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Risk-Limiting Unit Commitment in Smart Grid With Intelligent Periphery

This paper proposes the risk-limiting unit commitment (RLUC) as the operational method to address the uncertainties in the smart grid with intelligent periphery (GRIP). Three key requirements are identified for the RLUC in GRIP. The first one requires the RLUC to be modeled as a multistage multiperiod unit commitment problem considering power trades, operational constraints, and operational risks. The second one requires the RLUC considering the conditional prediction to achieve a globally optimal solution. It is addressed by using conditional probability in a scenario-based form. The last one requires the risk index in the RLUC to be both valid and computationally friendly, and it is tackled by the utilization of a coherent risk index and the mathematical proof of a risk chain theorem. Finally, the comprehensive RLUC in GRIP satisfying all the three requirements is solved by an equivalent transformation into a mixed integer piecewise linear programming problem. Case studies on a nine-bus system, a realistic provincial power system, and a regional power grid in China demonstrate the advantages of the proposed RLUC in GRIP.
Optimal Control of Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Replenishment Intervals

We consider a single-item, periodic-review, serial inventory/production system, with linear inventory-holding and penalty costs. To facilitate shipment consolidation and capacity planning, we assume that the system has implemented fixed replenishment intervals; each stage is allowed to order only at given equidistant times. Further, for each stage except the most downstream one, the replenishment interval is assumed to be an integer multiple of the replenishment interval of the next downstream stage. This reflects the fact that the further upstream in a supply chain, the higher setup times and costs tend to be, and thus larger batches are desired. Our model with fixed replenishment intervals is a direct generalization of the serial model of Clark and Scarf (1960). For this generalized model, we prove the optimality of base-stock policies, we derive newsboy equations for the optimal base-stock levels, and we describe an efficient exact solution procedure for the case with mixed Erlang demands. Finally, we present extensions to assembly systems and to systems with a modified fill-rate constraint instead of backorder costs.
Glycopeptidolipids: Immuno‐modulators in greasy mycobacterial cell envelope

Species of opportunistic mycobacteria are the major causative agent for disseminating pulmonary infections in immuno‐compromised individuals. These naturally resistant strains recruit a unique type of glycolipid known as glycopeptidolipids (GPLs), noncovalently attached to the outer surface of their thick lipid rich cell envelope. Species specific GPLs constitute the chemical determinants of most nontuberculous mycobacterial serotypes, and their absence from the cell surface confers altered colony morphology, hydrophobicity, and inability to grow as biofilms. The objective of this review is to present a comprehensive account and highlight the renewed interest on this much neglected group of pleiotropic molecules with respect to their structural diversity and biosynthesis. In addition, the role of GPLs in mycobacterial survival, both intracellular and in the environment is also discussed. It also explores the possibility of identifying new targets for intervening Mycobacterium avium complex‐related infections. These antigenic molecules have been considered to play a pivotal role in immune suppression and can also induce various cytokine mediated innate immune responses, the molecular mechanism of which remains obscure. © 2012 IUBMB IUBMB Life, 2012
Design and fabrication of a dual electrically small MIMO antenna system for 4G terminals

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology will be used by fourth generation mobile networks (also called Long Term Evolution — LTE) to achieve very high data rates in both the uplink and downlink channels. MIMO is based on the use of multiple antenna systems within the mobile terminal as well as the base station. Such antenna systems are required to fit within the hand-held (mobile) terminal which occupies a small size (typically not more than 60 × 100 mm2). Antenna integration and miniaturization are two major challenges. We propose an electrically small antenna (ESA) that is based on the meander antenna structure that operates in the 800 MHz band of LTE and 3G cellular standards. The antenna has a measured center frequency of 897 MHz, bandwidth of 185 MHz and total size of 23.5 × 43 mm2. In addition, we present the design of a dual element MIMO antenna system based on the ESA antenna designed. The dual element MIMO antenna system covers the bands from 760–886 MHz and occupies an area of 40 × 50 mm2. Both simulation and experiment results from the fabricated antennas are presented.
Constructions of dignity: a pre-requisite for flourishing in the workplace?

AIMS To explore the relationship between nurses' understanding of dignity and how it is enhanced and developed in their practice environment. BACKGROUND Dignity is a ubiquitous concept in an era of healthcare reform yet is referred to almost exclusively in terms of the quality of care delivered to support the experience of the patient rather than the caregivers engaged in the relationships of care. This article focuses on dignity in the professional life of nurses in aged care. METHOD This is part of a doctoral study of the implementation of a palliative approach in residential aged care using emancipatory practice development methodology. Constructions of dignity were co-created with participants through creative reflective activities and subsequently analysed using reflexive methods and data from other sources within the study. RESULTS Constructions of dignity and subsequent actions taken by nurses on their own behalf to articulate their experiences of transforming practice are interconnected with dignity enhancing relationships and emancipatory ways of working in practice development. CONCLUSIONS Dignity enhancing ways of working in an active learning group and workplace have been interlinked with actions that promote person-centredness in developing a palliative approach to care.
A Style Control Technique for HMM-Based Expressive Speech Synthesis

This paper describes a technique for controlling the degree of expressivity of a desired emotional expression and/or speaking style of synthesized speech in an HMM-based speech synthesis framework. With this technique, multiple emotional expressions and speaking styles of speech are modeled in a single model by using a multiple-regression hidden semi-Markov model (MRHSMM). A set of control parameters, called the style vector, is defined, and each speech synthesis unit is modeled by using the MRHSMM, in which mean parameters of the state output and duration distributions are expressed by multiple-regression of the style vector. In the synthesis stage, the mean parameters of the synthesis units are modified by transforming an arbitrarily given style vector that corresponds to a point in a low-dimensional space, called style space, each of whose coordinates represents a certain specific speaking style or emotion of speech. The results of subjective evaluation tests show that style and its intensity can be controlled by changing the style vector.
Increased numbers of macrophages in tracheal aspirates in premature infants with funisitis

Background: Funisitis is a manifestation of the fetal inflammatory response syndrome, and intrauterine inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of lung injury in premature infants. The aim of the present paper was to examine the relationship between funisitis and lung injury in premature infants born at <28 weeks gestation. The present study focuses on the number of macrophages in tracheobronchial aspirate fluid (TAF).
EFFECT OF A DEFINED LACTO‐OVO‐VEGETARIAN DIET AND ORAL CREATINE MONOHYDRATE SUPPLEMENTATION ON PLASMA CREATINE CONCENTRATION

This study examined the effects that preceding creatine supplementation with a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet would have on plasma creatine concentration. Twenty-six healthy moderately fit omnivorous men were assigned to either a 26-day lacto-ovo-vegetarian (LOV; n = 12) or omnivorous (Omni; n = 14) diet. On day 22, subjects were also assigned in a double-blind manner either creatine monohydrate (CM; 0.3 g·kg-1·day-1 + 20 g Polycose) or an equivalent dose of placebo (PL) for 5 days. Blood samples were taken on days 1, 22 and 27. Consuming a LOV diet for 21 days was effective in reducing plasma creatine concentration (p < 0.01) in the LOV group. Regardless of diet, the CM group showed an increase in plasma creatine concentrations from day 22 to 27, whereas the PL group's levels remained the same (p < 0.05). Although the LOV diet caused a deprivation effect in plasma creatine concentration relative to the Omni diet, concurrent supplementation with creatine resulted in no difference in plasma creatine concentrations between the LOV and Omni diet groups. Dietary advice should be provided to LOV athletes that supplementation with creatine may help to increase their muscle stores of creatine, and thus their ATP resynthesis capabilities, to levels similar to those of omnivores.
Architecture for Supervised Autonomous Classification and Prioritization of Targets for SAFT

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Transactivation via the human glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor by therapeutically used steroids in CV-1 cells: a comparison of their glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid properties.

BACKGROUND Glucocorticoids (GCs) are commonly used for long-term medication in immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory therapy. However, the data describing gluco- and mineralo-corticoid (MC) properties of widely applied synthetic GCs are often based on diverse clinical observations and on a variety of in vitro tests under various conditions, which makes a quantitative comparison questionable. METHOD We compared MC and GC properties of different steroids, often used in clinical practice, in the same in vitro test system (luciferase transactivation assay in CV-1 cells transfected with either hMR or hGRalpha expression vectors) complemented by a system to test the steroid binding affinities at the hMR (protein expression in T7-coupled rabbit reticulocyte lysate). RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS While the potency of a GC is increased by an 11-hydroxy group, both its potency and its selectivity are increased by the Delta1-dehydro-configuration and a hydrophobic residue in position 16 (16-methylene, 16alpha-methyl or 16beta-methyl group). Almost ideal GCs in terms of missing MC effects, as defined by our in vitro assay, are therefore prednylidene, budesonide, beclomethasone and betamethasone.The MC potency of a steroid is increased by a 9alpha- or a 6alpha-fluoro substituent. A hydrophilic substituent in position 16 (like 16-hydroxylation in triamcinolone) decreases both MC and GC properties. As no substituent that leads to an isolated reduction of GC activity could be characterized in our experiments, 9alpha-fluorocortisol, the most frequently used steroid for MC substitution, seems to be the best choice of available steroids for this purpose.
Why should we use adaptive control?

The “folklore” of adaptive control is based on the assumption that the adaptive feedback system will deliver better performance for plants with uncertain parameters. There are dozens of books and hundreds of papers devoted to the design and evaluation of adaptive control systems using a great variety of assumptions, theories, architectures and methodologies (see refs. [1] and [2] for a brief survey). However, the hoped-for performance improvements are invariably demonstrated by simulations and, in very rare cases, real applications.
Molecular Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease in Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Abstract Improvement of transplantation strategies and a multitude of emerging novel therapies result in a better treatment outcome in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). This gives rise to the need for sensitive methods to detect minimal residual disease (MRD) in MM. Qualitative molecular monitoring using allele-specific oligonucleotide PCR for the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) is well established to detect clonotypic cells after therapy or in stem cell harvests. Recently, real-time IgH PCR or limiting dilution based PCR assays offer the possibility to quantify the amount of residual tumour cells. In this review, different qualitative and quantitative IgH PCR techniques will be discussed as well as the current clinical role of molecular monitoring of MRD in patients with MM.
Software Penetration Testing

Quality assurance and testing organizations are tasked with the broad objective of assuring that a software application fulfills its functional business requirements. Such testing most often involves running a series of dynamic functional tests to ensure proper implementation of the application's features. However, because security is not a feature or even a set of features, security testing doesn't directly fit into this paradigm
Predicting Sexual Orientation based on Facebook Status

Do people with different sexual orientations express themselves differently on social media? This paper presents an exploratory study for predicting the sexual orientation of a Facebook user using text features extracted from their status updates. We examine which types of features are most informative for a reliable prediction of sexual orientation in the social media setting, and we explore the performance of different models such as SVM, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression and Random Forest. Our result shows that there are distinctions in the ways people with different sexual orientations express themselves, and that male homosexuals are slightly more likely to talk in a effeminate manner. Keywords—Sexual Orientation, Facebook, Status updates, Logistic Regression, Multinomial Naive Bayes, Random Forest, SVM, ROC
Word2net: Deep Representations of Language

Word embeddings extract semantic features of words from large datasets of text. Most embedding methods rely on a log-bilinear model to predict the occurrence of a word in a context of other words. Here we propose word2net, a method that replaces their linear parametrization with neural networks. For each term in the vocabulary, word2net posits a neural network that takes the context as input and outputs a probability of occurrence. Further, word2net can use the hierarchical organization of its word networks to incorporate additional meta-data, such as syntactic features, into the embedding model. For example, we show how to share parameters across word networks to develop an embedding model that includes part-of-speech information. We study word2net with two datasets, a collection of Wikipedia articles and a corpus of U.S. Senate speeches. Quantitatively, we found that word2net outperforms popular embedding methods on predicting held- out words and that sharing parameters based on part of speech further boosts performance. Qualitatively, word2net learns interpretable semantic representations and, compared to vector-based methods, better incorporates syntactic information.
Economic Evaluation of the DiAMOND Randomized Trial: Cost and Outcomes of 2 Decision Aids for Mode of Delivery among Women with a Previous Cesarean Section

Background. Maternal preferences should be considered in decisions about mode of delivery following a previous cesarean, but risks and benefits are unclear. Decision aids can help decision making, although few studies have assessed costs in conjunction with effectiveness. Objective. Economic evaluation of 2 decision aids for women with 1 previous cesarean. Design. Cost-consequences analysis. Materials and Methods. Data sources were self-reported resource use and outcome and published national unit costs. The target population was women with 1 previous cesarean. The time horizon was 37 weeks’ gestation and 6 weeks postnatal. The perspective was health care delivery system. The interventions were usual care, usual care plus an information program, and usual care plus a decision analysis program. The outcome measures were costs to the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK), score on the Decisional Conflict Scale, and mode of delivery. Results of Main Analysis. Cost of delivery represented 84% of the total cost; mode of delivery was the most important determinant of cost differences across the groups. Mean (SD) total cost per mother and baby: 2033 (677) for usual care, 2069 (738) for information program, and 2019 (741) for decision analysis program. Decision aids reduced decisional conflict. Women using the decision analysis program had fewest cesarean deliveries. Results of Sensitivity Analysis. Applying a cost premium to emergency cesareans over electives had little effect on group comparisons. Conclusions were unaffected. Limitations. Disparity in timing of outcomes and costs, data completeness, and quality. Conclusions. Decision aids can reduce decisional conflict in women with a previous cesarean section when deciding on mode of delivery. The information program could be implemented at no extra cost to the NHS. The decision analysis program might reduce the rate of cesarean sections without any increase in costs
We Know Your Preferences in New Cities: Mining and Modeling the Behavior of Travelers

The trend of globalization motivates people to travel more often to different cities. In order to provide better suggestions for travelers, it is important to understand their preferences for venue types. In this article, we investigate travelers' preferences based on the check-in data collected from a popular location-based social application called Swarm. We conduct a thorough analysis of the check-in data to discover the variation in travelers' preferences between cities with different characteristics, and to build a model for predicting the venue types of travelers' interests in each city. Our experimental results demonstrate that the F1-score increases by 0.19 when taking into account the characteristics of the destination city. Moreover, our approach outperforms collaborative filtering, a widely used approach to the design of recommendation systems.
A Guidance System for Wide-area Complex Disaster Evacuation based on Ant Colony Optimization

This paper reports the results of applying our approach discovering safe evacuation routes to practical situations. Our approach is based on the ant colony optimization (ACO) and it is practical in the light of a real case with a tsunami. ACO have been often employed for finding evacuation routes in traditional approaches, which only take advantage of ants behavior more frequently following traces of other antsâ through pheromone communications. We assume that there are a lot of danger zones in the damaged area. For example Rikuzentakata is a city that extensively damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. In such a case, the traditional approaches may present some unsafe routes through the danger zones. We have proposed an ACO based approach that calculates evacuation routes avoiding danger zones. In our approach, evacuees can deposit deodorant pheromone around danger zones, which makes normal pheromone ineffective, so that our approach gives routes not passing through the danger zones. We have implemented our approach as a simulator, conducting experiments in the same situation as the Rikuzentakata case. Through the results of the experiments, we show that our approach decreases the number of people suffering from collapsed and burning buildings.
Moderation of Age, Sex, and Ethnicity on Psychosocial Predictors of Increased Exercise and Improved Eating

ABSTRACT Although research indicates that treatment-induced improvements in self-regulation, mood, and self-efficacy significantly predict increased exercise and improved eating, moderation by participants’ personal characteristics is largely unknown. Severely obese adults (N = 414; 47% White, 53% African American) volunteered for a behavioral exercise and nutrition treatment and demonstrated significant within-group improvements in self-efficacy for exercise, self-regulation for exercise, mood, self-efficacy for controlled eating, self-regulation for controlled eating, exercise volume, and fruit and vegetable intake over 26 weeks. After testing age, sex, and race/ethnicity as possible moderators of the prediction of changes in exercise volume and fruit and vegetable consumption by changes in self-regulation, mood, and self-efficacy, only age significantly moderated change in volume of exercise. Implications for theory and treatment were discussed.
Occurrences of eggs and larvae of gastrointestinal nematodes in nails of street inhabitants in Dhaka City

This study was carried out during the months of May and August, 2008 to determine the prevalence of eggs and larvae of gastrointestinal nematodes in nails of children, mother, venders and rickshaw pullers in Dhaka city. Out of 120 individuals, 77 were infected with different nematodes and the prevalence was 64.16%. Ascaris lumbricoides infestation was positive for 39 persons (50.65%), Trichuris trichiura for 18 (23.37%) and Ancylostoma duodenale for 20 (25.97%). Prevalence of nematode parasites in left hand of children in the age group 2-4 years had the highest prevalence (80%) in comparison with the left hand of the rickshaw pullers (75.75%). The highest infection was 80% among the people who used to wash their hands with only water after defaecation, 72.22% who washed their hands with soil and water, and only 12.5% who washed with soap and water. It was also found that 61 peoples did not cut their nails regularly and the infection rate was 79.22%. On the other hand, those who cut their nails regularly, the infection rate were 37.20%. A higher rate of infestation was thus found to be associated with poor socioeconomic conditions, poor sanitation, poor ecological conditions, general ignorance, unawareness of personal hygiene and miscellaneous bad habits. Key words: Gastrointestinal nematodes; eggs and larvae; nails; street inhabitants; Dhaka City. DOI: 10.3329/jles.v5i0. 7354 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol. 5: 75-79, 2010
New construction of solvable lattice models including an Ising model in a field.

In this Letter we report a new construction to obtain restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) models out of loop models. The method is a generalization of ideas developed by Owczarek and Baxter, and by Pasquier. In particular we consider a solvable O(n) model and point out that some of the RSOS models thus obtained admit an off-critical extension. Among these models we find a spin-1 Ising model, which is solvable not only at the critical point, but also in a fieldlike deviation away from it. We calculate the critical exponent \ensuremath{\delta}=15 directly from the relation between the free energy and the field. This is the first determination of this exponent without the use of scaling relations.