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Meaning Variation in Metaphorical Expressions of the Tegalan Oral Literature: A Pragmatic Approach

This research aims to analyze the conceptualization metaphorical expression of the Tegalan oral literature. Those conceptualization metaphorical based on the experience that is felt by the body, the nature of conceptualization, characteristic based on conceptualization, strength-based on conceptualization, and conceptualization based on function. A qualitative pragmatic approach was employed by involving the types and forms of oral literature of the Tegalan Javanese ethnicity. The form of the data was fragments of discourse upon the type and form of oral literature of the Tegalan ethnicity. The data were collected by recording, listening, and noting technique. The sorting process was in line with the procedure of the method. Data analysis activities used referential identity method and introspective reflexive method. The results revealed that the meaning of metaphorical expressions of oral literature consisted of (1) objects to express objects, (2) objects to express conditions, (3) objects to express actions, (4) places to express places, (5) places to express circumstances, (6) actions to express actions, (7) actions to express circumstances, (8) circumstances to express circumstances, (9) circumstances to express actions, and (10) time to express time. The existence of metaphorical expression of oral literature in the Tegalan Javanese Ethnic is the representative of the real contex.
University of Huddersfield Repository Does collaboration pay in agricultural supply chain? An empirical approach

This paper examines the effect of different types of collaboration on the level of Postharvest Food Losses (PHFL) and the proportion of low-quality peaches produced using a unique dataset of Greek peach producers. Quantile regression techniques are adopted to estimate the effects at different points of the conditional distribution of our variables of interest. The findings of this study suggest that high levels of collaboration between producers and cooperatives are associated with both low levels of PHFL and a low proportion of low-quality peaches. We also find that specific types of collaboration, such as ‘goal congruence’, can play a significant role in reducing PHFL and improving the quality of peach production at the extremes of the distribution. Important policy implications regarding collaborative practices and systems that can be implemented to reduce PHFL and boost a producer’s performance together with sustainability credentials are drawn from this study.
A Soft Exoskeleton Glove Incorporating Motor-Tendon Actuator for Hand Movements Assistance

Hand paralysis can inhibit daily activities, for example, grasping a particular food or an object. With the advancement of science and technology today especially in wearable robot technology, normal hand function can be recovered with the help of wearable soft robotic glove. This robot has a mechanism that resembles the working mechanism of the hand itself. The purpose of this study is to develop a low-cost soft exoskeleton glove made from silicone rubber using a tendon-based mechanism. The molding of the soft glove is designed using SolidWorks CAD software. Dual-slack enabling actuators are designed and manufactured as the actuator system of the soft exoskeleton glove. The proposed actuator is used as flexion and extension motion for the human hand. This motion enables the soft exoskeleton glove to provide mechanical support for the human hand. A potentiometer sensor is used in the dual-slack enabling actuator for measuring the rotating angle of the actuator that is connected to the tendon and soft exoskeleton glove. The actuator is controlled using on-off and Proportional-Integral (PI) control. After the soft exoskeleton glove system is integrated, the soft robot is implemented on a healthy human hand to assist the grasping of various objects. The measurement for the wearable robot is performed by using serial communication between Arduino Nano microcontroller and the host computer. Based on the experimental results, the soft glove can successfully assist and support the user’s hand for various object grasping. Copyright © 2020 Praise Worthy Prize S.r. l. All rights reserved.
A Multi-Market-Driven Approach to Energy Scheduling of Smart Microgrids in Distribution Networks

In order to coordinate the economic desire of microgrid (MG) owners and the stability operation requirement of the distribution system operator (DSO), a multi-market participation framework is proposed to stimulate the energy transaction potential of MGs through distributed and centralized ways. Firstly, an MG equipped with storage can contribute to the stability improvement at special nodes of the distribution grid where the uncertain factors (such as intermittent renewable sources and electric vehicles) exist. The DSO is thus interested in encouraging specified MGs to provide voltage stability services by creating a distribution grid service market (DGSM), where the dynamic production-price auction is used to capture the competition of the distributed MGs. Moreover, an aggregator, serving as a broker and controller for MGs, is considered to participate in the day-ahead wholesale market. A Stackelberg game is modeled accordingly to solve the price and quantity package allocation between aggregator and MGs. Finally, the modified IEEE-33 bus distribution test system is used to demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed multi-market mechanism. The results under this framework improve both MGs and utility.
Stochastic pump of interacting particles

We consider the overdamped motion of Brownian particles, interacting via particle exclusion, in an external potential that varies with time and space. We show that periodic potentials that maintain specific position-dependent phase relations generate time-averaged directed current of particles. We obtain analytic results for a lattice version of the model using a recently developed perturbative approach. Many interesting features like particle-hole symmetry, current reversal with changing density, and system size dependence of current are obtained. We propose possible experiments to test our predictions.
Dispersion-Enhanced Laser Gyroscope

We analyze the effect of a highly dispersive element placed inside a modulated optical cavity on the frequency and amplitude of the output modulation to determine the conditions for enhanced gyroscopic sensitivities. The element is treated as both a phase and amplitude filter, and the time-dependence of the cavity field is considered. Both atomic gases (two-level and multi-level) and optical resonators (single and coupled) are considered and compared as dispersive elements. We find that it is possible to simultaneously enhance the gyro scale factor sensitivity and suppress the dead band by using an element with anomalous dispersion that has greater loss at the carrier frequency than at the side-band frequencies, i.e., an element that simultaneously pushes and intensifies the perturbed cavity modes, e.g. a two-level absorber or an under-coupled optical resonator. The sensitivity enhancement is inversely proportional to the effective group index, becoming infinite at a group index of zero. However, the number of round trips required to reach a steady-state also becomes infinite when the group index is zero (or two). For even larger dispersions a steady-state cannot be achieved, and nonlinear dynamic effects such as bistability and periodic oscillations are predicted in the gyro response.
Control of Grasping Force by Estimating Stick/Slip Distribution at the Contact Interface of an Elastic Finger Having Curved Surface

Fingers of human allow an object to be lifted using adequate grasping force and without slippage, even when the weight and friction coefficient of the object are unknown. Grasping force is controlled by detecting complex response of the skin using tactile receptors incorporated in the finger tissue. In this study, we propose a method for controlling the grasping force when objects are grasped by artificial elastic fingers in which many sensors are incorporated. First the relationship between the stick area and internal strain distribution of the finger is calculated in detail by using FE (finite element) analysis. The quantitative relationship between the stick area in the contact surface and the velocity of internal strain distribution is obtained. From these, we propose a method for controlling the grasping force by decreasing the increasing ratio of the tangential force when the stick area is decreasing. Finally, the grasping force is controlled by using the actual elastic finger made of silicorn rubber in which strain gages are incorporated. It is confirmed that objects can be grasped using adequate grasping force without complete slippage even when the weight and the friction coefficient of the objects are unknown.
Orbital eccentricity of WASP-12 and WASP-14 from new radial velocity monitoring with SOPHIE★

As part of the long-term radial velocity monitoring of known transiting planets, we have acquired new radial velocity data for the two transiting systems WASP-12 and WASP-14, each harbouring a gas giant on a close orbit (orbital period of 1.09 and 2.24 d, respectively). In both cases, the initial orbital solution suggested a significant orbital eccentricity, 0.049 +/- 0.015 for WASP-12b and 0.091 +/- 0.003 for WASP-14b. Since then, measurements of the occultation of WASP-12 in the infrared have indicated that one projection of the eccentricity (e cos omega) was close to zero, casting doubt on the eccentricity from the initial radial velocity orbit. Our measurements show that the radial velocity data are compatible with a circular orbit. A MCMC analysis taking into account the presence of correlated systematic noise in both the radial velocity and photometric data gives e = 0.017+0.015(-0.010). In contrast, we confirm the orbital eccentricity of WASP-14b, and refine its value to e = 0.0877 +/- 0.0030, a 10 Sigma detection. WASP-14b is thus the closest presently known planet with a confirmed eccentric orbit.
Large Random Simplicial Complexes, II; the fundamental groups

In our recent work we described conditions under which a multi-parameter random simplicial complex is connected and simply connected. We showed that the Betti numbers of multi-parameter random simplicial complexes in one specific dimension dominate significantly the Betti numbers in all other dimensions. In this paper we focus mainly on the properties of fundamental groups of multi-parameter random simplicial complexes, which can be viewed as a new class of random groups. We describe thresholds for nontrivially and hyperbolicity (in the sense of Gromov) for these groups. Besides, we find domains in the multi-parameter space where these groups have 2-torsion. We also prove that these groups have never odd-prime torsion and their geometric and cohomological dimensions are either 0,1, 2 or infinity. Another result presented in this paper states that aspherical 2-dimensional subcomplexes of random complexes satisfy the Whitehead Conjecture, i.e. all their subcomplexes are also aspherical (with probability tending to one).
Things and Places: The Meaning of the Physical Environment from an Environmental Psychology and Environmental Communication Perspective

According to environmental psychology, in the process of behaviour physical environment is man’s companion, equal partner, which, together with the internal psychological processes and in interaction (transaction) with these, partakes in the behavioural process. This standpoint makes it possible to raise quite a few questions, psychological in nature, about humans acting in a built/physical and natural environment, starting from this psychologically unusual set-off. These questions can (or for the most part can) be answered with psychological tools – “only” the man-environment transaction must be taken seriously, both from theoretical and practical perspective.
Quality of government and subjective poverty in Europe

We study the effect of quality of government on subjective poverty across European countries and regions, taking advantage of recently released data on the quality of public institutions at the regional level, and of information on household subjective poverty. In the analysis we try to separate the effects of quantity and quality of public services on perceived well-being, controlling for the size of the local government and for the receipt of in-kind services by each household of the sample. Results suggest that good governance significantly reduces the probability of being subjectively poor, both over the whole population and also among households that are poor in terms of monetary income. We then estimate the greater cost that a family has to bear in order to achieve a given level of welfare, if it lives in a region with inefficient public institutions. Our measure of this inefficiency cost is around 6% of disposable income.
Can Hedging Affect Firm’s Market Value

Previous studies have identified that the use of currency derivatives in order to minimize the risk involved with foreign trade can also increase a firm’s value. Evidence of this can be found in a paper such as Allayannis and Weston (2001) “Use of Foreign Derivatives and Firm Market Value”, which showed that companies in the U.S. that uses these currency derivatives has a higher firm value than companies that do not use them. However, there have not been any studies concerning the Swedish market. This is why the Swedish market is selected for this thesis but also since the Swedish market is a more open market than the U.S. market for instance. The more open, the more volatile is the exchange rate, which one could see as a reason to why Swedish companies should hedge even more. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the Swedish market and to find out if there is a relation between the firm value and hedging, analyzed with help of Tobin’s Q that gives us a measurement of the firm’s underlying value. The analysis is done on the 50 largest companies in Sweden, although some of the companies are ranked lower in the category total asset but since not all of the 50 largest companies met the requirements, the selection had to go further down the list. The data is received from the companies annual reports (2005), this to receive the latest data. The companies are analyzed with help of Tobin’s Q and also EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Tax), this to get a measurement of how the market value of the companies was towards each others with pr without hedging. The result is presented in the analyze and shows that there is no relation between firm value and hedging, at least not in this research and with this selection of companies in the Swedish market. This result contradicts the findings in the paper made on the U.S. market.
Intellectual Property Regimes and Wage Inequality

We use The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002 in India as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the causal effect of higher incentives for innovation on a firm's compensation structure. We find that stronger intellectual property (IP) protection has a sharper impact on the demand for managerial skill for technologically advanced firms. Firms that were apriori above the industry median (in terms of technology adoption) see a rise in the share of managerial compensation by 1.3-8.3% higher than the rest. This effect is completely driven by the firms between 60th-90th percentile. The increase in wage inequality can partly be attributed to a stronger performance pay for high-tech firms. Associatedly, the reform also leads to a significant reallocation of resources between firms. The high-tech firms invested more in technology adoption, started to produce more product varieties at higher quality and filed for more product patent claims. Broadly, we demonstrate that stronger IP protection leads to higher wage inequality between firms.
Weakly Supervised Deep Nuclei Segmentation using Points Annotation in Histopathology Images

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathological image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate the manual effort, in this paper we propose a novel approach using points only annotation. Two types of coarse labels with complementary information are derived from the points annotation, and are then utilized to train a deep neural network. The fully-connected conditional random field loss is utilized to further refine the model without introducing extra computational complexity during inference. Experimental results on two nuclei segmentation datasets reveal that the proposed method is able to achieve competitive performance compared to the fully supervised counterpart and the state-of-the art methods while requiring significantly less annotation effort. Our code is publicly available.
On Antenna Design Objectives and the Channel Capacity of MIMO Handsets

The branch correlation coefficient (BCC), the branch power ratio (BPR), and the total mean power (TMP) are often used to characterize the mobile multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) channel. This work investigates to which degree these parameters are useful for maximizing the channel capacity of MIMO handheld devices used in data mode. A statistical point of view is applied, using about 2,800 outdoor to indoor channel sounder measurements obtained with combinations of 10 different handsets, 4-8 test users and a variety of different use cases (UCs). All measurements were made in an urban environment in a setup with two different base stations (BSs) and with the users inside a single building. For each measurement combination, the mean capacity (MC) and associated values of BCC, BPR, and TMP are obtained. From the data it is found that the MC is only weakly correlated with both the BCC and the BPR, while the MC is highly correlated with the TMP.
The Effects of Fair Value on the Matching of Revenues and Expenses: The Case of Asset Revaluations

Researchers and practitioners have expressed concern that matching has declined over time, as evidenced by a decreasing association between revenues and expenses. They attribute this decline to the shift in financial reporting from a revenue-expense view that emphasizes matching, to an asset-liability view that emphasizes the measurement of economic resources that incorporates more fair values. When revenues rise with inflation but the expenses remain tied to historical costs, the two streams tend to diverge. We hypothesize that upwardly revaluing the long-lived fixed operating assets resets the expense stream; thus, changes in revenues will be more closely associated with changes in expenses for firms that revalue than firms that do not upwardly revalue. Based on a sample of United Kingdom firms, we find evidence supporting our expectations, particularly in those higher inflationary industries.
The Future of Food and Farming

COVER NOTE From: Secretary-General of the European Commission, signed by Mr Jordi AYET PUIGARNAU, Director date of receipt: 30 November 2017 To: Mr Jeppe TRANHOLM-MIKKELSEN, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union No. Cion doc. : COM(2017) 713 final Subject: COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS The Future of Food and Farming
Application of Probiotics from Mongolian Dairy Products to Fermented Dairy Products and Its Effects on Human Defecation

1 Research Division, Minami Nihon Rakuno Kyodo Co., Ltd., Miyazaki 885-0017, Japan 2 Department of Nutrition Management, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Minami-Kyushu University, Miyazaki 880-0032, Japan 3 Food and Biotechnology School, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 4 Mongolian Biotechnology Association, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 5 Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
Isolation of DNA from Saliva and Cheek Cells Using Household Chemicals

Saliva is a feasible specimen used in sample collection for research purposes. It is reported that saliva typically contains ~430,000 epithelial cells per mL. There are various cost-effective methods and commercial kits available which are used to extract DNA from saliva. However, this study aims to explore a simple, time-saving and cheap method of DNA extraction using daily life household chemicals without the help of any electronic equipment. This protocol utilizes pineapple juice which contains bromelain enzyme as a proteolytic agent and dishwashing liquid as a detergent to rupture the cell membrane and remove the contamination. It takes approximately 10-15 min for the completion of extraction procedure. Results have indicated the good quality of DNA by gel electrophoresis and good yield with purity of 1.7-1.8 optical density. Thus, this method serves as a simple, convenient, easy-to-handle, time-saving, cheap and less laborious way for the extraction of DNA in daily routine practices with a good precision of quality and quantity that could be used for diagnostic purposes.
Functional interaction between bases C 1049 in domain II and G 2751 in domain VI of 23 S rRNA in Escherichia coli ribosomes

The factor-binding center within the Escherichia coli ribosome is comprised of two discrete domains of 23S rRNA: the GTPase-associated region (GAR) in domain II and the sarcin–ricin loop in domain VI. These two regions appear to collaborate in the factor-dependent events that occur during protein synthesis. Current X-ray crystallography of the ribosome shows an interaction between C1049 in the GAR and G2751 in domain VI. We have confirmed this interaction by site-directed mutagenesis and chemical probing. Disruption of this base pair affected not only the chemical modification of some bases in domains II and VI and in helix H89 of domain V, but also ribosome function dependent on both EF-G and EF-Tu. Mutant ribosomes carrying the C1049 to G substitution, which show enhancement of chemical modification at G2751, were used to probe the interactions between the regions around 1049 and 2751. Binding of EF-G-GDP-fusidic acid, but not EF-G-GMP-PNP, to the ribosome protected G2751 from modification. The G2751 protection was also observed after tRNA binding to the ribosomal P and E sites. The results suggest that the interactions between the bases around 1049 and 2751 alter during different stages of the translation process.
Social Network Analysis of Clustering in Random Geometric Graphs

1 On the WWW, a huge body of data is linked and interlinked in complex ways. The way that information spreads through a network can be examined by creating different graph models and comparing their structural properties. This work examines clustering in network models, which affects how information is spread in a network. In particular, we compare clustering coefficient and transitivity measures in random geometric graphs with those of the Erdös Rényi model of random graphs. Clustering coefficients measure the tendency with which nodes are clustered in a graph. The most striking result is that the transitivity and network average clustering coefficients differ within the geometric graphs. This was unexpected, as these measures coincide in the Erdös Rényi model. This raises potential for using these models in network analysis and in game theory applications.