New Method For Evaluation Research Articles

Chemical composition characterization of Ca3Ta(Ga0.5Al0.5)3Si2O14 single crystal by the line-focus-beam ultrasonic material characterization system

A new method for evaluation of homogeneity of Ca3Ta(Ga0.5Al0.5)3Si2O14 (CTGAS) single crystals was established based on leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) velocity measurements performed by the line-focus-beam ultrasonic material characterization (LFB-UMC) system. Three plate specimens cut perpendicular to X-, Y-, and Z-axes were prepared from the CTGAS crystal ingot and LSAW velocity distributions were examined for these specimens. LSAW velocity changes due to Al-substitution effect were successfully extracted by using a relationship between two LSAW velocities propagating along different directions for Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) and Al-substituted CTGS. Comparison of measured LSAW velocities and the results of chemical composition analysis performed by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) demonstrated that LSAW velocity is mainly affected by Al-content change in CTGAS. Maximum velocity variation was observed in radial direction of the crystal ingot through the Z-axis propagating LSAW velocity measurements for Y-cut CTGAS specimen corresponding to Al-content change of 0.226mol%. Accuracy of evaluation of Al content by velocity measurement for Y-cut Z-propagating LSAW is estimated to be ±0.0047mol% and is superior to that by EPMA.

EP-1817: Dosimetric evaluation of new method for patient specific CBCT scan calibration

EP-1817: Dosimetric evaluation of new method for patient specific CBCT scan calibration

An approach to evaluation of emergency plans for unconventional emergency events based on soft fuzzy rough set

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new method for evaluation of emergency plans for unconventional emergency events by using the soft fuzzy rough set theory and methodology. Design/methodology/approach – In response to the problems of insufficient risk identification, incomplete and inaccurate data and different preference of decision makers, a new model for emergency plan evaluation is established by combining soft set theory with classical fuzzy rough set theory. Moreover, by combining the TOPSIS method with soft fuzzy rough set theory, the score value of the soft fuzzy lower and upper approximation is defined for the optimal object and the worst object. Finally, emergency plans are comprehensively evaluated according to the soft close degree of the soft fuzzy rough set theory. Findings – This paper presents a new perspective on emergency management decision making in unconventional emergency events. Also, the paper provides an effective model for evaluating emergency plans for unconventional events. Originality/value – The paper contributes to decision making in emergency management of unconventional emergency events. The model is useful for dealing with decision making with uncertain information.

Generalized Poincaré Plots-A New Method for Evaluation of Regimes in Cardiac Neural Control in Atrial Fibrillation and Healthy Subjects.

Classical Poincaré plot is a standard way to measure nonlinear regulation of cardiovascular control. In our work we propose a generalized form of Poincaré plot where we track correlation between the duration of j preceding and k next RR intervals. The investigation was done in healthy subjects and patients with atrial fibrillation, by varying j,k ≤ 100. In cases where j = k, in healthy subjects the typical pattern was observed by “paths” that were substituting scatterplots and that were initiated and ended by loops of Poincaré plot points. This was not the case for atrial fibrillation patients where Poincaré plot had a simple scattered form. More, a typical matrix of Pearson's correlation coefficients, r(j,k), showed different positions of local maxima, depending on the subject's health condition. In both groups, local maxima were grouped into four clusters which probably determined specific regulatory mechanisms according to correlations between the duration of symmetric and asymmetric observed RR intervals. We quantified matrices' degrees of asymmetry and found that they were significantly different: distributed around zero in healthy, while being negative in atrial fibrillation. Also, Pearson's coefficients were higher in healthy than in atrial fibrillation or in signals with reshuffled intervals. Our hypothesis is that by this novel method we can observe heart rate regimes typical for baseline conditions and “defense reaction” in healthy subjects. These data indicate that neural control mechanisms of heart rate are operating in healthy subjects in contrast with atrial fibrillation, identifying it as the state of risk for stress-dependent pathologies. Regulatory regimes of heart rate can be further quantified and explored by the proposed novel method.

Professional Growth and needs of Professional Growth for Science Teacher in Corporate World

Science is a systematized body of knowledge it is a heap of truth. It's a way of investigation. The nature of science is process as well as product. The role of the science teacher is important in developing scientific attitudes, thinking's, and scientific skills among the students. The Corporate World needs excellent Professionally growth and Developed teachers that's why teachers needs to attend Seminar and Conferences, Workshops, Refresher courses, Professional writings to have growth and Development in Profession. This enhances teaching and learning skills, Communication skills, Good language and Personality Development. Helps to discuss the Classroom problems, Acquire knowledge of the latest developments and Researches in the field of Science, to learn the use of newly developed Audio-visual aids and their improvements. And to provides new methods of evaluation.

Red List of Bulgarian algae. II. Microalgae

The Red List presented in this paper is focused on Bulgarian non-marine microalgae which face a risk of extinction. The assignment to each IUCN Red List category is according to the seven specific criteria and their relative values in the new method for evaluation of the threatened status of microalgae (Stoyneva-Gärtner et al., this volume). The list contains 756 taxa (613 species, 82 varieties and 61 forms) from 7 divisions, classified in six IUCN categories and shows that threatened microalgae represent 14% the total algal biodiversity of Bulgaria.

Radioligand method of assessment of human T-lymphocytes’ β-adrenoceptors activity

We proposed a new method of evaluation of beta-receptor's activity on the surface of human T-lymphocytes based on the radioligand method. Optimal conditions for evaluation of specific binding to β2-adrenoceptors of 0.5 fmol ligand per 1 million cells using [125I]-cyanopindolol were found. The possibility of using of β2-adrenoceptor's activity assessment in clinical settings was demonstrated on human T-lymphocyte.

Evaluation of durability of welded joints of agricultural machinery metal structures based on accelerated testing

A new method for evaluation of durability of welded joints of agricultural machinery metal structures based on accelerated tests is proposed. This method allows to reduce significantly the time of endurance test of welded joints and takes into account their design and technological parameters.

Enhancement of low exposure images via recursive histogram equalization algorithms

This paper proposes two exposure based recursive histogram equalization methods for image enhancement. The proposed methods are very effective for images acquired in low light condition like underwater sequences or night vision images. The first method is recursive exposure based sub-image histogram equalization (R-ESIHE) that recursively performs ESIHE [20] method till the exposure residue among successive iteration is less than a predefined threshold. The second method is named as recursively separated exposure based sub image histogram equalization (RS-ESIHE) that performs the separation of image histogram recursively; separate each new histogram further based on their respective exposure thresholds and equalize each sub histogram individually. The experimental results show that low exposure image enhancement problem was not addressed by earlier HE based methods, has been efficiently handled by these new methods. The performance evaluation of new methods is done in terms of image information content as well as visual quality inspection. The proposed methods outperforms earlier HE based contrast enhancement algorithms specifically for low light images.

Homogenita fenotypu vykrmovaných prasaT a metodika jejího stanovení

New method for evaluation of the ideal growth performance in pigs has been proved in the experimental stable room of MZLU in ŠZP Žabčice. This method is based on the biological interpretation of the exponential growth function of Gompertz. This solution defines the dynamic of the animal’s phenotype by the body mass at the begin of the fattening (G0), by the animal's race standard body mass (Gli) which is equal to the value of the growth curve asymptote and by the value of the daily maximum body mass increase (dGmax) given by the genotype of the animal. This phenotype definition yields the possibility to define the exponential growth curve of the animal from birth until to the body mass maturity by the equation in which (t) represents the age of the animal:Gt = Gli.exp(-ln(Gli/G0).exp(-(e.dGmax/Gli).t)) [kg] (1)The value of the real daily body mass increase is than estimated by the best approximation of the experimental body mass values by the growth curve defined in the equation (1). The distribution of animals in three groups, according to the calculated daily maximum body mass increase: the thin growing animas, by default growing animals and the most growing animals, demonstrated the dynamic of the relation between the value of the daily maximum body mass increase (dGmax) and the body mass of the animals (Gt). In animals aged 37 days the clear correlation between the daily maximum body mass increase and the body mass reached:Y = 21.486x – 14.826 (R2 = 0.69); and Y = 28.609x2 – 45.21x + 23.868 (R2 = 0.70).In animals of the age 150 days the correlation is a little bit looser:Y = 54.316x +39.146 (R2 = 0.31); and Y = 8.203x2 + 35.192x + 50.241 (R2 = 0.31).The presented original methodology for evaluation of the animal’s individuality by means of the biological version of Gompertz exponential growth functions has been proved as a tool for direct evaluation of expression of the genotype body mass into its phenotype values, already during the experiment or the fattening process.

Evaluation of remaining operating life of oil depots equipment in agroindustrial complex by results of technical condition diagnostics

A new method for evaluation of remaining life of oil depots equipment in agroindustrial complex is proposed. This method is based on the analysis of expected damage in the most loaded and weakened area of metal structure.

Harmonic Modeling of Inrush Current in Core Type Power Transformers using Hartley Transform

This paper presents a new method for evaluation and simulation of inrush current in various transformers using operational matrices and Hartley transform. Unlike most of the previous works, time and frequency domain calculations are conducted simultaneously. Mathematical equations are first represented to compute the inrush current based on reiteration and then Hartley transform is used to study harmonic effects in the frequency domain. Being a real valued function and accordingly giving results with the higher speed of calculations are the main features of Hartley transform. The inrush problem is initially solved for single-phase transformers for switching at different angles of the voltage waveform using this method and then the results of harmonic domain are compared with that of Fourier transform. The methodology is also applied to three-phase three-limb transformers since the analysis of their transient behavior is significant owing to the flux coupling interactions in multi-leg core structures. The feasibility and efficacy of the method is illustrated with appropriate circuits and MATLAB code is developed to get the time and frequency domain waveforms with high accuracy. The results are helpful to identify and evaluate inrush current harmonic effects in various transformers and hence the efficiency of the method is verified.

A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant. Originally published in July 1953, volume 32, pages 250-259.

A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant. Originally published in July 1953, volume 32, pages 250-259.

Total vulnerability estimation for the Tabriz aquifer (Iran) by combining a new model with DRASTIC

Groundwater vulnerability mapping is an important key for improving the planning and decision-making processes in order to prevent groundwater contamination. The main objective of this research was to delineate the groundwater total vulnerable zones within the Tabriz aquifer in the northwest of Iran. So, the groundwater intrinsic vulnerability map was created by overlaying the layouts obtained from the DRASTIC parameters. In this research, a new method for evaluation of specific vulnerability was also applied. In this method, five parameters (density of population, recharge by rivers, agriculture, industry and abstraction) were determined and assigned a suitable weight and rates to each parameter to obtain the specific vulnerability index of the aquifer. Finally, the intrinsic and specific vulnerability maps were combined to develop the groundwater total vulnerability map. The resulting map shows that the east and northeast of the Tabriz aquifer is more vulnerable than the other parts. To confirm the vulnerability distribution, 53 samples of groundwater nitrate concentration were plotted on the resulting total vulnerability map which showed that the northeast and east parts of Tabriz aquifer (High and moderate vulnerability zones) have higher nitrate concentration relative to the rest of the Tabriz aquifer which is located in the low vulnerability zones. Application of DRASTIC+DRAIA method to another aquifer confirmed the good accuracy of this method in evaluation of the total vulnerability.

A Group Decision Making Method Based on Dempster-Shafer Fuzzy Soft Sets Under Incomplete Information

Soft set theory, proposed by Molodtsov, has been regarded as a generic mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. Recently, researches of decision making based on soft sets have got some progress, but few people consider both incomplete information and group decision making. This paper introduces the concept of Dempster-Shafer fuzzy soft sets combined Dempster-Shafer theory and fuzzy soft sets. We study the FUSE operation on both Dempster-Shafer fuzzy soft sets, and the relationship between incomplete fuzzy soft sets and D–S fuzzy soft sets. At last, we present a new method of evaluation based on Dempster-Shafer fuzzy soft sets and apply it into the information systems quality evaluating to illuminate the practicability and validity.

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The power plant tolling contract is one of most complicated derivative instruments among energy derivatives. The paper continues the investigations begun in [1]. Some papers introduce more complicated switching strategies. However, we deal with much simpler dispatch structures, to introduce a new method of evaluation.

Satisfaction and Practice Assessment of Medical Interns in Application of New Methods of Evaluation

Background: Emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. Evaluation Methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. Methods: The aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical interns’ practice, their satisfaction and their attitude toward evaluation process in community medicine course in Mashhad, Iran. Interns’ practice was evaluated by portfolio during their course, evaluation scores were categorized in four levels: High, good, moderate and less than expected. Intern satisfaction and attitudes was assessed via self-rating questionnaire. Results: Ranking of the scores of interns’ practice appraisement, almost were in moderate to good ranks. Also the majority of interns reported their suitable satisfaction in this study. Conclusion: This study is proposed applying evaluation methods based on students’ performance are as appropriate and practicable method for medical interns.

Automatized fuzzy evaluation of CT scan heart slices for creating 3D/4D heart model

A new method of evaluation of CT scan heart slices is proposed in this paper. CT images, acquired from different patients, are stored in PACS database. In order to create 3D/4D model of heart it is necessary to choose these CT images that have sufficient quality. The proposed method is based on classification of histograms of brightness of CT scan heart slices. Some structural features of these histograms are correlated to the images quality which is evaluated in the context of creating an ultrasonography simulator on the basis of CT scan heart slices. They constitute computed tomography scan sets. The quality evaluation is based on fuzzy classification. A new methodology of the membership function construction in relation to structural features of the examined images is proposed. The algorithmic approach to the construction of the membership functions of given in advance classes is introduced. The experiments have shown that the proposed method is effective in selection of high quality CT scan heart slices that can be the basis for the simulator construction. The experiment showed that the proposed fuzzy selection is absolutely consistent with the one done by an expert.

Multi-Criteria Inventory Classification Using a New Method of Evaluation Based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS)

An effective way for managing and controlling a large number o f inventory items or stock keeping units (SKUs) is the inventory classification. Tradi tional ABC analysis which based on only a single criterion is commonly used for classification of SKU s. However, we should consider inven- tory classification as a multi-criteria problem in practice . In this study, a new method of Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS) is introduced for multi-criteria inventory clas- sification (MCIC) problems. In the proposed method, we use po sitive and negative distances from the average solution for appraising alternatives (SKUs). To represent performance of the proposed method in MCIC problems, we use a common example with 47 SKUs. Comparing the results of the proposed method with some existing methods shows the good performance of it in ABC classifica- tion. The proposed method can also be used for multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. A comparative analysis is also made for showing the validity and stability of the proposed method in MCDM problems. We compare the proposed method with VIKOR, TOPSIS, SAW and COPRAS methods using an example. Seven sets of criteria weights and Spearman's correlation coefficient are used for this analysis. The results show that the proposed method is stable in different weights and well consistent with the other methods.

Новая модульная основная профессиональная образовательная программа исследовательской магистратуры «Культурно-историческая психология и деятельностный подход в образовании»: опыт разработки и апробации

We presented experience in the development and preliminary results of the testing of the new modules of basic professional research master’s program “Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Approach in Education”. We discuss the guidelines for the development of such a program, based on the principles of scholar school of Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Luria. There are evidence of the effectiveness of the new program for the training of teachers and researchers who can professionally solve the problems of modern education and apply the concepts and methods of cultural-historical psychology and activity approach to address training and development of children. We have reviewed the organization of training of master students based on network of partner universities using the opportunity of networking with educational institutions at various levels, the need to expand net of places for practical training and increase the research and practice for students. Particular attention is paid to the new methods of evaluation of students’ educational outcomes using through design and research tasks, professional ability of a student to investigate the issues of organization and development of training activities as well as professional communication between student, his/her research advisor and the head of the practical training. We have discussed the discourse workshop which is a new form of teaching and research sessions, which extends the system of professional communications of the students and allows to aim them at finding and solving research problems.