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Loss Considerations for Microstrip Resonators (Short Papers)

The influence of radiation losses on the Q of microstrip resonators is shown for a variety of frequencies, characteristic impedances, substrate materials, and thicknesses. Radiation becomes a dominant factor at higher frequencies, especially for low-impedance lines and thick substrates with a low dielectric constant.

Topic: Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Divine Names, Angels, Demons, and Exemplary Figures

The collection of Aramaic magic bowls and related objects in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin is one of the most important in the world. This book presents a description of each object and its contents, including details of users and other names, biblical quotations, parallel texts, and linguistic features. Combined with the detailed indices, the present volume makes the Berlin collection accessible for further research. Furthermore, sixteen texts, which are representative of the whole collection, are edited. This book results from an impressive collaboration between Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, and Ortal-Paz Saar, with further contributions by Matthew Morgenstern, Marco Moriggi, and Naama Vilozny, and will be of interest for all those engaged in the study of these fascinating objects. "The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects.... The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)

Topic: Biblical Studies and Interpretation
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Different approaches to the modal split calculation in urban areas

In order to cope with rapid growth of congestion levels in urban areas, it is necessary to improve performances of a traffic network which can be one of the basic tasks of transport planning. In this situation „ ‟ build only‟ ‟ approach, in most cases, is not the right approach. New transport strategies on the local and political levels must be defined and all stakeholders must be identified. The development of new services such as Park & Ride systems, individualised public transport services as well as creation of transport plans (car-pool, car-share) can significantly reduce the number of individual vehicles entering the urban area, thus reducing congestion levels and improving traffic flow performances. In order to create those kinds of strategies, a set of indicators must be defined. Those indicators provide the basic overview of network performances. One of the most relevant indicators is the modal split indicator. This paper describes the relevance of the modal split as well as different approaches to the modal split calculation. For the purpose of the modal split calculation, a set of terms is also defined.

Topic: Transportation Systems and Logistics
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SK channel activation with SKA‐31 decreases excitability and contractility in Guinea pig urinary bladder smooth muscle

Small (SK) and intermediate (IK) conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels have been suggested to be involved in determining the excitability and contractility of detrusor smooth muscle (DSM). We used SKA-31, a novel SK/IK channel activator to probe the therapeutic potential of SK/IK channel activation to control bladder function. Isometric tension recordings of isolated Guinea pig DSM strips indicated that SKA-31 (100 nM-10 μM) significantly inhibited the spontaneous contraction amplitude, muscle force, frequency, and duration. This inhibitory effect was blocked by apamin (1 μM), a selective SK channel inhibitor. SK channel activation with SKA-31 (3 μM) also reduced the contractions evoked by electrical field stimulation. TRAM-34 (30 μM), an IK channel selective inhibitor, did not suppress the inhibitory effect of SKA-31, indicating a role only for the SK channel in detrusor contractility. Using the perforated patch-clamp technique, we observed that SKA-31 (10 μM) increased the voltage-step induced SK currents in freshly isolated DSM cells. In current clamp mode, SKA-31 (10 μM) hyperpolarized the resting membrane potential by ~3 mV. These effects were blocked by apamin (1 μM). Collectively, our data indicate that activation of SK channels may provide a novel therapeutic approach to control bladder function. Supported by NIH DK084284 & DK083687 to GVP. SKA-31 is a gift from Dr. Heike Wulff.

Topic: Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
Subfield: Urology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Workflow-based e-learning platform

E-learning has become one of most important means for the future education, especially for universities. This paper is based on our e-learning teaching experience which comes from one of the leading e-learning university, the University of Southern Queensland. We use the workflow mechanism to analyse the e-learning system. The whole e-learning system is divided into four sub-workflow systems, teaching sub-workflow, learning sub-workflow, admin sub-workflow and infrastructure sub-workflow. Through a coherent analyse of co-relationship of main activities in four sub-workflow systems, some activities are identified as the key elements for the e-learning system. By enhancing these key elements, the performance of all the e-learning workflow gets a significant improvement and e-learning students get better grades than on-campus and traditional distance students. The workflow-based e-learning system can effectively reach the expected achievement of e-learning.

Topic: Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Team Selection

Abstract The use of teams in organizations has become ubiquitous. Yet, there has been comparatively little research on team selection. This chapter seeks to review the literature on team selection and identify areas for future research. To do this, we first briefly review existing models of team functioning to provide background for selection scholars who might not be familiar with team constructs. We then describe the work of teams, particularly in terms of how it might differ from the work of individuals. This is followed by a review of the different kinds of criteria that can be used in team settings, including criteria used in individually oriented selection, as well as some criteria unique to the team domain. We then articulate the different ways individuals can contribute to teams in terms of key knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) identified in the literature. These constructs represent the different attributes that can be assessed prior to selecting individuals or teams. Next, we discuss issues of team placement and staffing, particularly in terms of how to create teams to optimize the different worker KSAOs present in the organization or applicant population. Finally, we close with some thoughts about team selection and the need for future research in this area.

Topic: Team Dynamics and Performance
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Rumour Detection Based on Graph Convolutional Neural Net

Rumor detection is an important research topic in social networks, and lots of rumor detection models are proposed in recent years. For the rumor detection task, structural information in a conversation can be used to extract effective features. However, many existing rumor detection models focus on local structural features while the global structural features between the source tweet and its replies are not effectively used. To make full use of global structural features and content information, we propose Source-Replies relation Graph (SR-graph) for each conversation, in which every node denotes a tweet, its node feature is weighted word vectors, and edges denote the interaction between tweets. Based on SR-graphs, we propose an Ensemble Graph Convolutional Neural Net with a Nodes Proportion Allocation Mechanism (EGCN) for the rumor detection task. In experiments, we first verify that the extracted structural features are effective, and then we show the effects of different word-embedding dimensions on multiple test indices. Moreover, we show that our proposed EGCN model is comparable or even better than the current state-of-art machine learning models.

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
3. "The Foolmaster Who Fooled Them"

Throughout the nineteenth century, physicians assumed the major task of analyzing and warning against quackery and unorthodoxy. The nature of this criticism is described, with key reliance on Worthington Hooker's Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions (1850). Most physicians viewed prospects for suppressing quackery more hopefully than Hooker did. Even he, however, would be shocked that delusion could persist so stubbornly despite advancing medical science, expanding education, and increasing regulation. Many factors help explain today's continuing-even burgeoning-quackery. These include a less cheerful view of both human nature and of the future, widespread skepticism about the fruits for science, impatience with governmental regulation, the vogue for self-help in health, increasing promotional sophistication on the part of unorthodox health vendors, and cooperation among various wings of unorthodoxy to maximize political pressure. Examples are given. Champions of alternative therapies predict their triumph over orthodox medical science in the contest being waged for the allegiance of the public.

Topic: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Adoption of Technological Change in the Public Sector: Evidence From US States

Our paper explores the broad influences that stimulate technological change in governmental service delivery. Using panel data by state, we examine whether residents are able to apply for Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits via technology services such as the internet or automated telephone, or are required to apply in person. The reduced form model tests for the relative influence of residential demand, political pressure, and bureaucratic influence. We find that it is the dispersion of the urban population across a state that provides the impetus for government adoption of new technology, in stark contrast to the importance of urban concentration found for the private sector. A unique additional influence we test is the ability of the entrenched bureaucracy to impede technology options. We find that governors of either political party in their term-limited term—when compromise with bureaucrats is less important—save 4% in administrative costs. We find that technology adoption can be delayed but not prevented by bureaucratic interests.

Topic: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Introducing the Workplace Well-Being Program Implementation Model: A Model to Inform the Establishment of Organizational Well-Being Programs

Employee stress and disengagement are of increasing concern in workplaces due to the adverse consequences of such employee states on business performance and employee quality of life. Conventional wellness strategies in organizations may help alleviate some work-related distress, but do little to enhance employee well-being towards flourishing. Workplaces have a unique opportunity to improve the well-being of their employees and can, as a result, reap benefits beyond health care cost avoidance. Positive psychology and affiliated disciplines (e.g. positive organizational behavior and positive organizational scholarship) can offer research-backed strategies to enhance well-being by ‘growing the good’ and capitalizing on strengths versus mitigating risk or deficit alone. This paper examines these fields and the general program implementation literature to synthesize a model of workplace well-being program design and implementation. This model can be leveraged by organizations and practitioners looking to establish workplace well-being programs rooted in science to enhance employee well-being and ultimately to drive positive business outcomes for the organization as a whole.

Topic: Employment and Welfare Studies
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
NTPase/helicase of Flaviviridae: inhibitors and inhibition of the enzyme.

RNA nucleoside triphosphatases (NTPase)/helicases represent a large family of proteins that are ubiquitously distributed over a wide range of organisms. The enzymes play essential role in cell development and differentiation, and some of them are involved in transcription and replication of viral single-stranded RNA genomes. The enzymatic activities of a NTPase/helicase were also detected in the carboxyl-terminal non-structural protein 3 (NS3) of members of the Flaviviridae family. The crucial role of the enzyme for the virus life cycle was demonstrated in knock out experiments and by using NTPase/helicase specific inhibitors. This makes the enzyme an attractive target for development of Flaviviridae-specific antiviral therapies. This review will summarize our knowledge about the function and structure of the enzyme, update the spectrum of inhibitors of the enzymatic activities of the NTPase/helicase and describe the different mechanisms by which the compounds act. Some of the compounds reviewed herein could show potential utility as antiviral agents against Flaviviridae viruses.

Topic: Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Corpora, innovation and English language education

Corpora have been at the forefront of two of the most signifi cant changes in language education in recent years. On one hand, they have provided teachers and materials designers with more robust descriptions of how language is patterned and used, revealing the pervasive occurrence of phrasal units as the basis of idiomatic language use. On the other hand, they have facilitated new teaching methodologies, contributing to a wider shift from teaching as imparting knowledge to teaching as mediating learning. Here, corpora provide a means for students to take a more active and refl ective part in their learning by exploring authentic examples of language. In the last decade, then, we have seen corpora exploited in areas as diverse as syllabus design (Walsh, 2010), classroom methodologies (Chambers, 2010), student grammars (Conrad & Biber, 2009) and assessment (Barker, 2010) in what has been something of a revolution in attitudes to language teaching. In this chapter, I survey the key changes that corpora have brought to language education, concluding with an example of an online concordancer for students. First, however, I offer a basic primer on what corpora are and how they are used.

Topic: Lexicography and Language Studies
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Transcriptome - wide bioinformatics analysis of the binding sites of RNA - binding proteins and their putative role in mendelian diseases

Background: Post-transcriptional regulation is the control of gene expression at the RNA level. After produced, the stability and distribution of the different transcripts are regulated by means of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Mutations in RNA-binding proteins can cause Mendelian diseases - prominently neuromuscular disorders and cancers. This study determines the interaction between RBPs and target-RNA complexes from public data of the ENCODE project and identifies mutations associated with Mendelian diseases that could disrupt the RBP-RNA interactions. Materials and methods: we performed a transcriptome - wide bioinformatics prediction of the binding sites of RBPs in the human transcriptome from public data of the ENCODE project. Results: The majority (54%) of pathogenic mutation putatively affecting the binding sites of RBPs are located in protein - coding genes and are mainly classified as loss - of - function mutations. Mutations located in the binding sites of RBPs related to RNA processing. For 13 diseases, Familial hypercholesterolemia is the most significant disease with about 40% of mutations in ClinVar database located into the binding sites of RBPs (p=2.3e-65), but congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is the disease with the highest percentage of mutations affecting the binding sites of RBPs (98%, p=2.7e-25). The RBPs most involved in human Mendelian diseases by binding sites-disrupting mutations are YBX3, AQR and PRPF8. Conclusions: A large number of Mendelian diseases are potentially mediated by disease - causing variants that potentially disrupt the binding sites of RBPs. This will provide insight sharper on post - transcriptional mechanisms. Besides, it is useful to know the role of protein - RNA interactome networks in pathologies, thereby serving the treatment of diseases. Key words: bioinformatics analysis, ENCODE project, ClinVar, RNA-binding proteins, Mendelian diseases

Topic: RNA Research and Splicing
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Tubal Sterilization — Safe and Effective

Eleven million U.S. women rely on tubal sterilization to prevent pregnancy.1 Although the annual number of women undergoing sterilization (approximately 700,000) remains stable, the techniques, timing, and setting of the surgery have changed.2 In the early 1970s, the usual sterilization procedure was partial salpingectomy with the use of laparotomy, and it was usually performed after delivery. Subsequently, nonpuerperal sterilization with a laparoscopic approach became as common as the postpartum open procedures, and now nearly all nonpuerperal, or interval, sterilizations are performed as outpatient procedures.3 Only postpartum procedures are still performed in the hospital.The mortality rates associated with sterilization in . . .

Topic: Gynecological conditions and treatments
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
A Comparative Study between the plant Justicia Adathoda and it's Semisynthetic drugs and Teratological Potential

Pharmacological activity of the plant Justicia Adathoda and it's teratological potential. The plant Adathoda, also known as Justicia adhatoda, has been used in traditional medicine for various purposes. Researchers have extracted and isolated several compounds from this plant, including vasicinone and vasicine, which have shown promising pharmacological activities ¹. *Semisynthetic Derivatives:* One of the semisynthetic derivatives of vasicine is VA-1, which was synthesized through an acetylation reaction. VA-1 has shown potent antiplasmodial activity against Plasmodium falciparum, with an IC50 value of 6.0 µg/mL ¹. *Pharmacology:* The pharmacological activities of vasicinone, vasicine, and VA-1 include: Antiplasmodial activity: Vasicinone, vasicine, and VA-1 have shown antiplasmodial activity against Plasmodium falciparum, with VA-1 being the most potent ¹. Antimicrobial activity: The extracts of Justicia adhatoda have shown antimicrobial activity against various microorganisms ¹. Anti-inflammatory activity: Vasicinone and vasicine have shown anti-inflammatory activity, although the exact mechanism is not well understood ¹. Overall, the semisynthetic derivatives of Adathoda, particularly VA-1, show promising pharmacological activities, especially in the treatment of malaria. However, further research is needed to fully explore their potential therapeutic applications.

Topic: Synthesis and bioactivity of alkaloids
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Cooperating on Architectural Analyses

At our faculty, a three + two year bachelor and masters program is being implemented instead of a five year program.Additionally, a system of five periods of each eight weeks per year is being replaced by a semester-based system.As part of this substantial curriculum review, the role of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in the design studio is being reassessed.In this paper, we focus on the fourth semester design studio which will be held each semester from the fall semester of this year on for about 350 students per year, and describe one particular aspect of this role we are developing for this semester.The central design theme of this studio is a small public building.In the progress of the studio, the students will first perform an analysis of select-ed precedents according to various criteria.Given a relatively complex functional program, they will then design and work out the materialization of their building, while documenting their entire design process.The documentation of this design process is stored, managed, organized, and presented in an integrated document management communication environment (Stouffs et al., 2002).We will provide the students with a web-based environment for the storage and management of their analysis, and tools to perform this analysis.In this way, the students will benefit from a collaboration with peers, and by integrating the analysis results into a common, extensible, library, they will be able to draw upon other results for comparisons and relationships between different aspects or buildings.Within this context, we are develop-20

Topic: Design Education and Practice
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
LCD Glass Cleaning by Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge Plasma

We report on a novel method for the surface modification of indium tin oxide (ITO) in LCD glass by direct exposure to a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. To remove the organic contaminants from the surfaces of ITO film in LCD glass, the atmospheric pressure RF glow discharge plasma was used. Argon (Ar) and oxygen (O2) were used as the carrier gas and reactive gas, respectively. The addition of O2 gas to Ar decreased the contact angle of water and increased the surface cleaning rate due to the increase of oxygen radicals in the plasma. The chemical characteristics of ITO surface after the plama treatment were investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and new carboxyl group bond was produced. The contact angle of 64° before the plasma treatment was decreased to 7° in the processing condition with oxygen flow rate of 50 sccm, treatment speed of 100mm/sec, and input power of 300W. These hydrophilic effect will be very useful in the manufacturing processes of LCD glass.

Topic: Plasma Applications and Diagnostics
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences