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INMATE-Innovation Management Technique: An Innovation Management Tool with Emphasis on IT-Information Technology

The main objective of this paper is to present an innovative tool for innovation management with emphasis to the information technology-IT management called INMATEInnovation Management Technique. In order to arrive at this tool an analysis on the current market tools was conducted. This analysis observed that none of the existent tools gives the due importance to the role of information technology-IT for the innovation process. In this way, the paper presents a brief discussion of two of these market tools: an international, called TEMAGUIDE, and a Brazilian, called NUGIN. Then the paper introduces the INMATE tool with its main dimensions. Next, the paper gives detailed account on how the IT management is dealt inside INMATE, which is done via the concept of Enterprise Architecture, a concept from the Computing Science and Engineering. From this concept the paper presents a methodology, in an analogy to the Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm (that is traditionally used on the empirical market analysis), which identifies the firm according to three linear connected approaches: its architecture, its governance, and its growth strategy.
A Fast Medical Image Super Resolution Method Based on Deep Learning Network

Low-resolution medical images can hamper medical diagnosis seriously, especially in the analysis of retina images and specifically for the detection of macula fovea. Therefore, improving the quality of medical images and speeding up their reconstruction is particularly important for expert diagnosis. To deal with this engineering problem, our paper presents a fast medical image super-resolution (FMISR) method whereby the three hidden layers to complete feature extraction is as same as the super resolution convolution neural network. It is important that a well-designed deep learning network processes images in the low resolution instead of the high-resolution space and enables the super-resolution reconstruction to be more efficient. Sub-pixel convolution layer addition and mini-network substitution in the hidden layers are critical for improving the image reconstruction speed. While the hidden layers are proposed for ensuring reconstruction quality, our FMISR framework performs significantly faster and produces a higher resolution images. As such, the technique underlying this framework presents a high potential in retinal macular examination as it provides a good platform for the segmentation of retinal images.
The effect of barley cultivar on in vitro digestibility and rumen degradability of NDF

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of winter, spring, and naked barley cultivars on in vitro true digestibility (IVTD) and NDF degradability in the rumen determined by the in situ method. Differences in IVTD and effective rumen degradability (ERD) of NDF between barley cultivars were revealed. The highest IVTD and ERDNDF values were found for naked-, and the lowest, for winter cultivars. It is recommended to use the different nutritive values of each barley type (winter, spring, naked) in feeding tables instead of one common value.
Genetic Polymorphism of Five STR Markers among Four Groups of Punjabi Population in North-West Punjab, India

Abstract Historically, Punjab has served a major passage way for human migration to Indian subcontinent and has influenced the genetic structure of extant populations in Punjab. Therefore, Punjabi population possesses an exclusive genetic profile primarily due to the many migratory events in this region which caused an extensive range of genetic diversity. Hence, the present study is an attempt to understand the effect of these influences on genetic differentiation, diversity and population structure of Punjab. Genetic polymorphism at five highly polymorphic short tandem repeat loci (STR) is studied in four endogamous population groups of Punjab, India. The studied groups included Jat Sikh, Majbi Sikh, Brahmin and Ramdasia to evaluate their significance in human identification and genetic study. All selected groups practice endogamy and a total of 358 individuals belonging to these four endogamous groups were studied for five highly polymorphic with greater power of exclusion STR loci: THO1, TPOX, D7S820, CSF1PO and vWA. The highest observed heterozygosity was found in Ramdasia population for almost all the markers except vWA which had highest observed heterozygosity among Majbi Sikh population group. In this study, the average sub-ethnic differentiation (Fst) among the four populations of north-west Punjab was 0.0821. The marker with the highest contribution to interpopulation genetic difference was observed to be vWA.
An Image Scrambling Encryption Algorithm

This paper presents an algorithm that changes the pixel position and the size of pixel values of digital images on the basis of Logistic system, using simple divisibility and XOR operation. The algorithm successfully encrypts the image. Experiments show that the algorithm is simple, crack the secret key space is large, very high security, and can resist a variety of attacks, with excellent practicality.
Studies on seed and forage yield in 10 populations of sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa) grown as spaced plants and swards

In order to study seed and dry matter (DM) yield and relationships between yield and morphological traits, 10 populations of sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), were assessed in two separate experiments under sward and spaced plant conditions using complete block design with two replications, in Karaj, Iran, during 2004-2007. The data were collected for seed yield, DM yield, plant height, stem number per m 2 , flowering date, inflorescences length and 1000-grain weight. The data were analyzed for individual experiment and combined over two experiments. Results showed significant differences among populations for all of traits except 1000-grain weight in sward and DM yield and stem number in spaced plants. Results of combined analysis showed no significant differences among 2 conditions for both seed and DM yield. However, the average values of 7.3 and 6.2 ton ha -1 DM yield and 337 and 375 kg ha -1 seed yield were obtained for sward and spaced plants, respectively. Results showed that, populations of Shahrkord and Kashan with average values of 8.08 and 8.06 ton ha -1 DM yield and Shahrkord with average values 551 kg ha -1 seed yield had higher production under sward conditions. For spaced plants, Orumieh and Bijar with average values of 7.98 and 7.67 ton ha -1 DM yield and Bijar and Esfahan with average values of 510 kg ha -1 seed yield had higher production. Therefore, the populations of Shahrkord and Bijar were introduced as the best ones for both DM and seed production under swards and spaced plants, respectively. DM yield was positively correlated with seed yield, plant height, stem number and inflorescences length,while seed yield had positive and significant relationships with 1000-grain weight, plant height, stem number and inflorescences length. The relationship between spaced plants and swards as measured by phenotypic correlation was poor for all traits except 1000-grain weight. This suggests that response to selection based on spaced plant data would not be reflected in swards, so, for all characters selection should be based on sward yield.
INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE BENEFITS OF CONTROL: CROSS-SECTIONAL AND TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

The 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and more recent corporate scandals in the U.S. have triggered growing attention of researchers and policy makers on the agency problem between controlling shareholders and minority investors. One respect of this problem is private benefits of control. In this paper, we extend the findings in Dyck and Zingales (2004) and show that the degree of investor protection still matters in curbing private control benefits for the period 1999–2007. More importantly, we find that private benefits of control have decreased significantly over time. Finally, our analyses show weak evidence of differential decreases in the value of control between weak and strong investor protection countries.
Everything through Email

Email serves as an information conduit — acting as a delivery channel for different types of information, including documents, slide, contact information, and schedules. Its use as a conduit naturally leads to its being used for key PIM functions. People use their inboxes as to-do lists to manage current tasks, their email folders as a repository for archival information, and their email address books to find contacts. They even use email to find and schedule calendar appointments. Despite its success, there are significant problems with email. This chapter will illustrate how many of email's PIM problems stem from its conduit function. It discusses how people use email to manage their personal information and describes the tools that can support such behavior. We look at important aspects of PIM through the lens of email: allocating attention, deciding actions, managing tasks, and organizing messages into folders.
The Japanese Economic Model (JEM)

In this paper, we set out the Japanese Economic Model (JEM), a large-scale macroeconomic model of the Japanese economy. Although the JEM is a theoretical model designed with a view to overcoming the Lucas ( 1976) critique of traditional large-scale macroeconomic models, it can also be used for both projection and simulation analysis. This is achieved by embedding a mechanism within which "short-run dynamics," basically captured by a vector autoregression model, eventually converge to a "short-run equilibrium," which is defined using a dynamic general equilibrium-type model.
Corporate Leadership and the Myth of the Incompetent Malay Chief Executive Officers: Evidence from the Malaysian General Insurance Industry

ABSTRACT The dearth of Malaysian based literature on leadership In general, and corporate leadership in particular suggests that Malaysian scholars and investors are yet to be sensitized to the importance of leadership as a determinant of organizational outcomes. Arguably, this inattention helps perpetuate many unhealthy myths about corporate leadership. Notable among these myths, is that of the incompetent Malay managers. In examining the myth, this study takes a quantitative perspective of an otherwise "qualitative'" subject. Using emprical eVidence from the general insurance industry, this study demonstrates that Malay chief executive officers (CEOS) , despite the myth and market perceptions, do not affect corporate performance any differently than non-Malay CEOs. ABSTRAK Ketandusan hasil ilmiah Malaysia berkenaan dengan kepimpinan pada amnya, dan kepimpinan korporat khususnya membayangkan bahawa para ilmuan dan pelabur Malaysia masih belum lagl prihatin akan pentingnya kepimpinan sebagai satu penentu hasil sesebuah organisasi. Bolehlah didebatkan bahawa ketidakpekaan ini telah memanjangkan hayat banyak mitos yang tidak sihat tentang kepimpinan korporat. Di antara metos yang menonjol ialah yang bersangkut dengan ketidakcekapan pengurus-pengurus Melayu. Dalam meneliti metos ini, kajian ini mengambil perspektif kuantitatif terhadap satu subjek yang lazimnya "kualitatif' Dengan menggunakan penemuan empirik dan Industri Insurans am, kajian ini membuktikan bahawa ketua eksekutif Melayu, walau pun dimetoskan dan dianggap sebaliknya oleh pasaran, tidaklah membawa kesan korporat yang berbeza dengan ketua eksekutif bukan Melayu.
ULTRA THIN IMPACT IONIZATION MOSFET (UTIMOS) FOR REDUCED OPERATING VOLTAGES

Impact Ionization MOSFET (IMOS), is a device that has led to the revolution in super steep sub threshold slope devices. It has resolved one of the most critical and fundamental problem of sub-threshold slope (SS) which cannot be lower than 60 mV/decade at room temperature for conventional MOSFET. An IMOS device working is based on the avalanche breakdown mechanism. In this paper, we have proposed ultra thin impact ionization MOSFET (UTIMOS) as an improved structural variant of the lateral impact ionization MOSFET (LIMOS). UTIMOS is having very much lower breakdown voltage hence its operating voltage is reduced to a great extent. Simulation results claims that ultra thin impact ionization MOSFET has much better device performance parameters as compared with the lateral impact ionization MOSFET. The intensified electric field in vertical direction due to smaller thickness of device silicon layer TSi is the key feature of the UTIMOS. Simulation results show the sub-threshold slope SS to be 1.37 mV/dec for proposed UTIMOS. It shows considerable improvement in other device performance parameters also.
Research on extraction of ultrasonic signal features of heat transfer fouling

Fouling in heat exchange leads to the decrease of heat exchange efficiency and potential safety hazards in the heat exchange process. When using ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry to detect fouling in small-diameter heat exchange tubes, the problems of signal aliasing and noise interference will occur. The above problems, this paper with the method of particle swarm optimization combined with matching pursuit of ultrasound probe received signal sparse decomposition, and matching degree of its signal sparse decomposition atomic library is studied in detail, the influence of construction mode of atom library on signal sparse feature extraction results is analyzed through finite element simulation signal of heat transfer fouling. In this paper, the effect of sparse decomposition feature extraction is examined by reconstructing the heat exchange tube fouling detection signal to verify that the adopted sparse decomposition method has good signal processing capability.
Controlling factors in planktonic communities over a salinity gradient in high-altitude lakes

This study aimed to determine the factors affecting plankton structure along a salinity gradient during the summer in high-altitude endorheic lakes in Catamarca Province (Argentina). During the summer 2013, eight lakes located between 3000 and 4300 meters above sea level were sampled in a 6-day period being analysed plankton, limnological variables and flamingo abundance. Principal Component Analysis explained 80% of the system variability, permitting lakes to be ordered by salinity: subhaline (SH), hypohaline (HH) and mesohaline (MH). A total of 101 phytoplankton taxa were registered, having Bacillariophyceae the highest richness (43 species registered). HH lakes were dominated by Bacillariophyceae (between 65 and 100%), while Chlorophyceae and Euglenophyceae were more abundant in SH and MH lakes. Zooplankton was poorly represented in richness (only 21 species were registered). MH lakes were dominated by Copepoda (>85% of total abundance) and HH lakes by Rotifera (>51% of total abundance). It was not found a clear pattern in SH lakes. The redundancy analysis explained 70.7% of phytoplankton variability and 75.7% of zooplankton variability. Bacillariophyceae presence was associated with availability of dissolved silica (Si), while Euglenophyceae and Chlorophyceae were associated with a higher nitrogen:phosphorus ratio. Cladocera and Copepoda abundance were linked to Euglenophyceae abundance and the area of lakes while Rotifera displayed a positive relation with the concentration of dissolved organic matter. We conclude that both phytoplankton and zooplankton abundance are mainly controlled by Bottom-Up forces including dissolved Si for Bacillariophyceae, and availability of Euglenophyceae for zooplankton while salinity and altitude have an effect on plankton richness distribution.
Investigation of subclinical mastitis cases in GCSAR Damascus goats from Humeimeh research station.

The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of California mastitis test, electrical conductivity measurement and lactose content as markers for subclinical-intramammary infection (IMI) in goats. It was performed at Humeimeh research station for Damascus goats, General commission for scientific agricultural research (GCSAR) from February to march 2011 and done on dairy goats aged 2 to 6 years. Milk samples were taken from 134 dairy goats during morning milking according to habitual procedure and screened for evidence of subclinical mastitis by California Mastitis Test (CMT), electrical conductivity measurement (EC) and lactose content (LC) of milk. Positive (+1 to +3) CMT and/or high electrical conductivity milk samples were subjected to bacteriological examination to distinguish between healthy (absence of mastitis agents) and infected (presence of contagious or environmental mastitis agents). The overall prevalence of subclinical mastitis was found to be 24.6%. Percentage of positive (+1 to +3), suspected and negative CMT reactions were 76.85, 8.95 and 14.2%, respectively. The values of electrical conductivity for negative, suspected and positive (+1, +2 and +3) CMT milk samples were 3.93 ± 0.64, 4.47 ± 0.61, 4.68 ± 0.72, 4.81 ± 0.76 and 6.56 ± 0.85 ms/cm, respectively. T-test has been shown statistical differences in California mastitis test reactions and electrical conductivity readings, and not statistically for milk lactose content, between positive and negative results for bacterial growth. Intramammary infection was found in 40.9% milk samples caused by Staphylococcus (75%), alone E. coli (16.6%) or associated with streptococci (8.3%). Correlation coefficient between CMT reactions with electrical conductivity readings was R = 0.494. Higher coefficient correlation for electrical conductivity measurement and Kappa agreement index (R = 0.491 and 0.42 respectively) with positive bacterial growth milk samples than for CMT (R = 0.35 and 0.12 respectively) make the electrical conductivity measurement more compatible with the results of bacteriological analysis than CMT despite a slight increase of CMT sensitivity, and reduced number of real negative cases.
Broadband Dual-Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna with High Isolation

In this paper, a wideband dual-polarized stacked patch antenna at S-band with high port isolation is presented. By adopting the structure of H-shaped coupling slots placed in “T” configuration, the proposed antenna achieves dual polarizations and high port isolation, and the impedance bandwidth is significantly enhanced by the use of stacked structure. The antenna is designed, fabricated and measured. The measured return loss exhibits an impedance bandwidth (S11 < -10 dB) of over 31% at both ports. The isolation between two ports is better than 40 dB and cross-polarization discriminations in both E and H planes are better than 21 dB within the forward half-space over the entire band. Introduction Dual-polarized antennas have been widely used in modern wireless communication systems for their ability to mitigate the multipath fading problem and increase channel capacity by polarization diversity. Microstrip antennas are an attractive option due to their advantages, such as low profile, low cost and being easy to fabricate. To meet the dual-polarized system requirements on port isolation, cross-polarization level and bandwidth, various kinds of dual-polarized patch antennas have been developed [1]. As the isolation between two orthogonal polarization ports plays a vital role, substantial efforts have been made to improve it. The methods could be using slot-coupled feed [2], hybrid feeds [3], dual-feed for single port [4], dual capacitive feeds with open-circuited microstrip stubs [5] or slot loaded technique [6] and so on. In this paper, a dual-polarized stacked microstrip patch antenna using H-shaped coupling slots in “T” configuration is presented. The proposed antenna achieves high port isolation and low cross-polarization level. A parametric analysis of the impendence matching and isolation is performed. Experimental result shows good agreement with simulation. Both theoretical and experimental results are presented and discussed. Antenna Design and Parametric Analysis The configuration of the proposed dual-polarized slot-coupled antenna is shown in Fig. 1. The antenna consists of three dielectric substrate layers 1, 2, and 3, and one air layer. The upper circular patch is printed on the back of substrate 1. The lower circular patch is printed on substrate 2. An air layer separates the two patches, for the purpose of 288 Advances in Computer Science Research (ACRS), volume 54 International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Technology (CNCT2016)
Aggregate Earnings Inequality in Europe: Permanent Differences or Transitory Fluctuations?

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate inequality and its underlying components for a number of European countries. We use a well established GMM approach to separate the permanent component from the transitory component of earnings inequality. Our results show that three quarters of the observed cross-country differences in aggregate inequality in Europe is accounted for by differences in permanent inequality, reflecting differences in individual characteristics that persist throughout the life-cycle.
PROFILE OF EXOANTIGENS FROM CLINICAL ISOLATES OF Paracoccidioides lutzii IN MATO GROSSO , BRAZIL

The objective of this study was to determine the immunochemical profile of three exoantigen preparations obtained from clinical samples of Paracoccidioides lutzii from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The exoantigens were prepared according to a protocol standardized by Camargo et al. and their immunochemical profiles were analyzed using SDS-PAGE. The observed protein bands exhibited molecular weights of 20, 30, and 130 kDa. The 130 kDa glycoprotein was detected in all three preparations. The detection of this high-molecular-weight protein suggests a distinct immunochemical profile. These differences may help to explain the false negative reactions obtained when using the antigen from P. brasiliensis reference strain B-339. This information is essential for increasing the specificity of serological tests used to monitor the prognosis of patients with paracoccidioidomycosis.
Catalytic Steam and Autothermal Reforming of Used Lubricating Oil (ULO) over Rh- and Ni-Based Catalysts

The steam reforming of used lubricating oil (ULO) over Ni- and Rh-based catalysts supported by Ce-ZrO2 and Al2O3 is studied in the present work. Among all catalysts, Rh/Ce-ZrO2 (5 wt % Rh) provides relatively higher reforming reactivity (in terms of ULO conversion and H2 yield) with excellent resistance toward carbon deposition compared to the other three catalysts. At 850 °C after exposure in the steam reforming condition for 72 h, H2 yield of 78.1% can be achieved from the reaction over Rh/Ce-ZrO2. For Ni/Ce-ZrO2 and Ni/Al2O3, significant deactivations with time are detected and H2 yields of 55.3−58.7% are achieved after exposure for 72 h; in addition, considerable amounts of C2H4, C2H6 and C3H6 are also found in the product along with H2, CO, CO2, and CH4. The effect of O2 addition was further studied over Ni/Ce-ZrO2 and Ni/Al2O3. It was found that this addition significantly reduces the degree of carbon deposition as well as promoting the conversion of hydrocarbons to CO and H2. At a suitable amount o.