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Q: Bayesian method to compare correlations I have read up on Bayesian methods enough now to feel that I would rather use Bayesian analysis over Frequentist, the trouble now is finding the correct tools...
I have data from an experiment with two groups of inbred fly lines and the measured variable is a continuous numeric value. Each group contains 40 genetic lines, within each line the response (longevity) of 200 males in 4 blocks (4*50) and 200 females in 4 blocks was measured.
I would like to compare the correlation in group A (gA) to the correlation in group B (gB) because gB is predicted to have a lower cross-sex genetic correlation than gA.  The main aim is to show that the cross-sex genetic correlation for gB is significantly lower than gA - biologically speaking it still supports the theory if the correlation for gB was 0.8, just as long as it is less than the gA correlation. However, it is predicted from a similar previous study and theory that gB should have a correlation around 0, and gA a correlation of around 0.5.
What Bayesian analysis tools (ideally in R) can be used to assess this?
I'm thinking maybe I could measure the correlation in one and test the other using that correlation as a prior to see if it is significantly different from the prior.
Here is some dummy data but you should note I have not set a correlation between the males and females of the A group which is what is expected under the theory tested - it's quite complex to do this so it will take me some time and I'm waist deep in marking student reports. From this current data the correlations for both groups should be 0 (randomly generated numbers).
# lines groups sexes focals blocks
l = 40
g = 2
s = 2
f = 50
b = 4

dummy.df = data.frame(c(rep("M",l*g*f*b),(rep("F",l*g*f*b))))
colnames(dummy.df) = "gender"

dummy.df$line  = rep(rep(1:l, each = f*b),each = s)
dummy.df$group = rep( c(rep("A",f*b),rep("B",f*b)), each = 1)
dummy.df$block = rep(1:b, each = f)
dummy.df$fly   = 1:(l*g*s*f*b)

# with random uncorrelated lifespans
# note: according to the hypothesis the sexes would correlate in group A (~0.5)
# such that lines with long life males also have long life females, and in the B group the sexes would be independent of each other
dummy.df$life  = rnorm(length(dummy.df$group),50,5)
head(dummy.df)

(Note: I have done this analysis previously using Fisher's z transformation and would like to see the difference of Bayesian methods: Are two Pearson correlation coefficients different?)

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"Many people feel there is no harm in listing at a higher price to test the market but the reality is that it doesn't work, as the property then appears to stick in the market.
"By the time the owners reduce, clients in the market will already have seen it online for a period of time and start to think that there is something wrong with it. Also, there is the risk that an owner could chase the market downwards," says Lewis Allsopp, CEO, Allsopp & Allsopp.
However, according to Global Capital Partners, the average spread between listed and transacted prices across a sample of high-end communities has reduced significantly from 23 per cent in 2015 to 16 per cent today.
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On average, realtors are seeing between 60 to 90 days from a property being listed to the point of sale.
The velocity of transactions in the luxury market has been considerably less, implying that luxury properties have taken longer to sell, sometimes by as much as three to four months, informs Alladin.
"Usually, a property will need two to three months of advertising and viewings to secure the sale. Interestingly, in our UK office, the average time for sales achieved is much less. I would attribute this to more data points, such as evidence of recent sales, in the UK, which helps the owners make a more informed decision of their marketing price. As an agent, we know the market and we can advise what is going on, but an owner will have scepticism about what we are saying, so the more data we can provide, the better," Allsopp points out.
Propertyfinder Group has released a pricing tool which will allow real estate agents across the UAE to compare free of charge advertised prices to achieved prices for properties in real time. It uses Propertyfinder data, government transactions data and verified self-reported transactions from brokers. This initiative is expected to drastically reduce the number of days properties stay on the market by making sellers more realistic on pricing expectations, and consequently bridge the negotiations between a buyer and seller or a renter and a landlord.
Although a lot of sellers have realistic price expectations and as a result manage to secure a sale in the average timeframe, on the whole, there are still more unrealistic sellers, say market observers.
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Rachel Kushner: 'One of the advantages to being a novelist is removing oneself from the chatter of the fray.' PHOTO/Chloe Aftel
The US author on going behind bars to research her new novel, The Mars Room – and the writers she most admires
After the intercontinental sweep of her dazzling second novel, The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner has fixed upon a more circumscribed milieu for her third. The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape, £16.99) takes place in Stanville, a prison based upon California's notorious Chowchilla, the biggest women's jail in the world. The novel is largely told from the perspective of Romy, a young mother locked away for killing her stalker.
Kushner grew up in Oregon and California, the daughter of unconventional parents who had her working in a feminist bookstore from the age of five. She has twice been a finalist in the National Book awards. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer and philosopher Jason Smith, and their son, Remy.
Tell us about going undercover in a maximum security prison when you were researching The Mars Room.
I was with a bunch of graduate criminality students. Because they didn't know I was a writer, I was allowed amazing access. I met a police officer who was serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole in a sensitive needs yard [an isolated area for inmates at risk of attack]. He started telling me about the murders he'd committed, some of which he'd never been convicted for.
Why did you decide to write about women's prisons?
After I finished The Flamethrowers I decided that I wanted to rearrange my life so that I was in communication with a population in California who have been effectively rendered invisible by the state. When people are given a life sentence, they're taken on a bus up one of the big freeways, far from where they live, into industrial farming territory and are never heard from or seen again.
Some of the most moving passages in the book are those in which Romy imagines the life of her child. Was this one of your ways into the novel?
I know that readers like to reverse-engineer motives, so they'll say, 'Her way in was to imagine losing a child', but I don't really work that way. My way in was more the tone of the narrator. Maybe having children allows me to see into a deeper kind of moral complexity. For me, having children complements the making of art.
Do you think you could survive in prison? How did the people you meet deal with incarceration?
I've had people explain to me how they cut themselves off from the outside world and family and even their own children because it was too painful. When the inside world of prison is its own totally preoccupying circumstance, people just plunge into trying to survive the day-to-day rather than contemplating the existence of a world they can't touch.
Do prisons work? Did the people you meet exhibit remorse?
It took many years to think into this, what it's like for people who are defined by the crime that they've committed. Sometimes I think the truth for people gets foreclosed by having a victim, being given a life sentence, and therefore becoming a victim themselves. And I'm not sure they have the space truly to think about what they've done. A lot of people had harm done to them long before what they did to others.
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Five wounded in shooting outside downtown Williamsport night club
By John Beauge | Special to PennLive
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Williamsport Police Lt. Arnold Duck, left, and a uniformed officer inspect evidence on a pedestrian walkway (formerly Willow Street) outside the Imbibe night club. Five people leaving the club were wounded early Saturday morning in a shooting police said occurred around the corner on Laurel Street. The concrete barrier in the background is along Laurel Street. (John Beauge, Special to PennLive
(John Beauge, Special to PennLive)
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HarperAudio Goes Retro with New Vinyl Audiobook Series: Following successful vinyl record releases by Amy Poehler and others, HarperAudio plans to produce a series of spoken word vinyl audiobook titles (with accompanying digital editions) in 2018. The vinyl audiobook series will launch in April with Wild Horses Vinyl Edition (including an MP3 version) by Joe Hill. The title is, as HC put it, a "vinyl-first" release. The short story, read by Nate Corddry, is about four teenagers who take a ride on an antique carousel. The seemingly innocent lark results in disastrous consequences. Other vinyl-first editions coming this year include Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning and poet Nikki Giovanni's Love Poems. HarperAudio vinyl titles will be distributed by Wax, an indie record label that specializes in the format.
The Manufacturer Keeping Cassette Tapes Alive: In manufacturing, it's hard to know which industries or products will be left for dead, only to see a resurgence down the line. One interesting example of this is vinyl: once a relic for music collectors, this industry has been booming in the last few years, even reaching a record high – no pun intended – in 2017. The Associated Press (AP) recently reported on a less-publicized format that we all thought was dead and gone: the audio cassette. While vinyl has been flying high based on renewed interest in the medium, a plant in Missouri is investing in cassettes – not really because the industry is growing, but because everyone else has vacated it. The last man standing is a manufacturer called National Audio Company, and they're the soon-to-be final U.S. company to produce the tape that goes inside of a cassette.
Watch: Belle & Sebastian Go Record Shopping At Oxfam: Belle & Sebastian have shot a new video, featuring the group record shopping in their local Oxfam. The charity run a regular video series, inviting the likes of Loyle Carner and Anton Newcome to rifle through their racks. Belle & Sebastian are notorious vinyl fiends, and leaped at the chance to visit their local Oxfam book and record shop in Glasgow's West End. A great time they had of it, too, picking up rare gems, guilty pleasures, and some off the beaten track titles. An absorbing watch in its own right, you can tune in (above).
Five classic David Bowie albums reissued on vinyl: David Bowie's Low, "Heroes", Stage, Lodger and Scary Monsters LPs are being reissued this February, via RCA. The releases follow recent news that Bowie continues to top vinyl album and singles chart sales since his death two years ago, with nearly 300,000 of his records sold in the UK since. Though the albums were remastered and reissued as part of Bowie's A New Career In Town (1977 – 1982) box set, this is the first time the LPs have been released individually since 1991.


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Gail Harris, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Norwich City Council, Clive Lewis MP, and James Carter were among those celebrating the start of construction of the first 60 affordable rent flats.
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Which Southeast Asian leader visited India for a state visit recently?
For the first time after a military coup deposed the civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's new head of state and military ruler Prayut Chan-o-cha visited India on Thursday. New Delhi has been looking forward to the Thai delegation, which will further boost ties with the Southeast Asian nation.
According to local media reports, maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean was high on Prayut's agenda for the three-day visit.
Where are the Natuna Islands?
According to Indonesian press reports, an Indonesian Navy warship pursued and fired warning shots at a group of Chinese fishing trawlers operating within the 200-mile EEZ claimed by Indonesia around the Natuna Islands, which are part of Indonesia's Riau Province. China claims that one Chinese sailor was injured as a result of a warning shot fired by the Indonesian side.
In a list of states ranked by soft power released recently by a London-based PR firm, which of the following countries ranked above China?
All of this isn't to say, necessarily, that Russia doesn't maintain a notable amount "soft power" – the country's cultural legacy, to say nothing of its position as a permanent member on the UN Security Council, would attest to as much. But the fact that Russia can exist within the top-30 countries – to say nothing of the fact that it is somehow ahead of China – casts significant questions on the utility of such findings.
Which Asian country expressed its interest in acquire U.S. Predator Guardian drones last week?
India is considering purchasing multi-mission Predator Guardian unnamed patrol aircraft from U.S. defense contractor General Atomics, the Times of Indiahas revealed.
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Which Asian country joined the United States for the CARAT 2016 exercise in June 2016?
From June 16 to 23, the United States and Thailand conducted the 22nd iteration of their annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training Exercise (CARAT).
Which country's track and field athletes have been banned from the Rio Olympics due to doping concerns?
This week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) backed the decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to maintain the organization's ban on the participation of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) in international track and field competitions. TheRussian team was suspended provisionally in November 2015 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) released a report detailing Moscow's manipulation of the anti-doping process. WADA's investigation was prompted by a 2014 documentary from ARD that alleged Russia was "making" winners through doping.
What missile did North Korea successfully test for the first time last week?
Which country hosted in the 2016 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit?
Members, observers, and guests of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have gathered in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for their annual summit. The multilateral organization concerns itself with the full kitchen-sink of topics–political, economic, security–but often seems to have little or no actual direction. The two-day summit will touch on the evergreen issues that plague the region: primarily security concerns stemming from Afghanistan and international terrorism. This summit, the organization's 16th, may also see India and Pakistan join the group's six present full members, its first expansion since Uzbekistan joined what had been known as the Shanghai Five in 2001.
What did China announce recently after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen did not explicitly uphold the 1992 consensus in her inauguration address?
Well before Taiwan held its elections on January 20, Beijing made it clear that the "1992 consensus" was its bottom line for cross-strait relations. During an historic meeting with then-President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed that "as long as the 1992 Consensus and its core values are acknowledged, we stand ready to have contact." The implied threat: if then-presidential favorite (and now president) Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party declined to embrace the 1992 Consensus, such "contact" might end.
Seven months, one election, and one presidential inauguration later, Beijing has made good on its threat. On Saturday, the Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement that communication mechanisms between the two sides had been "suspended" since Tsai assumed office.
What event led to the formation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group?
Ever since the NSG was set up to respond to India's 1974 test of a nuclear explosive device using peaceful-use nuclear materials supplied from the U.S. and Canada, the NSG has aimed to inhibit assistance to India's nuclear weapons program. Should India join the NSG, it must decide whether the NSG should continue to deny nuclear trade to India. If the answer is yes, how will it do that with India in the room? If instead the NSG will no longer restrict trade with India, or restrict it less, must it not amend its own rules and procedures? On the eve of next week's meeting, the NSG has not yet answered these questions.


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76 An Improved VM Allocation Algorithm by Utilizing Combined Resource Allocation Mechanism and Released Resources in Cloud Environment
Authors: Md Habibul Ansary, Chandan Garai, Ranjan Dasgupta
Utilization of resources is always a great challenge for any allocation problem, particularly when resource availability is dynamic in nature. In this work VM allocation mechanism has been augmented by providing resources in a combined manner. This approach has some inherent advantages in terms of reduction of wait state for the pending jobs of some users and better utilization of unused resources from the service providers' point of view. Moreover the algorithm takes care of released resources from the finished jobs as soon as those become available. The proposed algorithm has been explained by suitable example to make the work complete.
Keywords: Bid ratio, cloud service, virtualization, VM allocation problem
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75 Early Requirement Engineering for Design of Learner Centric Dynamic LMS
Authors: Kausik Halder, Nabendu Chaki, Ranjan Dasgupta
We present a modelling framework that supports the engineering of early requirements specifications for design of learner centric dynamic Learning Management System. The framework is based on i* modelling tool and Means End Analysis, that adopts primitive concepts for modelling early requirements (such as actor, goal, and strategic dependency). We show how pedagogical and computational requirements for designing a learner centric Learning Management system can be adapted for the automatic early requirement engineering specifications. Finally, we presented a model on a Learner Quanta based adaptive Courseware. Our early requirement analysis shows that how means end analysis reveals gaps and inconsistencies in early requirements specifications that are by no means trivial to discover without the help of formal analysis tool.
Keywords: adaptive courseware, early requirement engineering, means end analysis, organizational modelling, requirement modelling
74 Improved Acoustic Source Sensing and Localization Based On Robot Locomotion
Authors: V. Ramu Reddy, Parijat Deshpande, Ranjan Dasgupta
This paper presents different methodology for an acoustic source sensing and localization in an unknown environment. The developed methodology includes an acoustic based sensing and localization system, a converging target localization based on the recursive direction of arrival (DOA) error minimization, and a regressive obstacle avoidance function. Our method is able to augment the existing proven localization techniques and improve results incrementally by utilizing robot locomotion and is capable of converging to a position estimate with greater accuracy using fewer measurements. The results also evinced the DOA error minimization at each iteration, improvement in time for reaching the destination and the efficiency of this target localization method as gradually converging to the real target position. Initially, the system is tested using Kinect mounted on turntable with DOA markings which serve as a ground truth and then our approach is validated using a FireBird VI (FBVI) mobile robot on which Kinect is used to obtain bearing information.
Keywords: acoustic source localization, acoustic sensing, recursive direction of arrival, robot locomotion
73 Design of an Acoustic Imaging Sensor Array for Mobile Robots
Authors: Dibyendu Roy, V. Ramu Reddy, Parijat Deshpande, Ranjan Dasgupta
Imaging of underwater objects is primarily conducted by acoustic imagery due to the severe attenuation of electro-magnetic waves in water. Acoustic imagery underwater has varied range of significant applications such as side-scan sonar, mine hunting sonar. It also finds utility in other domains such as imaging of body tissues via ultrasonography and non-destructive testing of objects. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using active acoustic imagery in air and simulate phased array beamforming techniques available in literature for various array designs to achieve a suitable acoustic sensor array design for a portable mobile robot which can be applied to detect the presence/absence of anomalous objects in a room. The multi-path reflection effects especially in enclosed rooms and environmental noise factors are currently not simulated and will be dealt with during the experimental phase. The related hardware is designed with the same feasibility criterion that the developed system needs to be deployed on a portable mobile robot. There is a trade of between image resolution and range with the array size, number of elements and the imaging frequency and has to be iteratively simulated to achieve the desired acoustic sensor array design. The designed acoustic imaging array system is to be mounted on a portable mobile robot and targeted for use in surveillance missions for intruder alerts and imaging objects during dark and smoky scenarios where conventional optic based systems do not function well.
Keywords: acoustic sensor array, acoustic imagery, anomaly detection, phased array beamforming
72 Similarity Based Retrieval in Case Based Reasoning for Analysis of Medical Images
Authors: M. Dasgupta, S. Banerjee
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) coupled with Case Based Reasoning (CBR) is a paradigm that is becoming increasingly popular in the diagnosis and therapy planning of medical ailments utilizing the digital content of medical images. This paper presents a survey of some of the promising approaches used in the detection of abnormalities in retina images as well in mammographic screening and detection of regions of interest in MRI scans of the brain. We also describe our proposed algorithm to detect hard exudates in fundus images of the retina of Diabetic Retinopathy patients.
Keywords: case based reasoning, exudates, retina image, similarity based retrieval
71 Frequency Reconfigurable Multiband Patch Antenna Using PIN-Diode for ITS Applications
Authors: Gaurav Upadhyay, Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, V. S. Tripathi, Shivesh Tripathi
A frequency reconfigurable multiband antenna for intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications is proposed in this paper. A PIN-diode is used for reconfigurability. Centre frequencies are 1.38, 1.98, 2.89, 3.86, and 4.34 GHz in "ON" state of Diode and 1.56, 2.16, 2.88, 3.91 and 4.45 GHz in "OFF" state. Achieved maximum bandwidth is 18%. The maximum gain of the proposed antenna is 2.7 dBi in "ON" state and 3.95 dBi in "OFF" state of the diode. The antenna is simulated, fabricated, and tested in the lab. Measured and simulated results are in good confirmation.
Keywords: ITS, multiband antenna, PIN-diode, reconfigurable
70 Sensor Data Analysis for a Large Mining Major
Authors: Sudipto Shanker Dasgupta
One of the largest mining companies wanted to look at health analytics for their driverless trucks. These trucks were the key to their supply chain logistics. The automated trucks had multi-level sub-assemblies which would send out sensor information. The use case that was worked on was to capture the sensor signal from the truck subcomponents and analyze the health of the trucks from repair and replacement purview. Open source software was used to stream the data into a clustered Hadoop setup in Amazon Web Services cloud and Apache Spark SQL was used to analyze the data. All of this was achieved through a 10 node amazon 32 core, 64 GB RAM setup real-time analytics was achieved on '300 million records'. To check the scalability of the system, the cluster was increased to 100 node setup. This talk will highlight how Open Source software was used to achieve the above use case and the insights on the high data throughput on a cloud set up.
Keywords: streaming analytics, data science, big data, Hadoop, high throughput, sensor data
69 Efficient Reduction of Organophosphate Pesticide from Fruits and Vegetables Using Cost Effective Neutralizer
Authors: Debjani Dasgupta, Aman Zalawadia, Anuj Thapa, Pranjali Sing, Ashish Dabade
Organophosphate group pesticides are common pesticide group, which gain entry into food product due to incomplete removal of pesticide residues. The current food industry raw material handling process is not sufficient to eliminate pesticide residues. A neutralizer was used to neutralize the residues of pesticide on Vitis vinifera (Grapes). The water based dilution of neutralizer was demonstrated on fruits like grapes. Analysis for pesticides in water wash and neutralizer wash was carried out using GCMS. Fruits washed with neutralizer exhibited 72.95% removal of pesticides compared with normal water wash method. An economical chemical neutralizer can be used to remove such residues in raw material handling at industrial scale with minor modification in process to achieve minimum pesticide entry into final food products.
Keywords: GCMS, organophosphate, raw material handling, Vitis vinifera, pesticide neutralizer
68 Multi-Level Security Measures in Cloud Computing
Authors: Shobha G. Ranjan
Cloud computing is an emerging, on-demand and internet- based technology. Varieties of services like, software, hardware, data storage and infrastructure can be shared though the cloud computing. This technology is highly reliable, cost effective and scalable in nature. It is a must only the authorized users should access these services. Further the time granted to access these services should be taken into account for proper accounting purpose. Currently many organizations do the security measures in many different ways to provide the best cloud infrastructure to their clients, but that's not the limitation. This paper presents the multi-level security measure technique which is in accordance with the OSI model. In this paper, details of proposed multilevel security measures technique are presented along with the architecture, activities, algorithms and probability of success in breaking authentication.
Keywords: cloud computing, cloud security, integrity, multi-tenancy, security
67 Kirchhoff's Depth Migration over Heterogeneous Velocity Models with Ray Tracing Modeling Approach
Authors: Alok Kumar Routa, Priya Ranjan Mohanty
Complex seismic signatures are generated due to the complexity of the subsurface which is difficult to interpret. In the present study, an attempt has been made to model the complex subsurface using the Ray tracing modeling technique. Add to this, for the imaging of these geological features, Kirchhoff's prestack depth migration is applied over the synthetic common shot gather dataset. It is found that the Kirchhoff's migration technique in addition with the Ray tracing modeling concept has the flexibility towards the imaging of various complex geology which gives satisfactory results with proper delineation of the reflectors at their respective true depth position. The entire work has been carried out under the MATLAB environment.
Keywords: Kirchhoff's migration, Prestack depth migration, Ray tracing modelling, velocity model
66 Novel Aminoglycosides to Target Resistant Pathogens
Authors: Nihar Ranjan, Derrick Watkins, Dev P. Arya
Current methods in the study of antibiotic activity of ribosome targeted antibiotics are dependent on cell based bacterial inhibition assays or various forms of ribosomal binding assays. These assays are typically independent of each other and little direct correlation between the ribosomal binding and bacterial inhibition is established with the complementary assay. We have developed novel high-throughput capable assays for ribosome targeted drug discovery. One such assay examines the compounds ability to bind to a model ribosomal RNA A-site. We have also coupled this assay to other functional orthogonal assays. Such analysis can provide valuable understanding of the relationships between two complementary drug screening methods and could be used as standard analysis to correlate the affinity of a compound for its target and the effect the compound has on a cell.
Keywords: bacterial resistance, aminoglycosides, screening, drugs
65 PIN-Diode Based Slotted Reconfigurable Multiband Antenna Array for Vehicular Communication
Authors: Gaurav Upadhyay, Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, Shivesh Tripathi, V. S. Tripathi
In this paper, a patch antenna array design is proposed for vehicular communication. The antenna consists of 2-element patch array. The antenna array is operating at multiple frequency bands. The multiband operation is achieved by use of slots at proper locations at the patch. The array is made reconfigurable by use of two PIN-diodes. The antenna is simulated and measured in four states of diodes i.e. ON-ON, ON-OFF, OFF-ON, and OFF-OFF. In ON-ON state of diodes, the resonant frequencies are 4.62-4.96, 6.50-6.75, 6.90-7.01, 7.34-8.22, 8.89-9.09 GHz. In ON-OFF state of diodes, the measured resonant frequencies are 4.63-4.93, 6.50-6.70 and 7.81-7.91 GHz. In OFF-ON states of diodes the resonant frequencies are 1.24-1.46, 3.40-3.75, 5.07-5.25 and 6.90-7.20 GHz and in the OFF-OFF state of diodes 4.49-4.75 and 5.61-5.98 GHz. The maximum bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 16.29%. The peak gain of the antenna is 3.4 dB at 5.9 GHz, which makes it suitable for vehicular communication.
Keywords: antenna, array, reconfigurable, vehicular
64 The Challenges of Scaling Agile to Large-Scale Distributed Development: An Overview of the Agile Factory Model
Authors: Bernard Doherty, Andrew Jelfs, Aveek Dasgupta, Patrick Holden
Many companies have moved to agile and hybrid agile methodologies where portions of the Software Design Life-cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life-cycle (STLC) can be time boxed in order to enhance delivery speed, quality and to increase flexibility to changes in software requirements. Despite widespread proliferation of agile practices, implementation often fails due to lack of adequate project management support, decreased motivation or fear of increased interaction. Consequently, few organizations effectively adopt agile processes with tailoring often required to integrate agile methodology in large scale environments. This paper provides an overview of the challenges in implementing an innovative large-scale tailored realization of the agile methodology termed the Agile Factory Model (AFM), with the aim of comparing and contrasting issues of specific importance to organizations undertaking large scale agile development. The conclusions demonstrate that agile practices can be effectively translated to a globally distributed development environment.
Keywords: agile, agile factory model, globally distributed development, large-scale agile
63 Preparation and Characterization of Polyaniline (PANI) – Platinum Nanocomposite
Authors: Kumar Neeraj, Ranjan Haldar, Ashok Srivastava
Polyaniline used as light-emitting devices (LEDs), televisions, cellular telephones, automotive, Corrosion-resistant coatings, actuators and ability to have micro- and nano-devices. the electrical conductivity properties can be increased by introduction of metal nano particles. In the present study, platinum nano particles have been utilized to achieve the improved properties. Polyaniline and Pt-polyaniline composite are synthesized by chemical routes. The samples characterized by X-ray diffractometer show the amorphous nature of polyaniline and Pt-polyaniline composite. The Bragg's diffraction peaks correspond to platinum nano particles and thermogravimetric analyzer predicts its decomposition at certain temperature. The current-potential characteristics of the samples are also studied which indicate a significant increasing the value of conductivity after introduction of pt nanoparticles in the matrix of polyaniline (PANI).
Keywords: polyaniline, XRD and platinum nanoparticles, characterization, pharmaceutical sciences
62 Chiral Diphosphine Ligands and Their Transition Metal Diphosphine Complexes in Asymmetric Catalysis
Authors: Shannen Lorraine, Paul Maragh, Tara Dasgupta, Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid
(R)-(4,4',6,6'-tetramethoxybiphenyl-2,2'-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (R-Ph-Garphos), and (S)-(4,4',6,6'-tetramethoxybiphenyl-2,2'-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (S-Ph-Garphos) are novel, nucleophilic, chiral atropisomeric ligands. The research explored the synthesis of chiral transition metal complexes containing these ligands and their applications in various asymmetric catalytic transformations. Herein, the transition metal complexes having ruthenium(II), rhodium(I) and iridium(I) metal centres will be discussed. These are air stable complexes and were characterized by CHN analysis, 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR spectroscopy, and polarimetry. Currently, there is an emphasis on 'greener' catalysts and the need for 'green' solvents in asymmetric catalysis. As such, the Ph-Garphos ligands were demethylated thereby introducing hydroxyl moieties unto the ligand scaffold. The facile tunability of the biaryl diphosphines led to the preparation of the (R)-(4,4',6,6'-tetrahydroxybiphenyl-2,2'-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (R-Ph-Garphos-OH), and (S)-(4,4',6,6'-tetrahydroxybiphenyl-2,2'-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (S-Ph-Garphos-OH) ligands. These were successfully characterized by CHN analysis, 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR spectroscopy, and polarimetry. The use of the Ph-Garphos and Ph-Garphos-OH ligands and their transition metal complexes in asymmetric hydrogenations will be reported. Additionally, the scope of the research will highlight the applicability of the Ph-Garphos-OH ligand and its transitional metal complexes as 'green' catalysts.
Keywords: catalysis, asymmetric hydrogenation, diphosphine transition metal complexes, Ph-Garphos ligands
61 Perception of Women towards Participation in Employment: A Study on Mumbai Slums Women
Authors: Mukesh Ranjan, Varsha Nagargoje
Applying the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), Women Employment Participation Perception Index (WEPPI) has been made through 13 components. The basic purpose of the WEPPI is to develop an index or search for the latent factors which will capture the attitude or perception of the Mumbai's slum women towards women's employment participation in the job market through primary survey based on 160 observations. Majority of the response analyzed under various socio-economic and demographic characteristics falls in the strongly agree or agree category. It means whether it is age wise, marital status-wise, caste, religion or economic dimension-wise women responded that they should participate in employment in Mumbai. Value of KMO test was 0.544 and chronbac's alpha value was between 0.5-0.6, so the index falls in poor category and can be improved upon by adding more number of items.
Keywords: WEPPI, exploratory factor analysis, KMO test, Chronbac alpha
60 Respiratory Indices and Sports Performance: A Comparision between Different Levels Basketballers
Authors: Ranjan Chakravarty, Satpal Yadav, Biswajit Basumatary, Arvind S. Sajwan
The purpose of this study is to compare the basketball players of different level on selected respiratory indices. Ninety male basketball players from different universities those who participated in intercollegiate and inter- varsity championship. Selected respiratory indices were resting pulse rate, resting blood pressure, vital capacity and resting respiratory rate. Mean and standard deviation of selected respiratory indices were calculated and three different levels i.e. beginners, intermediate and advanced were compared by using analysis of variance. In order to test the hypothesis, level of significance was set at 0.05. It was concluded that variability does not exist among the basketball players of different groups with respect to their selected respiratory indices i.e. resting pulse rate, resting blood pressure, vital capacity and resting respiratory rate.
Keywords: respiratory indices, sports performance, basketball players, intervarsity level
59 Chiral Ruthenium Aminophosphine and Phosphine Iminopyridine Complexes: Synthesis and Application to Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation
Authors: Littlelet N. Scarlet, Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Paul T. Maragh, Tara Dasgupta
Aminophosphines are a privileged class of ancillary ligands with emerging importance in homogeneous catalysis. The unique combination of soft phosphorus (P) and hard nitrogen (N) centres affords a variety of transition metal complexes as potential pre-catalysts for synthetically useful reactions. Herein three ligand systems will be reported; two bidentate ligands - (S)-8-(diphenyl-phosphino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-amine, (S)THNANH2, and (Rc)-1-((Sp)-2-diphenylphosphino) ferrocenylethylamine, (RcSp)PPFNH2 - and a tridentate (Rc)-1-((Sp)-2-diphenylphosphino) ferrocenylimino-pyridine, (RcSp)PPFNNH2 ligand; the latter prepared from the condensation of selected ferrocene aminophosphines with pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde. Suitable combinations of these aminophosphine ligands with ruthenium precursors have afforded highly efficient systems for the asymmetric hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of selected ketones in 2-propanol. The Ru-(S)THNANH2 precatalyst was the most efficient in the asymmetric hydrogenation of selected ketones with 100% conversions within 4 hours at a catalyst loading of 0.1 mol%. The Ru-(RcSp)PPFNNH2 precatalyst was the most efficient in the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of the ketones with conversions as high as 98% with 0.1 mol% catalyst. However, the enantioselectivities were generally low.
Keywords: aminophosphine, asymmetric hydrogenation, homogeneous catalysis, ruthenium (II), transfer hydrogenation
58 Channel Characteristics and Morphometry of a Part of Umtrew River, Meghalaya
Authors: Pratyashi Phukan, Ranjan Saikia
Morphometry incorporates quantitative study of the area ,altitude,volume, slope profiles of a land and drainage basin characteristics of the area concerned.Fluvial geomorphology includes the consideration of linear,areal and relief aspects of a fluvially originated drainage basin. The linear aspect deals with the hierarchical orders of streams, numbers, and lenghts of stream segments and various relationship among them.The areal aspect includes the analysis of basin perimeters,basin shape, basin area, and related morphometric laws. The relief aspect incorporates besides hypsometric, climographic and altimetric analysis,the study of absolute and relative reliefs, relief ratios, average slope, etc. In this paper we have analysed the relationship among stream velocity, channel shape,sediment load,channel width,channel depth, etc.
Keywords: morphometry, hydraulic geometry, Umtrew river, Meghalaya
57 An Investigation of the Barriers to E-Business Implementation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Authors: Jeffrey Chang, Barun Dasgupta
E-business technologies, whereby business transactions are conducted remotely using the Internet, present unique opportunities and challenges for business. E-business technologies are applicable to a wide range of organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no exception. There is an established body of literature about e-business, looking at definitions, concepts, benefits and challenges. In general, however, the research focus has been on larger organizations, not SMEs. In an attempt to redress the balance of research, this paper looks at e-business technologies specifically from a small business perspective. It seeks to identify the possible barriers that SMEs might face when considering adoption of the e-business concept and practice as part of their business process change initiatives and implementation. To facilitate analysis of these barriers a conceptual framework has been developed which outlines the key conceptual and practical challenges of e-business implementation in SMEs. This is developed following a literature survey comprised of three categories: characteristics of SMEs, issues of IS/IT use in SMEs and general e-business adoption and implementation issues. The framework is then empirically assessed against 7 SMEs who have yet to implement e-business or whose e-business efforts have been unsatisfactory. Conclusions from the case studies can be used to verify the framework, and set parameters for further larger scale empirical investigation.
Keywords: business process change, disruptive technologies, electronic business (e-Business), electronic commerce (e-Commerce), ICT adoption, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
56 Model Based Simulation Approach to a 14-Dof Car Model Using Matlab/Simulink
Authors: Ishit Sheth, Chandrasekhar Jinendran, Chinmaya Ranjan Sahu
A fourteen degree of freedom (DOF) ride and handling control mathematical model is developed for a car using generalized boltzmann hamel equation which will create a basis for design of ride and handling controller. Mathematical model developed yield equations of motion for non-holonomic constrained systems in quasi-coordinates. The governing differential equation developed integrates ride and handling control of car. Model-based systems engineering approach is implemented for simulation using matlab/simulink, vehicle's response in different DOF is examined and later validated using commercial software (ADAMS). This manuscript involves detailed derivation of full car vehicle model which provides response in longitudinal, lateral and yaw motion to demonstrate the advantages of the developed model over the existing dynamic model. The dynamic behaviour of the developed ride and handling model is simulated for different road conditions.
Keywords: Full Vehicle Model, MBSE, Non Holonomic Constraints, Boltzmann Hamel Equation
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55 Overview and Post Damage Analysis of Nepal Earthquake 2015
Authors: Vipin Kumar Singhal, Rohit Kumar Mittal, Pavitra Ranjan Maiti
Damage analysis is one of the preliminary activities to be done after an earthquake so as to enhance the seismic building design technologies and prevent similar type of failure in future during earthquakes. This research article investigates the damage pattern and most probable reason of failure by observing photographs of seven major buildings collapsed/damaged which were evenly spread over the region during Mw7.8, Nepal earthquake 2015 followed by more than 400 aftershocks of Mw4 with one aftershock reaching a magnitude of Mw7.3. Over 250,000 buildings got damaged, and more than 9000 people got injured in this earthquake. Photographs of these buildings were collected after the earthquake and the cause of failure was estimated along with the severity of damage and comment on the reparability of structure has been made. Based on observations, it was concluded that the damage in reinforced concrete buildings was less compared to masonry structures. The number of buildings damaged was high near Kathmandu region due to high building density in that region. This type of damage analysis can be used as a cost effective and quick method for damage assessment during earthquakes.
Keywords: Nepal earthquake, damage analysis, damage assessment, damage scales
54 The Politics of Cinema: Representation of Rising Nationalism in Indian Cinema in the Election Year of 2019
Authors: Paawani Tewari, Oishik Dasgupta
Cinema and politics have often intertwined in India. Movies have become a mainstream method of communication with audiences and voters subliminally and directly. Indian film industry on average produces over a thousand films in a year, and during the election year of 2019, India witnessed the release of several highly political movies. Movies such as Uri: The Surgical Strike, Accidental Prime Minister, and PM Modi, et cetera, which are the sample of this study have tried to depict an ideal character of political stalwart leaders with the plausibility to inspire and aiming to change ideological orientations of viewers and the potent voters. This study tries to understand the major links between nationalism, its representation, and its manifestation in Indian cinema and how it is instrumental in shaping the character and orientations of its citizens towards nation, nationalism, and nationhood. Our work aims to highlight how nationalistic assumptions that are swaddled in the Hindi movies released during January 2019 – May 2019 affect the political mood of the nation and, in totality, the democratic system. The authors also try to throw light on how films being a powerful tool, are now being used to shape ideas, brainwashing and swaying opinions for political mileage. Hence it becomes essential for us to explore the dynamics between the quintessential definitions of what nationalism is for a common man in India versus of what has been represented in cinema, especially during the time of the elections.
Keywords: political governance and political analysis, political and public administration, election, public choice
53 Parametric Study of Ball and Socket Joint for Bio-Mimicking Exoskeleton
Authors: Mukesh Roy, Basant Singh Sikarwar, Ravi Prakash, Priya Ranjan, Ayush Goyal
More than 11% of people suffer from weakness in the bone resulting in inability in walking or climbing stairs or from limited upper body and limb immobility. This motivates a fresh bio-mimicking solution to the design of an exo-skeleton to support human movement in the case of partial or total immobility either due to congenital or genetic factors or due to some accident or due to geratological factors. A deeper insight and detailed understanding is required into the workings of the ball and socket joints. Our research is to mimic ball and socket joints to design snugly fitting exoskeletons. Our objective is to design an exoskeleton which is comfortable and the presence of which is not felt if not in use. Towards this goal, a parametric study is conducted to provide detailed design parameters to fabricate an exoskeleton. This work builds up on real data of the design of the exoskeleton, so that the designed exo-skeleton will be able to provide required strength and support to the subject.
Keywords: bio-mimicking, exoskeleton, ball joint, socket joint, artificial limb, patient rehabilitation, joints, human-machine interface, wearable robotics
52 The Relation between Cognitive Fluency and Utterance Fluency in Second Language Spoken Fluency: Studying Fluency through a Psycholinguistic Lens
Authors: Tannistha Dasgupta
This study explores the aspects of second language (L2) spoken fluency that are related to L2 linguistic knowledge and processing skill. It draws on Levelt's 'blueprint' of the L2 speaker which discusses the cognitive issues underlying the act of speaking. However, L2 speaking assessments have largely neglected the underlying mechanism involved in language production; emphasis is given on the relationship between subjective ratings of L2 speech sample and objectively measured aspects of fluency. Hence, in this study, the relation between L2 linguistic knowledge and processing skill i.e. Cognitive Fluency (CF), and objectively measurable aspects of L2 spoken fluency i.e. Utterance Fluency (UF) is examined. The participants of the study are L2 learners of English, studying at high school level in Hyderabad, India. 50 participants with intermediate level of proficiency in English performed several lexical retrieval tasks and attention-shifting tasks to measure CF, and 8 oral tasks to measure UF. Each aspect of UF (speed, pause, and repair) were measured against the scores of CF to find out those aspects of UF which are reliable indicators of CF. Quantitative analysis of the data shows that among the three aspects of UF; speed is the best predictor of CF, and pause is weakly related to CF. The study suggests that including the speed aspect of UF could make L2 fluency assessment more reliable, valid, and objective. Thus, incorporating the assessment of psycholinguistic mechanisms into L2 spoken fluency testing, could result in fairer evaluation.
Keywords: attention-shifting, cognitive fluency, lexical retrieval, utterance fluency
51 Processing and Characterization of Glass-Epoxy Composites Filled with Linz-Donawitz (LD) Slag
Authors: Pravat Ranjan Pati, Alok Satapathy
Linz-Donawitz (LD) slag a major solid waste generated in huge quantities during steel making. It comes from slag formers such as burned lime/dolomite and from oxidizing of silica, iron etc. while refining the iron into steel in the LD furnace. Although a number of ways for its utilization have been suggested, its potential as a filler material in polymeric matrices has not yet been explored. The present work reports the possible use of this waste in glass fiber reinforced epoxy composites as a filler material. Hybrid composites consisting of bi-directional e-glass-fiber reinforced epoxy filled with different LD slag content (0, 7.5, 15, 22.5 wt%) are prepared by simple hand lay-up technique. The composites are characterized in regard to their density, porosity, micro-hardness and strength properties. X-ray diffractography is carried out in order to ascertain the various phases present in LDS. This work shows that LD slag, in spite of being a waste, possesses fairly good filler characteristics as it modifies the strength properties and improves the composite micro-hardness of the polymeric resin.
Keywords: characterization, glass-epoxy composites, LD slag, waste utilization
50 Short-Range and Long-Range Ferrimagnetic Order in Fe(Te₁.₅Se₀.₅)O₅Cl
Authors: E. S. Kozlyakova, A. A. Eliseev, A. V. Moskin, A. Y. Akhrorov, P. S. Berdonosov, V. A. Dolgikh, K. N. Denisova, P. Lemmens, B. Rahaman, S. Das, T. Saha-Dasgupta, A. N. Vasiliev, O. S. Volkova
Considerable attention has been paid recently to FeTe₂O₅Cl due to reduced dimensionality and frustration in the magnetic subsystem, succession of phase transitions, and multiferroicity. The efforts to grow its selenite sibling resulted in mixed halide compound, Fe(Te₁.₅Se₀.₅)O₅Cl, which was found crystallizing in a new structural type and possessing properties drastically different from those of a parent system. Hereby we report the studies of magnetization M and specific heat Cₚ, combined with Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations in Fe(Te₁.₅Se₀.₅)O₅Cl. Its magnetic subsystem features weakly coupled Fe³⁺ - Fe³⁺ dimers showing the regime of short-range correlations at TM ~ 70 K and long-range order at TN = 22 K. In a magnetically ordered state, sizable spin-orbital interactions lead to a small canting of Fe³⁺ moments. The density functional theory calculations of leading exchange interactions were found in agreement with measurements of thermodynamic properties and Raman spectroscopy. Besides, because of the relatively large magnetic moment of the Fe³⁺ ion, we found that magnetic dipole-dipole interactions contribute significantly to experimentally observed orientation of magnetization easy axis in ac-plane. As a conclusion, we suggest a model of magnetic subsystem in magnetically ordered state of Fe(Te₁.₅Se₀.₅)O₅Cl based on a model of interacting dimers.
Keywords: dipole-dipole interactions, low dimensional magnetism, selenite, spin canting
49 Modern Proteomics and the Application of Machine Learning Analyses in Proteomic Studies of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology
Authors: Dulanjali Ranasinghe, Isuru Supasan, Kaushalya Premachandra, Ranjan Dissanayake, Ajith Rajapaksha, Eustace Fernando
Proteomics studies of organisms are considered to be significantly information-rich compared to their genomic counterparts because proteomes of organisms represent the expressed state of all proteins of an organism at a given time. In modern top-down and bottom-up proteomics workflows, the primary analysis methods employed are gel–based methods such as two-dimensional (2D) electrophoresis and mass spectrometry based methods. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have been used increasingly in modern biological data analyses. In particular, the fields of genomics, DNA sequencing, and bioinformatics have seen an incremental trend in the usage of ML and AI techniques in recent years. The use of aforesaid techniques in the field of proteomics studies is only beginning to be materialised now. Although there is a wealth of information available in the scientific literature pertaining to proteomics workflows, no comprehensive review addresses various aspects of the combined use of proteomics and machine learning. The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive outlook on the application of machine learning into the known proteomics workflows in order to extract more meaningful information that could be useful in a plethora of applications such as medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology.
Keywords: proteomics, machine learning, gel-based proteomics, mass spectrometry
48 Integration of Artificial Neural Network with Geoinformatics Technology to Predict Land Surface Temperature within Sun City Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Authors: Avinash Kumar Ranjan, Akash Anand
The Land Surface Temperature (LST) is an essential factor accompanying to rise urban heat and climate warming within a city in micro level. It is also playing crucial role in global change study as well as radiation budgets measuring in heat balance studies. The information of LST is very substantial to recognize the urban climatology, ecological changes, anthropological and environmental interactions etc. The Chief motivation of present study focus on time series of ANN model that taken a sequence of LST values of 2000, 2008 and 2016, realize the pattern of variation within the data set and predict the LST values for 2024 and 2032. The novelty of this study centers on evaluation of LST using series of multi-temporal MODIS (MOD 11A2) satellite data by Maximum Value Composite (MVC) techniques. The results derived from this study endorse the proficiency of Geoinformatics Technology with integration of ANN to gain knowledge, understanding and building of precise forecast from the complex physical world database. This study will also focus on influence of Land Use/ Land Cover (LU/LC) variation on Land Surface Temperature.
Keywords: LST, geoinformatics technology, ANN, MODIS satellite imagery, MVC
47 Thermal Interruption Performance of High Voltage Gas Circuit Breaker Operating with CO₂ Mixtures
Authors: Yacine Babou, Nitesh Ranjan, Branimir Radisavljevic , Martin Seeger, Daniel Over, Torsten Votteler, Bernardo Galletti, Paulo Cristini
In the frame of replacement of Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas as insulating and switching medium, diverse alternative gases, offering acceptable Global Warming Potential and fulfilling requirements in terms of heat dissipation, insulation and arc quenching performances are currently investigated for High Voltage Circuit Breaker applications. Among the potential gases, CO₂ seems a promising candidate for replacing SF6, because on one hand it is environmentally friendly, harmless, non-toxic, non-corrosive, non-flammable and on the other hand previous studies have demonstrated its fair interruption capabilities. The present study aims at investigating the performance of CO₂ for the thermal interruption in high voltage self-blast circuit breakers. In particular, the correlation between thermal interruption performance and arc voltage is considered and the effect of the arc-network interaction on the performance is rigorously analyzed. For the considered designs, the thermal interruption was evaluated by varying the slope at current zero (i.e., di/dt) for which the breaker could interrupt. Besides, the characteristics of the post-arc current are examined in detail for various rated voltages and currents. The outcome of these experimental investigations will be reported and analyzed.
Keywords: current zero measurement, high voltage circuit breaker, thermal arc discharge, thermal interruption


Why do I feel like crap on cbd oil, but fine with regular weed?
CBD oil gave me body aches and just wasn't helpful. Regular weed in small doses helped me relax. It gave me no body aches.
Those body aches could really be due to toxic residues in your oil concentrate.
Only concentrates i would trust will be from a medical dispensary.
CBD is just another overhyped fad supplement as was spirulina in its time or maca, acai berries and whatever comes next.
Because so many people jump on this bandwagon now with everybody suffering from 9-5 rat-race induced depresssion they are looking for external solutions and CBD has been shown to have some benefits.....what I am trying to say is due to mass production this stuff is likely being mixed with other substances to afford cheaper production so i wouldn't be surprised if it not only doesn't work but gives you issues. People have been poisoned using spirulina which is supposed to be "beneficial" and same for blue algae which is pretty much infested scum from unregulated ponds being sold in overpriced supplements.
Spirulina didn't work for me either, lol.


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Q: Array method doesn't work in partial view Rails5, none of the array methods are working in a partial view. If the recipient column is an array:
<%= @mail.recipients.first %>

Brings up:
ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `first' for nil:NilClass):

It works fine if I do a binding.pry before it and do the same thing in the console.   However, if I do:
<%= @mail.recipients %>

It gives me the full array.   Just wondering if array methods are not accessible in views?

EDIT:
<%= @mail %>

gives me
#<Mail::ActiveRecord_Relation:0x007f3658bf4f38>

then i put it through
<% @mail.each do |mail| %>

and inside that i do
<%= mail %>

it gives me
<Mail:0x007f3668951618>

then i do
<%= mail.recipients.class %>

it gives me
Array

then i do
<%= mail.recipients.first %>

it gives me
ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `first' for nil:NilClass):

A: You should have somthing like this :
class Mail < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :recipients
  ....
end

class Recipient < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :mail
  ....
end

And before calling mail.recipients.first, make sure you already defined to the 'mail' some 'recipients'.


With the changes to the Construction Design Management Regulations in 2015 and Marks and Spencer's decision to take the Principal Designer (PD) role in-house. Callidus were appointed by Marks and Spencer on their Framework to provide CDM Advisor services to assist them with their PD / Client duties. We have provided assistance across a number of Sectors within M&S including Retail, Energy and Facilities Teams.
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Our unique insight as to how the Regulations should be adopted in the retail sector, due to our involvement in the Construction Client Group consultations for the implementation of CDM15, was recognised by M&S hence our framework appointment.
In the 2015 / 2016 financial year over 100 projects were carried out by the Energy team; with no reported accidents or incidents.
In this time Marks and Spencer engaged several new suppliers with Callidus engaged to ensure compliance with M&S corporate policy.
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We use quality tissue paper to produce our facial tissues to ensure a strong and versatile product.
As the main use of facial tissues involves them being in contact with the delicate skin of the face and nose, it is important that the tissue used is soft enough not to damage the delicate skin. The super soft tissue paper we use in our facial tissues means they are always comfortable to use.
We have a variety of styles of packaging from modern floral cubes to the more masculine mansize boxes.
The packaging of our own label facial tissues products has been designed to blend in with today's interior designs.


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package co.gobd.gofetch.ui.activity;

import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import co.gobd.gofetch.R;
import co.gobd.gofetch.ui.fragment.RideFragmentCallback;
import co.gobd.gofetch.ui.fragment.RoutePlanFragment;

public class RideActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements RideFragmentCallback {

    private static final String TAG = "RideActivity";
    private static final String FRAGMENT_TAG_ROUTE_PLAN = "ROUTE_PLAN_FRAGMENT";

    RoutePlanFragment routePlanFragment;

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_ride);

        //Override default onCreate transition
        overridePendingTransition(R.anim.pull_in_right, R.anim.push_out_left);

        startRoutePlanFragment();

    }
    // Fragment callback implementation
    @Override
    public void loadConfirmationFragment(Bundle bundle) {
        Log.i(TAG, bundle.toString());
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of the RoutePlanFragment and adds it to the activity
     * Tag is given so that it can be found if fragment already exists
     */
    private void startRoutePlanFragment() {

        RoutePlanFragment routePlanFragment = new RoutePlanFragment();
        getSupportFragmentManager()
                .beginTransaction()
                //.setCustomAnimations(0, R.anim.push_out_right, R.anim.pull_in_right, R.anim.push_out_right)
                .replace(R.id.layout_ride_activity, routePlanFragment, FRAGMENT_TAG_ROUTE_PLAN)
                //.addToBackStack(null)
                .commit();
    }

    //Override default onBackPressed transition (by Nabil)
    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        this.finish();
        overridePendingTransition(R.anim.pull_in_left, R.anim.push_out_right);
    }

}

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The Community Futures Thompson Country regional Junior Dragons' Den took place last Thursday, permitting a selected few aspiring student entrepreneurs of different age groups to present their business ideas to a live audience and judging panel. The competition was separated into three divisions, a junior category for elementary school students, a secondary category for junior high/high school students and a post-secondary category for university students. The three winning concepts (one for each age group) were rewarded a $500 check to continue pursuing their venture.
Out of 400 business proposals, the 16 most fleshed out student entrepreneurial projects qualified to compete. Each competing qualifying team was paired up with a mentor from the Kamloops business community to help further develop the students' business idea while assisting them in composing a one-page business plan and a final video or slideshow for the live pitch. Tara Holmes of Kamloops This Week helped moderate the event.
The most well thought out ideas consisted of a feeding system for small animals, an eco-friendly cutting board service, an ecological wooden speaker business and a painting service app attempting to improve the painting quota process. Curiously, all of the post-secondary projects at the junior dragons' den had been pitched previously at the ICE Club's elevator pitch competition.
The "dragons" of the competition included Community Futures Thompson Country general manager Blair Gray, CFDC of CIFN (Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Interior First Nations) general manager George Casimir, KADREA (Kamloops & District Real Estate Association) president Wendy Runge, SOBE director of development Kim Torreggiani and Colin O'Leary, principal at O'Leary and Associates Ltd.
Casimir was very appreciative of everyone who contributed their time and effort to make the Dragons' Den possible.
It was a tough decision for the judges, resulting in a two-way tie for the secondary category. Congratulations to LTS Feeds (junior), Clean Kitchen (secondary), Recycled Sounds (secondary) and Quick Fix Painters (post-secondary).


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Which British party is making the most meaningful commitment to women's issues?
As the British election approaches, political parties are trading in the discourse of 'women's issues'. But do any of the parties actually meaningfully address women's rights and needs?
First published by Open Democracy on 27th April 2015
Women make up 52% of the electorate, and nine million women did not vote in the last election. Perhaps this is why the Coalition felt safe enough to wage all-out war on Britain's female population with a series of austerity measures that disproportionately affected women in a negative way.
Research by the House of Commons Library has determined that nearly 75 per cent of budget savings since 2010 have targeted women's incomes, and areport by the Women's Budget Group found that the May 2012 budget primarily leads to women losing out. One fifth of women have an average income consisting of benefit payments, and the planned £10 billion of cuts from welfare spending by 2016-17 will hit women the hardest. Women also make up two thirds of public sector employees, and the 30,000 planned job losses between 2011 and 2017 and proposed 'regional pay' rates will have a devastating impact on them.
If austerity is a gendered attack, then it is essential that female voters turn to a party that will protect their interests when they enter the polling stations on May 7th.
Harriet Harman describes the Coalition's impact on women in Britain as aturning back of the clock, citing tax and benefit changes as the reason why women 'have paid almost four times as much to bring the deficit down by 2015 even though they still earn less and own less than men'. Labour's awareness of the gendered nature of austerity is encouraging, as are their promises to introduce a primary childcare guarantee between 8am and 6pm and provide 25 hours of free childcare a week for working parents with three and four-year-olds, worth £1,500. The latter will be paid for with a new levy on banks, which seems only fair since they plunged us all into the mess of recession and austerity in the first place.
Research released by the Fawcett Society shows that since 2008, almost a million women have moved into insecure, low paid work, and female underemployment has nearly doubled. Labour plans to give a tax break to businesses that introduce a living wage, consequently raising the wages of thousands of low paid women, and raise the minimum wage to eight pounds an hour. The Labour 'Women's Manifesto' also pledges to protect the SureStart budget (decimated under the Coalition), open an additional 50,000 childcare places and put tackling violence against women and girls 'at the heart' of government. These promises are encouraging, but they are far from radical.
Women have suffered disproportionately from the Coalition government's tax and benefit strategy, with analysis by the House of Commons Library showing that a net 3.047bn (21%) had been raised from men and 11.628bn (79%) had been raised from women. The Coalition's criminalization of revenge pornography in 2014 definitely deserves commendation, but generally, meaningful positive change for Britain's women has not manifested from Cameron's residency in Number 10. Some rather cursory attention has been paid to women's rights issues, but any benefit from this has been largely cancelled out by the effects of austerity. For example, a 10 million fund for women's refuges was earmarked by the Coalition, but they failed to ring fence funding nationally at a time when local funding cuts have seen mass closures of specialist women's services.
The Conservative manifesto promises to extend the tax-free childcare scheme from all children under 7, to all children under 12, and increase the scheme from 1,200 to 2,000 a year, per child. It also pledges to introduce a new, more flexible system of parental leave, so parents can make the decision of how to best divide up paid maternity leave between them. A new strategy for tackling violence against women has been proposed, that involves better training for police and professionals on the front line, and more focus on preventative work in schools.
As part of the Coalition government, the Lib Dems have plenty to answer for in terms of the gendered nature of austerity and the heavy price paid by women. They have also been spectacularly unsuccessful in increasing female political representation, with just seven women among their 56 MPs. Nick Clegg did not give any women a Cabinet position during the Coalition, and chose not to reshuffle his team before the general election; a move that would have allowed him to promote a woman.
The Lib Dem manifesto pledges to extend the 15 hours of free childcare per week for two years old, and provide the same amount of free childcare to all children between nine months and two years, providing their parents are in work. Overall, the Lib Dems' focus on equality and women's rights seems rather lacklustre, with more attention being paid to what they have already achieved rather than what they will do if elected. The assertion that the Lib Dems have encouraged businesses to put more women on boards is flimsy at best, and totally unsupported at worst.
The Greens have a long-established commitment to women's rights, and are the only mainstream political party dominated by women. First elected MP and former leader Caroline Lucas has been an outspoken campaigner for women's issues in Parliament, and the Green Party promise to introduce 'strong measures' to tackle gender inequality in the UK, including a law requiring the boards of large companies to be made up of 40% women.
Under the Greens, rape crisis and domestic violence centres would be funded from core budgets, and women seeking asylum due to 'forced marriage, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, rape and other sexual assault' would have their needs better understood and cared for. This is a truly radical policy and could pave the way for the end of female detention in facilities like Yarl's Wood, where female asylum seekers are verbally and sexually abused by guards, stripped of their privacy, and many inmates quickly become suicidal.
Much has been made about the 'women-friendly' nature of UKIP's manifesto, published on 9th April, particularly due to the pledge to scrap the unpopular tampon tax. Women's sanitary products are currently classified as 'nonessential luxury items' and are subject to VAT, whereas men's razors are not. Under current EU law, items that have previously been taxed cannot have tax completely removed from them.
Head of Policy Suzanne Evans asserts that "no other party can pledge to take this simple step" as leaving the EU makes up the foundation of UKIP's manifesto. UKIP has managed to conflate women's issues with their negative view of the EU, a tactic that seems particularly cynical when coming from a party that has such a terrible track record regarding women's rights. A few examples of this include Farage's branding female city high-flyers as 'worth less' to employers if they have children, and MEP Stuart Agnew's comment that women don't have the ambition to reach top professional positions because babies 'get in the way'. UKIP MEPs have consistently failed to represent women's interests in the European Parliament, voting against or failing to turn up to votes on equal pay, tackling FGM, and eradicating violence against women.
Although it can be argued that the term 'women's issues' is something of a misnomer, it's essential that we remember that there are issues that disproportionately affect women. If we lived in a more equal society, where women did not shoulder the burden of austerity, face workplace inequality, experience a pay gap, or live their lives at a greater risk of domestic violence and sexual assault, there wouldn't need to be 'women's issues'. There would just be 'issues'. Childcare, parental leave, and the low pay of care workers should be a priority for both men and women, but this is currently not the case, and as Helen Lewis writes in New Statesman, 'robbing us of the right to call [care work, childcare etc.] a "women's issue" is robbing us of the right to speak at all'.
Author harrietpwilliamsonPosted on April 27, 2015 December 28, 2016 Categories Open DemocracyTags childcare, Conservative, equal pay, equality, FGM, Green, Labour, parental leave, pay gap, politics, UKIP, violence against women, women, womens rights
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This is a list of BloodClan cats who appear in the game. For descriptions on how these cats affect your game, see BloodClan.
Here are the BloodClan Cats in rank order.
Dark's pelt is one of only two unattainable pelt colors, the other being Pandaspirit's. Dark's pelt is darker than the default black pelt and has pink inside the ears.
Fierce might be Fiercekit from the tutorial. If you speak to him, he'll say you look familiar, regardless of which Clan you're from.
Wound is a Trainer, behaving like Trainer Maplestripe, Trainer Tune, and the trainers of other clans.


Coarsely grind together the grated coconut, garlic, turmeric powder, chilli powder, cumin seeds and salt. Set aside.
Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds. Then add in the curry leaves, dried chilli and saute for few seconds on low heat.
Lower the heat, add in the grated carrot, chopped pearl onions, coconut mixture and mix well.
Bring everything to the center of the pan and pat down the mixture tightly using the back of a spoon. Cover and cook for 5-6 minutes on very low heat. Stir occasionally to make sure that the bottom is not getting burned. Adjust salt, if required.
Once the carrot is cooked well, remove the lid and stir fry for another 2-3 minutes on low-medium heat.


A view from Kreuzberg's Hobrechtbrücke across the canal to the old power station.
Lokking across the canal to where my home was for a couple of days – today I arrived back in my home town.
The Landwehr canal can be as nice as the Ruhr riverfront at home in Spring.
At the end of March, there was a ruckus in front of the kitchen window – some very loud birds that turned out to be a pair of Eurasian Jays – Eichelhäher – that appeared to have built a nest in the conifer next to my window! It was not easy to get some photos of those beautiful birds, but I managed a few.


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