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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between the Motivations and Achievements of College Students’ English Learning

This paper explores the correlations between Chinese college students’ English learning achievements (ELA) and their influencing factors, including intrinsic motivation (IM), External motivation (EM), External regulation (ER), and self perception of competence (SCS),in a bid to analyze further the differences made by the effects of respondents' individual variables (gender, age, expertise, parents' education and household income on students' ELA. Based on the literature review and questionnaire analysis, the following findings are obtained: 1. The percentage of respondents who passed CET-4 and CET-6 was merely at 59.6% and 29.1% respectively, and TEM-4, TEM-8, 11.7%, 9.2%. Moreover, only 10.8% of respondents take part in IELTS. 2. College students produced a noticeably positive correlation between their ELA and their IM and SCS. 3. The respondents' age and expertise cast a significant impact on their achievements. Therefore, this paper urges teachers, government agencies, and scholars to formulate pedagogy, policies, and research addressing the need for differentiated education based on students' ELA, ELM, and individual variables.
Value of Personal Health Records for Patients, Citizens & Science

triggered the suspicion which is driving many people to actively opt out of sharing their data for bone fide research purposes. This presents risks for understanding health trends and inequalities, evaluating the impacts of new interventions and progressing innovations in personalized medicine. Policymakers need to be aware that the Return on Investment in personal health record systems will come not just from the theorized clinical and ﬁnancial beneﬁts of record access but, signiﬁcantly, through the trust that comes with being open with patients about the data that is held about them. In light of these various risks, the apparent de-prioritisation of patient engagement signaled by the changed US requirements is of concern, although it may simply reﬂect the inevitable reality of trying to get complex systems in place within over-optimistic timescales. Hopefully a statement of long-term intent will help to dispel this impression, but other countries should take note of the reaction.
Is Voluntary Product Stewardship for E-Waste Working in New Zealand? A Whangarei Case Study

New Zealand currently manages its annually-generated 99,000 tonnes of e-waste via voluntary product stewardship schemes. Limited data is available to determine the success of this approach. This lack of data is cited as the logic preventing the declaration of e-waste as a priority product by the Minister for the Environment which would trigger the enforcement of mandatory product stewardship. This case study involved an online survey of 264 Whangarei District householders asking questions about e-waste creation and management, as well as analyses of local services, and local and national policy. It found that only 1.8% of the estimated e-waste created in the district is recycled by municipal services, with the ‘cost to recycle’ and ‘a lack of knowledge’ presenting barriers to engagement in these services. The ‘lack of ability to repair/the cost to repair’ was found to be the most significant driver for e-waste creation. The adoption of mandatory product stewardship for e-waste was recommended to ensure robust and transparent data collection, see recycling services become more accessible, and raise awareness of these services, thus reducing the value-action gap. Mandatory e-waste management would also impact product design to ensure affordable repair-ability, further supporting a circular economy for electronic goods.
PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH VOWEL LENGTHENING

Based on a non-linear framework of phonology, this article claims that English Vowel Lengthening is due to the reshaping of syllable structures which result from the affixation of certain types of suffixes. The paper also seeks to establish a general principle that governs different types of English Vowel Lengthening that have hitherto been considered distinct processes. Introducing the idea of Rime-Onset Alternation Principle, it is shown that vowel lengthening originates from the violation of the wellformedness condition of the syllable sequences.
Robust Multi-Class Multi-Period Scheduling of MRI Services with Wait Time Targets

In recent years, long wait times for healthcare services have become a challenge in most healthcare delivery systems in Canada. This issue becomes even more important when there are priorities in patients’ treatment which means some of the patients need emergency treatment, while others can wait longer. One example of excessively long wait times in Canada is the MRI scans. These wait times are partially due to limited capacity and increased demand, but also due to sub-optimal scheduling policies. Patients are typically prioritized by the referring physician based on their health condition, and there is a wait time target for each priority level. The difficulty of scheduling increases due to uncertainty in patients’ arrivals and service times. In this thesis, we develop a multi-priority robust optimization (RO) method to schedule patients for MRI services over a multi-period finite horizon. First, we present a deterministic mixed integer programming model which considers patient priorities, MRI capacity, and wait time targets for each priority level. We then investigate robust counterparts of the model by considering uncertainty in patients’ arrivals and employing the notion of the budget of uncertainty. Finally, we apply the proposed robust model to a set of numerical examples and compare the results with those of the non-robust method. Moreover, sensitivity analysis is performed over capacity, penalty cost, service level, and budget of uncertainty. Our results demonstrate that the proposed robust approach provides solutions with higher service levels for each priority, and lower patients’ wait time in realistic problem instances. The analysis also provides some insights on expanding capacity and choosing the budget of uncertainty as a trade-off between performance and conservatism.
Clinical curative effect observation of Yixin Fumai Granules treating for pectoral stuff'mess pain,cardiopalmus(arrhythmia)

This article is about clinical study for 400 cases of pectoral stuffiness pain(angina pectoris), cardiopalmus(arrhythmia) patients.Using respectively Yixin Fumai Guanules and positive comparison medicine to treat pectoral stuffiness pain(angina pectoris),the cardiogram curative effect is 61.8%and 63.6%,the Chinese Medical Science effective rate of curative effect is respectively 91.5%and 90.9%. there is no significant difference between the two groups(P0.05). The total effective rate of curing palpitation(arrhythmia) is 74.8%and 73.3%,the Chinese Medical Science syndrome effective rate of curative effect is respectively 91.9%and 91.1%. There is no significant difference between the two groups(P0.05).
How did the shirts get to the Pitt Rivers Museum

The five Blackfoot shirts in Oxford were acquired in the summer of 1841 during Governor Sir George Simpson’s inspection of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s western fur trade posts, but we have little specific information on when and how they were collected. Simpson and his secretary, Edward Hopkins, arrived at Fort Edmonton in late July. What we know of their visit comes principally from an essay Simpson wrote about the Blackfoot while he stayed there, and from the published Narrative describing his journey around the world. For July 26th 1841 he reported:
Chinese Discourse Relation Semantic Taxonomy and Annotation

Discourse Relation is an important part of discourse semantic analysis.This paper analyses the differences between Chinese and English discourses,then presents the first Chinese discourse relation taxonomy based on the English discourse relation researches in details.Aiming at the rationality of the hierarchy,we conducts annotation experiments on Chinese internet news texts and analyses all difficulties happened during the data annotation together with the resolution to lay a foundation for the future discourse semantic analysis.
Detection of Hacking nodes using DynamicSensor with Ant Colony Optimization

Detection of hacking nodes can be defined as tracking system to show the negative effects that malicious nodes cause in MANET (Mobile ad hoc network. This paper proposes an survey about Detection of hacking nodes based on data transmission. The main problem in existing system is that the variable brink length of the polygon and the impact of the targets dynamic movements, brink detection and real time polygon. After the survey on various literature papers, we are concluding a new way, that increases confidentiality of the data and efficiency, , we have enclosed the proposed method with the ACO algorithm which allow itself to detect the terrorist nodes that are to be labeled and performs the active classification,. A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a group of mobile hosts and able to communicate one another in the absence of fixed infrastructure. If the entity at a particular range cannot be determined then several static nodes are located for better coverage and to reduce the total travelled distance by the nodes. The approximation and the foreseeing of the nodes are done by space Theory and the location of the nodes by using ant colony optimization.
NABIM Wheat allergy and intolerance report

Research shows that up to 20% of people think they suffer from food allergy or food intolerance. However, evidence suggests that the real prevalence of food allergy and intolerance is much lower. It is unknown how many people truly suffer from wheat allergy or wheat intolerance, and how many people are avoiding wheat. However, the limited evidence available suggests that for wheat allergy and intolerance the pattern reflects that of food allergy and intolerance generally i.e. self-report is higher than the true prevalence. The prevalence of coeliac disease is better researched; evidence suggests that 0.8-1.9% of the UK population has coeliac disease. Wheat allergy, wheat intolerance and coeliac disease must be diagnosed by a qualified medical professional; self-diagnosis and other diagnostic tests are not reliable. Wheat avoidance can have a huge impact on nutritional intake (without appropriate dietary advice) and quality of life, and studies investigating these are urgently needed.
A Simple Accurate Binomial Tree for Pricing Options on Stocks with Known Dollar Dividends

Known discrete dollar dividends lead to non-recombining binomial trees (NR-BT) with an explosion of nodes, and make the pricing of options much more complex. This article proposes a novel method for constructing a recombining binomial tree via balanced dividend adjustments (BDA). BDA is proved to converge to NR-BT for European options. Furthermore, BDA is shown heuristically to approximate NR-BT superbly for American options; for American calls, an error formula for BDA is derived and can be used to reduce further the pricing error. In a numerical illustration for American options, BDA turns out to be quite accurate, outperforming several existing approaches. A new insight emerges that BDA can be a competitive, yet simple, alternative to the industry practice of interpolating for dividends under binomial-tree or finite difference. TOPICS: Options, statistical methods, performance measurement
Development of TV measuring and tracking system by using DSP

The TV measuring and tracking system base on DSP is developed.It is high-speed,intelligent and programmable system.The system uses height-performance DSP to realize the real-time digital image processing algorithm,at the same time it uses large-scaled programmable logical array CPLD to control logic and field programmable gate array FPGA to preprocess the image.Aim at the condition of measuring landmark in complex background,a method of fast image template matching algorithm based on evolutionary algorithm is proposed.Matched computing time being constant,the method can achieve high computing efficiency and good matching results.
Ethical Judgment of Food Fraud. Effects on Consumer Behavior

ABSTRACT This study brings important insights for the food industry by addressing how consumers ethically judge or evaluate unethical firm behavior, in specific reference to food fraud, and if and to what extent that judgment affects the consumer–brand relationship and consumer behavior. it is an empirical investigation of the unethical intentional mislabeling in the U. S food industry. The paper analysis if there are statistically significant associations between brand attachment, ethical judgment, brand commitment, and purchase intention. Quantitative data (151) was collected about three different leading manufacturing food brands (three studies). Correlation and regression analyses were conducted. Findings reveal the important relation between all the constructs. Significant effects on how consumers ethically judged this brand transgression. Thus, it was found that as consumers judged this action as more unethical, the intentions to both stay committed to and purchase the brand were considerably damaged.
Performance Evaluation of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter Based Induction Motor Drive

Multi-level inverters go a long way in overcoming the problems of conventional two level Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) inverters and this is the reason that they have gained so much attention in recent years. This paper presents the performance evaluation of 3-level and 5-level Flying capacitor inverter fed Induction motor drive using Scalar or v/f control technique. This paper compares the performance of the conventional two-level inverter Induction motor drive with multilevel (3-level and 5-level) inverter drive. This paper also presents the comparison of line current total harmonic distortion (THD) variation with frequency for the three inverters considered in this work. Keywords— Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter (FCMLI), Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM), Scalar Control, Induction motor, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD).
Harmonic Analysis In Phase Space

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945 Influence of industrial safety shoe characteristics on postural stability

Introduction Working conditions, such as walking and standing on hard surfaces, can increase the development of musculoskeletal complaints. At the interface between flooring and musculoskeletal system, safety shoes may play an important role in the well-being of employees. Slip, Trip and fall accidents in the industrial setting range from trivial falls to life- threatening fatalities and injuries which could be as a compromised of postural stability. Safety shoe has different characteristic features but in what way these characteristics interact with each other and influence postural stability is uncertain. The study elucidates the influence of industrial safety shoes characteristic on different stabilometric dimensions that are the indicators of postural stability. The purpose of the current study effect is to explore the contribution of specific characteristics of safety shoe used in industries along with the individual characteristics in Static and dynamic postural conditions. Methods Twenty-five male subjects performed the task of standing and walking on the piezoelectric force platform (Kistler, Switzerland, model 9268AA) with industrial safety footwear and centre of pressure displacements parameters were investigated as measures of postural stability. Results Multiple ANOVA results showed the significant influence of shoe characteristics (toe cap, sole of shoe, weight of the shoe and ankle type) and their interaction on the centre of pressure displacement determinants. Conclusion The role of individual characteristics preponderate the impact of safety shoe characteristics on postural stability. This work gives a valuable insight to consideration of footwear characteristics for manufacturers and employers to put a check on Slip, Trip and Fall injuries which can improve the productive life of labour with more work efficiency.
Implementation of Fuzzy Logic in Autonomous Irrigation System for Efficient Use of Water

This paper is focused on application of fuzzy logic to control an automatic irrigation system. In organic way, an experienced human farmer can manage the irrigation system by sensing soil moisture by fingertip and decide the estimated timing as well as water flow rate for irrigation. This system will do everything on behalf of human. The moisture sensor of the irrigation control system has a nonlinear response and a significant time delay; it can be difficult to get satisfactory results by using a regular feedback control system. As fuzzy logic system is able to mimic human reasoning and decision making, it can improvise the regular feedback system for decision making. Data from soil moisture sensors will be used as inputs to the system. The fuzzy control system will process the estimated soil moisture contents from multiple section of land. It will use linguistic knowledge to produce a control output that is sent to a motor, which controls the water flow rate from a static water source to the land of cultivation. The control unit will also control a pump which will fill up the source/water tank. A data set will also be used to make different output for different plants. In many researches, efficiency of the fuzzy logic control system has been measured and got the satisfactory output. Here, in our project we are going take multiple values of single type of input factor and making result by using fuzzy logic to the values.
A LEACH-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network to Optimize QoS

The density-constrained low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy protocol,i.e.,DC-LEACH,is proposed to meet the QoS requirement and minimize the energy consumption.Selecting the nodes in proper position as the clustering heads,the routing protocol reduces the energy consumption and alleviates the adverse effect on the communication quality,both resulting from the nonuniform distribution of nodes in network.In the protocol the probability analysis is made to fix the optimum measuring range in which the clustering heads are selected according to the threshold value of node density,thus giving the routing protocol of the network in clustering form.The simulation results showed that the improved protocol is able to not only reduce the energy consumption but also guarantee the communication quality.
Fear of stigma deters US soldiers from seeking help for mental health

Fear of stigmatisation resulted in less than half of US combat infantry personnel who developed mental health problems after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan seeking treatment, finds a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (2004;351:13-28). Soldiers most in need of treatment feared being stigmatised the most, says an accompanying editorial by Dr Matthew Friedman, of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Vermont. Dr Friedman suggests soldiers fear that “a scarlet P [signifying post-traumatic stress disorder] could doom …
Review: Samuel H. Caldwell, Switching Circuits and Logical Design

functionate, normal form, classes of recursively enumerable sets, Kleene recursion theorem, 17 pp.; reducibility and incomparability theorems, ordinal notations, extended Kleene hierarchy, 14 pp.; appendix containing background material in number theory, 5 pp. The presentation of mathematical logic as a branch of recursive function theory is a refreshing approach. Some of the flavor of that section is contained in the author's definition of a logic as a recursive set of words (called axioms), together with a finite set of recursive word predicates (called rules of inference). Eleven pages after this definition, Godel's incompleteness theorem is proved with an economy of formal development, making use of a creative set to produce an infinite collection of undecidable sentences. The author's intrinsic definition of computable functional, though appealing in concept, becomes bogged down in notational and definitional complexity in marked contrast to an otherwise fluent text. Simplifications such as considering only functions of one variable as arguments would definitely be in order. We list here some of the errata supplied by the author. Page 26, last line, write "qt" for "qi'. Page 58, formula (3), write " 1 " for " 0 " in the lower limit. Pages 98-100, write "gi" for "g/". Page 165, Theorem 2.3 should conclude: "then F is completely computable. " Page 177, Theorem 7.6 is false as it stands. The corrected version generalizes Theorem 7.5 by allowing / to be defined by cases. The proofs on pages 188, 189 should be revised accordingly. Reviewer's note: page 189, the proof of Theorem 4.5 is incomplete even on taking into account the changes needed as a result of the error in Theorem 7.6. The third condition h(x) = 3-5 is not so easily satisfied since there is no guarantee that h(Q'{x, n)) < 0 h(Q'(x, n + 1)). Furthermore it is not clear how to repair the proof, since we do not know what the author means by "the analogue of condition (3) of Theorem 4 . 1" mentioned in the hypothesis of the theorem.
An Evidence-Based Review: The Effects of Malaysian Traditional Herbs on Osteoporotic Rat Models

Osteoporosis is considered a silent disease, the early symptoms of which often go unrecognised. Osteoporosis causes bone loss, reduces mineralised density, and inevitably leads to bone fracture. Hormonal deficiencies due to aging or drug induction are also frequently attributed to osteoporosis. Nevertheless, the phytochemical content of natural plants has been proven to significantly reduce osteoporotic conditions. A systematic review was conducted by this study to identify research specifically on the effects of Malaysian herbs such as Piper sarmentosum, Eurycoma longifolia and Labisia pumila on osteoporotic bone changes. This review consisted of a comprehensive search of five databases for the effects of specific herbs on osteoporotic bone change. These databases were Web of Science (WOS), Medline, Scopus, ScienceDirect and PubMed. The articles were selected throughout the years, were limited to the English language and fully documented. Duplication, irrelevant titles, different herbs and in vitro studies were excluded, including those that are not original research papers. A total of 399 potential studies were identified, but only 21 samples were accepted based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Six of the twenty one studies were on Piper sarmentosum, six on Eurycoma longifolia, and the remaining nine studies were on Labisia pumila. Overall, in three of the studies a glucocorticoid-induced model was used, while in 12 of the studies an ovariectomised model was used, and for the other six studies an orchidectomised model was used as the osteoporotic model. All of the studies reported varied results based on the type of herbs used, but in comparison to Eurycoma longifolia, Piper sarmentosum and Labisia pumila recorded better anti-osteoporotic effects, while the majority of studies on Eurycoma longifolia were unable to preserve bone strength.