Hands Up: A Systematized Review Of Policing Sex Workers In The U.s.

This work lays the foundation for a study of criminalization and its effects on the health of street-based sex workers in the U.S. seeking to: 1) conduct a systematized review of sources from across the country settling on seventeen that describe experiences of harassment, false arrests, theft, physical abuse, sexual assault, HIV criminalization, survival tactics, reporting practices, and positive relations with law enforcement and 2.) compare the U.S. literature to international research, reflecting on the ways that public health researchers remain complicit in sustaining these harmful institutions by failing to consider diversity, the criminalized context of sex work, the links between policing and health, and the importance of collaboration. Through a radical framework of health and human rights I propose centering the experiences of street-based sex workers in a moment when the U.S. is renegotiating its relationship with law enforcement

Applying remote sensing and GIS techniques in solving rural county information needs

The project designed was to acquaint county government officials and their clientele with remote sensing and GIS products that contain information about land conditions and land use. Other users determined through the course of this project were federal agencies working at the county level, agricultural businesses and others in need of spatial information. The specific project objectives were: (1) to investigate the feasibility of using remotely sensed data to identify and quantify specific land cover categories and conditions for purposes of tax assessment, cropland area measurements and land use evaluation; (2) to investigate the use of satellite remote sensing data as an aid in assessing soil management practices; and (3) to evaluate the use of remotely sensed data to assess soil resources and conditions which affect productivity

NASA applications project in Miami County, Indiana

The study site selection is intended to serve all of the different research areas within the project, i.e., soil conditions, soil management, etc. There are seven major soil associations or soils formed on similar landscapes in the Miami Co., and over 38 soil series that were mapped. Soil sampling was conducted in some sites because of its variability in soils and cover types, variable topography, and presence of erosion problems. Results from analysis of these soil data is presented

Prediction of protein-binding areas by small-world residue networks and application to docking

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Protein-protein interactions are involved in most cellular processes, and their detailed physico-chemical and structural characterization is needed in order to understand their function at the molecular level. In-silico docking tools can complement experimental techniques, providing three-dimensional structural models of such interactions at atomic resolution. In several recent studies, protein structures have been modeled as networks (or graphs), where the nodes represent residues and the connecting edges their interactions. From such networks, it is possible to calculate different topology-based values for each of the nodes, and to identify protein regions with high centrality scores, which are known to positively correlate with key functional residues, hot spots, and protein-protein interfaces.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here we show that this correlation can be efficiently used for the scoring of rigid-body docking poses. When integrated into the pyDock energy-based docking method, the new combined scoring function significantly improved the results of the individual components as shown on a standard docking benchmark. This improvement was particularly remarkable for specific protein complexes, depending on the shape, size, type, or flexibility of the proteins involved.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The network-based representation of protein structures can be used to identify protein-protein binding regions and to efficiently score docking poses, complementing energy-based approaches.</p

Nitrate remediation by iron redox reactions in soils

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Impacto en la recaudación fiscal del sector de transporte de carga

El sector transporte de carga es muy importante dentro de la recaudación fiscal del país, ya que sus ingresos recaudados por el ente fiscalizador representan un porcentaje considerable. Pero en la actualidad la informalidad en este sector ha ido en aumento generando así la evasión de impuestos por parte de los transportistas, que en un corto plazo afectará a la recaudación fiscal y eso se verá reflejado en la no realización de obras públicas por parte del estado generando inconformidad ciudadana. Los transportistas de carga realizan de manera normal sus actividades sin ser contribuyentes a la Sunat, ya que para ellos esto les genera más “ganancia”, pero se están arriesgando a que la Sunat al intervenirlos en carretera les imponga infracciones, multas, confiscación de la mercadería transportada o hasta la retención del vehículo. A consecuencia de ello, es que se ha desarrollado distintos cálculos para llegar a saber el impacto que genera los ingresos del sector transporte de carga de los periodos en estudio con la recaudación fiscal del país

La recaudación fiscal y el cumplimiento de la norma tributaria respecto al IGV y renta, en las empresas de transporte de carga de la ciudad de Chiclayo – Lambayeque, periodos 2014-2019

El sector transporte de carga es muy importante dentro de la recaudación fiscal del país, ya que sus ingresos recaudados por el ente fiscalizador representan un porcentaje considerable. Pero en la actualidad la informalidad en este sector ha ido en aumento generando así la evasión de impuestos por parte de los transportistas, que en un corto plazo afectará a la recaudación fiscal y eso se verá reflejado en la no realización de obras públicas por parte del estado generando inconformidad ciudadana. El objetivo principal de la presente investigación fue analizar el impacto en la recaudación del no cumplimiento de la norma tributaria de las empresas de transporte de carga en la ciudad de Chiclayo, departamento de Lambayeque, Periodos 2014-2019. Asimismo, se llevó a cabo una investigación de tipo aplicada con enfoque mixto, a nivel descriptivo con diseño no experimental. La población, estuvo conformada por una diferencia (cruce) entre las empresas de transporte de carga, contribuyentes a la SUNAT - Chiclayo, con los transportistas de carga que han sacado el certificado de habilitación vehicular, dispuestos por la Gerencia Regional de Transporte y Comunicaciones – Lambayeque, dando un total de 264 transportistas de carga en la ciudad de Chiclayo. Finalmente, al realizar los cálculos de la aproximación del total de los impuestos a pagar durante los 6 periodos de las empresas de transporte de carga en la ciudad de Chiclayo que fueron encuestadas, el impacto que generó en la recaudación fiscal del país fue del 0.13%. Es por ello que se recomienda a las entidades fiscalizadoras, tanto la SUNAT como al MTC, establecer medidas de detección, implementando una relación (cruce), de todos los usuarios que realicen dichos procedimientos

Green Areas and Microscale Thermal Comfort in Arid Environments: A Case Study in Mendoza, Argentina

A series of mobile and stationary meteorological measurements were performed in the city of Mendoza, Argentina to study the local influence of green areas on the urban canopy layer heat island effect at the micro scale, during the Aus- tral summer of 2003-2005. These results were associated in representative local climate zones (LCZ), which helped to identify different thermal conditions within the city. The physiologically equivalent temperature index was used to de- termine the thermal comfort in each LCZ, showing that during daylight, trees and parks improve thermal comfort through shading and evapotranspiration; but at the same time, urban tree corridors delay night cooling by retaining warm air beneath their canopies. Also irrigation showed to positively influence on the extension and intensity of the cooling effect of rural areas and parks. The cooling influence of an urban park spreads out through the neighborhoods for 800 - 1000 m, with an average temperature decrease of 1.3°C during daytime and >4.0°C at nighttime.Fil: Puliafito, Salvador Enrique. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Mendoza; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Mendoza; ArgentinaFil: Bochaca, Fabian Rolando. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Mendoza; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Allende, David Gabriel. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Mendoza; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Fernandez, Rafael Pedro. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Mendoza; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Mendoza; Argentin

NASA applications project in Miami County, Indiana

This project was designed to acquaint county government officials and their clientele with remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) products that contain information about land conditions and land use. The specific project objectives are: (1) to investigate the feasibility of using remotely sensed data to identify and quantify specific land cover categories and conditions for purposes of tax assessment, cropland area measurements, and land use evaluation; (2) to evaluate the use of remotely sensed data to assess soil resources and conditions which affect productivity; (3) to investigate the use of satellite remote sensing data as an aid in assessing soil management practices; and (4) to evaluate the market potential of products derived from the above projects