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The Spillover Effects on Employees’ Life of Construction Enterprises’ Safety Climate

Organizational safety climate will produce spillover effects and thus affect the individuals’ performance in their family life. As a mainstay industry in many countries, the construction industry has a considerable number of employees and the research on the spillover effects from the safety climate of construction enterprises has important theoretical and practical significance to improve the safety behavior of construction employees in their family life. In this study, we thoroughly reviewed the literature to identify the dimensions of the safety climate spillover, obtain empirical data of the construction employees through a questionnaire survey, and use the data analysis method to study the spillover effects of the safety climate of the construction enterprises from the perspective of work–family integration, and reveal its influence mechanism. This study developed a questionnaire to measure the safety climate spillover of the construction enterprises including two dimensions, namely values and behaviors, with nine measured items. Management commitment and safety attitude in the safety climate were positively related to the spillover, and management commitment had the greatest impact on the spillover, while the other components were not significantly related to the spillover. The two forms of spillover, values and behaviors, were mutually influential, and the safety climate had a more significant impact on the values. This paper contributes to the current safety research by developing a factor structure of spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of construction employees, thus providing a more profound interpretation of this crucial construct in the safety research domain. The spillover effects of the safety climate’s measurement questionnaire serve as an important tool for spillover among construction enterprises. Findings can facilitate improvement in both theories and practices related to the spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of employees. This paper studies the spillover effects of construction enterprises’ safety climate, to reveal its influencing mechanism, and can thus provide theoretical guidance for preventing safety accidents in employees’ life.
Effect of explant type and growth regulators on in vitro micropropagation of

This research was conducted for optimizing in vitro micropropagation of Begonia Rexas an important ornamental pot plant. Leaf disc and petioleex plants were cultured on Agar solidified MS media in factorial experiment based on complete randomized design consisting 3 levels of BA (0.2, 0.5 and 1 mg/l) in combination with NAA (0.05, 0.2), IBA (0.1, 0.5) and were maintained in a growth room at 25 ± 1oC with 16 height daily (Approximately 2500 Lux). The highest adventitious shoot regeneration with an average number of 41.6 was obtained from leaf disc explants after 5 weeks culture on MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/l BA and 0.5 mg/l IBA. The lowest adventitious shoots were observed on petioles which were cultured in a medium containing 0.2 mg/l BA and 0.2 mg/l NAA. Medium fortified with 0.2 mg/l GA 3 was selected as the best medium for increasing the length of adventitious shoots. Root induction occurred appropriately in 1/2 MS medium without using any hormones and finally the micro propagated shoots were successfully transferred to soil and adapted with a 95 % surviving rate.
Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Ballistic Missile Tracking

 Abstract — In the current work, adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) is presented for solution of ground radar based ballistic missile (BM) tracking problem in re-entry phase with unknown ballistic coefficient. The estimation of trajectory of any BM in re-entry phase is extremely difficult, because of highly non-linear motion of BM. The estimation accuracy of AEKF has been tested for a typical test target tracking problem adopted from literature. Further, the approach of AEKF is compared with extended Kalman filter (EKF). The simulation result indicates the superiority of the AEKF in solving joint parameter and state estimation problems.
SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF LANDSCAPES: CONCEPTS AND STATISTICS

Species patchiness implies that nearby observations of species abundance tend to be similar or that individual conspecific organisms are more closely spaced than by random chance. This can be caused either by the positive spatial autocorrelation among the locations of individual organisms due to ecological spatial processes (e.g., species dispersal, competition for space and resources) or by spatial dependence due to (positive or negative) species responses to underlying environmental conditions. Both forms of spatial structure pose problems for statistical analysis, as spatial autocorrelation in the residuals violates the assumption of independent observations, while environmental heterogeneity restricts the comparability of replicates. In this paper, we discuss how spatial structure due to ecological spatial processes and spatial dependence affects spatial statistics, landscape metrics, and statistical modeling of the species-environment correlation. For instance, while spatial statistics can quantify spatial pattern due to an endogeneous spatial process, these methods are severely affected by landscape environmental heterogeneity. Therefore, sta- tistical models of species response to the environment not only need to accommodate spatial structure, but need to distinguish between components due to exogeneous and endogeneous processes rather than discarding all spatial variance. To discriminate between different components of spatial structure, we suggest using (multivariate) spatial analysis of residuals or delineating the spatial realms of a stationary spatial process using boundary detection algorithms. We end by identifying conceptual and statistical challenges that need to be addressed for adequate spatial analysis of landscapes.
Protein- protein interaction mutants to study structure and assembly of cellular machineries: its application to the prokaryotic divisome

Together with functional RNA, proteins are primarily responsible for manifold biological activities of the cell. Proteins define the enzymatic chemistries and transport processes characteristic of metabolic pathways, regulate gene expression and many other molecular functions, are involved in signal transduction, and make up the actual molecular and cellular machinery that fuels life. They are highly diverse and embed hierarchically many layers of molecular organization [1]. To fulfill their biological activity in the cell, most proteins function in association with protein partners, or as a part of large molecular assemblies. An exhaustive knowledge of the full complement of protein interactions in a cell, therefore, provides insight into the structure, properties and functions of the cell and its components. Therefore, analysis on the interactome is expected to produce several types of useful informations. Bacteria, once seen as an amorphous vessel harboring a homogeneous solution of proteins, are now know to have an intricate and dynamic subcellular protein architecture that facilitates DNA replication, chromosome segregation, cell growth and behaviors as diverse as symmetric and asymmetric division, motility, chemotaxis, morphological differentiation, assembly into multicellular communities. One of the most fascinating, best studied and conspicuous example of interactome, in the prokaryotic world, is the cytokinetic machinery, called also divisome or septosome. This is a multiprotein structure that mediates cell division and dictates the site of its formation. Although it seems so simple, the bacterial divisome construction poses some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions in cell biology, as how it could orchestrate the formation of a septum at a specific location and time within the cell cycle. In the recent decade several studies have been performed to indentify the involved elements and to understand some fundamental aspects of this process. However the dynamic nature of the divisome, the low abundance of its constituents in combination with its embedding in the cytoplasmic membrane, has prevented thus far the successful isolation or reconstitution of the divisome [2]. In Escherichia coli, and in other rod-shaped bacteria at least 15 proteins play an essential role in this process. These proteins, 10 of which are essential under standard laboratory conditions, localize at the septum level according to a largely linear hierarchy:
Social determinants of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children

Sugar-sweetened beverages such as non-diet soft drinks, cordial and sports drinks are prime examples of discretionary foods (National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC], 2013). They are high in sugar, devoid of nutrients, and provide limited satiety (Malik, Schulze, and Hu, 2006). The average serving of sugar-sweetened beverage contains around ten teaspoons of sugar; this exceeds the new World Health Organization (WHO; 2014) recommended daily limit of sugar for an adult, let alone a child. Sugar-sweetened beverages have been demonstrated to have detrimental impacts on health at the individual and population level: among other impacts, they are associated with dental caries (decay) and erosion (Hector, Rangan, Gill, Louie, & Flood, 2009; Jamieson, Roberts-Thomson, and Sayers, 2010), and growing consumption of these beverages is linked to increasing obesity globally (Basu, McKee, Galea, and Stuckler, 2013). These conditions contribute significantly to healthcare costs in Australia (Hector et al., 2009), as well as to health inequity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (Christian and Blinkhorn, 2012; Vartanian, Schwartz, and Brownell, 2007; Zhao, Wright, Begg, and Guthridge, 2013).
Socio-economic status and HIV/AIDS dynamics: a modeling approach

HIV/AIDS is one of the most challenging public health burdens worldwide, with more than 34 million people living with the disease at the end of 2010. The epidemic continues to erase decades of health, economic and social progress, reducing life expectancy and deepening poverty in the hardest hit communities. We formulate a deterministic model to investigate the effects of socioeconomic status on the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS. The qualitative features of its equilibria are analyzed and conditions under which they are stable are provided. Sensitivity analysis of the reproductive number is carried out to determine the relative importance of model parameters to initial disease transmission. Results suggest that if individuals referred to as poor in this study indulge in risky sexual behavior for any reason whatsoever, then HIV/AIDS will persist in the community as long as the transients/infectives abound.
Analysis of active power control algorithms of variable speed wind generators for power system frequency stabilization

A modied control algorithm of a variable speed wind generator (VSWG) for supporting power system frequency stabilization is presented in this paper. A comparison of the performance of this algorithm with active power control algorithms of VSWGs for supporting power system frequency stabilization, as published in the scientic literature, is also presented. A systematic method of analysis of the modied control algorithm is described in detail. It has been shown that by using the modied control algorithm, the VSWG \truly" emulates the inertial response of a conventional steam-generating unit with synchronous generators during the initial/inertial phase of primary frequency control, following loss of active power generation when wind speed is between cut-in (i.e. 4 m/s) and rated speed (i.e. 12 m/s). By the inclusion of a signal proportional to the frequency deviation as a power reference to the torque controller feedback loop of the modied control algorithm, it is ensured that the contribution of the VSWG to frequency stabilization is independent of the initial wind speed. This independence is kept as long as the wind speed is above the cut-in wind speed and slightly below the rated wind speed (i.e. 12 m/s). One of the important features of the modied control algorithm, namely a near-proportiona relationship between the initial wind turbine speed and the maximum wind turbine speed variation during the inertial response, has been identied. The results of the analysis provide a solid basis for further research in the area of VSWG contribution to frequency stabilization.
A simple method for testing cointegration subject to regime changes

In this paper, we propose a simple method for testing cointegration in models that allow for multiple shifts in the long run relationship. The procedure consists of computing conventional residual-based tests with standardized residuals from Markov switching estimation. No new critical values are needed. An empirical application to the present value model of stock prices is presented, complemented by a small Monte Carlo experiment.
Conscious Intentions The Social Creation Myth

What are intentions for? Do they have a primary purpose or function? If so, what is this function? I start with a discussion of three existing approaches to these questions. One account, associated with Michael Bratman’s planning theory of agency, emphasizes the pragmatic functions of intentions: having the capacity to form intentions allows us to place our actions more firmly under the control of deliberation and to coordinate our actions over time. A second account, inspired by Elizabeth Anscombe’s theory of intentions, emphasizes their epistemic function and their contribution to self-knowledge. A third account, developed by David Velleman, suggests instead that the capacity for intentions may be an accident or a spandrel, that is, a byproduct of some more general and fundamental endowments of human nature. I argue that these accounts are at best partial and largely overlook two important dimensions of intention. I introduce and motivate a further pragmatic function of intentions, namely their role in the control and monitoring of ongoing action and argue that acknowledging the existence and importance of this function allows us to plug gaps in these accounts. I further argue that this pragmatic function of intentions plays a crucial role in contexts of joint action where agents must align their representations in order to coordinate their actions towards a joint goal. I speculate that a capacity for conscious control might have become established because of the role it served in solving inter-agent coordination problems in social contexts and because of the benefit conferred by the forms of cooperation it thus made possible.
Genetic Background Influences Brassinosteroid-Related Mutant Phenotypes in Rice

In two cases, mutations in the same brassinosteroid-related genes caused different phenotypes in japonica varieties Nipponbare and Taichung 65. The mutant phenotypes were less severe in the Taichung 65 background than in the Nipponbare background. Three newly isolated brassinosteroid-insensitive mutants (d61-1N, d61-11, and d61-12) derived from a Nipponbare mutant library were found to be alleles of d61, which represent defects in the OsBRI1 gene. Although the Nipponbare-derived mutant d61-1N had the same nucleotide substitution as the previously characterized Taichung 65-derived mutant d61-1T, these two mutants showed different phenotypes for plant stature, internode elongation pattern, and seed shape; in each case, d61-1N (in the Nipponbare genetic background) had the more severe mutant phenotype. Similar trends were seen for phenotypes caused by mutants of d2, a brassinosteroid biosynthesis gene. Consistent with these phenotypes, the expression of brassinosteroid-responsive genes was lower in the Nipponbare-derived mutants. These results can be explained by our findings that feed-forward up-regulation of OsBRI1 did not occur in the Nipponbare-derived mutants and that an mPing transposon is inserted into the promoter region of Nipponbare OsBRI1. Based on these results, we conclude that the expression of OsBRI1, especially its feed-forward up-regulation, is misregulated in wild-type Nipponbare and in brassinosteroid-related mutants in a Nipponbare genetic background. Although Nipponbare is a model rice genotype, it can be categorized as an OsBRI1 mutant that has reduced sensitivity to brassinosteroid.
Intensified and safe ozonolysis of fatty acid methyl esters in liquid CO2 in a continuous reactor

We demonstrate a continuous reactor for performing the ozonolysis of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) using liquid CO2 as solvent. The fast reaction kinetics allows the use of small-volume reactors to completely convert the FAMEs, forming secondary ozonides as the primary products. The short residence times also help maximize the yields of the secondary ozonides by minimizing over-oxidation and the formation of oligomeric products. The liquid CO2 medium promotes safe reactor operation by providing an essential fraction of overall reactor cooling and by diluting the vapor phase organics. We also demonstrate a continuous stirred reactor for the safe thermal decomposition of the secondary ozonides to their corresponding acids and aldehydes. Using a lumped kinetic model for the thermal decomposition of the ozonolysis products, we estimate activation energy values of 108.6 +/- 0.6 kJ mol(-1) for the decomposition of secondary ozonides and 122 +/- 3 kJ mol(-1) for the decomposition of the undesired oligomeric species. (c) 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 63: 2819-2826, 2017
Rooms for music – Acoustical needs and requirements

A new Norwegian standard NS 8178 has been established with the aim to improve the facilities used for music; especially in relation to music teaching and rehearsing of non-professional ensembles it is found that the rooms are often very unsatisfactory in terms of the acoustics. The standard specifies recommended dimensions and reverberation times for various types of music and various sizes of music groups. Three types of music are considered; amplified music, powerful acoustic music, and weak acoustic music. The recommended reverberation times as a function of the room volume have been derived by considering the average strength G of the room and the typical sound power generated by musical instruments when played at forte. For rehearsal rooms, a somewhat shorter reverberation time is recommended compared to performance rooms of the same size. akuTEK navigation: Home Papers Title Index akuTEK Research Concert Hall Acoustics
RFID Systems in Healthcare Settings and Activity of Daily Living in Smart Homes: A Review

Elderly inhabitants have a strong influence to healthcare facilities globally in the last few years as a result of the high demand on the healthcare services and the gap between the services provided by caregivers and the increasing number of older people. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies have been increasingly adopted in smart homes and used widely for indoor localisation. These technologies have been benefiting to healthcare domain where they improve the quality of services delivering by healthcare providers. This article presents a comprehensive review on RFID systems and healthcare research works in smart homes. We also compare RFID-based solutions in healthcare and distinguish challenges of smart home technologies in indoor environment. We also discuss research challenges related to Activity in Daily Living (ADL) in smart homes for wellbeing.
IMAGE-BASED NAVIGATION OF FOREST HARVESTERS

The focus of this paper the use of multi-image matching techniques in forestry applications. Background of the study is the problem of navigating heavy harvesters through skidder trails on their way to harvesting individual trees. Maneuvering these heavy vehicles over unprotected forest ground leads to irreversible soil compression and degradation effects. Therefore, harvester operators strive to navigate in a way that exactly the same (already compressed) path is used when they enter a skidder trail for a second time. For this task, vehicle navigation on a decimeter accuracy level is required. Data of existing techniques, such as GPS, IMU and/or odometry are error prone, because of difficulties like fluctuating signal strength of satellites caused by dense plant canopy, drift of IMU without update, and slippery, rough ground for wheel decoding. A camera, as a passive sensor, may avoid these problems, as it is largely independent to those outer influences.
Web-based Therapist-Assisted Cognitive Behavioural Treatment of Mild to Moderate Depression : A Randomised Controlled Trial

Background: Depression is common but undertreated. Web-based self-help provides a widely accessible treatment alternative for mild to moderate depression. However, the lack of therapist guidance may limit its efficacy. Objective: To assesses the efficacy of therapist-guided webbased Cognitive Behavioural Treatment (Web-CBT) of mild to moderate depression. Design A randomised waiting-list controlled trial, with an 18-month follow-up. Participants: The study included a community sample of 54 participants with chronic, moderate depression (immediate treatment: n = 36, waiting-list control: n = 18). Measures Primary outcome measures were the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-IA) and the Depression scale of the Symptom Check List Revised (SCL 90-R DEP). Secondary outcome measures were the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-42) and the Well-being Questionnaire (W-BQ12). Results: In the RCT, 5 participants (9%) dropped out. Intention-to-treat ANCOVAs revealed that participants in the treatment condition improved significantly more than the participants in the waiting-list control condition (.011 < p < .015). With regard to the primary measures, between-group effects were d = 0.7 (BDI-IA) and d = 1.1 (SCL-90-R DEP). Post-test SCL90-R DEP scores indicated recovery of 49% of the participants in the treatment group, compared to 6% in the control group (Odds Ratio = 14.5; p < .004). On average, the effects were stable up to 18 months (n = 39), although medication was a strong predictor of relapse. Conclusion: The results demonstrate the efficacy of Web-CBT of mild to moderate depression, and the importance of therapist guidance in psychological interventions.
Actively stabilized wavelength-insensitive carrier elimination from an electro-optically modulated laser beam

We demonstrate a simple and robust technique for removal of the carrier wave from a phase-modulated laser beam, using a noninterferometric method that is insensitive to the modulation frequency and instead exploits the polarization dependence of electro-optic modulation. An actively stabilized system using feedback via a liquid crystal cell yields long-term carrier suppression in excess of 28 dB at the expense of a 6.5 dB reduction in sideband power.