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SIX RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING IN CROP PLANTS

A number of recombination-based and physical mapping methods have been developed in order to study and understand the genomic organization of plant species. Of these methods, physical mapping methods provide the best correlation between position on a map and actual physical location on the chromosome. In this review, we discuss differences between maps developed on the basis of recombination and those developed independent of recombination. In the latter method, termed commonly as physical mapping, we discuss methods that have been employed in a number of agriculturally important plant species including rice, the legume model Medicago, tomato, soybean, barley and wheat, and then focus on the radiation hybrid method of physical mapping. After a brief overview of the radiation hybrid methods employed in mammalian species, we discuss radiation hybrid mapping for maize, barley, cotton and wheat in detail. * Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Delisvire State Uiiiversirv, Dover, I )elav'are, USA Division of Science and Mathematics, Mayville State University. Mavville, Nimli Dakota, USA L)epartineot of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA Corresponding author: Delaware State University: phone: 001-31)2-557-6492: entail: vkalavacharla@desu.edu Advances in Arosiosiiy, Volume 102 20119 Elsevier Inc. ISSN 0065-2113, l)Ol: (i. 101 (s/50065-2l I 3(09)0IlX)6_2 All rights reserved.
Force and Hidden Momentum for Classical Microscopic Dipoles

The concept of hidden momentum is reviewed and the first rigorous derivation from Maxwell's equations is provided for the electromagnetic force on electrically small perfect electric conductors of arbitrary shape in bandlimited but otherwise arbitrarily time-varying fields. It is proven for the Amperian magnetic dipoles of these perfect conductors that a "hidden-momentum" electromagnetic force exists that makes the force on these time varying Amperian magnetic dipoles equal to the force on magnetic-charge magnetic dipoles with the same time varying magnetic dipole moment in the same time varying externally applied fields. The exact Mie solution to the perfectly conducting sphere under plane-wave illumination is used to prove that the expressions for the total and hidden-momentum forces on the arbitrarily shaped electrically small perfect conductors correctly predict the forces on perfectly conducting spheres. Remarkably, it is found that the quadrupolar fields at the surface of the sphere are required to obtain the correct total force on the sphere even though the quadrupolar moments are negligible compared to the dipole moments as the electrical size of the sphere approaches zero.
Platform Markets and Energy Services

A structural shift from transaction-based, marginal cost pricing to fee-based service business models often accompanies We emergence of “platform” markets, i.e. multi-sided markets where an intermediary captures the value of the interaction between user groups. The many examples include telecommunications, data storage, cinema, music and media, and the automobile industry. Why not electricity? In this paper, we explore how the electricity supply industry can be conceived of as a platform-mediated, two-sided market and the consequences for pricing. Through two cases, a balancing services provider for smart home energy management systems and an electric vehicle charge manager, we show where a platform entrant could position itself in the retail electricity markets between supply companies and end-users. The drivers of such a transition include increased volatility due to renewable generation, the new complexity of roles for end-users, and the introduction of information and communication technologies. Conceiving of electricity as a platform market where new entrants provide an energy optimisation and management service may stimulate a competitive ecosystem and innovation. We suggest that fee-based pricing would enable the objectives of time-varying pricing to be achieved without adversely affecting the most vulnerable customers.
Monodisperse Droplet Chain Technique to Support Development of Co-solvent Based Inhalation Products

Based Inhalation Products Mellissa Gomez, Mani Ordoubadi, Reegan A. McAllister, Omar Melhem, David Barona, Sandra Gracin, Ankur Ajmera, David Lechuga-Ballesteros, Warren H. Finlay and Reinhard Vehring Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Sweden Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, AstraZeneca R&D South San Francisco, California, USA
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPARTICLES PRODUCED BY CHLOROFORM FRACTION OF KAEMPFERIA ROTUNDA RHIZOME LOADED WITH ALGINIC ACID AND CHITOSAN AND ITS BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY TEST

Objective: The main objectives of this research are to characterize of nanoparticles produced by chloroform fraction of K. rotunda loaded with alginic acid and combination alginic acid-chitosan, and its biological activity test. Â Methods: Chloroform fraction of K. rotunda was loaded on alginic acid and combination of alginic acid-chitosan nanoparticles by ionic gelation method in various compositions. Characterizations of the products were investigated in particle size, zeta potential, and morphology by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The biological activity of the products as an antioxidant was tested by the DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) method. The cytotoxic effect was analysed using MTT [3-(4,5 dimethyltiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazoilium bromide] assay.Result:The nanoparticles alginic acid can be synthesized at the optimal mass ratio range of alginic acid : CaCl2 of 10 :1 (% w/v),the percentage nanoparticle products was100%, Â the size range of the nanoparticles were 87 to 584 nm, with a zeta potential of -39.0 mV, Â and the morphology shows a spherical shape and smooth surface. Furthermore, nanoparticles result from the combination of alginic acid-chitosan at the optimal mass ratio range of alginic acid : chitosan of 10 :1 (% w/v) and added calsium ion at 0.015% w/v, the percentage nanoparticle products was100%, the size range of the nanoparticle were 87 to 877 nm, with a zeta potential of -27.1 mV, and Â the morphology shows a form of rectangular beam.Conclusion: The nanoparticle products of chloroform fraction of K. rotunda loaded alginic acid and combination alginic acid-chitosan were successfully obtainedÂ by ionic gelation method. The nanoparticle products show lower activity in antioxidant and cytotoxic effect against human breast cancer T47D cell lines than the starting material chloroform fraction of K. rotunda. Â
The Value of Fast Fashion : Rapid Production , Enhanced Design , and Strategic Consumer Behavior

A fast fashion system combines rapid production capabilities with enhanced product design capabilities, to both design hotproducts that capture the latest consumer trends and exploit minimal production leadtimes to match supply with uncertain demand. We develop a model of such a system, and compare its performance to three alternative systems: rapid production-only systems, enhanced design-only systems, and traditional systems (which lack both enhanced design and rapid production capabilities). In particular, we focus on the impact of each of the four systems on strategic or forward-looking customer purchasing behavior, i.e., the intentional delay in purchasing an item at the full price to obtain it during an end-of-season clearance. We nd that enhanced design helps to mitigate strategic behavior by o¤ering consumers a product they value more, making them less willing to risk waiting for a clearance sale and possibly experiencing a stock-out. Rapid production, on the other hand, mitigates strategic behavior by reducing the chance of a clearance sale via better matching of inventory to product demand. Most importantly, we nd that these two practices are typically complementary. Hence, when both rapid production and enhanced design are combined in a fast fashion system, the rm enjoys a greater incremental increase in pro t than the sum of the increases resulting from employing either system in isolation, roughly by a factor of two in our numerical experiments. Furthermore, the magnitude of this complementarity is increasing in the severity of strategic consumer behaviorthat is, the more strategicthe population, the more dramatic the complementarity. We conclude that fast fashion systems can be of signi cant value, particularly when consumers exhibit strategic behavior.
Classification of Tweets about Reported Events using Neural Networks

We developed a system that automatically extracts “Event-describing Tweets” which include incidents or accidents information for creating news reports. Event-describing Tweets can be classified into “Reported-event Tweets” and “New-information Tweets. ” Reported-event Tweets cite news agencies or user generated content sites, and New-information Tweets are other Event-describing Tweets. A system is needed to classify them so that creators of factual TV programs can use them in their productions. Proposing this Tweet classification task is one of the contributions of this paper, because no prior papers have used the same task even though program creators and other events information collectors have to do it to extract required information from social networking sites. To classify Tweets in this task, this paper proposes a method to input and concatenate character and word sequences in Japanese Tweets by using convolutional neural networks. This proposed method is another contribution of this paper. For comparison, character or word input methods and other neural networks are also used. Results show that a system using the proposed method and architectures can classify Tweets with an F1 score of 88 %.
A Comparative Analysis of Speed Profile Models for Ankle Pointing Movements: Evidence that Lower and Upper Extremity Discrete Movements are Controlled by a Single Citation

Citation Michmizos, Konstantinos P., Lev Vaisman, and Hermano Igo Krebs. “A Comparative Analysis of Speed Profile Models for Ankle Pointing Movements: Evidence That Lower and Upper Extremity Discrete Movements Are Controlled by a Single Invariant Strategy. ” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (November 27, 2014). As Published http://dx.doi. org/10.3389/fnhum.2014. 00962 Publisher Frontiers Research Foundation
Human Resource Management: The Influence of Organizational Citizenship Behavior to Job Satisfaction and Employee Engagement at International Non-Profit Organization

As an international non-profit organization, XYZ foundation committed to improving life across dynamic and growing Asia, where Indonesia is one of the countries were the XYZ foundation operates. A good levels of performance rating does not make the turnover rate in XYZ foundation low, even can be said high and this phenomenon attracts the author to associate it with one of the employee behavior theory of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), job satisfaction and employee engagement. Data analysis in this research using SEM-PLS. The results obtained from this research are OCB are most influenced by conscientiousness indicator. Job satisfaction variables were most affected by career indicator. The employee engagement variable is most affected by the belong indicator. Organization citizenship behavior positively significant directly to the job satisfaction and employee engagement. Job satisfaction has a positive effect directly to employee engagement.
Two-dimensional Topology of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

We present the topology of a volume-limited sample of 11,884 galaxies, selected from an apparent magnitude limited sample of over 100,000 galaxies observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The data currently cover three main regions on the sky: one in the Galactic north and one in the south, both at zero degrees declination, and one area in the north at higher declination. Each of these areas covers a wide range of survey longitude but a narrow range of survey latitude, allowing the two-dimensional genus to be measured. The genus curves of the SDSS subsamples are similar, after appropriately normalizing these measurements for the different areas. We sum the genus curves from the three areas to obtain the total genus curve of the SDSS. The total curve has a shape similar to the genus curve derived from mock catalogs drawn from the Hubble volume ΛCDM simulation and is similar to that of a Gaussian random field. Likewise, comparison with the genus of the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, after normalization for the difference in area, reveals remarkable similarity in the topology of these samples. We test for the effects of galaxy-type segregation by splitting the SDSS data into thirds, based on the u*-r* colors of the galaxies, and measure the genus of the reddest and bluest subsamples. This red/blue split in u*-r* is essentially a split by morphology, as explained by Strateva and coworkers. We find that the genus curve for the reddest galaxies exhibits a "meatball" shift of the topology—reflecting the concentration of red galaxies in high-density regions—compared to the bluest galaxies and the full sample, in agreement with predictions from simulations.
Algorithmic Approach for Test Scenario Generation from UML Composite Structure Diagram

Testing of object-oriented software requires a lot of effort and cost. Integration testing is an important phase in a software testing process. The unified modelling language (UML) is the widely used language to document object-oriented designs. UML composite structure diagram is an important source of test scenario generation for integration testing. In integration testing, all the individual components are tested by combining them into groups. This paper proposes a method to generate test scenarios from UML composite structure diagram. In our approach, we first draw the UML composite structure diagram using IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA). We export the XML metadata interchange (XMI) in IBM Rational Software Architect. Then, we parse the XMI code and generate the Component Structure Graph (CSG) automatically. Next, we use our approach Top-Down Test Scenario Generation Algorithm (TDTSGA) to generate test scenarios for Top-Down integration approach. We also propose Bottom-Up Test Scenario Generation Algorithm (BUTSGA) to generate test scenarios for Bottom-Up integration approach. The two algorithms have been realized and illustrated by case studies.
Is Virtual Reality made for Men only? Exploring Gender Differences in the Sense of Presence

To date, merely a few studies have been conducted accounting for both emotional traits and gender differences in sense of presence. Yet, results indicate that men and women may indeed differ in the way they experience virtual environments and in the levels of presence they report. Given the scarcity of findings, the present study aimed at broadening the understanding of a possible gender gap in presence experiences. Participants (N=40) were randomly assigned to either an experimental group giving a presentation in front of a virtual audience or a control group merely imagining the audience. Significant differences between male and female participants were found on all presence subscales (Spatial Presence, Realness, Sense of Being There) except for Involvement. Men generally reported a higher sense of spatial presence, more perceived realism and higher levels of the sense of actually being in the environment than women. The inclusion of social interaction anxiety as a covariate revealed a significant influence only on the Sense of Being There. Potential contributing factors for the observed gender differences are discussed and implications for future research endeavors considering gender as a mediating factor are given.
Scale Invariant Fractional Shape matching for computerized images

Shape Matching is an important aspect in image processing . It is an important step whenever there arouses a need to match a certain image with another . There are a lot of applications wherein the image matching is the key step towards the fulfillment of the application. So in such cases Partial image matcing usually becomes a crucial part of the whole process. Hence here we present a novel approach of partial shape matching for the scale invariant images. The problem of establishing a match between an open contour and a closed contour is tried to resolve in this paper. The computation of the shape descriptors is alo done along open or closed contours. The net ordered collections of shape descriptors constitute the global shape representation. Here we propose an alternate technique to an existing Dynamic time warping matching technique for the matching of the shape representation. Use of the properties of the employed shape descriptor, sampling scheme and matching procedure, the proposed approach performs partial shape matching that is invariant to Euclidean transformations. Also the problem of matching the closed to closed contours is automatically treated as a special case. The proposed method gives a better vision and a better result as compared to that of existing system because of the extensive dataset used in the proposed application. And thus the proposed system is a better solution of partial shape matching and the problems related to partial shape matching
TEEshift: Protecting Code Confidentiality by Selectively Shifting Functions into TEEs

We present TEEshift, a tool suite that protects the confiden- tiality and integrity of code by shifting selected functions into TEEs. Our approach works entirely on binary-level and does not require the adaption of source code projects or build environments, nor does it require compiler-level patches. Programmers provide a list of ELF symbols pointing to the functions that should be protected. After post-processing an ELF binary with TEEshift, the selected functions are not present in cleartext anymore. Only after attesting to a re- mote party that the loading enclave behaves with integrity, the functions are decrypted, but remain inside the enclave protected against reverse engineering. An online connection is only required when a program starts for the first time on a PC. Afterwards, sealing is used to securely store the decryption key and bind it to the PC. By allowing program- mers to move selected function into TEEs, without patching their source code, we provide a convenient way to enable TEEs in existing projects while preserving the flexibility for a finegrained security and performance tradeoff. We evaluated our tool using a real world gaming application, confirming the practicability of our approach for existing projects. We overcome the limitation of the fragmented TEE landscape by building on top of Asylo, an open framework by Google for apps which aim to support different TEEs such as Intel SGX and AMD SEV using a unified API.
Changes in motor variability during a repetitive deboning process : Effects of work experience and neck-shoulder discomfort

The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among workers in the meat processing industry is found to be high and workrelated neck and upper limb disorders are common problems among slaughterhouse workers. Motor variability may play a role in the etiology of musculoskeletal disorders. In parallel, age and work experience are known to influence motor strategies. This study introduces nonlinear approach for assessing motor variability in ergonomics for the first time. In combination with linear methods the effect of work experience and discomfort in terms of standard deviation coefficient of variation (variability), approximate entropy, sample entropy (regularity), and correlation dimension (dimensionality) were estimated. Workers with high experience were characterized by having smaller amount of variability compared to low experienced subjects. Discomfort in the neck-shoulder region resulted in lower amount of variability and higher complexity for the head-shoulder displacement, while the amount of variability increased and the regularity and complexity decreased for the elbow-hip displacement. The result could probably be linked to compensatory mechanisms in response to neckshoulder discomfort.
Role of WRKY20 transcription factor and raffinose in plant defense responses upon Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain 5113-mediated priming in Arabidopsis thaliana

Biocontrol through beneficial bacteria-mediated priming can promote plant growth and increase resistance to biotic and abiotic stress. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain 5113 has been identified as a promising candidate for priming by increasing stress resistance and promoting growth in oil seed rape (Brassica napus). Recent findings suggest that WRKY20 transcription factor and the oligosaccharide raffinose are involved in increased resistance upon B. amyloliquefaciens strain 5113-mediated priming. The present study aimed to further elucidate the role of WRKY20 transcription factor in plant defense as well as the involvement of WRKY20 and raffinose in plant defense upon B. amyloliquefaciens strain 5113-mediated priming. Also, the effect on plant starch metabolism upon priming was studied by GUS analysis of isoamylase (AtISA1, AtISA2 and AtISA3) expression in promoter+target::GFP/GUS transgenic plants. Role of WRKY20 transcription factor in plant defense was studied through gene expression analysis upon treatment with salicylic acid (SA) and methyl jasmonate (MeJA). In order to elucidate the role of WRKY20 and raffinose response to Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 infection in primed and non-primed Arabidopsis wrky20, rs2 and rs6 mutants and wild-type Col-0 was studied. WRKY20 was shown to be up-regulated by SA treatment and down-regulated upon MeJA treatment. The infection study revealed an increased resistance in primed wild-type Arabidopsis plants compared to non-primed while no priming effect could be seen for wrky20, rs2 and rs6 mutants. Based on these and previous findings, WRKY20 appears to function as regulator in the JA and SA dependent signaling pathways. Also, raffinose appears to be essential to increase plant resistance through B. amyloliquefaciens strain 5113-mediated priming. GUS analysis of AtISA1::GFP/GUS, AtISA2::GFP/GUS and AtISA3::GFP/GUS showed a distinct up-regulation of AtISA1 in primed plants indicating an increased starch production. Taken together, this study suggests B. amyloliquefaciens strain 5113 as a promising candidate for biological control.
Aspirations and Settlement

The legal-academic literature on litigation settlement describes a range of factors that affect settlement outcomes, but litigant "aspirations", or ideal goals, are not among them. Negotiation scholars, however, routinely claim that high aspirations can improve bargaining outcomes. This article presents a theory of settlement that reconciles these competing approaches by situating negotiator aspirations within the standard legal-academic model of settlement. Based on that theory, the article offers a series of hypotheses concerning the role of aspirations in settlement negotiations, and then reports the results of experimental tests that demonstrate the hypotheses to be plausible. Finally, in light of the theory of the role of aspirations, the article reconsiders the usual prescriptive advice offered by negotiation scholars that litigants should set high aspirations for themselves in bargaining situations.