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Pulsed Radio Waves as a Sustainable Control Technology to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Authors: UNDI G S N V K S N SWAMY , Sola Sreekanth , Kanniganti Radhica , Shinde Kiran , Balan Cheramangalath Ramya
Published: November 2022

The need for technologies that can clean the air indoors has grown in pace with the rise in outside pollution. Maintaining interior environment adaptability requires a permanent air purification system that may be utilized to control PM2.5/10. In addition to more traditional methods of air purification, the development of advanced control systems that are both effective for air purification and reducing PM levels sustainably is necessary. Pulsed radio waves may expedite the dry deposition of particles having aerodynamic dimensions of less than 30 micrometers. Contained experimental testing confirms the filtering system functions as expected, corroborated by the present research. Daily average levels of PM2.5 and PM10 were lowered by between 55% and 41% according to a study done in three indoor settings using the control technology. Research conducted throughout all seasons showed that the approach was consistently efficient in reducing PM2.5/10. It was shown that PM concentrations could be lowered by around 45 percent using pulse radio wave technology, leading to this conclusion. The use of electromagnetic waves (EM waves) to eliminate air pollution has been suggested as a radical new approach. In light of the limitations of already used strategies, this is of paramount significance while thinking about solutions to lessen pollution in the air.
Development of a Taq-Man qPCR assay for trypanosomatid multi-species detection and quantification in insects
Authors: Barranco-Gómez Olga , de Paula Jessica Carreira , Parada Jennifer Solano , Gómez-Moracho Tamara , Marfil Ana Vic , Zafra María , Orantes Francisco José , De Pablos Luis Miguel
Published: November 2022

Background: Trypanosomatid parasites are widely distributed in nature, evolving monoxenous and dixenous cycles. These parasites thrive in a wide number of Insect Orders, some of them with an important economic and environmental value, such as bees. The objective of this work was to develop a robust and sensitive qPCR assay for detecting trypanosomatid parasites in any kind of parasitized insect sample.
Methods: A TaqMan qPCR assay based on a trypanosomatid-conserved region of the α-tubulin gene was standardized and evaluated. The limits of detection, sensitivity, and versatility of the α-tub TaqMan assay have been tested and validated using field samples from honeybee workers, wild bees, bumblebees, and grasshoppers as well as in the human infective trypanosomatid Leishmania major.
Results: This assay showed a detection limit of 1 parasite equivalent/µL and successfully detected trypanosomatids in 10 different hosts belonging to the Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. The methodology was also tested using honeybee samples from 4 apiaries (n= 224 worker honeybees) located in Alpujarra region (Granada, Spain). Trypanosomatids were detected in 2.7% of the honeybees, with an intra colony prevalence of 0 to 13%. Parasite loads in 4 different classes of insects ranged from 40.6 to up to 1.1 x 108 cell equivalents per host.
Conclusions: These results showed that α-tubulin TaqMan qPCR assay is a versatile diagnostic tool for the accurate detection and quantification of trypanosomatid parasites in a wide range of environmental settings.
An unsupervised approach for bilingual Arabic and Persian spell correction using N-gram based Language models
Authors: Elahimanesh Mohammad Hossein , Irani Mercedeh , Ghafouri Arash , Minaei-Bidgoli Behrouz
Published: November 2022

One of the main concerns of researchers in writing scientific texts such as articles and theses is their correctness in terms of spelling since the presence of spelling errors in these texts is unacceptable. This problem, like many natural language processing problems, is highly dependent on the structure and grammar of the language. Persian language is a challenging language in this area due to the presence of homophonic and dotted letters. In addition, many Arabic terms have entered this language. These words and terms have introduced the challenges of correcting Arabic spelling errors into Persian and created a complex combination. Moreover, due to the fact that many Persian speakers are Muslim, the Arabic content of the holy Qur'an has also found its way into Persian texts in such a way that today there are many Islamic texts with mixed Persian and Arabic content, and there is a great need for a tool that can correct bilingual Arabic and Persian spelling errors. In this work, an approach based on machine learning and an unsupervised algorithm is proposed which is designed based on N-gram language models. The data used here consists of about 220,000 sentences with mixed Arabic and Persian content, from which N-grams are made. The language model benefits from a statistical model derived from the probability of N-grams frequencies to score the possible candidates for the erroneous word and choose the best one. In order to evaluate the proposed method, test data has been prepared for Persian-Islamic content, in which spelling errors have been generated manually. The results of the evaluations show a significant improvement compared to similar tools in the Persian language.
The conjunctival fungal microflora of horses in a North Queensland tropical environment and their in vitro susceptibilities to antifungal agents
Authors: Mo Phu Mo , Picard Jacqueline , Gummow Bruce
Published: November 2022

Fungi are ubiquitous in the environment and part of the commensal microflora on the conjunctiva of equine eyes. North Queensland, being tropical, presents an ideal environment for fungi growth. When the cornea is injured, fungi can invade the corneal stroma resulting in keratomycosis. The objectives of this study were to determine the fungal species specific to the eyes of horses in the Townsville region; to investigate the potential risk factors associated with the presence of fungi; and to test their susceptibility to antifungals to create an empirical guide for treatment. The eyes of forty ophthalmologically normal horses from James Cook University were sampled in December 2017 and January 2018 and twice in December 2020. Cultured fungi were identified morphologically, and their identity confirmed by comparing partial 18sRNA DNA sequences with the NCBI nucleotide database. Minimal inhibitory concentration testing of common antifungal medications was performed. Sixty-one out of eighty conjunctival samples grew fungi, and 21 different fungi genera were isolated. The most common genera wereAspergillus(18%),Curvularia(14%),Rhodotorula(12%) andPenicillium(12%). No significant association was found between age or environmental factors and fungal culture status. Most fungi were highly susceptible to voriconazole and ketoconazole but resistant to fluconazole and amphotericin B. This adds to the body of evidence on which species of fungi are present as normal ocular microflora of horses living in tropical regions of Australia and an avenue for treating them.
Anomaly Detection in Three-Axis CNC Machines using LSTM Networks and Transfer Learning
Authors: Li Eugene , Bedi Sanjeev , Melek William
Published: November 2022

There is a growing interest in developing automated manufacturing technologies to achieve a fully autonomous factory. An integral part of these smart machines is a mechanism to automatically detect operational and process anomalies before they cause serious damage. The Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) network has shown considerable promise in the literature, with applications in detection of tool wear and tool breakage to name a few. However, these methods require a significant amount of machine specific training data to be successful, which makes these networks custom to a machine, requiring new networks and new data for each machine. Transfer learning is an approach where we use a network developed with a rich data set on one machine, and re-train it with a smaller data set on a target machine. We have implemented this approach for chatter detection with a LSTM network, using sensor data and a rich data set from one machine, and then use a transfer learning methodology, similar sensors, and a smaller data set for the chatter detection algorithm on another machine. This allows for the transfer of knowledge from one machine to be applied to a similar machine, with some local optimization from transfer learning
Nurses’ work in relation to patient health outcomes: an observational study comparing models of primary care
Authors: Sheridan Nicolette , Hoare Karen , Carryer Jenny , Mills Jane , Hewitt Sarah , Love Tom , Kenealy Timothy , Aguirre-Duarte Nelson , Arroll Bruce , Atmore Carol , Crampton Peter , Dowell Anthony , Fishman Tana , Gauld Robin , Harwood Matire , Jackson Gary , Jansen Rawiri McKree , Kerse Ngaire , Lampshire Debra , McBain Lynn , MacRae Jayden , Øvretveit John , Percival Teuila , Perera Roshan , Roland Martin , Ryan Debbie , Schmidt-Busby Jacqueline , Stokes Tim , Stubbe Maria , Watt Daniel , Peck Chris
Published: November 2022

Background
Māori are over-represented in Aotearoa New Zealand morbidity and mortality statistics. Other populations with high health needs include Pacific peoples and those living with material deprivation. General practice has evolved into different models of primary care. We describe nurse work in relation to these models of care; populations with high health need; and patient health outcomes.
Methods
Cross-sectional study (30 September 2018), data from national datasets and practices at patient level. Six primary outcome measures were selected because they could be improved by primary care: polypharmacy (≥65 years), HbA1c testing in adults with diabetes, immunisations (6 months), ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations (0-14, 45-64 years) and emergency department attendances. Analysis adjusted for patient and practice characteristics.
Results
Nurse FTE, and combined nurse, nurse practitioner and general practitioner FTE, were substantially higher in Trust/NGO, Māori, and Pacific practices than Traditional, Corporate, or Health Care Home practices. A progressive increase of clinically complex patients was associated with more clinical input and higher scores on all outcome measures.
The highest rates of nurse consultations afterhours and with unenrolled patients, improving access, were in PHO/DHB, Pacific, Trust/NGO and Māori practices.
Compared to general practitioners, nurses undertook more cardiovascular risk assessment in all models of care except PHO/DHB, and more cervical screening in Pacific, Trust/NGO and Māori practices.
The highest rates of preventative care by nurses (cervical screening, cardiovascular risk assessment, PHQ9 assessment, HbA1c testing) were in Māori, Trust/NGO and Pacific practices. There was an 8-fold difference, across models of care, in percentage of PHQ9 undertaken by nurses and a 5-fold difference in cervical screening and HbA1c testing.
Work not attributed to nurses in the practice records meant nurse work was underestimated to an unknown degree.
Conclusions
Transferring work to nurses in Traditional, Health Care Home, and Corporate practices, would release GP FTE to be utilised for other work. Worse patient health outcomes were associated with higher patient need and higher clinical input. It is plausible that there is insufficient clinical input to meet the degree of patient need. More practitioner FTE is required, especially in practices with high volumes of complex patients.
Account for MEGA-STN thermal fusion device in use of positron wave thermal energy
Authors: Lee
Published: November 2022

This paper is aimed at investigating the practical realization of the positron wave thermal energy. We made a MEGA-STN thermal fusion device in order to demonstrate our idea. The MEGA-STN is the device which amplifies heat when it is supplied with thermal energy. It is the result of the aggregation of each micro nano particle. If we were to express the part of it in a structural formula, it is as follows.

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Figure 1. a part of micro nano structural formula

The fusion reaction of thermal energy in the MEGA-STN is generated on account of each micro nano particle’s chemical change, and high temperature heat occurs by the interchangeability between micro nano particles. We minimized heat loss by fusing the insulted ceramic nano particles on the outer surface of our MEGA-STN. The MEGA-STN is basically able to create thermal energy of 500~1800 degrees centigrade. Here a prerequisite is the input of minimal thermal energy. If the minimal thermal energy is supplied from the outside or generates heat internally, it is amplified to 300~500 percentage of the supplied heat. Each of positronic nano particles in MEGA-STN, MEGA-Structural fusion Technology of Nano materials react to thermal energy and release great thermal energy, and the released great thermal energy collides into each other and generates greater thermal energy. At this time, wave is created and disturbs the properties of water and disintegrates them, and as a result they are changed. The more vibrations, the more transformations of water particle. This principle is the same as even dead water can revive. Thermal particles that are produced when micro nano particle and thermal energy collide generate multiple waves, and they resonate and transport in micro nano particle. Within this resonant orbit they continuously collide and spin like tonado, and thermal energy is amplified and fast rotational force is created. Commonly if we are going to make this rotational force, we must spin only magnetic particle. This structure of micro nano particle is not magnetic, but yet it does maximize the rotational force.
The MEGA-STN using the positron wave thermal energy is available for the industry related to electricity and thermal energy by substituting gas, oil, coal, wood, nuclear power, and can be viable alternative to the exsisting source of energy by using as a substitute for the engine of car, train, air, vessel and etc.
Evaluation of Vertical Distribution Characteristics of Microplastics under 20 μm in River and Lake Waters in South Korea
Authors: Lee Junho , Ju Seonghyeon , Lim Chaehwi , Kim Kyung Tae , Kye Homin , Kim Jiyoon , Lee Jihoon , Kim Seonbaek , Yu Hye-Won , Lee Ingyu , Kim Hyunook , Yoon Yeojoon
Published: November 2022

Following the alarming reports of microplastic pollution in the marine environment, increased attention has been given to microplastics in other environmental media. Despite the attention, there is limited information on the effects of microplastic distribution in freshwater systems. Further, because the size of microplastics varies widely in the environment, the commonly used sampling devices are not suitable for selectively extracting microplastics without causing cross-contamination. Thus, we developed a suitable device for microplastics of size 5–20 µm and studied microplastic distribution in freshwater at various depths by considering various types of microplastics and aqueous systems. Two large water systems, a lake and a river, were chosen to study microplastic distribution. The microplastic distribution characteristics in both water systems showed that polypropylene and polyethylene were the most abundant across all depths because of their production volume. Plastic types with higher density were found only at the lower layers, and polystyrene was found in the upper layers because of the environmental effects on its pore diameter and surface area. The Lake and River had higher microplasticdistribution in the lower layer and upper layer, respectively. This was because the flow rate in River was higher than that of Lake. The higher flow rate reduced the settling velocity in River. Thus, hydrodynamic stability influences the vertical distribution and concentrations of microplastics in the water systems. These results contribute to the understanding and control of microplastics.
Parametric analysis and quantitative study on the influence of structure cluster on ground motion
Authors: Du Zhenyu , Guo Tong , Wang Jishuai , Yu Shuqi , Zhang Guodong , Shen Chongyang , Chen Cheng
Published: November 2022

This study conducted the parametric and quantitative analysis of the influence of soil-structure cluster interaction (SSCI) on ground motion. Based on the results of the shaking table test and numerical simulation, the changes in the characteristics of ground motion with the alterations of multiple factors are explored via wavelet packet decomposition. The results indicated that: (a) structure cluster reduces the site eigenfrequency, thereby amplifying the low-frequency components of ground motion and attenuating the high-frequency components. Ground can capture more of the high-frequency seismic energy coming from the bedrock through the long piles; (b) homogeneous structures inhibit the ground motion component with a frequency close to the structural eigenfrequency. The effect is more significant with increasing the number of structures and is gradually transformed into the energy dissipation effect acted in the wideband with increasing the damping ratio of structures; (c) the peak ground acceleration gradually diminishes from the center of the homogeneous structure cluster outward and this spatial variation is more pronounced under the excitation with high-frequency seismic waves. Furthermore, the energy variation index and coefficient of variation are employed to quantify the influence of SSCI on ground motion. The mass density of the structure cluster is the crucial variable for affecting the holistic variation of free-field ground motion. The spatial variation of ground motion attenuates significantly with increasing the thickness, shear wave velocity of subsoil, structural spacing, and homogeneity of structure cluster. The spacing between the structures required for the degeneration of SSCI into soil-structure interaction is chiefly related to the site condition and the structural frequency, which is enlarged with the decrease in soil shear wave velocity and structural frequency.
Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Zinc Sulfate Solutions under Super- ambient Conditions: A Novel Approach
Authors: Pramanik Somnath , Das Bijan
Published: November 2022

A new method has been proposed to estimate the osmotic and activity coefficients of aqueous electrolyte solutions under super-ambient conditions on the basis of the Pitzer ion-interaction approach using the volumetric data. Following this method, a compact set of Pitzer ion-interaction parameters, βMX(0), βMX(1), βMX(2), and βMXϕ, valid within the temperature range from 293.15 to 373.15 K, and pressure range from 0.1 to 10 MPa have been obtained for aqueous ZnSO4 solutions. These parameters helped evaluate the osmotic and activity coefficients of this system to 3.0 mol∙kg− 1 within the temperature and pressure range mentioned above. The pressure dependences of osmotic and activity coefficients have also been estimated using the equations derived by Rogers and Pitzer (1982). The results obtained by the method proposed in this research agree very well with those calculated using Rogers & Pitzer approach. The advantage of the method proposed here is that it directly provides a compact set of Pitzer ion-interaction parameters required for describing the osmotic and activity coefficients, in contrast to the other method. This study also provided important information as to the ion-association behaviour of aqueous ZnSO4 solution with respect to temperature and pressure. Further, the apparent molar enthalpies have been estimated using appropriate temperature derivatives of the Pitzer ion-interaction parameters.
Risk-aware navigation in industrial plants at risk of NaTech accidents
Authors: O'Reilly Gerard , Shahnazaryan Davit , Dubini Paolo , Brunesi Emanuele , Rosti Annalisa , Dacarro Filippo , Gotti Alberto , Silvestri Davide , Mascetti Sergio , Ducci Mattia , Ciucci Mariano , Marino Alessandra
Published: November 2022

Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage to structural and non-structural components and the potential release of toxic materials. To mitigate and manage this risk, the ROSSINI project was initiated and its results are described here for what concerns industrial plant worker safety and their risk-based navigation in emergency situations. The project includes a data acquisition system consisting of a data acquisition board and an array of different sensor technologies, which process the seismic event and other meteorological information before passing them as inputs towards the risk identification and evaluation (RIE) modules. Here, the risks associated with structural and non-structural damage and health risks associated with the release of harmful substances are estimated and combined to form a navigable risk map. This map is used within a purpose-built risk-based navigation application for the safe egress of workers from an industrial plant. To demonstrate the implementation of this system, two case-study industrial plant layouts consisting of buildings, non-structural components, liquid storage tanks, piping systems, and chemical storage vessels, were devised. This paper describes the project’s implementation in these contexts and illustrates the results via several example scenarios.
Cause-specific mortality in workers employed in the removal and disposal of asbestos-containing material after the ban
Authors: Scarselli Alberto , Corfiati Marisa , Marinaccio Alessandro
Published: November 2022

Purpose
Asbestos is a human carcinogen and can cause some types of cancer, including mesothelioma. A relevant number of workers are still engaged in asbestos removal and disposal activities, whose actual risk of asbestos-related diseases is still scarcely recognized. The main objective of this study is to assess the cause-specific mortality among workers involved in asbestos removal and disposal after the ban in Italy.
Methods
Data from the Italian national registry on occupational exposure to carcinogens (SIREP) in the period 1996–2018 were selected. Proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) by cause of death were calculated linking exposure occupational information to national mortality statistics (2005–2018), assuming a Poisson distribution of the data.
Results
A total of 142 deaths were identified among 13,715 asbestos removal and disposal workers. A significant excess (p < 0.05) of mesothelioma deaths was found among male workers, about five fold the expected. A significant increase in the mortality ratio was also found for malignant skin melanoma.
Conclusions
Epidemiological surveillance and promotion of prevention action plans are highly recommended for workers engaged in asbestos removal and disposal activities, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and reduce the still relevant risk of contracting the related tumour pathology.
Playing the victim behavior: An experimental study
Authors: AKIN ZAFER
Published: November 2022

This paper experimentally explores playing the victim behavior, how prevalent it is, its determinants, and potential mechanisms to mitigate it with a subject pool from two regions (UAE and North America). The possibility of playing the victim is introduced by letting some participants receive a negative shock to their initial endowments, after which they can apply for extra compensation even when they do not receive the shock. We find that the majority of participants play the victim. We then test whether defaults and signing an honesty oath influence this behavior. We find, contrary to intuitions, that the omission treatments, where lying is a default, failed to increase misrepresentation, and if anything decreased it, while the oath substantially reduced it as expected. Moreover, the extent of pro-sociality and perceived social norms are found to be strongly related to playing the victim behavior. The findings are very similar across regions. Our findings offer some insights to design better policies to support victims, especially during crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Specialist Nurse-led Territorial Nosocomial Infection-control Practices in Pediatric Fever Clinics During COVID-19
Authors: Qin Fanghua , Xie Jianhui , Liao Yinan , Song Qingqing , Lu Huibin , Zhu Lihui
Published: November 2022

Background/Objective: Fever is one of the commonest symptoms in children, and accounts for one third of the common clinical symptoms of childhood diseases. Most cases of pediatric fever were related to viral infection, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This randomized controlled trial aimed to establish specialist nurse-led territory nosocomial infection-control practice, and to evaluate the effect of this practice in a pediatric fever clinic.
Methods: Scores of nosocomial infection-prevention and control knowledge of staff in different positions at the fever clinic and the quality of nosocomial infection prevention and control in fever clinic from before to after implementation of the intervention were compared. Participants were the staff of a fever clinic in a tertiary children's hospital in China. We adopted routine nosocomial infection-control practices before the implementation (April−August 2021) and then a Specialist-Nurse-led Infection-control Practices from October 2021 to February 2022.
Results: The score of nosocomial infection-prevention and control knowledge of staff in different positions of the fever clinic improved from 77.16±13.372 to 93.51±8.429. The quality score improved from 85.70±3.420 to 94.20±2.191 after the intervention. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: Specialist nurse-led territory nosocomial infection-control practice can effectively improve the staff's knowledge and the quality of nosocomial infection prevention and control in pediatric fever clinics.
English Characters Recognition by Stroke Features and Lightweight Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Chen Chung-Hsing , Huang Ko-Wei
Published: November 2022

There are many different recognition methods for English characters, and there are a lot of books mentioned those recognition methods, but font always a main factor that affecting recognizability. The recognition process starts from document’s layout analysis and pre-processing to text segmentation, optical character recognition (OCR) and post-processing, these stages both will affect recognition result. However, most stages are hard to influence by font except OCR stage, and there are more than 50 common English fonts, so this cause the current OCR can not fit every font, this is similar with most classic binarization methods cannot face all situations, cannot separate all images from the foreground and background that the background is cleared, and get the foreground we want. Moreover, how do humans learn how to write the English alphabet? It starts with strokes. Thus, what are strokes? It’s a combination of lines in different directions, so those different direction lines are an important feature. The traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Network will be trained by the pre-processed graphics to get the desired model; however, when the traditional methods face different fonts that might because different fonts do not have clear features reduce network learning efficiency, and also will affect the accuracy of subsequent predictions. To efficiently enhance the learning process, this research adopts the stroke feature and is further trained by a lightweight AI network to accelerate predictions , referred to as VLNet (Very Lightweight Network). Strokes feature extraction can reduce the amount of graphics data, which means that the input of training is reduced and the architecture of the network is simplified. Those factors can make the network smaller and more efficient, and also reduce the computing requirements, so it will suitable for edge computing. The experimental result shown that the accuracy of unknown fonts is 97.81% is better than LeNet’s 96.67% and AlexNet’s 91.15%, and the accuracy of know fonts is 99.1% is better than LeNet’s 98.59% and AlexNet’s 95.48%. Then when using Raspberry Pi 4B per character predicted time is between 4.44ms and 4.61ms.
Characterization of Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) Diastereomers, and Hexahydrocannabidiol (H4CBD) Diastereomers Using NMR, HPLC, and GC-MS
Authors: Collins Arianna C. , Ramirez Giovanni A. , Tesfatsion Tesfay T. , Ray Kyle P. , Cruces Westley
Published: November 2022

The characterization of any compound is important in the field of chemistry, as the field of cannabinoid chemistry grows so does the need for the characterization of new cannabinoids or rare cannabinoids that gain popularity within the consumer and research fields. Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) a hydrogenated analogue of ∆9-THC, also found in trace amounts naturally within the cannabis sativa plant, has been gaining attention and popularity within the cannabis industry. Hexahydrocannabidiol (H4CBD) is a synthetic hydrogenated analogue to Cannabidiol (CBD) used in conjunction with or substitute for CBD. Identifying the Diastereomers of the cannabinoids with instrumentation plays a huge role within the chemistry field adding valuable information of the structure and the parameters for others to identify such cannabinoids. Elucidation and characterization of HHC and H4CBD was performed using current analytical techniques such as NMR, HPLC, and GC-MS, effectively characterizing both the Diastereomers of HHC and H4CBD.
Methodik zur Haushaltsbefragung "Quartiersentwicklung und Mobilität in Frankfurt-Bornheim"
Authors: Kirschner Franziska
Published: November 2022

Im Frühjahr 2018 wurde innerhalb des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten Projektes „QuartierMobil“ eine Haushaltsbefragung im innenstadtnahen Stadtteil Frankfurt-Bornheim durchgeführt (N = 1027). Für die Stichprobenauswahl wurden das Random-Route-Verfahren und die Last-Birthday-Methode angewendet. Der Fragebogen wurde in Abstimmung mit den Projektpartner*innen, dem Referat Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsplanung der Stadt Frankfurt sowie dem Planungsbüro Planersocietät, entwickelt. Ziel der Befragung war es, die Dynamiken und Präferenzen der Bewohnenden des Quartiers hinsichtlich ihrer Alltagsmobilität, Verkehrsmittelnutzung und Einstellungen zu Konfliktsituationen zu erhalten. Der Schwerpunkt der Befragung lag auf dem Parken im urbanen Quartier und möglichen Gestaltungsoptionen des städtischen Parkraummanagements hin zu einer nachhaltigeren Mobilität und einer Erhöhung der Aufenthalts- und Lebensqualität im Quartier.
Intersections in contemporary traffic planning
Authors: Schluckebier Kai
Published: November 2022

In Germany, traffic planning still follows the tradition of modernist urban planning theory from the beginning of the 1930s and car-oriented city planning during the post-war period in West Germany. From a methodological perspective, the prevailing narrative is that traffic can be abstracted and modelled under laboratory conditions (in vitro) as a spatial movement process of individual neutral particles. The use of these laboratory experiments in traffic planning cannot be understood as a neutral application of experimental results, assumed to be true, in a variety of spatial contexts. Rather, it is an active practice of staging traffic according to a particular social interactionist paradigm. According to this, traffic is staged through interventions in planning authorities as well as the practices of people on the streets. In order to describe these staging conduits, traffic is ontologically thought of as a social order that is continuously reproduced situationally through interactions, following Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel. To investigate the staging conduits empirically, an ethnographic-inspired field study was conducted at Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt am Main in May and June 2020. Through situational mapping and observation of social interactions (in situ), knowledge about the staging of social orders was generated. These empirical findings are further embedded in debates that discuss traffic not only as a staging but also as an enactment of certain realities. Understanding planning practice as a political enactment, through which realities are not only described but also made, makes it possible for us to think and design alternative realities.
Eine Randnotiz der Gesellschaft
Authors: Haj Eissa Eyad , Kitlar Anna , Weith Ann-Kathrin
Published: November 2022

Im Januar 2020 änderte sich für viele Menschen die bis dahin gekannte Normalität durch das Aufkommen des Covid-19-Virus. Dies äußerte sich in einem gravierenden Einfluss auf die physische Mobilität und führte zu einer teilweisen Verlagerung in die virtuelle Mobilität. Angelehnt an die in dieser Arbeit dargestellten Forschungsansätze ist festzustellen, dass ein kausaler Zusammenhang zwischen eingeschränkter Mobilität und sozialer Exklusion von sozialer, politischer, ökonomischer sowie persönlicher Partizipation besteht. Diese Korrelation unter pandemischen Bedingungen wurde zum Zeitpunkt der Analyse kaum untersucht, weshalb es die Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit war, die Thematisierung der Einschränkungen mobilitätsbedingter sozialer Teilhabe durch die Covid-19-Pandemie im medialen Diskurs zu erörtern. Die quantitative Analyse der drei Zeitungen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung und Die Zeit ergab, dass die mediale Auseinandersetzung mit dem Untersuchungsgegenstand nur einen marginalen Teil der Artikel prägt und damit eine Randnotiz der Gesellschaft darstellt. Die darauffolgende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse der thematisch passenden Zeitungsartikel lassen auf die Notwendigkeit einer Erweiterung der existierenden theoretischen Exklusionsdimensionen schließen. Grund dafür sind das Auftreten einer Infektionsangst sowie einer neuen Reichweite der Digitalisierung als grundlegende Exklusionsstrukturen während der Pandemie. Insbesondere in der Entscheidung um den Umgang mit dem ÖPNV spiegeln sich vielfältige gesellschaftliche Fragen um Sicherheit und Gesundheitsschutz, aber auch um soziale Teilhabe und Zugang.
mRNA binding to organellar surfaces as mode of cellular surveillance
Authors:   , Zhang Bo
Published: November 2022

Generally speaking, protein import into mitochondria and chloroplasts is a post-translational process during which the precursor proteins destined for mitochondria or chloroplasts are translated with cytosolic ribosomes and targeted. The previous results showed that the isolated chloroplasts can import in vitro synthesized proteins and the absence of ribosomes in the immediate area around chloroplasts in electron microscopy (EM) images. However, none of the EM images were recorded in the presence of a translation elongation inhibitor. Also, the observation showed that ribosomes stably bind to purified liver mitochondria in vitro, and the first indication of chloroplast localization of mRNAs encoding plastid proteins in Chlamydomonas rheinhardtii, which challenge the post-translational import and support the co-translational process. Therefore, in this study, the association of the ribosomes to the isolated chloroplasts were analyzed, a binding assay was established and showed that naked ribosomes are not considerably bound to chloroplasts. Additionally, mRNA localize in close vicinity to mitochondria also challenged post-translation protein import. Global analysis of transcripts bound to mitochondria in yeast or human revealed that around half of the transcripts of mitochondrial proteins displayed a high mitochondrial localization. The observed association of mRNAs with chloroplast fractions and the in vivo analysis of the distribution of mRNAs was used as base to formulate the hypothesis that mRNA can bind to chloroplast surface. Therefore, in this study, the mRNA binding assay was established and revealed that mRNAs coding for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase copper chaperone COX17 showed unspecific binding to the chloroplasts. The mRNA coding for chloroplast outer envelope transport protein OEP24 and mRNA coding for the essential nuclear protein 1 (ENP1) showed specific binding, and OEP24 has a 3-fold higher affinity than ENP1 mRNA. Moreover, the BY2-L (Nicotiana tabacum non-green cell culture) could confer the highest enhancement of OEP24 mRNA binding efficiency than the COX17 and ENP1 mRNA and the preparation of the BY2-L was optimized. Afterwards, the feasibility to fix the interaction between mRNA and the proteins on the surface of chloroplasts was confirmed. OEP24 mRNA showed more efficiency in the UV-crosslinking. Following, the pull-down with antisense locked nucleic acid (LNA)/DNA oligonucleotides was established which could be used for the further investigation of the proteins involved in the mRNA binding to the chloroplasts.
Effect of packages types and some treatments on wheat seed during storage
Authors: El-Seidy El-Sayed , Rashwan Emad El-Deen , Selim Amal , Hammad Esraa
Published: November 2022

This experiment was conducted at the laboratory of Seed Technology Sakha Agricultural Research Station, Kafr EL-Sheikh, Egypt, during the period between 2018 and 2019 seasons. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of packages types and some treatments on wheat seed during storage. The experiment was designed in factorial experiment in completely randomized design with four replicates. The samples were treated with the recommended dose of malathion, recommended rate of phosphine, the powders and extracts of each of (ficus, camphor, clove), the powder of copper nanoparticles and untreated seed as a control treatment. Treated seed were stored in different packages (Jute, Plastic and Polyethylene) for 18 months. The most important results can be summarized as follows: Increasing storage periods of wheat seed up to 18 months significantly affected storage efficacy, vitality and quality of wheat seed. The best results of storage efficacy of wheat recorded when seed stored in polyethylene packages, followed by seed stored in jute packages and lastly stored in plastic packages. Seed treated with copper nanoparticles were the best in germination percentage, electrical conductivity, acidity, protein percentage, carbohydrate percentage, relative density and 1000-seed weight. While treatment with malathion was the best in acidity, relative density, 1000- seed weight and insect infestation percentage. As for phosphine, it was the best in moisture percentage, insect infestation percentage and weight loss percentage. This study recommended that treated seed with copper nanoparticles before storage and stored it in polyethylene packages under the environmental conditions of the experiment in Sakha, Kafr EL-Sheikh, Egypt.
Account of navigational hazards when the ship and the target are avoiding collision at small distances
Authors: Kalinichenko Tetiana , Kalinichenko Yevgeniy , Tymoshchuk Olena
Published: November 2022

Successful, fast and high-quality solution of the important problem of ensuring the safety of navigation and navigation leads to a significant improvement in the protection of human life at sea, as well as to a constant reduction in harm to the environment, property and other equally priority production processes in maritime transport.

The navigation of modern large-capacity and high-speed ships of large sizes in cramped and limited areas is complicated by intensive navigation, with a much greater presence of navigation hazards and navigational obstacles that create the prerequisites for the occurrence of complex, non-standard and, sometimes, even emergency situations. Therefore, more than 80 % of all navigational accidents occur every year in cramped and difficult for safe navigation waters, which confirms the great complexity and danger of navigation conditions in cramped and limited waters.

This article is devoted to taking into account various navigational hazards when choosing a safe maneuver for divergence between the ship and the target at small distances between them.

The case of taking into account a point navigational hazard in the case of an excessive approach of a ship to a dangerous target is considered. For a situation of emergency divergence of a ship with a dangerous target, a choice of a safe evasive course is proposed, taking into account the linearly distributed navigational hazard.

The aim of the article is the procedure for analytical accounting of navigational hazards when the ship and the target diverge at short distances
Methodical approach to increase the speed of decision-making in information systems
Authors: Artabaiev Yurii , Shknai Oleh , Mordvinov Serhii
Published: November 2022

The relevance of the research lies in the need to increase the efficiency of the process of evaluating the object of evaluation while ensuring the given reliability, regardless of the hierarchical construction of the object of evaluation. The object of research is information systems. The subject of the study is the efficiency of the evaluation process. The hypothesis of the study is to increase the efficiency of the process at a given reliability. In the study, an improved methodology for increasing the efficiency of the evaluation process based on bio-inspired algorithms was proposed. In the course of the conducted research, the general provisions of the theory of artificial intelligence were used to solve the problem of analyzing the state of objects in intelligent decision support systems.

The essence of improvement is to use the following procedures:

− taking into account the type of uncertainty about the state of the object of evaluation;

− taking into account the degree of the noise of the data on the state of the object of evaluation;

− using the ant algorithm and the genetic algorithm to find the path metric when evaluating the state of the evaluation object;

− deep learning of synthetic ants using evolving artificial neural networks.

An example of the use of the proposed methodology is presented in the example of the assessment of a hierarchical object. The specified model showed a 15−22 % increase in data processing efficiency due to the use of additional improved procedures
COVID19 AND BREASTFEEDING: WHAT WOMEN SAID WHAT HEALTH WORKERS PRACTICES IN MOROCCO?
Authors:   Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Maroc., Hassan Chrifi ,   National School of Public Health (ENSP), Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale Rabat, Maroc., Idrissi Abdellatif Azzouzi ,   National School of Public Health (ENSP), Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale Rabat, Maroc., Abdelghafour Marfak ,   National School of Public Health (ENSP), Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale Rabat, Maroc., Siham Chebli ,   Delegation De La Sante Meknes, Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale, Maroc., Mohammed Khochoua ,   Delegation De La Sante Meknes, Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale, Maroc., Bouchra Assarag ,   National School of Public Health (ENSP), Ministere De La Sante Et De La Protection Sociale Rabat, Maroc.
Published: November 2022

Objective: The benefits of early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding for a period of six months for the newborn are well documented. Despite this scientific evidence, only 35% of Moroccan children are exclusively breastfed at 6 months. The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted the health of women and newborns. The aim of our study isto contribute to the improvement of breastfeeding practices in the context of health crises. Method: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study in the prefecture of Meknes between December 2020 and March 2021. Two tools for data collection were used:a questionnaire dedicated to mothers of children aged 0-12 months (breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding) and an online questionnaire distributed to health professionals. Three hundred and eighty-five mothers and 52 health professionals participated in this study. Results: During the covid19 pandemic, 250 (64.9%) of the 385 mothers surveyed reported holding their babies for the first time within one hour of birth. Twenty-seven moms (7%) had Covid-19 either during pregnancy (57.2%), delivery (7.1%) or while breastfeeding (28.6%). Twelve mothers (42.9%) of those with Covid-19 breastfed their babies and took preventive measures during breastfeeding by wearing masks and washing their hands regularly. Five babies (1.3%) had Covid-19. Although the majority of health professionals surveyed agreed that they should promote breastfeeding, only half of them reported discussing about breastfeeding in a Covid-19 context with mothers. Conclusion:Recognizing the benefits of breastfeeding, if the health of the mother and her newborn allows, direct breastfeeding or pumping of breast milk should be encouraged by health care providers and must form the basis of interventions to improve breastfeeding during a health crisis.
PLANT QUARANTINE: AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASES: A REVIEW
Authors:   Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CSK HPKV, Palampur (HP), India-176062., Kumar Saini Manoj , Kumar Vishnu ,   Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIWBR, Haryana, India., Prakash Pandey Deo ,   Principal Scientist, CSK HPKV, Palampur (HP), India-176062., Chiranjeeb Kumar ,   Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Soil Science, CSK HPKV, Palampur (HP), India-176062.
Published: November 2022

A major factor in the long-distance spread of diseases and insect pests that could be dangerous to the agriculture of the importing country is the interchange of germplasm and the international trade of agri-horticultural products. Protecting nations from the unauthorized influx of novel insect pests and illnesses fall within the purview of the National Plant Protection Organizations. Combining regulatory and technical strategies that can guarantee biosecurity for a country or region can be used to achieve the exclusion. The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs), which offer standards on pest prevention, detection, and eradication, are developed by the Food and Agriculture Organizations International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Inthe recent era, the import and export of plant commodities have dramatically increased,and the chance of plant diseases is also increased from their original native place to new location, where it does not exist. The new diseases have tremendous loss in India and the world. In the last decade beginning the government of India in 2003 has notification of new Plant Quarantine order (PQ order)that harmonized Indias regulatory frameworkwith the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and internationally accepted standards and the tenants of the sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement of the world trade organization. So,to prevent exotic diseases from a foreign country or within country legal restrictions are enforced commonly known as quarantinelaws. Plant Quarantine measures are taken at the domestic or in time or as well as foreign Quarantine. It acts as an important tool to exclude plant diseases.Effectively implementation of Quarantine is highly emphasized for disease management.