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Simplified Modelling of a Battery Parameters and Application in Electric Vehicle Battery Charging Based on State of Power (SoP) and State of Energy (SoE)

Estimation of equivalent circuit parameters and open circuit voltage of a battery to predict its state is important for electric vehicle (EV) applications. There is a need to measure the open circuit voltage as accurately as possible as it mirrors the state-of-charge (SoC) of the battery. As calculation of the SoC by integrating the amount of current going in or out of the battery is inaccurate and requires post-processing, this investigation presents one different way to calculate the open circuit voltage and thus the state of charge while the battery is being used. This paper also presents an analytical model of the state of an EV battery pack with the concept of State of Power (SoP) and State of Energy (SoE). These figures of merits help the user to determine how far a battery pack can be used in terms of the vehicle range and acceleration/deceleration capability. LiFePo4 cells were used as the type of Li-ion battery in this investigation. This paper investigates these aspects with the help of vehicle and battery data obtained experimentally and in laboratory environment. The simulation results have been compared and validated against the experimentally obtained results.
Reverse time migration in tilted transversely isotropic media

This paper presents a reverse time migration (RTM) method for the migration of shot records in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media. It is based on the tilted TI acoustic wave equation that was derived from the dispersion relation. The RTM is a full depth migration allowing for velocity to vary laterally as well as vertically and has no dip limitations. The wave equation is solved by a tenth-order finite difference scheme. Using 2D numerical models, we demonstrate that ignoring the tilt angle will introduce both lateral and vertical shifts in imaging. The shifts can be larger than 0.5 wavelength in the vertical direction and 1.5 wavelength in the lateral direction.
Parental Coaching in Child-to-Parent Book Reading: Associations with Parent Values and Child Reading Skill.

This study examined how parents' beliefs about skilled reading and shared book reading related to the ways they coached their children in learning to read in kindergarten through grade 2 and whether these beliefs and behaviors contributed to their children's reading skill. The focus of the study was on the ways parents responded to children's miscues. Data collected drew on two cohorts of children and their parents who entered the longitudinal study when children were in kindergarten. Of the 70 participating parents, 65 were mothers. The findings converged on three main points. First, parents explicitly attempted to develop reading skills in their children while primarily reading books to their kindergartners by teaching and practicing letter names and sounds and cueing children to take on small pieces of the reading role. In Grade 1, parents focused their children's attention on various clues and modeled various strategies in response to miscues the child made in reading to the parent. Second, parents insisted on accurate reading, ignoring only 2 to 4 percent of miscues in comparison to findings that teachers ignore 40 to 60 percent of miscues. Third, parents' goals and values predict the kinds of coaching they use during shared book reading. Parents whose primary goal was enjoyment added to the reading interaction with comments to enhance interest in and comprehension of the story. Parent behavior during shared book reading in kindergarten predicted 8 to 9 percent of the variance on first-graders' word recognition and passage comprehension, respectively. (Contains 25 references.) (KB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Parental Coaching in Child-to-Parent Book Reading: Associations with Parent Values and Child Reading Skill Mary Ann Evans, Michelle Bell, and Jubilea Mansell, and Deb Shaw Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION )(CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as ceived from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 1 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY _11Noxvk fklan o:AS TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Paper presented in the symposium, Classroom and home experiences and their associations with reading skill development (M. A. Evans, Chair) Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, April 2001. Correspondence should be directed to Mary Ann Evans at above the address or e-mail 4-0 evans@psy.uoguelph. ca
A comparison of conventional and miniprimer PCR to elucidate bacteria diversity in Malaysia Ulu Slim hot spring using 16S rDNA clone library

The diversity of the bacterial community in Ulu Slim hot spring was examined using a 16S ribosomal DNA culture-independent approach. A total of 144 different 16S rDNA sequences were cloned and analyzed. The majority of sequences were found to be within the Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria while the remaining sequences belonged to the Bacteroidetes, Acidobacteria, Cloroflexi, Nitrospira and candidate divisions. Some of the bacteria 16S sequences could be novel and indigenous to this hot spring as their sequences are low in similarity when compared with known sequences. The 16S ribosomal DNA clone library was assembled using conventional PCR amplification with degenerate 27F and 1492R primers specific for bacterial rDNA. A new miniprimer PCR assay was also used to construct a library. When compared, we conclude that the latter approach which using mutagenized Dynamo-II polymerase utilizing 10-mer primers was a better approach than the conventional PCR as the environmental humid acid inhibition effect was less. Ideally, to best understand the overall prokaryote diversity in the hot spring, it is better to use a combined conventional and miniprimer PCR approach.
Probiotics Mediated Modulation of Gut-Flora Might Be a Biotherapeutical Approach for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

these evidences doesn’t exclude the differential efficacy of probiotics in human subjects, hence very well controlled/ designed studies are urgently needed to check the efficacy of probiotics in human health against obesity and diabetes. A deeper knowledge of our gut ecology will be mandatory in the hope to target much more specific probiotic intervention. In this regards it is of interest the recent intriguing review from Rastmanesh [13] suggesting that a high-polyphenol and selectively-restricted probiotic diet could represent a novel strategy for planning a successful dietary regimen and/or neutraceutical/ pharmaceutical preparations to achieve and maintain a normal body weight in obese individuals. Overall, such studies will also give opportunities to industries to think about the risk vs safety of probiotic formulations for obesity and diabetes in consumers, worldwide.
CHANGES IN INORGANIC SUBSTANCES AND COLOUR VALUES OF AWASS‹ SHEEP COLOSTRUM DURING TEN DAYS AFTER PARTURITION DO⁄UM SONRASI ON GÜN SÜREC‹NDE AVAS‹ KOYUN KOLOSTRUMUNDA INORGAN‹K MADDELER VE RENK DE⁄ERLER‹NDEK‹ DE⁄‹fi‹MLER

OZET: In the present study, the determination of the concentration of twenty elements in sheep colostrum has been successfully carried out by ICP-OES. Element contents and colour values of sheep colostrum varied significantly during 10 days after parturition (P ≤ 0.05, P ≤ 0.01, P ≤ 0.001). Of macro elements Ca had the highest mean concentration at the end of experimental period, which followed by P, K, Na, S and Mg elements. Of minor elements, B was highest, followed by Si, Zn, Se, Fe, Cu, Al, Sr, Ni, Ba, Mo, Co, Mn, Cd. When lightness index (L-value) of samples increased throughout postpartum period, greenness (-a value) and yellowness (b value) decreased. As a result, the amount of inorganic substances and colour values were nearly constant at days 9 to 10 postpartum. Therefore, sheep colostrum may be converted to mature milk at day 9 after parturition.
State-Space Models for Binomial Time Series with Excess Zeros

Count time series with excess zeros are frequently encountered in practice. In character- izing a time series of counts with excess zeros, two types of models are commonplace: models that assume a Poisson mixture distribution, and models that assume a binomial mixture distribution. Extensive work has been published dealing with modeling frameworks based on Poisson-type approaches, yet little has concentrated on binomial-type methods. To handle such data, we propose two general classes of time series models: a class of observation-driven ZIB (ODZIB) models, and a class of parameter-driven ZIB (PDZIB) models. The ODZIB model is formulated in the partial likelihood framework, which facilitates model fitting using standard statistical software for ZIB regression models. The PDZIB model is conveniently formulated in the state-space framework. For parameter estimation, we devise a Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization (MCEM) algorithm, with particle filtering and particle smoothing methods employed to approximate the intractable conditional expectations in the E-step of the algorithm. We investi- gate the efficacy of the proposed methodology in a simulation study, which compares the performance of the proposed ZIB models to their counterpart zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) models in characterizing zero-inflated count time series. We also present a practical application pertaining to disease coding.
Theory of Gravity: a Classical Field Approach in Curved Space-Time

A new approach to the theory of gravity is proposed. A second-rank tensor field is chosen to be the potential of the gravitational field. The gravitational field is related to the metric tensor of space--time, and all phenomena occur in curved space--time. A variational principle is established, and the gravitational field equations are derived. The energy--momentum density tensor of the gravitational field and its conservation law are obtained. The source of the gravitational field is the energy--momentum density of all kinds of matter, including the gravitational field itself. A Lagrangian of the gravitational field is proposed that correctly describes local observable gravitational phenomena in the second-order approximation. The energy density of the gravitational field is positive. Estimates are obtained for the gravitational energy defect, the difference between the inertial and gravitational masses of a body, and the effect of the external gravitational field on the mass of a body. The new approach to the description of the gravitational field and its energy provides additional incentives search possibilities of experimental verification of the phenomena of gravitation in strong fields.
SMOS Sea Surface Salinity signals of tropical instability waves

Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) measurements from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission provide an unprecedented opportunity to observe the salinity structure of tropical instability waves (TIWs) from space, especially during the intense 2010 La Nina condition. In the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, SMOS SSS signals correlate well and have similar amplitude to 1 m salinity from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array at six locations with strong TIW signals. At these locations, the linear negative relationships between SMOS SSS and OSTIA SST signals vary from −0.20°C−1 to −0.25°C−1, which are comparable to the ones obtained from TAO. From June to December 2010, the largest TIW signals and meridional gradients of both SSS and SST appear around 2°N west of 100°W. They shift southward and cross the equator at 90°W. In addition to the large negative correlation band around 2°N, a band of negative correlations between SSS and SST signals also exists around 8°N west of 110°W for the 33 day signals. The peak amplitude of the 33 day SMOS SSS signals west of 135°W is reduced by >40% with respect to values east of 135°W, while the reduction for SST is much lower (<20%). The amplitudes and longitudinal extents of TIW signals and the dominant westward propagation speed of 17 day TIWs (as detected by SMOS and Aquarius) at the equator decrease from 2010 to 2013 associated with the transition from a strong La Nina to non-La Nina conditions.
OPTIMAL STORAGE CONFIGURATION MADE EASY

Configuring storage subsystems for the Oracle database is an unnecessarily complex process. In the conventional methodology, a storage configuration is custom designed for each site based on detailed knowledge of the application. This methodology assigns a specific load to various subsets of the database such as log files, rollback segments, index tablespaces, data tablespaces, etc. and assigns disks to these subsets based on their load profile. Many tradeoffs must be made when designing a storage configuration using this methodology. If an IO estimate or assignment is incorrect then performance can suffer. This methodology also requires ongoing load balancing as the database grows and the application is modified.
A language-infused approach to introduce Dominican high school students to the logical process of designing experiments to construct knowledge K-12 Education (Curriculum Integration)

This work reports on the results of a discovery project designed to introduce Dominican high school students to research concepts. The curriculum uses the ubiquitous water rocket to submerse students into the logical process of formulating hypotheses and designing experiments to construct knowledge. The curriculum is intended to help students understand how and why engineers and scientists build knowledge. It makes research methods less abstract to the students and helps them learn to draw the connection between hypothesis formulation and well-designed experiments that build knowledge. The activities encourage students (a) to explore their mental models for hypothesis testing, research, and experimentation, (b) to refine their models and to investigate connections among related concepts, (c) to apply experiment design concepts and principles in order to create experiments and to reason about hypothesis-testing without recourse to the manipulation of equations, (d) to develop problem-solving skills anchored in an understanding of fundamental concepts and principles, and (e) to use language and technology tools to communicate discoveries in a clear and meaningful manner. Our goal is to enable students to obtain a deeper understanding of the meaning of research, design and analysis of experiments (DAE), and hypothesis testing concepts, and to provide them with a greater facility for applying these concepts to problem-solving - or at the very least, to point them in the right direction. Turning pre-college students into researchers is a way to motivate the deep learning of facts, creativity, and the development of knowledge-building skills that students will need to be successful in college and in their daily lives. Despite limited skills and other barriers, the students involved in this program were able to grasp complex DAE concepts and produced simple but well-designed experiments. This pilot provided valuable insights to ways in which to improve the curriculum design. A new test will be conducted in summer 2011. We believe this curriculum will be useful to educators. It deals explicitly with the subject of designing effective experiments.
Fulfilling the Promise of Brown - What Parents Involved Means for Louisville and the Future of Race in Public Education

In the summer of 2007, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the Jefferson County1 Board of Education’s race-based studentassignment plan in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.2 The decision was both long-awaited and controversial.3 Parents Involved marked the first time that the Roberts Court was given the opportunity to address the issue of race in public education. The Court’s invalidation of the Seattle and Louisville public school assignment plans demonstrated what some perceived to be the Court’s clear movement to the right, prompting Justice Breyer to declare from the bench, “It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much. ”4 This Note explains what Parents Involved means for the future of race-based student assignment plans. Specifically, Parents Involved will be examined through the vantage point of the community of Louisville, whose leaders have attempted to rework the city’s
Survival probabilities of loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ) estimated from capture-mark-recapture data in the Mediterranean Sea

Survival probabilities of loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ) are estimated for the first time in the Mediterranean by analysing 3254 tagging and 134 re-encounter data from this region. Most of these turtles were juveniles found at sea. Re-encounters were live resightings and dead recoveries and data were analysed with Barker’s model, a modified version of the Cormack-Jolly-Seber model which can combine recapture, live resighting and dead recovery data. An annual survival probability of 0.73 (CI 95% = 0.67-0.78; n=3254) was obtained, and should be considered as a conservative estimate due to an unknown, though not negligible, tag loss rate. This study makes a preliminary estimate of the survival probabilities of in-water developmental stages for the Mediterranean population of endangered loggerhead sea turtles and provides the first insights into the magnitude of the suspected human-induced mortality in the region. The model used here for the first time on sea turtles could be used to obtain survival estimates from other data sets with few or no true recaptures but with other types of re-encounter data, which are a common output of tagging programmes involving these wide-ranging animals.
Sporda Kişiler Arası Davranışlar Ölçeği (SKD) Türkçe Formunun Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Bu calismanin amaci, Rocchi, Pelletier ve Desmerais (2016) tarafindan gelistirilen Sporda Kisiler Arasi Bu cumle birlestirilebilir. Cunku cok fazla tekrar var. (katilimcilar Davranislar Olceginin Turkceye uyarlanmasi, gecerlik ve guvenirlik analizlerinin yapilmasidir. Arastirmaya cesitli spor branslarindan 281 sporcu katilmistir. Katilimcilarin %39.9’u kadin, %60.1’i erkektir ve 14-36 yaslar arasindadir. Spor yasi ortalamasi 9.34±4.86 olarak bulunurken yas ortalamasinin 22.94±3.56 oldugu tespit edilmistir. Olcegin Turkceye uyarlanmasi icin ceviri-geri ceviri yontemi kullanilmistir. Bu islemden sonra elde edilen Turkce form sporculara internet ortaminda gonderilmistir. Olcegin yapi gecerliligi icin sporculardan toplanan veriler uzerinden dogrulayici faktor analizi (DFA) yapilmis ve elde edilen uyum indeksleri degerlendirilmistir. Veriler AMOS programinda analiz edilmistir. Olcegin Turkce formunun orijinal olcekte oldugu gibi 6 faktorlu bir yapiya sahip oldugu gorulmustur. Olcegin guvenirlik analizleri bilesik guvenirlik ve alfa katsayisi ile hesaplanmistir. Ayrica sporculardan, Deci ve Ryan (1991) tarafindan gelistirilen, Bacanli ve Cihangir-Cankaya (2003) tarafindan Turkceye uyarlanan Ihtiyac Doyumu Olcegi ve Watson, Clark ve Tellegen (1988) tarafindan gelistirilen, Gencoz (2000) tarafindan Turkceye uyarlanan Pozitif ve Negatif Duygu Olcegi kullanilarak veriler toplanmistir. Toplanan bu veriler Sporda Kisiler Arasi Davranislar Olcegi ile iliskilendirilerek gecerlik calismasi yapilmistir. Sonuc olarak, elde edilen bulgular Sporda Kisiler Arasi Davranislar Olceginin Turkce formunun 14 yas ve uzeri Turk sporcularda da kullanilabilecegini gostermistir.
Data assimilative modeling investigation of Gulf Stream Warm Core Ring interaction with continental shelf and slope circulation

A data assimilative ocean circulation model is used to hindcast the interaction between a large Gulf Stream Warm Core Ring (WCR) with the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) shelf and slope circulation. Using the recently developed Incremental Strong constraint 4D Variational (I4D-Var) data assimilation algorithm, the model assimilates mapped satellite sea surface height (SSH), sea surface temperature (SST), in situ temperature, and salinity profiles measured by expendable bathythermograph, Argo floats, shipboard CTD casts, and glider transects. Model validations against independent hydrographic data show 60% and 57% error reductions in temperature and salinity, respectively. The WCR significantly changed MAB continental slope and shelf circulation. The mean cross-shelf transport induced by the WCR is estimated to be 0.28 Sv offshore, balancing the mean along-shelf transport by the shelfbreak jet. Large heat/salt fluxes with peak values of 8900 W m−2/4 × 10−4 kg m−2 s−1 are found when the WCR was impinging upon the shelfbreak. Vorticity analysis reveals the nonlinear advection term, as well as the residual of joint effect of baroclinicity and bottom relief (JEBAR) and advection of potential vorticity (APV) play important roles in controlling the variability of the eddy vorticity.
Yet another generalization of frames and Riesz bases

A frame is a sequence of vectors in a Hilbert space satisfying certain inequalities that make it valuable for signal processing and other purposes. There is a formula giving the reconstruction of a signal (a vector in the space) from its sequence of inner products (the Fourier coefficients) with the elements of the frame sequence. A g-frame, or operator-valued frame, is a sequence of operators defined on a countable ordered index set that has properties analogous to those of a frame sequence. We present a new approach to the matter of defining a Hilbert space frame, indexed by an ordered set, when the set is a measure space which is not necessarily purely atomic. Continuous frames have been widely studied in the literature, but the measure spaces they are associated with are not necessarily ordered in any way. Our approach is to make the measure space a directed set, and then replace the sequence of vectors (or operators) with a net indexed by the directed set, obtaining a natural generalization of the usual notion of generalized frame. We show that this definition makes sense mathematically, and proceed to obtain generalizations of several of the standard results for frame and Bessel sequences, and also Riesz bases, g-frames and operator-valued frames.
Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Microquasar Jets

The hadronic jets in a microquasar stellar system are modeled with the relativistic hydrocode PLUTO. We focus on neutrino emission from such jets produced by fast proton (nonthermal) collisions on thermal ones within the hadronic jet. We adopt a semianalytical approximation for the description of the secondary particles produced from p-p collisions and develop appropriate algorithms using the aforementioned injected protons as input. As a concrete example, we consider the SS-433 X-ray binary system for which several observations have been made the last decades. In contrast to the preset distribution of the fast protons along the jet employed in our previous works, in the present paper, we simulated it by using a power-law fast proton distribution along the PLUTO hydrocode. This distribution gradually sweeps aside the surrounding winds, during the jet advance through the computational grid. As a first step, in the present work, the neutrino energy spectrum is extracted from the model jet, facilitating a range of potential dynamical simulations in currently interesting microquasar jet systems.