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DNA Prediction in Craniofacial Appearance: Implications for the Identity Sciences

This report relays findings from research published between 2010 and April 2015, pertinent to the expanding field of identity sciences, where DNA prediction of phenotypic traits related to craniofacial appearance, such as eye color, hair color, skin color, age and biogeographic origin, is the primary focus. Using the Cochrane method, over 40,000 articles were recognized as potentially allied to the research topic; of these, 475 were deemed most suitable, and consequently, analyzed. Results indicated 25 publications yielded information most germane to the research inquiry—how well can, from DNA, various craniofacial phenotypic traits be predicted, and what is the viability of applying this information to questions of validating or protecting individual identity. Discussed here is a review of the findings from the most recent and relevant studies. Results primarily show that eye color is promising for widespread use as a trait that can be reliably and accurately predicted from DNA. In need are improved methods of DNA extraction and analysis from the soft tissues as well as bones and teeth such that phenotypic trait prediction can become a workable and widespread tool in identity science casework. showed a statistically significant correlation with age—in blood—in a sample of 40 individuals. Results indicated a high correlation between predicted age (based on a regression model) and actual age (r=0.91). The authors suggest that DNA methylation is likely to become a widely used biological marker for age estimation. They predict that analyses of particular sites on the genome could be routinely screened in forensic samples as a means to estimate age.
Network Constrained Unit Commitment Under Cyber Attacks Driven Overloads

Power system operator executes the unit commitment (UC) program to determine the optimal generation schedule for a daily or weekly horizon. In smart power systems, cyber-attacks such as false data injections (FDIs) may resemble a kind of contingency with only manipulating measurements data and without physical initiating events. This paper proposes a network constrained UC model in the presence of cyber-attacks named cyber-secured UC (CSUC) model. Normally the operating point obtained by UC program is on its conventional schedule, however in case of cyber-attack risk, it can depart from the conventional schedule toward the cyber secured schedule without violating unit and network constraints during such transition. The CSUC schedule is secured against a type of cyber-attacks called load redistribution (LR) attacks. Moving to this new operating point, in case of cyber-attack risk, may incur a small and reasonable additional cost to the cost of conventional generation schedule. In order to guarantee the optimality of solution, the proposed CSUC model is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model. The benders decomposition (BD) method is utilized to solve the model in a master and sub-problem hierarchy. The proposed method is implemented in the IEEE 118-bus test system.
EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ VALUE PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION

The purpose of the paper is to reveal the peculiarities of the formation of value professional orientation of college students in specialty “Accountant”. The study was conducted to confirm the authors’ concept intended to facilitate a more effective assimilation of the system of human and professional values by accountant students from the experimental group. Based on this development of students' value sphere to enhance the educational attainment of college students, had not previously been applied.
A Novel Stereo Vision Measurement System Using Both Line Scan Camera and Frame Camera

In the product surface defect detection system, the detection accuracy can be greatly improved if the surface grayscale image and depth image can be adopted simultaneously. Existing 3-D cameras have the problem in precise registration of 2-D images and 3-D data, which results in inflexibility and inevitable error in practical vision tasks. Hence, we propose a novel stereo vision measurement system which is able to simultaneously acquire registered scan grayscale images and depth images without special data registration algorithm as well as the calibration method. The proposed measurement system mainly consists of a line laser system, a line scan camera, and a frame camera. The line scan camera captures clear images of objects illuminated by the line laser. In addition, the line scan camera and the frame camera form a stereo vision sensor. In this case, the line laser stripe provides location feature of the matching point for frame camera. The epipolar constraint implements the matching process between the line scan camera and the frame camera. Finally, the stereo vision measurement model is utilized to realize the 3-D coordinate reconstruction, and the z-axis coordinate is used to generate depth image. The proposed system can simultaneously obtain the image and depth information corresponding to each pixel by means of a push sweep. In the experiment, the measurement system can achieve the accuracy of 0.13 mm within a measurement range of $500\,\,\text {mm} \times 300\,\,\text {mm}\times \,\,200$ mm.
Feasibility Study of Alginate Polymer Electrolytes through MolecularDynamics Simulations

Large scale stationary energy storage is becoming the need of the hour as the world transitions to a renewable economy. For this, there is a necessity of higher energy density batteries that can cope well both in storing excess energy and minimizing fluctuations on the grid. Solid polymer electrolyte batteries can be extremely safe and reduce packaging while also preventing dendrite formation in Lithium-ion batteries. Sodium ion movement is seen from one oxygen atom to another for an arbitrary Na ion. This thesis shows that MD simulations can be a promising method to study the mechanisms involved in alginate polymer electrolytes. Further work is necessary to enable rigorous analysis by incorporating both mannuronates and guluronates. Neutron Magnetic Resonance (NMR) can be carried out to validate the results obtained through MD simulations. MD simulations on sodium alginate (primarily of guluronate) as a solid polymer electrolyte appear to indicate the interaction of Na ion with O2 atom of the polyguluronate residue is in preference to interaction of Na ion with carboxylate oxygen atoms. Diffusion constant of Na ion is seen to drop in MD simulations with increase in Ca ion concentrations both at temperatures 300 K and 373 K.
Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation

Silicon carbide (SiC) junction field-effect transistor (JFET) based bi-directional switches (BDSs) have great potential in the construction of several power electronic circuits, including matrix converters, multi-level converters, solid state breakers, and so on. Parasitic oscillation in SiC JFET-based BDSs has direct impact on the stability and reliability of these circuits. Proper handling of parasitic oscillation becomes highly critical. This paper focuses on the parasitic oscillation suppression in SiC JFET-based BDSs. A parallel snubber capacitor or a series ferrite ring was often used to damp parasitic oscillation in switching circuits in the literature. However, conventionally, the snubber capacitance was obtained by time-consuming and labour-intensive trial-and-error methods. The main contribution of this study is to derive the simplified equivalent transient circuit of the SiC JFET-based BDS considering all parasitic elements and quantitatively define the reasonable range of the snubber capacitance. And the combined effect of the selected snubber capacitance and the selected ferrite ring is investigated. In the end, simulation and experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Radiotherapy as Primary Treatment of Olfactory Groove Meningiomas is Associated with Preserved Cranial Nerve Function and Excellent Quality of Life

Objective: Data on radiotherapy (RT), including fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), for olfactory groove meningiomas (OGMs) is limited, in part because of the rarity of the disease in this location. We present the first report of efficacy, toxicity, CN function and quality of life (QOL) in patients treated with primary RT for OGMs. Methods: We retrospectively identified seven patients who were treated with primary FSRT or SRS. Patients were followed clinically, with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and were sent Sino-Nasal Outcome Tests (SNOT-20s). Results: At a median follow-up time of 64 months (range, 21 to 125), rates of local control, overall survival, and cause specific survival were 100%, 86%, and 100%, respectively. At presentation, four patients had hypo/anosmia; two, symptomatic deficit of visual acuity or fields; two, facial pain; two, tinnitus. After RT, three patients regained olfaction; two had improvement in visual function; two, decreased facial pain; two, resolved tinnitus. Three patients had a decrease and four had no change in lesion size on radiographic imaging. Headaches resolved in the few patients who presented with them. SNOT-20scores correlated with an excellent QOL pre-RT and on follow-up. Conclusion: Patients with OGMs treated with primary RT maintained excellent rates of local control and cause-specific survival, had preserved or improved CN function (notably, olfactory nerve function improved in three patients), and maintained excellent QOL. Further prospective studies are necessary to determine the role of RT in the multimodal care of OGMs.
Finite Sample Properties of the Hausman Test

The Hausman (1978) test is widely used in applied research to test the endogeneity of explanatory variables in a regression. Asymptotically the test statistic has a chi-square distribution, with degrees of freedom equal to the number of potentially endogenous regressors. However, different versions of the test may give different answers in finite samples. Standard software packages, such as Stata and SAS, usually report the degrees of freedom as the dimension of the whole parameter vector, because they assign the degrees of freedom to be the rank of difference of two estimated covariance matrices. This matrix is singular asymptotically, but is of full rank in finite samples. Using larger degrees of freedom leads to a rejection region with a smaller asymptotic rejection probability than the size of the test. We evaluate the performance of the Hausman test statistic in finite samples in a Monte Carlo experiment, comparing the size and power of the alternative versions of the test statistic.
Investigation of Material Nonlinearity Measurements Using the Third-Harmonic Generation

With respect to harmonic generation measurements in isotropic materials, the amplitude of the third-harmonic wave generally depends on both <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (the square of the second-order nonlinear parameter <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta $ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (the third-order nonlinear parameter). Therefore, some care should be taken when measuring these parameters using the third-harmonic amplitude. The purpose of this paper is to investigate detailed theoretical and measurement techniques for the accurate determination of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> which dominates the third-harmonic amplitude in most biological fluids and crystalline solids. The theory deals with harmonic generation in materials with cubic nonlinearity and defines the formula for measuring <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> with corrections for diffraction and attenuation. These corrections are derived from the Westervelt equation and play an important role in the measurement of nonlinear parameters. The third-harmonic amplitude that varies with the distance in water is obtained for the measurement of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta $ </tex-math></inline-formula> is also measured from the second-harmonic amplitude for comparison. We also confirm the required input voltage to stably generate the third harmonic and discuss the effects of diffraction and attenuation correction on the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> determination. The measured <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in the propagation range of 0.05–0.2 m agrees well with the square of the measured <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, revealing that the third-harmonic amplitude is closely related to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta ^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, not <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. This paper covers comprehensive theories, experimentation, and analysis related to the measurement of third-harmonic generation in isotropic media and can be immediately applied to crystalline solids.
It balanced scorecard method for performance measurement of information system technology unit in regional water company of Surabaya City

: The Process of measuring the performance of IT division unit in the company is a very important thing for the progress of the company. This research discusses about IT balanced scorecard method for performance measurement of information system technology unit in Regional Water Company (PDAM)Surabaya city. The purpose of this study is to performance measurement of information system technology unit to assess the extent to which the information system technology unit in contributing to PDAM Surabaya city. IT balance scorecard is a method for measuring performance of IT owned by a company, which will be measured with four perspectives. The first is the company contribution perspective, the second is the user orientation perspective, the third is the operational excellence perspective and the fourth is the future orientation perspective. After doing research on information system technology unit in PDAM Surabaya city using IT balanced scorecard get value that is for company contribution perspective is 78.80%, user orientation perspective get value 79.20%, operational excellence perspective get value 75.80% and future orientation perspective get value 75.80%. From these results, the value obtained by the information system technology unit in PDAM Surabaya city is categorized well.
Indirect Demand Side Management Program Under Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grids Using Oligopoly Market Model

—The rise in electricity demand, environmental concerns, and economic issues have increased the importance of demand response in recent years. Among different incentive methods of demand side management (DSM) programs, real-time pricing (RTP) can adaptively control the electricity consumption while giving the decision authority to customers and satisfying the power system constraints. Although the existing RTP methods require a complicated computational process to determine the equilibrium point, this paper proposes a heuristic two-stage iterative method to quickly find the market equilibrium using the Cournot oligopoly competition model in a smart grid. The proposed method minimizes the cost for each customer by running a simple computational algorithm on each customer’s smart meter while also satisfying the power system constraints. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by conducting simulations in the IEEE 37-bus test system with about 1500 customers using real data sets of loads. The results show that the proposed technique can better manage the elastic loads in terms of power and cost in comparison with the existing methods and is quick enough to run in real-time.
Effect of Frequency Domain Filters on Bio-Medical Images

This study tries to find out the most effective frequency domain filter used for enhancing biomedical images. Five different biomedical images have been taken and they are filtered with different low and high pass filters at different cut off frequencies. As far as enhancement method is concerned, the method is very simple because the motive here is to find the most effective filter not a good enhancement technique. To assess the enhancement the metric MSE is used. The experiments are done on MATLAB.
Evaluation of Sociability of Urban Environment Using “Cognitive Maps” and “Spatial Configuration Maps”

The presence and social interaction of people in the public spaces of architecture and urbanism lead to the spaces’ sociability. In the present research, the subject of discussion was the sociability of public spaces. The quality of sociability is the inseparable feature of the urban public spaces but, it has been faded or lost in some urban public spaces. The present study sought to answer this question: how and with what parts, the measurement of the environment sociability is performed with focus on the two human and environmental approaches? To do this, Oudlajan neighborhood of Tehran was selected and investigated as the case study. Possible platforms of social interactions’ formation were investigated in this area (from two environment-based and human-based aspects). In this research, proper literature, theoretical foundations, the studied indexes, and research method were collected and classified using first hand resources. The present methodology included two cognitive and spatial sections. In the cognitive section, using available documents and maps, the area map was prepared. After field visits and interviewing with the local and nonlocal residents, cognitive findings were collected and cognitive maps were produced. The spatial configuration of the neighborhood was evaluated through quantitative parameters of the space syntax method. Finally, comparing qualitative and quantitative data, sociability of the Oudlajan neighborhood was analyzed. Findings of the research showed that it has been useful to consider the space syntax computer modelling as a principal in the evaluation of social concepts, althought it was not enough. In order for somatic activities to improve social status of the urban tissues, it is required to use complementary methods such as cognitive maps.
Proposal of an Automobile Driving Interface Using Gesture Operation for Disabled People

— A steering operation interface has been designed for disabled people that uses gesture operation. It incorporates both non-linear and semi-automatic steering control. Experiments using a gyro sensor and a driving simulator demonstrated that the driving operation is close to that achieved with conventional steering wheel operation. Sufficient practice in using the proposed interface should therefore enable a user to achieve steering control closer to that achieved with a steering wheel.
Non-Smooth Motion of Rotor Systems with Frictional Contacts

Many structural imperfections such as cracks or delaminations of plies in composites can be typically modeled as unilateral constraints, in particular if breathing of the gaps due to these defects is involved. Imperfections of such a kind are also of interest in rotor dynamics. The described problems basically have in common that the math-ematical model results in systems of Differential-Algebraic-Equations that are valid only almost everywhere due to switching conditions. Especially for the usage in parameter estimation an efﬁcient simulation of such systems is imperative and hence modal model reduction techniques are often applied. Model reduction with underlying continuous systems introduces artiﬁcial rigidity. In conjunction with unilateral contact problems this requires– as known for systems of rigid bodies– a consistent calculation of the non-smooth transition from one contact conﬁguration to the upcoming one. This paper presents an efﬁcient method to deal with this problem. Upon applying Hamilton’s Principle and spatial discretization, the equations of motion are derived comprising both normal and tangentially frictional contact regions.
Metabolic Engineering of Isoﬂavonoid Biosynthesis in Alfalfa 1[w]

The potential health beneﬁts of dietary isoﬂavones have generated considerable interest in engineering the synthesis of these phytoestrogens into plants. Genistein glucoside production (up to 50 nmol g 2 1 fresh weight) was engineered in alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) leaves by constitutive expression of isoﬂavone synthase from Medicago truncatula (Mt IFS1 ). Glucosides of biochanin A (4 # - O -methylgenistein) and pratensein (3 # -hydroxybiochanin A) also accumulated. Although Mt IFS1 was highly expressed in all organs examined, genistein accumulation was limited to leaves. Mt IFS1 -expressing lines accumulated several additional isoﬂavones, including formononetin and daidzein, in response to UV-B or Phoma medicaginis , whereas the chalcone and ﬂavanone precursors of these compounds accumulated in control lines. Enhanced accumulation of the phytoalexin medicarpin was observed in P. medicaginis -infected leaves of Mt IFS1 -expressing plants. Microarray proﬁling indicated that Mt IFS1 expression does not signiﬁcantly alter global gene expression in the leaves. Our results highlight some of the challenges associated with metabolic engineering of plant natural products, including tissue-speciﬁc accumulation, potential for further modiﬁcation by endogenous enzyme activities (hydroxylation, methylation, and glycosylation), and the differential response of engineered plants to environmental factors.
in Free vibration analysis Silicon nanowires surrounded by elastic matrix by nonlocal finite element

2019 ) Abstract. Higher-order theories are very important to investigate the mechanical properties and behaviors of nanoscale structures. In this study, a free vibration behavior of SiNW resting on elastic foundation is investigated via Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory. Silicon Nanowire (SiNW) is modeled as simply supported both ends and clamped-free Euler-Bernoulli beam. Pasternak two-parameter elastic foundation model is used as foundation. Finite element formulation is obtained nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. First, shape function of the Euler-Bernoulli beam is gained and then Galerkin weighted residual method is applied to the governing equations to obtain the stiffness and mass matrices including the foundation parameters and small scale parameter. Frequency values of SiNW is examined according to foundation and small scale parameters and the results are given by tables and graphs. The effects of small scale parameter, boundary conditions, foundation parameters on frequencies
THE EFFECT OF CAPITAL ACCOUNT OPENNESS AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON CAPITAL FLIGHT : FINDINGS FROM BRICS

This paper studies the effect of capital account openness and institutional quality on capital flight. It takes BRICS countries as the research object by using panel data during 2000-2015 and reviews capital account openness through three angles, including overall indicators, capital inflow sector and capital outflow sector. The study shows that the improvement of overall capital account openness does not lead to an increase in capital flight. On the contrary, it acts as a restraint. Increase in capital outflow openness will promote capital flight while the increase in capital inflow openness will curb capital flight. As BRICS has done well in controlling speed and depth of capital openness in both inflow and outflow, the overall inhibitory effect is higher than promoting effect. In the process of capital account openness, improvement of institutional quality, especially legal system concerning contract protection and property right protection, can effectively reduce capital flight. The findings can provide some reference for China’s policy reform being implemented at the moment.