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Analytical results for the in-degree and out-degree distributions of directed random networks that grow by node duplication

We present exact analytical results for the degree distribution in a directed network model that grows by node duplication (ND). Such models are useful in the study of the structure and growth dynamics of gene regulatory networks and scientific citation networks. Starting from an initial seed network, at each time step a random node, referred to as a mother node, is selected for duplication. Its daughter node is added to the network and duplicates each outgoing link of the mother node with probability p . In addition, the daughter node forms a directed link to the mother node itself. Thus, the model is referred to as the corded directed-node-duplication (DND) model. The corresponding undirected ND model was studied before and was found to exhibit a power-law degree distribution. We obtain analytical results for the in-degree distribution , and for the out-degree distribution , of the corded DND network at time t. It is found that the in-degrees follow a shifted power-law distribution, so the network is asymptotically scale free. In contrast, the out-degree distribution is a narrow distribution, that converges to a Poisson distribution in the limit of and to a Gaussian distribution in the limit of . Such distinction between a broad in-degree distribution and a narrow out-degree distribution is common in empirical networks such as scientific citation networks. Using these distributions we calculate the mean degree , which converges to in the large network limit, for the whole range of 0 < p < 1. This is in contrast to the corresponding undirected network, which exhibits a phase transition at p = 1/2 such that for p > 1/2 the mean degree diverges in the large network limit. We also present analytical results for the distribution of the number of upstream nodes, , and for the distribution of the number of downstream nodes, , from a random node. We show that the mean values scale logarithmically with the network size. This means that in the large network limit only a diminishing fraction of pairs of nodes are connected by directed paths, unlike the corded undirected ND network that consists of a single connected component. Therefore, the corded DND network is not a small-world network.
DeepSketchHair: Deep Sketch-Based 3D Hair Modeling

We present DeepSketchHair, a deep learning based tool for modeling of 3D hair from 2D sketches. Given a 3D bust model as reference, our sketching system takes as input a user-drawn sketch (consisting of hair contour and a few strokes indicating the hair growing direction within a hair region), and automatically generates a 3D hair model, matching the input sketch. The key enablers of our system are three carefully designed neural networks, namely, S2ONet, which converts an input sketch to a dense 2D hair orientation field; O2VNet, which maps the 2D orientation field to a 3D vector field; and V2VNet, which updates the 3D vector field with respect to the new sketches, enabling hair editing with additional sketches in new views. All the three networks are trained with synthetic data generated from a 3D hairstyle database. We demonstrate the effectiveness and expressiveness of our tool using a variety of hairstyles and also compare our method with prior art.
Special Section – New Models in Drug Metabolism and Transport Assessment of the Biotransformation of Low-Turnover Drugs in the H m REL Human Hepatocyte Coculture Model s

Metabolic profiles of four drugs possessing diverse metabolic pathways (timolol, meloxicam, linezolid, and XK469) were compared following incubations in both suspended cryopreserved human hepatocytes and theHmRELhepatocyte coculturemodel. In general, minimal metabolism was observed following 4-hour incubations in both suspended hepatocytes and the HmREL model, whereas incubations conducted up to 7 days in the HmREL coculture model resulted in more robust metabolic turnover. In the case of timolol, in vivo human data suggest that 22%of thedose is transformedviamultistepoxidative opening of the morpholine moiety. Only the first-step oxidation was detected in suspended hepatocytes, whereas the relevant downstream metabolites were produced in the HmREL model. For meloxicam, both the hydroxymethyl and subsequent carboxylic acid metabolites were abundant following incubation in the HmREL model, while only a trace amount of the hydroxymethyl metabolite was observed in suspension. Similar to timolol, linezolid generated substantially higher levels of morpholine ring-opened carboxylic acid metabolites in the HmREL model. Finally, while the major aldehyde oxidase–mediated monooxidative metabolite of XK469 was minimally produced in hepatocyte suspension, the HmREL model robustly produced this metabolite, consistent with a pathway reported to account for 54% of the total urinary excretion in human. In addition, low-level taurine and glycine conjugates were identified in the HmREL model. In summary, continuousmetabolite production was observed for up to 7 days of incubation in the HmREL model, covering cytochrome P450, aldehyde oxidase, and numerous conjugative pathways, while predominant metabolites correlated with relevant metabolites reported in human in vivo studies.
Modeling Velocity Recordings of the M w 6 . 0 South Napa , California , Earthquake : Unilateral Event with Weak High-Frequency Directivity by František Gallovič

On 24 August 2014, an Mw 6.0 earthquake struck the Napa area in the north San Francisco Bay region, causing one fatality and damaging many older buildings in the Napa area. First, I employ low-frequency data (0.05–0.5 Hz) from 10 near-fault strong-motion stations to perform slip inversion, revealing (in agreement with other studies) rupture propagating up-dip and unilaterally along the fault with a dominant shallow asperity. Then I generate broadband synthetics (0.05–5 Hz) using an advanced Ruiz integral kinematic (RIK) source model (Ruiz et al., 2011) and a 1D velocity model. The RIK model is composed of randomly distributed overlapping subsources with a fractal number–size distribution. The particular distribution of the RIK subsources is constrained by the low-resolution slip model from the inversion. Besides providing stable omegasquared spectral decay at high frequencies, the RIK model is able to reproduce the frequency-dependent directivity effect with adjustable strength. Comparison of the synthetic velocity waveforms with the observed data shows that the smallest modeling bias and variance is achieved by a rupture model with complex rupture propagation and thus weak high-frequency directivity. I link my findings with other studies, including analog experiments by Day et al. (2008), suggesting that this feature is rather common to earthquake sources. Online Material: Tables of station locations and crustal model, and figures of synthetic seismograms and their smoothed Fourier spectra for all directivity models.
Shochu Distillery By-product Loses Growth Promoting Activity during Preservation

It has been found that shochu distillery by-product (SDBP) originated from sweet potato can improve growth and meat quality of broiler because SDBP contains growth promoter and antioxidants such as polyphenols. In the present study, effects of feeding 1 yearpreserved and fresh SDBPs (liquid type, 60% water) on performance and meat quality were examined in broiler chicken. Parameters compared were body weight gain, breast muscle weight, feed conversion ratio (FCR), plasma and muscle TBARS, muscle α-tocopherol content and plasma N-methylhistidine (MeHis) concentration. Previously to the animal experiment, chemical compositions of the two SDBPs were compared and found that α-tocopherol concentration was lower and ammonia concentration was higher in the preserved SDBP comparing to the fresh SDBP while there was no difference of polyphenol concentration. In the animal experiments, the body weight gain tended to be increased and FCR tended to be decreased by the fresh SDBP but not by the preserved SDBP. The breast muscle weight tended to be increased by the fresh SDBP and ANOVA showed that the effect of preservation was signifi cant. Plasma TBARS were signifi cantly lowered by both SDBPs and the effect of preservation was signifi cant while muscle TBARS and muscle α-tocopherol content were not affected. Plasma N-MeHis concentration was signifi cantly decreased by SDBP and the effect of preservation was also signifi cant. The present study shows that SDBP loses its growth promoting effect while antioxidant effect remains during a long-term preservation. Journal of Warm Regional Society of Animal Science, Japan 54(1): 99-105, 2011
Pressuremeter tests within an active rock glacier in the Swiss Alps

In order to determine in situ creep and strength parameters of an active ice rich rock glacier in the Upper Engadin, Swiss Alps, pressuremeter tests were conducted using a 95 mm High Pressure Dilatometer. Seven tests were performed at different depths, immediately after the borehole had been drilled below the planned test level. A range of different loading steps were applied and these lasted up to 17 hours. In between the loading steps, unloadreload loops or strain holding (relaxation) tests were conducted. An attempt was made to reach failure at the end of each test. The results showed that the creep rate increased exponentially with the applied cavity pressure. The rate varied with depth and therefore with the ice content, which decreased from the highest test location to the lowest. Permafrost, Phillips, Springman & Arenson (eds) © 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, ISBN 90 5809 582 7
Entity and Event Extraction from Scratch Using Minimal Training Data

Understanding current world events in real-time involves sifting through news articles, tweets, photos, and videos from many different perspectives. The goal of the DARPA-funded AIDA project is to automate much of this process, building a knowledge base that can be queried to strategically generate hypotheses about different aspects of an event. We are participating in this project as a TA1 team, and we are building the first step of the overall system. Given raw multimodal input (e.g., text, images, video), our goal is to generate a knowledge graph with entities, events, and relations. Figure 1 shows an overview of our pipeline. The first stage is pre-processing. This involves translating all the raw documents, as well as transcribing and translating audio and video data. All the translated information is input to our main processing module that extracts entities, events, and relations. Entities are extracted from both text and video data. In the final, output generation stage of the pipeline, we build a graph from all of the entities, events, and relations.
The relation between school readiness and school performance in Grade 1 and Grade 7

The aim of this study was to determine the influence of school readiness on school performance in Grade 1 and Grade 7 with specific reference to Home Language and Numeracy. The empirical study was conducted by means of quantitative research, specifically a longitudinal panel study. Through a purposive method of sampling, one school in the Free State Province was selected and the Aptitude Test for School Beginners (ASB) was administered to Grade 1 learners. A highly significant correlation between school readiness scores and Grade 1 performance was found and the conclusion was drawn that school readiness does, in fact, influence school performance in a highly significant way. Furthermore, a highly significant correlation between school performance in Grade 1 and Grade 7 was found, as well as between Home Language and Numeracy, indicating that school readiness has an indirect influence on Grade 7 performance. The recommendation is thus made that all learners should be tested for school readiness in Grade R.
The Poisson multi-media knowledge construction System for TAC KBP 2018

This paper presents the Open knowledge System developed for the Streaming Multimedia Knowledge Base Population (SM-KBP) task in TAC KBP 2018. We participated in task 1a and task 2 of this track. Eight modules were developed to complete this task, including entity discovery module, the relation extraction module, the event nugget detection module, the image detection module, the video processing module, the Intra-document co-reference resolution module the Cross-document co-reference resolution module and the RDF graph construction module.
The Organizational Structure Affects the Occurrence of Mobbing

Mobbing is a specific kind of pathological behaviour in the workplace which includes psychological abuse by one or more persons, a longer period of time, with intent to endanger human dignity and integrity of the victim of mobbing. Numerous research revealed that there are massive social and economic losses due to frequent absences from work, changes of jobs, premature retirements etc. Our investigation included 412 respondents working in health care organizations. The results indicate that 39% of respondents were exposed to a certain form of mobbing in investigating period. They were exposed to a great extent to mobbing activities which represent an attack on professional status, quality of professional work such as: excessive control by superiors, blaming for failures that hadn’t really happened as well as ignoring suggestions; but also activities which represent an assault on capacity for social relations and activities which represent an assault on personal reputation. Authors find it important to recognize the organizational and cultural origins of mobbing phenomena in certain countries. Key -Words: Mobbing, organizational structure, organizational factors, cultural factors
PRODUCTION OF SUPERIOR CLONE Labisia pumila var Alata FOR FUTURE PLANTING STOCK

Labisia pumila is well known as the queen of herb in Malaysia due to its phytoestrogenic activity that is beneficial to women health. Since the raw material supply is limited, this study aimed to identify feasible propagation methods for future planting stock production of this herb. Two vegetative propagation techniques were investigated in this study, namely tissue culture and leaf cuttings. In tissue culture method, a combination of MS media with 0.5 mg L -1 NAA gave fast response in shoot development of L. pumila var. alata compared to other treatment media. The in vitro leaves explant were able to produce 4.33 ± 0.39 shoots per explants after being cultured for 16 weeks. The established plantlets from tissue culture were acclimatised in four different potting media, namely sand (100%), cocopeat (100%), jiffy (100%) and sand:cocopeat 50:50). Jiffy (100%) was found to be the best potting media during the acclimatisation of the plantlets compared to other treatment. While for leaf cuttings, the shoot development on rooted cuttings were observed only after 19 to 30 weeks of cutting period. The leaf cuttings can produce about 1.50 ± 0.65 shoots per cutting in 30 weeks interval. The growth performance of the plants from tissue culture and leaf cuttings were further evaluated at nursery stage. The results showed that tissue culture plants have more leaves (7.80 ± 0.22) compared to leaf cuttings (4.98 ± 0.18). Meanwhile, plants from leaf cuttings have better plant size over tissue culture plants in terms of leaf length, leaf width and collar region. However, the different leaf number and plant size did not reflect the total biomass of the plants. The ANOVA results showed no significant difference in fresh and dry weight of the plants from both sources of propagation where tissue culture plant recorded 2.55g ± 0.15 fresh weight and 0.41g ± 0.03 dry weight while leaf cuttings plant recorded 2.87g ± 0.14 fresh weight and 0.48g ± 0.05 dry weight. The total phenolic content (TPC) was also evaluated in this study. Both tissue culture and leaf cutting plant did not show significant value of TPC with 326.21±13.37 (Gallic acid equivalent) and 320.78±17.19 mg GAE 100g 1 respectively. The analysis showed that tissue culture method was more preferable since it was able to produce fast and higher number of shoots compared to leaf cuttings.
THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WORKPLACE

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the connections between the workplace, spirituality and adult education by listening to the voices of 5 adult educators who are incorporating spirituality into their practice within their various workplace settings. Findings reveal that all participants described their spirituality as evolving and changing over time and as no longer limited to their religious heritage. As they linked their spirituality to their workplaces their central vocation was a desire to make their workplaces more just and compassionate. The energy they placed within this social advocacy role was directly dependent upon their workplaces' comprehension and desire to become a spiritually infused setting.
Chapter 5 Swirl-Inducing Ducts

This chapter examines the flow of swirling liquid in a duct. In many cases, circumferential velocity in the cross-section of a cylindrical duct is a remarkably linear function of radius up to the proximity of the duct wall. This is similar to the behaviour of a twisting solid shaft and the analogy leads to a solid body model for swirl flow in ducts. Helically profiled lobate duct walls provide a twisting torque, while wall friction in simple circular ducts causes swirl to decay. The liquid counterpart of the solid body is represented as a firstorder system in downstream distance because of the way torque is transmitted by duct walls rather than by shaft stiffness as in the solid case. The effect of the inertia of the rotating and twisting cylinder is unchanged from its solid counterpart, and damping is related to the viscosity of the liquid acting over the annulus between the rotating liquid cylinder and the duct wall. The shear stress in the liquid is shown to be linearly related to the intensity of the swirl. The generation of swirl is briefly described with reference to lobate designs, their development of shape and helix.
Because the Night - Immersive Theatre for Digital Audiences:: Mapping the affordances of immersive theatre to digital interactions using game engines

Immersive theatre is a highly interactive format that raises the audience's agency over their experience, and, depending on their actions, provides each member with their own understanding of the overarching narrative that developed based on the spatial path they undertook. This theatre format challenges traditional theatre digitisation techniques as current archiving and reproduction methods cannot authentically replicate the affordances (or ‘actions possible’) that audiences have in the original performance. Theatres need to explore new methods of digitisation and archiving, to preserve past experiences and cater to an audience who will access content digitally. This report documents the design decisions and their impact for the interactive prototype digitisation and archival of the 2021 immersive-theatre production “Because the Night” for a digital audience. This interactive digital archive utilises game design and game engine technology to map and transfer the affordances of audiences from the original immersive theatre play to a digital platform, leveraging the game engine's innate affordances, including freedom of movement, spatialised audio, and user intractability. To deliver these research outcomes, the project captured 360-degree video of the performance, music, images of props, and 360-degree photographs of the set, all embedded into a game engine system to authentically preserve the immersive, interactive, and ambient experience of the original production. The resulting system was able to successfully map several of the performances original affordances, including environmental exploration, spatially emergent narratives, object inspection and exploration, and interactive environmental challenges. This document reports on three matters: the design process and decisions to authentically capture the affordances of the theatre production in a digital gameplay experience; the current status of this research project; and the proposed approach to testing the prototype with users.
Human-inthe-Loop Simulations of Surface Trajectory-Based Operations An Evaluation of Taxi Routing and Surface Conformance Monitoring Decision Support Tool Capabilities

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concept proposes a suite of decision support tools for use in the air traffic control tower to support safe and efficient operations. This paper describes the proposed set of automation capabilities to support ground and local controller activities in the NextGen mid-term (2018), including automated decision support tools to generate taxi routes and monitor pilot conformance to the assigned taxi route. To evaluate these capabilities, The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) conducted two human-in-the-loop experiments to evaluate ground controller performance with these decision support tools, focusing on automation to support taxi route generation and conformance monitoring. These simulations specifically examined capabilities provided in surface automation designed by Mosaic ATM. This paper describes the results of those two experiments and discusses necessary future research to refine and validate the NextGen surface decision support tool concepts. Keywords-surface automation; taxi routing; conformance monitoring; human performance I. SURFACE TRAJECTORY-BASED OPERATIONS The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) concept for modernizing the National Airspace System through 2018. Through NextGen, the FAA is addressing the impact of air traffic growth by increasing national airspace (NAS) capacity and efficiency while simultaneously improving safety, reducing environmental impacts, and increasing user access to the NAS. High-density airports in the NextGen mid-term timeframe (~2018) are expected to operate with a set of integrated automation decision support tools (DSTs), which include the following attributes: access to timely and dynamically updated information; a means for collaboration with stakeholders; maximization of airport capacity; and improved efficiency of airport and surface operations [1]. The DSTs described in the NextGen concept are the basis for an operational concept known as Surface Trajectory-Based Operations (STBO) that will manage traffic flows and resources on the airport surface and will enable surface trajectory-based operations in the farterm. This program is managed by the FAA’s Aviation Research and Technology Development Office, and includes contributions from Mosaic ATM, MITRE, MCR LLC, and the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
K-Multiscope: Combining Multiple Kinect Sensors into a Common 3D Coordinate System

We present a method for combining data from multiple Kinect motion-capture sensors into a common coordinate system. Kinect sensors offer a cheaper, potentially less accurate alternative for full-body motion tracking. By incorporating multiple sensors into a multiscopic system, we address potential accuracy and recognition flaws caused by individual sensor conditions, such as occlusions and space limitations, and increase the overall accuracy of skeletal data tracking. We merge data from multiple Kinects using a custom calibration algorithm, called K-Multiscope. K-Multiscope generates an affine transform for each of the available sensors, and thus combines their data into a common 3D coordinate system. We have incorporated this algorithm into Kuatro, a skeletal data pipeline designed earlier to simplify live motion capture for use in music interaction experiences and installations. In closing, we present Liminal Space, a live duet performance for cello and dance, which utilizes the Kuatro system to transform dance movements into music.