bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme E2 E Inhibits the Accumulation of Rice Stripe Virus in Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén)
Authors: Li Yao , Zhou Ze , Shen Mi , Ge Linquan , Liu Fang
Published: August 2020

The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) is an essential protagonist in host–pathogen interactions. Among the three classes of enzymes in the UPS, ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 plays a dual role in viral pathogenesis; however, the role of insect E2s in interactions with plant viruses is unclear. Twenty E2-encoding genes in Laodelphax striatellus, the small brown planthopper, were identified and classified into 17 groups by transcriptomic and phylogenetic analysis. Full-length cDNAs of four LstrE2s (LstrE2 A/E/G2/H) were obtained by rapid-amplification of cDNA ends (RACE-PCR) analysis. Expression of the four LstrE2s showed tissue- and development-specific patterns. RT-qPCR analyses revealed that Rice stripe viruse (RSV) infection increased the level of LstrE2 A/E/G2/H. Further study indicated that repression of LstrE2 E via RNAi caused significant increases in the expression of RSV coat protein mRNA and protein levels. These findings suggest that LstrE2 E inhibits RSV accumulation in the planthopper body. Understanding the function of LstrE2 E in RSV accumulation may ultimately result in the development of novel antiviral strategies.
The Mottled Capsid of the Salmonella Giant Phage SPN3US, a Likely Maturation Intermediate with a Novel Internal Shell
Authors: Heymann J. Bernard , Wang Bing , Newcomb William W. , Wu Weimin , Winkler Dennis C. , Cheng Naiqian , Reilly Erin R. , Hsia Ru-Ching , Thomas Julie A. , Steven Alasdair C.
Published: August 2020

“Giant” phages have genomes of >200 kbp, confined in correspondingly large capsids whose assembly and maturation are still poorly understood. Nevertheless, the first assembly product is likely to be, as in other tailed phages, a procapsid that subsequently matures and packages the DNA. The associated transformations include the cleavage of many proteins by the phage-encoded protease, as well as the thinning and angularization of the capsid. We exploited an amber mutation in the viral protease gene of the Salmonella giant phage SPN3US, which leads to the accumulation of a population of capsids with distinctive properties. Cryo-electron micrographs reveal patterns of internal density different from those of the DNA-filled heads of virions, leading us to call them “mottled capsids”. Reconstructions show an outer shell with T = 27 symmetry, an embellishment of the HK97 prototype composed of the major capsid protein, gp75, which is similar to some other giant viruses. The mottled capsid has a T = 1 inner icosahedral shell that is a complex network of loosely connected densities composed mainly of the ejection proteins gp53 and gp54. Segmentation of this inner shell indicated that a number of densities (~12 per asymmetric unit) adopt a “twisted hook” conformation. Large patches of a proteinaceous tetragonal lattice with a 67 Å repeat were also present in the cell lysate. The unexpected nature of these novel inner shell and lattice structures poses questions as to their functions in virion assembly.
Cell-Based Influenza A/H1N1pdm09 Vaccine Viruses Containing Chimeric Hemagglutinin with Improved Membrane Fusion Ability
Authors: Kawahara Madoka , Wada Toshiya , Momose Fumitaka , Nobusawa Eri , Morikawa Yuko
Published: August 2020

The H1N1 influenza pandemic vaccine has been developed from the A/California/07/09 (Cal) virus and the well-known high-yield A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) virus by classical reassortment and reverse genetics (RG) in eggs. Previous studies have suggested that Cal-derived chimeric hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) improve virus yields. However, the cell-based vaccine of the H1N1 pandemic virus has been less investigated. RG viruses that contained Cal-derived chimeric HA and NA could be rescued in Madin–Darby canine kidney cells that expressed α2,6-sialyltransferase (MDCK-SIAT1). The viral growth kinetics and chimeric HA and NA properties were analyzed. We attempted to generate various RG viruses that contained Cal-derived chimeric HA and NA, but half of them could not be rescued in MDCK-SIAT1 cells. When both the 3′- and 5′-terminal regions of Cal HA viral RNA were replaced with the corresponding regions of PR8 HA, the RG viruses were rescued. Our results were largely consistent with those of previous studies, in which the N- and C-terminal chimeric HA slightly improved virus yield. Importantly, the chimeric HA, compared to Cal HA, showed cell fusion ability at a broader pH range, likely due to amino acid substitutions in the transmembrane region of HA. The rescued RG virus with high virus yield harbored the chimeric HA capable of cell fusion at a broader range of pH.
Między wolnością a bezpieczeństwem – społeczne i prawne skutki zamachów terrorystycznych w Europie początku XXI wieku
Authors: Sokołowski Mariusz
Published: August 2020

Światem początku XXI w. wstrząsnęły dramatyczne i jakże tragiczne w skutkach zamachy terrorystyczne. 11 września 2001 r. runęły wieże WTC w Nowym Jorku. Trzy lata później bomby wybuchły w Madrycie, a następnie w Londynie. Lata 2015–2016 to cała seria zamachów w Europie. Każdy kolejny incydent niósł za sobą zmianę w poczuciu zagrożenia terroryzmem we wszystkich państwach europejskich. Zauważalna stała się radykalizacja poglądów i postaw ludzkich co do sposobów walki z terroryzmem. Przełożyło się to także na postrzeganie innych, obcych nacji w poszczególnych państwach. Podejmując walkę z terroryzmem poszczególne państwa po kolei wprowadzały zmiany prawa, z jednej strony dające nowe, duże możliwości działania służbom odpowiedzialnym za bezpieczeństwo, z drugiej zaś w dużym stopniu ograniczające prawa i wolności obywatelskie.
PERANCANGAN SISTEM MANAJEMEN KEAMANAN INFORMASI LAYANAN PENGADAAN BARANG/JASA SECARA ELEKTRONIK (LPSE) DI DINAS KOMUNIKASI DAN INFORMATIKA KABUPATEN CIANJUR DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN SNI ISO/IEC 27001:2013
Authors: Nasher Fuad
Published: August 2020

Unit LPSE (Layanan Pengadaan Secara Elektronik) Kabupaten Cianjur merupakan aplikasi  e-procurement dengan konsep Embedded IT system  yang menjalankan fungsinya sebagai pasar virtual yang mempertemukan penyedia barang/jasa dan pihak yang membutuhkan barang/jasa, dengan tujuan guna mewujudkan clean and good government dalam pengadaan barang/jasa Pemerintah. Infrastruktur TI Unit LPSE ini masih menjadi kendala besar dalam pelaksanaanya  yaitu sering terjadi insiden keamanan  informasi yang mengakibatkan terganggunya proses bisnis dikarenakan kurangnya kesadaran akan pentingnya Keamanan Informasi. Dengan dibangunya SMKI, agar informasi dapat dikelola dengan benar, menjamin kelangsungan bisnis, meminimalisir risiko, membatasi dampak dari pelanggaran keamanan dan menjaga aspek Kerahasiaan (confidentiality), keutuhan (Integrity), dan ketersediaan (availability) dari informasi. Perancangan SMKI yang disusun pada penelitian ini mengacu pada standar SNI ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 dan SNI ISO/IEC 27005: 2013. Dalam perancangan SMKI terdapat beberapa tahap yaitu melakukan identifikasi aset informasi, ancaman, kerentanan, risiko, dampak, dan mengevaluasi (Kuesioner) tingkat ketersediaan  berdasarkan kalusul yang dipilh. Sehingga penelitian ini menghasilkan dokumen proses perancangan  SMKI yaitu perancangan Dokumen Manual Keamann Informasi, Prosedur Kerja dan Formulir Kerja.
ASSISTANCE OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF RAS NAMED AFTER V.I. VERNADSKY TO THE TEACHING COMMUNITY BASED ON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Titova A.V. , Mirlin E.G. , Khotchenkov E.V. , Titov G.I.
Published: August 2020

The purpose of the article is to describe the experience of assistance provided by the State Geological Museum of RAS named after V.I. Vernadsky for teachers and teachers of higher
educational institutions, as well as a discussion of the problems arising in this direction. The assistance is based on digital technologies and includes various projects: teleconference, broadcast lectures online, video tours of the museum, work with children in remote access. The organization of work with the teaching community is carried out by the Interuniversity Academic Center for Navigation in the specialties of the mining and geological profile, which brings together museum specialists and leading raw materials higher educational institutions. It is noted that a new form of museum work and the interaction of the museum and the teaching community has revealed certain new problems in this interaction. Their reasons are examined, and it is also emphasized that their elimination will solve the very urgent problem of the wide use of the wealth of Russian museums of various profiles in the work of teachers and teachers of institutes and universities.
NANO GRAPHITE FILM-CONTROLLED ELECTRICAL SWITCH
Authors: Lebedev S.G.
Published: August 2020

The effect of switching electrical resistivity in nanographite films is described. In contrast to the cases published earlier, switching in nanographite films occurs from a stable state with high conductivity to a metastable state with low conductivity. The critical switching current varies in the range of 10–500 mA and can be increased to values of 100 A or more, suitable for using nanographite switches in intelligent electric networks as contactless current limiters and circuit breakers. Possible mechanisms of the switching phenomenon in nanographite films are discussed.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF THE 2019 AND 2020 COMPETITIONS FOR THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE GRANTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR STATE SUPPORT OF YOUNG RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS – DOCTORS OF SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY DOCTORS (Ph. D)
Authors: Ivanov B.V. , Kristalinskaya S.V. , Gladysheva E.A. , Kirilovskaya I.S. , Shekhanova O.V. , Dobrynin D.A.
Published: August 2020

The article presents a comparative analysis of the results of the grant competitions of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists in 2019 and 2020: the distribution of the winners of the competitions by areas of knowledge, federal districts, regions, departments and organizations is analyzed; the article summarizes data on the number of publi-cations of the winners of competitions, indexed in international information-analytical systems
of scientific citation, in the areas of the Strategy for scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation.
PEMBELAJARAN PAI BERBASIS MULTIKULTURAL DALAM RANGKA TOLERANSI UMAT BERAGAMA
Authors: Imam Mashuri
Published: August 2020

The purpose of this study have to know the management of multicultural-based Islamic religious education learning in the build up religious tolerance students  of SMK 17 August 1945 Genteng. The data  collection have done are passive participatoryobservation, semi-structured interviews and documentation. The sampling technique used purposive sampling that is the technique of taking data sources with certain considerations. while, to analyze the data using descriptive qualitative technical analysis, which is one type of research that seeks to describe objects systematically in accordance with what they are. The results showed that the planning of Islamic religious education learning based on multiculturalism in fostering the tolerance of student, teacher of islamic religion education do not have special planning, Islamic religious education teachers make learning plans in accordance with the curriculum used and in accordance with the material presented. Submission of material only prepare material that is related to multicultural values.
MEMOTIVASI SISWA UNTUK BELAJAR DENGAN VARIASI METODE DAN PENERAPAN PAIKEM
Authors: Ahmad Baihaki
Published: August 2020

Good classroom management will produce good teaching and learning interactions. Learner goals can be achieved without finding significant obstacles. But it is unfortunate that good classroom conditions cannot always be maintained. There is often a lack of learning in students, their confusion here is different, and various other learning problems. This may be due to their routine in learning. They routinely enter class, take a break, go home according to the time determined by the school. At the same time, the learning methods used by the teacher are also routine, aka not changing. So, this article is arranged to contribute ideas about solutions to these learning problems. After a literature review, a solution to the problem is offered, namely the use of a variety of learning methods and the application of PAIKEM.
Animal Wastes as Thermoplastic Composite Reinforcement Materials for Sustainable Development
Authors:   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria, Issa A.K. , Idris M.H ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria, Tikau M.I. ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Published: August 2020

Nowadays solid wastes are becoming serious environmental challenges in Africa and most especially in Nigeria. Many strategies that are employed by local, state and federal government to curb the situation are always sabotaged due to poor altitude to waste management and corruption. Among these solid wastes are animal waste viz: chicken feather, animal horn, hoof, bone and hair (wool), human hair, silk and so on. These wastes contain keratin and collagen which make them viable for reinforcement materials in developing thermoplastic composite apart from their lighter weight, availability and bio-degradability. This paper presents review on utilization of animal waste as workable alternative fibre to synthetic fibres which are not recyclable and biodegradable. Furthermore, it provides some important data that can facilitate the usage of these animal fibres in order to achieve both economic and social sustainable development.
Circular Based Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors:   Electronics and Communication Engineering, Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkot, Karnataka, India., Bendigeri* Kirankumar Y. , Kumbalavati Santosh B. ,   Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkot, Karnataka, India., Mallapur Jayashree D. ,   Electronics and Communication Engineering, Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkot, Karnataka, India.
Published: August 2020

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is one of the promising technologies in today’s world. Applications can be from home, science, industry, medical and so on. In every field it is proving to be one of the best methods adopted like for example patient monitoring from home to hospitals using sensors and internet at a low cost is possible. In this paper study on node placement is considered as most of the sensor network has random based deployment of nodes during simulation. Random node placements have densely placed nodes in a certain area and sometimes only few nodes are deployed in a same area. This is purely because of random distribution of nodes and thus has impact on overall performance of WSN. Proposed method considers circular based deployment for routing in WSN with its own algorithm. Circular based node deployment is a combination of random and grid based approach and proves to be effective way of routing packets to destination. Simulation results show that performance of network in terms of computation is better than the existing methods.
Sybil Attack Detection in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks using Direct Trust Calculation
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India., V Sunil Kumar , D R Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh Babu ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India.
Published: August 2020

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are gaining rapid momentum with the increasing number of vehicles on the road. VANETs are ad-hoc networks where vehicles exchange information about the traffic, road conditions to each other or to the road-side infrastructures. VANETs are characterized by high mobility and dynamic topology changes due to the high-speed vehicles in the network. These characteristics pose security challenges as vehicles can be conceded. It is critical to address security for the sake of protecting private data of vehicle and to avoid flooding of false data which defeats the purpose of VANETs. Sybil attack is one of the attacks where a vehicle fakes multiple vehicle identity to compromise the whole network. In this work, a direct trust manager is introduced which derives the trust value of each of its neighbor nodes at a regular interval of time. If the trust value is deviated, it confirms sybil attack. The proposed system is compared with the existing system to prove improved sybil attack detection ratio, thus providing better security. NS2 environment is used to prove the simulation results. The experimental results show that the attack detection ratio of SAD-V-DTC is 5 times better than that of the existing system. The packet delivery ratio shows an improvement of 27.27% while the false positive shows a good increase of 65.80% than the existing system.
Prediction and Classification into Benign and Malignant using the Clinical Testing Features
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jain (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India., Adepoju* Olawale , Verma C Dr. Devaraj ,   Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jain (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India.
Published: August 2020

Breast Cancer is the most often identified cancer among women and a major reason for the increased mortality rate among women. As the diagnosis of this disease manually takes long hours and the lesser availability of systems, there is a need to develop the automatic diagnosis system for early detection of cancer. The advanced engineering of natural image classification techniques and Artificial Intelligence methods has largely been used for the breast-image classification task. Data mining techniques contribute a lot to the development of such a system, Classification, and data mining methods are an effective way to classify data. For the classification of benign and malignant tumors, we have used classification techniques of machine learning in which the machine learns from the past data and can predict the category of new input. This study is a relative study on the implementation of models using Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Naïve Bayes on Breast cancer Wisconsin (Original) Data Set. With respect to the results of accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, error rate, and f1 score, the efficiency of each algorithm is measured and compared. Our experiments have shown that SVM is the best for predictive analysis with an accuracy of 99.28% and naïve Bayes with an accuracy of 98.56%. It is inferred from this study that SVM is the well-suited algorithm for prediction.
On the Secrecy Outage of Wiretap Channel
Authors:   Department of ECE, G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science, India., Bethi Reshmitha , Allipuram Sujatha ,   Department of ECE, G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science, India.
Published: August 2020

In wireless data transmission, providing security over communication channels has become a growing concern. Traditionally cryptography is used to provide secrecy. However, physical layer studies show that it allows a huge potential in providing secrecy. In this paper, secrecy outage probability is derived for Rician fading channels. A new secrecy metric Generalized Secrecy Outage Probability(GSOP) derivation is considered to overcome the limitation of traditional Outage probability for both passive and active cases of eavesdropping.
Speed Control of AC Motor
Authors:   Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, Malla Reddy Engineering College (Autonomous), Hyderabad, India., Sudha* Y. , Pooja P. ,   Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, Malla Reddy Engineering College (Autonomous), Hyderabad, India., Rama K ,   Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, B.V.Raju Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India., Shweta P. ,   Department of Electrical Engineering, Zeal College of engineering & Research, Pune, India.
Published: August 2020

An enormous number of motors have been using in our daily life ranging from home appliances to industrial machinery. During the last decade, there has been tremendous change industry automation and home automation. Electric motor is always the essential part in home appliances as well as industrial applications in the automation. There is always a need to control the speed of the motor to run the appliances smoothly. Other important part of the appliances is the microcontroller. Microcontroller is always the essential part in all the embedded system applications because of its economical price and easy to customize to any specific need. Electronic devices like thyristors, diodes have been widely used in industrial applications to control the speed of the motor The Objective of this paper is to control the induction motor speed by using triac and zero crossing detector. Usually in many industrial applications speed varying is important to run the process in different stages, this paper demonstrates the mechanism of varying the speed of the AC Motor. The circuit is equipped with microcontroller and the induction motor. Induction motor is controlled by using triac and zero crossing detector by controlling the pulses of input AC signal. Microcontroller input is connected with two input modules that is one increment switch and one decrement switch. Increment switch is used to increase the speed of motor by varying in steps that is already dumped the code in microcontroller and also same for decrement switch. An LCS screen has been used to display the speed of the motor. Touch screen is used to operate the motor.
Generating Video from Images using GANs
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, India., G P* Anoosh , G Chetan ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, India., M Mohan Kumar ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, India., BN Priyanka ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, India., Nagaraj Nagashree ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
Published: August 2020

Generative adversarial networks are a category of neural networks used extensively for the generation of a wide range of content. The generative models are trained through an adversarial process that offers a lot of potential in the world of deep learning. GANs are a popular approach to generate new data from random noise vector that are similar or have the same distribution as that in the training data set. The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) approach has been proposed to generate more realistic images. An extension of GANs is the conditional GANs which allows the model to condition external information. Conditional GANs have seen increasing uses and more implications than ever. We also propose a new framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, in which we simultaneously train two models, a generative model G that captures the data distribution, and a discriminative model D that estimates the probability that a sample came from the training data rather than G. Our work aims at highlighting the uses of conditional GANs specifically with Generating images. We present some of the use cases of conditional GANs with images specifically in video generation.
Evaluation of Distributed Generation Impact on Reliability of a Distribution System using DIgSILENT PowerFactory
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, JSS Science & Technology University, Mysuru, Karnataka, India., B. S. Mr. Ravishankar , V K Mr. Vijayendra ,   PG-Scholar, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, JSS Science & Technology University, Mysuru, Karnataka, India, Veeramanju Dr. K T ,   Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, JSS Science & Technology University, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
Published: August 2020

As an effective supplement to the centralized fossil fuel based traditional generation, Distributed Generation (DG) has become an effective alternative choice and has been rapidly increasing since past few years due to growing demand for electricity and the new policies of governing bodies for usage of green energy. In overall power system, distribution systems are more vulnerable to faults and reliability aspects of such systems becomes an important issue. With higher penetration of DG into the distribution network, it will be necessary to study the impact of such generation on the various aspects of distribution system. Thus, increase in rate of penetration DGs into the distribution system on one side and increased faults in distribution network on another side, will make the study of impact of DG integration on distribution system reliability an interesting topic of research. The present work focuses on evaluation of impacts of integration of such DGs on reliability of local distribution network, typically in an urban scenario By using the simulation method using DIgSILENT PowerFactory software, the impacts of integration of DG in terms of enhancement in distribution system reliability indices and reduction in system losses for different scenarios are studied and presented in this paper. Based on the simulation results obtained and after analysis of the distribution system, overall results are summarized by focusing on the installation of suitable capacity of DG and the location of DG which are important factors affecting the system losses and system reliability indices.
Ductility Behaviour of Rectangular Compression Members Retrofitted by Modified Technique of FRP Wrapping
Authors:   Department of Civil Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Yelahanka, Bengaluru, India., Manjunatha* L. , Sachin B. V. ,   Department of Civil Engineering, SJB Institute of Technology, Kengeri, Bengaluru, India., Bai H. Sharada ,   Department of Civil Engineering, University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, K.R. Circle, Bengaluru, India.
Published: August 2020

This paper presents an experimental investigation on ductility behaviour of reinforced concrete compression members, rectangular in cross section, modified to elliptical shape in cross section by bonding precast segment covers followed by Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer wrapping (CFRP) under concentric and eccentric loading conditions. Eighteen reinforced concrete rectangular compression members of size 100mm×150mm in cross section and 300mm in height were prepared using normal-strength concrete. Reinforcement ratio was kept at minimum, to simulate compression members that need retrofitting. Out of eighteen specimens, nine specimens were converted to elliptical shape in cross section. From nine remaining rectangular specimens, three specimens retained as it is without wrapping FRP and designated as Group1, remaining six specimens were wrapped with one and two layers of CFRP and designated as Group2. Out of nine elliptical specimens, three specimens were retained as it is without wrapping FRP and designated as Group3, remaining six elliptical specimens were wrapped with one and two layers of CFRP and designated as Group4. Specimens were tested upto failure under monotonic axial compression with concentric and eccentric load conditions. From the experimental results, it is observed that rectangular compression members shape modified to ellipse in cross section and then wrapped with CFRP show outstanding increase in the ultimate load carrying capacity which may be due to increased cross sectional area and effective confinement of FRP wrapping. As the number of layers of CFRP increases the ultimate load carrying capacity increases. With increase in eccentricity, the ultimate loads of the compression members were found to be decreased. Elliptical specimens wrapped with one and two layers of CFRP reported exponential increase in deformation ductility under concentric load condition and considerable increase under eccentric load condition compared to rectangular specimens wrapped with CFRP.
Target Characterization and Scattering Power Decomposition for Full and Compact Polarimetric SAR Data
Authors: Dey Subhadip , Bhattacharya Avik , Ratha Debanshu , Mandal Dipankar , Frery Alejandro C.
Published: August 2020

This manuscript was accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Abstract: In radar polarimetry, incoherent target decomposition
techniques help extract scattering information from polarimetric
SAR data. This is achieved either by fitting appropriate scattering models or by optimizing the received wave intensity
through the diagonalization of the coherency (or covariance)
matrix. As such, the received wave information depends on
the received antenna configuration. Additionally, a polarimetric
descriptor that is independent of the received antenna configuration might provide additional information which is missed by the individual elements of the coherency matrix. This implies that existing target characterization techniques might neglect this information. In this regard, we suitably utilize the 2D and 3D Barakat degree of polarization which is independent of the received antenna configuration to obtain distinct polarimetric information for target characterization. In this study, we introduce new roll-invariant scattering-type parameters for both full-polarimetric (FP) and compact-polarimetric (CP) SAR data. These new parameters jointly use the information of the 2D and 3D Barakat degree of polarization and the elements of the coherency (or covariance) matrix. We use these new scattering type parameters, which provide equivalent information as the Cloude alpha for FP SAR data and the ellipticity parameter chi for CP SAR data, to characterize various targets adequately. Additionally, we appropriately utilize these new scattering-type parameters to obtain unique non-model based three-component scattering power decomposition techniques. We obtain the even-bounce, and the odd-bounce scattering powers by modulating the total polarized power by a proper geometrical factor derived using the new scattering-type parameters for FP and CP SAR data. The diffused scattering power is obtained as the depolarized fraction of the total power. Moreover, due to the nature of its formulation, the decomposition scattering powers are nonnegative and roll-invariant while the total power is conserved. The proposed method is both qualitatively and quantitatively assessed utilizing the L-band ALOS-2 and C-band Radarsat-2 FP and the associated simulated CP SAR data.
Rectification Performance of a Broadband RF-to-DC Rectifier on Wideband Pulses
Authors: Hong Sun , Park Hong Soo
Published: August 2020

For wireless
power transfer and energy harvesting applications, an advantage of having a broadband
rectifier is the coverage of a wide range of narrowband frequencies as well as
wideband pulses. Many broadband rectifiers have been recently proposed, but
their reported characteristics are mainly evaluated at discrete frequencies.
Due to the nonlinear nature of rectifiers, such frequency domain
characteristics may not directly correspond to the time-domain, especially when
input signals are wideband pulses. Here report the performance
evaluation of a broadband rectifier on wideband pulses with various pulse
parameters. We use our recently proposed broadband rectifier as a test
device. Using Gaussian-modulated RF pulses with various pulse parameters, the rectification performance is verified
via simulation and measurement. The results demonstrate sufficient
rectification efficiency even for short pulses under appropriate parameters,
where a maximum rectification efficiency of 71 % is obtained.
Titanium Carbide: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Authors: Mhadhbi Mohsen
Published: August 2020

Composite materials are known in various forms. The two distinctive constituents of these composite materials are the matrix material and the reinforcement material. A variety of materials are used as reinforcing material in composites titanium carbide (TiC). TiC acquired considerable attention because of its unique properties, which make it very attractive for advanced applications. The current review summarizes various synthesis techniques to produce TiC nanocomposite and highlights the major industrial applications of TiC. It was found that for certain techniques, the TiC powder has been synthesized directly, with different shapes and sizes, within a relatively very short time by eliminating a number of intermediate processes. However, this review deals with the detailed literature survey carried out on the preparation of titanium carbide powder, and also covers analyzes the results from the experiments conducted on the preparation of powder by the works of several researchers. Therefore, in-depth conclusions have been done on the research processes that are being carried out on improving the properties of TiC reinforced composites.
HUC12 Areas of Analysis for National Park Service Units for use in the National Park Environmental Settings Monitoring Protocol, 2018
Authors: Kinseth Michelle , Nelson Lisa , Kinseth Michelle , Nelson Lisa
Published: August 2020

This data report (and associated datasets) documents the acquisition, preparation and creation of National Park Service (NPS) HUC12 Areas of Analysis (AOAs) for use within the Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M). AOA datasets were updated through September 30, 2018 and supersede all previous releases/versions.

I&M works with many, but not all, of the more than 400 park units across the NPS. Landscape dynamics, weather, and stream hydrology measures are monitored using methods outlined in the NPS Environmental Settings protocol (DeVivo et al. 2018) which includes areas inside and near parks with significant natural resources. Annually, HUC12 AOAs within the boundary of or intersecting the boundary of a park are updated or added based on boundary changes and/or custom requests made throughout the year. The AOAs dataset documented in this report is intended for use within the Inventory and Monitoring Program and may not include all parks, units, or other areas of interest to the NPS.
ФРАНЧАЙЗИНГ: СУТНІСТЬ ТА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНИЙ ПОРЯДОК ВІДОБРАЖЕННЯ ПАРТНЕРСЬКИХ ВІДНОСИН
Authors: Присвітла О.В.
Published: August 2020

Стаття присвячена проблемам і перспективам розвитку франчайзингу в Україні. Світова економіка характеризується високим ступенем глобалі-зації та інтеграції, тому постає необхідність активізації інноваційної діяль-ності, а налагодження тісного торговельного, інвестиційного та коопера-ційного співробітництва сприятиме включенню в процес формування но-вих моделей економічного розвитку, основою яких стане оновлення еко-номічних систем на основі технологічної модернізації. Актуальність здо-бувають нетрадиційні методи фінансування інноваційної діяльності, до числа яких належить франчайзинг. У статті розкрито сутність франчайзингових відносин, досліджено розвиток франчайзингу в Україні, а також механізм здійснення франчайзингових відносин. Визначено переваги та недоліки для основних суб’єктів франчайзингових відносин. Обґрунтовано необхідність та значення організації бізнесу на умовах франчайзингу.
КЛАСИФІКАЦІЯ ТА АНАЛІЗ СУЧАСНИХ ІНСТРУМЕНТІВ КОНТРОЛІНГУ ДЛЯ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ВИРОБНИ-ЧИХ ЕНЕРГОСИСТЕМ
Authors: Дегтярьова О.О.
Published: August 2020

У статті досліджено функціонально-інструментальні аспекти новітнього напряму розвитку концепції контролінгу – енергетичного контролінгу. Його особливістю є поєднання деяких контрольно-технічних із традиційними фінансово-економічними інструментами в межах виконання функцій контролінгу. Згідно з проведеною класифікацією системно згенеровано та описано інструментарій енергетичного контролінгу за ознаками цілі використання та очікуваного результату. На основі аналізу застосування інструментів енергетичного контролінгу в господарчій діяльності низки промислових підприємств було зроблено висновок щодо виконання його функцій. Крім того, було виявлено потенціал підвищення енергоефективності досліджуваних підприємств економічними методами за рахунок розширення інструментальної бази, що використовуватиме енергетична служба.
ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ СТАЛОГО РОЗВИТКУ ДОНЕЦЬКОГО РЕГІОНУ НА ЗАСАДАХ ЦИРКУЛЯРНОЇ ЕКОНОМІКИ
Authors: Артюхіна М.В.
Published: August 2020

Екологічні проблеми Донбасу, посилені кризою, негативно впливають на всі сфери суспільного життя. Питання екологічної безпеки регіону є критичним та потребує негайного реагування з боку усіх зацікавлених сторін та громадськості. Стратегія розвитку регіону має бути спрямована не тільки на стале функціонування підприємств та організацій Донбасу, але й на вирішення екологічних проблем шляхом застосування концепції розвитку циркулярної економіки. У статті розглянуто досвід підприємств малого й середнього бізнесу (далі – МСБ) Донеччини, які займаються вторинною переробкою сировини та використанням у виробництві старих товарів, а також звертається увага на формування та функціонування галузевих кластерів. Важливим ефектом дії майже всіх наявних кластерів на Донбасі є зменшення екологічного тиску на довкілля внаслідок людської діяльності. Розглянуто вплив кластерів на формування циркулярної економіки в регіоні. Економічна активність створених кластерів передбачає отримання результатів від підвищення ефективності використання природних ресурсів та зменшення шкідливих викидів. Перспективним під час вирішення проблем сталого розвитку Донецького регіону на стратегічних засадах циркулярної економіки вважається процес створення універсальних рекомендацій та моделей розвитку для підприємств МСБ та їх об’єднань з урахуванням регіональної специфіки та одночасного зростання економічної та екологічної ефективності.
ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ СУТНОСТІ БАНКІВСЬКОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ
Authors: Рудевська В.І.
Published: August 2020

У статті досліджено наукові підходи до визначення сутності банківсь-кої діяльності. У процесі аналізу виявлено, що в науковому середовищі є плюралізм у трактуванні сутності банківської діяльності, проте є можливість їх згрупувати за концептуальними підходами до визначення змісту банківської діяльності. У статті розглянуто історичний розвиток банківської діяльності, що свідчить про позитивну динаміку зростання ролі банків в економіці. Важливо, щоб банківський сектор економіки розвивався синхронно з національним господарством. З часом класична банківська діяльність доповнилася новими видами банківських операцій та банківських послуг, що свідчить про початок процесу трансформації банківського бізнесу. Діяльність банків набуває нових рис у класичних операціях та розширює сферу послуг у контексті технологічного прогресу, що не змінює сутності банківської діяльності. У дослідженні обґрунтовано власне трактування банківської діяльності, яке дає можливість врахувати функціональні особливості банківської діяльності, наявність яких дає змогу її чітко ідентифікувати та підкреслити соціальний та економічний ефекти від неї.
ОБЛІКОВЕ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ-ДИСТРИБ’ЮТОРІВ ФАРМАЦЕВТИЧНОЇ ПРОДУКЦІЇ
Authors: Кірсанова В.В. , Ковальова О.М.
Published: August 2020

У статті визначено фактори, що відображають особливості сучасного стану фармацевтичного ринку України. Проаналізовано динамічні показники розвитку українського фармацевтичного ринку у розрізі видів лікарських засобів, цінового сегменту, змін у законодавстві щодо імпорту лікарських засобів в умовах епідеміологічної кризи, розподілу українського фармацевтичного ринку між компаніями, що забезпечують імпорт необхідних фармацевтичних товарів, імпорту фармацевтичних товарів у розрізі країн походження товарів. Сформовано вимоги до обліку фармацевтичних товарів, дебіторської та кредиторської заборгованості підприємств-дистриб’юторів фармацевтичних товарів. Відповідно до визначених особливостей фармацевтичного ринку країни розроблено пропозиції щодо робочого плану рахунків підприємств-дистриб’юторів фармацевтичних товарів задля оптимізації співпраці з контрагентами та приймання управлінських рішень з урахуванням промоції лікарських засобів.
СИСТЕМНА ТОРГОВЕЛЬНО-КОНКУРЕНТНА ВЗАЄМОДІЯ ЄС-МЕРКОСУР
Authors: Заяць О.І.
Published: August 2020

У статті досліджується сучасний стан системної торговельно-конкурентної взаємодії між інтеграційними угрупуваннями. Визначено формалізацію економічних відносин між міждержавними інтеграційними об’єднаннями як феномен сучасного глобального господарства. Доведено, що стан будь-якого інтеграційного угрупування визначається не тільки внутрішнім потенціалом та взаємодією між країнами-членами об’єднання, але й ступенем економіко-конкурентного співробітницва, оскільки стає очевидним, що економіка країн-членів інтеграційного угрупування не може замикатися в межах об’єднання, а повинна розширювати свої економіко-конкурентні зв’язки з іншими суб’єктами глобального господарства. Проаналізовано формалізацію зони вільної торгівлі між Європейським союзом (ЄС) та Південноамериканським спільним ринком (МЕРКОСУР).
ІТ-СЕКТОР УКРАЇНИ: СУЧАСНІ РЕАЛІЇ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ
Authors: Богма О.С. , Савченко В.І.
Published: August 2020

У статті розглянуто сучасний стан, проблеми та перспективи розвитку ІТ-сектору України. Встановлено, що вітчизняний ІТ-сектор стабільно розвивається протягом останніх років, проте експертні оцінки перспектив його зростання неоднозначні. Виявлено, що до проблем галузі ІТ у країні належать переважання на ринку аутсорсингових компаній, домінування на ринку великих гравців, текучка кадрів, конкурентні переваги, побудовані на низьких податках. Обґрунтовано доцільність розвитку ІТ-сектору України на основі зосередження зусиль на «продукті». Запропоновано шляхи розвитку й нарощення конкурентних переваг ІТ-компаніями України на основі консолідації на основі поглинання або створення макрокластеру. Виявлено, що в межах об’єднання зусиль у макрокластері вітчизняні ІТ-компанії можуть реалізувати масштабні проєкти, зокрема проєкти з розроблення та запровадження автоматизованих і роботизованих систем організації виробництва, вдосконалення автоматизованих систем управління, розроблення технологій виробництва в умовах космосу, а також вирішити проблеми освіти в галузі ІТ. Проаналізовано основні переваги кластерного підходу для розвитку сектору ІТ в Україні.
Rebel without Causes: The 1960s Thai Pop Music and Bangkok Youth Culture
Authors: Sawangchot Viriya
Published: August 2020

In this paper, I would like to acknowledge that 1960s to the 1970s American popular culture, particularly in rock ‘n’ roll music, have been contested by Thai context. In term of this, the paper intends to consider American rock ’n’ roll has come to function as a mode of humanization and emancipation of Bangkok youngster rather than ideological domination.

In order to understand this process, this paper aims to focus on the origins and evolution of rock ‘n’ roll and youth culture in Bangkok in the 1960s to 1970s. The birth of pleng shadow

and pleng string will be discussed in this context as well.
Film Tourism Indonesian Style: The Cases of Laskar Pelangi and Eat Pray Love
Authors: Kusumawardhana Indra , Imanjaya Ekky
Published: August 2020

Film-induced tourism becomes a new emerging issue in tourism and scholarly research for the last 10 years. London’s “Harry Potter” series and New Zealand’s “Lord of the Rings” are among the best practices of the trend. On the other hand, Indonesia is a country with many beautiful places to visit by both local and international tourists. The number of visitors increases significantly every year. However, there is no contribution from film industry, both from local or international production, related to this increasing numbers of tourists, not before national movie production “Laskar Pelangi, 2008” (Rainbow Troops, 2008) by Riri Riza, and international box office movie production “Eat, Pray Love, 2010”. The study research will discuss about film induced tourism issues in Indonesia, particularly on why and how the two films--so far, until recently, only those two films--became phenomenon in film tourism--and why other films did not.
STRATEGI HUMAS PEMERINTAH KOTA SURAKARTA DALAM MEMPUBLIKASIKAN SIPA MAHASWARA
Authors: Mahendra Tiffany S , Purnawijaya Jaya
Published: August 2020

Pemerintah Kota (Pemkot) Surakarta untukmenjadikansebagaikota budaya melakukan banyak kegiatan yang bernuansa seni-budaya. Salah satunya adalahSolo International Performing Art (SIPA),diadakantiap tahun sejak 2009. SIPAMahaswara adalah pagelaran ke 8 yang dilaksanakan Tahun2016. Humas Pemkot Surakarta memiliki strategi untuk mensukseskan acaratersebut. Strategi yang dilakukan menggunakan berbagai macam media publikasi seperti media online dan media cetak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui wawancara,observasi,dan penelusuran dokumen. Analisis data menggunakan Miles & Huberman, menemukan hasil bahwa Humas Pemkot Surakarta melakukan publikasi secara keseluruhan terhadap kegiatanSIPA.Dalam hal publikasi SIPA Mahaswara, pihak Pemkot Surakarta menggunakan berbagai media seperti brosur, leaflet, poster, flyer, media internal, dan press release. Media internal yang digunakan terdiri dari beberapa macam media seperti media sosial baik milikHumas Pemkot Surakarta, Dinas Pariwisata dan SIPA, buku calender of eventdan papan pengumuman yang diletakan di hotel-hotel yang ada di Solo, website baik dari Pemkot Surakarta dan SIPA, serta aplikasi solo destinationyang hanya dapat diunggahdi android.

Kata Kunci:strategi komunikasi, publikasi, media publikasi,, sipa mahaswara\

There are so many activities about art and culture to make Surakarta's City Government as a city of culture. One of the activities is Solo International Performing Art (SIPA)Mahaswara which was held in 2016. In order to be successful, Surakarta's City Government used a strategy to publicize their event. Pemkot Surakarta used online media and printed media for their PR strategy. In this study, the researcher uses gualitative method by interview and observation. From analysis using Miles & Huberman, Public Relations of Surakarta's City Government publicized all information about activities that were held by City Government. Publicity for each event was performed by the executor SIPA and coordinated by Dinas Pariwisata Surakarta. So, Surakarta's City Govenrment conducted publicity in general, and technically, details of the publication activities are carried out by SIPA as executor.

Keywords:strategic communication, publication, media publication, sipa mahaswara.
Perencanaan Komunikasi Pemasaran Wonderful Indonesia Sebagai Place Branding Indonesia
Authors: Mutma Fasya Syifa , Dyanasari Reni
Published: August 2020

Tourism is a leading sector that became the foundation of the economy in Indonesia. As a leading sector, tourism plays an important role in increasing foreign exchange and expanding employment. Therefore, the government is focusing the tourism sector through marketing communication activities conducted by Kemenpar, one of them by using Wonderful Indonesia. Wonderful Indonesia is currently considered to have successfully promoted Indonesian tourism abroad. Because of the success, the researcher is interested to research about marketing communication planning conducted by Kemenpar by using qualitative approach and deep interview method. The results of this study indicate that Kemenpar performs all marketing communication planning steps covering three key resources, situation analysis, objectives, strategy, tactics, implementation and control that can support Indonesian place branding by fulfilling ten components in place branding. The findings in this research are Branding Advertising Selling (BAS) strategy which is always used for every marketing communication activity. In this strategy Kemenpar not only branding Wonderful Indonesia, but also tried to sell Indonesia tourism destinations.

Keywords : Wonderful Indonesia, Marketing Communication Planning, Place Branding