Baltic International Academy

About: Baltic International Academy is a education organization based out in Riga, Latvia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Logic synthesis & Parametric statistics. The organization has 81 authors who have published 96 publications receiving 231 citations. The organization is also known as: Baltic Russian Institute.

Revisiting the Role of Membrane ATPases (P-Type) in Metal-Ligand Homeostasis of Epidermal Cells

Abstract: The present article comments on the results of hair spectrometry in pregnant and 9-month-old babies born to these women published in the Reproductive Toxicology journal...

Research of relationships between implicit and explicit healthy or unhealthy food related cognitions

Abstract: The research aim is to study the relationships between implicit and explicit healthy or unhealthy food related cognitions. Research questions: (1) Is there a relationship between the results of measurements of healthy or unhealthy food related cognitions by implicit and self-assessment procedures? (2) How are healthy or unhealthy food related implicit and explicit cognitions and somatic properties (weight, height, body mass index (BMI), age, sex) related? (3) What common factors underlie the relationship between implicit and explicit healthy or unhealthy food related cognitions and somatic properties? (4) What contribution to food related implicit cognitions is made by explicit attitudes (preference of healthy or unhealthy food, the recentness of consumption, awareness of healthy or unhealthy food, sensations of taste) and somatic properties? (5) What contribution to each food related explicit cognition is made by food related implicit cognitions, the other food related explicit cognitions and somatic properties? Method. Participants – 83 students, aged 19-35, M = 25.75, SD = 4.63 years. Measurements: the specially designed IAT and corresponding self-assessment procedures. Results. There is a relationship between the results of implicit and explicit measurements. The main contribution to implicit preference for food is made by the weight, sex and explicit preference, based on recentness of its consumption.

Tendencies and Factors of Regulation of Development i n Latvian Banking System

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to study the influencing factors and to identify the ways of improving the effectiveness of regulation in theLatvian Bank system (LBS). Basing on the systemic comparative and logical analysis data of the efficiency of regulation in differentstages of LBS development article demonstrates that its key factor is the level of business ethics and professionalism of majorshareholders and top management of the banks, but the main directions of improving its efficiency is an increase of the role of contentapproach to control in comparison with the formal approach. Keywords: banking system, factors, features, regulation, tendencies. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15181/rfds.v11i3.618

Research of implicit attitudes towards gambling for gamblers and non-gamblers

Abstract: The importance of studying attitudes towards gambling has been recently recognized in the field of gambling. Research aim is to examine whether non-gamblers and gamblers exhibit both positive and negative implicit attitudes towards gambling-related stimuli. Research questions: (I) What is the valence of implicit associations with gambling among gamblers and non-gamblers? (II) Are the differences in attitudes towards gambling revealed by explicit and implicit methods among gamblers and non–gamblers? (III) Is there a consistency between results obtained by implicit measures and explicit measures of attitude towards gambling? Methods: Participants - 98, age 18-58, Mdn=34 years. Groups: Social Gamblers – 24, Problem Gamblers – 25, Non-Gamblers – 49. Implicit measures: Modified version of Single-Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT). Explicit measures: “Gambling Attitudes and Beliefs (GABS)” and “Gamblers anonymous twenty questions (GA-20)”. Results and Conclusions. (I) Both positive and negative implicit gambling associations were found in each of the groups. (II) Explicit attitudes towards gambling are most pronounced in social gamblers and most not pronounced in non-gamblers. Differences in implicit associations with gambling among the groups were not found. (III) In case of positive implicit associations, a negative correlation between the results of explicit and implicit measurements was found. It is possible that the use of negative implicit associations will contribute to the classification of gamblers with low, moderate and high risk.

Literal Decomposition for LUT-Oriented Asynchronous Dual-Rail Logic Synthesis

Abstract: In the case of the reconfigurable module, the popular logic function implementation is based on the look-up-table (LUT) structure. Once a Boolean network of single-rail n-variable node functions is transformed into a dual-rail one, each variable is represented as two literals: x and its inversion x′ and implemented using two separate signals. As a result, (2n + 1)-input LUTs are required for mapping node functions. To reduce the capacity of required LUTs, the literal decomposition method is proposed. It is applied to implement a dual-rail node function using k-input LUTs, n < k < (2n + 1). The literal decomposition over the chosen variable is based on creating two clusters where one of the clusters contains minterms with the literal x of the chosen variable, the other one contains minterms with the literal x′. Functions created based on each cluster minterms depend on less literals number than the original one. The procedure is repeated until the required number of literals is reached. The literal decomposition is used as a post processing of the conventional decomposition procedure. Depending on the logic architecture, different implementations are considered and discussed. The implementation complexity (in terms of LUTs number) for different values n, k is given.