Training Program for Electrical Engineers

Training is an effective way to develop employees’ skills and competencies. Moreover, training is required not only to close skill gaps but also to maintain the current knowledge, allowing companies to compete effectively and adapt to new technologies. This study was carried out in a large multinational company, where electrical engineers face different challenges with project delivery due to a lack of technical skills. Constant and regular training is required to improve technical skills in such cases, however, no systematic training program exists for electrical engineers in the company. The study objective was to create an outline of a training program, that allows its implementation in practice and supports the development of electrical engineers. The study is based on an applied action research approach, conducted in four stages, and utilizes qualitative methods of data collection. In the first stage, the current state analysis was arranged by interviewing the relevant stakeholders and identifying the essential and current technical skills, as well as discussing skill gaps of electrical engineers. Focusing on the major skill gap and gathering valuable concepts and ideas from the literature allowed to form the conceptual framework of the training program design. Following the framework’s principles, the outline of the training program was first co-created with the targeted stakeholders and then validated by the decision-maker. The outcome of the study is the outline of the training program for electrical engineers. The training program is focused on improving one of the core technical competencies related to knowledge of Medium Voltage systems

Unravelling the architecture of membrane proteins with conditional random fields

In this thesis we use Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) as a sequential classifier to predict the location of transmembrane helical regions in membrane proteins. CRFs allow for a seamless and principled integration of biological domain knowledge into the model and are known to have several advantages over other approaches. We have used this flexibility in order to incorporate several biologically inspired features into the model. We compared our approach with twenty eight other methods and received the highest score in the percentage of residues predicted correctly. We have also carried out experiments comparing CRFs against Maximum Entropy Models (MEMMs). Our results confirm that CRFs overcome the label bias problem, which are known to afflict MEMMs. Furthermore, we have used CRFs to analyze the architecture of the protein complex, Cytochrome c oxidase, and have recreated the results obtained from physical experiments

Unravelling the architecture of membrane proteins with conditional random fields

In this thesis we use Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) as a sequential classifier to predict the location of transmembrane helical regions in membrane proteins. CRFs allow for a seamless and principled integration of biological domain knowledge into the model and are known to have several advantages over other approaches. We have used this flexibility in order to incorporate several biologically inspired features into the model. We compared our approach with twenty eight other methods and received the highest score in the percentage of residues predicted correctly. We have also carried out experiments comparing CRFs against Maximum Entropy Models (MEMMs). Our results confirm that CRFs overcome the label bias problem, which are known to afflict MEMMs. Furthermore, we have used CRFs to analyze the architecture of the protein complex, Cytochrome c oxidase, and have recreated the results obtained from physical experiments

Yield of Early Maturing Sunflower Varieties, Different-Aged Crops as a Secondary Crop in the Zarafshan and Surkhandarya Oases of Uzbekistan

In Uzbekistan, oilseed sunflowers are grown mainly as a secondary crop on fertile land free from cereals. Every summer, 1.1-1.3 million hectares of irrigated land in the country are cleared of cereals. Due to the hot climate in the southern oasis (Surkhandarya region), grain is harvested in the first 10 days of June, and in the Zarafshan oasis (Samarkand region) in the third 10 days of June, winter wheat is harvested.. Due to the different weather conditions in Surkhandarya and Samarkand regions, the sowing period of sunflower as a secondary crop differs significantly.  Yields will also vary. Yields of early maturing sunflower SAI 20-80 and Dilbar varieties planted between June 20, June 30, July 10 and July 20 were analyzed as a repeat crop to determine the optimal planting time of sunflowers in both oasis soil climatic conditions

Productivity of Barley Varieties and Samples in Non-Irrigated Conditions

This article provides information on the role of barley in the creation of the fodder base of livestock, drought tolerance, the order of cultivation in arable lands, varieties with high productivity, samples

New Oil Crops for Seeds

Oil radish and winter rape were studied in the field research carried out by the authors between 2012 and 2017 for the purpose of providing seed for new crops for irrigated conditions of the Zarafshan Valley of Uzbekistan. When grown in winter, crops from frost are successfully preserved, but they start to grow from early spring and early summer and can provide a seed yield of oil radish 22.9-26.9 centners / ha and for winter rapeseed 21.1-2. Their biological characteristics allow them to produce 40–60 t/ha of biomass yield at a positive temperature of 600–700 degrees for 40–45 days as well as 3.0–3.5 t/ha of excellent-quality seeds, which is equivalent to a yield of 2.0–2.5 t / ha of edible oil. Additionally, oilseed radish is successfully combined with crops of the cotton–grain complex, and it can be harvested from it three times a year

Dissociations between developmental dyslexias and attention deficits

We examine whether attention deficits underlie developmental dyslexia, or certain types of dyslexia, by presenting double dissociations between the two. We took into account the existence of distinct types of dyslexia and of attention deficits, and focused on dyslexias that may be thought to have an attentional basis: letter position dyslexia (LPD), in which letters migrate within words, attentional dyslexia (AD), in which letters migrate between words, neglect dyslexia, in which letters on one side of the word are omitted or substituted, and surface dyslexia, in which words are read via the sublexical route. We tested 110 children and adults with developmental dyslexia and/or attention deficits, using extensive batteries of reading and attention. For each participant, the existence of dyslexia and the dyslexia type were tested using reading tests that included stimuli sensitive to the various dyslexia types. Attention deficit and its type was established through attention tasks assessing sustained, selective, orienting, and executive attention functioning. Using this procedure, we identified 55 participants who showed a double dissociation between reading and attention: 28 had dyslexia with normal attention and 27 had attention deficits with normal reading. Importantly, each dyslexia with suspected attentional basis dissociated from attention: we found 21 individuals with LPD, 13 AD, 2 neglect dyslexia, and 12 surface dyslexia without attention deficits. Other dyslexia types (vowel dyslexia, phonological dyslexia, visual dyslexia) also dissociated from attention deficits. Examination of 55 additional individuals with both a specific dyslexia and a certain attention deficit found no attention function that was consistently linked with any dyslexia type. Specifically, LPD and AD dissociated from selective attention, neglect dyslexia dissociated from orienting, and surface dyslexia dissociated from sustained and executive attention. These results indicate that visuospatial attention deficits do not underlie these dyslexias