New Immigrants’ Domestic Tourism Destination Choice Behavior: A Study of Bangladeshi-Origin Canadians

Dear Concern, Attached are the revised version of the abstract and contribution file for TTRA conference - student poster presentation. Will you be kindly able to issue me an unconditional acceptance letter based on this revised version of the abstract? I received an acceptance letter before with major revision. As I am a student and looking for funding for participating in the conference, it will be much helpful for me to submit unconditional acceptance letter to the funding authority. I hope you will now accept the changes and be kind enough to issue me an unconditional acceptance letter. Regards Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury & Dr. Joanne McNeis

Working together : civil society working for food security in Canada

Meeting: Working Together : Civil Society Input for Food Security in Canada Conference, 15-17 June 2001, Toronto, ON, C

An Adaptive Classifier Fusion Method for Analysis of Knee-Joint Vibroarthrographic Signals

Externally recorded knee-joint vibroarthrographic (VAG) signals bear diagnostic information related to degenerative conditions of cartilage disorders in a knee. In this paper, the number of atoms derived from wavelet matching pursuit (MP) decomposition and the parameter of turns count with the fixed threshold that characterizes the waveform variability of VAG signals were extracted for computer-aided analysis. A novel multiple classifier system (MCS) based on the adaptive weighted fusion (AWF) method is proposed for the classification of VAG signals. The experimental results shows that the proposed AWF-based MCS is able to provide the classification accuracy of 80.9%, and the area of 0.8674 under the receiver operating characteristic curve over the data set of 89 VAG signals. Such results are superior to those obtained with best component classifier in the form of least-squares support vector machine, and the popular Bagging ensemble method

Safe by Design: Collecting Traveler Centric Data to Inform Safe Street Design

69A3551747111The transportation safety paradigm for urban transportation \u2013 particularly safety for those walking, cycling, and scooting \u2013 relies on counting crashes to parameterize safety. This reactive, crash-based method is limiting crashes are underreported and devoid of human perception, and their low frequency precludes testing countermeasure effectiveness. Building on diverse safety-critical fields, we hypothesize that urban transportation safety can be measured proactively with traveler biometrics, including eye and head movements, such that high readings of biometric indicators correlate with less safe areas. We collect biometric data from cyclists traversing an urban corridor with a protected, yet not continuously, cycle lane. By isolating and correlating peaks in cyclist biometric measures with infrastructure design, we develop a set of continuous variables \u2013 lateral head movements, gaze velocity, and off-mean gaze distance, both independently and as a vector \u2013 that allow for the evaluation of safe urban infrastructure proactively. The results reflect higher biometric readings correspond to less safe (i.e., unprotected) areas, indicating that safety can be measured proactively with biometric data

Preventing phone theft and robbery: the need for government action and international coordination

The banning of stolen handsets from networks has been around for 20 years, but remains little used internationally. Where used, its effectiveness is hindered by implementation problems, reprogramming, easy fencing opportunities, and international trafficking. Kill-switches where the user remotely disables a handset and deletes data have potential but, if non-permanent, are likely to experience similar limitations. This study proposes a set of responses to be adopted by national governments with international coordination

Blunt Body Flow - The Transonic Region

For supersonic flow of an ideal gas over planar and axisymmetric bodies we consider the transonic region bounded by the sonic line, the body surface, the downstream surface of the shock wave and the limiting characteristics. Using curved shock theory, we establish the conditions under which the shock surface is (type I), or is not (type II), a boundary of the transonic region. It is found that the existence of type I or type II flow is determined solely by the values of free stream Mach number, specific heat ratio of the gas and transverse-to-longitudinal curvature of the shock surface. When the curvature ratio is grater than 1, only type II flow is possible irrespective of the specific heat ratio. When the curvature ratio is less than -2/(gamma-1) then only type I is realized. When the curvature ratio is between 1 and -2/(gamma-1) the appearance of type I or type II is determined by the free stream Mach number which for planar flow. With proper choice of curvatures the results apply to general, three dimensional, shock waves as well

Post-meiotic DNA double-strand breaks occur in Tetrahymena, and require Topoisomerase II and Spo11

Based on observations of markers for DNA lesions, such as phosphorylated histone H2AX (γH2AX) and open DNA ends, it has been suggested that post-meiotic DNA double-strand breaks (PM-DSBs) enable chromatin remodeling during animal spermiogenesis. However, the existence of PM-DSBs is unconfirmed, and the mechanism responsible for their formation is unclear. Here, we report the first direct observation of programmed PM-DSBs via the electrophoretic separation of DSB-generated DNA fragments in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. These PM-DSBs are accompanied by switching from a heterochromatic to euchromatic chromatin structure in the haploid pronucleus. Both a topoisomerase II paralog with exclusive pronuclear expression and Spo11 are prerequisites for PM-DSB induction. Reduced PM-DSB induction blocks euchromatin formation, characterized by histone H3K56 acetylation, leading to a failure in gametic nuclei production. We propose that PM-DSBs are responsible for histone replacement during the reprogramming of generative to undifferentiated progeny nuclei.© 2017, Akematsu et al