bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Order Picking Performance in Warehouses With Multi-Item Orders
Authors: Cruz-Mejía Oliverio
Published: April 2019

Internet sales have increased exponentially in the last decade. Much of the internet sales are of physical products in urban areas that require product delivery transportation with a tight delivery lead time. With this challenge, a new type of transportation services has been developed aiming to cope with a strict control of transportation lead time. In this chapter, an internet product delivery service with customer orders that are multi-item as well as single item is simulated. The authors address specifically the mismatch between supply and demand when retailers for any reason are unable to estimate the configuration of multi-item orders. Three scenarios of demand patterns are simulated (demand as forecasted, lower than forecasted, and higher than forecasted) using discrete-event simulation to look at the effect on transportation lead time. Results show the positive effect on the mismatch between demand and resource capacity which is expressed in higher number delayed delivery orders. The excess of capacity in the product delivery supply chain has not had a positive impact on delivery time of orders.
Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Smart Cities in India
Authors: Ranjan Rajeev , Chatterjee Prasenjit , Panchal Dilbagh , Pamucar Dragan
Published: April 2019

Indian cities have seen accelerated economic and social growth, attracting more and more people from all parts of the country. Growth achieved by cities is linked to their ability to address issues related to urbanization and associated social, environmental, and economic issues in a holistic manner, while making the most of future opportunities. In this chapter, using PROMETHEE and GAIA (geometrical analysis for interactive aid) approaches, an attempt is made to evaluate the performances of 20 smart cities in Indian context based on 10 critically important criteria. A GIS (geographic information system) method and an HSV (hue-saturation-value) color coding scheme-based on cartographic principles are also employed to identify the influence of individual criterion on the overall rank of the smart cities. This analysis would help the decision makers to identify the strengths and deficiencies of Indian smart cities with respect to considered criteria conditions so that proper promotional and growth actions can be implemented.
A Hybrid AI-Based Conceptual Decision-Making Model for Sustainable Maintenance Strategy Selection
Authors: Boral Soumava , Chaturvedi Sanjay K. , Naikan V. N. A. , Howard Ian M.
Published: April 2019

Selection of optimal maintenance strategy for critical systems/machinery is considered as a complex decision-making task that takes into account several available maintenance alternatives that are evaluated in terms of a set of different conflicting qualitative and quantitative factors. In the last few decades, progress has been made in different sustainable-based decision-making problems, where environmental, social, and economic factors played a pivotal role to arrive at the best decision. In this chapter, a hybrid artificial intelligence (AI)-based conceptual decision-making model is described by taking advantages of both expert system and case-based reasoning methodology to solve sustainable maintenance strategy selection problems. Adding to this, a flowchart of the model is suitably described by hypothetical examples of a sustainable maintenance strategy selection program.
Development of an Integrated TOPSIS-Quality Function Deployment Model for Sustainability Assessment of Indian Banks
Authors: Dwivedi Rishi , Bhowani Bhaskar , Rao P. Kritee
Published: April 2019

The contribution of banks to sustainable advancement is supreme, considering the vital part they play in funding the economic actions of the human race. But, in the fast-changing banking ecosystem, quantifying the level of sustainability attained by financial institutions is a challenging task due to the need of considering a wide range of economic, environmental, and social dimensions concurrently. In this chapter, a novel method based on the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and quality function deployment (QFD) is proposed for the first time to evaluate the sustainable efficiency of banking operations. The QFD technique is employed here to provide due importance to the customers' needs with respect to banks' sustainability, and subsequently calculate the priority weights of the considered criteria of sustainability principles. Then, TOPSIS is employed to rank alternatives based on the extent to which they conform to sustainability principles.
An Analysis of China's International Competitiveness
Authors: Özer Ahu Coşkun
Published: April 2019

The criteria used in measuring the competition the country level, determined by the International Management Development Center in the World Competitiveness Report, are economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure. The international competitiveness of China, which is claimed to be some position with the United States in the world market in 2050, has been evaluated in this study, based on IMD competitiveness criteria. China has great progress in development through major changing strategies, methods, and reforms over the last 70 years. According to the international competition report, its rank is 13th in the international competition. The reason for China's capability on international competitiveness and its impact on the world economy is based on the fact that it combines cheap labor with the liberalization in foreign trade and foreign direct investment.
Doing Business in China
Authors: Tavanli Anna Maria
Published: April 2019

This chapter examines how the intersection of economy, politics, law, and culture in contemporary China influences the choices and alternatives of EU businesses seeking to invest in China. Although China recorded a tremendous growth of its trade volume with other countries, the institutional and regulatory frameworks of the Chinese economy have proven to be at least challenging to EU businesses. In fact, several disputes have arisen and many of them have been dealt with in the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. The chapter elaborates on one of them to explain in which ways China may not be the easiest place to conduct business.
Online Social Network Analysis
Authors: Bhanodia Praveen Kumar , Khamparia Aditya , Pandey Babita , Prajapat Shaligram
Published: April 2019

Expansion of online social networks is rapid and furious. Millions of users are appending to it and enriching the nature and behavior, and the information generated has various dimensional properties providing new opportunities and perspective for computation of network properties. The structure of social networks is comprised of nodes and edges whereas users are entities represented by node and relationships designated by edges. Processing of online social networks structural features yields fair knowledge which can be used in many of recommendation and prediction systems. This is referred to as social network analysis, and the features exploited usually are local and global both plays significant role in processing and computation. Local features include properties of nodes like degree of the node (in-degree, out-degree) while global feature process the path between nodes in the entire network. The chapter is an effort in the direction of online social network analysis that explores the basic methods that can be process and analyze the network with a suitable approach to yield knowledge.
Drug Prediction in Healthcare Using Big Data and Machine Learning
Authors: Rashid Mamoon , Goyal Vishal , Parah Shabir Ahmad , Singh Harjeet
Published: April 2019

The healthcare system is literally losing patients due to improper diagnosis, accidents, and infections in hospitals alone. To address these challenges, the authors are proposing the drug prediction model that will act as informative guide for patients and help them for taking right medicines for the cure of particular disease. In this chapter, the authors are proposing use of Hadoop distributed file system for the storage of medical datasets related to medicinal drugs. MLLib Library of Apache Spark is to be used for initial data analysis for drug suggestions related to symptoms gathered from particular user. The model will analyze the previous history of patients for any side effects of the drug to be recommended. This proposal will consider weather and maps API from Google as well so that the patients can easily locate the nearby stores where the medicines will be available. It is believed that this proposal of research will surely eradicate the issues by prescribing the optimal drug and its availability by giving the location of the retailer of that drug near the customer.
Oxygen-ozone therapy in meningoencephalitis and chronic fatigue syndrome. Treatment in the field of competitive sports: case report
Authors: Morelli Luca , Bramani Simona Carla , Morelli Federico Carlo
Published: April 2019

Our study was born from the observation of a clinical case of a boy who arrived in the Emergency Room of our hospital for persistent hyperpyrexia, headache and prolonged emetic episodes and complaining of objective photophobia and dizziness. The patient underwent haematochemical tests, chemical-physical examination of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), negative for bacteria, negative for Neisseria Meningitidis, Escherichia Coli 121, Haemophilus Influenzae, Stafilococcus Pneumoniae, Stafilococcus Agalactiae and with slightly positive reaction to Pandy’s test; he was subjected to neurological examination, to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the brain and encephalic trunk with contrast agent which resulted negative, and to EEG that showed a slightly slowed-down brain electrical activity, in right occipital region, and frontal irritative abnormalities. Given these clinical and instrumental investigations, an acute meningoencephalitis was diagnosed. During his hospitalization, the patient was treated with intravenous antibiotic therapy and intravenous antiviral therapy for 12 days. At discharge, in the absence of specific therapy, and considering the protraction of the cephalic, dizzying, asthenic and myalgic symptoms and in relation to hematochemical and serological tests (positive for antibodies to Herpes 1 IgG), Epstein Barr Virus antibodies (positive for Viral Capsid Antigen IgG and IgGE BNA, for Extractable Nuclear Antigen and IgG Cytomegalovirus) he was diagnosed a Post-infectious CFS. The patient was treated with Oxygen Ozone Rectal Insufflative Therapy on a bi-weekly basis for 4 weeks, associated with Micetrin, a dietary supplement with sweetener based on Vitamin C, Shitake, Reishi, Maitake, Cordyceps, Magnesium and SOD, continued the treatment on a weekly basis for a further 4 weeks until the complete remission of the symptoms of asthenic, neurological and clinical parameters.
Por que pedir a nota fiscal? A influência da campanha sua nota valedinheiro sobre a conscientização tributária
Authors: Pereira de Oliveira Getúlio Tito
Published: April 2019

O que motiva o contribuinte a pedir a nota fiscal? O principal objetivo deste trabalho buscou verificar em que medida a campanha cearense Sua Nota Vale Dinheiro conscientiza seus participantes da importância social de solicitar o documento fiscal. Para tanto, replicou-se o modelo estatístico utilizado em estudo com política pública de mesma natureza – Todos com a Nota / Pernambuco – para fins de mensuração da proporção de participantes conscientizados pela campanha. Os dados comportamentais foram obtidos através da aplicação de survey junto a uma amostra de 391 usuários. Por meio de inferências estatísticas foi possível estimar que a política conscientiza o cidadão quanto à importância social de se exigir a nota fiscal numa proporção que varia entre 2,02% e 5,99% da população de seus participantes ativos. Em relação à replicação do desenho de pesquisa adotado, os resultados obtidos mostraram-se estatisticamente coerentes com o modelo original, possibilitando a avaliação comparativa dos resultados.
Adaptations of Relief for continuous domains of bioinformatics
Authors: Yatsko Andrew
Published: April 2019

Relief occupies a niche among feature selection methods for data classification. Filters are faster, wrappers are much slower. Relief is feature-set-aware, same as wrappers. However, it is thought being able to deselect only irrelevant, but not redundant features, same as filters. Iterative Reliefs seek to increase the separation margin between classes in the anisotropic space defined by weighted features. Reliefs for continuous domains are much less developed than for categorical domains. The paper discusses a number of adaptations for continuous spaces with Euclidean or Manhattan metric. The ability of Relief to detect redundant features is demonstrated. A dramatic reduction of the feature-set is achieved in a health diagnostics problem.
Efficiency of Foreign Exchange and Its Related Derivatives Market: Evidence From Korea
Authors: Kang Min-woo
Published: April 2019

This study aims to test the efficiency of the Korean foreign exchange market and examine its determinants by employing several well-established methodologies based on current theoretical arguments on the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis and covered interest rate parity. The empirical findings indicate that the foreign exchange market and its related derivatives markets were inefficient during the period 2006-2016, but have improved considerably after the 2008-2009 financial crisis. As the inefficiency prevailed for a long time, emphasis is on the presence of risk premia in the international financial market and the role of central bank intervention.
Dados governamentais abertos em aplicativos brasileiros
Authors: Silva Patrícia Nascimento , Kerr Pinheiro Marta Macedo
Published: April 2019

Introdução: Os dados públicos disponibilizados pelos governos através da internet são identificados como Dados Governamentais Abertos (DGA). Pela disponibilização dos dados, a pesquisa busca avaliar se os mesmos são reutilizados pela sociedade e através dos aplicativos desenvolvidos pelo governo brasileiro em produtos e serviços de informação. Objetivo: Identificar os aplicativos disponibilizados pelo governo brasileiro e seu grau de reúso baseado na utilização dos DGA. Metodologia: Através de uma pesquisa exploratória com abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa foram analisados os aplicativos disponibilizados no Guia de Aplicativos do Governo Federal e avaliados critérios de acesso, as fontes de dados e principalmente se utilizavam DGA. Resultados: Foram identificados 30 aplicativos que utilizam DGA, um número expressivo de reúso quando comparado a quantidade de aplicativos oficiais produzidos com DGA do governo brasileiro. Porém ainda há uma quantidade significativa de jogos e aplicativos que não utilizam DGA. Conclusões: Há uma evolução no uso dos DGA brasileiros, mas em relação ao imenso potencial dos DGA, o Brasil ainda caminha inexpressivamente no que diz respeito ao uso dos DGA em produtos e serviços de informação.
Attitudes, Instructional Practices and Difficulties Faced by English Teachers While Teaching Through ‘Quality Drive’
Authors: Lodhi Muhammad Arfan , Jabeen Rabia , Mustafa Sadaf , Siddique Naheed , Liaqat Aqsa , Robab Irum
Published: April 2019

Quality Education is the bedrock foundation of primary level of educational pyramid. It helps not only in the development of individuals but also improve their living standard at academic and professional domains. Government of Punjab has initiated a literacy and numeracy drive movement to enhance the literacy rate. English is the major focus of concern in Literacy and Numeracy drive (LND). Present study has been conducted to study the attitudes, instructional practices and difficulties faced by the English primary teachers while teaching English through quality drive. The study was descriptive in nature based on the mixed method i.e. quantitative and qualitative approach. It was conducted in the rural and urban schools of the elementary wing of tehsil Khanpur district Rahimyar Khan. The results reflected that teachers showed positive behavior towards teaching English through LND. But they faced many problems like unhealthy environment, lack of facilities, influence of mother tongue, non cooperative behavior of parents and lack of interest in learning English. The weak base of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spellings and comprehension are also the basic problems. It showed that traditional method is in common practice for teaching English language. The study recommends improvement in the mechanism of literacy and numeracy drive to produce better outcomes of English teaching.
Use of Salines Waters and Biofertilizers in Quality of the Seedlings From Passiflora edulis Evaluated by the Dry Phytomass
Authors: Mesquita II Francisco de O. , Meireles Ana C. M. , Cardoso José L. N. , Oliveira Carlos W. , Roguides Patrycia L. B.
Published: April 2019

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the biofertilizers (common and enriched) in substrate irrigated with saline waters on the quality of the seedlings evaluated by the phytomass from yellow Passiflora edullis. In this sense, an experiment was carried in a greenhouse at the Center of Agricultural Sciences and Biodiversity CCAB/UFCA, Crato-CE, from October/2017 to March/2018. The substrate used was a material of the first 20 cm to depth of a Red Yellow Latosol. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial scheme of type 5 × 3, with three replications, referring to the electrical conductivity values of the irrigation water: 0.5; 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 and 4.0 dS m-1, in the soil without the bovine biofertilizer; in treatments with common biofertilizer and, evaluated in the soil with enriched biofertilizer, conditioned in black polyethylene bags with it a maximum capacity of 5.0 kg, totaling 60 treatments. The fermented bovine biofertilizer after dilution in non-saline and non-chlorinated water (0.5 dS m-1), in the proportion of 1:3, was applied only once to 10% of the substrate volume, two days before sowing. The salinity increase of the irrigation water affected negatively the phytomass production, but with less intensity in the treatments with enriched biofertilizer. The enriched and common biofertilizer provided higher growth and consequently higher phytomass production of passion fruit seedlings in relation to the soil without the respective input, independently of the level of salinity of irrigation water.
Characterization of Bushy Cashew (Anacardium humile A. St.-Hil.) in the State of Goiás, Brazil
Authors: Pereira Laísse D. , Silva Danielle F. P. , Reis Edésio F. , Pinto Jefferson F. N. , Assunção Hildeu F. , Machado Carla G. , Gomes Francielly R. , Carneiro Luciana C. , Cruz Simério C. S. , Costa Claudio H. M.
Published: April 2019

The physical and chemical characteristics of the fruits influence the consumer acceptance. The objective of this study was to perform the physical, physico-chemical and chemical characterization of fruits of accessions of bushy cashew (Anacardium humile A. St.-Hil.) (cashew nut and cashew apple) in a germplasm bank located in southwest of the state of Goiás, in Brazil, aiming at the selection of superior accessions, in order to facilitate the initiation of a program to encourage the production and consumption, for provide information for breeding programs and the specie preservation. This research study was conducted at the Laboratory of genetics and molecular biology with material collected in the Experimental Station of the Federal University of Jataí, within the biological ex situ collection of Anacardium humile, in the field of genetic resources. In the harvest of 2016, within this collection, they were evaluated accesses for the characteristics of the cashew apple: length, diameter of base, apex diameter, weight, instrumental coloration of the epidermis and pulp, titratable acidity (citric acid), vitamin C content (ascorbic acid) and carotenoid content; cashew nut were evaluated: length, width, thickness and weight. The results were submitted to descriptive analysis, obtaining average, minimum, maximum and variation coefficient and the correlation between the variables, testing the significance by the t test. Most of the accesses showed high CV for most of the variables, demonstrating high heterogeneity of the observed values. Cashew apples have high levels of vitamin C and carotenoids, indicating the nutritional potential of the specie.
Drying Kinetics of Noni Seeds
Authors: Quequeto Wellytton Darci , Resende Osvaldo , Silva Patrícia Cardoso , Silva Fábio Adriano Santos e , Silva Lígia Campos de Moura
Published: April 2019

Noni seeds have been used for years as an important medicinal source, with wide use in the pharmaceutical and food industry. Drying is a fundamental process in the post-harvest stages, where it enables the safe storage of the product. Therefore, the present study aimed to fit different mathematical models to experimental data of drying kinetics of noni seeds, determine the effective diffusion coefficient and obtain the activation energy for the process during drying under different conditions of air temperature. The experiment used noni seeds with initial moisture content of 0.46 (decimal, d.b.) and dehydrated up to equilibrium moisture content. Drying was conducted under different controlled conditions of temperature, 40; 50; 60; 70 and 80 ºC and relative humidity, 24.4; 16.0; 9.9; 5.7 and 3.3%, respectively. Eleven mathematical models were fitted to the experimental data. The parameters to evaluate the fitting of the mathematical models were mean relative error (P), mean estimated error (SE), coefficient of determination (R2), Chi-square test (c2), Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Schwarz’s Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). Considering the fitting criteria, the model Two Terms was selected to describe the drying kinetics of noni seeds. Effective diffusion coefficient ranged from 8.70 to 23.71 × 10-10 m2 s-1 and its relationship with drying temperature can be described by the Arrhenius equation. The activation energy for noni seeds drying was 24.20 kJ mol-1 for the studied temperature range.
Period of Weed Interference in Bean With Nitrogen Fertilizer
Authors: Oliveira Serena Capriogli , Peres Lorena R. S. , Hijano Neriane , Alves Pedro Luis da C. A.
Published: April 2019

The competition between weeds and bean plants, mainly by nutrients of the environment, is one of the main causes of low crop yield. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the extension of the period prior to interference (PPI) in common beans, cultivar TAA GOL. Sowing was performed in conventional system. The treatments were divided into two groups: cover nitrogen fertilization (200 kg urea ha-1) and no cover fertilization. Within each area, we established periods of cohabitation of the crop with weeds from the emergence up to seven times of its life cycle (0-10, 0-20, 0-30, 0-40, 0-50, 0-60, 0-70 days) and a control. The experiment design was randomized blocks with three replicates. Digitaria spp. presented a greater relative importance in both areas, followed by Eleusine indica. The period prior to weed interference (PPI) in the area with nitrogen fertilization occurred up to 46 days after emergence (DAE), and only up to 3 DAE for the area without cover fertilization. There was a 30% decrease in bean productivity by comparing the area with nitrogen fertilization (2,004.79 kg ha-1) and the area without nitrogen fertilization (1,412.43 kg ha-1). Therefore, nitrogen fertilization increased crop yield and favored it competitively in relation to weeds by increasing the weed PPI.
Growth of Okra Under Nitrogen Rates and Wastewater in the Brazilian Semiarid Region
Authors: Medeiros Aldair de Souza , Júnior Sebastião de Oliveira Maia , Gonzaga Giordano Bruno Medeiros , Santos Thiago Cândido dos , Queiroz Manoel Moisés Ferreira de , Neto Renato Américo de Araújo , Magalhães Ivomberg Dourado , Ferraz Rener Luciano de Souza , Costa Patrícia da Silva , Andrade Jailma Ribeiro de , Pereira Mariana de Oliveira
Published: April 2019

Water is one of the most important natural resources, especially for semiarid regions where it is very limited. Thus, some alternatives to preserve water are necessary. In this sense, we aimed to evaluate the effect of irrigation with post-treated domestic wastewater associated with different nitrogen rates on the growth of okra in the semiarid region of Brazil. The experiment was performed in the municipality of Pombal, state of Paraíba, Brazil. It was used a randomized block design with six nitrogen rates (N1 = 0, N2 = 40, N3 = 80, N4 = 120, N5 = 160, and N6 = 200 kg ha-1) and wastewater corresponding respectively to 0; 25; 50; 75; 100; and 125% of the fertilization recommendation for the okra crop. In addition to these treatments, a control was added and the plants received 100% of the recommended dose of nitrogen and they were irrigated with water (IW). The control was compared with the treatments that were irrigated with wastewater and received the minimum (0%) and the recommended (100%) doses of nitrogen fertilization. The use of treated wastewater is an excellent technique for the reuse of water in semiarid regions, but it does not fully meet the okra nitrogen requirements.
Productivity of Rhizomes and Starch Quantification in Cultures of Different Vegetative Propagules of Arrowroot
Authors: Souza Douglas C. de , Costa Paula A. , Silva Luis F. L. e , Guerra Thiago S. , Resende Luciane V. , Pereira Joelma
Published: April 2019

Arrowroot rhizomes are rich in carbohydrate and are commonly grown by family farmers who have an important source of income in this activity and play a prominent role in the conservation of the species. There are few studies on the phytotechnical aspects of culture. The objective of this work was to evaluate the productive capacity of the ‘common’ arrowroot using different sizes and forms of propagation, aiming at the production of rhizomes and arrowroot starch, in different agricultural crops. The experimental design was the randomized block in a 4 × 2 factorial scheme, with 6 replicates. Four types of rhizome propagation (rhizomes-seeds of small size with a weight of 20 to 30 g; rhizomes-seeds of average weight between 30.01 to 45 g; rhizomes-seeds of large size weighing between 45.01 a 60 g, and seedlings produced in tissue culture), in two agricultural years (2015/2016 and 2016/2017). The variables total production, number of rhizomes, extraction yield and total starch production were evaluated. The type of propagule used interfered in the yield of rhizomes (9.85 to 34.75 t ha-1) and in the production of arrowroot starch (1.76 to 7.68 t ha-1). The vegetative propagation with pieces of rhizomes-seeds between 20 and 60 g was more viable than the micropropagation technique. Although the soil and climate conditions showed differences between the agricultural crops studied, they did not significantly influence the yield of rhizomes and arrowroot starch, by the type of propagule used.
Integrated Management of Tomato Whitefly Under Greenhouse Conditions
Authors: Arnemann Jonas A. , Bevilaqua Júlia G. , Bernardi Lauro , Rosa Danielle O. da , Encarnação Fábio A. da , Pozebon Henrique , Marques Rafael P. , Moro Daniela , Ribas Dener , Patias Leonardo S. , Forgiarini Sarah E. , Padilha Guilherme , Campos João V. L. , Rohrig Alberto
Published: April 2019

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, 1889) is a major pest species in many agricultural crops worldwide. Growers from the Vale do Caí region, in Southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul state) have been facing severe economic losses due to the increasing damages caused by this sucking insect in their horticultural crops. Small-scale farming in the Vale do Caí region relies heavily on horticulture, with many families involved in the activity and a consumer market spread throughout the whole state. Virus transmission and other damages inflicted by B. tabaci are especially harmful to tomato plants, and the managing of the pest currently demands two thirds of all chemical insecticides used in the region. While chemical control remains the main strategy for whitefly management on tomato crops, control failures and lack of updated information have led tomato growers to raise the number of sprays per crop cycle, with selection of resistant populations and harmful effects on the environment as consequent risks. The aim of this work was to evaluate chemical compounds and bioinsecticides in the control of B. tabaci nymphs and adults on tomato plants grown in two different greenhouses and under natural infestation conditions. The most efficient treatment for the control of B. tabaci adults was cyantraniliprole + lambda-cyhalothrin (50+30 g a.i. ha-1) with 64% of average control efficiency. As for nymph control, the most efficient treatment was the Embrapa formula, a bioinsecticide composed of 0.5% flaxseed oil + 0.5% neutral detergent + 0.3% sodium bicarbonate, which resulted in 72% of whitefly control in average.
Emergence Rate and Initial Growth of Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour) in Relation to Seeds Sizes
Authors: Silva Fábio Oseias dos Reis , Ramos José Darlan , Laredo Ranieri Reis , Santos Verônica Andrade dos , Tostes Nathalia Vallery , Silva Alexandre Dias da
Published: April 2019

The fruit plant ‘Longan’ is considered as being native to Asia and is at present commercially explored in some regions. The objective of this work was to study the influence of seed size on seed emergence and initial seedling growth. The experiment was carried out using a randomized block design (DBC), with three treatments, namely, the seed sizes at seedling emergence according to their longitudinal diameter: small, medium and large. Each plot was composed of six seeds and five replications per treatment. The following characteristics were evaluated: emergence speed index, average time, percentage and relative frequency of emergence, leaf number, stem diameter, plant height, shoot dry mass and root dry mass. Seeds of medium and large size are those that presented satisfactory results for the characteristics related to seed emergence. The same ones stood out in relation to the small seeds for the variables percentage, average time, average speed and emergence speed index. Small seeds are not recommended for the production of ‘Longan’ seedlings, given the long period of time to emerge and the low probability of the seedlings establishing satisfactorily in the field. The medium and large seeds were the most promising for the variables number of leaves, stem diameter, plant height, dry shoot mass and dry root mass.Therefore, according to the conditions in which the present work was conducted, the use of medium and large seeds for the production of ‘Longan’ seedlings is suggested.
Leaf Area Estimation of Garden Boldo From Linear Dimensions
Authors: Ribeiro Ana Maria Alves de Souza , Mundim Daniel Alves , Mendonça Daisy Cristina Martins , Santos Karina Tiemi Hassuda dos , Santos Jéssica Sayuri Hassuda , Oliveira Vinicius de Souza , Santos Gleyce Pereira , Rosa Luã Víthor Chíxaro Almeida Falcão , Santana Weslley do Rosário , Schmildt Omar , Vitória Edney Leandro da , Schmildt Edilson Romais
Published: April 2019

The objective of this work was to determine a mathematical equation using linear measures that allows estimating a leaf area of the specie Plectranthus barbatus Andrews, a plant with medicinal properties popularly known as garden boldo. For this was performed a direct measurement of the leaf blade considering the length (L) along the midrib and the maximum width (W) perpendicular to the midrib of 500 leaves of different specimens and the observed foliar area (OLA), which were obtained by digitized images. A regression study with linear, quadratic, potential and exponential models was performed using a random sample of 400 from the evaluated leaves using OLA as a function of L, W or LW and then obtaining the estimated leaf area (ELA) of each model. From the remaining 100 leaves a validation of the tested models was performed using ELA as a function of OLA in a simple linear regression. From the residues between ELA and OLA the root-square-mean error and Willmot index (d) was obtained and the normality was verified. The parameters used for validation were: statistically linear and angular coefficient equal to zero and one respectively; coefficient of determination closest to the unit; RQME closer to zero; d index closest to the unit; normal distribution of residues. The equation that best represents the estimated leaf area of the garden boldo is ELA = 0.1389 + 0.6779 (LW).
Morphophysiology of Eggplant Irrigated With Wastewater and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Doses in the Semi-arid Region of Brazil
Authors: Medeiros Aldair de Souza , Nobre Reginaldo Gomes , Queiroz Manoel Moisés Ferreira de , Pereira Mariana de Oliveira , Santos Thiago Cândido dos , Gonzaga Giordano Bruno Medeiros , Neto Renato Américo de Araújo , Ferraz Rener Luciano de Souza , Costa Patrícia da Silva , Magalhães Ivomberg Dourado , Maia Júnior Sebastião de Oliveira
Published: April 2019

Water is a scarce resource in semi-arid regions, therefore, the correct water management is an essential practice. In this research we evaluated the use of nitrogen, phosphorus and treated wastewater on the growth and morphophysiology of eggplants (Solanum melongena L.) in the semi-arid region of Brazil. The experiment was conducted in Pombal, Paraíba, Brazil, using a randomized block design, in a 4 × 4 + 1 factorial scheme: wastewater with four nitrogen doses (N1 = 0.22; N2 = 0.39; N3 = 0.56; and N4 = 0.73 g N dm-3) and four doses of phosphorus (P1 = 0.96; P2 = 1.68; P3 = 2.40; and P4 = 3.12 g P dm-3), and the controls – distilled water fertilized with 0.56 g of N dm-3 and distilled water fertilized with 2.40 g of P dm-3. Each treatment was replicated 4 times. The nitrogen and phosphorous interaction did not influence the growth and physiological aspects of eggplant plants. Excess growing media nitrogen significantly decreased gaseous exchanges of eggplant plants, being found decreased of 4.4 μmol m-2 s-1 the CO2 assimilation.
Growth and Quality of Inga heterophylla Willd Seedlings According to the Slow Release Fertilizer
Authors: Silva Elson J. S. da , Senado Jéssy A. V. , Silva Ádson E. da , Gama Marcos A. P. , Ohashi Selma T. , Souza Giuliana M. P. de , Ferreira Gracialda C. , Noronha Norberto C. , Matos Gilson S. B. de , Araujo Dênmora G. de
Published: April 2019

Slow release fertilizers have become an alternative for better efficiency in substrate fertilization for seedlings production, however, there are not many studies approaching the use of such fertilizers in the production of native forest species seedlings. This work aimed to evaluate the effect of different doses of a slow release fertilizer (SRF) on the development and quality of the Inga heterophylla seedlings. The experiment was conducted in a vivarium with 50% of shade for a 150-day period. Randomized blocks were the chosen experimental design, constituted of four treatments and four replications, with twenty plants per experimental unit. The treatments were four doses of Osmocote® FLL (0, 4.1, 8.2 and 12.3 g dm-3) in NPK 15-09-12 formulation, with evaluated variables being the height of the seedling (H), collar diameter (CD), number of leaf pairs (NLP), leaf area (LA), aerial part dry mass (APDM), root dry mass, total dry mass (TDM) and Dickson quality index (DQI). All the evaluated parameters responded significantly to the SRF doses and fit the positive quadratic polynomial model. For all of the analyzed variables, results show that the best averages were obtained by using the doses between 5.7 and 6.5 g dm-3, but due to the quadratic response they presented a decrease in the mean values after doses which were superior to the maximum performance point of each characteristic.
STRUCTURE DETECTION WITH SECOND ORDER RIESZ TRANSFORMS
Authors: Dobrovolskij Dascha , Persch Johannes , Schladitz Katja , Steidl Gabriele
Published: April 2019

A frequently applied indicator of tubular structures is based on the eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix of the original image convolved with a Gaussian, whose standard derivation depends on the size of the tubes. Hence the tube size must either be known in advance or a whole scale of standard deviations has to be tested resulting in higher computational costs – a serious obstacle for data with varying tube thickness.In this paper, we propose to modify the structure indicator by replacing the derivatives of the Gaussian smoothed function by the Riesz transform. We show by various numerical examples that the resulting structure indicator is scale independent. Smoothing with a Gaussian is just necessary to cope with the noise in the image, but is not related to the size of the tubular structures. We apply the novel structure indicator for the fiber orientation analysis of fibrous materials and for the segmentation of leather. The latter one was a special challenging application since all scales are present in the microstructure of leather.
DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS OF BURNING DROPLETS IN THE PRESENCE OF BACKLIGHT DIFFRACTION AND SOOT
Authors: Bhaskar Ramya , Shaw Benjamin
Published: April 2019

Approaches for analyzing digital images of moving and burning fuel droplets, with the goal of accurately measuring droplet edge coordinates, are discussed. Strategies for locating droplet edges in the presence of obscuration from soot and also backlight diffraction at the droplet edge are described. An outlier detection method is employed to identify outliers in droplet edge coordinates, and the resulting data can have significantly smaller standard deviations in droplet diameters if outliers are rejected, especially for droplets that exhibit significant soot formation. The approaches described herein are applied to images from droplet combustion experiments performed on the International Space Station as well as to synthetic image sequences that were generated to enable the accuracy of the algorithms to be assessed.
Abdominal wall nodule in a cholecystectomy scar : A rare marker of occult carcinoma gallbladder
Authors: Gupta Ashish , Gupta Amit , Gupta Sweety , Chauhan Udit , Singh Ashok
Published: April 2019

: gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is a rare pathology. We reviewed our hospital database for prognosticating the patients with post cholecystectomy abdominal wall nodule.On reviewing the database we could find 7 patients who were diagnosed with GBC after a simple cholecystectomy. 3 of these patients were diagnosed after evaluation of scar site nodule.2 patients were females and one patient was male. The mean age of the patient was 55 years. 2 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy and one patient underwent open cholecystectomy. The average time of detection of malignancy was 10.6 months. The gallbladder was not subjected to histopathological examination in all three patients. The patients had unresectable disease on restaging workup. Two patients had adenocarcinoma while single patient had neuroendocrine tumor. abdominal wall nodule is a rare marker of occult carcinoma gallbladder. Subjecting every gallbladder specimen for histopathology should help in improving the survival in these patients.
Polityczne kontrowersje wokół powstania warszawskiego. Podjęcie decyzji, reakcja Stalina i Polskiego Komitetu Wyzwolenia Narodowego
Authors: Chrzanowski Bogdan
Published: April 2019

Powstanie Warszawskie to jedno z najtragiczniejszych wydarzeń w dziejach Polski XX wieku. Zakończyło się klęską głównie z przyczyn politycznych. J..Stalin odniósł się bowiem negatywnie do decyzji podjęcia walk o Warszawę. Zwycięstwo powstania przekreśliłoby jego plany zmierzające do uzależnienia Polski od Związku Sowieckiego. Podobne stanowisko zajęli polscy komuniści. Nie udzielono więc pomocy walczącej Warszawie. Powstanie upadło, stolica została zburzona, zginęły tysiące osób, pozostałą ludność wysiedlono. Jednakże w pamięci społeczeństwa polskiego na zawsze pozostanie symbolem bohaterstwa i walki o niepodległość.
Polityczne aspekty działalności Polskiej Armii Ludowej i powojenne fałszerstwa
Authors: Gąsiorowski Andrzej
Published: April 2019

W artykule przedstawiono polityczne aspekty konspiracyjnej organizacji, jaką była Polska Armia Ludowa funkcjonująca w latach 1943-1945. Ta stosunkowo rzadka i słabo wyposażona organizacja wojskowa odgrywała pewną rolę polityczną, ponieważ była silnie powiązana z Robotniczą Partią Polskich Socjalistów. Polityczne znaczenie PAL drastycznie wzrosło tuż przed powstaniem warszawskim, kiedy to rozpoczęła dialog z główną kwaterą AK, który zakończył się fiaskiem, ponieważ nie udało się połączyć Polskiej Armii Ludowej z Armią Krajową. Podczas Powstania Warszawskiego PAL nie tylko brała udział w różnych inicjatywach politycznych związanych z przestrzeganiem skrajnie lewicowego centrum, ale także oficerowie PAL brali udział w próbie buntu, co miało doprowadzić do pozbawienia generała Komorowskiego dowództwa w AK. Później kilku oficerów PAL wzięło udział w operacji tajnych służb radzieckich, której celem było aresztowanie generała Leopolda Okulickiego. Po wojnie naczelny dowódca PAL walczył o to, by kombatanci tej organizacji odgrywali bardziej wpływową rolę polityczną w Polsce.
Polityka migracyjna Unii Europejskiej a problem integracji imigrantów w Niemczech, Francji i Holandii
Authors: Ślęzak Jarosław
Published: April 2019

Several stages can be distinguished in the EU migration policy. Member States within the European Communities have adopted internal regulations on economic migrants. Since the 1980s, the process of regulating the migration problem by the countries of the European Community has begun. The most important activities are TREVI agreement, Schengen, the TAMPERE Program, the Hague Program, FRONTEX, EURODAC, the Integrated Border Management Fund and the European Return Fund. The European Union has demonstrated a global approach to migration. The migration crisis has influenced the emergence of a new immigrant integration policy in Germany, France and the Netherlands. Contracts have been created for immigrants, which force them to learn a language, take up jobs and adhere to the principles of European values and culture.
Funkcjonowanie psychospołeczne i poczucie jakości życia dziecka w rodzinie w wymiarze ekonomicznym i społecznym
Authors: Kata Joanna
Published: April 2019

Among the factors determining the quality of life of a child in a family, depending on age and developmental level, internal factors are mentioned in particular; living conditions related to the socio-economic status of the family and support received from loved ones. The literature on the subject presents two approaches to the quality of life - the objective approach is objective life conditions measured by objective variables such as: health, material and social living conditions. The subjective approach, however, equates the quality of life with satisfaction.
The Image of People and Property Security Personnel as Perceived by the Residents of Słupsk city
Authors: Gierszewski Janusz
Published: April 2019

Security as a social category is realised intuitively (subjectively) and is not always subject to unambiguous (objective) assessments. The perception of various formations tasked with ensuring public security and order gives rise to extreme assessments, sparking numerous discussions on how to judge their functioning. In today’s world, it is hardly surprising that various services (including private services) operate in cities, ensuring the security of the residents.
The aim of the article is to analyse the basic components which shape the social image of people and property security services in the public consciousness of the inhabitants of Słupsk – a medium-sized city in Poland . This has been researched on the basis of empirical surveys (questionnaires) diagnosing the assessment of the work and activities of security personnel.
The research problem is the following question: What is the image of people and property security services in the system of security and public order, as perceived by the residents of Słupsk, a medium-sized Polish city?
The quantitative research conducted for the purpose of this paper was carried out in the form of a diagnostic survey, and the technique applied were questionnaires.
Jurisdiktionskonflikte im Rahmen transnationaler Kriminalität
Authors: Thorhauer Nathalie Isabelle
Published: April 2019

The thesis examines states’ prosecutorial powers in regard to cross-border criminal acts of natural persons and companies, as well as the problems of conflicts of jurisdiction resulting from the parallel applicability of the criminal law of multiple states. It focuses on the individual legal position of the accused and norm addressee, who, in a globalised economy and society, needs to be able to distinguish right from wrong. The ne bis in idem and other mechanisms fail in an “Area of Freedom, Security and Justice” where certain normative standards require overcoming the lack of foreseeability of the applicable substantive and procedural criminal law and to eliminate leeway for arbitrary considerations of the executive (forum shopping). The work meets this demand with a transparent legal framework for the coordination of prosecutorial powers within the EU that takes a liberal approach and is based on fundamental principles of the rule of law. It deals with basic issues of the transnational scope of corporate criminal law, which should be considered in the current reform discourse.
The author is a lawyer specialising in white-collar criminal law in Frankfurt am Main.
Zaisťovanie digitálnych dôkazov v cezhraničných situáciách
Authors: Záhora Jozef
Published: April 2019

Skutočnosť, že internet je médium, ktoré nepozná hranice spôsobuje, že elektronické služby môžu byť poskytované z ktoréhokoľvek miesta na zemi bez toho, aby sa vyžadovala fyzická prítomnosť poskytovateľa v štáte, kde sa elektronické služby ponúkajú. Internet však môže byť tiež zneužitý ako prostriedok na páchanie alebo uľahčenie páchania trestného činu, vrátane závažnej kriminality ako napr. teroristických útokov. V tomto prípade kyberpriestor je často jediným miestom, kde vyšetrovatelia môžu zistiť a zaistiť stopy, na základe ktorých sa preukáže, kto trestný čin spáchal a získané dôkazy môžu byť použite pri súdnom konaní. Preto je potrebné vytvorenie účinných mechanizmov na získanie digitálnych dôkazov aj v cezhraničných situáciách. Súčasná situácia sa javí ako neuspokojivá a často prináša zastavenie trestného stíhania z dôvodu dôkaznej núdze. S cieľom uľahčiť a zrýchliť získanie elektronických dôkazov justičnými orgánmi, ktoré sú potrebné na vyšetrovanie trestného činu a následnú obžalobu, Komisia predstavila nové pravidlá, ktoré zabezpečia vytvorenie Európskeho príkazu na predloženie dôkazov, Európskeho príkazu na uchovanie elektronických dôkazov v trestných veciach a zavádza povinnosť poskytovateľov elektronických služieb určiť právneho zástupcu v Európskej únii.
Povaha a členění faktických úkonů realizovaných ze strany orgánů veřejné správy
Authors: Všetička Pavel
Published: April 2019

V případě faktických úkonů se jedná o značně rozsáhlou matérii reprezentovanou množstvím rozličných činností, vykonávaných různými orgány veřejné správy, jež jsou upraveny v řadě právních předpisů náležejících do různých právních odvětví, o jejíž systemizaci usiluje nauka již celá desetiletí. Obecně lze konstatovat, že řada otázek spojených s touto formou činnosti orgánů veřejné správy teprve čeká na podrobné vědecké zpracování. V rámci předkládaného příspěvku jsem se zaměřil na problematiku členění faktických úkonů. Příspěvek navazuje na dosud přijaté závěry nauky, které se však snažím dále rozšířit, a to na základě různých konvergenčních prvků.