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CORPOR ATE INSOLVENCY IN EUROPE

Introduction: The insolvency of enterprises is considered both from a macro and microeconomic viewpoint. Enterprises identify insolvency in the period of the largest economic boom and more often in the periods of eco nomic instability and crises or recession, due to the increasing risk of its occurrence. In addition, the importance of insolvency is crucial from the viewpoint of the potential effects of economic bankruptcy and bankruptcy from a legal viewpoint. Research Objective/Hypothesis : The aim of this paper is to analyze selected aspects of the corporate insolvency in Europe. The first objective is, to determine whether the cost and time of the insolvency proceeding are shorter in OECD countries when compared to others in Europe. The second objective is to identify Poland’s position according to the aspect of insolvency, in the context of the countries surveyed. Hypothesis: There is relationship between high income in OECD countries and recovery rate. Research methodology : The data comes from the Doing Business 2018 report. It was used Spearman correlation. Findings: There is a need for continuous improvement of legal systems to facilitate resolving insolvencies. There is moderate correlation (Spearman) at approx. 0.69 between high income in OECD countries and recovery rate. It is statistically significant correlation (p-value < 0.05). There are two weak negative (downhill relationships) correlations (Spearman) between high income in OECD countries and time (first relationship) or cost (second relationship).
In vitro inhibitory effect of plant extracts on growth of seed-borne Alternaria alternata fungus

Antifungal substances of plant origin could be used as an inhibitor to control fungal seed diseases growth and development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of alcoholic and aqueous extracts of few medicinal plants (Fennel, Cichorium, Asafoetida, Echinacea, Balangu (Lady’s mantle and Olender) on growth and development of Alternaria alternata fungi. The experimental treatments were arranged as factorial and the data were analyzed based on a completely randomized design with three replications. The effect of seed and plant extracts, plant type (plant), and their interactions were significant on the fungal growth and development. The strong antifungal properties of aqueous and alcoholic extracts of balangu and oleander showed a broad-spectrum natural antifungal resistance in those plants. However, the results indicated a high resistance for A. alternata against the aqueous extract of fennel. This study concluded a high potential for the alcoholic extract of balangu and oleander (100% inhibition) in the biological control of the A. alternata fungus .
Analysis of Protein Structure-Function in Vivo ADENOVIRUS-MEDIATED TRANSFER OF LIPASE LID MUTANTS IN HEPATIC LIPASE-DEFICIENT MICE*

Hepatic lipase (HL) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) are key enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of triglycerides and phospholipids present in circulating plasma li- poproteins. Despite their similarities, the role that each of these two lipases play in the metabolism of triglycer- ide-rich lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins is distinct. In order to identify structural domains that may confer the different substrate specificities between HL and LPL, we have utilized a novel approach for per- forming structure-function analysis of a protein, in vivo , by using recombinant adenovirus vectors to express native and mutant enzymes in an animal model for a human genetic deficiency. HL-deficient mice ( n (cid:53) 19) characterized by increased plasma cholesterol and phospholipid concentrations were injected with adenovirus expressing luciferase (rLucif-AdV), native hepatic (rHL-AdV), and lipoprotein lipase (rLPL-AdV) or lipase mutants in which the lid covering the catalytic site of either enzyme was exchanged (rHL (cid:49) LPL lid-AdV and rLPL (cid:49) HL lid-AdV). Mice injected with rLucif-AdV had no changes in post-heparin HL and LPL activities (217 (cid:54) 29 and 7 (cid:54) 2 nmol/min/ml, respectively) as well
Tracing the Evolution of Collaborative Virtual Research Environments: A Critical Events-Based Perspective

A significant number of scientific projects pursuing large scale, complex investigations involve dispersed research teams, which conduct a large part or their work virtually. Virtual Research Environments (VREs), cyberinfrastructure that facilitates coordinated activities amongst dispersed scientists, thus provide a rich context to study organizational evolution. Due to the constantly evolving nature of technologies, it is important to understand how teams of scientists, system developers, and managers respond to critical incidents. Critical events are organizational situations that trigger strategic decision making to adjust structure or redirect processes in order to maintain balance or improve an already functioning system. This study examines two prominent VREs: The United States Virtual Astronomical Observatory (US-VAO) and the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) in order to understand how these environments evolve through critical events and strategic choices. Communication perspectives lend themselves well to a study of VRE development and evolution because of the central role occupied by communication technologies in both the functionality and management of VREs. Using the grounded theory approach, this study uses organizational reports to trace how critical events and their resulting strategic choices shape these organizations over time. The study also explores how disciplinary demands influence critical events.
Cytotoxic T Cells Overcome BCR-ABL-mediated Resistance to Apoptosis1

Chronic myeloid leukemia is a disease marked by expanded clonal hematopoiesis; it is incurable by chemotherapy or radiation but is cured in a majority of patients receiving bone marrow transplantation from nonidentical sibling donors, an outcome generally attributed to a T cell-mediated graft-versus-leukemia effect. In this report, we examine the effect of the P210Bl R'ABI fusion protein of the BCR-ABL oncogene, the molecular hallmark of chronic myelogenous leukemia, on the sensitivity of mouse cell lines to apoptosis induced by chemotherapy, radiation, or activated cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). We find that, although cells expressing P210B< R-ABI-by gene transfer are more resistant than their normal counterparts to apoptosis induced by chemotherapy or radiation, they are equally susceptible to apoptosis induced by alloreactive CTLs. These results show that CTLs overcome BCR-ABL-mediated resistance to apoptosis and, therefore, provide a biological correlation for the suc cess of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Methodologies of coordination systems with hybrid reinforcement learning models

—This paper presents the research and development of a hybrid neuro-fuzzy model for the hierarchical coordination of multiple intelligent agents. The main objective of the models is to have multiple agents interact intelligently with each other in complex systems. We developed two new models of coordination for intelligent multiagent systems, which integrates the Reinforcement Learning Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy model with two proposed coordination mechanisms: the MultiAgent Reinforcement Learning Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy with a market-driven coordination mechanism (MA-RL-HNFP-MD) and the MultiAgent Reinforcement Learning Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy with graph coordination (MA-RL-HNFP-GC). In order to evaluate the proposed models and verify the contribution of the proposed coordination mechanisms, two multiagent benchmark applications were developed: the pursuit game and the robot soccer simulation. The results obtained demonstrated that the proposed coordination mechanisms greatly improve the performance of the multiagent system when compared with other strategies.
Work in Progress: Visual and Tactile Aids in Multidisciplinary Engineering for Better Learning Outcomes

on production systems, closed-loop engineering valuation. include outcome assessment and visualization aids, and his engineering research focuses on application of stochastic optimal control on engineering decision making. The Engineering Economist, Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Engineering Education, and other peer-reviewed journals. Abstract In this paper, we investigate the impact of visual and tactile aids on the teaching and learning of inter-domain concepts that are related to abstract mathematical models commonly used in engineering education. The context of this study includes industrial engineering, engineering management, and systems engineering, in which there are numerous abstract concepts without physical representations that make it difficult for students to learn. For example, the inventory positions and their cost consequences lead to complicated derivations and complex mathematical expressions with embedded abstract insights, but there are no corresponding physical models like airfoils for aerospace engineering or circuit boards for electrical engineering. Specifically, in this study, we investigate if and to what extent meaningful visual and tactile aids help students increase their learning outcomes. In multiple domains, we are studying to what extent visual and tactile aids of specific mathematical concepts help students grasp such concepts. The domains in this study include inventory control, integral calculus, and additive manufacturing (AM). From the integral calculus domain, students will learn multiple ways to visualize the inventory positions and their cost consequences for inventory control. For AM, the same students will learn to produce physical models for these mathematical relationships via AM technologies. Based on these teaching and learning experiences, we plan to show that the level of students’ understanding of the inventory models increases with these visual and tactile aids. Ultimately, we plan to show how tactile aids produced via AM help students learn the mathematical concepts of integral calculus. We also intend to demonstrate how this calculus provides a way to characterize the variations in products manufactured via AM and enhance the mathematical and statistical aspects of AM for other disciplines. Hence, students’ learning critically depends on an inter-domain experience consisting of inventory control, engineering mathematics, and additive manufacturing.
Document Similarity Search Algorithm Based On Hierarchy Model

Searching for similar documents from huge amounts of documents is an important and time consuming problem. Although the numerous precise models have been developed for the task, the traditional search algorithms are unable to meet the needs of users for quick search. Herein, a new document similarity calculation and search method with high efficiency is proposed. The calculation of the similarity is based on the total probability model and the efficient search is achieved via level n nodes and paths of citation graph. A special approach from the branch and bound limits the search scope and provide decision algorithm. With the increase in the number of documents, the efficiency of the proposed algorithm is dramatically promoted.
Master thesis Studies and Optimization for Future Beam Dump Experiments in the K12 and P42 Beams at CERN

During the beam operation years 2021-2025 at CERN the NA62 experiment is expected to reach its goal of making a more precise measurement of the branching ratio of the decay K+ → π+νν̄. There is a number of potential future experiments under consideration which could utilize the beam lines P42 and K12 that currently provide the beam for NA62. One possibility would be to operate the K12 beam line in a beam dump mode. The experiment taking data in such a beam line setting is called NA62 beam dump (NA62-BD) and would be able to use the NA62 detectors to search for dark matter decays downstream the beam dump thereby looking for physics beyond the Standard Model. Additionally, a possible off-axis experiment alongside the K12 beam line called SHADOWS is considered, which would be able to focus on the search for feebly interacting particles. Prior to these experiments preliminary studies need to be performed to optimize the setup and to reduce the backgrounds that blur the signals of the detectors. Therefore, simulations in the Geant4-based software BDSIM have been performed to gain insight on the expected backgrounds and to evaluate the possibilities for reducing them. The BDSIM model of the K12 beam line has been validated in beam dump mode and the simulation data is in good agreement with measurement data provided by NA62. It was confirmed that in beam dump mode the muon background will be the main background and that it needs to be minimized. An optimization study for the magnetic field configuration of BEND1, a dipole configuration near the beam dump in the K12 beam line, showed that the muon background for NA62-BD can be reduced by a factor of 20 compared to the setting that is currently used in K+ mode. Furthermore, the simulations pointed out that the magnetic field optimization of BEND1 is not sufficient to minimize the muon background for SHADOWS and that an off-axis muon sweeping system will be necessary. Several possibilities for such a system have been evaluated and a configuration was found that achieves a muon background reduction by a factor of 7 compared to the simulations without a SHADOWS dedicated muon sweeping system. 4 Studies and Optimization for Future Beam Dump Experiments in the K12 and P42 Beams at CERN
A framework for Design Science research activities

Design Science (or Design Research) as a research paradigm has been underemphasised in IS research in favour of empirical research using the Positivist and Interpretivist approaches of Natural and Social Sciences. It also has not been very well integrated with other research approaches. The conduct of Design Research provides an excellent opportunity for the IS field to increase its relevance to practice in industry. This paper refines our current understanding of Design Research and its relationship to other research approaches or paradigms. It proposes a revised framework for understanding the activities of Design Research, which also relates Design Research activities to research conducted in other paradigms. The framework emphasises the role of theory building and the form of design (utility) theories, but also generalises on activities for evaluating solution technologies in either positivist or interpretivist frames.
A new decade for social changes

The purpose of this paper is to determine the roles and influence of the media and social networks on the ‘Colour Revolutions’ and to analyze the research conducted into them. The following methods were employed in the production of this research paper: analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, statistical analysis and comparative analysis. Novel in the article is the author’s comparison of the research and existing facts concerning the role of the media and social networks in the ‘Colour Revolutions’, while also attempting to define the essence of those events and systematically revealing the role of the media and social networks in their occurrence. The finding here is that the media, social networks, blogs and video hosting played a key role in the progress of the ‘Colour Revolutions’. During the first wave in the post-Soviet space, the principal agencies of influence were the traditional media (television and print). There was freedom of the media in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as the ‘Colour Revolutions’ broke out in those countries (2003-2005). On the eve of those ‘revolutions’ that freedom allowed opposition forces to raise significantly their capacities to influence. The West also implemented its modern strategy of exerting ‘soft power’ via ICT across international politics. The Arab Spring saw parties in opposition relying on the new Internet media. The ruling regimes were unprepared for those challenges and lost the struggle for power. However, one of the main reasons for their defeat was their people's dissatisfaction with the political-legal and socio-economic regimes they had established. The major powers, largely in control of ICT facilities, used those situations for their own purposes. If the West had not implemented its ‘soft power’ strategy via ICT in the post-Soviet and Middle East zones, the ‘revolutions’ would have been much less likely. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the example of the Gulf countries, which are of interest to the West for their energy resources.
The Yeast SECl7 Gene Product Is Functionally Equivalent to Mammalian a-SNAP Protein*

The SECl7 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is re- quired for vesicular transport between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus. Here we report that the product of the SECl7 gene has the exact biochemical properties expected for a yeast homologue of the mammalian transport factor, a-SNAP. The DNA sequence of SECl7 codes for a protein of predicted molecular mass of 33 kDa. Immunoblotting indicates that Secl7p fractionates as a peripheral membrane protein and is mostly soluble when overexpressed, suggesting the presence of a saturable membrane receptor for Secl7p. Secl7p was purified from yeast cytosol using a SNAP-dependent in vitro mammalian Golgi transport assay. Kinetic analysis using this assay shows Secl7p acts temporally close to the fusion of transport vesicles with the medial Golgi compartment. In yeast extracts, Secl7p binds to Secl8p with a 1:l stoichiometry. The interaction between Secl7p and Secl8p requires an activity provided by yeast membranes, and this putative membrane receptor activity is not extracted by high salt treatment of membranes. Genes vital for the progression of proteins through the secretory pathway have been identified by temperature con-ditional sec
The (010) surface of the Al45Cr7 complex intermetallic compound : insights from Density Functional Theory

: The Al 45 Cr 7 compound is considered to exhibit an approximant structure of the icosahedral Al 4 Cr phase. Its (010) surface has been investigated in detail using density functional calculations. Surface energy calculations show that the stable terminations {result} from a cleavage of the crystal between adjacent atomic planes, in agreement with the layered structure of the compound. The integrity of the icosahedral atomic arrangements (icosahedral clusters) found in the bulk structure, is predicted to be removed at the surface. This result is in contrast to what has been previously concluded for the (010) surface of the Al 13 Fe 4 quasicrystal approximant. Our findings are discussed in relation to the bonding network in the compound, calculated using the Crystal Orbital Hamiltonian Population approach, as possible reasons for such contrasted behavior. conclusion is consistent with what has already been determined for Al-based quasicrystals and approximants [65], like Al 13 Co 4 (100) [66]. Our surface model for Al 45 Cr 7 (010) is however quite different from the one of Al 13 Fe 4 (010), a corrugated surface keeping intact the cluster substructure up to the surface, even if the two compounds share common structural features, like the monoclinic cell and the description of the bulk as a stacking of two types of planes. Further experimental work is required to assess the surface model proposed in this paper.
Polar-Natural Distance and Curve Reconstruction

We propose a new distance measure between 2-dimensional points to provide a total order for an entire point set and to reflect the correct geometric meaning of the naturalness of the point ordering. In general, there is no total order for 2-dimensional point sets, so curve reconstruction algorithms do not solve the self-intersection problem because the distance used in the previous methods is the Euclidean distance. A natural distance based on Brownian motion was previously proposed to solve the self-intersection problem. However, the distance reflects the wrong geometric meaning of the naturalness. In this paper, we correct the disadvantage of the natural distance by introducing a polar-natural distance, and we also propose a new curve reconstruction algorithm that is based on the polar-natural distance. Our experiments show that the new distance adequately reflects the correct geometric meaning, so nonsimple curve reconstruction can be solved.
GIDA THE JOURNAL OF FOOD EMULSIONS OF ORANGE AND COCONUT OILS AND THEIR USE IN PEANUT BUTTERS

In this study, orange essential oil and coconot oil emulsions and their mixtures were prepared and added to peanut butter to prevent lipid oxidation. Sodium caseinate was used as an emulsifier and ultrasonication was used for homogenization. Emulsions containing orange essential oil had a higher total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity than the coconut oil emulsions ( P <0.05). TBARS values of the peanut butters containing ultrasonicated emulsions were considerably higher than the other treatments ( P <0.05) at the end of storage (20 th day). Samples containing ultrasonicated emulsions had lower L* (lightness) values than the other samples ( P <0.05). Results showed that addition of these emulsions into peanut butters was effective in suppressing the lipid oxidation, but still further research is needed to produce the emulsions in nanoscale so as to increase the antioxidant properties of the oils.
Emerging Polish Culture in Brazil Cultura Polonesa Emergente no Brasil

: The article is part of a research study of Polish culture in Brazil in the scenario of immigration between the years 1869 and 1939. The research focuses on the concept of the structure of Raymond Williams characterized by residual, dominant and emerging to analyse the different moments of a transformation of the culture that Polish immigrants developed in Brazil. Thus, we present the formation of an emerging with roots from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and which shows few similarities with contemporary Poland, and much more with a rural Poland from a 100 years ago.
Smooth muscle raft-like membranes

We developed a method for extracting raft-like, liquid-ordered membranes from the particulate fraction prepared from porcine trachealis smooth muscle. This fraction, which contains most of the plasma membrane in this tissue, was homogenized in the presence of cold 0.5% Triton X-100. After centrifugation, membranes containing high contents of sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol and low phosphatidylcholine (PC) contents remained in the pellet. Thirty-ﬁve millimolar octyl glucoside (OG) extracted 75% of these membranes from the Triton X-100-resistant pellet. These membranes had low buoyant densities and accounted for 28% of the particulate fraction lipid. Their lipid composition, 22% SM, 60% cholesterol, 11% phosphatidylethanolamine, 8% PC, (cid:2) 1% phosphatidylinositol, and coisolation with 5 (cid:2) -nucleotidase and caveolin-1 suggest that they are liq-uid-ordered membranes. We compared characteristics of OG and Triton X-100 extractions of the particulate fraction. In contrast to Triton X-100 extractions, membranes released from the particulate fraction by OG were mainly collected in low buoyant fractions at densities ranging from 1.05 to 1.11 g/ml and had phospholipid and cholesterol contents consistent with a mixture of liquid-ordered and liquid-disor-dered membranes. Thus,