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Sew Me a Quilt. Tell You a Story. was a performative conversation between Sequoia Barnes and Carol Tulloch that took place at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (25 April 2019). It was in response to the exhibition Senga Nengudi (16 March–26 May 2019), notably her work Ceremony for Freeway Frets (1979) and the RSVP series. These feature costume and textiles associated with Black bodies which Barnes argues lean on the concept of fashioning – establishing design, making and aesthetic codes engineered by and superimposed onto marginalized people – a theme that Barnes explores in her research practice. For Tulloch these works reflect styling – the construction of self through the assemblage of garments, accessories, hairstyles and beauty regimes that may, or may not, be 'in fashion' at the time of use. To style one's body is part of everyday life, which is agency and a form of self-telling. 'Fashioning' and 'styling' are different, yet equally valid, approaches to thinking about making the self. In this article we will discuss how exploration of the concepts Black fashioning and Black styling informed the performance Sew Me a Quilt. Tell You a Story. through two women hand-stitching a quilt, a joint act that is a longstanding signifier of Black women's making traditions, storytelling and communal experience. As two Black women who are culturally and generationally different – Barnes is African American and Tulloch is Black British – our shared diasporic connections to quilt-making engendered our pursuit of authorship and agency through making in the otherwise privileged space of the 'white cube gallery'. Additionally, the article will discuss how this performative conversation blurred the lines between making and performance, materiality and lived experiences as well as how our performative exchange of knowledge – academic, cultural and political – created something that went beyond the usual experience of visiting a gallery to 'look at art' to seeing and listening. The original idea for the performance, instigated by Barnes, was for her and Tulloch to talk while hand-stitching an unfinished quilt, which Tulloch began in 2010, in front of an audience they were not to engage with. The intention was to hold space for the audience to enable listening. In practice, the performative conversation also held space for: different kinds of conversations and listening; emotional experiences and healing; and consideration of how Tulloch and Barnes fashion/style their own identities through memories as they stitched towards completing a quilt as a form of remembrance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In early days of electricity supply, firstly we use to transmit electric supply in direct current (DC) mode. At firstly the electricity was generated by Thomas Alva Edison in 1980s was DC only. The main drawback of direct current (DC) was, it can only used for long transmission system only. To overcome this drawback leads to invention of alternate current (AC). This paper details about High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Transmission System, which works on the components like converting stations, converting units, converting valves, DC filters, AC filters, capacitor bank, transmission medium. This paper also detail about design, construction, operation and maintenance of HVDC transmission system. Another important lead for invention of AC is economical impact. DC is used for supply of long transmission systems, which leads to increase in cost for short transmission systems. It also details about applications of HVDC transmission system. • The first commercial HVDC transmission system as established in Gotland 1 in Sweden 1954. • The first commercial HVDC transmission system in India at Rihand-Dadri in 1991. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Underwater image enhancement restores corrupted underwater photos so that clean images can be produced. Deep learning-based image super resolution reconstruction has been a prominent issue in the near past. To enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of deep learningbased solutions, this research puts forth an enhanced picture deep convolutional neural networks-based super-resolution reconstruction technique. Deep learning-based image improvement techniques normally use paired data to train the model; however, in the underwater environment, paired data, such as damaged photographs and their corresponding clean images, is difficult to collect simultaneously. Another significant issue is how to effectively keep specific information in the improved image. We provide a neural network-based model for an approach to unpaired underwater picture enhancement to overcome these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In industrial design, perceived quality is driven by color, material, and finishing (CMF). Extant literature on CMF in the automobile industry has primarily focused on hue. Accordingly, the present study focused on color brightness with the goal of assessing whether light reflection brightness of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) positively affects consumers' purchase intentions due to an expectation of premium design. Additionally, it was hypothesized that light reflection brightness of compact cars would negatively affect consumers' purchase intentions, as they would expect a cost-effective design. Subsequently, multiple car designs—with the same style but different levels of light reflection brightness—were created, and randomized controlled trials were conducted through an online research environment in Japan. The results confirmed the study hypotheses, indicating that while light reflection brightness of SUVs positively affected consumers' purchase intentions, the same effect was not observed for compact cars. This suggests the importance of coherent embodiment based on product concepts. While some elements, such as safety and durability, are required in all products, compatibility with product characteristics needs to be examined for emotional elements, such as design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mapping industry is one of the areas that is always given attention to balance the rapid development of current technology. The application of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology in the mapping industry opens up a wide dimension of discussion involving industry users as well as academics. LiDAR technology is now a common method for faster and higher quality topographic data collection than conventional topographic data collection methods. Observation data that is generally in the form of high-density point (point cloud) can also be applied in various uses, especially in the field of mapping and terrain analysis. Therefore, this paper will discuss related LiDAR technology including basic information or principles of LiDAR technology,the latest developments of LiDAR methods, and work processes involved from the point of view of the Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM).

Currently, interest in the development of Internet-of-Things technologies is increasingly penetrating the field of clinical medicine. This paper provides an overview of the use of Internet-of-Things technologies in medical practice using the Scopus database of publications. The classification of publications on the topic of research directions with promising development trends has been performed. With this in mind, the concept of the architecture of a system for monitoring the condition of a patient with Parkinson’s disease is presented. The necessary hardware and software solutions have been developed, taking into account the needs in order to more effectively adjust treatment and monitor the course of the disease. To more accurately determine the state of progression of the patient’s disease, tests have been designed and developed to assess overall emotional and physical well-being. For the most effective correction and control of drug therapy, a prototype of a drug administration device with four compartments for a drug has been designed, each compartment of which is individually controlled by a specially developed Bluetooth data transmission protocol. Access to each compartment is individual, which ensures the versatility of the device for taking several medications throughout the day. The practical application of the solution has also shown the relevance of its use in the task of studying the course of Parkinson’s disease as well as for monitoring the condition of a patient with existing concomitant diseases and the degree of their influence on the course of the underlying disease.

An important part of clinical data analysis is predicting heart disease based on medical data. In healthcare, the data is vast and complex, and also it gives massive support in prediction and decision-making techniques. DM turns an extensive collection into valuable data. Several studies use data mining approaches to predict heart disease. Heart disease is the most significant cause of death worldwide, but little research has identified the essential features to assess heart disease risk. This research paper identifies the Significant features that predict heart disease and then applies those features to different classification models to try and discover the best model. The ASHAP BOOST Method is used to determine characteristics, which specifies each feature's marginal contribution in a machine learning model. The chosen components are employed in various Ml Algorithms, and the model's accuracy is identified depending on different performance metrics. For performance and accuracy in heart disease prediction, a variety of structured machine-learning algorithms were used and compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

E-learning is a unit where there is collaboration with academics and IT unit. Here we develop several technologies that can assist academic administration, especially those closely related to the learning process and evaluation. Of course, this cannot happen without the support and tools from the IT Bureau, such as servers and web hosting, which are a place for the system we have developed. Moodle is the main application that is the main operation of e-learning at Widyatama University, but Moodle itself is not enough to solve higher education learning problems, especially at Widyatama University. The following are some of the main problems that are not a feature of Moodle itself so it needs developments that have been carried out by the elearning unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes and categorizes the cases of military look's transitional design ideas in recent women's fashion collections, and derives characteristics. The research method is a theoretical review of military look and an analysis of fashion collection cases. The research results were classified into a total of six transformational design ideas. As a structural change in design, it is a decentralized type, a type of expansion and reduction, a change in the entire material, or a transition of some materials, and finally a type according to heterogeneous harmony and organic combination corresponding to styling. Finally, a total of three characteristics are the reconstruction of structural elements, the expansion of the metric of the second mix match, and the emotional fusion of styling. I hope that the study of the transformative type of idea of the new military look will be the driving force for creative design development and will be a basic study that can read the current status and changes of the times throughout fashion design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The many-sidedness of the Art Deco phenomenon attracts more and more attention. The term itself is polemical, as well as its analogues, the acceptable extension of the “range” of this style, its extension to phenomena and monuments of different years and regions. The author tries to introduce readers to the atmosphere of Art Deco in its “core” manifestations, first of all, in the American architecture and design of the 1920-1940s. As the author believes, without such exposure, we can understand neither the meaning of the phenomenon, nor its lessons for our time, which is increasingly tending to something like this.

Acute scalp hair "felting" is a rare acquired condition that presents with sudden severe twisting, entangling, and matting of scalp hair into a stiff tightly packed mass, in otherwise healthy individuals. In such conditions, the mechanism of hair matting is almost like the process of "felting" in wool and textile industry, where adjacent fibers are compacted together in a warm liquid medium. Herein, a case of acute hair "felting" during styling practice is discussed with the possible predisposing factors, prophylaxis, and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current day customary windmills have numerous downsides. My paper proposes a choice to conquer the downsides. These options are FLYING WINDMILLS. The breeze Is a lot steadier at heights, so you settle the score more preferred position over ordinary windmills In this NEW GENERATION WINDMILLS. Flying windmills have points of interest over their l and-based partners which Is in light of elements, for example, shapes of the l and day by day warming and cooling designs, frequently face possibly Inadequate wind or fierce breezes, requiring costly plans. No such Impediments happen In the jet stream, where air moves close continually and at a few times the speed that It does at 100 feet off the ground, permitting considerably more energy to be caught from each square meter of wind. Flying windmills are significantly more favorable as It has impromptu age: gadgets with a sensibly basic tie framework don't need to be forever introduced In one spot. They could be shipped out to any location that required them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper is focused on some kind of mystery circuit nullator, nullor, current mirror, and voltage mirror, all of them known as pathological elements. These pathological elements can be used to perform circuit modelling, symbolic circuit analysis, circuit synthesis, circuit design and to develop applications that involve modern active devices. It is described a new modeling of nullor-based active devices from the circuit abstraction level. In this paper it is presented the way all types of equations which describe the circuit containing nullors can be directly formulated from the diagrams of these circuits if we took into account that a nullator is an over-determined two-port circuit element (zero voltage, zero current) and the norator is an undetermined two-port circuit element (any voltage and any current). To simulate the nullors with ideal voltage controlled voltage sources, ec = Ac_c uc, with the control gate an ideal independent current source, jC = 0.0 A and with the amplification (transfer) factor Ac_C very big (theoretically 8), the analog circuits with nullors can be analyzed by using any of the existing simulation software. By this way, it was possible the elaboration of efficient algorithms for an automatic formulation of Kirchhoff's equations, of loop equations, of modified nodal equations and of state equations for circuits with pathological elements. These procedures can be easily implemented in dedicated programs for the simulations of the complex analog circuits with pathological elements. The example presented in this paper validates the presented models for nullors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose utilizing budget consumer hardware and software to teach computer forensics principles and for non-case work, research and developing new techniques. Consumer grade hardware and free/open source software is more easily accessible in most developing markets and can be used as a first purchase for education, technique development and even when developing new techniques. These techniques should allow for small forensics laboratories or classroom settings to have the tooling and framework for trying existing forensics techniques or creating new forensics techniques on consumer grade hardware. We'll be testing how viable each individual piece of hardware is as well as combinations along with seeing at which point utilizing forensics-grade hardware becomes necessary in order to proceed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a brief introduction to FBG sensor technology and its applications. Then the procedure for determining the sensor calibration equations is presented. These equations are determined for each individual sensor and are necessary to perform the trans-oceanographic measurement of the FBG sensor's wavelength variation in the measured parameter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is focused on some kind of mystery circuit nullator, nullor, current mirror, and voltage mirror, all of them known as pathological elements. These pathological elements can be used to perform circuit modelling, symbolic circuit analysis, circuit synthesis, circuit design and to develop applications that involve modern active devices. It is described a new modeling of nullor-based active devices from the circuit abstraction level. In this paper it is presented the way all types of equations which describe the circuit containing nullors can be directly formulated from the diagrams of these circuits if we took into account that a nullator is an over-determined two-port circuit element (zero voltage, zero current) and the norator is an undetermined two-port circuit element (any voltage and any current). To simulate the nullors with ideal voltage controlled voltage sources, ec = Ac_c uc, with the control gate an ideal independent current source, jC = 0.0 A and with the amplification (transfer) factor Ac_C very big (theoretically 8), the analog circuits with nullors can be analyzed by using any of the existing simulation software. By this way, it was possible the elaboration of efficient algorithms for an automatic formulation of Kirchhoff's equations, of loop equations, of modified nodal equations and of state equations for circuits with pathological elements. These procedures can be easily implemented in dedicated programs for the simulations of the complex analog circuits with pathological elements. The example presented in this paper validates the presented models for nullors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents technical properties of the cement-bonded particle boards produced with different types of woods. Cement-bonded particle board (CBPB) is a composite product that is produced by pressing a mixture of wooden particles (chips/flakes) and Portland cement as the binding agent and hydration additives. A comprehensive experimental research work was carried out to analyse the technical properties of the cement-bonded particle boards produced with the chip and flake components obtained from different types of woods. In this research, some technical parameters such as physical sizes, material matrix structures, wood-cement compatibility, mechanical strength and stability properties were examined. Some research findings are presented here and the effects of these parameters on the use of the product were also discussed.

Bu çalışmada farklı ağaç türleri ile üretilen çimento bağlayıcılı yonga levhaların teknik özellikleri sunulmaktadır. Çimento bağlayıcılı yonga levhalar (CBPB), bağlayıcı ajan ve ahşap parçacıklarının karışımı ile preslenerek üretilen kompozit bir üründür. Bu bağlamda, farklı ağaç türlerinden elde edilen yonga bileşenleri ile üretilen çimento bağlayıcılı yonga levhaların teknik özelliklerini analiz etmek için kapsamlı bir deneysel araştırma çalışması yürütülmüştür. Bu araştırmada, fiziksel boyutlar, malzemelerde çimeto matris yapıları, yonga çimento uyumluluğu, mekanik dayanım ve stabilite özellikleri gibi bazı teknik parametreler incelenmiştir. Bazı araştırma bulguları burada sunulmuştur ve bu parametrelerin ürünün kullanımı üzerindeki etkileri de tartışılmıştır.

The article continues the author's series of works proving that genre forms in all types of advertising do not have an independent character, they are borrowed from other discourses. There are three forms of using "alien" genres – borrowing, styling and imitation. Actually, borrowing assumes that the original genre naturally and without reconsideration fits into the form of the poster. This role is played by the genres of direct communication (request, advice, demand). Styling is expressed in the reproduction of the form of the genre, typical of another discourse, but not characteristic of social advertising (announcement, poster, toast). At the same time, the advertising content is presented directly and fairly fully. Simulation differs in the use of game forms for the purpose of attracting attention to the problem (news announcement, dictionary article, note). A parallel is made between the types of commercial advertising and the forms of using genres in social advertising. The commodity advertising implies the use of information at the first stage of the life cycle, while in social advertising the genre of slogan is in demand at the stage of primary formation of the attitude to the idea. The direct appeals to the addressee by means of stimulating speech genres is peculiar of adverting advertisements, relevant at the second stage of the product life cycle. A variety of atypical genre forms (stylization) perform the function of reinforcing commodity advertising in social advertising. The parodying of genre forms of other types of discourse corresponds to reminding commodity advertising.

Visual Terror is a threat to a person through the medium of photographs, drawings, and other imagery. Inciting terror visually is considered very effective because it matches the thought. Roland Barthes in his book The Photographic Message (1961) argues that the photograph is a reality that contains the denotative message. Denotative messaging is conveyed in a manner immediately grasped by the recipient without having to solve specific codes. This technique is used in Indonesia to deter smokers, using photographs depicting the adverse effects of smoking on cigarette packs. The photos are displayed on all cigarette packs manufactured in Indonesia, to ensure that smokers see the photo repeatedly to enhance the impact of visual terror techniques on the smoker’s subconscious. A smoker’s decision-making process in response to terror is presented in this article. It is possible for smokers to quit smoking abruptly, although it is difficult to do this consciously. One example of visual terror photos is depiction of a human mouth that suffered damage, in addition to the picture the packet displays health warnings and information about mouth cancer. In addition to the denoted message about cancer of the mouth, smokers absorb the connotative message that oral cancer is a dangerous disease caused by smoking, which, if not treated immediately will continue to grow and eat away parts of the body and even lead to death. The connotative message could inflict terror on the people who see it. It will continue, according to the experience and socio-cultural circumstances in which the person had been. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the role of the artistic properties of textiles in shaping the interior design of public service establishments and to identify the specifics of their use. The problem of this study is the need to increase the level of aesthetic organization of the internal environment of public service institutions, the comfort of their premises. To solve the article, the problems of work of the Research Center of Monumental and Decorative Art (Kyiv) in the part of textile production for interiors of public buildings are presented. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is the scientific substantiation of theoretical provisions on the use of artistic textile in the interior design of public service establishments and the identification of the basic methods of their use. On the basis of the carried out scientific researches and performed practical works, it is established that the complex interior design of public service establishments the introduction of one of the areas of synthesis of arts, namely artistic textiles will allow: to significantly increase the level of comfort of premises; improve the aesthetic organization of the internal environment; to provide establishments with services of national color. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]