Authors: Rajyasri Roy

In Engineering, Other

By Science Publishing Group

Every individual aspire to live a healthy and prosperous life free of diseases and disorders. Living a healthy life implies not necessarily a physical state of well-being, but also it includes one’s good mental health too. A person may be born with a predisposition to a mental health disorder or he or she may acquire disorders due to negative influences from environments during his or her lifetime. Therefore shaping someone’s state of mind in a positive way, addressing mental, emotional or behavioral problems from a very early age is extremely important. Quite naturally, influence of schools in this regard is immense and a supportive, flourishing school environment act to a great extent to promote mental health of a child positively. Present studyaims to understand and highlight key aspects from the responses that come up as specific measures or activities taken by school or teachers for good mental health of the children and also to find out different measures/activities taken by a school or the teachers for promotion of positive and sustainable mental health among the students The method employed being the Interview method and the tool used being the Questionnaire designed by the researcher for interviewing teachers in a high school. Interviews of five assistant teachers of the school were conducted based on the questionnaire prepared and their responses were noted on the questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of the quantitative interpretation of the data collected were discussed to achieve in depth understanding of the role played by school in promoting sustainable mental health of a student.

Authors: Kanae Hara , Naoko Koda

In Arts and Humanities, Other

By Science Publishing Group

This study quantitatively examines the characteristics of depictions of animals in 189 picture books of fantastic there and back again stories in which humans are the protagonists, and explores the interactions between humans and animals. While many animals are involved in protagonists’ movement to other worlds, far more animals are uninvolved. The animals are often portrayed as having unclear age and sex. Various species have been identified, and cats are the most popular animals that assist the protagonists’ movement and they may or may not opt to participate in their movement; meanwhile, crows tend to trigger the movement. Animals that are uninvolved in the protagonists’ movement are characterized by their location depending on whether they are domestic animals, which tend to be shown in the world before the protagonists’ movement; feral animals tend to be seen in the world after the protagonists’ movement. Many animals in picture books give children a sense of security while reading from the standpoint of biophilia and promoting understanding of the story. The vagueness of animals’ age, sex, and appearance can expand the imaginations of child readers. Cats, in particular, can attract humans from the inside to the outside of their living sphere with their fantastical nature associated with their ecology and history of relationships with humans as companion animals. Crows are described as having the ability to cross the real world and other realms due to their history of being worshiped by humans and their ability to fly. Fantastic there and back again stories in picture books provide opportunities for children to form perceptions of animals. Further, depictions of animals in picture books may expand children’s cognition when they understand the world and form their own perspectives.

Authors: Jiahe Gao , Haibo Wen , Shenao Zhu , Shihui Dong , Shijie Su , Jian Zhang

In Engineering, Other

By Science Publishing Group

Flash butt welding, a mainstream welding method employed in producing anchor chains, is a critical manufacturing process affecting the quality of anchor chains. Ultrasonic and load testing are used to evaluate the welding quality of anchor chains, but the cost of checking and replacing unqualified chain links is high. A deep learning-based quality evaluation method for flash butt welding is proposed to reduce the cost of detecting and replacing substandard chain links. First, displacement and current sensors collect electrode position and current signals during welding. Second, since the number of qualified anchor links is much larger than that of unqualified ones, a new data synthesis method is proposed: nearest-neighbor splicing sampling, which achieves the enhancement of minority samples by segmenting and combining existing data samples according to the features of anchor chain welding. Then, a piecewise linear interpolation method is used to handle the varying data length problem, thus satisfying the input requirements of the convolutional neural network (CNN). Finally, a CNN model is established, and dropout is used to reduce the over-fitting phenomenon. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the under-sampling method, over-sampling method, and nearest-neighbor splicing sampling method are 93.8%, 95.9%, and 96.3%, respectively, and the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the CNN model are 95.7%, 93%, and 94.3%, respectively, which are better than those of the support vector machine (SVM).

Authors: Abdourahman , Ecclésiaste Tompé Weimbapou , Emmanuel Kengne , Shankishvili Lamara Dmitrievna

In Other, Mathematics

By Science Publishing Group

The purpose of this work is to illustrate by clear examples the noetherity nature of a finite Dirac-delta Extensions of a studied noether operator. Previously in our published papers, we have investigated in different two cases, the noetherization of a Dirac-delta extensions of a noether linear integro-differential operator defined by a third kind integral equation in some specific well chosen functional spaces. Our various already published researches were connected with such topic widely studied and clearly presenting different specific approaches, applied when establishing fundamentaly noether theory for some kind of integro-differential operators to reach the noetherization. The initial considered noether operator A has been extended with some finite dimensional spaces of Dirac-delta functions, and the noetherization of the two cases of extensions has been established depending with the parameters of the third kind integral equation defining A. The previous lead us to set the problem of the construction of practical examples clearly illustrating the relationship between theory and practise. For this aim, we based on an established wellknown noether theory and, we construct in this work step by step, two illustrative examples to show the interconnexion between the theory and pratise related to the investigation of the construction of noether theory for the considered extended noether operator denoted defined by a third kind linear singular integral equation in some generalized functional spaces. The extended operator A of the initial noether operator A is verified being also noether and therefore we deduce the index of the extended operator .

Authors: Sarani Kankanamge , Zeinab G. Khalil , Thulasi Sritharan , Robert J. Capon

In Other, Nature

By NCBI Pubmed

Fungal indole diterpenes (IDTs) occupy a valuable region of bioactive natural product chemical space, displaying potent and selective inhibition of therapeutically important ion channels and with potential application in the treatment of glaucoma, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as insecticides and antivirals. We have employed an integrated workflow of analytical scale chemical profiling using GNPS (Global Natural Products Social molecular networking) and cultivation profiling (also known as “MATRIX” miniaturized microbioreactor) to detect, prioritize, optimize the production, isolate, characterize, and identify a new series of indole diterpenes, noonindoles G–L (7–12), from an Australian marine-derived fungus, Aspergillus noonimiae CMB-M0339. The first reported examples of IDT glycosides, the molecular structures for 7–12, were assigned on the basis of detailed spectroscopic analysis and biosynthetic considerations.

Authors: Heidi M. Levitt , Michael Bamberg , John W. Creswell , David M. Frost , Ruthellen Josselson , Carola Suárez-Orozco

In Other

By NCBI Pubmed

The American Psychological Association Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS–Qual Working Group) was charged with examining the state of journal article reporting standards as they applied to qualitative research and with generating recommendations for standards that would be appropriate for a wide range of methods within the discipline of psychology. These standards describe what should be included in a research report to enable and facilitate the review process. This publication marks a historical moment—the first inclusion of qualitative research in APA Style, which is the basis of both the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2010) and APA Style CENTRAL, an online program to support APA Style. In addition to the general JARS–Qual guidelines, the Working Group has developed standards for both qualitative meta-analysis and mixed methods research. The reporting standards were developed for psychological qualitative research but may hold utility for a broad range of social sciences. They honor a range of qualitative traditions, methods, and reporting styles. The Working Group was composed of a group of researchers with backgrounds in varying methods, research topics, and approaches to inquiry. In this article, they present these standards and their rationale, and they detail the ways that the standards differ from the quantitative research reporting standards. They describe how the standards can be used by authors in the process of writing qualitative research for submission as well as by reviewers and editors in the process of reviewing research.