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Until recently, Passiflora ischnoclada was only known from a single occurrence record. In this paper we describe how different ecological niche modelling techniques were successively used to generate better potential distribution models for the species and guide field work. At each step, new records were found until the species’ real distribution was approximated based on a model ensemble created with five different algorithms. The estimated distribution is concentrated on a single area of 84 km2 where the species is considered endangered.
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT FAULT RUPTURE SCENARIOS ON PERFORMANCE OF TUNED MASS DAMPERS FOR SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL OF STRUCTURES

In present study the effects of fault rupture parameters on the response of a multistory structure equipped with a tuned mass damper (TMD) under simulated earthquake excitations is investigated. The stochastic finite-fault simulation technique of Beresnev and Atkinson (1997, 1998) which implements the concept of fault discretization wherein sub-events are represented as stochastic point sources is used. The numerical results for a structure with and without TMD subjected to simulated earthquake records are obtained and comparisons are made in terms of defined performance indices to demonstrate the effects of fault rupture parameters on the structural response. The results demonstrate that precise description and estimation of the effective parameters in generation of strong motion are of great importance. Moreover, it is shown that it is not meaningful to use a limited number of ground motion time histories which are representative for some special scenarios to evaluate the performance of control systems and one should examine whether enough scenarios have ran to capture the expected variability of ground motion. This enables designer to make a more realistic judgment about the overall performance of the TMD for improving seismic response of the structure.
Automatic Survey Template Generation Using Research Relations

© 2015 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved. To Cite This Article: G. Manju, S. Deepa, A. Gayathri, M. Suganya, T.V. Geetha. , Automatic Survey Template Generation Using research Relations. Adv. in Nat. Appl. Sci., 9(6): 593-599, 2015
Maturity of Female Northern Rockfish Sebastes polyspinis in the Central Gulf of Alaska

The northern rockfish Sebastes polyspinis (Taranetz and Moiseev in Taranetz, 1933) is the second most important commercial rockfish species caught in the Gulf of Alaska. Current estimates of northern rockfish age and length at 50% maturity from the annual Gulf of Alaska stock assessment are based on macroscopic evaluations of a relatively small sample size collected in 1996. This study determined the maturity stage of female northern rockfish using histological techniques from 157 samples over a 2-year period. Estimated age at 50% maturity for female northern rockfish in the central Gulf of Alaska is 8 years and estimated length at 50% maturity is 310 mm. The maturity estimates presented in this study indicate that female northern rockfish mature at a younger age and smaller size than previously reported.
Stretching and Injury Prevention An Obscure Relationship

443 1. Working Mechanism of the Musculotendinous Unit during Movement . 444 2. How Can Stretching Reduce the Risk of Injuries? 445 3. Stretching and Injuries in Sports with High Stretch-Shortening Cycle (SSC) Movements . 446 4. Stretching and Injuries in Sports with No or Low SSC Movements . 447 5. Conclusions . 448 It is generally accepted that increasing the flexibility of a muscle-tendon unit Abstract promotes better performances and decreases the number of injuries. Stretching exercises are regularly included in warm-up and cooling-down exercises; however, contradictory findings have been reported in the literature. Several authors have suggested that stretching has a beneficial effect on injury prevention. In contrast, clinical evidence suggesting that stretching before exercise does not prevent injuries has also been reported. Apparently, no scientifically based prescription for stretching exercises exists and no conclusive statements can be made about the relationship of stretching and athletic injuries. Stretching recommendations are clouded by misconceptions and conflicting research reports. We believe that part of these contradictions can be explained by considering the type of sports activity in which an individual is participating. Sports involving bouncing and jumping activities with a high intensity of stretch-shortening cycles (SSCs) [e.g. soccer and football] require a muscle-tendon unit that is compliant enough to store and release the high amount of elastic energy that benefits performance in such sports. If the participants of these sports have an insufficient compliant muscle-tendon unit, the demands in energy absorption and release may rapidly exceed the capacity of the muscle-tendon unit. This may lead to an increased risk for injury of this structure. Consequently, the rationale for injury prevention in these sports is to increase the compliance of the muscle-tendon unit. Recent studies have shown that stretching programmes can significantly influence the viscosity of the tendon and make it significantly more compliant, and when a sport demands SSCs of high intensity, stretching may be important for injury prevention. This conjecture is in agreement with the available scientific clinical evidence from these types of sports activities. In contrast, when the type of
A Reduced Switch ACAC Converter with the Application of D-STATCOM and Induction Motor Drive

In this paper, a reduced switch AC-DC-AC converter is used as a distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) and induction motor drive. The AC-DC-AC nine switch converter (NSC) is a reduced switch topology of conventional 12-switch back to back converter. With a 25% reduced switch count, NSC has lower losses when operated at constant frequency mode compared to twelve switch converter (TSC). The idea is to operate NSC input terminal as an active front-end rectifier to mimic synchronous generator (SG) operation. The induction motor is connected at the output of the NSC for irrigation application where no speed regulation is required. In distribution generation (DG), a large capacitor bank is used to deliver required reactive power. This may lead to over-voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) when the load is turned off. To manage reactive power transfer at PCC, a control scheme is developed for NSC such that it can absorb or deliver reactive power with induction motor drive. Similar to SG, V-curve and inverted V-curve is plotted. The simulation and hardware results prove the feasibility of the proposed system.
Molecular mediators of cardioprotective ischemic conditioning : focus on cytokines and chemokines

Ischemic conditioning is a promising treatment strategy to provide cardioprotection against ischemic heart disease (IHD), and remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) has been successfully demonstrated in numerous preclinical and clinical studies to protect from myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. However, large-scale multicenter clinical trials examining the efficacy of RIPC on clinical outcomes have been disappointing. Future strategies may encompass an altered clinical study design, the use of different anesthetics to avoid propofol, and specific molecular approaches that focus on the mediators that convey the RIPC signal from the remote organ to the heart. This review focuses on cytokines and chemokines that have been suggested to, at least partially, account for the remote cardioprotective RIPC signal cue. We discuss the classical chemokine CXCL12, the atypical cytokine/chemokine macrophage migration-inhibitory factor (MIF), and the anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10), and touch upon other cytokineand alarmin-like factors such as adipocytokines, myokines, and RNase1. The available evidence for these factors is weighed against their roles in cardiac ischemia and their suitability as RIPC cues, including their expression and release profiles and receptors. Some of these mediators may qualify as cardioprotective target molecules in IHD.
Does Limited Investor Attention Explain Mutual Fund Flows? Evidence from Sector Funds∗

We argue that investors appear to utilize the CAPM to evaluate fund managers because investors exhibit limited attention. Funds provide information on market returns, which are plausible performance benchmarks. Investors employing these benchmarks appear to believe the CAPM. Sector funds are an ideal setting to disentangle limited attention from true belief in the CAPM: investors are provided sector benchmark returns as well as market returns. Though sector returns are not risk factors, we show that investors respond to this information when assessing managers. To improve investors allocation decisions, funds should provide investors with returns for plausible benchmarks and risk factors. JEL Classification: G11, G12, D83.
A comparison of the gear calculation process according to Swedish and American textbooks for higher education

Gears of different types are used to transmit torque and rotation from one shaft to another. Gears are among the oldest machine elements. The shape of the gear tooth has been improved through the history and today’s gear teeth are formed by the involute curve, hence the name involute gears. The involute shape makes the gears to transmit rotation between shafts at a constant rate and with very low friction losses. Different types and arrangements of gears are used in different situations, but only external spur gears, which transmit rotational speed between parallel shafts, are dealt with in this article. The reason for this selection is that spur gears are the most simple and are the base of other gears. Notably, gear calculation processes in Swedish textbooks (Swedish Standard) and American textbooks (AGMA standard) for higher education are presented in this article. Some test results have been calculated using different modules, gear teeth numbers and gear ratios. The results show big differences between Swedish and American process calculations regarding gear teeth bending stresses. These differences are so large that mistakes in calculations can be suspected, although the calculations have been checked many times by different people. There are also clear differences regarding gear tooth surface stresses.
Minimizing Resistance to Change: The Role of Communication and Perceived Organizational Justice

This study aims to analyze the effect of change communication on worker’s resistance to change mediated by perceived organizational justice, in a manufacturing company in Indonesia. This company has been undergoing organizational change for the past two years. Data from 260 respondents were collected using survey method and then analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The result showed that change communication has negative and significant effect on resistance to change and positive and significant effect on perceived organizational justice. Moreover, perceived organizational justice has negative and significant effect on resistance to change, and the effect of communication on resistance to change is partially mediated by perceived organizational justice. This research corroborates the previous research that states change communication and organizational justice play an important role in minimizing resistance to change.
Gender and emotion in context.

Gender differences in emotional functioning are widely documented, but are often inconsistent across personality, social, cultural, and situational variables, as well as types of emotional processes, quality of emotions, and task characteristics. This is not surprising, considering the adaptive communicative and motivational functions that emotions serve. Since males and females are often socialized to have different motives and goals—depending on their ages, cultural backgrounds, and socialization histories—gender differences should occur in emotional processes, but should also fail to generalize broadly, instead varying as a function of these same factors. Social/interpersonal goals that may differ for males and females include culturally prescribed gender roles (e.g., the role of child caretaker vs. economic provider); social motives, such as needs for intimacy versus control; and adapting to the power and status imbalances between the two sexes, in which men typically have higher power and status than do women (see Brody, 1999). Intrapersonal processes may also differ for males and females, including the ways in which emotions and conflict are regulated and the types of self-schemas (e.g., independence vs. interdependence) that are maintained (Cross & Madson, 1997). Both interpersonal and intrapersonal processes may be influenced by a complex interaction or feedback loop between gender differences in underlying biological processes (such as temperament) and social and cultural responses to those differences (especially on the part of caretakers), which are in turn influenced by cultural values surrounding gender, gender roles, and differential emphases on collectivism versus individualism. Recent research has focused on the complexities of when and how gender differences vary, with the theoretical frame being that gender differences in emotional functioning are both mediated and moderated by sociocultural, cognitive, biological, and behavioral variables. In turn, the variables that are found either to moderate or to mediate gender differences in emotional functioning give clues as to their etiology. In our chapter, we highlight contextual variations in gender differences in several different emotional processes, focusing on normal
A Comparison of Free-Air and Surface Temperature Trends at High Elevations in the Mountainous West of the U . S .

Concern over the impact of global warming at high elevation sites has increased over the last few years, leading to recent international workshops (e.g., HIGHEST II, 2001) and the declaration by the United Nations of 2002 as the “International Year of the Mountain” (Becker and Bugmann 2001). One area of particular concern in studies of cryospheric change is the role that mountain glaciers and seasonal snowpack play in providing water resources for mountain communities. The rapid retreat of many glaciers (Thompson 2000) has been cited as proxy evidence for a rapid increase in surface temperatures (Houghton and others 2001). However, there is extremely limited long-term surface temperature data at high elevation sites due to logistical problems of instrument maintenance in remote environments. For this reason, most studies of temperature variability in the middle troposphere are based on satellite and radiosonde data.
Seed Presoaking Treatment of 28-Homobrassinolide Modulates Antioxidative Defence System of Brassica juncea L . under Zinc Metal Stress

In the present study, the effects of seed presoaking treatment of 28-homobrassinolide (28-HBL; 0, 10, 10 and 10 M) were investigated on growth (shoot length and number of leaves), protein content and activities of antioxidative enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase, guaiacol peroxidase, glutathione reductase, ascorbate peroxidase, monodehydroascorbate reductase and dehydroascorbate reductase in leaves of 30 days-old Brassica juncea L. plants treated with different concentrations of zinc metal. It was observed that treatment of different concentrations (0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 mM) of zinc alone decreased the shoot length and number of leaves and regulated the activities of enzymes and protein content of plants. However, seed-presoaking with 28-HBL improved the growth and stimulated the activities of antioxidative enzymes and protein content in leaves of B. juncea plants thus indicating the stress-ameliorative properties of 28-HBL. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Optimal Decentralized Coordination of Sources in Islanded and Grid-connected Microgrids

Rising climate change concerns in recent years have instigated the emergence of sustainable sources to reduce dependence on high-emission, isolated bulk generation systems. The microgrid framework relies on integrating these distributed energy resources (DERs) to achieve regional energy independence that leads to a reliable and environment-friendly power grid. In this work, highly granular and decentralized coordination schemes are proposed that will enable fast computation of source dispatch set-points, thereby appropriately accounting for frequent changes in regional load-supply configuration of a microgrid. The mathematical models utilized in the study sufficiently represent the steady-state electrical interdependencies and feasibility limits in islanded or grid-connected operation modes. Applying alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, the coordination process is transformed into a decentralized multi-agent problem involving minimal information exchange between subsystems. To overcome non-convexities typically present in optimization problem of microgrids, the two distinct convex relaxation techniques utilized are: 1) Linearization and 2) S-procedure. In separate coordination schemes, the former lends the advantage of extremely fast computation speed, while the latter exploits the hidden convexity in the decomposed coordination problem to deliver solutions with superior feasibility guarantee. Finally, the convergence, feasibility and scalability of the proposed coordination techniques are assessed with simulation studies performed on realistic microgrid parameters and several IEEE test systems.
Embedded Controller Integrated Into a WSN for Control Motor Speed Using WiFi Network

A method to monitoring the torque and efficiency in induction motor in real time by employing wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In Industries most of the mechanical works are done by motors among them 90% are induction motors. A controller unit (stellaries) is employed for acquiring electrical signals from the motor in a non invasive manner, and then performing local processing for torque and efficiency estimation. These values are calculated by the controller unit which are transmitted to a monitoring unit through a WiFi based WSN. At the base unit, various motors can be monitored in real time.
Dynamic Asset Allocation with Commodities and Stochastic Interest Rates

This research aims at finding an explicit investment policy with hedged variations of mixed bond-stock-commodity dynamic portfolio problems under a simple interest rate model and mean-reverting commodity prices. The findings suggest that the optimal allocation to a zero-coupon bond and a commodity is a combination of speculative terms and hedge terms as protection of change in interest rates and change in commodity market price of risk, respectively. The allocation to stocks, however, depends only on the speculative portfolio as there is no need for risk protection. The policy recommends a negative relationship between risk-aversion factor and riskier assets, stocks and commodities, while it proposes a positive relationship to that of zero-coupon bonds. This is consistent with the professional advice that investors who can tolerate more risk should invest more in riskier assets such as stocks and commodities. The paper also finds inverse relationships between commodity prices and positions in the stock and the commodity but no conclusions can be made regarding the direction of zero-coupon bond investment from a rise in commodity prices. The welfare loss due to neglect in commodity investment is also solved in explicit form. Nonetheless, the result should be verified with numerical examples so that one can determine how a bond-stock-commodity portfolio differs from a pure bond and stock portfolio.
Implementasi Web Scraping dan Text Mining untuk Akuisisi dan Kategorisasi Informasi Laman Web

A huge amount of information throughout internet gives a lot of benefits. On the other hand, it can also cause a phenomenon called information overload. Information overload can be defined as a difficulty faced by the human to process information due to the amount of information they accept. This phenomenon can occur on a lot of aspects in life. One of them is hydroponic procedures. Hydroponic is one of many farming methods that nowadays is widely adopted by citizens especially those who have no background as a farmer due to its portability and convenience. On the internet, citizens can find a lot of web pages about hydroponic, hence they have to provide much time to filter all of them in order to obtain complete and accurate information. Thus, this experiment is aimed to implement two techniques named web scraping combined with text mining. Web scraping technique was used to acquire the information from web pages on the internet, whereas text mining was used to categorize the information based on its topic. As a result, a significant number of web pages about hydroponic were successfully acquired and automatically categorized into several topics.
Black Bear Mark-Recapture Study Using Remote Cameras

The number of encounters between black bears (Ursus americanus) and people is increasing in Connecticut. This increase necessitates management planning, which cannot occur until the actual population size of black bears has been determined. A markrecapture study may be useful; however, current research suggests that bears may become either trap happy or trap shy, which can skew population estimates. One approach to produce a more efficient population estimate is to use different modes of capture for the first and second sampling. For this study I used Moultrie Feeders Game Cam II cameras as the mode of “recapture” of bears that had been trapped for the first sampling. I collected 124 black bear photographs; ninety-six percent (119/124) were usable photos (bears could be identified as either tagged or not tagged). These numbers were inserted into the Peterson estimate to determine an estimate of the total population of black bears in my study area. In order to determine whether multiple sampling of some individuals but not others biased the results, I compared three methods of estimating population size that differ in the number of multiple samples. These methods were compared to the estimate produced by DEP trapping efforts for the summer of 2003. After comparing the state trapping data with the number of photographs of marked and unmarked bears caught in the second capture using the cameras as the mode
The Human Being in Need of Nursing Care-Patient , Customer or Fellow Human Being ?

Background: There is a trend to replace ́the term ́patient ́ wi h new terms, which describe different aspects inherent in being a human being in need of nursing care, but little attention has been given to the co nnection between the use of terminology and ethical values. Aim: To investigate the terms carers use when referring to the human beings in care, including their underl ying meaning in relation to a culture’s ethical values. Methodology: Data were collected through an electronic questionn aire sent to all staff at eight selected units at a hospital in western Finland. Data were analysed u sing descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis. Results: Half (52.6 %) of the carers used the term ‘patient ’, one-fifth (21.1 %) ‘customer’ and a quarter (26. 3 %) both; ‘fellow human being’ was also used. A sign ificant correlation was seen between participants’ work units and the terms used. ‘Patient’ was associated with people in need of care, care setting, traditio ns and context and was linked to values such as responsibi lity, dignity, freedom, dependency and uniqueness. ‘Customer’ was associated with healthy human beings and service facility and was linked to equality, r ights and self-determination. Conclusion: An asymmetrical relationship exists between carers and the vulnerable, suffering human being in a care culture and a symmetrical relationship between carers and the active and decisive customer in a s ervice culture. The simultaneous existence of two cultures with different ethical values influences care and can lead to feelings of uncertainty or mistrust amongst those i n care.