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ON WATER RELATIONS OF CHERRY GRAFTS

Previous investigations showed that the sweet cherry trees on most promising dwarfing, precocious and highly productive rootstocks show water deficiency during the hot and dry summer months, which influence the crop and fruit quality in the subsequent year. No doubt that under extremely dry conditions the maximum productivity and efficiency of water usage in woody heterografts can be achieved at harmonized interaction of factors determining the water relations. Those cherry trees are especially concerned, which are grafted on growth reducing rootstocks, as it became actual practice in intensive sweet cherry orchards. The rootstock research and breeding produced a wide series of dwarfing rootstocks for sweet cherry, but the trees grafted on to most promising of them show water deficiency symptoms under hot and dry summer climate. This is typical to the largest cherry growing countries of the world, like Turkey and Iran, but the conditions are similar in certain sites of Hungary too. Knowledge of hydraulic conductivity, hydraulic architecture and water-usage in case of different woody and herbaceous plant is an increasingly important issue. Because of recently occurred climate changes growing numbers of researchers work on the topic. For easy and fast analysis of plant water regime, water potential of plant parts and hydraulic conductivity of soil-plantatmosphere, a special, tool (Hydraulic Pressure Flow Meter) was developed. The usage of HPFM is based on pressure-variance in tracheas. During our researches in high-density cherry orchards we found the otherwise promising dwarfing rootstocks (such as Gisela® 5) far the worst drought-tolerant, contrary to trees on Mahaleb. There is no sufficient information about drought-tolerance mechanism and hydraulic architecture of different rootstocks, thus our research purpose is to compare the above mentioned parameters in case of Prunus avium, P. mahaleb, P. cerasus and their hybrids. Our test trees are all multi-component grafts, which complicate the question even more. Not only rootstocks and scions, but graft unit itself influence transport capacity of stem. Anatomical researches have proved that trachea surface by stem cross section in case of strong vigor rootstocks is double, which suppose smaller resistance to sap flow, comparing to dwarfing rootstocks. Anatomical results itself are not enough to fully understand drought-resistance mechanism of plants, therefore our HPFM researches can approve to achieve wider knowledge of this mechanism and hereby to find appropriate dwarfing and semi-dwarfing cherry rootstocks for the Hungarian site conditions. Key-words: rootstocks, scion, sap flow measurements
INTERNET OF THINGS – SURVEY ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES

Internet of things (IoTs) is a stage where consistently gadgets get to be more intelligent, consistently preparing gets to be savvy, and consistently correspondence gets to be educational. While the IoTs is as yet looking for its own particular shape, its belongings have as of now gazed in making mind-blowing strides as a widespread arrangement media for the associated situation. Engineering particular study does dependably clear the compliance of related field. The absence of general building information is in a matter of seconds standing up to the scientists to overcome the extent of IoTs driven methodologies. This writing overviews IoTs situated structures that are sufficiently able to enhance the comprehension of related apparatus, innovation, and approach to encourage engineer’s necessities. Specifically or in a roundabout way, the displayed designs propose to take care of genuine issues by building also, organization of intense IoTs ideas. Encourage, explore challenges have been investigated to solidify the blank inside the present examples of plans to goad the scholastics additionally, wanders get included into searching for the possible course outs to appropriate the right constrain of IoTs. A principle commitment of this review paper is that it outlines the current best in class of IoTs designs in different spaces deliberately.
Teacher Professional Commitment as a Determinant of Transfer of Strengthening of Mathematics and Science in Secondary Education ( SMASSE ) Pedagogical Skills in Kenya

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher professional commitment as a determinant of transfer of Strengthening of Mathematics and Science in Secondary Education (SMASSE) pedagogical skills in secondary schools in Kenya. The research was delimited to Kisii County and adopted ex post facto design. A sample made of 229 science teachers, 88 principals and 752 form four students was used. Data was collected by use of questionnaires and lesson observation. Students’, teachers’ and principals’ responses indicated that science teachers had high level commitment; however, lesson observation revealed weak teacher commitment towards utilization of ASEI-PDSI pedagogy. Similarly, hypothesis testing established a statistically insignificant relationship between teacher commitment and transfer of pedagogical skills, implying that teacher professional commitment did not inform use of this pedagogy in Kenya. It was then concluded that extraneous variables majorly students’ entry behaviour could have constrained teacher professional commitment from shaping transfer of SMASSE pedagogical skills. It was recommended that the Ministry of Education should enhance closer supervision and monitoring of form one selection and admission by schools to ensure that this is done in conformity with the existing cut-off point as per Government policy. Furthermore, CEMASTEA and schools need to involve science teachers when doing curriculum innovation for SMASSE programme to create the much sought for ownership. International Journal of Innovative Research and Knowledge ISSN-2213-1356 www.ijirk. com Page 45
Design of a Compact Cold Optics for Millimeter Wave Observations

An optics which we have developed for 220 GHz observations is a compact cold re-imaging one from a telescope focal plane with F/# = 6 to a detector plane with F/# = 1 at 100 mK. It employs two high refractive lenses, high purity alumina (n=3.1) and silicon (n=3.4). To reduce the incident stray light into the detector, a cold nested baffle composed of 4 reflectors with the same spherical shape has been developed. The stray light power is simulated to be 0. 2μW which corresponds a quarter of that of a without-baffles case. The total transmittance of three kinds of IR blocking filters is 0.78 at the observation frequency, and less than10−10 above 6 THz. Thermal flow power into the detector, including the stray light power, is about 0. 7μW. The cold optics with an 600 pixels MKID camera has been cooled down to 100 mK.
Providing Secure Location-Aware Services for Cooperative Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

In homeland security, the transportation system built on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is one sector among key resource sectors for national infrastructure protection plan identified by the department of homeland security (DHS) of the United States. Thus, it is an essential aspect to develop a suit of elaborately designed VANET security mechanisms for a successful homeland security infrastructure. However, all prior privacy-preserving authentication protocols for secure vehicular communications have not satisfied the fulfillment of location assurance to develop secure location-aware service applications in VANETs. In this paper, we make up for the limitations and propose an efficient privacy-preserving authentication protocol with location assurance for secure location-aware services over VANETs. In particular, we introduce the notion of location-aware credential so as to guarantee the trustworthiness of geographic location in location-aware services while providing conditional privacy preservation which is a desirable property for secure vehicular communications. Furthermore, the proposed protocol provides efficient procedures that alleviate a burden of computation for location-aware signature generation and verification on vehicles in VANETs. In order to achieve these goals, we consider online/offline signature scheme based on ”hash-sign-switch” paradigm and identity-based aggregate signature scheme as our building blocks. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed protocol.
Effects of fault zone damage on rupture patterns throughout multiple earthquake cycles

The overarching goal of this continuing project is to understand the interactions between dynamic rupture processes and the structural evolution of damaged fault zones over long time scales. This year’s work extended our previous findings, which were based on quasi-dynamic modeling, by developing fully dynamic models that include wave propagation effects. Our new results confirm that pre-existing damaged fault zones affect earthquake rupture persistently over multiple earthquake cycles. In particular, they lead to multiple pulse-like ruptures and back-propagating fronts. With dynamic modeling we can now determine how these complex rupture patterns can be identified in observational and laboratory studies.
Prostate cancer radiotherapy

commonly diagnosed malignancies in males. Surgery and radiotherapy are primary methods of curative treatment in patients with this diagnosis. Development of technology and long-term clinical experience enable optimisation of radiotherapy for all clinical stages of the disease. The purpose of this paper is to present general principles of treatment selection and conduct in prostate cancer patients to doctors who are not specialists in medical oncology or radiotherapy. If teleradiotherapy (external beam radiotherapy – EBRT) is used, ionising radiation is generated outside the patient’s body, usually with the use of linear accelerators. Brachytherapy is the second basic radiotherapy method, where the source of ionising radiation is introduced into the tumour or placed in its direct neighbourhood. The results of numerous clinical studies indicate that radiotherapy offers a possibility to cure patients in various clinical stages of the disease with a continuously decreasing rate of serious radiotherapy sequelae.
The scope of children’s scope: Representation, parsing and learning

This paper reviews some developmental psycholinguistic literature on quantifier scope. I demonstrate how scope has been used as a valuable probe into children’s grammatical representations, the nature of children’s on-line understanding mechanisms, and the role that experience plays in language acquisition. First, children’s interpretations of certain scopally ambiguous sentences reveals that their syntactic representations are hierarchical, with the c-command relation playing a fundamental role in explaining interpretive biases. Second, children’s scope errors are explained by incremental parsing and interpretation mechanisms, paired with difficulty revising initial interpretations. Third, a priming manipulation reveals that children’s clauses, like those of adults, are represented with predicate-internal subjects. Finally, data on scope variation in Korean reveals that in the absence of disambiguating evidence, parameter setting is an essentially random process. Together, these discoveries reveal how the developmental psycholinguistics of scope has proved a valuable tool for probing issues of grammar, parsing and learning.
An Analysis of Reshuf fl ed Handshaking Expansions

We present a method for reasoning about the synchronization behavior of reshuffled handshaking expansions. The technique introduced converts the handshaking expansion into communicating hardware processes. We identify and discuss some of the limitations of the method. We show how the approach can be applied to analyze both the performance and the correctness of handshaking expansions.
Energy Efficiency Benefits of Reducing the Voltage Guardband on the Kepler GPU Architecture

Energy efficiency of GPU architectures has emerged as an important design criterion for both NVIDIA and AMD. In this paper, we explore the benefits of scaling a generalpurpose GPU (GPGPU) core’s supply voltage to the near limits of execution failure. We find that as much as 21% of NVIDIA GTX 680’s core supply voltage guardband can be eliminated to achieve significant energy efficiency improvement. Measured results indicate that the energy improvements can be as high as 25% without any performance loss. The challenge, however, is to understand what impacts the minimum voltage guardband and how the guardband can be scaled without compromising correctness. We show that GPU microarchitectural activity patterns caused by different program characteristics are the root cause(s) of the large voltage guardband. We also demonstrate how microarchitecture-level parameters, such as clock frequency and the number of cores, impact the guardband. We hope our preliminary analysis lays the groundwork for future research.
DENOISING SONAR IMAGES

The SONAR images are perturbed by speckle noise. The despecklisation is necessary to optimize the image understanding. This paper presents, starting from a denoising method proposed by Donoho, a new filtering procedure, applied in the Double Tree Discrete Wavelet Transform domain. This technique reduces the noise without affecting the discontinuities. Some simulation examples prove the performances of the new denoising method.
OpenCL-Based High-Performance 3 D Stencil Computation on FPGAs Extended Abstract

In recent years, power usage and efficiency has become a major concern in high-performance computing (HPC). FPGAs, due to their low power consumption and architectural flexibility, are slowly finding their way in HPC. With the recent advancements in High-Level Synthesis (HLS), especially availability of OpenCL from FPGA manufacturers, these devices can now be considered as a viable alternative for common HPC accelerators like GPUs. Stencils are one of the important computation patterns in HPC, used in solving PDEs and many different types of scientific simulations. In this work we show that for 3D stencil computation, due to architectural advantage of FPGAs, apart from superior power efficiency, we can also achieve competitive performance compared to a highly-optimized implementation on high-end GPUs.
The difference in IL-1 β , MIP-1 α , IL-8 and IL-18 production between the infection of PMA activated U 937 cells with recombinant vaccinia viruses inserted 2004 H 5 N 1 influenza HA genes and NS genes

Results: The recombinant vaccinia virus inserted with HA genes induces the production of IL-1β, MIP-1α, IL-8 and IL-18 cytokines from PMA activated U937 cells significantly more than cells infected with wild type vaccinia, whereas the recombinant vaccinia virus inserted with NS genes it was similar to that with the wild type vaccinia virus. However, there was no synergistic nor antagonistic effect of HA genes and NS genes in relation to cytokines production.
Heterogeneous Data and Big Data Analytics

Heterogeneity is one of major features of big data and heterogeneous data result in problems in data integration and Big Data analytics. This paper introduces data processing methods for heterogeneous data and Big Data analytics, Big Data tools, some traditional data mining (DM) and machine learning (ML) methods. Deep learning and its potential in Big Data analytics are analysed. The benefits of the confluences among Big Data analytics, deep learning, high performance computing (HPC), and heterogeneous computing are presented. Challenges of dealing with heterogeneous data and Big Data analytics are also discussed.
A Descriptive Study to Assess the Factors Contributing to Anemia among Adult Anemic Patient’s visiting to Selected Hospital

Introduction: Anemia is the reduction in the concentration of hemoglobin percentage level in blood. Because hemoglobin (found inside rbcs) normally carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, anemia leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) in organs. Because all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences. Anemia is the commonest problem in our country (India). Objective:1) The study objective was to assess and to determine the contributing factors for anemia among adult anemic patient’s visiting to selected hospital. 2) To find out the association between causes and selected demographic variable among patient visiting to the selected district hospital. Methods: The research design selected for this study was descriptive design. The population of the present study comprised of 100 adult anemic patient’s visiting to selected hospital. Purposive sampling technique was used. Conclusion: Assessment of the contributing factors of anemia among adult anemic patient was the main focus of the study. The finding of the research reveals that poor socio economic status contributes to occurrence of anemia. Also there is significant association between low standard of living and occurrence of anemia.
Chasing Infinity : Defining the Purpose of Design

Definitions of design are numerous. No one definition seems to satisfy every audience or purpose, and perhaps no formal definition of a discipline should be expected to cover every eventuality. But a good definition should resolve remaining ambiguities while recognizing the many things we already know about the discipline. I will present a definition of design based on the idea of making choices in those particular situations where each decision has a theoretically infinite number of outcomes. This is presented in the context of philosopher Daniel Dennett’s interpretation of Darwin’s theory of evolution. I focus on the shift in perspective that occurs when one understands evolution as “design without a designer,” and the implications of that shift for understanding human design activities. I also present ways in which this new definition might improve the understanding of design activities, particularly for students.
EXPERIENCES IN DESIGNING A SYSTEM TO CONTROL DYNAMIC PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS

Adaptive program optimization during execution can provide appreciable performance boost with respect to the possibly changing runtime characteristics of the program (e.g., runtime input and state). This approach can generate a much more highly-tuned version of a program than that produced by the traditional static compilation/optimization paradigm. For clusters of networked hosts, performing the steps of adaptive optimization in task-parallel can provide even greater performance gains. Applications often execute in untrusted network environments. Distributed, dynamic program transformation within this type of environment can introduce the same security concerns that exist when allowing mobile code to run on local hosts. Before adopting dynamic program transformation technology in an untrusted environment, one must first validate the transformations that are to be applied to the program. Failure to do so could result in catastrophic loss or damage to system resources. For this reason, there must exist a way for a host to accept/reject dynamic transformations that are to be applied to a program. The decision to accept or reject program transformations must be based on a well-defined program policy. This paper describes our experiences in designing a system to control dynamic program transformations.
Empirical Probabilities in Currency Analysis and Forecasting

The Empirical Probability (EP) technique is proposed as an effective support tool to assist agents operating in a global fusion of financial markets. This technique facilitates the identification and prediction of primary, secondary and tertiary trends in addition to the recognition of trend reversals and the detection of changes in trend momentum. The suggested procedure is illustrated by deriving weekly (five-day) non-overlapping estimated probabilities from daily Euro/USD exchange rate data from 04/01/1999 to 31/12/2004 and applying these probabilities to the analysis and forecasting of exchange rate movements. In addition, trend characteristics of the data are used to develop a trading system that not only provides buy and sell indicators but also supplies directional probabilities associated with the signalled actions.
Robot Swarms as Hybrid Systems: Modelling and Verification

A swarm robotic system consists of a team of robots performing cooperative tasks without any centralized coordination. In principle, swarms enable flexible and scalable solutions; however, designing individual control algorithms that can guarantee a required global behavior is difficult. Formal methods have been suggested by several researchers as a mean to increase confidence in the behavior of the swarm. In this work, we propose to model swarms as hybrid systems and use reachability analysis to verify their properties. We discuss challenges and report on the experience gained from applying hybrid formalisms to the verification of a swarm robotic system.
The significance of learning styles for Pedagogical efficacy

This article attempts to discuss the importance of the style of learning for the success of teaching and learning process. It is assumed that, if a learner followed appropriate valid learning style, the efficacy of teaching will be effective. Similarly, if the teachers deliver their teaching in consonance with the learners learning style, the learning process will be very successful. Most of the time the characteristics of the learners are good enough for a successful learning process except for the problem with the style of learning, however, the whole learning and teaching processes will be a failure. This is due to the lack of focus and efforts might end as futile as a barren land. It is believed that appropriate organizing of learning and utilizing time sagaciously will yield a fruitful learning and teaching process.
On Broadband and Narrow-band Noise Modelling for OFDM systems in Powerline Communications

This article gives an overview of noise modelling of the two most problematic types of noise in powerline communications (PLC) namely, impulse noise (broadband noise) and frequency disturbers (narrow-band interference). The models for these two types of noise are studied for OFDM systems. The first part of the article looks at several impulse noise models in the literature. A demonstration of the effects of impulse noise on OFDM, using the Middleton Class A model is given. Methods of combating impulse noise are also studied. In the second part of the article we focus on narrow-band interference (NBI) modelling and also show how NBI affects OFDM systems. The main focus of NBI is on presenting a detailed NBI model because NBI modelling has not been given much attention in the literature. In our discussion of the NBI model we show that, with some assumptions, the NBI model and the Middleton Class A model can be similar.
ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT FOR PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING

Bleeding remains a common and a potential lethal complication for peptic ulcer disease. Multidisciplinary approach by endoscopists, surgeons and intensive care physicians is necessary to improve results for this severe complication. In this article we intend to introduce surgeons and intensive care physicians to endoscopic concepts and maneuvers commonly used in the treatment of bleeding peptic ulcer disease. Early clinical assessment and endoscopic evaluation are helpful to classify the severity of the bleeding episode. T wo major achievements have changed the management of this complication: combined endoscopic therapy and proton pump inhibitors. The former consists of combining two different endoscopic methods to stop bleeding or prevent re-bleeding (e.g., injection of a sclerosing substance and thermal coagulation). Surgical treatment for peptic ulcer bleeding is indicated when endoscopic therapy fails or to prevent re-bleeding in high risk patients who presents with a spurting bleeding ulcer and shock. For the remaining situations, there are consistent evidences that a second endoscopic therapy should be attempted when re-bleeding occurs.