Purpose: This article aimed to examine factors determining Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) leading to technology transfer on economic growth in Thailand and to study policies related to foreign investment promotion.

Theoretical framework: The target variables were formed to set up a model specification to estimate the relationship between determinants in terms of technology transfer, FDI, and economic growth of Thailand.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The research scope covered and explored the relevant dataset of each expected variable from 1995 – 2021 and some target companies enquired in 2021. The secondary data included FDI at regional level, Gross provincial products (GPP), the number of establishment enterprises in the province and others.

Findings: The major factors determined FDI included the number of labour, the number of establishments, consumer price index, the value of investment and the number of internet users. These determinants  had significant relationship with the GPP. Most entrepreneurs confirmed that technology transfer affected the investment decision.

Research, practical & social implications: The researchers indicated that there was significant relationship among the GPP and other independent variables ;for instance, the number of labour, the number of establishments, the FDI, and the number of internet users. The government plans reflected the investment mechanism and extensively stimulated the region's development.

Originality/Value: The value of this research confirmed that technology adopted  increased productivity in the production processes. The government created the investment promotion through the infrastructure and facilities which would support the area-based regional development.


This paper describes SRCB-LUL team's person identification system submitted to track 1 of the ICASSP 2023 Person Identification and Relapse Detection from Continuous Recordings of Biosignals (e-Prevention) challenge, which aims to identify the wearer of the smartwatch. At first, abnormal values of the multi-channel physiological signals are replaced, and the valid data are divided into multiple fine-grained fragments. Then, these fragments are fed into a 1D-CNN, and the user ID of a day is predicted through the voting of fragment results. Based on this framework, we train multiple base networks with different input lengths or different signal channels and aggregate these base networks for ensemble learning. The accuracy of our system is 96.16/95.00% on the validation/test set.


Preparation of 4,4' - diaminostilbene-2,2' - disulfonic acid (DSD acid) via selective hydrogenation of 4,4' - dinitrostilbene - 2,2' - disulfonic acid (DNS) was studied using Pd/C-OVN as complex catalyst in aqueous medium. Optimum reaction conditions determined by orthogonal experiments were as follows:mass concentration of DNS, 200 g/L; mass ratio of Pd/C catalyst to DNS, 2.0%; mass ratio of co - catalyst OVN to DNS,0.8% ;reaction temperature,65 ℃ . Stability of complex catalyst was studied under optimum conditions. Structure of the product was characterized by IR.


Cooperative communication (CC) is a technique that exploits spatial diversity allowing multiple nodes to cooperatively relay signals to the receiver so that it can combine the received signals to obtain the original message. CC can be combined with topology control to increase connectivity at the cost of a small increase in energy consumption. This work focuses on exploring CC to improve the connectivity with a sink node in ad hoc wireless networks. More precisely, this work proposes a new technique, named CoopSink, that combines CC and topology control techniques to increase connectivity to a sink node while ensuring energyefficient routes. Simulation results show that connectivity and routing to the sink cost can be improved up to 6.8 and 2.3 times, respectively, when compared with other similar strategies. The first algorithm uses a distributed decision process at each node that makes use of only 2-hop neighborhood information. The second algorithm sets up the transmission ranges of nodes iteratively, over a maximum of six steps, using only 1-hop neighborhood information. We analyze the performance of our approaches through extensive simulation.


EMI in the Medical Environment Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is defined as any electromagnetic disturbance that interrupts, obstructs or otherwise degrades or limits the effective performance of electronic equipment. Unfortunately, EMI sources are plentiful and give rise to seemingly endless combination of disturbance characteristics. For this reason, the Industry categorizes different types of EMI by their characteristics, as summarized in Table 1.


The problem of consciousness is traditionally understood as the difficult task of justifying the emergence of an inner world of experiences, qualia and/or mental representations from a substrate of physical things conceived as autonomously existing. I argue that an alternative approach is possible, but it requires a conceptual reconstruction of consciousness and existence as two different perspectives on the same underlying process. On this basis, I present a view of direct (conscious) perception that supposes a unity of the activity in the brain and the events in the external world. The underlying process is referred to as onphene. I will use the example of the rainbow as an intuition pump to introduce this new approach, which is eventually used to explain features of consciousness such as illusions, memory, dreams, and phosphenes. The proposed view shares some elements with neo-realism and process ontology, and it can be considered as a form of radical empiricism.


You must take a well-cut oar and go on till you reach a people who know nothing of the sea and never use salt with their food, so that our crimsonpainted ships and the long oars that serve those ships as wings are quite beyond their ken. And this will be your cue-a very clear one, which you cannot miss. When you fall in with some other traveller who speaks of the "winnowing-fan" you are carrying on your shoulder, the time will come for you to plant your shapely oar m the earth and offer Lord Poseidon the rich sacrifice of a ram, a bull, and a breeding boar. Homer, Odyssey'


A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of short period of accelerated aging and storage on the germination of Artoearpus integer and Durio zibethinus Murr seeds. The seeds were place in dessicators to aged for three days at 40-42°C and 100% relative humidity. After accelerated aging treatment seeds were put in air-tight bottles and stored in a dessicator in a oven (40-42°C) for 2 weeks. Accelerated aging caused a decreased in germination of seeds for A. integer (decrease from 88% to 0% in 5 days) and D. zibethinus Murr (decreased from 96% to 0% in 6 days). Different environments of varying temperatures of storing seeds gave different results in percentage of seed germination. Germination percentage of aged seeds decreased with increase in the period of aging and storage.


Background: It is thought that the susceptibility of chronic myeloid leukemic (CML) cells to imatinib (IM) is increased by high miR-153-3p expression. Aim: To establish the association of miR-153-3p expression with treatment response to IM in CML patients. Methods: Sixty CML patients were included and divided into two groups consistent with their response to treatment whether sensitive or resistant to IM. Ten healthy normal participants were enrolled as control group. RNA was extracted from serum to work out miR-153-3p expression utilizing real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The primers were supplied by Macrogen Inc. Results: 27 patients were sensitive to imatinib and 33 were resistant to imatinib. The ratio of male to female was 1.14:1. The bulk (58%) of patients were within the age range of 41-60 years. Weight and gender did not significantly differ between the two patient groups. The mean patients' CT of miR-153-3p was significantly above the control group and the sensitive group. The mean DCT value in resistant group was significantly above that of the sensitive group while insignificantly above that of the control group. The mean DDCT in resistant group was significantly higher than that of the sensitive group. The miR-153-3p expression showed significantly lower fold change than the sensitive group. Conclusion: There is miR-153-3p expression downregulation in resistant CML patients indicating unresponsiveness to treatment with imatinib.


The purpose of this report is to identify research gaps related to the race/ethnicity and leisure literature. This was done by first highlighting the trends involved in the ethnicity and leisure literature, and then presenting five gaps found in the literature for future researchers to consider.


Currently the segmentation algorithms of the left ventricle MR (Magnetic Resonance) images are mostly semi auto, such as Snake method. To realize the auto segmentation, in this paper the authors adopt SVM (Support Vector Machine) to localize the left ventricle of images, and then carry out the segmentation with level set method. As to the problem that the construction of a signed distance function (SDF) is computationally expensive, a new generation method of the SDF, namely midline extending method is introduced. The SDF can be generated simply by scanning the image for a time. In the meantime it can take down a nearest point on an initial curve for each point, which supports for extending the curvature of the speed term. Focusing on the imaging characteristics of MR images, especially on that of the left ventricle MR images with tag lines, the authors introduce the method of block pixel variation and intensity comparability to improve the speed term of level set, so as to increase the segmentation precision. This method can automatically, quickly and accurately achieve the goal of segmentation of the left ventricle. In this paper, the segmentation results of synthetic images and the left ventricle MR images are offered.


A stochastic approach that treats fission dynamics on the basis of one-dimensional Langevin equations is used to investigate the effect of the nuclear dissipation on the pre-scission neutron multiplicity and fission probability for the compound nucleus ^(188)Pt in an intermediate range of excitation energies. A modified wall and window dissipation with a reduction coefficient, k_s, has been applied in the Langevin equations. It is shown that by using values of k_s in the range 0.29 ≤ k_s ≤ 0.52 the results of the calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data.


Analyzed was the anamnestic data, clinical and physical features in 105 patients with local segmental pulmonary microcirculation disorders, which were not accompanied by pathological changes on chest X-ray or which did not coincide with their localization. Calculated were the "integral indicators" which can be used to improve the efficiency of diagnosis of non-massive pulmonary artery thromboembolism.


Interaction between transnational mining companies (mining TNCs), governments, mining industry bodies and local communities is critical to advancing several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mining TNCs may be leaders or conspicuous laggards in this regard. Some larger mining companies have made significant corporate social responsibility (CSR) progress and implemented effective sustainable development, thereby boosting their legitimacy. Individually, some African countries have established global, standard, mining codes of conduct; collectively, African governments are organizing to establish regional licensing standards, CSR guidelines and codes of conduct such as the Africa Mining Vision. Comparing two mining TNCs cases, we illustrate paths of progress and problems and predict their directions in Africa. Although we expect the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative to remain the main vehicles and provide benchmarks that move the mining industry towards achieving the SDGs, these vehicles need to be expanded to include targets that currently are only implicit, such as gender equality and sustainable community development.


1. An internal combustion engine with a combustion chamber and a system for exhaust gas, which are introduced departing from the combustion chamber exhaust gases (10) and which has a system for recirculation of exhaust gases, through which exhaust gases (10) at least partially returned to the supply (5) for combustion air to the combustion chamber supply air (12) for combustion, wherein the system is provided EGR heat exchanger unit (9) by means of which the exhaust gas can be recovered thermal energy I, characterized in that a unit (7) of the compressor, by which is taken from the ambient intake air is compressed and the compressed stream (11) of the intake air to bypass the combustor is first directed through disposed in the EGR system heat exchanger unit (9). ! 2. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1, characterized in that the EGR system is provided with at least one other heat exchanger unit, through which compressed flow of intake air. ! 3. The internal combustion engine according to claim 2, characterized in that through the other parallel to the first heat exchanger unit provided in the EGR system heat exchanger unit (9) takes the compressed intake air. ! 4. An internal combustion engine according to one of claims 1-3, characterized in that a partial flow of the bleed from the environment the suction air supplied to the separate heat transfer unit which fluidly integrated in the engine cooling circuit. !five. Internal combustion engine according to one of claims 1-3, Exc


ABSTRACT A major question for historians of the eighteenth century is how traders, who were often strangers to each other, managed to establish the sense of mutual reliability that underpinned the expansion of credit, and of long distance trade. This article examines the role of commercial correspondence in this process, based on archives from different British regions and sectors of domestic and overseas trade. The form and functions of letters, their structure, handwriting, vocabulary, layout and phrasing, are examined. How merchants learned epistolary skills is also addressed: the role of didactic literature, education, training and experience/tacit knowledge. It is argued that commercial letters were both practical and imaginary. They acted as a commitment agent, reducing risk and uncertainty and lowering transaction costs. They also created communities of traders that transcended boundaries of culture and nationality in the interests of efficient commerce.


72 1024x768 Since the lira was declared convertible in December 1958, the Italian monetary authorities have been making increasing use of changes in the Italian banks ' foreign position as a policy instrument. The present article analyses in detail how the Italian monetary authorities have used their powers to control banks ' foreign exchange borrowing and lending as a means to restrict or expand domestic liquidity. In general, the flows of bank money to and from abroad have been regulated by the central bank as to make the process of balance-of-payments adjustment more flexible, and hence to attenuate the effects of the liquidity gains and losses due to the surpluses and deficits generated by autonomous operations with abroad. The analysis confirms that when bank credits are used without appropriate measures designed to re-establish basic equilibrium in the balance of payments, they may give rise to speculative capital movements. The author argues that while Italian monetary policy made an effective impact on the course of the economic cycle, it could not control the cycle itself. Normal 0 14 /* Style Definitions */
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A waiting time prediction system for consultations in hospitals has been developed. The system consists of a main server, control terminals, and monitors for patients, which are controlled using Web applications and Web browsers. The system obtains the following data; time arriving at receptions, examination-start and finish time, and consultation-start and finish time for every patient in real time from other existing medical systems through LAN. Based on these data, the order that doctors consult patients is predicted, and then the waiting times for every patient are estimated in real time. The system was evaluated in a hospital. The average differences between the predicted and actual waiting time were less than 20 minutes for the reserved patients, and less than 60 minutes for non-reserved patients. The predicted waiting times by the system were announced to patients on a display. By interviewing patients, it has been confirmed that the announcement of the waiting time is useful for improving hospital services.


2-Benzoyl pyrimidine as a secondary leading structure is developed by twice optimization of 2-pyrimidinoxy- N aryl benzylamine. Based on this structure, thirty six 2-benzoyl pyrimidine derivatives have been designed and synthesized. All compounds are determined by 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR and HRMS. Their interior fungicidal activities show that R 1 substituent prefers phenyl or heterocyclic group with 2-halo or 2-alkyl group. When introducing fluoride to 6-position on benzene ring, the fungicidal activity is maintained at a similar level. 4,6-Dimethoxy group on pyrimidine ring was recognized as a best substituent by far. The activity is seriously decreased when methyl group is fixed on 5-position of pyrimidine. Even the fungicidal activities become completely disappeared when the ketone group is reduced to hydroxyl group. Among them, three compounds 2,3-dichloro- N -(2-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine-2-carbonyl)phenoxy)- N -methylbenzamide ( 4AHl ), 2,5-dichloro- N -(2-(4,6-dime-thoxypyrimidine-2-carbonyl)phenoxy)- N -methylbenzamide ( 4AHn ) and N -(2-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine-2-carbonyl)-3-fluoro-phenoxy)- N ,2-dimethylbenzamide ( 4AFd ) exhibit comparable fungicidal activity against cucumber powdery mildew to the reference metrafenone.


Marine shells are a natural, cheap, abundant and renewable resource, which can be used to produce useful materials, such as for the construction industry. The present study focuses on the transformation of Mya arenaria exoskeletons from the Black Sea into calcium hydroxide by using low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis. In contrast with other methods, this energy-saving process does not involve calcination of shells prior to the hydrothermal treatment. XRD results show the formation of calcium hydroxide with preferential orientation and interesting atypical morphology, which is strongly influenced by the composition of the reaction medium.


IMPORTANT NOTE Paint4Net uses Bioinformatics Toolbox to generate visualisation layout, however it is not supported in .mlx causing an error during function execution. Thus the functions involving visualisation were run in regular MATLAB command window and each visualisation layout was saved as a static figure and flaced in the .mlx tutorial, while the corresponding functions were run in .mlx with visualisation feature turned off (input argument drawMap was set to 'false') to get outputs (without visualisation) in .mlx without crashing. Be aware of this issue when you are running the functions in .mlx. All drawMap input arguments are set to 'true' in .mlx. Change it to 'false' to avoid an error.


The evolution of software techniques within the context of stored program controlled telephone switching systems is discussed in this paper. The paper starts with the transition from assembler coding to high-level language coding and then goes on to identify the operating system aspects of a telephone switch. Modern operating system concepts are presented in terms of standard telephone switch functions. The paper continues by describing the need for and development of modularity on a "plug-in" basis and closes by a discussion of mechanisms for simplifying on-line growth of telephone switches in terms of both size and feature complement.


Use of nitrogen (N) efficiently is an important complementary strategy for improving rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield and reducing cost of production. Field experiments were conducted in wet and dry seasons during 2013-14 at Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur, Bangladesh, to find out N use efficient rice genotype(s) having higher yield potential. In wet season, 0, 40, 80 and 120 kg N ha-1 were tested with BR8417-2-1-2, BR7528-2R-19-HR10, BRRI dhan39 and BRRI dhan49. In dry season, BR7830-16-1-5-3, weed tolerant rice, BR7671-37-2-2-3-7, BR7833-11-1-1-2-1-2B5 and BRRI dhan28 were evaluated with 0, 60, 120 and 180 kg N ha-1. The treatments were assigned in a split-plot design with N doses in the main plots and genotypes in the sub-plots. Phosphorus, K, S and Zn were applied @ 12-42-10-2 kg ha-1 and 20-60-10-2.2 kg ha-1 in wet and dry seasons, respectively at final land preparation. Grain and straw yields, N concentration and uptake, N requirement, agronomic use-efficiency (AUE) and recovery efficiency (RE) varied significantly because of rice genotypes used under variable N rate. In wet season, BR7528-2R-19-HR10 gave significantly higher grain yield (4.95 t ha-1) than BRRI dhan49 (4.76 t ha-1) at 120 kg N ha-1. In dry season, BR7830-16-1-5-3 produced significantly higher grain yield (5.98 t ha-1) at 180 kg N ha-1 compared to 120 kg N ha-1 (5.39 t ha-1). Weed tolerant rice produced maximum grain yield (5.87 t ha-1) with 120 kg N ha-1. About 15-16 kg N in wet and 14-17 kg N in dry seasons were required to produce one ton rice grains. In wet season, BR7528-2R-19-HR10 had the highest N RE (36%) and AUE (10 kg kg-1) among tested genotypes. In dry season, weed tolerant rice had greater N RE (47%) and AUE (25 kg kg-1) than other genotypes.


Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals are affected by stigma in the workplace, healthcare settings, their families, and their communities. Some people believe that being LGB or Tis unnatural. LGBT individuals are commonly stigmatized, which makes them feel rejected and disrespected for who they are. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Eastern Pride & Identity Coalition (EPIC) panels on the LGBT-related attitudes of students at EMU. EPIC is a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members who serve as a panel of individuals and go into classrooms to talk about their own experiences in the LGBT community. What is currently unclear is how these panels influence students' attitudes toward LGBT populations. To discern this I developed a survey that measures LGBT-related attitude change. Students whose classes scheduled an EPIC panel presentation completed the surveys online both before and after they saw the EPIC panel. It was hypothesized that EPIC panels have a positive impact on students' attitudes toward LGBT individuals. The results indicated a significant change in attitude over time, which indicates that attitudes were more favorable after intervention. It was also hypothesized that the attitude toward LGBT individuals would be more positive based on the composition of the panel. The results indicated that the composition of the panel does not increase participants' attitude change toward a particular subgroup. The results of this work should have repercussions for the reduction of stigmatization and acceptance of LGBT individuals by members of the community who might not have contact with such populations. Degree Type Open Access Senior Honors Thesis Department Psychology First Advisor Natalie Dove


The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of a new warm-up condition, overloaded arm weights (721 g each arm, [OA]), on the bat speed during warm-up and immediately after warm-up with traditional warm-up conditions such as no-extra mass warm-up (control condition, [CO]) and overloaded bat warm-up (885 g donut on a bat, [OB]) conditions. Twenty male subjects who had competitive baseball experience participated in this study. Electromagnetic motion capture system was used to capture body segment motions. Results indicated that the OB showed significantly slower bat speed than the CO and OA did during warm-up (p


Sir,-Several anecdotal observations have contributed to the general perception of the nature of the toxic effects suffered by the victims of the Bhopal disaster.There have now been various reports of scientific investigations of the toxic effects of methyl isocyanate, the substance believed to have been released in the accident, and also various analyses of what conditions might have led to the explosive release of the substance. It has generally been found that symptoms observed in exposed people may be explained by what is now known of the toxicity of methyl isocyanate."2 On the other hand, some have claimed that other toxic compounds were involved, especially cyanides (organic or inorganic). So far as I am aware, no analytical data indicating the presence of such substances as a result ofthe accident have been presented. The observation of raised thiocyanate concentrations in the urine of both survivors and subsequent visitors to the region has been claimed as evidence of cyanide exposure. While this observation may well be accurate, it appears unlikely to be related to methyl isocyanate exposure on the basis of laboratory investigations of rats exposed to this substance. 1 2 One particular observation that has been quite widely quoted was made during postmortem studies immediately after the disaster. It was said that the blood (and possibly myoglobin) of victims of acute poisoning was bright red such as is usually associated with oxygenated (arterial) blood. This might be characteristic of cyanide poisoning where tissue uptake of oxygen is inhibited. On the other hand, it seems unlikely that human victims of methyl isocyanate poisoning would have had oxygenated blood: Nemery et al specifically measured oxygen levels in the blood of exposed rats and found them to be low, due to lung damage and bronchoconstriction impairing the exchange of blood gases.2 One might therefore conclude that some other substance was present either as a degradation product or impurity in the gas to which the Bhopal victims were exposed. To evaluate this possibility we looked at the effect of methyl isocyanate on the ultraviolet/visible absorption spectrum of haemoglobin.3 A sample of blood obtained by heart puncture from a rat was diluted into 10mM sodium citrate buffer, pH 6-5: this was designed to produce a haemoglobin solution (by haemolysis of the erythrocytes) of suitable concentration for measurement of the absorption spectrum in a -Perkin Elmer 124 UV/vis spectrometer. Formation of methaemoglobin was inhibited by adding a small quantity of sodium dithionite. On addition of a small amount of methyl isocyanate (20-50 MI to 2 ml solution) a vigorous reaction was observed in which gas evolved: this was the expected result of the hydrolysis reaction, the first stage of which generates methylamine and carbon dioxide.4 It was also observed that although the main Soret band absorption peak of haemoglobin (ca 430 nm) was unaffected, the smaller peak in the visible region (ca 550 nm) disappeared. A pale red colour remained in the solution representing the long tail of the ultraviolet peak. The same change was observed when a small amount of methylamine was added to a solution of haemoglobin. Both additions also caused a shift in pH of the solution towards the alkaline range (methylamine being quite strongly basic), but when sodium hydroxide was added to produce a similar shift no change in the spectrum was seen. Such spectral changes in haem proteins are by no means unexpected when molecules capable of acting as iron ligands are added: indeed, this is exactly the mechanism responsible for the colour difference between haemoglobin and oxyhaemoglobin. The spectroscopic change induced by methylamine is not identical with that produced by oxygenation. (Nor does it correspond to methaemoglobin formation, which would be prevented by dithionite: in fact, the presence of this compound had no effect on the modified spectrum.) It does seem possible, however, that the methylamine induced spectral change could be mistaken for this well known phenomenon by an observer using the naked eye, which is a crude tool for such tasks. If this suggestion is accepted then the evidence for involvement of cyanide or other substances beside MIC, slim as it is, is further reduced.


In the neoliberal era, financialization of the economies is associated both with large-scale speculative movements in the financial sector and over-indebtedness. The fact that there were significant increases in household indebtedness in the United States before the 2008/09 global financial crisis made the growing indebtedness an outstanding issue that should be examined in terms of its supply and demand-side causes and its distributive consequences. Increasing inequality in income distribution has been an important consideration associated with the increase in household indebtedness. In a sense, the borrowing opportunities enable working households to maintain their consumption and living standards in the short term despite the stagnation in wages and thus increasing inequality, but it does not prevent them from undergoing an unsustainable debt burden. This debt burden creates a feedback effect by deepening the existing inequality. The purpose of this study is to reveal the macro and micro dynamics associated with neoliberal policies that create the supposed relationship between inequality and household indebtedness and to try to interpret the increasing household indebtedness and income inequality in Turkey in the 2000s within this framework.


In this paper, a full three dimensional numerical model of the electrostatic coating process with moving mesh capability and capable of handling multiple target passes is presented. The target follows piecewise linear motion, so that the entire area of the target has been coated twice. All the dominant mechanical and electrical phenomena were taken into account and cases with both neutral and charged particles were examined. It was confirmed that the transfer efficiency increases when the electrical forces are present in the model and that the uniformity improves with the movement of the target.


Chitinolytic bacteria are a group of bacteria capable of producing chitinase enzymes. Chitinase enzyme is an enzyme that has the ability to degrade chitin. Chitinolytic bacteria can be isolated from soil and water. Brackish water is a breeding ground for chitinolytic bacteria because brackish water is a habitat for several types of chitin-producing animals such as shrimp, crabs and cuttlefish. This study aims to isolate and identify chitinolytic bacteria in brackish water. The type of research used is a descriptive experiment with the sampling technique carried out by one shot case study. From the observation of the identification of the morphology of bacteria on NA media and the results of the gram staining that has been carried out, the first sample was found to be bacteria with macroscopic characteristics of white, rhizopoid, smooth surface, flat elevation and gram-positive bacilli were found in gram staining. The second sample has morphological characteristics of white, round, smooth surface, convex elevation on gram staining found in the form of vibrio with gram negative.


FFT algorithm realization of FIR filter is introduced.The calculation formula of H(k) of FIR DF in frequency domain is deduced.According to the technical index of the physical application,taking the multi-band FIR filter with linear phase as an example to introduce the design in the way of frequency sampling.The optimizing way of the transition point is discussed in detail.A method to calculate or search the sampling value of the boundary frequency is put forward.Through the design with Matlab,the result shows that it can satisfy the need of technical index.


Six in vitro clofazimine-resistant spontaneous mutants obtained from a wild-type or pyrazinamide-resistant ATCC reference strain were selected to evaluate bedaquiline cross-resistance. The reverse was conducted for bedaquiline mutants. ABSTRACT Six in vitro clofazimine-resistant spontaneous mutants obtained from a wild-type or pyrazinamide-resistant ATCC reference strain were selected to evaluate bedaquiline cross-resistance. The reverse was conducted for bedaquiline mutants. All clofazimine mutants harboring an rv0678 mutation displayed phenotypic cross-resistance. We observed the same for rv0678 bedaquiline mutants; however, atpE bedaquiline mutants showed no phenotypic cross-resistance. This confirms that upfront clofazimine usage may impact subsequent bedaquiline use due to a shared efflux resistance pathway.


Introduction: Saprochete capitata is unusual etiologic agent in immunocompromised patients, particularly in those with hematologic malignancy and severe neutropenia. Most often, infections of the oral cavity are manifested clinically as oral candidiasis. Invasive forms are rarely described. Observation: a 63-year-old man consulted for pseudomembranous lesions associated with ulcero perforating lesion of the tongue and palatal region ulcerations. All evolving in a context of profound physical deterioration and severe neutropenia. Mycological examination showed Saprochaete capitata. The evolution was favorable with oral voriconazole. Comment: Saprochaete capitata invasive fungal infections have become an important cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in hematology-oncology patients. Invasive or non-invasive, oropharyngeal involvement with this pathogen should not be underestimated in the neutropenic patient. They are the main starting point for fongemia of this pathogen, which is often fatal. Conclusion: Saprochete capitata is now recognized emerging etiologic agent in patients with hematological malignancy and severe neutropenia. Early detection and diagnosis of these fungal infections could lead to reduced morbidity and mortality, particularly in locally invasive infection.


With the increasing requirements of complexity and scalability, simulation interoperability and composability become the most competitive research topics in field of M&S. We found that, by employing service-oriented architecture, Web service and grid technologies have provided large-scale distributed resource sharing and application coordinated developing. Motivated by the above observation, in this paper, we propose service-oriented dynamic composition architecture for distributed simulation, SOA4DSDC. This framework can provide component-based model-driven view for simulation modeling, and service-oriented view (i.e. loose coupling) for simulation execution. This paper studies the motivation for developing such a framework and presents the details of the development.


New drugs raise hope for the future

Multiple myeloma is a malignant disease of plasma cells that is characterised by secretion of paraprotein, humoral immunodeficiency, anaemia, lytic bone lesions, and kidney dysfunction. Although the median survival of patients with multiple myeloma has improved from seven months to five years with treatment, the disease remains largely incurable.1

Conventional treatment includes melphalan and prednisone, now used sparingly because of its propensity to compromise collection of haematopoietic stem cells, other combinations, and regimens containing high dose corticosteroids. The latter—including dexamethasone; vincristine, doxorubicin, and dexamethasone; and cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and methylprednisolone—are preferred for induction because of their excellent anti-myeloma activity and lack of marrow toxicity.

High dose chemotherapy, particularly melphalan, with autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation improves response rates and their duration and survival compared with conventional chemotherapy. It is now commonly used as consolidation treatment.1 The superiority of consolidation with haematopoietic stem cell transplantation over continued conventional treatment has been confirmed in two randomised studies with a 12 month increase in median overall survival.2 3 Another study has shown …


In order to analyze and appraise the state and distributive characteristics of mental health of students involved in survey in Xi'an Shiyou University,13154 undergraduates from four grades are tested by University Personality Invention(UPI) while the data of the survey are dealt with by means of SPSS.The results show that the undergraduates with mental barriers in our university account for 21,8%,and those liable to mental barriers are female undergraduates,undergraduates fram low-income families, undergraduates from the countryside,from the family with muli-children,and undergraduates in Grade Two and Grade Three.Meanwhile.And the results also demonstrate that 12 special factors drawn from the psychological symptoms of our undergraduates include: self-trouble,mood undulation,trouble in thinking,uncomfortableness in body,disappointment in personal relation,avoidance in social intercourse,obsession,nervousness,bad digestion,sense of life crisis,sensitivity in sex psychology;at the same time,that those special factors exist to some extent in different grades and different majors of undergraduates.At last,it is concluded that most of undergraduates in our university are in good mental health,but 20% undergraduates with mental barriers need special corresponding psychological heath education and psychological reference instruction;Meanwhile,it is necessary to strengthen and improve our educational management so as to help and support our undergraduates' health growing and development.


Abstract : Some aspects of planning in preparation for resource allocation decisions among alternatives, which are generally made under uncertainty, are discussed from the pragmatic viewpoint of a practicing analyst. The report is concerned only with that area of economic analysis in which the inputs are not commensurable with the outputs. (The terms 'input' and 'output' will be used throughout this paper in their general meaning and not in the specialized meaning attached to them in input-output or intersectoral economics.)


Today of the economic fast development is competition that an ages for completely competing,the business enterprise not only is a quantity to see the social reputation and product only,but also favors of is that business enterprise image, the brand is a business enterprise image now,an excellent brand will own a complete but valid business enterprise image identifies the system.


A new technique to design wideband Class-E power amplifiers (PAs) based on the synthesis of specific load admittances at fundamental and harmonics is shown. This technique symplifies the design of wideband Class-E amplifiers by making it independent on any specific load network, implementation, and intrinsic transistor output capacitance COUT. Simulations and actual measurements on a 15-W VHF wideband Class-E PA prototype designed using this method show 35% fractional bandwidth with 80% drain efficiency


[Objective] The quantification influence of soil moisture change on bulk density change and its relationship with spectrum reflectivity were studied. And the relevant model was constructed to provide scientific basis of near infrared spectrum continuous accurate monitoring soil water content. [Method] Yellow brown soil, rice soil, Chao soil in Hubei were taken as testing soils. Annulus knife was used to sample. During the process of soil dehydration, soil weight water content, soil bulk density, soil volume water content and spectral reflectivity changes were tested continuously using miniature fiber spectral reflection meter etc. [Result] The soil water content-density change relation and related model were discussed. Exponent relation model reflecting soil volume water content and soil spectral reflectivity was constructed. [Conclusion]The models had good fitting effect, clear physical meaning, simple form, and clear variable relationship.


PURPOSE: A circuit of compensating for smoothness of band-pass is provided to compensate for a bandpass smoothness of a band-pass filter by supplementing a complementary band-pass filter in a main band-pass filter. CONSTITUTION: An amplifier circuit(11) is coupled with a main band-pass filter and improves a loss increase of an additional circuit. A complementary band-pass filter(12) is coupled with the amplifier circuit(11). The complementary band-pass filter(12) generates a ripple having a feature contrary to that of a ripple of a main band-pass filter in order to improve a distorted ripple of the main band-pass filter. The complementary band-pass filter(12) is formed by a coaxial ceramic resonator or dielectric material. A first attenuator circuit(13) improves a reflecting loss feature of the complementary band-pass filter(12).


JInstitute of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Research Organizatio~, P.O. Box 6: Bet.Dagan 50250,. Israel .. 2Department ofBotany, Tel-Aviv University. Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. 3Faculty ofAgricultural Engmeerll1g. The Techmon, H.aif~32000. Israel. Received 30 August 1994; accepted 15 June 1995. Contribution from the Agricultural Research OrgamzatlOn. The Volcani Cellter, Israel. No. 1414-E, 1994 Series. This research was supported in part by grant No. US-1996-91 from BARD. the US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund.


Networks of piezoelectric transducers mounted on aircraft structures for Acousto Ultrasonics (AU) purposes are designed to be applied during the service life of the aircraft. The approach to integrate these sensor networks already during the manufacture of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) host structures prompts ideas to achieve an additional benefit by their application for cure monitoring, thus extending their use to the manufacturing chain. This benefit could be extended even further if guided waves generated by AU sensor networks could be used for porosity testing extensively applied for CFRP aircraft structures. In light of this, an experimental study was conducted to investigate effects of porosity on the propagation of guided waves in a basic configuration of unidirectional CFRP. Several samples were manufactured at different porosity levels by variation of the processing pressure. Wave fields were acquired using an ultrasonic scanning device. In the present work, phase velocities are chosen ...


The present research aims to study the relationship between mathematical Connections and strategic intelligence for students of the mathematics department in the College of Education by answering the following questions: 1. Do students of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Education possess mathematical Connection skills? 2. Do students of the mathematics department in the College of Education possess strategic intelligence? 3. What is the direction and strength of the Connectional relationship between mathematical Connections and strategic intelligence among students of the Mathematics Department in the College of Education? In order to achieve the goal of the research and answer its questions, the researcher developed a set of hypotheses and the research community was identified, which represents students of the mathematics departments in the Faculties of Education in Baghdad Governorate (College of Education for Pure Sciences Ibn Al-Haytham / Baghdad University and the College of Education Al-Mustansiriya University). The fourth is from the mathematics department at the College of Education, Ibn al-Haytham, as it consisted of (130) male and female students, divided into (79) male and (51) female students.


Why do philosophy of history books so easily end up on the scrap heap of history?1 Why does nobody anymore read Raymond Martin's The Past Within Us (1989), despite this little book offering a stimulating correction to the tendency, not uncommon in the field, of privileging conceptual reflection over empirical analysis? Why is Henri-Irénée Marrou's "treatise on the virtues of the historian," published in 1954 as De la connaissance historique, almost entirely forgotten, notwithstanding the "virtue turn" that is manifesting itself throughout the humanities and social sciences? Or why is Hanno Kesting's Geschichtsphilosophie und Weltbürgerkrieg (1959) collecting dust on library shelves, despite the fact that its analysis of historical narratives underpinning the Cold War, the project of European integration, and Third World development policies aligns well with a currently thriving type of intellectual history? It is hard to generalize about a field as heterogenous as the philosophy of history. One thing, however, is certain: like many other humanities scholars, philosophers of history often feel more inclined to dissociate themselves from


Gingival bleeding is an early feature of gingivitis. Gingivitis is characterized by gingival redness, swelling, and bleeding on probing. Gingival bleeding may be caused by local factor and systemic factors. Negative stress (distress) is thought to be the risk factor of gingival bleeding. Previous studies showed that negative stress (distress) may contribute to the severity of gingival bleeding. However, in some cases heavy gingival bleeding was found in the presence of minimal plaque retention. The objective of this study was to see the correlation between negative stress (distress) and gingival bleeding. This study was an analytic cross-sectional study taking Banda Aceh mental hospital. The subjects of this study were 58 patients aged between 15 – 60 years old. There were 30 male and 28 female patients. Data was collected from medical record, history taking and clinical examination of gingival bleeding and oral hygiene index-simplified (OHI-S). Statistic analysis using chi-square test revealed that there was no correlation between negative stress (distress) to gingival bleeding (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study shows that there is no significant correlation between negative stress (distress) to gingival bleeding. Keywords: Gingival bleeding, negative stress (distress), OHI-S


This paper focused on using reflective thinking skills for education quality improvement in Nigeria.  Education was considered in this paper as a process of learning that assists in the provision of suitable skills, training the youths for economic, social cultural and political responsibilities in transmission and transformation of social, economic, and cultural structure from generation to generation.  The term quality was opined as the determination of gradations based on standard of excellence beneath which a mark of inferiority is imposed or adduced and above which grades of superiority are defined.  Reflective thinking involves personal consideration of one's own personal achievements and failures and asks what worked, what didn't and what needs improvement.  Reflective thinking is most important in prompting learning at a time of complex solving situations due to the fact that it avails the opportunity to go backwards and think about how they actually to solve problems and how a particular set of problem solving strategies is appreciated for achieving their goals.  In fact reflective thinking is a Part of the critical thinking process of analyzing, evaluating, and making judgment about what has happened.  It is the recommendation of this paper that the teachers should be involved in facilitating the development of reflective thinking in students. Keywords: Education, Reflective thinking, Quality improvement, Thinking skills


The MAX phases are a family of of ternary layered material with both metal and ceramic properties, and it is also precursor ma-terials for synthesis of two-dimensional MXenes. The theory predicted that there are more than 600 stable ternary layered MAX phases. At present, there are more than 80 kinds of ternary MAX phases synthesized through experiments, and few reports on MAX phases where M is a rare earth element. In this study, a new MAX phase Sc2SnC with rare earth element Sc at the M sites was synthesized through the reaction sintering of Sc, Sn, and C mixtures. Phase composition and microstructure of Sc2SnC were confirmed by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray energy spectrum analysis. And structural stability, mechanical and electronic properties of Sc2SnC was investigated via density functional theory. This study open a door for ex-plore more unknown ternary layered rare earth compounds Ren+1SnCn (Re=Sc, Y, La-Nd, n=1) and corresponding rare earth MXenes.


As more and more data get migrated to the cloud and various enterprise applications are accessing such data in increasing volumes, the consumers of these applications are demanding authoritative information as to where the data is coming from, and how it has been modified. While the Provenance Recommendation [1] has provided a very good mechanism to represent provenance information of a given artifact, it lacks mechanisms to guarantee those provenance records have not been tampered with, and are trustworthy. This position paper elicits some of the missing features in the current Provenance recommendation to enable trust, and illustrates how by having those features, Enterprise software vendors like Oracle can build applications that use provenance in a more meaningful way to assert trustworthiness of the provenance records by providing strong integrity and trust assurances.


To obtain efficient cryptosystems based on hyperelliptic curves, we studied genus 2 isomorphism classes of hyperelliptic curves in characteristic 2. We found general and optimal form for these curves, just as the short Weierstrass form for elliptic curves. We studied the security and the arithmetic on their jacobian. We also rewrote and optimized the formulas of Lange in characteristic 2, and we introduced a new system of coordinate. Therefore, we deduced the best form of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 in characteristic 2 to use in cryptography.


Indah Tiara Puri Handayani.Relationship Between Self Consept And Student
Anxiety Of Students With Learning Outcomes Class X Accounting Lessons In
44 State Vocational High School Jakarta . Skripsi , Jakarta : Concentration in
Accounting Education , Economic Studies Program , Department of Economics
and Administration , Faculty of Economics , State University of Jakarta , 2014.
Study aimed to obtain valid data and facts about the Relationship Between Self
Concept and Student Anxiety Of Students With Learning Outcomes Class X
Accounting Lessons In 44 State Vocational High School Jakarta. This study used
a survey method with a quantitative approach because in this study the data to be
retrieved in the form of figures and statistical analyzes using . The population of
this study were all students of 44State Vocational High School Jakarta with a
population totaling 625 people . The population that researchers specify
inaccessibility is numbered 70 students . Class consists of 10 students in 44 State
Vocational High School Jakarta Accounting Department . The sample used in this
study are numbered 58 students . The sampling technique used in this study is
Simple Random Sampling Technique . Instruments used in the form of a
questionnaire study totaled 39 points for the self concept variable and 33 points
for the student anxiety variable . Results learns measured using daily test results
of students in the school . Of test requirements analysis, data were expressed
normally distributed and linear multiple regression equation Y = -11,438 + 0,847
X
1
– 0,217 X
. Multiple regression models were declared free from the problem of
multicollinearity by looking at the results of 0.988 the value of tolerance (
tolerance > 0.1 ) and the VIF for 1.012 ( VIF < 5 ) which is less than 5 . Then to
see the regression model is free from the problem heterocedastity , can be seen
from the distribution of point - variable point spread above and below the 0 on the
Y axis , then this indicates that the regression model is free from the problem
heterocedastisity . And regression models are also free from the problem of
autocorrelation , it is proved by dL = 1.5052 ,dU=1.6475 and Durbin Watson
value = 1,642 , then Durbin WatsonValue beside dL and dU . Based on the
results of hypothesis testing can be seen relationship and significant effect among
the three variables simultaneously with the test done f , where the value of F
2
 (
13 746 ) > F
 ( 3,165 ) . Then , there is a positive and significant relationship to
variables partially self concept by the results of the study conducted t test , where
t
count
 (4.856) > ttabel
 ( 2.004 ) , and there is a negative and not significant
relationship to the variable partial student anxiety with learning outcomes with
t
count
 (-1,437) > t
table
 ( 2.004 ) . Based on the correlation perhitungn double the R
value of 0,590 is obtained , it can be concluded that the relationship between the
variables of self consept and discipline with relatively enough strong learning
outcome variables.


In this paper we have studied the properties of quasi principally injective modules related to Hopfian, co-Hopfian, directly finite and epiretractable modules. Apart from this we have proved that every epi-retractable quasi principally injective module is Hopfian. Mathematics Subject Classification: 16D10, 16D50, 16D60


Using ab-initio simulations and fully quantum analytical theory for hydrogen atom, we show that atto-clock delays are induced entirely by interaction of the outgoing electron with the core and do not result from tunneling delays.


This paper addresses the Internet of Things. Main enabling factor of this promising para23 digm is the integration of several technologies and communications solutions. Identifica24 tion and tracking technologies, wired and wireless sensor and actuator networks, 25 enhanced communication protocols (shared with the Next Generation Internet), and dis26 tributed intelligence for smart objects are just the most relevant. As one can easily imagine,


This paper will discuss and present the prerequisites, the requirements and the calibration work which has to be accomplished to develop ultra-fast temperature sensitive paints (TSP) for utilization in hypersonic high speed flows.


A four-step statistical process is proposed to take faculty compensation analysis from identification of possible inequities to potential salary adjustment options.


The use of semiotic principles permitting to regard historical evolution of cultural phenomena in their correlation with linguistic facts, which reflect this evolution, is of current importance in contemporary linguistics. Regular phenomena of substitution of one subject by another with the similar function are touched upon. Such substitution is manifested by linguistic units and appears to be a fact of cultural continuity. This regularity in linguistic culturology got the name "evolutionary semiotic range". Facts from the material and spiritual culture of Transbaikal of the 18th century, which are interpreted as evolutionary semiotic ranges, are represented in the article. Examples of evolutionary semiotic ranges in technologies, cattle-breeding, social organization of the 18th century were analysed. The results of the investigation may be used in the field of historical aspects of ethnolinguistics, linguistic culturology, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, theory of verbal communication.


54 Background: Definitive treatment for localized EC involves surgery alone or tri-modality therapy (TMT-chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery). TMT is administered to pts with clinical T2 or higher and lymph node (LN) positive ECs. Standard staging includes Computerized Tomography (CT)/Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging and Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS). We investigated whether performing an EUS altered treatment decision in localized EC pts where a combination of imaging and clinical symptoms suggested the need for TMT. Methods: We performed a retrospective review to identify pts with localized EC who had their staging work up and treatment at the Medical College of Wisconsin between 2003 and 2012. Relevant clinical information was collected through review of the electronic medical record. Results: We identified 65 pts; median age at diagnosis was 62 years, 49 (75%) were male, and 56 (86%) were Caucasian. Histology was adenocarcinoma in 48 (74%) pts with 21 (44%) having background Barrett's esophag...


The indirect branch instruction is a most substantial obstacle in utilizing ILP of modem high performance processors. The target address of an indirect branch has the polymorphic characteristic varied dynamically, so it is very difficult to predict the accurate target address. Therefore the performance of a processor with speculative methodology is reduced significantly due to the many execution cycle delays in occurring the misprediction. We proposed the very accurate and novel indirect branch prediction scheme so called data-dependence based prediction. The predictor results in the prediction accuracy of 98.92% using 1K entries, and. 99.95% using 8K But, all of the proposed indirect predictor including our predictor has a large hardware overhead for restoring expected target addresses as well as tags for alleviating an aliasing. Hence, we propose the scheme minimizing the hardware overhead without sacrificing the prediction accuracy. Our experiment results show that the hardware is reduced about 60% without the performance loss, and about 80% sacrificing only the performance loss of 0.1% in aspect of the tag overhead. Also, in aspect of the overhead of storing target addresses, it can save the hardware about 35% without the performance loss, and about 45% sacrificing only the performance loss of 1.11%.


Laser drilling has emerged in the last five years as the most widely accepted method of creating microvias in high-density electronic interconnect and chip packaging devices. Most commercially available laser drilling tools are currently based on one of two laser types: far-IR CO2 lasers and UV solid-state lasers at 355 nm. While CO2 lasers are recognized for their high average power and drilling throughput, UV lasers are known for high precision material removal and their ability to drill the smallest vias, with diameters down to about 25 -30 micron now achievable in production. This paper presents an overview of techniques for drilling microvias with the lasers.


The influence of the sense of community on biopsychosocial adaptation of Latin Americans living in the city of Malaga, Spain, was analyzed. The sample consisted of 34 people of Latin American origin and two measurement were carried out in an interval of 18 months. An approximate longitudinal prospective comparative study was developed. The relationships between the variables were compared according to the length of time of residence in Malaga (less/more than one year) and the effect of the passage of time. The results showed that the dimensions of sense of community were consistently related to the biopsychosocial adaptation variables analyzed in this study and a positive change was observed in the adaptation variables for both groups. Implications for practice and training of social workers and public policies improvements are considered, revealing the potential of Community Social Work in this area.


Purpose: To assess the clinical and refractive outcomes of femtosecond-assisted arcuate keratotomy in postkeratoplasty patients, and the accuracy of the incisions, using optical coherence tomography. Methods: This is a retrospective study of patients with high postkeratoplasty astigmatism. Patients with a minimum of 4 diopters (D) of postkeratoplasty regular astigmatism were included. The main outcome measures were corrected distance visual acuity, keratometry, corneal topography, and the depth of corneal incisions. Arcuate keratotomy procedures were performed using the IntraLase Femtosecond laser. The depth of keratotomies was set to 75% of the thinnest pachymetry. Results: Twenty eyes of 20 patients were recruited in this study. The mean age at surgery was 51 years, and the mean follow-up period was 17 ± 7.9 months. The corrected distance visual acuity improved significantly from 20/60 preoperatively to 20/41 after surgery (P = 0.004). The mean preoperative and postoperative spherical equivalents were −4.34 ± 2.91 D and −4.44 ± 3.64 D, respectively (P = 0.49). The mean keratometric cylinder decreased from 9.45 ± 2.97 D (range, 4.2–15.2 D) to 4.64 ± 2.79 D (range, 1.4–11.8 D) (P < 0.001). There was no statistical difference between the mean surgical-induced astigmatism and the mean target-induced astigmatism (P = 0.313). The mean difference between the scheduled and actual incision depth was 10.5 ± 22.2 &mgr;m (P = 0.057). No complications occurred during the procedures. Conclusions: Femtosecond-assisted keratotomy seems to be a safe and efficient technique for the reduction of large amounts of corneal astigmatism. Although overcorrection and undercorrection may occur, the visual outcome is satisfactory. Optical coherence tomography analysis reports a good predictability of the depth of incisions.


This Raman study indicates that the boroxol ring concentrations for glasses in the B 2 O 3 -GeO 2 and B 2 O 3 -GeO 2 -SiO 2 systems are dependent upon temperature and composition. Ring breakage and formation occur well below T g . An Arrhenius plot of intensity data for borogermanate g glass indicates that the heat of ring rupture is ca. 7.7 Kcal/mole. The boroxol ring concentrations in various glasses were also investigated at room temperature after various heat treatments. The structural interpretation from Raman scattering data was compared with that from IR data.


In the present study, the investigator intended to examine and explore Internet addiction in relation to the learning achievement of post-graduate level students. The investigator adopted a descriptive survey method and selected 110 P.G. level students from four social science courses of Kurukshetra University using stratified random sampling. Further, the investigator adopted the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) designed by Dr. Kimberly Young for the data collection regarding student's Internet Addiction. The researcher used t-test and product moment coefficient of correlation of Pearson for analysis of data. The results showed that there actually is negative and negligible correlation between addiction to the internet and achievement of learning of P.G. level students. There exists no significant variation in internet addiction between male and female P.G. level learners, but the difference in learning achievement between male and female P.G. level students was significant. Again there exists a significant difference in Internet addiction between Urban and Rural P.G. level students, and there exists no significant difference in Learning achievement between Urban and Rural P.G. level students. Finally, it was found that the difference in Internet Addiction and learning achievement of P.G. level students was significant.


Digital photonic devices are advantageous for use in cascaded optical networks because they are basically free from signal loss, crosstalk and bit degradation due to bit by bit signal-regeneration. The side-injection-light-controlled bistable laser-diode (SILC-BLD) has integrated optical digital functions, such as gating for input signals, digital regeneration and bit memory characteristics. This paper reviews the structure and functions of the SILC-BLD and shows its suitability for the typical applications of digital wavelength conversion, fiber loop memory, and bit-width conversion.


Methods and tools evaluating treatment effect have been primarily developed for binary type of treatment. Yet, treatment is rarely binary outside the experimental setting, varies by dosage, frequency and time. Treatment is routinely adjusted, initiated or stopped when being administered over a period of time.Both Gaussian Process (GP) regression and Bayesian additive regression tree (BART) have been used successfully for handling complex setting involving time-varying treatments that is either adaptive or non-adaptive. Here, we introduce an application programming interface (API) that implements both BART and GP for estimating averaged treatment effect (ATE) and conditional averaged treatment (CATE) for the two-stage time-varying treatment strategies.We provide two real applications for evaluating comparative effectiveness of time-varying treatment strategies. The first example evaluates an early aggressive treatment strategies for caring children with newly diagnosed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). The second evaluates the persistent per-protocol treatment effectiveness in a large randomized pragmatic trial. The examples demonstrate the use of the API calling from R and Python, for handling both non-adaptive or adaptive treatments, with presences of partially observed or missing data issues. Summary tables and interactive figures of the results are downloadable.


Introduction: The domain management approach to caring for heart failure patients outlines the importance of considering deficits from multiple health domains including: medical, mental and emotion...


When phase transformation occurs during the finishing process for hot strips,the change regulations of the rolling temperature on the deformation resistance in the austenitic and ferrite are different,so the prediction error of traditional rolling force model is very significant,which impacts the control accuracy of rolling process parameters.To solve the problem,a rolling force model was developed considering phase transformation for finishing strips.First,a transformation volume fraction model in the form of cosine was established and the volume fractions of the ferrite and austenitic were calculated at the different rolling temperatures.Secondly,an effect formula of the rolling temperatures in weighting form on the deformation resistance was presented,which preferably simulated the deformation characteristics of the double-phase rolling.Finally,the proposed model was applied to the online calculation of Baosteel1880mm HSM,the actual production showed that the proposed model significantly improved the rolling force prediction accuracy and rolling stability of the phase transformation strips such as non-oriented electrical steels in the finishing process.


Leaf vegetables are in great demand by the people in Bogor City who are mostly from Sunda tribe. Bogor city residents who buy vegetables at Giant Extra Botani Square willing to pay more than those who buy in traditional markets. The research aimed to analyze marketing efficiency of leaf vegetables especially spinach, chinesse green cabbage ( Brassica chinensis var. Parachinensis) , kale, lettuce head and chinesse white cabbage ( Brassica pekinensia L ) at Giant Extra Botany Square in Bogor City . Data were analyzed descriptively and quantitatively with marketing margin, farmer's share and R/C Ratio analysis. Primary data collection was taken from interview with Giant Extra's management by purposive method, while interview to supplier and farmer used snowball sampling method. The results showed that the marketing efficiency of leaf vegetables in Giant Extra Botanical Square Bogor City, based on marketing margin analysis obtained the largest margin value on Chinese White Cabbage ( Brassica pekinensia L ) commodity amounting to Rp 20.450. Suppliers get the greatest benefits on commodities of spinach, Chinese Green Cabbage and kale. The highest farmer's share was obtained by farmers in lettuce head commodities by 69.6%. The highest R/C ratio was obtained by Chinese White Cabbage commodity at 1.60 Keywords: marketing efficiency, leavy vegetables, modern market


Western medicine has an unfortunate history where it has been applied to address the health of African Americans. At its origins, it was aligned with the objectives of colonialism and chattel slavery. The degree to which medical "science" concerned itself with persons of African descent was to keep them alive for sale on the auction block, or to keep them healthy as they toiled to generate wealth for their European owners. Medicine in early America relied upon both dead and live African bodies to test its ideas to benefit Europeans. As medicine moved from quackery to a discipline based in science, its understanding of human biological variation was flawed. This was not a problem confined to medicine alone, but to the biological sciences in general. Biology had no solid theoretical basis until after 1859. As medicine further developed in the 20th century, it never doubted the difference between Europeans and Africans, and also asserted the innate inferiority of the latter. The genomic revolution in the latter 20th century produced tools that were deployed in a biomedical culture still mired in "racial" medicine. This lack of theoretical perspective still misdirects research associated with health disparity. In contrast to this is evolutionary medicine, which relies on a sound unification of evolutionary (ultimate) and physiological, cellular, and molecular (proximate) mechanisms. Utilizing the perspectives of evolutionary medicine is a prerequisite for an effective intervention in health disparity and finally dispelling the myth of the genetically sick African.


The vibration frequencies of a polyethylene crystal lattice have been computed for various structures in which a fully deuterated chain is mixed with a normal chain. Intermolecular potential functions previously developed by the authors were used in the calculation. It is shown that such structures make it possible to distinguish experimentally between chain folding in the (110) plane and folding parallel to the (100) plane. Calculations have also been done for a regular polymer of (CH2CD2). Such a structure would permit the determination of the parity of the number of methylene groups in the fold.


The name Claopodium was first used in 1884 by Lesquereux and James (Mosses of North America, p. 327) for a subgenus of Hypnum to include five species from the northwestern portion of North America, allied to Thuidium in the papillose areolation and the form of the leaves, but differing in the absence of filamentous paraphyllia. Lesquereux and James claim alliance with Eurhynchium for the subgenus, but it is difficult to see any special relationship in this direction, and Dr. G. N. Best in his Revision of the Claopodiums (Bull. Torrey -41-I


The French social assistance system is generally considered an example thanks to the quality and diversity of its services. However, its evolution is straightly linked to the economical context and politics that have been developed since the 1980s. When denaturalizing the economical context we identify what seems to be administrative and technical measures that take place by means of the study of a certain social allocation, and are revealed as the result of political will. Therefore, this article indicates the effective and non-offi cial process of recentralization of the French State.


-In this investigation of agoraphobic patients, 3 different flooding procedures were compared: (1) prolonged exposure in ciao. (2) flooding in the imagination by a 'live' therapist and (3) a combination of flooding in the imagination and flooding in uiuo. After an intermediate-test all clients were treated by the self-observation method. with a minimum of therapeutrc intervention. Assessments were made at the beginning of treatment, during and at the end of treatment and at the follow-up one month later. Assessments were carried out by the therapist (in riuo measurement; phobic anxiety and avoidance scales; anxious mood and panic), by an independent observer (idern. minus in uivo measurement) and by the client (phobic anxiety and avoidance scales; FSS; social anxiety scale; SDS and I-E scale). Prolonged exposure it1 ciuo plainly proved to be superior to flooding in the imagination. Combined flooding resulted in a greater improvement than flooding in the imagination. though only on the therapist's ratings. Self-observation did not add much to the effect of prolonged exposure in uiuo and of flooding combined whereas self-observation, preceded by flooding in the imagination, resulted in a significant improvement on nearly all the variables.


. The revitalization of local custom and decentralization are the entrances to the strengthening of populism. Decentralization has brought changes in social and political boundaries in West Sumatra. This paper uses a qualitative method by conducting in-depth interviews, observations and collecting the documentation. Decentralization provides opportunities for regions to implement regional regulations with sharia nuances. Meanwhile, conservative Islamic groups in West Sumatra encourage politicians to promote morality in the public sphere. Support from local politicians is a logical consequence of the strength of Islam in West Sumatra. In the end, decentralization became a stimulus for the strengthening of Islamic Populism in West Sumatra. Supported by politicians and clerics, the local government implemented local regulations relating to political morality. From a populist perspective, moral politics is needed to distinguish between good and evil, and then in West Sumatra, exclusionism is carried out to exclude groups. Exclusionism is an attempt to differentiate and, at the same time, purify, which according to Taggart (2000), is an attempt to construct an identity as an awareness of who is not part of us rather than who we are. Through the Local Regulation nuanced Sharia in West Sumatra, Moral politics provides an opportunity to exclude groups considered morally different. It is not only women who are vulnerable to the excesses of exclusion but also minority groups such as LGBT and non-Muslims.


The invention concerns a method for making sugared almonds which consists in successively coating a central element (2) with the following substances: a coloured syrup (16), at least a colourless syrup layer(18), and a polishing syrup (20).


The Backlund transformation for the ultradiscrete KP equation is proposed. An algorithm to eliminate variables from the ultradiscrete linear equations is proposed. The consistency condition for the Backlund transformation equations is obtained via the algorithm.


This research aims to Identified to the extent to which faculty members in Palestinian universities possess digital competence in light of the Corona pandemic, as a stratified sample of (300) faculty members was selected, and the questionnaire that he made (Sangeetha and Saileela, 2021) was developed and used to detect Digital competence, and the results showed that the degree of possession of digital competencies by faculty members in Palestinian universities came to a medium degree, and they use e-mail and browsing, social media and to direct students to follow the course, and their ability to prepare electronic lecture files and upload documents and videos necessary for the lecture. On the other hand, it was also found that there were no statistically significant differences attributable to the variables of sex and university, while it was found that there were statistically significant differences due to the variable of academic rank and in favor of the highest rank, and in the variable of years of service and in favor of the least years of service.


Based on the simple superposition method and taking account of the constrained concrete by profile steel,a computational formula of flexural strength of profile steel reinforced lightweight aggregate beams was proposed with improved superposition method,where a correction coefficient αrc of flexural capacity was introduced into the term of flexural capacity.The correction coefficients for eight profile steel reinforced lightweight concrete beams and eight common steel reinforced concrete beams were analyzed.Its result showed that αrc was proportional to the ratio of overall steel content rate to the rate of longitudinal reinforcement steel when this ratio ranges from 3.4% to 10.8%.In this case the αrc would be from 1.0 to 2.0.The improved method could be connected with flexural capacity formula of reinforced concrete beams.In was shown by the comparison of experimental result that the improved superposition method had enough accuracy and was suitable for both the profile steel reinforced lightweight aggregate concrete beams and common steel reinforced concrete beams.


In the context of the major crop losses, pesticides will continue to play a key role in pest management practice in absence of practical and efficient alternatives; however, increasing awareness regarding environmental and human health impacts of conventional pesticides as well as the development of resistance and cross-resistance reduced their availability and promoted the search for alternative control strategies and reduced-risk pesticides. Among the various alternatives, a drastic re-emergence of interest in the use of plant-derived compounds, called allelochemicals, was noted and demand for an organic product is rising. Currently, azadirachtin, a tetranortriterpenoid derived from the neem seed of the Indian neem tree [Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Meliaceae)], is one of the prominent biopesticides commercialized and remains the most successful botanical pesticide in agricultural use worldwide. Azadirachtin is a powerful antifeedant and insect growth disruptor with exceptional low residual power and low toxicity to biocontrol agents, predators, and parasitoids. This review summarizes the state of the art on key azadirachtin insecticidal activities and risk assessment, identifies knowledge gaps that could serve as the basis for future research direction and highlights limitation in agricultural use and the development of novel strategies by the use of nanotechnology to control its release rate and improve its stability and sustainability.


Inhabitants of the United States Caribbean rely heavily on their fisheries as a source of food and employment. Because aquatic resources are common property, they are extremely attractive to islanders, many of whom are landless and lack alternative opportunities to make a living. For the past 30 years, Shallow-water Reef Fish (SWRF) catches in Puerto Rico (P.R.) and the United States Virgin Islands (U.S.V.I.) have been decreasing even as the number of fishermen increased and fishing techniques were modernized. Despite federal and state laws recommending more stringent conservation measures since the mid-80s, to this date, SWRF resources are still decreasing in the U.S. Caribbean. A variety of natural and anthropogenic stresses affect marine fisheries of P.R. and the USVI. More specifically, I believe that three socially-related issues currently hinder effective fisheries management in the region: the western style approach, enforcement, and lack of fishermen's participation in management. The aim of this project is to determine what practices need to change in order to lead to the desired fisheries` management objective: the recovery and sustainable yield of SWRF in the U.S. Caribbean. Additionally, I propose new management measures, which complement the existing managerial structure, and should improve the current situation. 1 Common property = open access resource, which is available to everyone. 2 MRAG 2000, FAO 2000, Adams 1996, www.onefish.org 3 CFMC 1993, Rogers et al. 2001 4 "Fisheries management is an integrated process involving information gathering, analysis, planning, consultation, decision-making, and the formulation and implementations of rules and regulations to govern fisheries activities to satisfy various objectives." (MRAG 2001)


Vijtiuk N., L. ·ver, G. Lackovic, M. Popovic, F. BoIic, I. Valpotic: Intestinal Immune Response of Weaned Pigs Experimentally Vaccinated with F4ac+ Non-enterotoxigenic Strains of Escherichia coli. Acta Vet. Brno 2005, 74: 595-601. The potential effects of two adjuvants - the copolymer of polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene (POE-POP) and N-acetylglucosaminyl-(β,1-4)-N-acetyl-muraminyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (GMDP) on mucosal humoral and cell-mediated immune responses were tested in weaned pigs immunized with the F4ac + non-enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (non-ETEC) strain 2407 and challenged with the F4+ ETEC strain 11-800/1/94. The presence of an anti-F4ac secretory IgA (sIgA) antibody in small intestinal washes was detected by the use of an indirect ELISA test, and the tissue-specific distribution patterns of CD3a+ and CD21+ T and B cells, respectively, within the gut mucosa were evaluated by an immunohistochemical in situ staining. The results showed that approximately 75% of 2407+POE-POP-treated pigs, and 50% to 60% of pigs that were immunized with either the 2407+GMDP or the 2407 strain alone respectively, were positive for anti-F4ac sIgA antibodies. The T cell antigen CD3a was expressed predominantly in lymphocytes in the ileal epithelium, the dome region of ileal Peyer's patches (IPP) and the extrafollicular areas of the mesenteric lymph node (MLN) in 2407 + GMDP or 2407-treated pigs. The B cells expressing a CD21 surface molecule were present in the interfollicular areas of MLN and the germinal centers of IPP in 2407-treated pigs. A strong reaction to sIgA was determined in plasma cells in the lumen of the crypts and in the cells residing the lamina propria (LP) of the jejunum and ileum of pigs immunized with the 2407 strain. The obtained results imply that oral immunization of weaned pigs with the F4ac+ non-ETEC strain may induce the priming of intestinal immune cells, which can be additionally enhanced by the tested adjuvants. Weaned pigs, colibacillosis, non-ETEC vaccine, adjuvants


ABSTRACT This essay deals with the topic of violence against women in a cross-national, transdisciplinary perspective. Through the investigation of a vast empirical, theoretical literature and critical thinking on the directions taken by research, the distinctive features and the complexity of violence against women are pointed out. Variable in terms of impact and form, violence against women is a feature not only present in widely-differing geo-cultural realities but also persistent and showing a polymorphic, transverse character related to male dominance which enables it (until now) to survive many social and legislative changes. As well as identifying the particular features and changing forms of this type of violence, quite unlike any other, the essay stresses the adaptive, endemic and persistent character of this phenomenon and highlights above all its intimate and political matrix.


A classification scheme for household lifestyles, and another for the activities of which they are comprised, are described as a necessary starting point for the analysis of the environmental impact of changes in household consumption. A household's lifestyle is defined by how it carries out the activities, and households with similar lifestyles are grouped together. Exploratory analysis will be needed to define and name alternative ways of carrying out individual activities and alternative lifestyles. The resulting information can be accommodated in a social accounting matrix and different assumptions analyzed using an economic model of production and consumption. The approach to defining lifestyles and analyzing the impact of changes in lifestyles is readily generalized to the global scale.


The purpose of this application is to be a novel and exible educational game with the ability to enhance students' willingness to learn and memorize material. It focuses signicantly more on the 'fun' gaming aspect as compared to existing competitors with the aim of being more engaging for students, making them more willing to learn the appropriate material. It also has a focus on teaching vocabulary through association with existing knowledge. The impact, if successful, would be to overall raise academic performance and increase potential college acceptance rates.


The subject of the article is the notion of the interior monologue; basing his considerations on the classical definition proposed by Edouard Dujardin in 1931, the author discusses the most important determinants of this concept in the context of the French novel of the end of the 19th and the first three decades of the 20th century. The determinants taken into account are: specific content of a discourse not pronounced by a character, internal focalisation manifesting itself most often in the first person narrative, characteristic language and temporal construction of the statement.


The biased distribution of cryptocurrency nodes across Autonomous Systems (ASes) increases the risk of spatial partitioning attacks, allowing an adversary to isolate nodes by hijacking AS prefixes. Prior works on spatial partitioning attacks have mainly focused on the Bitcoin network, showing that the prominent cryptocurrency network can be paralyzed by disrupting the physical topology through BGP hijacks.Despite the persisting threat of BGP hijacks, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have not been frequently targeted, likely due to their shielded overlay topology, which limits the exposure of physical network anomalies. In this paper, we present a new perspective by examining the security of cryptocurrency networks, considering shared network resources (network interdependence). We conduct measurements extending beyond the Bitcoin network and analyze commonalities in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple node hosting patterns. We observe that all three networks are highly centralized, predominantly sharing the common ASes. We also note that among the three cryptocurrencies, Ripple does not shield its overlay topology, which can be exploited to learn about the physical network anomalies. The observed network anomalies present practical attack strategies that can be launched to target all three cryptocurrencies simultaneously. 1 We supplement our analysis by surveying recent BGP attacks on high-profile ASes and recognizing a need for application-level countermeasures. We propose attack countermeasures that reduce the risk of spatial partitioning, notwithstanding the increasing centralization of nodes and network interdependence.


In this paper, we study injective dimension and Gorenstein injective dimension over local ring homomorphisms. Some well-known results are generalized. For example, the Bass formula for Gorenstein injective dimension of complexes is extended. As applications, some characterizations of Gorenstein rings are obtained.


This thesis is a review of literature based on current research regarding collaborative songwriting. The review is broken down into sections regarding collaboration, songwriting, and collaborative songwriting. Research in collaborative songwriting is finite, but the studies completed have shown positive result. I examine the two aspects of collaborative songwriting to interpret a better understanding of the topic. To start I will completing a critical examination of collaborative practices and then explore how songwriting has played a role in the life of those in secondary education, post-secondary education, and those incarcerated. Connecting these two topics, the review then discusses possible methodology for future studies, Bennett (2011), as well as in depth analysis of songwriting in classrooms. The analysis of songwriting studies will focus on the positive and negative aspects of songwriting and lead into my statement of purpose and future research questions. SONGWRITING: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES 3


Background: In India presently around 8 million LBW infant are born each year. India accounts for 24% of global neonatal mortality. Improving NMR is an essential component of reducing U-5MR. The aim of this study was to determine the causes of morbidity and mortality in neonates admitted in our hospital.Methods:  This study was conducted at SNCU of Kamala Raja Hospital, Gwalior providing level III neonatal care. This is a retrospective hospital based observational study. Data from SNCU online database were taken for a period of 3 year from March 2016 to March 2019. Data obtained included sex, birth weight, Gestation age, morbidity profile, Diagnosis, and Mortality profile, Duration of stay and outcome. Categorical variables were tabulated and Statistical analysis was done.Results:  A total of 12,027 neonates were recruited, 63.07% were males and 36.92% were females. 54.87% were extramural, while 45.13% were intramural neonates. Prematurity was the most common morbidity 56.98% in the admitted neonates. Major contributors to the neonatal morbidity were Birth asphyxia (24.61%), others (21.60%), Respiratory Distress(14.06%), Sepsis(13.77%). The mortality rate in the present study is 25.45%. Major contributors for neonatal mortality includes Respiratory distress (37.76%), Birth Asphyxia (26.75%), Sepsis(13.91%). Mortality was more in out born babies 33.03% compared to inborn babies 22.03%. Conclusions:  Improving antenatal care, more deliveries at institutions with SNCU facility, improved access to health facility, early identification of danger signs,   timely referral of high risk cases, capacity building, can reduce neonatal mortality and its complications.


Air which had been drawn over virgin female Choristoneura fumiferana was passed through "Porapak Q", in this way an extract containing all the volatile compounds emitted by the insect may be obtained. (E)-11-tetradecenal but not (E)-11-tetradecen-1-ol was identified among the components of the extract. The latter compound, an inhibitor of the aldehyde, has previously been shown to be present in the secretory gland of the insect.


Herein, we report on a novel method for deposition of Mg nanoparticles at the surface of carbon materials. Through the suspension of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in an electrolyte containing di-n-butylmagnesium as a precursor, Mg nanoparticles were effectively deposited at the surface of the CNTs as soon as these touched the working electrode. Through this process CNTs supported Mg particles as small as 1 nm were synthesised and the distribution of the nanoparticles was found to be influenced by the concentration of the CNTs in the electrolyte. Hydrogenation of these nanoparticles at 100C was found to lead to low temperature hydrogen release starting at 150C, owing to shorter diffusion paths and higher hydrogen mobility in small Mg particles. However, these hydrogen properties drastically degraded as soon as the hydrogenation temperature exceeded 200C and this may be related to the low melting temperature of ultrasmall Mg particles.


New ultrasonic welding methods of metal and plastic materials have been proposed by the author and their effectiveness shown. For welding of thick and large metal specimens: (1) ultrasonic butt welding methods joining thick metal specimens end to end are proposed. Large capacity vibration sources and solid state power amplifiers of 50, 100 kW were developed; (2) a welding method using two vibration systems crossed at a right angle is effective, and 10 mm thick aluminum plates were joined successfully. For medium size metal welding specimens; (3) complex vibration welding tips were shown to be very effective, and one-dimensional complex vibration systems are developed to simplify the systems. For welding of small metal specimens; (4) higher vibration frequency and a complex vibration wire bonding system are proposed, and it is shown that they are significantly effective. The bonding systems of 60 to 780 kHz were designed and the required vibration amplitude and velocity obtained for thin aluminum wire using the 40 to 780 kHz bonding systems. For welding of plastic materials; (5) high frequency, complex vibration and two-vibration-system welding methods are effective.


An approach to getting artificial roughness of fresh-old concrete bonding interface is proposed,and based on fractal theory,the mophology data of which collected by digital image method is processed,then the artificial roughness is characterized in fractal dimension;After that,the three-dimensional reorganization of the interface is achieved by Matlab program,verifing the accuracy of the digital image method;Finally,the correlation of the roughness and the the bonding propertlys of fresh-old concrete are investigated.The results show that,there is a positive correlation of fractal dimension and interfacial bonding properties,which can be formulated as R=aD+b.


This study began with the finding that the U.S. Department of Defense does not tabulate data on family characteristics of casualities in Vietnam, and has no interest in doing so. With data from various sources, the impact of the war upon families is considered in relation to deaths and injuries, ethnic differentials, military family life, resocialization of veterans, father-absence, marriage and divorce, sex roles, and bereavement. Denial or hiding of grief is regarded as a sign of impaired or undeveloped empathy, a factor contributing to preventable family losses, and therefore relevant to the prevention of accidents and other catastrophes, including war.


Block registration is an administrative action of the Head of the Land Office or an appointed official to determine the status quo (freezing) of temporary land rights against legal actions and legal events on the land. The owner of the certificate can be the aggrieved party when there is another party who requests the blocking of the certificate of land book while the requesting party does not have rights to the entire value of the land contained in the certificate for which the blocking is requested. At the Land Office of West Pasaman Regency, every year they receive requests for registration of blocking submitted by non-holders of land rights themselves.


Developers' API needs should be more pragmatic, such as seeking suggestive, explainable, and extensible APIs rather than the so-called best result. Existing API search research cannot meet these pragmatic needs because they are solely concerned with query-API relevance. This necessitates a focus on enhancing the entire query process, from query definition to query refinement through intent clarification to query results promoting divergent thinking about results. This paper designs a novel Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialog agent (KAHAID) which guides the developer to clarify the uncertain, under-specified query through multi-round question answering and recommends APIs for the clarified query with relevance explanation and extended suggestions (e.g., alternative, collaborating or opposite-function APIs). We systematically evaluate KAHAID. In terms of human-AI dialogue efficiency, it achieves a high diversity of question options and the ability to guide developers to find APIs using fewer dialogue rounds. For API recommendation, KAHAID achieves an MRR and MAP of 0.769 and 0.794, outperforming state-of-the-art methods BIKER and CLEAR by at least 47% in MRR and 226.7% in MAP. For knowledge extension, KAHAID obtains an MRR and MAP of 0.815 and 0.864, surpassing ZaCQ by at least 42% in MRR and 45.2\% in MAP. Furthermore, we conduct a user study. It shows that explainable API recommendations, as implemented by KAHAID, can help developers identify the best API approach more easily or confidently, improving inspiration of clarification question options by at least 20.83% and the extensibility of extended APIs by at least 12.5%.


The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) has been one of the leading candidates for near-term quantum advantage in gate-model quantum computers. From its inception, this algorithm has sparked the desire for comparison between gate-model and annealing platforms. When preparing problem statements for these algorithms, the predominant inclination has been to formulate a quadratic Hamiltonian. This paper gives an example of a graph coloring problem that, depending on its variable encoding scheme, optionally admits higher order terms. This paper presents evidence that the higher order formulation is preferable to two other encoding schemes. The evidence then motivates an analysis of the scaling behavior of QAOA in this higher order formulation for an ensemble of graph coloring problems.


Porosity is one of the main determining factors of the prospectivity of geothermal regions and can be estimated in a number of ways from geophysical surveys. The objective of this work was to better understand the link between porosity, permeability and electrical resistivity through Archie's law. This was achieved by comparing porosity values derived from magnetotelluric (MT) data with those derived from density measurements taken in a petroleum borehole. Two case studies were used and are located in north-eastern South Australia. The outcomes of these studies will help to minimise exploration risk by proving the effectiveness of MT as a primary survey of geothermal regions. This study provides a stepping stone to understand the ways in which permeability can be determined from MT surveys in order to better quantify expected fluid flow rates in geothermal prospects.


Recent work has shown that many problems of satisfiability and resiliency in workflows may be viewed as special cases of the authorization policy existence problem (APEP), which returns an authorization policy if one exists and "No" otherwise. However, in many practical settings it would be more useful to obtain a "least bad" policy than just a "No," where "least bad" is characterized by some numerical value indicating the extent to which the policy violates the base authorization relation and constraints. Accordingly, we introduce the Valued APEP, which returns an authorization policy of minimum weight, where the (non-negative) weight is determined by the constraints violated by the returned solution. We then establish a number of results concerning the parameterized complexity of Valued APEP. We prove that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) if the set of constraints satisfies two restrictions, but is intractable if only one of these restrictions holds. (Most constraints known to be of practical use satisfy both restrictions.) Our analysis is based on the novel concept of a user profile. We also introduce a new type of resiliency problem in the context of workflow satisfiability, show how it can be addressed using Valued APEP, and use this to build a set of benchmark instances for Valued APEP. We describe two different formulations of this problem using mixed integer programming and report the results of computational experiments which solve the problem using these formulations as input to a general-purpose solver. Our results show that the formulation which employs the user profile concept, has FPT-like running time and usually significantly outperforms our naive formulation of the problem.