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Estimation of Wire Bonding State by the Ensemble Based MT Method and Thin AE Sensor

With non-destructive, simple, and low-priced testing methods (which can be applied to manufacturing processes), we can assure high quality production by applying inspection across all products. Quality assurance in wire bonding is possible by using state diagnosis which utilizes detection of elastic waves close to the bonded joint. We succeeded in detecting elastic waves under difficult conditions and in harsh environments by using a thin AE (Acoustic Emission) sensor developed using AlN piezoelectric thin film technology. We attempted to conduct a wire bonding state estimation using the MT (Mahalanobis-Taguchi) method which is a simple and powerful pattern recognition technique. Two issues are raised when applying this method to the manufacturing process: 1) a large probability bias caused by an insufficient number of data samples, and 2) securing homogeneity of the Unit Space. In this paper, we present a state diagnosis method utilizing a real-world application which uses piezoelectric thin film sensing and an improved MT method to which ensemble learning is applied. Performance of this proposed method is also examined through a common benchmark dataset to assure efficient operation in any manufacturing process.
Mechanical properties and morphology of polyurethane composite grouting materials

Nine leaks in ten tunnels in our country. The loess geological widely distributed Shanxi Province, which are more likelyto form a tunnel leakage water. Polyurethane composite grouting materials is a great materials for repairing the tunnel leakage water. In order to reduce the cost of grouting materials, fly ash, bottom ash, and carbide slag were addedintothegrouting materials and the mechanical properties and morphology of polyurethane composite grouting materials werefocused studied. The compressive strength of polyurethane composite grouting materials can reach up to 14MPa. Theresults showed that solid waste (fly ash, bottom ash, or carbide slag) can increase the mechanical properties andchangethe morphology of polyurethane composite grouting materials. Moreover, the water permeability coefficient ofpolyurethane composite grouting materials can meet the engineering application requirements.
Nonparametric Testing for Hammerstein Systems

We examine the problem of testing a parametric form of the nonlinearity of Hammerstein systems against a nonparametric alternative. This article proposes test statistics relying on nonparametric orthogonal series regression function estimates. An asymptotic theory of the proposed tests is established including the asymptotic normality under the null hypothesis that the parametric form of the system nonlinearity is correct. Moreover, it is shown that under nonparametric alternatives, the probability of detecting that the parametric model is incorrect tends to one. The rate of detecting local alternatives is also established.
Rapid Site Selection to Prioritize Coastal Seascapes for Nature-Based Solutions With Multiple Benefits

Coastal seascapes are productive and diverse land-sea systems that provide many valuable benefits yet are increasingly threatened by human activity. Scaling up of nature-based solutions (NbS) to effectively protect, sustainably manage, and restore coastal seascapes is urgently required for mitigation of climate change and biodiversity loss while also providing socio-economic benefits. Evidence-based site selection is an important first step to improve the outcomes and avoid negative impacts when prioritizing NbS investments at national level. We developed a spatially explicit, integrative and culturally relevant ecosystem-based site selection process to identify a portfolio of seascapes for NbS consideration in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The primary goal was to rank planning units based on potential for climate change mitigation action, positive impact to biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to people. The multi-criteria site-selection framework provided a rapid, transparent, repeatable and scalable tool. The highest weightings were assigned to blue carbon storage value, biodiversity conservation features, and local stakeholder preferred areas. Spatial proxies for benefits to people were represented by population density and accessibility to coastal seascapes, relative tourism and recreation potential, and importance of fish habitat and fishing grounds for food security. Participatory mapping of local knowledge and review of existing data ensured that both qualitative and quantitative criteria were reliable, up-to-date and locally relevant. Two distinct clusters of high suitability planning units were identified in the Abu Dhabi region and four along the north-western coast of the UAE. Most high suitability sites were located outside of existing marine protected areas. Alternative spatial scenarios without stakeholder bias underscored the suitability of sites identified through participatory mapping and highlighted additional priority sites for future scaling-up of NbS. A spatial corridor of medium and high suitability planning units across the region offers potential for designing well-connected NbS investments to accelerate and boost synergistic outcomes and increase resilience. The site selection framework provides a rapid tool that integrates local and global open access data at a range of scales with great potential for transferability to other regions worldwide.
Chemical Composition, Enantiomeric Distribution and Anticholinesterase and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oil of Diplosthephium juniperinum

The aim of this study was to extract and identify the chemical compounds of Diplosthephium juniperinum essential oil (EO) from Ecuador and to assess its anticholinesterase and antioxidant properties. The EO chemical composition was determined by GC–MS. A total of 74 constituents of EO were identified, representing 97.27% in DB-5ms and 96.06% in HP-INNOWax of the total EO. The major constituents (>4.50%) identified were: α-pinene (21.52, 22.04%), geranyl acetate (10.54, 7.78%), silphiper-fol-5-ene (8.67, 7.38%), α-copaene (8.26, 8.18%), 7-epi-silphiperfol-5-ene (4.93, 5.95%), and germacrene D (4.91, 6.00%). Enantioselective analysis of the volatile fraction of D. juniperinum showed: (+)-α-pinene as a pure enantiomer and 5 pairs of enantiomeric compounds. Among them, (−)-β-Pinene and (−)-Germacrene D presented a high enantiomeric excess of 93.23 and 84.62%, respectively, while (−)-α-Thujene, (−)-Sabinene and (S)-4-Terpineol with a lower enantiomeric excess of 56.34, 47.84 and 43.11%, respectively. A moderate inhibitory effect was observed for Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and Butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) enzymes with IC50 values of 67.20 ± 7.10 and 89.00 ± 9.90 µg/mL, respectively. A lower antioxidant potential was observed for the EO measured through DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging assays with SC50 values of 127.03 and >1000 µg/mL, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the chemical composition, enantiomeric distribution and, anticholinesterase and antioxidant potential of the EO of D. juniperinum. As future perspective, further in-vivo studies could be conducted to confirm the anticholinesterase potential of the EO.
Photosensitive titanium-containing interpenetrating polymer networks for photonics

Abstract Kinetic investigations of titanium-containing interpenetrating polymer networks (Ti-IPNs) formation based on cross-linked polyurethane and Ti-containing copolymer (Ti-CP) were carried out using differential calorimetry method. Analysis by the SAXS method revealed that the systems possessed nanosized regions of heterogeneity. The increase of (–TiO2–) fragments content led to increase of both overall level of heterogeneity and of Tg of Ti-СP component. Ti-IPNs are optically transparent with optical transparency coefficient value up to 90–91% at 650 nm. The reverse visible darkening at UV-irradiation was observed for Ti-IPNs, thereby allowing their application in optical data recording on exposure to laser radiation.
Coupling flow with nutrient dynamics via BioChemFOAM in the Mississippi River

An enhanced three-dimensional unsteady hydrodynamic, multispecies transport fate model called BioChemFOAM was developed in OpenFOAM-free computational fluid dynamic platform for understanding and predicting nutrient dynamics, namely, transport and transformation, in aquatic ecosystems. The study motivation was to better quantify transport and distribution of nutrient species in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB), a major source of nutrient contributor from intense agriculture. The study is unique in examining the transport and reactivity rates under complex hydrologic conditions where main conveyance channels and backwaters co-exist. The model has two main components: a new coupling of turbulent flow processes with multiple species to modulate transport and reaction rates simulations at channel/backwater areas and a complex chemical and biological transformation module suited for species reaction rates in backwaters. The coupled model was first tested for an idealistic domain/case borrowed from the literature. The final model was calibrated, tested and verified in the UMRB.
Programmable differential capacitance-to-voltage converter for MEMS accelerometers

Capacitive MEMS sensors exhibit an excellent noise performance, high sensitivity and low power consumption. They offer a huge range of applications, being the accelerometer one of its main uses. In this work, we present the design of a capacitance-to-voltage converter in CMOS technology to measure the acceleration from the capacitance variations. It is based on a low-power, fully-differential transimpedance amplifier with low input impedance and a very low input noise.
Do Probiotics in Pregnancy Reduce Allergies and Asthma in Infancy and Childhood? A Systematic Review

The maternal immune system is very important in the development of the foetal immune system. Probiotics have been shown to help regulate immune responses. Therefore, it is possible that the administration of probiotics to pregnant women could influence the development of the foetal immune system, reducing the likelihood of infants and children developing an allergic condition. The aim of this research was to conduct a systematic review to determine whether administering probiotics to pregnant women can reduce the incidence of allergic disease in their children. Medline, CINAHL and Embase databases were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that compared supplementation of probiotics to pregnant women to a placebo control and recorded the presentation of allergic conditions in their children. Data extracted from the study reports included their characteristics and findings. Study quality and risk of bias were assessed. From a total of 850 articles identified in the search, 6 were eligible for inclusion in this review. Two studies found no effect of maternal probiotics on the outcomes measured, two studies found that the incidence of eczema or atopic dermatitis (AD) was reduced by maternal probiotics, one study found no effect on the overall incidence of atopic sensitisation, but a reduction in a subgroup of children at high hereditary risk of allergic disease, and one study found no effect in an intention to treat analysis, but a reduction in AD in complete case analysis. The results of these studies are inconsistent but demonstrate that probiotics may have the potential to reduce infant allergies when administered prenatally, particularly in children at high risk of allergy development. There is a need for further larger-scale studies to be performed in order to provide a more definitive answer. Such studies should focus on at-risk groups.
Multiple Pricing for Personal Assistance Services

This paper provides a general theoretical framework that captures the essential features of a Swedish reform where private and public health care providers serve patients with certain functional impairments. Because providers receive a ﬁxed hourly compensation for their services (identical across patient types) and only private providers can reject service requests from patients, private providers avoid the costliest patients, resulting in a monetary deﬁcit for public providers. To partially overcome this problem, a multiple pricing (reimbursement) scheme is proposed and its solution is characterized. The results suggest that there are some fundamental trade-offs, e.g., between the goals of containing costs and restricting choices for patients, but that the suggested pricing scheme may substantially reduce the deﬁcits for public providers without affecting the total budget set by the central government.
How does the choice of a marketing channel influence the adoption of organic farming

Recent sanitary crises have emphasized the need for alternative food networks. The intended objectives are mainly to improve the quality of food production and marketing channels. Because changes in the food supply chains appear to be closely linked to changes in agricultural processes, this paper tackles the issue of the influence of marketing channels on the type of farming, towards organic farming. The question is salient for fruit production which is an intense consumer of phytosanitary products and for France, a country which has adopted and reinforced regulations in favour of the environment. A statistical analysis complemented with econometric models allows to measure the close link between marketing channels and organic farming. The data are issued from the 2012 "Orchard Survey", a census of French farms which provides an overview of marketing channels and phytosanitary practices. We focus mainly on two main productions, apples and apricots. The results show that there exists a strong and differentiated influence of marketing channels on environment-friendly practices. Direct selling increases the adoption of organic farming while belonging to producer organizations leads to contrasted effects.
Low-Frequency Noise in InGaAs Nanowire MOSFETs

Low-frequency (LF) noise (1/f as well as random telegraph-signal (RTS) noise) measurements were performed on high-performance InGaAs nanowire (NW) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). 1/f noise measurements at room temperature (RT) show that the dominant noise mechanism is carrier number fluctuations. The minimum gate area normalized input gate voltage noise power spectral density (PSD) for these devices is as low as 80 µm^{2}µV^{2}Hz^{-1}, with a corresponding minimum trap density of 9·10 cm^{-3}eV^{-1}, where the calculation of the trap density bases on elastic tunneling of the channel electrons to and from the trap states in the gate oxide. These values are among the lowest for III-V MOSFETs, demonstrating the feasibility of a high-quality, low trap density, high-k gate oxide on InGaAs NW structures. 1/f noise measurements at low temperatures confirm that the dominant noise mechanism is carrier number fluctuations and also give some support for the elastic tunneling model. RTS noise signals were found in approximately 2/3 of the considered devices, indicating that very few traps influence the electron transport through the channel. It turns out that the capture and emission time constant of a single active trap state change with the applied gate bias. Different models (the elastic tunneling model and the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) model) are discussed to explain this behavior. Another striking feature of the RTS noise measurements is the large spread in the RTS noise amplitudes, with maximum amplitudes of up to 1 µA. Simulations of single trap induced subband fluctuations can reproduce this large spread, showing that the magnitude of the RTS noise amplitude is especially sensitive to the position of the trap state along the NW circumference. Temperature-dependent RTS noise measurements reveal a thermal activation of the time constants, which is inconsistent with elastic tunneling but can be explained by multi-phonon-assisted tunneling (inelastic tunneling). (Less)
Intervention Comparison Intervention Strategy

In recent years, the prevalence of mental health problems among university students has become a major concern, with a consequential increased focus on how to reduce the burden on students, their families and staff (Blanco et al., 2008; Cvetkovski, Jorm, & Mackinnon, 2019). For example, a systematic review found that over 30% of students met diagnostic criteria for depression (Ibrahim, Kelly, Adams, & Glazebrook, 2013), highlighting the substantial number of students in need of mental health support and treatment. Late adolescence and early adulthood, when most people attend university, are peak times for onset of mental health disorder, with 75% of people who develop a mental disorder experiencing its onset by the age of 25 (Kessler et al., 2005). Attending university may also present an additional intellectual, social and environmental challenge, which may increase the risk of developing a mental health problem. Not only has there been an increasing number of mental health problems, with approximately five times more first year students disclosing a mental health problem between 2015/2016 than between 2006/2007 (Thorley, 2017), there have also been reports that the severity of mental health problems in student populations is increasing (Gallagher, 2012). However, it is not clear that this increasing demand from increasingly diverse student populations has been met effectively (Auerbach et al., 2016; Jaworska, De Somma, Fonseka, Heck, & MacQueen, 2016). Furthermore the evidence suggests that psychological distress does not fall below pre-entry levels at any point during university, and in fact increases as semesters progress (Bewick, Koutsopoulou, Miles, Slaa, & Barkham, 2010; Pitt, Oprescu, Tapia, & Gray, 2018).
BIOMASS YIELD DYNAMICS AND NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF ALFALFA (Medicago sativa) CULTIVARS AT DEBRE ZEIT, ETHIOPIA

The cultivars were planted on 12 m 2 plots (4 m long and 3 m wide) in randomized complete block design with four replications. The treatments were: FG10-09(F), FG9-09(F), Magna 801-FG(F), Magna 788 and Hairy Peruvian. The leaf and stem yield were determined by harvesting a central section of two adjacent middle rows with a sampling area of 0.2 m 2 (0.5 m length x 0.4 m width). For forage quality analysis, four randomly selected adjacent middle rows with a net area of 3.2 m 2 were harvested. The four replications were pooled into one and properly homogenized and one representative subsample was taken for each cultivar within each cutting cycle. The analysis of variance indicated that; interaction of cultivar and cutting cycle was not significant for leaf and stem yield and chemical composition of the cultivars (P>0.05). Similarly, cultivars effect was not significant (P>0.05) for leaf and stem yields. Magna 788, Hairy Peruvian and FG9-09(F) had higher leaf and stem yield respectively other than the rest cultivars. Cutting cycles had significant effect (P<0.05) on leaf and stem yield. The 8 th cycle had higher leaf, stem and total DM yields followed by 7 th cycle, while the rest cycles had intermediate and comparable values. On the contrary the leaf to stem ratio was lowest.The effect of cultivar for chemical composition was not significant (P ≥ 0.05). Cutting cycles had significant effect (P< 0.05) for acid detergent fiber, digestible dry matter and cellulose content. Cultivars had higher nutritional value and had lower biomass yield during drier season while higher during wetter season.
Intelligent Data Analysis in the EMERCOM Information System

The paper describes an information system development project for the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES, whose international operations body is known as EMERCOM), which was attended by the representatives of both the IT industry and the academia. Besides the general description of the system, we put forward OLAP and Data Mining-based approaches towards the intelligent analysis of the data accumulated in the database. In particular, some operational OLAP reports and an example of multi-dimensional information space based on OLAP Data Warehouse are presented. Finally, we outline Data Mining application to support decision-making regarding security inspections planning and results consideration.
Introduction: Consumer Culture Theory: Ten Years Gone (and Beyond)

Abstract Purpose This paper reflects on the development of Consumer Culture Theory, both as a field of research and as an institutional classification, since the publication of Arnould and Thompson (2005). Methodology/approach This paper takes a conceptual/historical orientation that is based upon the authors’ experiences over the course of the 10-year CCT initiative (including numerous conversations with fellow CCT colleagues). Findings The authors first discuss key benchmarks in the development of the CCT community as an organization. Next, the authors highlight key intellectual trends in CCT research that have arisen since the publication of their 2005 review and discuss their implications for the future trajectories of CCT research. Originality/value The paper by Arnould and Thompson (2005) has proven to be influential in terms of systematizing and placing a widely accepted disciplinary brand upon an extensive body of culturally oriented consumer research. The CCT designation has also provided an important impetus for institution building. The 10-year anniversary of this article (and not incidentally the CCT conference from which the papers in this volume hail) provides a unique opportunity for the authors to comment upon the broader ramifications of their original proposals.
A low cost EMC pre-compliance board for electronic devices and smart grids networks

In this work, a low cost EMC – Electromagnetic Compatibility pre-compliance board, based on the conducted emission technique, is proposed as an option to analyze electronic devices used in telecommunications and smart grid network enviroments. In general, as the IC is the major responsible of unintentional emissions and coupling, some specific pre-compliance setup tests are employed to analyze these detrimental effects to the system as a whole. Therefore, an EMC Pre-Compliance Board was designed and built to operate from 150 KHz to 30 MHz. Simulated and experimental results are compared to validate the test setup. Streszczenie. W pracy przedstawiono prosty układ umożliwiający testowanie i poprawę elektrokompatybilności urządzeń telekomunikacyjnych I wyposażenia sieci smart grid. Układ pracuje w zakresie częstotliwości 150 kHz – 30 MHz. Prosty układ dopasowujący EMC do urządzęń telekomunikacyjnych I sieci smart grid.
Entrepreneurship and Linkage between Vocational Education, Management Education, and Entrepreneurship

The present paper is an effort to understand the constitution of entrepreneurial brigade in India including a look at initiatives put in by government and other institutions functional in India. It includes an enquiry of different policy initiatives and training methodologies adopted in some of the other parts of the world. A high percentage of failed and unsuccessful SMEs indicate towards requirement of professional help in evaluating a project or venture, followed by guidance for getting finance and training support for viable and innovative projects. Towards the end we zero down on finding out different techniques, methods and content being used effectively or desired, and how we can better the deliverance of training for different categories of aspirants. Amongst other methods it also looks into apprentice as a method of training entrepreneurs. The author reviewed published work and analysed the issue at hand.