bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Phospholemman Phosphorylation Regulates Vascular Tone, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension in Mice and Humans
Authors: Boguslavskyi Andrii , Tokar Sergiy , Prysyazhna Oleksandra , Rudyk Olena , Sanchez-Tatay David , Lemmey Hamish A.L. , Dora Kim A. , Garland Christopher J. , Warren Helen R. , Doney Alexander , Palmer Colin N.A. , Caulfield Mark J. , Vlachaki Walker Julia , Howie Jacqueline , Fuller William , Shattock Michael J.
Published: December 2020

Background:

Although it has long been recognized that smooth muscle Na/K ATPase modulates vascular tone and blood pressure (BP), the role of its accessory protein phospholemman has not been characterized. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that phospholemman phosphorylation regulates vascular tone in vitro and that this mechanism plays an important role in modulation of vascular function and BP in experimental models in vivo and in humans.

Methods:

In mouse studies, phospholemman knock-in mice (PLM
3SA
; phospholemman [FXYD1] in which the 3 phosphorylation sites on serines 63, 68, and 69 are mutated to alanines), in which phospholemman is rendered unphosphorylatable, were used to assess the role of phospholemman phosphorylation in vitro in aortic and mesenteric vessels using wire myography and membrane potential measurements. In vivo BP and regional blood flow were assessed using Doppler flow and telemetry in young (14–16 weeks) and old (57–60 weeks) wild-type and transgenic mice. In human studies, we searched human genomic databases for mutations in phospholemman in the region of the phosphorylation sites and performed analyses within 2 human data cohorts (UK Biobank and GoDARTS [Genetics of Diabetes Audit and Research in Tayside]) to assess the impact of an identified single nucleotide polymorphism on BP. This single nucleotide polymorphism was expressed in human embryonic kidney cells, and its effect on phospholemman phosphorylation was determined using Western blotting.

Results:

Phospholemman phosphorylation at Ser63 and Ser68 limited vascular constriction in response to phenylephrine. This effect was blocked by ouabain. Prevention of phospholemman phosphorylation in the PLM
3SA
mouse profoundly enhanced vascular responses to phenylephrine both in vitro and in vivo. In aging wild-type mice, phospholemman was hypophosphorylated, and this correlated with the development of aging-induced essential hypertension. In humans, we identified a nonsynonymous coding variant, single nucleotide polymorphism rs61753924, which causes the substitution R70C in phospholemman. In human embryonic kidney cells, the R70C mutation prevented phospholemman phosphorylation at Ser68. This variant’s rare allele is significantly associated with increased BP in middle-aged men.

Conclusions:

These studies demonstrate the importance of phospholemman phosphorylation in the regulation of vascular tone and BP and suggest a novel mechanism, and therapeutic target, for aging-induced essential hypertension in humans.
Evaluation of articles in metabolism research on the basis of their citations
Authors: Zhan Yi Xiang , Turner D’arcy , Tritz Daniela , Natarajan Kelly , Som Mo , Vassar Matt
Published: December 2020

Introduction: The number of research papers and journals each year is increasing and millions of dollars are spent. Despite this there is evidence to
suggest that many publications do not impact clinical practice. We used citation analysis to measure the influence of metabolism publications from
2003-2013. Those papers with lower citation rates are likely to be of the least value and high rates of such publications may be a marker of research
waste.
Materials and methods: We analysed 67 journals with 81,954 articles related to metabolism indexed on the Scopus station database from 2003-
2013. We identified those articles with less than 5 citations within 5 years from publication date as poorly cited. Journals were ranked by the percentage
of articles that were poorly cited or uncited.
Results: Over the 10-year period, the number of total articles increased by 127%. We found that 24% of articles were poorly cited within 5 years of
publication. Journals in the bottom 25% and top 25% of rankings by citation rates accounted for a similar proportion of poorly cited articles. Most of
the open access journals were ranked in the top 25% for citation rates.
Conclusions: Our analysis contradicts concerns over increasing amounts of publications with little impact. The proportion of poorly cited articles are
low, with little change in the trend over 10 years. The top and bottom ranked journals produced similar proportions of poorly cited articles. These
findings suggest the necessity of pursuing further research to study waste in metabolism research.
Pre-analytical mysteries: A case of severe hypervitaminosis D and mild hypercalcaemia
Authors: Whittle Emma , de Waal Elzahn , Huynh Tony , Treacy Oliver , Morton Adam
Published: December 2020

We describe a case of severe hypervitaminosis D and mild hypercalcaemia in a 68-year-old woman who presented with fatigue and weight loss. Her 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25OHD) was > 400 nmol/L (50-150) and corrected serum calcium was 2.83 mmol/L (2.1-2.6). Her intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) was 4.9 pmol/L (2.0-9.5). Further investigation revealed an IgM kappa paraprotein, and a bone marrow aspirate confirmed a diagnosis of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM). As the vitamin D level was discordant with the patient’s other results and presentation, the presence of an assay interferent was suspected. A 1-in-2 dilution of the sample returned a 25OHD result of 84 nmol/L in keeping with the presence of an interferent. Testing for rheumatoid factor was negative. The sample was treated with an antibody blocking reagent (Scantibodies) and results were not consistent with heterophile antibody interference. The sample was then analysed using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), which returned a 25OHD result of 82 nmol/L. Testing on an alternative immunoassay platform produced a 25OHD result of 75 nmol/L. Reapeted testing on the original platform following reduction of the monoclonal paraprotein with chemotherapy, returned a result of 64 nmol/L. The patient’s mild hypercalcaemia persisted following resolution of the monoclonal paraprotein, in keeping with a diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism. This case highlights the potential for paraproteins to cause assay interference, and the importance of considering interference when results are incongruous with the clinical presentation.
Afro-Asian Jurists and the Quest to Modernise the International Protection of Foreign-Owned Property, 1955–1975
Authors: Fofana Idriss Paul-Armand
Published: December 2020

In the two decades following the 1955 Asian African Conference in Bandung, Asian and African jurists sought to reshape international law to better incorporate the aspirations of formerly colonised peoples. The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC), founded one year after the Bandung Conference, helped formulate a common Afro-Asian and Third World international legal agenda by bringing together jurists and ideologically diverse Asian and African governments while collaborating with UN institutions working to codify and develop international law. The AALCC’s work and the contemporaneous writings of African and Asian jurists reveal a shared ambition to weaken the international protection of foreign-owned property by pursuing a legal agenda anchored in the structure and principles of the post-World War II international legal system. The Afro-Asian international legal agenda combined efforts to eliminate pre-war rules incompatible with the foundational principles of the UN Charter while elaborating the content of these principles through UN institutions.
Hydrocarbon Humanitarianism: Ibrahim Shihata, ‘Oil Aid’, and Resource Sovereignty
Authors: Özsu Umut
Published: December 2020

This article revisits Ibrahim Shihata’s role in developing the financial aid policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after the formal inauguration of the New International Economic Order project (NIEO) in 1974. As director of the OPEC Special Fund, subsequently the OPEC Fund for International Development, after its establishment in 1976, Shihata spearheaded the development of the organization’s aid policies. He also defended the NIEO as a set of sensible reform measures for redistributing wealth, resources, and technology. This article contends that Shihata’s vigorous defence of OPEC’s aid record aimed to demonstrate that the NIEO – an enterprise OPEC supported – involved not simply structural reform of the inter-state system but direct engagement with questions of intra-state distribution, and that OPEC aid was designed partly to keep the ‘Third World bloc’ from disintegrating due to the growing distance between oil-producing and non-oil-producing countries.
Evolving Best Practices: Engaging the Strengths of Both External and Local Peacebuilders in Track Two Dialogues through Local Ownership
Authors: Allen Susan H.
Published: December 2020

This article examines best practices in local ownership of Track Two diplomacy. Taking as a starting point the idea that best practices change over time as conflicts and social responses to them change, the article seeks out recent innovations and practices in Track Two diplomacy, focusing on practices of local ownership. A series of two reflective practice workshops with facilitators of Track Two processes offer insights on local ownership in current Track Two diplomacy. More in-depth examination of the Georgian-South Ossetian case illustrates an example of increasing local ownership developing over time during a ten year Track Two process. Together, the reflective practice workshops and the case study suggest team approaches to Track Two diplomacy so that insiders and outsiders work together as a team to facilitate, bringing the strengths of both insiders and outsiders to Track Two processes.
The Practices of ‘Splitting’ and ‘Common Accord’ Under Scrutiny: the European Parliament‘s Request for an Opinion of the European Court of Justice on the Istanbul Convention
Authors: Samoilova Elizaveta
Published: December 2020

With all eyes on the recent global COVID-19 pandemic, another pandemic has been growing in the shadows: violence against women. The Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention creates a legal framework in order to protect women against all forms of violence. Its ratification process, however, has faced considerable challenges, particularly in the Central and Eastern European Member States. This article discusses the basic elements of the Istanbul Convention, reflects on the ratification process in the EU and its Member States, and sets out the main legal issues raised in the European Parliament’s request for an opinion (A-1/19 of 22 November 2019) to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Special focus is put on the choice of the correct EU legal basis and the practices of ‘splitting’ and ‘common accord’. This article argues that the European Parliament’s request for an opinion provides the perfect opportunity for the Court of Justice of the European Union to further clarify the law and the practice of concluding mixed agreements by the EU and its Member States.
Robberg Material Procurement and Transport in the Doring River Catchment: Evidence from the Open-Air Locality of Uitspankraal 9, Western Cape, South Africa
Authors: Watson Sara , Low Marika , Phillips Natasha , O’Driscoll Corey , Shaw Matthew , Ames Chris , Jacobs Zenobia , Mackay Alex
Published: December 2020

Decisions related to the production of lithic technology involve landscape-scale patterns of resource acquisition and transport that are not observable in assemblages from any one single site. In this study, we describe the stone artifacts from a discrete cluster of stone artifacts assigned to the Robberg technocomplex (22-16 ka) at the open-air locality of Uitspankraal 9 (UPK9), which is located near two major sources of toolstone in the Doring River catchment of Western Cape, South Africa. OSL dating of the underlying sediment unit provides a terminus post quem age of 27.5 ± 2.1 ka for the assemblage. Comparison of near-source artifact reduction at UPK9 with data from three rock shelter assemblages within the Doring watershed – Putslaagte 8 (PL8), Klipfonteinrand Rock Shelter (KFR), and Mertenhof Rock Shelter (MRS) – suggests that “gearing-up” with cores and blanks occurred along the river in anticipation of transport into the wider catchment area. The results reveal an integrated system of technological supply in which raw materials from different sources were acquired, reduced, and transported in different ways throughout the Doring River region.
Niyanpangu-bansu: An Important Archaeological Site for the Reconstitution of the History of Caravan Trade in Northern Benin
Authors: Mardjoua Barpougouni
Published: December 2020

Regarding the history of Borgu (North Benin), well-known events are the legend of Kisra, the war of Ilorin (1835-1836), and the destruction of the city named Niyanpangu. Referred to as Niyanpangu-bansu after its destruction, this archaeological site is known mostly from oral tradition and is located approximately three hundred kilometers west of Nikki (northeast Benin Republic). It has great historical significance which could contribute to our understanding of the history of caravan trade in northern Benin. This paper presents the results of the first ever archaeological research on the site in 2013 and 2014.
A catalogue of the Coleoptera of the Dutch Antilles
Authors: Colijn E.O. , Beentjes K.K. , Butôt R. , Miller J.A. , Smit J.T. , de Winter A.J. , van der Hoorn B.
Published: December 2020

This paper presents a first critical review of the beetle species (Insecta: Coleoptera) reported from the (former) Dutch Antilles as well as a history of beetle collecting and collectors on the islands. The introductory section provides a concise overview of the location, climate, geology and vegetation of the six islands. The catalogue is concluded with miscellaneous additions, corrections and annotations to the published records of the other islands of the northern Leeward Islands, and a comprehensive bibliography. (ZooBank registration: http://zoobank.org/ E2D76464-5AAE-4D75-9AC5-CA119E65D72A
Transboundary Fisheries Management
Authors: Ong David M.
Published: December 2020

Malaysia’s unique geographical position, straddling across several seas within the Indian and Pacific Oceans, allows her to play an important role within the set of regional, sub-regional and bilateral arrangements for transboundary fisheries management in the Indo-Pacific theatre. This article first charts and then examines Malaysia’s participation within these fisheries management initiatives, beginning from the overarching international legal frameworks of unclos and the Fish Stocks Agreement, through the formal and informal regional and sub-regional fisheries management organizations, and finally, to bilateral arrangements for fisheries co-operation. Along the way, Malaysia’s policy, legal and institutional capacity, as well as her readiness to perform the role(s) required of her, in relation to regional, sub-regional, and bilateral fisheries management issues, are critically assessed.
Service Level Agreement Conformance in Virtual Machine Migration with an Improved Energy and Performance Management Method
Authors: Nair Susmita J. A. , Gopalakrishnan Nair T. R.
Published: December 2020

Increasing demand of computing resources and the popularity of cloud computing have led the organizations to establish of large-scale data centers. To handle varying workloads, allocating resources to Virtual Machines, placing the VMs in the most suitable physical machine at data centers
without violating the Service Level Agreement remains a big challenge for the cloud providers. The energy consumption and performance degradation are the prime focus for the data centers in providing services by strictly following the SLA. In this paper we are suggesting a model for minimizing
the energy consumption and performance degradation without violating SLA. The experiments conducted have shown a reduction in SLA violation by nearly 10%.
Analysis of Various Multilingual Document Clustering
Authors: Sunita B. , John Peter T.
Published: December 2020

Today’s world is heading towards data science era. As the volume of the data is increasing extremely at exponential rate and data is produced and circulated all over the world, not only in English languages but in every regional language too. Since the data’s are in multilingual
it is extremely difficult to manage such huge amount of variant data. Hence there is a scope for research work on multilingual document clustering. By document clustering we can retrieve the information of user query. This technique is to divide a given set of documents into a certain number
of clusters. The aim is to create a multilingual document clustering that are related internally, but substantially different from each other. Main challenge faced while creating MDC, is the quality and stability of the cluster which swirls rapidly with document sets. Multilingual Document
clustering has to be represented in a form of matrix which is done by either Vector Space Model or TF–IDF method. Where each word is given a value representing particular document. News articles are retrieved from relevant news explorer using proper search engines. Word in news articles
are represented in one dimensional error using mathematical vector. Keywords in every articles are selected using term frequency (tf) and evaluated with inverse document frequency (idf). It uses discriminative power of keyword’s over articles. It encourages users to opt for cluster based
browsing which is acceptable for processing the results. Big Data tools work efficiently in distributed environment which gives a significant analysis of our retrieved information. Many document clustering works well with small set of data but fails to deal with the large set of document.
In this paper we concentrate on bring out the various problems that raise during multilingual document clustering and possible solution to overcome those problems.
Flexural Performance of Exterior Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete Beam-Column Joint Subjected to Reversed Cyclic Loading
Authors: Nambiyanna B. , Chandan M. N. , Prabhakara R.
Published: December 2020

Beam-Column Joint plays an imperative part in the seismic enactment of Reinforced concrete moment resisting frame. The response of the structure under the earthquake loads mainly depends on the behavior and performance of the Beam-Column Joint (BCJ). An experimental investigation on
exterior reinforced beam-column joints done using steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete subjected to reversed cyclic loading is presented in this investigation. The attempt has been made to demonstrate the influence of steel fibers reinforced self-compacting concrete (SCC). Three
exterior beam-column joints having the same geometry were cast and tested through reversed cyclic load using displacement-controlled mechanism. All three specimens are designed adequately in accordance with IS 13920:2016 code. The hysteresis loop, ductility factor, stiffness degradation, energy
dissipation characteristics, and damage propagation are considered to quantify the response of joint specimens. The results show enhanced ductility, energy dissipation capacity and damage tolerance behavior with the increase in steel fibers percentage in SCC.
Smart Health Care Chatbot for Prognosis of Treatments and Disease Diagnosis Using Machine Learning
Authors: Vineeth R. , Rithish R. , Sai Varma D. V. S. N. , Ajay Prakash B. V.
Published: December 2020

In this present world there are various diseases for which treatments and remedies are available abundantly. It is impossible for human to remember all the precautions and remedies to cure the disease. There is no relevant platform that could exhibit all the diseases and their respective
remedies. Health professionals are not always available to users on all the time. Hence, the necessity of health care Chatbot plays a major role in this current world. In the proposed idea, we have created a HealthCare Chatbot with Artificial Intelligence techniques which can process the text
input and predict the diseases associated with the symptoms given by the user. The HealthCare Chatbot implemented here is a user friendly platform which predicts the probable diseases and the home remedies, we can imply to cure based on the symptoms observed by the user in their knowledge.
Interdisciplinary Approach to Palliative Care: A Survey of Tools and an Affordable Technique
Authors: Lobo Hannabel Hyacinth , Chandrika J.
Published: December 2020

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to health care for individuals with life limiting illnesses. Its primary focus is to prevent and relive suffering from symptoms related to the illness through early identification, correct assessment and treatment of symptoms such as pain
and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems. Researchers on palliative care have concluded that increased adaptation of tools enhances identification of patients who would benefit through palliative care and hence provide adequate care suitably. The two significant challenges are
introduction of early palliative care and symptoms relief. With advances and easy access to smart phones, opportunities exist for providing improved health care to cancer patients with cost-effective and targeted care coordination. This paper presents a survey of tools designed for palliative
care and a feasible framework for designing an Intelligent Multi-Agent System which provides palliative care patients with immediate and proactive medical services through monitoring and diagnosis, therapy and consultation using personal computers and Smart Phones.
Time Series Analysis for Prediction of PM2.5 Using Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) Model on Taiwan Air Quality Monitoring Network Data
Authors: Doreswamy  , Harish Kumar K. S. , Gad Ibrahim
Published: December 2020

Nowadays, in Taiwan, due to the increasing number of vehicles, industrialization of large energy consumption, uncontrolled constructions and urbanization, air pollution is becoming a major problem. Hence, it is necessary to control air pollution by applying air quality monitoring actions.
The particulate matter (PM2.5) of the air pollution in TAQMN data is the main pollutant accountable for at least two-thirds of the severely polluted days in the major cities of Taiwan. In this work, machine learning (ML) techniques are widely used in developing models that can be
used to control the air pollution. Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model is used to predict the air pollution concentration, where the dataset chronologically from 2012 to 2016 are used to train the proposed method and testing data set from 2016 to 2017. The result
of the SARIMA model shows high precision in forecasting the future values of particulate matter (P2.5) level with minimum error.
A Survey on Multilingual Code Switching in Social Groups
Authors: Vathsala M. K. , Ravichandran Srividhya , Patel Nidhi C.
Published: December 2020

Code Mixing (CM) occurs when people converse using two or more languages simultaneously. Generally, code switching can be observed in day-to-day life in various parts of the world and has been in use since time immemorial. Over the recent years, code switching may also be observed in
social media platforms due to its tremendous usage. This research contains a detailed study of code-switching along with its history, objectives, types and its purpose. It also attempts to analyse the pros and cons of code switching collected through a survey.
AI Based Feature Extraction Through Content Based Image Retrieval
Authors: Gururaj C. , Tunga Satish
Published: December 2020

Therapeutic pictures are progressively being utilized inside human services for conclusion, arranging treatment, controlling treatment and checking sickness movement. In reality, helpful imaging prevalently shapes vague, missing, dubious, essential, clashing, dull restricting, contorted
data additionally, information has a strong fundamental character. The proposed approach can be used to achieve the accuracy by using the artificial intelligence techniques wherein the disease level is identified by comparing it with the artificial intelligence data. The two fold merit of
this system is it provides better accuracy and also determines all the possibilities of spreading of the disease including the various stages of the disease. This research work also represents new automated strategies of the division and arrangement of therapeutic pictures utilizing computerized
reasoning, i.e., delicate processing strategies, data combination and particular area information. Promising outcomes demonstrate the predominance of the delicate processing and information based approach over best customary systems as far as division mistakes. The arrangement of various structures
is made by executing rules obtained by both space literature and by medical experts.
Wheel Slip Detection for Electric Drive in Planetary Exploration Vehicles
Authors: Pal Bishwajit , Khaiyum Samitha
Published: December 2020

This article illustrates a technique for tracking longitudinal wheel slips in real time using an embedded microcontroller to map current consumption against real-time current consumed by the engine. This system can be used and operated separately of each other on more than one wheel.
To detect wheel slippage, a predefined slip curve mapped to a specific DC electric motor is mapped against the current consumed by the same operational motors. This paper also recommends a convenient control algorithm to calculate its slippage of the wheel in real time. This approach is implemented
using distinct load and terrain on a planetary exploration robot.
Hybrid Recommender System for Music Information Retrieval
Authors: Myna A. N. , Deepthi K. , Shankar Samvrudhi V.
Published: December 2020

Music plays an integral role in our lives as the most popular type of recreation. With the advent of new technologies such as Internet and portable media players, large amount of music data is available online which can be distributed and easily made available to people. Enormous amount
of music data is released every year by several artists with songs varying in features, genre and so on. Because of this, a need for reliable and easy access of songs based on user preferences is necessary. The recommender system focuses on generating playlists based on the physical, perceptual
and acoustical properties of the song (content based filtering approach), or on commonalities between users on a particular basis like ratings or user data history (collaborative filtering). The system thus developed is a hybrid music recommender tool which creates a user centric suggestion
system accompanied by feature extraction which in turn enhances the accuracy of music recommendations.
Map Reduce Based Association Rule Mining from Big Data
Authors: Chandrashekar D. K. , Srikantaiah K. C. , Venugopal K. R.
Published: December 2020

In today’s world, the shopping is the largest fashionable trend where the transaction processing is meticulous to fetch the items from the shopping transaction history by using traditional Apriori algorithm. An Apriori algorithm is the one which is used for finding frequent pattern
from the given dataset. The problem of Apriori is to find useful itemsets for business purpose was time consuming. To overcome this problem, we have proposed Map Reduce based Apriori algorithm which generates frequent itemset and association rules by using parallel computations to reduce computations.
The Spark distributed systems along with data bricks technology have been used. The experimental result shows that have been reduced the time taken fetch the data from the database.
Decision Support System for Enhancing Crop Productivity
Authors: Meeradevi  , Mundada Monica R. , Salpekar Hrishikesh
Published: December 2020

Agriculture is the important aspect for the people of India. The life of large percentage of people in India is dependent on agriculture. The farmers are facing difficulty in selling their product to the markets due to lack of knowledge on crop prices. The market prices changes drastically
in time. Using neural networks market price can be predicted and made available to the farmers to decide the time to sell their product. The ARIMA model is used to forecast the prices which can help the farmers to improve their economy and also the crop yield is predicted using neural network
in the proposed system. So, that the user can check the yield of the crop in the particular piece of land before sowing. The prediction using the neural network model results in deciding the time to sell the prices and what will be the production of the crop over the year.
Consumer Perception Towards Online Home Services
Authors: Rashmi S. B. , Arun Kumar D. C.
Published: December 2020

Information technology is playing a major role in boosting the business. Increase in use of internet and mobile services has led to the emergences of new avenues. Home services industry is one of the latest industries in tapping the opportunity of E-commerce. The advancement of information
technology has reformed the life of the customers in satisfying their needs at their doorsteps. Further, the busy lifestyle of the customer is further triggering the customers to avail the services right on demand. Hence, this paper deals with research and analysis about consumer’s perception
towards booking home services online. Questionnaire was distributed to 100 respondents in a random way for the purpose of collecting data. The purpose of the study is to identify the major factors influencing online behavior of a consumer. The study reveals that the customers look for friendly
apps, response given from the company, vendor’s availability, vendor-customer relationship, quality services, and delivery performance. The study revealed that there is no relationship between the response of the company and the delivery performance.
An Empirical Study of Convenience of Online Services and Purchases
Authors: Khaled Amgad S. D. , Alomari Khalid Mohammed , Ismail AlshakeTheep Khaled (M,K) , Ahmed Abdullah Mohammed Mahdi
Published: December 2020

The research provides a substantial reference from a retail point of view, considering the significance of service convenience, and it impact on customer loyalty, loyalty intention and customer’s trust with the services. The research provides a substantial reference from a retail
point of view, considering the significance of service promotion, to the impact of service comfort on consumer purchasing behavior. It is a primary data research where data was collected through questionnaire and for analysis purpose AMOS and SPSS softwares have been used. A convenient sampling
method was applied to select the convenience goods customers. This was done by randomly selecting respondents. The member’s examples were taken from Aurangabad, Banaras, Aligarh, Delhi and NCR locale. Different tools has been taken in this study. The study found that trust in e-retailing
doesn’t affect dependability aim, which is not at all like past investigations. The study conclude that consumer loyalty doesn’t prompt the reliability aim of clients. The current examination has an extraordinary commitment in the arena of the post-buy conduct of the clients in
the e-retailing division. The study is useful to e-commerce retailers who provide help in India. It helps to develop the administration and the strategies used to keep customers steady and productive.
Hybrid DNA Chaos Based Steganography on ECG Signal for Secured Data Communication
Authors: Yogalakshmi S. , Chakravarthi Rekha
Published: December 2020

One of the principal issues in data sharing is security. Data being transferred on the internet is prone to severe attacks. Securing data is kind of digital privacy measures that are implemented to prevent the data to be hacked by unauthorized person while sharing the information over
the communication network. Data may be of any form like image, signal or text. Encrypting the data before being transmitted is one step taken to promote security which is the well-known process of cryptography. Steganography deals with hiding the message in any unknown format. Combination
of these methods turns to be more secure. A hybrid DNA hyper chaotic based algorithm with lifting wavelet technology to secure ECG signal is proposed here. The wavelet technique that decomposes the image into four bands namely LL, LH, HH, HL. To remove the redundancies the coefficients are
utilised in the encoder process. The data hiding is implemented by selective embedding process is introduced in this method by determine host signal samples. The encrypted data then is hidden inside image using DNA method logically. When one knows and tries to get the hidden data they require
the secret key to do so and any mistake in that leads to distortion of the signal which results in loss of data. This method is found to be secure and the simulation is done using MATLAB. A GUI is developed to choose the required ECG signal and other operations to embed the data and find the
original signal after retrieval.
Cloud Security Data Critical Review
Authors: Prokin A. A.
Published: December 2020

Cloud computing is a model for providing convenient network access on demand to some common fund of configurable computing resources. These calculations are flexible, scalable, and inexpensive, but have large-scale sharing of services among multiple users. The broad coverage of the
idea of cloud computing has led to significant changes, both in public access systems and in mobile communications, which prompted advanced researchers to provide suitable system protocols and network architecture. In cloud computing, there are two main problems: access control and security.
Therefore, the security of both services and users is a significant problem that stands in the way of using and trust in cloud computing.
Guaranteed-Adaptive Control of Agricultural Machines Working Processes and Its Efficiency
Authors: Kravchuk Volodymyr Ivanovych , Baranov Heorhiy Leonidovych , Salai Karnil , Haidai Tetyana Viktorivna , Komisarenko Olena Serhiyivna
Published: December 2020

Theoretical researches of formation of necessary and sufficient conditions of the guaranteed adaptive control (GAC) of the intellectualized agricultural machines working processes in the real-time modes for increase of quality and efficiency of technical and technological solutions
of crop products production are carried out. It is investigated that in the conditions of natural uncertainty of factors of agriculture and changing environment during elaboration of GAC of agricultural machines it is expedient to use the principles of guaranteeing and adaptation. The advantage
of GAC against the traditional automatic control system (ACS) is the unconditional use of criterion conditions of efficiency under any form of spectral interference density. Quality is guaranteed by a special searchless adaptation procedure (automatic tracking) and modeling of subsystems of
agricultural machines, taking into account their complexity in a single hierarchical system. Within the analytical solution of the optimization problem and the search for the optimal functional efficiency of technical and technological solutions, the need for additional formalization of the
function of minimizing real losses is proved, which is taken into account at the stages of designing of planned modes of operation and mechanical specifications of machines, determination of optimal combinations of actuators, as well as optimization of dynamic parameters for different load
modes.
Objective Analysis of SMOS and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity to Reduce Large-Scale and Time-Dependent Biases from Low to High Latitudes
Authors: Kolodziejczyk Nicolas , Hamon Mathieu , Boutin Jacqueline , Vergely Jean-Luc , Reverdin Gilles , Supply Alexandre , Reul Nicolas
Published: December 2020

Ten years of L-band radiometric measurements have proven the capability of satellite sea surface salinity (SSS) to resolve large-scale-to-mesoscale SSS features in tropical to subtropical ocean. In mid-to-high latitudes, L-band measurements still suffer from large-scale and time-varying errors. Here, a simple method is proposed to mitigate the large-scale and time-varying errors. First, an optimal interpolation using a large correlation scale (~500 km) is used to map independently Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) level-3 (L3) data. The mapping is compared with the equivalent mapping of in situ observations to estimate the large-scale and seasonal biases. A second mapping is performed on adjusted SSS at the scale of SMOS/SMAP spatial resolution (~45 km). This procedure merges both products and increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the absolute SSS estimates, reducing the root-mean-square difference of in situ satellite products by about 26%–32% from mid- to high latitudes, respectively, in comparison with the existing SMOS and SMAP L3 products. However, in the Arctic Ocean, some issues on satellite retrieved SSS related to, for example, radio frequency interferences, land–sea contamination, and ice–sea contamination remain challenging to reduce given the low sensitivity of L-band radiometric measurements to SSS in cold water. Using the International Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater—2010 (TEOS-10), the resulting level-4 SSS satellite product is combined with satellite-microwave SST products to estimate sea surface density, spiciness, and haline contraction and thermal expansion coefficients. For the first time, we illustrate how useful these satellite-derived parameters are to fully characterize the surface ocean water masses at large mesoscale.
Faecal haemoglobin concentration thresholds for reassurance and urgent investigation for colorectal cancer based on a faecal immunochemical test in symptomatic patients in primary care
Authors: Mowat Craig , Digby Jayne , Strachan Judith A , McCann Rebecca K , Carey Francis A , Fraser Callum G , Steele Robert JC
Published: December 2020

Background

Faecal haemoglobin concentration (f-Hb), estimated using a faecal immunochemical test, can be safely implemented in primary care to assess risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Clinical outcomes of patients presenting with symptoms of lower gastrointestinal disease were examined using an extensive range of f-Hb thresholds to decide on reassurance or referral for further investigation.

Methods

All patients who attended primary care and submitted a single faecal specimen faecal immunochemical test in the first year of the routine service had f-Hb estimated using HM-JACKarc: f-Hb thresholds from <2 to ≥ 400 µg Hb/g faeces (µg/g) were examined.

Results

Low f-Hb thresholds of <2, <7, <10 and <20 µg/g gave respective CRC risks of 0.1, 0.3, 0.3 and 0.4%, numbers needed to scope for one CRC of 871, 335, 300 and 249, and ‘false negative’ rates of 2.9, 11.4, 13.3 and 17.1%. With thresholds of <2, <7, <10 and <20 µg/g, 48.6, 74.6, 78.1 and 83.2% respectively of symptomatic patients could be managed without further investigation. With reassurance thresholds of <2 µg/g, <7 µg/g and <10 µg/g, the thresholds for referral for urgent investigation would be >400 µg/g, ≥200 µg/g and ≥100 µg/g. However, patients with a f-Hb concentration of <10 or <20 µg/g with iron deficiency anaemia, or with severe or persistent symptoms, should not be denied further investigation.

Conclusions

In primary care, f-Hb, in conjunction with clinical assessment, can safely and objectively determine individual risk of CRC and decide on simple reassurance or urgent, or routine referral.
Social relationship quality, depression and inflammation: A cross-cultural longitudinal study in the United States and Tokyo, Japan
Authors: Kaveladze Benjamin , Diamond Altman Allison , Niederhausen Meike , Loftis Jennifer M , Teo Alan R
Published: December 2020

Background:

Depression is an illness with biological, psychological, and social underpinnings, which may include the interplay of inflammation, psychological traits, stress, social relationships, and cultural background.

Aims:

This work examines the prospective associations between social relationship quality and depressive symptoms, and between social relationship quality and inflammatory outcomes in two distinct cultures.

Methods:

Data were obtained from two longitudinal, prospective cohort studies: Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), and Midlife Development in Japan (MIDJA) between 2004 and 2010. One thousand three hundred and twenty-seven community-based adults were included in analyses, 1,054 from the United States and 273 from Tokyo, Japan. Depressive symptoms (measured by the CES-D Depression Scale) and inflammation (measured by blood sample concentrations of the inflammatory biomarkers interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein) were the outcomes. Social relationship quality was the predictor. Culture, trait independence and interdependence, and psychosocial stressors were examined as moderators of the link between social relationship quality and depressive symptoms.

Results:

Higher social relationship quality was associated with lower depressive symptoms in the United States (β = −6.15, p < .001), but not in Japan (β = −1.25, p = .390). Social relationship quality had no association with inflammation. Psychosocial stressors moderated the link between social relationship quality and depressive symptoms in both the United States (β = −0.39, p = .001) and Tokyo (β = −0.55, p = .001), such that social relationship quality acted as a buffer against depressive symptoms as psychosocial stress increased.

Conclusion:

Improving the perceived quality of social relationships appears to be a stronger target for depression interventions in the United States than in Tokyo, Japan.
Υoung Adults’ Assertiveness in Relation to Parental Acceptance-Rejection in Greece and in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Mrvoljak-Theodoropoulou Irina , Gari Aikaterini , Mylonas Kostas
Published: December 2020

This study explored the relation between assertiveness and parental behavior as perceived by young adults through parental acceptance-rejection and behavioral and psychological control. Αssertiveness is a mode of personal behavior and communication characterized by willingness to stand up for one’s own needs and interests in an open and direct way. Inappropriate parenting may be associated with assertiveness difficulties and as evidence-based findings from many surveys have shown that assertive skills can be improved, it seems to be of great importance to examine the relation between assertiveness and parental rejection along with lack of support, and vice versa. In this study, assertiveness was investigated using the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule and parental behavior was studied using the Adult Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire. Psychosocial personality traits and psychological control were assessed through the Adult Personality Assessment Questionnaire and the Psychological Control Scale, respectively. The sample consisted of 1,117 university students from Greek universities in Athens, Greece, and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). For all measures and their psychometric structure, factor equivalence for the two countries was verified through congruence coefficients and through confirmatory factor analyses. Findings showed that in respect to the Greek sample (but not the B&H sample), assertive-behavior skills are more common among men than women. Assertiveness for all participants is correlated with maternal psychological control and paternal acceptance and also with self-evaluation and worldview. Apparently, maternal psychological control and paternal acceptance-rejection seemed to be associated with young adults' levels of assertiveness to a greater degree than with the other parental behavior parameters assessed in the present research.
Eating with penitence: An essay on the local church eating responsibly
Authors: Priddy David W.
Published: December 2020

In this essay, I pose the question, “How might local congregations participate in food reform and agricultural renewal?” Given the problems of industrial agriculture and the wider ecological concern, this question is pressing. Instead of advocating a specific program, I focus on how the Church might address this question while keeping its commitment to being a repentant Church. First, I discuss the significance of attention and particularly the habit of attending to the Word and Sacrament. This posture, I argue, maintains the Church’s integrity, preventing it from merely branding itself or relying on its own resources. Second, I briefly explore the association of eating with the mission of the Church in the New Testament, highlighting the repeated theme of judgment and call to humility in the context of eating. Third, I draw out the importance of continual remorse over sin. This attitude is essential to the Church’s vocation and rightly appears in many historic liturgies. I argue that this posture should extend to the question of eating responsibly. Penitence demonstrates the Church’s relationship to the wider world and testifies to the source of the Church’s own life, the Holy Spirit, who does the work of renewal.
Eat to live: A physician’s perspective on the powerful role of food in a faithful life
Authors: Albin Jaclyn Lewis
Published: December 2020

Desperately seeking greater health of mind, body, and spirit, communities face confusing and conflicting narratives. The Church owns an opportunity to serve as a guide, revealing the intimate linkage between physical health and spiritual health. An oft-neglected topic, food is a powerful reminder of the mercy of sustenance, but our collective broken relationship with food begs for intervention. The very food we eat has the ability to promote recovery and prevent disease. Sadly, much of the modern diet does the opposite, increasing the risk for early death and disabling believers from investment in their callings. God’s redemptive message and the fruits of modern science promote clarity as we eat to heal, eat to serve, eat to celebrate, and eat to change. The Church can invest in supporting communities as they experience God’s best through nourishing daily bread and, ultimately, through the Bread of Life.
Word and bread: A theological recipe of the body and mind
Authors: Vanderslice Kendall
Published: December 2020

The Gospel of John identifies Jesus as both the Word that was with God in the beginning and also the Bread of Life. This article proposes that the relationship between Christ’s identity as Word and Bread models the relationship between cerebral and bodily knowledge in the work of theology. Understanding the two in conjunction with one another enables us to see the ways God communes with us through domestic labor, specifically the process of baking and eating bread. This understanding in turn enables us to value the theological wisdom embedded in the bodies of bakers throughout history and around the world. A more robust understanding of our daily bread, and the ways God works through it, opens the door for more gracious dialogue over the mysteries of Holy Communion.
Fasting: A congregational call for Baptists to reclaim a neglected discipline
Authors: Collier Allison
Published: December 2020

For many in Baptist churches in the United States, the spiritual discipline of fasting is a common word and an uncommon practice. This article suggests the need to reclaim the discipline in congregational settings, which would lead to both knowledge of the history and application of the discipline. Included is a brief overview of the triadic structure of fasting, vice, and virtue, as well as cultural and medical concerns. The goal is to understand lack to draw closer to God, thus allowing for a more complete appreciation of food and feasting.