Connectivity

Purpose of the study: Since 2015, International aviation sector has witnessed an exceptional transformation of Indian air transport with a growth rate of 15-20%. It is also predicted to maintain a similar trend for not less than 4-5 years. However, transporting 400-500 million people a year with the existing facilities and infrastructure will inversely affect the sector. Thus we require an efficient and well-equipped airport network throughout the country to cater the needs of the future demand. Benchmarks are said to be the vital part of every planning standards and processes.
Methodology: Study focuses on 109 airports of India (including upcoming airports in UDAN) and covers a critical evaluation of airport to airport connection as well as airport accessibility to and fro. This paper analyses all the benchmarking parameters, namely ‘indicators’, those influence connectivity and accessibility of these airports.
Main Findings: Using statistical tools, it evaluates the existing air network, makes a comparative investigation and models the entire network to frame individual and overall benchmarks. Based on these benchmarks, study recommends adopting few strategies for the next 5 years to address the increasing demand.
Implications: Study brings about a healthy competition among airports to resolve their shortcomings. It can boost up demand shift from other modes to air transport.
Applications of this study: The methodology may be followed to set Benchmarks of any networks based on the relevant parameters.
Novelty/Originality of this study: Airports in India are given different indices and ranks on the connectivity and accessibility parameters, so that their performance is analysed in the global network

Written whilst a Research Fellow at ResCen, Centre for Creation Processes in the Performing Arts, Middlesex University, London, Autumn 2000

This paper was written 10 years into my work on virtual presence, just after directing 2 workshops focusing on the performative use of telematics (CellBytes00 at Arizona State University and Corpos Online at Lugar Commun in Portugal). The following paragraph sets the context of the debate. Ghislaine Boddington April 2020

What is live? What is natural? What does it mean to be embodied? How many identities can one have? What is the essence of presence? This was a period of investigation for the performing arts, which have traditions deeply integrated with live presence through their special performer-to-spectator connection. My work as a director of performing arts has immersed me to work in to the dramaturgies and process design of virtual physical events.

Across the last thity years I have engaged with telepresence - led live event processes and have worked with many combinations of body technologies. I have been experimenting in the interface demands of the digitalised body alongside the live physical body.

This has for me brought up many questions which are highly topical in sectors well beyond the arts, as is in proof today with the COVID-19 extraordinary situation of lockdown, meaning advanced use of telepresence through video conferencing in all sectors globally. I detail some of this early work in the following text (written in 2000) and contextualise these explorations within the wider socio-cultural engagement with telephonics. This text explores some of the reasons why there is a need for far more in depth research and development of the  concepts of presence (and therefore identity) that will exist in the future.

Please do look at further writings on ongoing work post 2000 by Ghislaine Boddington

Las narrativas transmedia en las redes sociales digitales, como Instagram, reconfiguran las prácticas de producción de noticias, al mismo tiempo, reformulan el consumo dentro del “nosotros” en esas mismas redes. La reconfiguración se da a partir de narrativas interconectadas que cruzan enlaces e hipervínculos, que diversifican la forma de consumo de noticias. Para entender este contexto de digitalización de los procesos periodísticos, se observa desde el contexto de las narrativas y el hipertexto, y es posible identificar las características del periodismo transmedia en la plataforma, gracias a la difusión de noticias en el entorno digital y a las potencialidades vinculadas a las redes sociales digitales (RSD). La presente investigación tiene como objetivo comprender las narrativas transmedia, a partir de las imágenes y fotografías publicadas en Instagram del diario El Espectador de Medellín, Colombia. Por tanto, tenemos los siguientes objetivos específicos: identificar el concepto ...

Many Canadian Educational Psychology classes currently emphasize and model constructivist teaching practices in addition to integrating the notion of connectivity and Web 2.0 into educational theory. This study examines 'Moodle 1 ' as a technological tool to further enhance participation and performance in addition to the regularly used 'semiotic tools' and social-dialogical activities found in a teacher education program. Similarly, discourse and narrative are described as a mode of thinking, as a structure for organizing our knowledge, and as a vehicle in the process technology and higher education. How can a program of learning be assisted with structuring the delivery and organization of knowledge?

Connectivity is one of the most important factor
that may affect as a great benefit to various
domains for the next era of the IoT(Internet of
Things). However, securing connectivity
requires various industry stakeholders to access
freely which cause business and regulatory
issues. The purpose of this study is to explore
challenges in implementing market based IoT
industry, focusing on connectivity issues. We
have investigated cases of the smart home
industry in Korea, presented implications based
on the literatures and the in-depth interviews.
As a result, newly emerging industry based on
technology like IoT tend to have conflicts
between service providers and network
providers. And it expands towards political
issues on data traffic and fostering spectrum
managements by private sectors. Moreover,
connectivity with device-platform-service
protocols and compatibility tend to be
monopolistic structured. Our implications
suggested supplementing ideas for improving
ways of establishing regulations.

The European Union’s Global Gateway, adopted in December 2021, marks the continuation of efforts by numerous international actors to limit China’s increasing influence in global infrastructure diplomacy. This FIIA Working Paper analyzes the role of the EU’s connectivity agenda in this crowded market and positions the Global Gateway in the context of EU external relations. Based on a conceptual and policy analysis, and a review of analyst debate and cross-cutting literature, the paper makes three key observations.

Firstly, the EU institutions, sometimes siloed, as well as the member states, divided in their China politics, have managed to agree on a comprehensive policy programme which – on paper – connects existing economic tools to a foreign policy vision of the Union. Secondly, successful delivery of the high-politics yet hands-on programme will, however, require connecting diplomatic and technical expertise, and public and private financing. Thirdly, the normative agenda embedded in the Gateway builds on a conventional role for the EU as a global actor, but can be expected to face challenges with its simultaneous goal of achieving a comprehensive reach.

1.  Much of ecological research focuses on the responses of species and species communities to variation in the amount and quality of resources that are required for survival and reproduction. In such research, it is critical to measure the availability of resources in a manner that is relevant in relation to the ecological requirements of the species.2.  We have developed a measure for resource availability that integrates the contributions of the number, volume and diversity of resource units to quantify the amount of habitat that is available for a species community. We apply this measure to data on the occurrence of 116 species of wood-decaying polyporous fungi in 47 study plots of boreal forest within an area of 150 × 150 km.3.  We show that species richness and pooled abundance of common species is explained well by the number of downed logs, whereas the occurrence of 41 red-listed species is best explained by the total volume of logs and by the abundance of large logs in particular. The occurrence of common species is explained by the local availability of dead wood, whereas the occurrence of red-listed species is additionally affected by the spatial connectivity of the focal forest stand to the surrounding larger expanses of old-growth forest.4.  Our results elicit the contrasting ecologies of common and red-listed species in relation to how the number of logs, their size distribution and diversity, and forest connectivity affect species occurrences. The results suggest that the most cost-effective means of preventing further declines of threatened species is to increase the amount of large downed logs through restoration and biodiversity-oriented management in the vicinity of existing areas of natural-like forests.5.  Synthesis. Our results illustrate that the most relevant way of measuring resource availability can differ greatly even within a taxonomically coherent community seemingly sharing the same resources. Our approach for modelling resource availability applies to the resources that occur as discrete objects with variation in the size and quality of individual resource units.

Chittagong  port  is  considered  the  heart  of the economy  of  Bangladesh.  The  important  role  of
Chittagong Port for Bangladesh underlines the necessity of investigating how best it should
be developed toward meeting the future challenges. Toward enhancing the existing handling
capacity, the Chittagong Port Authority plans for one of the largest and ambitious projects  –
the Bay Terminal – which will be the future Port of Chittagong.
Ports certainly cannot remain unchanged. They in fact have new role to play. The new trade
and  transport  requirements  are  providing  the  ports  both  opportunities  and  risks.  Their
response to this new situation will determine the success or failure of each port.  There are
many  more  issues  and  challenges  involving  and  evolving  gradually  in  the  global  port
industry  .  Ports  have  to  change  accordingly,  to  adjust  to  the  new  situation  to  achieve  its
expected prospect.
Moreover, in order to determine a prospectus port, it depends on how strategically the port is
confronting its challenges of its way of development.
The level of research embarked in this study was descriptive survey. The descriptive survey
research provided researcher an opportunity to present his perspectives on the subject. The
analysis  of  the  data  collected  for  the  study  employed  quantitative  method  (face  to  face
interview, telephone interview). In order to achieve the objective, the author had to depend
on  secondary  data  mostly.  Secondary  data  were  gathered  from  the  lecture,  presentations,
relevant books, UNCTAD publications, journals, newspapers, magazines and various reports
of  CPA  and  ADB.  Relevant  data  had  been  explored  through  review  of  literature,  email
surveys  and  interacting  with  top  management  of  different  entities  using  unstructured
questionnaires.
This study has tried to find various potential  issues and  challenges  of a BCT from different
aspect  of  its  pre-constructional  phase  to  operational  phase,  such  as:  Challenges  in
(Constructional,  Operational,  Strategical  and  Environmental)  aspect.  It  has  also  found
prospects  of  becoming  a  successful  regional  sea  port  by  proper  deal  with  challenges  in  a
strategic way.
At the end, this study states some recommendations based on expected challenges  has been
given. Those Includes: construction of flood wall, Landlord model introduction, connectivity
development,  update  TOS  system,  skilled manpower,  a  comprehensive environmental and
disaster management plan etc.

It has become increasingly clear that courts across the globe must do more to better organize and manage their caseload and that automation alone is not the answer. In response to this need, case flow management has emerged to become the central method of promoting greater court responsibility and accountability for efficient case processing. For over thirty years court case management concepts have evolved, starting in the United States (U.S.), spreading to other industrialized common law countries initially. Yet, for many judicial systems, the concept, techniques, and supporting systems of case flow management are still relatively new ideas that need to be more fully understood. This paper helps develop a basic understanding of case flow management by defining the concept, outlining the various techniques used, presenting in general the different case management information systems that support those techniques, and outlining the core steps a judicial system can take to plan for, ...

As the world enters a phase of recovery from the hardest part of the pandemic, one thing seems clear to everyone: connectivity has become vital to every side of our lives. This paper argues that almost 40 percent of the world population still does not have access to what is increasingly touted as a fundamental right. To solve this pressing problem, it is essential to explore alternative solutions, aiming at a more sustainable internet ecosystem. In this perspective, this paper presents the key elements of this volume, dedicated to “Community Networks: Towards Sustainable Funding Models.” The aim of this publication is to provide a missing, yet essential perspective to the community network debate: how to fund these initiatives sustainably.

There are productive material connections beyond mere internal or external relations. The concept of connection enables a creative reinterpretation of certain historical questions and, accordingly, the essay stresses the importance of the concepts of connection, nexus, and fusion in many philosophies, from Aristotle to Deleuze.

Romantic partnership formation by itself has remained intact in most postindustrial societies despite declining marriage rates. However, among contemporary Japanese people of childbearing age, the never-married singlehood rate is ever-increasing amidst a dearth of alternative forms of partnership, a consistently high demand for marriage, and a thriving ‘marriage hunting’ (konkatsu) market. At the core of this puzzle is a prevalence of virginity and significantly decreased inter-gender interaction among the singles as a whole. Based upon qualitative research conducted at multiple ‘marriage hunting’ venues within the Tokyo metropolis, this article analyses contemporary Japanese singlehood within the framework of the ‘culture of uncertainty’, which scholars have argued characterizes post-bubble ‘precarious Japan’. It can be argued that the current absence of past institutions that mediated interpersonal connections has left the recent generation who came of age during the two ‘lost decades’ deprived of relevant gender scripts as well as appropriate gendered expectations. Specifically, this article examines how newly emergent non-normative gender tropes, such as the ‘herbivore-type man’, are regarded with ambivalence by both men and women, as well as how traditional gender norms persist within the singles’ psyche despite their increasing social irrelevance.

Keywords: culture of uncertainty, precarious Japan, singlehood, marriage hunting, konkatsu, herbivore, sōshoku, inter-gender interaction

*This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Japan Forum on 01/03/2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09555803.2018.1441167

In the light of the implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for Greater Eurasia and, in particular, Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries, this paper assesses the prospects of seven actual and potential trans-Eurasian overland transport corridors. Based on the analysis of trade flows, railway tariffs, existing restrictions and individual routes' potential efficiency, the most promising overland China-EU and China-EAEU transport corridors and their prospective goods nomenclatures are identified. China-EAEU-EU transit is interpreted as the 'story of the container'. The principal interests of EAEU countries in developing BRI transport corridors are identified, as are the opportunities that involvement in China's BRI affords for the promotion of a substantial transit business and, most importantly, better regional and interregional connectivity within both the EAEU and Greater Eurasia.

Social informatics is the body of research that examines the design, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. This article serves as a brief introduction to social informatics. Examples such as computer networks, scientific communication via electronic journals, and public access to the Internet are used to illustrate key ideas from social informatics research. Some of the key themes include the importance of social contexts and work processes, sociotechnical networks, public access to information, and social infrastructure for computing support. The article draws upon 25 years of systematic analytical and critical research about information technology and social change.