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Modeling the Effects on the Attitude of Young Adult Urban Muslim Women towards Halal Cosmetic Products : New Insights for Championing the Halal Economy

Plethora of cosmetic products in the marketplace are fighting vigorously for the consumers’ wallets; the local brands appear to capture their own niches by projecting themselves as “Islamic” brands via their creative product offerings. The purpose of this paper is to identify a behavioral matrix which classified Malaysian into the appropriate quadrant in the Spiritual Intelligent Matrix and hence will be proposed. The results generated from this study could afford new insights in order to design strategies and policies in branding and positioning halal values to the cosmetic products manufactured in Malaysia. The paper highlights new frameworks which will modify the Planned Behavior Theory (TPB), develop new scales to measure spiritual intelligence in the TPB theoretical framework to explore how the variable could influence consumer attitude towards Halal cosmetic produced in Malaysia. The new measurement scale is used to unravel underlying dimensions of spiritual intelligence from the perspective of the Muslim which is deemed imperative. It is envisaged that it could explicate the effects of spiritual intelligence, spiritual congruence, product involvement and product image of the consumers’ attitude towards purchasing halal cosmetics and in turn to reaffirm intention to consume halal cosmetic.
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The diseases that most impact the iives of women may be greatly reduced with adequate exercise and diet. Unfortunately, 66% of women in the United States never engage in periods of vigorous physical activity lasting for 10 minutes in duration. Motivation for exercise is a demonstrated determinant of physical activity participation. Achievement Goal Theory offers a viable framework to investigate whether or not the core constructs, task and ego orientation and perceived ability, are able to discriminate amongst exercisers and non-exercisers. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether task and ego orientation and perceived ability discriminated amongst American college-aged females in several stages of exercise engagement in a large sample (N = 611). It was hypothesized that females who were high in perceived ability and task orientation would report being an exerciser, whereas those reporting high ego orientation and low perceived ability would be nonexercisers. The hypothesis addressing task orientation and perceived ability was supported whereas the hypothesis concerning the ego orientation was not supported. Importantly, the results demonstrated that even between exercisers (active for more than 6 months versus less than 6 months), task orientation and perceived ability differed. This finding clearly suggests that the task orientation construct as well as perceived physical ability are important determinants for consistent long-term adherence to physical activity. Practitioners should be able to assist participants in maintaining life-long physical activity participation by promoting a task orientation and higher perceptions of physical ability.
Experimental study on the influence of burnish parameters on the surface roughness reduction index

The paper presents the research results of relationship between surface roughness reduction index KRa and three input parameters: burnishing speed Vn, feed fn and burnishing force Fn. , and all combinations of levels of yields N measured for 48 points of experiment. The experiment was repeated 3 times. In order to select the model describing the results of tests, the stepping approximation analysis was performed. It relayed at incorporated into the model in following steps approximation elements function, giving the biggest decrease of the sum of squared deviations. The first approximation was based on the ternary monomial of the powers from 0 to 3 for each input value. This approximation aim was to show, that the index of surface roughness reduction does not depend on the burnishing speed in the made in the area of research. The reduced input parameters to two, i.e. fn and Fn. The plan of the experiment was brought to N = 12 and M = 12. The best approximation of test results obtained in the case of Laurent polynomial with stepping selection of elements. The biggest contribution to the decrease in the sum of squared deviations was element ffnn −1 ∙ FFnn , and then fn. The article shows that in the range fn {0.6:1.2} there was not information on the successful model and the lack of influence of f and Fn on the results of the experiment. It is postulated to retry the experiment for the feed f <0.6.
A motion planning method for an AUV

The authors have been developing an underwater vehicle "Umihico" that autonomously plans and executes given missions. This paper discusses the problem of finding an optimal motion plan for an AUV. The proposed motion planning algorithm is divided into two steps, the global path planning and the local motion planning steps. In the global path planning step, we first define a connectivity graph to evaluate the cost of each path class. Next we apply the Dijkstra's algorithm or the all-pairs cost algorithm to the graph to find the optimal (minimum cost) path class. In the local motion planning step, a smooth path segment which connects two configurations in the optimal path class in each region is computed. If there are any obstacles, the local motion planning algorithm will plan and execute an obstacle avoiding action. The effectiveness and robustness of the solution algorithm are verified through simulation.
1 Intramolecular C – H Activation by Air-Stable Pt ( II ) Phosphite Complexes 1

Air-stable L2PtMe2 complexes ligated by bulky aryl phosphite ligands were synthesized 6 and characterized. The aryl phosphite ligands were prepared from substituted phenols and PCl3 or 7 P(NMe2)3 without the use of an external base. The steric environment of the phenol controlled the 8 number of substitutions at P(NMe2)3, resulting in selective formation of P(NMe2)(O-2,6-Me2C6H3)2. 9 The phosphite ligands and their corresponding platinum(II) complexes were found to be air stable and 10 robust. X-ray diffraction structures of the platinum(II) complexes were obtained in order to determine 11 the steric environment around the metal centers. Thermolysis of the L2PtMe2 complexes in C6D6 at 12 100°C results in loss of methane and formation of one major platinum-containing product in high yield. 13 The products of thermolysis were found to be a result of cyclometalation by C−H activation of a sp 3 14 C−H bond in the ligand to form a 6-membered ring, as confirmed by X-ray crystallography. 15
Similarity Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions Using Advanced Materials, with Emphasis of Synthetic and Nanomaterials

Contaminated water with heavy metals is considered to be a serious threat to human health as well as to the environment. Heavy metals get a great attention owing to their toxicity and persistence in the environment. Different techniques for elimination of heavy metal have discussed in literature. Adsorption, the most extensively used method; plays vital role in wastewater treatment. Many research studies have been taken place during the last decade for the preparation of effective and economically suitable adsorbents. More recently, nanotechnology and material science have opened a new way for the buildup of new materials that can be used for the elimination of different pollutants. This review includes analyzing and discussion of different research studies and research papers published during last ten years, concerning the usage of nanomaterials for omitting heavy metals from aqueous solutions.
Evaluation of Bioactive Compounds in Pomegranate Fruit Parts as an Attempt for Their Application as an Active Edible Film

Pomegranate fruit contains high content of phytochemical constituents which have many health benefits. Peel and rind are wastes of pomegranate fruit processing, represent up to 50% of its weight. This study aimed to evaluate the ethanolic extract of pomegranate fruit parts: arils, rind and peel as sources of bioactive compounds as well as their antioxidant and antimicrobial activities for their application as an active edible film. Results clearly demonstrated that peel extract (PE) had the highest content of total phenolics and flavonoids (342 mg GAE /g and 82.33mg catechol /g, respectively ) followed by rind extract (RE) containing 213.00 mg GAE/g and 70.50 mg catechol /g, respectively, and finally arils extract (AE) ( 108.22 mg GAE /g and 55.58 mg catechol/g), respectively. Results indicated that total anthocyanins content was concentrated in PE (15.24mg Cynidian-3-glycoside/g) and AE (11.04 mg Cynidian-3-glycoside/g), while RE (6.51 mg Cynidian-3-glycoside/g) had the lowest value. Peel extract exhibited the highest antioxidant activity followed by RE and were significantly higher than that of AE. These results were confirmed with the DPPH and ABTS+ assays. Consequently, PE followed by RE had higher antimicrobial activity against several pathogenic strains than AE and can be used as natural preservative for food. Peel extract and RE were incorporated into pectin film at concentration of 15 mg/ml to develop an active edible film. Pectin film without the tested fruit parts extract was used as the control film. The obtained results revealed that the film prepared from pectin with PE and RE was successfully developed and considers as an active edible film with antioxidant and antimicrobial properties.
Study on directional preference of crack propagation *

In study of prediction of fracture in polycrystalline materials, propagation along the grain boundary is widely investigated due to its importance in strength and reliability. In present study, inherent directional characteristic of intergranular fracture is investigated through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on symmetrical tilt grain boundary (STGB). To extend previous discussion based on Rice’s criteria onto [100] tilt axis bicrystal, traction-separation law and relative propagation distance are calculated in order to investigate preferred direction of crack propagation. By considering complex elasto-plastic behavior, the proposed measure is proven to be sufficient in estimating the directionality of intergranular crack propagation
Comments on the recent Met Office report " The recent pause in global warming ( 3 ) : What are the implications for projections of future warming ? "

Executive summary The recent pause in global surface temperature rise does not materially alter the risks of substantial warming of the Earth by the end of this century. Nor does it invalidate the fundamental physics of global warming, the scientific basis of climate models and their estimates of climate sensitivity. Global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s, but there has been little further warming over the most recent 10 to 15 years to 2013. This has prompted speculation that human induced global warming is no longer happening, or at least will be much smaller than predicted. Others maintain that this is a temporary pause and that temperatures will again rise at rates seen previously. This paper is the third in a series of three reports from the Met Office Hadley Centre that address the recent pause in global warming and seek to answer the following questions. What have been the recent trends in other indicators of climate over this period; what are the potential drivers of the current pause; and how does the recent pause affect our projections of future climate? The purpose of this third report is to consider warming of the climate several decades into the future due to changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols. Two main questions are addressed:  How have quantitative projections of future warming changed with the new generation of comprehensive climate models?  Does the pause in global mean surface warming, observed in the last decade or so, alter projections of future warming? Future warming depends on the emissions of greenhouse gases and on the sensitivity of the climate system to increased greenhouse gases (the amount of warming for given greenhouse gas concentrations). The thrust of this paper is to address the question of climate sensitivity by considering two basic metrics of sensitivity of the climate system: the transient climate response (TCR) and the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). Both were originally defined to compare the response of climate models to a specific scenario of increased concentrations of carbon dioxide. Their definition has now been extended to include observational estimates. ECS is a measure of the long-term equilibrium response of the global surface temperature to stabilisation at a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations. TCR describes the change in global surface temperature when carbon dioxide reaches a doubled concentration following a 1% rise in concentrations each year. It is generally …
The Use of Social Media in Political Campaigns : The Case of Croatian Local Elections 2017

Social media is a tool that allows political parties and candidates to interact with citizens. This research examines usage of social network Facebook by Croatian political candidates during the 2017 local elections. The aim of the research is twofold: to identify extent in which Facebook usage affects election results and to explore activities with the largest effect on election results. To address this questions, data from the Facebook pages of the candidates for the capital city major were collected and analysed by correlation analysis. Results indicate differences between candidates` activity which affect election results.
Anthocyanins and Proanthocyanidins in Natural Pigmented Rice and Their Bioactivities

Natural pigmented rice is mainly black, red, and dark purple and contains a variety of flavones, tannins, phenolic, sterols, oryzanols, and essential oils. Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins belonging to plant flavonoids are thought of as the major functional components found in black, red, and purple rice and contribute to the intense color of many fruits, vegetables, and pigmented cereals such as blueberries, grapes, red cabbages, and purple sweet potatoes. Recent data have indicated the potential for isolating and characterizing the nutrition and nonnutritive components in colored fruits, vegetables, and cereals for their potential chemopreventive and pharmaceutical agents. This chapter provides up-to-date coverage of pigmented rice in terms of the bioactive constituents, isolation, extraction and analytical methods, and related bioactivities. Special focus has been placed on the anti-inflammation, anticancer, and antiaging processes of the major components found in pigmented rice, especially with regard to germ and bran extracts.
The Seismic Network of Chile by S . Barrientos and National Seismological Center ( CSN ) Team

Chile is frequently affected by large and potentially tsunamigenic and damaging earthquakes as a result of rapid convergence of the Nazca plate beneath the South America plate. TenM 8 or larger earthquakes have occurred along the Chilean coast in the past century, the largest of which was the 1960 M 9.5 Valdivia earthquake. After the 2010M 8.8 Maule earthquake, Chile began installing a modern real-time network of digital broadband/strong-motion and Global Positioning System (GPS) stations to better prepare for future and expected large damaging earthquakes. The network was designed to provide fast and accurate estimates of earthquake source parameters of potentially devastating earthquakes for emergency response applications, and was also capable of comprehensive characterization of Chilean seismicity necessary for long-term hazard assessment and mitigation activities. Beginning in 2013, the National Seismological Center (CSN) of the University of Chile was mandated by the Chilean government to implement a network of 65 permanent real-time broadband and strongmotion stations and 130 Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) monuments and receivers. These integrated sensor systems were designed to provide accurate automatic earthquake locations and magnitudes necessary for tsunami warning and impact assessment. In near-real-time applications, the GPS stations become critical for determination of fault finiteness of M ∼ 7 or larger earthquakes. Operations of these systems also provide new insights into long-term deformation and associated spatiotemporal variations in seismicity, which are necessary in long-term earthquake hazards assessment and mitigation. In addition to the real-time system described above, 297 strongmotion offline instruments complement the network for engineering purposes. Broadband data in real time are publicly available through the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Data Management Center (IRIS-DMC) under networks C and C1. Strong-motion data for recorded accelerations larger than 2%g are available through the CSN webpage.
Neglect he economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and mplications for prevention

Objectives: To present new estimates of the average lifetime costs per child maltreatment victim and aggregate lifetime costs for all new child maltreatment cases incurred in 2008 using an incidence-based approach. Methods: This study used the best available secondary data to develop cost per case estimates. For each cost category, the paper used attributable costs whenever possible. For those categories that attributable cost data were not available, costs were estimated as the product of incremental effect of child maltreatment on a specific outcome multiplied by the estimated cost associated with that outcome. The estimate of the aggregate lifetime cost of child maltreatment in 2008 was obtained by multiplying per-victim lifetime cost estimates by the estimated cases of new child maltreatment in 2008. Results: The estimated average lifetime cost per victim of nonfatal child maltreatment is $210,012 in 2010 dollars, including $32,648 in childhood health care costs; $10,530 in adult medical costs; $144,360 in productivity losses; $7,728 in child welfare costs; $6,747 in criminal justice costs; and $7,999 in special education costs. The estimated average lifetime cost per death is $1,272,900, including $14,100 in medical costs and $1,258,800 in productivity losses. The total lifetime economic burden resulting from new cases of fatal and nonfatal child maltreatment in the United States in 2008 is approximately $124 billion. In sensitivity analysis, the total burden is estimated to be as large as $585 billion. Conclusions: Compared with other health problems, the burden of child maltreatment is substantial, indicating the importance of prevention efforts to address the high prevalence of child maltreatment. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Estimasi Proyek Pengembangan Perangkat Lunak dengan Fuzzy Use Case Points

Perangkat lunak memegang peranan penting agar sebuah komputer atau sistem dapat digunakan, sehingga dibutuhkan manajemen proyek dalam pengembangan perangkat lunak dan salah satu prosesnya adalah melakukan estimasi agar perangkat lunak yang dihasilkan sesuai dengan jadwal dan biaya yang telah ditentukan. Metode use case points banyak dipakai terutama untuk aplikasi yang berbasis obyek, tetapi ditemukan beberapa kelemahan berupa ketidakpastian faktor biaya dan penentuan klasifikasi use case memiliki beda nilai cukup tinggi yang mengakibatkan hasil estimasi kurang akurat. Metode use case points dimodifikasi dengan menambahkan logika fuzzy sehingga menjadi metode fuzzy use case points, komponen yang dimodifikasi yaitu pada penilaian klasifikasi use case. Modifikasi yang dilakukan berupa penentuan nilai use case berdasarkan jumlah transaksi. Dari hasil percobaan yang dilakukan, nilai effort dari metode ini lebih akurat atau mendekati effort aktual. Peningkatan akurasi metode ini mencapai 6 sampai 10%.
The ciao prolog system

Ciao is a public domain, next generation multi-paradigm programming environment with a unique set of features: Ciao offers a complete Prolog system, supporting ISO-Prolog, but its novel modular design allows both restricting and extending the language. As a result, it allows working with fully declarative subsets of Prolog and also to extend these subsets (or ISO-Prolog) both syntactically and semantically. Most importantly, these restrictions and extensions can be activated separately on each program module so that several extensions can coexist in the same application for different modules. Ciao also supports (through such extensions) programming with functions, higher-order (with predicate abstractions), constraints, and objects, as well as feature terms (records), persistence, several control rules (breadth-first search, iterative deepening, .), concurrency (threads/engines), a good base for distributed execution (agents), and parallel execution. Libraries also support WWW programming, sockets, external interfaces (C, Java, TclTk, relational databases, etc.), etc. Ciao offers support for programming in the large with a robust module/object system, module-based separate/incremental compilation (automatically -no need for makefiles), an assertion language for declaring (optional) program properties (including types and modes, but also determinacy, non-failure, cost, etc.), automatic static inference and static/dynamic checking of such assertions, etc. Ciao also offers support for programming in the small producing small executables (including only those builtins used by the program) and support for writing scripts in Prolog. The Ciao programming environment includes a classical top-level and a rich emacs interface with an embeddable source-level debugger and a number of execution visualization tools. The Ciao compiler (which can be run outside the top level shell) generates several forms of architecture-independent and stand-alone executables, which run with speed, efficiency and executable size which are very competive with other commercial and academic Prolog/CLP systems. Library modules can be compiled into compact bytecode or C source files, and linked statically, dynamically, or autoloaded. The novel modular design of Ciao enables, in addition to modular program development, effective global program analysis and static debugging and optimization via source to source program transformation. These tasks are performed by the Ciao preprocessor ( ciaopp, distributed separately). The Ciao programming environment also includes lpdoc, an automatic documentation generator for LP/CLP programs. It processes Prolog files adorned with (Ciao) assertions and machine-readable comments and generates manuals in many formats including postscript, pdf, texinfo, info, HTML, man, etc. , as well as on-line help, ascii README files, entries for indices of manuals (info, WWW, .), and maintains WWW distribution sites.
NILM Techniques for Intelligent Home Energy Management and Ambient Assisted Living: A Review

The ongoing deployment of smart meters and different commercial devices has made electricity disaggregation feasible in buildings and households, based on a single measure of the current and, sometimes, of the voltage. Energy disaggregation is intended to separate the total power consumption into specific appliance loads, which can be achieved by applying Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques with a minimum invasion of privacy. NILM techniques are becoming more and more widespread in recent years, as a consequence of the interest companies and consumers have in efficient energy consumption and management. This work presents a detailed review of NILM methods, focusing particularly on recent proposals and their applications, particularly in the areas of Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), where the ability to determine the on/off status of certain devices can provide key information for making further decisions. As well as complementing previous reviews on the NILM field and providing a discussion of the applications of NILM in HEMS and AAL, this paper provides guidelines for future research in these topics.