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Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Integration of Spatial Data with Business Intelligence Systems (2008)

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles<br><br>"Integration of Spatial Data with Business Intelligence Systems"<br>by Muracevic Dzenana and Fahrudin Orcevic<br>in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), December 2008, pp. 447-452<br><br>After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.<br><br>This paper duplicates original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.<br><br>"Location Intelligence Gets Smarter", S. Aase, Teradata Magazine Online, Vol 7, No 1, 2008<br>"ESRI GIS/SAP Integration Helps Utilities Execute Business Processes", geoplace.com, March 2007<br>"Innovative GIS Technology in the Defense and Intelligence Communities" ERSI, 2007<br>"Developing GIS Visualization Web Services for Geophysical Applications," A. Sayar, ISPRS International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Workshop Commission II WG/2 METU, November 2005<br>"Oracle for SAP", Oracle, No.14, April 2005<br>"SAP and ESRI Collaborate on Enterprise Services", ArcNews Online, Fall 2006<br>"Business Intelligence" M. Lamza-Maroni, Poslovni Informacijski Sustavi (PIS), 2007<br>"GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS" ESRI, September 2008<br><br> <br/> This paper proposes and discusses a GIS that integrates geographic resources with business intelligence data from SAP, TIS and other systems. Location is a unifying theme in business. Location can be an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route. All these things can be visualized and interactively managed and analyzed in a GIS. Spatial relationships, patterns and trends reveal invaluable business intelligence and bring easy-to-understand visualization to business applications. Use GIS to answer basic or sophisticated question on how to improve businesses workflow, management, and ROI (Return on Invest). To be able to integrate GIS system with other business systems and processes, it is necessary that spatial and non-spatial data are "no different". In presentation I will present GIS application which demonstrates concept of integrating data and systems with spatial and non spatial data. The application integrates data from different systems: traditional GIS data, TIS and SAP. Data integration enabling easier and more effective control of telecommunication networks, supervising and effect solutions of failures on element telecommunications systems, access networks and networks features, better controlling systems, witch we afford to end users. Goal is faster and more quality solutions of user's request. Present solutions in this paper based on OpenGIS standards and interfaces to geospatial information providers, Oracle Database and Application Server.
A NEW GENERAL METHOD FOR SUBSTITUTED 4-ALKYLTHIO-<i>N</i>-ARYLSULPHONYL-AMINO-2-PYRIDONES: REACTION OF KETENE-<i>SS</i>-ACETALS WITH ARYLSULPHONYLHYDRAZIDES (2001)

Abstract A novel and efficient method for the synthesis of substituted 4-alkylthio-N-arylsulphonylamino-2-pyridoms via the reaction of ketene-SS-acetals with N-cyanoacetoarylsulfonyl-hydrazides has been investigated. I-Arylsulfonylamino-pyrazolo[3,4-c]pyridine-2(1H)-ones have also been prepared from the reaction of 4-alkylthio-N-arylsulfonylamino-2-pyridones with hydrazines.
High Quality Half-cell Processing Using Thermal Laser Separation (2015)

Half-cell modules are promising candidates for a new generation of PV-modules as the electrical losses can be reduced while the optical gains are increased. This technological approach requires a cell separation process which does not induce any significant electrical or mechanical damages on cell level. Thermal laser separation (TLS) is a damage free and kerfless dicing technology for brittle materials such as silicon. We investigate the applicability of TLS for the solar cell splitting and compare it to a reference cell-splitting process based on laser scribing and subsequent cleavage. It is found that the electrical properties of the TLS-half-cells are slightly better compared to the reference process and that compared to a laser separation there is no mechanical damage due to the TLS process.
A computer vision system for generating object description (1981)

Computer vision is difficult both in problem formulation and in computational methodology. Traditional approaches either emphasize too much on the bottom-up process or on the use of complete a priori knowledge about the images under study. It is felt that a proper integration of the two approaches is necessary to design a general computer vision system. Based on this concept, a computer vision system is proposed and partially implemented. The emphasis is on the problem of dealing with imperfect segmentation and recovering the 3-D shape of an object from a single image. An image representation, called the Gray Level Geographic Structure image representation, is proposed for preliminary segmentation and preattentive visual search. Edge extraction, edge linking, and edge description procedures are implemented with efficient algorithms. Regions for describing surface orientations are then extracted from the resulted edge map. Special primitives, such as parallelograms, ellipses, symmetric arcs, and corners, are also extracted using different procedures. These primitives are treated as projections of some regular space contours. The relations between the space contours and their projections can be used to computer the range of possible surface orientations for an extracted region. Based on the computed surface orientations of each region, the 3-D shape of an object can be generated. Mathematically speaking, the information available in a single image is always ambiguous. Under certain regularity assumptions, local evidences about the shape of an object can often be derived. However, these local evidences, though rich in amount, are often inconsistent and not precise. A process called "Selective Confirmation" is proposed to resolve the ambiguities among the local evidences. The results of this process are a useful shape description of the object, and can be used as keys for associative recalls to retrieve proper object models and knowledge about them. the models and knowledge can then be used to guide the vision system to complete its interpretation processes.
Second-Harmonic Current Reduction for Two-Stage Inverter With Boost-Derived Front-End Converter: Control Schemes and Design Considerations (2017)

The instantaneous output power of the two-stage single-phase inverter pulsates at twice the output frequency (2f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sub> ), generating notorious second-harmonic current (SHC) in the frontend dc-dc converter and the input dc voltage source. This paper focuses on the SHC reduction for a two-stage single-phase inverter with boost-derived front-end converter. To reduce the SHC, a virtual series impedance, which has high impedance at 2f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sub> while low impedance at other frequencies, is introduced in series with the boost diode or the boost inductor to increase the impedance of the boost-diode branch or boost-inductor branch at 2f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sub> . Meanwhile, for achieving good dynamic performance, a virtual parallel impedance, which exhibits infinite impedance at 2f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sub> while low impedance at other frequencies, is introduced in parallel with the dc-bus capacitor to reduce the output impedance of the boost-derived converter at the frequencies except for 2f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sub> . The virtual series impedance is realized by the feedback of the boost-diode current or the boost-inductor current, while the virtual parallel impedance is implemented by the feedback of the dc-bus voltage. Based on the virtual-impedance approach, a variety of SHC reduction control schemes are derived. A step-by-step closed-loop parameters design approach with considerations of reducing the SHC and improving the dynamic performance is also proposed for the derived SHC reduction control schemes. Finally, a 1-kW prototype is built and tested, and experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed SHC reduction control schemes.
Interference Coordination for E-MBMS Transmissions in LTE-Advanced (2010)

Interference coordination methods for Evolved-Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (E-MBMS) in Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) are presented. In addition, we consider signal space diversity based on Rotation Matrices (RM) known to provide good performance gains over uncorrelated Rayleigh fading channels. OFDM/OFDMA systems can make the use of RM very attractive both for single and multiple antenna transmissions. In this paper, OFDM/OFDMA signals based on LTE parameters are combined with RM, MIMO, Turbo, or LDPC codes. We have considered different types of receivers, namely, we used an MMSE (Minimum Mean Squared Error) equalizer and a Maximum Likelihood Soft Output criterion (MLSO). Frequency, signal, and space diversity gains are evaluated for different spatial channel models (SCM) based on ITU multipath propagation channels. Different adaptive frequency reuse and schedulers are considered to evaluate the E-MBMS spectral efficiency at the cell borders.
Abrogation of α-synuclein–mediated dopaminergic neurodegeneration in LRRK2-deficient rats (2014)

Missense mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene can cause late-onset Parkinson disease. Past studies have provided conflicting evidence for the protective effects of LRRK2 knockdown in models of Parkinson disease as well as other disorders. These discrepancies may be caused by uncertainty in the pathobiological mechanisms of LRRK2 action. Previously, we found that LRRK2 knockdown inhibited proinflammatory responses from cultured microglia cells. Here, we report LRRK2 knockout rats as resistant to dopaminergic neurodegeneration elicited by intracranial administration of LPS. Such resistance to dopaminergic neurodegeneration correlated with reduced proinflammatory myeloid cells recruited in the brain. Additionally, adeno-associated virus-mediated transduction of human α-synuclein also resulted in dopaminergic neurodegeneration in wild-type rats. In contrast, LRRK2 knockout animals had no significant loss of neurons and had reduced numbers of activated myeloid cells in the substantia nigra. Although LRRK2 expression in the wild-type rat midbrain remained undetected under nonpathological conditions, LRRK2 became highly expressed in inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-positive myeloid cells in the substantia nigra in response to α-synuclein overexpression or LPS exposures. Our data suggest that knocking down LRRK2 may protect from overt cell loss by inhibiting the recruitment of chronically activated proinflammatory myeloid cells. These results may provide value in the translation of LRRK2-targeting therapeutics to conditions where neuroinflammation may underlie aspects of neuronal dysfunction and degeneration.
Microbiological Quality of Water Stored in Copper, Earthenware and Stainless Steel Vessels (2014)

A study was conducted to compare the effect of storage of water in copper, earthenware and stainless steel vessels on coliform count and aerobic plate count. Water samples contaminated with animal excreta was collected from farms and aerobic plate count and coliform count was estimated. The samples were then stored in copper, earthenware and stainless steel vessels for ten days at room temperature and the counts were taken on third, sixth and tenth days. Initial mean aerobic plate count of sample was 9.18±0.38 log10 cfu/ml, which came down to 4.99±0.12 log10 cfu/ml, 5.87±0.47 log10 cfu/ml and 5.21±0.42 log10 cfu/ml respectively, in copper, earthenware and stainless steel vessels on third day of storage. By tenth day of storage of water, copper vessel could eliminate 83 per cent of aerobic bacteria, earthenware vessel could eliminate 77 per cent of aerobic bacteria and stainless steel vessel could eliminate only 70 per cent of aerobic bacteria. Coliforms were completely eliminated from copper vessel by third day of storage. Whereas, earthenware vessel retained 66 percent of initial coliforms on third day of storage, and it took seven to ten days for complete removal of coliforms from earthenware vessel. Stainless steel vessel retained 23.5 per cent of initial coliforms on tenth day of storage. It could be concluded that use of copper vessels for storing drinking water in households is an effective water purification method.
Strange-matter stars (1994)

This paper gives an overview of the properties of all possible equilibrium sequences of compact strange-matter stars with nuclear crusts, which range from strange stars to strange dwarfs. In contrast to their non-strange counterparts--neutron stars and white dwarfs--their properties are determined by two (rather than one) parameters, the central star density and the density at the base of the nuclear crust. This leads to stellar strange-matter configurations whose properties are much more complex than those of the conventional sequence. As an example, two generically different categories of stable strange dwarfs are found, which could be the observed white dwarfs. Furthermore the authors find very-low-mass strange stellar objects, with masses as small as those of Jupiter or even lighter planets. Such objects, if abundant enough, should be seen by the presently performed gravitational microlensing searches.
Pharmacologic Interventions in Nuclear Radiology: Indications, Imaging Protocols, and Clinical Results (2002)

Nuclear radiology is valuable in assessing pathophysiology of a variety of organ systems. Pharmacologic interventions are often employed in radionuclide imaging to monitor the physiologic changes, which in turn facilitate the diagnosis. Metoclopramide, erythromycin, and cisapride have been used for gastric emptying studies. To overcome false-negative results, cimetidine, pentagastrin, and glucagon have been used in imaging of Meckel diverticula. Pharmacologic intervention with either cholecystokinin-8 or morphine is used primarily for the assessment of diseases of the gallbladder, common bile duct, and sphincter of Oddi. Pharmacologic interventions performed during renography include diuretic administration, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition, and aspirin renography. Recombinant thyrotropin can be used in patients with previously treated thyroid carcinoma who require lifelong follow-up for recurrent disease. Cardiac pharmacologic stress agents fall into two categories: coronary vasodilating agents, such as dipyridamole and adenosine, and cardiac positive inotropic agents, such as dobutamine and arbutamine. Measurement of hemodynamic responses to pharmacologic flow augmentation with carbon dioxide or acetazolamide is valuable in cerebrovascular perfusion studies.
On the RF/DSP design for efficiency of OFDM transmitters (2005)

In this paper, a system-level RF/digital signal processing (DSP) design approach of power-efficient orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitters is proposed. A DSP-based low-IF architecture, which allows a significant enhancement of their power and spectrum efficiencies, is proposed. The cascade of the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction technique, predistortion technique, and the in-phase and quadrature modulation led to impressive improvement in the power efficiency and effective linear output power of the OFDM transmitter. Measurement results carried out on an IEEE 802.11a transmitter designed and built for this experiment are presented in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel leakage ratio, and power efficiency. The power stage of this transmitter uses a heterojunction bipolar InGaP transistor operating in a deeply class AB. The cascade of the PAPR reduction and baseband predistortion processing modules results in the reduction of the power backoff operation point by approximately 10 dB accompanied by a relative increase in the wireless local area network transmitter power efficiency by roughly 400% while meeting the emission mask spectrum and EVM levels demanded by the 802.11a standard.
Learning, Modeling, and Classification of Vehicle Track Patterns from Live Video (2008)

This paper presents two different types of visual activity analysis modules based on vehicle tracking. The highway monitoring module accurately classifies vehicles into eight different types and collects traffic flow statistics by leveraging tracking information. These statistics are continuously accumulated to maintain daily highway models that are used to categorize traffic flow in real time. The path modeling block is a more general analysis tool that learns the normal motions encountered in a scene in an unsupervised fashion. The spatiotemporal motion characteristics of these motion paths are encoded by a hidden Markov model. With the path definitions, abnormal trajectories are detected and future intent is predicted. These modules add realtime situational awareness to highway monitoring for high-level activity and behavior analysis.
Self-Aligning MEMS In-Line Separable Electrical Connector (2004)

A MEMS in-line separable connector containing features for precision self-alignment is demonstrated. The concept relies on sliding connection between female and male halves to induce vertical deflections of a set of flexible conductors and establish stable electrical contacts. Electrodeposited photoresist is used to fabricate thick, nonplanar conductors, shaped by a silicon substrate that has previously been terraced by anisotropic etching. Further etched features ensure transverse and vertical self-alignment between conductor elements during mating. Prototype 10-way connectors are demonstrated with 200 /spl mu/m wide conductors on a 250-/spl mu/m pitch. Mechanical reliability of contacts during repeated mating and demating is demonstrated, and initial measurement of contact resistance reveals an encouraging value of 30 m/spl Omega/.
The novel elastase inhibitor BAY 85-8501 provides a new approach in the treatment of pulmonary diseases (2014)

Human neutrophil elastase (HNE) is a key mediator of tissue remodeling and inflammation. An excess of HNE activity has been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory pulmonary diseases like bronchiectasis (BE), COPD and pulmonary hypertension. HNE inhibitors could potentially restore the protease/anti-protease balance in these diseases providing a new therapeutic target. This is the first disclosure of BAY 85-8501, a novel, highly selective and reversible HNE inhibitor with picomolar activity, which reveals target inhibition in the lung and ameliorates pulmonary inflammation in preclinical models (protease-induced acute lung injury model in mice, minimal effective dose 0.01 mg/kg po). After single dose studies the drug candidate was evaluated in a multiple dose (MD) study in 26 healthy male subjects (0.3 - 1 mg as tablets once daily over 14 days). All treatments were safe and well tolerated without serious or severe adverse events and all clinical safety and laboratory parameters were in the normal range. Drug half-life allows once daily dosing. Evaluation of HNE inhibition after MD in an ex-vivo zymosan whole blood challenge assay (eliciting sterile inflammation) showed up to 90 % target inhibition at trough (24 h). Biomarker evaluation in BE patients revealed that significant HNE activity in sputum could be detected and this might be used for stratification of patients for HNE inhibitor treatment. Conclusion: BAY 85-8501 is a promising candidate for evaluation as chronic anti-inflammatory treatment in patients with bronchiectasis. A Phase 2 study is currently conducted (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT01818544 ).
Surface Modification for Suppressing Interfacial Parasitic Reactions of a Nickel-Rich Lithium-Ion Cathode (2019)

Ni-rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (LiNixMnyCo1–x–yO2, x ≥ 0.5, NMCs) are high-capacity cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, but they exhibit limited cycling stability under high cutoff potentials. Various aspects, including transition metal dissolution, structural disordering, particle cracking, surface film thickening, etc., have already been investigated in terms of their performance degradation in the battery research community. Interestingly, these phenomena were primarily observed at the surface layer of the cathode material, implying that they may also be facilitated by some interfacial parasitic reactions between the delithiated NMC electrode and the non-aqueous electrolyte. In this study, LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 (NMC 622) electrodes chemically modified with TiO2 via atomic layer deposition were used as a model system to demonstrate the criticalness of the interfacial parasitic reactions. The suppression of the interfacial parasitic reactions effectively reduced the hike of the cathodic surface film resistance, decreased the level of dissolution of transition metals, decreased the level of particle fragmentation, and mitigated the cation mixing of NMC 622. All of these results demonstrated that careful design of the interfacial layer by surface modifications is a key approach for improving the durability of Ni-rich NMCs under high-voltage cycling.
Optimal resource allocation in multihop relay-enhanced WiMAX networks (2011)

Multihop relaying in WiMAX networks is considered an increasingly attractive technology for providing throughput enhancement, coverage extension, or both. In this paper, we consider deploying non-transparent relay stations (RSs) that transmit on the same carrier frequency as the base station (BS) for the purpose of coverage extension. Since it is possible that the RSs and BS are transmitting/receiving simultaneously to/from the subscriber stations (SSs) during the access zone period, it is challenging to schedule resources optimally for serving SSs in a fair manner. We propose an optimal scheduling scheme that preserves fairness among active SSs, and compare its performance with two different resource allocation schemes, namely, the overlapped and orthogonal in terms of cell throughput and outage performance. Our numerical results show that proposed scheme can achieve more throughput than the orthogonal scheme, while maintaining the fairness and lower outage performance of the orthogonal one.