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An Automated Music Selector Derived from Weather Condition and its Impact on Human Psychology
No full textSometimes it is disquieting to generate a playlist to listen music for a specific moment. Though listening of music basically depends on our mood and it’s also been said that there exists a relation between our mood and weather, so our approach is to build an automated system to create a music playlist based on users mood and defined weather. Method is to measure the weight of each music files respect to defined mood and weather by using data mining algorithms
Leadership Strategies to Reduce Risks for Nurse Night Shift Workers
Get PDFThe purpose of this systematic review is to identify leadership strategies to help mitigate risks associated with nurse night shift work. An electronic literature search for “Strategies to reduce risks for nurse night shift workers†was conducted using Pubmed, CINAHL, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition databases. Inclusion criteria used was English language, full text available, and published dates between January 1, 2005 and May 1, 2015. Based on the search criteria a total of 107 articles were identified. Abstracts for the articles were reviewed for relevance and duplicate citations removed for a total of 16 studies being included in the review. Several strategies were identified that helped increase transparency and control of shift scheduling. One idea was the utilization of open-shift management technology to allow staff to volunteer for open shifts within a multi-site healthcare system. This idea fit well with the self-scheduling model. The literature indicated that that level of control over schedule contributed to improved health and sense of well-being for shift workers. The individual factor of hardiness was found to have protective effects for shift work tolerance. Furthermore, specific guidelines for fatigue management and practice guidelines for shift management standards help reduce risk for staff and patients. Education for staff regarding health risks, sleep management, and circadian approaches were addressed as leadership responsibilities. Other shift work strategies that produced positive outcomes focused on the rate, duration, and direction of rotating shifts
Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors Based Low THD and Noise-Immune Double Stage Differential Amplifier for Nanoelectronics
No full textDouble Stage Differential Amplifier comprises many advantages by operating differential inputs. It provides excellent immunity to external noise which is certainly a flawless advantage for low-power devices and also reduces Low-Order Harmonics (LOH). This paper presents the design of a double stage differential amplifier using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs). The key approach of the proposed design is to reduce the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Low-Order Harmonics (LOH), output delay and to achieve a high trans-conductance gain, gm. The paper also carries the significant comparisons between conventional differential amplifier and the proposed design. Both circuits have been simulated by using HSPICE model of CNTFET. The optimized threshold voltage is 0.309V and given bias is 1V only. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Fourier analysis also shows an outstanding result compared to the conventional one. Moreover, the output voltage is closely zero at common-mode operation which yields a very high Common-Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR). From the analysis in both common-mode and differential-mode inputs the proposed design was proven to be robustly noise-immune
Gender and Communication: A Study on the Career Choices of Taiwanese Women
No full textThanks to the universal nature of Taiwan’s education, women have accounted for half of all university graduates since 1995. Women are therefore equally competent and well-trained, but Taiwan still suffers from a significant gender pay gap, and women tend to occupy lower-level positions or even leave the workplace altogether - a loss both to these women as individuals and the Taiwanese economy as a whole. This study attempts to: (1) Introduce interpersonal communication as an important variable in understanding the socialization of women and their career choices； (2) Explore the impact of culture and communication on Taiwanese women in order to assess the impact of the father as the ‘opinion leader’ when women make career decisions; assess the extent to which Taiwan can be regarded as a patriarchal society. The study concludes: (1) Taiwanese women’s traditional role in the family rarely conflicts with their own expectations for their future, meaning that they are unable or find it difficult to change their status. (2) Fathers are the ‘opinion leaders’ in women’s career decisions. Regardless of whether the father is controlling or emotionally distant, they have very low expectations for their daughters, causing women to feel lost and ignored. (3) Taiwanese women tend to occupy low-level positions because they lack clear life goals
A Practical Approach to the Renaissance Counterpoint Based on Zarlino’s Pedagogical Principle
Get PDFThis paper presents distinctive features of diverse contrapuntal issues discussed in Zarlino’s Liber de arte contrapuncti, thus illuminating his extensive knowledge of teaching counterpoint and suggesting a supplement point with respect to a logical order of his discussion. In accordance with useful instructions based on his empirical analysis of counter-point, this paper provides his valuable teaching strategies and practical applications to the Renaissance counterpoint class. Especially in the fourth chapter, this paper summarizes his five pedagogical assumptions and applies those to a real situation. This process could support teachers to more realistically acquaint students with sixteenth-century contrapuntal idiom and with actual writing skills of the contrapuntal discipline
Responses to Evidentialism in Contemporary Religious Epistemology: Plantinga and Swinburne in Conversation with Aquinas
No full textIn contemporary debates in religious epistemology, theistic philosophers provide differing responses to the evidentialist argument against religious beliefs. Plantinga’s strategy is to argue that evidence is not needed to justify religious beliefs while Swinburne’s strategy is to argue that religious beliefs can be justified by evidence. However, in Aquinas’ account of religious epistemology, he seems to employ both strategies. In his account of religious knowledge by faith, he argues that evidence is unnecessary for religious beliefs. But in his account of religious knowledge by science, he argues that there is evidence for religious beliefs. In this paper, I argue that there is no real dichotomy between Plantinga’s and Swinburne’s responses to the evidentialist argument. From a Thomistic perspective, Reformed Epistemology and Natural Theology are different but compatible responses to Evidentialism
The Religion of Yesterday, the Atheism of Today, and the Philosophy of the Future
No full textGiven the contemporary trend in favour of austerer ontological commitments, it would appear that Buddhism as a religion would have renewed relevance in the ontological debate concerning what exists. In what follows, I will argue that the ontological anti-realism of Madhyamaka Buddhism shares enough family resemblances with the lightweight realism of scientific naturalism to warrant a new look in, particularly in resolving ontological stalemates in the debate between the religion of yesterday and the atheism of today. I will demonstrate how the religion of yesterday, in the ontotheological tradition, holds an inflationary view of ontology, whereas both Madhyamaka Buddhism, particularly under NÄgÄrjuna, and scientific naturalism maintain a deflationary view of ontology. I will demonstrate how Madhyamaka Buddhism, while it abandons the project of ontology, does not abandon the world of conventional truth entirely, allowing Madhyamaka Buddhists to engage constructively with scientific naturalists. The philosophy of the future, then, might well be constituted by Madhyamaka Buddhist ontological anti-realism as the middle path between the religion of yesterday and the atheism of today, allowing us to engage in the world without attachment
On Karl Popper’s Liberal Principle of Freedom: The Individual and Social Aspects
No full textIn discussing the concept of individual freedom in Popper, I argue that there is room for the “social†in Popper’s liberal politics beyond the pervasive individualism. The moral core of his critical rationalism encourages the process of openness to criticism which entails both individual and social aspects. Although, Popper is critical of holists or collectivists doctrines which often accompany the idea of community, he does not discredit the values of social relation that foster community togetherness. The basis of this presupposition is that Popper’s individualism is a commitment which begins an analysis from the position of the individual rather than the community. Such a commitment does not in any way entail a disregard to community values of social relation or any selfless voluntary action that would benefit the community. In arguing for a balance of relations, within the context of Popper’s idea of freedom, between liberal politics and the community values in politics, I defend a thesis on social freedom. This position on social freedom is aimed at providing an alternative thesis for grounding the social character of freedom in Popper’s political philosophy. This delineates a conception of freedom that applies both individual and social aspects of Popper’s critical rationalism. The objective is to enhance Popper’s project of an open society and establish that his conception of freedom does not inhibit its application within the context of community. This is to the effect that social freedom does not undermine both the capacity of individuals to self-determination and the progress of the community that enhances human relationships
Unstable Sense of Agency under Consistent Force Feedback
Get PDFThe present study undertakes an ecological approach to haptic interfaces grounded in the sense of agency that accompanies human action. The study had two aims. The first aim was to investigate the effect of two top-down cues (perceived initiation of action and presence of action options) on sense of agency in haptic interfaces. The second aim was to investigate the consistency of the sense of agency and answer the question whether consistent force feedback (bottom-up cue) is sufficient to grant stable experience of agency. The results of the study suggest that while high number of action options can be associated with stronger agency, low numbers of action options are unlikely to produce such effect, and that the cue of task completion might be critical for the sense of agency. The study also showed that sense of agency was relatively inconsistent, with the main source of uncertainty being computer-attributed agency. The discussion addresses issues of joint human-computer agency and the contribution of multiple sources of information to agency experience
Treatment of High Strength Vegetable Processing Wastewater with a Sequencing Batch Reactor
Get PDFThe feasibility of an aerobic sequencing batch reactor was studied at the lab scale to treat the high organic loading present in two vegetable processing wastewaters. Hydraulic retention time (HRT) was varied to evaluate its effect on the removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) and total phosphorus (TP). The results showed that a longer HRT promoted the removal of TP, while the liquid drawn per cycle had a larger effect on the COD removal efficiency. An increase in the COD/TKN and TKN/TP ratio decreased the removal efficiency of TKN and TP respectively. The optimized configuration was able to reduce the wastewater loadings to acceptable sewer discharge limits, making it possible eliminate the sewer surcharge fees