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    Engaging the commodified face: the use of marketing in the child adoption process (2002)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Business ethics 11 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8608
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Philosophy , Economics
    Notes: This paper evaluates the ethical consequences of the use of marketing techniques in the child adoption process within England and Wales. Since 1995 the political climate in the UK has seen a reassessment of the manner in which the state organises care for children who are within its legal guardianship. Successive UK governments have acknowledged the under-utilisation of child adoption as a moral and efficient means of child-care. However, the presentation of child adoption in a more active fashion involves concerns about the manner in which child adoption has been organised. Increasingly child adoption organisations and social work professionals are being made accountable through the language of customer service and performance measurements. The use of commercial techniques such as marketing is justified on utilitarian grounds. However, any utilisation of marketing within the child adoption process is forced to ensure that the child is not de-centred. Legislation requires that the needs and welfare of the child are the first consideration for the adoption agency. Here we begin to see tensions between the humanitarian project that is child adoption, and the unease produced by viewing the child as human ‘product’. This invites analysis via critical theory. The use of marketing in child adoption raises issues related to the objectification and commodification of the child and prospective adopters. Within child adoption it is assumed that we must engage with the child as ‘face’ (Bauman, 1995). But will these assumptions stand the encroachment of marketing techniques into this very sensitive area?
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8608.00274
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    Highly selective synthesis of 2‐butoxy ethanol over Mg/Al/V mixed oxides catalysts derived from hydrotalcites (2000)
    Springer
    Catalysis letters 67 (2000), S. 73-79 
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    ISSN: 1572-879X
    Keywords: alkoxylation ; hydrotalcites ; polyoxometalates ; mixed oxides ; glycol ethers
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The catalytic activity of a series of mixed oxides obtained by the thermal decomposition of hydrotalcite‐like precursors was assessed for the alkoxylation of n-butanol with ethylene oxide. The calcination products of a decavanadate intercalated magnesium–aluminium layered double hydroxide were shown to possess extremely high activity for the alkoxylation reaction achieving up to 100% conversion in batch reaction. In all cases, the catalysts exhibit a much higher selectivity towards the monoglycol adduct than that obtained with the industrial catalyst.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019049017933
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    A Lower Bound for the Simplexity of then-Cube via Hyperbolic Volumes (2000)
    Elsevier
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    Publication Date: 2000-01-01
    Print ISSN: 0195-6698
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9971
    Topics: Mathematics
    Published by Elsevier
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    Coded-aperture imaging in nuclear medicine (1989)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-31
    Description: Coded-aperture imaging is a technique for imaging sources that emit high-energy radiation. This type of imaging involves shadow casting and not reflection or refraction. High-energy sources exist in x ray and gamma-ray astronomy, nuclear reactor fuel-rod imaging, and nuclear medicine. Of these three areas nuclear medicine is perhaps the most challenging because of the limited amount of radiation available and because a three-dimensional source distribution is to be determined. In nuclear medicine a radioactive pharmaceutical is administered to a patient. The pharmaceutical is designed to be taken up by a particular organ of interest, and its distribution provides clinical information about the function of the organ, or the presence of lesions within the organ. This distribution is determined from spatial measurements of the radiation emitted by the radiopharmaceutical. The principles of imaging radiopharmaceutical distributions with coded apertures are reviewed. Included is a discussion of linear shift-variant projection operators and the associated inverse problem. A system developed at the University of Arizona in Tucson consisting of small modular gamma-ray cameras fitted with coded apertures is described.
    Keywords: INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
    Type: NASA, Langley Research Center, Visual Information Processing for Television and Telerobotics; p 33-45
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    A System for Monitoring and Management of Computational Grids (2002)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: As organizations begin to deploy large computational grids, it has become apparent that systems for observation and control of the resources, services, and applications that make up such grids are needed. Administrators must observe the operation of resources and services to ensure that they are operating correctly and they must control the resources and services to ensure that their operation meets the needs of users. Users are also interested in the operation of resources and services so that they can choose the most appropriate ones to use. In this paper we describe a prototype system to monitor and manage computational grids and describe the general software framework for control and observation in distributed environments that it is based on.
    Keywords: Computer Programming and Software
    Type: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing; Jan 01, 2002; United States
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    An XML-Based Protocol for Distributed Event Services (2001)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: This viewgraph presentation provides information on the application of an XML (extensible mark-up language)-based protocol to the developing field of distributed processing by way of a computational grid which resembles an electric power grid. XML tags would be used to transmit events between the participants of a transaction, namely, the consumer and the producer of the grid scheme.
    Keywords: Computer Programming and Software
    Type: 2001 Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications; Jan 01, 2001; Unknown
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    Resource Selection Using Execution and Queue Wait Time Predictions (2002)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Description: Computational grids provide users with many possible places to execute their applications. We wish to help users select where to run their applications by providing predictions of the execution times of applications on space shared parallel computers and predictions of when scheduling systems for such parallel computers will start applications. Our predictions are based on instance based learning techniques and simulations of scheduling algorithms. We find that our execution time prediction techniques have an average error of 37 percent of the execution times for trace data recorded from SGI Origins at NASA Ames Research Center and that this error is 67 percent lower than the error of user estimates. We also find that the error when predicting how long applications will wait in scheduling queues is 95 percent of mean queue wait times when using our execution time predictions and this is 57 percent lower than if we use user execution time estimates.
    Keywords: Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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    Simple LDAP Schemas for Grid Monitoring (2001)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Description: The purpose of this document is to provide an initial definition of the data we need in a directory service or database so that we can implement a performance monitoring testbed. To begin with, this document describes how to represent producers of events and event schemes. The representation of producers is simple and does not contain information such as who has access to the events and what protocols can be used to access the events. In the future, we will define how to describe consumers of events and add details to our representations. A popular choice for a directory service or database for grid computing is a distributed directory service that is accessed using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This document uses LDAP terminology, schemes, and formats to represent the directory service schemes.
    Keywords: Documentation and Information Science
    Type: Global Grid Forum 2; Unknown
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    An XML-Based Protocol for Distributed Event Services (2001)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Description: A recent trend in distributed computing is the construction of high-performance distributed systems called computational grids. One difficulty we have encountered is that there is no standard format for the representation of performance information and no standard protocol for transmitting this information. This limits the types of performance analysis that can be undertaken in complex distributed systems. To address this problem, we present an XML-based protocol for transmitting performance events in distributed systems and evaluate the performance of this protocol.
    Keywords: Computer Programming and Software
    Type: 2001 Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications; Unknown
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    Control and Observation in Distributed Environments (2001)
    In:  CASI
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: This viewgraph presentation provides information on the ideas surrounding the control and observation of a distributed computing environment based on the design of the electrical power grid. The implementation of a reliable control system for the management of the computational grid is crucial. Different architectures have been suggested.
    Keywords: Computer Systems
    Type: Apr 27, 2001; Chicago, IL; United States
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