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Assessing design information quality in the construction industry: Evidence from building information modeling

The objective of the undertaken study is to assess the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and evaluate the quality of information on construction projects. The paper also focuses on examining the design information quality on construction projects by applying BIM based on perceived variables, for instance, improve workflow, improve collaboration, design visualization, lower cost, environmental impact analysis, and variations. The first objective was to evaluate the impact of building information modeling on perceived variables such as improve workflow, improve collaboration, design visualization, lower cost, environmental impact analysis, and variations. We also evaluated the impact of these six constitutes of BIM, for instance, improve workflow, improve collaboration, design visualization, lower cost, environmental impact analysis, and variations on reducing design information problem. Finally, we have evaluated the mediating impact of improve workflow, improve collaboration, design visualization, lower cost, environmental impact analysis, and variations between building information modeling and reducing design information problems. In the last, we also examined the impact of BIM on reducing design information problems. In this context, the closed-ended five-point Likert scale adapted questionnaire was distributed among construction professionals, and data were analyzed through structural equation modeling and multivariate techniques using statistical software. The findings demonstrated that BIM has a significant & positive impact on its six constitutes. Additionally, we examined these constitutes such as improve workflow, improve collaboration, design visualization, lower cost, environmental impact analysis, and variations have a significant impact on reducing design information problems. The results also significantly contributed to the fact that BIM has a significant impact on reducing design information problems, ultimately playing a pivotal role in assessing design information quality on projects.
Critical technologies in Russia: identification and implementation

Lists of S&T priorities and critical technologies have been compiled in Russia since 1996 as a management tool for innovation development process. They are regularly updated, and in 2011, a new list consisting of 6 priorities and 27 critical technologies was approved. The article analyses the approaches to setting up and adjustment of critical technologies lists, including a detailed description of applied methodology and expert procedures. Special attention is paid to consistency between this research and other long-term S&T foresight activities. Also highlighted are such issues as practical application of highpriority and critical technologies and the prospects for the establishment of a system for monitoring this process. The article was written in the framework of The Basic Research Program of the Higher School of Economics in 2012.
Synthesis of ZnO nanowires for thin film network transistors

Zinc oxide nanowire networks are attractive as alternatives to organic and amorphous semiconductors due to their wide bandgap, flexibility and transparency. We demonstrate the fabrication of thin film transistors (TFT)s which utilize ZnO nanowires as the semiconducting channel. These thin film transistors can be transparent and flexible and processed at low temperatures on to a variety of substrates. The nanowire networks are created using a simple contact transfer method that is easily scalable. Apparent nanowire network mobility values can be as high as 3.8 cm2/Vs (effective thin film mobility: 0.03 cm2/Vs) in devices with 20μm channel lengths and ON/OFF ratios of up to 104.
The Impact of Marcellus Gas Development on the Rural Transportation Infrastructure

Deterioration was observed to occur in the wearing surfaces, decks, and parapets for all seven of the structures inspected. To date, little to no deck condition change was observed compared to the reviewed inspection reports. However, the oldest bridge in this study was noted to be carrying the highest volume of Gas Play truck traffic and manifested some structural deterioration that was not included in the most recent Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) inspection survey. This involved the bridge’s superstructure and substructure showing sagging bridge beams. For all other bridges, an increase in traffic as a result of the Gas Play was not shown to significantly change the condition of the superstructure or substructure in the bridges. Bridge 4 received extensive rehabilitation in 2009. After the one-year interval that followed, this study found deterioration to the wearing surface, parapets, and approach slab. All roadways had varying amounts of cracking regardless of Gas Play traffic activity, which generally increased with increased truck traffic. Rutting significantly increased as Gas Play activity increased and was the most common form of deterioration encountered. Secondary and municipal roads have experienced significant deterioration due to the enhanced heavy truck traffic. Full-depth reclamation is being employed as a cost-effective rehabilitation methodology by the gas companies. Reconstruction of dirt and gravel municipal roads has commonly been undertaken without the benefit of good design guidelines. To address this shortcoming, the authors developed and presented a simplified design methodology for the reconstruction of this class of roads. The enhanced heavy truck traffic has a weak correlation to increased severity of traffic accidents. Limited data and lack of a good baseline for comparison limit the strength of associated observations. Focus on the direct impact of drilling (e.g., archaeological survey) on cultural resources, while important, doesn’t address important down-the-line impacts. As roads are rebuilt and improved, historic and prehistoric survey is critical but there are not specific resources and staff available for these issues. Local heritage leaders are currently bearing the full weight of the new issues associated with Marcellus development. Creating resources for local and regional leaders is important, so that they can develop long-term planning strategies for cultural resource management and preservation.
Comparative Antimicrobial Analysis of Chitosan Nanoparticles With Gentamicin And Chloramphenicol

Chitosan has attained increasing commercial interest as suitable resource materials due to their excellent properties including biocompatibility, biodegradability, adsorption and ability to form films and to chelate metal ions. Antibiotics resistance has become rampant and nanoparticles are increasingly used to target microorganisms as an alternative to antibiotics. The research was conducted to produce and synthesize nanoparticles using the extract of chitosan and test the antimicrobial activity against some selected bacteria. Chitosan was produced by demineralization, deproteinization and deacetylation of oyster shell. The silver nanoparticle was synthesized from Chitosan and screened for in vitro antimicrobial activity against selected bacteria using agar well diffusion method. Synthesized nanoparticles were characterized using UV-VIS spectrophotometry, FTIR spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy. Chitosan nanoparticles showed some inhibiting properties against the growth of most of the organisms tested (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhi). Most of the isolates were inhibited by both extracts. The positive control which was chloramphenicol and gentamycin inhibited the growth of all organisms except Salmonella typhi.
Research on the Cutoff Tumor Size of Omitting Radiotherapy after Breast Conserving Therapy in Women Aged 65 Years or Oder with Low-risk Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Results Based on the SEER Database

Background Radiotherapy (RT) after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) is not always necessary in older women staged T1N0M0 with low-risk invasive breast cancer, but few studies have concluded the detailed tumor size as a reference for avoiding RT. We aimed to explore and identify the cutoff tumor size for patients aged 65 or older with T1N0M0 stage and estrogen receptor positive (ER+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive (HER2-) breast cancer after BCT. Methods The study population was from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database in 2010 to 2016. Prognostic predictors associated with surgery were used by Kaplan–Meier analysis, X-tile analysis, competing risk model, Fine and Gray multivariable regression model, and propensity score matching (PSM) analysis. Results A total of 52049 women and 3846 deaths were included in the unmatched cohort, of which 11.93% (459/3846) were breast cancer-specific death (BCSD), and 88.07% (3387/3846) were other cause-specific death (OCSD), with a median follow-up of 34 months. Based on the cutoff value of 14 mm determined by X-tile analysis, the study population were divided into small tumor group (tumor ≤ 14 mm in diameter) and large tumor group (tumor ≥ 15 mm in diameter). Subjects in small tumor group and large tumor with RT (large tumor & RT) subgroup tended to have significantly lower cumulative BCSD (Gray’s test, P < 0.001) and OCSD (Gray’s test, P < 0.001) than those in large tumor with no RT (large tumor & non-RT) subgroup, regardless of before or after PSM analysis. In competing risk regression mode analysis, patients in the large tumor group had worse prognosis in BCSD (HR: 2.091, 95% CI 1.730–2.527, P < 0.001) than the small tumor group, even after the application of PSM (HR: 2.024, 95% CI 1.587–2.583, P < 0.001). Conclusion Our study demonstrated that small tumors (tumor ≤ 14 mm in diameter) were associated with better overall survival (OS), BCSD and OCSD, and radiotherapy might be omitted for patients aged 65 or older with T1N0M0 stage, ER + and HER2- small breast tumors after BCT.
Market places and the city : mutualistic symbiosis for a sustainable development

The purpose of this paper is first, to describe the role of market places in a Swedish context, second, to investigate how could market places catalyze sustainable development in a city located in a Swedish context, and third to analyze which are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats involved, that could facilitate or obstruct the influence of market places in the process of sustainable development in the context of a city in the Swedish context.As some municipalities already started to do in the European context, market halls can be restored or some new ones can be built as vibrant centres of activity, which would complement the city centre and along with other facilities become one of the hot-spots on a city’s or town’s map as scholars point out. Constantly reinventing themselves, market places still keep some of their initial features that generated sustainable design through history. Nowadays, apart from market places for food, new types of markets appear on the niche, but which, as the old market places, generate sustainable development in the city in a different interpretation.Reviewing the literature will provide a base for the research which will be further tested using a case-study strategy to answer the research question: How can market places catalyze sustainable development in a mutualistic symbiosis with the city in a Swedish context? In biology, when being in a symbiotic mutualistic relationship, two organisms of different species co-exist, each benefiting from the activity of the other (Reese, 2013: 190). The market place and the city could develop a symbiotic relationship, in which, both influence mutually towards a sustainable outcome.After the research identifies and tests how could market places influence the four spheres of sustainable development in the city, a SWOT analysis is conducted to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that could facilitate or obstruct the influence of market places in the process of sustainable development in a city.The research will be relevant by adding to the previous studies, offering an understanding on how market places could influence in this manner and adding to the gap identified in the literature.The research was carried out using semi-structured and unstructured interviews, observation and secondary data sources.
Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach for Ages 7 to 18

Part I. Tactical Games Teaching Chapter 1. Tactical Games Explanation and Review Chapter 3. Preparing Students for a Tactical Games Approach Chapter 5. Tactical Games Curriculum Model Part II. Lesson Plans for a Tactical Games Approach Chapter 7. Invasion Games at the Elementary Level Chapter 9. Striking and Fielding Games at the Elementary Level Part III. Lesson Plans for Tactical Games Teaching at the Secondary Level Chapter 11. Soccer Chapter 14. Rugby Chapter 18. Tennis Chapter 20. Cricket Chapter 21. Golf.
Development of frequency converters with extended functionalities in periodically poled silica fibres

The centrosymmetry of amorphous silica can be broken through the technique of thermal poling, whereby the application of an electric field at elevated temperatures introduces an effective second-order nonlinearity. Quasi-phase-matching is realised through periodic ultra-violet erasure of the uniformly induced nonlinearity. A truly all-fibre laser system operating in the visible was envisioned to replace the crystalline frequency doublers currently employed. Despite the lower second-order-nonlinearity in poled silica fibres, the longer interaction length for comparable acceptance bandwidths, the higher damage threshold and straightforward integration makes them a very attractive substitute. In this thesis, the routes taken to induce the maximum possible nonlinearity and the optimisation of the quasi-phase-matching technique to achieve the highest possible normalised conversion efficiency are reported. Periodic ultra-violet erasure for quasi-phase-matching allows scalability to longer interaction lengths in comparison to the photolithography technique previously employed. Further circular twin-hole fibres can be used instead of D-shaped fibres. A greater than 16 times improvement in the normalised conversion efficiency over previous results was obtained through the enhancement of key parameters of interaction length, stability and reproducibility. An average conversion efficiency of ~15% was demonstrated in a ~32cm long periodically poled fibre using a fibre laser source with just ~200W of peak power. The functionalities of all-fibre frequency converters have been extended to include broadband wavelength tunability of 45nm and chirped period poling for precise control of the acceptance bandwidth.
Immunologic Improvement of Vaccine for Newcastle Disease via Co-Inoculation of Cattle Transfer Factor in Broilers

Background: Transfer factors (TFs), a novel immunostimulatory reagent, have found use as auxiliary or primary therapy for many diseases. The aim of this study was to explore whether TFs are able to strengthen immune responses of Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccines in broilers.Results: The serum antioxidant status was increased in TF-treatment broilers. TF subcutaneous injection could significantly increase (P < 0.5) the antibody titers at 14 and 21 days of the experiment. Moreover, TF treatment increased development of organs of the immune system, such as spleen, thymus, and bursa of Fabricius through inhibition of apoptosis and promotion of proliferation. Cellular immune responses were found to have higher levels in the groups with TF co-inoculation compared to those groups only treated with the ND vaccine, showing phenomena of higher expressions of interleukin (IL)-2, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and interferon (IFN)-γ mRNA in the thymus, spleen, and bursa of Fabricius. Moreover, the immunostimulatory effect of TF subcutaneous injection treatment is better than oral and intramuscular injection.Conclusion: our findings suggest that TF treatment can improve antioxidant status and strengthen immune responses to ND vaccine, including antibody production and cellular immunity (lymphocytes proliferation and cytokines production) of the broilers, and the subcutaneous injection of TF is the appropriate inoculation way. Thus, TFs are a potent adjuvant and can serve as a medicine for immunoregulation.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IC CARD TICKETS IN JAPAN

Japan's largest passenger railway company, JR East, has been using its integrated circuit (IC) card ticket system, Super Urban Intelligent Card (SUICA), since November 2001. Today, more than 8 million passengers are holding Suica cards. The article reviews the JR East initiative of developing and introducing magnetic card ticket system that enables users to make transfers from rail to bus without having to purchase individual tickets each time they travel.
A study of aero engine fan flutter at high rotational speeds using holographic interferometry

Aero-elastic instability is often a constraint on the design of modern high by-pass rat.io aero engines. Unstalled supersonic flutter is an instability which can be encountered in shrouded fans, in which mechanical vibrations give rise to unsteady aerodynamic forces which couple further energy into the mechanical vibration. This phenomenon is particularly sensitive to the deflection shape of the mechanical vibration, A detailed measurement of the vibrational deflection shape of a test fan undergoing supersonic unstalled flutter was sought by the author. This measurement was required in order to assess the current theoretical understanding and modelling of unstalled fan flutter, The suitability of alternative techniques for this measurement was assessed, Pulsed holographic interferometry was considered optimum for this study because of its full field capability, large range of sensitivity, high spatial resolution and good accuracy. A double pulsed holographic system, employing a rnirror~Abbe image rotator, was built specifically for this study, The mirror-Abbe unit was employed to rotate the illuminating beam and derotate the light returned from the rotating fan. This therefore maintained correlation between the two resultant holographic images. The holographic system was used to obtain good quality interferograms of the 0.86m diameter test fan when rotating at speeds just under 10 000rpm and undergoing unstalled flutter. The resultant interferograms were analysed to give the flutter deflection shape of the fan. The study of the fan in flutter was complemented by measurement of the test fan's vibrational characteristics under non-rotating conditions. The resultant experimental data were in agreement with the current theoretical understanding of supersonic unstalled fan flutter. Many of the assumptions employed in flutter prediction by calculation of unsteady work were experimentally verified, The deflection shapes of the test fan under non-rotating and flutter conditions were compared with those predicted by a finite element model of the structure and reasonably good agreement was obtained.
Analyzing the Effects of Intrauterine Hypoxia on Gene Expression in Oocytes of Rat Offspring by Single Cell Transcriptome Sequencing

Intrauterine hypoxia is one of the most frequently occurring complications during pregnancy, and the effects of antenatal hypoxia in offspring are not restricted to the perinatal period. Previous studies have reported on this phenomenon, which is usually described as multigenerational or transgenerational inheritance. However, the exact mechanism of this type of inheritance is still not clear. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the alteration in the gene expression of oocytes, derived from intrauterine hypoxia rats and their offspring, by transcriptome sequencing. Our results showed that 11 differentially expressed genes were inherited from the F1 to F2 generation. Interestingly, these differentially expressed genes were enriched in processes predominantly involved in lipid and insulin metabolism. Overall, our data indicated that alteration in the gene expression of oocytes may be associated with some metabolic diseases and could potentially be the basis of transgenerational or multigenerational inheritance, induced by an adverse perinatal environment.
DNA barcoding and nutritional analysis as a tool for promoting the market of inland fish species

The increasing world market demand for seafood requires an expansion of product categories available to consumers. Inland fish are usually considered having unmarked taste and are less appreciated by consumers; thus, they have low commercial value. Therefore, the marketing of the lake’s fresh and processed fish is limited to the local market and consumers are currently uninformed and mistrustful about these species. In this study, six different fish species were caught in the Fondi lake (Lazio, central Italy): Anguilla anguilla, Tinca tinca, Carassius gibelio, Cyprinus carpio, Micropterus salmoides, Chelon ramada. All the samples were subjected to nutritional and DNA barcoding analysis. Moisture, protein, fat, carbohydrates, ash, and sodium content were measured. As regards the fatty acids profile, the most abundant were MUFAs with the highest value in Anguilla anguilla (45.97%). Oleic acid (C18: 1 n9 cis) was particularly high in Cyprinus carpio (55.46%). The fraction of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) revealed a higher DHA content (C22: 6 n3) in Anguilla anguilla than the other species (>12 %) while Chelon ramada presented both higher EPA content (C 20: 5 n3) and total fraction of omega 3 PUFAs. Concerning molecular analysis, a 655 bp fragment of cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (COI) gene was successfully used for the identification at the species level using both BOLD and BLAST public databases. The present study gives the basis for improving the knowledge and promoting inland fish’ market and traceability along the supply chain.
Optimal Placement of Metal Foils in Ultrasonic Consolidation Process

Ultrasonic Consolidation is a combination of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes resulting in considerable material waste. This waste is a function of the geometry of the part being manufactured and of the relative placement of the layer with respect to the metal bands. Thus the waste may be minimized by careful choice of the layer angle and offset from the original position. Previous work done in this field had developed an automated algorithm which optimally places and orients the individual slices of the STL file of the artifact being manufactured. However, the problem was solved on a 2-D scale and the 3D nature of the part was not considered for the development of the algorithm. The earlier algorithm employed approximation on the input data to minimize the computational expense. This resulted in convergence of the optimizer to suboptimal solutions. Further, as the final part is made of anisotropic material the relative angles and overlap between subsequent layers also plays an important role in the final part strength. Finally, it is noted that the build time required for the ultrasonic consolidation process is a function of the number of bands required to form each slice.