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Dingo Dash
No full textThe author gives an overview of Dingo Dash videogame made for iOS and how the study the target audience, understanding today’s market and some processes post-launch have a huge impact on the app success. I will use my game as a good example on how to not make and publish a game
Efficient photo‐degradation of cationic dyes by Co3O4 and Sr‐Co3O4 spinel nanocomposites under solar light irradiation
No full textIn the present study Co3O4 and Sr-Co3O4 nanoparticles were prepared by sol-gel and co-precipitation methods and tested as photo-catalysts for the degradation of methylene blue (MB, model molecule of the thiazine dyes class) and malachite green (MG, model molecule of the triphenylmethane category)under solar light irradiation. To study the photocatalytic activity, Co3O4 was doped by three different weight percentages of strontium (5%, 10%, and 15%). Among these, 10 wt% Sr-Co3O4, named as (10)Sr-Co3O4, showed maximum photodegradation efficiency toward both MB and MG. Their structural and morphological characteristics, chemical composition, surface area, and optical properties were investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy – Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (FE-SEM-EDX), UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and photoluminescence (PL) analysis. The XRD investigations of Co3O4 and (10)Sr-Co3O4 catalysts indicated retention of structure. The effect of initial pH, initial concentration of the dyes and photocatalysts dose was properly investigated. The results demonstrated the enhanced photocatalytic activity of (10)Sr-Co3O4 compared to that of pristine Co3O4 due to Sr doping that improves electron-hole (e–/h+) pairs separation mediated by charge migration on the Sr-Co3O4 structure. The as-prepared photocatalyst exhibited a remarkable photocatalytic efficiency towards both the dyes. (10)Sr-Co3O4 and Co3O4 degraded 96% and 88% of MB at pH = 11, and 92% and 85% of MG at pH = 9, respectively in 90 min. Moreover, it was demonstrated that the photodegradation of MB and MG by Sr-Co3O4 and Co3O4 followed a pseudo-first-order kinetics. Both the photocatalysts showed good stability during recycling maintaining high performances after five cycles. Finally, the active species were identified using various scavengers by trapping holes and radicals generated during the photocatalytic degradation proces
AN ADAPTATIVE BITRATE ALGORITHM FOR DASH
No full textDynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) has been widely used on the Internet. However, DASH does not impose any algorithm to choose video quality. In this paper, an adaptive bitrate switch algorithm for DASH player is proposed. Firstly, the proposed algorithm takes video playback quality, video rate switching frequency and buffer status into account in order to meet the available bandwidth. Secondly, several measures are designed specially to improve user visual quality. Besides, the proposed player takes a sub-optimal algorithm to avoid video playback interruptions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed player can provide better performance compared with Bitdash player in several aspects, such as video quality switch frequency, bandwidth utilization and subjective visual experience.CPCI-S(ISTP)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
An Interdisciplinary Study of Narrative Structure in Dash Akol as a Short Story and Dash Akol as a Movie
No full textThis paper undertakes an interdisciplinary study of the short story “Dash Akol” and the movie adapted from it. “Dash Akol” is a short story written by a famous Iranian author Sadeq Hedayat in 1932. Hedayat’s “Dash Akol” was made into a movie in 1971 by Masoud Kimiai. There are some discrepancies between the short story “Dash Akol” and the movie, triggering a number of significant implications. This article discusses these discrepancies along with Hedayat’s and Kimiai’s narrative techniques. To this end, it applies Genett’s (1988) Narrative Discourse and his three main narrative methods: narrating, characterization, and focalization. Meanwhile, it brings in Rimmon-Kenen’s (2002) strategy to study characters, and Stam and Burgoyne and Flitterman-lewis (2005) to show the ways in which the movie has deviated from the story. In terms of characterization, it studies traits such as, action, speech, naming and setting
Harvard's Disappointing DASH: Short Update on the Knoll Case
No full text?p=20051 There are now 123 articles by Professor Knoll. None of the 23 newest articles (at the time of my test there were 100 Knoll articles in DASH) is Open Access in DASH - all are only providing links to the published version: "At the direction of the depositing author this work is not currently accessible through DASH." There is now an field "Other sources" with links to eventually free online versions. But these links are not complete, see e.g. http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3190372 W..
Analisis Penerapan Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) pada Penderita Hipertensi
No full textHypertension is an increase in systolic blood pressure of more than 140 mmHg and a diastolic blood pressure of more than 90 mmHg on two measurements with an interval of five minutes in a state of adequate rest. Of the two nutritionists that have been interviewed by author, both of them gave the same opinion about the DASH daily diet, which is that it is a diet that focuses on reducing salt and saturated fat consumption, and also increases consumption of foods with high potassium, calcium, magnesium, and fiber level, where this diet can reduce high blood pressure. Proof that the DASH daily diet can reduce and maintain blood pressure stability for hypertensive patients can be seen in the two hypertensive patients that have been interviewed by author. Both of them claimed that they have received education about the DASH from doctors who handled them and they have applied the concept of the DASH in their daily lives. And it can be seen that their blood pressure slowly dropped and rarely relapsed after applying this diet. Both of them even admitted that in the last three months, their hypertention had never relapsed again. This can be evidence that the DASH daily diet can be effective in reducing and maintaining blood pressure stability for people with hypertension. For this reason, the author suggest the importance of educating hypertensive patients on the DASH, as well as direct supervision from the family regarding the discipline of sufferers in implementing the DASH daily diet
On the polyfunctionality of punctuation marks in modern German (on the example of the dash)
No full textThe article analyzes the functions of the dash in literary German-language texts. The purpose of the study is to clarify and describe the various functions of the dash, to determine its role in the transmission of the communicative intention of the author of the written text. It is established that the dash is a multifunctional punctuation mark which complicates and specifies its functions depending on the contextual conditions of its use and the communicative situation. Two main groups of functions were identified and described: structural-semantic and expressive. Within the framework of structural and semantic functions, the dash is an indicator of logical relations in an utterance – causal and contrast ones. Being a means of a written text division, the dash performs compositional functions: it signals the transition from one type of speech transmission to another, to a new microtheme, a change of the addressee-addresser of speech. The dash is a graphic means of creating expressiveness, marking expressive syntactic constructions (inserts, separations, introductory structures, attachments, parentheses), pauses in a character’s speech, contributing to the compression of the utterance, the effect of emotional tension, the incompleteness of the utterance. The dash is one of those punctuation marks that have a vivid stylistic potential and are widely used by the authors in order to create a special artistic effect. This applies both to cases where the current punctuation rules allow one to choose between a dash and another character, and when the rules do not require any character at all. The choice of the dash depends on the author’s communicative intention and can be explained based on the context, or by the predominant use of the dash, which is one of the elements of the author’s style.  
Understanding how food labels impact the dash diet and blood pressure
No full textAbstract
Purpose of Project
This study aims to answer the clinical question of What is the impact of understanding food labels and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet in relationship with blood pressure?
Methodology
This Quasi-Experimental study will take place in northern New Jersey with male and female patients who are eighteen and older and have a blood pressure that is over 130/80. The method of this study will have the participant take a survey at the first appointment and then watch a YouTube video made by the study team on DASH diet and food label education. The patient will then make a follow up appointment in 2 weeks to take the post-intervention survey. Qualtrics and SPSS program will interpret data on whether the food label and DASH diet education was successful and had a relationship with blood pressure.
Results
There were significant statistics p-value = <0.001 which showed improved patient BP to 129/80 or less (70%) when they understood and used food labels regularly & the DASH diet as well as improved patient weight- by at least 1 lb. (96%) when they understood and used food labels & the DASH diet.
Implications for practice
Patients with hypertension had about two thousand dollars higher annual adjusted expenditure than those without hypertension (Benjamin et al.,2017). Hypertensive patients also had “2.5 times the inpatient cost, almost double the outpatient cost, and nearly triple the prescription medication expenditure” (Benjamin et al., 2017). There are countless complications that come from hypertension like renal disease, cardiac disease, stroke, and or death which can lead to life-threatening situations. Recommendation on Food label and DASH diet education which has a powerful impact on blood pressure and weight should be considered during office visits with patients Keywords: Food labels, DASH diet, Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Pre-HypertensionD.N.P.Includes bibliographical reference
Corrigendum to “Assessing the capacity of three production efficiency models in simulating gross carbon uptake across multiple biomes in conterminous USA” [Agric. Forest Meterol. 174–175 (2013) 158–169]
No full textThe authors regret that the printed version of the above article missed out the third author's name. The correct and final version follows. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.We wish to add: Terence P. Dawson, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom as a co-author in the article
Dash Database: Structured Kernel Data For The Machine Understanding of Computation
No full textabstract: As device and voltage scaling cease, ever-increasing performance targets can only be achieved through the design of parallel, heterogeneous architectures. The workloads targeted by these domain-specific architectures must be designed to leverage the strengths of the platform: a task that has proven to be extremely difficult and expensive.
Machine learning has the potential to automate this process by understanding the features of computation that optimize device utilization and throughput.
Unfortunately, applications of this technique have utilized small data-sets and specific feature extraction, limiting the impact of their contributions.
To address this problem I present Dash-Database; a repository of C and C++ programs for software-defined radio applications and its neighboring fields; a methodology for structuring the features of computation using kernels, and a set of evaluation metrics to standardize computation data sets. Dash-Database contributes a general data set that supports machine understanding of computation and standardizes the input corpus utilized for machine learning of computation; currently only a small set of benchmarks and features are being used.
I present an evaluation of Dash-Database using three novel metrics: breadth, depth and richness; and compare its results to a data set largely representative of those used in prior work, indicating a 5x increase in breadth, 40x increase in depth, and a rich set of sample features.
Using Dash-Database, the broader community can work toward a general machine understanding of computation that can automate the design of workloads for domain-specific computation.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Electrical Engineering 202
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