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Adverse ffects of covert iridovirus infection on life history and demographic parameters of Aedes aegypti

Abstract Sublethal viral infections can cause changes in the body size and demography of insect vectors, with important consequences for population dynamics and the probability that individual mosquitoes will transmit disease. This study examined the effects of covert (sublethal) infection by Invertebrate iridescent virus 6 (IIV‐6) on the demography of female Aedes aegypti and the relationship between key life history parameters in covertly infected female insects compared with healthy (control) insects or non‐infected mosquitoes that had survived exposure to virus inoculum without becoming infected. Of the female mosquitoes that emerged following exposure to virus inoculum and were offered blood meals, 29% (43/150) proved positive for covert IIV‐6 infection. The net reproductive rate (R0) of covertly infected females was 50% lower for infected females compared to control mosquitoes, whereas non‐infected exposed females had an R0 approximately 15% lower than that of controls. Reproduction caused a significant decrease of about 13 days in mosquito longevity compared to females that did not reproduce (P < 0.001). Infected females lived 5–8 days less than non‐infected exposed females or controls, respectively (P = 0.028). Infected females and non‐infected exposed females both had significantly shorter wings than control insects (P < 0.001). There was a significant positive correlation between wing length and longevity in covertly infected female mosquitoes but not in control or non‐infected exposed mosquitoes. Longer lived females produced more eggs in all treatments. There were no significant correlations between body size and fecundity or the production of offspring. There was also no correlation between fecundity and fertility, suggesting that sperm inactivation was a more likely cause of decreased fertility in older mosquitoes than sperm depletion. We conclude that covert infection by iridescent virus is likely to reduce the vectorial capacity of this mosquito.
Extensional rheometry of magnetic dispersions

This work presents a technique and develops an apparatus that allows the application of homogeneous external magnetic fields (parallel or perpendicular to the deformation axis) to a fluid sample undergoing extensional flow kinematics while measuring the filament thinning using the commercial version of the capillary breakup extensional rheometer (Haake CaBER 1, Thermo Scientific). We also present innovative rheological measurements of several commercial ferrofluids (FFs) and one magnetorheological fluid (MRF) under uniaxial extensional flow. The experimental results demonstrate that FFs exhibit a Newtonian-like behavior in the absence of magnetic fields. When a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the extensional flow, no significant effects are observed similar to shear experiments. However, when the external magnetic field is aligned with the extensional flow, the filament takes longer to break up but otherwise behaves as a Newtonian fluid. In
Youth Employment Challenges & Opportunities: the Case of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has gone through a ten-year civil conflict which brought considerable destruction, on the livelihoods of many. A good percentage of the population, before the war, was composed of young men and women who provided the labour force for activities on the farms. These youth (15-35 years of age) have undergone serious transformations as a result of the civil conflict. Most of them have got themselves completely disoriented. About 60% of the countryi¯s youth are believed to be structurally unemployed. The study was aimed at assessing the main causes of youth unemployment in Sierra Leone and to develop sustainable employment strategic principles which will enhance the management of youth employment opportunities in the country. Primary data were collected through structured questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. Different reports, policy papers and publications were also reviewed. Legacy of the civil war, mismatch between the demand and supply side of labour, weak entrepreneurship services, rural to urban migration, and low level of involvement in agriculture were among the identified factors that aggravated the youth unemployment rate in the country. The study has also identified strategic directions which could help policy and decision makers in their effort for the development of the youth of the country.
The Inside Track: On the Important (But Neglected) Role of Customers in the Resource - Based View of Strategy and Firm Growth

This paper argues for the important role of customers as a source of competitive advantage and firm growth, an issue which has been largely neglected in the resource-based view of the firm. It conceptualizes Penrose’s (1959) notion of an ‘inside track’ and illustrates how in-depth knowledge about established customers combines with joint problem-solving activities and the rapid assimilation of new and previously unexploited skills and resources. It is suggested that the inside track represents a distinct and perhaps underestimated way of generating rents and securing long-term growth. This also implies that the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in important respects can be sought in idiosyncratic interfirm relationships rather than within the firm itself.
HotSniper: Sniper-Based Toolchain for Many-Core Thermal Simulations in Open Systems

This letter presents a toolchain called <italic>HotSniper</italic> developed by integrating <italic>HotSpot</italic> temperature modeling tool with <italic>Sniper</italic> many-core simulator. <italic>HotSniper</italic> allows for interval thermal simulation of many-cores, which is several times faster than the cycle-accurate many-core thermal simulations and at the same time is more accurate than trace-based many-core thermal simulations. <italic>HotSniper</italic> toolchain provides efficient means to perform thermal-aware hardware–software codesign of many-core processors in domain of embedded systems. The source code for <italic>HotSniper</italic> has been made public.
1 1 O ct 2 01 8 Delegating Quantum Computation Using Only Hash Functions

In this paper, we construct a new scheme for delegating a large circuit family, which we call ”C+P circuits”. ”C+P” circuits are the circuits composed of Toffoli gates and diagonal gates. Our scheme is non-interactive, only requires small quantum resources on the client side, and can be proved secure in the quantum random oracle model, without relying on additional assumptions, for example, the existence of fully homomorphic encryption. In practice the random oracle can be replaced by an appropriate hash functions, for example, SHA-3, AES. This protocol allows a client to delegate the most expensive part of some quantum algorithms, for example, Shor’s algorithm. The previous protocols that are powerful enough to delegate Shor’s algorithm require either many rounds of interaction or the existence of FHE. The quantum resources required by the client are fewer than when it runs Shor’s algorithm locally. Different from many previous protocols, our scheme is not based on quantum one time pad, but on a new encoding called ”entanglement encoding”. We then generalize the garbled circuit to reversible garbled circuit to allow computation on this encoding. To prove the security of this protocol, we study key dependent message(KDM) security in the quantum random oracle model. Then as a natural generalization, we define and study quantum KDM security. KDM security was not previously studied in quantum settings.
Geometric Model for Human Body Orientation Classification

This paper proposes an approach for cal- culating and estimating human body orientation using geometric model. A novel framework integrating gradient shape and texture model of the human body orientation is proposed. The gradient is a natural way for describing the human shapes, while the texture explains the body characteristic. The framework is then combined with the random forest classifier to obtain a robust class differ- ence of the human body orientation. Experiments and comparison results are provided to show the advantages of our system over state-of-the-art. For both modeled and un-modeled gradient-texture features with random forest classifier, they achieve the highest accuracy on separating each human orientation class, respectively 56.9% and 67.3% for TUD-Stadtmitte dataset.
Two-User Multicast Networks with Variable-Length Limited Feedback

Two-User Multicast Networks with Variable-Length Limited Feedback Xiaoyi (Leo) Liu, Erdem Koyuncu, and Hamid Jafarkhani, Fellow, IEEE Abstract We investigate the channel quantization problem for two-user multicast networks where the trans- mitter is equipped with multiple antennas and either receiver is equipped with only a single antenna. Our goal is to design a global quantizer to minimize the outage probability. It is known that any fixed-length quantizer with a finite-cardinality codebook cannot achieve the same minimum outage probability as the case where all nodes in the network know perfect channel state information (CSI). To achieve the minimum outage probability, we propose a variable-length global quantizer that knows perfect CSI and sends quantized CSI to the transmitter and receivers. With a random infinite-cardinality codebook, we prove that the proposed quantizer is able to achieve the minimum outage probability with a low average feedback rate. Numerical simulations also validate our theoretical analysis. Keywords multicast, variable-length quantizer, outage probability, limited feedback I. I NTRODUCTION It is known that using more than one antenna at the transmitters can greatly improve the performance of communication systems. However, the performance depends on the availability of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters and receivers [1], [2]. Receivers can obtain CSI through training sequences; however, the transmitters must rely on the feedback information from receivers to do so. Additionally, perfect CSI at the transmitters requires an “infinite” number This work was supported in part by the NSF Award CCF-1218771. X. Liu, E. Koyuncu and H. Jafarkhani are with the center for pervasive communications & computing, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697−2625 USA (Email: {xiaoyil3, ekoyuncu, hamidj}@uci.edu).
Enhancing Image Steganography Methods by using New Secret Message Encoding Technique based on Pigpen Cipher (Pigpen Encoding)

Steganography is one of the important information hiding techniques which hides the existence of the message in the cover file. By using steganography, secret messages can be hidden in carriers such as images, audio files, text files and videos. Many different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency on the internet. Steganography is used to conceal the information so that no one can sense its existence. In this paper the performance of hiding image technique will be enhanced by modifying the secret message itself not the technique of embedding. That is by using a new encoding technique based on the Pigpen cipher that will represent the secret message characters by two decimal digits only not three decimal digits as ASCII encoding. So, it can save one third of the required space for embedding the message in an image.
The Sixth Sense of an Air Traffic Controller

The project Sixth Sense postulates that the users body language is different at “good” and “bad” decisions. Therefore, in Sixth Sense we are looking for patterns or hidden data signs that allow us to detect moments of bad and good decisions that could be incorporated in an automated system in order to detect and eventually predict the next actions of a user. In our case the user is an Air Traffic Controller (ATCO). Specifically, we intend to analyse the correlation between the change in the ATCO’s behaviour expressed through his body language and the quality of his/her decision. For that, an experiment was set up to collect, explore and analyse data about the user behaviour. The results of our work may be used for early warnings for upcoming“bad” situations or decision aids for ATCOs.
Human Action Recognition Using Fusion of Modern Deep Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks

This paper studies the application of modern deep convolutional and recurrent neural networks to video classification, specifically human action recognition. Multi-stream architecture, which uses the ideas of representation learning to extract embeddings of multimodal features, is proposed. It is based on 2D convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and the fusion model receives a video embedding as input. Thus, the classification is performed based on this compact representation of spatial, temporal and audio information. The proposed architecture achieves 93.1 % accuracy on UCF101, which is better than the results obtained with the models that have a similar architecture, and also produces representations which can be used by other models as features; anomaly detection using autoencoders is proposed as an example of this.
GUI Testing On Android Application

As Android phones is been used widely for different types of applications. But the people who stay in rural areas do not afford the high range mobile phones which support all the functionality. In this application system implementing Marathi/Hindi support for all versions (especially for older version). In this application system have provided with Hindi/Marathi keypad for messenger as well as dialler instead of 1, 2 and 3, a, b, c. It will reflect in Marathi/Hindi. As we know that in regular android phones we cannot make a call on just looking to a photo of dialler, but in this application system can have a look on photo to whom the number belong and can make a call on a single click without having the knowledge of the user phone number. System developed a new application called as N-indicator that is Nashik indicator, it will contain all the information of train routes, bus routes with it is fare, auto rates with it fare, visitor's place, hotels with its fare.
In Vivo Gene Transfer in the Female Bovine: Potential Applications for Biomedical Research in Reproductive Sciences

Gene transfer technology is an invaluable research tool to study gene function and its regulation. In vitro transfer of exogenous nucleic acids into mammalian cells has been of pivotal importance for the characterization of gene functions (Hampton & Kinnaird, 2010). Likewise, in vivo transfer of functionally active foreign genes into target mammalian somatic tissues or organs has played a critical role in the development of effective gene therapy strategies (Yang, 1992) that has escalated into clinical application for the therapeutic treatment of inherited and acquired diseases (Mountain, 2000). In addition, the genetic engineering of model organisms became possible (Niemann & Kues, 2003). Most of the gene transfer research has been conducted on several non-reproductive topics including blood diseases (Nienhuis, 2008), neurological dysfunctions (Manfredsson & Mandel, 2010), cancer (Pei et al., 2010), lung diseases (Geiger et al., 2010), bone healing (Evans, 2010), skin diseases (Long et al., 2009) and heart failure (Poller et al., 2010). To a lesser extent gene transfer research in gynecological diseases (Raki et al., 2006; Hassan et al., 2009) and reproductive medicine (Stribley et al., 2002; Daftary & Taylor, 2003; Yoshimura et al., 2010) has been undertaken using the mouse as model species. Although the mouse model possesses several advantages (e.g. short generation interval, large litter size), some large animals (e.g. nonhuman primates, dogs, pigs, sheep, cattle and horses) are considered relevant model species in biomedical research. For instance, pig and sheep species have been used as models for cardiovascular disease (Ishii et al., 2006), wound repair (Graham et al., 2000), respiratory disease (Scheerlinck et al., 2008), cancer (Du et al., 2007), diabetes (Dyson et al., 2006), ophthalmological disorders (Klassen et al., 2008) and neurological dysfunctions (Kragh et al., 2009). The physiology, organ size, genome organization, life span and pathology of farm animal species reflect the human situation much better than rodent models (Casal & Haskins 2006; Habermann et al., 2007; Jacobsen et al., 2010; Muschler et al., 2010). Implementation of in vivo gene transfer technology in relevant large animal models is pivotal to elucidate molecular pathways involved in reproductive processes such as ovarian
Genetic diversity of NRAMP1 3’-UTR microsatellite in cattle breeds reared in Sardinia

Abstract The aim of this study was to compare the allele frequency of 3'-UTR NRAMP1 (Natural Resistance-Associated Macrophage Protein) microsatellite between local and specialized dairy cattle breeds reared in Sardinia, Italy. Blood samples were collected and DNA was extracted from 97 Sarda, 55 Italian Brown and 36 Italian Friesian cattle and analysed by means of PCR and PCR-SSCP. On the whole, three alleles were found, GT13, GT14, and GT15. GT13 showed the highest frequency in all the breeds: 0.874 in the Sarda, 0.973 in the Italian Brown and 1 in the Italian Friesian. For the Sarda, both GT14 and GT15 showed a frequency of 0.063, while for the Italian Brown 0.018 and 0.009, respectively. Homozygous GT13/GT13 was the unique genotype for the Italian Friesian and the most representative for the Italian Brown (0.964) and Sarda (0.823). The other genotypes for the Sarda were: GT14/GT14 (0.042), GT13/GT14 (0.010), GT13/GT15 (0.094) and GT14/GT15 (0.031); as regards the Italian Brown, both GT14/GT14 and GT13/GT15 showed a genotypic frequency of 0.018. The observed heterozygosity was lower than the expected value both for the Sarda and the Italian Brown. Sarda showed a higher genetic variability than Italian Brown and Italian Friesian.
Secure Naming and Addressing Operations for Store, Carry and Forward Networks

Abstract —This paper describes concepts for secure namingand addressing directed at Store, Carry and Forward (SCF)distributed applications, where disconnection and intermittentconnectivity between forwarding systems is the norm. Thepaper provides a brief overview of store, carry and forwarddistributed applications followed by an in depth discussion ofhow to securely: create a namespace; allocate names within thenamespace; query for names known within a local processingsystem or connected subnetwork; validate ownership of a givenname; authenticate data from a given name; and, encrypt datato a given name. Critical issues such as revocation of names,mobility and the ability to use various namespaces to secureoperations or for Quality-of-Service are also presented. Althoughthe concepts presented for naming and addressing have beendeveloped for SCF, they are directly applicable to fully connectedsystems. Index Terms —Internetworking, Mobile ad hoc networks, In-formation SecurityI. I NTRODUCTION
A STUDY OF TRAUMA NURSING CORE COMPETENCY AMONG STAFF NURSES IN VIETNAMESE GENERAL HOSPITALS

Background: Patients with trauma are common in Vietnam, resulting in the high demand of qualified and competent nursing care for this population. However, in Vietnam trauma nurses' competency has been limited. The objectives of this research were to assess and compare trauma nursing core competency (TNCC) among staff nurses at Vietnamese general hospitals. Methods: Cluster sampling was used to recruit 439 Vietnamese nurses from 9 hospitals throughout the country. The measurement of TNCN content was developed for this study by literature review and interview of experts. The research tool composed of 8 dimensions with 48 items. The Content Validity Index was . 90 and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was . 95. Result: The overall TNCN level of staff nurses was relatively high ( = 3.01, SD = .37). Also the level of TNCC of staff nurses between male and female were not significantly different among education backgrounds (secondary, college, and bachelor). The levels of TNCC of staff nurses were significantly different among working experience groups (F = 11.73, p<0.01), especially between groups from one to 3 years and group over 10 years’ experience ( = 2.61, SD = .28 and = 3.10, SD = .35, respectively; Sheffe p<0.01). Conclusion: This study found a relatively high level of TNCC of staff nurses in Vietnam. It is recommended that Nurse Managers should consider staff rotation and shifts especially among novice staff nurses (less than 3 years).
RESCUE OF REFRACTORY SPLICING OF CFTR EXON 12 PATHOLOGICAL MUTATIONS G576A/G48C USING ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES

Context: Pathological mutation in the human CFTR (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator) exon 12 sequences disrupts splicing enhancer that leads to cystic fibrosis disease. Objectives: Human CFTR exon 12 architecturally consists of two exonic regulatory silencers (Exonic Splicing Silencer / ESS) and an enhancer (Exonic Splicing Enhancer / ESE). In this study it was aimed to block the silencer activity as well as to introduce well known enhancer sequence along with the RNA to rescue CFTR exon 12 inclusion for therapeutic purpose. Materials and Methods: In order to alter the pathologic RNA splicing event of CFTR exon 12 two oligonucleotides (ESE-A and ESS-B) were designed that, although complementary to the target RNA sequence but do not interfere in RNA processing. The oligonucleotide ESE-A additionally contains a non-complementary tail sequence mimicking ESE sequence. In this way the ESE were designed consequently for blocking silencer activity and enhance splice site selection. Furthermore, these oligonucleotides were designed based on several well known modified nucleotide sequences to provide stability from in vivo degradation. Results: Naturally occurring pathological point mutation G576A/G48C in CFTR exon 12 causes complete skipping of the exon from full transcript. This study shows that cotransfection of oligonucleotides ESS-B along with CFTR exon 12 minigene carrying G576A/G48C mutation can rescue exon skipping. Conclusion: The use of oligonucleotide ESS-B to enhance expression of latent CFTR exon 12 may ultimately be of therapeutic use for cystic fibrosis patient carrying pathological mutation in CFTR exon 12. Keywords: CFTR exon 12; RNA splicing; Antisense Oligonucleotides . DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/jbs.v18i0. 8771 JBS 2010; 18(0): 27-33
Intervening Variables in the TV Violence-Aggression Relation: Evidence from Two Countries.

s research was supported in part by Grants MH- 28280 and MH-3I886 from the National Institute of Mental Health to L. Rowell Huesmann, and by grants from the Council of Social Sciences, Academy of Finland (Valtion Yhteiskuntatieteelhnen Toimikunta, Suomen Akatemia) to Kirsti Lagerspetz.
A Simplified Backstepping Design for 3D Time-based Aircraft Relative Guidance

The delegation to the flight crew of some tasks currently performed by air traffic controllers provides new perspectives to potentially increase air traffic control capacity. The objective of this communication is to provide technical insight into the airborne devices and algorithms which may be used to automatically perform merging and station keeping operations. Indeed, these maneuvers in the field of civil aviation seem difficult to be performed manually and may result in this case in an increase of the flight crew workload. Nevertheless new automated functions onboard aircraft could help to overcome this limitation. This paper investigates the design of a new autopilot mode dedicated to merging and station keeping maneuvers behind a leading aircraft. The proposed relative guidance law considers a 3 -D relative motion, including constant wind and lateral, longitudinal and vertical control. It is based on vectorial backstepping and takes advantage of the skewsymmetric matrix which appears in the relative motion equations. An alternative ‘simplified’ design based on a matrix form of the Young’s inequality is also presented in order to simplify the computation of the guidance law. Then, an illustrative example is discussed and conclusions are raised.