East Road Research Articles

Commentary: “Inside Looking Out, Outside Looking In”

Mr. Steven Koptie, BA. 416-415-5000, ext. 3026 George Brown College, Room 436E 200 King Street East Toronto, Ontario M5A 3W5 416-415-5000, ext. 3026 skoptie@georgebrown.ca Steven Koptie, Instructor, Social Services Worker Program, George Brown College, Toronto. Steven has worked for 30 years in the field of social services and counseling. He is of Mohawk Descent from the Six Nations reserve and has tirelessly served the Aboriginal community in Toronto and worked in the far north. He is dedicated to creating opportunity and understanding between Aboriginal people and the world at large. Steven will be returning to University in 2008 for a Master’s Degree in Counseling.

Sentiment Analysis of β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) Supplements’ Consumer Online Reviews

Ji Li1*, Dan Lowe1, Luke Wayment1 and Qingrong Huang2 Author Affiliations 1Nutraceutical Corporation, USA 2Food Science Department, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA Received: April 29, 2020 | Published: May 05, 2020 Corresponding author: Agostinho G Rocha, Syneos Health, 301D College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2020.27.004502

Purification of Small Batches of Biotinylated Antibodies by Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography for Ligand Binding Method Development

Agostinho G Rocha*, Emily Tufano, Katelyn Krynski and Christopher J Beaver Author Affiliations Syneos Health, 301D College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Received: April 24, 2020 | Published: May 04, 2020 Corresponding author: Agostinho G Rocha, Syneos Health, 301D College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2020.27.004498

Study on the Selection Model of Staying Adjustment Bus Lines along Rail Transit

To fully achieve effective rail transit, prevent the waste of conventional bus capacity along a rail transit line, and relieve the urban traffic congestion problem, it is necessary to screen for the adjustment of conventional bus lines prior to the operation of rail transit to provide a basis for further optimization of bus lines. Based on the analysis of spatial relationships between a rail transit line and conventional collinear bus lines and considering the time advantage characteristics of rail transit in rush hours, a model of the generalized travel time costs and travel time savings proportion in the collinear section of rail transit and bus was proposed. To evaluate the utility of rail transit relative to conventional bus collinear lines, the conventional bus lines to be adjusted were determined. Taking Xiamen as an example, the bus lines of Hubin East Road Station as the endpoint of metro line 1 were employed to calculate the model using GPS data of the buses, and the bus lines to be adjusted in the Hubin East Road were determined. The results show that the model is effective in the elastic selection of conventional bus lines that need to be adjusted and provides decision-making support for urban comprehensive public transport planning.

Satisfaction Assessment of Housing Users in Tripoli – Libya

Most communities, especially professionals such as architects, infrastructural engineers and city planners, pay particular attention to sustainable housing, which is important for housing development as the first place in which people spend most of their time. In addition, residential buildings cover more than 50% of the total area of any city in Libya. For the city of Tripoli as a case study, the growth of the city has increased due to the growth of the Libyan economy as well as due to high oil prices during the 1970s. As a result, there has been an increase in natural population growth as well as migration from neighbouring cities. To accommodate population growth, governments have implemented a number of development projects, particularly in the housing sector. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the satisfaction of housing users in accordance with the previous housing policies of successive Libyan governments. The data was collected by means of questionnaires concerning the social aspects of housing occupants and their suitability for the Libyan family both currently and in the future. Moreover, there remains the question of what characteristics should be taken into account when implementing future housing projects. The study included cases of housing projects implemented for the purpose of assessing the satisfaction of users with projects to implement the principles of “Sustainable Housing.” The survey included four residential projects carried out in the city of Tripoli for the research. The sites are: (i) Airport Road East Housing Project (ii) Al Hadba Khdra Housing Project (iii) Ghot Ash-Ahaal Housing Project (iv) Souq-Atolata (North) Housing Project. The paper also aims to benefit from the study results for the implementation of the “Sustainable Housing Policy in Libya: A Case Study of Tripoli” for the purpose of applying the principles of social sustainability to housing, especially in Tripoli and Libya in general. Additionally, this paper will be useful for planning and architectural professionals.

RNN-Based Subway Passenger Flow Rolling Prediction

The subway station passenger flow prediction model can forecast passenger volume in the future. This model helps to carry out safety warnings and evacuation of passenger flow in advance. Based on the data of the Shanghai traffic card, the passenger volume in all the time intervals is clustered into three different models for prediction. Taking the Nanjing East Road Station in Shanghai as an example, the time series of passenger volumes was combined with weather data to create several supervised sequences and was converted to supervised sequences according to different values of timestep. To accelerate convergence, two artificial features were added as input. The gated recurrent unit (GRU) network model achieves accurate rolling prediction from 15 minutes to 6 hours. Finally, comparing it with the long short-term memory (LSTM) network and the back-forward propagation network (BPN), it was confirmed that the GRU network with a timestep of 1.5 hours is the best model for the long-term (more than 3 hours) traffic flow rolling prediction, while GRU with a timestep of 45 minutes has the best result for short-term rolling prediction.

Religion and Environment: A Case of Great East Road Baptist Women’s’ Christian Conference in Chong we District, Zambia

Religion and Environment: A Case of Great East Road Baptist Women’s’ Christian Conference in Chong we District, Zambia

Study on the Interaction of Metro Shield Tunnel Construction Under-Crossing the Existing Longhai Railway

Based on the construction of Zhengzhou Metro Line 4 (Huozhan Street Station–Hanghai East Road Station) under-crossing Longhai Railway, this paper investigated the interaction between railway train operation and shield tunneling. A three-dimensional coupled finite element model of track-roadbed-soil, using the finite element software MIDAS/GTS NX, was established to simulate the stages of the shield tunnel construction and analyze the influence on the existing railway. During different stages of the shield tunnel construction, the ground subsidence caused by the passing of single train was analyzed by simplifying the train loads as vibration loads, and the numerical simulation results were compared with the field monitoring data. The results show that: (1) the maximum settlement of the railway is about 3.39 mm without train passing, which is less than the control standard range of 6 mm, and so the shield tunnel construction can ensure the normal operation of the upper railway; (2) vehicle-induced vibration will lead to additional subsidence of the railway, which is only 0.20 mm when the upper train has the speed of 160 km/h, so the total settlement is 3.59 mm, which is also less than the control standard range of 6 mm. In conclusion, the upper train doesn’t need to be limited with velocity in the process of shield tunnel construction.

SURVEY TERESTRIS PENGUKURAN JARING KONTROL HORIZONTAL ORDE-4 DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE POLIGON TERTUTUP

Construction of the Lumajang PDD campus building, the pilot of the Lumajang Community Community Academy began in 2017. The campus building will be built on 5.3 hectares of land located on Lumajang East Road. The process of building construction, will begin with measuring the boundary of the land by placing coordinates. This research was conducted in order to prepare the location or location of horizontal control points in preparation for the establishment of the Lumajang Community Community Academy campus building.The research method used in measuring coordinate points is the polygon method. Measurements were carried out in terrestrial surveys using theodolite devices. Theodolite devices are among the measurement target points, namely back-face. The measurement target points are located at the specified land boundary. The results of the study obtained a map of the distribution of horizontal control points on the boundaries of campus land and the installation of monuments

Development and validation of professional needs of care questionnaire for family caregivers of stroke survivors

Objective To develop a questionnaire on the professional needs of care for family caregivers of stroke survivors and test the reliability and validity. Methods Based on the family system theory and family support model, the first draft of questionnaire was formed through literature review and in-depth qualitative interview, and the test draft was formed through expert consultation and pre-experiment. The qualified caregivers in 5 community health service centers of Nanyang Road, linshanzhai, hanghai East Road, high tech Zone and Qinling Road in Zhengzhou from May to August 2018 were selected as the research objects for questionnaire survey. 240 valid questionnaires were selected and tested to form a formal questionnaire. Results The cumulative variance contribution rate of four common factors extracted by exploratory factor analysis was 67.343%, the overall Cronbach's α coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.919, the overall retest reliability was 0.914, the total content validity index (S-CVI) was 0.98, the content validity index (I-CVI) of each item was above 0.80, the correlation coefficient between each item and the total score of the questionnaire was 0.424-0.652, and the correlation coefficient between each dimension was 0.127-0. 566, the correlation coefficient between each dimension and total score was 0.592-0.785, the formal questionnaire included 4 dimensions and 29 items. Conclusions The questionnaire has good reliability and validity, which can be used to evaluate the professional care needs of home-based stroke caregivers. Key words: Stroke; Family caregivers; Professional needs of care; Reliability; Validity

Multi-phase healthcare professions education research priority setting in Taiwan.

Medical EducationVolume 53, Issue 11 p. 1159-1160 Really Good Stuff: Lessons learned through innovation in medical education Multi-phase healthcare professions education research priority setting in Taiwan Arthur Gugel, Arthur Gugel orcid.org/0000-0002-7842-6672 Search for more papers by this authorMojca Babovič, Mojca BabovičSearch for more papers by this authorLynn Monrouxe, Corresponding Author Lynn Monrouxe lynn.monrouxe@sydney.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0002-4895-1812 Correspondence: Lynn Monrouxe, Faculty of Health Sciences, Work Integrated Learning, The University of Sydney, Room J213, Level 2, J Block, 75 East Street, Lidcombe NSW 2140, Australia. Tel: 00 886 +61 2 9351 9026; Fax: +61 2 9351 9166; E-mail: lynn.monrouxe@sydney.edu.auSearch for more papers by this author Arthur Gugel, Arthur Gugel orcid.org/0000-0002-7842-6672 Search for more papers by this authorMojca Babovič, Mojca BabovičSearch for more papers by this authorLynn Monrouxe, Corresponding Author Lynn Monrouxe lynn.monrouxe@sydney.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0002-4895-1812 Correspondence: Lynn Monrouxe, Faculty of Health Sciences, Work Integrated Learning, The University of Sydney, Room J213, Level 2, J Block, 75 East Street, Lidcombe NSW 2140, Australia. Tel: 00 886 +61 2 9351 9026; Fax: +61 2 9351 9166; E-mail: lynn.monrouxe@sydney.edu.auSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 October 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13991Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume53, Issue11November 2019Pages 1159-1160 RelatedInformation

Mapping Reality and Virtuality: Paintings, Maps and Hydrographical Surveying about British and American Settlements of the Shanghai Bund, 1845–1860

Abstract. On 8th November, 1843, Captain George Balfour (1809–1894) arrived in Shanghai to take up his position of the first British Consul in Shanghai. After he paid a visit to the Taotai 道台 of Shanghai Gong Wujiu 宮慕久 and had a discussion with the latter, both sides agreed and announced that Shanghai would be open to foreign trade since 17th November, 1843. The boundary of the British Settlement was mentioned in Land Regulations of Shanghai, the promulgated agreement between Gong and Balfour in November 1845; the southern end of the British Settlement was Yang-Kin-Pan Creek (Yang King Pang or Yangjingbin 洋涇濱 Creek; now Yan’an Road East) and the northern end Lijia chang 李家廠 (now Beijing Road East) [Figure 1]. The eastern end was not mentioned in the Land Regulations and understood as Huangpu River 黃浦江. The western end was unsettled but in the following year, it was agreed that it would be Barrier Road (Jielu Road 界路, now Henan Road Central). A survey of the British Settlement at that time gave the area of 830 acres and land deeds were issued. In 1848, the American Settlement was established. Consul of the US and Britain as well as the authorities of the two settlements both hired professionals to map the two settlements or invited the surveyors of the two navies to draw navigational or channel survey maps from Huangpu River to Yangtze River. This paper will use paintings, maps and sources on hydrographical measurement to give a succinct account of the development of cartography and surveying of the British and the American Settlements between 1845 and 1860.

Research and Analysis of a Persistent Heavy Pollution Event in Ningbo, China

From 7 to 12 January 2015, there was a rare persistent severe pollution event in Ningbo. Based on the data from routine weather observation, automatic weather station in Zhejiang Province and urban pollutant monitoring in Ningbo City, by using the particle backward trajectory analysis of NOAA HYSPLIT4 model, the diagnosis and analysis of the pollution development and dissipation process were carried out. The results show that: 1) Pollutants carried by cold air are main reason for pollution in the first stage of the pollution process. The transition from near-surface northwest wind to north-northeast wind is the key to air improvement; 2) Favorable atmospheric circulation is the important reason for the long-term persistence of pollution. The long-term control of high-pressure center and low-level inversion between the two cold air effects make the boundary layer particularly stable, while the low horizontal wind speed is beneficial to polluting particles. With the continuous accumulation, the contaminated particles can not effectively diffuse either vertically or horizontally; 3) In the late period of January 11, the supplement of weak cold air in the East Road made the air quality index (AQI) climb to about 300 again. The two advection conveyances of cold air to pollutant particles and the long-term stable maintenance of weather conditions conducive to the accumulation of pollutant particles are two important reasons for this rare and sustained heavy pollution event.

Research on Urban Community Public Space Design Based on Children’s Psychological Needs—A Case Study and Survey of Chengdu Yulin East Road

Viewing from the theory of child psychology, there is close connection between space environment and psychological development. Community public space, as children’s after-school micro-environment, is an important place for the shaping of cognitive ability, personality and social process. Based on this background, taking the communities of Yulin East Road in Wuhou District of Chengdu as the research object, within the radius of one kilometer radiation centered on Yulin East Road, this paper conducted a survey on the current situation of street space, square space and courtyard space and found that there is inadequate recreational facilities in current spaces, together with the unreasonable traffic layout, which cannot meet the various needs of children. In the end, the planning suggestions are proposed based on the different scales of spaces. Children are the major concerns in the urban development. The introduction of child developmental psychology into the design of urban open spaces, it should become an urgent need for the reshaping of the vitality of urban open spaces and the recovery of children’s rights.

Air Pollution Characteristics and Jogger Inhalation Exposure in Typical Running Area of Beijing

To investigate the exposure to major air pollutants of runners while running in Beijing, the concentrations of PM2.5, CO, O3, and NO2 were constantly monitored at typical park running areas (Tiantan Park and Olympic Sports Center), roadside running areas (Qianmen East Street and Yongding Inner Street), and a background area (Dinglin) during April, June, and October of 2016 and in January 2017. The concentration variation characteristics for the pollutants in different areas and at different times were analyzed. Using a numerical model of human respiratory exposure, 102 joggers were studied, as was the temporal-spatial variation of inhalation dose of pollutants. At typical running areas, the concentrations of CO, NO2, and PM2.5 were relatively higher in winter, whereas the concentrations of O3 were higher in spring and summer. The concentrations of CO, NO2, and PM2.5 were lower in the afternoon (16:00-18:00), whereas the concentrations of O3 were lower in the morning (06:00-08:00) and evening (18:00-20:00). There was a linear correlation between concentrations roadside to those in nearby parks, as the concentrations of CO roadside were generally consistent with those in parks (croad/cpark=1.01, R2=0.93), the concentrations of NO2 and PM2.5 roadside were higher than those in parks (croad/cpark were 0.56 and 1.19, respectively), and the concentrations of O3 roadside were lower than those in parks (croad/cpark=0.74, R2=0.97). During moderate or higher pollution conditions, 92% of joggers halted outdoor activities, 62.7% chose to jog in parks, 66.7% chose to jog at night, and 64.7% of joggers had single run mileages of 10-20 km. When people chose to jog in the afternoon and evening, the inhalation of CO, NO2, and PM2.5 were relatively lower, whereas the inhalation of O3 was higher. During spring and summer, night running after 20:00 reduced the O3 inhalation dose. Running roadside led to higher inhalation of CO, NO2, and PM2.5 than that in parks; however, O3 inhalation was lower.

Correlation Analysis between Motor Vehicle Types and Air Pollution in Shijiazhuang City

Air pollution is more serious than before in Shijiazhuang in recent years, motor vehicle exhaust emissions is one of the major causes of air pollution. The economy is developing rapidly in Shijiazhuang, the motor vehicles increase at a rate of 20% per year. In August 2017, the number of motor vehicles exceeded 2.6 million in Shijiazhuang. In order to explore the relationship between the types of motor vehicles and air pollution in Shijiazhuang. This paper chose the traffic information of the typical roads which are Heping East Road and Yuhua East Road, and determined emission factors, such as CO, HC, NOx, PM10 and so on. The EDMS model was used to calculate the air pollutant discharge emissions inventory and compared with the traffic information. The conclusion is that small cars account for 85% of the total traffic volume, the vehicle exhaust account for 68% of CO, 74% of HC, 77% of NOx and 77% of PM10. Air pollution and the number of small cars have a great correlation. The pollutants contributed by motor vehicles mainly for the small car discharge, in order to reduce the air pollution, relevant departments can take effective measures which include road pricing and limit the number of motor vehicle.

Cultural Corridors: An Analysis of Persistence in Impacts on Local Development — A Neo-Weberian Perspective on South-East Europe

:Culture matters for economic development. This postulate has been a main conceptual concern for “old” institutional economics (OIE) and has lately also been tested through neoclassically inspired econometric techniques. This conceptual foundation has been confirmed in several quantitative studies on developed countries, in particular cases from the USA, Germany, and Italy. In less developed regions with a wealth of cultural heritage, particularly in South-East Europe, this postulate is still an underexplored issue from the perspective of advanced econometric approaches. Our goal is to examine the impact of the so-called South-East European cultural corridors on welfare — and especially on total employment — at the local or regional level. Accounting for gross value added and sectoral specialization, we examine the effect of such corridors by considering the distance to a cultural corridor: namely, the East Trans-Balkan Road (crossing Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece) as an explanatory factor for regional development, particularly employment. Using the European University Institute (EUI) European Regional Dataset (ERD), as well as the geo-data from the Cultural Corridors of the South-East Europe website, we estimate a regression model using a 2SLS instrumental variable (IV) approach, with a pooled dataset at the NUTS 3 level (Eurostat) from 1980 to 2011. We then triangulate the results by using the distance to the cultural corridor concerned as a treatment effect in a propensity-score-matching and difference-in-differences exploratory analysis. The findings confirm the importance of distance to the cultural corridor under investigation as a strong predictor for local socio-economic development. The results further suggest that the slow evolution of culture over time is likely to lead to the gradual emergence of new geographical cultural centers and a new cultural path-dependence build-up of persistence chains.

Contractor’s Internal Factors affecting the Performance of Street Improvement Project at Sepaku-Petung Street East Borneo Province

Contractor’s Internal Factors affecting the Performance of Street Improvement Project at Sepaku-Petung Street East Borneo Province

Differential effects of adult mussels on the retention and fine-scale distribution of juvenile seed mussels and biofouling organisms in long-line aquaculture

AEI Aquaculture Environment Interactions Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections AEI 9:239-256 (2017) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00230 Differential effects of adult mussels on the retention and fine-scale distribution of juvenile seed mussels and biofouling organisms in long-line aquaculture Paul M. South1,2,*, Oliver Floerl1, Andrew G. Jeffs2 1Cawthron Institute, 98 Halifax Street East, Nelson 7010, New Zealand 2Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Private bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand *Corresponding author: paul.south@cawthron.org.nz ABSTRACT: The majority of juvenile seed mussels are lost in aquaculture production. Understanding the causes of the losses of seed mussels is critical to reducing uncertainties in mussel aquaculture production. One major cause of loss appears to be the secondary settlement behaviour of mussels, which is thought to be a behavioural process by which larger juveniles can safely recruit among adults. This implies that once a juvenile mussel has settled among adults, there is either some impetus to remain or other positive interactions that promote increased survival. In this study, 2 densities (5 and 20 per 45 cm experimental rope) of adult green-lipped mussels Perna canaliculus were deployed alongside juvenile seed mussels to test whether this enhanced the retention of the juveniles in a typical suspended culture. Adult shells were also deployed to ascertain whether any effects were due to the physical presence of the mussels or the influence of their biological functioning. The presence of adult mussels or shells did not increase the retention of juvenile P. canaliculus, but small-scale movements of juveniles were increased by the addition of 20 live adult mussels per experimental rope. However, the presence of adult mussels and mussel shells on experimental ropes greatly increased the abundance of biofouling organisms. While the addition of live adult mussels or shells failed to provide a simple tool for increasing retention of seed mussels on aquaculture lines, they offer new insights into the identity and ecology of key biofouling organisms that can be problematic in mussel aquaculture production. KEY WORDS: Mussel retention · Secondary settlement · Green-lipped mussel · Perna canaliculus · Mytilus galloprovincialis · Recruitment Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: South PM, Floerl O, Jeffs AG (2017) Differential effects of adult mussels on the retention and fine-scale distribution of juvenile seed mussels and biofouling organisms in long-line aquaculture. Aquacult Environ Interact 9:239-256. https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00230 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in AEI Vol. 9. Online publication date: July 26, 2017 Print ISSN: 1869-215X; Online ISSN: 1869-7534 Copyright © 2017 Inter-Research.

The Kin Hochoi East Road

Kin Hochoi is a Chacoan great house community located in the Puerco Gap, a canyon eroded through the southern Chuska Mountains by the Puerco River. Within the Kin Hochoi community the “East Road” is defined by a 10-meter-wide linear swale connecting the great house to the great kiva, suggesting it was an integral part of the community architecture. Like many other Chacoan roads the Kin Hochoi East Road is excavated over a short distance and has not been previously identified as a longer feature. However, recent ground surveys of associated archaeological sites in the surrounding area indicate that the road extends at least 20 kilometers further to the northeast following a straight line through the Puerco Gap and Defiance Draw Valley. Based on ceramics at the site, construction at Kin Hochoi occurred over many centuries with the great house and great kiva constructed during the Pueblo II period. Smaller architecture and sherd scatters along the extended road to the northeast indicate that this part of the road was constructed and/or in use during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods. This supports the model that the short road formalized by excavation within the Kin Hochoi community is part of a longer and possibly regional route.