Aquitaine Patrimoines & Cyberdocs

Aquitaine Patrimoines is a cultural heritage portal or service provider in OAI terms. The portal attempts to pull together diverse cultural information sourced from libraries, media libraries, archives, museums, cultural heritage education centers, centers of documentation, etc. The data, harvested by means of the OAI protocol, describes various heritage resources concerning the Aquitaine region of France. The contributors and actors from international to local levels are interested in validating methodologies and technologies for sharing resources in a distributed environment as well as investigating the services which can be derived from these sources. The experiences encountered during the development of this portal brought to light the issues surrounding the creation an OAI service provider for cultural heritage purposes which ranged from technical to content concerns. http://ajlsm-sdx.hopto.org/sdx-22h/pa-portail/ Cyberdocs is a free/open-source platform for publishing structured electronic documents. Cyberdocs was realized as a result of experiences from the Cyberthèes project, an information processing platform for scholarly publishing initiated by Presses de l'Université de Montréal in 1997. The platform consists of modules serving three purposes: conversion, management, and publication (including OAI Repository and Harvester implementations). The use of standard technologies and open-source software to create this platform provides various technical and organizational benefits which can be of value to a larger community. The future of the Cyberdocs project will focus on incorporation more resources to support various types electronic structured documents, greater support for multilingualism in interfaces, and encouraging the involvement of more interested parties; therefore, allowing the platform to grow and become more useful to a larger public. http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cybertheses/ http://mirror-fr.cybertheses.org/ Both of these projects incorporate SDX, an open-source system for searching and publishing XML documents, which is built upon the Apache Cocoon framework and incorporates the Apache Lucene search-engine. http://sdx.culture.fr/sdx/ (documentation in English currently NOT available) http://cocoon.apache.org http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene

Aquitaine Patrimoines & Cyberdocs

Aquitaine Patrimoines is a cultural heritage portal or service provider in OAI terms. The portal attempts to pull together diverse cultural information sourced from libraries, media libraries, archives, museums, cultural heritage education centers, centers of documentation, etc. The data, harvested by means of the OAI protocol, describes various heritage resources concerning the Aquitaine region of France. The contributors and actors from international to local levels are interested in validating methodologies and technologies for sharing resources in a distributed environment as well as investigating the services which can be derived from these sources. The experiences encountered during the development of this portal brought to light the issues surrounding the creation an OAI service provider for cultural heritage purposes which ranged from technical to content concerns. http://ajlsm-sdx.hopto.org/sdx-22h/pa-portail/ Cyberdocs is a free/open-source platform for publishing structured electronic documents. Cyberdocs was realized as a result of experiences from the Cyberthèes project, an information processing platform for scholarly publishing initiated by Presses de l'Université de Montréal in 1997. The platform consists of modules serving three purposes: conversion, management, and publication (including OAI Repository and Harvester implementations). The use of standard technologies and open-source software to create this platform provides various technical and organizational benefits which can be of value to a larger community. The future of the Cyberdocs project will focus on incorporation more resources to support various types electronic structured documents, greater support for multilingualism in interfaces, and encouraging the involvement of more interested parties; therefore, allowing the platform to grow and become more useful to a larger public. http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cybertheses/ http://mirror-fr.cybertheses.org/ Both of these projects incorporate SDX, an open-source system for searching and publishing XML documents, which is built upon the Apache Cocoon framework and incorporates the Apache Lucene search-engine. http://sdx.culture.fr/sdx/ (documentation in English currently NOT available) http://cocoon.apache.org http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene

Popular Agile Practices of the Digital Age: Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework

The successful integration of Businesses and IT has always brought value and profit for an enterprise. Projects and Enterprise Framework are the two places that connect the IT world and the Business world. Project Management aligns the IT execution with the Business Strategy. The use of agile practices in software development and lean practices in manufacturing industries has been more successful since the late 1990s and hence adapted by Fortune 500 companies. The paper provides the reader with an analysis of two popular agile practices used in the digital age: Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SaFe). The thesis explores the similarities and differences in using both frameworks in businesses, as well as examine the disadvantages of using agile frameworks

Development of an Activity-based Windowing Approach to Evaluate Real-World NOx Emissions from Modern Medium and Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks

The introduction of in-use emissions regulations by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.EPA) requires medium-duty (MD) and heavy-duty (HD) engine manufacturers to demonstrate emissions compliance during in-fleet operation. In the United States (U.S.), the Not-to-Exceed (NTE) method is used to evaluate real-world emissions compliance from on-highway MD and HD trucks. Regulatory agencies, engine manufacturers and research entities have identified that the NTE method incorporates numerous exclusions and evaluates emissions compliance only under selective operating conditions that are favorable for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system to reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions efficiently. Such operation is typically encountered only by vocations that experience sustained highway driving operation, which is not entirely representative of actual highly diverse real-world operation experienced by the engine/aftertreatment system. Evaluation of real-world driving emissions (RDE) plays a critical role in monitoring and ensuring the performance of emissions control systems. Portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) serves as a robust tool to assess emissions levels during real-world operation. However, utilization of PEMS for large-scale deployment is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive. As a vision of potential elements for a next-tier of in-use NOx monitoring systems, there is an actively growing research and regulatory interest to evaluate the feasibility of using existing on-boardNOx sensors for HD on-board NOx compliance. However, research studies have highlighted that NOx sensor measurements are also subjected to cross-sensitivity from other species in the exhaust stream. The global objective of the study was to develop an alternative approach that attempts to bridge the gap between current in-use certification procedures and highly diverse real-world operation for evaluation of in-use NOx emissions. The study outlines a vehicle activity-based windowing (ABW) approach that provides an event-based bifurcation of the engine and aftertreatment operational conditions. The thermal boundary bin exhibits bin boundary conditions favorable for SCR catalytic activity. Results of the study show that the 90th percentile of ABW bin-1a bsNOx emissions (i.e., on average of the individual vehicle datasets) was below the current NTE NOx limit. In terms of data usage, the ABW approach provides a unique opportunity of utilizing ~95% and 83% (Phase-1 and Phase-2) of test activity acquired from valid ABW trips. In comparison, the current NTE approach evaluated over a diverse in-use test activity collected as part of the HDIUT program exhibits utilization of only a sparse amount (i.e., less than 10%) of in-use test activity for emissions compliance evaluation. In light of using existing on-board NOx sensors for the screening of in-fleet activity, the study evaluates measurement thresholds of NOx sensors under real-world operating conditions. In the absence of a substantial amount of ammonia (NH3), it was observed that the average measurement deviation was within ±10% for NOx concentration levels between 10 ppm and 200 ppm. However, statistical principal component analysis (PCA) indicates a hypothetic relation between NOx sensor measurements and rapid changes in water (H2O) concentrations

An Integrated Circuit BCH Cyclic Code Decoder

The work done in this paper was motivated by a project that the United States Bureau of Reclamation has initiated to implement certain communication and control requirements. The Colorado River storage project, under the Bureau of Reclamation, has a central power operations center at Montrose, Colorado, to serve as a computing and dispatch center for the surrounding power plants and substations. The requirement was to provide supervisory control facilities at the Montrose Center to control the encompassing substatior1s and power plants. Specifically, the project was to furnish the dispatch center at Montrose with a stored program, programmable master station, which will have the capability of performing control, indication, alarm, and data transmission to and from the various power plants and substations. This paper mainly deals with the last aspect of this project, namely, data transmission to and from other points. The different data to be transmitted to and from the dispatch center include: 1. Voltage level, derived from power system potential transformers. 2. Current level, derived from power system current transformers. 3. Spillway gate position indication, derived from the rotation of an intermediate gate hoist shaft which will drive a shaft to digital encoder, furnishing a digitized input to the supervisory control equipment. 4. Reservoir level, derived from a water-surface detector which will drive a shaft-to-digital encoder. 5. Governor gate limit position, derived from the rotation of the governor gate limit mechanism which will drive a shaft-to-digital encoder. 6. Outlet gate position indication, working as described above. 7. Tailwater level, derived from a float operated type gate which will drive a shaft-to-digital encoder. 8. Raise-lower command signals to the following. a. Power plant governing wicket gate limit. b. Power plant generator speed changer limit. c. Power plant generator voltage level. 9. Trip-close command signals to circuit breaker. 10. load and frequency control system ON-OFF commands. It is essential that the command signals received at the remotely controlled stations have the same form as when they were transmitted. In other words, it is essential that the message received at a receiving station should be error-free, or if it has errors, they should be corrected before it is fed to the devices concerned. The problem thus originated out of the necessity of having a digital data transmission system, that will be reliable, efficient, and at the same time, economically feasible

A Comparative Analysis of Profitability vis-à-vis Liquidity Performance in Cement Industry of India

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Visual outcome of cataract surgery with pupillary sphincterotomy in eyes with coexisting corneal opacity

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the visual outcome following cataract surgery with pupillary sphincterotomy in eyes with coexisting corneal opacity. METHODS: Patients with leucomatous corneal opacity with significant cataract were enrolled for the study. The uncorrected visual acuity and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were recorded and the anterior segment was thoroughly evaluated by a slit lamp biomicroscope before the surgery. Only those patients who had some amount of clear peripheral cornea were selected. Posterior segment pathology was ruled out by indirect ophthalmoscopy after pupillary dilatation, if possible, or by B-scan ultrasonography. Conventional extracapsular cataract extraction with pupillary sphincterotomy was performed and an intraocular lens was implanted. Postoperatively, the eyes were evaluated on day 1, and 1 week and 6 weeks following surgery for similar parameters. RESULTS: Fourteen eyes of 14 patients were included in the study, of which 13 (92.85%) patients were male. The mean age of the patients was 47.85 ± 7.37 years. All the eyes had a dense central leucomatous corneal opacity. Twelve (85.71%) eyes had two or more quadrants of deep vascularisation. Sphincterotomy was performed mostly (71.42%) in the nasal or inferonasal quadrant. The intraocular lens was implanted in 13 (92.85%) eyes, and one (7.1%) eye was left aphakic due to the occurrence of a large posterior capsular tear. Preoperatively, all eyes had BCVA < 6/60. At 6 weeks after surgery, all eyes had BCVA ≥ 6/60 and four (28.57%) eyes had BCVA ≥ 6/18. The mean BCVA preoperatively in these eyes was 0.015 ± 0.009, which changed to 0.249 ± 0.102 at 6 weeks following surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Extracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation with pupillary sphincterotomy provides ambulatory and useful vision to patients of cataract with coexisting central leucomatous corneal opacity

Study of histomorphological spectrum of lesions in nephrectomy specimen in a tertiary care hospital in South Gujarat

Background: Nephrectomy is a standard surgical procedure in urology indicated in patients with organ confined renal malignancies and irreversible kidney damage resulting from chronic infection, trauma, obstruction and congenital malformation. This study aims to study the histomorphological features of lesions in nephrectomy specimens in a tertiary care hospital, to analyse the neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions of kidney according to age, gender and site and observe any variation from the conventional pattern.Methods: The present study was conducted in department of pathology, Tertiary care hospital over a period of 5 years and 7 months (1 Jan 2013 to July 31, 2018). This included 4 years retrospective and 1 year 7 months prospective.  A total of 73 cases of were studied.Results: Males constituted 65.73% and females constituted 35.27%  of all nephrectomy cases. Right kidney was more commonly affected. Highest percentage of patients belonged to 41-50 years age group. 45 cases were of non-neoplastic lesions and 28 cases were of neoplastic lesions. Among neoplastic lesions, one case was benign while remaining 27 cases were malignant. Chronic Pyelonephritis was the most common indication overall and also amongst non-neoplastic lesions with stone identified in 55% cases. Most common neoplastic lesion in nephrectomy specimen was Renal Cell carcinoma (71.4.1%) followed by Wilms tumour (14%).Conclusions: This study gives a fair insight of the current state of incidence of neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions of kidney requiring surgical intervention

Some Common Fixed Point Theorems For Compatible Mapping In Fuzzy Metric Spaces For Integral Type Mapping

In this paper, we prove some common fixed point theorems for six mappings in fuzzy metric space for integral type mapping. Our main results extend generalize and fuzzify some known results in fuzzy metric spaces. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47H10, 54H25. Key words and phrases: Fuzzy metric space, Compatible mappings of ( ), Common fixed point

Generalized Fixed Point Theorems for Compatible Mapping in Fuzzy 3-Metric Space for Integral Type Mapping

In this paper, we give some new definitions of compatible mappings of types (I) and  (II) in fuzzy 3- metric space and prove some common  fixed point theorems  for four mappings under the condition of compatible mappings of types (I) and (II) in complete fuzzy 3- metric space. Our results extend, generalize and improve the corresponding results given by many authors. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47H10, 54H25. Key words and phrases: Fuzzy metric space, Fuzzy 3-metric space, Weak-Compatible mappings, Common fixed point.