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he contribution of family climate for road safety and social environment to the eported driving behavior of young drivers rit

Two studies examined the contribution of the new concept of “family climate for road safety” and several aspects of the social environment to the driving behavior of young drivers. Study 1 (n = 120) investigated the effect of the seven dimensions of the family climate for road safety – Modeling, Feedback, Communication, Monitoring, Noncommitment, Messages, and Limits – as well as a general tendency to conform to authority, and peer pressure. Study 2 (n = 154) examined the dimensions of family climate for road safety and perceived popularity of reckless driving among peers. The findings indicate associations both between the familial and the social aspects, and between these variables and driving styles, willingness to take risks while driving, reckless driving habits, and personal commitment to safe driving. Positive aspects of the parent–child relationship and high levels of conformity to authority were related to greater endorsement of the careful driving style, whereas family’s noncommitment to safety, higher peer pressure, and lower conformity to authority were associated with greater endorsement of the reckless driving style. In addition, positive aspects of the family climate for road safety and lower perceived popularity of reckless driving among friends were associated with more personal commitment to safe driving and a lower tendency for risky driving. The discussion stresses the need to look at the complex set of antecedents of reckless driving among young drivers and addresses the practical implications of the findings for road safety.
ENGINEERING NOISE CONTROL: Theory and Practice

Fundamentals and Basic Terminology Introduction Noise-Control Strategies Acoustic Field Variables Wave Equations Mean Square Quantities Energy Density Sound Density Sound Power Units Spectra Combining Sound Pressures Impedance Flow Resistance The Human Ear Brief Description of the Ear Mechanical Properties of the Central Partition Noise Induced Hearing Loss Subjective Response to Sound Pressure Level Instrumentation for Noise Measurement and Analysis Microphones Weighting Networks Sound Level Meters Classes of Sound Level Meter Sound Level Meter Calibration Noise Measurements Using Sound Level Meters Time-Varying Sound Noise Level Measurement Data Loggers Personal Sound Exposure Meter Recording of Noise Spectrum Analysers Intensity Meter Energy Density Sensors Sound Source Localization Criteria Introduction Hearing Loss Hearing Damage Risk Hearing Damage Risk Criteria Implementing a Hearing Conservation Program Speech Interference Criteria Psychological Effects of Noise Ambient Noise Level Specification Environmental Noise Level Criteria Environmental Noise Level Surveys Sound Sources and Outdoor Sound Propagation Introduction Simple Source Dipole Source Quadruple Source (Far-Field Approximation) Line Source Piston in an Infinite Baffle Incoherent Plane Radiator Directivity Reflection Effects Reflection and Transmission at a Plane/Two Media Interface Sound Propagation Outdoors, General Concepts Sound Power, its Use and Measurement Introduction Radiation Impedance Relation between Sound Power and Sound Pressure Radiation Field of a Sound Source Determination of Sound Power Using Intensity Measurements Determination of Sound Power Using Surface Vibration Measurements Some Uses of Sound Power Information Sound in Enclosed Spaces Introduction Low Frequencies Bound between Low-Frequency and High-Frequency Behavior High Frequencies, Statistical Analysis Transit Response Porous Sound Absorbers Panel Sound Absorbers Flat and Long Rooms Applications of Sound Absorption Auditorium Design Partitions, Enclosures and Barriers Introduction Sound Transmission through Partitions Noise Reduction vs Transmission Loss Enclosures Barriers Pipe Lagging Muffling Devices Introduction Measures of Performance Diffusers as Muffling Devices Classification of Muffling Devices Acoustic Impedance Lumped Element Devices Reactive Devices Lined Ducts Duct Bends or Elbows Unlined Ducts Effect of Duct End Reflections Duct Break-Out Noise Line Plenum Attenuator Water Injection Directivity of Exhaust Duct Vibration Control Introduction Vibration Isolation Types of Isolators Vibration Absorbers Vibration Neutralizers Vibration Measurement Damping of Vibrating Surfaces Measurement of Damping Sound Power and Sound Pressure Level Estimation Procedures Introduction Fan Noise Air Compressors Compressors for Chillers and Refrigeration Units Cooling Towers Pumps Jets Control Valves Pipe Flow Boilers Turbines Diesel and Gas-Driven Engines Furnace Noise Electric Motors Generators Transformers Gears Transportation Noise Practical Numerical Acoustics Introduction Low-Frequency Region High-Frequency Region: Statistical Energy ANalysis
How is the acquisition of Chinese characters by learners from the non Chinese character cultural sphere affected by stroke numbers, component numbers and topological structural patterns

Based on Chinese Learners’ Interlanguage Database, this paper analyses some of the factors that affect the Chinese characters learning by learners from the non Chinese character cultural sphere. The results have been further verified by experiments. An analysis of the statistic data leads to the following conclusion: 1) they process high frequency Chinese characters in two steps: strokes—characters, while they do the low frequency ones in three: strokes—components—characters. And the processing is serialized, but not parallel in nature; and 2) the left right structure is the most difficult in the four structures of Chinese characters. The first conclusion inspires us to suggest that character learning should be carried out in two stages.
Factory Women in Taiwan

This study describes the first generation of working women in Taiwan, documenting their feelings about employment and addressing the effects of wage-earning on the status and lives of women in general. Although working women enjoy greater mobility and increased peer contact, the study proves that the changes they have experienced are brought about by being away from home, rather than by wage-earning itself. Wage-earning has not empowered women to influence family decisions, nor has it brightened their future options. The author demonstrates how factory work for young women becomes a new opportunity to meet already existing role expectations, and that the values on which role definitions are based have not been changed by the work experience.
Research on Electric-Power Load Forecasting Based on Support Vector Machine Regression Technique

Based on the Statistical Learning Theory,a novel regression technique called Support Vector Machine(SVM),is explored in this paper for electric-power load forecasting.SVM is based on the principle of Structure Risk Minimization as opposed to the principle of Empirical Risk Minimization supported by conventional regression techniques.The prediction result shows that the prediction accuracy of SVM is better than that of neural network.Thus,SVM appears to be a very promising prediction tool.
Exact outage analysis of underlay cooperative cognitive networks with maximum transmit‐and‐interference power constraints and erroneous channel information

This paper presents exact analysis of interference probability and outage probability of underlay cooperative cognitive networks under quite general conditions such as imperfect channel information, maximum transmit‐and‐interference power constraints, correlation among received signal‐to‐noise ratios and non identically distributed fading channels. In addition, asymptotic outage analysis at either large maximum transmit power or large maximum interference power is proposed to have useful insights into performance limits of underlay cooperative cognitive networks. Analytical results reveal that underlay cooperative cognitive networks dramatically suffer outage saturation phenomenon, and saturation degree significantly depends on channel estimation quality. Moreover, the performance of both licenced network in terms of interference probability and unlicenced network in terms of outage probability is considerably deteriorated by channel estimation error. Furthermore, optimum relay position is dependent of several factors such as maximum transmit power, maximum interference power, licensee position and channel estimation quality. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Flow Simulation of Various Riblet Shapes and a Uniform Model for Boundary Layer

Various riblet shapes are simulated through the computational fluid dynamics method for the elucidation of riblet effects on turbulent boundary layers and skin friction reduction. For the different shapes, seven typical riblet models are investigated by using renormalization group k-epsilon turbulence models. Simulation results are consistent with the existing theoretical data regarding flat plate and experimental results obtained from the riblet shapes. The riblet velocity profiles cannot satisfy the existing von Kármán’s constants in the logarithmic law boundary layer. The slope and intercept of the logarithmic law are strongly affected by geometric parameters and riblet shapes, and the effect of geometric parameters can be modeled. Meanwhile, the effects of riblet shapes can be modeled with a shape factor composed of a nondimensional cavity ratio and nondimensional top flatness. Therefore, a uniform model of the boundary layer can be obtained to illustrate the effects of various riblet shapes.
Charge Accumulation on Metal Strip-detector Sensors Under Ion Beam Irradiation : Experiment and Modeling

This paper presents the Monte-Carlo simulation in aluminum film with the thickness of several tens micrometers, which is a part of metal strip-detector sensor. It was believed that ions Cu++ with energy 5–25 keV are generating secondary electrons. Elastic collisions with target atoms, atomic levels ionization and electron capture have been taken into account for the ions, and for the secondary electrons—-elastic collisions with target atoms, atomic levels ionization, plasmons and phonons generation. It has been obtained that an accumulated charge dependence on ion beam energy matches with experimental data.
Title Erbium-doped Fiber Laser with Distributed Feedbackfrom a Fiber Grating Array

An erbium-doped fiber laser with low coherence, low threshold, high efficiency and narrow linewidth is demonstrated for the first time based on distributed feedback from a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array. The FBG array contains tens of FBGs with identical Bragg wavelength but very weak reflectivity of ∼ 5‰, inscribed along a normal single-mode fiber with random separations. Low pump threshold power of 3.0 mW and high slope efficiency of 24% are achieved, which are comparable with that of normal erbium-doped fiber lasers but much better than that of conventional random fiber lasers based on distributed Rayleigh scattering.
Proximate composition of fish feed ingredients available in Shibpur Upazila , Narsingdi district , Bangladesh

The present study was conducted to determine the proximate composition of fish feed ingredients locally available in Narsingdi Region. In this study protein, lipid, moisture, ash, carbohydrate concentrations was assessed in rice bran, maize bran, wheat bran, mustard oil cake, soybean meal, DORB, meat and bone meal, mixed of oyster, shrimp shell and crab shell. Proximate composition was determined on the homogenous basis. The quantity of protein in different fish feed ingredients ranged from (12.04±1.3047.23±0.61)%. Maximum amount of protein content (47.23±0.61)% was recorded from the meat and bone meal and minimum amount (12.04±1.30)% was recorded from the maize bran. The concentration of lipid in different feed stuffs ranged from (2.5±0.37-18.5±1.1)%. The highest value (18.5±1.1)% of lipid content was found in soybean meal and the minimum (2.5±0.37)% was recorded in Crab shell. Moreover, the value of moisture and ash were recorded (5.00±0.88-13.28±1.46)% and (7.43±0.12-22.55±1.32)% in the locally found feed respectively. The highest value of moisture (13.28±1.46)% was recorded from crab shell and the lowest value of moisture (5.00±0.88)% was recorded from meat and bone meal. The highest amount of ash (22.55±1.32)% was also found in meat and bone meal and the lowest amount of ash (7.43±0.12)% was found in maize bran. And finally last the concentration of carbohydrate in different feed stuffs ranged from (15.67±0.5-66.77±1.13)%. Maximum amount of carbohydrate content (66.77±1.13)% was recorded from the maize bran and minimum amount of carbohydrate content (15.67±0.5)% was recorded from the soybean meal.
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT GUAVA ( PSIDIUM GUAJAVA L . ) GENOTYPES UNDER TARAI CONDITION OF UTTARAKHAND

Guava popularly known as “Apple of tropics” is an important fruit crop of the world. It is a member of the Myrtaceae family, is native to tropical America, stretching from Mexico to Peru (Samson, 1986). Presently, it is the fifth most important fruit crop in India after mango, banana, citrus and papaya with annual production of 3.66 million tons from 0.268 million hectares, accounting for 4.1 per cent of total fruit production with productivity of 13.7 metric ton per hectare (Anonymous, 2014). Besides, being rich source of pectin, vitamin C is reported to be 2-5 times higher than in the fresh orange juice. It is also a fair source of vitamin A, calcium, phosphorous, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamin and niacin. The ripe fruits are relished equally by both the rich and poor. It is a small tree with prolific-bearing habit and bears more than once a year. Guava has good potential in the fruit industry of our country because of its delicious taste, aromatic, sweet flavor and a fine balance of acid, sugar and pectin (Singh and Rao, 1996). The trees are quite hardy and give satisfactory return without much care and have the ability to adopt in wide range of soils and climatic conditions. Besides having high nutritive values it can be grown satisfactorily even in adverse situation (Rathore, 1976).
The Study of Consumer Behavior in Event Tourism — A Case of the Taiwan Coffee Festival

The purpose of this study were to experiential marketing, satisfaction and loyalty, then to understand the influence of this three variable. A case study was in the Taiwan Coffee Festival. 335 valid questionnaires were collected and used descriptive statistics, and structural equation modeling to analyze and verify the data, and measure the relationships between the constructs. The results of relationship model show that experiential marketing has positive effect of satisfaction, and satisfaction has positive effect of loyalty, experiential marketing has not positive effect of loyalty.
Modeling and forecasting of realized volatility based on high-frequency data : evidence from FTSE-100 index

As an important parameter, volatility is widely applied in asset pricing, portfolio decisions and value at risk (VaR) etc. A lot of literatures have documented the significant improvements of volatility modeling and forecasting. By using the high-frequency data of FTSE-100 index, and adopting the bi-power test of Barndorff-Nielson and Shephard (2004a, b), we separate the jump components from the realized volatility and model the jump components as well as the continuous components via the application of the newly developed HAR-RV-CJ model. Our results are in line with Andersen et al. (2007), that the jump components have little prediction power, and we successfully prove that based on the adjusted-R squared and several prediction measurements (RMSE, MAE, etc); HAR-RV-CJ model does perform better than the original HAR-RV model and forecasts more precisely in both the in-sample and out-of-sample predictions.
The effects of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes and a ferulic acid esterase-producing inoculant treatment on digestibility and conservation characteristics of corn stover.

The objective of the current study was to determine the effects of a mixed bacterial inoculant possessing ferulic acid esterase (FAE) activity and exogenous fibrolytic enzyme (EFEs) products on the chemical composition, conservation characteristics and digestibility of corn stover. The moisture level of corn stover was adjusted to 40% with deionized water and then treated with deionized water (control), EFEs (10 U cellulase + 60 U xylanase units g-1 of substrate dry matter) or EFEs + FAE inoculant (FAEI) (1.3 x 105 cfu g-1 fresh forage). The treated stover was then incubated in laboratory mini-silos for 30 days. After the incubation period, the corn stover treated with both EFEs and EFEs + FAEI had a lower pH, ADF and NDF (P<0.001), and higher acetic acid and lactic acid (P<0.001) than the control stover. In addition, moulds and yeasts were inhibited in stover treated with EFEs + FAEI. The in vitro true dry matter digestibility (IVTDMD) and in vitro true neutral detergent digestibility (IVTNDFD) of the stover treated with EFEs and EFEs + FAEI were higher than for the control (P<0.001) but there was no significant difference between the EFEs and EFEs + FAEI treatments. From economical point of view, the best treatment was EFEs + FAEI. These results suggest that EFEs played a major role in enhancing the digestibility of corn stover, alone or in combination with FAEI. Moreover the use of EFEs + FAEI promoted a positive response in the conservation characteristics.
Relationship Between Left Ventricular Mass Index and Ankle-Brachial Index in Hypertensive Patients

Background: Early detection of subclinical organ damage (OD) in hypertensive patients is important for the early aggressive treatment of hypertension. Several investigations of OD have been inferred from hypertension guidelines. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is an easy tool for public use while evaluation of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) requires a skillful echocardiographer and is not a convenient method for mass screening. No previous studies of a correlation between ABI and LVH have been reported. Methods: From 1 November 2007 to 31 October 2008, ABI and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) using the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) method was performed on hypertensive patients at the Chest Disease Institute. Baseline characteristics and medical profiles were collected. The association between ABI and LVMI was examined. The prevalence of LVH by Sokolow’s voltage criteria and by LVMI including the number of peripheral arterial disease detected by ABI was studied. Results: Of the 106 patients studied (54 males, mean age of 60 years), peripheral artery disease (PAD) was detected in 16 patients (15.1%). Prevalence of LVH by EKG criteria was 13(12.3%) whereas LVH diagnosed by LVMI was 54(50.9%). There was no correlation between LVMI and ABI (R = 0.19 p = NS) Conclusions: There was no relationship between LVMI and ABI found. LVMI detected by echocardiography was a more sensitive marker than EKG criteria in detecting LVH.
Wdowinski and Axen : Denudation and Isotasy-- A Flow Model 305

A four-layer model of the upper 150 km of the Earth is used to calculate the viscous response of continental crust and the underlying mantle to tectonic denudation. The model comprises a strong upper crustal layer, a weak lower crustal layer, a very strong mantle lithosphere layer, and a weak mantle asthenosphere layer, which is in accord with experimental constraints on strength-depth profiles for continental lithosphere. The strength of each layer is represented by its effective viscosity. Flow in the crust and mantle is driven by buoyancy forces, which arise from the unloading of an allochthon along a detachment fault by a series of instantaneous displacements (earthquakes or rapid creep events). Numerical solutions, obtained by using a finite element technique, predict footwall uplift, Moho deflection, and surface topography that are consistent with observations from the Basin and Range province of the western United States. The calculated curvature of the footwall uplift is also similar to that observed and is sensitive to the geometry of the detachment fault. Such bending need not be elastically controlled; hence the curvatures of footwall domes do not clearly place limits on the effective elastic thickness of the extending crust. The upward deflection of the Moho and the surface topography are sensitive to the viscosity structure and enable us to bound the range of the various viscosities. By matching observations from the Basin and Range province, which indicate no Moho deflection and low magnitude of surface topography (_•3-5 km), we estimate the upper crustal, lower crustal, and mantle lithospheric viscosities in the ranges 102x-1023 Pa s, 10x9-102• Pa s, and 10•-10 •3 Pa s, respectively.
On hybrid lagrangian-eulerian simulation methods: practical notes and high-performance aspects

Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian simulation schemes have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in both academic and industrial communities of physics-based animation. Exemplified by the Fluid-Implicit-Particle (FLIP) method for incompressible fluids and the Material Point Method (MPM) for elastoplastic solids, increasingly more schemes of this category assist in asserting that a well-designed combinational usage of connectivity-free particles and a regular Cartesian background grid allows benefits from both representations. Despite the increasing amount of implementations of hybrid methods in industrial software, academic codebases, and open-source repositories hosted online, it appears that a significant portion of such implementations fails to pay enough attention to the most crucial aspect, performance, in such solvers. To alleviate this situation, the proposed course serves to disclose practical and impactful notes and techniques for achieving high-performance implementations of hybrid methods on a consumer-level workstation. With a focus on MPM and vortex methods, we cover aspects ranging from the data structure, algorithmic design, and low-level optimization for multi-threaded CPUs and massively parallel GPUs. We expect this course to sharply improve the overall code quality for a large number of practitioners from both academic and industrial groups, as well as contribute to improving the course content of physics-based animation in university programs.
The potential use of cucurbiturils and cyclodextrins to facilitate delivery and antineoplastic potentiation of tirapazamine and cisplatin with concurrent radiotherapy in tumours – A quantum mechanical study

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The potential use of cucurbiturils and cyclodextrins to facilitate delivery and antineoplastic potentiation of tirapazamine and cisplatin with concurrent radiotherapy in tumours – A quantum mechanical study Clifford Fong
Predicting the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Risk Using Sensory Monofilament Test among Diabetic Patients Attending the National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrine Glands

Objective: To predict the diabetic foot ulcer risk using sensory monofilament test among diabetic patients attending The National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrine Glands. Patients and Methods: The present study is descriptive exploratory study that was conducted among 151 male and female adult patients, who were between 30 and 60 years, with type 11 diabetes mellitus, with palpable peripheral pulse and without presence of foot ulceration and were attending The National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrine Glands. A scheduled questionnaire and a feet examination sheet were used. Results: There was a statistically significant relation between sensory monofilament test score and occurrence of diabetic foot ulcer. Conclusion: Sensory monofilament test is a simple practical test for prediction of diabetic foot ulceration risk.