Private Part Research Articles

Upper and Lower Values in Zero-Sum Stochastic Games with Asymmetric Information

A general model for zero-sum stochastic games with asymmetric information is considered. In this model, each player’s information at each time can be divided into a common information part and a private information part. Under certain conditions on the evolution of the common and private information, a dynamic programming characterization of the value of the game (if it exists) is presented. If the value of the zero-sum game does not exist, then the dynamic program provides bounds on the upper and lower values of the game.

Privacy-Aware Distributed Hypothesis Testing.

A distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem involving two parties, a remote observer and a detector, is studied. The remote observer has access to a discrete memoryless source, and communicates its observations to the detector via a rate-limited noiseless channel. The detector observes another discrete memoryless source, and performs a binary hypothesis test on the joint distribution of its own observations with those of the observer. While the goal of the observer is to maximize the type II error exponent of the test for a given type I error probability constraint, it also wants to keep a private part of its observations as oblivious to the detector as possible. Considering both equivocation and average distortion under a causal disclosure assumption as possible measures of privacy, the trade-off between the communication rate from the observer to the detector, the type II error exponent, and privacy is studied. For the general HT problem, we establish single-letter inner bounds on both the rate-error exponent-equivocation and rate-error exponent-distortion trade-offs. Subsequently, single-letter characterizations for both trade-offs are obtained (i) for testing against conditional independence of the observer’s observations from those of the detector, given some additional side information at the detector; and (ii) when the communication rate constraint over the channel is zero. Finally, we show by providing a counter-example where the strong converse which holds for distributed HT without a privacy constraint does not hold when a privacy constraint is imposed. This implies that in general, the rate-error exponent-equivocation and rate-error exponent-distortion trade-offs are not independent of the type I error probability constraint.

MANAJEMEN KESEHATAN DAN KESELAMATAN KERJA GUNA MENINGKATKAN PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF EKONOMI ISLAM

Health and work safety (K3, Re: Kesehatan dan Keselamatan Kerja) is one of the requirements to improve employee performance, in that K3 is right of each worker and to win free competition. Where health and work safety become one of requirements that should be fulfilled by every company in Indonesia. Therefore effort to improve health and work safety should be priority and commitment for every part either government or private part, from stake holder level to all employees in company management. Ergonomics is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach that seeks to harmonize tools, techniques and work environments against the capabilities and limitations of the workforce so as to create healthy, comfortable, safe and safe working conditions.In this case ergonomics also seeks to create health and safety for the workforce so that it can increase work productivity. The goal of K3 and ergonomics is almost same that is to create health and safetywork. Therefore K3 and ergonomics need to be applied in the workplace to improve health and safety work for employee in order to increase employee’s productivity.However, the implementation of K3 and ergonomics in companies, especially in small and medium- companies is still far from what is expected. K3 and ergonomic programs often have low and final priorities for company management. Health and work safety is not everything, but it cannot be denied that without health and safety everything does not mean anything to a company.In that health and work safety is the main principal for employees at work which will certainly affect their performance in the company.Keywords: Management, K3, Ergonomicsand work productivity

Competitividad de la producción de sorgo en el norte de Tamaulipas, México

La presente investigación se realizó en el norte de Tamaulipas en el ciclo otoño-invierno 2016-2017, se basó en información proveniente de 40 productores de sorgo grano, donde se obtuvieron los precios del producto, de los insumos y de sus coeficientes técnicos de producción. Con esta información se calcularon los costos privados de producción. El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar la competitividad del cultivo del sorgo grano por régimen de humedad-tecnología y tamaño de productor en el norte de Tamaulipas, mediante el uso de la metodología de la matriz de análisis de política en su parte privada. Los resultados mostraron que las tres tecnologías tuvieron una ganancia positiva, una relación de rentabilidad privada, que se ubicó entre 20.66% a 26.43% y una relación de costo privado que se situó entre 0.4359 y 0.4642, lo que indica competitividad, permitiendo el pago de los factores internos, dejando un margen de ganancia positiva, siempre que no se considere el pago por renta de la tierra. El consumo intermedio se ubicó entre 62.78% y 71.53% del valor de la producción, que representa la compra de insumos y servicios provenientes de otros sectores de la economía. El valor agregado, varió de 28.47% a 37.22%, representando la mínima aportación en la generación de empleo en este cultivo. En general, los resultados indican que en promedio las tres tecnologías usadas en la producción en el norte de Tamaulipas, sin considerar la renta de la tierra fueron rentables y competitivas, lo que permite esperar una futura expansión de la producción de este grano en la región de estudio.

Protecting Metadata of Access Indicator and Region of Interests for Image Files

With popularity of social network services, the security and privacy issues over shared contents receive many attentions. Besides, multimedia files have additional concerns of copyright violation or illegal usage to share over communication networks. For image file management, JPEG group develops new image file format to enhance security and privacy features. Adopting a box structure with different application markers, new standards for privacy and security provide a concept of replacement substituting a private part of the original image or metadata with an alternative public data. In this paper, we extend data protection features of new JPEG formats to remote access control as a metadata. By keeping location information of access control data as a metadata in image files, the image owner can allow or deny other’s data consumption regardless where the media file is. License issue also can be resolved by applying new access control schemes, and we present how new formats protect commercial image files against unauthorized accesses.

Human Genetics Meet 2019: Massively parallel next generation sequencing to investigate the cis-acting genetic modifiers of somatic instability in Huntingtons disease- Asma M Alshammari- Kuwait Medical Genetic Centre

Human Genetics Meet 2019: Massively parallel next generation sequencing to investigate the cis-acting genetic modifiers of somatic instability in Huntingtons disease- Asma M Alshammari- Kuwait Medical Genetic Centre

Effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Strategy on the Performance of Selected Private Sector Banks in India

In an accelerate changing economic condition, "Foreign Direct Investment" (FDI) has used as the catalyst for development in the most of growing nations including India. The FDI condition in India has experienced a radical change since the monetary changes in 1991. The positive changes can be especially ascribed to the developing arrangement system. The central purpose of the monetary segment changes has been the making of productive and stable budgetary foundations and advancement of the business sectors, particularly the cash and government protections advertise. Indian banks going worldwide and numerous worldwide banks setting up shops in India, the Indian financial framework is set to include into an absolutely new level it will help the financial framework develop in quality going into what's to come. The present investigation was led to look at the effect of outside direct speculation arrangement on efficiency of chose Indian private part banks during fourteen years from 2004-2005 to 2017-2018. The required information were gathered from optional sources like RBI Data-stockroom, Report on Patterns and Progress of Banking in India, IBA Bulletins, Journals, and Online databases. The compiled testimonies were dissected through inferential factual systems like Co-efficient of Correlation, T- distribution test and Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) with the assistance of statistical packages for social sciences(SPSS). The examination inferred that there is a noteworthy relationship among Total Advances to Total Deposits((TA2TD - dependent variable) and FDI, Staff and Expenditure(independent factors). Henceforth, it is prescribed that FDI in banking area ought to guarantee better capitalization and furthermore offer money related dependability in India

A Research on Cyber Security Awareness based on Big Data

In digital word cybersecurity is to help us to prevent attacks on network resources, private information and vital certifications of an association. The fundamental objective of this survey paper is to focus on the various types of cyber-attacks and their quick fix to how we can protect our self from such attacks. Other then, it also gives information about the various forms of cyber-crime and its protection worldwide. These days, with wide usage of internet services with low-cost everyone, is using the net. But many of them don't know about cyber fraud i.e.: how attackers steal their data or personal information and sell to others, this paper helps to create awareness of cybersecurity for such people. So as to determine digital security issues, the security specialist's locale including government segment, the scholarly community, the private part should cooperate to comprehend the rising dangers to the processing scene. This paper presents a specialized, social and moral association uninhibitedly sharing digital assault angle in the soul of worldwide co-task bridging geo-political fringes by conveying dynamic checking.

An ardent anti-slavery tale: Narrating resistance through Chicago's Underground Railroad, 1856-present

ABSTRACTOriginally situated in a suburb, today the 1856 Gray House is a private residence and part of Chicago's Old Irving Park neighbourhood. Known for his vocal stand against slavery, John Gray was the first Republican Sheriff of Cook County (1858–1860). In the years after his death, popular narratives arose designating his home a station on the Underground Railroad. By interrogating the documentary record, results from archaeological survey and excavation, and reports from known Underground Railroad sites, this paper focuses on the way that stories of the Underground Railroad are a preferred narrative of uplift and resistance even with absent site-specific evidence for these antislavery activities.

NPA Woes in Indian Banking Sector - A Case Study

The issue of non performing resources has been talked about finally for monetary framework everywhere throughout the world. The issue of NPAs isn't just influencing the banks yet in addition the entire economy. Indeed abnormal state of NPAs in Indian banks is only an impression of condition of wellbeing of the business and trade. NPA mirror the execution of banks. An abnormal state of NPAs recommends high likelihood of an extensive number of credit defaults that influence the gainfulness and net worth of banks and furthermore disintegrates the estimation of the advantage. The NPA development includes the need of provissions, which diminishes the general benefits and investors esteem. In managing an account industry both Public and Private part banks assuming indispensable job in serving the general population. However both the said areas struggling with the issue of non performing resources in their monetary records. Indian bank's gross non-performing assets (NPA's), or terrible loan, stood at Rs.10.25 lakh crore as on 31st walk 2018. On quarter, the heap has developed by Rs.1.39 lakh crore or 16 percent from Rs.8.86 lakh crore as on 31st December 2017. For monetary year 2018, the aggregate terrible advances of these banks ascended by an astounding Rs.3.13 lakh crore. Among the bank groups, PSB’s GNPA proportion may increment from 15.6 percent in March 2018 to 17.3 percent by walk 2019 under extreme pressure situation. While PVBs (private banks) GNPA proportion may ascend from 4 percent to 5.3 percent, the CRAR (Capital to Risk weighted Assets) proportion may descend from 13.5 percent to 12.8 percent amid the period. The present paper is led to introduce the NPA Performance of select banks in both public sector and private sector in late time.

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE FOR PATIENTS IN CONDITIONS OF PRIVATE-STATE PARTNERSHIP

Introduction: The article discusses the problems of joint activities of public and private sectors to ensure the proper quality of medical services and jointly overcome financial and production risks. It is emphasized that if the financial and administrative issues of such interaction have been studied to a certain extent, then a quantitative assessment of the quality of medical care provided in a public-private partnership has so far raised questions The aim: Identify ways to use industrial quality criteria for providing medical care to patients in public-private partnership conditions. Materials and methods: The results of rehabilitation of 300 patients with gastrointestinal pathology who underwent rehabilitation in the resort "Kvitka Poloniny" of the TOV "Suzirya" were studied. 160 patients underwent rehabilitation in the private part of the resort, 140 - in the state. Results and conclusions: The theoretical approaches to the use of scientific and technological tools for the implementation of public-private partnership in medical institutions, in particular in a rehabilitation center, are discussed. They are based on instrumental approaches to assessing the quality of medical care. The use of Pareto assessment techniques and the Taguchi loss function allows us to quantitatively characterize the improvement in the quality of care provided with the help of public-private partnership.

Pornographic Image Recognition via Weighted Multiple Instance Learning.

In the era of Internet, recognizing pornographic images is of great significance for protecting children's physical and mental health. However, this task is very challenging as the key pornographic contents (e.g., breast and private part) in an image often lie in local regions of small size. In this paper, we model each image as a bag of regions, and follow a multiple instance learning (MIL) approach to train a generic region-based recognition model. Specifically, we take into account the regions' degree of pornography, and make three main contributions. First, we show that based on very few annotations of the key pornographic contents in a training image, we can generate a bag of properly sized regions, among which the potential positive regions usually contain useful contexts that can aid recognition. Second, we present a simple quantitative measure of a region's degree of pornography, which can be used to weigh the importance of different regions in a positive image. Third, we formulate the recognition task as a weighted MIL problem under the convolutional neural network framework, with a bag probability function introduced to combine the importance of different regions. Experiments on our newly collected large scale dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving an accuracy with 97.52% true positive rate at 1% false positive rate, tested on 100K pornographic images and 100K normal images.

“You take the private part of her body, … you are taking a part of her life”: Voices of circumcised African migrant women on female genital circumcision (FGC) in Australia

ABSTRACTWestern countries working toward eradication of female genital mutilation require better inclusion of women originally from countries where the practice is prevalent. However, few authors have examined the knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of circumcised African migrant women in western countries. Our findings from 40 responses from self-reported survey and five in-depth interviews show that the participating African migrant women know the reasons behind female genital circumcision (FGC), are living with the negative consequences of FGC, and have a zero tolerance attitude toward the practice. Circumcised women are in the best position to define their health needs and champion global efforts to eradicate FGC.

MMSE-Based Precoding for Rate Splitting Systems With Finite Feedback

In this letter, to tackle the inevitable effects of imperfect channel state information caused by finite feedback, we investigate a rate splitting transmission scheme proposed recently, which splits one symbol into a common part and a private part, and transmits signals simultaneously after superposition. First, we propose a minimum mean square error precoding to further suppress the imperfectness of the channel, in which random vector quantization is considered and a closed-form expression is derived. Then, utilizing an approximate expression of the quantization error, we develop a modified power allocation scheme for different parts of symbols by minimizing the sum-rate loss. Numerical results demonstrate the performance gains of the proposed schemes.

Professional Preparation and Performance of Preschool Teachers in the Public and Private Schools of Cebu City, Philippines

The privilege of instruction is the privilege to get training as well as the opportunity to get training of high quality. Education must be accessible and open additionally adequate and versatile. This study determined the professional preparation and performance of the preschool teachers in public and private schools in Cebu City with the end view of using the findings in designing a Preschool Training Program. The review made utilization of the clear correlational strategy in social affair information from preschool instructors and the school’s principals in Cebu City, Philippines. They are advised to answer the questionnaire for teachers and administrators, and the performance appraisal form for teachers. The study revealed that public preschool teachers have less adequate teaching experience while private preschool teachers have appropriate teaching experience. Additionally, there is a critical distinction in the expert arrangement of the general population and private preschool instructors with the private part of the lead. It was presumed that the general population and private preschool educators have a similar expert arrangement profile and execution. In any case, there is no basic difference in the execution between the overall public and private preschool teachers. The specialists suggest that school overseers ought to direct more administration preparation on preschool training to enhance the instructional skills of their educators.

Achievable DoF Regions of MIMO Networks With Imperfect CSIT

We focus on a two-receiver Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Broadcast Channel (BC) and Interference Channel (IC) with an arbitrary number of antennas at each node. We assume an imperfect knowledge of local Channel State Information at the Transmitters (CSIT), whose error decays with the Signal-to-Noise-Ratio. With such configuration, we characterize the achievable Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) regions in both BC and IC, by proposing a Rate-Splitting approach, which divides each receiver's message into a common part and a private part. Compared to the RS scheme designed for the symmetric MIMO case, this scheme is suitable for the general asymmetric deployment with an arbitrary number of antennas at each node. In BC, the proposed block 1) employs an unequal power allocation to the private messages of the two receivers, 2) exploits the benefit of having an extra spatial dimension at one receiver, and 3) is carried out with a Space-Time transmission. These features enable the scheme to yield a greater DoF region than trivially extending the scheme designed for the symmetric case. In IC, we modify the scheme proposed for the BC case by applying a linear transformation to the channel matrices. Such a linear transformation allows us to identify the signal space where the two transmitted signals interfere with each other and propose a proper power allocation policy. The achievable DoF regions are shown to be optimal for some antenna configurations.

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: When the Therapist Becomes Ill”

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: When the Therapist Becomes Ill” Roberta Rachel Omin1 issn 0362-4021 © 2017 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society group, Vol. 41, No. 4, Winter 2017 351 1 Private practice, Ossining and White Plains, NY. Correspondence should be addressed to Roberta Omin, LCSW, 151 Club Court, Ossining, NY 10562. E-mail: goodomin1@gmail.com. It is the rare person who gets off scot-free from an illness during his or her life. More likely, all of us will be confronted with a serious illness, medical crisis, or accident at some time. If the illness is terminal, everything becomes larger than life and imminent. Tending to our self-care, and all that it entails, necessitates that it becomes foreground. When we are therapists, more is added to our plates. What is our ethical and moral responsibility to those who come to us for their mental health care? When we are the medical patient, we become vulnerable and our lives become very complex. How do we muster the resources needed so we can cope personally and professionally? Alice Byrne’s memoir essay “When the Therapist Becomes Ill” is a brief glimpse into her world. I know this world, having been there myself—I have had two major illnesses and surgeries—and from interviews with more than 25 therapists. Ms. Byrne’s description, I believe, does not do justice to her actual experience. I would have valued hearing her fuller story, her personal crisis, with the emotional range of terror, vulnerability, extreme physical pain, helplessness, aloneness, and whatever else was embedded in that trauma for her. She found herself tossed and immersed into an existential here-and-now sudden crisis, while simultaneously trying to summon together immediate supports to reach her clients. And it certainly sounds like she did very well! When I lead workshops on this topic, “When the Therapist Becomes the Medical Patient,” I am very clear that we need to take care of ourselves first as human beings living with and through a medical crisis. And it is extremely difficult to be present 352 omin and available to our clients if we don’t have enough self-energy. As the airlines tell us, put the oxygen mask on ourselves first, and then on our children. I would have appreciated hearing more of Ms. Byrne’s professional crisis as well. As she stated, while there is value in the blank screen as a projection tool, when a therapist is ill, that may trump therapist nondisclosure. The issue of whether to tell our clients when we become ill needs to be thought through. Should we disclose when we are confronted with a medical issue? Or should we not? Going through this exercise in advance can be extremely helpful, even if what occurs down the road is not what we envisioned originally. Having an internal dialogue with ourselves, and thus having a framework and process that we may want to lean on should the unexpected or the expected occur, can be very centering. What are therapists’ attitudes and beliefs about this? When I lead workshops, we discuss what informs us about self-disclosure and not, and where those answers come from. Do they come from a protective, or private, or defensive, or worried part of ourselves that says what we believe is good for our clients and ourselves? What is really good for us and for our patients? Often participants come to some realization that disclosure in some form may be very beneficial. There is no one size fits all. The issue requires a differential approach based on our preparation or lack of preparation for our illness, surgery, accident, or fatal crisis, and, as significantly, what the illness or medical situation is. I believe that we need to be there for ourselves first, to put the life vest and oxygen on ourselves before we can do that for our clients. With that premise, we can then have a chance at bringing our more centered selves to our clients. In Ms. Byrne’s circumstances, this was not possible, and therefore an emergency backup team was required. More on that shortly. For those times when it is not an emergency, yet urgent...

Robust Transmission in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach

We consider a downlink multiuser MISO system with bounded errors in the Channel State Information at the Transmitter (CSIT). We first look at the robust design problem of achieving max-min fairness amongst users (in the worst-case sense). Contrary to the conventional approach adopted in literature, we propose a rather unorthodox design based on a Rate-Splitting (RS) strategy. Each user's message is split into two parts, a common part and a private part. All common parts are packed into one super common message encoded using a public codebook, while private parts are independently encoded. The resulting symbol streams are linearly precoded and simultaneously transmitted, and each receiver retrieves its intended message by decoding both the common stream and its corresponding private stream. For CSIT uncertainty regions that scale with SNR (e.g. by scaling the number of feedback bits), we prove that a RS-based design achieves higher max-min (symmetric) Degrees of Freedom (DoF) compared to conventional designs (NoRS). For the special case of non-scaling CSIT (e.g. fixed number of feedback bits), and contrary to NoRS, RS can achieve a non-saturating max-min rate. We propose a robust algorithm based on the cutting-set method coupled with the Weighted Minimum Mean Square Error (WMMSE) approach, and we demonstrate its performance gains over state-of-the art designs. Finally, we extend the RS strategy to address the Quality of Service (QoS) constrained power minimization problem, and we demonstrate significant gains over NoRS-based designs.

Sum-Rate Maximization for Linearly Precoded Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems With Partial CSIT: A Rate-Splitting Approach

This paper considers the sum-rate (SR) maximization problem in downlink multi-user multiple input simgle output (MU-MISO) systems under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). Contrary to existing works, we consider a rather unorthodox transmission scheme. In particular, the message intended to one of the users is split into two parts: a common part which can be recovered by all users, and a private part recovered by the corresponding user. On the other hand, the rest of users receive their information through private messages. This rate-splitting (RS) approach was shown to boost the achievable degrees of freedom when CSIT errors decay with increased SNR. In this paper, the RS strategy is married with linear precoder design and optimization techniques to achieve a maximized ergodic SR (ESR) performance over the entire range of SNRs. Precoders are designed based on partial CSIT knowledge by solving a stochastic rate optimization problem using means of sample average approximation coupled with the weighted minimum mean square error approach. Numerical results show that in addition to the ESR gains, the benefits of RS also include relaxed CSIT quality requirements and enhanced achievable rate regions compared with conventional transmission with no rate-splitting.

A Descriptive Study on Cultural Practices about Menarche and Menstruation

AbstractA descriptive study on cultural practices about menarche and menstruation was done with the objective to identify the cultural practices related to menarche and menstruation among women and to compare the difference in the cultural practices of different religions. A survey approach was used and subjects aged 18years and above were included in the study. Data were collected using demographic proforma and practice questionnaire on menarche and menstruation. Findings of the study revealed that 37% of the sample celebrates menarche and th 13% of the sample offered special pooja after 7th day of menarche.83% of the sample does not offer pooja/namaz and visit temple during menstruation. 68% of the sample do not apply kumkum which is offered to God. Hindus practice different practices like not applying the kumkum (100%) which is offered to God, do not visit temples (100%), enter the pooja room (92%), attend the religious functions (100%). where as Christians are not following any practices and Muslims (100%) cut nails, shave private part and are not doing namaz for seven days. Conclusion: The findings of the present study revealed that majority of the Hindus believe that menstruation is unclean and they follow different practices.