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The Effect of Racism on Black Mortality and Life Expectancy

Although many theoretical arguments have been made linking racism to high mortality and lower life expectancy among African Americans, studies to date have been unable to measure racism directly to determine the strength of the its effect on health and well-being. Here we take advantage of a new internet-based method to measure interstate variation in anti-black sentiment and connect it to cross-state variation in mortality and life expectancy. Estimates of a structural equations model indicate that racism: increases the rate of black homicide through the intervening variable of racial segregation; raises infant mortality through the intervening variable of low birth weight; and increases mortality from diabetes and heart disease through the intervening variable of obesity. Excess deaths from infant mortality, diabetes, and heart disease in turn act to lower black life expectancy, and racism has a direct effect in reducing black life chances as well. Varying the level of racism from its lowest to highest observed level across states is sufficient to shift black life expectancy by an estimated 3.9 years.
Examining the role of relationship satisfaction in the association between rejection sensitivity and infidelity

A considerable amount of research has demonstrated that individuals high in rejection sensitivity behave negatively towards their partners when they sense rejection. There also exists a large body of research dedicated to identifying the factors leading to infidelity in romantic relationships as well as its consequences. In an effort to bridge the gap between these two areas of research, the present study investigates the possible association between high rejection sensitivity and infidelity while also examining whether this proposed relationship is mediated by relationship satisfaction, as this proposed model has yet to be explored. Participants were undergraduate students (77 males, 249 females, 1 other) who took an anonymous online survey in which they completed measures of rejection sensitivity, infidelity, and relationship satisfaction. Mediation analyses revealed that rejection sensitivity significantly predicted relationship satisfaction and that relationship satisfaction was predictive of infidelity; however, rejection sensitivity did not significantly predict infidelity. Implications for utilizing these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Microwavable expanded-snack from native rice starch : Influence of inulin and amylose content

This study investigated the effects of dry basis amylose content (AC) of 4-28% w/w and inulin content (IC) of 5-25% on the structure and physical properties of microwavable rice starch-based expanded products. It was found that the structure and physical properties of ricebased products is influenced by the interaction between AC and IC. Expanded products can be obtained by using 10% shortening. Snack products were expanded in a 660 W microwave oven. It was generally observed that maximum expansion occurs in products of 4% AC and 25% IC. The highest expansion of product related to the lowest relative crystallinity (RC) in the starch gel and lowest gel hardness. With constant IC, the RC and gel hardness increased with AC. However, a constant AC, with increasing IC resulted in a lower RC and gel hardness. The higher AC resulted in greater hardness and bulk density, but a lower degree of expansion in the product. At a constant AC, increasing the IC resulted in a lower hardness and bulk density, but higher degree of expansion of products and provided uniformity of air cell size and fine structure.
Human carrying capacity estimation in Brazilian Amazonia : Research requirements to provide a basis for sustainable development

Fearnside, P.M. 1996. Human carrying capacity estimation in Brazilian Amazonia: Research requirements to provide a basis for sustainable development. pp. 274-291 In: R. Lieberei, C. Reisdorff and A.D. Machado (eds.) Interdisciplinary Research on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Amazonian Rain Forest and its Information Requirements. Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH (GKSS), Bremen, Germany. 323 pp.
A Driven Pile Advantage : Batter Piles

The ability to install driven piles on an angle, or batter, gives them a distinct advantage with respect to their ability to carry lateral loads. Batter piles carry lateral loads primarily in axial compression and/or tension while vertical deep foundations carry lateral loads in shear and bending. When subjected to lateral loading, batter piles will therefore generally have a greater capacity and be subject to smaller deformations than vertical piles of the same dimensions and material. Large shear and moment loads induced at the pile head have been a source of performance problems with batter piles in some cases. However, these problems can be mitigated by appropriate design and detailing of the pile-structure connection. Until the 1990s, batter piles were a common means for carrying lateral loads, particularly when the lateral loads were large, there was a large unsupported length, or there were weak soils at the ground surface. Examples of such situations include seismic design of bridges and design of marginal wharfs and other port and harbor structures. In the 1990s, following the poor performance of batter piles in a series of earthquakes, some engineers began advising against the use of batter piles. However, once the reason for the poor performance of batter piles was understood, engineers developed design strategies to address these problems. Using these strategies, batter piles have once again become an important weapon in the engineer’s arsenal for designing foundations subject to lateral loads. Historical Overview Sources of lateral loads on deep foundations include not only seismic loads but also winds, blasts and other impacts, waves and currents, and lateral earth pressures and displacements. Throughout most of the 20th century, batter piles were employed routinely to carry lateral loads. Retaining walls founded upon soft soils, anchored bulkheads, pile supported decks, breasting dolphins, and bridge piers regularly employed batter piles. In fact, batter piles were the preferred methods for deep foundations subject to lateral loads until well into the second half of the 20th century. Reasons for this include the extremely poor moment (bending) capacity of some of the more common deep foundation types employed in By Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., Ph.D., P.E. , Associate Professor and Interim Chair,
Frequencies extraction of a cantilever beam using Finite Element Modelling

The evolution of the construction industry has led to highly complex structures, which need to be safe and, at the same time, to be able to satisfy their structural and economic purposes. On the other hand, numerical models have become of vast importance in the design of structures. The present article explains the significance of a numerical model in structural dynamics and civil engineering, giving a theoretical basis on this topic, programming hints, acquisition of results and an insight of the choice of the right parameters, focussing on the extraction of the natural frequencies of a structure. Moreover, an example of a numerical model based on Finite Element modelling with MATLAB of a cantilever beam is provided.
THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ON CUSTOMER VALUE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND MARKET TRENDS IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY

Over the past few years, clients have been the center of attention, and any company is seeking to satisfy its customers in one or several methods. Some companies coordinate themselves with the market in order to create superior customer value through culture and behaviors that this orientation has developed. Other companies prefer to manage their knowledge whereas others focus on creating and maintaining long-term relationships with their customers. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of knowledge management on customer value: the mediating role of customer relationship management and market trends in Mellat Bank branches of Yazd city. This research is an applied study based on the purpose and a descriptive-survey study in terms of obtaining data and regarding the type of gathered data that were obtained by questionnaire, it is a quantitative research. In order to measure the variables, Martelo questionnaire (2013) was used. The study population is comprised of the employees of Melli Bank in Yazd from among which 166 individuals were selected using Cochran’s formula. Data analysis was done using SPSS and AMOS software. Results indicated that all hypotheses were approved and a positive significant relationship was found between the variables. The findings could help bank managers to identify the weaknesses and strengths in designing knowledge management and customer relationship management in order to create customer value and its effectiveness to improve business performance.
The original MVC reports

I made the first implementation and wrote the original MVC reports while I was a visiting scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Laboratory (PARC) in 1978/79. MVC was created as an obvious solution to the general problem of giving users control over their information as seen from multiple perspectives. MVC has created a surprising amount of interest. Some texts even use perverted variants for the opposite purpose of making the computer control the user.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IJARET)

The Radix-4 Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is widely accepted for signal processing applications in wireless communication system. Here, we present a new Radix-4 FFT which reduces the operational count by 6% lesser than standard Radix-4 FFT without losing any arithmetic accuracy. Simulation results are also given for the verification of the algorithm.
International conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction , IHCI 2015 Optimal Spatio-Spectral Variable Size Subbands Filter For Motor Imagery Brain Computer Interface

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is a commonly used feature extraction technique for motor imagery brain computer interface. CSP provides poor performance when features are extracted from unfiltered or irrelevant frequency band filtered data. In order to overcome this problem, Subband CSP (SBCSP) and Filter Bank CSP (FBCSP) have been proposed in literature to extract features from several fixed size subbands. However, both SBCSP and FBCSP require manually fixing the size of subbands to obtain higher performance. In this paper, we propose a method that obtains features from many variable size subbands within a given frequency band using CSP. Further, Euclidean distance measure is used to obtain the relevant features. The efficacy of the proposed method is evaluated in terms of classification error on BCI Competition III dataset IVa and BCI competition IV dataset Ia. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better performance in comparison to CSP, SBCSP and FBCSP. c © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IHCI 2015.
Gait speed and balance function strongly determine the ability to walk independently without using a wheelchair in a facility setting for stroke patients

cute phase rehabilitation for stroke patients has been actively performed in recent years. Early post-stroke rehabilitation programs can effectively improve physical function and the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) in patients and make early hospital discharge possible. In Japan, patients with mild stroke are usually discharged home within a short period of time after the event, although a substantial number of Original Contribution Kitasato Med J 2018; 48: 16-25
High-Level Optimization of Performance and Power in Very Deep Sub-Micron Interconnects

Interconnect analysis and optimization at high levels of abstraction is extremely attractive since it offers a much larger room for improvement than optimization at lower levels. The objective of this thesis is to optimize performance and power consumption in interconnect structures at high levels of abstraction. For this purpose, efficient high-level models for delay and power consumption in very deep sub-micron interconnects are developed and employed for constructing and evaluating different low power and throughput improving signal encoding schemes. Moreover, in order to achieve an even higher efficiency, coding is combined with lower level techniques like spacing, shielding, and buffer planning. In order to construct and evaluate encoding schemes at high levels of abstraction, two conceptually different issues must be solved. On the one hand, bit-level characteristics of the data transmitted over the interconnect structures need to be extracted during systemlevel design and architecture specification. On the other hand, important interconnectrelated very deep sub-micron effects have to be incorporated into high-level models as well. Delay models able to predict the line delay for each set of input patterns (and not only for the worst case) are required in order to develop and evaluate coding schemes tailored for performance improvement. An essential contribution of this work is the development of a pattern-dependent delay model. The essence of the so-called extended linear delay (ELD) model is to incorporate the effects of all possible input patterns in buses exhibiting not only inter-wire capacitance, but also inductive effects which are in general more difficult to predict and more daunting because of their long-range nature. Further, the described power macromodel shows that in order to decrease dynamic power consumption at high levels of abstraction, one has to reduce not only the self transition activity but also the so-called coupling transition activity responsible for charging and discharging the inter-wire capacitances in a bus. The abovementioned models are employed in order to construct and evaluate several low-power and throughput improving codes. Based on the observation that the bitlevel transition activity in typical DSP applications can be accurately described by two breakpoints, several simple yet very efficient hybrid codes are constructed. Those codes combine non-redundant and redundant schemes in such a way that the total self and coupling transition activity are significantly decreased. Moreover, maximum achievable limits are derived, which show the effectiveness of the developed codes. Further, several
A real time application for monitoring people in bank by background subtraction method

Surveillance video is an active field of research where need to monitor system in the real time. The proposed system work on real time monitoring video where only selected frames are store at backend applying threshold and after subtracting background moving object is detection. Result is carried further for tracking and counting the humans present in a video. Finally counting of humans is performed to get the total number of people in a video. The accuracy of detection obtained with this system is up to 100%.
EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF NARROW-LEAVED LAVENDER (Lavandula angustifolia MILL)

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of soil and weather conditions during three vegetation seasons (2001, 2003 and 2004) on the yield of the narrow-leaved lavender herb as well as on the content and composition of volatile oils in the owers of this plant. Field experiments were conducted on three 4-year old plantations of lavender in the 3 year of cultivation. The site of this study was Krepa near Golcza, located in Miechow Upland. The yields of both the fresh and dry matter of in orescences and owers (spikes) of lavender were affected by: weather conditions during the vegetation seasons, size of plants, number of owering branches and number of ower rings in spikes. At the same time, the weather and soil conditions had no effect on the total content of volatile oils in owers of lavender. However, the relative content of major terpenes ie linalool, linalyl acetate, geraniol and borneol in lavender oil was altered
Charting the Course: Curriculum Mapping and the Literature Program

Why a Curriculum Map? The Literature Program, as part of its 2011/12 Five Year Program Review, identified strengths in individual assessment techniques (such as individual and program adopted rubrics and the use of outside reviewers to evaluate the capstone course and senior thesis). Yet, we also found a weakness in our ability to assess the program holistically. As a result, the program decided to incorporate a curriculum map into its assessment materials. The completed map, which will incorporate all program courses, will allow Literature to review our curriculum holistically for curriculum strengths and inconsistencies. The Literature program is in the process of drafting, revising, and implementing a curriculum map linked both to program and college learning outcomes (essential learning outcomes, ELOs, and 2020 strategic goals). In this issue
Classi fi cation and Diagnosis of Diabetes : Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes d 2019

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes” includes ADA’s current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care.Members of theADAProfessional Practice Committee, a multidisciplinary expert committee, are responsible for updating the Standards of Care annually, or more frequently as warranted. For a detailed description of ADA standards, statements, and reports, as well as the evidence-grading system for ADA’s clinical practice recommendations, please refer to the Standards of Care Introduction. Readers who wish to comment on the Standards of Care are invited to do so at professional.diabetes. org/SOC.
Record-Couple Based Production Rule Mining Algorithm: Tested in Medical Billing Domain

Most research in the area of rule mining tends to focus mining of either ‘classification rules’ or ‘association rules’, while ignoring ‘production rules’. Production rules are building blocks of rule based expert systems. This paper presents an algorithm for production rule mining. Algorithm matches two states of an object; current state and previous state collectively termed as ‘record-couple’. The algorithm tries to find differences within a record-couple, and generates production rules from these differences. The proposed algorithm has been tested on synthetic data and then applied on actual data. The Algorithm is being used for supplying production rules to a rule based expert system which is applied in medical billing domain. The system is being used for finding knowledge oriented data inconsistencies in medical claims. Implementation of the algorithm is a demonstration of how data mining technology can be used for providing continuous supply of knowledge to rule-based expert systems.
Estuary: Browser-based Collaborative Projectional Live Coding of Musical Patterns

This paper describes the initial design and development of Estuary, a browser-based collaborative projectional editing environment built on top of the popular TidalCycles language for the live coding of musical pattern. Key features of Estuary include a strict form of structure editing (making syntactical errors impossible), a click-only border-free approach to interface design, explicit notations to modulate the liveness of different parts of the code, and a server-based network collaboration system that can be used for many simultaneous collaborative live coding performances, as well as to present different views of the same live coding activity. Estuary has been developed using Reﬂex-DOM, a Haskell-based framework for web development whose strictness promises robustness and security advantages.
SOCIAL GROWTH AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The present study examined relationship between social growth influencing students' performance or failure have always been a basic issue in education; however, despite the extensive line of research conducted and a large amount of budgets spent, there are still huge numbers of students who experience failure in academic performance each year. This study utilized a quantitative approach and correlation research design. Respondents of the study consisted of 400 male and female high school students who were identified by proportional stratified random sampling technique. Instruments for data collection included Bur's Parent Authority Questionnaire and Paulson’s Parental Academic Involvement Questionnaire. The results of the Pearson correlation analysis showed that parents’ authoritative and permissive styles, parental school involvement were significantly related to academic performance.
Number : WUCSE-2008-13 2008-0101 Practical Schedulability Analysis for Generalized Sporadic Tasks in Distributed Real-Time Systems

Existing off-line schedulability analysis for real-time systems can only handle periodic or sporadic tasks with known minimum inter-arrival times. Modeling sporadic tasks with fixed minimum inter-arrival times is a poor approximation for systems in which tasks arrive in bursts, but have longer intervals between the bursts. In such cases, schedulability analysis based on the existing sporadic task model is pessimistic and seriously overestimates the task's time demand. In this paper, we propose a generalized sporadic task model that characterizes arrival times more precisely than the traditional sporadic task model, and we develop a corresponding schedulability analysis that computes tighter bounds on worst-case response times. Experimental results show that when arrival time jitter increases, the new analysis more effectively guarantees schedulability of sporadic tasks. Type of Report: Other Department of Computer Science & Engineering Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1045 St. Louis, MO 63130 ph: (314) 935-6160
Number : WUCSE-2007-6 2007 Context-Aware Publish Subscribe in Mobile ad Hoc Networks

The publish-subscribe communication paradigm is enjoying increasing popularity thanks to its ability to simplify the development of complex distributed applications. However, existing solutions in the publish-subscribe domain address only part of the challenges associated with the development of applications in dynamic scenarios such as mobile ad hoc networks. Mobile applications must be able to assist users in a variety of situations, responding not only to their inputs but also to the characteristics of the environment in which they operate. In this paper, we address these challenges by extending the publish-subscribe paradigm with the ability to manage and exploit context information when matching events against subscriptions. We present our extension in terms of a formal model of context-aware publish-subscribe. We propose a solution for its implementation in MANETs; and finally we validate our approach by means of extensive simulations. Type of Report: Other Department of Computer Science & Engineering Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1045 St. Louis, MO 63130 ph: (314) 935-6160 Context-Aware Publish Subscribe in Mobile ad