Budget Execution (2015-2016) in Myanmar

Yangon School of Political Sci(편집자) 재단법인 동아시아연구원 2016 EAI 스페셜 리포트 Vol.- No.-

In the budget monitoring and participatory budget project of the East Asia Institute, the Yangon School of Political Science has undertaken a study entitled “Myanmar Budget Execution for the 2015-2016 Fiscal Year”. There are four sections in this project: “Budget Formulation”, “Budget Approval”, “Budget Execution” and “Budget Oversight”. But YSPS’ chosen topic of “Budget Execution” is too huge and broad to study in a confined period of time, so the YSPS research team narrowed down the topic to “Budget Execution in Education Construction in 2015-2016 Fiscal Year”. In this short report, we sought to identify how the government executes the budget and the nature of the flow of money from the very start to ground level construction sites. Another aim of our research is to shed light on the fact that we, the people, are still excluded in all phases of the budget process.

Constituent Development Funds in the Yangon Region

Yangon School of Political Sci 재단법인 동아시아연구원 2017 EAI 스페셜 리포트 Vol.2017 No.-

Statistical Study and Prediction of Variability of Erythemal Ultraviolet Irradiance Solar Values in Valencia, Spain

Gonzalo Gurrea,Vicente Blanca-Giménez,Vicente Pérez,María-Antonia Serrano,Juan-Carlos Moreno,Solar Radiation Group of the Universitat Politècnica de València 한국기상학회 2018 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences Vol.54 No.4

The goal of this study was to statistically analyse the variability of global irradiance and ultraviolet erythemal (UVER) irradiance and their interrelationships with global and UVER irradiance, global clearness indices and ozone. A prediction of short-term UVER solar irradiance values was also obtained. Extreme values of UVER irradiance were included in the data set, as well as a time series of ultraviolet irradiance variability (UIV). The study period was from 2005 to 2014 and approximately 250,000 readings were taken at 5-min intervals. The effect of the clearness indices on global irradiance variability (GIV) and UIV was also recorded and bi-dimensional distributions were used to gather information on the two measured variables. With regard to daily GIVand UIV, it is also shown that for global clearness index (kt) values lower than 0.6 both global and UVER irradiance had greater variability and that UIVon cloud-free days (kt higher than 0.65) exceeds GIV. To study the dependence between UIVand GIV the χ2 statistical method was used. It can be concluded that there is a 95% probability of a clear dependency between the variabilities.A connection between high kt (corresponding to cloudless days) and low variabilities was found in the analysis of bidimensional distributions. Extreme values of UVER irradiance were also analyzed and it was possible to calculate the probable future values of UVER irradiance by extrapolating the values of the adjustment curve obtained from the Gumbel distribution.

Towards a Politics of Routes and Routing

Towards a Politics of Routes and Routing Academy of Mobility Humanities 2024 Mobility Humanities Vol.3 No.1

This paper explores the concepts of routes and routing in the context of human mobility, shedding light on how routes shape movements and contribute to the formation and transformation of kinetic hierarchies. While significant attention has been given to roads, paths, railways, canals and other forms of route in mobility studies, these have not cohered into critical accounts of routes and routing. People and things do not move at random across an isotropic plain. This is the first lesson of mobility—people and things follow, and create, routes. This paper argues for a theorisation of routes and routing through an examination of approaches to routes in art and theory, exploring how routes create infrastructures of power as well as the use of selfmade routes—desire lines—to trace out possible alternatives to the nfrastructural present. The analysis of routes and routing forms a key part of a wider politics of mobility. The paper argues that while borders have received substantial theoretical attention, routes and routing have been relatively undertheorised in mobility studies and elsewhere. It asks what would happen if we theorised routes and routing in a similar way to the theorisation of borders and bordering?

Analytical and experimental postbuckling of conditioned cables

Rivierre, L.,Polit, O.,Billoet, J.L. Techno-Press 2001 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.12 No.6

This paper studies the behaviour of a homogeneous cable in a horizontal rigid duct and loaded by an axial compressive force. This behaviour is characterized by spatial buckling modes, named sinusoidal and helical, due to friction and total or partial cable locking. The evaluation of critical buckling loads involved by drilling technology has been studied by many authors. This work presents a new formulation, taking the friction effects into account, for the transmission of the axial load during the postbuckling process. New analytical expressions of pitches in both buckling cases are also given. A life-sized bench is presented, which permits to study the laying of optical fiber cables by squeezing them into an underground duct. Finally, analytical solutions are compared with experimental tests and finite element simulations.

일본농업의 국제화와 이해관계자의 대응에 관한 일고찰

이향철 ( Hyang Chul Lee ) 한국협동조합학회 2009 韓國協同組合硏究 Vol.27 No.2

Further results on the development of a novel VTOL aircraft, the Anuloid. Part II: Flight mechanics

Petrolo, Marco,Carrera, Erasmo,Visser, Coen de,D'Ottavio, Michele,Polit, Olivier Techno-Press 2017 Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science Vol.4 No.4

This paper presents the main outcomes of the preliminary development of the Anuloid, an innovative disk-shaped VTOL aircraft. The Anuloid has three main features: lift is provided by a ducted fan powered by a turboshaft; control capabilities and anti-torque are due to a system of fixed and movable surfaces that are placed in the circular internal duct and the bottom portion of the aircraft; the Coanda effect is exploited to enable the control capabilities of such surfaces. In this paper, results from flight mechanics are presented. The vertical flight dynamics were found to be desirable. In contrast, the horizontal flight dynamics of the aircraft shows both dynamic instability, and more importantly, insufficient pitch and roll control authority. Some recommendations and guidelines are then given aimed at the alleviation of such problems.

Genomic Heterogeneity as a Barrier to Precision Medicine in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

Pectasides, Eirini,Stachler, Matthew D.,Derks, Sarah,Liu, Yang,Maron, Steven,Islam, Mirazul,Alpert, Lindsay,Kwak, Heewon,Kindler, Hedy,Polite, Blase,Sharma, Manish R.,Allen, Kenisha,O'Day, Emily,Lomni American Association for Cancer Research 2018 Cancer discovery Vol.8 No.1

<P>Heterogeneity of actionable genomic alterations among primary and metastatic lesions suggests that biomarker profiling of a single primary tumor site may limit the success of targeted therapy in gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.</P><P>Gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA) is a lethal disease where targeted therapies, even when guided by genomic biomarkers, have had limited efficacy. A potential reason for the failure of such therapies is that genomic profiling results could commonly differ between the primary and metastatic tumors. To evaluate genomic heterogeneity, we sequenced paired primary GEA and synchronous metastatic lesions across multiple cohorts, finding extensive differences in genomic alterations, including discrepancies in potentially clinically relevant alterations. Multiregion sequencing showed significant discrepancy within the primary tumor (PT) and between the PT and disseminated disease, with oncogene amplification profiles commonly discordant. In addition, a pilot analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing demonstrated the feasibility of detecting genomic amplifications not detected in PT sampling. Lastly, we profiled paired primary tumors, metastatic tumors, and cfDNA from patients enrolled in the personalized antibodies for GEA (PANGEA) trial of targeted therapies in GEA and found that genomic biomarkers were recurrently discrepant between the PT and untreated metastases. Divergent primary and metastatic tissue profiling led to treatment reassignment in 32% (9/28) of patients. In discordant primary and metastatic lesions, we found 87.5% concordance for targetable alterations in metastatic tissue and cfDNA, suggesting the potential for cfDNA profiling to enhance selection of therapy.</P><P><B>Significance:</B> We demonstrate frequent baseline heterogeneity in targetable genomic alterations in GEA, indicating that current tissue sampling practices for biomarker testing do not effectively guide precision medicine in this disease and that routine profiling of metastatic lesions and/or cfDNA should be systematically evaluated. <I>Cancer Discov; 8(1); 37–48. ©2017 AACR.</I></P><P><I>See related commentary by Sundar and Tan, p. 14</I>.</P><P><I>See related article by Janjigian et al., p. 49</I>.</P><P><I>This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1</I></P>

Do Scores on an Attention Test Predict Scores on Executive Function Tests?

Angela N. Burda,Jaimie L. Gilbert,Courtney Amundson,Kelsey Baughman,Aaron Brummel,(Sarah Crimmins),(Lisa Daringer),(Courtney Hansen),(Delaney Hoffman),(Olivia Ferguson),(Katherine Polit) 한국언어재활사협회 2018 Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders Vol.3 No.3

Purpose: This study sought to determine if younger and older adults’ scores on the Attention Process Test predicted scores on the Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome and Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies. Methods: The Attention Process Test, the Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome, and the Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies were administered to 60 younger and 60 older adults in a counter-balanced manner. Regression statistics were calculated to determine any predictive outcomes. Results: For older adults, the Attention Process Test significantly predicted the Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome’s total profile standard scores, and the Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies’ total standard scores for Accuracy, Rationale, and in one analysis significantly predicted Reasoning. For younger adults, when correcting for high correlations among the five Attention Process Test subtests, this test did not significantly predict their scores on the Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome or the Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies’ total standard scores. Conclusions: The Attention Process Test was consistently a significant predictor of executive function measures in older adults, but not younger adults, suggesting the relationship between attention and executive function may be different for these age groups. Thus, different evaluation procedures may be warranted for older adults versus younger adults. A caveat of these findings is that these results were obtained with healthy, neurologically intact individuals. Future research should further investigate the relationship between attention and executive function in adults with acquired neurological damage.