Big Stores Research Articles

On the nature of Tone 4 alternation in Taiwan Mandarin: Insights from acoustic analysis of trisyllabic right-branching word productions

Tone 4 (T4) alternations refer to the phenomenon where the tone values of a T4 syllable reduces from ‘51' to ‘53' when it is followed by another T4 syllable in Mandarin Chinese. It is inconclusive if the nature of T4 alternations is tone sandhi (an abstract phonological rule) (Chao, 1948; Jang, 2021) or tonal coarticulation (an articulatory phenomenon in speech production) (Lin, 20007; Shen, 1990). The current study invited 30 Taiwan Mandarin speakers to produce 10 pairs of right-branching trisyllabic words, including sequences of [T4[T4-T4]] (e.g., dà diàn shì 'big television') and [T4[T4-Tone1]] syllables (e.g., dà diàn jiā ‘big store'). The T4 sandhi view predicted that the surface tone values of the first syllables in these two sequences would differ (“51i” vs. “53”), while the T4 coarticulation view predicted that the tone values would be the same (“53”). Results from the acoustic analysis on fundamental frequency (f0) contour, f0 slope and vowel length of the first T4 syllables indicated that the differences were not statistically significant. These results supported the tonal coarticulation view. Discussions pertaining to the mental grammar for the tone value distances of two adjacent T4 syllables and the typology of tonal coarticulation in Mandarin Chinese are formulated.

Variable weight coefficient MPC control strategy for qZSI‐VSG wind power grid‐connected system

AbstractQuasi‐Z source inverters (qZSI) can overcome the disadvantages of conventional wind power systems, because of achieving the balanced DC‐link voltage by using its boost ability. The majority of currently used control methods for conventional inverters are susceptible to parameter changes, and the qZSI are controlled by finite switching sequence model predictive control (FSS‐MPC). In this paper, a Variable weight coefficient Model Predictive Control (V‐MPC) strategy is proposed. First, based on the optimal scheduling algorithm, according to the priority of the controlled object. The proportioning weights of the global feasible solution and the local optimal solution in the algorithm are coordinated. Then, using the equality‐constraints quadratic programming method, according to the relationship between the system frequency and the reference value, increase the weight of the qZSI algorithm or increase the proportion of VSG control to improve the ability to suppress frequency fluctuations. It can give full play to the short‐term power support role of the virtual synchronous wind turbine. The modeling and testing findings validate the suggested control strategy. When compared to the conventional finite control set model predictive control (FCS‐MPC), the V‐MPC can minimize the big store inductance current ripple and have lower THD in the load currents waveform.

Psychological Character Interpretation of Tony in Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending

This paper offers a psychological interpretation of the character Tony in Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. The study is divided into two sections. In the first section, the character of Tony is analyzed using Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, focusing on the id, ego, and superego and how Tony’s id has prevailed over his superego in most of the actions in the first part of the novel. It presents a big store of aggression and conflicting ideas. Some examples are provided in evidence of how the ego tries to solve the conflict between the id and the superego and supports the superego over the id. The second section of the study interprets some psychological core issues developed and manifested in the life of Tony, such as fear of abandonment, fear of betrayal, insecure or unstable sense of self, and low self-esteem. Throughout the analysis, the objective is to shed light on the character’s psyche in order to interpret his personality and self-destructive behavior using Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.

Anthelmintic lead compounds and their targets for drug development

Helminthiasis is a major health issue worldwide. Over 200 million peoples and 600 million school age children are manifested by these parasites. It is a wide spread neglected tropical decease of developing countries and affect majorly poor peoples. The helminthic parasites weaken the immune system and increase susceptibility to HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria. Trematode (flukes), cestode (tapeworm) and nematodes (round worm) are the members of helminth infection. Ascaris lumbricoides, Nector americanus, Ancyclostoma duodenale and Trichuris trichuria are are the parasites which spread infection without any vector and cause serious complications in lungs and CNS. Schistosoma species (trematodes or flukes) are mainly transmitted by contaminated fresh water. Cestodes (Taenia solium, Taenia saginata) transmit infection through contaminated and uncooked red meat and cyst in different tissue. Cyst in CNS results in pathological changes called neurocysticercosis. Nature is a big store house of remedies for ailments of mankind. Due to toxic effects of synthetic drugs, there’s a great need to invent new bio-active constituents and plants can complete this need effectually.

BECOME A RELIABLE TRADER : Playing The Role Of Price As A Psychological Influence On Consumers

In simple terms, the principle of trading is to work for yourself. While the basic principle of doing business is to involve many parties in trading to achieve a bigger goal. Theoretically, being an entrepreneur is very difficult, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Due to the fact, many business actors appear throughout the year. Therefore, it takes effort to learn to be an entrepreneur or businessman. For this reason, this service activity was carried out. The purpose of community service activities is to share knowledge, so that people can increase their capacity as entrepreneurs by optimizing their talents. The method of this activity is the presentation of material packaged in the form of learning. The end of this activity is to motivate the participants to dare to do business, starting with the most possible and minimal risk, for example becoming an agent, reseller, dropshipper, and so on. In addition, the participants were also given training on using the Market place, a place to sell digitally without capital. At the same time, teach how to become an agent or reseller at big stores. So that the participants get direct experience of entrepreneurship.

Elevated CO2 improves the nutritive value, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and hypocholestecolemic activities of lemongrass sprouts

Sprouts have been regarded as a big store for bioactive compounds with a wide range of biological activities. Elevated CO2 (eCO2, 620 μmol mol−1)was employed to enhance the nutritive and health promoting values of sprouts of two species of lemongrass, i.e. Cymbopogon citratus and Cymbopogon proximus. eCO2 improved the biomass production of sprouts, and their levels of primary metabolites e.g., amino acids and oils and active secondary metabolites e.g., phenolic compounds. As a result, eCO2 increased total antioxidant capacity, cytotoxicity against several human cancer cell lines, and antibacterial activities of Cymbopogon sprouts. We also recorded a significant increase in hypocholesterolaemic potential and anti-inflammatory activities of eCO2-treated sprouts, as indicated by inhibition of cholesterol micellar solubility and pancreatic lipase activity, as well as lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase activities, respectively. Thus, the present investigation supports the use of eCO2 as a promising approach to produce lemongrass sprouts with effective phytochemicals and enhanced biological activities.

Big data-based Local Store Information Providing Service

Big data-based Local Store Information Providing Service

Evaluation Criteria for RDF Triplestores with an Application to Allegrograph

Since its launching as the standard language of the semantic web, the Resource Description Framework RDF has gained an enormous importance in many fields. This has led to the appearance of a variety of data systems to store and process RDF data. To help users identify the best suited RDF data stores for their needs, we establish a list of evaluation and comparison criteria of existing RDF management systems also called triplestores. This is the first work addressing such topic for such triplestores. The criteria list highlights various aspects and is not limited to special stores but covers all types of stores including among others relational, native, centralized, distributed and big data stores. Furthermore, this criteria list is established taking into account relevant issues in accordance with triplestores tasks with respect to the main issues of RDF data storage, RDF data processing, performance, distribution and ease of use. As a study case we consider an application of the evaluation criteria to the graph RDF triplestore AllegroGraph.

Isolation and Screening of Extracellular Enzymes Producing Actinobacteria Associated With Sea Weed

The oceans represent a big store for beneficial algae. It is a real fact that the importance of marine organisms as a source of new substances is growing. With marine species comprising approximately a half of the total global biodiversity offering an enormous resource for novel compounds and it is classified as the largest remaining reservoir of natural molecules to be evaluated. The extra cellular enzyme producing actinobacteria were found in varying environment including soil, salt plans or sea water. This research was conducted to find extracellular enzyme producing actinobacteria associated with sea weedcollected from Veraval coastal area of Saurashtra region Gujarat, India. The actinobacteria were isolated by serial dilution method on ISP media, starch casein agar, starch agar and nutrient agar. Total eight actinobacteria were obtained with potential to produce extracellular enzymes.

PERANCANGAN DAN PENERAPAN SISTEM INVENTORY BARANG PADA TOKO BIG STORE PADANG DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN BAHASA PEMROGRAMAN JAVA DAN DATABASE MYSQL

During the Big Store clothing store doing inventory data processing his shirt still manually by recording ordinary that takes a long time to recalculate the amount of stuff that is in the barn. Then be made to an application program which helps and facilitates the shop owners in calculating its inventory. Applications created using the Java programming language and the MySQL database as its storage medium. The method used is the EOQ method, which allows the owner to store EOQ method in minimizing inventory costs so that the owner can increase sales revenue at minimum cost.
 Keywords : Java, EOQ, UML, MySQL

Analytical Study on Big Data

in the time of the Information Technology, the big data store is going on. Due to which, Huge amounts of data are available for decision makers, and this has resulted in the progress of information technology and its wide growth in many areas of business, engineering, medical, and scientific studies. Big data means that the size which is bigger in size, but there are several types, which are not easy to handle, technology is required to handle it. Due to continuous increase in the data in this way, it is important to study and manage these datasets by adjusting the requirements so that the necessary information can be obtained.The aim of this paper is to analyze some of the analytic methods and tools. Which can be applied to large data. In addition, the application of Big Data has been analyzed, using the Decision Maker working on big data and using enlightened information for different applications.

Sistem Pelayanan dan Pemesanan Online pada Toko Bangunan Sumarno Jaya Depok

The existence of Sumarno Jaya Store Building is very helpful to people, especially those who are building houses in Depok. The store receives orders of building materials, products and others. However, there are many people not knowing it because it is not a big store. Therefore, with the use of internet media, it is expected that many people will know the Building Shop Sumarno Jaya. . The purpose of the research is to make consumers easily access the services and order building products without coming to the store and to make the store owners improve the service, order and promotion to develop and expand the store in the future. In this modern era, technology competition is getting tougher, especially in cyberspace or better known as internet. It is a new challenge encouraging the researcher to be enthusiastic about competing in this Globalization Era. Application used by the researcher to design the website is Content Management System (CMS), with PHP programming language and MYSQL database. Thus, a website application will look like a mere desktop application. Then, the level of speed, interactivity, functionality, and usefulness of web pages will increase.

Modeling a Dynamic Supply Chain Management System for an Utility Company in Nigeria

Service and repair companies, big stores, industries and power companies having complex issues on inventory brought this idea for solution. The inventory department of PHCN generating unit has obsolete and sometimes non-availability of materials. The company faces maintenance, repairs, replacement demands and outage-related problems. In order to cater for these demands, some classifications that would aid PHCN in making effective decisions as regards spare or service parts were made. This research has developed inventory control system that provides automated inventory management system and graphical interface ability for decision making. This is to “right-size” inventories such that the total level of inventory held can be reduced and replenished without exposing the company to risk of stock-out. The system is a model for dynamic supply chain management using spare parts inventory policy tools to enable PHCN to dynamically perform continuous review, one to one lot, service differentiation, backordering, demand lead time, threshold rationing and clearing mechanism.

Implement of MapReduce-based Big Data Processing Scheme for Reducing Big Data Processing Delay Time and Store Data

Implement of MapReduce-based Big Data Processing Scheme for Reducing Big Data Processing Delay Time and Store Data

Cone Snails: A Big Store of Conotoxins for Novel Drug Discovery.

Marine drugs have developed rapidly in recent decades. Cone snails, a group of more than 700 species, have always been one of the focuses for new drug discovery. These venomous snails capture prey using a diverse array of unique bioactive neurotoxins, usually named as conotoxins or conopeptides. These conotoxins have proven to be valuable pharmacological probes and potential drugs due to their high specificity and affinity to ion channels, receptors, and transporters in the nervous systems of target prey and humans. Several research groups, including ours, have examined the venom gland of cone snails using a combination of transcriptomic and proteomic sequencing, and revealed the existence of hundreds of conotoxin transcripts and thousands of conopeptides in each Conus species. Over 2000 nucleotide and 8000 peptide sequences of conotoxins have been published, and the number is still increasing quickly. However, more than 98% of these sequences still lack 3D structural and functional information. With the rapid development of genomics and bioinformatics in recent years, functional predictions and investigations on conotoxins are making great progress in promoting the discovery of novel drugs. For example, ω-MVIIA was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to treat chronic pain, and nine more conotoxins are at various stages of preclinical or clinical evaluation. In short, the genus Conus, the big family of cone snails, has become an important genetic resource for conotoxin identification and drug development.

A Study of Premium Price Brands with Special Reference to Willingness of Customer to Pay

Use of premium price has become much gainful among brands for making unique and differentiate product among existing homogeneous product in the market. This marketing tool has gained key importance for the marketing research and global marketing. So using premium price for attracting the higher income customer has become a powerful tool in marketing. Premium price products are products which not differentiated in price but also in quality and comfort. Present study was conducted at big stores and malls in Lahore and Faisalabad. There were 220 respondent taken randomly and interweaved by asking a set of well-prepared questionnaire. The objective of the study were to find out the correlation among brand association and premium brands, the association between brand identity and premium brand, relationship between brand image and premium brand and to find the price association with premium brand. Result of the study explored that respondents income, brand equity and brand association are the significant determinants which affects consumers behavior regarding the purchase of premium brands and these factors contribute while decision making by consumers and they always take these factors into account. Results of the study also suggested that there is significant association between the both hypothesis which states the preference for the premium brand and the buying of premium brand.

Consumer Demand for Beverages in Pakistan

AbstractThis current research endeavors to study important factors having significant impact on consumer’s choice of beverages in Punjab province of Pakistan. Beverages in two major categories of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ have been studied to examine consumer consumption pattern. Data has been collected through interview from 80 respondents belonging to two major cities of Punjab, i.e. Lahore and Faisalabad, by incorporating stratified random sampling technique. These two cities of Punjab were selected because of big departmental stores opening like Metro Cash and Carry store, Al-Fateh and others. A pre tested and well-arranged questionnaire was used for data gathering from respondents. To estimate the outcome of factors affecting choices of consumers (demand function), multivariate analysis was incorporated. Results of this research showed that consumption pattern of cold beverages was affected significantly by consumer income, cold beverages prices, city selected for survey and number of adolescents in a family, whereas factors which affected the consumption of hot beverages were food expenditure, living area, marital status, income, working persons in a family, family size. Due to availability of copious brands of beverages, consumption is escalating with the passage of time and consumers are eager to pay but owing to high rates they are not relishing full taste of beverages. So, local industry should produce cost effective and quality drinks to enhance usage.

Determinants of Non-Alcoholic Beverages: A Case of Punjab Pakistan

This current research endeavors to study important factors having a significant impact on consumer’s choice of beverages in Punjab province of Pakistan. Beverages in two major categories of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ have been studied to examine consumer consumption pattern. Data has been collected through interview from 80 respondents belonging to these two major cities of Punjab i.e. Lahore and Faisalabad by incorporating stratified random sampling technique. These two cities of Punjab were selected because of their big departmental stores like Metro cash and carry store, ALFateh and others. A pre-tested and well-arranged questionnaire was used for data gathering from the respondents. To estimate the outcome of factors affecting the choices of consumers (demand function), multiple regression was incorporated. Results of this research showed that consumption pattern of cold beverages was affected significantly by consumer income, cold beverages prices, city selected for survey and number of adolescents in a family whereas factors which affected the consumption of hot beverages were food expenditure, living area, marital status, income, working persons in a family and family size. Due to availability of various brands of beverages, consumption is accelerating with the passage of time and consumers are willing to pay for beverages due to change in various socio-economics factors in the society. So, local industry should produce cost effective and quality drinks to enhance the usage.

Исследования восприятия времени в современной психологии

Perception of time is one of the most important functions in human life. Coherence of movements and speech, perception properties and relations of objects in sync communication depend on how precisely the differentiation of temporal fractions occurs. That is why this area is of great interest to researchers. For a long period of study, they have accumulated a big store of knowledge; at present, the challenge for researchers is to build up models that can explain the mechanisms underlying these complex mental functions. One of the directions that can provide an explanation for many aspects of time perception is considered to be a transcendental psychology of A.I. Mirakyan

The Study of Efficient Store Operations through the Development of Local Food Inventory Management System

The study on the development of local food inventory management system is presented. In the case of a current distribution system for small and big stores, the person in charge must be able to check the status right away and be able to fill the display, whenever the amount of displayed products is reduced. However, we have developed the system which alerts suppliers to fill the product, when the weight of the display goes below a certain level from the initial weight of the filled-display using electronic scale for measuring the weight to mobile. With the system, it is able to operate efficiently by real-time sharing of filling-time on mobile. The proposed system can provide customers with fresh products through reduction in labor force and the day of harvest and sale of local food stores, and simplify the distribution channel.