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Mining Maximal Quasi Regular Patterns in Weighted Dynamic Networks

Interactions appearing regularly in a network may be disturbed due to the presence of noise or random occurrence of events at some timestamps. Ignoring them may devoid us from having better understanding of the networks under consideration. Therefore, to solve this problem, researchers have attempted to find quasi/quasiregular patterns in non-weighted dynamic networks. To the best of our knowledge, no work has been reported in mining such patterns in weighted dynamic networks. So, in this paper we present a novel method which mines maximal quasi regular patterns on structure (MQRPS) and maximal quasi regular patterns on weight (MQRPW) in weighted dynamic networks. Also, we have provided a relationship between MQRPW and MQRPS which facilitates in the running of the proposed method only once, even when both are required and thus leading to reduction in computation time. Further, the analysis of the patterns so obtained is done to gain a better insight into their nature using four parameters, viz. modularity, cliques, most commonly used centrality measures and intersection. Experiments on Enron-email and a synthetic dataset show that the proposed method with relationship and analysis is potentially useful to extract previously unknown vital information.
Management Control Systems for Creating Shared Value

With creating business value based on Creating Shared Value (CSV) by Porter and Kramer (2011), CSV principle would be embodied in Management Control System (MCSs). The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze how Creating Shared Value integrates with a company’s management control systems. To consider, the researcher conducted a qualitative research throughout single case study to examine the incorporating of CSV and management control systems. The collecting data has been applied the semi-structured interviews with Bangchak Petroleum PLC, the leading company who create business wealth with due regard for social and environmental stewardship as well as elevating domestic corporate governance. The findings suggest that CSV integrates with several of the company’s management control system. Subsequently, organizational structure relied on business fields and strategic management. Moreover, CSV integrates with policies and procedures through BCP Knowledge Management System (KM), developed shared commitments, and workshops and training. Thus, to create social value while contributing economic growth simultaneously, there is essential to embed with the three dimensions of MCSs consisting of cognitive, organizational and technical.
Sample Size Calculation for Finding Unseen Species

Estimation of the number of species extant in a geographic region has been discussed in the statistical literature for more than sixty years. The focus of this work is on the use of pilot data to design future studies in this context. A Dirichlet-multinomial probability model for species frequency data is used to obtain a posterior distribution on the number of species and to learn about the dis- tribution of species frequencies. A geometric distribution is proposed as the prior distribution for the number of species. Simulations demonstrate that this prior dis- tribution can handle a wide range of species frequency distributions including the problematic case with many rare species and a few exceptionally abundant species. Monte Carlo methods are used along with the Dirichlet-multinomial model to per- form sample size calculations from pilot data, e.g., to determine the number of additional samples required to collect a certain proportion of all the species with a pre-specifled coverage probability. Simulations and real data applications are discussed.
Discourse modes: aspectual entities and tense interpretation

Cet article presente le concept de 'Mode du Discours', un niveau de structure locale dans lequel les formes linguistiques presentent une importance particuliere. Il y a 5 modes: Narratif, Descriptif, Rapport, Informatif, Commentaire. Les modes ont des proprietes linguistiques qui les distinguent. Chaque mode introduit une classe d'entite aspectuelle (eventualite, statif generalisant, entite abstraite); et a chaque mode correspond un type particulier de progression semantique. Enfin, il apparait que l'interpretation du temps est dependante du Mode. Trois principes expliquent la contribution du temps dans le discours.
The Relationship of Body Fat Indicators with Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents with Low Socioeconomic Status

Editor-in-Chief Tommy Boone, PhD, MBA Review Board Todd Astorino, PhD Julien Baker, PhD Steve Brock, PhD Lance Dalleck, PhD Eric Goulet, PhD Robert Gotshall, PhD Alexander Hutchison, PhD M. Knight-Maloney, PhD Len Kravitz, PhD James Laskin, PhD Yit Aun Lim, PhD Lonnie Lowery, PhD Derek Marks, PhD Cristine Mermier, PhD Robert Robergs, PhD Chantal Vella, PhD Dale Wagner, PhD Frank Wyatt, PhD Ben Zhou, PhD
Coordinated Jacobian transpose control and its application to a climbing machine

This thesis proposes a control algorithm based on Jacobian Transpose Control for coordinated position and force control of autonomous multilimbed mobile robotic systems performing both mobility and manipulation. The technique is called Coordinated Jacobian Transpose Control, or CJTC. CJTC has advantages over other techniques used to control multilimbed mobile robots, including being computationally inexpensive and providing a simple and unified interface with higher level planners. It can also control functions other than positions and orientations of the system. A methodology called the Extended Mobility Analysis is presented to choose a set of control variables that does not overconstrain the system. The effectiveness of CJTC is demonstrated in laboratory experiments on a climbing system. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Steven Dubowsky Title : Professor of Mechanical Engineering Acknowledgments Betsy, my love, thank you for your love, your support, and your understanding. I never dreamed that love could be so overwhelming before we met. Alex, even though you are still too young to understand what I say, thank you for being such a wonderful son. I am ever so grateful that you are much better behaved than I was at your age. Thank you also for reminding me just how small my work is compared to the miracles that surround me every day. To my parents, who provided the guidance and inspiration that led me to MIT, this thesis is proof of your accomplishments as parents and teachers of me. I hope that I can do as well for my son. To my brother Wade: our rivalry helped spur me to greater heights than I would have achieved alone. To the rest of my family: Glen, Aunt Dorothy, Aunt Grace, Granny, Aunt Tania, and all the others, thank you for your support. The strong foundation of the love that my family shares allowed me to reach these levels. Rick and Lucy, thank you for your support. Even though I have only known you for two years, you are already family in my heart. Hopey, even though you will never comprehend anything, you still give me your unconditional love. Bob and Fran, thank you for your hospitality. You have made me feel welcome in this strange, hostile city. Sophie and Hannah, I hope that you also strive for educational excellence, and that in some small way I helped inspire you. Dr. Dubowsky, thank you for providing me with insight and guidance in much more than just academics and research. Someday I will tell my students your stories (or stories about you). Tom, thank you for your friendship, as well as your technical help. I would like to thank Dalila Argaez for her contribution to my work: she started it all! I would like to thank my fellow students for their assistance during my research: Jeff Cole, Nathan Rutman, Richard Wang, Michelle Tescuiba, and Pengyun (Perry) Gu. I hope to see you all at my next barbeque! Joe Deck, thanks for imparting upon me some of your perspective on life at MIT. The support of this work by NASA (Langley Research Center, Automation Branch) under Grant NAG-1-801 is acknowledged. Table of
Cascade multivariate regression tree: a novel approach for modelling nested explanatory sets

1. Ecological data analysis frequently calls for the assessment of the relationship between species composition and a set of explanatory variables of interest. The assessment may have to be pursued while taking into account the influence of another set of explanatory variables. The hypothetical nature and structure of the influence of an explanatory set on the effect of a distinct explanatory set guides the proper choice of modelling methodology for a combined explanatory assessment.
A New Puercan (Early Paleocene) Hyopsodontid “Condylarth” from New Mexico

Isolated cheek teeth from the late Puercan (early Paleocene) Split Lip Flats local fauna, from the head of Willow Wash, Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, represent a new genus and species of hyopsodontid “condylarth”, Chacomylus sladei. The teeth are small, bunodont, and are remarkable for the enlargement of the protocone, pronounced exodaenodonty, and high degree of attritional wear caused by transverse shearing or grinding. Although C. sladei bears a superficial resemblance to the apheliscine apheliscid Gingerichia, a preliminary phylogenetic analysis confirms that it is a hyopsodontid, closely related to the Puercan hyopsodontids Valenia wilsoni and Litomylus orthronepius.
Antioxidant and Cholinesterase Inhibitory Activities of Antarctic Krill Eupausia superba

Abstract The antioxidant and cholinesterase inhibitory activities of methanol, pretanol, and acetone extracts of Eupausia superba were in-vestigated and their bioactivities compared. The 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-bis[3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid] (ABTS + ) radical-scavenging activities and reducing power assays were used to determine antioxidant activities, and Ellman’s colorimetric methods were applied to evaluate cholinesterase inhibitory activity. Although all extracts were positive, Acetone extract of E . superba showed the highest activities. However, these showed moderate or no inhibitory activity against butyrylcholinesterase. Moreover, the total carotenoid contents of the organic solvent extracts followed the same order as their antioxidant and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activities. These results suggest that E. superba is a potential source of natural antioxidants and cholinesterase inhibitors. Key words: Krill, Eupausia superba , Antioxidant, Cholinesterase
Recommendations of Unique Items Based on Bipartite Graphs

We consider a model of recommending items to users based on weighted bipartite graphs for domains where the availability of items is limited, i.e. only a fixed number of users can acquire a single item. As a motivating example, we consider the problem of an electronic antique book store where each book can be sold to only a single customer. Three approaches are used for recommendation generation, including greedy top-k recommendation and its generalizations k, `-recommendation and k,W -recommendation. We show that the k,W -recommendation problem is NP-complete. The recommendation methods are subjected to data-driven and stochastic evaluation. A stochastic model is used to quantify user dissatisfaction due to desired items going out of stock. Our numerical experiments have shown that greedy recommendation is outperformed by k, `-recommendation and k,W -recommendation in the antique book store recommendation problem both in terms of accuracy and (expected) user satisfaction. The more principled selection of parameters for the recommendation algorithms and the stochastic model is scope of future work, as well as applications to other domains.
OF TWENTY YEARS OLD MALES OF FRIULI ( ITALY ) BORN BETWEEN 1846

Historical heights are often used to reconstruct the evolution of a population’s nutritional status, changes in its health level, and fluctuations in its living standards. When referring to the remote past, moreover, in the lack of adequate quantitative information on production, consumption and the flow of goods, stature is also employed to describe the level of economic well-being reached by a country or by a society. Regardless of the large explanatory potentialities attributed to this and other physical characteristics of the individuals that make up a population, the information used can’t always be submitted to an adequate critical review, generally because scholars are forced to work with aggregative data. The availability of a very large quantity of information collected at an individual level has allowed us to identify and, at least in part, emend the problems linked with the data quality. The aim of this article is to reconstruct the historical trend of heights of conscripts born in the province of Friuli (north-east Italy) in the years 1846-90. An extensive part of this work is dedicated to identifying the problems encountered when using enrolment lists and to proposing solutions which can, at least in part, correct these problems. In front of such a circumscribed objective, the results obtained in this study bring to light some possible weak points of the historical height series relative to the whole of Italy which exist up to date. After a summary of the literature and a brief description of the sources used, we will present the first results, evidencing some factors which cannot be neglected when analysing heights obtained from military records. Initially, we will show how mean stature varies if we only consider individuals who attended their first medical examination or if we also take into account measures obtained during successive examinations. We will afterwards show the greater mean heights observed in periods where conscripts were measured at older ages, and the lower values of cohorts which had very high percentages of missing data.
ENTITY RELATION EXTRACTION Exploring the Use of Coreference Resolution in a Distant Supervision Approach to Automated Relation Extraction

This Master’s thesis describes the effect of coreference resolution on a distant supervision approach to automated relation extraction. Coreference resolution is used as an addition to an existing relation extraction method, described in Mintz (2009). The thesis gives a detailed analysis of a reimplementation of this existing method, and provides an insight in how coreference information influences the performance. In this distant supervision approach to relation extraction, the database Freebase is used for the annotation of relations in Wikipedia text. A classifier is then trained to learn these relations between entities in the text. The main advantage of this approach is that the data is automatically annotated. This prevents the expenses of manual annotation, and makes it possible to train a classifier on a very large dataset. Using coreference information is a way of increasing the amount of data available and the expectation is that this will improve the result of the relation extraction system. An automatic evaluation method and a manual analysis of the performance are described, providing a detailed insight in the system’s behaviour. The evaluation shows that including coreference information does not improve the precision and recall of the system. However, it does enable the relation extraction system to find more relation instances, which shows that is does have an advantage and a lot of potential in future research.
EXPERIMENTAL METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVE SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF TOLPERISONE HYDROCHLORIDE AND DICLOFENAC SODIUM IN TABLET Apparatus and Instruments-Double beam UV-visible Spectrophotometer : Shimadzu

Quantitative analysis of any drug is an important tool in an industry. It is important to determine that the raw material, intermediate products as well as final products meet its specifications and are of required quality. The number of drugs and drug formulations introduced into the market has been increasing at an alarming rate. These drugs or formulations may be either new entities or partial structural modification of the existing ones or novel dosage forms. Spectrophotometry and HPLC methods are considered to be most suitable for estimation of the drugs present in pharmaceutical dosage forms. · Literature review reveals that several spectroscopic and Chromatographic method have been reported for estimation of TOL and DIC alone as well as with other drugs. · Simultaneous equation, dual wavelength difference UV spectrophotometry and First derivative spectroscopic method is available for this combination. · The aim of work is to develop and validate cost effective First derivative method in water and RP-HPLC method for simultaneous estimation of TOL and DIC in bulk and Tablet dosage form. · Development of UV spectrophotometric method.
The Theory of Concrete Mixture Vibratory Compacting

Purpose. The creation of the compacting vibratory process theoretical basis enabling the assessment of the efficiency and the choice of rational modes of the vibration influence on the concrete mixture, based on the minimal energy input in the process of its compacting.Methodology. The paper contains the description of the mechanism of compacting under the action of external vibration forces whereat a variable tensely deformed condition occurs in the concrete mixture. In this case the primary structural links break, the links between its separate elements weaken, the final movements of mineral particles result in the creation of a more compact packing. As the basic factor determining the character of the compacting process, the authors propose to use the product of voltage and the velocity of the vibratory action, which presents the power of the vibratory action on the compacted medium.Results. The authors have obtained analytical expressions enabling the determination of the growth of the concrete mixture density in time function depending on the type of the vibratory load and the power of the applied vibratory action on the compacted medium. The paper contains the theoretical and experimental values of the specific work that provides compacting up to the values required by the technological norms depending on the consistence of the concrete mixture at vertical and horizontally directed vibrations.Conclusions. The authors have specified the existing hypothesis and proposed a more general power hypothesis of the process of vibratory compacting of concrete mixtures, applicable to the description of the vibration process and concrete media treatment by various vibratory mechanisms, tools and machines. One can use the obtained results to set the rational modes and duration of the vibratory action on the compacted medium depending on the amount and type of the specific work of compacting and also to determine the basic parameters of vibration machines of various technological purpose.
Examining The Income Convergence Among Indian States: A Panel Data Approach

After crossing the Hindu growth rate in 1990s the Indian economy has been experiencing a consistent and increasing growth of national gross domestic product both at current and constant prices. This growth in the national level gross domestic product is resulting in a high growth rate of the state domestic product of various states. However, it will be interesting to examine whether there is any convergence in the economic growth of the Indian states or not. The findings of present study indicates the convergence of per capita income in the pre reform period, while in the post reform period it confirms the divergence in per capita income among the Indian states.
Title Evidence for organic cation transporter-mediated metformin transport and 5 '-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase activation in rat skeletal muscles

Objective: 5′-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a key molecule of metabolic enhancement in skeletal muscle. We investigated whether metformin (MET) acts directly on skeletal muscle, is transported into skeletal muscle via organic cation transporters (OCTs), and activates AMPK. Materials/Methods: Isolated rat epitrochlearis and soleus muscles were incubated in vitro either in the absence or in the presence of MET. The activation status of AMPK, the intracellular energy status, and glucose and MET transport activity were then evaluated. The effect of cimetidine, which is an OCT inhibitor, on AMPK activation was also examined. Results: MET (10 mmol/L, ≥ 60 min) increased the phosphorylation of Thr172 at the catalytic α subunit of AMPK in both muscles. AMPK activity assays showed that both AMPKα1 and AMPKα2 activity increased significantly. The AMPK activation was associated with energy deprivation, which was estimated from the ATP, phosphocreatine (PCr), and glycogen content, and with increased rates of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose (3MG) transport. MET did not change the basal phosphorylation status of insulin receptor signaling molecules. MET was transported into the cytoplasm in a time-dependent manner, and cimetidine suppressed MET-induced AMPK phosphorylation and 3MG transport.
Crowd Simulation and Virtual Reality Experiments for 2010 Love Parade Disaster

Highly dense crowds have been a major threat for large festival event in public space. The 2010 Love Parade disaster provides large amount of data, such as research papers, professional reports, and video footages that can be used to research this disaster from different perspectives. In this study, we aim to provide a computer aided crowd disaster simulation tool that can be used to help to analyze the disaster at an organizational level. From the simulation results, administrative methods can be suggested and tested in order to prevent the disaster. However the Love Parade simulation from previous work of Wolff faces the challenge of unrealistically high crowd densities. The first step of this study is to improve the model and the navigation mechanism so that the simulated crowds densities remain realistic. By applying the SocialForceModel for steering agents and testing different crowd management strategies, we aim to replicate the disaster in order to manage crowds in a virtual environment. Once the simulated crowd was sufficiently similar to the real crowd, empirical studies were executed to verify the simulation results. A state of the art Virtual Reality(VR) device is used to generate an immersive experience of critical parts of that event. The observation of participants’ emotional arousals and stress levels would help decision makers to better understand crowd management strategies. In the end we verified the hypothesis that better crowd management strategy can help to reduce the stress level from a first person perspective simulation. Using a simulation tool based on the Social Force Model and Unity game engine, we provided a sophisticated framework to examine crowd management strategies.
Strategic human resources management in Australia: the human cost

Strategic human resource management (HRM) is increasingly being used to indicate a system‐wide intervention that links HRM to strategic planning and cultural change. However, what may be inadvertently occurring is a reinforcing of the use of the “hard” model of HRM, one that prioritises “management” aspects above “human” aspects of the discipline. Competitive business strategies may be improving the bottom line of a company, but they are hurting many individuals, especially when workers are being viewed as a commodity in a labour market. The Australian experience suggests that strategic HRM is not particularly people focused and has led to greater job insecurity and lower job satisfaction. If the current intent of strategic HRM is to strategise in conjunction with an organization’s business direction, then it needs to be re‐conceptualised to acknowledge the human endeavour of organizations. This will require a broadening of the perspective of strategic HRM.