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Resource Augmentation for Mobile Devices in Mobile Cloud Computing Environments : A Review

Mobile devices with sophisticated hardware and software have emerged as the primary computing platforms for the day to day activities of the individuals. However, computation on these handheld devices is still inhibited by the limited battery power and limited resources. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been coined to augment the capability of such handheld devices. MCC empowers the application processing capabilities of the mobile devices by offloading computational intensive applications to resource rich distributed application processing systems. But the key challenge lies in the seamless distribution of the applications on the distributed application processing cloud platforms. Researchers have explored varied resources for the augmentation of mobile device capabilities. These resources range from the use of nearby idle computing resources to the public/private cloud resources. This paper investigates the existing research for the augmentation of mobile devices in MCC and presents the review of comprehensive existing work under two fundamentals perspectives: Provisioning of distributed application processing systems and Computation offloading. Furthermore, this paper also points out the associated issues and challenges from both perspectives.
Verifiable Management of Private Data under Byzantine Failures

In this paper, we present Calypso, an auditable data-management framework that lends itself to decentralize the sharing and life-cycle management of private data as well as to enforce fair, atomic disclosure of data protecting against front-running attacks. To achieve these goals, Calypso deploys on-chain secrets, a novel abstraction that enforces the deposition of an auditable trace whenever users access confidential data. On-chain secrets combine verifiable secret sharing and blockchains to ensure accountability, fairness, and liveness of the data-sharing process without centralized intermediaries. By employing skipchains for identities and access-control rules, Calypso provides dynamically changing access control while enabling users to keep control over their identities. Our benchmarks show that the latency of processing transactions scales linearly with the number of involved nodes (trustees) and is in the range of 0.2 to 8 seconds for 16 to 128 trustees.We also evaluated Calypso in two contexts using simulated and real workloads. First, a document sharing application, where, depending on the load, the latency overhead ranges from 0.2× to 5× compared to a semicentralized system. Second, a zero-collateral lottery that, unlike the current state-of-the-art solutions, always terminates in one round independently of the number of participants.
A Study of Gender Differences on Stress and Emotional Intelligence

Article history: Received 1 October 2018 Received in revised form 4 December 2018 Accepted 14 December 2018 Available online 16 December 2018 There are some stereotypes attached on both male and female genders regarding their emotional states and taking stress i.e. females are considered to be emotionally more expressive whereas, males to be emotionally cool and stable. The present study aims to explore if this difference exists in the academic field of postgraduate level. Thus, this research determines; (1) the differences between male and female postgraduate students’ level of stress and emotional intelligence (EI) as the coping strategies; then (2) the significance of gender difference in EI and stress, particularly, among UTM Perdana School students. According to the findings, the female students are found to perceive slightly higher stress compared to male respondents, but male students are found to have greater EI in managing their stress compared to female respondents. However, the difference was insignificant as the reasons could be situational or biological reason rather than gender differences.
Chapter 8 Complications of Total Hip Replacement

Total hip replacement is a highly effective surgical procedure for patients suffering from end stage osteoarthritis and its success in improving symptoms of osteoarthritis has meant that its use has increased across many healthcare systems. Although in experienced hands the procedure provides very effective outcomes one must be aware of the potential complications of the procedure. These can be divided into general and procedure specific. General complications include infections, postoperative pulmonary issues and thromboembolic complications. Procedural specific complications include a surgical site infection, haemorrhage, nerve injury, dislocation, leg length discrepancy, periprosthetic fractures and heterotrophic ossification. This chapter explores and describes the complications a surgeon may face when performing a total hip replacement and how one may avoid and address these.
Improving the Optics of Active Outage Detection ( extended )

There is a growing interest in carefully observing the reliability of the Internet’s edge. Outage information can inform our understanding of Internet reliability and planning, and it can help guide operations. Outage detection algorithms using active probing from third parties have been shown to be accurate for most of the Internet, but inaccurate for blocks that are sparsely occupied. Our contributions include a definition of outages, which we use to determine howmany independent observers are required to determine global outages. We propose a new Full Block Scanning (FBS) algorithm that gathers more information for sparse blocks to reduce false outage reports. We also propose ISP Availability Sensing (IAS) to detect maintenance activity using only external information. We study a year of outage data and show that FBS has a True Positive Rate of 86%, and show that IAS detects maintenance events in a large U.S. ISP.
Evaluating the Dynamic Performance of Passenger Cars Having CNG Cylinders

The most major physical effect imposed on a car due to the addition of a CNG cylinder, in addition to the increased sprung mass of the car, is the longitudinal and altitudinal displacements of the vehicle’s center of mass, which increases the vehicle’s under steering, changes its roll stability on turns, and increases its moment of inertia around the z axis. Also, the altitudinal increase in the vehicle’s center of mass, increases the chance of rear axle wheels to lock up, and increases the vehicle's risk of instability in severe braking, which is undesirable. In this paper, we investigated the effects of the increased mass of a CNG cylinder on the main components of the vehicle’s performance from a dynamic perspective, and then compared the results of the dynamic analysis with those of the practical tests. The results of the dynamic analyses were consistent with those of the practical tests.
New Zealand Society of Animal Production online archive

With the business case for a national animal identification system due in July 2005, it is appropriate to take stock and to see where New Zealand (NZ) and other countries are at with animal and full supply chain traceability. The objective should be to learn and contribute to the outcome. Full supply chain traceability is on the horizon, NZ needs to be proactive and valuable lessons are available particularly from the United Kingdom (UK) and Canadian experiences. The preferred position seems to be one where government plays a leading role without burdening the industry with yet another set of legislative requirements. For this to work effectively, the industry has to commit to traceability, to go beyond ordinary compliance type applications and to use it as a differentiator in the market place. Traceability is not going to go away, and as the requirements will continue to increase around the world, the best option is to embrace it.
Effect of Bovine Serum Albumin on In vitro Maturation , In vitro Fertilization and Subsequent Development of Goat Embryos

The present study was undertaken to find out the effect of bovine serum albumin (BSA) on In vitro maturation, fertilization and to support the subsequent embryonic development of goat oocytes. Cumulus oocytes complexes (COCs) were collected from slaughter house goat ovaries by aspiration method. COCs were matured for 24 hours in TCM-199 basic medium and supplemented with different levels of BSA (2mg/ml, 4mg/ml and 6mg/ml) where 0mg/ml was considered as control. Three levels of cumulus cell expansion after 24 h of In vitro culture (at 38.5oC and 5% CO2 in an incubator) observed under 10x magnification of microscope and the different stages of nuclear maturation was observed based on chromosomal configuration. Metaphase-II stages were 40.78 ± 3.84, 67.52 ± 0.85, 68.95 ± 1.88 and 57.74 ± 2.39%. The fertility level was indicated by pronuclei formation. Normal fertilization (formation of 2 pronuclei) were 23.28 ± 3.00, 35.52 ± 1.21, 37.74 ± 1.24 and 29.30 ± 3.73% for 0 mg (control), 2 mg, 4 mg and 6 mg level of BSA respectively. The results indicated that the maturation and fertilization rate could be significantly increased (p<0.01) by supplementing 2 mg per ml level of BSA. The rates could not be improved significantly (p>0.01) by increasing the level to 4 mg per ml and when the BSA level was increased to 6 mg per ml, the rate of maturation and fertilization decreased significantly (p<0.01) . The development of blastocyst was found as 7.36, 12.21, 14.45 and 9.65%, respectively. The results indicate that the maturation, fertilization and subsequent embryo development rate could be significantly (p<0.01) increased by supplementing 2 mg/ml of BSA and the rates could be improved further nonsignificantly by increasing the level to 4 mg/ml but significant (p<0.05) detoriation occurred when BSA was increased up to 6 mg/ml. Thus, it can be concluded that supplementation of BSA with TCM-199 is required for regular In vitro fertilization and the 2 mg per ml BSA might be used as a supplementation for In vitro maturation, fertilization and subsequent development of goat oocytes.
How wireless Electricity Theft Detection Can Assist in Reducing The theft or Stealing of Electricity

South African Utilities are struggling to collect revenue due to electricity theft; therefore, there is a need for researchers to look at wireless communication technique. This paper will cover electrical power theft detector via wireless technology. The electrical power theft detector will assist in detecting an unauthorized tapping on distribution lines via transmission and receiving technique. The uniqueness of this system is that it recognizes the common act of stealing electricity via tempering with the meter box. In the market, there are several types of wireless system or PLC, s, to avoid complexity of the study only ZIGBBE (PLC) will be discussed. This system ensures the accurate billing of the electricity consumed hence to provide the best way to prevent from the electricity theft. The supply cut by this system can only be reset by the authorized person of the Utility Section making it best method to reduce the manual error and provide an excellent way to detect the bypassing of the energy meter. The ZIGBEE is preferred on this study because it provide major advantages such as low power consumption and the low cost of the ZIGBEE module.
Agro-Morphological Variation Among an Ancient World Barley Collection

Historically barley has been a very important crop in agriculture system of Turkey as it is now. Barley breeding and collecting activities started at the beginning of 20th century in Turkey. During that time huge amount of material piled up at the seed banks and collections of plant breeding institutions through collecting missions and material exchange. We characterized around 3.500 barley accessions of Eskisehir Transition Zone Agricultural Research Institute. Characterized populations have been obtained from 44 countries (Asia 14, Europe 19, Americas 6, Africa 4 and Australia) of 5 continents and two international agricultural research institutes since 1950’s up to date. We are presenting only the result of 2.517 two row barley accessions with this paper. Results of the study reveal a series of phenotypic similarities and differences between the materials of several countries. Results also show the existence of a significant amount of diversity between the populations which can be used as a source for breeding programs.
Cloning and expression analysis of gibberellin 3-oxidase gene in Dendrobium officinale

Objective To clone the gibberellin 3-oxidase gene DoGA3ox from an important and endangered medicinal plant Dendrobium officinale (Orchidaceae), followed by bioinformatic and expression analysis. Methods RACE and RT-PCR were used to isolate the full-length gene. The physicochemical properties, conserved domains, and subcellular localization of DoGA3ox protein were determined using a series of bioinformatic tools. The phylogenetic analyses were performed using DNASTAR 7.0 and MEGA 6.0 software. Real time quantitative PCR was employed for gene expression analysis. Results The full-length cDNA of DoGA3ox (GenBank registration number KT597694) was 1 318 bp in size, and encoded a 353-amino acid peptide chain with a molecular weight of 39 052.5 and an isoelectric point (pI) of 6.21; The deduced DoGA3ox protein without transmembrane or signal peptide residues, contained the gibberellin 3-oxidases conserved domains that DIOX_N (40—130) and 2OG-FeII_Oxy (197—299). DoGA3ox had 51%—56% similarity with GA3ox proteins from various plants, and was closely related to the monocot Allium fistulosum, Elaeis guineensis, and Phoenix dactylifera. The relative transcript levels of DoGA3ox were increased at stage 1, then decreased (stage 2), and increased again (stage 3) during D. officinale symbiotic/asymbiotic seed germination, the fold change to ungerminated seeds was 13.44 (symbiotic)/5.21 (asymbiotic), 7.28/2.32 and 9.40/6.21, respectively. Moreover, its transcript level was higher in symbiotic germination than that in the asymbiotic status. Conclusion The full-length DoGA3ox gene is cloned for the first time, and its expression in different stages during seed germination indicates that DoGA3ox gene plays a crucial role in the regulation of seed germination in D. officinale.
Further Tests of the Utility of Integrated Speed-Accuracy Measures in Task Switching

Speed and accuracy of performance are central to many theoretical accounts of cognitive processing. In recent years, several integrated performance measures have been proposed. A comparative study of the available measures [Vandierendonck, A. (2017). A comparison of methods to combine speed and accuracy measures of performance: A rejoinder on the binning procedure. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 653–673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0721-5] concluded that three of the measures, namely inverse efficiency score, rate correct score, and linear integrated speed-accuracy score achieved a balanced integration of speed and accuracy. As a follow-up on that study, these three measures were examined in data analyses from 13 (published and unpublished) experiments in the context of task switching. The correlations of the effect sizes in these integrated scores with the effect sizes obtained in latency and accuracy were high, but varied across the three integrated measures. The efficiency to detect effects supported by the speed and accuracy data was examined by means of signal detection analyses. The three measures efficiently detected effects present in either speed or accuracy, but the rate correct score was less efficient than the other two measures and it signalled a larger number of strong effects unsupported by the speed and accuracy data. It is concluded that while the rate correct score is better avoided, and the usage of the inverse efficiency score should be restricted to data with low overall error rates, the linear integrated speed-accuracy score proves to be valid.
MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE ARCHITECTURE IN ARTISTIC AND RHYTHMIC GYMNASTS 1

Natália Batista Albuquerque Goulart,Fernando de Aguiar Lemos, Caroline Pieta Dias, João Carlos Oliva, Marco Aurélio Vaz Exercise Research Laboratory, School of Physical Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Faculty Cenecista of Osório, Faculty of Physical Education, Osório, RS, Brazil 3 Physical Education Course, Faculty of Serra Gaúcha, Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil
Uncertainty analysis of 3 D motion data available from motion analysis system

A complete understanding of motion is important for assisting clinicians and engineers in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of people with physical disorders. For 3D motion measurement systems, when applied to measuring human motion, motion data is sometimes reported with a standard error of measurement reflecting the uncertainty of the measurement caused by this skin movement artefact during motion as well as system error and marker noise. This lack of information seriously limits the ability to investigate motion analysis for the researchers. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the uncertainty caused by skin movement artifact as well as sensor noise and measurement error of the motion analysis system. We present a method for incorporating the uncertainty of the matching between a model of the calibration device (3D robot) and measurements, obtained with a motion analysis system (Optotrak Certus), in a Kalman filter.
- 1-A Method to Extract Various Vascular Features from Liver Images of Computed Tomography

M. Ishikawa, H. Uchida, T. Tamaki, M. Yamamoto, T. Suda, M. Igarashi, Y. Aoyagi Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan Institute of Medicine Density, Academic Assembly, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan The Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan Abstract –Liver cirrhosis is a diagnosis based on histological concept. However, liver biopsy, sampling liver tissues from a living donor, is an invasive technique, in which a direct puncture of the liver is necessary. On the other hand, a higher resolution of a recent computed tomography has a potential to replace histology with objective and digital images, which are available without any invasive techniques. Here we present a system extracting various features of three-dimensional vasculature in the liver from images of CT aiming an objective and noninvasive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis.
Handwritten Indic Script Recognition Based on the Dempster–Shafer Theory of Evidence

Abstract In a multilingual country like India, script recognition is an important pre-processing footstep necessary for feeding any document to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, which is, in general, script specific. The present work evaluates the performance of an ensemble of two MLP (multi-layer perceptron) classifiers, each trained on different feature sets. Here, two complementary sets of features, namely, gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and Gabor wavelets transform coefficients are extracted from each of the handwritten text-line and word images written in 12 official scripts used in Indian subcontinent, which are then fed into an individual classifier. In order to improve the overall recognition rate, a powerful combination approach based on the Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory is finally employed to fuse the decisions of two MLP classifiers. The performance of the combined decision is compared with those of the individual classifiers, and it is noted that a significant improvement in recognition accuracy (about 4% for text-line data and 6% for word level data) has been achieved by the proposed methodology.
Adaptive protection scheme for optimally coordinated relay setting using modified PSO algorithm

With growing power demand and heightened concern about the use of fossil fuels in conventional power plants, the integration of distributed energy resources into power networks is gaining attention due to their ability to cater for localized energy needs, putting the concept of the Smart grid center stage. Network protection systems, faced with a gradual increase in complexity, will have to develop responses to the changes brought about by ever greater penetration by distributed generation and sophisticated network topologies. The main goal of this paper is to provide optimal relay coordination of an adaptive protection scheme. Designed software based on a Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO) algorithm is implemented to solve the relay coordination problem. In this study, the 14 IEEE bus system is tested across a range of power system scenarios to validate the suggested technique. The results obtained show that optimal relay settings are achieved by the proposed algorithm regardless of the prevailing network topology.
USING OF TOMATO AND POTATO BY-PRODUCTS AS NON-CONVENTIONAL INGREDIENTS IN NILE TILAPIA, OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS DIETS

The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of replacing the protein source of soybean meal (SBM) by tomato by-product meal (TBM) and replacing yellow corn (YC) by potato by-product meal (PBM) on growth performance and feed utilization of Nile tilapia, O. niloticus. Therefore, two experiments were conducted, in the first experiment nine experimental diets were formulated to contains 0 to 80% replacing levels of SBM by TBM in 10% increments. In the second experiment another nine experimental diets were formulated to contains 0 to 80% replacing levels of YC by PBM in 10% increments and each diet was fed to two replicates. Experimental diets of the two experiments were formulated to be isonitrogenous (30% CP) and isocaloric (3300 ME/kg diet) and P/E ratio of 90 mg protein/kcal (ME). During the two experimental periods diets were fed to Nile tilapia (O. niloticus) 6 days/week at 4% of live body weight through 10 weeks experimental period. Results of the first experiment showed that: Replacement of SBM by TBM up to 50% did not affect fish body weight (BW), body length (BL) weight gain (WG), specific growth rate (SGR), feed intake (FI), feed conversion ratio (FCR) and protein efficiency ratio (PER). Also, replacing 50% of SBM by TBM did not exert significant effect on the dress-out, by-products, flesh, moisture and protein content in fish bodies. Results of the second experiment showed that replacing YC in tilapia diets by PBM up to 40% did not significantly affect all growth parameters (BW, BL, WG and SGR), feed utilization (FI, FCR and PER) and the same trend was also observed for flesh, moisture, protein, fat and ash contents in fish bodies. From economic view, it was observed that replacing 50% of SBM by TBM in tilapia diets reduces feed costs by 10.93% while replacing 40% of YC by PBM reduced feed costs by 7.53%.
EFFECTS OF INTERNET ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS’ STUDENTS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

This research work investigates the effects of internet on the academic performance of students in tertiary institutions within Niger state, Nigeria. Five research questions were formulated to guide the study. The research design adopted was the survey method using questionnaires as the instrument of data collection. Three institutions were selected and sample of 300 students was randomly selected from these institutions. A questionnaire was distributed for data generation. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. The finding reveals that internet is one of the beneficial tools in this era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) used in academic exercise. The study also revealed some of the problems encountered in the usage of internet which include slow internet speed and lack of stable power supply. It was recommended among others that the school management should embark on awareness programmes that will sensitize the students to take the advantages derived from the use of the internet for academic purpose