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Mouse Movement with 3D Chaotic Logistic Maps to Generate Random Numbers

Since last three decades there are close relationships between chaotic theory and cryptographic theory. Chaotic system behaviors like; highly sensitive to initial states, mix up attribute, deterministic nature and also cannot predict the long term returns, these characteristics help the researchers to enhance security of a cryptography systems, therefore growing number of random numbers generators based on chaotic have been proposed. These proposed generators suffer from limited key space and those based on 1D chaotic map have limited entropy generation capability due to their finite number of Lyapunov exponent(s). In this paper, we propose a random binary sequences generator that produces sequence of bits. General structure of proposed model consists of two parts, first part is mouse device as the nondeterministic source and second part is 3D chaotic system with the coordinates of mouse cursor when movement as the initial seeds, and combines the produced values in algorithmic process. The coordinates of mouse cursor are treated as initial random number with post processing with 3D chaotic maps to increase the randomness and security of the keys. The proposed work has high key space and very long period. Also make obvious that the generated keys possess successful statistical characteristics which is expected of true random binary sequences that are suitable to use in critical cryptography systems, these made by evaluating the results by hardness of 16 tests of NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology).
A Derivation of Free-rotation in the Three-dimensional Space

The paper describes an algorithm derivation of rotation in the three-dimensional space, which is an efficient method for rotating objects in the space. The key in the derivation process is to summarize the many thoughts on this issue, included the geometric algebra, coordinate transformation, linear space and matrix operations, and analysis of some possible algorithm of rotation, such as basic rotation, the combination of rotations and coordinates system transformation. Finally, obtains a matrix as a formula for the free-rotation in the three dimensions.
Homogeneity Analysis of Rainfall event by Using ROI Approach

The main purpose of this paper is to present and apply one of the statistical methodologies the region of influence (ROI) approach and form homogenous region/regions for rainfall frequency analysis in order to extract rainfall information guidelines for the Sudan basin. 15 gauging stations are selected, with recorded annual data ranging from 25 to 102 years in length. The aim here is to provide a regional curve with the capacity of taking into account the spatial pattern of variation of hydrologic phenomena across many gauging sites and which can be used for estimating rainfall quantiles at both gauged and ungauged sites within a specified region. This regional curve can also provide the possibility of the transfer of hydrologic behavior of a region to a site of interest in order to improve at-site estimates. The study results are analyses and compared. At first rainfall quantile for selected sites were estimated. In addition, the regression analysis between estimated quantiles (for 100 years) and the geographical features of the basin (drainage area (A), longitude (Xdist.) and latidute (Ydist.)) was derived. In an aim to extend the methodologies to the case of ungauged site, a nonlinear regression model is derived and the results are investigated. Keywords-At-site Frequency Analysis; Homogeneity; Regional frequency analysis; Region of influence (ROI); Regression Analysis
Bifurcation patterns of market regime transition

In this paper mechanisms of reversion - momentum transition are considered. Two basic nonlinear mechanisms are highlighted: a slow and fast bifurcation. A slow bifurcation leads to the equilibrium evolution, preceded by stability loss delay of a control parameter. A single order parameter is introduced by Markovian chain diffusion, which plays a role of a precursor. A fast bifurcation is formed by a singular fusion of unstable and stable equilibrium states. The effect of a precatastrophic range compression is observed before the discrete change of a system. A diffusion time scaling is presented as a precursor of the fast bifurcation. The efficiency of both precursors in a currency market was illustrated by simulation of a prototype of a trading system.
A Preliminary Look into Unsolicited Mobile App Traffic

The number of smart devices keeps on growing every year, and with that the potential market for mobile apps. As of May 2016, Google Play hosted 2.6 million apps and had an accumulative total of 65 billion app downloads. Any developer can publish apps through Play, and it is quite prevalent to granting apps permission use the phone's network network interfaces at will and under very limited supervision (beyond overall traffic volume and bitwise access to an interface). This raises the following questions: can certain apps be harmful to users? Should we trust mobile developers to 'do no evil' in terms of the volume and type of traffic their apps generate? We are motivated to identify whether there is a need for more scrutiny on the connections apps make, especially when not in use.
Decadal variability of the upper ocean heat content in the East/Japan Sea and its possible relationship to northwestern Pacific variability

[1] The upper ocean heat content variability in the East/Japan Sea was investigated using a 40 year temperature and salinity data set from 1968 to 2007. Decadal variability was identified as the dominant mode of variability in the upper ocean (0–300 m) aside from the seasonal cycle. The decadal variability is strong to the west of northern Honshu, west of the Tsugaru Strait, and west of southern Hokkaido. Temperature anomalies at 50–125 m exhibit a large contribution to the decadal variability, particularly in the eastern part of the East/Japan Sea. The vertical structure of regressed temperature anomalies and the spatial patterns of regressed 10°C isotherms in the East/Japan Sea suggest that the decadal variability is related to upper ocean circulation in the East/Japan Sea. The decadal variability also exhibits an increasing trend, which indicates that the regions showing large decadal variations experienced warming on decadal time scales. Further analysis shows that the decadal variability in the East/Japan Sea is not locally isolated but is related to variability in the northwestern Pacific.
Effectiveness of native arbuscular mycorrhizal consortia on the growth of Agave inaequidens

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of eight native consortia of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a commercial strain and a control without AMF on the growth of Agave inaequidens. Agave seedlings were inoculated and kept under greenhouse conditions for 300 days. At 90, 180 and 270 days after inoculation, the number of leaves and plant height were recorded; at the end of the experiment, fresh and dry weight, head (also known as heart or piña) diameter, leaf area and root length and volume were recorded. The percentage of mycorrhizal colonization, the relative mycorrhizal dependency index and the Dickson index were also calculated. Results showed a growth-promoting effect on agave plants when inoculated with native consortia, namely Barranca de las nueces, El Limón, Agua Dulce and Huizachal, compared to the control. Colonization values were high (45%) and similar to those reported in other studies with agaves. Plants inoculated with the Huichazal consortium obtained the highest Dickson index (9.6). It can be concluded that native consortia are a feasible alternative for use as growth promoters in Agave inaequidens and that they can be a good option as biofertilizer sunder nursery conditions.
Trading Technology As Well As Final Products: Roundup Ready Soybean and Welfare Effects in the Soybean Complex

A stylized three-region world model for the soybean complex is developed to evaluate the welfare effects of Roundup Ready (RR) soybean adoption. The innovation is modeled in a structural way that explicitly accounts for the incentives open to farmers as well as for the pricing of RR soybean seeds by a multinational firm thatholds intellectual property rights. Themodel, calibrated on recent benchmark data, is solved for various scenarios to evaluate the production, price, and welf2U"e impacts of RR soybean adoption. The United States gains substantially from the superior innovation, with the innovator capturing the larger share of the welfare gains. US farmers benefit in the base scenario, but would be adversely affected if the RR innovation were to increase yields. Spillover of the new technology to foreign competitors erodes the competitive position of domestic soybean producers, and export of the technology per se may not improve the welfare position of the innovating country. With strong overseas intellectual property rights protection, the innovatormonopolist could extract a substantial share of the efficiency gains, thus benefiting the home country. But with weaker international intellectual property protection, profits from foreign sales of the new technology just offset the loss of domestic producer welfare. Consumers in every region gain from the adoption of RR soybeans. Disciplines Agribusiness | Agricultural Economics | Technology and Innovation This report is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_staffpapers/337 RoundupReady ®Soybeans andWelfare Effects in the Soybean Complex Giancarlo Moschini Harvey Lapan Andrei Sobolevsky September 1999 StaffPaper # 324 Theauthors are professor, professor, and research assistant, respectively, in theDepartment of Economics, Iowa State University. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ICABR conference on "TheShape of theComing Agricultural Biotechnology Transformation; Strategic Investmentand Policy Approaches from an Economic Perspective,"University ofRome Tor Vergata, June 1999. We thank Yoav Kislev and other conference participants for their constructive comments. The support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, through aNational Research Initiative grant, is gratefully acknowledged. This is Journal PaperNo. J-18548 of theIowaAgriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Project No.3539. Send correspondence to:Giancarlo Moschini, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, lA 50011-1070 (Email: moschini@iastate.edu). Roundup Ready ®Soybeans andWelfare Effects in theSoybean Complex • '• j'c 1 • • '. :'i I I* j -f . I I . • . j
Analysis of Directives in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

The present paper attempts to analyze the highly marked directive speech acts in Arthur Miller’s two famous plays i.e. All My Sons and Death of a Salesman. Directive speech acts are the hearer center; they intend to create a desirable effect on the hearer and attempt to get the hearer to do something with the words. In other words, these speech acts have the intentions or purposes of some sort of actions to be performed by the hearer. This class includes requesting, questioning, ordering, commanding, suggesting, urging, etc. This group frequently belongs to the competitive category of Geoffrey Leech and comprises a category of illocutionary force in which illocutionary goal competes with the social goal and creates negative politeness on the hearer.
Nursing Care Satisfaction of Surgery Patients

The studies for quality assurance in respect with the healthcare suggest that there is a need for studies which will be guide for healthcare in pre-operative patient selection and preparation, in the intra-operative and post-operative periods, discharge and home care [11-14]. The objective of this study in light of this information is to determine the status of surgery patients’ satisfaction with their nursing care and identify the causes of their satisfaction or displeasure.
Broad-band spectrophotometry of HAT-P-32 b: search for a scattering signature in the planetary spectrum

Multicolour broad-band transit observations offer the opportunity to characterize the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet with small- to medium-sized telescopes. One of the most favourable targets is the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32 b. We combined 21 new transit observations of this planet with 36 previously published light curves for a homogeneous analysis of the broad-band transmission spectrum from the Sloan u′ band to the Sloan z′ band. Our results rule out cloud-free planetary atmosphere models of solar metallicity. Furthermore, a discrepancy at reddest wavelengths to previously published results makes a recent tentative detection of a scattering feature less likely. Instead, the available spectral measurements of HAT-P-32 b favour a completely flat spectrum from the near-UV to the near-IR. A plausible interpretation is a thick cloud cover at high altitudes.
Synthesis and Structure of New Compounds NSAIDs-Like Using a Heterogeneous Recyclable Catalyst

In this research, Phenol derivatives have been reacted with aryl halides using 5 mol% Cu(I) Complex [CuClPPh3]4 as catalyst supported on Amberlyst A21. The typical reaction has been performed between p-cresol and bromobenzene. This reaction is achieved in o-xylene as solvent. However, the catalyst complex does not dissolve in o-xylene rather it acts as heterogeneous catalyst. Therefore, it is filtrated at the end of the reaction and reused several times. Accordingly, new compounds were prepared by reacting some of bromoaryl derivatives with some Phenol derivatives. It is anticipated that the synthesized compounds have a structure NSAIDs-likes that may find their applications in the pharmaceutical industries.
Mycotoxins in Wheat and Mitigation Measures

Latest estimates for world cereal production in 2015 and EU‐28 production in 2014 are approximately 2540 and 323 mil tons, respectively. The FAO estimated that the global wheat consumption is about 66 kg/per capita. Among the most important risks associ ‐ ated with wheat consumption are mycotoxins. It has been estimated that up to 25% of the world's crops grown for food and feed may be contaminated with mycotoxins. Despite efforts in controlling fungal growth, mycotoxin co‐contamination represents an unavoid ‐ able risk, occurring pre‐ and postharvest and resulting in reduced nutritional value and possible risks for human and animal health. In addition to health risks, mycotoxins have a detrimental effect on the quality and the processing performance of wheat. Mitigation measures to manage the challenge of mycotoxins in wheat include strategies at pre‐ and postharvest. Preharvest events are predominantly dictated by environmental factors and good agronomic/cultural practices, whereas storage and processing are the major areas where contamination can be prevented at postharvest. Integrating as many management options as possible may minimize the risk of mycotoxin contamination in wheat and wheat products.
Title Propagating Waves Recorded in the Steel , Moment-Frame Factor Building During Earthquakes Permalink

Wave-propagation effects can be useful in determining the system identification of buildings such as the densely instrumented University of California, Los Angeles, Factor building. Waveform data from the 72-channel array in the 17-story moment-resisting steel frame Factor building are used in comparison with finiteelement calculations for predictive behavior. The high dynamic range of the 24-bit digitizers allows both strong motions and ambient vibrations to be recorded with reasonable signal-to-noise ratios. A three-dimensional model of the Factor building has been developed based on structural drawings. Observed displacements for 20 small and moderate, local and regional earthquakes were used to compute the impulse response functions of the building by deconvolving the subbasement records as representative input motions at its base. The impulse response functions were then stacked to bring out wave-propagation effects more clearly. The stacked data are used as input into theoretical dynamic analysis simulations of the building’s response.
Interactive comment on “Climate change imposed limitations on potential food production” by Philipp de Vrese et al

Before going into detail about the changes done to the manuscript, we would like to sincerely thank the referees for taking the time to help us improve our manuscript, pointing out shortcomings and providing possible solutions for these. We think that the manuscript benefited especially from the additional information in the introductory section, the discussion on the simulated CO2 fertilization effect and the additional comparison to other studies. We structured our reply to the reviewer’s comments as follows. At first we repeat the referees point of criticism in bold letters, which is followed by a reply which is not included in the manuscript (in plain letters), and finally we give the parts in the manuscript that were altered in italics.
Neural network-based approach to discriminate healthy people from those with Parkinson's disease

This papers deals with the application of some probabilistic neural network (PNN) variants to discriminate between healthy people and people with Parkinson’s disease. Three PNN types have been used in this classification process, related to the smoothing factor search: incremental search (IS), Monte Carlo search (MCS) and hybrid search (HS). The concrete application has provided diagnosis accuracies ranging between 79% and 81% for new, undiagnosed patients. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 68T05; 68Q10.
Can individualised acoustical transforms in hearing aids improve perceived sound quality

This paper presents an experiment which aimed to clarify whether benefits in terms of perceived sound quality can be obtained from fitting hearing aids according to individualised acoustical transforms instead of average transforms. Eighteen normal-hearing test subjects participated, and hearing-aid sound processing with various degrees of individualisation was simulated and applied to five different sound samples. Stimuli were presented over insert phones and evaluated in an A/B test paradigm. Data were analysed with the Bradley-Terry-Luce model. The key result is that hearing aids individualised according to a real-ear insertion gain (REIG) target were preferred over hearing aids individualised according to a real-ear aided response (REAR) target.
Micro-scale genetic heterogeneity and structure in coral recruitment: fine-scale patchiness

Coral reefs have recently suffered severe environmental perturbations. Genetic vari- ability and structure in coral populations is important in determining their survival and adaptation and can be influenced by larval settlement/recruitment. Here, we assess the genetic heterogeneity of Agaricia agaricites coral recruits at 3 spatial scales on the East Flower Garden Bank, Gulf of Mexico. Racks with settlement plates were placed at each of 3 sites, at 23 m depth, arranged in a circular pat- tern, 10s of meters apart. Three racks were placed within each site, several meters from each other. Each rack held 5 terracotta settling plates, several centimeters apart. Highly polymorphic markers for amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) were used to assess genetic structure among recruits: among sites, racks, and plates. Four sets of AFLP primers yielded 164 polymorphic markers. The assignment-based statistical programs AFLPOP and STRUCTURE assigned coral spat back to their original sites (home populations) at levels of between 63.3 and 99.8%. Recruit populations exhibited clear, consistent genetic heterogeneity at a scale of 10s of meters. The levels of assignment back to rack home populations were broader, ranging from 32.5 to 96.5%. Highest rates of self- assignment/ identification of distinct/separate populations occurred at the smallest spatial scale, i.e. the plates (5 3.7 to 96.5%). Genetic relatedness among recruits was highest and patchy at a scale of 10s of centimeters, more variable at a scale of meters, and still detectable at a scale of 10s of meters. Genetic variability in these recruits was high. Recruitment was probably local, from corals in the immediate vicinity, and with limited mixing.
Prostate Carcinoma and Hot Flashes

In prostate cancer patients, the use of hormonal-deprivation (HD) therapies, such as the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) or luteinizing hormone releasing hormone analogues (LHRHa), antiandrogens, or bilateral orchiectomy, induces a range of hormone-related symptoms. Hot flashes (HF) are one of most common and distressing symptoms that can occur. Other signs and symptoms caused by estrogen and androgen deprivation are metabolic syndrome, increased cardiovascular risk, loss of libido, erectile dysfunction, accelerated osteopenia/osteoporosis, increased bone fractures, neurocognitive dysfunction, weight gain, decreased muscle mass, etc. Since the pioneering studies by Huggins and Hodges (Huggins & Hodges, 1941), hormonal manipulation in which tumor cells are deprived of hormonal steroids has gained increasing relevance in the treatment of some types of cancer. They reported episodes of HF in 9 of 21 castrated patients 2 to 3 weeks after surgery (Huggins & Hodges, 1941). Surgical castration, the most commonly used procedure to obtain HD a few years ago, has been gradually replaced by medical castration with the addition of LHRHa. After orchiectomy, approximately 50% of the patients experienced HF within months (Charig & Rundle, 1989; Maatman et al., 1985; Aksel et al., 1976; Buchholz & Matarelli, 1994). The incidence of HF is 60-75% with the use of LHRHa (Harvey et al., 1985; Leuprolide Study Group, 1984; Sarosdy et al., 1999; Parmar et al., 1987). The reason why this incidence rate is higher than that observed with surgical removal is not well understood. As is the case with orchiectomy, HF occur over several months and may persist, although with less intensity, for many years. Hot flashes are a major clinical problem in many cancer patients undergoing HD (Charig & Rundle, 1989; Nishiyama et al., 2004; J. S. Carpenter et al., 2004), as demonstrated by the quality of life studies. While HF are not considered a serious adverse effect, their frequency and severity may be bothersome and can impair patients’ quality of life. Thus we need to understand the mechanism of hot flashes and use this information to develop patient-tailored therapies to address these symptoms. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss theories, to observe how they are reflected in the pathophysiology of HF, and to describe current treatments.
Organizational competencies and innovation performances: the case of large firms in Belgium

The objective of this paper is to assess whether large firms' organizational competencies affect their innovation performances. About 40 organizational sub-competencies are defined and measured through an original survey questionnaire answered by 148 large firms in Belgium. The sub-competencies are grouped into seven broad organizational competencies associated with the inovation process. For each broad competence a principal component analysis is run to illustrate whether the sub-competencies are related to three innovation performance indicators, including R&D intensity, the number of patents and the share of sales accounted for by innovative products and processes. The empirical results show that the output related innovation performance indicators (innovative output and the number of patents) are closely related with most organizational competencies, whereas R&D intensity is only correlated with two competencies (developing an innovation culture and using internal funding for innovation). Innovation performance is not only a function of the investment devoted to the creation of new products, processes or services, but also a function of the organizational process underlying innovative activities.