Distrust of food safety has grown among the Japanese people after the occurrence of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) in 2001. The Food Safety Commission was formed under the Cabinet Office and made a network among the ministries. The newly-established Consumer Agency may strengthen the quick response to emergencies. Shoku-iku (food and dietary education) Law is being implemented by the Cabi...

Inductive Loops are widely used in California for traffic detection and monitoring. Extensive studies have been conducted to improve loop detection system performance. This paper reviews previous work on faulty loop data analysis for correction and faulty loop diagnosis. It is necessary to distinguish faulty loop data analysis and loop fault detection according to the data level. According to t...

At a child care center, 18-month-old Hannah is clinging to her mother and crying as they enter. Her mother pulls Hannah’s hands from her arm, saying, “Don’t be such a crybaby and go play.” In a pediatrician’s waiting room, two-year-old Carlos climbs dangerously high on the furniture. He throws a toy at his mother when she calls his name. His mother laughs nervously and says quietly, “I don’t kn...

How influential is the president’s advantage in cabinet formation in presidential systems? Do presidents receive more and the most important portfolios? What factors lead to a more or less disproportionate distributions of portfolios? In this study, I suggest answers for these questions through a theory in which the disproportional allocation of portfolios can be explained by the privileged pos...

We present Patchwerk, a networked synthesizer module with tightly coupled web browser and tangible interfaces. Patchwerk connects to a pre-existing modular synthesizer using the emerging cross-platform HTML5 WebSocket standard to enable low-latency, high-bandwidth, concurrent control of analog signals by multiple users. Online users control physical outputs on a custom-designed cabinet that ref...

This study investigated the specific fluid dynamics characteristics of cytotoxic safety cabinets (CSC), particularly those used in cancer drug reconstitution operations. Measurements taken on site were used to derive characteristic data for these cabinets. An in-depth laboratory investigation of airflows inside another CSC was also conducted. Anemometric values recorded on these two installatio...

This paper provides new grounds for research and applications in designing, developing, implementing and institutionalizing decision support systems and their use in socio-economic development. The paper describes the experience of the cabinet of Egypt with socio-economic decision making and its implications on the emergence of a new type of information-based organization, the Information and D...

The political year 2021 represented the most tumultuous period in Netherlands nearly two decades. After a relatively uneventful general election, traditional culture of consensual elite cooperation broke down temporarily. This could be seen censure motion adopted against Prime Minister, which he ignored, and extremely lengthy coalition formation process, was paralleled by gradual decomposition ...

The aim of this study was to determine proximate composition, minerals, vitamins (B3 and B6) browning index Pleurotus sajor caju (i.e. grey oyster mushrooms, GOM) djamor pink POM), which were subjected cabinet, microwave vacuum drying. Electric cabinet-dried POM yielded higher protein (29.94% ± 0.60), fat (0.79% 0.07), vitamin B3 (0.25 mg/100 g 0.04) most the minerals content. However, GOM carb...

Статья посвящена важному историческому источнику по истории Церковно-археологического кабинета Московской духовной академии — машинописным сборникам «Материалы церковно-археологического кабинета», которые на сегодняшний день являются малоизученными. Инициатором их появления стал доцент Алексий Данилович Остапов, впоследствии протоиерей, профессор, заведующий Церковно-археологическим кабинетом с...