A personal voyage through the proteoglycan field.

Optimizing Voyage Plan in way of Persian Gulf and Red Sea Using Meteorology and Oceanography Satellite Data

The weather forecast by satellite data is a good guideline for assessment of voyage planning route in order to have safe and economic voyage for shipping. ISO15016, "Guidelines for the assessment of speed and performance by analysis of speed trial data", has been developed by the working group ISO/TC 8/SC 9/WG 2. This paper presents the effects of wave speed & direction, wind speed and directio...

Sailing Stormy Seas: The Illness Experience of Persons with Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive disorder with no known cause or promising cure. While substantial information is known about the pathophysiology, little is known about the illness experience of living with the disease. A qualitative study using an ethnographic approach was conducted to provide a rich understanding of the illness experience. The illness experience was apprehended t...

Farmers Perception about gains from Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the IPM FFS. The study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

Charting Your Organization's Bring-Your-Own-Device Voyage

Organizations are increasingly adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. CIOs, however, remain concerned about the potential threats from personal devices and applications to the control and security of organizational IT assets. Based on in-depth case studies at Cisco, Wal-Mart and the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, the full article describes a four-wave model that describes ...

La presence de la perse dans Ies oeuvres des philosophes du XVIII siecle (Montesquieu Voltaire ,et Ies Encyclopedistes ) a travers du recit de voyage de Jean Chardin'