Replication Research: Campus Emergency Notification Systems

This paper is an exact replication of the Han, Ada, Sharman and Rao (2015) article on Campus Emergency Notification Systems (ENS). In their study, Information Quality Trust and Subjective Norm were the factors which most commonly induced recipients of ENS notifications to comply with the information and instructions in the notification; Perceived Safety Threat, Perceived Financial Threat, and Past Experience also played a role for some types of ENS notifications. We found essentially the same results, although there were some differences. In our study, Information Quality Trust was again the most important determinant. Subjective norms played a role, but were not a fundamentally important factor as they were in the Han, et al. study; we speculate this may be due to different cultures between our participants and theirs. The other three factors were important for some types of ENS notifications but not others. Our research also suggests that future research should consider past experience with ENS notifications, such as the frequency, location relevance, and the timeliness of past ENS notifications received

Smart Home using Internet

This paper presents a lowcost, flexible home devices control and monitoring system using an embedded arduino micro-web server, with real IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app running on android platform. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communication protocol to monitor and control the home environment with real time graphical interface. Devices such as light switches, temperature sensors, smoke/gas sensors and sirens can been integrated in the system to increase the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed smart home system. However every load of the home can be controlled using SENSOR SWITCH. Sensor switch is integrated with the Ethernet system. Therefore in proposed system real time interface is possible

Review on the role of pidotimod in recurrent respiratory infections in children

Background: Physiological immaturity of the immune system is the most common cause of recurrent respiratory infections (RRIs) in children. Drugs acting on the immunological pathways such as immunostimulants can be a very useful approach in the management of RRIs in children. Pidotimod (PDT) is an immunostimulant that acts on both innate and adaptive immunity. The immunostimulant activity of PDT has been firmly established in the management of RRIs in children with or without asthma. Objectives: This review was performed to summarize the available literature on the correlation of immunity and RRIs and current evidence of PDT in RRIs and pneumonia in children. Methodology: The literature search was performed in PubMed and Google Scholar databases using search terms such as pidotimod, children, RRIs, and pneumonia. Results: A total of 18 clinical studies with 10,704 children were included in this review. This includes 13 randomized controlled trials, two meta-analysis, and two observational studies. This review of current clinical evidence demonstrates that when added to the standard of care, PDT significantly reduces the number of recurrences of RRIs, severity, and duration of acute episodes in children and is safe in its prevention and treatment. This ultimately results in reduced visits to pediatric clinics and lesser absenteeism from school. It is also effective in improving the clinical outcomes in pneumonia patients. Conclusion: Pidotimod is effective and safe in the prevention and treatment of RRIs in children

Andean Land Use And Biodiversity: Humanized Landscapes In A Time Of Change

Some landscapes Cannot be understood without reference., to the kinds. degrees, kinds, degrees, and history of human-caused modifications to the Earth's surface. The tropical latitudes of the Andes represent one such place, with agricultural land-use systems appearing in the Early Holocene. Current land use includes both intensive and extensive grazing and crop- or tree-based agricultural systems found across virtually the, entire range of possible elevations and humidity regimes. Biodiversity found in or adjacent to such humanized landscapes will have been altered in abundance. composition, and distribution in relation to the resiliency of the native Species to harvest, hold cover modifications, and other deliberate or inadvertent human land uses. In addition, the geometries of land cover, resulting flout difference among the shapes, sizes, connectivities, and physical structures of the patches, corridors, and matrices that compose landscape mosaics, will constrain biodiversity, often in predictable ways. This article proposes a conceptual model that alter ins that the Continued persistence of native species may depend as much oil the shifting Of Andean landscape mosaics as on species characteristics, themselves. Furthermore, mountains such as the Andes display long gradients of environmental Conditions that after in relation to latitude, soil moisture, aspect, and elevation. Global environmental change will shift these, especially temperature and humidity regimes along elevational gradients, causing Changes outside the historical range of variation for some species. Both land-use systems and Conservation efforts will need to respond spatially to these shifts in the future, at both landscape and regional scales.Geography and the Environmen

Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators

Biodiversity is declining, with direct and indirect effects on ecosystem func-tions and services that are poorly quantified. Here, we develop the first globalassessment of trends in pollinators, focusing on pollinating birds and mam-mals. A Red List Index for these species shows that, overall, pollinating birdand mammal species are deteriorating in status, with more species movingtoward extinction than away from it. On average, 2.5 species per year havemoved one Red List category toward extinction in recent decades, represent-ing a substantial increase in the extinction risk across this set of species. Thismay be impacting the delivery of benefits that these species provide to people.We recommend that the index be expanded to include taxonomic groups thatcontribute more significantly to pollination, such as bees, wasps, and butter-flies, thereby giving a more complete picture of the state of pollinating speciesworldwide

A No-Tribunal SDRM and the Means of Binding Creditors to the Terms of a Restructuring Plan

The paper addresses two discrete but related and essential attributes of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM). It first considers the merits and feasibility of an SDRM that would provide a procedure for proposing and adopting a restructuring plan for a sovereign debtor’s debt which would not involve any tribunal or administrator (a No-Tribunal SDRM). The No-Tribunal SDRM would undertake the restructuring as if the sovereign debtor and its creditors were subject to the Model CAC regime. In addition to embodying a novel and interesting structure for an SDRM—and one that eliminates the difficult hurdle of identifying a satisfactory tribunal—adoption of a No-Tribunal SDRM would accommodate flexibility in selecting the manner of implementing the SDRM, i.e., causing it to be binding on the sovereign debtor’s creditors. Second, the paper addresses the means by which a sovereign debt restructuring plan may become legally binding on a sovereign debtor’s creditors. Earlier SDRM proposals generally have described and assessed the details of the formulation and content of a sovereign debt restructuring plan and the procedural steps involved in a making a restructuring plan effective. The paper generally leaves these details aside. Instead, it focuses primarily on the various legal structures that could be employed to cause a sovereign debtor’s creditors to be legally bound by a restructuring plan—i.e., the implementation of a restructuring plan. Aside from contractual approaches to restructuring, this matter of binding creditors is an area of legal analysis that is somewhat underdeveloped and neglected in the literature. The paper focuses on implementation of a restructuring plan under a statutory approach imposed by rule of law. The implementation scheme or schemes chosen for an SDRM are enormously important for the acceptability of the SDRM to political actors and market participants, the effectiveness of the operation of an SDRM, and the costs of devising and adopting an SDRM