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Effects of weather conditions on concrete work task productivity – a questionnaire survey

Purpose This paper aims to study the effects of different weather conditions on typical concrete work tasks’ productivity. Weather is one important factor that has a negative impact on construction productivity. Knowledge about how weather affects construction works is therefore important for the construction industry, e.g. during planning and execution of construction projects. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey method is used involving means to perform pairwise comparisons of different weather factors according to the analytical hierarchical process (AHP). The survey also contains means to enable assessment of the loss in productivity for typical work tasks exposed to different weather types. The survey targets practitioners involved in Swedish concrete construction projects, and the results are compared with previous research findings. Findings The survey covers responses from 232 practitioners with long experience of concrete construction. The pairwise comparisons reveal that practitioners rank precipitation as the most important followed by wind and temperature. The loss in productivity varies significantly (from 0 to 100%) depending on the type of work and the type of weather factor considered. The results partly confirm findings reported in previous research but also reveal a more complex relationship between weather and productivity indicating several underlying influencing factors such as type of work, type of weather (e.g. rain or snow) and the intensity of each weather factor. Originality/value This paper presents new data about how 232 practitioners assess the effects of weather on construction productivity involving novel means to perform objective rankings such as the AHP methodology.
About the influence of the elastoplastic properties of the adhesive on the value of the -integral in the DCB sample

On the basis of the general variational formulation of the problem of the deformation of two bodies connected by a thin layer, a system of differential equations of equilibrium of the double-cantilever beam is obtained, taking into account the shear deformations of the cantilevers, both in the interface section and in the free section, taking into account also the elastoplastic properties of the layer. In this work, we use the connection representation of the J -integral in terms of the energy product and the energy product of dissipation. For purely elastic deformation, on the basis of the analytical solution of the system, an expression is obtained for the stress state of an extremely thin layer connecting the cantilevers, which is dependent on the material properties of both the layer and the cantilevers. The obtained expression for the elastic energy flux is compared with the known ones. The energy product F. Berto Department of Engineering Design and Materials, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Verkstedteknisk, Administration area, Gløshaugen, Richard Birkelands vei 2b, 7491 Trondheim, Norway e-mail: filippo.berto@ntnu.no V. V. Glagolev (B)· L. V. Glagolev · A. A. Markin Department of Computational Mechanics and Mathematics, Tula State University, prospect Lenina, 92, Tula, Russian Federation 300600 e-mail: vadim@tsu.tula. ru L. V. Glagolev e-mail: len4ic92@gmail.com A. A. Markin e-mail: markin-nikram@yandex.ru at the top of the layer is found, the value of which depends only on thematerial properties of the consoles. With the elastoplastic behavior of the layer, the energy product of dissipation was found, which turned out to be dependent on the yield stress of the adhesive. The energy product in this case is proportional to the layer thickness. For adhesives with pronounced plastic properties, taking into account the dissipativemechanism of energy release leads to fundamental differences in the J -integral in comparison with the elastic calculation. The dependences of the DCB sample compliance with subcritical growth of the plastic deformation region in the adhesive are plotted.
Knowledge-based rules for the extraction of complex, fine-grained locative references

The automatic analysis of user-generated text content from social media involves the challenge of extracting the locative references mentioned in microtexts, so that their geographic coordinates can be identified and the locations can be pinpointed on a map in geolocation systems. The goal of this article is to describe a knowledge-based model that captures a wide variety of locative references, ranging from geopolitical entities and natural landforms to points of interest and traffic ways, from English and Spanish tweets.
Evolutionary Subdivision of Domestic Chickens: Implications for Local Breeds as Assessed by Phenotype and Genotype in Comparison to Commercial and Fancy Breeds

To adjust breeding programs for local, commercial, and fancy breeds, and to implement molecular (marker-assisted) breeding, a proper comprehension of phenotypic and genotypic variation is a sine qua non for breeding progress in animal production. Here, we investigated an evolutionary subdivision of domestic chickens based on their phenotypic and genotypic variability using a wide sample of 49 different breeds/populations. These represent a significant proportion of the global chicken gene pool and all major purposes of breed use (according to their traditional classification model), with many of them being characterized by a synthetic genetic structure and notable admixture. We assessed their phenotypic variability in terms of body weight, body measurements, and egg production. From this, we proposed a phenotypic clustering model (PCM) including six evolutionary lineages of breed formation: egg-type, meat-type, dual purpose (egg-meat and meat-egg), game, fancy, and Bantam. Estimation of genotypic variability was carried out using the analysis of five SNPs, i.e., at the level of genomic variation at the NCAPG-LCORL locus. Based on these data, two generally similar genotypic clustering models (GCM1 and GCM2) were inferred that also had several overlaps with PCM. Further research for SNPs associated with economically important traits can be instrumental in marker-assisted breeding programs.
Development of Multi-Compartment 3D-Printed Tablets Loaded with Self-Nanoemulsified Formulations of Various Drugs: A New Strategy for Personalized Medicine

This work aimed to develop a three-dimensional printed (3DP) tablet containing glimepiride (GLMP) and/or rosuvastatin (RSV) for treatment of dyslipidemia in patients with diabetes. Curcumin oil was extracted from the dried rhizomes of Curcuma longa and utilized to develop a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS). Screening mixture experimental design was conducted to develop SNEDDS formulation with a minimum droplet size. Five different semi-solid pastes were prepared and rheologically characterized. The prepared pastes were used to develop 3DP tablets using extrusion printing. The quality attributes of the 3DP tablets were evaluated. A non-compartmental extravascular pharmacokinetic model was implemented to investigate the in vivo behavior of the prepared tablets and the studied marketed products. The optimized SNEDDS, of a 94.43 ± 3.55 nm droplet size, was found to contain 15%, 75%, and 10% of oil, polyethylene glycol 400, and tween 80, respectively. The prepared pastes revealed a shear-thinning of pseudoplastic flow behavior. Flat-faced round tablets of 15 mm diameter and 5.6–11.2 mm thickness were successfully printed and illustrated good criteria for friability, weight variation, and content uniformity. Drug release was superior from SNEDDS-based tablets when compared to non-SNEDDS tablets. Scanning electron microscopy study of the 3DP tablets revealed a semi-porous surface that exhibited some curvature with the appearance of tortuosity and a gel porous-like structure of the inner section. GLMP and RSV demonstrated relative bioavailability of 159.50% and 245.16%, respectively. Accordingly, the developed 3DP tablets could be considered as a promising combined oral drug therapy used in treatment of metabolic disorders. However, clinical studies are needed to investigate their efficacy and safety.
Derivation of the Unified Charge Control Model with Application to the Long-Channel MOSFET I-V Characteristics

The Unified Charge Control Model (UCCM) has been first presented in [1, 2] as an empirical relationship between inversion charge density and the applied voltages in the MOS transistor. This paper presents a physical derivation of the UCCM based on Boltzmann statistics, the charge sheet approximation and the linear relationship between inversion charge density and surface potential [3, 4]. Using the UCCM and the MOSFET charge model presented in [3], we develop a new MOSFET model formulated in terms of the drain current in saturation. Experimental data and the theoretical model are shown to match very well.
Novel Acoustic Snapshot of a Sarawak Forest

Auditory signals are often used by forest species to attract mates, define and defend territories, and locate prey, and thus these signals may be monitored and used to estimate species presence, richness and acoustic complexity of a patch of habitat. We analyzed recordings from a biodiversity hotspot in the rainforests of Batang Ai National Park in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Three recording sites were established in the forest understory and continuous recordings were made for an acoustic snapshot of approximately 40 h. From these recordings, the bioacoustic index (BI) and acoustic complexity index (ACI) were computed. These acoustic indices exhibited clear periodicity with periods on the order of >6 h. The ACI and BI time series also showed oscillations, with peaks separated by 12 h corresponding to the alternation between bird and frog activity during the day and night, respectively. We quantified the relationships between the acoustic index values and anuran and avian richness, and environmental variables (rainfall intensity and time of day) using correlative and information theoretic techniques. ACI and BI were moderately positively and negatively correlated with rainfall intensity, respectively. ACI and BI were also weakly-to-moderately correlated to species richness, but with mixed directions between recording sites. However, the correlations and mutual information values, a model-free estimator of the relationship strength of random variables, were highest for the relationships between ACI and BI with respect to the rate of individual frog calls, rather than species richness alone. We conclude that acoustic indices are most useful for monitoring ecological dynamics on timescales longer than 6 h. We suggest that acoustic indices are best applied to studying changes in acoustic activity at the level of ecological populations rather than for estimating species richness, as they have been commonly applied in the past.
Impact of Values and Spiritual Quotient on Psychological Well Being among Adults

Value system is an integral part of one’s personality as it influences our behaviors and decisions. Probably, emergence of study of psychology took place due to wars which cropped due to poor values. In order to address to the chronic issues of crime and hatred it is essential to explore, whether values and spiritual quotient contribute to our actions. Sample of 30 males and 30 females from Ahmedabad was chosen for a research. It is hypothesized that there is no significant correlation between values, spiritual quotient, and psychological well-being amongst adults. It is also hypothesized that there is no significant difference between Values, S Q and Psychological well-being amongst males and females. A test named Study of Values Test by Dr. R.K. Ojha and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava was used to measure theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political and religious values. Also, to measure spiritual quotient, researcher studied the inner self, interself, biostoria, life perspectives and spiritual actualization through -Roqan Spiritual Intelligence Test by Roquiya Zainuddin & Anjum Ahmed. Similarly, satisfaction, efficiency, sociability, mental health and interpersonal relations were measured through Psychological Well Being Scale; by D. S. Sisodia and Pooja Choudhary. To calculate and interpret the scores, t-test and correlation method were used.
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The widespread popularity of social networking is leading to the adoption of Twitter as an information dissemination tool. Existing research has shown that information dissemination over Twitter has a much broader reach than traditional media and can be used for effective post-incident measures. People use informal language on Twitter, including acronyms, misspelled words, synonyms, transliteration, and ambiguous terms. This makes incident-related information extraction a non-trivial task. However, this information can be valuable for public safety organizations that need to respond in an emergency. This paper proposes an early event-related information extraction and reporting framework that monitors Twitter streams, synthesizes event-speciﬁc information, e.g., a terrorist attack, and alerts law enforcement, emergency services, and media outlets. Speciﬁcally, the proposed framework, Tweet-to-Act (T2A), employs word embedding to transform tweets into a vector space model and then utilizes the Word Mover’s Distance (WMD) to cluster tweets for the identiﬁcation of incidents. To extract reliable and valuable information from a large dataset of short and informal tweets, the proposed framework employs sequence labeling with bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory based Recurrent Neural Networks ( bLSTM-RNN ). Extensive experimental results suggest that our proposed framework, T2A, outperforms other state-of-the-art methods that use vector space modeling and distance calculation techniques, e
Effects of Enzymatic Hydrolysis on Physicochemical Properties and Solubility and Bitterness of Milk Protein Hydrolysates

Milk protein concentrate (MPC) is a high-protein dairy product. It is underutilized due to its poor solubility compared with other milk protein products. This study aimed to investigate the effect of enzymatic hydrolysis on the physicochemical properties and solubility of MPC. Results showed that Alcalase hydrolysates possessed a higher degree of hydrolysis (DH) than Protamex and Flavourzyme hydrolysates. Similar results could be obtained using sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The molecular weight of the hydrolysate of Alcalase was less than 10 kDa. Changes to the molecular weight thereby led to a modification in the fluorescence intensity, Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry, and ultraviolet absorption. The solubility of all hydrolysates was significantly increased (p < 0.05). Correlation analysis showed a positive correlation between solubility, DH, and bitterness; the correlation coefficients were 0.81 for DH and 0.61 for bitterness. Electronic tongue analysis showed that the bitterness of Alcalase hydrolysates was the highest, while the values for Protamex hydrolysates were the lowest.
Treatment with nitric oxide preserves the quality of cold stored ‘Cripps Pink’ apples

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of pre-storage fruit treatment with nitric oxide (NO) on the quality maintenance of cold stored ‘Cripps Pink’ apples. The following treatments were evaluated: 0 μL·L–1 of NO (control); 10 μL·L–1 of NO for 2 h; 10 μL·L–1 of NO for 4 h; 10 μL·L–1 of NO for 8 h; and 20 μL·L–1 of NO for 2 h. Fruit treated with NO, regardless of concentration and application time, had a greener skin background color than the control, especially those treated with 10 μL·L–1 for 8 h. After 7 days of shelf life (23 ± 3 °C/relative humidity, RH, of 65 ± 5%), fruit treated with 10 μL·L–1 for 8 h and 20 μL·L–1 for 2 h had lower respiration rate and a greener skin background color than the control. Fruit treated with NO, regardless of concentration and application time, had a lower incidence of flesh browning after storage. The use of NO (10 μL·L–1 applied for 8 h and 20 μL·L–1 applied for 2 h) pre-storage maintains the quality of ‘Cripps Pink’ apples, because it delays skin yellowing and reduces flesh browning. Nitric oxide has no effect on the maintenance of flesh firmness in ‘Cripps Pink’ apples.
Mapped genetic variation of Douglas-fir to guide seed transfer in southwest Oregon

in all characters except germinative energy. 3. Trends in inter-provenance variation and selection pressures on many characters have been demonstrated by regression analyses but not by BoNFE RRONI t-tests. South to north trends are shown in seed weight, ger­ minative capacity, hypocotyl length, and seedling height; and east-west trends in seed weight, cotyledon numbers and seedling height. 4. Germinative 'capacity and juvenile characters are signi­ ficantly and positively correlated with seed weight. This confirms the earlier finding that in white spruce seed weight can be included among the criteria for selection of plus trees and superior provenances. 5. Provenances with high germinative energy also have high germinative capacity and fast juvenile growth. 6. The fifteen promising provenances are 8001, 8007, 8034, 8045, 8066, 8080, 8096, 8098, 8128, 8129, 8131, 8171, 8232, 8267 and 8270.
Selective Gas Adsorption and Separation of Carbon Dioxide in Metal-organic Frameworks and Composites

The development of improving energy efficiency and developing clean energy is relatively slow, so the efficient separation and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas using some porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has attracted much attention. This paper mainly focuses on current research and development on carbon dioxide adsorption in MOFs. Initially, the traditional synthesis methods and the new MOF methods in recent years and the activation methods that improve the shortcomings of new methods are all reviewed. Besides, pristine MOFs with adjusting the ligands is also introduced because it is considered an alternative to enhance the adsorptive performance. Furthermore, MOFs incorporated with graphite oxide, carbon nanotubes, activated carbon, zeolites, and ionic liquids to construct composite materials and apply in CO2 are also summarized. Finally, the expectation on this application is also presented.
Unregulated fishing impact on yellowfin parrotfish scarus flavipectoralis in Spermonde Islands, Makassar Strait, Indonesia

The Spermonde Islands are a group of islands located in Makassar Strait, which stretches from the coast of the Takalar Regency in the South and to the coast of Barru Regency in the North 2,500 km2. These waters are the fishing areas of artisanal fishermen who catch reef fish, such as the yellowfin parrotfish Scarus flavipectoralis. Yellowfin parrotfish is a Scaridae that lives in shallow waters in tropical and subtropical areas, especially in coral reef ecosystems. Yellowfin parrotfish is included in the Least Concern group, a species threatened by fishermen’s catch if not adequately regulated. The exploitation of Yellowfin parrotfish in Spermonde Islands, Makassar Strait, Indonesia, has never been studied. This study aims to analyze the exploitation rate of yellowfin parrotfish in the Spermonde Islands waters. The yellowfin parrotfish Samples were taken from the catch landed at the Fish Landing Port, Makassar City. The growth rate was Lt = 40 [1-? −0.28(t-0.5505)]. The total mortality rate was 3.29, the natural mortality rate was 0.73, the fishing mortality rate was 2.56, and the exploitation rate was 0.78. This exploitation rate indicated the unregulated fishing impact on yellowfin parrotfish, and if this unregulated fishing continues, the yellowfin parrotfish could become extinct in Spermonde Islands.
Local Fisher- and skew-information coherence of two Nitrogen-Vacancy centers induced by two coupled dissipative nanocavities

The paper investigates the dynamics of the quantum interferometric power and Local quantum uncertainty coherences beyond concurrence entanglement between two Nitrogen-Vacancy centers (NVCs) induced by two coupled dissipative nanocavities. A particular engineering design is considered, where each nanocavity contains a coherently driven N-V center and the two nanocavities are initially in a maximally correlated state with different initial two-NVC states. It is found that, for the initial uncorrelated two-NVC state, the generated two-NVC coherence and the entanglement due to the NVC-nanocavity interactions can be enhanced by the increase of the Nitrogen-Vacancy center’s couplings. The cavity dissipations enhance the generation of Fisher and skew information quantumness of the two-NVC state, and accelerate the reduction of the concurrence entanglement. For the initial maximally correlated two-NVC state, the robustness of the two-NVC coherence and the entanglement against the NVC-nanocavity interactions and the dissipation can be enhanced by the two-nanocavity coupling and the two NVC-qubits couplings.
Pico hydro turbine building design utilizing irrigation water power: CFD Simulation

Using hydraulic energy from irrigation flows to become electrical energy as renewable energy still needs to be conducted. Therefore, this research aims to design a pico hydro turbine building powered by irrigation water and its energy tests and analyses. The turbine building design has been simulated with the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). The method used in this study is the solver approach simulation method which is analyzed with flow s imulation applications and analyzed using the kinetic energy equation to obtain the hydraulic energy value of the channel, where previously the turbine building design used computer-aided design. Furthermore, in irrigation canals, energy values are obtained. The impulse turbine is 3.6 - 5 kW, and the helixes turbine is 0.02-0.25 kW, the Kaplan turbine is 0.29 – 0.3 kW, for Kaplan turbine with minimal head 1 m.
Toward geomorphic mapping of reef habitat by laser altimeter on ICESat-2 Satellite

The main objectives of Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) are to quantify the change of ice sheets, sea ice, and their behavior. It uses precise laser measurements of surface elevation to achieve the goals. Using 532 nm laser pulse, ICESat-2 has been providing other data of Earth System components as well such as vegetation canopy height, land height, and nearshore bathymetry. This study aims were to investigate the potential use of laser photon data of ICESat-2 for geomorphic mapping and reef rugosity indication. About eight tracks of data photon of Kapoposang island and four tracks of Kodingarenglompo were investigated to indicate the existence of coral reef and its geomorphic zone. The results show that the photon’s depth for Kapoposang island is easier to interpret than Kadingarenglompo due to the clarity of the water column. The deepest depth photon achieves for Kapoposang reef was up to 17 meters while at Kodingarenglompo just about 6 meters. The depth photon variability at reef area is significantly different from sand and submerged vegetation area. The depth dan slope variability are easy to detect using this lidar altimetry which in turn very helpful on classifying the geomorphic zone of reef habitat. Hence these results may lead to study more about the use of ICESat-2 data for reef habitat mapping.
The Progress of Nanocellulose in Types and Preparation Methods

Nanocellulose is generally prepared from natural cellulose fermented by higher plants, seaweeds and microorganisms by using nano-chemical processes such as acid hydrolysis, mechanical treatment, oxidation treatment, and enzymatic degradation. This article starts with the definition and classification of nanocellulose, and focuses on the preparation process and method of nanocellulose.