Integration of Local Poetic Voices: an Interview with Lawson Fusao Inada

An interview with Lawson Fusoa Inad

VIDEO IN THE CLOUD TCP CONGESTION CONTROL OPTIMIZATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

With the popularity of video streaming, a new type of media player has been created called the adaptive video player that adjusts video quality based on available network bandwidth. Merging this technology with cloud computing will change the online video landscape by allowing providers to dynamically create media servers that take advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing. This however is not a straightforward endeavor as unlike a traditional data center; a cloud-based infrastructure is subject to a greater amount of performance variability. While the adaptive video player is designed to cope with variability in general, a video server in the cloud will be less optimal compared to one running on dedicated hardware. In this paper, we research maximizing the video streaming experience in the cloud from the adaptive video server perspective through TCP congestion control algorithms. Five major TCP congestion control variants are evaluated: Cubic, Bic, Vegas, H-TCP, and HighSpeed TCP. Additionally both private and public cloud environments are tested with the final evaluation based on video streaming performance as well as TCP friendliness

ADAPTIVE CO-MANAGEMENT OF URBAN FORESTS: MONITORING REFORESTATION PROGRAMS IN MEXICO CITY.

Aiming to maintain or increase the indispensable socio-ecological benefits provided by urban forests, cities of the world have adequate urban forestry to take advantage of new technologies and political arrangements. Cooperation among different actors has become a trend to address urban forests’ most pressing management issues, such as reforestation monitoring and the creation of tree inventories. This management approach has been conceptualized as adaptive co-management (ACM) in European and North American cities. Intending to advance the academic efforts to understand ACM, this article presents a spatial and statistical analysis of the distribution of trees monitored in Mexico City. The analysis indicated that the number of urban trees monitored is very low and inequitably distributed in the city. The implementation of ACM for environmental management of the urban forest, using the participatory tool of Naturalista. The tool demonstrated to have much potential in the operationalization of inclusive reforestation programs, particularly in monitoring urban trees recently planted. The implementation of ACM and citizens' science programs are discussed and recommended as a promising urban environmental management approach

Educational Activities to Help Transferring Knowledge in Nuclear: The Seminars of Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares)

From its creation, Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares, JJNN), a non-profit organization that depends on the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), has as an important scope to help transferring the knowledge between those generations in the way that it can be possible

A Matrix PRNG with S-Box Output Filtering

We describe a modification to a previously published pseudorandom number generator improving security while maintaining high performance. The proposed generator is based on the powers of a word-packed block upper triangular matrix and it is designed to be fast and easy to implement in software since it mainly involves bitwise operations between machine registers and, in our tests, it presents excellent security and statistical characteristics. The modifications include a new, key-derived s-box based nonlinear output filter and improved seeding and extraction mechanisms. This output filter can also be applied to other generators.Research partially supported by the Spanish MINECO under Project TIN2011-25452

From Secondary School To University: Attracting Young Students Towards A Career In Nuclear

From its creation, Spanish Young Generation in Nuclear (Jóvenes Nucleares, JJNN), a non-profit organization that depends on the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), has as an important scope to help spread knowledge about nuclear energy, not only pointing out its advantages and its role in our society, but also trying to correct some of the ideas that are due to the biased information and to the lack of knowledge. To try to have success in that goal, some high school lectures were taught and it has been organized regularly a Basic Course on Nuclear Science and Technolog

Education and progress a approach

La educación, a la que debe tener acceso gran parte de la población mundial, es una variable de peso para definir el índice de desarrollo humano de un país; sin embargo, es uno de los aspectos donde se marca más el problema de las desigualdades.El último informe sobre desarrollo humano, de la Organización de las Naciones unidas –ONU–, alerta a la comunidad internacional sobre el alcance que la situación podría traer, si los efectos del fenómeno de la globalización no se manejan con criterios de equidad, racionalidad y sostenibilidad.The education is a weight variable for to define the index of human progress of a country, however, is one of the aspects mat observe more the problem of the inequalities.The last report about human increase of the United Nations Organization, attentive to the international comunity about the reach of the inequality in the education, if the effects of the globalization phenomenon don't manage on the criterions of equity, racionality and sustainily

Medieval tourism events: case study of the Algarve

This thesis paper deals with Medieval Tourism events, with the case study of the Algarve (the events of Castro Marim’s “Dias Medievais”, Salir’s “Salir do Tempo”, and Silve’s “Feira Medieval”). The main objective of this study is to analyze the medieval tourism events that happen in Portugal and Spain, with a case study on the Algarve region. The side objective is: (i) To characterize the medieval tourism events in the Iberian Peninsula; (ii) To understand the evolution of these type of events in terms of supply and demand (iii) To know the opinion of those responsible for the organization of the medieval events in the Algarve, about the impacts of the same in the last two decades. We shall analyze the field of tourism generally speaking, cultural tourism, medieval tourism, and events and tourism section by section in our literature review. We shall in our methodology collect secondary data via a database on medieval events in the Iberian Peninsula, and primary data on our case study via interviews on the three events organizers. The analysis of the contents of the three interviews will shed light on our main research question which is "To what extent did the medieval events held in the Algarve, in the municipalities of Silves, Loulé and Castro Marim, contribute, in the perspective of their organizers, to the development of the localities and communities involved and to the increase of their awareness?" Finally, to conclude our study, we shall comment on future recommendations for research and directions for inquiry on Medieval tourism events.A presente tese versa sobre os Eventos Medievais, com o estudo de caso do Algarve, onde se abordam em concreto os eventos de “Dias Medievais” de Castro Marim, “Salir do Tempo” de Salir e “Feira Medieval” de Silves. O objetivo principal deste estudo é analisar num primeiro momento os eventos medievais que ocorrem em Portugal e em Espanha, salientando-se no estudo de caso aqueles que decorrem no Algarve. O objetivo secundário é: (i) caracterizar os eventos turísticos medievais na Península Ibérica; (ii) compreender a evolução deste tipo de eventos em termos de oferta e procura (iii) Conhecer a opinião dos responsáveis pela organização dos eventos medievais no Algarve sobre os impactos que os mesmos tiveram nas últimas duas décadas. A nossa revisão de literatura para por uma análise dos conceitos de turismo, turismo cultural, turismo medieval e eventos e turismo. A metodologia deste estudo apresenta a recolha de dados secundários relativos a eventos medievais na Península Ibérica e dados primários sobre nosso estudo de caso por meio de entrevistas nos três organizadores de eventos. A análise do conteúdo das três entrevistas permitiu-nos refletir sobre a nossa principal questão de investigação "Até que ponto os eventos medievais realizados no Algarve, nos concelhos de Silves, Loulé e Castro Marim, contribuem, na perspetiva dos seus organizadores, para o desenvolvimento das localidades e comunidades envolvidas e para o aumento de sua consciência?" Finalmente, para concluir nosso estudo, comentaremos sobre recomendações futuras para pesquisa e instruções para consulta sobre eventos turísticos medievais

Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport

This paper develops a theoretical model for freight transport characterized by competition between means of transport (the road and maritime sectors), where modes are perceived as differentiated products. Competitive behavior is assumed in the road freight sector, and there are constant returns to scale. In contrast, the freight maritime sector is characterized by oligopolistic behavior, where shipping lines enjoy economies of scale. The market equilibrium where the shipping lines behave as profit maximizers, provides a first approximation to the determinants of market shares, profits, and user welfare. We then characterize the equilibrium when horizontal integration of shipping lines occurs, with and without further economies of scale. An empirical application to the routes Valencia-Antwerp and Valencia-Genoa uncovers that the joint profit of the merged firms and social welfare always increase. However, user surplus only increases when economies of scale are significantly exploitedfreight transport, shipping lines, horizontal integration