The Value of Design in an Enterprise Cloud Solution

The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of design in a product development organization named C4C that targets large enterprises looking for a cloud based customer relationship management solution. There is a general sense that design is important at C4C, but no attempts have been undertaken to formalize and quantify that value in a cohesive manner. A Case Study approach has been used to collect evidence surrounding the design team’s contribution to the organization. Design management theory and tools have been applied to validate the findings and reach the conclusion. The findings of this paper clarify and shed light on the design team’s undeniable contribution to the success of the product and quantify the value of design. The paper concludes by interlinking four main findings; one, percent of top line revenue; two, balancing ‘the triad’; three, increasing the design influence; and, fourth, the cloud influence

Underwater Multi-Node Radio Communication Solutions for Planetary Exploration

The exploration of the presumably life harboring subsurface ocean of Europa will provide scientists with extensive new knowledge in the search for extraterrestrial life. A highly miniaturized payload is required to penetrate a narrow passage through the thick ice crust covering Europa's surface. Underwater wireless communications may be the most viable means of communication for such exploratory missions, accounting for size and weight restrictions. This presents a challenge to achieve satisfactory data rates and a range that permits autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to communicate within their region of operation, as well as with a surface lander or orbiter. This work presents thorough prototype experimentation on an underwater communication system established between several nodes using RF signals. During an eight-week internship experience at NASA's Ames Research Center in September-October 2014, our team developed a Europa exploration mission concept, built representative hardware, and carried out tests to assess the feasibility of key aspects of the concept. Experiments demonstrating the viability of RF communication underwater comprised inspecting the effect of depth and horizontal distance on signal strength as well as the optimum positioning of antennas. To test the system's performance, two submersibles were designed and built. A commercially available remotely operated vehicle (ROV) was also modified and used as a main communication node. The two submersibles were wirelessly connected and accommodated sensors capable of characterizing water properties and equipped with 2.4 GHz, 1 mW transceivers to communicate the measured data. The communication procedure is that the main communication node requests the collected data from the two submersibles when in range and receives it instantly through RF. This work models what may take place during an actual mission to Europa. The developed mission concept involved a hybrid communication system consisting of acoustic and RF signals to enhance the capability of the nodes to communicate over greater distances. The AUVs will need to avoid obstacles and maneuver around to collect data based on predefined algorithms. Thus, they will be provided with two positioning systems; the inertial navigation system, backed with an acoustic positioning system to mitigate drift. The AUVs divide the ocean into planes and explore along circular paths increasing in diameter with depth. Moreover, they make use of miniaturized sensors to map the surrounding environment. In this paper, the ROV and the submersibles are described, along with sections explaining the mechanism of communication and the testing procedures conducted to yield results

Grappling with Global Migration: Judicial Predispositions, Regulatory Regimes, and International Law Systems

Reviewing Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith, & Jennifer S. Holmes, Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy (Univerrsity of Pennsylvania Press 2015), Rebecca Hamlin, Let Me Be A Refugee: Administrative Justice and the Politics of Asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Oxford University Press 2014); and Marie-Benedicte Dembour, When Humans Become Migrants: Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint (Oxford University Press 2015)

Key Problems and Solutions in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language: A Literature Review

This study aims to examine the key issues encountered in teaching Turkish as a foreign language and proposes solutions to these problems through a literature review. The research identifies core problem areas such as teaching materials, teaching methods, student motivation, language proficiency, cultural differences, and teacher competencies. It also evaluates how these problems affect the teaching process. Findings reveal that students face difficulties in language learning when teaching materials are not aligned with their level, teaching methods are limited, and teachers lack sufficient training. Additionally, it is emphasized that strategies to increase student motivation and cultural awareness must be developed. The proposed solutions include adapting teaching materials to students’ language levels, providing in-service training for teachers, increasing the use of technology, and promoting cultural integration

Commanding Legality: The Juridification of Immigration Policymaking in France

The emergence of constitutional review in France has attracted substantial attention from scholars of public law. Yet little has been written about the political implications of the expansion of rights-based review on the part of France\u27s highest administrative jurisdiction, the Conseil d\u27Etat. The argument is made in this paper that repeat litigation by French lawyers defending the cause of immigrants is an important site for observing the symbolic power of legal forms. The analysis focuses on cases challenging immigration-related administrative regulations and shows how the process of repeatedly adjudicating these issues has focused attention away from litigants and their claims at the same time that it has reinforced the centrality of the Conseil d\u27Etat and its formalist jurisprudence in administrative governance. This detailed examination of the practical operation of France\u27s highest administrative jurisdiction leads to the surprising conclusion that this distinctly non-adversarial form of adjudication has contributed over the long-term to institutionalizing a juridification of immigration-related administrative policymaking

Juridical Framings of Immigrants in the United States and France: Courts, Social Movements, and Symbolic Politics

This paper reexamines the engagement of U.S. and French courts with immigration politics, aiming to provide a fuller accounting of how law and immigration politics shape one another. Jurisprudential principles are placed in national and historical context, elucidating the role of rights-oriented legal networks in formulating these arguments during the 1970s and early 1980s. The analysis traces how these judicial constructions of immigrants subsequently contributed to catalyzing a transformation of immigration politics in both countries. Immigrant rights jurisprudence is shown to be produced by, as well as productive of, broader political values, agendas, and identities

Legal Mobilization on the Terrain of the State: Immigrant Rights Practice in Two National Legal Fields

Scholarship on law and social movements has focused attention primarily on the United States, and secondarily on countries that share the Anglo-American legal tradition. The politics of law and social movements in other national legal contexts remains under-examined. The analysis in this article contrasts legal mobilizations for immigrant rights in France and the United States and explores the relations between national fields of power and legal practices. I trace the institutionalization of immigrant rights legal organizations in each country, and argue that the divergent organizational forms and litigation strategies adopted by “professionalized” movement organizations reflect the dynamics of the nationally-distinct fields of power relations within which law reform has been conducted. My analysis links the material and symbolic resources available to law reformers to the relative authority of private and public juridical actors in each State