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Rui Tang Generating Residential PV Production and Electricity Consumption Scenarios via Generative Adversarial Networks

Due to the natural intermittency of renewable energy resources (such as wind and PV) and high variations in electricity consumption profiles, planning and scheduling optimisations generally require a large amount of historical energy data to produce accurate forecasts. Often in practical situations, historical data is not sufficient to capture the uncertainties in generation and consumption. A promising approach to solve this issue is to generate various generation and consumption scenarios, specifying possible trajectories of solar and load power. Then these scenarios can be incorporated into the optimisation models for infrastructure planning and power operation. In this paper, we propose a data driven Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) based model to generate domestic solar production and electricity consumption scenarios. We train our generative model using historical solar and load data collected by Solar Analytics from Australian residential PV customers. Moreover, by using a conditional GAN, we demonstrate we can generate synthetic data conditioned on site specific conditions. By validating the distributions of our generated data against real-time data, we illustrate that we can produce realistic PV generation and consumption profiles.
The Mechanism Study of Gait on a Load and Gender Difference

Gait kinematics and kinetics have a similar tendency between men and women, yet it remains unclear how walking while carrying a load affects the gait mechanism. Twenty adults walked with preferred velocity on level ground of 20 m relative to change of a load carriage (no load, 15%, 30% of the body weights) aimed to observe gait mechanism. We measured gait posture using the three-dimensional image analysis and ground reaction force system during stance phase on left foot. In main effect of gender difference, men showed increased displacement of center of gravity (COG) compared to women, and it showed more extended joint angle of hip and knee in sagittal plane. In main effect of a load difference, knee joint showed more flexed postuel relative to increase of load carriage. In main effect of load difference on the kinetic variables, medial-lateral force, anterior-posterior force (1 st breaking, 2 nd propulsive), vertical force, center of pressure (COP) area, leg stiffness, and whole body stiffness showed more increased values relative to increase of load carriage. Also, men showed more increased COP area compared to women. Interaction showed in the 1st anterior-posterior force, and as a result of one-way variance analysis, it was found that a load main effect had a greater influence on the increase in the magnitude of the braking force than the gender. The data in this study explains that women require little kinematic alteration compared to men, while men in more stiff posture accommodate an added load compared to women during gait. Additionally, it suggests that dynamic stability is maintained by adopting different gait strategies relative to gender and load difference.
Demonstration of a Stereospeciﬁc Photochemical Meta Effect

: A fundamental goal of photochemistry is to understand how structural features of a chromophore can make speciﬁc bonds within a molecule prone to cleavage by light, or photolabile. The meta effect is an example of a regiochemical explanation for photolability, in which electron donating groups on an aromatic ring cause photolability selectively at the meta position. Here, we show, using a chromophore containing one ring with a meta-methoxy group and one ring with a para-methoxy group, that two stereoisomers of the same compounds can react with light differently, based simply on the three-dimensional positioning of a meta anisyl ring. The result is that the stereoisomers of the compound with the same conﬁguration at both stereogenic centers are photolabile while the stereoisomers with opposite conﬁguration do not react with light. Furthermore, time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations show distinct excitation pathways for each stereoisomer.
Early-stage [I]β-CIT SPECT and long-term clinical follow-up in patients with an initial diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease

Purpose: Previous studies using dopamine transporter single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to try and distinguish between patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) and patients with atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS) have mainly focussed on patients with an already established clinical diagnosis of several years’ duration. Differences in the pattern of striatal involvement between IPD andAPS have been found in only few studies. We hypothesized that distinguishing SPECT featuresmight bemost pronounced at an early disease stage, and the purpose of the present study was to investigate this hypothesis. Methods: The study included 72 patients with an initial clinical diagnosis of IPD, supported by decreased striatal [I]β-CIT binding on baseline SPECT. In ten patients, the diagnosis was changed to APS over a mean follow-up period of 62 months. We retrospectively compared the patterns of striatal involvement on the baseline SPECT scans between the group of patients (re)diagnosed with APS and the remaining 62 patients in whom a diagnosis of IPD was maintained. Results: In the group of patients with APS, baseline [I]βCIT binding in both caudate nuclei was lower than in the group of patients with IPD. In addition, putamen to caudate binding ratios were higher in the group of APS patients. In spite of these differences, individual binding values showed considerable overlap between the groups. Conclusion: [I]β-CIT SPECT scanning in early-stage, untreated parkinsonian patients revealed a relative sparing of the caudate nucleus in patients with IPD as compared to patients later (re)diagnosed with APS. Nevertheless, the pattern of striatal involvement appears to have little predictive value for a later re-diagnosis of APS in individual cases.
A Retrospective Study of the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury on Auditory Function: From a Clinical Perspective

Purpose: The main purpose of this retrospective study was to identify auditory dysfunctions related to traumatic brain injury (TBI) in individuals evaluated in an Audiology clinic. Method: Peripheral and central auditory evaluations were performed from March 2014 to June 2018 in 26 patients (14 males) with TBI. The age of the participants ranged from 9 to 59 years old (34.24 ± 15.21). Six participants had blast-related TBI and 20 had blunt force TBI. Sixteen experienced a single TBI event whereas ten experienced several. Correlation analyses were performed to verify the relationship, if any, between the number of auditory tests failed and the number, type, and severity of TBIs. Result: All participants failed at least one auditory test. Nearly 60% had abnormal results on degraded speech tests (compressed and echoed, filtered or in background noise) and 25% had a high frequency hearing loss. There was no statistically significant correlation between the number of auditory tests failed and the number, type, and severity of TBIs. Conclusion: Results indicated negative and heterogenous effects of TBI on peripheral and central auditory function and highlighted the need for a more extensive auditory assessment in individuals with TBI.
Incremental Full Correlation Matrix Analysis for Real-Time fMRI Studies

—Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) is an emerging approach both for studying the function of the human brain, and for neural feedback-based training. To date, rtfMRI has relied exclusively on the real-time analyses that treat activity in different regions as independent of one another. However, critical aspects of brain function may depend on, and be revealed more sensitively by correlations among regions. An exhaustive analysis of such correlations is substantially more demanding computationally, so full correlation matrix analysis (FCMA) of the entire brain has not been carried out in real-time before. This paper presents the algorithms and an implementation of the first real-time system to perform whole brain FCMA in real-time. Our system includes incremental voxel selection, model training, and real-time classification. We have implemented this system on an fMRI scanner connected to a computer cluster over HTTP. Experiments show that our system is able to achieve real-time FCMA analysis of a stream of brain volumes with neurofeedback with less than 200 ms of lag with very few exceptions. The incremental FCMA algorithm running on our real-time fMRI system performs about 1.8x-6.2x faster than using an offline FCMA toolbox in the real-time context while getting comparable neuro-feedback results.
Interactive comment on “Model study of the cross-tropopause transport of biomass burning pollution” by

of we have conducted two additional simulations, in which we separate the component of the seasonal oscillation of CO in the UT/LS due to variations in transport (i.e., convection and slow ascent from the TTL to the LS) from the variations in the individual contributions of each CO source. The ﬁrst is a tagged CO simulation, which gives the breakdown of the total CO from various sources (e.g., methane oxidation, fossil fuels in E. Asia, biomass burning in S. America, etc.) in the UT/LS. The second is a uniform tracer simulation, in which we emit CO homogeneously over the earth’s surface (2400 Tg CO/yr) and assume a uniform 25 day lifetime. Consequently, the uniform tracer is decoupled from the
Educational Philosophies of Parents and Level of Diligence of Senior High School Students

Educational philosophies of parents can take many forms, such as being informed about their children’s performance in school, knowing strength and weaknesses and providing needs of the students. This study focuses on the level of educational philosophies of parents and level of diligence of the students. This aims to examine the relationship between educational philosophies of parents and student’s diligence in school. For the purpose of the study, parents themselves and students who are living with their parents are required to answer the questionnaires in rating scale form. Results indicate that the educational philosophies idealism and essentialism implies that both students and parents have high expectations when it comes to education and they also impose values and proper disciplines. While realism and pragmatism indicates that both students and parents does not believe that reality is found in the physical world that they live in and doesn’t think of a practical approach to problems and situations. However the educational philosophy existentialism implies that one’s existence is important from both parents and students. In this study, suggestions such as giving parental orientation about the background of education is provided for the future research purposes.
Diagnostic Tool Repertoire in Multiple Sclerosis as a New Distortion of the Self-Reactive IgG Antibody

To date, none of the myelin-associated Ag targets deﬁnitively discriminates between the immune response observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and healthy subjects. However, it has been shown recently that analysis of global immune Ab proﬁles such as natural autoantibody reactivities can help to distinguish between normal individuals and patients suffering from various immune diseases. The aim of our study was to compare the global IgG immune response against brain self-Ags in sera from 82 MS patients and 27 healthy subjects. The analysis of the immune proﬁles was performed by Western blotting, and data were subjected to linear discriminant analysis. Particular patterns of IgG reactivity were found in healthy subjects, Sjo¨gren patients, and MS patients. Moreover, this approach separated the three clinical forms of MS with a high concordance rate with the clinical data ( (cid:1) value, 77.8%). Our study suggests, for the ﬁrst time, that serum IgG Ab repertoires are able to distinguish MS patients. In addition, our data suggest that patterns of IgG reactivity could model the pathological processes underlying the various forms of MS. Further characterization of such discriminant Ags could provide useful information regarding their potent role in patho-genesis or regulatory processes in MS. The Journal of Immunology, 2004, 172: 669–678.
Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intention ( With Reference to Undergraduates of UWU , Sri Lanka )

Entrepreneurial intentions are considered as more accurate predictors of entrepreneurial behavior. Understanding entrepreneurial intentions will enable the researchers to investigate the dynamics of entrepreneurial venture creation process. However, the controversial findings on the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions and the focus on the isolated variables without a theoretical rationale triggered this study to question what antecedents would predict the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates. Thus, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates. Accordingly, a sample of 209 undergraduates from Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka was studied by using a structured questionnaire on entrepreneurial intention, perceived desirability, perceived social norms and perceived feasibility. The results of the Binary Logistic Regression employed in order of achieving the objective of this study confirms that higher the perceived desirability and perceived feasibility higher the likelihood of entrepreneurial intention. Further, there was no adequate statistical evidence to support a significant predicting capacity of perceived social norms.
Migration, Education and Work Opportunities

I study individual location, education and work decisions in a dynamic life-cycle model in a developing country. I estimate the model exploiting panel data on migrants and stayers in Burkina Faso, and cross-sectional data on permanent emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with education, while migrants at the extremes of the education distribution tend to move abroad. Local unemployment rates, skilled work opportunities and returns to education result in differential expected income gains across locations and hereby explain the complex migration pattern observed. Large income gains from migration are partially offset by direct and indirect migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural regions.
Vibrational Enthalpies of Solid Crystalline Materials

: Speciﬁc heat at constant pressure is traditionally a difﬁcult thermodynamic quantity to obtain from ﬁrst-principles calculations. While theoretical avenues to C p ( T ) do exist—most notably, the quasi-harmonic approximation—there are many materials for which this approximation is not valid. One of those materials is Ge. In this paper, we demonstrate how a new method—termed the Beyond Quasi-Harmonic method—takes into account all anharmonic vibrations by showing how our results are signiﬁcantly better than those achieved through using the quasi-harmonic model. In addition, we calculate C p ( T ) for 3C-SiC, a material for which there are surprisingly few experimental results. For 3C-SiC, our results agree well with the available experiments, and for Ge, our results agree very well with the generally accepted values.
Anti-candidal activity of Aspergillus flavus IBRL-C 8 , an endophytic fungus isolated from Cassia siamea Lamk leaf

© 2018 Darah Ibrahim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License -NonCommercialShareAlikeUnported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). *Corresponding Author Lim Sheh Hong, Industrial Biotechnology Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. E-mail: limshehhong77 @ gmail.com Anti-candidal activity of Aspergillus flavus IBRL-C8, an endophytic fungus isolated from Cassia siamea Lamk leaf
Degradation Behavior of Micro-Arc Oxidized ZK60 Magnesium Alloy in a Simulated Body Fluid

Bio-ceramic coatings were synthesized on ZK60 magnesium alloys by micro-arc oxidation (MAO). The degradation behavior of the ZK60 alloys with and without MAO coating in the simulated body fluid (SBF) was studied. The samples were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), laser scanning confocal microscopy (CLSM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to study the degradation behavior. The results showed that the porous MAO coating mainly consisted of MgO, Mg2SiO4, Mg3(PO4)2, and CaCO3. The pH values of both coated and uncoated samples increased over time. However, the pH values of the SBF for coated samples always maintained a lower level compared with those for the uncoated samples. Thereby, the coated samples showed a much lower degradation rate. After immersion in SBF for 5 days, corrosion product containing Ca and P was found on both samples, while the deposition was more active on the coated samples. The degradation models for the uncoated and coated samples in the SBF are also proposed and discussed.
Real Estate Industry as an Urban Growth Machine: A Review of the Political Economy and Political Ecology of Urban Space Production in Mexico City

Cities concentrate the means of production, wealth, political power, infrastructure, educational institutions, and a relevant share of our cultural heritage. As such, they are seen as places of opportunities. Contemporary urbanization, however, being central to the accumulation of capital, has also escalated environmental problems that are usually suffered by the urban poor due to an uneven production of urban space. Mexico City is not an exception. It has mainly expanded through a lively auto-construction process and, more recently, under the incentive of a speculative urban development. The first trend reinforces the informal housing sector, in certain cases, involving significant environmental implications such as the degradation of land of ecological value. The second trend responds to capital accumulation dynamics, promoting urban renewal in central areas or where a greater potential rent-gap exists, underpinning the uneven production of urban space, and usually withholding most of its related socioenvironmental impacts. This paper focusses on this second process. It assesses the so-called “urban growth machine” in action, its socioecological impacts, and related contestation processes. With that in mind and after a general introduction and a brief description of urban development in Mexico, the real estate industry in Mexico City is evaluated in terms of the potential ecological implications of the building stock expansion from 2012 to 2018. A spatial distribution analysis of contestation processes, correlated to such urban expansion, is presented as well. The case study confirms what has been learned in other locations of the Global South, where a contradictory and uneven process of urban development has also been experienced under the stimulus of capital speculation. The paper, however, offers a novel approach by bringing together urban political economy, industrial ecology and urban political ecology analytical tools. Such hybridization, it is argued, enables a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary urbanization and its socioenvironmental impacts, which in turn is central to any effort for urban transformation.
Topography Impacts Hydrology in the Sub-Humid Ethiopian Highlands

: Understanding the relationship between topography, hydrological processes, and runoff source areas is essential in engineering design, such as predicting ﬂoods and implementing effective watershed management practices. This relationship is not well deﬁned in the highlands with a monsoon climate and needs further study. The objective of this study is to relate topographic position and hydrological response in tropical highlands. The research was conducted in the Debre Mawi watershed in the northwest sub-humid Ethiopian highlands. In the monsoon rain phase of 2017 and 2018, groundwater depth, inﬁltration rate, and surface runoff were monitored at the upslope, midslope, and downslope positions. Surface runoff rates were measured in farmer ﬁelds through distributed V-notch weirs as estimates of positional runoff. Average water table depths were 30 cm deep in the downslope regions and 95 cm in the upslope position. The water table depth affected the steady-state inﬁltration rate in the rain phase. It was high upslope (350 mm h − 1 ), low midslope (49 mm h − 1 ), and zero downslope. In 2017, the average runoff coefﬁcients were 0.29 for the upslope and midslope and 0.73 downslope. Thus, topographic position affects all aspects of the watershed hydrology in the humid highlands and is critical in determining runoff response. The surface runoff, groundwater table depth, and soil type are highly linked with the topographic position of a landscape unit. During the rain phase, the groundwater table was deeper in the upslope, shallower in the midslope, and at the surface in the downslope positions in the humid Debre Mawi watershed. The inﬁltration rate was high upslope, low in the midslope, and zero in the downslope. Runoff coefﬁcients were greater downslope than midslope and upslope. This study suggests that the implementation of landscape-speciﬁc soil and water conservation practices in the sub-humid and humid Ethiopian highlands should be based on slope position. In addition, parameterization of models should take into account that downslope ﬁelds produce greater amounts of runoff after the soils become saturated.
Effect of Artificial Defects on the Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of 316L Stainless Steel

Widely used for structural materials in nuclear engineering, 316L austenitic stainless steel undergoes very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) throughout its service life. Since defects caused by service conditions are unavoidable in many engineering components during service life, the effects should be properly understood. In the present study, the effect of surface defects on the VHCF behavior were investigated on solution annealed (SA) and cold-worked (CW) 316L. Surface defects were artificially created using indentation. The VHCF test was conducted using an ultrasonic fatigue testing system. The results showed that the fatigue crack initiation was independent of the indent with the applied range of depth in this research. Furthermore, the critical depth of the indent was evaluated based on an empirical formula (Murakami’s model). In the case of SA 316L, the VHCF strength was not affected when the indent depth was less than 40 μm, which is consistent with the value obtained from the empirical formula. In the case of 20% CW 316L, the VHCF strength was not affected when the indent depth was less than 80 μm. The experimental results, i.e., the critical depth of the indent, were much larger than the results obtained from the empirical formula, and might have been caused by the plastic deformation, residual stress, and probable deformation-induced martensite transition around the indent.