ANIMAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

This symposium organised by the Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology was held on 8–10 November 2000 at Tsukuba City, which was the site of the second international NIR spectroscopy conference in 1989. The attendance of the symposium was 175. The varied programme offered information and recent trends in near infrared spectroscopy and other nondestructive measurement techniques. On the first day, Dr Y. Ozaki (Kwansei-Gakuin University) and Dr K. Miyamoto (Wakayama Fruit Tree Experiment Station) presented basic lectures for NIR users: the principles of near infrared spectroscopy and basic statistics (chemometrics). On the second day, three keynote speakers presented exciting and stimulating lectures. Mr K.H. Norris who is well known as the “Father” of NIR spectroscopy, (“the first generation” of the first generations in NIR), presented “The birth of NIR Spectroscopy and the future”. He reviewed the development of spectroscopic measurements in five decades. His lecture varied from the development of equipment for grading egg shells to the latest instruments. He completed his lecture by the words “My story does not have an ending”, from which the audience realised the importance of taking a leaf out of a wise man’s book. The next keynote speaker Professor R. Cho from Kyungpook National University presented the overall trend of NIR spectroscopy in Korea. He also announced the establishment of the Korean Society of Near Infrared Spectroscopy and the arrangements for the

Group evasion behavior is the evasion pattern of numerous agents, one kind of the most frequently observed behavior patterns in nature. However, there appears to be rather little research about human crowd evasion behavior. In this paper, I introduce a new model for simulating group evasion behavior based on biological and sociological models for the purposes of simulating the crowd animation in evasion situations. In biology, fish school group evasion behavior is well studied and it has a possibility that the human crowd evasion behavior in emergency is similar to fish school group evasion patterns. I take this biologically inspired model and seek to extend it by integrating sociological factors found in human groups. For the immediate dangers, bio-inspired model could simulate human evasion movement. With sociological factors, I can simulate more complex evasion patterns with considering sociological factors. With this model, I would be able to simulate crowd evasion behavior in emergency situations. Introduction: The collective behavior of human crowds is one of the most interesting topics for numerous researchers and research areas such as sociology, virtual reality, computer graphics, robotics, psychology, politics, transportation, etc. However, it is difficult to simulate crowd behavior with a good mathematical model because many factors influence how each individual will behave and affects the overall crowd behavior. The factors that induce a variation of a person’s be

Cell therapy is therapy in which cellular material is injected into a patient1. Nowadays, various cell therapies are approved and used clinically. And many products are currently under active investigation worldwide and their market size is expected to grow rapidly in the near future. Ministry of Food and Drug Safety mentioned the global trend of stem cell therapy product in August 28, 2013 and said that market size will grow to 6.6 billion dollars in 2016 from 3.5 billion dollars last year. Global markets for stem cells by BCC Research (2012), cited by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, predicted the global market size of stem cell therapy product would be 6.6 billion dollars in 2016 and grow 11.7% on average every year. Currently, US’s stem cell therapy product occupying the biggest market share amounts to 1.3 billion dollars and Europe’s is 872 million dollars. US’s stem cell therapy product market is predicted to have an average annual growth rate of 11.5% (2.3 billion dollars in 2016), and Europe’s is 10.9% (1.5 billion dollars in 2016). Until August 1, 2013, three stem cell therapies has acquired a sale permit for domestic use in Korea: Hearticellgram-AMI by FCB-Phamicell (the world’s first stem cell therapy product), Cartistem by Medipost (the world’s first allogenous stem cell therapy product) and Cupistem by Anterogen. Besides, 24 medicines are undergoing clinical trial till January 1, 2013. The cell therapy product treatment is different from the existing one because

TABLE CONTENTS Approval page Dedication Abstract Acknowledgement Table of content CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Relevance of project 1.2 Site inspection 1.3 Evolution of road network in nigeria 1.4 Motor vehicle characteristic that affects road design data 1.5 Drivers and their characteristics 1.6 Reconnaissance survey 1.6.1Chain survey 1.6.2Station marking 1.7 Factors Affecting Choice Of Station CHAPTER TWO THEODOLITE TRANSVERSING OF THE ROAD CONTROL 2.1 Definitions 2.2 Thetheodolite 2.3 Theodorite adjustment 2.3.1Temporary adjustment 2.3.2Permanent adjustment 2.4 Procedure for theodolite traversing 2.5Materials used for the theodolte traversinging CHAPTER THREE PROJECT FIELD LEVELING WORK 3.1 Leveling 3.2 Profile leveling 3.3 Cross leveling 3.4 Objectives of leveling 3.5 Instruments used in leveling 3.6 Temporary adjustment of leveling instrument 3.7 Definition of some leveling terminologies 3.8 Leveling book 3.9 Earthwork computation 3.9.1Method CHAPTER FOUR SOIL ANALYSIS 4.1 Collection and preliminary preparation of samples 4.2 Mechanical analysis 4.3 Atterberg/consistency limit tests 4.3.1Liquid limit test 4.3.2Plastic limit test 4.4 Compaction test 4.5 The California bearing ratio (cbr) test 4.6 Pavement design using cbr CHAPTER FIVE GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS DESIGN 5.1 Basic design parameters 5.1.1Design speed 5.1.2Gradient 5.1.3Sight distance 5.2 Curve design 5.3 Curve parameters and formula used, in designing of horizontal curves 5.4 Vertical curve design 5.5 Cross sect

Educational material abounds on the Web, but still most designers of instructional material must start from scratch. Emerging interoperability standards for educational resources will accelerate progress toward reusability of this material. We describe a framework called Model for Distributed Curriculum (MDC) that uses a topic server architecture to allow one Web-based tutorial to include a specification for another tutorial, a “virtual tutorial”, where the best fit to this specification will automatically be found at run time. This allows a designer of instructional material to re-use other Web-based tutorials without having to know what tutorials will exist at run time, i.e. without having to search and analyze material on the Web. Key to MDC is organizing Web-based curriculum into a “topic space” rather than a “page space,” and making use of emerging metadata standards for educational resources to describe the pedagogically relevant properties of Web-based tutorials. Reviewers: Franz Schmalhofer (U. Kaiserslautern), Markus Stolze (IBM Research), Arthur Stutt (Open U.)

As information professionals, librarians are concerned with staying ahead of the technology curve. Whenever a new information technology emerges, librarians invariably appropriate it and adapt it to the library setting. This paper describes the efforts of the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Medical Library to exploit the recent explosion of interest in personal digital assistants (PDAs) to support the information needs of its user population. When confronted with an innovation as profound as the PDA, information specialists are challenged on a number of levels. The first requirement is to master the new technology. Next comes teaching others how to use it. Finally, information specialists must develop or provide PDA-deliverable content for the user population. The author of this paper accomplished the first goal, while the second and third objectives were achieved through collaboration with other library staff and with other departments of the USC School of Medicine. In the spring of 2000, the Norris Medical Library sponsored a “Medical Informatics Seminar” on the topic of PDAs. The USC health sciences community responded overwhelmingly. To a standing-room-only crowd of approximately seventy people, the presenters demonstrated the most basic functions of handheld computers with some mention of medical applications. The audience included students, faculty, and staff, who displayed high levels of interest in the topic by raising numerous questions during the cour

ABSTRACT Agricultural systems for space have been discussed since the works of Tsiolkovsky in the early 20th century. Central to the concept is the use of photosynthetic organisms and light to generate oxygen and food. Research in the area started in 1950s and 60s through the works of Jack Myers and others, who studied algae for O2 production and CO2 removal for the US Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Studies on algal production and controlled environment agriculture were also carried out by Russian researchers in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia beginning in 1960s including tests with human crews whose air, water, and much of their food were provided by wheat and other crops. NASA initiated its Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) Program ca. 1980 with testing focused on controlled environment production of wheat, soybean, potato, lettuce, and sweetpotato. Findings from these studies were then used to conduct tests in a 20 m2, atmospherically closed chamber located at Kennedy Space Center. Related tests with humans and crops were conducted at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in the 1990s. About this same time, Japanese researchers developed a Controlled Ecological Experiment Facility (CEEF) in Aomori Prefecture to conduct closed system studies with plants, humans, animals, and waste recycling systems. CEEF had 150 m2 of plant growth area, which provided a near-complete diet along with air and water regeneration for two humans and two goats

International immersion experiences do not, in themselves, provide students with the opportunity to develop cultural competence. However, using an anthropological lens to educate students allows them to learn how to negotiate cultural differences by removing their own cultural filters and seeing events through the eyes of those who are culturally different. Faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Global Health Institute believed that an embedded experience, in which students engaged with local communities, would encourage them to adopt this Cultural Competency 2.0 position. With this goal in mind, they started the Field School for the Study of Language, Culture, and Community Health in Ecuador in 2003 to teach cultural competency to medical, veterinary, pharmacy, and nursing students. The program was rooted in medical anthropology and embraced the One Health initiative, which is a collaborative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to obtain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment. In this article, the authors identify effective practices and challenges for using a biocultural approach to educating students. In a semester-long preparatory class, students study the Spanish language, region-specific topics, and community engagement principles. While in Ecuador for five weeks, students apply their knowledge during community visits that involve homestays and service learning projects, for which they partner with local co

“From Dictionary to Superdocument: XML, the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, and the Universe” Steve Tinney, Babylonian Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum (stinney@sas.upenn.edu) The ever-increasing importance of computers in gathering, storing, and presenting knowledge brings with it the need to respond to the challenge of exploiting the potential of electronic information management to the maximum. But while it is natural to view knowledge management from the viewpoint of eventual delivery or publication, whatever form it may take, the issue of information reusability is at least as important, and arguably more so. Reusability requires well-structured information as well as permission to reuse it and the means to access it. One of the promises of XML and its increasing circle of friends and relatives is the provision of a well-defined means of defining information structure and accessibility, not only as it relates to publication, but also as it relates to the storage and relational organization of interconnected datasets. Several aspects and implications of the above will be discussed in the present paper, particularly as they relate to the ongoing development of an electronic version of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD). A brief orientation to relevant components of the XML world will be followed by a discussion of some key elements of the ePSD implementation. Some general considerations concerning the relationship between data, knowledge, dissemination

Approaching Precalculus Mathematics Discretely introduces concepts of discrete mathematics through the computer, making them easier to teach and more fun to learn. Philip Lewis shows how this can be accomplished using the Logo language to apply and explore much of the material in standard high school advanced algebra and precalculus programs. He develops sophisticated programming techniques in conjunction with mathematical concepts that make the book a model for teachers looking for ways to integrate computers into the mathematics curriculum. The opening chapter introduces the use of Logo to express a variety of basic mathematical functions. The next four chapters broaden the discussion to include elementary vector operations, in the plane and linear transformations and matrix operations defined as vector-valid functions. Chapter 4 applies the theory of linear transformations to the mapping of two dimensional geometric objects drawn on the computer screen. Chapter 5 takes up mathematical induction and recursion. This allows the transformation theory of chapter 4 to be extended to wire frame objects in space that are projected on the computer screen. Chapter 7 constructs a graphing utility that is used in subsequent chapters to examine the graphs of a variety of functions and to introduce the concept of a limit. This extends to an intuitive introduction to slope and the derivative in order to establish a territory for the calculus. The two chapters that follow examine the trad