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Study on shear stress measurement with LCR wave from surface based on LFMCW

The critically refracted longitudinal (LCR) wave, which is a bulk longitudinal mode that travels within an effective depth underneath the surface, suits to be used to detect both surface stress and body stress. Strain inside the object would change the propagation velocity of the LCR wave in the direction of the stress field. But in fact the alteration of the travel time of LCR wave is so negligible that it's difficult to measure. Usually, the pulse wave is used to drive LCR wave, which may lead two difficulties. One is how to guarantee the power of the transmitting waves, the other is how to separate the LCR wave from the receiving waves which contains many other common-frequency waves. In this paper, a special way for driving the LCR wave which is called linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFMCW) is discussed, which could overcome the problems mentioned above. And a method for the shear stress measurement with LCR wave based on LFMCW is also introduced. The simulation of the system turns out that the method could provide high accurate for the measurement of shear stress with LCR wave.
Technology-mediated interventions for enhancing medication adherence

BACKGROUND Despite effective therapies for many conditions, patients find it difficult to adhere to prescribed treatments. Technology-mediated interventions (TMIs) are increasingly being used with the hope of improving adherence. OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of TMI, intended to enhance patient adherence to prescribed medications, on both medication adherence and clinical outcomes. METHODS A secondary in-depth analysis was conducted of the subset of studies that utilized technology in at least one component of the intervention from an updated Cochrane review on all interventions for enhancing medication adherence. We included studies that clearly described an information and communication technology or medical device as the sole or major component of the adherence intervention. RESULTS Thirty-eight studies were eligible for in-depth review. Only seven had a low risk of bias for study design features, primary adherence, and clinical outcomes. Eighteen studies used a TMI for education and/or counseling, 11 studies used a TMI for self-monitoring and/or feedback, and nine studies used electronic reminders. Studies used a variety of TMIs, with telephone the most common technology in use. Studies targeted a wide distribution of diseases and used a variety of adherence and clinical outcome measures. A minority targeted children and adolescents. Fourteen studies reported significant effects in both adherence and clinical outcome measures. CONCLUSIONS This review provides evidence for the inconsistent effectiveness of TMI for medication adherence and clinical outcomes. These results must be interpreted with caution due to a lack of high-quality studies.
Numerical Kaehler-Ricci soliton on the second del Pezzo

The second del Pezzo surface is known by work of Tian-Zhu and Wang-Zhu to admit a unique Kaehler-Ricci soliton. Applying a method described in hep-th/0703057, we use Ricci flow to numerically compute that soliton metric. We numerically compute the value of its Perelman entropy (or Gaussian density).
Queerying activism through the lens of the sociology of everyday life

The approaching 30th anniversary of the introduction of the 1988 Local Government Act offers an opportunity to reflect on the nature of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) activism in Britain. The protests against its implementation involved some of the most iconic moments of queer activism. Important though they are, these singular, totemic moments give rise to, and are sustained by small, almost unobtrusive acts which form part of LGB people’s everyday lives. This article aims to contribute to a re-thinking of queer activism where iconic activism is placed in a synergetic relationship with the quieter practices in the quotidian lives of LGB people. The authors interrogate a series of examples, drawn from three studies, to expand ideas about how activism is constituted in everyday life. They discuss the findings in relation to three themes: the need to forge social bonds often forms a prompt to action; disrupting the binary dualism between making history and making a life; and the transformative potential of everyday actions/activism. The lens of the sociology of everyday life (1) encourages a wider constituency of others to engage in politics, and (2) problematises the place of iconic activism.
Region-Based Image Retrieval using Wavelet Transform

Content-based image retrieval, which provides convenient ways to retrieve images from large image databases, has been studied actively. While many previous image retrieval techniques do not look at regions in an image, regionbased image retrieval techniques have been gaining attention recently. We propose a region-based image retrieval method which performs image segmentation and indexing using texture features computed from wavelet coefficients. The proposed method has advantages in texture feature extraction and hierarchical image segmentation over the previous region-based techniques using wavelet transform.
miR-200c dampens cancer cell migration via regulation of protein kinase a subunits

Expression of miR-200c is a molecular switch to determine cellular fate towards a mesenchymal or epithelial phenotype. miR-200c suppresses the early steps of tumor progression by preventing epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and intravasation of tumor cells. Unraveling the underlying molecular mechanisms might pinpoint to novel therapeutic options. To better understand these mechanisms it is crucial to identify targets of miR-200c. Here, we employ a combination of quantitative proteomic and bioinformatic strategies to identify novel miR-200c targets. We identify and confirm two subunits of the central cellular kinase protein kinase A (PKA), namely PRKAR1A and PRKACB, to be directly regulated by miR-200c. Notably, siRNA-mediated downregulation of both proteins phenocopies the migratory behavior of breast cancer cells after miR-200c overexpression. Patient data from publicly accessible databases supports a miR-200c-PKA axis. Thus, our study identifies the PKA heteroprotein as an important mediator of miR-200c induced repression of migration in breast cancer cells. By bioinformatics, we define a miRNA target cluster consisting of PRKAR1A, PRKAR2B, PRKACB, and COF2, which is targeted by a group of 14 miRNAs.
Computational Models of Taste Preferences in Rats as a Form of Naturalistic Decision-Making

Research in decision-making has traditionally focused on understanding perceptual tasks, in which competing sets of inputs are presented simultaneously. But few studies have explored more naturalistic decisions, such as those in taste preference, where an animal samples one stimulus and has the choice to either stay or switch to another based on its intrinsic value. Given that this choice occurs across time, we ask: how do previous experiences with stimuli affect future experiences with same or different stimuli? In order to test memory’s influences on decision-making, we used Matlab to incorporate synaptic depression into an Izhikevich/LIF hybrid network modeling taste preferences in rats in two different ways: input depression and post-input depression. We compared each memory model to our control non-memory model and found that adding depression post-input created larger interactions between stimuli (post-input: n = 3453, r = -.11, p .28). All models manipulated the distribution of time spent at stimuli. These results indicate that taste preference models, and likely other preference-related tasks, are highly susceptible to previous influences. In the future, we will incorporate other types of short and long-term memory and compare these results with experimental data to determine which model is the best biological fit.
Phase-Conjugated Arrays Using Low Conversion-Loss Resistive Phase-Conjugating Mixers and Stub-Loaded Patch Antennas

A 1-D four-element and 2-D eight-element phase-conjugated retrodirective arrays employing low conversion-loss resistive field-effect transistor mixers and stub-loaded patch elements are proposed. The mixer, systematically designed using a multi- harmonic loading technique, offers a low 5.2-dB conversion loss at a 4.5-dBm local oscillator power level. The stub-loaded patch element is a square patch with a capacitive open stub loaded at each of its four corners, leading to patch-size reduction, lower mutual coupling between adjacent elements, and broader beam width. With the same element spacing of half a free-space wavelength at 5.8 GHz, the mutual coupling is suppressed by 3.1 and 3.3 dB in the E- and if-planes, respectively, when compared to the conventional square patches. Within an angle of plusmn60deg normal to the arrays, distinct linearly polarized retrodirectivities in terms of pattern deformations are experimentally confirmed for both the H-plane of the 1-D array and both E- and H-planes for the 2-D array. Additionally, circularly polarized retrodirectivity are also experimentally confirmed for 2-D arrays.
Incremental Identification of Categories and Choices for Test Case Generation: A Study of the Software Practitioners' Preferences

Test case generation is a vital procedure in the engineering of test harnesses. In particular, the choice relation framework and the category-partition method play an important role, by requiring software testers to identify categories (intuitively equivalent to input parameters or environment conditions) and choices (intuitively equivalent to ranges of values) from a specification and to systematically work on the identified choices to generate test cases. Other specification-based test case generation methods (such as the classification-tree method, cause-effect graphing, and combinatorial testing) also have similar requirements, although different terminology such as classifications and classes is used in place of categories and choices. For a large and complex specification that contains many specification components, categories and choices may be identified separately from various kinds of components. We call this practice an incremental identification approach. In this paper, we discuss our study involving 16 experienced software practitioners and three commercial specifications. Our objectives are to determine, from the opinions of the practitioners, (a) the popularity of an incremental identification approach, (b) the usefulness of identifying categories and choices from various kinds of specification components, and (c) possible ways to improve the effectiveness of the identification process.
Hot-charging sequence critical analysis for steel bar plant for Pollution control and Energy Optimization-A case study

Temperature is the main process variable needed for every operation in hot rolling process for all value addition activity and can be considered as main variable also to control pollution. It is a tool for the steel hot rolling plant to improve profitability, environment and productivity by controlling the process energy balance by its sequences optimization. In the steel rolling plant the importance of thermal or temperature energy is very high and as the main constitute, which consume energy and destroy the environment also. The Hot-charging system is a new development and its critical analysis for process energy optimization and energy cost also improve the rolling plant energy efficiency, save the working atmosphere of the plant and environment both.
Primary Human Renal Cell Carcinomas Localization of Tumor Suppressor Loci on Chromosome 9 in Updated

To investigatethe potentialloss of tumor suppressorgene loci on chromosome9 in human renal cell tumorigenesiswe analyzed 42 paired normal and tumor DNAS with 18 polymorphIc microsatellite markers spanning this chromosome. Fourteen of 42 (33%) tumors showed partial or completedeletionof chromosome9. Deletionmappingprovidedevi dence for the presence of a suppressor locus on both the short and long arm of chromosome 9. Homozygous deletion at 9p21-22 In one renal tumor and a selective deletion of distal 9q in another tumor localized the critical regions. The CDKN2/p16 gene was further investigated as a can didate suppressor locus on 9p21-22 by multiplex PCR, Southern analysis, and exon sequencing. We found no additional cases of homozygous dele lion nor any rearrangementsor point mutations ofCDKN2/p16.This is the first report of 9p loss of heterozygosity, homozygous deletion of 9p21â€”22 and selective deletion of9q In primary renal cell carcinomas. Understand jag the molecular genetic basis of renal cell progression will require the isolation and characterization of additional tumor suppressor genes on chromosome 9.
Real-time simulation of a vehicle drivetrain controlled through CAN using a robust MPC strategy

This paper proposes a real-time implementation of a networked one step ahead robust predictive controller designed to damp driveline oscillations, which is crucial in improving driveability and passenger comfort, while compensating the time-varying delays that appear due to sending the control commands and the measurements from the sensors through Controller Area Network (CAN). Firstly, the designed real-time structure integrated with CAN test-bench is described and then the model of the drivetrain is derived. Secondly, considering that the CAN-induced time-varying delays are bounded, a method to model their effects as disturbances is proposed. Then, a robust one step ahead predictive controller based on flexible control Lyapunov functions is designed, which explicitly takes into account the bounds of the disturbances caused by time-varying delays and guarantees also the input-to-state stability of the system in a non-conservative way. The proposed control scheme is tested using the designed test-bench and the experiments based on realistic scenarios illustrate its performances.
SenseLearner: Minimally supervised Word Sense Disambiguation for all words in open text

This paper introduces SenseLearner - a minimally supervised sense tagger that attempts to disambiguate all content words in a text using the sense from WordNet. SenseLearner participated in the SENSEVAL-3 English all words task, and achieved an average accuracy of 64.6%.
Extensions of VCP to Enhance the Performance in High BDP and Wireless Networks

While Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the most popular transport protocol used in terrestrial networks, its performance is not adequate in wireless networks with long delay, e.g., satellite networks. Though some improvements of TCP and new transport protocols have been proposed, we focus on Variable-structure congestion Control Protocol (VCP) designed for high Bandwidth Delay Product (BDP) networks. In VCP, Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is used to generate the feedback signal from routers to sources in order to notify the utilization ratio of a bottleneck link. By adjusting its congestion window according to the network traffic conditions, VCP is able to achieve high link utilization even in high BDP networks. However, VCP requires a long time to fill the link capacity due to its more conservative window control mechanism than the slow start phase in TCP. In addition, throughput is unnecessarily degraded in VCP due to packet losses in wireless environments. In this paper, to address these issues, we propose two extensions of VCP, namely Bandwidth-Independent Start-up Extension (BISE) and Wireless Loss Tolerant Extension (WLTE). BISE can quickly increase its congestion window in the start-up phase. WLTE can maintain high throughput in wireless environments. The performance of the proposed schemes is evaluated through computer simulations. The results demonstrate that the proposed schemes dramatically improve the performance of VCP in the initial phase and also in wireless environments.
Noise-induced hearing loss in a longitudinal study of Norwegian railway workers

Objective The aim of this study was to analyse longitudinal data to assess the risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in Norwegian railway workers. Design Longitudinal. Setting A major Norwegian railway company. Methods We examined data from the first and last audiograms for the period 1991–2014, from 9640 railway workers with varying occupational noise exposure and with an average observation period of 10 years. The course of hearing acuity in seven groups of railway workers (train drivers, conductors, bus drivers, traffic controllers, train maintenance workers, track maintenance workers and others) were compared with each other and with ISO standards (ISO 1999). Results The change in hearing threshold during the observation period was 2–3 dB in the 0.5–4 kHz range and 6–7 dB in the 3–6 kHz range adjusted for age and sex, for all occupational groups, which is slightly less than expected (8 dB) according to ISO 1999. Conclusions The risk of NIHL in Norwegian railway workers during the period 1991–2014 has been negligible.
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and Outdoor Air Pollution Exposure in Copenhagen, Denmark

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death globally and air pollution can be a contributing cause. Acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest are frequent manifestations of coronary heart disease. The objectives of the study were to investigate the association between 4 657 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) and hourly and daily outdoor levels of PM10, PM2.5, coarse fraction of PM (PM10-2.5), ultrafine particle proxies, NOx, NO2, O3 and CO in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the period 2000–2010. Susceptible groups by age and sex was also investigated. A case-crossover design was applied. None of the hourly lags of any of the pollutants were significantly associated with OHCA events. The strongest association with OHCA events was observed for the daily lag4 of PM2.5, lag3 of PM10, lag3 of PM10-2.5, lag3 of NOx and lag4 of CO. An IQR increase of PM2.5 and PM10 was associated with a significant increase of 4% (95% CI: 0%; 9%) and 5% (95% CI: 1%; 9%) in OHCA events with 3 days lag, respectively. None of the other daily lags or other pollutants was significantly associated with OHCA events. Adjustment for O3 slightly increased the association between OHCA and PM2.5 and PM10. No susceptible groups were identified.
HLLACF: A Hierarchical Location-Diversity-Based Low-Delay Anonymous Communication Framework

In order to improve the communication speed, low-delay anonymous communication systems, such as Tor, prefer high performance router when selecting routers. This choice makes routers' selection being local. This paper first proposes router selecting algorithm based on location diversity and RTT; then a hierarchical location-diversity-based low-delay anonymous communication framework is presented. This framework's security is analyzed and a simulation experiment and result analysis is given. The theoretic analysis and simulation experiment indicate that the HLLACF can prevent AS-Level passive attack and other similar attacks well while decreasing communication delay and HLLACF also scales well.
mov 1 John Smith actor 1 mov 2 John actor 2 actor 3 Smith

We describe a system that allows the easy specification and efficient support of queries specified as a set of attribute/ predicate/value triplets over virtual nested objects constructed from relational databases. For example, the Internet Movie Database (imdb) provides virtual nested objects such as ”movies” (each one containing a movie tuple, multiple actor tuples and more) and ”actors” (containing multiple movies). Queries may contain both boolean and text/fuzzy predicates and may be directed to one or more virtual nested object sets. We define ranked query semantics that capture the common requirements that (1) individual tuples within a nested object may only satisfy a subset of all the predicates and (2) an object that contains a tuple that satisfies more than one predicates should (all other things being equal) be ranked higher than an object where such predicates are satisfied over multiple tuples. The system fully utilizes the existing indices in the relational databases and combines special purpose algorithms with database accesses. Experiments demonstrate that the obtained performance is significantly better than the performance obtained by fully deferring query evaluation to SQL queries.
Classification of heterogeneous precipitation fields for the assessment and possible improvement of lumped neural network models for streamflow forecasts

Classification of heterogeneous precipitation fields for the assessment and possible improvement of lumped neural network models for streamflow forecasts N. Lauzon, F. Anctil, and C. W. Baxter Golder Associates, Calgary, Canada Département de génie civil, Pavillon Pouliot, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada HYDRANNT Consulting Inc., Port Coquitlam, Canada Received: 20 December 2005 – Accepted: 16 January 2006 – Published: 23 February 2006 Correspondence to: F. Anctil (francois.anctil@gci.ulaval.ca)
Reference-Based Alignment in Large Sequence Databases

This paper introduces a novel method, called Reference-Based String Alignment (RBSA), that speeds up retrieval of optimal subsequence matches in large databases of sequences under the edit distance and the Smith-Waterman similarity measure. RBSA operates using the assumption that the optimal match deviates by a relatively small amount from the query, an amount that does not exceed a prespecified fraction of the query length. RBSA has an exact version that guarantees no false dismissals and can handle large queries efficiently. An approximate version of RBSA is also described, that achieves significant additional improvements over the exact version, with negligible losses in retrieval accuracy. RBSA performs filtering of candidate matches using precomputed alignment scores between the database sequence and a set of fixed-length reference sequences. At query time, the query sequence is partitioned into segments of length equal to that of the reference sequences. For each of those segments, the alignment scores between the segment and the reference sequences are used to efficiently identify a relatively small number of candidate subsequence matches. An alphabet collapsing technique is employed to improve the pruning power of the filter step. In our experimental evaluation, RBSA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art biological sequence alignment methods, such as q-grams, BLAST, and BWT.