Feasibility of EPC to BPEL Model Transformations Based on Ontology and Patterns

Model-Driven Engineering holds the promise of transforming\ud business models into code automatically. This requires the concept of\ud model transformation. In this paper, we assess the feasibility of model\ud transformations from Event-driven Process Chain models to Business\ud Process Execution Language specifications. To this purpose, we use a\ud framework based on ontological analysis and workflow patterns in order\ud to predict the possibilities/limitations of such a model transformation.\ud The framework is validated by evaluating the transformation of several\ud models, including a real-life case.\ud The framework indicates several limitations for transformation. Eleven\ud guidelines and an approach to apply them provide methodological support\ud to improve the feasibility of model transformation from EPC to\ud BPEL

TANZANIA POST-COLONIAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND PERSPECTIVES ON SECONDARY SCIENCE EDUCATION, PEDAGOGY, AND CURRICULUM: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

The development of technology and innovation in any country depends on a strong investment in science education from the lower to the upper levels of education. In most of the Sub-Saharan African nations, science education curriculum and teaching still faces many issues and problems that are inhibiting the growth of technology and innovation in these nations. In order to address these issues, an interpretive qualitative study that aims to examine how Tanzanian secondary science educators perceive secondary science education was conducted in the summer of 2013. The purpose of this study is to investigate problems and educational issues that might be limiting the growth of science, technology, and innovation in the Tanzanian society. Additionally, this research investigates the impacts of the colonial legacy that relates to language, politics, and economics, as they affect science education in Tanzania secondary schools. This study focuses on the governmental four-year ordinary level secondary science education; it took place in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The researcher interviewed nine secondary science educators: three secondary science teachers and six secondary science education administrators. The researcher also conducted classroom observations. The data results from both interview and classroom observations were contextualized with data from existing documentation on Tanzanian secondary science education and data from previous research. The emergent themes from the study indicate that most of the problems and issues that are currently facing secondary science education are historically connected to the impact of the colonization period in 19th and 20th centuries. This study suggests that in order to improve science education in Tanzanian society, the people, especially the elites, need to break away from an Orientalist mindset and start integrating the Tanzanian culture and science into the still existing Eurocentric science curriculum. In addition, the Tanzanian government needs to invest in industries and economic initiatives that will support strong science education at all levels of education, as well as the graduates produced through this system

Making Soap From Readily Available Agricultural and Household Wastes can Increase Cleanless in Rural Area

In some areas of the world, soap is too expensive for many people to afford. For these people an alternative exists. They can make their own soap. In general, soap is made by the reaction of triglycerides and caustic soda. However, caustic soda, too, may be difficult to find or too expensive. The aim of this project is to develop a process for making soap from readily available agricultural and household waste materials, and other inexpensive chemicals. By using this process, rural people can get the benefits of readily available, inexpensive soap. Soap is made from animal fats or vegetable oils by saponification using strong base. The simple soaps can be isolated as cakes or bars, or it can be used as water solution. Many reaction conditions were studied to develop a recommended process that can be done using equipment and reaction conditions that can be performed in a kitchen or a fireplace. The soaps from this project were characterized primarily using infrared spectroscopy and several other analytical techniques as well as tests to show their effectiveness.https://scholar.dominican.edu/ug-student-posters/1009/thumbnail.jp

Tailoring the Business Modelling Method for R&D

While the benefits of innovation seem to be clear intuitively, Research and Development (R&D) organisations are struggling to show the value they add. Especially in times of crisis, the result is that they get the first budget cuts to reduce costs in the short term. This causes companies, industries, or even whole economies, to lose competitive advantage in the long run. The field of business modelling deals with the creation and capturing of value. However, it has not yet provided a method tailored to R&D previously. Building upon earlier work on business modelling, we adapt the Business Modelling Method (BMM) to the field of R&D

Avances tecnológicos y sus aplicaciones en la cibertaxonomía

Los rápidos avances en la ciber-infraestructura, la bioinformática, la fotografía digital y las tecnologías de la información contribuyen a acceder fácilmente al conocimiento taxonómico y permiten generar información a una escala acorde con las necesidades de la crisis de la biodiversidad. El conocimiento taxonómico básico, como literatura taxonómica, catálogos de nombres científicos, registros de ejemplares, localización de ejemplares tipo en colecciones biológicas, y claves interactivas de varios grupos de organismos ya están disponibles a través de Internet. En este artículo, se analiza cómo la información taxonómica, principalmente la entomológica, es presentada a la comunidad en Internet; se discuten las diferentes formas en que la taxonomía ya ha hecho uso de este medio o podrá hacerlo en un futuro cercano, y cómo los actuales medios de compartir datos, especialmente a través de Internet, están siendo utilizados para hacer más eficientes las tareas taxonómicas, realzar las publicaciones y mejorar los vínculos con los usuarios.The rapid advances in cyber-infrastructure, bioinformatics, digital imaging and related information technologies facilitate the access to taxonomic data and allow generating new information on a scale appropriate to meet the decline in biodiversity. Basic taxonomic information, such as taxonomic literature, catalogues, specimen-level data, location of types, and interactive keys are already available, at least for some groups, on the Web. In this article we explore the modern means of disseminating taxonomic information, mostly entomological information, in the Internet; we review some of the different ways taxonomists have so far made use of the Web or will be able to do so in the near future, and how modern means of sharing data, especially via the Internet, are being used to streamline taxonomic work and improve links with end users.Fil: Cigliano, Maria Marta. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (i); Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; ArgentinaFil: Pocco, Martina Eugenia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (i); Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; ArgentinaFil: Pereira, Hernan Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (i); Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; Argentin

Access to HIV prevention and care for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children : a qualitative study in rural and urban Mozambique

Background: Follow-up of HIV-exposed children for the delivery of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services and for early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection is critical to their survival. Despite efforts, uptake of postnatal care for these children remains low in many sub-Saharan African countries. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted in three provinces in Mozambique to identify motivators and barriers to improve uptake of and retention in HIV prevention, care and treatment services for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children. Participant recommendations were also gathered. Individual interviews (n = 79) and focus group discussions (n = 32) were conducted with parents/caregivers, grandmothers, community leaders and health care workers. Using a socioecological framework, the main themes identified were organized into multiple spheres of influence, specifically at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and policy levels. Results: Study participants reported factors such as seeking care outside of the conventional health system and disbelief in test results as barriers to use of HIV services. Other key barriers included fear of disclosure at the interpersonal level and poor patient flow and long waiting time at the institutional level. Key facilitators for accessing care included having hope for children's future, symptomatic illness in children, and the belief that health facilities were the appropriate places to get care. Conclusions: The results suggest that individual-level factors are critical drivers that influence the health-seeking behavior of caregivers of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children in Mozambique. Noted strategies are to provide more information and awareness on the benefits of early pediatric testing and treatment with positive messages that incorporate success stories, to reach more pregnant women and mother-child pairs postpartum, and to provide counseling during tracing visits. Increasing uptake and retention may be achieved by improving patient flow at the institutional level at health facilities, by addressing concerns with family decision makers, and by working with community leaders to support the uptake of services for HIV-exposed children for essential preventive care

Violencia doméstica y contra las mujeres en las novelas de Charles Dickens

La presente tesis es un estudio panorámico del modo en el que las novelas de Charles Dickens tratan la violencia de género, entendida como violencia contra la mujer por su pareja o ex-pareja, y la violencia sexual. También se tratan los casos menos frecuentes en los que las agresoras son personajes femeninos, para dar una visión de conjunto de la violencia en la pareja en la obra del autor. Se parte de un análisis de los roles sociales victorianos del hombre y la mujer que tenían un marcado carácter de clase, con un ideal que se predicaba de la clase media y que influye en la manera en la que el autor retrata diversos tipos de violencia familiar. Esta violencia se muestra en todos los entornos sociales y en casi todas las novelas, y su retrato es plausible si se compara con los estudios de sociólogos y psicólogos modernos respecto a la violencia contra la mujer, un retrato condicionado por las convenciones literarias victorianas, en particular sobre la moral sexual de los personajes femeninos y la influencia del melodrama. Dickens observa el problema y lo denuncia, sin proponer soluciones. Para realizar este análisis, se une la crítica literaria feminista, el enfoque histórico, y para la comparación con la situación actual, los estudios sociológicos sobre la construcción de los géneros y la psicología