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An Exploration into the Causes and Consequences of Women as a Minority in Technical Fields

This paper examines the causes behind why fewer women enter technology fields than men. By utilizing previous published research and studies from 1994-2016, the analyses made in this paper explore the evolution of women’s interest and leadership in technology fields. The research dictates that there are not just sociological and structural causes for female adherence to entering technology fields, but the research also points to psychological causes, as well. In order to improve female representation and leadership in technology fields, it is crucial that these causes are acknowledged and addressed directly. Specifically, employers must recognize the differences between male and female employee goals and cultural and professional motivational factors. As well, while employers ought to be transparent in conversations surrounding the under-representation of women in this field, parents and teachers have a responsibility to facilitate strengthening of computer skills among young female students at home and in the classroom to improve female confidence with technology. Causes and Consequences of Women as a Minority in Technical Fields 3
Predictors of Cyber-plagiarism : The Case of Jose Rizal University

Higher education is the last bastion in the fight against cyber-plagiarism. Students are trained to be ethical professionals within the university context by molding their young minds through a combination of pedagogical strategies and academic programs to preserve their morals, values and character. While technology is a catalyst for enhanced learning, it has also been used to illicit forms of academic dishonesty such as cyber-plagiarism. This paper applies the Theory of Planned Behavior and complemented by a dimension borrowed from the Big 5 Personality Theory to investigate the drivers of cyber-plagiarism in a university in the Philippines. A total of 309 responses are gathered to test the applicability of the proposed research model. A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model is applied to validate the research model in this study. Although ICT attitude and peer pressure influence behavioral intention to commit cyber-plagiarism at a certain level, this cannot be supported in this investigation. On the other hand, ICT literacy and neuroticism predict behavioral intention to commit cyber-plagiarism, which subsequently predicts the performance of such act. Technological and pedagogical recommendations are discussed.
Algoritmo Divisão utilizando a meta-heurística Simulated Annealing aplicado na otimização de circuitos reversíveis

In this work two algorithms adapted for the optimization of reversible circuits were implemented, with the cost of the number of doors in the circuit. The simulated annealing algorithm used as a method of optimization, in which together the rewrite rules allows the change of the size of the circuit without changing its functionality and the Division algorithm, developed to solve the inefficacy of the simulated Annealing for circuits with more than 50 gates, aiming to avoid the undesirable growth of the circuit in the initial iterations. The functionality of the Division method is to apply the optimization method in small parts of the circuit at a time. For evaluation of the performance of the division algorithm, the heuristics Dynamic Template was used as a comparison. According to the results, there was a higher cost reduction in 15 circuits, the same cost in 25 circuits and worse costs in only 3 circuits. Keywords— Simulated Annealing, Division, Optimization, Reversible circuit. Resumo— Neste trabalho foram implementados dois algoritmos adaptados para otimização de circuitos reverśıveis, tendo como custo a quantidade de portas no circuito. O algoritmo Simulated Annealing utilizado como método de otimização, em que junto as regras de reescrita permite a alteração do tamanho do circuito sem alterar a respectiva funcionalidade e o algoritmo Divisão, desenvolvido para resolver a inefiência do Simulated Annealing para circuitos com mais de 50 portas, tendo como objetivo evitar o crescimento indesejável do circuito nas iterações iniciais. A funcionalidade do método Divisão é aplicar o método de otimização em pequenas partes do circuito por vez. Para avaliação do desempenho do algoritmo Divisão, utilizou-se a heuŕıstica Dynamic Template como comparação. De acordo com os resultados, obteve-se maior redução de custo em 15 circuitos, mesmo custo em 25 circuitos e piores custos em apenas 3 circuitos. Palavras-chave— Simulated Annealing, Divisão, Otimização, Circuito reverśıvel.
THY-1 ( CD 90 ) expression promotes the growth of gastric cancer cells

Objective: To observe the expression of THY-1 (CD90) in gastric tumour cells and its effect on the growth of gastric cancer and to provide new evidence for the development of possible targets for the treatment of gastric cancer. Methods: The effect of THY-1 on the proliferative ability of HGC-27, MGC-803 and AGS gastric cancer cells was examined by CCK-8 and cell cycle assays. The effect of THY-1 on the ability of gastric cancer cells to avoid apoptosis was analysed by Annexin V/PI double staining. The effect of THY-1 on the tumourigenic ability of gastric cancer cells in vivo was explored by subcutaneous tumour formation assay in nude mice. Results: The CCK-8 assay showed that the proliferative activity of HGC-27 and MGC-803 gastric cancer cells was significantly limited after THY-1 interference in vitro (P < 0.01); however, exogenous THY-1 significantly promoted the growth of AGS gastric cancer cells (P = 0.003). The cell cycle assay showed that exogenous THY-1 reduced the G0/G1 phase arrest of AGS cells and facilitated cell entry into S phase, which accelerated cell division and proliferation (P = 0.008). After interference in the expression of the THY-1 gene, HGC-27 cells showed significant G0/G1 arrest, while the percentage of S phase cells decreased, and cell proliferation was inhibited (P < 0.001). The apoptosis assay showed that the average apoptosis rate of AGS cells was significantly lower in the overexpression group versus the control group (7.89 ± 1.08% vs. 11.90 ± 0.45%, P = 0.004). In contrast, the average apoptosis rate of HGC-27 cells was significantly increased in the interference group versus the control group (37.88 ± 5.47% vs. 22.84 ± 1.50%, P = 0.01). The subcutaneous tumour formation assay in nude mice revealed that at week 3, tumour volume and weight reached 1018.33 ± 521.48 mm3 and 81.47 ± 41.72 mg, respectively, in the control group, while tumour volume and weight were only 213.72 ± 111.94 mm3 and 17.10 ± 9.00 mg, respectively, in the interference group; the differences between the two groups were statistically significant (P < 0.01). Conclusions: THY-1 promoted the proliferation of gastric cancer cells and reduced the apoptosis rate of gastric cancer cells with a lack of nutrient supply. Moreover, THY-1 promoted subcutaneous tumour formation and growth in nude mice, as indicated by the results of the subcutaneous tumour formation assay.
REFLECTIONS ON USE OF LOCATION-BASED PLAYFUL NARRATIVES FOR LEARNING

In this paper we discuss current practices and trends in the use of narratives in location-based games for learning. This is a new area of research and practice termed playful narratives. The main aspects of these games are discussed. In particular, we focus on their narrative structure, the interaction modes that they afford, their use of space as prop for action and the possible learning impact they have. First, we introduce the theoretical and empirical considerations of playful narratives, then; an analytical framework of their main characteristics is introduced, discussed through typical examples of such games. Finally we conclude with an outline of future trends and possibilities that this kind of activities can have on learning in the future.
Physical interaction of Cdc 28 with Cdc 37 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The Cdc37 protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is thought to be a kinase-targeting subunit of the chaperone Hsp90. In a genetic screen, four protein kinases were identified as interacting with Cdc37 – Cdc5, Cdc7, Cdc15 and Cak1. This result underlines the importance of Cdc37 for the folding of protein kinases. In addition, we showed that Ydj1, a yeast DnaJ homolog belonging to the Hsp40 family of chaperones, genetically interacts with Cdc37. No physical interaction has so far been detected between Cdc37 and Cdc28, although genetic interactions (synthetic lethality and mutation suppression), and biochemical studies have suggested that these two proteins functionally interact. We found that, when separately expressed, the N-terminal lobe of Cdc28 interacted strongly with the C-terminal moiety of Cdc37 in a two-hybrid system. This was not the case for the full-length Cdc28 protein. We present models to explain these results.
Iron Status in Type 2 Diabetes Patients With and Without Metabolic Syndrome

Elevated serum ferritin concentrations have recently been implicated in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). The present study aimed to investigate the iron status in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with and without MetS. Serum ferritin levels were determined by enzyme-linked immunoassay, while serum iron was measured using a test kit, and hemoglobin or red cell indices were determined by a hematology analyzer. Serum ferritin levels of T2DM were significantly higher in those with MetS (n = 28) than those without MetS (n = 29) (132.97 ± 103.03 ng/ml vs 34.62 ± 15.30 ng/ml; P < 0.001). Hemoglobin concentration (Hb), total iron binding capacity (TIBC), total red blood cell count, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) were not significantly different between the two groups, although values were in the lower normal range. Serum ferritin levels were inversely correlated with TIBC ( r = -0.49, P < 0.01), MCV ( r = -0.41, P < 0.05), MCH ( r = -0.5, P < 0.01) and MCHC ( r = -0.46, P < 0.05) only in those with MetS. Our data supported the link between iron status and MetS in T2DM. It is speculated that changes in iron status might be related to inflammation associated with metabolic syndrome in diabetes. J Physiol Biomed Sci. 2015; 28(2): 29-33
High-voltage Pulsed Power Supply for ESP Applications

In recent years, the hazy weather has blanketed many areas in China. Dust, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide from coal fired power plants are the main part of air pollutants. Emission standard of air pollutants for thermal power plants revised by China’s State Environmental Protection Administration regulates that since July 1, 2014, the maximum dust emission of all the existing coal-fired power plants and gas turbine generating sets is 30mg/m3, and the allowed maximum emission in key regions is 20mg/m3[1]. Moreover, the ultra-low emission policy has been put forward which requires that the dust emission of power plants in most areas is no higher than 5mg/m3. In order to reduce the harm caused by dust pollution, particle cleaning apparatuses are used to collect and dispose dust in the field of industry. ESP is an internationally recognized efficient dust cleaning device, characterized by the capacity of processing large quantities of gas, high collection efficiency and low operating cost. Now, it has been applied widely in power plants, iron and steel industry, and power supply is the core unit of the electric precipitator system. Up to now, ESP power supplies can be divided to three kinds: single phase TR Sets, high frequency power supply, and pulsed power supply. Single phase TR Sets is characteristic of simple structure, large volume and convenient control. At the same time, it has many shortcomings in efficiency, dynamic response cost, etc. The performance of high frequency power supply is improved by adopting an LCC resonance circuit with IGBT as the main semiconductor switch which can operate at above 20 kHz, facilitating the fast response when the spark discharges or short circuits occur in ESP [2-4]. But owing to its high-voltage DC output, back corona will occur at high resistivity dust, which also makes the instantaneous failure ESP field voltage establishment and the direct dust discharge. For this reason, high frequency power supply is hard to reach the new emission standard on the condition of fine particles and high resistivity dust. In order to improve the ESP performance, a novel pulsed power supply has been developed and designed [5-6]. The art of pulsed power supply consists of narrow high voltage pulses in the range of millisecond, which are superimposed on a base voltage and applied to ESP field [7]. So its peak voltage can be kept at maximum values considerably above normal DC power supply levels as limited by sparking. This paper will present the new features of HFPPS series pulsed power supply developed by NEPT as well as a comparison with other types of ESP power supplies.
A study on Vulnerabilities of Automatic Teller Machine

Banking is basically about efficient service delivery. Customers can access their bank deposit or credit accounts by using an Automatic Teller Machine and make a variety of transactions. Automatic Teller Machines are a part of most of our lives. The next biggest application of security after government is in banking, and evolved to protect automatic teller machines (ATMs) from fraud. Vulnerabilities may result from bugs or design flaws in the system. A consumer becoming more dependent on ATMs and the proliferation of ATM debit cards, computer crime in this area is more likely to increase. This study is on types of ATM system vulnerabilities and security countermeasures provided currently including new efforts.
BOOTSRAPPING INSTANCE-BASED ONTOLOGY MATCHING VIA UNSUPERVISED GENERATION OF TRAINING SAMPLES

Training set is the key role player that can improve the performance of any classification task. Different techniques and methods are being applied to generate training set depending on its area of application. Researchers in data science and semantic web community use different kind of training sets generated to improve the performances of classifications and information retrieval capability. Operational Training Set Generator (TSG) should always solve a minimum of two issues; (1) it must address the computational cost in producing a reasonable outcome, thereby reducing the computational cost in the whole system. The run-time of TSG is near linear as in blocking approach and (2) it must produce the qualitative training sets. We use LogTfIdf as the cosine similarity function of two given vectors to produce Bag of Words (BoW); the tokenizer is developed to specially take care of delimiters that often come across URIs and other RDF essentials. We evaluated our UTSG on nine cross-domain benchmark ontologies publically available in OAEI website. The results obtained shows that our UTSG outperforms the two baseline TSGs previously developed to address similar problem.
Generation Based on Empathetic Dialogues between Nurses and Patients

The communication between nurses and patients plays an important role in medical work. Perception and expression of emotions are key factors in the nurse-patient dialogue system. Using empathy between nurses and patients can make their communication more effective. With the development of artificial intelligence, an important research direction of computer-aided diagnosis is to enable computers to perceive the emotions of nurses and patients, and to make situational responses to specific emotions. This paper, we present a virtual machine model based on deep learning, which is used to simulate the emotional expression of empathy dialogue between nurses and patients. Firstly, the emotional expression between nurses and patients is simulated by embedding the text dialogue of emotion category, then the attention mechanism is used to capture the changes of emotion in the text dialogue, and finally, the words with emotion are used to express the emotion explicitly. The results of the experiment indicate that the proposed model can not only generate the content in accordance with the dialogue scenario, but also generate emotions.
pédiatrie Niveaux d ’ exposition en tomodensitométrie multicoupes pédiatrique : résultats de l ’ enquête dosimétrique SFIPP / IRSN 2007-2008 HJ Brisse ( 1 )

a réglementation Française en radioprotection concernant les patients soumis à des radiations ionisantes à des fins médicales (Décret n ° 2002-460 du 24 mars 2003) dérive de la transposition en droit de la directive européenne Euratom 97/43 (Ordonnance 2001-270 du 28 mars 2001). Elle a introduit dans le Code de la Santé Publique les principes de justification et optimisation des actes (article L. 1333-1). Cette réglementation concerne tous les patients, mais c’est en pédiatrie qu’elle prend toute sa signification, la sensibilité des enfants aux radiations ionisantes étant nettement supérieure à celle des adultes (1). Le risque (vie entière) de décès par cancer et pour un sievert (pour une exposition unique) a en effet été estimé par la CIPR (Commission Internationale de Protection Radiologique) à 14 % à la naissance contre 1 % à l’âge de 75 ans (2). Bien que les effets à long terme des faibles doses de rayonnements ionisants restent encore très controversés (3, 4), la radioprotection des patients repose toujours, par précaution, sur le modèle de la relation linéaire sans seuil. Ainsi, un excès de risque de cancers radio-induits peut-il être, du moins théoriquement, extrapolé aux doses utilisées en radiodiagnostic (5-9). Les enquêtes de pratique permettent de faire une « photographie » des procédures sur une période de temps donnée et de déterminer la dispersion des doses utilisées par les praticiens. L’analyse statistique de ces enquêtes permet ensuite de déterminer des niveaux de référence diagnostiques (NRD). En accord avec les recommandations européennes, ces NRD correspondent au 75 e centile de la distribution des doses observées. Ces indicateurs ne sont ni des limites réglementaires, ni des valeurs optimales, mais des « garde-fous » pour éviter des doses manifestement excessives. Ce concept avait initialement été introduit en 1996 par la CIPR (10), puis repris dans la directive Euratom 97/43 qui les définit comme suit : « des niveaux de dose [. ], pour des Abstract Résumé
Renjie Xie Dataflow-Based Implementation of Deep Learning Application

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master‘s Degree Programme in Information Technology Renjie, Xie: Dataflow-Based Implementation of Deep Learning Application Master of Science Thesis, 51 pages, 3 Appendix pages June 2016 Major: Pervasive Systems Examiner: Prof. Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Prof. Jarmo Takala, Dr. Heikki Huttunen
The Gly 972 ® Arg amino acid polymorphism in IRS-1 impairs insulin secretion in pancreatic b cells

Recent studies have identified several polymorphisms in the human insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) gene. The most prevalent IRS-1 variant, a Gly®Arg change at the codon 972, has been reported to be increased in prevalence among patients with type 2 diabetes. Carriers of the Arg972 substitution are characterized by lower fasting insulin and C-peptide levels compared with non-carriers, suggesting that the Arg972 IRS-1 variant may contribute to impairment of insulin secretion. In this study, we stably overexpressed both wild-type IRS-1 (RIN-WT) and Arg972 IRS-1 variant (RIN-Arg972) in RIN b cells to investigate directly whether the polymorphism in codon 972 of IRS-1 impairs insulin secretion. The Arg972 IRS-1 variant did not affect expression or function of endogenous IRS2. RIN-WT showed a marked increase in both glucoseand insulin-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 compared with control RIN cells. The Arg972 IRS-1 variant did not alter the extent of either glucoseor insulin-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of recombinant IRS-1. However, RIN-Arg972 showed a significant decrease in binding of the p85 subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) with IRS-1, compared with RINWT. Compared with control RIN cells, insulin content was reduced to the same extent in RIN-WT or RIN-Arg972 at both the protein and mRNA levels. Both glucoseand sulfonylurea-induced insulin secretion was increased in RIN-WT compared with control RIN cells. By contrast, RIN cells expressing Arg972 [. ] Article
STRUCTURED H-INFINITY CONTROL DESIGN FOR THE VEGA LAUNCH VEHICLE: RECOVERY OF THE LEGACY CONTROL BEHAVIOUR

This article addresses the design of the atmospheric ascent-flight control system of a launch vehicle using the structuredH∞ synthesis technique. The main goal is to provide a methodological robust control design framework and transfer it to industry. This article presents the first step towards this transfer, which consists of: first, providing guidelines to tune the weighting functions based directly on physical effects of the launch vehicle and system requirements; and second, to demonstrate that a baseline, classically-design controller can be recovered with this design framework. The latter is very important for an industrial transfer as it establishes a common point of reference. The system is used based on the actual VEGA vv05 mission data, and classical VEGA TVC structure. These data and structure are then used together with H∞ metrics to guide the structured H∞ design to recover the same controllers as the baseline along different design points. Finally, the fixed-order H∞ controllers are gain-scheduled and validated using a non-linear high-fidelity simulator, which shows the perfect performance and robust recovery.
Effects of reintroducing bacteria on domoic acid production by axenic cultures of the diatom

~ Axenic cultures of Pseudonitzschia (formerly Nitzschia) pungensf. muttiseties produce SUbstantially less domoic acid (DA) than the original bacteria-containing cultures. Bacterial strains isolated from two nonaxenic P. pungens 1. multisetiee cultures were reintroduced individually into three axenic P. pungens cultures. The bacteria did not SUbstantially affect division rates or cell yields. However, they did cause a 2to 95-fold enhancement of DA production relative to the axenic culture, depending on the P. pungens and bacterial strain used. Bacteria isolated from a nontoxic Chaetoceros sp. culture also enhanced DA production (by 115 fold), showing that it is not necessary that the bacteria be isolated from a toxic culture to enhance toxin production. Our results demonstrate an important but non-essential role of extracellular bacteria in DA production. Preliminary characterization of the bacterial isolates demonstrates that we isolated different species of bacteria from the various nonaxenic cultures. We conclude that, not one, but several species of bacteria enhance DA production by P. pungens f. multiseries.
Identifying Fingerprint Alteration Using the Reliability Map of the Orientation Field

Fingerprint recognition is one of the most commonly used biometric technology. Even if fingerprint temporarily changes (cuts, bruises) it reappears after the finger heals. Criminals started to be aware of this and try to escape the identification systems applying methods from ingenious to very cruel. It is possible to remove, alter or even fake fingerprints (made of glue, latex, silicone), by burning the fingertip skin (fire, acid, other corrosive material), by using plastic surgery (changing the skin completely, causing change in pattern – portions of skin are removed from a finger and grafted back in different positions, like rotation or “Z” cuts, transplantations of an area from other parts of the body like other fingers, palms, toes, soles). This paper presents a new algorithm for altered fingerprints detection based on fingerprint orientation field reliability. The map of the orientation field reliability has peaks in the singular point locations. These peaks are used to analyze altered fingerprints because, due to alteration, more peaks as singular points appear with lower amplitudes.