bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Durability Studies on Concrete Made Using Pulverized Used Foundry Sand as A Mineral Admixture
Authors: P M Salim , S.R.K.Prasad B , Sekhar.T Seshadri
Published: July 2018

Durability of the structures is a main concern now a day due to the various types of deteriorations caused by natural as well as manmade environmental conditions. In this project the durability properties of concrete made with pulverized used foundry sand as a mineral admixture is analyzed. The durability of concrete is mostly depends on the surrounding environment. The chemicals present in air and water are the main causes of deterioration of concrete in its life. So a deep study on the action of deteriorating chemicals on the concrete containing pulverized used foundry sand is initiated. Here M40 concrete is prepared with 0%,5%,10%,15% and 20% addition of pulverized used foundry sand to the cement content. Cubes of size 100mmx100mmx100mm were cast and tested for various parameters like Acid resistance with hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid, Sulphate attack with sodium sulphate and alkali resistance with sodium hydroxide for. The testing was performed on cubes at 28day, 56 day, 90 day and 180 day stored in respective chemicals dissolved in water at 5% concentration. From the test results it is inferred that the concrete containing pulverized used foundry sand is better in acid resistance than ordinary concrete without pulverized used foundry sand. Further the acid resistance for both hydrochloric and sulfuric acid shows an increase up to 15% addition of pulverized used foundry and after that it is slightly reduced. The samples subjected to sodium sulphate and sodium hydroxide has shown no variation in properties with respect to the water cured specimens.
Novel Homomorphic Encryption Scheme in Cloud Computing
Authors: Veena C , M. Hanumanthappa Dr
Published: July 2018

Cloud computing is an indispensable technology for any business organization, such as banking, e-commerce, etc. Although technology has advantages in many areas; The protection of stored data is a major concern for all stakeholders in the architecture. Provide data security with respect to network security, control strategies and access to the service, data storage. Despite the efforts of service providers to build customer trust in data security, users need a passion for using technology for their business skills. Homomorphism coding is a data protection technique in which tasks can be performed on encrypted data themselves. In this article, we present an exploration of new homomorphism encryption methods with respect to data security and their use in cloud computing.
Image recognition in the artificial agriculture officer
Authors: Lokesh B , Charishma Ravoori , Hiranmai Natuva
Published: July 2018

Farmers face a multitude of problems nowadays such as lower crop production, tumultuous weather patterns, and crop infections. All of these issues can be solved if they have access to the right information. The current methods of information retrieval, such as search engine lookup and talking to an Agriculture Officer, have multiple defects. A more suitable solution, that we are proposing, is an android application, available at all times, that can give succinct answers to any question a farmer may pose. The application will include an image recognition component that will be able to recognize a variety of crop diseases in the case that the farmer does not know what he is dealing with and is unable to describe it.  Image recognition is the ability of a computer to recognize and distinguish between different objects, and is actually a much harder problem to solve than it seems. We are using Tensorflow, a tool that uses convolutional neural networks, to implement it
A Potential Parameter for A Non-Darcy Form of Two-Phase Flow Behaviour, Compressibility Related
Authors: Busahmin Bashir , Maini Brij
Published: July 2018

Numerous scientists did their studies and conducted various laboratory experiments related to a non-Darcy behavior of a two-phase flow for the past thirty years, and made an effort to clarify the behavior. Non-Darcy flow behavior, phenomena occurred in primary recovery method of reservoirs that have an API degree gravity of less than 20. It was confirmed that it results in greater production. The compressibility of foam fits to be the one of the general fundamental factor that directs the lifetime of a non-Darcy form of two phase flow behavior or also is known as the foamy oil.  In the process of usual drive depletion, foamy oil featured of low production GOR and high daily production rate. Foamy oil is more compressible than conventional solution gas due to the oil that gas dispersed in it; as a result, oil formation volume factor is much higher than that in conventional oil. This paper represents a laboratory data followed by some of the analysis related to the properties of non-Darcy form of two phase flow and that is the compressibility parameter. The experimental results showed that at different saturation pressures and at a room temperature, the trends fit the expected behavior above the saturation pressures. Moreover, the measurements of live oil compressibility were also attempted below the saturation pressures. It was concluded that other properties such as the viscosity is added a significant effect rather than compressibility in the behavior of what so called  foamy oil compared to the presence or absence of asphaltenes and other polar oil components.
Phishfort – Anti-Phishing Framework
Authors: Abraham Kalloor Eric , Manoj Kumar Mishra Dr , Joy Paulose Prof.
Published: July 2018

Phishing attack is one of the most common form of attack used to get unauthorized access to users’ credentials or any other sensitive information. It is classified under social engineering attack, which means it is not a technical vulnerability. The attacker exploits the human nature to make mistake by fooling the user to think that a given web page is genuine and submitting confidential data into an embedded form, which is harvested by the attacker. A phishing page is often an exact replica of the legitimate page, the only noticeable difference is the URL. Normal users do not pay close attention to the URL every time, hence they are exploited by the attacker. This paper suggests a login framework which can be used independently or along with a browser extension which will act as a line of defense against such phishing attacks. The semi-automated login mechanism suggested in this paper eliminates the need for the user to be alert at all time, and it also provides a personalized login screen so that the user can to distinguish between a genuine and fake login page quite easily.
Damping Procedure for Mixed Control with Variable Coefficients of the Neighborhood Model
Authors: Shmyrin A.M , Yartsev A.G
Published: July 2018

In the article, a bilinear neighborhood model of an installation for maintaining the optimum temperature of the polyol is considered. To determine the heat transfer coefficient, traditional mixed control and mixed control with variable coefficients were carried out. To improve the mixed control procedure with variable coefficients, damping is applied - imposing restrictions on the possible variation of the values of the variable coefficients. A comparison of the results of mixed controls with the results of determining the heat transfer coefficient with the help of thermotechnical calculation is made. The values of the deviations of the neighborhood model are presented for different variants of mixed control.
Temple Art and Icon Painting at The Universities - the Spiritual Formation of Students in Russia
Authors: Rebinsky G.A , Gamov E.S , Martynova A.V , Tonkovid S.B
Published: July 2018

This article shows the results of the research of the term "icon". The importance of icons in the Orthodox Church is shown. The main aspects of the methodology of making icons, traditions and modern problems in church art are described. The main aspects of the methodology of making icons, traditions and modern problems in church art are described. Information on achievements in the field of icon painting at the Lipetsk State Technical University is adduced. (FSEI HE «LSTU»)
A Study on Work Life Balance of it Enabled Bpo Workers in Bangalore City (Karnataka)
Authors: M. Chockalingam S , Sudarshan P
Published: July 2018

Human beings in this earth have to work for inevitable reasons. For the purpose of employment people even migrate to their nearest cities or even they may relocate themselves too far off places, due to swiftly growing population across the country and also numbers of people getting qualified degrees have increased a lot. On the other hand scope for employment is considerably reducing day by day. This has made job markets completely employee driven. When job markets become employee driven, by all means employees will extract much work from employees. This will make them spend more and more time at the workplace and less time with their families. The result of this will lead to imbalance between work and family life. This study tries to cover many insights on work life balance especially covering major BPO employees working at Bangalore.
Fault Location on Series Compensated Power Transmission Lines Using Transient Spectrum
Authors: R. Jayamurthi C , Sowmiya A
Published: July 2018

A Transmission line fault locality analyzing process for multi-circuit power transmission series compensated line up with phasor records as of smart electronic devices available at both split ends. During the case of unavailability of synchronize records, logical synchronization is acquire by means of an operative. During the power transmission process, the techniques consider untransposed line segment ensuing on top of two side of the power fault with the dispersed environment of transmission line. In favor of in the pink phase, current on two sides flow at the fault position be identical unlike exceptional current on two sides in a fault phase. This be checkered in excess of the line length along with the fault location is identify. The technique does not need the model of the series recompense located by at all locality on the line along with be capable of be use for both internal and external-circuit fault. It as well reflects on reactive element of the fault impedance for accurate fault position. The technique is analyzed with PSCAD/EMTDC simulation used for a multi-circuit series-compensated line in Indian smart power grid. Estimation revise confirm the strength of the technique used for different faults.
Design of Low Delay Ring Oscillator Using CMOS
Authors: Shiyamala S , Kavitha T
Published: July 2018

In the Era of digital World, low power applications are the needs of the market to save the resources. Delay elements (e.g. digital clock) are essential parts of such digital applications. Ring oscillators have been used because of their ease of implementation, wide tuning ranges, operating at low voltages and existing possibility of complete integration in standard CMOS processes. It desires at identifying the best possible configuration for the hoop oscillators having the least strength intake and precise delay with lesser sensitivity to the variations inside the temperature and deliver voltage for frequencies of few KHz. while N = 7, for  0.18 µm generation , put off is 0.07ns simplest. Compare with N = 3, 14.2 % delay time reduced and 12.6 % lower when N= 7 taken into account.
A Fire Fly Algorithm Based Mobility Prediction For Designing an Efficient Routing in Mobile Adhoc Network
Authors: G.Nair Reshmi , Narayanan Kumar
Published: July 2018

Based on dynamic network topology, mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET) plays a vital role. Mobility is one of the major issues in MANET which affects the quality of routing and disconnects in the route frequently. It is necessary to avoid interruptions in routing and provide a continuous connectivity among nodes to improve the routing ability in this situation. It is important to predict the present location information of the nodes since route failure and interruptions are caused by node mobility. To compare and predict the pattern of mobile nodes using flies flash patterns, this paper utilizes a Nature-inspired algorithm as Fire Fly Algorithm. Among mobile nodes, this can able to allocate the available resources and increase the routing quality. The Firefly algorithm is simulated in network simulation software and the obtained results are verified. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by comparing the results with the other existing systems’ results.
Multichannel Data Logger for Combat Vehicle
Authors: Antony Veera Puthira Raja J , A. Bharath Raj J , Bharath M , C. Kishore Kumar P , Rajendran V
Published: July 2018

The multichannel data logger is the one of the prominent component in any instrumentation system, the control process to give a high resolution to store accurate data from the sensing elements which varies depends on the different applications. In this point of view there are many developed data loggers are customized and general purpose data logger are available in the market with typical sampling frequency of 100 KHZ. Although the general purpose data logger with many of the time is suitable for laboratory level purpose when it comes to the defense, very special testing procedure based manufacturing process, larger channel sensing methods with a well-designed and adapted to specific application based customized data logger always been the under development. Proposed data logger is enabled with 8 channels IoT (Internet of things).
Potential Fit between Geotechnical Tasks and Mobile Computing Technologies
Authors: Shehzad Aamer , Zaidi Abd Rozan Mohd
Published: July 2018

Trend of rapid pace in earthworks has forced geotechnical laboratories to increase their productivity and performance at organizational as well as at individual level. Though geotechnical work involves numerous mobile work processes but the true potential of rapidly growing mobile computing technologies (MCT) has not yet been effectively exploited mainly due to lack of realization of a potential match between features of this specific technological paradigm and major task requirements.  To fill this gap, this study investigated and characterized salient task characteristics and features of MCT. Based on the theory of task-technology fit (TTF), an initial conceptual model is proposed which reflects hypothesized relationships for finding a fit between task and technology and consequently assessing its impact on performance of geotechnical field workers. This paper contributes to the knowledge pool of information system through development of an adapted TTF model in geotechnical mobile work context. Lastly, future research plan of using quantitative methodology for finding empirical support of this conceptual model is presented.
Treatment of Outlier Using Interpolation Method in Malaysia Tourist Arrivals
Authors: Elena Nor Maria , Azurin Wahir Norsoraya , P. Khuneswari G , Saifullah Rusiman Mohd
Published: July 2018

The presence of outliers is an example of aberrant data that can have huge negative influence on statistical method under the assumption of normality and it affects the estimation. This paper introduces an alternative method as outlier treatment in time series which is interpolation. It compares two interpolation methods using performance indicator. Assuming outlier as a missing value in the data allows the application of the interpolation method to interpolate the missing value, thus comparing the result using the forecast accuracy. The monthly time series data from January 1998 until December 2015 of Malaysia Tourist Arrivals were used to deal with outliers. The results found that the cubic spline interpolation method gave the best result than the linear interpolation and the improved time series data indicated better performance in forecasting rather than the original time series data of Box-Jenkins model.
Simple RAM Control for Water Strider Robot
Authors: Chun Kyunghan , Kim Bonghwan
Published: July 2018

In this paper, we propose a RAM (Rotate and Move) controller by considering the WSR (Water Strider Robot) with two wheels. The proposed controller commands to move straight after rotating to track the desired trajectory by applying the two wheel WSR characteristics. In this paper, a proportional controller is applied to make the error zero and there is a room to apply many other nonlinear controllers. For a given target point, the rotation angle is computed at first and the shorter rotating angle is chosen between CW (clockwise) and CCW (counterclockwise). After accomplishing rotation, the WSR moves straight toward the target point. The proposed controller is noble and simple and easily track the target point and the simulation results proves the good performance and this controller will be applied to the developing prototype WSR.
Physical Fitness Status Among Female Reserve Officers Training Unit (ROTU).-The Pre-test.
Authors: Kassim Mohar , Othman Norfazilawati , Rustam Shahrulfadly , Ujang Edawaty
Published: July 2018

The ROTU cadets are trained to become an officer who are always ready to defence and resilience the country from all threats. The fitness level of each female ROTU cadets can be measured more systematically and accurately by implementing the test batteries. The objective of this study is to measure the fitness level among the female ROTU cadets based on the seven test, secondly to produce the Fitness Training Manual for the female ROTU cadet and thirdly to build the physical norms based on the seven test battery among the female ROTU cadets in UPNM. The whole research will involve 3 phases, pre-test for basic data collection, (4 weeks), intervention (12 weeks) and post data collection (4 weeks). From the purposive sampling, 212 female ROTU cadets were selected as the sample of the study. The instruments for pre-data collection involved the 7 test batteries (2.4 km running, sit-up, push up, 30-meter sprint, 10-meter zigzag, sit and reach and stand long jump) and self-administered questionnaire for demographic characteristics. The results of the pre-test came out with the seven physical fitness norms among female PALAPES cadet based on their age (19, 20 & 21). In conclusion, this physical fitness norm helps in the classification of physical fitness among the female ROTU cadets in UPNM. In average, the pretest showed not more than than 30% of them have an excellent physical fitness. The results of this study and the Fitness Training Manual can be used as a reference for future scientific studies especially among ROTU cadets in Malaysia.Keywords: Norms, Physical fitness, test batteries, female, ROTU.
Developing Legal Framework for E-Court in Judicial Delivery
Authors: Aiqa Mohamad Zain Nurul , Satirah Wan Mohamad Saman Wan , Farik Mat Yatin Saiful , Rahman Ahmad Abdul , Saifuddin Norshila , Nor Haliza Wan Mokhtar Wan , Nurul Emyliana Nik Ramlee Nik
Published: July 2018

E-Court function is to manage electronic records in court. E-Court is expected to give such a lot of help for effective judicial delivery in Malaysia. Thus, by this research the implementation of e-Court is going to be explored in order to improve the system at all courts in Malaysia. This research applied qualitative case study methodology and data collection will be conducted at three units of high courts and will interview the stakeholders of the e-Court system. This is a conceptual paper to explore the implementation of e-Court system in Malaysian Judiciary, investigate judicial delivery issues in Malaysia and to propose a legal framework for e-Court in Malaysian civil courts. The study reviews literature on e-Court system and surveys from Malaysia and others countries. Studies related to this topic were analyzed and discussed throughout the paper in the context of implementation process, the judicial delivery issues and the future legal framework to be proposed.
The Attributes of Knowledge Worker as Prime Movers in Public Organizations
Authors: Roosehaziram Mohd Rahim Em , Farik Mat Yatin Saiful , Aidid Adil Zainal Muhammad , Mizan Taib Khairul , Mohamed Bunyamin
Published: July 2018

Civics Department in public sector of Malaysia has a major responsibility in ensuring that Malaysians instilled with the spirit of patriotism and moral values and aspirations of the nation for preparing Malaysia to achieve developed nation by 2020. With the goal to achieve its vision as a Leader of National Patriotism, a special task force known as Tenaga Penggerak (TP) has been created. This task force acts as a driver to achieve the mission by delivering excellence patriotism program through education, training, awareness and strategic partnerships. TP also have the objective to improve the knowledge and understanding of patriotism and statehood, government policies, current issues, and appreciation of moral values. TP also can be known as knowledge worker in this department based on its responsibilities and main critical success factor of every planned activities and to achieve the objective. This paper proposes positive approach to maintain the quality knowledge worker in Civics Department in instilling patriotism and statehood of Malaysian citizen.
E-office Users Experience, Drivers and Obstacles
Authors: Fitriyah Mannan Endang , Puspitasari Srirahayu Dyah , Eka Variant Anna Nove , Harisanty Dessy
Published: July 2018

Document management in an organization is very important because it is not only to facilitate the documents retrieval, but also to enhance the competitive power of the organization. For this purpose, Faculty of Vocational Studies Airlangga University applies electronic document management, called e-office. The e-office system is implemented to manage the existing administration system at Airlangga University, where users can create letters, make deliveries, receive letters, reply letters and make memos. This study aims to determine e-office utilization in the environment of the Faculty of Vocational Studies Airlangga University. Research method used is a descriptive quantitative approach. The target population in this research is Vocational Faculty Employee who has e-office account. The sampling technique used is a census technique or a full sample. The results show that not all e-office account owners have a habit of accessing e-office every day. The most done activity when accessing e-office are reading and printing mail. E-office users believe that using this system can be a solution to the problem of limited storage space and says it is easier to control than before e-office exist. The most accessed information using e-office is student information and the obstacle faced is lack of training for e-office users.
Simplified Mapreduce Mechanism for Large Scale Data Processing
Authors: Tahsir Ahmed Munna Md , Muhammad Allayear Shaikh , Mohtashim Alam Mirza , Shah Mohammad Motiur Rahman Sheikh , Samadur Rahman Md , Mesbahuddin Sarker M
Published: July 2018

MapReduce has become a popular programming model for processing and running large-scale data sets with a parallel, distributed paradigm on a cluster. Hadoop MapReduce is needed especially for large scale data like big data processing. In this paper, we work to modify the Hadoop MapReduce Algorithm and implement it to reduce processing time.
Cloud Based Secure Storage for Online Examination System
Authors: A.R.Gadekar Mr , M.V.Sarode Dr , V.M.Thakare Dr
Published: July 2018

As there has been a vast advancement in information and communication technology, there is a need for change in traditional examination system. Traditional examination system is to be replaced by online examination system. A cloud based solution is proposed to tackle the various issues in educational institutions. Here, we propose architecture for an android based examination system using cloud computing concept. In this we attempt to show an applicability, usage of cloud storage in examination management in education. Android is used to simplify the tasks. The thumb verification device is used to authenticate the user. Some encryption techniques are used for providing security to data.
Mining Rare Patterns by Using Automated Threshold Support
Authors: Mangesh Ghonge Prof. , Neha Rane Miss
Published: July 2018

Essentially the most primary and crucial part of data mining is pattern mining. For acquiring important corre-lations among the information, method called itemset mining plays vital role Earlier, the notion of itemset mining was used to acquire the absolute most often occurring items in the itemset. In some situation, though having utility value less than threshold it is necessary to locate such items because they are of great use. Considering the thought of weight for each and every apparent items brings effectiveness for mining the pattern efficiently. Different mining algorithms are utilized to obtain the correlations among the information items based on frequency with the items in the dataset occurs. In frequent itemset, those things which occurs frequently whereas, in infrequent itemset the items that occur very rarely are obtained. Determining such form of data is tougher than to locate data which occurs frequently. Frequent Itemset Mining (FISM) locates large and frequent itemsets in huge data for example market baskets. Such data has two properties that are not addressed by FISM; Mixture property and projection property. Here the proposed system combines both mixture as well as projection property further providing automated support thresholds.
Multi-agent based data mining aggregation approaches using machine learning techniques
Authors: Devasekhar V , Natarajan P
Published: July 2018

Data Mining is an extraction of important knowledge from the various databases using different kinds of approaches. In the multi agent, distributed mining the knowledge aggregation is one of challenging task. This paper tries to optimize the problem of aggregation and boils down into the solution, which is derived based on the machine learning statistical features of each agents. However, in this paper a novel optimization algorithm called Multi-Agent Based Data Mining Aggregation (MABDA) is used for present day’s scenarios. The MBADA algorithm has agents which collect extracted knowledge and summarizes the various levels of agent’s cluster data into an aggregation with maximum accuracies. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the experimental results are compared with relatively existing methods.
Identificación de grupos estratégicos en el sector de agronegocio
Authors: Vazquez Carrazana Xiomara Esther , Rech Ilirio José , Miranda Gilberto José
Published: July 2018

En los estudios sobre problemas de crecimiento económico de América Latina, es limitado el empleo del enfoque de la eficiencia empresarial como posible solución a las diferentes carencias, lo cual constituyó la motivación para centrar esta investigación en la caracterización de grupos estratégicosdel agronegocio brasileño con la inclusión de otros países concurrentes en la base de datos Economatica. El sustento epistemológico consiste en la concepción de una relación entre los conceptos, los grupos estratégico, el desempeño empresarial y el crecimiento económico. El principal aporte de este estudio consiste en la creación de grupos estratégicos que configuranel desempeño empresarial sugiriendo elementos para explicar el comportamiento de indicadores que explican el crecimiento económico, lo cual fue posible mediante el empleo de la teoría de los conjuntos fuzzy. La muestra fue compuesta por 34 empresas listadas en Economatica, con observaciones de los diferentes indicadores en estudio en once años (2005-2015).
Caracterización de las empresas familiares: caso Durango (México)
Authors: González García Luis Miguel , Castruita Morán Edmundo , Mendoza Raquel
Published: July 2018

El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es determinar las características, la estructura y la operación de las empresas familiares de Durango (México). Se describen las unidades de estudio de acuerdo con criterios sociodemográficos, las etapas del ciclo de vida, la tipología y la etapa generacional, así como el grado de madurez actual de las empresas familiares estudiadas. El método se basa en las variables extraídas de un modelo constituidas por tres sistemas: 1) la familia, 2) el trabajo y 3) la propiedad, denominado de los tres círculos y propuesto por John Davis y Renato Tagiuri en 1980. Este es un modelo que integra tres sistemas o subconjuntos (subvariables) pilares en la existencia de la empresa familiar, complementado con aspectos sociodemográficos, y la aplicación de una herramienta denominada semaforización de madurez, para la determinación del ciclo de vida de las empresas estudiadas.
Estado del Arte: análisis e interpretación de las conclusiones en estudios relacionados con educación física
Authors: Valderrama Vega Edisson
Published: July 2018

En el contexto de las investigaciones en Educación Física se encuentra una amplia gama de intereses y enfoques, que demuestran el gran campo de acción y la incidencia que tiene el área en los procesos de formación. Estos intereses se centran en aspectos como la motivación, los estilos de aprendizaje, las prácticas pedagógicas, la promoción del deporte y la situación actual de la educación física entre otros. En el presente artículo se recogieron las principales conclusiones de 58 investigaciones en Educación física, que dan cuenta de las tendencias investigativas en el área y los resultados más sobresalientes de los mismos, para analizarlos e interpretarlos y así obtener una visión general de la realidad que envuelve la educación física en la actualidad.
The predictors of school refusal: Depression, anxiety, cognitive distortion and attachment
Authors: Tekin Işıl , Erden Seval , Şirin Ayva Asiye Büşra , Büyüköksüz Engin
Published: July 2018

School refusal is one of the main problems observed in almost all levels of education in Turkey. This problem is characterized by difficulties in going to school, staying at school for an entire day or not feeling well at school. School refusal is commonly associated with cognitive evaluations and emotional   problems, and it may also be a source for various other problems. The purpose of this study is to do a research about the predictor power of depression, negative thoughts and attachment styles in school refusal through the sample of Turkish students. Furthermore, the school refusal behavior has also been analysed in terms of some demographical variables such as gender, perceived socio-economic level, and parents’ educational level. The study group consisted of 340 secondary school students studying in Istanbul. School Refusal Assessment Scale-R, The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Short Version, The Experiences in Close Relationships Middle Childhood, and Three Dimensions of Cognitive Scale were used as measurements. Results have indicated that school refusal is predicted by anxiety, depression and negative thoughts but is not predicted by attachment styles such as avoidance and anxiety attachment. The results have been presented and discussed in the light of the literature.
A review of doctoral dissertations in architecture in Turkey
Authors: Erbil Yasemin , Gür Miray
Published: July 2018

The social and scientific importance of doctoral dissertations have increased in the context of Mission Differentiation and Specialization Project in Turkey and potential doctoral studies should be carefully conducted with the aim of contribution to community development, policies, science and practice area through the envisaged research fields.The purpose of this study is to examine doctoral dissertations in architecture in the academic literature within the scope of Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education and to reveal the researchers’ profile with a view to contributing to the evolving research agenda in Turkey. For this purpose quantitative analyses of doctoral dissertations in Architecture in Turkey is made. The universe of the study constitutes 1170 doctoral dissertations completed between 1990-2018, which are archived in the database of the Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education and indexed under the subject architecture. All of the doctoral dissertations included in the sample were analyzed using various standards such as the years they were completed, the language they were written in, the university they were completed in, the gender of the author, and the advisor’s title. The collected data was analyzed with descriptive statistical methods. According to the results, it was found out that the highest number of dissertations produced was in the architectural design discipline, by mostly female researchers, with dissertation supervisors who were mostly professors, while Turkish was the most used language and Istanbul Technical University was the institution where most of the dissertations were produced. The results coming out of this study will be helpful to the increase of research activities in the field of architecture in Turkey, to train researchers in universities in required fields, to direct scientific research in the right way and to contribute to the vision setting activities of universities.
Analiza mechanizmów zachowania spójności w komunikacie multimodalnym na przykładzie relacji na żywo, w ramach teorii modelu sytuacji; propozycja modelu spójności dla telewizyjnego przekazu reporterskiego
Authors: Czoska Agnieszka , Karaśkiewicz Agata
Published: July 2018

W artykule przedstawiono model spójności  komunikatu multimodalnego skonstruowany z perspektywy modelu przetwarzania tekstu Event-Indexing Model. Podejście to pozwala na wyróżnienie dwóch perspektyw analizy spójności komunikatu multimodalnego: paralelnej oraz sekwencyjnej. Umożliwia także porównanie stopnia spójności różnych typów komunikatów multimodalnych oraz przewidywanie wpływu zmian poziomu spójności na przetwarzanie komunikatu. Proponowany model daje możliwość analizy spójności zarówno z punktu widzenia odbiorcy, jak i nadawcy komunikatu.
Adaptive sampling for rapidly matching histograms
Authors: Macke Stephen , Zhang Yiming , Huang Silu , Parameswaran Aditya
Published: July 2018

In exploratory data analysis, analysts often have a need to identify histograms that possess a specific distribution, among a large class of candidate histograms, e.g., find countries whose income distribution is most similar to that of Greece. This distribution could be a new one that the user is curious about, or a known distribution from an existing histogram visualization. At present, this process of identification is brute-force, requiring the manual generation and evaluation of a large number of histograms. We present FastMatch: an end-to-end approach for interactively retrieving the histogram visualizations most similar to a user-specified target, from a large collection of histograms. The primary technical contribution underlying FastMatch is a probabilistic algorithm, HistSim, a theoretically sound sampling-based approach to identify the top-
k
closest histograms under
ℓ
1
distance. While HistSim can be used independently, within FastMatch we couple HistSim with a novel system architecture that is aware of practical considerations, employing asynchronous block-based sampling policies. FastMatch obtains near-perfect accuracy with up to 35× speedup over approaches that do not use sampling on several real-world datasets.
Forkbase
Authors: Wang Sheng , Dinh Tien Tuan Anh , Lin Qian , Xie Zhongle , Zhang Meihui , Cai Qingchao , Chen Gang , Ooi Beng Chin , Ruan Pingcheng
Published: July 2018

Existing data storage systems offer a wide range of functionalities to accommodate an equally diverse range of applications. However, new classes of applications have emerged, e.g., blockchain and collaborative analytics, featuring data versioning, fork semantics, tamper-evidence or any combination thereof. They present new opportunities for storage systems to efficiently support such applications by embedding the above requirements into the storage.

In this paper, we present
ForkBase
, a storage engine designed for blockchain and forkable applications. By integrating core application properties into the storage,
ForkBase
not only delivers high performance but also reduces development effort. The storage manages multiversion data and supports two variants of fork semantics which enable different fork worklflows.
ForkBase
is fast and space efficient, due to a novel index class that supports efficient queries as well as effective detection of duplicate content across data objects, branches and versions. We demonstrate
ForkBase
's performance using three applications: a blockchain platform, a wiki engine and a collaborative analytics application. We conduct extensive experimental evaluation against respective state-of-the-art solutions. The results show that
ForkBase
achieves superior performance while significantly lowering the development effort.
The Choice of Effect Measure for Binary Outcomes: Introducing Counterfactual Outcome State Transition Parameters
Authors: Huitfeldt Anders , Goldstein Andrew , Swanson Sonja A.
Published: July 2018

Standard measures of effect, including the risk ratio, the odds ratio, and the risk difference, are associated with a number of well-described shortcomings, and no consensus exists about the conditions under which investigators should choose one effect measure over another. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for reasoning about choice of effect measure by linking two separate versions of the risk ratio to a counterfactual causal model. In our approach, effects are defined in terms of counterfactual outcome state transition parameters, that is, the proportion of those individuals who would not have been a case by the end of follow-up if untreated, who would have responded to treatment by becoming a case; and the proportion of those individuals who would have become a case by the end of follow-up if untreated who would have responded to treatment by not becoming a case. Although counterfactual outcome state transition parameters are generally not identified from the data without strong monotonicity assumptions, we show that when they stay constant between populations, there are important implications for model specification, meta-analysis, and research generalization.
The Effect of Foreign Equity Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from Poland
Authors: Doś Anna
Published: July 2018

In the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) the origin of the equity is seen as one the drivers of CSR. There is evidence of multinational corporations stimulating diffusion of CSR practices in a few emerging economies. There are no similar studies focusing on the Polish economy. Since CSR practices are country-specific it is important to investigate if and how capital flows foster corporate social responsibility among firms established and operating in Poland. The method applied in the study is a statistical analysis of the ownership structure of firm whose socially responsible practices are highly ranked by the independent think-tanks compared to the ownership structure of their most relevant competitors. The results allow for a more comprehensive understanding of CSR drivers in Poland as well as the role of foreign capital in reshaping economic structures in Poland.
Factors influencing green strength of commercial natural rubber
Authors: Thi Thuong Nghiem , Trung Nghia Phan , Kawahara Seiichi
Published: July 2018

The factors influencing the green strength of commercial solid rubbers were investigated in the present study through characterization of commercial natural rubber (NR). Various solid commercial rubbers such as standard Vietnam rubber (SVR10), standard Indonesia rubber (SIR10), India standard natural rubber (ISNR10), ribbed smoked sheets (RSS3), and FNR (commercial Sumitomo Rubber) were used as a source. Purification of the samples was carried out through acetone extraction and purified samples were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy. Degradation was found for SVR10, ISNR10, and SIR10 but not for RSS3 and FNR through the assignment of 13C-NMR signals. Acetone extraction was found to improve the green strength of commercial NR due to the removal of impurities. Linked fatty acids and proteins contributed to the upturn of stress at small strain. However, the network structure of degraded rubbers had an insignificant role in enhancing the green strength of commercial NR.
Improved yield of carbon fibres from cellulose and kraft lignin
Authors: Bengtsson Andreas , Bengtsson Jenny , Olsson Carina , Sedin Maria , Jedvert Kerstin , Theliander Hans , Sjöholm Elisabeth
Published: July 2018

To meet the demand for carbon-fibre-reinforced composites in lightweight applications, cost-efficient processing and new raw materials are sought for. Cellulose and kraft lignin are each interesting renewables for this purpose due to their high availability. The molecular order of cellulose is an excellent property, as is the high carbon content of lignin. By co-processing cellulose and lignin, the advantages of these macromolecules are synergistic for producing carbon fibre (CF) of commercial grade in high yields. CFs were prepared from precursor fibres (PFs) made from 70:30 blends of softwood kraft lignin (SW-KL) and cellulose by dry-jet wet spinning with the ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIm][OAc]) as a solvent. In focus was the impact of the molecular mass of lignin and the type of cellulose source on the CF yield and properties, while membrane-filtrated kraft lignin and cellulose from dissolving kraft pulp and fully bleached paper-grade SW-KP (kraft pulp) served as sources. Under the investigated conditions, the yield increased from around 22% for CF from neat cellulose to about 40% in the presence of lignin, irrespective of the type of SW-KL. The yield increment was also higher relative to the theoretical one for CF made from blends (69%) compared to those made from neat celluloses (48–51%). No difference in the mechanical properties of the produced CF was observed.
Zur Rolle des allgemein-wissenschafts-sprachlichen Wortschatzes für die Wissenschaftspropädeutik im Übergangsbereich Sekundarstufe II – Hochschule
Authors: Meißner Cordula , Wallner Franziska
Published: July 2018

Die für die Wissenschaftskommunikation charakteristische Kontroversenorientierung spielt für die Aneignung wissenschaftlicher Textkompetenz eine wesentliche Rolle. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand korpuslinguistischer Analysen, wie sich in Ausdrucksroutinen allgemein-wissenschaftssprachlicher Verben die wissenschaftliche Kontroverse sprachlich manifestiert. Mit Blick auf die wissenschaftspropädeutische Sprachsensibilisierung wird aufgezeigt, wie kontroversenbezogene Konventionen von Wissenschaftskommunikation erarbeitet und hierfür konkrete sprachliche Ausdrucksmuster vermittelt werden können.
Hochschulzugangsprüfungen und die Studienrealität: Eine empirische Untersuchung zu Lese- und Wortschatzanforderungen in der Studieneingangsphase
Authors: Möhring Jupp , Bärenfänger Olaf
Published: July 2018

In diesem Beitrag werden die Leseanforderungen in der Studieneingangsphase am Beispiel der Textsorte Lehrbuch im Vergleich zu ausgewählten Hochschulzulassungsprüfungen (DSH, telc C1 Deutsch Hochschule und TestDaF) untersucht. Nach einem Forschungsüberblick wird eine korpusbasierte Studie zur lexikalischen Komplexität der untersuchten Texte vorgestellt. Abschließend werden Schlussfolgerungen für die Entwicklung studienvorbereitender und studienbegleitender Curricula diskutiert.
The acute anti-inflammatory action of xylopic acid isolated from Xylopia aethiopica
Authors: Osafo Newman , Obiri David D. , Antwi Aaron O. , Yeboah Oduro K.
Published: July 2018

Background

Our earlier studies had given evidence of the traditional application of Xylopia aethiopica in the management of inflammation. The principal constituent obtained from its bio-fractionation is xylopic acid. It is a crystalline diterpene that belongs to the class of kauranes. This work sets out to investigate the anti-inflammatory potential of the xylopic acid isolated from the dried fruit of X. aethiopica.

Methods

A preliminary anti-inflammatory study, using the protein denaturation model, and in vivo anti-inflammatory assay were employed in the investigation of acute inflammation. The modulation of the effect of the pro-inflammatory markers histamine, serotonin, bradykinin, and prostaglandin E2 by xylopic acid was investigated by in vivo mice paw oedema models.

Results

Xylopic acid showed a concentration-dependent inhibition of albumen denaturation with an IC50 of 15.55 μg mL−1. Xylopic acid (10, 30, 100 mg kg−1) inhibited the maximal oedema and the average paw thickness (oedema) over the period of each study considerably for all phlogistic agents employed (i.e. carrageenan, histamine, serotonin, bradykinin, and prostaglandin E2) in the inflammation induction for both prophylactic and therapeutic protocols.

Conclusion

This study establishes that xylopic acid has anti-inflammatory action in acute inflammation.
Design of Military Actions in the Operational Environment Hybrid Type
Authors: Neag Mihai Marcel
Published: July 2018

Collective defense arrangements promoted by security-related institutions have generally proven that they can produce the deterrent effect of the armed conflict. However, hybrid warfare actions have challenged the capability of countering and threatening hybrid threats. The paper seeks a point of view on developments in the current operational environment, focusing on the review of the military operations typology in identifying potential measures to counteract the actions of the hybrid war and highlighting the need for a new approach to the construction of armed power in terms of new types risks, challenges and threats
The Intercultural Dimension of Military Action for Combating Hypothetical Adversaries
Authors: Tudorache Paul , Ispas Lucian
Published: July 2018

Defining and analyzing the current typology of threats determines the military structures to operationally and, implicitly, organizationally adapt in order to ensure their ability to deter and combat hypothetical opponents in any operational environment. From the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness of action, it is no longer sufficient to engage the joint and multinational military structures alone, inter agency and intergovernmental action approaches being necessary. On these grounds, the intercultural dimension of the action of the military structures undergoes changes, moving from the internal plan, of the inter force relationships in the organic structure of the multinational military force into the external one, defined by the interactions between the latter and the structures/forces/elements within other agencies, intergovernmental organizations, to which the local population is added
Planning and Time Management
Authors: Dimitrova Vanya , Mancheva-Ali Olga
Published: July 2018

For the fulfilment of any plan or task, the management decisions need time: from several hours to several years. Therefore a special place in planning takes time management, establishing effective use of the staff time and each employee, which is divided into business and personal time. Time is the only resource that is not reproduced, it can’t be overtaken, but you can lag behind it. The task that is not completed within the established timeframe must be completed in the next term, assigned for another task, or at the expense of personal time. Planning and time management or organizing time is a technology to organize and improve the effective use of time