Major Upset Research Articles

Effects of Plant Population Density on the Growth, Survival Rate and Yield of Common Beans (Phaseolus spp.) Cultivated under Tropical Climate

Background: Common beans form a key dietary protein in many developing countries, including the Pacific Island countries. It is an important source of protein for vegetarians or those who cannot afford meat. However, being such an important crop, its yield is affected for several reasons, leading to a major upset for people dependent on it. One of the major issues in tropical climatic regions such as Fiji is the lack of information on the correct spacing to achieve the accepted plant population to increase the yield per given area. Therefore, the current research was carried out to investigate the suitable plant-to-plant spacing in butter and french beans for correct plant population density for maximum yield. Methods: Butter and french beans were selected as a research crop for this experiment with two trials and three replications. Data on plant height, stem girth, leaf chlorophyll content, plant survival rate, number of pods, pod length and pod weight were taken after thirty days of sowing and continued at an interval of ten days until sixty days after sowing. Result: The experiment results indicate that neither the lower plant-plant spacing nor, the higher plant-to-plant spacing significantly affected the growth and yield of both butter and french bean. However, the plant survival rate under higher plant-to-plant spacing (50´25 cm) was higher; therefore, the higher plant-to-plant spacing is recommended for growing butter and french beans under the tropical climate as it allows the farmers to save around 38% of the seeds while getting similar plant growth and yield.

Appreciating the Shadow: Staying with the Personal and Professional Present in Times of Upheaval

In this article, Terri McNerney shares two stories, one personal, one professional. The first shows how she and her husband dealt with their different feelings and situations as he went off to work on the Ebola project. The second highlights moments from a finance team and a major business upset. Both stories show how we can stay connected to the principles of AI, with some practices to help us regain hope, through very stuck or dark times.

What type of survey research questions are identified by adults as upsetting? A focus on child maltreatment

BackgroundResearch on child maltreatment is imperative to inform evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts. Nonetheless, researchers continue to face barriers due to the perceived sensitivity and possibility of harm when asking about these experiences. While studies have started to explore reactions to participating in research on sensitive topics, there are notable limitations and fewer have focused on child maltreatment. ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to better understand adult respondents’ identification of, and reactions to, potentially upsetting questions in the context of a well-being and experiences survey, with a focus on child maltreatment. MethodsData were from the first wave of the Well-Being and Experiences Study in Manitoba, Canada: a computerized self-reported community-based survey of adolescents and their parents/caregivers administered individually at a research facility. The current study focused on parents/caregivers’ responses (N = 1000). The study utilized a mixed methods approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative thematic analyses of open-ended responses of their perceptions of upsetting questions. ResultsOverall, few respondents (15.1 %) identified any questions as upsetting. Ten themes emerged in respondents’ recall of upsetting questions, including maltreatment and other themes often perceived as less sensitive. Only 4% identified maltreatment-related questions as upsetting. Among those who identified any questions or maltreatment-specific questions as upsetting, most felt they were important to ask and should not be removed (92.7 %–97.5 %). These findings suggest that retrospective survey questions about experiences of child maltreatment involving adult samples are not associated with major upset and should be included in future health and social surveys.

Analysis of robotics industrial manufacture & promotion of artificial intelligence

The present age is the age of science and innovation. Robots have long borne the planned to conquer any hindrance between the automized world (the web of things) and the physical world. As the most reassuring possibility to subject the following major modern upset after the present third (computerized) mechanical upheaval, apply autonomy is set to play an ever progressively huge job in the public arena for its impact in each part of life. Counting prescription and medicinal services, building administration, fabricating, nourishment creation, coordination and transportation. The present century is likewise the century for Asia, or more noteworthy China specifically. China has turned into the greatest and quickest creating nation in the worldwide modern robot showcase for its changing assembling condition and improving nature of-expectations for everyday comforts, with anticipatable interest of robots in the assembling business, yet in addition other administration and societal segments. With its solid convention in innovation and close connections to overall research wildernesses, Hong Kong at present holds a main edge in parts, for example, medicinal, coordination, and household administration robots. Not with standing, with its total size, money related duty, and solid modern establishment, the Terrain is quickly grabbing pace, particularly in the mechanical and amusement divisions. It is subsequently a basic minute for scientists to join endeavors and structure a minimum amount in automated research to keep up the provincial, and towards overall lead in administration mechanical research. Hong Kong analysts, chipping away at the front line of mechanical autonomy that is intently connected with the future economy. Have many top-level work for mechanical careful help, call the board, assembling, and warehousing the executives, prompting exceedingly translational and gainful results that would help build up and flourish the Hong Kong one of a kind industry in restorative and administration robots, supplemented by a huge creation center and great market in the Territory. After deep study about the countries who are well developed in robotic world. We can have summed up with an idea that those countries who are using technology from this modern age are not only just getting advantage also building their national character amongst the other nation.it becomes mandatory to make our generation acknowledgement about this global automized technology and provides the platform to the industry to use such robotic autonomous system so that under developing countries should take advantage from them. Today the technology which is very popular amongst the scientific society according to latest research is the knowledge of AI. Inspire from NASA we research about the latest technology beneficial for human beings come up with an idea that as far the question of Industrial manufacturing is concerned we all know that accuracy and quality of work is possible through the machinery as compare the human work is referencing.

De sluitingsbevoegdheid van artikel 13b Opiumwet: een mogelijk vervolgingsbeletsel voor het Openbaar Ministerie

According to article 13b of the Dutch Drug Act, the mayor is authorized to close homes and buildings in case of violation of this act. The closure of these homes and buildings is considered as an administrative sanction with no punitive aim. However, in certain cases it is possible that the application of this sanction could to be considered as a criminal charge. If so, this might have consequences for a possible criminal prosecution, because of the concept that no legal action can be instituted twice for the same cause (ne bis in idem-principle). This could lead to the situation that the Dutch Public Prosecution Service might lose its right to prosecute. In the combat of ‘undermining criminality’ this would be a major upset.

Analisis Volatilitas Harga Komoditas Pangan Strategis Di Provinsi Kalimantan Barat (Studi Kasus Pasar Flamboyan Pontianak)

This study examines the strategic comoditas price movements of food and food price volatility of strategic comoditas include sugar, eggs, cooking oil, onion and chilli major upset in the Market Famboyan Pontianak. Quantitative analysis and modeling methods Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARMA), evaluation models korelogram ACF and PACF and strategic analysis of commodity price volatility sugar, eggs, cooking oil, onion and chilli furious with Heteroscedasticity Conditional Autoregressive models (ARCH). Here are the results the development of strategic commodity price red chili, onion, cooking oil, sugar and eggs in the last 5 years ie in 2010 and 2014 showed that certain strategic commodity prices are highly volatile. Weekly food commodity prices in the market positioned Flamboyan Pontianak to commodity sugar, eggs, cooking oil, onion and chilli major upset occurred volatile. It is evident that since the reform of commodity prices weekly positioned in Pontianak Flamboyan market so volatile commodity prices occurs. Even the prices of strategic commodities sugar and red chili, volatilasnya improvement tends to be sustained. Factors affecting price volatility in commodity markets staregis flamboyant pontianak the previous period and the volatility of the price of a variant of the previous period. So it can be interpreted if the prices of strategic commodities today are the price and the residual value of the price variance is relatively large, then the level of strategic commodity prices tomorrow will tend to be large.Keywords: commodity prices, price volatility, arma model, arch model

The Italian Five Star Movement during the Crisis: Towards Normalisation?

The Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) represents the most significant occurrence in Italian party politics during the economic crisis that commenced in 2008. Founded in 2005, the party caused a major upset at the 2013 national elections, with a subsequent major impact on the Italian party system, which is analysed along four dimensions: amount of change; number of relevant competitors; alteration of the political space; and degree of nationalisation. The sudden electoral success, in turn, presented the party with a number of challenges that forced it to adapt its organisational nature. Moreover, the anti-establishment nature of the M5S is questioned by its activities in the legislative arena. As with other outsider parties, this poses the dilemma of being part of the establishment while criticising it. The M5S has thus been forced to redefine its main goals and style of communication in order to adapt to the new institutional environment without losing the palingenetic aspiration of its original message.

Critical Evaluation of Hazards Operability Versus Safety Integrity Risk Analysis Techniques

Many companies follow very systematic methodology for carrying out execution of Mega projects. Project risks are identified, analyzed and proposed mitigation actions are identified and agreed upon. This activity is carried out in Project Risk Workshop. While SIL and HAZOP workshops are broadly related to the process design. HAZOP technique is a highly disciplined and systematic in nature; it attempts to identify how a process may deviate from the design intent. The emphasis in the HAZOP study is on identifying potential problems, not necessarily solving them. SIL studies is a specialized area of Instrumentation and Control systems. The requirement for the safety instrumented system (SIS) is defined by SIL Levels. It identifies and analyzes layers of protection of major process upsets and emergencies. The SIL requirement tells how reliable a safety instrumented function needs to be. SIL determination and verification are part of inherent plant design for a chemical plant. This short article discusses these key concepts one by one and addresses their correlation with one another.

Biocompositional and thermodecompositional analysis of South African agro‐waste corncob and husk towards production of biocommodities

AbstractBiocompositional and thermodecompositional analyses of locally abundant agro‐wastes of South African corn were evaluated for their potential utilization as biocommodities via thermochemical and bioconversion processing. Corncob of Zea mays Zama star (white) & PAN 6Q‐252 (yellow) hybrid as well as the ear husks of South African sweet corn, Z. mays var. Saccharata were utilized in the beneficiation process. Proximate and elemental analyses were conducted to check for the moisture content, the ash content, the volatile matter, and the elemental composition of the agro‐waste samples. In addition, the thermal property of the waste, the surface chemistry and the calorific values were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier‐transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and bomb calorimetric technique, respectively. Significant amounts of alkali metals (Li, Na, and K) were found in the corn cob samples, and heavy metals such as thorium and uranium were detected in the ear husks, indicating that the biomass might not be suitable for use in thermochemical process. However, a relatively high volatile matter content recorded for the waste samples supports their use in thermochemical process with improved yield per gram of feed. These and other findings such as the high calorific value of the cob samples and the relatively low lignin‐to‐sugar ratio of the waste confirm previous reports regarding their suitability as feedstocks in thermo‐processing and bioprocessing. With the exception of the moisture content in ear husks, the minimal variation in the physicochemical property of the waste samples substantiates their suitability for co‐processing without major upsets in process kinetics. Results of other investigations such as the thermodecompositional behavior of the waste samples and the surface chemistry further shed light on the physicochemical property of the locally sourced lignocellulosic biomass waste samples. © 2017 Curtin University and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Veterinary pharmaceuticals in aqueous systems and associated effects: an update.

Environmental studies have shown that pharmaceuticals can contaminate aqueous matrices, such as groundwater, surface water, sediment as well as aquatic flora and fauna. Effluents from sewage and wastewater treatment plants, pharmaceutical industries and hospitals have been implicated in such contamination. Recent studies have however revealed significant concentrations of pharmaceuticals in wastewater from animal facilities in proximal aquatic habitats. Furthermore, epidemiological studies have shown a consistent positive correlation between exposure to some drugs of veterinary importance and increased adverse effects in aquatic biota largely due to induction of endocrine disruption, antibiotic resistance, neurotoxicity, genotoxicity and oxidative stress. The aquatic habitats and associated biota are important in the maintenance of global ecosystem and food chain. For this reason, anything that compromises the integrity and functions of the aquatic environment may lead to major upset in the world's ecosystems. Therefore, knowledge about this route of exposure cannot be neglected and monitoring of their occurrence in the environment is required. This review focuses on scientific evidence that link the presence of pharmaceuticals in aqueous matrices to animal production facilities and presents means to reduce the occurrence of veterinary pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic habitats.

Efficiency prediction of control room operators based on human reliability analysis and dynamic decision-making style in the process industry

Process industries have a potential for the occurrence of major accidents. These accidents can have severe adverse effects on human health and the environment and they can cause extensive damage to equipment and buildings. During major process upsets, central control rooms are among the most stressful workplaces in the world. Therefore, Human Reliability Analysis and Dynamic Decision-Making Styles (DDMSs) play an important role in safety management in these industries. This study employs the intelligent Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System model associated with two questionnaires along with Cognitive Reliability Error Analysis Method to analyze the Human Reliability Influencing Factors (HRIFs) and DDMSs of the control room operators and to determine the efficiency of operators as well as their dominant and efficient decision-making styles. Nine influencing factors on human reliability and five DDMSs are evaluated and the correlation between the HRIFs is investigated. Efficiency of the operators, according to the HRIFs, is determined and they are ranked. Next, the most dominant and efficient of the DDMSs among the operators was identified. Finally, an intelligent algorithm for determining the efficiency of a control room's operators is developed. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2015

Intestinal bypass surgery for morbid obesity: long-term results.

Since 1962, jejunoileal bypass has been performed on 59 male and 171 female subjects, aged 18 to 55 years; these patients were followed clinically. Postoperative weight loss at two years averaged 37% in men and 35% in women. Hypokalemia (23%), hypocalcemia (22%), hypoalbuminemia (9%), metabolic acidosis (14%), elevated liver enzyme values (41%), and hyperbilirubinemia (6%), were the most commonly encountered blood chemical alterations. Complications were arthritis syndrome (men, 8%; women, 19%). urinary calculi (men, 24%; women, 10%), cholelithiasis (men, 10%; women, 9%), liver impairment (men, 2%; women, 6%), and major emotional upset (men, 8%; women, 9%). Forty-nine percent of the men and 51% of the women required rehospitalization for management of complications, surgery for hernia, anorectal disorders, nutritional support, and metabolic study. There were 19 bypass-related deaths (8%), including 10 due to liver failure.

Case Study: Foaming During Startup of Karan Nonassociated Gas

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper IPTC 17175, ’Khursaniyah Gas-Plant Experience With Foaming During Startup of Karan Nonassociated Gas,’ by Mohammed Hussain Al-Qahtani, Saudi Aramco, and Paul Garland, INEOS, prepared for the 2013 International Petroleum Technology Conference, Beijing, 26-28 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Copyright 2013 International Petroleum Technology Conference. Reproduced by permission. All amines are subject to foaming in industrial applications given certain conditions and circumstances. Methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) is like other types of amine that can experience major foaming upset, especially in high-pressure sweetening units. However, MDEA is one of the most popular solvents for gas treating, with several advantages over other amines, particularly its ability to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and slip carbon dioxide (CO2) from sour gas. This paper describes Saudi Aramco’s efforts to eliminate early foaming incidents during the commissioning stage of the Karan nonassociated (NA) sour-gas field. Introduction The Karan field was discovered by Saudi Aramco in 2006. This newly developed offshore field is located 120 km northwest of Jubail Industrial City in eastern Saudi Arabia. Produced sour gas is coblended at a tie-in offshore platform through five 20-in. subsea flowlines. From the tie-in offshore platform, the gas is sent through a 38-in. subsea pipeline to the onshore gas-treatment facilities at the Khursaniyah Gas Plant. Karan facilities consist of three gas-treatment-processing trains, each designed to process 620 MMscf/D of NA sour gas, producing sales gas and acid gas. Karan NA sour gas is a CO2-rich stream. Formulated MDEA was selected for sweetening in Karan gas-treating facilities to enhance the H2S / CO2 ratio in acid gas and to meet the required sales-gas specification before sending the gas to the Saudi Master Gas System. The Problem of Foaming Karan’s three gas-treating trains have a total rated capacity of 1.86 Bcf/D of sour feed gas. Each train consists of an MDEA-based acid-gas-removal (AGR) unit, a triethylene-glycol (TEG) dehydration unit, and an acid-removal (AGE) unit (Fig. 1). In addition, propane is used for process-stream cooling at various points throughout the process, where temperatures of less than 140°F are required. A dedicated propane-compression system runs continuously to cool each process train.

Statistical thinking in the quality movement ±25 years

Purpose – Statistical thinking is an intrinsic part of the quality movement. Helped by initiatives such as Six Sigma, there is greater acceptance of the importance of data analysis and a general trend towards embracing numeracy. It is timely to review the emergence of statistical thinking and consider the good and bad features resulting from its application in a wide range of sectors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first defines statistical thinking and justifies its importance to the quality movement. The achievements from the past 25 years are then considered sector by sector along with their collateral damage. Findings – The following lessons are proposed for the next 25 years: statistical thinking needs to expand its remit to include more aspects of analytical thinking becoming what may be called wider statistical thinking; statistical thinkers have ground-breaking ideas and need to communicate with managers at the top of the hierarchy to ensure that both the thinkers and the ideas have the influence they deserve; whilst learning from past successes, the quality movement must be mindful of knock-on effects and nurse a holistic viewpoint; expect the unexpected. Originality/value – Statistical thinking is gaining more prominence in all sectors and is used within the quality movement to make major progress as well as major upsets. It is important that the quality movement treads carefully and makes sure that society as a whole benefits from the ever increasing drive for improvement.

Similarity Analysis of Industrial Alarm Flood Data

Flooding of alarms is a very crucial problem in process industries. An alarm flood makes an operator ineffective of taking necessary actions, and often risking an emergency shutdown or a major upset. In this work, the flooding of alarms is discussed based on the standards presented in ISA 18.2. A new analysis method is proposed to investigate similar alarm floods from the historic alarm data and group them on the basis of the patterns of alarm occurrences. A case study on real industrial alarm data is also presented to demonstrate the utility of the proposed analysis.

Promoting mental health - Evidence of the Salutogenic Framework for a positive health development

Social trends point to a major upset of the traditional social structures such as the rupture of local and intimate networks because of migration into urban areas, changed function and structure of family networks and changes in the patterns of working life. At the same time there are concerns regarding a decreasing mental health. All this makes it difficult to find and run a coherent life. However, there are theories and frameworks contributing to stress research. One of them is the salutogenic theory developed by Aaron Antonovsky, a positive concept exploring the origin of health (salutogenesis) not disease (pathogenesis). Stress has generally been seen as a negative event that increased the risk of people “breaking down”. In contrast, Antonovsky stated that chaos and stress are part of life and natural conditions. The fundamental concepts of Salutogenesis are Generalized Resistance Resources (GRRs) and Sense of Coherence (SOC). GRRs help the person to construct coherent life experiences. Even more important than the resources themselves is the ability to use them, the sense of coherence (SOC).The presentation reports findings from an ongoing extensive worldwide systematic review of the salutogenic research, based on about 500 scientific articles. The findings show the SOC to be strongly related to perceived good health, especially mental health. SOC seems to have a main, moderating or mediating role in explaining health. SOC is able to reduce stress. SOC predicts good health and QoL. The salutogenic framework could guide public health, particularly mental health promotion, in a new direction.

Multivariate analysis of process signals for early detection of agglomeration in a gas phase fluidized bed for polyethylene

This paper describes derivation of an operator advisory system (OAS) for detecting agglomeration based on the multivariate signal analysis of an industrial scale fluidized bed. Agglomeration is an intermittent concern in many fluidized bed processes, which may lead to production upsets, including problems with product quality, blockage of the product withdrawal lines, and even complete defluidization of the bed. There is a large incentive then, both in terms of lost production and clean up costs, to maintain a stable operating regime and avoid any major process upsets. Unfortunately, process operators cannot actually see agglomeration within the fluidized bed. The OAS is capable of distinguishing four levels of operational stability: normal, abnormal, dangerous, and critical in relation to the production rate of agglomerates within the fluidized bed. The system described monitors hundreds of process signals on-line and in real time with an overall average success rate of 90% (improvement over chance).

Storms from the sun: the emerging science of space weather

From the casual conversation starter to the 24-hour cable channels and Web sites devoted exclusively to the subject, everyone talks about weather. There's even weather in space and it's causing major upsets to our modern technological world. Space weather is all around us. There are no nightly news reports on space weather (yet), but we're rapidly developing the tools necessary to measure and observe trends in cosmic meteorology. New probes are going on-line that help us monitor the weather taking place miles above the Earth. But why does space weather matter? It doesn't affect whether we bring an umbrella to work or require us to monitor early school closings. It's far, far away and of little concern to us ...right? March 13, 1989. The Department of Defense tracking system that keeps tabs on 8,000 objects orbiting Earth suddenly loses track of 1,300 of them. In New Jersey, a $10 million transformer is burned up by a surge of extra current in the power lines. Shocks to a power station in Quebec leave 6 million people without electricity. New England power stations struggle to keep their power grid up. Listeners tuning in to their local stations in Minnesota hear the broadcasts of the California Highway Patrol. Residents of Florida, Mexico, and the Grand Cayman Islands see glowing curtains of light in the sky. All of these bizarre, and seemingly unconnected, events were caused by a storm on the Sun and a fire in the sky. A series of solar flares and explosions had launched bolts of hot, electrified gas at the Earth and stirred up the second largest magnetic storm in recorded history. Before rockets and radio and the advent of other modern devices, we probably would never have noticed the effects of this space storm. But in today's electrically powered, space-faring world, the greatest space storm of the twenty-second solar maximum rang like a wake-up call. And we are now in the midst of another solar maximum, the effects of which are expected to be felt all the way through the year 2004. Storms from the Sun explores the emerging physical science of space weather and traces its increasing impact on a society that relies on space-based technologies. Authors Carlowicz and Lopez explain what space weather really means to us down here, and what it may mean for future explorations and colonization of distant worlds. By translating the findings of NASA and other top scientists into fascinating and accessible descriptions of the latest discoveries, we are privy to some of the most closely held secrets that the solar terrestrial system has to offer.

Trends in District Elections

The Scottish district elections held in May 1992 took place in an unusual political atmosphere. Just a month before, in April, the general election had produced a major upset in Scotland. In the light of the apparent decline in Conservative support in Scotland since the previous general election, and on the basis of opinion polls during the general election campaign, many commentators had confidently predicted that the Conservatives would lose further ground and that Labour and the SNP would make gains. In the event, as Table 1 shows, Scotland did not become a Tory-free' zone, as some had predicted. On thecontrary, the Conservatives increased their share of the vote as compared with 1987 (+1.7%) while Labour's declined by 3.4 points; the Liberal Democrats' share fell sharply and, although the SNP advanced to 21.5%, this was not as good a performance as had been predicted and was not enough to give the SNP any more seats. The only seat to change hands compared with the general election of 1987 (Aberdeen South) was taken by the Conservatives from Labour.

Propylene price outlook hinges on polymer use

Merchant suppliers of propylene this week will try to add 0.5 cent to May contract prices. If they succeed, prices will be 15.5 to 16 cents per lb for polymer grade. Their success will depend on a price increase for polypropylene, which accounts for almost two fifths of U.S. consumption of propylene in chemicals and polymers. Following the rapid decline in propylene prices during the last half of 1989 and an inventory liquidation of polypropylene, prices firmed in early 1990 as a result of perceived tightness in supplies. This tightness was caused by temporary shutdowns of plants damaged by unusually cold weather. Prices for propylene, polypropylene, and some other propylene derivatives have been volatile recently because of the difficulties that suppliers have had maintaining announced price increases. The lost production now has been made up, industry sources say. Consequently, factors other than shortterm supply will continue to dominate prices unless another major upset in plant ...