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Determination of Shear Strength Parameters of Rock Mass using Back Analysis Methods and Comparison of Results with Empirical Methods

In this study, using the collected data from 4 slope failures in one of the central mines of Iran, the shear strength parameters of jointed and crushed rock masses using back analysis method are calculated and its results are compared with the values obtained from the empirical methods. In this regard, firstly, the identification of failures is investigated and then geometrical and geological engineering parameters of slopes are collected and recorded by field survey. At this stage, using the Hoek-Brown criterion, shear strength parameters of the rock mass are estimated. Then, using appropriate software for slope stability analysis (limit equilibrium method software: SLIDE and numerical method software: FLAC), and assuming that safety factor is one, the shear strength parameters for sliding surfaces are determined. Finally, the results obtained from this analysis are compared with the results of the empirical methods and then suggestions are made to modify the input data of empirical method
Frequency and distribution of erect glandular hairs on annual Medicago species and their implications on alfalfa weevil resistance ; Preliminary study on pollen germination and growth of pollen tubes after self and cross pollination in Medicago species

2 INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 3 MATERIALS AND METHODS 6 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 8 REFERENCES 28 MANUSCRIPT II. Preliminary Study on Pollen Germination and Growth of Pollen Tubes After Self and Cross Pollination in Medicago species. 31 ABSTRACT 32 INTRODUCTION 33 MATERIALS AND METHODS 35 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 37 REFERENCES 47
Performance of Antireflection Coatings Consisting of Multiple Discrete Layers and Comparison with Continuously Graded Antireflection Coatings

The performance of discrete multilayer and continuously graded antireflection coatings for omnidirectional broadband applications are compared. It is shown that in practical cases where refractive index choices are constrained, discrete antireflection coatings can surpass the performance of continuously graded coatings by taking advantage of interference effects, which continuously graded coatings are expressly designed to avoid. A four-layer antireflection coating designed using a genetic algorithm is fabricated, and is experimentally shown to have reflectivity lower than what is achievable for continuously graded designs.
Coinfecção de Tb/HIV em um distrito administrativo do município de São Paulo

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of people coinfected with Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) , who were residents in the administrative district of Capao Redondo in the city of Sao Paulo, during the period between 2000 to 2009. METHODS: This was a retrospective study. RESULTS: From a total of 1,612 TB cases, 162 cases were positive for HIV. There was a predominance in the age group of 30 to 39 years (39.5%), male gender (61.1%) and the pulmonary form (68.5%). Only 47.5% of cases progressed to obtain the cure, 13% abandoned treatment and 32.2% died. RESULTS: The results emphasize the need for knowledge of the situation of TB / HIV co-infection in order to offer adequate assistance to these clients, considering that neither of these diseases can be discussed in isolation. CONCLUSION: We conclude that cases of TB / HIV association contribute to non-adherence to treatment and increased mortality.
Evaluating semantic similarity with a new method of path analysis in RDF using genetic algorithms

This paper presents a novel method of evaluating semantic similarity by means of path analysis in RDF databases. Similarity is calculated by assignining each property (predicate in RDF terms) a weight, which is found using a genetic optimization algorithm. Presented method exhibits an advatage over existing methods, because of its flexibility and the fact that no prior knowledge of a particular database is necessary. This paper also presents an exemplary application of the method recommendation engine. Proposed method is applied to a well known problem music recommendation based on DBPedia. Results obtained in the experiment positively verify its advanntages and usefulness.
Evaluation of iron status in patients with end stage renal disease

Background: Anaemia is almost universal in haemodialysis patients. Here, we evaluated the utility and clinical implications of the commonly employed tests in assessing iron status in haemodialysis patients. Methods: In this prospective observational study, we enrolled 100 prevalent haemodialysis patients, and measured transferrin saturation (TSAT) and serum ferritin at enrolment. Patients were categorized to have normal, deficient, overload, or indeterminate status of iron based on KDOQI guidelines. To study anaemia trend, haemoglobin (Hb) level at time of enrolment, as well as levels 3-months before and 3-months after enrolment, were collected. Patient survival outcomes were also obtained till October 2016. Results: Using serum ferritin and TSAT, iron status was determinable in 48% of the patients ie 20%-normal iron status, 25% - iron deficiency, 3% - iron overload. Fifty-two percent of the patients’ iron status was indeterminate by current parameters. In spite of being on standard-of-care treatment in our centre, we observed that mean-Hb level of patients in the indeterminate group showed insignificant increases compared to normal- and deficient-groups. Mean delta-Hb levels over 6-months were 0.80±1.54 g/dl in the indeterminate group, compared to 1.87±1.95 g/dl in the deficient group (P=0.03). In our cohort, 57% had died and 5 lost follow-ups during the study (P=0.30 between groups). Conclusions: Serum ferritin and TSAT accurately categorized the iron status of 48% haemodialysis patients in our study. Divergent serum ferritin and TSAT values, or an iron indeterminate state was prevalent in 52% of our urban dialysis cohort. The indeterminate group had inferior increases in Hb over time with current treatment, showing clinical relevance of this finding. Our data suggests the need for more sensitive indices to accurately assess iron status, and improve anaemia management.
How Much Of The Heterogeneity In Returns To College Major Can Be Explained By Institution Type

Rising post-secondary education costs have increased the importance of undergraduate students’ institution and field of study choices, two aspects of higher education that affect post-graduation earnings. This paper analyzes the impact of the interaction between college major and attending a liberal arts institution on post-graduation wages. Using data on Minnesota bachelor’s degree completers who were employed at Minnesota firms 6 to 18 months after graduation, I find robust evidence that the interaction is significant. Liberal arts students are disadvantaged when other institutional and individual characteristics are controlled for, but they may be relatively less so depending on field of study.
Obesity in Gestational Diabetes: Emerging Twin Challenge for Perinatal Care in India

The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of obesity and gestational diabetes (GDM) and the association of obesity and gestational diabetes with adverse pregnancy outcomes in a population of pregnant women. Routine antenatal care included the estimation of body mass indices, assessment of blood glucose levels, including glucose challenge tests and oral glucose tolerance test, fetal growth monitoring and nutritional counseling. The prevalence of GDM and obesity in this population was 8.43% (95% CI: 7.47-9.40) and 19.49% (95% CI: 18.12-20.87) respectively. The prevalence of obesity increased to 54.63% (95% CI: 52.91-56.36), if we used the ICMR guidelines for BMI in this population. Cesarean sections (adjusted OR: 2.04, 95% CI: 1.43-2.89), large for gestational age (LGA) babies (adjusted OR: 3.82, 95% CI: 2.11-6.92) and macrosomia (adjusted OR: 20.90, 95% CI: 3.29-132.77) was associated with obesity in GDM (based on the ICMR guidelines for BMI). Results from this study indicate that gestational diabetes and obesity are increasingly important priorities for perinatal care in India.
Urban resilience: A framework for empowering cities in face of heterogeneous risk factors

As remarked in the presentation of the special issue of the A|Z Journal Cities at risk the increasing losses due to natural hazards, often combined with technological ones, let arise the need for new approaches addressed to evaluate vulnerability and resilience of cities in face of hazard factors, in order to better drive disaster mitigation policies. Tacking up this challenge, this contribution focuses on the “multifaceted” concept of resilience that, bridging different research fields (ecology, sustainability, risk, climate change), can play a key-role for enhancing cities’ capacity to deal with the heterogeneous factors currently threatening them: climate change, individual and coupled hazards, from scarcity of resources to environmental degradation. In detail, based on the in-depth analysis of the capacities of a resilient system and of the different models of resilience up to now carried out, an interpretative model of Urban Resilience has been outlined. Such a model represents a methodological tool for driving planners and decision-makers in building up resilient cities, enabling them to frame, into a comprehensive approach, the currently fragmented policies addressed to tackle different issues: from the climate change to the complex chains of hazards; from the environmental decay to the scarcity of natural resources.
Holocene development of Boreal forests and fire regimes on the Kenai Lowlands of Alaska

Several studies have noted a relationship between vegetation type and fire frequency, yet despite the importance of ecosystem processes such as fire the long-term relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation type are incompletely understood. We analysed pollen, plant macrofossils and sedimentary charcoal from three lakes within the Kenai lowlands to determine postglacial relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation for the Boreal forest of southwest Alaska. An herb tundra was established in the lowlands following deglaciation by 13 000 cal. BP. Salix, Alnus and probably Betula kenaica, expanded in the area after 10 700 cal. BP, followed by Picea glauca by 8500 cal. BP. Picea mariana became established by 4600 cal. BP. The early Holocene was probably the driest time during the postglacial, as determined by aquatic plant macrofossils and climate models. Lake levels reached near-modern conditions by at least 8000 cal. BP. Mean Fire Intervals (MFI) were longest during the shrub-herb tundra phase (138±65 yr), decreased after expansion of B. kenaica, Salix and Populus (77±49 yr) and Picea glauca (81±41 yr), and increased again with the arrival of P. mariana (130±66 yr). Unlike previous studies, our data demonstrate the highest fire frequencies during the early to mid-Holocene and less frequent fire during the late Holocene when P. mariana forests dominated the lowlands. Early Holocene forests of P. glauca and B. kenaica existed in summers that were longer and drier than today, while the increasingly wetter and cooler climates of the late Holocene probably hindered forest fire around Paradox Lake, perhaps because of less frequent summer drought.
Do environmental concerns affect commuting choices?: hybrid choice modelling with household survey data

To meet ambitious climate change goals governments must encourage behavioural change alongside technological progress. Designing effective policy requires a thorough understanding of the factors that drive behaviours. In an effort to understand the role of environmental attitudes better we estimate a hybrid choice model (HCM) for commuting mode choice by using a large household survey data set. HCMs combine traditional discrete choice models with a structural equation model to integrate latent variables, such as attitudes, into the choice process. To date HCMs have utilized small bespoke data sets, beset with problems of selection and limited generalizability. To overcome these problems we demonstrate the feasibility of using this valuable modelling approach with nationally representative data. Our results suggest that environmental attitudes have an important influence on commute mode choice, and this can be exploited by governments looking to add to their climate change policy toolbox in an effort to change travel behaviours.
Six Cases in Four Weddings and a Funeral

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of non-verbal world and secondly, since every phrase is the translation of another sign and another phrase. However, this argument can be turned around without losing any of its validity: all texts are original because every translation is distinctive. Every translation, up to a certain point is an invention and as such it constitutes a unique text. (Paz, 1971, in Bassnet 1990)
Functioning of the family of a child suffering from cerebral palsy

Objective: The aim of the research was analysis of the problems of parents with children suffering from cerebral palsy, and evaluation of the degree of change that appeared after the birth of the disabled child. Material and methods: 100 randomly-selected families with children suffering from cerebral palsy who lived in the Podkarpacie region of Poland. The method of diagnostic survey was used, while a questionnaire served as a research
Seasonal variations of diet composition in farmland field mice Apodemus spp. and bank voles Clethrionomys glareolus

Feeding habits of field mice Apodemus flavicollis Melchior, 1834 and A. sylvaticus Linnaeus, 1758, and bank voles Clethrionomys glareolus , Schreber, 1780 in a mixed farmland area in Northern Germany were investigated from March to December 1992. For semi-quantitative analysis of diet composition, feaces were sampled in the margins of an arable field surrounded by hedgerows.
Impact of Line Resistance Combined with Device Variability on Resistive RAM Memories

In this paper, the performance and reliability of oxide-based Resistive RAM (ReRAM) memory is investigated in a 28nm FDSOI technology versus interconnects resistivity combined with device variability. Indeed, common problems with ReRAM are related to high variability in operating conditions and low yield. At a cell level ReRAMs suffer from variability. At an array level, ReRAMs suffer from different voltage drops seen across the cells due to line resistances. Although research has taken steps to resolve these issues, variability combined with resistive paths remain an important characteristic for ReRAMs. In this context, a deeper understanding of the impact of these characteristics on ReRAM performances is needed to propose variability tolerant designs to ensure the robustness of the technology. The presented study addresses the memory cell, the memory word up to the memory matrix.
The impact of graph slope on rate of change judgments in corporate reports

The use of graphs to disclose financial information in annual reports represents a significant dimension of financial disclosure management. Statistical graphics studies demonstrate that the accurate visual decoding of a graph is contingent upon the graph’s slope parameter. This article reports two related studies into the slope parameter in a financial reporting context. A laboratory experiment indicates that sub-optimal slope parameters produce distorted judgments of corporate performance and an examination of the graphical formatting choices of 240 large U.K. companies indicates material departures from the optimal slope parameter. Policy implications are discussed.
Client Satisfaction with Service Delivery in the Health Sector: The Case of Agogo Presbyterian Hospital

The government had mainly provided health delivery in Ghana; this did not leave room for so much client (patient) specifications and demand. Recent times have however seen the emergence of some private entities delivering health care, bringing in some form of competition in the sector. The purpose of this study was to assess client satisfaction with service delivery in the health sector. The study specifically sought to determine the factors that are associated with satisfaction of the patients in the hospital, to find out patients’ knowledge of the right to demand and expect service quality or satisfaction, to determine the impact of some service dimensions on patients’ satisfaction and to identify the challenges that impact on satisfactory service delivery at the hospital. The population comprised both staff and patients of Agogo Presbyterian hospital. Through convenience sampling, 151 patients and 51 staff were sampled. Data was analyzed using basic descriptive statistics. Multiple regression analysis and correlation was also used to ascertain the effect of the independent variables (human relation of staff, communication from staff, staff performance, waiting time and physical evidence) and the dependent variable (patients’ satisfaction). It was concluded that, patients were satisfied with the health service delivery at Agogo Presbyterian hospital. Factors that led to satisfaction were effective human relation from staff (doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other staff), effective communication and general performance of staff. It has therefore been suggested that the facility must take keen interest in them, so as to enhance the satisfaction of their patients.
The quality of production as a factor contributing to the effective activity of agricultural enterprises Jakość produkcji jako czynnik wpływający na efektywność działania przedsiębiorstw rolniczych

The study investigates the influence of the quality of agricultural production on the efficiency of agricultural enterprises. A special focus is given to the importance of borrowing the practical aspects of advanced foreign experience in product quality man- agement into the practice of domestic enterprises. The differences between European and Ukrainian quality standards are briefly described, and the ways of their harmonisa- tion are shown. Since most of the milk production in Ukraine concentrates in households, our study outlines their main problems and the further steps needed for the development of quality control for small-scale production.
Word Semantic Variation Mining based on Pos-Word2vec and cloud-model

Words, as the basis of language, have relative stability.But it is also gradually developing. The language variation and change has been an important subfield in sociolinguistics, and has made remarkable achievements.But there is seldom research conducted from the aspect of the natural language processing.This paper applied the distributed word representations to map the word semantic,and used the cloud model to calculate the variation of the word.The experiment shows that our approach achieves better semantic information and useful results in semantic variation and change analysis.
Construction of Key Echange Protocol over Max-Plus Algebra to Encrypt and Decrypt Arabic Documents

In this paper, we consider the operation of matrix in Max-plus Algebra to construct a key public to encrypt and decrypt arabic document. Matrix operation in max-plus algebra is slight different with matrix operation in classical. In this paper, we also use a modular 37 to translate it into arabic text (arabic letter with number and special character).
Predicting Analysis of Data Mining Extraction Technique in Secondary Education

Objectives: To implement the data mining techniques to evaluate the performance evaluation of tutor and compare the results obtained by adopting several data mining techniques. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The details regarding the results of the students are taken as the base parameter for the performance evaluation of the tutor. The classification data mining techniques are utilized to study the data developed based on the students performance. Findings: By employing the various data mining classification techniques on the student result data to evaluate the performance of the instructor, efficiency of the work carried out by the instructor and also the way in which the instructor is approaching the students point of view is highly impactful on the students results can be given as the output based on the numerical generated by the classification techniques. Application/Improvements: The result generated by the classification techniques can be more accurate by providing more accurate input and considering the other factors that would affect the outcome of the technique.
Translocation of Tuamotu Kingfishers, Postrelease Exploratory Behavior, and Harvest Effects on the Donor Population1

Abstract: Conservationists previously described the need for research into using translocation to rescue threatened populations. We conducted an experimental translocation of Tuamotu kingfishers (Todiramphus gambieri gertrudae) to provide foundational information about movement ecology and inform conservation planning for the critically endangered bird. We captured and radio-marked mated pairs of kingfishers on Niau Atoll, French Polynesia, where approximately 125 individuals compose the last remaining population of Tuamotu kingfishers. One bird from each pair was translocated to a reintroduction site on the opposite side of the island, and the other pair member was released back onto the home territory. Home-ranging pair members remained on territories and used habitats disproportional to availability, as determined by Brownian bridge analysis. Translocated individuals made multiple forays from the release site to explore the surrounding landscape, during which habitats were used in proportions similar to availability. The exploratory behavior resembled that of dispersing juvenile birds, which suggested that adults retain the ability to explore, and that dispersal theory may be a useful basis for planning translocations. Vacancies on donor territories were filled within 1–10 days. Our results indicated that translocation was not effective for range expansion on Niau because birds readily returned to donor areas; however, translocation to other islands remains a potential conservation strategy for Tuamotu kingfishers.
Deriving nutrient requirements of lactating Indian cattle under tropical condition using performance and intake data emanated from feeding trials conducted in different research institutes

Data from 24 feeding trials conducted on lactating cattle from different institutes across India were subjected to regression analysis to derive requirements of ME, TDN, CP and DCP for maintenance, milk production and body weight gain. Maintenance requirements for ME, TDN, CP and DCP were 598 KJ, 39.5 g, 6.27 g and 2.90 g/kg W 0 . 7 5 , respectively and the corresponding requirements for production of 1 kg 4% FCM were 5,023 KJ, 332 g, 82 g and 58 g. The corresponding requirements for one g gain in BW were 27 KJ, 1.78 g, 0.44 g and 0.19 g. Regression equations had high R 2 values (0.67 to 0.90) and the equations (F value) as well as coefficients were highly significant (p<0.001). Regressed values were used to develop feeding standards. Derived values matched well with the actual intake versus performance of animals under diverse feeding conditions. The new standards so derived predicted requirements and intake of nutrients for different production levels better than existing feeding standards; as these are based on a more thorough analysis of a larger database, the new feeding standards will be appropriate for wide use in India.