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Design of ReBaCuO-coated conductors for FCL

The superconducting (SC) fault current limiter (FCL) improves the security and the power quality of electric networks; these are the two essential demands of today. The device must fulfil several requirements in normal and fault operations, and must operate under a variety of conditions. Low prospective current faults represent the most severe conditions. Proper design of the ReBaCuO-coated conductor is essential for safe and optimized operations. The design of the superconducting conductor is mainly based on thermal criteria. The minimum superconducting conductor volume is given by its enthalpy and the limited current through the SC conductor. The superconducting quantities play only a small role in the design. A high resistivity conductor reduces the ReBaCuO volume. Of other considerations to be taken into account, the quench homogeneity is one of the most important for resistive FCLs. The coated conductor architecture and design can help to reduce the consequences of quench inhomogeneity along the conductor. The presented arguments, for a high limited current forcing the conductor to quench uniformly and for a moderate conductor resistivity to reduce the temperature differences, are supported by experiments carried out utilizing two rather different coated conductors in various limiting conditions.
Short and Long Term Cardiovascular Risk, Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence and HIV in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective— To compare short and long term cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk scores and prevalence of metabolic syndrome in HIV-infected adults receiving and not receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-negative controls. Methods— A cross-sectional study including: 151 HIV-infected, ART-naive, 150 HIV-infected on ART and 153 HIV-negative adults. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors were determined by standard investigations. The primary outcome was ACC/AHA ASCVD Risk Estimator lifetime CVD risk score. Secondary outcomes were ASCVD 10-year risk, Framingham risk scores, statin indication and metabolic syndrome. Results— Compared to HIV-negative controls, more HIV-infected adults on ART were classified as high lifetime CVD risk (34.7% vs 17.0%, p<0.001) although 10-year risk scores were similar, a trend which was similar across multiple CVD risk models. In addition, HIV-infected adults on ART had a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome vs HIV-negative controls (21.3% vs 7.8%, p=0.008), with 2 common clusters of risk factors. More than one-quarter (28.7%) of HIV-infected Tanzanian adults on ART meet criteria for statin initiation. Conclusions— HIV-infected ART-treated individuals have high lifetime cardiovascular risk, and this risk seems to develop rapidly in the first 3–4 years of ART as does the development of clusters of metabolic syndrome criteria. These data identify a new subgroup of low short-term/ high lifetime risk HIV-infected individuals on ART who do not currently meet criteria for CVD risk factor modification but require further study.
Accurate and transferable extended Huckel-type tight-binding parameters

We show how the simple extended Huckel theory can be easily parametrized in order to yield accurate band structures for bulk materials, while the resulting optimized atomic orbital basis sets present good transferability properties. The number of parameters involved is exceedingly small, typically ten or eleven per structural phase. We apply the method to almost fifty elemental and compound bulk phases.
Effect of vapourized fermented vinegar on Salmonella enteritidis on eggshell surface

The presence of Salmonella enteritidis (SE) on eggshell has serious public health implications. Several treatments have been developed to control SE on eggshell. The inhibition of SE by fermented vinegar (FV) on surface of chicken eggshell was investigated. Preliminary study by Agar Overlay Disc Diffusion Method on Mueller Hinton Agar media using FV containing different acetic acid concentration (AAc) (0% to 5%v/v) showed that more acetic concentration used, more significant inhibition of SE was found. Therefore, the confirmation of SE inhibition by FV containing different AAc (1%-3%v/v with 0.1%v/v incretion) at 5 min of contact time was further studied in vitro in Tryptic Soy Broth (TSB). The 7.56 log cfu/ml SE cells were completely inhibited in TSB containing FV with 2%v/v AAc. The effect of vapourized FV at 2%v/v compared with 10%v/v AAc were investigated on SE on eggshell surface. Eggshells externally inoculated with SE were treated with FV vapour generated by pumping sterile air to FV solution. In this study, the level of SE consisting of 6 log cfu/g on eggshell were originally prepared. In order to reduce 1 log cycle, the 90 min vapourizing time of 2%v/v AAc or 30 min of 10%v/v AAc vapourizing time was required. The results suggested that both suitable AAc and vapourizing time should be considered for effective egg sanitization treatment. The microbial quality on eggs treated by vapourizing 2%v/v and 10%v/v FV was considered. The results showed no SE was detected both on eggshell and in egg content when kept at 4°C and room temperature (31± 1°C) within 28 days. The advantage of FV vapourizing procedure is not only to successfully control eggshell microbial quality but also to protect the environmental safety.
Temporal expression of a putative homogentisate solanesyltransferase cDNA in wounded Aquilaria malaccensis, an endangered tropical tree

Homogentisate prenytransferase (HPI) generally catalyses prenylation reactions in tocochromanol and plastoquinone-9 biosynthesis, while homogentisate solanesyltransferase (HST) is specific to reaction leading to plastoquinone, an essential component in the synthesis of carotenoid, a powerful antioxidant and precursor to vitamin A. In Aquilaria spp. abiotic stress in the form of wounding is the main trigger for the production of a highly-valued terpene-rich wood known as agarwood. Putative HST cDNA, AmHST1 was cloned from total RNA of callus tissue of Aquilaria malaccensis using reverse transcription approach. Based on a partial HST sequence, specific primers were initially designed to amplify the internal open reading frame region followed by RACE, which successfully amplified the cDNA. The partial length AmHST1 cDNA measured about 1182 bp nucleotides and encodes a polypeptide of 392 amino acid. Sequence alignment revealed that AmHST1 shares 74% - 77% similarity with HPT from Arabidopsis and Theobroma cacao. Gene expression analysis indicated that the AmHST1 expression was suppressed in wounded tissues. Results suggest that there should be a potential trade-off between genes involved in plastoquinone and terpenoid synthesis as they both share similar upstream genes and precursors. When facing a major abiotic stress such as wounding, the latter is favoured.
Green Purchase Intention: an examination of customers towards Adoption of Green Products

Increasing awareness on the various environmental problems has led a shift in the way consumers go about their life. There has been a change in consumer attitudes towards a green lifestyle and people are actively trying to reduce their impact on the environment. Massive industrialization has changed this world radically and leaving behind a curse to nature. Environmental reduction is a concern of people all around the globe. The purpose of this study is to identify the important factors that influence the green purchase intentions of the people. This study investigates the effects of different variables on green purchase intention of consumers. A sample of 150 respondents was taken from the students and professional in Bahawalpur City of Pakistan. The data was collected through a self-administered questionnaire, using the previous established scales. Regression results of the study validate all the hypotheses of the study confirming the significant impact of green perceived value, green trust, green environmental responsibility, green marketing tools and green purchase attitude on green purchase intention. The current study falsifies the assumption that the consumers in developing countries are less prone towards purchasing of green products. Managerial implications and limitations are discussed to make this study more fruitful.
Moving Target Tracking Based on Kalman Algorithm

Problems concerning moving target tracking are being proposed and applied widely currently along with the maturity of computer technology and the fast advancement of computer vision. As a very important area in computer vision, moving target tracking is widely used in real life, for example, interactivity between human and computer, and so on. In this paper, Kalman filter, as a highly efficient recursive filter, is the common video method employed to track moving object in video. The moving state of moving object can be estimated in accordance with the location of the moving target. The tracking video is decomposed into frames in the initialization period and every frame is made up of a piece of picture; then, the targets in each frame are identified by means of color recognition; next, position the moving target, identify the center coordinates; at last, the coordinate of the previous and current frames is inputted and the location of the moving target in the present frame is estimated by Kalman filter.
Advanced Material-Technological Modelling of Complex Dynamic Thermomechanical Processes

Material-technological modelling has made great progress over recent years, thanks to the new possibilities opened up by developments in sensor technology, and especially in new methods of control, supported by innovative electronic elements and electronic circuits. One such device, developed for material-technological modelling, is the thermomechanical simulator which was established in the laboratories of the Research Centre of Forming Technologies FORTECH, in Pilsen, in the Czech Republic. Thanks to new knowledge and technical equipment the majority of technological processes or even technological chains can be modelled. The most considerable and most important innovation in the material-technological modelling process is the significant acceleration and increased precision of the modelling process. The present technology even allows modelling of highly dynamic processes, such as wire rolling including all thermodynamical effects. This paper presents the broad possibilities of the most modern material-technological modelling. The process of detecting technical and manufacturing problems during rolling and the possibilities of failure elimination are introduced in a practical example.
Regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in Ethiopia: A tale of two periods

This paper provides an informative picture of the extent of regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in the pre-and post-reform Ethiopia. We start by presenting evidence that regional inequality in educational attainment, formal employment, and access to safe water and sanitation facilities declined substantially between the mid-1990s and late 2000s. When we measure regional inequality of opportunities using the intergenerational persistence of educational attainment, we find a moderate increase in intergenerational mobility at the national level and a declining gap across regions. Given the regional concentration of ethnic and language groups in Ethiopia, further reducing the unequal distribution of economic outcomes and opportunities across regions have important implications for the political stability and economic development of the country.
Airborne Hyperspectral Measurements and Superficial Soil Organic Matter

Data acquired from field campaign and hyperspectral airborne sensors were processed to determine the s urface soil organic matter of an agricultural area located in Southern Belgium. The method adopted was based on a forward stepwise multiple linear regression analysi s linking soil organic matter and hyperspectral dat a from the CASI-2 (Compact Spectrographic Imager-2) airborne sensor working in the visible and near infrared doma in. The results were validated successfully from an indepen dent set of sampling points. However, disturbing fa ctors effects are shown on the relationship between soil organic matter and spectral reflectance. It is conc luded that the hyperspectral remote sensing approach is promising for soil organic matter prediction but it will requ ire more study to better take account on the disturbing fact ors affecting the relationship.
Bridging the gap: taking BIM to the construction site

Technology such as building information modeling (BIM) is changing the way the architecture, engineering and construction industry does business. Despite that BIM is quite widely used in the design phase it is significantly less used by site workers in the construction phase. In this paper, a real life case study from Statsbygg, The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property is studied. In this case, Statsbygg together with the general contractor Skanska have created socalled «BIM computer kiosks» to allow site workers access 3D models on-site. In this paper we investigate how these computer kiosks are used and examine the consequences of this use. The analysis shows that site workers find the visualization opportunities very useful and that BIM is appraised for efficiently handling complex elements as compared to paper drawings. Our findings also indicate that the data kiosks facilitate a greater level of face-to-face collaboration among site workers.
Labor Market Rigidities and the Business Cycle: Price vs. Quantity Restricting Institutions

We build a model that combines two types of labor market rigidities: real wage rigidities and labor market frictions. The model is used to analyze the implications of the interaction of different degrees and types of labor market rigidities for the business cycle by looking at three dimensions (i) the persistence of key economic variables; (ii) their volatility; (iii) the length, average duration and intensity of recessions and expansions. We find that real wage rigidities and labor market frictions, while often associated under the same category of "labor market rigidities" may have opposite effects on business cycle fluctuations. When the rigidity lies in the wage determination mechanism, real wages cannot fully adjust and shocks tend to be absorbed through changes in quantities. A higher degree of real wage rigidities thus amplifies the response of the real economy to shocks, shortens the duration of the business cycle but makes it more intense. When the rigidity lies in the labor market, it is more costly for firms to hire new workers and therefore unemployment does not vary as much, thus increasing inflation volatility and smoothening the response of the real economy to shocks. The cycle gets longer but less severe. Analyzing the interaction of institutions we show that these effects are reinforcing if institutions are substitutes - in the sense that countries with high labor market frictions tend to have low real wage rigidities and vice versa - while they are offsetting if institutions are complements. The findings from the model are supported when compared to the data of a range of OECD countries.
The Emergence of Biosimilars in Indonesia: Guidelines, Challenges and Prospects

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), biosimilar is defined as a product which is highly similar to the reference product without clinically meaningful differences in safety, purity and potency. Indonesia is a developing country which has more than 250 million people. The domestic need of Biosmilar in Indonesia is about 10-20%. Even though the need is very high, Indonesia still has not been able to produce Biosimilar independently. To stimulate the domestic production on biosimilar, National Agency for Drug and Food Control (NADFC) Republic of Indonesia has assigned Regulation of Biosimilar as Peraturan Kepala Badan Pengawas Obat Dan Makanan Republik Indonesia Nomor 17 Tahun 2015 Tentang Pedoman Penilaian Produk Biosimilar. The guidance covers the quality requirement and evaluation of Biosimilar products. The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has a strategic plan in biopharmaceutical covering biosimilar which is going to develop in 2015-2025. The strategy is expected to initiate biosimilar production in Indonesia. This review focuses on the guidelines, challenges and prospects biosimilars in Indonesia comparing to other international regulatory bodies. Keywords: Biosimilar, Indonesia, Guidelines, Challenges and Prospects
Granger Causality Among Pre-Crisis East Asian Exchange Rates

We examine Granger causality among the exchange rates of eight East Asian economies prior to the Asian crisis. We adopt as our general model Engle and Gauâ€™s (1997) â€œofficial bandâ€ model, and use daily bilateral US dollar exchange rate data during January 1991-July 1997. Our findings provide some empirical support for the presence of systematic relationships that are consistent with the contagious nature of the Asian crisis
Effect of conductive additives to gel electrolytes on activated carbon-based supercapacitors

This article is focused on polymer based gel electrolyte due to the fact that polymers are cheap and can be used to achieve extended potential window for improved energy density of the supercapacitor devices when compared to aqueous electrolytes. Electrochemical characterization of a symmetric supercapacitor devices based on activated carbon in different polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) based gel electrolytes was carried out. The device exhibited a maximum energy density of 24 Wh kg−1 when carbon black was added to the gel electrolyte as conductive additive. The good energy density was correlated with the improved conductivity of the electrolyte medium which is favorable for fast ion transport in this relatively viscous environment. Most importantly, the device remained stable with no capacitance lost after 10,000 cycles.
Lifelong Wellbeing in the World COMPANY TOWN DIVERSIFICATION AND DESIGNING ITS FUTURE

The urban development of a company town in Russia currently depends on the opportunity to diversify the core industry attracting investments into developed projects that offers the variety of directions of future designing. Although the great majority of company towns prepared Complex investment plans of monotown modernization stated the goal and the directions of diversification, the appropriate financing of the created projects is hardly exist. The authors argue that the basic measures that identify the diversification efficiency are the variety of concentration indexes, dynamics indicators and shift-shares; nevertheless, the possibility to evaluate how the new economic activity changes the structure in dynamics is rather low. This article offers the way to estimate the diversification in dynamics caused by the emerging economic activity using the diversification in dexon the basis of dynamic approach for evaluation of company town diversification efficiency. The authors suggest the diversification index that shows both the dynamics of structural change and the new economic activity emerging in company town. The index allows measuring the diversification shift in company town implementing the diversification strategy. The article conducts the case study of Kaltansky urban district located in Kemerovskaya oblast and makes conclusions that higher diversification in investments does not relates with the appropriate dynamics in dispatched goods. This fact allows low efficiency of the diversification and creates the negative image of the town in future designing. © 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy. org.UK
An Investigation on the Relationship of Family Emotional Climate, Personal-Social Adjustment and Achievement Motivation with Academic Achievement and Motivation among Third Grade High School Male Students of Ahvaz

This research examined the relationship between family emotional climate, personal-social adjustment and achievement motivation with academic achievement and academic motivation among the third grade high school male students of Ahvaz. 355 students were selected based on random cluster sampling method. Research instruments included Hill Burn family emotional condition questionnaire (Hill Burn, 1964), Students' Adjustment questionnaire (Sinha & Sing, 1993), Hermens (1970) achievement motivation questionnaire and academic motivation questionnaire (Valerand et al, 1992). The design was a correlation study and the data were analyzed through canonical correlation analysis method, multiple regression method and Pearson method. The results showed that predicator variables include family emotional climate, personal-social adjustment and achievement motivation are able to predict significantly criterion variables include academic achievement and academic motivation. The correlation between family emotional climate, personal-social adjustment and achievement motivation with academic achievement was positive, negative and positive respectively. Their correlation with external motivation was negative, positive and negative respectively. Their correlation with internal motivation was positive, negative and positive respectively. Their correlation with amotivation was negative, positive and negative respectively. All of these correlations were significant in the range of (p< 0.05 to 0.001).
Kinematics Simulation Analysis of Shot Blasting Projectile Based on EDEM

In order to study the acceleration process of projectiles in the shot blaster, Discrete Element Method was used to establish the discrete element model of the shot blaster. With the help of the 3D discrete element software EDEM, this thesis points out the main factors that affecting the movement of projectiles by observing the movement of projectiles in the shot blaster. The results show that the movement of projectiles in the shot blaster can be divided into three phases: the gravity acceleration period, the rapidly acceleration period and the stable blasting period; the throwing velocity of projectiles are positively correlated with the pellet wheel rotating speed, the blade length and the projectile particle size, and are independent of the initial velocity; the initial velocity and the projectile particle size can effectively shorten the acceleration phase of projectiles, while the pellet wheel rotating speed and the blade length have no significant effect on every phase of projectiles acceleration.
Simulation based modeling of the elastic properties of structural composite lumber

Structural composite lumber (SCL) products were introduced into the construction practice several decades ago. Their apparent advantages over traditional lumber did not generate copious research interests. However, increasing demands for structural materials coupled with the decreasing quality and quantity of raw materials are forcing the industry to introduce short rotation trees or species having unfavorable properties into the manufacturing processes. Consequently, there is a need for research to further enhance the effective use of renewable natural resources. This article describes the development of simulation models that estimate the bending and orthotropic compression modulus of elasticity (MOE) of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and parallel strand lumber (PSL). The Monte Carlo simulation-based routines use the physical/mechanical properties of primary constituting elements, obtained from probability distributions, to calculate a particular property of the composite system. Furthermore, the orthotropic behavior of the wood constituents due to their position in the composite is modeled by well-established theoretical/empirical equations. Results and experimental validation regarding the geometric, physical, and mechanical attributes showed reasonably good agreement between simulated and experimental values. Developed models have good potential for predicting the elastic parameters of composites using new raw materials or novel design features.