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The Status of Integration of Academic and Agricultural Education in North Carolina.

As we enter the 21st century, education is becoming more and more technologically advanced. As a result, effective education cannot be either liberal/academic or technical/vocational. According toKearns and Doyle (1988), liberal education teaches both traditional academic subjects, such as science and history, and critical thinking and problem-solving skills.Figler (1989)outlined some skills taught in a liberal or academic curriculum that are needed in the workplace, including communications, thinking, valuing, and interviewing skills. Technical or vocational education, on the other hand, teaches skills required for many occupations(Roegge, 1994). Rankin (1993)stated that 97% of all high school students enroll in a vocational course during their high school career, and many students consider vocational goals most important to their future. Vocational and academic integration is a marriage of both types of curricula in order to teach the many skills necessary for students' future successes.
EFFECTS OF INFLOW BOUNDARY LAYER ON TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER OVER A TWO-DIMENSIONAL HILL

An experimental investigation has been made on the flow and thermal fields over a heated two-dimensional hill. The effects of the inflow boundary layer on the complex turbulent field are discussed when the downstream location of the hill model is varied. At the crest of the hill, the horizontal velocity fluctuation shows a large distinct peak very near the surface, because of instantaneous backward flows. It is found that in the reverse-flow region on the leeward side of the hill, the turbulence intensities and the Reynolds shear stress show much larger values than those in a canonical wall-bounded shear flow. The ratio of an incoming boundary layer thickness δ to a hill height H, i.e., δ/H, strongly affects the development of these turbulent statistics. In the thermal field, there is a hot region below the hill height, and the mean temperature gradient has peaks at this location as well as at the heated surface. A second temperature fluctuation peak exists except near the heated surface.
Biofilm production and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from HIV and AIDS patients in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

Staphylococcus aureus is a common pathogen associated with nosocomial as well as community acquired infections. Despite multiple reports on the severity and recurrent nature of S. aureus infection, the pathogenesis as well as antibiotic susceptibility profiles of S. aureus infecting HIV and AIDS patients has not been well studied in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Hence, the study was aimed at determining the biofilm producing capability and antibiotic resistance profiles of the S. aureus isolated from drinking water and clinical samples from HIV patients in the Limpopo Province. S . aureus strains isolated from clinical samples including urine, sputum, and stools obtained from HIV and AIDS patients as well as their drinking water samples were analysed for biofilm production using the microtitration plate method, haemolytic activities, antibiotic susceptibility, methicillin resistance and β-lactamase production. Methicillin resistance was tested from all the S. aureus isolates by the oxacillin agar plate. Overall, 140 S. aureus were isolated. Sixty (60) were from stools, 48 from urine, 15 from sputum and 17 from water. Of all the isolates, 67 (48%) produced biofilm of which 14 (10%) were strong biofilm producers and 53 (38%) moderate biofilm producers. Biofilm production was the highest among the urine isolates (62.5%) (χ2 = 6.276; p = 0.01) and the water isolates (70.6%) (χ2 = 4.006; p = 0.040). However, biofilm was not associated with sputum samples (p = 0.571) nor stool samples (p = 0.763). Isolates were highly resistant to most antibiotics tested and 125 (90%) isolates were resistant to more than 3 antibiotics. Higher resistance was observed against ampicillin (92%) while the most active antibiotic was ciprofloxacin with 89% susceptibility. Eighteen (14%) of the isolates were identified as MRSA and showed high resistance against vancomycin (28%) compared to MSSA among which vancomycin resistance was 14%. This is the first study on staphylococcal isolates from HIV patients in the Limpopo Province. The level of resistance to vancomycin was high and further attention is needed from the health system for more stringent measures of infection control. Biofilm production appeared to be a factor fuelling the increased in antibiotic resistance as well as pathogenicity in these strains. Furthermore, water could be a transmission vector of staphylococcal UTIs among HIV and AIDS patients in this region. However, further studies are needed to confirm these hypotheses. Key words: Antibiotic susceptibility, biofilm, diarrhea, urinary tract infections, pulmonary infections, epidemiology, HIV and AIDS, Staphylococcus aureus, venda, South Africa.
IMPACT OF E-COMMERCE INNOVATIONS AND STRATEGIES AS COMPETITIVE BUSINESS MODELS IN KENYAN SMES

This study identifies and examines factors affecting customer loyalty in e-retail environment. This research examines e-commerce and identifies convenient shopping experience as a strategy that can be used to improve service offering to attract and retain customers. Thus, it is useful for businesses to understand the differences between e-commerce and traditional methods of business to enable them identify the new internet-based opportunities that might better satisfy the unique needs and desires of their customers. A qualitative research design was used. Primary data being the main source of data for this study was gathered by use of questionnaires and interviews. The researcher collected data through questionnaires to examine how e-retailing improves customers shopping experience. The researchers administered one hundred and fifty questionnaires (150) through hand delivery and web-based methods. The group of respondents comprised of working class people, credit card holders and students from who live within and on the outskirts of Nairobi.
GEOSCOPE Station Noise Levels

The noise level at GEOSCOPE seismograph stations operating in 1995 has been studied in order to quantify the quality of stations for periods ranging from 0.2 to 8000 sec. The power spectral density curves presented in this article are a useful tool for selecting stations as a function of signal-to-noise ratio in the frequency band of interest. Seismic-noise level is the lowest for continental stations in the entire frequency band. It is similarly low at most coastal stations (stations located less than 150 km away from the coast). Finally, the noise level is low for island stations at long periods but increases significantly for periods smaller than 20 seconds, and in particular in the period range of the microseismic peak. The noise level on horizontal components varies, in most stations, as a function of local time for periods greater than 20 sec, being higher during the day than during the night. Only stations located in cold areas with little daily temperature variations and stations installed in a long tunnel do not display these daily variations. There is no seasonal variations of short-period noise (periods less than 5 sec). For some continental stations, we observe variations in the amplitude of the 7-sec microseismic peak during the year. For all three components, the peak amplitude is higher and shifted toward longer periods in fall and winter than in spring and summer. This phenomenon can be explained by the increase of the number and the size of oceanic storms in fall and winter. Long-period seismic noise (periods greater than 30 sec) also varies for some stations as a function of the season; however, no systematic characteristics have been observed.
Perceived weight of a rod under augmented and diminished reality visual effects

We can use augmented reality (AR) and diminished reality (DR) in combination, in practice. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no research on the validation of the cross-modal effects in AR and DR. Our research interest here is to investigate how this continuous visual changes between AR and DR would change our weight sensation of an object. In this paper, we built a system that can continuously extend and reduce the amount of visual entity of real objects using AR and DR renderings to confirm that users can perceive things heavier and lighter than they actually are in the same manner as SWI. Different from the existing research where either AR or DR visual effects were used, we validated one of cross-modal effects in the context of both continuous AR and DR visuo-haptic. Regarding the weight sensation, we found that such cross-modal effect can be approximated with a continuous linear relationship between the weight and length of real objects. Our experimental results suggested that the weight sensation is closely related to the positions of the center of gravity (CoG) and perceived CoG positions lie within the object's entity under the examined conditions.
Ad-HGF induces autophagy in hypoxia-injured H 9 c 2 cardiomyocytes via activating NF-κB signaling

Autophagy at early stage of hypoxia has been demonstrated to play a vital role in protecting myocardium. Increasing evidences suggest that transcription factor NF-κB is involved in autophagy. Furthermore, our previous studies have confirmed that adenovirus carrying the HGF gene (Ad-HGF) could protect the heart against myocardial ischemia. However, the relationship among Ad-HGF, autophagy and NF-κB signaling in myocardial infarction (MI) is still unknown. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether Ad-HGF could regulate autophagy through NF-κB signaling in an in vitro hypoxia model. Autophagy was observed by transmission electron microscope and Ad-mRFP-GFP-LC3 infection. Protein expression levels of LC3-I, LC3-II, Beclin-1, p62, NF-κB p65 and phosphorylated NF-κB p65 were analyzed by western blot or immunofluorescence. Notably, we found that autophagy in H9c2 cells enhanced at early stage after hypoxia. Ad-HGF treatment dose-dependently promoted autophagy in hypoxia-injured H9c2 cells, while HGF receptor inhibitor, SU11274 yielded opposite effect. What’s more, NF-κB signaling was activated by Ad-HGF in a dose-dependent manner, and the NF-κB inhibitor PDTC could efficiently inhibit the activation of autophagy induced by Ad-HGF. Taken together, our findings demonstrated that Ad-HGF promoted autophagy in hypoxia-injured H9c2 cells and the protective effect of adaptable autophagy was mediated by activating NF-κB signaling, which suggested a new potential pathway of HGF protecting myocardium from hypoxia.
Professionalising positive psychology: Developing guidelines for training and regulation

Although positive psychology (PP) was initially conceived as more a shift in perspective (towards the “positive”) than a new field per se, in pragmatic terms, it is arguably beginning to function as a distinct discipline, with people self-identifying as “positive psychologists. ” Thus, we contend it is time for the field to start developing a system of professional (e.g., ethical) guidelines to inform the practice of PP. To this end, we outline one such possible system, drawing on guidelines in counselling and psychotherapy. Moreover, we argue for the creation of two tiers of professional identity within PP. Firstly, people with a master’s qualification in PP might label themselves “positive psychology practitioners. ” Secondly, we raise the possibility of creating a professional doctorate in PP which would enable graduates to assume the title of “positive psychologist. ” We hope that this paper will contribute towards a dialogue within the field around these issues, helping PP to develop further over the years ahead.
Hydrological Modelling of Flash Flood at Wadi Samail, Oman

In the arid regions, flash floods are among the most devastating hazards in terms of human losses and economical damages. On the other hand, however, flash floodwater can be an important source of water in arid environments. Unfortunately, there is often a lack of data on key hydrological processes in arid areas. This limits the ability to understand the flash flood process and use this knowledge to minimize its threat. Oman is one of arid countries that mainly faces flash flood in the coastal drainage systems. Wadi Samail (W. Samail) in the north coast of Oman is selected as a case study for flash flood hydrological modelling. Computation is carried out using sophisticated techniques where remote sensing data used with Rainfall Runoff Inundation Model (RRI) to simulate several flash flood events at W. Samail and compare between different mitigation measures options. DEM data and satellite imagery have been used to propose suitable locations of dams based on available reservoirs total volumes and delineated watershed.
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52 Dust devils that leave darkor light-toned tracks are common on Mars and they can also be 53 found on the Earth’s surface. Dust devil tracks (hereinafter DDTs) are ephemeral surface 54 features with mostly sub-annual lifetimes. Regarding their size, DDT widths can range 55 between ~1 m and ~1 km, depending on the diameter of dust devil that created the track, and 56 DDT lengths are range from a few tens of meters to several kilometers, limited by the 57 duration and horizontal ground speed of dust devils. DDTs can be classified into three main 58 types based on their morphology and albedo in contrast to their surroundings; all are found on 59 both planets: (a) dark continuous DDTs, (b) dark cycloidal DDTs, and (c) bright DDTs. Dark 60 continuous DDTs are the most common type on Mars. They are characterized by their 61 relatively homogenous and continuous low albedo surface tracks. Based on terrestrial and 62 martian in situ studies, these DDTs most likely form when surficial dust layers are removed to 63 expose larger-grained substrate material (coarse sands of ≥ 500 μm in diameter). The 64 exposure of larger-grained materials changes the photometric properties of the surface by 65 leads resulting in lower albedo tracks because grain size is photometrically inversely 66 proportional to the surface reflectance. However, although not observed so far, compositional 67 differences (i.e., color differences) might also lead to albedo contrasts when dust is removed 68 to expose substrate materials with mineralogical differences. For dark continuous DDTs, 69 albedo drop measurements are around 2.5% in the wavelength range of 550 – 850 nm on Mars 70 and around 0.5% in the wavelength range from 300 – 1100 nm on Earth. The removal of an 71 equivalent layer thickness around 1 μm is sufficient for the formation of visible dark 72 continuous DDTs on Mars and Earth. The next type of DDTs, dark cycloidal DDTs, are 73 characterized by their low albedo pattern of overlapping scallops. Terrestrial in situ studies 74 imply that they are formed when sand-sized material that is eroded from the outer vortex area 75 of a dust devil is redeposited in annular patterns in the central vortex region. This type of 76 DDT can also be found in on Mars in orbital image data, and although in situ studies are 77
A Survey on Malware Analysis Techniques: Static, Dynamic, Hybrid and Memory Analysis

Now a day the threat of malware is increasing rapidly. A software that sneaks to your computer system without your knowledge with a harmful intent to disrupt your computer operations. Due to the vast number of malware, it is impossible to handle malware by human engineers. Therefore, security researchers are taking great efforts to develop accurate and effective techniques to detect malware. This paper presents a semantic and detailed survey of methods used for malware detection like signature-based and heuristic-based. The Signature-based technique is largely used today by anti-virus software to detect malware, is fast and capable to detect known malware. However, it is not effective in detecting zero-day malware and it is easily defeated by malware that use obfuscation techniques. Likewise, a considerable false positive rate and high amount of scanning time are the main limitations of heuristic-based techniques. Alternatively, memory analysis is a promising technique that gives a comprehensive view of malware and it is expected to become more popular in malware analysis. The main contributions of this paper are: (1) providing an overview of malware types and malware detection approaches, (2) discussing the current malware analysis techniques, their findings and limitations, (3) studying the malware obfuscation, attacking and anti-analysis techniques, and (4) exploring the structure of memory-based analysis in malware detection. The detection approaches have been compared with each other according to their techniques, selected features, accuracy rates, and their advantages and disadvantages. This paper aims to help the researchers to have a general view of malware detection field and to discuss the importance of memory-based analysis in malware detection.
Assessment on the Release of Magnetite Nanoparticles Embedded with PVA Nanofiber in Hydrodynamics

Magnetite nanoparticle with average size 7-10 nm was embedded with biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol nanofiber and the average diameter of nanofiber is 115 nm. The nanofiber was further assembled over polymeric mesh to analyse the release mechanism of nanoparticles from polymer nanofiber. A hydrodynamics setup was constructed to study this system. Prior to hydrodynamics the nanofiber was allowed to react with water in static mode and observed that the magnetite nanoparticles were released from the nanofiber with increase in time. UV-Visible Spectrophotometer is used for analysis of absorbance and transmittance of polyvinyl alcohol-magnetite nanoparticles solution, nanofiber and films. High-resolution scanning electron microscopy is used to analyze the dimension of nanofiber; High-resolution transmission electron microscopy is used to find the size of magnetite nanoparticles. Here, an online spectroscopic technique was used to study the release mechanism of nanoparticles from nanofibers samples of different layers during hydrodynamics. The results reveal that the quantity of magnetite nanoparticles can be controlled by embedding into nanofibers during hydrodynamics. Also, the spectroscopic results indicate the quantity of nanoparticles released from nanofiber. This mechanism can be utilized to control the required quantity of nanoparticles to release at particular location through a polymer mesh assembly.
Characterization of genetic diversity of bird-of-paradise accessions

This study aimed to characterize genetic diversity in the bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) collection at the Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Carlos Alberto Reyes Maldonado (UNEMAT) by estimating genetic divergence among genotypes based on agronomic characteristics. Seven agronomic characters were evaluated with average Euclidean distance. The UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean) hierarchical clustering method was used between groups, as well as Tocher’s optimization clustering method and principal component analysis (PCA), in order to classify the genotypes with maximum similarity between groups. Measures of genetic dissimilarity with average Euclidean distance verified the existence of genetic variability among accessions since the amplitude of dissimilarity values ranged from 1.09 to 36.97. Tocher’s clustering method verified the formation of two distinct groups. UPGMA hierarchical clustering, based on the dissimilarity matrix, verified the formation of three groups with 30% cutoff point. Based on the main components analysis, we verified genetic divergence between the bird-of-paradise accessions in the UNEMAT Collection. The most promising combinations for future crosses in breeding programs comprise accessions 1, 11, and 23 and accession 1 as the most divergent among the accessions evaluated.
HYPERBOLIC STRUCTURES ON SURFACES

We give a brief introduction to hyperbolic structures on surfaces. Using the concepts of developing map and holonomy, we sketch a proof that every surface equipped with a complete hyperbolic metric is isometric to a quotient of H by a Fuchsian group. We then define Teichmuller spaces and explain Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates. Finally, we introduce mapping class groups and show that they act properly discontinuously on Teichmuller space.
Impact of Motivational Strategies on Employee Motivational Level: A Case Study of National Bank of Pakistan in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

The study sought to find out the motivational strategies and its impact on employee motivational level. The purpose of the study is to provide effective motivational strategies for banking sector of Azad Kashmir to use to motivate employee’s, improve and increase productivity in organization. The Literature review enables us to understand the various theories on motivation and the effects have on productivity. The researcher adopted a questionnaire to collect primary data regarding what will make employees to perform and increase productivity. The study was conducted by collecting data from sample of 90 respondents selected from five districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir including Mirpur , Kotli, Palandri and Bagh and Rawalakot using questionnaire. The data was analyzed using frequencies and percentage distribution. The result shows that “Advancement Opportunity” has the highest impact on motivational level on employees working in National Bank of Pakistan working in Azad Kashmir
The Effects of Dialect, Gender, and Group Identity on Person Perception

The current study examined the influence of dialect, gender, and group identification on the person perception process. Participants listened to a message delivered in either a standard or southern dialect by either a male or female speaker. The researcher examined differences in speaker evaluations based on the speaker's dialect and gender. The impact of individual differences in southern identification on speaker evaluations was also explored. Results demonstrated that a southern dialect significantly affects perceptions of the speaker. The speaker's gender and participants' level of southern identification interacted with dialect to influence speaker evaluations on a number of measures. Results were discussed in terms of previous research. Implications for southern (and other nonstandard) speakers were also highlighted.
Path analysis and traits correlation in soybean

1 Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Instituto de Genética e Bioquímica, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. 3 Southern Illinois University, Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems, College of Agricultural Sciences, Carbondale, IL, USA. 4 Instituto Master de Ensino Presidente Antônio Carlos, Araguari, MG, Brazil. *Author for correspondence: siqueiragaia@yahoo.com. br.
Association Algorithm for Two Dynamically Enlarging Tables Implemented in Apache Spark

In the paper we consider association problem with constraints for two dynamically enlarging tables. We consider an ordered set of rule groups which determine associations between entries from the first table and the second table. Each entry is associated with other entries from both tables directly or indirectly through the other associations. In the problem it is needed to list the associated entries for each entry. Tables are dynamically enlarging, the goal is to improve potential performance of the association process by using of the previously built associations. We consider a base full association algorithm and propose a partial association algorithm that improves the efficiency of the base algorithm, implement and evaluate both algorithms in Apache Spark for a particular case on 12 cluster nodes.