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Babel: A Version Management System for the Java Programming Language

For the deployment of large software systems powerful mechanisms for module and version management are essential. For both areas, the popular Java programming language, however, provides only limited support. Module management is supported by means of Java’s package and jar file mechanisms which is mostly a packaging mechanism that just allows to amend packages in a jar file with some meta information via an included manifest file. The only version management functionality supported is to allow developers to query a package for its version number, after it has been loaded. Based on that, an application can try to make assumptions whether that version might be compatible or not. However, if the currently running Java application uses a module that depends on a different and incompatible version of a component that is already loaded, Java users are out of luck since Java does not allow to load two different versions of the same class. In this paper, we present the Babel Version Management System that tackles all of these issues.
Self‐supervised terrain classification for planetary surface exploration rovers

In future planetary exploration missions, improvements in autonomous rover mobility have the potential to increase scientific data return by providing safe access to geologically interesting sites that lie in rugged terrain, far from landing areas. To improve rover‐based terrain sensing, this paper proposes a self‐supervised learning framework that will enable a robotic system to learn to predict mechanical properties of distant terrain, based on measurements of mechanical properties of similar terrain that has been traversed previously. In this framework, a proprioceptive terrain classifier is used to distinguish terrain classes based on features derived from rover–terrain interaction, and labels from this classifier are used to train an exteroceptive (i.e., vision‐based) terrain classifier. Once trained, the vision‐based classifier is able to recognize similar terrain classes in stereo imagery. This paper presents two distinct proprioceptive classifiers—a novel approach based on optimization of a traction force model and a previously described approach based on wheel vibration—as well as a vision‐based terrain classification approach suitable for environments with unexpected appearances. The high accuracy of the self‐supervised learning framework and its supporting algorithms is demonstrated using experimental data from a four‐wheeled robot in an outdoor Mars‐analogue environment. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Stimulated Raman scattering based all-optical logic inverter using tellurite fiber

In this paper we propose a model for fiber based all-optical cascadable logic inverter. Working principle of the inverter is based on the theory of stimulated Raman scattering. A Maximum Product Criteria (MPC) for noise margin is taken to analyze the cascadability of the inverter. Variation of noise margin with pump power is also studied.
The silver market phenomenon : business opportunities in an era of demographic change

Looking at the Bright Side of Things. - From the World Demographic Association. The Demographic Shift: Challenges, Chances, Perspectives. - Innovation, Design and Product Development for the Silver Market. -: User Integration. - Design in an Aging Society. - Service Innovation. Marketing for the Silver Market. - : Current Best-Agers Strategies of Retail Industry. - Silver Pricing. - Consumer Behavior. - Advertising for the Silver Market. Industry Challenges and Solutions. - Lessons Learned and the Challenges and Opportunities Ahead. - Afterword.
Marketing standardization within global industries: An empirical study of performance implications

Examines the relationship between global standardization and performance within the global industry context. For firms competing in global industries that emphasize high‐tech, industrial products, global standardization was found to be positively related to organizational performance. In addition, considers the moderating effect of managerial characteristics on the global standardization‐performance relationship. Results indicate that the subsidiary manager’s marketing experience strengthened the global standardization‐performance relationship, but the manager’s international experience did not have a moderating effect. In summary, results show that global standardization can be an effective strategic option when implemented consistently with organizational contingencies.
Aerosol Jet Printing for printed electronics rapid prototyping

This work investigates optimization procedures for rapid prototyping with Aerosol Jet Printing by printing high quality structures for the fabrication of multi-layer passive devices on various substrates. The effects of gas flow rate, nozzle diameter, stage speed and substrate temperature are examined in order to optimize printed line width for each material. Inductors, capacitors and resistors are fabricated using silver nano-particle ink, SU-8 dielectric and PEDOT:PSS organic conductor. Further applications are show-cased by printing silver interconnect lines with fine pitch for various applications such as: replacement for die wirebonding, printing a strain gauge on a 3D conformal surface, and for printing on flexible plastic substrates.
of Japanese Quails Fed with Oat Bran ( Avena sativa )

In poultry industry, dietary antibiotics are used as growth and health promoters. However, using antibiotic in poultry diet has been banned in European countries from 2006 which is because of public concerns about their residues in the animal products and the development of antibioticsresistant bacteria (Schwarz et al. 2001; Lee et al. 2004). Since removing antibiotics from animal nutrition would cause some harms, they are to be replaced with some edible material with antimicrobial activity. Scientific research has a tendency to use traditional feed additives which has a positive effect on the human health substituting for any synthetic drugs in animal feeds to avoid its hurtful effect. Therefore, the researches for alternative feed supplements have been increased extensively and considerable attention has been given to the medicinal plants. The efficiency of medicinal plants and some plant seeds as growth promoters (Abaza, 2001; Ayaşan, 2013), natural tonic, restorative, antibacterial and anti-parasitic drugs (Khodary et al. 1996) An experiment was conducted to evaluate the additional effects of two ground medicinal herbs oat bran (OB) and dill seed (DS) on serum lipids, carcass characteristics and growth performance in Japanese quails. A total of 240-twenty one day of age male Japanese quails were allocated randomly to 3 treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds per cage. Birds during the 22-49 days on trial received 3 dietary treatments: 1) control diet, 2) diets with 3% OB and 3) diets with 3% DS. From 4-7 weeks of age, body weight gain was higher for OB-fed birds (P<0.05) compared to other treatments, while the body weight gain of DS-fed birds was intermediate (P>0.05). Birds that received diet contai ng DS consumed significantly (P<0.05) lower feed compared to two other groups. Over the experimental period feed conversion ratio (FCR) was significantly improved in the group that received 3% DS compared to other treatments (P<0.05). Carcass weight and carcass components was not positively influenced by the dietary treatments (P>0.05). Both DS and BO-fed ni
Evaluation of the New MB Redox System for Detection of Growth of Mycobacteria

ABSTRACT We evaluated a new mycobacterial culture system, MB Redox, for recovery rate and time to detection of mycobacteria from 742 consecutive respiratory specimens and compared the results to those found with Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium. Twenty specimens (2.7%) were positive for M. tuberculosis: 17 on LJ medium and 19 in MB Redox, with 16 specimens positive in both media. In addition, 24 specimens (3.2%) were positive for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), 20 on LJ medium, 18 in MB Redox, and 14 in both media. For M. tuberculosis, the mean times to detection were 28.9 days on LJ medium and 23.6 days in MB Redox, and for NTM, the mean times to detection were 40.6 days on LJ medium and 32.3 days in MB Redox.
The Effect of Bank Competition on Firm Entry, Growth, and Exit : Evidence from Japanese Industry Data

This paper empirically investigates the effects of bank competition in the financial sector on the creation, growth, and destruction of establishments in the local Japanese market. It is found that concentration in the banking sector negatively (positively) affects the creation (destruction) and average size of establishments in industries that have greater dependence on external financing and a greater value of intangible fixed assets. These results suggest that in concentrated banking markets, potential entrants are more likely to face difficulty in obtaining credits, less likely to grow, and more likely to exit as compared with competitive banking markets.
Comparing Thai and US businesspeople

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine differences in the ethical decision‐making processes of Thai and American businesspeople, considering perceived moral intensity, corporate ethical values (CEV), and perceived importance of ethics.Design/methodology/approach – Survey respondents were professional marketers in Thailand (n=605) and US (n=453). Results were analyzed using MANOVA and ANOVA. Scales have been used previously in the literature, so we report reliability.Findings – American managers were more likely to perceive the unethical marketing behaviors to be more serious. American organizations were found to have higher CEV than Thai organizations. The results revealed no differences between the two groups of businesspeople, however, on their perceptions about the importance of ethics.Research limitations/implications – Limitations inherent in this research include the initial development of the development of the measurements in the US and some notable demographic differences between the s.
Supply and Demand of Accounting Information: The Case of Bank Financing in Russia

The article analyzes uses of accounting information in Russia. We assess the reporting behavior in the lending process for a sample of Russian companies in the years 1999 to 2004. We predict that Russian companies manage earnings to avoid losses before a credit was granted to obtain bank financing. Once the credit was granted companies are predicted to manage earnings because of the bank's monitoring activities. By means of univariate and multivariate analysis we are able to attribute the discontinuity around a zero target in the earnings distribution with firms' response to the banks' assessment of accounting performance. This implies that financing considerations affect reporting incentives of Russian companies.
Can We Manage a Balance between Care and Employment?—The Compatibility of Informal Care and Employment at the Alpen-Adria University

Thedemographic trend confronts the younger generation with the decision to care for family members. The care of a loved one is seen as not only a challenge but also a burden. The aim of the present study is to investigate the compatibility of care and employment in the university context by a multilevel triangulations design. First we determined the amount of persons concerned by all staff members of the Alpen-Adria University (AAU) (n = 919). Subsequently we discussed the problems in depth with ten employees. The results show that 11% of the employees are caring for a family member and are exposed to a variety of burden. In addition to physical and mental disorders, there are changes in the work style. The affected employees kept the care secret and formulated fears of job loss and degradation of efficiency. These results formed the basis for expert interviews (n = 7) and the development of concrete solutions.
A Critical Change in a Day in the Life of Intensive Care Nurses: Rising to the e‐Challenge of an Integrated Clinical Information System

Critical care nurses in a large academic, tertiary care trauma center have adapted to a major system change since the implementation of a fully integrated Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system, an automated process of order entry. Working in a rapidly changing environment, clinicians are accustomed to viewing real-time discrete data and then using that data to provide safe, effective, and efficient intensive care to critically ill patients. This article describes how the implementation of the CPOE system from a major healthcare software vendor has changed the life of critical care nurses and the perceptions of the experience 1 year after the new technology was initiated. Through experience sharing, perhaps others may gain knowledge to ease their transition to CPOE.
Predicting market responses with a neural network

Market response modelling is well covered in the marketing literature. However, much less research has been undertaken in the use of neural networks for market response modelling. Describes experiments to fit neural networks to the consumer goods market. Compares the neural network approach with several other possible models. Focuses on the out‐of‐sample performance of the models. Describes a method for adjusting the neural network architecture which leads to better performance on out‐of‐sample data.
The Congestion Manager

This document describes the Congestion Manager (CM), an end-system module that enables an ensemble of multiple concurrent streams from a sender destined to the same receiver and sharing the same congestion properties to perform proper congestion avoidance and control, and allows applications to easily adapt to network congestion. [STANDARDS- TRACK]
Tourism Pressure at the Regional Level in the Context of Sustainable Development in Romania

Tourism, through its components, can be found in all areas that relate to sustainable development principles. Although it should be encouraged due to the multiplier effect that it has in the development of a region, it creates pressure on the surrounding environment like any other economic activity in the process of specific potential capitalization. This paper is aimed at determining the degree of tourism pressure, its trend and impact on tourism’s sustainable development and the Romanian economy. When this pressure exceeds the ecological support capacity, negative effects occur, both on the landscape in general, and on certain tourist objectives, in particular. The assessment of this pressure and its most accurate quantification imply the use, calculation, correlation and interpolation of indicators that may summarize certain aspects related to the density of tourist fittings, tourist traffic intensity and capitalization level. Hence, the approach would be considered regionally and in terms of tourism pressure dynamics, depending on the structure of available statistical data, as well as to get a clearer picture. The authors used methods specific to geography, as well as statistical and econometric methods. The interdependence between tourism, tourism pressure and sustainability is described in the Central region. The results and observations determined with reference to the factors and indicators shown underlie the coordination of the tourism activity in the other regions according to the processes of sustainability and tourism pressure mitigation.
Molecular and cellular biology of avian somite development

Much of our understanding of early vertebrate embryogenesis derives from experimental work done with the chick embryo. Studies of the avian somite have played a key role in elucidating the developmental history of this important structure, the source of most muscle and bone in the organism. Here we review the development of the avian somite including morphological and molecular data on the origin of paraxial mesoderm, maturation of the segmental plate, specification and formation of somite compartments, and somite cell differentiation into cartilage and skeletal muscle. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Complex Structure Leads to Overfitting: A Structure Regularization Decoding Method for Natural Language Processing

Recent systems on structured prediction focus on increasing the level of structural dependencies within the model. However, our study suggests that complex structures entail high overfitting risks. To control the structure-based overfitting, we propose to conduct structure regularization decoding (SR decoding). The decoding of the complex structure model is regularized by the additionally trained simple structure model. We theoretically analyze the quantitative relations between the structural complexity and the overfitting risk. The analysis shows that complex structure models are prone to the structure-based overfitting. Empirical evaluations show that the proposed method improves the performance of the complex structure models by reducing the structure-based overfitting. On the sequence labeling tasks, the proposed method substantially improves the performance of the complex neural network models. The maximum F1 error rate reduction is 36.4% for the third-order model. The proposed method also works for the parsing task. The maximum UAS improvement is 5.5% for the tri-sibling model. The results are competitive with or better than the state-of-the-art results.
Economic Processes In Public Sector

The research team called LOST (Logistification and Standardization Techniques) has already started establishing the technical-mathematical models which can be applied for service processes. This research numbered BGF EMMI-2630-2/2013/TUDPOL will be carried out in the framework of the project called correcting service processes. In this study we would like to reveal mainly the processes of which support the logistical analysis of production flow can be developed. We can create the technological and mathematical model upon this analysis. The main approach was that we did not examine the elements of process, but we focused on the processes of the whole determined system and their relationship to each other, and we identified the flowing elements in the system. The purpose of our study is to identify the modules, processes and the related fluids and to we examine their flowing and transformations too. This is a multi-step process and as a consequence we form a methodology to examine the budgetary organizations’ economic processes on system level.
Rate maintenance of cell division in Escherichia coli B/r: analysis of a simple nutritional shift-down

A competitive (nonmetabolizable) inhibitor of glucose uptake, alpha-methylglucoside, was used to limit the growth of Escherichia coli. Cell division during such a nutritional shift-down was studied in batch cultures and with the "baby-machine" technique. Following a brief delay, the rate of division was maintained for 60 to 70 min in batch cultures and for an extended period in the baby machine. Decreases in cell size were due, in part, to a possible reduction in the mass per chromosome origin at the time of replication initiation and a shorter time interval between initiation and the subsequent division. These unusual findings suggest that this method for abrupt change in growth rate without modifying repression patterns is useful for studying the control of various aspects of the bacterial cell.
Visualization classification method of multi-dimensional data based on radar chart mapping

Fourier descriptor is an important method used in shape analysis and recognition. A novel method for designing the classifier of multi-dimensional data was proposed, which used radar chart of multi-statistics to show multidimensional data and applied Fourier descriptors to recognize the radar chart. Different multi-dimensional data formed different radar chart and distinguished different category. Then a new Fourier descriptor based on polar radius is defined, which describes curve of radar chart shape. The method of probabilistic neural network combined with Fourier descriptors is used to implement automatic classification. Experimental results show this method has the good classification precision, and may compare with the traditional classifier.
The Role and Influence of Stakeholders in Organisational Decision Making: A Case Study of the 'Off-shoring' of Australian Jobs

The role of stakeholders in influencing corporate decision making on moral and social grounds appears a paradox in a global economy underpinned by a neo-liberal philosophy. Because of the diverse and complex nature of the issues, stakeholders and organisations, it is often difficult to interpret the dynamics which underlie and influence the decision making process. This paper aims to explore the literature on stakeholder theory to develop a framework for understanding the role and influence of stakeholders. Using this framework the issue of ‘off-shoring’ is examined through a case study of a major Australian organisation Coles Myer Limited. This paper is a work in progress. Material in the paper cannot be used without permission of the author. DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT WORKING PAPER SERIES I S S N 1 3 2 7 – 5 2 1 6
Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial accelerometry

An animal’s behaviour is a response to its environment and physiological condition, and as such, gives vital clues as to its well-being, which is highly relevant in conservation issues. Behaviour can generally be typified by body motion and body posture, parameters that are both measurable using animal-attached accelerometers. Interpretation of acceleration data, however, can be complex, as the static (indicative of posture) and dynamic (motion) components are derived from the total acceleration values, which should ideally be recorded in all 3-dimensional axes. The principles of triaxial accelerometry are summarised and discussed in terms of the commonalities that arise in patterns of acceleration across species that vary in body pattern, life-history strategy, and the medium they inhabit. Using tri-axial acceleration data from deployments on captive and free-living animals (n = 12 species), behaviours were identified that varied in complexity, from the rhythmic patterns of locomotion, to feeding, and more variable patterns including those relating to social interactions. These data can be combined with positional information to qualify patterns of area-use and map the distribution of target behaviours. The range and distribution of behaviour may also provide insight into the transmission of disease. In this way, the measurement of tri-axial acceleration can provide insight into individual and population level processes, which may ultimately influence the effectiveness of conservation practice.
Tightness of capacity bounds in correlated MIMO systems with channel estimation error

We consider a point-to-point, correlated and block fading multiple antenna channel where the receiver has a noisy channel estimation and the transmitter has the statistics of the channel. Although very high rates are promised when the receiver knows the channel perfectly, the capacity is not known when the receiver has a noisy channel estimation. In this paper, we will derive an upper bound to the capacity of the system that we consider, and analyze the tightness of this bound and previously derived lower bounds with respect to block length and total average power. We observe that the lower and upper bounds converge with increasing block length, however there is a non-vanishing difference between the bounds with increasing total average power.