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Optimization of Power Plant Operation Parameters for Efficiency Improvement through Data-Driven Relevance Vector Machine Regression Algorithm (2018)

In this paper, we will discuss about power generation efficiency improvement program (EIP) for saving fuel cost of electrical energy production. EIP will be focused on the embedding and enhancing operation culture by setting the operation parameters quality control chart as guidance for the power plant frontline operation. The data sources are limited to the controllable operation parameters acquired by Distributed Control System (DCS). New methodology that is algorithm as one of artificial intelligence tools will be proposed to be applied on the EIP. The new methodology consists of 5 steps: 1) collect operation parameter data acquisition, 2) select main operating indicator, 3) develop relevance vector machine (RVM) regression algorithm used for regression process, 4) define operation parameter quality control chart, 5) frontline operation optimization process. The operation parameter quality control chart is derived from statistical data acquired with the RVM regression algorithm. The mean regression curve achieved is proposed as a reference for maximum tolerable limit of operation parameter range and from the practical reference the efficient operation limit curve was set at 5% below it. The results show that RVM technique capable to produce an operation parameter regression curves from the sparse prior operation parameter data. This quality control chart can be applied as a helpful guidance for frontline operation in purpose for leading the change the operator behavior to become a new efficient mindset culture. Originality of the proposed methodology in this paper is the operation parameter quality control chart which derived by application of RVM regression algorithm.
STUDY OF PREVALENCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PROMOTIONAL TECHNIQUES IN RETAIL PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET (2020)

This research aims to identify the most effective and prevalent promotional techniques used in retail pharmaceutical market. A cross-sectional study was carried out in Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) using the non-repeated random sampling technique. Ad hoc developed questionnaires were administered by means of face-to-face interviews or online via web software Sphinx (Python Documentation Generator). The relative importance of prevalence and the mean evaluation of effectiveness were determined for all studied marketing tools and for all groups of respondents (pharmaceutical sales representatives, community pharmacists, consumers, and the entire sample). Based on the results obtained, studied promotional techniques were ranked for prevalence and effectiveness. ANOVA and Scheffé test were used for determining the inter-group differences in average values of prevalence and in mean evaluation of effectiveness, while inter-individual differences were assessed by computing the coefficient of variation. Research findings showed that, according to all respondents, the most effective promotion technique was digital marketing, how- ever, all respondents considered digital marketing to be the least prevalent promotion technique. According to consumers and to the common opinion of all respondents, the most prevalent promotion technique in community pharmacies was merchandising, but, according to consumers, pharmaceutical sales representatives and common opinion of all respondents, the strength of impact of merchandising on consumers’ purchasing decisions (perceived effectiveness) was the least. The results of the present research contribute to the theory of pharmaceutical marketing; they may be useful to regulatory policy specialists, providing the better un- derstanding of which promotion techniques are commonly used in the retail pharmaceutical market; they can help pharmaceutical companies to focus on the most effective promotion methods, identifying which of promotion techniques are perceived as the most effective for marketing communication and having the strongest impact on consumers’ purchasing decisions.
Wide bandwidth low cost SAW notch filters (2002)

SAW notch filters have been fabricated in the past with limited success. A prevailing problem has been stopband null depth and bandwidth versus a reasonably broad passband response. Typically, notch filters developed in the past have achieved either one or the other. Notch filters using the Single Phase Unidirectional Transducer (SPUDT) SAW notch element have achieved good null depth and null bandwidth, but have had little success in achieving a broad passband response. Other filters, used in the CATV industry, have achieved very good broad passband responses, but have produced notch bandwidths that are too narrow to reliably operate over a large temperature range. SAW notch filters of the past have been physically large, at times over 17 mm in length and therefore required expensive packaging. Also, these filters have required large and expensive tuning components to achieve the desired performance. The physical size requirements resulted in circuits that were limited in applications In an effort to solve these problems, a new approach has been considered where a SAW element was optimized for high input impedance at the notch center frequency. A Coupling of Modes model was used to predict the performance of the notch element and the notch network. The result was a SAW notch element under 7 mm in length that could easily fit in a TO-39-5 package. Tuning for this notch network required only two small surface mount inductors. Typical passband performance was less than -7.0 dB from 350 MHz to 1.5 GHz.
A 3D Relative-Motion Context Constraint-Based MAP Solution for Multiple-Object Tracking Problems (2018)

Multi-object tracking (MOT), especially by using a moving monocular camera, is a very challenging task in the field of visual object tracking. To tackle this problem, the traditional tracking-by-detection-based method is heavily dependent on detection results. Occlusion and mis-detections will often lead to tracklets or drifting. In this paper, the tasks of MOT and camera motion estimation are formulated as finding a maximum a posteriori (MAP) solution of joint probability and synchronously solved in a unified framework. To improve performance, we incorporate the three-dimensional (3D) relative-motion model into a sequential Bayesian framework to track multiple objects and the camera's ego-motion estimation. A 3D relative-motion model that describes spatial relations among objects is exploited for predicting object states robustly and recovering objects when occlusion and mis-detections occur. Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) particle filtering is applied to solve the posteriori estimation problem. Both quantitative and qualitative experiments with benchmark datasets and video collected on campus were conducted, which confirms that the proposed method is outperformed in many evaluation metrics.
Scrambling and key distribution scheme for digital television (2005)

The scrambling scheme is a part of the conditional access system (CAS) that is used to prevent unauthorized access to Pay-TV systems. We propose a new scrambling scheme and key distribution scheme. The scrambling scheme is used in conjunction with ordinary encryption techniques, for protecting the digital video streams from unauthorized viewing. A hash function and a pseudo-random number generator are used to prepare the video stream before being encrypted. The proposed scheme helps reduce computational time and complexity while providing the same level of security as encrypting the entire video stream. In addition, the proposed secure key distribution scheme can be used with any, scrambling scheme e.g. with our scrambling scheme. By using the Chinese remainder theorem (CRT) for distributing parameters in the scrambling process, the security of the scheme can be increased. Moreover, our scheme can prevent two common problems, namely, smart card cloning and McCormac Hack.
Constant capacity-an information theoretic approach to VLSI/DSP architecture (2003)

Based on information-theoretic principles, fundamental guidelines for signal processing systems design are developed. Conventional systems figures-of-merit do not effectively consider these basic metrics. The issue in the design of real-time signal processing systems is efficiency rather than raw processing speed. The critical parameters to consider in designing a signal processing system are available power and communications resources. With these considerations in mind, a constant-capacity architecture is outlined.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Investigations of harmonic generations in aperiodic optical superlattices (2000)

We envisage the enhanced effect of harmonic generations from aperiodic optical superlattices (AOSs) achieved by inverting poled ferroelectric domains in samples. The search of optimal AOSs structures belongs to solving a difficult inverse source problem in nonlinear optics. We employ the simulated annealing method to successfully deal with this problem. We present the analyses of the design idea in the real-space representation and carry out several model designs. The constructed AOSs implement multiple wavelength second-harmonic generation and the coupled third-harmonic generation with an identical effective nonlinear coefficient at the preassigned wavelengths. The simulations show that the harmonic generations in the constructed AOSs can approach the prescribed goal better than those with the Fibonacci optical superlattice. The effective nonlinear coefficients versus the optical wave propagating distance from the impinging surface of incident light in the sample exhibit monotonically increasing behavior. This clearly infers that the contribution from each and every block to the optical parametric processes is in the constructive interference state. We also investigate the influence of the random fluctuation of the thickness of blocks on the performance of the constructed AOSs in detail for simulating practical fabrications and testing the performance stability of the sample.
A real-time three-dimensional graphics display (1975)

The visible surface problem for three dimensional objects is examined from a global point of view in which planar surfaces derived from convex three-dimensional objects are regarded as the natural display elements. By retaining global information on surface and object relationships it is possible to considerably simplify the resolution of visible surfaces for a large class of realistic objects. Implementation of this approach suggests a display in which surfaces written to the display device can overlay and obscure previous picture information in the manner of an oil painting. A display system is proposed in which this is implemented by a large buffer memory which holds a complete point-by-point description of the picture in low-cost MOS shift-registers. By combining new data to be entered in the memory in a variety of ways with the data already present, it is possible to considerably enhance the displayÃ�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�s capabilities. The buffer memory also allows an easy match of the display system to conventional (TV) video equipment.
A Comparison of the Efficacy of Stimulus Control for Medicated and Nonmedicated Insomniacs (1998)

A sample of 21 medicated and 20 nonmedicated insomniacs participated in a sleep medication withdrawal program that provided education about sleep medication and a gradual medication withdrawal schedule. Ten medicated participants received stimulus control treatment and the withdrawal program, and 11 medicated participants served as a control group that received only the withdrawal program. Half of the nonmedicated participants received stimulus control, and the remaining nonmedicated participants served as a wait-list control condition. Medicated participants significantly reduced sleep medication use without significant deterioration on sleep, anxiety, or depression measures from baseline to 8-week follow-up. Stimulus control participants, unlike control group participants, showed significant improvement at follow-up for total sleep time, sleep efficiency, and sleep quality. Stimulus control participants also reported less daytime sleepiness than control participants after treatment. Nonmedicated participants exhibited a more positive response to stimulus control than medicated participants.
Cannabinoids production in Cannabis sativa L.: An in vitro approach (2014)

Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabaceae) is the oldest known medicinal plant. For millennia, the plant has also been used for fibre and oil production.The most prominent feature of C. sativa is the psychoactive effect ascribed to its secondary metabolites, cannabinoids (mainly to tetrahydrocannabinol, THC). However, many other pharmacological properties of the aforementioned specialized compounds have been described. Currently, the demand for THC for various medical applications is substantial, while cultivation and breeding of Cannabis in most countries is strictly regulated and limited to serving research purposes and meeting therapeutic needs. Therefore, the hereby proposed and discussed production of THC using in vitro cultures could be a viable alternative. In the work presented here, in vitro organogenesis from callus cultures (undifferentiated plant cell masses grown on solid media) was successfully established, ultimately resulting in regeneration of the complete C. sativa plant. Further, production of THC as well as other important cannabinoids was achieved in cell suspension, hairy root and trichome cultures of Cannabis. The optimal combination of phytohormones, as applied to the B5 growth medium, fostering the development of meristemoids from callus cultures was: 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), 6-benzylaminopurine (BA) and adenine hemisulfate salt (AS) in respective concentrations of 0.5, 5 and 40 mg/l. Concurrently, the most favourable augmentation protocols of the B5 medium for the induction and differentiation of shootlets (small plants with leaves but without roots) were: 0.5 mg/l of gibberelic acid (GA3) or 0.25 mg/l of thidiazouron (TDZ) and 3 mg/l of GA3 (8.5 ± 1.73 and 7.25 ±1.03 shootlets/callus, respectively). The subsequent root formation of shootlets was most prominent after supplementation with 1.5 mg/l of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). In vitro acclimatized plants growing in Erlenmeyer flasks formed tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA), cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), retrieved at respective concentrations of about 0.33, 0.45 and 157.1 mg/g fresh weight. In contrast, ex vitro acclimatized plants (grown hydroponically for 8 weeks) synthesized THCA, THC, CBGA, cannabigerol (CBG) and CBDA at corresponding concentrations of 1.54, 28.30, 6.0, 0.125 and 1121.4 mg/g fresh weight. The obtained results confirmed the generation of pharmacologically important cannabinoids; however, the biosynthetic abilities of the investigated cell and hairy root cultures did not provide sufficient levels of the valuable metabolites to warrant scaling-up of the proposed in vitro production platform.
Antitumor Activity of <i>bax</i> and <i>p53</i> Naked Gene Transfer in Lung Cancer: <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>In Vivo</i> Analysis (1998)

In vitro and in vivo data have demonstrated that virus-mediated p53 gene transfer can induce active cell death and lung tumor regression. In contrast, the therapeutic potential of bax, another apoptosis-inducing gene, has not been described. We compared p53 and bax cytotoxic effects by transient transfection of an average of 25 +/- 5% of the H-322 and H-358 bronchioloalveolar carcinoma cell lines in vitro. Under these conditions, bax expression killed 70 to 90% of the transfected cells whereas p53 killed only 40% of them. The killing activity of both genes involved apoptosis, as shown by TUNEL staining. Surprisingly, BrdU incorporation indicated that the cells that did resist Bax toxicity were blocked in the pre-S phase of the cell cycle, a result expected for p53 only. In vivo, repeated injections of naked DNA encoding Bax or p53 inhibited the growth of 4-mm preestablished H-322 tumors in nude mice. Growth retardation only, and not inhibition, was observed in H-358, a poorly transfectable and rapidly growing tumor. These results indicate that Bax and p53 share a similar, strong antitumor activity in vivo, even if the former is a more potent inducer of apoptosis in vitro.
Hardness tolerance of anionic surfactant solutions. 1. Anionic surfactant with added monovalent electrolyte (1989)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTHardness tolerance of anionic surfactant solutions. 1. Anionic surfactant with added monovalent electrolyteKevin L. Stellner and John F. ScamehornCite this: Langmuir 1989, 5, 1, 70–77Publication Date (Print):January 1, 1989Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 January 1989https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/la00085a014https://doi.org/10.1021/la00085a014research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views868Altmetric-Citations90LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Incarcération provisoire du mis en examen après révocation du contrôle judiciaire : applicabilité de l'article 145 et possibilité d'un débat différé (2007)

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The Brand-Personality Scale (1999)

A study of a convenience sample of 247 students at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration measured the extent to which respondents differentiated among the personalities of nine restaurants in three segments (quick service, casual dining, and upscale). The study was based on Jennifer L. Aaker's brand-personality scale, which posits five overall personality dimensions comprising 42 traits. The overall dimensions are competence, sincerity, excitement, sophistication, and ruggedness. Respondents rated each of the nine restaurants on Aaker's 42 traits. On balance, the students did not perceive large differences among the restaurants' overall personalities, although certain restaurants were seen as distinctive on individual dimensions. For instance, McDonald's was seen as being more competent and exciting than either Burger King or Wendy's. Chili's was rated as the most rugged of the three casual-dining restaurants, while TGI Friday's was considered to be more exciting than Chili's or Applebee's. Ironically, the students reported the least personality differentiation among the upscale restaurants (all local establishments), even though the chef's or owner's personality usually informs such restaurants. Overall, upscale restaurants were perceived to be more sophisticated than the casual-dining or QSR outlets, while the casual-dining restaurants were seen as more sincere.
Estrogen Receptor-β Activation Results in S-Nitrosylation of Proteins Involved in Cardioprotection (2009)

The activation of ER-beta by DPN treatment leads to increased protein SNO and cardioprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury, suggesting that long-term estrogen exposure protects hearts largely via activation of ER-beta and nitric oxide/SNO signaling.
Deep convolutional activation features for large scale Brain Tumor histopathology image classification and segmentation (2015)

We propose a simple, efficient and effective method using deep convolutional activation features (CNNs) to achieve stat- of-the-art classification and segmentation for the MICCAI 2014 Brain Tumor Digital Pathology Challenge. Common traits of such medical image challenges are characterized by large image dimensions (up to the gigabyte size of an image), a limited amount of training data, and significant clinical feature representations. To tackle these challenges, we transfer the features extracted from CNNs trained with a very large general image database to the medical image challenge. In this paper, we used CNN activations trained by ImageNet to extract features (4096 neurons, 13.3% active). In addition, feature selection, feature pooling, and data augmentation are used in our work. Our system obtained 97.5% accuracy on classification and 84% accuracy on segmentation, demonstrating a significant performance gain over other participating teams.
Unifying Internet Services Using Distributed Shared Objects (1996)

Developing wide area applications such as those for sharing data across the Internet is unnecessarily difficult.The main problem is the widespread use of a communication paradigm that is too low level.We will show how wide area application development can be made easier when using distributed shared objects instead of a communication-oriented model.An object in our model is physically distributed, with multiple copies of its state on different machines.All implementation aspects such as replication, distribution, and migration of state, are hidden from users through an object's interface.In this paper, we concentrate on the application of distributed shared objects, by providing an outline of a middleware solution that permits integration of the Internet services for e-mail, News, file transfer, and Web documents.
Treatment options in recurrent ovarian cancer: latest evidence and clinical potential (2014)

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in women. Although significant progress has been made in the treatment of OC, the majority of patients experience disease recurrence and receive second-line and sometimes several lines of treatment. Here we review the options available for the treatment of recurrent disease and discuss how different agents are selected, combined and offered in a rationale sequence in the context of multidisciplinary care. We reviewed published work between 1990 and 2013 and meeting abstracts related to the use of chemotherapy and surgery in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer. We discuss treatment regimens, efficacy endpoints and safety profiles of the different therapies. Platinum-based drugs are the most active agents and are selected on the basis of a probability of response to retreatment. Nonplatinum-based chemotherapy regimens are usually given in the 'platinum-resistant' setting and have a modest effect on outcome. Molecular targeted therapy of ovarian cancer given alone or integrated with chemotherapy is showing promising results. Many patients are now receiving more than one line of therapy for recurrent disease, usually platinum based until platinum resistance emerges. The sequential use of chemotherapy regimens and the incorporation of molecularly targeted treatments, either alone or in combination with chemotherapy, have over the last decade significantly extended the median survival of patients with ovarian cancer.