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WSN based Automated Irrigation System using GSM/GPRS Technology

An automated irrigation system was developed to optimize water use for agricultural crops. The system has a distributed wireless network of soil-moisture and temperature sensors placed in the root zone of the plants. In addition, a gateway unit handles sensor information, triggers actuators, and transmits data to a web application. An algorithm was developed with threshold values of temperature and soil moisture that was programmed into a microcontroller-based gateway to control water quantity. The system was powered by photovoltaic panels and had a duplex communication link based on a cellular-Internet interface that allowed for data inspection and irrigation scheduling to be programmed through a web page. The automated system was tested in a sage crop field for 136 days and water savings of up to 90% compared with traditional irrigation practices of the agricultural zone were achieved. Three replicas of the automated system have been used successfully in other places for 18 months. Because of its energy autonomy and low cost, the system has the potential to be useful in water limited geographically isolated areas.
Personalized Model of an Interactive System for Improving the Pronunciation Skills in Autistic Children

—The three major problems identified in the children suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorders are -learning difficulties, communication problems and social interaction problems. The social interaction problems and communication problems further hinder the learning abilities of autistic children. In addition to the special methodologies and techniques that should be employed in designing the effective learning solutions for autistic children, a high degree of personalization is also required, as the problems and learning requirements vary greatly from child to child. This paper focuses on the pronunciation problem which is different for each autistic individual, hence a personalized model of an interactive system is proposed for improving the pronunciation of words in children suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorders, that takes into account the custom needs of the children.
Storm Impact Scale for Barrier Islands

A new scale is proposed that categorizes impacts to natural barrier islands resulting from tropical and extra-tropical storms. The proposed scale is fundamentally different than existing storm-related scales in that the coupling between forcing processes and the geometry of the coast is explicitly included. Four regimes, representing different levels of impact, are defined. Within each regime, patterns and relative magnitudes of net erosion and accretion are argued to be unique. The borders between regimes represent thresholds defining where processes and magnitudes of impacts change dramatically. Impact level 1 is the 'swash' regime describing a storm where runup is confined to the foreshore. The foreshore typically erodes during the storm and recovers following the storm; hence, there is no net change. Impact level 2 is the 'collision' regime describing a storm where the wave runup exceeds the threshold of the base of the foredune ridge. Swash impacts the dune forcing net erosion. Impact level 3 is the 'overwash' regime describing a storm where wave runup overtops the berm or, if present, the foredune ridge. The associated net landward sand transport contributes to net migration of the barrier landward. Impact level 4 is the 'inundation' regime describing a storm where the storm surge is sufficient to completely and continuously submerge the barrier island. Sand undergoes net landward transport over the barrier island; limited evidence suggests the quantities and distance of transport are much greater than what occurs during the 'overwash' regime.
How to Model a Secure Information System (IS): A Case Study

 Abstract—The existing information system (IS) developments methods are not met the requirements to resolve the security related (IS) problems and they fail to provide a successful integration of security and systems engineering during all development process stages. Hence, the security should be considered during the whole software development process and identified with the requirements specification. This paper aims to propose an integrated security and IS engineering approach in all software development process stages by using i* language. This proposed framework categorizes into three separate parts: modelling business environment part, modelling information technology system part and modelling IS security part. Booking hotel room management process is used as a case study to validate the proposed framework. The results show that considering security IS goals in the whole system development process can have a positive influence on system implementation and better meet business expectations.
Mesozoic Hypabyssic Mafic Intrusions and Basalt Flows in the Heimefrontfjella (East Antarctica)

Mesozoic mafic dykes, sills and lava flows are not very common in Heimefrontfjella, most occurrences are restricted to the NE part of the range. Geochemically these basalts are different from contemporaneous mafic igneous rocks in Antarctica, they are characterized as Fe-rich, low-Si conti- nental tholeiites. Only few K-Ar ages confirm a Middle Jurassic igneous activity, related to initial Gondwana break-up. Zusammenfassung: Mesozoische mafische Gange, Sills und Lavaflusse sind nicht sehr haufig in der Heimefrontfjella. Die meisten Vorkommen sind auf den NE-Teil der Gebirgskette beschrankt. Geochemisch unterscheiden sich diese Basalte deutlich von gleichzeitig auftretenden Basalten in anderen Regionen Antarktikas. Sie lassen sich als Fe-reiche, Si-arme kontinentale Tholeiite charakterisieren. Nur wenige K-Ar-Alter wurden bisher publiziert, sie belegen ein mitteljurassisches Alter der magmatischen Aktivitat, die als Beleg fur das beginnende Auseinanderbrechen Gondwanas interpretiert wird.
Siegfried Sassoon: A Study of the War Poetry

Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free. " Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest. " Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.
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(54) USE OF MYOSTATIN (GDF-8) ANTAGONISTS (86). PCT No.: PCT/NZO6/OOO10 FORTREATMENT OF SARCOPENA (AGE-RELATED MUSCLE-WASTING) S371 (c)(1), (2), (4) Date: Nov. 6, 2007 (75) Inventors: Ravi Kambadur, Hamilton (NZ); (30) Foreign Application Priority Data Mridula Sharma, Hamilton (NZ); Alex Hennebry, Hamilton (NZ); Feb. 7, 2005 (NZ) . 538097 Monica Senna Salerno de Moura, Publication Classification Hamilton (NZ) (51) Int. Cl. A638/16 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: A 6LX 39/395 (2006.01) NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC A638/02 (2006.01) 901 NORTH GLEBE ROAD, 11TH FLOOR A6IP 2L/00 (2006.01) ARLINGTON, VA 22203 (US) A638/18 (2006.01) A63L/7088 (2006.01) (73) Assignee: Orico Limited, Dunedin (NZ) (52) U.S. Cl. 424/130.1: 514/2: 514/44; 514/12 (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. No.: 11/883,854
A Comparative Study on Power Point Presentation and Traditional Lecture Method in Material Understandability, Effectiveness and Attitude.

The aim of this study was to compare PPT and traditional lecture method in material understandability, effectiveness and attitude among university students. Comparative descriptive survey research design was employed to answer the research questions raised. Four hundred and twenty nine participants were selected randomly using stratified sampling followed by lottery method. Questionnaire was used to get data from the study participants. Descriptive statistics like percentage, frequencies, means and t-test were used to analyze data. The study revealed that, lecture method was more helpful than power point presentation in material understandability and effective in teaching/learning process, and it was statistical significant. Students have more positive attitude towards lecture method than PPT, which implies it was more entertaining/engaging. Students perceived the instructor using power point as putting less effort in the class, and the difference was statistically significant. That means, those instructors who use PPT put less effort than lecture method. Even though it is not safe to conclude and generalize, for quantitative and qualitative courses students were preferred to be taught by lecture method regardless of their department and faculty. In effectiveness, lecture practice was more effective than PPT method. In general, the result of this study is discouraging, given the high level of investment in and the spread of power point teaching technology. So, an intelligent use of teaching technologies and methods is very crucial in increasing students’ achievement. Key words: Power point presentation, traditional lecture method, material understandability, effectiveness and attitude.
Global Competition needs Smart Solutions, Urban Design Elements on City Branding

Globalization is one of the most important issues that changes cities. Global competition makes cities to need a range of solutions in order to be different from opponents and attract more economical investments. Branding is a customary topic for economics but globalization, attracting more investments and tourists to cities caused the topic an emerging subject for urban design and planning. Contemporary researches on integrated sustainable city can be turned into reality with city branding approaches. One of the fundamental decisions of urban studies approaches is to manage urban and spatial planning according to the urban design elements on city branding and identity of place. City branding is a smart solution for urban development, creation of jobs and providing a greater place to live and work. Advertisement and communication technologies could have a key effect on city branding. Mobile apps and websites can be used to deliver city branding goals and a lot of cities used ICT as a key policy to present their brand. But urban design elements on city branding should be represented in these activities in order to express the unique brand of the city and the elements are not the same in different cities. These elements should be identified and appraised in the cities rather than relying on stereotypical responses to a commercial order. This study considers key urban design disciplines and previous attitudes on city branding to offer a framework for urban design elements on city branding. This concept introduces the elements in main approaches and dimensions. In order to introduce urban design elements on city branding, this study uses a laboratory experiment that happened during Fourth International Conference on Urban and Extra Urban Studies 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and concluded fourteen urban design elements for Amsterdam brand.
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This article introduces some applications of multilevel modeling for research on art and creativity. Researchers often collect nested, hierarchical data—such as multiple assessments per person—but they typically ignore the nested data structure by averaging across a level of data. Multilevel modeling, also known as hierarchical linear modeling and random coefficient modeling, enables researchers to test old hypotheses more powerfully and to ask new research questions. After describing the logic of multilevel analysis, the article illustrates three practical uses of multilevel modeling: (1) estimating within-person relationships, (2) examining betweenperson differences in within-person processes, and (3) comparing people’s judgments to a criterion. The breadth, flexibility, and power of multilevel modeling make it a useful analytic tool for the multilevel data that researchers have been collecting all along.
Management Research Priorities in the Creative Industries: A consultative review

Following a ‘consultative review’ method this paper identifies management research themes on the creative industries, drawing on interviews and validation exercises with managers and creative professionals, and over 130 journal articles, books, reports and working papers from several related literatures. The themes identified are the following: • Integration and Disintegration: namely, the impact of digital tools and distribution, and collaboration and outsourcing relationships; • Understanding how Innovation Changes Business Models and Markets; • The Creative Process and Organisation; • Management Capabilities and Skills; • Small Firms and Growth. Uniquely, the paper shows where research attention is needed, where it has focused so far, and where future investigation would best serve the concerns of practice, as well as theory. The paper shows that Intellectual Property is a high priority set of issues for managers and scholars, yet it is embedded within a broader tableau of forces and shifts.
Redetection of the Ionospheric 
 H3+ Signature of Saturn's “Ring Rain”

In April 2011 Saturn's midlatitude ionospheric H3+ emissions were detected, exhibiting anomalous (nonsolar) H3+ latitudinal variations consistent with the transport of water from specific locations in Saturn's rings, known as “ring rain”. These products, transported to the planet along the magnetic field, may help to explain the unusual pattern of peaks and troughs in electron densities discovered in Saturn's ionosphere by spacecraft flybys. In the present study, we analyzed H3+ emissions recorded on 23 April 2013, showing for the first time since the original detection that Saturn's midlatitude H3+ emissions are indeed heavily modified. Although the 2013 emissions are dimmer by almost a factor of 3.7, the latitudinal contrast is greater and uncertainties are lower. Increased H3+ intensities were found near planetocentric latitudes of 43°, 51°, and 63°, previously identified with sources at the inner edge of the B ring, A ring, and the orbit of Enceladus and associated E ring.
Neuropsychologiczna charakterystyka wybranych zespołów otępiennych

W artykule przedstawiono poglądy na temat neuropsychologicznej charakterystyki wybranych zespolow otepiennych, ktore sklasyfikowano na podstawie ich etiologii. Zaprezentowano wzorzec zaburzen poznawczych, a takze podano ogolne zasady diagnostyki i roznicowania otepien. Podkreślono znaczenie neuropsychologa w zespole diagnostyczno-leczącym chorych z demencją.
Processing empty categories in a second language: When naturalistic exposure fills the (intermediate) gap*

An ongoing debate on second language (L2) processing revolves around whether or not L2 learners process syntactic information similarly to monolinguals (L1), and what factors lead to a native-like processing. According to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (Clahsen & Felser, 2006a), L2 learners’ processing does not include abstract syntactic features, such as intermediate gaps of wh-movement, but relies more on lexical/semantic information. Other researchers have suggested that naturalistic L2 exposure can lead to native-like processing (Dussias, 2003). This study investigates the effect of naturalistic exposure in processing wh-dependencies. Twenty-six advanced Greek learners of L2 English with an average nine years of naturalistic exposure, 30 with classroom exposure, and 30 native speakers of English completed a self-paced reading task with sentences involving intermediate gaps. L2 learners with naturalistic exposure showed evidence of native-like processing of the intermediate gaps, suggesting that linguistic immersion can lead to native-like abstract syntactic processing in the L2.
Environmental Factors Influence on Mobile Learning Business

Problem statement: Recently, there has been growing interest in m-lear ning consequently emerging m-learning technology is promising technological and educational business. Nevertheless, m-learning is a new business and the different acto rs are still trialing by ways of a diversity of bus iness models to overcome in able to achieve a sustainable and profitable place in this market. Numbers of m- learning products providers do not succeed in suppl ying m-learning products. In this situation not onl y a suitable business model is vital but also environ mental and external factors have impact on mobile learning business model. Overall objective of this study was to survey the business model framework of m-learning with effect of external and environme ntal factors. Approach: Methodical approach was based on a classification of m-learning actors and its environmental factors. Based on this, we analyz ed case studies description and developed main environ mental factors that constitute the m-learning environment. Factors were summarized in morphological boxes and then through out its three steps result came up. Results: The results indicated technology, market and regul ation are three major environmental factors which were forcing m-learning business model and business model should react to changes of these three factors to keep sustainab le business. The research further argued the extern al factors of m-learning environment in order to under standing and developing the m-learning business and the ways these factors influence the business m odel of m-learning as well. Conclusion/Recommendations: M-learning business is based on many factors such a s technology, changes in society, educational drivers, demand for flexible learning and the new learning paradigm but only three major drivers(technology, market and regulation) had considerable effect on m-learning business model and should be taken into account as a result if they change business model should be changed.
L O ] 1 2 Fe b 20 18 Symmetries of Quantified Boolean Formulas ⋆

While symmetries are well understood for Boolean formulas and successfully exploited in practical SAT solving, less is known about symmetries in quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). There are some works introducing adaptions of propositional symmetry breaking techniques, with a theory covering only very specific parts of QBF symmetries. We present a general framework that gives a concise characterization of symmetries of QBF. Our framework naturally incorporates the duality of universal and existential symmetries resulting in a general basis for QBF symmetry breaking.
Automated System for Criminal Identification Using Fingerprint Clue Found at Crime Scene

Criminal identification based on explicit detection of complete ridge structures in the fingerprint is difficult to extract automatically. Local ridge structures cannot be completely characterized by minutiae. Further, a minutiae based matching has difficulty in quickly matching two fingerprint images containing different number of unregistered minutiae points. The proposed matching algorithm that uses both minutiae (point) information and the texture (region) information is the solution in that direction. The algorithm uses a bank of Gabor filters to capture both local and global details in a fingerprint as a compact fixed length finger code. The finger print matching is achieved with the help of Euclidean distance between the two corresponding finger-codes and hence is extremely fast. Results obtained with the proposed scheme shows that a combination of minutiae and texture based score matching (local as well as global) information leads to a substantial improvement in the overall matching performance even at low resolutions.
Ingegneria Informatica Tesi di Laurea Potential field navigation for telepresence robots driven by BCI

In this work, we present an open-source system that will help elderly and people with severe physical disabilities to use a telepresence robot, by means of brain signals. Driving a mobile device, such a robot, via Brain Computer Interface (BCI) can improve the quality of life by allowing patients to join relatives and friends, located in different rooms, in their daily activities. In order to lighten the burden of driving the robot, we use a shared control approach, so that the user needs only to concentrate on the final destination, while the robot takes care of obstacle detection and avoidance. In particular, we propose a semi-autonomous system where the autonomous navigation uses a potential field approach. The system can be seen as a Deterministic Finite Automaton where data from different sensors are merged together, in order to create a dynamic map used by the navigation. We have developed this system using ROS (Robot Operating System), and tested it using a Hokuyo URG-04LX-UG01 and a second-generation Kinect on a TurtleBot, modified to be a telepresence robot. To prove the system portability, we successfully tested our work also with a Pioneer 3-AT which uses a Sick LMS100 and a first-generation Kinect as sensors. In order to provide the best benefit to impaired patients, another contribution of this work is the implementation of a new interface able to stream video/audio data from the robot. The interface exploits the GStreamer framework. Finally, we tested the system with a user giving commands through the BCI.
Refractive surgery or contact lenses – how and when to decide?

: Correction of refractive errors can be achieved with spectacles, contact lenses, and refractive surgery. The past decade has seen a surge in the availability of alternatives for patients and surgeons in terms of both surgical and nonsurgical options for the management of refractive errors. Newer generation contact lenses provide enhanced safety and better handling, whereas modern-day refractive surgery presents a plethora of choices based on the clinical characteristics and requirements of patients. We have moved from an era of “one size fits all” to a purely customized way of treating patients with refractive errors. This review presents the background, advantages, and disadvantages of the two most commonly used options for correction of ametropia, ie, contact lenses and refractive surgery.