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Causes Of Tractor Breakdowns And Requisite Solutions A Case Study Of Small Tractor Use In Riau Province, Indonesia, Paman Ujang, Uchida S., Inaba S., Kojima T.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

A survey has been undertaken to look into the causes of tractor breakdowns on field operations and the main constraints associated with repair and maintenance, and to recommend a solution to the problems in Riau Province. The owners of sixty-two small tractors were interviewed, from three regencies chosen of the Province in 2003. As a result, the working capacity of the tractors was relatively high and the average annual use was relatively low compared to the national average. Most tractor operators did not have sufficient skill to operate tractors. The tractor breakdowns resulted from operators’ mistakes, fuel and oil defilement, …

Artificial Intelligent System For Measurement Of Harmonic Powers, Jerome Jovitha, Vinoth P.

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The importance of the electric power quality (PQ) demands new methodologies and measurement tools in the power industry for the analysis and measurement of the basic electric magnitudes necessary. This paper presents a new measurement procedure based on neural networks for the estimation of harmonic amplitudes of current/voltage and respective harmonic powers. The measurement scheme is built with two neural network modules. The first module is an adaptive linear neuron (ADALINE) that is the kernel part of estimation of complex harmonic coefficients of the current/voltage. The second module is feedforward neural network that obtains the harmonic active/reactive powers. In order …

Proceedings Of The International Interdisciplinary Business And Economics Conference: Volume 8, Cihan Cobanoglu, Serdar Ongan

University of South Florida (USF) - M3 Publishing

This is the eighth volume of the International Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Conference Proceedings Series.

ISSN: 2372-5885

Waitzkin, Rich, Kristen Cates, Emma Donnelly

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Rich Waitzkin is a 69-year-old social worker originally from Akron, Ohio residing in Portland, ME. Waitzkin came out as a gay man in his late twenties after moving to Maine. He holds two Masters degrees in both education and social work. Waitzkin has years of experience working both in administration and in the home health care field providing therapy to the LGBTQ community. During the AIDS epidemic, Waitzkin worked as a social worker helping to guide clients on resources and even preparing some for death. Waitzkin also helped establish Portland’s first LGBTQ community center known as the Equality Community Center. …

November 18, 2017 (Pages 6999-7164), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 47 (2017)

No abstract provided.

Letting Students Speak: Making The Classroom Student-Centered Through Multimodal Projects, Claire Lutkewitte

CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

No abstract provided.

Teaching For Epidemiological Literacy: Description, Prescription, And Critical Thinking, Peter J. Taylor

Working Papers on Science in a Changing World

This working paper describes contrasting ideas for a sequence of topics as presented to students in a graduate course on epidemiological literacy. The premise of the pedagogical approach is that researchers develop their epidemiological thinking and practice over time through interactions with other researchers who have a variety of in-practice commitments, such as to kinds of cases and methods of analysis, and not simply to a philosophical framework for explanation. In descriptively teasing out what epidemiologists do in practice through a topic-by-topic presentation, I am prescriptively encouraging discussants to draw purposefully from across the range of topics and contrasting …

Effectiveness Of Fluticasone Furoate Plus Vilanterol On Asthma Control In Clinical Practice: An Open-Label, Parallel Group, Randomised Controlled Trial, A Woodcock, J Vestbo, Nd Bakerly, J New, Jm Gibson, S Mccorkindale, R Jones, S Collier, J Lay-Flurrie, L Frith, L Jacques, Jl Fletcher, C Harvey, H Svedsater, D Leather, D Adams-Strump, Ls Addlestone, A Afshar, J Amin, R Archer, M Austin, A Bakhat, J Behardien, Jm Borg-Costanzi, G Breen, N Browne, C Brunt, Kh Buch, P Budden, J Chandy, A Chaudhry, L Cheema, N Chennupati, S Coulson, L Cribbin, D Dillon, A El-Kafrawy, E Elliott, B Farooq, Na Finegan, P Fink, A Fletcher, S Frier, C Gibbons, L Gill, D Herron, B Hope, Re Howard, C Hughes, S Iles, P Jackson, M Jarvis, V Joshi, N Kanumilli, Ra Khan, M Khan, S Kwok, N Lord, C Mafunga, Ci Malcomson, Dk Mccarthy, Hs Milligan, P Patel, Sj Patel, Vb Raj, Ka Richardson, R Salim, Rb Seaton, D Shah, M Sharma, H Singh, N Smith, Nn Smyrniou, M Stamp, P Stratford-Smith, M Sultan, Rs Sumra, J Tankel, Uin Umeadi, C Westwood, J White, Hc Wilkinson, Rg Wilson, Sa Wright, At Wright

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Justification By Faith According To The Old Testament: In The Footsteps Of The Reformers, Richard M. Davidson

Faculty Publications

Martin Luther asserted that “if we lose the doctrine of justification, we lose simply everything.” Luther believed that justification is “the article with and by which the church stands, without which it falls.” In the preface to his Forty-Five Theses drawn up in 1537, Luther makes this impassioned plea: “The article of justification is the master and prince, the lord, the ruler, and the judge over all kinds of doctrines; it preserves and governs all Church doctrine and raises up our conscience before God. Without this article the world is utter death and darkness.” John Calvin considered the doctrine of …

Thalamic Volume Reduction In Drug-Naive Patients With New-Onset Genetic Generalized Epilepsy, S Perani, Tm Tierney, M Centeno, Ea Shamshiri, Et Al

School of Psychology

Objective Patients with genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) have subtle morphologic abnormalities of the brain revealed with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly in the thalamus. However, it is unclear whether morphologic abnormalities of the brain in GGE are a consequence of repeated seizures over the duration of the disease, or are a consequence of treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), or are independent of these factors. Therefore, we measured brain morphometry in a cohort of AED-naive patients with GGE at disease onset. We hypothesize that drug-naive patients at disease onset have gray matter changes compared to age-matched healthy controls. Methods We performed …

Examining The Impact Of Confucian Values On Leadership Preferences, Andrew Schenck, Merissa Waddey

Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership

Efficacy of a leadership approach may be highly dependent upon cultural factors, making additional research in foreign contexts necessary. A methodology was developed to investigate the relationship between Confucian values and leadership preferences. Responses on the Chinese Values Survey (CVS) were compared to those of the Vannsimpco Leadership Survey (VLS) for both Korean (N = 48) and American (N = 47) university respondents. Correlations for both groups revealed a link between Confucian values and hybrid leadership styles. Among Korean faculty, this link was even more pronounced, yielding significant correlations to autocratic-transformational (r_s [30] = .513, p …

Wagon Tracks Volume 32, Issue 1 (November 2017), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: Setting a Wagon Tire

4 President: As I See It

5 Joanne's Jottings

7 Trail News

12 SFTA Hall of Fame

16 Lightning Strikes Fort Union

18 Steamboat Malta Discovered

18 Symposium Photos

20 Maj. Gen. George A. McCall Letter Provides Assessment of New Mexico: 1849

23 Youth Photography Contest Winner

29 Membership Information

30 Chapter Reports

32 Calendar

An Overview Of The Heteroptera Of Illinois, J. E. Mcpherson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

A key to adults of all heteropteran families known to occur in Illinois is presented together with general information on the biologies of these families. Also included are general references on Heteroptera and on individual families, particularly if those references involve studies of fauna that were conducted in Illinois, adjacent states, or nearby parts of Canada.

A History Of The Eastern Larch Beetle, Dendroctonus Simplex (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), In North America, D. W. Langor, A. G. Raske

The Great Lakes Entomologist

The eastern larch beetle, Dendroctonus simplex, is reputedly a secondary pest but may attack and kill tamarack and ornamental larches throughout Canada, the northeastern United Stales, and Alaska. Isolated infestations of this pest have been reported for over 100 years. The first recorded widespread outbreaks of D. simplex started in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States as well as in Alaska in the mid-1970s. During the outbreak in the Atlantic provinces, in excess of 1.4 million m3 of tamarack was killed. No damage estimates are available for Quebec and the United States. Insect defoliators were the most common …

Inconsistencies In Geriatric Uti Management In Long Term Care, Wilsy Abraham

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Inconsistencies in Geriatric UTI Management in Long Term Care

Wilsy Abraham

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth Hartman

Abstract

Background: Urinary tract infection is one of the most common infections in nursing home facilities among older adults with studies reporting a 28-day mortality of 5%. Such infections are associated with high rates of morbidity, extended hospital stays, re-hospitalization, and significant healthcare expenses.

Objectives: To identify barriers in adherence to the management of UTI and how effective protocols can benefit the geriatric population. Although guidelines on UTI management are available, there are inconsistencies in adherence to managing the infection among healthcare …

Impact Of Hpv Education On Knowledge, Perception, And Cultural Influence Among African American Parents, Christina Lattner, Christina Lattner

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Abstract

Background: Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical and penial cancer can be prevented. An effective vaccine has been approved for both boys and girls since 2006. Despite recommendation from the Center of Disease Control, vaccination initiation and completion rates among African American adolescents in the United States are lower than average in the nation.

Objectives: The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to identify African-American parents’ knowledge and perceptions of sexually transmitted HPV infection and the HPV vaccination. The secondary objective was to use a single-group pre-test post-test research design to …

Major Components Of Quality Of Life In Pediatric Oncology Patients, Katelyn Mccabe

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

No abstract provided.

Estimating Parasitism Of Colorado Potato Beetle Eggs, Leptinotarsa Decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), By Edovum Puttleri (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), E. Groden, F. A. Drummond, R. A. Casagrande, J. H. Lashomb

The Great Lakes Entomologist

A computer simulation was used to evaluate methods for estimating parasitism of Colorado potato beetle egg mass populations by Edovum puttleri. The algorithm incorporated the specific attack behavior of E. puttleri, and a development time for parasitized egg masses of ca. 2.9 times that of healthy egg masses. Of the methods compared, a modification of Southwood's graphical technique was found to be most accurate in relation to the true parasitism derived from the algorithm. A regression equation is presented to correct the error in this method at high levels of parasitism. A second simulation was used to test the accuracy …

Low Refractive Index Coating And Index Matched Adhesive Bonding For Lightguide Applications, Thanh Tu, Yeh-Jiun Tung, Ozan Cakmakci, Hongqin Shi, James Dunphy, Oscar Martinez

Defensive Publications Series

Composite curved lightguides including prescription layers and/or protective layers are bonded together using index-matched adhesives. To obtain total internal reflection within the lightguide, a Chiolite layer is included on at least one side of the lightguide. For example, a Chiolite layer is included between the lightguide and an outer, world-facing protective layer, which is index matched to the lightguide. Due to the moisture susceptibility of the Chiolite, the adhesive coats the Chiolite layer to provide a moisture barrier.

A Method For Adding Ophthalmic Prescription To Augmented Reality Heads-Up Displays, Yeh-Jiun Tung, James Dunphy, Ozan Cakmakci, Hongqin Shi, Thanh Tu

Defensive Publications Series

A method for adding ophthalmic prescription to a heads-up display is described. The method incorporates Chiolite layers on opposing sides of a lightguide to generate an optical path from an input coupler to an output coupler. The Chiolite has an index of refraction that is less than the material forming the lightguide so that light may propagate within the lightguide under total internal reflection principles. The method further includes placement of a customized prescription lens surface on an eye-facing side of the lightguide, where one Chiolite layer is between the lightguide and the prescription.

Achilles Is A Circadian Clock-Controlled Gene That Regulates The Immune System And Its Rhythmicity In Drosophila, Jiajia Li

Dissertations

Circadian clock is a transcriptional/translational feedback loop that drives the rhythmic expression of downstream mRNAs. Termed “clock-controlled genes,” these molecular outputs of the circadian clock orchestrate cellular, metabolic, and behavioral rhythms. As part of our on-going work to characterize key upstream regulators of circadian mRNA expression, we have identified a novel clock-controlled gene in Drosophila melanogaster, Achilles (Achl), which is rhythmic at the mRNA level in the brain and represses expression of immune response genes, especially anti-microbial peptides in the immune system. Achl knock-down in the brain dramatically elevates expression of crucial immune response genes, including IM1 …

Spiritual Resilience In American Older Women, Cadence R. Duke

Psychology Undergraduate Work

Abstract

The study explores the phenomenology of spiritual resilience, the essence of participants’ lived experience, and the meaning of spiritual resilience in participants’ lives. Previous studies have shown various definitions and determinants of resilience and spiritual resilience. Five older women associated with the Pentecostal denomination were interviewed, audio recorded, and then transcribed for analysis. These interviews were organized and set into varying categories and qualitatively analyzed based on themes, meanings, experiences, and definitions. Participants defined spiritual resilience as only possible by one’s personal day to day relationship with God. The determinants of spiritual resilience can be summarized as the focus …

Diversity In Grain Amaranths And Relatives Distinguished By Genotyping By Sequencing (Gbs), Xingbo Wu, Matthew W. Blair

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

The genotyping by sequencing (GBS) method has become a molecular marker technology of choice for many crop plants because of its simultaneous discovery and evaluation of a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and utility for germplasm characterization. Genome representation and complexity reduction are the basis for GBS fingerprinting and can vary by species based on genome size and other sequence characteristics. Grain amaranths are a set of three species that were domesticated in the New World to be high protein, pseudo-cereal grain crops. The goal of this research was to employ the GBS technique for diversity evaluation in …

2017 Northeastern Illinois University Eighth Annual Faculty Research Symposium - Abstracts, Symposium Steering Committee

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium 2010-2017

No abstract provided.

Bars, Chains, And Broken Things, Andrew J. Filson

Music Graduate Theses

Bars, Chains, and Broken Things is a four-movement work for orchestra with a distinct social narrative: the American prison system. During my time working as a volunteer with the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, I came to know several young men and their stories. This piece serves as a loosely programmatic work chronicling the four most significant concepts which resonated with me. The individual movements are named and seek to musically represent these ideas: “Abandonment” - a common feeling among the incarcerated, “Imprisonment” - the effects and words of those feeling isolated, “Solace” - a state of calm acceptance, and “False …

Anna Cranmer V. Harleysville Insurance Co

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