender composition over a five-yearperiod. The results of the study show that over the period 2001-2005 representation on all fourIASB committees was dominated by male members from high Internet access regions of theUnited States of America.Copyright © www.iiste.or

The need for improved financial reporting of a developing country energy utility

Some consideration has been given to regulatory and institutional reforms to facilitate sustainable development in electricity usage in Papua New Guinea but little attention has been paid to bringing about full compliance of financial reporting expectations of the country׳s main energy utility. Examining documentary evidence of the audit reports of the Auditor General׳s Office of Papua New Guinea, this study considers the financial reporting compliance of PNG Power for the period 2007–2013, and the means by which compliant reporting may be improved. The results of the study reveal that the financial statements of PNG Power are late and receive disclaimers of opinion from the Auditor General׳s Office, which suggest that PNG Power׳s stakeholders are not receiving accurate and reliable financial information to make informed decisions about sustainable development of electricity usage and planning in Papua New Guinea. The study reveals that it would take little resources to improve PNG Power׳s reporting, which in turn could enhance national energy policy decision-making and energy utility accountability

Demonic fictions: cybernetics and postmodernism

Whilst demons are no longer viewed as literal beings, as a metaphor the demon continues to trail ideas about doubt and truth, simulation and reality, into post- Enlightenment culture. This metaphor has been revitalised in a contemporary period that has seen the dominance of the cybernetic paradigm. Cybernetics has produced technologies of simulation, whilst the posthuman (a hybrid construction of the self emerging from cultural theory and technology) perceives the world as part of a circuit of other informational systems. In this thesis, illustrative films and literary fictions posit a connection between cybernetic epistemologies and metaphors of demonic possession, and contextualise these against postmodern thought and its narrative modes. Demons mark a return to pre-Enlightenment models of knowledge, so that demonic (dis)simulation can be seen to describe our encounters with artificial others and virtual worlds that reflect an uncertainly constituted and unstable self. By juxtaposing Renaissance notions of the demon with Donna Haraway's posthuman "cyborg," psychoanalytic demons with the robots of the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956), and Descartes' "deceiving demon" with Alan Turing's artificial intelligence test, I propose that the demon proves a fluid, multivalent trope that crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries. The demon raises epistemological questions about the relationship between reality, human psychology, and the representation of both in other modes, particularly narrative fictions. When this framework is applied to seminal science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [both 1968]), conventional readings of cyborgs as monstrous Others have to be revised. These fictions are engaged with cybernetic technologies with an epistemological rather than ontological concern, and consequently lend themselves to the kind of sceptical doubt about reality that characterises postmodern thought. Contrary to Descartes, who sees foundational truth through the deceptions of his "deceiving demon," later films like Blade Runner (1982) and The Matrix (1999) use the motif of cybernetic technologies to highlight the inescapability of the postmodern condition of the hyperreal. Finally, however, literary fictions like Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (1988) and A.S. Byatťs A Whistling Woman (2002) and Possession (1990) draw attention to their narrative mechanisms through metafiction, and set the creation of literary meaning against computer-generated texts. Consequently, they defy both the determinism of cybernetic sciences, and the postmodern pretence that the "real" is irrecoverably evasive

Reporting issues challenging the National Roads Authority of Papua New Guinea: the case for using local indigenous mechanisms

For many years, considerable resources have been expended on the National Roads Authority of Papua New Guinea to help build up and maintain the road assets for the economic and social development of Papua New Guinea. Evidence from the audit reports of the auditor-general of Papua New Guinea suggests that there appears room to improve the reporting and accountability of this authority through local indigenous mechanisms. The paper is an important warning for donor organizations about opportunism and how to prevent it (and worse)

Reporting challenges facing the Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources

This study uses textual analysis of the audit reports of the Office of the Auditor General of Solomon Islands to determine the reporting compliance of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources (MFMR) for the period 2001–2013. The results of the study show that the MFMR faces considerable reporting challenges in the areas of internal control systems, recording and documentation. The study puts forward a number of ideas how the Ministry might meet these challenges to stem ongoing losses of fishing revenue for the national economy