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THE ANALYSIS OF NONSTATIONARITY OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION BY PHASE DIFFERENCES

Fourier phase differences of earthquake motions are investigated by deriving the relationship between the phase differences and the envelope function of narrow band components containing a certain frequency of the Fourier spectra. By making use of the relationship, it is verified that the probability distribution of phase differences is closely related to the envelope of earthquake motion. The relationship is also used to analyze the nonstationary frequency content of recorded accelerograms, the result of which is compared with evolutionary spectra. It is concluded that the phase differences are useful to evaluate the nonstationary frequency content of earthquake motions. It is suggested that the concept is also useful for the simulation of earthquake motions.
Evaluation of Antagonistic Action of Corn Silk Extract Towards Various Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens

Corn silk (stigma of female flower) is widely exploited for medicinal purposes against various pathogenic microorganisms. The present investigation was carried out to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of corn silk. In this regard, antifungal and antibacterial assays of corn silk extract prepared using microwave assisted method were carried out. The results revealed that corn silk extract possessed better antibacterial potential than antifungal potential. The antifungal assays showed similar results in comparison to positive controls. The antibacterial assays revealed that the plant extract was able to retard the growth of gram positive bacteria better than gram negative bacteria. Highest inhibition zones were observed in case of gram positive bacteria. The free radical scavenging activity of corn silk extract was 50.58% which indicated low phenolics content. The qualitative analysis of the aqueous ethanolic corn silk extract showed positive results for the presence of flavonoids and phenolics.
Design Level Class Decomposition using the Threshold-based Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

—Refactoring activity is essential to maintain the quality of a software’s internal structure. It decays as the impact of software changes and evolution. Class decomposition is one of the refactoring processes in maintaining internal quality. Mostly, the refactoring process is done at the level of source code. Shifting from source code level to design level is necessary as a quick step to refactoring and close to the requirement. The design artifact has a higher abstraction level than the source code and has limited information. The challenge is to define new metrics needed in class decomposition using the design artifact's information. Syntactic and semantic information from the design artifact provides valuable data for the decomposition process. Class decomposition can be done at the level of design artifact (class diagram) using syntactic and semantic information. The dynamic threshold-based Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering produces a more specific cluster that is considered to produce a single responsibility class.
Type-II Compensation for Automotive Buck Converters Implemented by Fully Integrated Capacitor Multiplier

This paper presents a solution for full integration of a Type-II compensation circuit for DC-DC buck converters. It employs a novel active circuit based on capacitor multiplier, able to emulate the R-series-C ensemble within the conventional Gm-RC compensation network. The proposed solution was used to design a current-mode DC-DC buck converter for automotive applications. The implementation of key circuits in a 180 nm CMOS process is presented in some detail. Simulation results demonstrate that the converter meets all design requirements: it provides a 5 V output voltage over wide ranges of the input voltage, 6 V to 45 V, and load current, between 10 mA and 300 mA. Its frequency and transient responses compare well against the performance of a similar converter that employs a conventional Gm-RC compensation circuit. It consumes 20 $\mu \text{A}$ more, but requires significantly less die area, than its counterpart. Furthermore, the tuning required to compensate for process and temperature variations is realized by programming the multiplication factor of the capacitor multiplier.
Chronic Effects of Foam Rolling on Flexibility and Performance: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

The purpose of this study is to review the existing literature on chronic effects of foam rolling (FR) on flexibility and performance. Electronic databases were searched during January 2022 for topics related to FR. Included studies met the following criteria: (a) peer-reviewed articles written in English; (b) FR intervention of at least four weeks; (c) non-motorized FR device during intervention; (d) randomized controlled trial with existence of a control group; and (e) any lower body parameter related to flexibility, recovery, and performance. Nine studies met that criteria. Results revealed that chronic FR demonstrated conflicting results for improvement of flexibility. On the other hand, a majority of the articles in this review showed no beneficial effects of FR on performance. Lastly, the effect of FR on recovery is unclear. These findings suggest the need for further studies to establish the consensus about the long-term application of FR in flexibility, recovery, and performance.
Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction (The Delphi Report)

The eighties witnessed a growing accord that the heart of education lies exactly where traditional advocates of a liberal education always said it was-in the processes of inquiry, learning and thinking rather than in the accumulation of disjointed skills and senescent information. By the decade's end the movement to infuse the K-12 and post-secondary curricula with critical thinking (CT) had gained remarkable momentum. This success also raised vexing questions: What exactly are those skills and dispositions which characterize CT? What are some effective ways to teach CT? And how can CT, particularly if it becomes a campus-wide, district-wide or statewide requirement, be assessed? When asked by the individual professor or teacher seeking to introduce CT into her own classroom, such questions are difficult enough. But they take on social, fiscal, and political dimensions when asked by campus curriculum committees, school district offices, boards of education, and the educational testing and publishing industries. Given the central role played by philosophers in articulating the value, both individual and social, of CT, in analyzing the concept of CT, in designing college level academic programs in CT, and in assisting with efforts to introduce CT into the K-12 curriculum, it is little wonder that the American Philosophical Association, through its Committee on Pre-College Philosophy, took great interest in the CT movement and its impact on the profession. In December of 1987 that committee asked this investigator to make a systematic inquiry into the current state of CT and CT assessment. We understand critical thinking to be purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based. CT is essential as a tool of inquiry. As such, CT is a liberating force in education and a powerful resource in one's personal and civic life. While not synonymous with good thinking, CT is a pervasive and self-rectifying human phenomenon. The ideal critical thinker is habitually inquisitive, well-informed, trustful of reason, open-minded, flexible, fair-minded in evaluation, honest in facing personal biases, prudent in making judgments, willing to reconsider, clear about issues, orderly in complex matters, diligent in seeking relevant information, reasonable in the selection of criteria, focused in inquiry, and persistent in seeking results which are as precise as the subject and the circumstances of inquiry permit. Thus, educating good critical thinkers means working toward this ideal. …
Market share-prices versus their fundamental values: the case of the New York stock exchange

ABSTRACT The accounting valuation model suggests that the differences between predicted, and market shares-prices are considered as valuation errors while the finance valuation approach proposes that these differences are due to the sentiment of investors. In this paper, we use a new version of the residual income valuation model using American data to calculate the fundamental value of a stock and then examine whether price deviations from their fundamental values are due to macroeconomic or psychological factors. The results show that these differences are explained by important macroeconomic and psychological variables.
Assessement of Debris Flow Influence on the Lattice Type Debris Flow Against Construction

In the work is purpose lattice type debris flow against construction built on the depreciation principle, on which implemented theoretical research for assessement of debris flow influence. As a result of implemented calculation, in the condition of specific assumptions, istablished number value of rectangular structure lattice elements of the operating loads of construction during of cohesive debris flow influence on the construction. Results of above calculations given basis, that purpose construction considered potentially effective debris flow against construction.
Distributed Acoustic Sensor Using a Double Sagnac Interferometer Based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing

We demonstrated a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensor based on a double Sagnac interferometer, using two wavelengths separated by CWDM modules. A mathematical model of signal formation principle, based on a shift in two signals analysis, was described and substantiated mathematically. The dependence of the sensor sensitivity on a disturbance coordinate and frequency was found and simulated, and helped determine a low sensitivity zone length and provided sensor scheme optimization. A data processing algorithm without filtering, appropriate even in case of a high system noise level, was described. An experimental study of the distributed fiber optic sensor based on a Sagnac interferometer with two wavelengths divided countering loops was carried out. An accuracy of 24 m was achieved for 25.4 km SMF sensing fiber without phase unwrapping.
Malware classification using a byte‐granularity feature based on structural entropy

Rapidly evolving malware has become a major cybersecurity threat. Several feature‐engineering techniques have been proposed to defend against malware attacks. An entropy is a typical indicator used in identifying malware. Structural entropy is a sequence of entropy values where an entropy of a segment is calculated by the equation of the entropy itself. However, entropy‐based features are likely to be abstract and miss important information. This article proposes a feature engineering technique that involves the concept of structural entropy. This technique allows every segment to be represented as 256 entropy values for every byte value, but not as an entropy value. Our research, fine‐granularity structural entropy (FiG_SE), incorporates global patterns across all segments, local patterns across adjacent segments, and internal patterns within the segments. To extract higher‐level characteristics from our entropy feature, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture because it is effective for extracting local and global patterns, and especially for shift‐invariant patterns. Our malware classification based on CNN with the proposed feature outperforms the previous classification methods that use byte streams, entropy streams, and structural‐entropy‐based streams as inputs. Moreover, our research combined with CNN is highly resilient to obfuscation techniques and is also well suited to malware detection.
Geometric Spanner in MPC Model

The importance of processing large-scale data is growing rapidly in contemporary computation. In order to design and analyze practical distributed algorithms, recently, the MPC model has been introduced as a theoretical framework. In this paper, we present the geometric spanner construction in the Massively Parallel Computing (MPC) model. Constructing θ -graph using the given ϵ , we modified distributed range tree to find the nearest point to the apex of a θ -cone efficiently and form a (1 + ϵ )-spanner in O (1) rounds and (cid:101) O ( S ) time, where S is the memory size of a single machine.
SERVICE QUALITY PROVIDED BY THE TRAVEL AGENTS: AN ASSESSMENT REPORT ON PUNJAB STATE

: Land of five rivers, Punjab is situated in the northwestern corner of the India. There are 25,000 travel agents in Punjab doing business of $ 600 million/year. Research study was aimed to gain an empirical understanding for service quality gap between expectation and perception level of customers in the service provided by travel agents. This study employed a descriptive single cross sectional design and questionnaire was considered an appropriate approach to collect the data. The sample size of 1000 was selected by convenience sampling procedure. The data were collected in the state of Punjab only. This may limit the generalizations of the research findings to the travel agents of other states of India. In totality, this study contributes for the establishment of new theories, and concepts with reasonable degree of certainty.
The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the Amount of Online Tracking

We determine whether GDPR's enforcement increased consumers' online privacy by decreasing the amount of online tracking. We exploit a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the effect of GDPR's enforcement using 718 websites visited by 5 million EU and US consumers browsing 2.6 billion web pages between April 2018 and December 2019 that target EU and non-EU audiences. We reveal that online tracking, measured by the number of tracker providers and the number of trackers, increased over time; websites that comply with GDPR use 12 tracker providers (19 trackers) on average in the post-GDPR period. Without GDPR, they would have used 13 tracker providers (21 track-ers). So, GDPR's enforcement decreased the average number of tracker providers (trackers) on each website by 1 tracker provider or -8% (2 trackers or -9%), having a minor positive impact on consumers' online privacy. We find that the enforcement of the law decreased advertising, analytics, and essential trackers on news, entertainment, and business sites – emphasizing a minor positive impact on consumers' privacy. We conclude that the GDPR's enforcement increased consumers' privacy to a small extent. But the increasing trend of the amount of online tracking after the introduction of the GDPR poses a justifiable privacy concern for consumers.
Lecture Note 12: Demographic Fairness in Advertising Auctions

This lecture note will take a look at internet advertising auctions from the perspective of demographic fairness. A serious concern with internet advertising auctions and recommender systems is that the increased ability to target users based on features could lead to harmful effects on subsets of the population, such as gender or race-based biases in the types of ads or content being shown. This lecture note will take the form of a series of case studies that we will use to then think about each issue, with some initial thoughts on how to address it. However, this lecture note will mostly be focused on identifying problems. The right way to address these problems is not necessarily understood yet.
Survey On Detection Of Disease Using Tongue Diagnosis System

—In recent years, the diseases are dominant more and more as per the diagnosing techniques are newly introduced. Various methods are used to cure a disease but the efficient and easy interpretation for diagnosing the disease is less in use. Considering the human tongue which acts as a gateway for the digestion tract and internal organs, can be treated as a diagnosing agent for a resourceful analyse of some diseases. The tongue diagnosis system acts as an effective non-intrusion method for detection of disease. This structure mainly focuses on key factors of tongue and evolution of various algorithms to produce an optimized result over the data. The main aim of this article is to provide an easy analysis of some of the features of the tongue like the colour of the tongue, shape of the tongue, colour correction over various light estimation, edge detection, water content in tongue, segmentation of tongue and coating of tongue based on fissure and fur deposits. All these components are taken into consideration by many scholars and the various data mining based algorithms are used to predict the symptoms of the disease. The regions of the tongue work as a route map for the internal organs like liver and gall bladder, the digestive system inside stomach, kidney, heart, etc. thus the analogy of all the major diseases can be predicted by the use of tongue diagnosis system.
The effect of glycerin and polyethylene glycol 400 as humectant on stability and antibacterial activity of nanosilver biosynthetic peel-off mask

The peel of sweet orange contains flavonoids and acts as a bioreducer to silver ion, thereby forming nanosilver (AgNPs) that act as an active ingredient in a peel-off mask. Meanwhile, glycerin and polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400) are humectants that are possibly combined to control viscosity and keep the skin moist. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effect of combined humectant on the stability and antibacterial activity of the AgNPs peel-off mask. The biosynthesis process was performed by mixing sweet orange peel infusion and silver nitrate solution, after which it was characterized using UV-Vis spectrophotometer, particle size analysis, and Scanning Electron Microscope. Five formulas were made with varying concentrations of humectant during the stability tests of the peel-off mask, and they include organoleptic, viscosity, pH, dry time, and antibacterial activity. Sweet orange peel infusion produces nanosilver with absorption at 440 nm and a particle size of 59.3–64.6 nm, being rod-shaped, and having a strong antibacterial activity. The result of the statistical analysis shows that glycerin-PEG 400 affects viscosity, dry time, and pH. Additionally, a combination of 0.375 and 0.125 g glycerin-PEG 400 showed the best physicochemical stability and had a moderate antibacterial activity after the cycling test compared to another formula.
Opleiding Informatica A Comparison of Breadth-First Search Implementations for Real-World Networks on a Modern GPU

The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm is often considered as the foundation for traversing and processing graph data structures, such as in network analysis. There are many diﬀerent BFS implementations which are able to exploit the parallel architecture of a graphics processing unit (GPU). In this thesis, we consider three state-of-the-art BFS implementations in which each implementation is able to exploit the parallel architecture of a modern GPU in a diﬀerent manner. We consider a range of real-world networks to investigate two research questions: which of the three state-of-the-art BFS implementations has the best overall performance and do particular characteristic network properties of real-world networks have an impact on the overall performance of the BFS implementation ? Our evaluation on a modern GPU reveals that one of the three state-of-the-art BFS implementations has a tipping point in terms of time taken to complete one BFS (running time) and Traversed Edges Per Second (TEPS) when the diameter of the networks that were used in this thesis surpasses a certain threshold. This allows us to predict to a certain extent, based on network properties, which BFS algorithm we should use to get the best overall performance.
The Role of Sesame and Rice Bran Oils in Treating of Cold Air-Induced Pneumonia in Experimental Rats The Role of Sesame and Rice Bran Oils in Treating of Cold Air-Induced Pneumonia in Experimental Rats staple food to 18:

Pneumonia means lung inflammation. It is the largest infectious reason for killing adults and children. Aim : the main purpose of this work was to investigate the role of sesame oil (SO) and rice bran oil (RBO) against pneumonia induced by exposure to the cold air and histopathology abnormalities in Waster male rats. Methods: G1: received only placebo treatment for 21 days; G 2: was exposed to low- temperature degree 4-5 °C. G3 ingested orally SO 5.0 g/ K.g. bw. G4: exposed to cold plus was given SO 5.0 g/ K.g. bw. G5: ingested orally RBO 5.0 g/ K.g. bw. G6: exposed to cold plus was given RBO 5.0 g/ K.g. bw. G7: exposed to cold plus fed the mixture of SO+ RBO 5.0 g/ K.g. bw (50% of each other). Results : the group of rats treated SO & RBO, (G3to G7) have significantly improved (p≤0.05) in feed intake, BWG %, lung wt. , HB, WBC, and glucose, compared with group 2. The results indicated the levels of C- reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1β) , interleukin-4 alpha (IL-4) and, tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) ,and IgE , were increased significantly (p≤0.05) in (G2) compared to all treated groups with SO / RBO or mixtures and histopathology supported these results . Conclusion: SO / RBO or mixtures lessen the oxidative process in blood and lung tissue, inflammation markers, cytokine, and IgE levels. So must be included in diet and processing food, especially in infants, children, and elderly persons. It May be recommended in diet the inflammatory diseases, allergy, and diabetes.
Foundation economic development for network development community tourism by linking local products and cultural capital Tak Province

--- The research effort explained the phenomenon of sustainable tourism development in Tak province of Thailand, influenced by complex variables of cultural perspective including cultural capital and community participation. The moderation role of the important factor of cultural tourism is incorporated in the study, for assessment of the relationship between exogenous and endogenous constructs. This research was conducted on tourism operators of Thailand operating in Tak province that provided their valuable concern of sustainable tourism development. The study reported an insignificant relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism development, and between community participation and sustainable tourism development. The cultural perspective significantly influences the relationship between cultural tourism and sustainable tourism development. The moderation role of cultural tourism was observed between the relationship of cultural capital and sustainable tourism development by strengthening the relationship. While no moderation was observed between community participation and sustainable tourism development. The study suggested to policymakers and government to ensure and encourage cultural development to attract international tourists. Future studies