These are the only instances in all Aeschylus of diraXXdaaca or diraXXayq with a separative genitive in the sense 'release from'. (For comparison, the complete list of occurrences in other senses may be noted here: Suppl. 339, Kal &VOTVXOVVTWV y' cviiapljs diraXXayrj: Ag. 1288, OVTCOS diraXXdaaovaiv ev 0€(ov Kpioei: Eum. 180, diraXXdaataBe fiavriKuiv fivx&V. Fr. 304. 9 Nauck = 609. 9 Mette, where Heath conjectured TCUI/S' aTraXXayels roirwv.) This remarkable phraseology, then, appears in the Oresteia and Prometheus repeatedly and with heavy emphasis, but is not found at all in any other play or fragment of Aeschylus. That such an obsession with 'release from pain' (which ranges beyond the mere verbal detail considered here to the entire plots of the two trilogies) should have gripped the poet twice, at widely separated periods, and that he should have written the Septem between the two onsets, is of course theoretically possible. But the present writer supposes that a very much more reasonable explanation of the data is simply this: Aeschylus was engaged on the Oresteia and the Prometheia either simultaneously or— more likely—in close succession. It should, finally, be observed that the greater frequency of this phenomenon in the Prometheus than in the Oresteia is exactly paralleled in the statistics of the stylistic and metrical phenomena (see note 1 below).


This paper takes critique of surveillance studies scholars of the shortcomings of the panoptic model for analysing contemporary systems of surveillance as a starting point. We argue that core conceptual tools, in conjunction with an under-conceptualization of agency, privilege a focus on the oppressive elements of surveillance. This often yields unsatisfying insights to why surveillance works, for whom, and at whose costs. We discuss the so-called Prum regime, pertaining to transnational data exchange for forensic and police use in the EU, to illustrate how—by articulating instances of what we call 'situated dis/empowerment'—agency can be better conceptualized, sharpening our gaze for the large extent to which the empowering and disempowering effects of surveillance depend on each other.


The intensive care unit (ICU) can be a difficult environment for medical education. The work is fast-paced, the workload is high, patients ' courses are complex, and their deteriorations are rapid. Educators in this setting are tasked with balancing the often-competing goals of clinical efficiency and effective teaching (1, 2). These barriers also contribute to difficulties in assessing trainee performance. The oral case presentation, in which trainees must review a vast amount of data from a patient ' s history, physical exam, and investigations and then apply clinical reasoning to synthesize an appro-priate plan of care, represents a valuable tool for assessing what and how our trainees are learning. Case presentations allow educators to gauge clinical understanding, teach clinical reasoning, correct misper-ceptions, and form impressions regarding learner entrustment (3, 4). In an ideal world, learners would receive feedback on their presentations in real-time, enabling them to monitor their own progress and motivating them toward specific out-comes (3, 5). However, this is often not possible because of time pressures in our busy postpandemic clinical environments, not to mention other barriers, such as discomfort with engaging in difficult conversations, lack of training in providing feedback, and lack of direct observation of trainees ' tasks (5). Given these constraints, innovative tools to facilitate feedback for case presentations would be a welcome addition to our teaching environment. These tools should provide timely and consistent feedback without increasing the staffing workload. In this issue of ATS Scholar , King and colleagues describe a novel proof-of-concept method of evaluating ICU case presentations by using natural language processing (NLP


Main meat freezing theories, including transition theory, glass transformation theory and ice crystallization theory, were introduced. Some novel freezing technologies such as high pressure freezing, ultrasonic freezing, ice nucleus bacteria freezing protein, cell alive system freezing and decompression freezing were also generally reviewed.


This study aims to implicitly analyze the use of interactive multimedia to improve critical thinking skills of elementary school students in Social Studies to face the era of society 5.0. This study uses a qualitative research method with a literature study research design. The steps taken by the researcher were initiated by formulating the research problem, then continued by tracing the relevant research results for analysis. Data was collected by searching electronic journals and studying documentation in the library. Based on the search results obtained research data from five electronic journals. Data analysis was carried out by summarizing, reviewing, and analyzing research data from several empirical research results. Based on the results of the analysis, it turns out that the use of interactive multimedia can improve learning outcomes with the results obtained by 23.33% and 38.1%, respectively. Interactive multimedia can also improve learning outcomes in Social Studies material with a yield of 7.8%. Interactive multimedia can also encourage students to think critically with 6% of the results. So that the critical thinking process will make it easier for students to realistically understand the Social Studies material for elementary school students with a result of 10.25%.


Introduction: Androgen deprivation therapy is the mainstay of systemic treatment for metastatic prostate. However, the majority of patients progress to CRPC. The aim of this study is to identify factors that predict castration resistance in men with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer treated with first line ADT. Methods: This is a retrospective and analytical study including 46 patients treated for advanced or metastatic prostate cancer with first-line ADT at the Military Hospital Mohammed 5 of Rabat (HMMV) between November 2013 and July 2018 (a period of 5 years). The elements analyzed were sociodemographic, clinical, patient history, biological and radiological data. Results: Predictive factors for castration resistance in our sample are: 1) A high-risk stage according to the LATITUDE criteria. 2) High initial PSA. 3) PSA nadir (PSAn) > 1.17 ng/ml. 4) Elevated PAL at diagnosis > 129 IU/L. 5) Short time to reach PSAn ≤ 9 months. Conclusion: The risk factors predictive of early resistance to first-line hormonal therapy in patients with metastatic prostate cancer in our series were similar to those described in the literature. We advocate early treatment with hormonal chemotherapy in any patient with metastatic prostate cancer who has any of the elements identified in our study.


Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) have become one of the most prevailing techniques for rechargeable batteries. Lithium transition metal oxides are prevalent cathode materials currently, but they face great challenges due to unsatisfactory energy density, chemical/electrochemical instability, and elemental scarcity concerns. Surface/subsurface is the interface where lithium ions cross between the electrolyte and the cathode materials. Its properties and complicated nature are unambiguously regarded as a crucial controlling factor for the overall performance. Tremendous efforts have been made in the exploration of surface modification methods with remarkable progress hitherto. The purpose of this work is to review these surface behaviors in order to understand their fundamental origins and provide a summary of various surface modification methods that can be used to address impeding issues. Finally, a rational method of surface modification is proposed for use in cathode materials.


This thesis explores the meaning of social exclusion in relation to older people with dementia in care homes. Its central objective is to identify the main influences shaping meanings of exclusion and inclusion in this context, and to understand how these influences are personally encountered and countered. The social model of disability underpins and directs the investigation as this framework already offers a convincing account of what social exclusion and inclusion means to people with disabilities. A secondary objective is to therefore evaluate the relevance of this model to understanding the position of this group of people in this setting. A variety of qualitative methods are used to provide a subjectively rich and diverse account of meanings of social exclusion and inclusion in this particular context. Influences shaping meanings of exclusion and inclusion are primarily analysed and explored through the accounts of care home life given by individuals with dementia, their relatives, other residents, home care managers and care workers. In addition, individual care records and organisational policy and publicity are analysed for cultural representations of dementia and disability. It is argued in this thesis that in relation to the people and places involved in this study the core meaning of social exclusion is loss of identity. The main influences leading to this conclusion were social, psychological, economic, organisational and biological in nature and form. In addition, it is argued that while the social model of disability usefully politicises the position of older people with dementia in care homes, the binary opposition on which it is based, namely medical/social, is too simplistic for understanding the complex and fluid relationships, that the people with dementia involved in this study, had with their social world.


In the current economic setting companies are required to the operation of their facilities therefore making a growing use of technology supported Facilities Management and Energy Management activities. The same holds true for home owners. In fact we assist to an increasing adoption of Building Management technologies, most notably Energy Management by households. Therefore, it is expectable that other aspects of facilities management will end up being adapted to homes in the near future. In this paper we briefly discuss into what extend FM activities can be applied to homes and what is the technological support that can be found for them.


Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the developed world, and is the major cause of long term disability in the U.K. Eighty percent of strokes are ischaemic, or caused by vascular occlusion. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides stroke researchers with an invaluable tool to visualise ischaemic processes non-invasively from very early times after stroke onset. However, despite major progress, it is still unclear to what degree particular appearances on MRI relate to the underlying pathophysiological state of the ischaemic lesion, or the clinical outcome of the stroke patient. The aim of this thesis is to explore the evolution and issues affecting the analysis of ischaemic lesions on diffusionand perfusion-weighted MRI (DWI and PWI) from acute (< 24 hours) to chronic (90 days) times after stroke onset. This thesis includes a review of previous human studies of acute DWI and PWI appearance versus final lesion outcome, a review of the 'DWI/PWI mismatch' model (thought to represent the ischaemic penumbra, or 'tissue at risk' of infarction), and a systematic review of previous animal studies of the pathophysiology associated with particular lesion appearances on DWI. The methodological problems raised by these reviews are addressed in this thesis using a large cohort of stroke patients with serial DWI and PWI. The interrater variability of manual lesion measurements on acute DWI is investigated, and factors affecting this variability are discussed. The effect of lesion oedema (swelling) on measurements of ischaemic lesions on MRI is investigated. This thesis also investigates the tissue state underlying persistent hyperintensity on late DWI, and whether this is just T2 'shine through', or indicates distinct features in the evolution


[Problem] To achieve a reduction in size, production costs, and installation work costs, with respect to a pump facility, by further aggregating components of the pump facility. [Solution] As a result of aggregating, in a header pipe and a discharge pipe, a check valve, a water stop valve, and a water-hammer-inhibition-device function, which are provided as separate components in conventional header pipes and discharge pipes, the number of components is reduced, production costs and installation work costs are greatly reduced, and a structure-simplification-accompanying reduction in the frequency of the occurrence of failures can be anticipated, and thus maintenance cost can also be reduced.


A method for restoring, enhancing, segmenting, and coding textures in SAR images is presented. Image restoration and enhancement is achieved by means of a polynomial transform based algorithm. The first order polynomial transform coefficients provide an efficient tool for edge detection. These coefficients are transformed in order to adaptively reduce noise and enhance relevant edges on the image. The restored image is obtained by means of an inverse polynomial transform. Texture segmentation is based on an automatic region growing algorithm using the pixels context and an automatic selection of the critical parameters involved in the process. The value of these parameters is determined from the texture models employed and are optimized according to conditions given by local textures. Based on texture models, a distance between class textures has been worked out to measure the goodness of the segmentation. A texture map is also worked out where morphological parameters are provided including a value of texture structure. The image coding algorithm is adapted to the properties of the human visual perception, i.e., it separates the texture from the edge information. Multiscale edges are detected from the local maxima of a dyadic wavelet transform modulus. Relevant edges are selected and coded in the wavelet domain on a geometric basis. The remaining wavelet coefficients carry mostly texture information. Another wavelet representation is computed on the reconstructed image from the coded edges. Relevant textures are selected and coded in this alternative wavelet domain using an energy based criterion. The reconstruction is done by adding the coded edge image to the coded texture image.


The LHCb experiment is entering in its upgrading phase, with its detector and read-out system redesigned to cope with the increased LHC energy after the long shutdown of 2018. In this upgrade, a trigger-less data acquisition is being developed to read-out the full detector at the bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz. In particular, the High Level Trigger (HLT) system, where the bulk of the trigger decision is implemented via software on a CPU farm, has to be heavily revised. Since the small LHCb event size, many-core architectures such as General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) and multicore CPUs can be used to process many events in parallel for real-time selection, and may offer a solution for reducing the cost of the HLT farm. Track reconstruction and vertexing are the more time-consuming applications running in HLT and therefore are the first to be ported on manycore. In this proceeding, we present our solution for porting the existing tracking algorithm of the VErtex LOcator (VELO) detector to GPGPU, and we show the achieved performance.


The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria and the relationship of asymptomatic bacteriuria to the development of clinically apparent urinary tract infection have been investigated in 475 pregnant women with sickle cell trait. The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria was significantly higher among women with sickle cell trait than Negro women without sickle cell trait, being 13.9% in the former and 6.4% in the latter. The incidence of overt urinary tract infection developing during pregnancy as well as a previous history of urinary tract infection was significantly higher in bacteriuric women with sickle cell trait than in bacteriuric women whose red blood cells did not sickle. Urologic evaluation following delivery revealed that 19 of 33 bacteriuric women with sickle cell trait had radiographic abnormalities indicative of chronic pyelonephritis.


As one category of important incomplete multi-view clustering methods, subspace based methods seek the common latent representation of incomplete multi-view data by matrix factorization and then partition the latent representation to get clustering results. However, these methods ignore missing views in the process of matrix factorization, which makes the connection of different views be exploited inadequately. This paper proposes Incomplete Multi-view Clustering with Reconstructed Views (IMCRV), which utilizes the incomplete examples sufficiently. In IMCRV, the missing views of incomplete examples are reconstructed and the reconstructed views are also used to seek the common latent representation. IMCRV also involves the Laplacian regularization to preserve the global property of the latent representation. The gradient descent method with the multiplicative update rule is employed to solve the objective function of IMCRV. The corresponding iterative algorithm is developed and the convergence of the algorithm is proved. IMCRV is compared with many state-of-the-art incomplete multi-view clustering methods under different Incomplete Example Rates (IER) on public multi-view datasets. The experimental results demonstrate the superior effectiveness of IMCRV.


Phase composition and crystal structure of the two-phase sample Zr{sub 2}Cu produced by mechanical milling and subsequent annealing were determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction analyses. After this treatment the equilibrium tetragonal phase (structure type MoSi{sub 2}, lattice parameters a=0.3218 nm, c=1.118 nm) coexists with the cubic phase Zr{sub 4}Cu{sub 2}O associated with Ti{sub 2}Ni (Mo{sub 4}Co{sub 2}C) structure type with lattice parameter a=1.228 nm.


Baskskov operators have been modified as the operators Vn f,x and it's rate of convergence has been investigated by means of f,t in the published thesis "Approximation of Baskakov Operators Which Preserve x 2".In order to study the approximation of the modified Baskskov operators,the paper discusses the feature description of the pointwise approximation order of Baskskov operators using the K-functional and smooth modulus' equivalence,and draws the direct and converse theorem of the operator.The results extend some previous achievements.


Generally, a redundant robot has been used to avoid a static obstacle in industrial production systems. In this paper, a control method of a redundant robot for avoidance of a moving obstacle using visual impedance is proposed. Two CCD cameras are used to construct a stereovision, and a high-speed image processing board with a built-in DSP processor is used for image input and real time processing. When an obstacle moving into a previously established virtual potential field around the links of a robot is detected, a virtual torque is generated by the proposed method. A criterion function including the manipulability of arm and the distance between obstacle and the link is proposed for selection of a redundant joint. A control algorithm is also developed to complete both a tracking task by an end-effector and a task of obstacle avoidance by a redundant joint at same time. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been demonstrated through the avoidance experiments.


Background and Purpose— The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is an established measure of neurological impairment; however, it can award more points for tests of presumed left-hemisphere function, such as language, than for tests of right-hemisphere function, such as neglect. This difference may be important if a low NIHSS score is used to exclude patients with right-hemisphere stroke from clinical trials or established treatments. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the relationship between acute NIHSS score and acute stroke volume as determined by acute diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI (DWI and PWI) differs between right- and left-sided stroke. Methods— This was a retrospective study of 153 patients with acute stroke seen at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between January 1995 and March 2000 who underwent an MRI examination and NIHSS within 24 hours of stroke onset. NIHSS score was recorded prospectively by the admitting stroke fellow at the time of acute presentation, immediately preceding imaging. Computerized volumetric analysis of the MRI lesions was performed by investigators blinded to clinical data. Results— There were significant correlations between the acute NIHSS scores and acute DWI lesion volumes (r =0.48 right, r =0.58 left) and between acute NIHSS scores and perfusion-weight imaging hypoperfusion volumes (r =0.62 right, r =0.60 left). For patients with NIHSS scores of 0 to 5, the DWI volume of right cerebral lesions was greater than that of left-sided lesions (mean volume, 8.8 versus 3.2 cm3;P =0.04). Among patients with DWI lesions larger than the median volume (9 cm3), 8 of 37 with right-sided stroke had an NIHSS score of 0 to 5 compared with 1 of 39 patients with left-sided stroke (P =0.01). Multiple linear regression analysis revealed a significantly lower acute NIHSS on the right compared with the left side when adjusted for stroke volume on chronic T2 imaging (P =0.03). Conclusions— Patients with right-sided stroke may have a low NIHSS score despite substantial DWI lesion volume. Acute imaging information, such as that available with multimodal MRI, may be useful to identify patients for inclusion in acute stroke protocols when there is clinical uncertainty about eligibility. Prospective evaluation of criteria incorporating acute imaging data is required.


Under soybean-wheat system the influence of 4-year continuous cropping with different fertilizer and organic manure inputs on the transformation of different N fractions, mineralizable N, total N, and organic C in both surface and subsurface soils was investigated in a Vertisol. Repeated applications of fertilizer N alone, N with FYM or poultry manure or urban compost, FYM alone led to a significant increase in organic C, total N, hydrolysable N (i.e., amino acid N, hydrolyzable NH4-N, hexose amine N) and nonhydrolysable N in both surface and subsurface soils as compared to initial status. The status of various organic N fractions was higher in surface than the subsurface soils. On the other hand, continuous cropping without fertilization and manuring resulted in depletion of total hydrolysable N in control over the initial status by 8.5% in surface soils and 6.4% in the subsurface soils. About 3–6% of total N in surface soils and 2–5% of total N in subsurface soils got mineralized under waterlogged incubation conditions. The results clearly indicate that the subsurface soils in addition to surface soils also substantially contributed to the N requirement of the crops. The correlation studies revealed that the amino acid and hexose amine N fractions in surface soils and hydrolyzable NH4-N and amino acid N fractions in subsurface soils were better indices of soil N mineralization. This was further supported by a better correlation between amino acid N in surface and hydrolyzable NH4-N in the subsurface soils with yield of and N uptake by soybean and wheat crops.


A 2-D unconditionally stable radial point interpolation meshless method (RPIM) based on the Crank–Nicolson (CN) scheme is presented. The CN algorithm in the proposed method is applied to only one of the Maxwell equations. It leads to solving the second-order vector wave equation in the time domain. Therefore, only one electromagnetic field is implicitly updated at each iteration. Furthermore, the computational cost of the CN-RPIM scheme is lesser than the conventional RPIM. The Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition in the proposed vector wave equation method does not constrain the time step due to its implicit formulation. Moreover, the stability condition of the proposed method is investigated in this paper through its amplification matrix. A 2-D waveguide and a filter are used as examples to validate and to demonstrate the effectiveness and the accuracy of the proposed method. Numerical results are compared with those obtained by the explicit RPIM method and the conventional finite-difference time-domain method.


Current Latin American narratives are represented by authors whose stories happen in places that exceed national coordinates: these are the spaces of Modernity pointed out by Huyssen (2010) —the local, the national and the global. This article argues that by placing such places in an equal situation, the dichotomy between the civilized and the barbaric could be reconciled. This point is argued through a critical approach to Santiago Gamboa's Plegarias nocturnas (2012), and a panoramic revision to certain works by Jorge Volpi, in order to determine if a new Latin American narrative conceals both the urban and the global.


In the situation of serious earthquake,numerous disadvantages may occur,such as the wide distribution of the injuries,the vile condition of medical treatment as well as the heavy traffic jams etc and all these factors make it difficult for commanders to direct the troops,so the earthquake relief seems troublesome.The article probed into the way to use the theories of disaster medicine to direct the relieving mission under the terrible condition,and try to achieve the goal of scientific organization,rational rescue and to play the medical troops' role to the full.


Mr. Decker, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition, recently outlined a performance-based approach to reliability in Request for Proposals (RFP), based on two primary objectives: to outline a performance-based approach to reliability for RFPs, and to preclude the use of Mil-Hdbk-217 (Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment) in Army RFP's.


A comparison hasbeenmadeofthedifference spectra obtained bycausing various aflatoxins (B1,G1andG2)tointeract withcalf-thymus DNA. Theeffect of these toxins on RNA andprotein synthesis byrat-liver slices hasbeenmeasured. Theextentoftheir inhibitory action on thesynthetic reactions was proportional tothedegree ofspectral shift obtained withtheirinteraction withDNA. Itis proposed thattheir toxicity depends on thisinteraction. Itwas demonstrated that theRNA polymerase ofnucleoli isolated fromthelivers ofaflatoxin Bl-poisoned ratswas inhibited. Thisfinding isinagreement withtheproposed mechanism for thehepatotoxic action ofaflatoxin. Aflatoxin isthemetabolite ofcertain strains of Aspergillu8 flavws thatgrowson groundnuts. Clifford & Rees(1966, 1967)proposed thatthe biochemical changes underlying thedevelopment of liver necrosis intheratafter theadministration of aflatoxin B1wereinitiated bythetoxin interacting withtheDNA. Thisinteraction prevented theRNA polymerase transcribing theDNA andinhibited the formation of messenger RNA. A failure in messenger-RNA formation resulted inaninhibition inprotein synthesis whichtheyconsidered tobethe causeoftheliver-cell necrosis. Sporn, Dingman, Phelps & Wogan(1966) alsosuggested thatthe rapid anddrastic alteration ofnuclear RNA metabolismby aflatoxin B1 mightindicate thatits ability tobindtoDNA mightbeacrucial aspect of its toxic andcarcinogenic properties. Thereareanumberofothertoxic aflatoxins of verysimilar chemical composition whichareproducedbycertain strains ofthemouldAspergillus flavus. Theseaflatoxins havea widerangein toxicity asdetermined bytheir LD50for1-day-old ducklings (Chang, Abdel-Kadar, Wick& Wogan, 1963; Nesbitt, O'Kelly, Sargeant &Sheridan, 1962). Itmaywell bethatsuchvariations intoxicity within agiven species areareflection oftheability ofthe toxins tointeract withDNA. Inthepresent investigation theinteraction of aflatoxin G1andG2withDNA iscompared with thatofaflatoxin B1.Theireffect onRNA andproteinsyntheses byrat-liver slices hasbeencompared andtheeffect ofaflatoxin B1ontheRNA-polymeraseactivity ofliver-cell nucleoli hasbeen measured.


It is not often that a new medium for displaying three-dimensional computer-generated data comes along, so when one does, it is bound to spark a good deal of interest. Such a medium, known as the integral holo-gram, combines the reality of holography with the animation of movies. Like a cylinder hologram, the integral hologram, when rotated, will show all sides of a holographic image. However, unlike an ordinary cylinder hologram, as the cylinder-shaped integral hologram is rotated, the image inside can grow, move, deform, or even disappear. In fact, the image can do anything a motion picture image can do because an integral hologram is made from a 35-mm black-and-white movie. Each frame of a 1080-frame movie is transformed by a laser and the appropriate optics into a slit holo-gram 24 cm high and 0.7 cm wide. These slit holograms are slightly overlapped on holographic film which is wrapped around a 40-cm diameter clear plastic cylinder for viewing. When the holographic film is illuminated by an ordinary 100-watt light bulb from below, an observer looking into the cylinder can see the objects originally on the movie film as holographic images floating inside. The motion and detail of the holograph-ic images is very similar to that in the original movie film, but what was a black-and-white movie image becomes a rainbow-colored holographic image. An ordinary light bulb can be used in place of a laser to "unlock" the integral hologram because of the optics used when exposing the hologram and because each slit hologram is made from a two-dimensional object-a frame of the 35-mm movie. Since two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional objects are used, the intermodulation noise is reduced, allowing integral holograms to appear much brighter than-heir laser-illuminated counterparts. Color in the image of an integral hologram is a result of the diffraction effect of the holographic film on the white light. Application of integral holograms to the fields of art and advertising is obvious; their potential effect on the fields of education and science is an exciting prospect. One can imagine the educational impact of showing students an integral hologram of two molecules. As the hologram is rotated, the molecules could rotate and at the same time combine according to the laws governing some chemical reaction. Already integral holograms have proven to be very valuable in trying to show complex relationships in time and space. For example, we have discovered that …


−Smart shopping will be creating a platform for smart city in future. This system is an automated one and even the billing can be easily made without the help of the cashier. It is a device which will be fitted in the PICk and drop basket (trolley) in the departmental stores, which is movable. The billing can be done through a swipe machine and also through net banking via their smart phones. Here we use RFID instead of bar code reader. Each item will be given a ID, so that the billing will be made effortlessly. Additionally the update of the product will be sent to the server. So if anyone of the product becomes null, it will send the intimation to the main server or master PC admin .Through GSM the bill will be generated to the customer's mobile number. Using ZIGBEE, communication is done from trolley to the main server. In our proposed system we use PIC microcontroller which is efficient in both cost and performance wise. The ultimate aim of this paper is automatic billing and progress towards Digital India. The customer's time can be saved and man power can be reduced. Keywords—GSM, RFID, Automatic billing, ZIGBEE, PIC. ————————————————————


Intense competition has led to competition between companies and led to the emergence of various similar companies that compete strictly in showing their existence. This study aims to determine the effect of Brand image and Product Quality on Customer Loyalty of Energen Breakfast Cereals Study at Surabaya State University. The type of research used is quantitative. The measurement scale used is the Likert scale. The population in this study were consumers who had bought and consumed Energen products. The sample used was 100 students at state universities in Surabaya. Primary data obtained directly by distributing questionnaires. Influence test using regression test with hypothesis testing using t test and F test. Based on the results of data processing it can be concluded that Brand image, Product Quality and Trust simultaneously have a significant effect on customer loyalty of energen breakfast cereals; Brand image partially has a positive and significant effect on Customer Loyalty of energen breakfast cereals; Product Quality partially has a positive and significant effect on Customer Loyalty of energen breakfast cereals; Trust partially has a positive and significant effect on Customer Loyalty of energen breakfast cereals


Clinical and psychological research of peculiarities of emotional disorders of epilepsy patients has been carried out using the methods of clinical observation, and psychodiagnostic methods: self-assessment scale on diagnostics of the emotional sphere, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; Beck's depression scale, Tsung's scale of anxiety self-assessment. Diagnostic and clinical indicators of anxiety, expressiveness of the syndrome and its separate components have been also analysed. Besides the verifying indicator of the gravity degree of the depressive syndrome as a whole, its components have been studied: cognitive-affective and somatic manifestations of depression. It was established that the epileptic process itself unfavourably influences a patient's personality, bringing essential changes to the forms of emotional reaction that is to be taken into consideration while carrying out psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation measures.


As an embranchment of information hiding, the digital watermark techniques have been attracting more and more interests in both research and industrial fields. As a tool for storing and managing data, relational database is widely used in many information systems. It is a crucial issue to protect the copyright of relational data. In order to make watermarking information more intuitive and easier to identify, We propose a novel watermarking method, which embeds an image watermark into relational database. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Body-worn one-piece suit (1) for electromyostimulation, especially for lifestyle and sports medical applications, made of an elastic textile fabric with structurally integrated textile-based electrically conductive contact electrodes as a stimulation layer at selected localities and integrated moisture dispensers for the electrodes, wherein between the support layer (A) of Suit (1) and the stimulation layers (B) in the suit (1) moisture storage layers (C) are placed, which have at least in areas of concave body regions pressure elastic, textile spacer structures, characterized in that the suit (1) complex units of a multi-layer knitted fabric carries, with a body-side electrically conductive stimulation layer (B) of a warp knitted fabric of metallized polymer fibers as electrodes (4), with a middle moisture storage layer (C) of a pressure-elastic, vertical thread stocking as Feuc donor (6) and spring core and with a body-facing backing layer (A) of a warp-knitted base textile.


This contribution explores "schizophrenia" as a contested Western discourse
 fluctuating between biomedical naturalism and anti-psychiatric
 cultural relativism. Although the latter was seen as an epistemic counterweight
 to, and critique of, a modern Western paradigm of normality,
 I argue that this alternative is couched in a Eurocentric ideology about
 radical alterity that ignores local interpretations along with practices of
 social reintegration. I will elucidate this in view of Mead's and Bateson's
 interpretation of the allegedly "schizoid" Balinese and its entanglement
 with the anti-psychiatric movement, which I will contrast with my
 fieldwork in Bali that illustrates how deviant behaviour and dissociation
 are integrated in social life via local interpretations and ritual practices.


Objective To investigate the prognostic value of pretreatment haemoglobin-to-red cell distribution width radio (HRR) in predicting overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods This retrospective study analysed patients with advanced NSCLC. Kaplan–Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis were conducted to evaluate the predictive value of HRR for OS. A propensity matching analysis was used to reduce the impact of other confounding factors on the results. Results A total of 448 patients were enrolled in the study. The median HRR was 0.984, which was used as the cut-off value. Regardless of matching or not, a lower HRR was correlated with an unfavourable risk of death. After propensity matching, univariate and multivariate analysis showed that HRR was an independent factor for the prognosis of NSCLC (hazard ratio [HR] 1.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.17, 2.04; HR 1.57, 95% CI, 1.17, 2.10; respectively). Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that low HRR was associated with shortened OS. The relationship between HRR and the risk of death was consistent across all patient subgroups after stratification by subgroup analysis. Conclusions These findings showed that a lower pretreatment HRR could be a potentially valuable prognostic factor in patients with advanced NSCLC.


This study aims to analyze and determine the legal status of the land of the Kasepuhan Palace in Cirebon after the enactment of Law Number 5 of 1960 concerning Basic Agrarian Regulations. The results show that the legal status of the Kasepuhan Sultanate lands has been transferred to the state based on the Fourth Dictum letter A Law Number 5 of 1960 concerning Basic Agrarian Principles and the land is redistributed as the object of the provisions regarding land reform on the legal basis of Article 1 Government Regulation Number 224 of 1961. It is very inversely proportional to assuming that the Kasepuhan Palace land is not and has never become self-government, then the legal status of the Kasepuhan Palace land is fully controlled as customary land / wewengkon land / prohibited forest belonging to the Kasepuhan Palace Cirebon. The problem is, based on authentic evidence, the Kasepuhan Palace has never been self-governing, but the lands controlled from generation to generation or the land of the Keraton Kasepuhan Cirebon are still redistributed by the government. So, the legal status of the Kasepuhan Palace lands is currently unclear.Keywords:Keraton; Land; Cirebon.


Micrometric mesoporous spheres with textures possessing a relative high degree of ordering and incorporating up to 0.1 thiol function per siloxane unit have been synthesised through sol–gel, self-assembly and—for the first time—spray-drying processes. The sol preparation was optimised as a function of the final properties: morphology, texture, and proportion of thiol functions. A two step synthesis allows the positioning of these functions at the pore surface as proven in particular by 1H solid state NMR. From Ag+ sorption experiments, we have shown that the thiol functions are also homogenously distributed in the sphere's volume and fully accessible to external chemical species. So these materials could be used for environmental remediation or metallic nano-particle syntheses. In order to increase the stability and applicability of the materials, different post-synthesis treatments have been studied. A thermal treatment under mild conditions is enough to preserve most of the properties. From the hydrothermal treatments tested, the use of ammonia is shown to be quite interesting for the modulation of the properties. In particular, hierarchical porosities and high specific surface areas have been created. The high degree of ordering observed for the smaller pores is accompanied by a re-ordering of the surfactant polar head groups as deduced from 14N NMR. Lastly, the synthesis can be extended under some conditions to other functions or to higher proportions of thiol functions (up to 0.2).


Stress is considered as a mechanism that is affecting the health of people in modern society, stress processes produce neuroendocrine, immunological, emotional and behavioral responses to situations taken as threatening by humans. Conditioned by external factors that require our capacity for adaptation and tolerance of tense situations. Currently in institutions of superiors, the necessary importance of the predisposition or exposure in which students find themselves to academic stress is not being provided.
By continually staying at high levels of stress, changes in the physiological well-being of people with individual physical, behavioral, and psychological responses arise, having a close relationship with the quality of sleep that is intervened by the stressful times of the students. Being the indispensable dream for the functioning of the organism since it intervenes in the teaching and memory process.
For this research a survey was carried out to a total of 500 students corresponding to the Universities of Canton Milagro, the State University of Milagro and the Agrarian University of Ecuador.
93.5% of the students evaluated claimed to have presented stress levels, 31.70% considered that academic overload was the main cause of their stress, added to more factors and 96.25% indicates that stress directly affects the quality of sleep.
In conclusion, stress is intimately linked to our sleep / rest pattern, if the need to sleep is not met, the development of our natural functions will be affected.


In circularly polarized microwave fields of frequencies in the vicinity of 10 GHz ionization of Na Rydberg atoms occurs at a field E=1/16n4, up to principal quantum number n=50. This field is equal to the classical field for ionization and the static field required to ionize a Na atom. On the other hand, this field is far below the linearly polarized 10 GHz field required to ionize Na atoms, E=1/3n5. If the problem is transformed to a frame rotating with the microwave field, the field becomes a static field. In this case it is straightforward to calculate the ionization field classically. However, it is far lower than the experimentally observed field, a discrepancy which may be due to an angular momentum barrier.


Any organization aims to achieve its business objectives, secure its information, and conforms to policies and regulations. Provenance can help organizations achieve these goals. As provenance stores the history of the organization's workflow, it can be used for auditing, compliance, checking errors and securing the business. Provenance Based Access Control (PBAC) is one of the new access control models that used to secure data based on its provenance. This paper introduces Delegation Provenance based Access Control (DPBAC) model that accounts for the delegation of access rights and also introduce an extension to the Open Provenance Model (OPM) in order to store the history of the delegation to be used for auditing purposes.


Factors associated with pulmonary mucormycosis (PM) among subjects with diabetes mellitus (DM) remain unclear. Following the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19)‐associated mucormycosis outbreak in India, specific environmental exposures (especially cattle dung exposure) were proposed as possible aetiology. We hypothesized that environmental factors are associated with PM. We compared subjects with DM with (cases) and without PM (controls).


The topology structure of distributed information fusion system designs the layer structure based on the inherent layer relation of information using nodes and information processing nodes. The information source nodes take the inherent connection among information processing nodes as the leaf nodes of layer structure and connect them. Then,the side connections of the layer nodes are established. At last,the de Bruijn network is established after selecting parameters,and processing corresponding/non-corresponding information fusion nodes.


Objective:To evaluate the effect of prosthetic disc nucleus(PDN) replacement on the range of lumbar motion and the height of intervertebral disc.Method:65 patients of lumbar disc herniation were implanted with single PDN device from Feb. 2002 to Nov. 2003.57 of them were followed-up.They were divided into three groups,group A:23 cases had at least 24 months of follow-up,group B:22 cases had at least 36 months of follow-up,group C:12 cases had at least 48 months of follow-up.Spinal mobility tests(range of motion,ROM) including flexion extension measurement,lateral bending and axial rotation.The disc height was measured in plain lateral X-rays and MRI.Result:After implantation,a significant proportion of patients experienced pain relief.Improvements were noted in pain intensity,walking distance,lumbar mobility,neurological weakness.In group A,the 24-month follow-up ROM was 15.2°.In group B,the 36-month follow-up ROM was 13.2°.In group C,the 48-month follow-up ROM was 13.2°.In group A,the height of intervertebral disc at the 24-month follow-up decreased 4.2%.In group B,at 36-month follow-up,it decreased 17%.In group C,at 48-month follow-up,it decreased 18%.Conclusion:The effect of single PDN to recover the range of lumbar motion is certainly preferred.However,it is not capable to recover the height of intervertebral disc.


Abstract Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) of melamine (MEL) were synthesized by non-covalent approach with precipitation polymerization. In this research, MEL was used as the template molecule, acrylamide (AAm) as the functional monomer, divinylbenzene (DVB) as the cross-linker, 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an initiator, and the mixture of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and acetonitrile (ACN) was used as a reaction medium. The imprinted and non-imprinted polymer particles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The rebinding efficiency was evaluated for all the synthesized polymers by batch binding analysis. The adsorption studies such as adsorbent dosage of polymer, initial concentrations, and pH of MEL solution were successfully conducted on the selected polymer. For selectivity test, 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) was selected as competitive molecule against the MEL. A good removal efficiency of MEL from different samples such as milk (81.97%), river water (91.52%), and human blood serum (90.66%) was achieved. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


In this paper, we quantify the potential gains of hybrid CDN-P2P for two of the leading CDN companies, Akamai and Limelight. We first develop novel measurement methodology for mapping the topologies of CDN networks. We then consider ISP-friendly P2P distribution schemes which work in conjunction with the CDNs to localize traffic within regions of ISPs. To evaluate these schemes, we use two recent, real-world traces: a video-on-demand trace and a large-scale software update trace. We find that hybrid CDN-P2P can significantly reduce the cost of content distribution, even when peer sharing is localized within ISPs and further localized within regions of ISPs. We conclude that hybrid CDN-P2P distribution can economically satisfy the exponential growth of Internet video content without placing an unacceptable burden on regional ISPs.


Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Copy number variations are frequently observed in cell cycle–related genes in acral melanoma. However, the clinical significance of copy number gain of CCNE1 in acral melanoma has not been fully elucidated. In this study, 490 acral melanoma samples were examined for CCNE1 copy number using the QuantiGenePlex DNA Assay. Correlation between CCNE1 copy number and acral melanoma patients' clinicopathologic features were analyzed using Chi-squared test. The impact of CCNE1 copy number on patients' progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) probability were analyzed using Kaplan–Meier analysis. The impact of CCNE1 copy number on patients' median PFS after receiving chemotherapy was also evaluated. The results showed that CCNE1 copy number gain was observed in 28.30% of patients, with 3.16% of patients carrying both CCNE1 copy number gain and BRAF mutation and 4.34% of patients carrying both CCNE1 copy number gain and NRAS mutation. The median PFS time for patients with CCNE1 copy number gain was shorter than that of patients without CCNE1 copy number gain (17.0 vs. 27.0 months, P = 0.002).In the cohort that received chemotherapy (n = 82), the median PFS time for patients with CCNE1 copy number gain was shorter than that of patients without CCNE1 copy number gain (4.8 vs. 7.4 months, P = 00.006). CCNE1 copy number gain was an independent prognostic marker for acral melanoma patients' PFS. Our study indicates that CCNE1 copy number gain is frequent in acral melanoma and may be a biomarker to predict acral melanoma patients' outcomes after receiving chemotherapy.


Introduction Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the practice of medicine. These changes have been fomented by forces within and outside of health care and many other factors, including response to an aging population, a growing burden of behaviorally mediated and chronic illness, expanding technology, a changing health care workforce, ongoing cost increases, and reforms in the organization and payment for care. During the past 3 decades, the US Preventive Services Task Force has systematically provided evidence of the effectiveness of preventive services, and the chronic care model has assumed prominence in policy and practice circles by calling attention to the rising rates and costs of caring for people with chronic conditions. The past decade has seen growing recognition of the rise in multimorbidity—people living with multiple chronic conditions, which constitute the majority of visits by adults to primary care. The frontline for these health care changes is primary care, which accounts for about half of all outpatient visits, and which has been the target of some of the most intensive reform efforts, most notably the patient-centered medical home but also other payment and practice reform efforts. Concomitant changes toward an employed physician workforce and growing use of urgent care centers and emergency departments also influence care. This article was externally peer reviewed. Submitted 13 April 2020; revised 28 July 2020; accepted 29 July 2020. From the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (WPB, WD, KCS); Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (HG, KCS); Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (RSE). Funding: None. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Corresponding author: Wyatt P. Bensken, BS, Doctoral Student, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, WG-43, Cleveland, OH 44106 (E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).


Given its highly coupled multi-power sources with diverse dynamic response characteristics, the mode transition process of a power-split Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) can easily lead to unanticipated passenger-felt jerks. Moreover, difficulties in parameter estimation, especially power-source dynamic torque estimation, result in new challenges for jerk reduction. These two aspects entangle with each other and constitute a complicated coupling problem which obstructs the realization of a valid anti-jerk method. In this study, a vehicle dynamics model with reference to a data-driven modeling method is first established, integrating a full-time artificial neural network engine dynamic model that can accurately predict engine dynamic torque. Then the essential reason for the occurrence of vehicle jerks in real driving conditions is analyzed. Finally, to smooth the mode transition process, a more practical anti-jerk strategy based on power-source torque changing rate limitation (TCRL) is proposed. Verification studies indicate that the data-driven vehicle dynamics model has enough accuracy to reflect the vehicle dynamic characteristics, and the proposed TCRL strategy could reduce the vehicle jerk by up to 85.8%, without any sacrifice of vehicle performance. This research provides a feasible method for precise modeling of vehicle dynamics and a reference for improving the riding comfort of hybrid electric vehicles.


The article discusses the influence of music on the process of political socialization, analyzes the mechanisms of interaction between the musical and political spheres of society at different historical stages. The relevance of this article lies in the fact that at this historical stage the questions of studying the experience of establishing cooperation between states using the methods of cultural negotiations are most relevant in connection with the events taking place in world politics. The purpose of this study is to analyze musical art as an important element of international political relations, as well as to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of musical art in political negotiations. The article describes the cultural relations of allies during political negotiations at different historical stages using archival scientific materials. The principles of construction are considered, as well as the artistic features of concert programs at the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences. The methodological basis of the study is the work of cultural communication researchers. The main methods of cognition are theoretical analysis of scientific-journalistic literature, narrative analysis and historical method, comparative and typological method, generalization of theoretical and practical experience of influence of music on political processes in the world. The practical significance of the research on "Music as an important instrument of foreign policy" is that the data obtained in the scientific research can be used by specialists and teachers of higher educational institutions, as well as in the preparation of a methodological educational program in the field of "History" and "Political Science". The results of the ongoing research may be of scientific interest to students, specialists and teachers of history, political science and cultural studies in higher educational institutions and advanced training courses.


Determination ofseroconversion andmeasurement ofprotective antibody levels inchildren against vaccine components areessential forgauging andmonitoring theefficacy ofpaediatric vaccination programmes. Forthis purpose, weassessed thecombined toxin-binding inhibition (ToBI) test fordetermining neutralizing antibodies totetanus anddiphtheria inadiphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT)vaccine field trial inViet Nam.Asimple procedure involving collection ofblood samples onfilter-paper wasfoundtobeasuitable alternative tocollection byvenepuncture, despite areduction inthesensitivity oftheToBItest asaresult of thestepnecessary toelute theantibodies fromthefilter-paper. Theresults obtained demonstrate that the ToBItest canfeasibly becarried outunderfield conditions. Preliminary results obtained with theToBItest inDPTfield trials indicate that a fourth doseofDPTvaccine oneyearafter thethird doseshould be considered bydeveloping countries.


This experiment measure acute biological toxicity for luminescent bacteria of drinking water source,surface water and landscape water.Rely on the loss rate of luminescence,establish drinking water source's toxicity baseline for the work of rapid response surface water environment quality conditions in future emergent events lay the foundation.And study the rule of the loss rate of luminescence and acute toxicity test in different type of water.


Based on the generalized Darcy's Law and theory for spherical diffusion model,a formula for calculating the effective diffusion radius of exponential fluids injected into homogeneous sandy stratum in grouting is deduced.It shows that the grouting pressure difference is related to the grout rheology parameters c,n and the diffusion radius.The grouting pressure difference change with c by linearity rule and with n by nonlinearity rule.Grouting pressure difference increases with increasing radius,and the increasing grades are notably affected by the grout rheological parameters.


Chloride transport is generally believed to constitute the "driving force" for fluid secretion from intestinal crypts,' although direct evidence for this seems to be lacking. We have tried to verify the hypothesis by investigating the effects of C1-transport inhibitors on both C1secretion in vitro and on fluid secretion in vivo. A putative chloride-channel blocker, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoate (NPPB),* and an inhibitor of the Na+/K+/2CIcotransporter, bumetanide (a "loop diuretic;" a gift from P. Feit, Leo Pharm., Ballerup, Denmark), were used to inhibit C1" secretion either directly by blocking the apical C1channel or indirectly by blocking basolateral C1uptake and thus the cellular source of C1-.


Objective to investigate and study reproductive health of married women in local area.Methods form March 2006 to September 2007,status questionnaire and diseases census were used for investigating the reproductive health of 1 500 married women.Results First three reproductive diseases threaten the woman reproductive health include:cervicitis(23.27%),Vaginitis(14.47%) and Adnexitis(6.20%).There is a inverse correlation between mammary gland disease and education or economy.Conclusion Reproductive disease's health education and reproductive diseases census were undertaken for married women,which play an importance role in preventing and controlling reproductive diseases.


This thesis is to examine the relationship between the part and the whole of the adjustment of industrial structure from the view of philosophy. Moreover, it put forward the criteria of emphasis choices for the adjustment of industrial structure, and the problems of adjusting industrial organization and the technique structure.


The internal acoustic response of the Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) is analyzed using pressure oscillation time histories measured during four static e ring tests. Pressure oscillations for other large solid rocket motors are caused by vortex shedding at annular inhibitors and acoustic feedback resulting from impingement of the vortices on other inhibitors or on the solid rocket motor nozzle. The SRMU does not have inhibitors, but it is shown that acoustic feedback also dee nes its pressure oscillations. Vortices are shed around the cavity between the center and aft segments and impinge on the nozzle entrance. The frequencies of the pressure oscillations vary about that of the motor fundamental acoustic mode and generally agree with a simple empirical relationship that has been used to model acoustic feedback. The effect of the SRMU pressure oscillations on dynamics and control of the Titan IV system is minor. I. Introduction A NEW solid rocket motor design called the Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) will be integrated with the Titan IV system beginning in late 1996. The SRMU has a lower inert weight and higher propellant weight than the current Titan IV solid rocket motor, and therefore, augments system performance. The SRMU has three segments (forward, center, and aft) and is the only large solid rocket motor in production that does not have annular inhibitors at the segment interfaces to prevent combustion and to support the propellant grain during burning. A. SRMU Static Firing Tests Five static e ring tests were conducted for qualie cation of the SRMU. The test articles included one preliminary qualie cation motor (called PQM19) and four qualie cation motors (called QM1, QM2, QM3, and QM4 ). The tests were conducted vertically, nozzle down at the Phillips Laboratory 1-125 Firing Complex, Edwards Air Force Base. 1 The test cone guration and the attachments of the solid rocket motor to the test stand simulated e ight. The physical differences between the e ve test motors were minor and are believed to have had a negligible effect on combustion stability. The static e ring tests were conducted at propellant bulk temperatures in the range 36.5‐ 937F (2.5‐ 33.97C) to assess the effect on motor performance. The static e ring test instrumentation included Condec gauges (CCC-406) of absolute pressure on the forward closure (measurement PCF1 ) and on the aft dome (measurement PCA1), and a Kistler gauge (202M122) of oscillatory pressure (measurement PD4 ) on the forward closure. 2 Measurements PCF1 and PCA1 were recorded by a Neff digital acquisition system, while measurement PD4 was recorded by a Metraplex FM system. The Neff system applied a 100-Hz low-pass e lter and recorded measurements PCF1 and PCA1 at 250 samples/s.


A method of the photo etching ionic exchange was applied to manufacture hexagon aperture planar microlens array.Small overlaps occurred in the changing area of hexagon aperture planar microlens array,and the fill-factor is more than 95%.Moreover,it is found that the image discrepancy is small with nice imaging quality.The sample optical qualities such as refractive index distribution,intercept,and number aperture were carried on in a more accurate survey.The development of lens array laid the foundation for the production of high-quality high fill-factor lens array and the optical system of simulated biological compound eye.


The generalized differential transform method (GDTM) is a powerful tool for solving fractional equations. In this paper we solve the Mathieu fractional equation by this method. The approximate solutions obtained are compared with the exact solution. We also show that if both differential orders decrease, we can still have an approximate solution in the different interval of p.


Based on the field investigation,sample collection,literature review and statistical analysis,the resources of wild seed plants in the ecology-function reserve of Maotai wine were investigated and analyzed.411 species were found in the area,belonging to 101 families and 279 genera.Those wild seed plants could be divided into 6 groups and 16 sub-groups according to the utility.The groups include medicinal plants,ornamental plants,edible plants,timber plant,industrial plant and protecting and transforming the environment of plant resources.Finally,some suggestions were proposed for the exploitation and utilization of the resources of the wild seed plants in the area.


Eighty‐five patients with widespread psoriasis were treated with daily short‐term applications of dithranol and salicylic acid in yellow soft paraffin. Two different schedules were used: (1)'3‐h' therapy using increasing dithranol concentrations (0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2%) for 3 h; (2)'minutes' therapy using high dithranol concentrations (1, 2, 3%) for only 10–20 min. In comparison with the standard dithranol therapy, applied for 24 h each day, the'3‐h' therapy showed equal efficacy clinically and histologically, and the'minutes' therapy was significantly hotter than the standard therapy, reducing the mean clearing time by 6.8 days. Daily short‐term ('minutes') therapy combines all the advantages of dithranol with a convenient and readily acceptable mode of application for home use.


Broadly viewed, upstream exploration and production is conducted substantially the same as decades ago, moving through similar stages with similar equipment. Yet, as those involved daily in globally dispersed offices and drilling sites are quite aware, a closer look shows an industry transformed by technology. Ashe Menon of RigMS looks specifically at the impact of field automation on upstream asset tracking and on-site repair and maintenance.


Soil properties and yield were recorded in grid-spacing in a West Malaysia paddy field for the year 2000. Geostatistical analysis showed that soil properties and yield were notably correlated in space, and the range of spatially dependent yield was shorter than the soil properties. Co-kriging was used to estimate spatial pattern of yield with surrogate data (soil properties) was not successful for this field. The spatial yield map illustrated that the middle portion of the plot has lower yield ( 5t/ha).


Using Danish register data we observe that, for households living in rental housing, the housing expenditure share is negatively correlated with income, positively correlated with rent per squared meter, and displays significant cross sectional dispersion. We find that the life cycle model accounts for the average patterns in the data remarkably well, and that individual income uncertainty can generate a substantial fraction of the observed dispersion in the housing expenditure share. These results show the Life Cycle Model to be alive and well.


Temperature dependent Hall effect, optical admittance spectroscopy, and optical absorption measurements of semi-insulating bulk 4H–SiC are reported. Both intentionally vanadium doped material and commercial grade semi-insulating material were investigated. The carrier concentration versus inverse temperature results from Hall effect measurements up to 1000 K indicated the samples were dominated by one of two deep levels near midgap. In addition to the deep donor level of substitutional vanadium, Ec−1.6 eV, we observed another level at Ec−1.1 eV in some samples, indicating that levels other than the vanadium donor can pin the Fermi level in semi-insulating SiC. Optical admittance measurements on the semi-insulating material indicate the presence of levels at Ec−1.73 and 1.18 eV that were previously observed in conducting samples with this technique and we attribute these levels to the same defects producing the 1.1 and 1.6 eV levels seen by Hall effect. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy measurements of dopan...


We demonstrate the fabrication of single-crystalline diamond nanopillars on a (111)-oriented chemical vapor deposited diamond substrate. This crystal orientation offers optimal coupling of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center emission to the nanopillar mode and is thus advantageous over previous approaches. We characterize single native NV centers in these nanopillars and find one of the highest reported saturated fluorescence count rates in single crystalline diamond in excess of 106 counts per second. We show that our nano-fabrication procedure conserves the preferential alignment as well as the spin coherence of the NVs in our structures. Our results will enable a new generation of highly sensitive probes for NV magnetometry and pave the way toward photonic crystals with optimal orientation of the NV center's emission dipole.


Preface to 1973 impression Introduction 1. The background 2. The Greek East 3. The Carolingian Age 4. The Pre-scholastic Age 5. The Scolastic Age 6. Collapse an new beginnings 7. The high renaissance 8. The end of the renaissance and the appearance of new patterns in classical education and scholarship 9. Education and the classical heritage Notes Appendices Index.


In this paper, we propose the online extrinsic correction method that effectively optimizes the extrinsic parameters of multi-camera systems used in visual SLAM. In the typical visual SLAM systems that use multi-camera settings, the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the cameras are calculated through offline calibration, which is used as the fixed constraints in online execution. However, the camera rig can be physically deformed by shock or vibration, and the deviation from the offline calibration parameters can adversely affect the accuracy of triangulation and pose estimation. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain the accurate calibration of the camera rigs continuously throughout the execution. The previous online calibration methods optimize the extrinsic camera parameters in a full degree of freedom(DoF) by minimizing the reprojection error, but the limited visual information available online may bias the resulting camera poses. From the observation that the cameras are mounted on a physical body and the patterns that the body can be deformed is restricted and not completely free, we propose to model the pattern of physical rig deformation by external forces in advance, and then use the pre-trained low-dimensional deformation model to robustly and accurately estimate the changed camera poses in real-time. The proposed method consists of two steps. First, the physical model of the camera system is constructed in a simulator and the actual deformations by various external disturbances are recorded, and the deformation patterns are modeled by a PCA algorithm to build a low-dimensional model. In online execution, the camera poses are updated by minimizing the reprojection errors of visual features within the pre-trained low-dimensional parameterization, instead of optimizing all camera poses independently. Through the experiments in synthetic environments, the proposed online extrinsic correction method shows that it produces more accurate and robust camera pose estimation results than the existing method even when inaccurate 3D-2D correspondences exist or 2D feature positions are noisy.


As used in this subchapter— Act means the statutes authorizing the National Flood Insurance Program that are incorporated in 42 U.S.C. 4001– 4128. Actuarial rates—see risk premium rates. Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Agency means the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington DC. Alluvial fan flooding means flooding occurring on the surface of an alluvial fan or similar landform which originates at the apex and is characterized by high-velocity flows; active processes of erosion, sediment transport, and deposition; and, unpredictable flow paths. Apex means a point on an alluvial fan or similar landform below which the flow path of the major stream that formed the fan becomes unpredictable and alluvial fan flooding can occur. Applicant means a community which indicates a desire to participate in the Program. Appurtenant structure means a structure which is on the same parcel of property as the principal structure to be insured and the use of which is incidental to the use of the principal structure. Area of future-conditions flood hazard means the land area that would be inundated by the 1-percent-annualchance (100-year) flood based on futureconditions hydrology. Area of shallow flooding means a designated AO, AH, AR/AO, AR/AH, or VO zone on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with a 1 percent or greater annual chance of flooding to an average depth of 1 to 3 feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable, and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow. Area of special flood-related erosion hazard is the land within a community which is most likely to be subject to severe flood-related erosion losses. The area may be designated as Zone E on the Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM). After the detailed evaluation of the special flood-related erosion hazard area in preparation for publication of the FIRM, Zone E may be further refined. Area of special flood hazard is the land in the flood plain within a community subject to a 1 percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year. The area may be designated as Zone A on the FHBM. After detailed ratemaking has been completed in preparation for publication of the flood insurance rate map, Zone A usually is refined into Zones A, AO, AH, A1–30, AE, A99, AR, AR/A1–30, AR/AE, AR/AO, AR/AH, AR/ A, VO, or V1–30, VE, or V. For purposes of these regulations, the term ''special flood hazard area'' is synonymous in


Eri silkworm is polyphagous species and reared mostly on the leaves of Castor and Kesseru plant. Tapioca is also as known as Cassava is an important starchy root crops and has been grown in India for more than a century. Tapioca leaves are also good source of protein and are utilized as secondary source of food to rear eri silkworm. Almost all insect are host specific their most preferred food in order to extract the maximum benefit out of it,although most of them eat a great many varieties. Different food plants may influence differently on food intake, efficiency of digestion and conversion of food to body biomass and finally on growth and development of insect. Ericulture has a good potential as a subsidary source of income for tapioca farmers in North-Eastern region of India. The hilly areas of this region have ample scope for expansion of tapioca cultivation nnot only as a source for supplementary diet for the people but also increasing the quantum of leaf for eri silkworm rearing and eri silk production. This book will useful for silkworm growers, entomologist, researcher, students and sericulture industries.


BALB/c strain of white Swiss mice, has been found to be susceptible to P. berghei (NK-65). Asynchronicity of the parasite is confirmed due to presence of rings, trophozoites and schizonts in the blood of infected mice at the same time. Infected mice die with in week of inoculation of parasite, except the cases, where parasite migrates from red blood cells to reticulocytes. Migration of parasites to reticulocytes increases the survival of infected mice up to two weeks. The maximum parasitaemia has been calculated to be around 50% before the death of mice.


What is the best way for managers to monitor observations and assessments carried out by their teams? Jenny Barber and Sharon Paul-Smith outline how to track this accurately while also ensuring quality and consistency.


Traditionally it was understood that Sarvastivada, Sautrantika, and Yogacara were three distinct traditions, but this framework has been seriously questioned in recent years. Owing to the efforts of Paul Demiéville, Nishi Giyu (Abidatsuma, "Buha"), and other scholars, it is becoming clear that there were traditions of meditators called yogacaras within the Sarvastivada community before the establishment of the philosophical Yogacara school. Further, Lambert Schmithausen has compared the magnum opus of the Yogacara school, the Yogacarabhumi, with the Sarvastivada/Mulasarvastivada recensions of the Buddhist canon and has found that the Yogacarabhumi was specifically based on the Mulasarvastivada canon ("Beiträge," "Zu dem Rezensionen"). Concerning the exact relationship between the appellations


Partial shading conditions are the serious problems in solar modules making them to work under low efficiency when compared with steady state conditions. The required power from the Photovoltaics (PV) is achieved by combining the PV modules in the combination of series and parallel arrangements depending upon the specifications of the converter. Generally single-stage conversion is realized by connecting modules in series to built a high voltage greater than the line voltage of the grid. But highly parallel connected modules shows better performance in the output power when compared with the highly series connected modules during rapid change in partial shading conditions. A Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) method with an ability of detecting the partial shading occurrence on PV array, and employs a current control method for tracking the global maximum between the local maximums.


The aim of this thesis is to plan a new automation system to a bread slicing machine. The commissioner wishes that the old relay-controlled logic system will be replaced by a programmable logic controller (PLC). The system needs rebuilding because it ́s reliability at present is too low and repairing of the machine is difficult due to electrical diagrams that no longer correspond to the construction of the machine. The bread slicer is used for slicing of bakery products as part of production with conveyors. Products are transported in, sliced and transported to a packaging machine. A great part of the machine`s hardware will be reused, as it works well. The machine`s distribution board will be completely rebuilt with a PLC. The distribution board will be planned with the program JCAD Electra, resulting in a plan of the electrical distribution board is more reliable than the old system thanks to the PLC, can easily be expanded by adding expansion units to the PLC and is easier to repair because it is built according to plans.


Computer is one result of technological developments and may be one important element as a transmitter of information. Information technology is growing rapidly so that the user requires information to follow the flow of information, for it needed the means currently in vogue, such as the Internet media. Now these schools also have internet facilities although only Part of the school, as this writer is interested to create The Encyclopedia of Animals site using PHP & MySQL and uses the tools Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Devoted to children aged 6-12 years, so that children can recognize various kinds of animals. Bibliography (2001-2008).


This study evaluated three methods for measuring worker exposure to diesel particulate matter (dpm) in high sulphide mines. These were the Respirable Combustible Dust (RCD), the Size-Selective (SS) and the Thermal-Optical methods. Previous sampling in Canadian mines had uncovered cases where RCD samples had to be rejected because of suspected interference. This led to the suspicion that oxidation of sulphide minerals on the filter caused the sample to gain in mass during the ashing process involved in RCD analysis. The first goal of the study was to investigate the impact of the presence of respirable sulphides on the RCD sampling method. The second goal was to compare and evaluate the three sampling methods under high dpm, and mixed dpm/sulphide mineral dust conditions.


Note: titre Anglais: The Swiss Postal Service as a Learning Organization. Reference MIR-CHAPTER-2005-037 Record created on 2005-10-17, modified on 2017-09-01


Modern geoscience uses equations, models, and numbers in conjunction with observations, maps, and words as fundamental tools for investigating Earth. Yet the U.S. public persists in viewing the study of Earth processes as highly qualitative and, in many states, as a remedial science course that is not accepted as appropriate preparation for admission to U.S. colleges and universities. Geoscience teachers and faculty are working to change this perception by increasing the quantitative content of the geoscience curriculum.

From the most mathematical of senior theses to the most basic of introductory courses, geoscience instructors can make these courses more reflective of the full range of tools used in the geosciences by including the quantitative content and methods that pervade geoscience. In addition to being provided with a more realistic perception of our science, college students whose major study is the Earth sciences will be better prepared for geoscience careers and all of our students will be more quantitatively literate.


Section 1. Policy. The United States welcomes and supports foreign investment, consistent with the protection of national security. The United States commitment to open investment is a cornerstone of our economic policy and provides the United States with substantial economic benefits, including ''the promotion of economic growth, productivity, competitiveness, and job creation, thereby enhancing national security,'' as the Congress recognized in section 1702(b)(1) of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) (Subtitle A of Title XVII of Public Law 115–232). Some investments in the United States by foreign persons, however, present risks to the national security of the United States, and it is for this reason that the United States maintains a robust foreign investment review process focused on identifying and addressing such risks.


The investigation was carried out by survey method in Kon block of district Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh during 2009–10. Producers disposed off their surplus vegetables in three marketing channels, viz. channel I (producers-consumers), channel II (producers-retailers-consumers) and channel III (producers-wholesalers-retailers-consumers). Major share of the vegetable surplus was sold through marketing channel II (P-R-C), followed by channel III (P-W-R-C) and very small quantity in channel I (P-C). Producers 'share of the price paid by the consumers varied between 97.2 to 67.4% in potato, 97 to 62.6% in tomato, 98 to 73.5% in green pea and 95.3 to 56.6% in cauliflower. Marketing cost included for producers 'share in consumers 'rupees varied between 5.6 to 4.7% in cauliflower, 5.4 to 3% in tomato, 4.3 to 2.8% in potato and 2.9 to 2% in green pea crop. Retailers 'margin varied between 7.7 to 9.7% in cauliflower, 7.3 to 8.8% in tomato, 6 to 7.1% in potato and 5.5 to 6.2% in green pea crops. Share of wholesaler varied between 13.5% in cauliflower, 11% in tomato, 9.3% in potato and 7.6% in green pea crops. About 13–21% of the producers 'share moved to retailers 'pocket, while 10–16% in wholesalers 'account.


No one can study the development of adult education . . . without realizing that there is, innate in the people, both the desire and the capacity to know, to appreciate, and to practise those qualities of mind and spirit which belong to the good life in society, hindered in their expression by unfavourable environments, by false national ideals and by lack of vision on the part of those who wield authority in the modern state.


Is the fact/value distinction incompatible with the possibility of a social science which is both objective and evaluative (or normative)? Does support of the latter require rejection of the former and vice versa? This article presents an indirect argument against the incompatibility of the fact/value distinction and an objectively evaluative social science. My procedure is to show that David Hume, whose is/ought distinction is the locus classicus of the fact/value distinction, is committed both to the view that values cannot be derived from facts and to the view that social science is not (and should not be) value-neutral. Furthermore, Hume's position is free from any logical flaws. My conclusion is that it is false to say that the fact/value distinction entails a value-neutral social science, and that it is therefore utterly unnecessary for critics of such a science to waste their time attempting to "bridge the gap" between facts and values.


Since the end of the twentieth century, studies on the teaching of school geography in Venezuela have increased in number. The results are worrying because t...


The aim of our study was to evaluate physical properties of cashew nuts from the three main production areas in Cote d'Ivoire namely Bondoukou, Dabakala and Mankono after 6 months of storage in identical conditions. Sample cashew nuts have been collected from farmers randomly selected in 20 localities far enough apart and also veritable purveyors of nuts. The physical traits of the raw cashew nuts and their different parts were evaluated by standard methods. As results, our data showed that despite the similar mass (in mean 6.23 g) of cashew nuts independently of the origin, the mass of the kernels nuts from Bondoukou (2.17 g) were significantly higher than those from Dabakala (1.90 g) and Mankono (1.81 g) respectively in contrast to the shell mass indicating the best kernels yield at Bondoukou. Nuts water content diminished slowly from nuts at Bondoukou (3.86%) but rapidly at Mankono (5.68%) after 6 months of storage. For the morphometric characteristics, our results revealed that the nuts from Bondoukou were statistically shorter but the kernels were thicker (15.1 ± 0.50 mm) versus and for Dabakala (11.4 ± 0.16 mm) and Mankono (11.2 ± 0.19 mm) respectively. There is a clear correlation between the arithmetic diameter of the kernels and their sphericity (r = 0.99). Concerning the technological properties, out-turn was average ranged from 44.09 to 46.69 with defective up to 18% at Dabakala. Taken together, our results suggested that the cashew nuts presented different physical properties according to each region of production in Cote d'Ivoire requiring appropriated agricultural practices.


The utility model relates to a thin heat pipe structure which comprises a flat pipe body, a second capillary tissue, a third capillary tissue and working fluid, wherein the flat pipe body is provided with two wall plates and a containing cavity; a first capillary tissue is arranged on the inner surface of each wall plate; the second capillary tissue is contained inside the containing cavity and covered above the first capillary tissue; the third capillary tissue is an elongated body, contained inside the containing cavity and clamped between the second capillary tissue and another capillary tissue; and the working fluid is filled in the containing cavity. Therefore, the flowing speed of inside gas and the backflow speed of inside liquid can be improved.


The perovskite structure of La0.7Pb0.3MnO3 has been investigated. The sample has been prepared using the solid-state method. The structural analysis of the sample was carried out by using X-ray diffraction (XRD). The Rietveld refinement technique was applied to refine and determine the structural parameters of the sample. The XRD analysis shows that the compound exhibits a single phase and is crystalized in a rhombohedral structure with a space group of R-3c. The tolerance factor of the sample was calculated to determine the stability of the structure. The visualisation of the sample structure using VESTA software indicates the formation of the MnO6 octahedral structure. The FTIR revealed the absorption band of the sample is around 496 cm-1, corresponding with the stretching vibration of the Mn-O bond. The AC susceptibility and Vibrating-sample Magnetometer (VSM) were done to study the magnetic properties of the sample and confirm the transition from ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) at 298K with a maximum value of magnetization of 37.77 emu/g.


de Descartes," he writes, "n'est pas une th~se sur la philosophie de Descartes." Alqui6 here (and only here) excludes not only all purely mathematical texts but also those on mechanics, optics, acoustics, hydraulics, automata, etc., and even epistemologically significant items like "h i omni questione debet dari aliquod medium," "Si funis," and the full text of the ars memoriae passage. The only exception is Descartes' answer to Beeckman's problem regarding free fall, t runcated at the point where Descartes with the characteristic dlan of these years continues: "Ut autem hujus scientiae fundamenta jac iam. . . " . AlquiCs general justification for the exclusion of "mathematics" rests upon the evidence that Descartes himself considered his "philosophy" autonomous. But this was the view of the mature Descartes who had a philosophy, not that of the young French officer who had just been shocked out of his pleasant intellectual dolce far niente by the encounter with Isaac Beeckman, the embodiment of the new spirit of "physico-mathematics," who suddenly showed Descartes a revolutionary alternative to Scholastic speculation. The Cogitationes privatae are the record of an awakening; "philosophical" texts among them, which Alqui6, accepting Henri Gouhier 's br i l l iant hypothetical reconstruction, presents as "Praeambula" and "Olympica," mark the turning point: Descartes accepts, in the wake of his Dream, from the "Spirit of T ru th" the mission to philosophize. The notion of philosophizing is still nebulous; of the new lands to be conquered, only "physico-mathematics" is already widl in his grasp. Of this impact of "physico-mathematics" almost nothing survives in the new edition. The "philosophical" items stand alone as if this were all that was philosophically significant at this starting point of a great itinerary. This imbalance (which half a dozen added pages could have redressed) is apt to affect the reader's judgment concerning the bigger question of the role of physics in the formation and direction of Descartes' thought. I t also prevents him from recognizing how many lifelong concerns appear already at that first stage. Wi th no early texts point ing forward toward it, the Trait~ de la m(canique of 1637 now stands forlornly at the end of the volume, and the reader may well wonder what it is doing there. This is the only point where Professor AlquiCs editorial principles work against instead of for him. Once the edition passes beyond these years of turmoil and self-discovery, it does full justice to the philosopher and the reader. Professor Alqui6's introductions a r e models of brevity and firm scholarship, and his annotations could hardly be more helpful. Difficult terms are patiently explained, including the seemingly simple ones which easily tr ip the reader; complex matters are admirably disentangled. These annotations, a running commentary, are a contr ibution to Descartesian scolarship in their own right. When this edition is complete it will supersede all currently available study editions. The near-perfect first volume is unique in organization and scope; as a tool of study to serve alongside A T and AM it does not have its like. GREGOR SEBBA Emory University


An aircraft gas turbine engine assembly (10), including at least one propelling gas turbine engine (11) comprising a core engine (13) and an exhaust (32). The core engine includes at least one turbine (20) for generating thrust for the aircraft; and at least one auxiliary engine (12) including an inlet (24), at least one turbine (44), and an exhaust (80). The inlet is coupled in flow communication with at least one propelling gas turbine engine, such that a portion of airflow (31) flowing through the propelling engine is extracted from the propelling engine upstream from the propelling engine turbine, and is channeled to the auxiliary engine for generating power.


This article deals with the use of the sophisticated methods for the selection of technical and economic solution of electrical wiring. This solution is based not only on a price but also on many other criteria such as a comfort, service, durability etc. The focus of the work is a treatise on wiring systems from a global perspective, where it is impossible to use a conventional approach for objective evaluation and selection of the appropriate electrical wiring system (because of the complexity of such systems and their interdependencies). In the article are given information of an energy consumption (the total consumption and household consumption), consumption prediction – especially for households. Following is an overview of possible measures for reducing electricity consumption in households. In the part of the article are solved the knowledge, respectively expert systems for use in an electrical engineering – especially for a suitable tool for the selection and evaluation of households wiring electrical system. The result of this work provides a possible solution for a selection of wiring electrical system for households (focusing on the intelligent wiring) – from a technical and economic point of view and with using an innovative approach. The main contribution of this work is a proposal of the main part of the knowledge base. This base could be a basis for knowledge, respectively for an evaluating technical and economical solution of an electrical wiring system – the expert system includes also a feedback function of an effective solution, use value, price etc., which would also serve as a knowledge base.


The presence of lead, copper, and antimony (Sb, Cu, and Pb) was shown on the left back and right palm by use of anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV). These data are consistent with a cross overhand held weapon (left over right). The use of ASV for gunshot residue (trace elements) is an alternative approach in that it allows observation of the entire three element (Sb, Cu. Pb) pattern.


SYSNOPSIS This paper reports the relationship between mood, as measured by the Visual Analogue Mood Scale, and digit-symbol performance within individual hospitalized patients in a consecutive series of admissions with functional psychiatric disorders. It confirms the earlier finding of Folstein and Luria that a significant mood-digit-symbol relationship distinguishes clear cases of affective psychoses from clear non-affective disorders. Furthermore, it shows that, among patients who do not present with classical affective syndromes, those who manifest a significant mood-digit-symbol relationship tend to receive specific treatments for mood disturbances, have a positive family history of depression or mania, and improve significantly at discharge.


Water gas shift (WGS, CO+H2O⇆CO2+H2) is an effective approach for removing carbon monoxide from the reformed gas in a hydrogen production system. We have previously developed a Ni-including iron oxide structured catalyst (Ni-FeOx/Al) for WGS reaction [1]. In this study, in order to further enhance a WGS performance of the NiFeOx structured catalyst, we investigated the effect of alkaline metal (Li, Na, K, Cs) and alkali earth metal (Ca, Sr, Ba) addition to the catalyst on WGS property. The alkali-promoted catalyst was prepared as follows; the aluminum substrate was firstly activated by NaOH aq. and HCl aq. solutions. The FeCl3, urea and Ni(NO3)2 was then dissolved in a distillated water. The hydrothermal synthesis was then performed at 95oC for 11 h. After hydrothermal synthesis, the prepared catalyst was calcined at 300oC for 2 h. Subsequently, the prepared catalyst was immersed in an alkaline nitrate solution, and it was calcined at 500oC for 2 h. The WGS activity test was performed using a fixed bed reactor. The structured catalyst was firstly cut into square-shaped pieces (2.5 mm × 2.5 mm). The 80 pieces was settled at the center of the reactor, and the catalyst was reduced by H2 at 500oC for 1 h. The flow rate of the feed gas was CO/H2O/He = 5/10/35 ml·min . The reaction temperature was at from 160 to 400oC. The outlet gas was analyzed by GC-FID. Fig. 1(a) and 1(b) show a temperature dependence of a CO2 yield over the alkali metaland alkaline earth metal-promoted NiFeOx structured catalyst. From Fig. 1(a), the addition of alkali metal was positive effect for an enhancement of a WGS activity. The highest activity was obtained over the Cs promoted Ni-FeOx structured catalyst. Even at a low temperature of 225oC, the Cs-promoted Ni-FeOx structured catalyst showed 18.5% yield. Similarly, the alkali earth metal addition gave a good result. The activity order of the promoted catalyst was a good coincidence with the first ionization energy order of the additional component. Thus, the high WGS activity might be due to one electron transfer from the promoted metal to active-site Ni [2].


The solutions of the axisymmetric circular cylinder quantum nano jet can be governed by the time-dependent linear Schrodinger equation that is solved by two approaches. One is a partial analytic method based on the Fourier-Bessel transform and the other is numerical method based on finite difference methods. Appropriate boundary conditions for the solutions of the circular cylinder quantum nano jet are derived. By the Fourier-Bessel transform method, several integral formulas for the solutions of the jet are obtained. The Gaussian quadrature numerical integration is then applied to evaluate the integrals. The fourth-order central and compact difference methods are used for the numerical approach. The fourth-order Runge-Kutta time integration is applied for the time marching. Detailed comparisons between the partial analytic and numerical methods are performed. The results indicate that the partial analytic method can obtain right solutions and the proposed numerical method can capture the dispersion wave very well.


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This study aims to determine, analyze, and criticize whether or not Pancasila values have been implemented in Karangtengah Garut Village. The things that will be highlighted are the participation of community groups in Karangtengah Garut Village in implementing the values of Pancasila through various village development activities and analyzing the factors causing the inadequate implementation of Pancasila values and solutions in improving them. This research uses qualitative research with data obtained from book studies, journals, and news relevant to the discussion and then analyzed. Based on this research, it can be concluded that in Karangtengah Garut Village, Pancasila values have been implemented. However, they are still not maximized due to inhibiting factors. There are still many social gaps due to economic problems and because of two camps in ustad in one mosque, pengaji, and mass organizations. Based on the above problems, the authors provide solutions to maintain unity and integrity through the role of village youth through various activities so that Karangtengah Village is more active and innovative in strengthening unity and maximizing the implementation of Pancasila as it should.