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5 Globalization and Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems Development

Globalization has reached the spheres including, economy and software development, making the approach known as Global Software Development (GSD) increasingly adopted. In that the physical, cultural and temporal distances are inherent. They can introduce advantages such as better use of resources in different places and thus stimulate cooperation for the software development. On the other hand, brings challenges related to communication, control and coordination of teams, which reflect in technical, social and cultural differences management.
Evaluation of Parking Reservation System with Auction Including Electricity Trading

Some auction systems are applied to the parking reservation system which would exert an important role in the next generation traffic systems. As an introduction evaluation of the auction systems for the parking reservation, we compare the results in case of a simultaneous auction and sequential one, and examine the influences of the strategy. Although the limited numerical experiment under the assumption that the number of parking space is only three, time zone is three, and also the total number of bidders are 25, the following results are obtained, 1) electricity trading makes a profit to both the parking manager and users 2) the average of the parking revenues would be the highest when the reservation price is a little higher than the expect bidding price.
In-hospital medical complications associated with stroke recurrence after initial ischemic stroke

Abstract In-hospital medical complications are common and strongly associated with the risk of death and dependency in stroke patients. Whether similar associations extend to stroke recurrence is unclear. We prospectively and systematically investigated whether in-hospital medical complications are associated with recurrent stroke of patients in the China National Stroke Registry (CNSR). We examined patients with initial ischemic stroke enrolled in CNSR between 2007 and 2008. Recurrent stroke at 3, 6, and 12 months post-stroke was used as stroke outcome. Medical complications were associated with stroke outcomes using multivariable logistic regression. Of the 7593 study patients, recurrent stroke occurred in 1115 (14.7%) within 12 months after stroke onset. In-hospital medical complications were independent risk factors for stroke recurrence in patients with initial ischemic stroke at 3 months (adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 2.19, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.85 to 2.60), 6 months (adjusted OR = 2.04, 95% CI 1.74 to 2.38), and 12 months (adjusted OR = 1.88; 95% CI 1.62 to 2.19) after onset. The persistence of secondary prevention medications in patients with complications was lower than that in patients without complications. Stroke recurrence post-acute ischemic stroke is significantly associated with in-hospital medical complications.
Prediction of Arrival of Nodes in a Scale Free Network

Most of the networks observed in real life obey power-law degree distribution. It is hypothesized that the emergence of such a degree distribution is due to preferential attachment of the nodes. Barabasi-Albert model is a generative procedure that uses preferential attachment based on degree and one can use this model to generate networks with power-law degree distribution. In this model, the network is assumed to grow one node every time step. After the evolution of such a network, it is impossible for one to predict the exact order of node arrivals. We present in this article, a novel strategy to partially predict the order of node arrivals in such an evolved network. We show that our proposed method outperforms other centrality measure based approaches. We bin the nodes and predict the order of node arrivals between the bins with an accuracy of above 80%.
Neuroendocrine and behavioral response to amphetamine challenge after exposure to an organophosphorus pesticide

ObjectivesExposure to various stressors is known to result in sensitization to psychostimulants, a state related to the psychostimulant dependence and addiction. It has been shown in some studies that the rise in corticosterone (CORT) concentration is indispensable for both the induction and the expression of behavioral sensitization. Therefore, it might be suspected that behavioral hyposensitivity to amphetamine (AMPH) is somehow related to a reduced CORT response to the psychostimulant subsequent to the chlorphenvinphos (CVP) intoxication.Materials and MethodsThe male adult Wistar rats received single i.p. injections of CVP at the doses 0.5, 1.0 or 3.0 mg/kg b.w. , or pure corn oil. CORT concentration was determined in samples of blood drawn from the tail vein before and then 30, 60, 180 min and 24 h after injection. The other rats were divided into two groups and tested, three weeks after the CVP injection for the effect of AMPH (0.5 mg/kg b.w. i.p.) on the serum CORT concentration. In addition, behavioral sensitivity to AMPH was assessed by measuring locomotor activity of the animals in an open-field.Results1) The stressor property of CVP was confirmed. The injection resulted in up to tenfold increase in the serum CORT concentration. The magnitude and duration of this response were dose-related. 2) Three weeks after the CVP exposure, the CORT response to AMPH was significantly increased. 3) The behavioral response to the psychostimulant, i.e. augmented locomotion, was significantly reduced compared to the control.ConclusionsThe results confirm that CVP exposure causes behavioral hyposensitivity to AMPH. This effect, however, could not be ascribed to a diminished CORT response.
Repression and activation of transcription by Gal and Lac repressors: involvement of alpha subunit of RNA polymerase.

Gal or Lac repressor binding to an upstream DNA segment, in the absence of DNA looping, represses the P1 promoter located on the same face and activates the P2 promoter situated on the opposite face of the DNA helix in the gal operon. Both inhibition and stimulation of transcription requires the physical presence of the C‐terminal domain of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase although the latter is not required for transcription itself. We propose that Gal and Lac repressors inhibit or stimulate transcription initiation by disabling or stimulating RNA polymerase activity at a post‐binding step by directly or indirectly altering the C‐terminal alpha domain to an unfavorable state at P1 or a more favorable state at P2, respectively.
Effects of Short-term Feeding Magnesium before Slaughter on Blood Metabolites and Postmortem Muscle Traits of Halothane-carrier Pigs

Fifty-four, mixed-sex, halothane-carrier crossbred (Yorkshire×Landrace) pigs with an average initial BW of 108.2±0.8 kg were randomly allotted to one of three dietary treatments for 5 d before slaughter: i) a control corn-soybean meal finisher diet devoid of supplemental magnesium; ii) a diet supplemented with 1.5 g/kg of elemental Mg from magnesium acetate; and iii) a diet supplemented with 1.5 g/kg of elemental Mg from magnesium sulfate heptahydrate. Serum creatine kinase (CK), lactate and glucose were analyzed at slaughter. Muscles from longissimus (LM) were packaged and stored to simulate display storage for muscle lactate and glycogen determinations at 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 d. Mg supplementation reduced (p<0.05) serum CK and lactate concentration, but had no effect (p>0.05) on serum glucose. Daily change of muscle lactate concentration linearly increased (p<0.01), while glucose concentration linearly decreased (p<0.05) as storage time increased in all treatments. However, dietary Mg acetate and Mg sulfate supplementation in pigs elevated (p<0.05) muscle glycogen and reduced (p<0.05) muscle lactate concentrations, especially during the first 2 d of display, compared with pigs fed the control diet. This study suggests that short-term feeding of magnesium acetate and magnesium sulfate to heterozygous carriers of the halothane gene has beneficial effects on stress response and pork quality by improving blood and muscle biochemical indexes.
Resource Construction and Evaluation for Indirect Opinion Mining of Drug Reviews

Opinion mining is a well-known problem in natural language processing that has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Existing approaches are mainly limited to the identification of direct opinions and are mostly dedicated to explicit opinions. However, in some domains such as medical, the opinions about an entity are not usually expressed by opinion words directly, but they are expressed indirectly by describing the effect of that entity on other ones. Therefore, ignoring indirect opinions can lead to the loss of valuable information and noticeable decline in overall accuracy of opinion mining systems. In this paper, we first introduce the task of indirect opinion mining. Then, we present a novel approach to construct a knowledge base of indirect opinions, called OpinionKB, which aims to be a resource for automatically classifying people’s opinions about drugs. Using our approach, we have extracted 896 quadruples of indirect opinions at a precision of 88.08 percent. Furthermore, experiments on drug reviews demonstrate that our approach can achieve 85.25 percent precision in polarity detection task, and outperforms the state-of-the-art opinion mining methods. We also build a corpus of indirect opinions about drugs, which can be used as a basis for supervised indirect opinion mining. The proposed approach for corpus construction achieves the precision of 88.42 percent.
DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH CRITERIA FOR SCHOOL SITE RISK ASSESSMENT PURSUANT TO HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 901(g): Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Paraquat

HSC §901(g) requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), in consultation with the appropriate entities within the California Environmental Protection Agency, to identify those chemical contaminants commonly found at school sites and determined by OEHHA to be of greatest concern based on child-specific physiological sensitivities. HSC 901(g) also requires OEHHA to annually evaluate and publish, as appropriate, numerical health guidance values (HGVs) or chRDs for those chemical contaminants.
A performance evaluation of Hive for scientific data management

It is very important to evaluate the MapReduce-based frameworks for scientific data processing applications. Scientists need a low-cost, scalable, easy-to-use and fault-tolerance platform for large volume data processing eagerly. This paper presents an implementation of a scientific data management benchmark, SSDB, on Hive, a MapReduce-based data warehouse. A complete strategy of migrating SSDB to Hive is described in detail including query HQL implementation, data partition schema and adjustments of underlying storage facilities. We have tuned the performance using several system parameters provided by Hive, Hadoop and HDFS. This paper provides preliminary results and analysis. Evaluation results indicate that Hive achieves acceptable performance for some data analysis tasks even compared with some high efficient distributed parallel databases, but it needs subtle adjustments of underlying storage facilities and indexing mechanism.
A Front-of-Pack Nutrition Logo: A Quantitative and Qualitative Process Evaluation in the Netherlands

This study aimed to perform a quantitative and qualitative process evaluation of the introduction of the Choices logo, a front-of-pack nutrition logo on products with a favorable product composition, adopted by many food producers, retail and food service organizations, conditionally endorsed by the Dutch government, validated by scientists, and in the process of international dissemination. An online questionnaire was sent to adult consumers 4 months after the introduction of the logo (n = 1,032) and 1 year later (n = 1,127). Additionally, seven consumer focus groups (n = 41) were conducted to provide more insight into the questionnaire responses. Quantitative analyses showed that exposure to the logo had significantly increased. Elderly and obese respondents reported to be more in need of a logo than younger and normal-weight individuals. Women perceived the logo more attractive and credible than men did. Further qualitative analyses indicated that the logo's credibility would improve if it became known that governmental and scientific authorities support it. Elderly respondents indicated that they needed a logo due to health concerns. Consumers interested in health reported that they used the logo. Further research focusing on specific target groups, forming healthful diets, and health outcomes is needed to investigate the effectiveness of the Choices logo.
Chronic Kidney Disease Is Characterized by “Double Trouble” Higher Pulse Pressure plus Night-Time Systolic Blood Pressure and More Severe Cardiac Damage

Background Hypertension plays a key role in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but CKD itself affects the blood pressure (BP) profile. The aim of this study was to assess the association of BP profile with CKD and the presence of cardiac organ damage. Methods We studied 1805 patients, referred to our Hypertension Centre, in whom ABPM, blood tests, and echocardiography were clinically indicated. The glomerular filtration rate was estimated (eGFR) using the MDRD equation and CKD was defined as eGFR<60 mL/min/1.73 m2. Cardiac organ damage was evaluated by echocardiography. Results Among patients with CKD there were higher systolic blood pressure (SBP) during the night-time, greater prevalence of non-dippers (OR: 1.8) and increased pulse pressure (PP) during 24-hour period, daytime and night-time (all p<0.001). Patients with CKD had a greater LVM/h2.7 index, and a higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction (all p<0.001). Nocturnal SBP and PP correlated more strongly with cardiac organ damage (p<0.001). Patients with CKD had a greater Treatment Intensity Score (p<0.001) in the absence of a significantly greater BP control. Conclusions CKD patients have an altered night-time pressure profile and higher PP that translate into a more severe cardiac organ damage. In spite of a greater intensity of treatment in most patients with CKD, BP control was similar to patients without CKD. Our findings indicate the need of a better antihypertensive therapy in CKD, better selected drugs, dosages and posology to provide optimal coverage of 24 hours and night-time BP.
In Vivo Healthy Knee Kinematics during Dynamic Full Flexion

Healthy knee kinematics during dynamic full flexion were evaluated using 3D-to-2D model registration techniques. Continuous knee motions were recorded during full flexion in a lunge from 85° to 150°. Medial and lateral tibiofemoral contacts and femoral internal-external and varus-valgus rotations were analyzed as a function of knee flexion angle. The medial tibiofemoral contact translated anteroposteriorly, but remained on the center of the medial compartment. On the other hand, the lateral tibiofemoral contact translated posteriorly to the edge of the tibial surface at 150° flexion. The femur exhibited external and valgus rotation relative to the tibia over the entire activity and reached 30° external and 5° valgus rotations at 150° flexion. Kinematics' data during dynamic full flexion may provide important insight as to the designing of high-flexion total knee prostheses.
Association between cigarette smoking and metabolic syndrome: the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent in the U.S. (age-adjusted prevalence of 23.7%) (1) and in Korea (20.8% for men and 26.9% for women) (2). This syndrome is well documented to increase the risk for developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and is associated with an all-cause mortality (3–5). Physical inactivity, excessive weight gain, high alcohol intake, and certain dietary factors have been identified as important modifiable risk factors for metabolic syndrome and its consequences (2,6,7). Smoking is also a strong risk factor for atherosclerosis and CVD, with a dose-dependent relationship (8). Smokers have abnormalities in lipoprotein metabolism (9) and endothelial function (10). Moreover, there is some evidence that smokers are at greater risk than nonsmokers of becoming insulin resistant and hyperinsulinemic (11,12). Thus, based on these findings, smoking may be considered as an important modifiable risk factor for metabolic syndrome. However, this relationship has not been clarified, and reports on this issue are also scarce. The aim of this study was to search for associations between smoking and metabolic syndrome with a representative population-based sample in Korea. This study was based on the 1998 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Selection methods for a nationwide representative sample of Koreans and other survey methods were detailed elsewhere (2 …
Particle Filter in Vision Tracking Filtro De Partículas Para El Seguimiento Visual

The extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been used as the standard technique for performing recursive nonlinear estimation in vision tracking. In this work, we present an alternative filter with performance superior to that of the EKF. This algorithm, referred to as the Particle filter. Particle filtering was originally developed to track objects in clutter (multi-modal distribution). We present as results the filter behavior, in a case, when there are objects with similar characteristic to the object to track.
On parabolic quasi-variational inequalities and state-dependent sweeping processes

(1.2) C(t, u) ⊂ H is nonempty, closed, and convex for t ∈ [0, T ], u ∈ H. In (1.1), NC(t,u)(x) denotes the normal cone to C(t, u) at x ∈ C(t, u), cf. Section 2 below. We will treat the case of (t, u) 7→ C(t, u) being Lipschitz continuous w.r. to the Hausdorff distance dH with constants L1, L2 ≥ 0, i.e., we require (1.3) dH(C(t, u), C(s, v)) ≤ L1|t− s|+ L2|u− v|, t, s ∈ [0, T ], u, v ∈ H. Note that a solution of (1.1) in particular has to satisfy u(t) ∈ C(t, u(t)) for t ∈ [0, T ].
Modeling Techniques for Magnetostrictive

Techniques for modeling hysteresis and material nonlinearities in magnetostrictive materials are presented. Hys-teresis in these materials is due to both the driving magnetic eld and stress relations within the material and is signiicant throughout most of the drive range of the material. Two characterizations are presented here. The rst model is posed in terms of Preisach operators and is purely phenomenological in nature. The second model is physics-based with parameters related to measurable properties of the input magnetic eld. The two approaches are illustrated in the context of an Euler-Bernoulli beam model which incorporates magnetostrictive actuators.
Heuristic algorithms for the terminal assignment problem

In this paper, applications of heuristic techniques for solving the terminal assignment (TA) problem are investigated. The task here is to assign terminals to concentrators in such a way that each terminal is assigned to one (and only one) concentrator and the aggregate capacity of all terminals assigned to any concentrator does not overload that concentrator, i.e., is within the concentrator's capacity. Under these two hard constraints, an assignment with the lowest possible cost is sought. The proposed cost is taken to be the distance between a terminal and a concentrator. The heuristic techniques we investigate in this article include greedy-based algorithms, genetic algorithms (GA), and grouping genetic algorithms (GGA) [4]. We elaborate on the different heuristics we use, and compare the solutions yielded by them.
Lagged effects of experimental warming and doubled precipitation on annual and seasonal aboveground biomass production in a tallgrass prairie

Global climate change is expected to result in a greater frequency of extreme weather, which can cause lag effects on aboveground net primary production (ANPP). However, our understanding of lag effects is limited. To explore lag effects following extreme weather, we applied four treatments (control, doubled precipitation, 4 °C warming, and warming plus doubled precipitation) for 1 year in a randomized block design and monitored changes in ecosystem processes for 3 years in an old‐field tallgrass prairie in central Oklahoma. Biomass was estimated twice in the pretreatment year, and three times during the treatment and posttreatment years. Total plant biomass was increased by warming in spring of the treatment year and by doubled precipitation in summer. However, double precipitation suppressed fall production. During the following spring, biomass production was significantly suppressed in the formerly warmed plots 2 months after treatments ceased. Nine months after the end of treatments, fall production remained suppressed in double precipitation and warming plus double precipitation treatments. Also, the formerly warmed plots still had a significantly greater proportion of C4 plants, while the warmed plus double precipitation plots retained a high proportion of C3 plants. The lag effects of warming on biomass did not match the temporal patterns of soil nitrogen availability determined by plant root simulator probes, but coincided with warming‐induced decreases in available soil moisture in the deepest layers of soil which recovered to the pretreatment pattern approximately 10 months after the treatments ceased. Analyzing the data with an ecosystem model showed that the lagged temporal patterns of effects of warming and precipitation on biomass can be fully explained by warming‐induced differences in soil moisture. Thus, both the experimental results and modeling analysis indicate that water availability regulates lag effects of warming on biomass production.
Weaving Trauma into the Everyday – Neuroscience, Evidence and Reflections from Practice

Last year, the Australian Childhood Foundation celebrated an important milestone. We turned thirty years old. For more than half of this period, we have sought to translate the richness of ideas that the field of neuroscience has offered to those of us taking care of children, young people and adults who have suffered trauma resulting from violation.
Novel scheduling characteristics for mixture of real-time and non-real-time traffic

This paper presents comprehensive performance analyses of a novel scheduling policy for wireless communications where users have mixed real-time (RT) and non-real-time (nRT) traffic. Also, it introduces novel characteristics to scheduling where the QoS perceived by RT and nRT streams within a mixed traffic system can be differentiated and managed. Performance comparisons with popular proportional fair scheduling policy as well as the convergence analysis are also included.
Slitheen: Perfectly Imitated Decoy Routing through Traffic Replacement

As the capabilities of censors increase and their ability to perform more powerful deep-packet inspection techniques grows, more powerful systems are needed in turn to disguise user traffic and allow users under a censor's influence to access blocked content on the Internet. Decoy routing is a censorship resistance technique that hides traffic under the guise of a HTTPS connection to a benign, uncensored overt site. However, existing techniques far from perfectly mimic a typical access of content on the overt server. Artificial latency introduced by the system, as well as differences in packet sizes and timings betray their use to a censor capable of performing basic packet and latency analysis. While many of the more recent decoy routing systems focus on deployability concerns, they do so at the cost of security, adding vulnerabilities to both passive and active attacks. We propose Slitheen, a decoy routing system capable of perfectly mimicking the traffic patterns of overt sites. Our system is secure against previously undefended passive attacks, as well as known active attacks. Further, we show how recent innovations in traffic-shaping technology for ISPs mitigate previous deployability challenges.