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Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
Authors: te Lintelo D. J. H. , Munslow T. , Pittore K. , Lakshman R. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to promote accountability. While subjected to important technical and political critiques, the policy impact of ‘indicators’ is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Suitable evaluative methods are in their infancy. This article adopts an innovative process tracing analysis to assess the policy impact of the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) in Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Zambia and globally. We present a rare and empirically rich application of this systematic qualitative evaluative method. We further contribute to the theorisation of ‘indicators’ by positing a central role for equitable producer–user relations in mediating policy impact, and demonstrate that such relations can overcome significant political critiques on ‘indicators’.
The viral F-box protein P0 induces an ER-derived autophagy degradation pathway for the clearance of membrane-bound AGO1
Authors: Michaeli Simon , Clavel Marion , Lechner Esther , Viotti Corrado , Wu Jian , Dubois Marieke , Hacquard Thibaut , Derrien Benoît , Izquierdo Esther , Lecorbeiller Maxime , Bouteiller Nathalie , De Cilia Julia , Ziegler-Graff Véronique , Vaucheret Hervé , Galili Gad , Genschik Pascal 
Published: October 2019

Significance
The viral suppressor of RNA silencing P0 is known to target plant antiviral ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins for degradation via an autophagy-related process. Here we utilized P0 to gain insight into the cellular degradation dynamics of AGO1, the major plant effector of RNA silencing. We revealed that P0 targets endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated AGO1 by inducing the formation of ER-related bodies that are delivered to the vacuole with both P0 and AGO1 as cargos. This process involves ATG8-interacting proteins 1 and 2 (ATI1 and ATI2) that interact with AGO1 and negatively regulate its transgene-silencing activity. Together, our results reveal a layer of ER-bound AGO1 posttranslational regulation that is manipulated by P0 to subvert plant antiviral defense.
Socio-emotional development in high functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a humanoid robot
Authors: Soares Filomena O. , Costa Sandra C. , Santos Cristina P. , Pereira Ana Paula S. , Hiolle Antoine R. , Silva Vinícius 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThe use of robots had already been proven to encourage the promotion of social interaction and skills lacking in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), who typically have difficulties in recognizing facial expressions and emotions. The main goal of this research is to study the influence of a humanoid robot to develop socio-emotional skills in children with ASD. The children’s performance in game scenarios aiming to develop facial expressions recognition skills is presented. Along the sessions, children who performed the game scenarios with the robot and the experimenter had a significantly better performance than the children who performed the game scenarios without the robot. The main conclusions of this research support that a humanoid robot is a useful tool to develop socio-emotional skills in the intervention of children with ASD, due to the engagement and positive learning outcome observed.
Copulation calls in wild Mueller’s gibbons (Hylobates muelleri)
Authors: Inoue Yoichi , Sinun Waidi , Okanoya Kazuo 
Published: October 2019

AbstractMating activity of a wild Mueller’s gibbon group (Hylobates muelleri) was observed in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the function of copulation calls in gibbons. The female emitted copulation calls at the time of intromission and pelvic thrusting. Copulation calls were composed of two notes and one of them was sung only while mating. Approximately half of copulation calls were sung near the range boundary. Mating with copulation calls sometimes occurred while singing. According to the model that female copulation calls have evolved under the selective pressures of risk of infanticide and sperm competition, copulation calls should be rare in species with little female promiscuity. As gibbons usually live in pair-living social organization and have a monogamous mating system, no vocal signals by female gibbons are considered to be needed. However, clear copulation calls were emitted by the female. It suggests that the relationship between paired gibbons is unstable. Copulation calls by the female Mueller’s gibbon may function to increase mate guarding and strengthen the pair bond.
Augmented reality coloring book: An interactive strategy for teaching children with autism to focus on specific nonverbal social cues to promote their social skills
Authors: Lee I-Jui 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) reduce one’s ability to act appropriately in social situations. Increasing
evidence indicates that children with ASD might ignore nonverbal social cues that usually aid social interaction because they do
not recognize or understand them. We asked children with ASD to color an augmented reality coloring book (ARCB) to teach them how
to recognize and understand some specific social signals and to ignore others. ARCB materials teach children to recognize and
understand social signals in various ways. They can, for example, view 3D animations of the ARCB materials on a tablet computer.
Thus, the ARCB can be used to help children with ASD focus their attention on the meaning and social value of nonverbal behaviors
in specific social situations. The ARCB has multiple functions: it extends the social features of the story, and it restricts
attention to the most important parts of the videos. Single-subject research with a multiple-baselines across-subject design was
used in this study. After five weeks of ARCB training intervention, all 3 participants’ scores rose significantly and dramatically
during the intervention phase (mean rate of correct answers improved from 14.24% to 47.33%), and remained significantly higher in
the maintenance phase than at baseline. We conclude that coloring pictures of social situations may help children with ASD
recognize and better understand these situations.
Dispersive Solitary Wave Solutions of Strain Wave Dynamical Model and Its Stability
Authors: Arshad Muhammad , Seadawy Aly R. , Lu Dian-Chen , Ali Asghar 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
In the materials of micro-structured, the propagation of wave modeling should take into account the scale of various microstructures. The different kinds solitary wave solutions of strain wave dynamical model are derived via utilizing exp(−ϕ(ξ))-expansion and extended simple equation methods. This dynamical equation plays a key role in engineering and mathematical physics. Solutions obtained in this work include periodic solitary waves, Kink and anti-Kink solitary waves, bell-shaped solutions, solitons, and rational solutions. These exact solutions help researchers for knowing the physical phenomena of this wave equation. The stability of this dynamical model is examined via standard linear stability analysis, which authenticate that the model is stable and their solutions are exact. Graphs are depicted for knowing the movements of some solutions. The results show that the current methods, by the assist of symbolic calculation, give an effectual and direct mathematical tools for resolving the nonlinear problems in applied sciences.
Design of Tunable Devices at Terahertz Frequencies Based on Quasi-Photonic Crystals Incorporated with Graphene
Authors: Ghayoor Reza , Keshavarz Alireza 
Published: October 2019

Abstract

In this study, we present a new theoretical model including Thue-Morse and double-period sequences as quasi-photonic crystals are incorporation with graphene and investigate the transmission properties of the THz waves in both structures using a straightforward computational method. We also consider properties of nonlinear conductivity in addition to surface linear conductivity for graphene. We observe the sharp peaks and proper forbidden bands are created in the range of 0.3 THz to 30 THz. In addition, we find that by considering the nonlinear term of graphene and engineering the structural parameters such as the chemical potential of graphene, number of layers and the incidence wave angle, transmission levels of peaks enhance scientifically and quality factor improve considerably. These results show that it would be possible to design of high-Q tunable filters with multi-stop bands in the THz regime which can reduce the noise associated with THz frequency peaks and increase the number of sharp frequency peaks.
Modeling of Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Discrete Chaotic Systems
Authors: Sadeghi Shabestari Payam , Rostami Zahra , Pham Viet-Thanh , Alsaadi Fawaz E. , Hayat Tasawar 
Published: October 2019

Abstract

Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases are two of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. Tremor, muscle stiffness, and slowness of movement are symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms of Huntington’s disease are severe reduction in muscle control, emotional disturbance, and pathological disorders in brain cells. These diseases are caused by destruction of the cells that secrete a substance called dopamine. In this paper, a new discrete chaotic system is introduced, which can mimic the brain’s behavior for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson, Huntington, and Hypokinesia. This system is described based on the similarity between the brain’s behavior in normal and abnormal conditions and the chaotic systems. Bifurcation analysis is carried out with respect to different parameters, providing full spectrum of the behavior for different parameter values. Our results can be used to mathematically study the mechanisms behind these diseases.
Fast-response, agile and functional soft actuators based on highly-oriented carbon nanotube thin films
Authors: Li Qingwei , Liu Changhong 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Highly-oriented carbon nanotube (CNT) film, which is made from super-aligned CNT array, is an even, tough and soft material. This CNT film has strong anisotropy in electrical and mechanical properties. The electrical conductivity and Young’s modulus of the CNT film (2.8 × 104 S m−1, 3000 MPa) along the CNT aligned direction are one magnitude larger than those (2.3 × 103 S m−1, 200 MPa) along the vertical direction. In virtue of easy preparation and good processability, it is competent as high-performance flexible electrodes for soft actuators, advanced film capacitors and batteries. Here, we use this highly-oriented CNT film as a heating electrode to make fast-response soft actuators. The actuator has a thin bilayer composite structure and is driven by current heating. It takes a typical miniaturized actuator only 0.9 s to perform fast and large-angle deformations (270° bending, curvature 4.8 cm−1), and its bending speed can reach 300° s−1 by low power driving (2.4 W). Based on this CNT film, graphical designs and fine processing were carried out to make patterned electrodes and functional actuators, such as cross-shaped and hand-shaped ones. Notably, a well-designed gripper-like actuator can even deftly grab and manipulate some tiny things, e.g. a grain of rice. Moreover, the anisotropic properties of the CNT film also effectively influence and regulate the deformation forms of the actuators. In virtue of good and unique performances in electrical, mechanical and thermal aspects, the high-oriented CNT film would have promising application prospects in various emerging soft devices.
Analytic view on coupled single-electron lines
Authors: Pomorski Krzysztof , Giounanlis Panagiotis , Blokhina Elena , Leipold Dirk , Staszewski R Bogdan 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The fundamental properties of two electrostatically interacting single-electron lines (SEL) are determined from a minimalistic tight-binding model. The lines are represented by a chain of coupled quantum wells that can be implemented in a mainstream nanoscale CMOS process technology and tuned electrostatically by DC or AC voltage biases. The obtained results show an essential qualitative difference with two capacitively coupled classical electrical lines. The derived equations and their solutions prove that the two coupled SET lines can create an entanglement between electrons. The correlation function characterizing the correlation/anticorrelation in electron position is introduced both in quantum and classical descriptions of capacitively coupled SELs. The quantum measurement conducted on quantum and classical SELs is described. The difference in quantum and classical ground states can be used as the probe determining the ‘quantumness’ of the SEL system. The results indicate a possibility of constructing electrostatic (non-spin) coupled qubits that could be used as a building block in a CMOS quantum computer.
Magnetically induced anisotropy of flux penetration into strong-pinning superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers
Authors: Simmendinger J , Hänisch J , Bihler M , Ionescu A M , Weigand M , Sieger M , Hühne R , Rijckaert H , van Driessche I , Schütz G , Albrecht J 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
We studied the impact of soft ferromagnetic permalloy (Py) on the shielding currents in a strong-pinning superconductor—YBa2Cu3O7−δ
with Ba2Y(Nb/Ta)O6 nano-precipitates—by means of scanning transmission x-ray microscopy. Typically and in particular when in the thin film limit, superconductor/ferromagnet (SC/FM) bilayers exhibit isotropic properties of the flux line ensemble at all temperatures. However, in elements with small aspect ratio a significant anisotropy in flux penetration is observed. We explain this effect by local in-plane fields arising from anisotropic magnetic stray fields originated by the ferromagnet. This leads to direction-dependent motion of magnetic vortices inside the SC/FM bilayer. Our results demonstrate that small variations of the magnetic properties can have huge impact on the superconductor.
Universal phase transitions to synchronization in Kuramoto-like models with heterogeneous coupling
Authors: Xu Can , Boccaletti Stefano , Zheng Zhigang , Guan Shuguang 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
We reveal a class of universal phase transitions to synchronization in Kuramoto-like models with both in- and out-coupling heterogeneity. By analogy with metastable states, an oscillatory state occurs as a high-order coherent phase accompanying explosive synchronization in the system. The critical points of synchronization transition and the stationary solutions are obtained analytically, by the use of mean-field theory. In particular, the stable conditions for the emergence of phase-locked states are determined analytically, consistently with the analysis based on the Ott–Antonsen manifold. We demonstrate that the in- or out-coupling heterogeneity have influence on both the dynamical properties (eigen’spectrum) and the synchronizability of the system.
Cloud-Based Control Systems: Basics and Beyond
Authors: Mahmoud Magdi S. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Using advanced information technologies (IT) and Internet of things (IOT) methodologies, cloud-based control systems (CCS) emerge as natural paradigm of networked control systems (NCS) and it being under development by enforcing the concept of control as a service (CaaS). Day by day NCS methods strongly promoted for distributed closed-loop control and industrial automation systems and extremely developed to study the influence of bidirectional communication constraints. In this paper, we examine the basics of cloud-based control systems (CCS) where the controller methods and algorithms are remotely placed in cloud far from the physical system. This creates a two parts: cyber part and physical part. There are several issues arose including networking delays, data dropouts and vulnerability to attacks. Research activities into these and related directions are discussed.
On some comparison of the multistep hybrid methods and their application solving of the Volterra integro-differential equations
Authors: Mehdiyeva G , Ibrahimov V , Imanova M 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
As is known, there are some classes of numerical methods for solving of the initial-value problem for the Volterra integro-differential equations. Here, by comparison of the known methods have constructed the methods with the new properties which have applied to solve the initial-value problem for the ODE and for the Volterra integra-differential equations. By the construction of some relation between of these equations have established the direct connection among them which have called as the p-equivalents between the initial-value problem for ODE and for the Volterra integro-differential equations. Constructed here the stable methods with the high order of accuracy show some advantages of them. Some of them are applied to solving of the initial-value problem for the Volterra integro-differential equations. And also for the illustration of the received results here constructed have applied one of these methods to solve the model problem.
Asymptotical rotating consensus algorithm with processing delay
Authors: Nie Fen , Duan Xiaojun , Liu Yicheng 
Published: October 2019

AbstractIn this paper, we studied some consensus algorithms for the collective rotating motions of a team of agents, which has been widely studied in different disciplines ranging from physics, networks and engineering. Both discrete and continues consensus algorithm with processing delays are investigated. There are three motion patterns determined by the information exchange topology of systems and rotation angle of rotation matrices. The asymptotic consensus appears when 0 is an simple eigenvalue of Laplacian matrix and the rotation angle is less than the critical value, and the rotating consensus achieves when the rotation angle is equal to the critical value. At this point, all agents move on circular orbits and the relative radii of orbits are equal to the relative magnitudes of the components of a right eigenvector associated with 0 eigenvalue of the non-symmetric Laplacian matrix. Finally, all agents move along logarithmic spiral curves with a fixed center when the rotation angle is larger than the critical value.
Investigation of complex of lysine dendrimer of 2nd generation with molecules of therapeutic KED peptide by computer simulation
Authors: Neelov I.M. , Ilyash M.J. , Bezrodnyi V.V. , Fatullaev E.I. , Marchenko A.A. , Bychkova E.I. , Miktaniuk S.E. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Lysine dendrimers could be used in many biomedical applications. For example these dendrimers could be used for delivery of short regulatory peptides consisting of several aminoacid residues. We investigated earlier interactions between lysine dendrigraft of 2nd generation and molecules of KED peptide. In present paper we study interaction of lysine dendrimer and molecules of KED peptide. The system containing one dendrimer of 2nd generation and 8 molecules of KED in water with explicit account of counterions was studied by computer simulation. The method of molecular dynamics was used for this goal. We obtained that formation of complex consisting of the dendrimer and all peptide molecules occurs during initial time (t < 40 ns) of simulation. The size, anisotropy of shape and radial density profile of stable complex (after t > 40ns) were studied also. We have shown that formation of complex occurs due to electrostatic interaction between oppositely charged dendrimer. At the same time other interactions, for example hydrogen bonds, also give their contribution to this process. Stable dendrimer-peptide complex has size close to 1,5nm and small shape anisotropy. Density of dendrimer atoms is highest in the centre of complex while density of peptides atoms has maximum at radial distance r=1nm. It total we have shown that lysine dendrimers is suitable carrier for molecules of KED peptide.
Users’ QoS driven radio resources optimization based on radio environment map
Authors: Javornik T , Švigelj A , Hrovat A , Ozimek I 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The over the top service optimization in wireless networks is a challenging task due to the diversity of wireless terminals, variety of required quality of service requirements and diversity of wireless service access networks. In this paper, we propose an approach to optimize the allocation of users to wireless networks or even particular cells based on the wireless network exposed radio environment status. The radio cells collect the radio environment status based on terminal measurements and pre-calculated interference maps. It exposes the required information to the over the top service provider. The users are allocated applying the network/cell priority list or using a genetic optimization algorithm. The simulation results reveal that the pico-to-macro cell priority list deterministic approach outperforms macro-to-pico priority list approach, while the genetic based optimization approach slightly outperforms both deterministic approaches.
Entrenched ties between outdoor recreation and conservation pose challenges for sustainable land management
Authors: Thomas Sarah L , Reed Sarah E 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Public demand for outdoor recreation has proved a major impetus for land protection in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, particularly in the US West. Many federal, state, and municipal conservation tools—policies, management programs, and funding initiatives—aim to ensure recreation access to public lands in conjunction with natural resources protection. However, as recreation use increases, driven by amenity migration and economic development, land managers face a growing challenge in balancing the trade-offs between recreation access and other conservation objectives. Drawing on original archival research, we describe the strong policy ties between outdoor recreation and conservation that emerged in the post-World War II era in response to widespread urbanization. Through semi-structured interviews with land managers, we assess the implications of those policy decisions for today’s public land managers. Current management challenges include: poor visitor awareness of the cumulative impacts of recreation activity, resistance by local communities and user groups to restrictions on recreation access, insufficient scientific data to guide management decisions, and limited resources to manage recreationists and enforce regulations. We conclude by proposing strategies to promote sustainable management of multiple-use landscapes through targeted research, application of conservation planning principles, and enhanced cooperation among jurisdictions.