Realizing innovative public waterworks: Aligning administrative capacities in collaborative innovation processes

The importance of government support for innovation is widely acknowledged, but the way governments support innovation is changing. We discern three trends: local innovation policies are gaining importance; governments increasingly choose a bottom-up, tailor-made approach to sup

Філософсько-релігійний вплив екзистенціалізму на український мовно-літературний процес

Стаття підносить актуальну проблему в сьогоденні – розширення кругозору студентської молоді у створюваному творчому освітньо-виховному середовищі через знайомство з філософськими течіями, зокрема екзистенціалізмом. Такий підхід до організації навчально-виховного процесу сприятиме особистісній естетизації тих, хто навчається, зростанню їх культуротворчого рівня.Статья поднимает актуальную проблему на сегодняшнем этапе – расширение кругозора студенческой молодежи в создающейся творческой образовательно-воспитательной среде через знакомство с философскими течениями, в том числе с экзистенциализмом. Такой подход к организации учебно-воспитательного процесса будет способствовать личностной эстетизации обучаемых, повышению их культуротворческого уровня.The article raises a rather actual problem of the present – the expansion of students’ outlook at the modern creative educational environment through the acquaintance with philosophical directions and existentialism in particular. Such a method of approach to the organization of educational process will promote personal aestheticism of students and a rise in their cultural stage

Ontwikkeling van het aantal zelfstandige bestuursorganen tussen 1993 en 2000: zijn zbo's 'uit' de mode?

Volgens de Algemene Rekenkamer waren er 545 zelfstandige bestuursorganen in Nederland in 1993. De kritiek van de Rekenkamer op met name de regeling van de ministeri?le verantwoordelijkheid voor deze organen, leidde tot een forse aanscherping van het zbo-beleid. Het ligt in de verwachting dat deze

HeMIS: Hetero-Modal Image Segmentation

We introduce a deep learning image segmentation framework that is extremely robust to missing imaging modalities. Instead of attempting to impute or synthesize missing data, the proposed approach learns, for each modality, an embedding of the input image into a single latent vector space for which arithmetic operations (such as taking the mean) are well defined. Points in that space, which are averaged over modalities available at inference time, can then be further processed to yield the desired segmentation. As such, any combinatorial subset of available modalities can be provided as input, without having to learn a combinatorial number of imputation models. Evaluated on two neurological MRI datasets (brain tumors and MS lesions), the approach yields state-of-the-art segmentation results when provided with all modalities; moreover, its performance degrades remarkably gracefully when modalities are removed, significantly more so than alternative mean-filling or other synthesis approaches.Comment: Accepted as an oral presentation at MICCAI 201

Проблеми правового регулювання перегляду рішень у справах про адміністративні правопорушення

Розглядаються проблеми апеляційного оскарження та перегляду рішень, прийнятих судами при розгляді справ про адміністративні правопорушення, пропонуються варіанти їх вирішення.Рассматриваются проблемы апелляционного обжалования и пересмотра решений, принятых судами при рассмотрении дел об административных правонарушениях, предлагаются варианты их решения.The article deals with the study of the present problems in domestic legislation concerning appeals and cases review given by the courts in cases of administrative offences, the ways of their solution are suggested

Зв'язок сейсмічної активності з атмосферним інфразвуком

The connection the infrasonic fluctuations in an atmosphere with seismic activity in some region for period 1997–2000 are considered in the work. The model of stationary random process is used for the analysis. The coordination spectral of the characteristics infrasound and seismic activity are shown for the given period of time. The analysis of researches shows change of a spectrum infrasound before earthquake

План заходів із збереження та розвитку Національного дендрологічного парку «Софіївка» Національної академії наук

OBJECTIVES: Asians have a smaller muscle mass and a larger fat mass at the same body mass index (BMI) than most other ethnic groups. Due to a resulting higher cardiometabolic risk, the BMI cut-offs for overweight and obesity were lowered for adults. For Asian children universal criteria apply. The objectives of this study were to determine the normal BMI distribution and assess the BMI class distribution in a reference cohort of affluent South Asian children born before the obesity epidemic and to assess the influence of the obesity epidemic on the distributions.METHODS: Historical cohort study with 4350 measurements of height and weight of two cohorts (born 1974-1976 and 1991-1993) of Surinamese South Asian children living in The Netherlands, analysed with WHO Child Growth References and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) BMI cut-offs.RESULTS:The reference cohort 1974-1976 was significantly lighter (BMI Z-score=-0.63; 95% CI -0.69 to -0.58) and more variable (SD=1.19) than WHO reference. Total thinness prevalence was exceptionally high, both in cohort 1974-1976 (WHO 38.3%; IOTF 36.4%) and 1991-1993 (WHO 23.6%; IOTF 23.9%). Overweight and obesity prevalences were low in the reference cohort (WHO respectively 6.0% and 2.1%; IOTF 5.3%, 0.9%), but much higher in cohort 1991-1993 (WHO 13.6%, 9.1%; IOTF 11.7%, 6.0%).CONCLUSIONS: The low mean BMI Z-score and high prevalence of thinness are likely expressions of the characteristic body composition of South Asians. Universal BMI cut-offs should be applied carefully in South Asian populations as thinness prevalence is likely to be overestimated and obesity underestimated. The development of ethnic specific cut-offs is recommended

Mechanics of cooling liquids by forced evaporation in bubbles

Injecting a non-dissolvable gas into a saturated liquid results in sub-cooling of the liquid due to forced evaporation into the bubble. Previous studies assumed the rate of evaporation of liquid into the bubble to be independent of the degree of sub-cooling. In our study we quantify the bubble growth by direct observation using high speed imaging and prove that this hypothesis is not true. A phenomenological model of the bubble growth as a function of the degree of sub-cooling is developed and we find excellent agreement between the measurements and theory. This bubble cooling process is employed in cooling a liquid. By identification of all heat flows, we can well describe the cool down curve using bubble cooling. Bubble cooling provides an alternative cooling method for liquids without the use of complicated cooling techniques