Compatible System Research Articles

Green Audit of Nanasaheb Mahadik College of Engineering Peth

Abstract: A clean and healthy environment aids effective learning and provides a conducive learning environment. There are various efforts around the world to address environmental education issues. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) is very popular in the industrial sector, but the general belief is that EMS is something pertaining to industries only. Other parts of the world have started adopting compatible environmental management systems either voluntarily or for promoting standards by external certification.

Soft X-ray beamline BL1N2 at Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center and its industrial use.

BL1N2 is a soft X-ray XAFS (X-ray absorption fine structure) beamline that is well suited for industrial use. User service started in 2015. The beamline is a grazing optical system with a pre-mirror, an inlet slit, two mirrors for three gratings, an outlet slit and a post-mirror. Light of 150 eV to 2000 eV is available, and K-edge measurements of elements from B to Si are covered. The O K-edge is most often measured; transition metals such as Ni and Cu at their L-edges and lanthanoids at their M-edges are also often measured. Here, basic information about BL1N2, the effect of ageing by synchrotron radiation to remove mirror contamination, and a compatible sample handling system and transfer vessels to allow a one-stop service at three soft X-ray beamlines at AichiSR are described.

Spatial and Temporal Data Visualisation for Mass Dissemination: Advances in the Era of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the first major pandemic of the digital age and has been characterised by unprecedented public consumption of spatial and temporal disease data, which can enable greater transparency and accountability of governments to the public for their public health decisions. A variety of state and non-state actors have collated and presented maps, charts, and plots of data related to the pandemic in both static and dynamic formats. In particular, there has been a proliferation of online dashboards presenting data related to the pandemic. The sources and types of information displayed have evolved rapidly during the pandemic, with a general trend towards providing more specialised information pertinent to specific aspects of epidemiology or disease control, as opposed simply to disease and death notifications. Limited evaluation of the quality of COVID-19 data visualisation tools has been conducted and significant effort now needs to be spent on standardisation and quality improvement of national and international data visualisation systems including developing common indicators, data quality assurance mechanisms and visualisation approaches, and building compatible electronic systems for data collection and sharing. The increasing availability of disease data for public consumption presents challenges and opportunities for government, media organisations, academic research institutions, and the general public. A key challenge is ensuring consistency and effectiveness of public health messaging to ensure a coordinated response and public trust in intervention strategies. Capitalising on opportunities for greater government accountability for public health decision-making, and more effective mobilisation of public health interventions, is predicated on the provision of accurate and timely information.

Pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal-pollinated flowering plants.

The number of open flowers on a plant (i.e., floral display size) can influence plant fitness by increasing pollinator attraction. However, diminishing marginal fitness returns with increasing floral display are expected as pollinators tend to visit more flowers per plant consecutively. An extended flower visitation sequence increases the fraction of ovules disabled by self-pollination (ovule discounting) and reduces the fraction of a plant's own pollen that is exported to sire seeds in other plants (pollen discounting). Hermaphroditic species with a genetic system that prevents self-fertilization (self-incompatibility) would avoid ovule discounting and its fitness cost, whereas species without such a genetically based barrier would not. Contrarily, pollen discounting would be an unavoidable consequence of a large floral display irrespective of selfing barriers. Nevertheless, the increasing fitness costs of ovule and pollen discounting could be offset by respectively increasing ovule and pollen production per flower. We compiled data on floral display size and pollen and ovule production per flower for 1241 animal-pollinated, hermaphroditic angiosperm species, including data on the compatibility system for 779 species. We used phylogenetic general linear mixed models to assess the relations of pollen and ovule production to floral display size. Our findings provide evidence of increasing pollen production, but not of ovule production, with increasing display size irrespective of compatibility system and even after accounting for potentially confounding effects like flower size and growth form. Our comparative study supports the pollen-discount expectation of an adaptive link between per-flower pollen production and floral display across animal-pollinated angiosperms.

Job Analysis in Organizations: Transition From Traditional to Strategic

Purpose: The aim of the study is to highlight essential elements of job analysis techniques, discusses innovative approaches, and the strategies adopted by organizations to improvise the Job Analysis procedure. Theoretical framework: Technological advancements and dynamic work environments have changed the means and methods through which job analysis procedure was managed earlier. HR professionals are now exploring innovative approaches and strategies to job analysis which are essentially compatible with the present-day organizational situation. To achieve this objective, human resources operations should be incorporated into the company's strategic management process. Professional experts of human resources should construct a compatible HR management system to support the organization implement its strategic objectives. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is primarily based upon secondary data. For this, extant literature related to the topic from different databases, websites, and other available sources was gathered. A logical and orderly review of the accumulated literature was completed. Findings: The findings envisage the need for a well-established job analysis framework with all the elements needed to help human resource personnel updated about the changes in the work force concerns around them, make meticulous decisions using job data, and communicate effectively through all the departments in their organization. Practical implications: The study intends to provide managers with a detailed framework of job analysis practices in organization enfolding both the traditional and modern methods and suggesting probable ways to implement them. Originality/value: The paper is basically a descriptive viewpoint that may contribute positively to the extant literature, academicians, professionals and other related streams of the discipline.

Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion by a novel two-medium compatible bichannel endoscopy system, technique note and preliminary clinical results.

Our team designed a novel two-medium compatible bichannel endoscopy system for spinal surgery, V-shape bichannel endoscopy (VBE) system. Hereby, this study will introduce minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) with VBE system and report its preliminary clinical results. Fifty-two participants, who accepted VBE-assisted TLIF surgery (VBE-TLIF) in our hospital were included in this study. The duration of operation, off-bed time, and days of hospitalization were recorded. Besides, the patient's preoperative and postoperative pain were evaluated via visual analog scale (VAS), the functional status was evaluated via Oswestry dysfunction index (ODI) and modified MacNab criteria. Patients were asked to follow-up in the outpatient department at the 3rd, 6th, 12th, and 24th month after surgery. X-ray or CT was examined to evaluate the internal fixation position and interbody fusion result. All patients received unilateral decompression with an average operation duration of 178.49 ± 27.49min. After the surgery, their VAS score of leg pain and back pain reduced significantly. At the last follow-up, the VAS score of leg pain and back pain was 0.80 ± 0.69 and 0.86 ± 0.75 separately. The difference shows statistically significant with p < 0.05. At the last follow-up, the ODI was 15.20 ± 5.75. According to modified MacNab criteria, 39 patients rated their function as excellent, and 10 patients were good. The overall satisfaction rate reached 94%. The VBE system reported in the current study can complete TLIF surgery safely and effectively.

Развитие трансграничных платежей с использованием цифровых валют центральных банков

Traditionally, transborder settlements and payments were carried out on the basis of international correspondent banking, but in recent years, due to active development of digital technologies, opportunities appeared allowing to develop new models for transborder settlement and payment systems. The article analyzes the construction and usage of central bank’s digital currencies (CBDC) for transborder payments and settlements. Theoretically, it is possible to suggest three different models for conducting transborder settlement and payment transactions using wholesale CBDC. They are model of compatible systems of central bank’s digital currencies; model of interlinked systems of central bank’s digital currencies; model of a single multicurrency system of central bank’s digital currencies. Each of these models has its advantages as well as political, legal, and technical limitations. Prototypes of these three models were tested within various international projects that are presented in the article. The authors systematized the strengths of the proposed projects as well as identified problems that have not yet been resolved that hinder the development of cross-border settlement systems based on the CBSS, including: ensuring data confidentiality; lack of effective interoperability models between traditional financial infrastructure systems and DLT-based systems using different technologies; achieving sustainable operation and scaling: adherence to compliance requirements; ensuring operational reliability and sustainability; search for new functionality of technologies; protection of monetary sovereignty.

An innovative design of a compact shock isolation system to protect sensitive weapons from underwater shock & validated by shock testing for naval applications

This paper presents an innovative solution to protect the sensitive weapons stored inside strategic submerged platforms from severe shock loads (170 g) due to underwater explosions. The shock loads mainly resulted from the underwater explosion of a nuclear warhead, mines, and bomb nearby platform. The underwater shock load has been analyzed, and a shock response spectrum (SRS) method has been developed to calculate peak responses during shock. The frequency of shock isolation has been selected from SRS to meet the requirement of shock isolation and sensitive weapon. Stiffness and damping characteristics were finalized to reduce the shock load of 179 g to an acceptable limit of 5 g for a sensitive weapon. The single-degree freedom system analytical model was formulated, and the ANSYS tool was used for modeling and simulation. The stiffness has been distributed over the weapon's length at multiple locations such that the weapon will oscillate in the translational mode under shock load from the elastic model. This paper explains the novel approach and technique for the design of a simple, unique, compact, reliable, electromagnetically compatible shock isolation system for underwater sensitive weapons. A parametric study was undertaken to compute the dimensions and configuration of shock isolators. Experimental tests were performed on the prototype to validate the design of the shock isolator. The maximum displacement of the isolator and maximum force transmitted to the sensitive weapon was found by shock testing. Finally, Transient dynamic analysis was performed to evaluate the actual motion of isolators during shock.

Nonenzymatic catalytic deracemization

Deracemization, a highly appealing method to synthesize the optically pure compounds, is defined as the conversion of a racemic mixture into a single enantiomer of the same compound in theoretically 100 % yield by increasing the quantity of one enantiomer at the expense of the other. This highlight article focuses on recent progress in catalytic deracemization under pure chemical reaction conditions, excluding biocatalysed deracemization procedures and spontaneous deracemization by crystallization. This survey is divided in two main sections:1) redox-driven deracemization enabled by sequential oxidation/reduction operation or a compatible redox system; 2) photochemical deracemization via selective energy transfer, hydrogen-atom and proton transfer. Especially, the latter has gained a big breakthrough that may open up new avenues for nonenzymatic catalytic deracemization.

Penggunaan Metode Simple Additive Weighting dalam Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Evaluasi Potensi Pegawai di SMK Negeri 2 Bandar Lampung

This research was conducted to build a decision support system for employee potential assessment at SMK Negeri 2 Bandar Lampung using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. Decision support system is made web based with 3 actors namely admin, employees and leaders. The data used comes from the Employee Work Target (SKP) data at SMK Negeri 2 Bandar Lampung. The selection process is done by collecting employee data and employee performance values along with the criteria used. The data received is processed by the system by determining the priority of each criterion and doing the sum of the weights of each criterion value. The results of functional testing in the SPK Employee Potential Assessment is a compatible system on the computer being tested and all menus on the system are running well. The results of testing the system using Black Box Testing using 20 data employees of SMK Negeri 2 Bandar Lampung. The conclusion of this research is that the Employee Potential Assessment Decision Support System can help the Head of SMK Negeri 2 Bandar Lampung to conduct a performance evaluation of employees with 100% accuracy. Thus, the SAW method is appropriately used in the Employee Potential Assessment Decision Support System.

An Electrostatically Actuated Gecko Adhesive Clutch

AbstractThis work presents a new variation on electrostatic clutches that uses gecko‐inspired adhesives instead of friction for its braking force. As a result, it requires no power or normal pressure to remain engaged or disengaged. It requires only a brief pulse of voltage to switch states. In some applications, this capability is desirable for safety reasons. As an illustration, the clutch is incorporated into the needle‐driving axis of a magnetic resonance compatible teleoperated robotic system. Adding the clutch has no effect on imaging quality and provides a fail‐safe brake to prevent the needle axis from dropping in the event of a power failure. As a second application, the clutch is integrated into a force‐controlled robotic gripper where it allows the motor to be turned off while maintaining a static grasping force. In both applications, the 20 ms response time of the clutch prototypes is advantageous to prevent any motion immediately after receiving a braking command. This work additionally presents details on the design and manufacturing process of the gecko‐inspired clutch, including a new, non‐uniform profile for the microscopic adhesive features. The fabricated prototypes are thin (305 µm per layer) and flexible. They provide a controllable, adhesive braking force of 60 kPa per layer. Multiple layers can be assembled to increase the braking force.

The Development of Human Personality: A Comprehensive Overview

The complex relationship between physical and psychological disorders can pose challenges for effective treatment. Both aspects often require a multidisciplinary approach to address their interconnectedness. An individual's personality is shaped by their mentality, psyche, and values, which must be in harmony for a well-ordered and disciplined personality. While medical interventions are important, incorporating non-medical interventions can be crucial for managing and treating these disorders. This includes lifestyle changes such as exercise and diet, as well as incorporating values that promote overall well-being. Neglecting our psyche can lead to negative traits and mental health issues. Therefore, nurturing our personality through positive experiences, healthy relationships, self-care and self-reflection is necessary to promote mental and emotional health. It is important to create a balance between material and non-material values to have a harmonious and stable life. Choosing a lifestyle that aligns with our values and needs allows us to create a compatible system, which in turn allows us to make informed decisions and realize our full potential.

Digital capability: An essential nursing skill for proficiency in a post-COVID-19 world.

We explored the importance of digital technologies to health responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The benefits, challenges and barriers to developing digital capabilities are identified, and strategies to establish enduring digital proficiency among nurses and healthcare colleagues gained during the pandemic are canvassed. Since the mid-20th century, technology uptake by health practitioners has prioritised digital information and communication technology. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to adapt digital communication to dangerous clinical workplaces. Organisational policies enabled digital capabilities to replace in-person processes while preserving regulatory compliance, safety and security of patient information and staff deployment. All evidence was accessed from publicly available sources. The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for implementing Technology Enhanced Care Services. Health practitioners need appropriate digital capabilities for their roles and scope of practice. Nursing proficiency includes technological skills. Combining the Jisc Digital Capability Framework and the Health and Care Digital Capabilities Framework helps nurses achieve the technical expertise needed for clinical proficiency in contemporary healthcare environments. Healthcare workforce digital capability requires policies that resource digital technologies and individual user skills in dangerous COVID-19 workplaces. All involved must be abreast of technological changes and monitor technology effectiveness in innovation in patient care, professional education and evidence-based infectious disease management of healthcare systems. Nurses and other practitioners in COVID-19-compromised settings must be able to use the embedded digital technologies in patient care, clinical management and education. Policies securing resources for nurses to learn to use digital technologies will ensure that digital systems are regularly upgraded and that nurses develop proficiency in using technology in their clinical practice. Work and workplace redesign needs compatible computer systems and software to support nursing innovation and digital proficiency.

Feasibility of the Audio-Visual Assisted Therapeutic Ambience in Radiotherapy (AVATAR) System for Anesthesia Avoidance in Pediatric Patients: A Multicenter Trial

The AVATAR system was the first published radiotherapy (RT) compatible system to reduce the need for pediatric anesthesia through video-based distraction. We evaluate the feasibility of AVATAR implementation and effects on anesthesia use, quality of life (QoL), and anxiety in a multicenter pediatric trial. Pediatric patients 3-10 years of age preparing to undergo RT at 10 institutions were prospectively enrolled. Children able to undergo at least one fraction of RT using AVATAR without anesthesia were considered successful (S). Patients requiring anesthesia for their entire treatment course were non-successful (NS). PedsQL3.0 Cancer Module survey (PedsQL) assessed QoL and was administered to the patient and guardian at RT simulation, midway through RT, and final treatment. The modified Yale Preoperative Assessment Survey Short Form (mYPAS) assessed anxiety and was performed at the same three timepoints. Success was evaluated using Chi-square test. PedsQL and mYPAS scores were assessed using mixed effects models with time points evaluated as fixed effects and a random intercept on the subject. Eighty-one children were included; median age was 7 years. AVATAR was successful at all 10 institutions and with photon and proton RT. There were 63 (78%) S patients; anesthesia was avoided for a median of 20 fractions per patient. Success differed by age (p=0.04) and private versus public insurance (p<0.001). Both patient (p=0.008) and parent (p=0.006) PedsQL scores significantly improved over the course of RT for patients ages 5-7. Anxiety in the treatment room decreased for both S and NS patients over RT course (p<0.001), by age (p<0.001) and by S versus NS patients (p<0.001). In this 10-center prospective trial, anesthesia avoidance with AVATAR was 78% in children age 3-10 years, higher than among age-matched historical controls (49%, p<0.001). AVATAR implementation is feasible across multiple institutions and should be further studied and made available to patients who may benefit from video-based distraction.

Biodegradable electrohydraulic actuators for sustainable soft robots.

Combating environmental pollution demands a focus on sustainability, in particular from rapidly advancing technologies that are poised to be ubiquitous in modern societies. Among these, soft robotics promises to replace conventional rigid machines for applications requiring adaptability and dexterity. For key components of soft robots, such as soft actuators, it is thus important to explore sustainable options like bioderived and biodegradable materials. We introduce systematically determined compatible materials systems for the creation of fully biodegradable, high-performance electrohydraulic soft actuators, based on various biodegradable polymer films, ester-based liquid dielectric, and NaCl-infused gelatin hydrogel. We demonstrate that these biodegradable actuators reliably operate up to high electric fields of 200 V/μm, show performance comparable to nonbiodegradable counterparts, and survive more than 100,000 actuation cycles. Furthermore, we build a robotic gripper based on biodegradable soft actuators that is readily compatible with commercial robot arms, encouraging wider use of biodegradable materials systems in soft robotics.

Analyzing Innermost Runtime Complexity Through Tuple Interpretations

Time complexity in rewriting is naturally understood as the number of steps needed to reduce terms to normal forms. Establishing complexity bounds to this measure is a well-known problem in the rewriting community. A vast majority of techniques to find such bounds consist of modifying termination proofs in order to recover complexity information. This has been done for instance with semantic interpretations, recursive path orders, and dependency pairs. In this paper, we follow the same program by tailoring tuple interpretations to deal with innermost complexity analysis. A tuple interpretation interprets terms as tuples holding upper bounds to the cost of reduction and size of normal forms. In contrast with the full rewriting setting, the strongly monotonic requirement for cost components is dropped when reductions are innermost. This weakened requirement on cost tuples allows us to prove the innermost version of the compatibility result: if all rules in a term rewriting system can be strictly oriented, then the innermost rewrite relation is well-founded. We establish the necessary conditions for which tuple interpretations guarantee polynomial bounds to the runtime of compatible systems and describe a search procedure for such interpretations.

Thermodynamically Compatible Hyperbolic Model for Two-Phase Compressible Fluid Flow with Surface Tension

A two-phase flow model for compressible immiscible fluids is presented, the derivation of which is based on the use of the theory of symmetric hyperbolic thermodynamically compatible systems. The model is an extension of the previously proposed thermodynamically compatible model of compressible two-phase flows due to the inclusion of new state variables of the medium associated with surface tension forces. The governing equations of the model form a hyperbolic system of differential equations of the first order and satisfy the laws of thermodynamics (energy conservation and entropy increase). The properties of the model equations are studied and it is shown that the Young–Laplace law of capillary pressure is fulfilled in the asymptotic approximation at the continuum level.

Engineering Photosynthetic Microbial Consortia for Carbon-Negative Biosynthesis.

Microbial consortia consisting of phototrophs and heterotrophs have raised extensive attention due to their potential in sustainable biotechnology. The challenge remains in the selection of appropriate partners since most heterotrophic microorganisms cannot naturally use the intermediate carbohydrates secreted by autotrophic partners. In a recent study, the Ni Lab has developed a highly compatible autotrophic-heterotrophic symbiotic system comprising Synechococcus elongatus and Vibrio natriegens. V. natriegens (the sucrose utilization module) shows a high degree of nutritional complementarity and culturing compatibility with the engineered S. elongatus (the CO2 sequestration module). The combination of both species channels CO2 into various valuable chemicals, enabling carbon-negative biosynthesis.

Monodromy of four‐dimensional irreducible compatible systems of Q$\mathbb {Q}$

AbstractLet be a totally real field and a natural number. We study the monodromy groups of any ‐dimensional strictly compatible system of ‐adic representations of with distinct Hodge–Tate numbers such that is irreducible for some . When , , and is fully symplectic, the following assertions are obtained. The representation is fully symplectic for almost all . If in addition the similitude character of is odd, then the system is potentially automorphic and the residual image has a subgroup conjugate to for almost all .

A New Thermodynamically Compatible Finite Volume Scheme for Magnetohydrodynamics

In this paper we propose a novel thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one and two space dimensions. As shown by Godunov in 1972, the MHD system can be written as overdetermined symmetric hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (SHTC) system. More precisely, the MHD equations are symmetric hyperbolic in the sense of Friedrichs and satisfy the first and second principles of thermodynamics. In a more recent work on SHTC systems, \cite{Rom1998}, the entropy density is a primary evolution variable, and total energy conservation can be shown to be a \textit{consequence} that is obtained after a judicious linear combination of all other evolution equations. The objective of this paper is to mimic the SHTC framework also on the discrete level by directly discretizing the \textit{entropy inequality}, instead of the total energy conservation law, while total energy conservation is obtained via an appropriate linear combination as a \textit{consequence} of the thermodynamically compatible discretization of all other evolution equations. As such, the proposed finite volume scheme satisfies a discrete cell entropy inequality \textit{by construction} and can be proven to be nonlinearly stable in the energy norm due to the discrete energy conservation. In multiple space dimensions the divergence-free condition of the magnetic field is taken into account via a new thermodynamically compatible generalized Lagrangian multiplier (GLM) divergence cleaning approach. The fundamental properties of the scheme proposed in this paper are mathematically rigorously proven. The new method is applied to some standard MHD benchmark problems in one and two space dimensions, obtaining good results in all cases.