Smart-band BPM and Temperature Based on Android Using Wi-Fi Communication

Monitoring of patients is an integral part of health-care system, both in the hospital and at home. Monitoring devices are useful to monitor a person's health. Monitoring is necessary in case of symptoms of a disease that must be acted quickly to prevent the patient's condition from worsening. One way of monitoring patients' specifications is shown by their BPM value and temperature. The purpose of this study is the design of devices on a patient's wrist that can monitor BPM and his body temperature in real time and are not affected by distance. This research contribution is a system that can provide bradycardia indicators and tachycardia for BPM while hyperthermia and hypothermia for temperature. For a monitoring device to be more practical and efficient for use, it has a device with real time monitoring and a small frame of bracelets and alerts phones and emails during abnormal conditions. The design of the device uses the SEN0203 sensors as a BPM sensor that has analog and digital outputs, as well as MLX90614 sensors that have a digital output, and then data will be processed and shown live to oled ESP333TTGO and data sent to the blynk application on the phone aided by ESP32TTGO as a wifi module. The BPM has the smallest 0.1% error and the largest of 1.09% whereas the temperature has the smallest 0.19% and the largest of 1.63%. These results can be redeveloped on monitor patients to increase the efficiency of the remote monitoring system with alert conditions of patients at an abnormal time via mobile phones and emails.

272 Effect of Frame Size and Supplementation on Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Beef Cattle Finished on Novel Endophyte-infected Tall Fescue Pastures

Objectives were to investigate the effects of frame score (FS) and supplementation on performance and carcass characteristics of cattle finished on novel endophyte-infected fescue pastures. This 2-yr experiment used 80 Angus-sired, crossbred steers and heifers bred for divergent FS. Cattle were allotted to 5 treatments: 1) non-supplemented small frame (S-NON; FS = 3.0 ± 0.9), 2) supplemented small frame (S-SUPP), 3) non-supplemented large frame (L-NON; FS = 4.7 ± 0.6), 4) supplemented large frame (L-SUPP), and 5) grain-based control feedlot ration (CON; FS = 4.2 ± 0.6; target ADG = 1.36 kg/day). Daily rations were delivered individually using Calan gates. Pasture supplement contained corn gluten feed, a commercially available rumen-protected prilled vegetable fat, and dried molasses fed at 0.5% of BW. Treatments started on 7/8/2019 and 5/21/2020, and ended in November of each yr when cattle were slaughtered at a commercial abattoir. Results were analyzed using PROC MIXED of SAS with main effects of treatment, sire, sex, yr, and yr x treatment, with contrast statements comparing large vs. small frame, pasture supplemented vs. non-supplemented, and control vs. pasture groups. As expected, CON had greater (P < 0.001) growth performance (final BW and ADG) and carcass characteristics (HCW, subcutaneous fat, marbling, dressing percentage (DRESS%) than pasture groups, and tended to have greater (P=0.053) REA. Relative to pasture groups, CON had greater (P < 0.001) Minolta L* and a* lean tissue values, and decreased (P < 0.001) b* values for fat tissue. While non-supplemented cattle had decreased (P = 0.016) yield grades (YG), supplemented cattle had greater (P < 0.050) final BW, ADG, subcutaneous fat, HCW, marbling, and DRESS% compared to non-supplemented cattle. Small framed cattle tender to have decreased (P = 0.056) YG; but, large framed cattle had greater (P = 0.006) HCW, and tended (P = 0.060) to have greater ultrasound subcutaneous fat. Results support low-level supplementation in pasture-finishing systems to improve carcass value.

Cyberattacks and Countermeasures for In-Vehicle Networks

As connectivity between and within vehicles increases, so does concern about safety and security. Various automotive serial protocols are used inside vehicles such as Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and FlexRay. CAN Bus is the most used in-vehicle network protocol to support exchange of vehicle parameters between Electronic Control Units (ECUs). This protocol lacks security mechanisms by design and is therefore vulnerable to various attacks. Furthermore, connectivity of vehicles has made the CAN Bus vulnerable not only from within the vehicle but also from outside. With the rise of connected cars, more entry points and interfaces have been introduced on board vehicles, thereby also leading to a wider potential attack surface. Existing security mechanisms focus on the use of encryption, authentication, and vehicle Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), which operate under various constraints such as low bandwidth, small frame size (e.g., in the CAN protocol), limited availability of computational resources, and real-time sensitivity. We survey and classify current cryptographic and IDS approaches and compare these approaches based on criteria such as real-time constraints, types of hardware used, changes in CAN Bus behaviour, types of attack mitigation, and software/ hardware used to validate these approaches. We conclude with mitigation strategies limitations and research challenges for the future.

Vehicle Logo Recognition with Small Sample Problem in Complex Scene Based on Data Augmentation

Automatic identification for vehicles is an important topic in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and the vehicle logo is one of the most important characteristics of a vehicle. Therefore, vehicle logo detection and recognition are important research topics. Because of the problems that the area of a vehicle logo is too small to be detected and the dataset is too small to train for complex scenes, considering the speed of recognition and the robustness to complex scenes, we use deep learning methods which are based on data optimization for vehicle logo in complex scenes. We propose three augmentation strategies for vehicle logo data: cross-sliding segmentation method, small frame method, and Gaussian Distribution Segmentation method. For the problem of small sample size, we use cross-sliding segmentation method, which can effectively increase the amount of data without changing the aspect ratio of the original vehicle logo image. To expand the area of the logos in the images, we develop the small frame method which improves the detection results of the small area vehicle logos. In order to enrich the position diversity of vehicle logo in the image, we propose Gaussian Distribution Segmentation method, and the result shows that this method is very effective. The F1 value of our method in the YOLO framework is 0.7765, and the precision is greatly improved to 0.9295. In the Faster R-CNN framework, the F1 value of our method is 0.7799, which is also better than before. The results of experiments show that the above optimization methods can better represent the features of the vehicle logos than the traditional method, and the experimental results have been improved.

GEORGE ROCHBERG (1918–2005)Fantasies (1971)

This chapter examines George Rochberg’s Fantasies, written as a present for his wife on their thirtieth wedding anniversary. A set of four haiku-like miniatures for medium voice and piano, Fantasies makes an ideal introduction to a modernist vocal idiom for those who have yet to lose their inhibitions and plunge into new territory. A flexible mezzo would perhaps be best suited to the diverse range of styles packed into such a small frame. Clear projection is essential, in view of the economy of the vocal writing, and a certain forthright strength, as well as a poised lightness. There are just a few moments of Sprechstimme, whispered as well as spoken, and a couple of long, arching melismas, which require considerable breath control. In contrast, speech rhythms are also deftly employed. It is the pianist, however, who has the lion's share in shaping the narrative and illustrating the texts, in a most satisfying part, full of wit and humour, and incorporating some challenging figurations.

VC1 catalyzes a key step in the biosynthesis of vicine from GTP in faba bean

Faba bean is a widely adapted and high-yielding legume cultivated for its protein-rich seeds1. However, the seeds accumulate the anti-nutritional pyrimidine glucosides vicine and convicine, which can cause haemolytic anaemia—favism—in the 400 million individuals genetically predisposed by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase2. Here, we identify the first enzyme associated with vicine and convicine biosynthesis, which we name VC1. We show that VC1 co-locates with the major QTL for vicine and convicine content and that the expression of VC1 correlates highly with vicine content across tissues. We also show that low-vicine varieties express a version of VC1 carrying a small, frame-shift insertion, and that overexpression of wild-type VC1 leads to an increase in vicine levels. VC1 encodes a functional GTP cyclohydrolase II, an enzyme normally involved in riboflavin biosynthesis from the purine GTP. Through feeding studies, we demonstrate that GTP is a precursor of vicine both in faba bean and in the distantly related plant bitter gourd. Our results reveal an unexpected biosynthetic origin for vicine and convicine and pave the way for the development of faba bean cultivars that are free from these anti-nutrients, providing a safe and sustainable source of dietary protein.

Thermostimulation of titanium aluminide synthesis by high-calorie mixtures

A comparative microstructural and phase analysis of titanium aluminide samples obtained by SHS method in shells from a highly exothermic thermite mixture and an equimolar mixture of Nickel and aluminum is carried out. The energy of exothermic reactions of the shells allows heating the charge on the basis of titanium and aluminum and starting the SHS reaction in it. In the sinter sample in the Ni-Al shell, the reaction of titanium aluminide synthesis was not complete; the samples have a high-porous structure with small frame inclusions of intermetallides. In the synthesis of samples in the shell of the thermite mixture obtained alloy, optimal porosity and structure. The main phase in the samples obtained in different modes is titanium aluminide, also in both samples there are inclusions enriched in titanium (Ti3Al, Ti2Al phases), while the phase analysis did not reveal the presence of the initial components of the charge.

Temporal Scale, The Far Future and Inhuman Times: Foresight in Wells and Woolf, Time Travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick

This chapter links the period’s visions of the far future with modernism’s engagement with deep time in order to show how the big historicising that begins in the nineteenth century is not solely about the expansion of historicity but the multiplicity and alternative futurity that follows from it. While the heterochrony of modernist temporal zoom includes the dissolution characteristic of immense expansions of perspective, it is not centred solely on the absorption of a small frame into some more certain, fundamental backdrop. The incongruity between the aesthetic’s imperative to scale itself to what we care about and the immensity of things that can only be registered from far away – temporal hyperobjects, speculative outsides, far-futural risks – is valuable not only for the critique of modernity’s compressed timescapes that it enables, but also for the way it reveals the plurality of times that cannot be nested within one another. This chapter constructs a relationship between genre fiction’s scope and modernism’s long-range aesthetics – the connection between SF’s literal movement away from earthly temporal units (days,years, events, lives, the career of the human as such) and modernist attempts to picture human life from an estranging distance.