This paper presents a solution for a warehouse multi-robot automation system with combination of Clarke and Wright Savings Algorithm, A* Graph Search Algorithm and Mixed Strategy. It is capable of multi-robot task allocation, optimal path finding and robot collision and path conflict handling. The simulation results showed that as the number of robots increase, the task rewards will monotonically increase as expected, and a relatively constant marginal energy cost that implies the effectiveness of the robot collision handling strategy.


We live in a world of unprecedented opulence, of a kind that would have been hard even to imagine a century or two ago. And yet we also live in a world with remarkable deprivation, destitution and oppression. There are many new problems as well as old ones, including persistence of poverty and unfulfilled elementary needs. Overcoming these problems is a central part of the exercise of development (Sen 1999). That children bear the major burden of poverty affecting every aspect of their physical, cognitive, social and emotional development does not need special evidence. Discourses on poverty articulated in the last ten years of the twentieth century have significantly changed the understanding of relationship between education and development. Further, interpretation of poverty in terms of capability deprivation has brought the role of education into sharper focus, not just in its instrumental role in alleviating poverty, but also as a core constituent of development and human well-being.


Currently computer is widely used in tourism teaching and industry,but computer teaching in tourism college has two rigid problems——the same teaching contents and the same teaching method to different students.Both aspects have bad effect on teaching.The spindle mode of computer teaching suggests that the fundamental section should be simplified,the section of tourism application be enlarged,advanced research about tourism be refined.


European technology, both practical and managerial arts, had an impact on the well-established cotton and handicraft textile industries of the Western Sudan during the first twenty-five years of colonial rule. But French efforts to shape cotton production for export did not always have the intended results. Indigenous historical processes as well as French colonial policy account for the changes in these industries.


The prevalence of lactase deficiency in British adults is unknown. Examination of the distribution of lactase activities in single and multiple biopsies of jejunum indicated that 0-8 U/g wet weight was a suitable cut-off point to separate lactase deficient patients from others. One hundred and fifty white British adults were selected, none of whorn had significant intestinal disease and all of whom had normal histopathology of a jejunal biopsy and normal activities of other disaccharidases measured in the biopsy. The prevalence of lactase deficiency in this group


. This paper has conducted a bibliometric analysis of 289 papers entitled "Chinese traditional music" and published in CSSCI and core music journals of Peking University over the four decades, from 1979 to 2019, with the help of CiteSpace.ThispaperfocusesontheexternalcharacteristicsofChinesetraditional musicresearch,suchastheoverallchangetrend,journaldistributionandcore authors.Thestudyalsoaimstoexplorethethematiccontentandfrontieranalysis ofChinesetraditionalmusicresearchthroughthekeywordclusteranalysis.This paperhasfoundthat:1.Intermsofpublication,"quantityandquality"tendtogrow simultaneously;2.Intermsofresearchstrength,thereisatrendof"morequantity andlesscooperation";3.Intermsofresearchhotspots,itshowsthecharacteristics of"themeconcentrationandperspectiveextension".


Key parameter of a reasoning process supporting real time performance is the use of active heuristics that facilitate the achievement of goals in a timely manner (Dodiawala et al. 1989). A real time approach should incorporate speed, timeliness and adaptation during the execution of tasks. Speed and efficient knowledge processing are addressed for the solution of complex building engineering problems, such as the calibration of Building Energy Models (BEM) to the actual performance data. During retrofit projects, calibrated BEM models aid the design process, and provide a solid base for performative assessments. Despite the demand for building performance evaluations, BEM calibration remains a work-intensive task (Lam et al. 2014). This study proposes a time efficient framework for BEM calibration input data management based on the methodology of a blackboard artificial intelligence knowledge processing system. The resulting model was used for sequential data mining for the energy assessment during the renovation of a commercial building.


Background  Although the histopathological subtype of melanoma has not been clearly proven to carry independent prognostic significance, acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) seems to confer a poorer prognosis mainly because disease is often more advanced at the time of diagnosis.


A method for evaluating the sensitivity of speed estimation to parameter variations in inverter motor drives with microprocessor based control is proposed in the paper. By using a full order flux asymptotic observer, the step by step analytical determination of the stator current error is carried out. In this way, the motor speed can be expressed as a function of motor parameters, allowing sensitivity evaluation.


The bio-based solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene) is a green and sustainable alternative to petroleum-based dipolar aprotic solvents. Cyrene can be prepared from cellulose in a simple two-step process and can be produced in a variety of yields. Cyrene is compatible with a large number of reactions in the chemical industry and can be applied in organic chemistry, biocatalysis, materials chemistry, graphene and lignin processing, etc. It is also green, non-mutagenic and non-toxic, which makes it very promising for applications. In this paper, we have also screened all articles related to Cyrene on the Web of Science and visualised them through Cite Space.


We propose a novel algorithm for connected word recognition. We introduce the overlap and split of reference patterns in matching them to portions of a test pattern. As a result, recognition errors due to coarticulation, word shortening and silence between words, which are inherent in connected speech, are reduced. Experiments with Japanese 4-digit strings (8 speakers x 350 strings) show that our method obtains better scores of recognition accuracy (as much as 7.85 %) than that obtained by Sakoe's two-level DP-matching algorithm.


The categories that structure the study of early modern science are organized around the epistemological liberal regime of facts, objectivity, skepticism, print culture, the public sphere, and the Republic of Letters. The regime of early-modern science in the global Spanish Monarchy is not well known because it was forged in a very different system, one of rewards and legislation in which most activities were transacted through one-on-one epistolary correspondence and intimate transference of information in translation workshops. This global system, nevertheless, engendered ceaseless technical and scientific innovations. I study three cases: the extraction and transformation of silver ores in several spaces; the production of ships and new botanical resources that reorganized global dockyards; and the creation of local translation workshops to facilitate the circulation of knowledge within the global empire. "European" science, the "West," and instrumental reason have always been global co-creations. However, colonial and postcolonial Manichean dichotomous historiographical categories have made this truism hard to see.


Finite State Machine(FSM) is an important method of dynamic modeling in object-oriented programming.It is used by the authors in the action modeling of air-defense combat simulation step by step.FSM can not only make action-description reasonable and feasible,but also has the characteristics of simple and easy realization.


The investigation on the mechanism of coal mine bumps is always one of the hot topics in the field of mining engineering and rock mechanical study all over the world.Coal mine bumps,which may expel large amounts of coal and rock into the face area and cause damages to underground openings and equipments,are sudden failures near the mine entries.Persistent bump problems not only threaten the safety of mine works,but also have caused the abandonment of large coal reserves.Researchers have made a large efforts to understand,anticipate,and control this kind of hazard and have achieved lots of helpful results.The characteristics and induced factors of coal mine bumps are briefly described based on the investigation of recent bumps accidents happened in China.According to the theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and dissipation structuret,he process of energy accumulation and dissipation in the coal-surrounding rock system is discussed during the propagation of coal mine bumps.Moreover,a series of experiments are conducted to analyze the relationship between bump-proneness and microstructureal characteristics of coal.The process of coal mine bumps induced by propagation of fractures and deterioration of coal mass properties are also analyzed systematically.


Our Gedanken experiment is a thought experiment as to what is called gravo-electric and gravo- magnetic potentials linked to gravo-electric and gravo-magnetic fields. We examine what Padma- nabhan presented in an exercise as of a linkage of electromagnetic fields with Gravitation. The modifications we bring up take the nonrelativistic approximation as the beginning of an order of magnitude estimate as to gravitons, generated electromagnetic fields, and are by definition linked to the total angular momentum of an initial configuration of "particles" of space-time import. The innovation put into Padmanbhan'/s calculation is to for total mass M, used, to substitute in M ~ N(gravitons) times m(g), where m(g) is about 10^?62 grams, as well as specify distances, for the object spinning as being about Planck length in size, give or take a few orders of magnitude. The results are by definition very crude, and do not take into account relativistic effects, but are pro- bably within an order of magnitude important comparison. We conclude with an a comment as to the possibility of an additional polarization as due to a response function of an interferometer to "scalar" polarization as maybe indicate a scalar-tensor gravitational theory as a replacement for General Relativity.


This thesis summarizes the basic circumstances of the old city area reconstruction of Changde city in the last decade and analyses the driving mechanism as well. Based on the study of major problems emerged in the old city area reconstruction and their respective causes, the author puts forward a solution to the old city area reconstruction.


A lower bound for the ratio of extrinsic and intrinsic distance is proved for embedded curves evolving by curve shortening flow in the plane and on surfaces. The estimates yield a new approach to longtime existence results and can be applied to related evolution equations.


The invention discloses a microwave signal phase shifting method based on polarized light interference technique in the technical field of microwave photonics. Photonic microwave signals generated by modulating a single sideband are transmitted by a polarization maintaining fiber and generate a group of optical carrier with locked phase and vertical polarization in a polarization manner by using the high birefringence characteristics and an appointed fusion angle. The input vertically-polarized optical carriers can generate different phase shift under the bias voltage of a phase modulator according to the polarization relativity of the modulation efficiency of the phase modulator, so that the phase difference among the optical carriers can be changed by adjusting the bias voltage. Then, the optical carriers are received by an analyzer with an appointed polarization angle to generate a group of parallel-polarized phase-shifting optical carriers. A photoelectrical detector can generate an electrical domain microwave phase-shifting signals after receiving beat frequency and isolating DC components, wherein the phase shifting magnitude depends on the bias voltage of the phase modulator. The invention further lowers the complexity of the microwave phase shifting system, and improves the phase shifting accuracy.


This paper tests the gathered acceleration vibration signal(called experimental signal) of wind power generator gear transmission system and calculated its power spectrum. Used zoom spectrum combining with inverse spectrum to analyze the power spectrum to obtain the characteristics of the experimental signal, and judged the fault location and fault type of the gear transmission system. In order to verify the fault, this paper builds dynamical model of faulty gear transmission system, then imports it in CAE software to simulate, and extracts its vibration signal to analyze by using signal processing methods the same as described above with the purpose of getting vibration signal characteristics of the faulty transmission system, uses the result to judge whether the result of experimental signal is right, and uses fractal method to analyze different status power spectrum fractal characteristics of gear transmission system. The result shows that the correlation dimension can reflect its vibration signal components of complex degree and the difference between the fault position and degree,can provide basis for failure characteristic quantities of gear transmission, to judge fault.


This paper studies the implications of model uncertainty for wealth distribution in a tractable general equilibrium model with a borrowing constraint and robustness a la Hansen and Sargent (2008). Households confront model uncertainty about the process driving the return of the risky asset, and they choose robust policies.


SUMMARY The author discusses mindful practices with children and adolescents in the residential treatment milieu. The article presents the current literature as well as three case studies informing theoretical and practical viewpoints of these practices as interventions and philosophies towards healing and growth.


Abstract Cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic investigations from bone marrow samples were performed in 83 patients with multiple myeloma. Karyotype analyses were made after cultivation with and without growth factors. The polyploidy level ranged from 3n to 6n. For each patient the composite karyotype was delineated. The number of abnormalities per aberrant cell was in a range from 1 to 17 (x =3,7). The comparison of CGH and FISH results showed an accordance of 92%. In total, 57% of cells showed chromosomal aberrations.


We read with interest the article by Robinson et al. reporting cross-reacting and specific epitopes on the flagellar protein of Borrelia burgdorferi (5). The authors have overlooked previous findings, including our own study, which precisely characterized the common and specific epitopes of the flagellar protein by using overlapping decapeptides (6) and which have been confirmed since by others using recombinant fragments (1, 3). This is especially unfortunate because the authors thus did not realize that they interrupted the integrity of the Nand C-terminal cross-reacting epitopes (6) by their choice of fragments (5). In addition, by sera being preabsorbed with Escherichia coli cell sonicate (5), which is not done in routine diagnostic studies, potential crossreacting antibodies were excluded from their study, despite known sequence homologies between the flagellin of E. coli and that of B. burgdorfeni (2). Furthermore, the unspecific binding of immunoglobulins to a region between amino acids (aa) 49 and 68 is already known (6) and can be blocked by preincubation with ovalbumin (4, 6). The question posed by Robinson et al. regarding the regions recognized preferentially from sera from patients at different stages of Lyme disease has also been answered in our previous study: sera from stage I and II patients recognize the epitope within aa 151 to 166 but not the epitope within aa 205 to 226, which is the preferential epitope recognized by sera of patients at stage III and the Borrelia-specific monoclonal antibody H9724 (1, 6). We hope that Table 1, summarizing what is known, will enable future investigators to extend the current knowledge on B. burgdorferi epitopes. Nonetheless, we agree with Robinson et al. that an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay based on the central region of the B. burgdorferi flagellin would substantially improve the serodiagnosis of Lyme disease; however, we suggest excluding aa 121 to 148 and 255 to 280, because the main cross-reacting epitopes of sera from healthy controls and patients with syphilis are located in these regions.


The interaction between usability and how a Web site is structured is a complicated issue. In this paper, we discuss a Web structure mining algorithm which allows the automatic extraction of navigational structures in a Web site without performing hypertext analysis. We perform several usability experiments to correlate the usability of Web sites and the structural design of the Web site. Experimental results show that the structure mining algorithm gives reasonable prediction about several design issues in Web structure. The analysis serves as building block in the complex issue of web usability and structure mining.


This article analyses the present situation of Chiese ship coatings industry and list the main coating predictor in ship coating. Giving out the common ship necessary system and painting scheme on basis of the concrete using demand in all part of the ship. The author forecasts the developmet trend of the ship coating is excellence of finish, ease of application, economics, energy saving and ecology.


The application of artificial illumination to induce photoperiodic effects on chrysanthemum nursevy production implies in a rational electrical energy use. In this context, the objective of this research was to test and to analyze the application of high intensity discharge (HID) illumination to substitute the conventional incandescent filament illumination in chrysanthemum nurseries production. The presence of floral buttons was taken as the main parameter in evaluating the tested varieties because it is closely associated to photoperiodic effects. Electrical energy evaluation parameters included demand, consumption, power factor as well as specific consumption. Results generated by the statistical analysis indicated no increase in the number of buttons associated with the high discharge illumination method. However the illumination with compacted yellow fluorescent discharge lamps of 23 W presented the lowest maximum demand as well as a 75% energy consumption reduction when compared with the 100 W incandescent lamps.


An estimated amount of nearly 1.24 million people dies every year from Road Traffic Accident. Despite the fact that most cars nowadays are equipped with automobile safety technology such as seat belts and airbags system, yet, their functionality is only limited for the prevention of further injuries after an accident. Due to the limitations of the existing automobile safety technology, a better and safer automobile design for prevention of pre-accident is therefore crucial. This project introduces a system namely Intelligent Safety Warning and Alert System (I-SWAS) using Arduino microcontroller as a based operation which offers a low-cost alternative in automobile safety technology for pre-accident prevention and hence reducing the Road Traffic Accident while providing corrective behavioral elements to the drivers driving ability.


[Objective] The research aimed to investigate the effect of planting density on yield and quality of malting barley.[Method] With Ganpi 3 as tested variety,9 treatments were set up for density experiment to study the effects of different sowing density from 2002 to 2003 on the yield,grain protein content and main economic characters of malting barley in 4 test sites,and the yield variance analysis and the multiple comparisons between treatments were made.[Result] Within a certain planting density scope,the yield of malting barley was raised with the increase of density,whereas,the yield was dropped with the increase of density when exceeding some planting density range.The grain protein content was decreased with the increase of sowing rate,and kernel weight was also declined.The yield was the highest with seeding rate of 6 million grains/hm2,the yield was converted into 7 550.40 kg/hm2,the grain protein was the maximum when seeding rate was 1.5 million grains/hm2,which was 12.13%.[Conclusion] According to the comprehensive analysis of yield and brewing quality,it was deemed that the suitable sowing rate in Hexi region should be 4.5 to 6 million grains/hm2(202.5-270.0 kg/hm2),and seeding rate in Yumen region should be 5.25 to 6.75 million grains/hm2(240.0-304.5 kg/hm2).


..................................................................................................................... xii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 1 1.1 Data Models in electronic information systems ..................................................................... 1 1.1.1 The Conventional Data Model ............................................................................................ 2 1.1.2 The EAV Data Model ............................................................................................................ 2 1.1.3 Handling data extraction and reporting challenges in the EAV Data Model ........ 3 1.1.4 Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Process for EAV Data Model ................................. 3 1.2 Problem Statement .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.2.1 Proposed solution .................................................................................................................... 5 1.2.2 Research Objectives ............................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................. 7 2.1 Data Models in Information systems ........................................................................................ 8 2.1.1 Conventional and EAV Data Models ................................................................................ 8 2.1.2 Data extraction in Conventional and EAV Data Models ............................................ 9 2.1.3 EAV Data Model in Healthcare Systems ....................................................................... 10 2.1.4 Handling the EAV data extraction and reporting challenges in Healthcare Systems ................................................................................................................................... 10 2.1.5 Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Process......................................................................... 12 2.2 Null Hypothesis ............................................................................................................................. 12 2.3 The significance of the Research ............................................................................................. 13 2.4 Scope and Limitation ................................................................................................................... 13 2.5 Research Assumptions ................................................................................................................ 13 2.6 Conceptual Framework ............................................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY ..................................................................... 15 3.


The quantum inverse scattering method is used for the study of a nonlinear N‐wave resonance interaction system. The Yang–Baxter relations are solved to get various commutation relations for the scattering data operators. The energy spectrum of the quantum Hamiltonian for the model is determined and the existence of the quantum bound states is analyzed. In the classical limit, the corresponding r matrix is found, and the well‐established correspondence between the classical solitons and the quantum bound states is examined. Finally, the integrability of the same model but with both fermion fields and boson fields is discussed.


The potentially harmful phytoplankton bloom is a world wide problem that became frequent in the last decade. Microcystis aeruginosa is a toxic cyanobacterium that proliferates frequently in reservoirs deteriorating their water quality. Hence, a monitoring and warning system to forecast the risk of cyanobacteria proliferation became essential for lake managing. For that purpose, a one dimensional hydrodynamic (DYRESM) model coupled to an ecological model (CAEDYM) has been applied to simulate the growth of cyanobacteria colonies found in a French reservoir. As primary results the model was able to follow the trend of the cyanobacteria dynamics in the reservoir.


In the property industry investment value property has been grew to positively. Opening
opportunities for many business which is participate on it. PT Citra Kedaton is one of a real
estate developer with had survived in Yogyakarta, for ten years implementing corporate strategy
to compete with many competitors in the property industry in Yogyakarta. The companies faced
particularly difficult the more domestic stiffer rules of the government and limitations of land in
Yogyakarta.
The position of the company is no longer determining the product, manufacturers are
forced to make products according to consumers. Thus, application of appropriate strategies
needed to survive and compete to improve the company's competitive advantage in the property
industry. On the other hand the whole strategy of activities of the company should be able to
improve production efficiency and overcome obstacles.
This research will analyzes, the company's strategy that is applied in dealing with the
problems already mentioned, also analyzes whether the strategies that applied can increase the
competitive advantages for the company. The analysis is done using some theories such as Five
Forces (Porter, 1998), SWOT, IE Matrix, SPACE Matrix, Product Market Matrix (Hax and
Majluf, 1991), and Value Disciplines (Treacy and Wiersema, 1993), in which all data analysis
results will be elabored with these theories.


Dieu est pauvre et nous sommes riches'" : un contre-discours coranique a la lumiere des litteratures biblique, talmudique et islamique. La polemique anti-judaique constitue une des controverses /es plus marquantes du Coran. Une des formes explicites de celle-ci consiste a attribuer aux juifs des disc ours rapportes hostiles au Prophete et a la revelation coranique. Parmi ces « contre-discours ", /'expression « Dieu est pauvre et nous sommes riches" (Ill, 181)fera /'objet d 'une analyse intra et inter-textuelle a la lumiere des litteratures biblique, talmudique et islamique. On tentera ainsi de demontrer /'arriere-fond talmudique de cette expression et /es strategies de reecriture mobilisees par l'exegese islamique afin de contex tua/isercette expression . Emran EI-Badawi, University of Houston, U.S.A. Em ran EI-Badawi is Associate Professor and Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston (UH ). He is author of The Qur 'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (Routledge, 2013), co-author of A History of the Classical Middle East(Cognella, forthcoming) and editor of Communities of the Qur 'an (Oneworld, in progress). He teaches courses on Islamic Civilization as well as the modern Middle East. At UH he is responsible forthree undergraduate degree programs, consulting for the private sector and government, and partnering with community organizations on a variety of initiatives. EI-Badawi is founding Executive Director and Treasurer of the International Our ' anic Studies Association, starting his first term in 2014. He received his Ph .D. with honors from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago . Emran El-Badawi Abstract ~ ul.) 0.l! 0T_j]I Jl,i.u, ~~~I ~yy..ll Y-l~l .).J" J~ ~ Ji,l:ij c;i ~ L. i..w, 0_μ1 <.lll:i ~ t:......>1 ulS l~J . ..ill~~ t....k .Ji ..::i1J....;,.,J1 t ly..,,.J &~)II ,~)11.J ~y..Jt, JJ..:i:; uG...J.),'YI u~I U.L.i ~ ~I ~yy..ll Y-l~4 .._:,l:i:i.J uf_;JI u<>i c)! _μ4 ~li:iS)II.J :i.,ifoll ui .>Ji..ll.J .->ff.! ui_;ll ~ t.;.Jj L.ll.'ill ~I.J .~I u-l! J_),:ill ~ ,:l..ili:i..JI :i.,ic. y'..11.J :i,J~YI.J ~_,..)J.]1 ,s~Y4 .J ,",13y'..ll tYUl.:&l4 ~ ..:,;IS J'.,L.... ~ ;;_;;,4w44-J "-i\'.i..i :i..;;i_;JI u6..J.),'YI <.lll:i .~.illl .)_,.-.11 ftl.Ji ~ ,~,.y..ll ui 4]) ,:i._;;T_j]I :i..lt...)I :i..4!.J :i..;;t,iy..ll tYUl.:&ll Jjt.... 0.l! ;..;.)ti. ~ly .)J 6:..4)1 ~ii ;;~.:,c, yl,i.u,i -llU.. d/JI ~-lll..i.. l...i,i/ ,,s.)WI.Jo~I.JJiily,,)~.J ~I J,,iy1t.;.:;._..:;ll uy'llu-ul_;;,..ll -llU.. uU..J u)IJI ~~'(•~I~•.)~</' L..S ~4-)1 ,hu....,~1 ;;oL,c _p-i) ~o§ ~T _fi~._..:;111.il ;;aja.JI t.Y>,W>ti .ol<:.J ~ foj ~i_;JI ~)II ul _,.. ~I ~I _ _;;,t,.. ~ ~ .J ,,sjJI.J ~ de~ J;! ufo.J u..iSY'-.J uiiiU..J u_,...k.ll.J u_,l.._,-. ~_,.._., 0.J! tjli:i c;ill.J ,~l.>!)/1 4,..,,.h...J tY').\.J ,J,;..>.!! 0.l! ~)II Y.J~4 ij_.>h.. J.S h...J~I Jy'..11 ui _,.. Gll'.ill ~I.J ."-:1".*'...J <"W ~ <ii ,~.i)(,,.. ~I.J tY'"l.ll u.ftll ~ ~.J ,~ ~I 0.J!.J cS.)WI.J o~I 0.l! ~oll ulcljil4 .uf_;ll .)* U!.J ~ ~ ~ .J ._..:;11.J ,,.__431 :i._;;i_;JI ..::itc.~I.J ul~I.J ual..,..ll ~ ~ ~_,...;,.ll .;J; G:...,111~ :i,e,jl.li.JI ~I ylj.,..i y1t.;.:; o.i.s :i._;ji_;JI :i..lt...)1 u.i\S Ji .:i..b.Y U.J.>9~f"".>.F-.J ~I J,,i ~ u~~ .U!,L,> r.,r!Y ul.u.li tfil.J ,-1:iL:...J_;;,.J '-'"""l.)'11..,.1.,__;.JI l..)"li..JI y\:iSJI ~ u,~->-31 ul.,hll.J :</'.J .)}~.Ji / • .§i ~ ~ G:...,11 r.fa>.)2-;! ·"'-'""".)'11 *)II ~l:i'.i.J 0r_;i1" r..r1l:iS ~ 1.J.)..ii Ju,)I.J ~t,i,u~ l 4.it.'.i .1 ~ I e:\.).J u~I :Uloj .2 yWI.Juy)J.]IJ'.,L...._3 Carol Bakhos, University of California Los Angeles, U.S.A. Carol Bakhos is Professor of Late Antique Judaism at the University of California Los Angeles, and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion. Her recent book, The Family of Abraham, translated into Turkish, examines Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of the biblical and Our ' an ic stories about Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac. She is co-editing the forthcoming book Islam and its Past with Michael Cook. She served as Vice President of Membership and Outreach of the Association for Jewish Studies and is currently the Co-Editor of the AJS Review.


Kahn details to Bennett how journalism makes accessible a technical and intellectual subject like the story of Linear B's decipherment to a large public. He insists on its story being told, debating Bennett's points on the matter.


The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between computational thinking, lifelong learning competencies and personality traits of university students. It was aimed to create a model that explains and predicts the relationship among the variables determined in the study. Convenience sampling method was used in determining the study group. Data were collected from 228 university students through social media. Descriptive statistics, correlation and path analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that extroversion, agreeableness, and openness are statistically significant predictors of computational thinking. Among the personality traits, agreeableness yielded the greatest effect, while extroversion and openness resulted in medium effect on computational thinking. In addition, computational thinking significantly predicts lifelong learning competencies.


The purpose of this study was to reveal about violence against African-American slaves; the kinds of violence and impacts of violence to the slaves in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave. This study is classified as a qualitative research because the writers gathered the data in the form of words as well as quotation from the work itself. The writers collected the data from two kinds of sources, namely primary source and secondary source. The primary source was taken from the novel Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, and the secondary sources are the other material that supports the research such as books, articles and websites. This study used a Sociological approach which regards the literary work as a social document that reflects the situation when the literary work was created. The results of this study showed that there are two kinds of violence against African-American slaves in Northup's work; physical violence and psychological violence. The acts of violence wasreceived by the slaves result in some impacts include physical impact such  as, suffering in pain, injury, and sick; and psychological impact such as, fear, trauma, and depression. Through sociological approach, it can be concluded that the novel Twelve Years a Slave really explained the real social condition of African-American slaves that occurred in the 19th century, where they experienced acts of violence from their white masters during slavery.


The population of the world as a whole has been the subject of considerable study since the First World War, and this interest has increased remarkably since the end of the Second World War. The appearance of MARCEL R. REINHARD'S important work on the history of world population during the modern period should stimulate further interest in this Held. Despite the fragmentary character of many of its sections (which he realizes), it should become the point of departure for any future, and more intensive, study of world population trends. There have been excellent shorter accounts before in Carr-Saunders' World Population, Willcox's Studies in American Demography, and Pearl's The Natural History of Population. M. Reinhard's book differs from these, not only in length, but in emphasis: his purpose is to provide a full-length narrative history of world population from 1700 to 1948 as a branch of general history. He believes that this history can only be understood in terms of political and social developments, agricultural and industrial change, and the dominant ideas of the time. He rejects laws .of population growth that ignore the influences of historical events. The period covered is not arbitrarily chosen. Reinhard maintains that it has a unity: the year 1700 marked the beginnings of the economic revolution that caused population growth and European expansion throughout the world, while 1948 represented the end of this period of expansion and influence. The book is divided into four parts. The first two parts are concerned almost entirely with western Europe, though there are summary chapters on world population during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The third part consists of chapters on the population history of all the non-European lands. These are little more than suggestive outlines. Reinhard regards the American immigration acts of the 1920's as of decisive importance in the population history of the world, for they marked the end of a powerful migration which had lasted for three centuries. His statement that the South American countries are areas of future hope for mankind and of a new transformation of the planet (p. 432) ignores the controversial literature on these areas, particularly on the nature of tropical soils and the widespread erosion in many Central and South American countries. In the fourth part, he turns again to Europe to discuss the "crisis of population" from 1919 to 1948. One chapter is given to world-wide population movements for the period. The great exchange of peoples between Korea and Japan following the Second World War is not mentioned. Mankind, M. Reinhard believes, is now undergoing a great, but little understood, transformation. Pessimists fear such eventualities as overpopulation and exhaustion of natural resources, while the optimists believe a world population of eight or twelve billion to be possible. He does not commit himself to either viewpoint. He seems to assume, however, the existence of a relatively unchanging physical environment, for there is little mention of world resources, soil, water,


Trans‐sodium crocetinate (TSC) is a novel synthetic carotenoid compound that improves diffusion of small molecules, including oxygen, in solutions. TSC provides neuroprotection in healthy rats and rabbits. This study seeks to determine whether TSC is neuroprotective in obese mice. Sixteen‐week‐old CD‐1 male mice that had been fed a high‐fat diet for 10 weeks were subjected to a 90‐min middle cerebral arterial occlusion (MCAO). They received TSC by two boluses through a tail vein 10 min after the onset of MCAO and reperfusion, respectively, with doses of 0.14, 0.28, and 0.7 mg/kg or by a bolus–infusion–bolus strategy with a dose of 0.14 mg/kg during MCAO. The neurological outcome was evaluated 72 hr after MCAO. Brain tissues were harvested 24 hr after MCAO to measure nitrotyrosine‐containing proteins, 4‐hydroxy‐2‐nonenal, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)‐2 and ‐9 activity and expression, and inflammatory cytokines. TSC given in the two‐bolus strategy did not improve the neurological outcome. The bolus–infusion–bolus strategy significantly reduced brain edema, infarct volume, and hemorrhagic transformation and improved neurological functions. TSC reduced nitrotyrosine‐containing proteins, MMP‐9 activity and expression, and inflammatory cytokines in ischemic brain tissues. Our results indicate that TSC delivered by the bolus–infusion–bolus strategy provides neuroprotection in obese mice. This protection may occur through reduction of oxidative stress, MMP‐9 activity, or inflammatory cytokines in the ischemic brain tissues. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The paper focuses on the seismic response of steel pin-jointed frames braced by lightweight cladding panels. In particular, with the aim to investigate the performance of such a structural scheme when acting as a dissipative system, a wide numerical study has been developed. It is based upon available shear tests on screwed sandwich panels, whose experimental cyclic responses are properly incorporated into a scope-oriented, computer program. The goal is firstly to check the possibility of using cladding panels as shear diaphragms in seismic areas and then to assess an appropriate design behaviour factor, accounting for their actual hysteretic response. Key findings from the nonlinear dynamic analyses are: (1) a portal frame steel building in a low-medium seismicity zone may be braced by common cladding panels, completely avoiding the use of other bracing systems; (2) this structural solution, if compared with a conventional one, appears to be more efficient and cost-effective, giving rise to a weight saving which, in the case under examination, reaches a value of about 20%; (3) on the basis of the numerical study a design behaviour factor q d =2 seems to be realistic for such a structural typology.


The effects of poverty alleviation policies for underdeveloped rural areas in the West of China are declining at present because some policies adopted are not suitable if the causes of poverty haven't been perfectly explored.The causes of poverty can be classified into two modals of intergenerational transmission and poverty trap.It is necessary to make a comparison of these two modals,analyze and clarify the mechanisms in them so as to provide basis in policy and theory for the rational anti-poverty strategy making.In this way,the long years' problem of poverty in underdeveloped rural areas will be solved at last.


This paper reports the extraction of the pigment from purple bolt. We also study the stability of the pigment at different acidity, temperature and sunlight conditions. The results indicate that the pigment can be used in many kinds of acidity food.


CD4 counts rise following treatment with HAART, the pattern of which however varies between individuals and populations. Host, virus and treatment factors may play a part in shaping the trajectory. Through an HIV clinical cohort study, we aim to describe the natural course of CD4 trajectories and evaluate possible factors associated with different patterns. Between 1997 and 2008, HIV‐1‐infected patients receiving HAART at one major HIV specialist clinic in Hong Kong were included in a study for assessing CD4 changes. The entry criteria were: (a) patients who have been put on HAART according to standard criteria; (b) sustained viral suppression after treatment; (c) having been on HAART for at least 48 months. A total of 141 patients with 3,087 measurements were analysed, covering a total of 11,282 person‐months. The median age at initiation of HAART was 37 (IQR 32–44). A majority were male (74%), Chinese (87%) and who have contracted HIV through heterosexual contacts (84%). At baseline, the median CD4 was 39 cells/µL (IQR 13–127 cells/µL) and viral load was 74,100 copies/mL (IQR 26,800–280,000 copies/mL). Over time, 80 (57%) gave a CD4 count of>500/µL during antiretroviral treatment. Clinically, almost all (96%) had presented with an AIDS‐defining illness before HAART was started. Around half of the patients were on 2NRTI+1 NNRTI and half on 2NRTI+1 PI. Overall, 3 groups of patients can be differentiated by their temporal pattern of CD4 recovery. Group One (n=38; 34%) gave a median peak value of 576/µL within 4 years (median interval 40 months). Group Two comprised 96 (68%) patients whose mean CD4 count continued to rise beyond 48 months. Group Three (n=7) gave little or no response to treatment, as defined by a change of<100 cells/µL in the mean count by year. Group Three patients were relatively older (median age=46 years). Comparing between Group One and Two, there was a higher proportion of men having sex with men whose CD4 had plateaued within 4 years (21% vs 6%, p=0.017). Lower baseline CD4 and higher baseline viral load were associated with continued rise of CD4 beyond 4 years. There was no association of CD4 recovery pattern with the HAART regimen. In conclusion, CD4 rise tends to be prolonged following effective virus suppression in a predominantly Chinese HIV population. The differential patterns were largely associated with host factors with little impacts from HAART regimens.


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Anomaly detection is considered an important data mining task, aiming at the discovery of elements (also known as outliers) that show significant diversion from the expected case. More specifically, given a set of objects the problem is to return the suspicious objects that deviate significantly from the typical behavior. As in the case of clustering, the application of different criteria lead to different definitions for an outlier. In this work, we focus on distance-based outliers: an object x is an outlier if there are less than k objects lying at distance at most R from x. The problem offers significant challenges when a stream-based environment is considered, where data arrive continuously and outliers must be detected on-the-fly. There are a few research works studying the problem of continuous outlier detection. However, none of these proposals meets the requirements of modern stream-based applications for the following reasons: (i) they demand a significant storage overhead, (ii) their efficiency is limited and (iii) they lack flexibility. In this work, we propose new algorithms for continuous outlier monitoring in data streams, based on sliding windows. Our techniques are able to reduce the required storage overhead, run faster than previously proposed techniques and offer significant flexibility. Experiments performed on real-life as well as synthetic data sets verify our theoretical study.


Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam : By Fredrik Logevall. (New York: Random House, 2012


Wilderness has recently re-emerged as a key landscape quality in the public debate in Europe, experiencing renewed appreciation in terms of tourism and nature conservation. At the same time, wilderness has turned into a critical matter of conflict, calling for a better understanding of the public's varied views on wilderness and the spatial localisation of areas of potential conflict. In this paper, we explore the plurality of existing public wilderness representations combining qualitative evidence from 21 semi-structured interviews with quantitative data from a large-scale questionnaire survey (n = 858) conducted in the region of South Tyrol in the Central Alps. This is complemented with a GIS-based approach to quantify and map the geographic coverage of the different representations of wilderness. Our study reveals three distinct public wilderness representations, i.e. 'Area with no human impact', 'Remote and large area', and 'Area where nature can self-develop', differing in terms of selection and weighting of wilderness attributes. The translation of wilderness representations into maps shows clear differences in spatial distribution, location, and extent of areas with high wilderness quality across the three representations. We further demonstrate the added value of our approach by comparing the results with a standardised, expert-based approach on wilderness quality mapping, finding that the extent of areas of high wilderness quality significantly varies depending on whether the mapping is based on experts' or public's representation of wilderness. We therefore conclude that recognising public wilderness representations and their plurality is fundamental for identifying areas of potential conflict and sustainably managing wild landscapes.


NBR was blended with PVC and nanometer calcium carbonate to toughen the PVC/nano-CaCO3 composites.The mechanical properties,rheology,thermal and morphology of the composites were studied.The results indicated that NBR had good toughening effect on PVC/nano-CaCO3 composites,impact strength increased to 30.10kJ/m2 for PVC/NBR/nano-CaCO3 at a weight ratio of 100/12/8,and enhanced 27% which being compared with corresponding PVC/nano-CaCO3 composites.NBR could decrease the viscosity of composites and the process ability was improved.At the same time,Tg of composites decreased and thermal stability turned to be bad.The scanning electron microscope(SEM) photograph indicated that when PVC/NBR/nano-CaCO3 was at a weight ratio of 100/12/8,the NBR could enhance the nanometer dispersive degree of nano-CaCO3 to some extent and the plastically deformed fibrils of the PVC matrix were pulled up on the fracture surface,which were associated with the improvement of impact strength.


We show that with high probability the random graph Gn,1/2$$ {G}_{n,1/2} $$ has an induced subgraph of linear size, all of whose degrees are congruent to r(modq)$$ r\kern0.3em \left(\operatorname{mod}\kern0.3em q\right) $$ for any fixed r$$ r $$ and q≥2$$ q\ge 2 $$ . More generally, the same is true for any fixed distribution of degrees modulo q$$ q $$ . Finally, we show that with high probability we can partition the vertices of Gn,1/2$$ {G}_{n,1/2} $$ into q+1$$ q+1 $$ parts of nearly equal size, each of which induces a subgraph all of whose degrees are congruent to r(modq)$$ r\kern0.3em \left(\operatorname{mod}\kern0.3em q\right) $$ . Our results resolve affirmatively a conjecture of Scott, who addressed the case q=2$$ q=2 $$ .


Information systems has been developed and used in various business area, therefore there are abundance of history data (log data) stored, and subsequently, it is required to analyze those log data. Previous studies have been focusing on the discovering of relationship between events and no identification of anomaly instances. Previously, anomaly instances are treated as noise and simply ignored. However, this kind of anomaly instances can occur repeatedly. Hence, a new methodology to detect the anomaly instances is needed. In this paper, we propose a methodology of LAPID (Local Anomaly Process Instance Detection) for discriminating an anomalous process instance from the log data. We specified a distance metric from the activity relation matrix of each instance, and use it to detect API (Anomaly Process Instance). For verifying the suggested methodology, we discovered characteristics of exceptional situations from log data. To demonstrate our proposed methodology, we performed our experiment on real data from a domestic port terminal.


This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used in public junior high schools in China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through this adapted framework, this paper aims to analyze and compare the distribution of multimodal native cultural content in the chosen textbooks. The results reveal that the two sets of books contain diverse multimodal native cultural content, despite the significant imbalance between Big "C" and Small "c" categories in each set. The two sets of textbooks also have different emphases on representing these elements. We argue that previous studies overgeneralized language textbooks' native cultural content. Learners' intercultural communicative competence development may be impacted by the overemphasis and shortage of some cultural categories in the chosen books. This article concludes with implications for textbook design and classroom teaching and calls for further studies of teachers' and learners' perceptions of multimodal native cultural content.


A review of Patricia Pisters' The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working With Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2003).


Wave Energy Converters (WEC) are devices that convert the kinetic energy of the waves into useful electrical energy. There are multiple types of WEC devices that have been developed over the years. These devices act as a source of clean energy and can be used to generate electricity. This paper provides a numerical assessment of a WEC device comprising of a moored buoy with a Power Take-Off (PTO) system driven by line tension.
 This WEC system was developed by Laminar Scientific. AMOG was contracted by Testing and Expertise for Marine Energy (TEAMER) to provide a numerical assessment of this WEC device under metocean conditions present at the PacWave site.
 The WEC system was modeled using the hydrodynamic package OrcaFlex, over a range of regular and irregular sea-states of varying wave height and period. Four optimization steps were made to the model, altering parameters of the original model such as size and geometry.
 The simulations indicated that the WEC device power output is highest for large surge and heave motions of the buoy. The simulations also predicted that increasing the surge and heave motions lead to a critical point beyond which the PTO system was no longer able to respond rapidly enough to maintain minimum tension in the mooring lines. Beyond this point snatch loads were predicted to occur potentially exceeding the Minimum Breaking Load (MBL) of the lines and accompanied by unstable rotational motions of the buoy. Increasing the size of the buoy was predicted to prevent these snatch loads and associated unstable rotational motions of the buoy from occurring in the range of sea states investigated. The parameters which were predicted to have the most impact on the system performance were the buoy size (mass, moments of inertia, and volume) and the rotational inertia of the PTO system. Increasing the buoy size and decreasing the PTO rotational inertia was predicted to improve the power generation capabilities of the device.


Fluidic artificial muscles have the potential for a wide range of uses; from injury rehabilitation to high-powered hydraulic systems. Their modeling to date has largely been quasi-static and relied on the operator to adjust pressure so as to control force output and utilization while little work has been done to date to analyze the kinematics of the driving-systems involved in their operation. This paper establishes a combined electro-hydraulic model of a fluidic artificial muscle actuated climbing robot to establish a method for studying the relationships between muscle size, robot size and function, and system design. The study indicates a strong relationship between appropriate system component selection and not only system efficiency but individual component effectiveness. The results of the study show that robot mass, operating pressure, muscle size, and motor-pump selection have noteworthy impacts on the efficiency and thereby longevity of the robot for performing its task.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


This study was aimed at assessing marketing efficiency in the main sites of meat production of calf fattening fields in the private sector due to the importance of meat, especially red meat, which has essential nutrient for human body growth and high commodity prices depending on the measurement indicators used to suit the nature of the research conducted in calves fattening production fields in Gogjali regionNineveh (2018). The basic source data of the study is obtained from sources on the ongoing groundmarketing questionnaire of three levels, the producer, the wholesaler, the retailer and two fields groups of caste random sample. The first group included (100) fields with imported calves class. The second included (51) fields with local calves class. Whereas, according to the production and marketing costs indicator, the average of marketing efficiency (ME1 ) of marketed meat in both groups of claves fattening fields amounted (92.47, 93.39%) respectively for a kilogram which is a sign of high production costs and, according to the marketing margins indicator, the average of marketing efficiency (ME2 ) of marketed meat in both groups of claves fattening fields amounted (86.89,79.13 %) for per kg which is a sign of high marketing margins. Thus the study concluded a high value of marketing efficiency using the first scale with the fattening period time for both groups while marketing efficiency by using the second scale was characterized by the gradual decline in the imported fattening fields and a gradual rise in the local fattening fields. The study recommends supporting production inputs (fodder, treatment), unifying markets and limiting the importation of red meat importation in order to obtain a good production and currency policy by which the production costs could be reduced to the minimum . Key word : Marketing efficiency , calf fattening fields, Cost, Returns. ةيقارعلا ةيعارزلا مولعلا ةلجم 2020 : 51 ) 4 :) 1128 1138 يئاطلاو الله دبع ىونين ةظفاحم يف محللا لوجع نيمست لوقحل ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا ريدقتل ةيداصتقا ةسا رد 2018 للها دبع دمحم ءلاا يئاطلا ناحرف مناغ ريدغ دعاسم ذاتسأ دعاسم سردم يعا رزلا داصتقلاا مسق – تاباغلاو ةعا رزلا ةيلك – لصوملا ةعماج صلختسملا س يف ةيساسلاا ةعلسلا هذه راعسا عافتراو ,ناسنلاا مسج ومن هموميدل ةيرورض ةيئاذغ رصانع نم هيوتحت امل ءا رمحلا اهنمو موحللا ةيمهلأ ءاذغلا ةل ةسا ردلا عفاود تءاج ,يقارعلا درفلل عاطقلا يف لوجعلا نيمست لوقحب ةلثمتملا موحللا جاتنلا ةسيئرلا عقاوملا يف ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا ريدقت ىلا فداهلا ن ةظفاحمب يلجكوك ةقطنم يف لوجعلا نيمست لوقح يف تيرجا يتلا ثحبلا ةعيبطو بسانتت يتلا ةعبتملا سايقلا تا رشؤم ىلع دامتعلاابو صاخلا ىوني يجاتنلاا ماعلل 2018 يف ثلاثلا ةيقيوستلا تايوتسملل نايبتسا ةرامتسا لمعب ةيناديملا اهرداصم نم ةيساسلاا ةيلولاا تانايبلا ىلع لوصحلا متو , تغلب ىلولاا لوقحلا نم نيتعومجم تنمضت ةيقبط ةيئاوشع ةنيعلو ةئزجتلا رجاتو ةلمجلا رجاتو جتنملا مهو يقيوستلا كلسملا (100) لوجعل لقح وتسملا فنصلا ةيناثلاو در (51) ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا طسوتم تغلبو ,يلحملا فنصلا لوجعل لقح ME1 مغكلل ةيقيوستلاو ةيجاتنلاا فيلاكتلا رشؤم بسح وحنب نيتعومجملا لوجع نيمست لوقح يف قوسملا محللا نم دحاولا %(92.47 ,93.39) اميف , ةيجاتنلاا فيلاكتلا عافترا ىلع ةللاد يلاوتلا ىلع وتم تغلب ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا طس ME2 وحنب نيتعومجملا نيمست لوقح يف قوسملا محللا نم دحاولا مغكلل ةيقيوستلا شماوهلا رشؤم بسح %(86.89,79.13) ةيقيوستلا شماوهلا عافترا ةللاد نيمستلا ةرتف لوط عم لولاا سايقملا مادختساب ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا ةميق عافترا ةساردلا جتنتساو , لاكل لا نم نيتعومجملا لوقح دروتسملا فنصلا لوجع نيمست لوقح يف يجيردتلا ضافخنلااب يناثلا سايقملا بسح ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا تزيمت اميف , فنصلا لوجع نيمست لوقح يف يجيردتلا ريغ عافترلااو يلحملا نم دحلاو قاوسلاا ديحوتو )تاجلاع ,فلاعا( جاتنلاا رصانع معدب ةساردلا يصوتو , تسا ملا ةيجاتنلاا فيلاكتلا ضفخ يف مهاست ةيرعسو ةيجاتنا ةسايس عضو ةيغب ءا رمحلا موحللا دا ري ةيقيوستلا ةءافكلا ىوتسم يف ةرثؤ . ,لجعلا نيمست لوقح ,قيوستلا ةءافك :ةيحاتفم تاملك دئاوعلاو ةفلكتلا . *Received:24/8/2019, Accepted:26/12/2019 Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences –2020:51(4):1128-1138 Abdullah & Al-Taye. 1129 INTRODUCTION Small producers sector is generally the main source for producing meat in Iraq. This widespread vital sector is the biggest in Nineveh especially Gogjali region because it contains a good number of specialised calves breeding and fattening fields. Despite the increasing production tried by the owners of these fields, made these owners face difficulties to obtain fodders which are expensive, have poor vaccines, veterinary services, and treatments that are imported and controlled by the private sector, made the economic costs increase. At the same time, being the consumer has poor information concerning the price of a good in the wholesale market made the value of the marketing margin high between the product price and the consumer. Thus, the study aims at assessing the market efficiency by using two scales. The first scale uses production marketing cost indicator and the second one uses marketing margins for per kg of marketed meat in both imported and local calves fattening in the study area. The problem of the study lies in the high production costs and the high marketing margins. Consequently, it adversely affected marketing efficiency. The importance of this study lies in being one of the economic studies, which are very few, that deals with marketing efficiency through livestock especially in calves fattening fields that have essential nutrient for human body growth and have a positive position towards local consumers' tastes in Iraq, and considering the study area one of the important commodity production centres that have many fields compared with other Iraqi areas. Research hypotheses 1There is a decrease in the marketing efficiency of calves breeding and fattening fields of the study sample. 2According to age group and fattening period, there is a difference in the value of marketing efficiency between the imported calves fattening fields group and the local calves fattening fields group. 3For both groups of the study sample, the value of marketing efficiency differs according to marketing efficiency indicator. This study are aims at assessing and measuring the marketing efficiency depending on two scales for both groups. The first scale depends on the marketing production costs indicator and the second one is the marketing margins. To ensure the accuracy and the consistency of the results and their conformity with the research hypotheses, each group was divided into three age groups according to calf primary age and each primary age was divided into three periods depending on the fattening day spent during the study. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study used two techniques of analysis. The first technique is the descriptive analytical technique based on concepts of economic theory and relevant previous theoretical studies. The second one is a quantitative analytical technique based on the standard statistical technique in analysing and assessing the results depending on marketing production costs indicator and marketing margins indicator for assessing marketing efficiency.The study depended on basic data drawn from field trips and periodic follow up of calves breeding and fattening fields in Gogjali region – Nineveh governorate 2018 production year, and of a total sample amounted about (151) fattening fields divided into two groups; the first group included (100) imported calves fattening fields. The second one included (51) local calves fattening fields. Marketing efficiency measuring Efficiency is generally defined as the relationship between the amount of limited inputs used to maintain a certain level of output or to achieve a certain amount of outputs with minimum input (13). The concept of marketing efficiency was defined by a large number of researchers; some defined it as: Marketing efficiency is the process of accomplishing marketing activities with the greatest efficiency or to obtain the best marketing quality at low cost (8) or it is the ratio between the outputs and inputs of marketing activity (1). One of the most important forms of improving marketing efficiency is either through increasing outputs with fixed inputs or by increasing outputs at a greater rate than increasing inputs or fixed outputs with reducing inputs and finally reducing outputs at a low rate than reducing inputs (6). Thus, the study of marketing efficiency is important because achieving it is Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences –2020:51(4):1128-1138 Abdullah & Al-Taye. 1130 relevant to good quality and high production which drives down the unit-costs of production and in turn affects the efficiency measurement (12). The marketing efficiency can be divided into the operational efficiency which assumes that the basic nature of outputs for goods and services remain unchanged and to price efficiency which is relevant to the improvement of sales and purchasing processes (4). There are several indicators and methods for measuring marketing efficiency. Two measures were adopted in this study. The first is the marketing efficiency measurement according to production and marketing costs indicator as to the following formula: (3)(18)(21)(23).


Kinematic modelling of parallel manipulators poses significant challenges due to the absence of analytical solutions for the Forward Kinematics (FK) problem. This study centres on a specific parallel planar robot, specifically a 3RRR configuration, and addresses the FK problem through two distinct methodologies: Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Neural Networks (NN). Utilising the Inverse Kinematic (IK) model, which is readily obtainable, both GA and NN techniques are implemented without the need for closed-loop formulations or non-systematic mathematical tools, allowing for easy extension to other robot types. A comparative analysis against an existing numerical method demonstrates that the proposed methodologies yield comparable or superior performance in terms of accuracy and time, all while reducing development costs. Despite GA's time consumption limitations, it excels in path planning, whereas NN delivers precise results unaffected by stochastic elements. These results underscore the feasibility of using neural networks and genetic algorithms as viable alternatives for real-time kinematic modelling of robots when closed-form solutions are unavailable.


This paper analyzes how the economic activities of "campi" dwellers, linked to recollection and recycling of scrap material, are interpreted as informal and illegal by the actors involved in the applied research. The data emerge from ethnographic fieldwork carried on at a Local Police office in Rome, combined with textual analysis of administrative and technical documents. The analysis highlights the essential role of the context and of the prevailing sociopolitical discourse, deeply permeated by a constant criminalization of Romani families. In fact, the ambiguous and contradictory legislative framework risks exposing the "Roma in the camps" to double discrimination: both because they conduct activities that are not clearly regulated, and because they belong to a social category which already experiences discrimination. The article also illustrates how the methodology of intervention, based on the cooperation between the author and the Local Police office, has generated a change of perception within the police staff. It shows that the knowledge produced by research can be used as a tool to influence the context of intervention and to modify the decisional process of the concerned institutions.


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This article investigates, by means of the model developed for Young (1990), if the direct, indirect and total tributes in Brazil respect the principle of the equal sacrifice. In all the scenes originated in the present analysis, as much the observed indirect tributes how much the total tributes present aliquot higher of the one than the estimates on the low income families, to the step that the aliquot ones observed of such categories of tributes are below of that they would have for the families richest when taken in consideration the principle of the equal sacrifice. This confirmation is valid in such a way for the tax structure current how much for the effective one in middle of the decade of 1970. The results show that the Brazilian tax system does not respect the capacity of payment of the families, fact that contributes for the maintenance of the indices of concentration of income in landings elevated


This paper summarizes various methods for monitoring power quality at home and abroad by searching into the phenomena of power quality,and introduces emphatically on-line power quality monitoring device.Based on which,the present strategies and methods for power quality control at home and abroad are summed up.Aiming at various different power quality phenomena,taking the strategies for restraining harmonics,voltage sag compensation and coping with power cut-off for the examples,the control strategies are introduced.


Today, shortest path problem refers to emerging technology such as map based systems. There are various types of algorithms with shortest paths or routes. The main objective of this paper is to know Dijkstra's Algorithm and Bellman-Ford Algorithm in solving shortest problem of the road. And, in graphical forms, further examples and implementations of algorithms are shown to demonstrate how and of the algorithms operate. Dijkstra's algorithm for non-negative weight graphs and Bellman-Ford algorithm that manages negative weights and it can detect negative cycles, too. The well-known Dijkstra's Algorithm and Bellman-Ford Algorithm are applied in this paper to find shortest routes to travel from one town to another. It is therefore essential to choose an efficient route for travelling. Generally speaking, the goal is to get shortest route from one town to another. The time complexity of Dijkstrs's algorithm is faster than Bellman-Ford algorithm and the travelling paths don't have negative-weight. So, Dijkstrs's algorithm is better to use.


The unique city of Peniscola hides in its streets and lanes the secrets of the building vicissitudes of its history, which this intervention has managed to discover, protect and value. The Guide Plan laying down the strategies for the restoration of the walled enclosure has acted as a frame for the urban recuperation of the fortifications in the south west of the citadel. The intervention had to overcome the difficulties that turned up during the archaeological excavations, adding complexity to a problem that was complicated enough to begin with. The final appearance, however, has lost nothing in the process but boasts the simplicity of a job well done.


This paper presents some results concerning the star height of regular events. First we consider the behavior of star height under various operations on regular events and it is proved that star height is preserved under the derivative operation. The relation of star height of a regular event to the cycle rank of the reduced state graph of the corresponding finite automaton is studied. This investigation leads to sufficient conditions for the star height to be equal to the rank of the state graph. For example, this is true for events defined by permutation automata with a single output state. Families of regular events of arbitrary star height are exhibited. Finally, some open questions posed by Eggan regarding star height and rank are answered.


A substantial directional anisotropy is observed for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays Cosmic rays are nuclei that have been accelerated to relativistic velocities by astrophysical sources, arriving at Earth after traversing the space between us and the source. As electrically charged particles, they are deflected by magnetic fields, which scramble their directions in space (1). Finding deviations from the highly isotropic angular distribution of high-energy cosmic rays in the sky has long been a prime goal of cosmic-ray researchers. Marginal detections have been reported in the past that failed to hold up. On page 1266 of this issue, The Pierre Auger Collaboration (2) report a strong detection of a pronounced anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies (E) of ≥8 EeV (8 × 1018 electron volts), indicating that they are of extragalactic origin.


SUMMARY Powerlink GreenWorks is an initiative of Powerlink Queensland, the State's transmission authority, in conjunction with various local authorities in south-east Queensland. Under the $1.6 million program, projects are funded that will deliver positive, lasting environmental outcomes or enhance visual amenity for communities in the vicinity of proposed future 500kV powerlines. This paper outlines how projects are identified and evaluated to ensure key stakeholder support of, and involvement in the program, and to ensure that overarching objectives for the program are met.


There was a striking phenomenon in the modern history of China,namely the gerentocratic and the class-governed constently united and protected Christianism from spreading in China. Though from it's appearance thousands of attenders were civilian, in fact most feduel esquires and bureaucracy became the true advocators and hatchers. The article tried to help historians resolve the controversial problems:character of the cases (litigation against the foreign church in late Ching Dynasty) by completly analyzing reasons why the feduel esquires and bureaucracy took part in protesting Christianism(litigation against the foreign church in late Ching Dynasty),forms that they took and position which they held.


A new neural network (NN) structure is given for approximation of piecewise continuous (PC) functions of the sort that appear in friction, deadzone, backlash and other motion control actuator nonlinearities. The NN consists of neurons having a special class of nonsmooth activation functions termed 'jump approximation basis functions'. This 'jump approximation' NN plus a NN based on standard smooth sigmoidal activation functions can approximate any piecewise continuous function with discontinuities at a finite number of known points. Industrial motion device actuator nonlinearities are in this class of functions, therefore, the new NN structure is ideal for motion control applications in robotics and other industrial systems.


PURPOSE To provide physicians and registered professional nurses with information to differentiate the pathogenesis of venous and arterial ulcers and to describe critical treatment aspects for these conditions. TARGET AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in learning about the management of patients with venous and arterial ulcers. OBJECTIVES After reading the article and taking the test, the participant should be able to: Compare and contrast the etiology and manifestation of venous and arterial leg ulcers. Discuss the assessment and management of venous leg ulcers. Describe the assessment and management of arterial leg ulcers.


This research was aimed to study three species which are prevalent in northern Iraq: Alyssium strigosum Banks and Sol., Clypeola jonthlaspi L, and Isatis tinctoria L. belonging to the Alysseae and Lepidieae tribes. The general characteristics of the roots, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds are studied and it turned out that and the two species A. strigosum and C. jonthlaspi are similar due to their belonging to the Alysseae tribe, and the species I. tinctoria differs since it belongs to the Lepidieae tribe. In addition, 6 secondary metabolites are diagnosed using the qualitative tests: alkalis, phenols, tannins, flavonoids, glycosides, and sapindales. The presence of terpenoids was not observed, and the alcohol extract is superior to the aqueous extract regarding the accuracy of the results. The phenols are detected using HPLC technology and four compounds are found: Rutin, Quercetin, Kaempferol and P-Coumarin. The importance of studying the chemical content comes from its use in subsequent studies and knowledge of its uses in the medical fields.


The continuum--intermediate-states approximation has been adapted for application to charge-exchange collisions between high-energy structured projectiles. A critical test of the scheme is provided by the reaction H(1s)+H(1s) ..-->.. H/sup -/(1s/sup 2/)+H/sup +/; the overall agreement with the limited experimental data is encouraging.


In this paper, based on the discussion of some important issues related to cooperative e-learning, and the analysis for niche technology, a group classifier algorithm and a sharing learning algorithm are put forward. The aim is to support cooperative learning in e-learning environment.


The key of the Asynchronous Motor sensorless vector control system is velocity estimating,and the Magnetic observer calculate reckoning can improve the system precision. At this research,firstly each control model has been established based on the Asynchronous Motor state equation,and then using the C++ language to simulate the whole control system. The simulation results show that this control system has fast dynamic response and robust,and according with the error feedback it can also automate tracking the actual value of Motor.So the system can be achieved on stable,accurate and efficient control for the motor speed.


As is well known a linearly polarized resonant laser will cause atoms to generate a magnetic tensor moment (MTM) by polarizing them. When there exists an external magnetic field, it is possible that the moment will precess around the field. In the presence of a radio frequency (RF) exciting source, we investigate theoretically the dependence of time-independent (direct current, DC), the first and second harmonic signal of the MTM precession on magnetic vector field, and obtain its analytical solution by solving the Liouville equation. The results show that the interference of both harmonic components will result in the precession spectrum evidently varying. A detailed explanation is described in the following. For the DC signal, Rabi frequency Ω of 1/(2√2) is a spectral splitting threshold. When it is greater than the threshold, the interference will cause single resonant absorption dip characterized usually to split into two dips, which has not been reported before to the best of our knowledge, and the separation between both the dips may be expressed as √3√Ω2+Ω4 -Ω2-1. For the first harmonic signal including symmetric and antisymmetric component, an interference fringe will appear near the center of antisymmetric part when Ω >1/(2√2), simultaneously its symmetric part behaves like the above dc component, such as splitting threshold and separation between both dips. With regard to the second harmonic signal, it is found that the interference can also lead to the width of the second harmonic decreasing to 38% compared with the case of the first harmonic signal. At the optimum RF Rabi frequency, on the assumption that noise spectral density is constant, it is theoretically shown that the most sensitive magnetometer, realized by the DC component or the first or second harmonic signal of the precession, depends only on the angle between the light polarization and the measured magnetic field.In fact, we are able to obtain the modules of the measured magnetic vector by RF resonant frequency. The angle between the magnetic field and the laser polarization is determined just by the ratio of the intensity of the DC component to the intensity of the second harmonic signal and the ratio between the intensities of the symmetric parts of two harmonic signals in resonance, and another orientation angle between the measured field projection at the plane perpendicular to the light polarization and the direction of RF source depends on the phase difference between the antisymmetric components of both harmonic signals. Consequently, we demonstrate a vectorial atomic magnetometer that is realized by using the RF source and the linearly polarized resonant laser without rotating laser polarization. This kind of atomic magnetometer with simple sensor structure is easy to integrate vector magnetometer array which will be suitable for solving the inverse problem and geomagnetic navigation.


A reliable functioning of supply chains depends on the availability of required raw materials for the manufacturing of products. With increasing scarcity of various raw materials supply chains face serious disruptions. Therefore, recycling comes into stronger focus as a secondary source for raw materials as a solution to ensure supply. This paper explores the compelling case of tires and the challenges to the resilience of its supply chain due to data defects. The role and the value of data to enable resilience in supply chains is highlighted. As main contribution the paper explores potential information technologies such as digital twins and blockchain to avoid the data gaps in the supply chain such that the recycling loop for natural rubber from scrap tires can be completed regardless of the challenges posed by company secrets.


This chapter investigates the gendered dimensions of hybridity manifested both locally through acts of gender-bending and expressions of androgyny, and globally through transcultural exchange, transnational influence, and globalization. The second part of the chapter links these local acts of resistance to the global environment, where gender hybridity must be negotiated in relationship to broader processes of transnational influence, cultural identity formation, and nationalism. The study of Japanese magazines described above revealed, for instance, that portrayals of ideal masculinity in magazines targeted at a male audience were actually much more racially and culturally hybrid than those found in similar women's magazines. Failing to do so would lead not only to an incomplete understanding of the specific ttechnologies of gendert women in varied environments and situations must contend with, but also to an inadequate assessment of the nature of power relations in 21st century global capitalism. Keywords: Disturbingly Hybrid; Environment; gender Bending; Gender Hybridity; globalization; Japanese; masculinity; transcultural exchange


BACKGROUND Mutations of theAPC gene cause familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a hereditary colorectal cancer predisposition syndrome. AIMS To conduct a cost comparison analysis of predictive genetic testing versus conventional clinical screening for individuals at risk of inheriting FAP, using the perspective of a third party payer. METHODS All direct health care costs for both screening strategies were measured according to time and motion, and the expected costs evaluated using a decision analysis model. RESULTS The baseline analysis predicted that screening a prototype FAP family would cost $4975/£3109 by molecular testing and $8031/£5019 by clinical screening strategy, when family members were monitored with the same frequency of clinical surveillance (every two to three years). Sensitivity analyses revealed that the genetic testing approach is cost saving for key variables including the kindred size, the age of screening onset, and the cost of mutation identification in a proband. However, if theAPC mutation carriers were monitored at an increased (annual) frequency, the cost of the genetic screening strategy increased to $7483/£4677 and was especially sensitive to variability in age of onset of screening, family size, and cost of genetic testing of at risk relatives. CONCLUSIONS In FAP kindreds, a predictive genetic testing strategy costs less than conventional clinical screening, provided that the frequency of surveillance is identical using either strategy. An additional significant benefit is the elimination of unnecessary colonic examinations for those family members found to be non-carriers.


Objective:To breed and identify steroid receptor coactivator-3(SRC-3) knock-out(SRC-3-/-) mice.Methods:Male SRC-3-/-mice were selected to hybridize with female heterozygote(SRC-3+/-) mice to acquire SRC-3+/-and SRC-3-/-baby mice.Genome DNA extracted from the murine tails was subjected to PCR for genotype identification.The total proteins of hepatic and spleen tissue were extracted to identify protein phenotype by Western blot.Results:More SRC-3-/-mice were breed successfully by hybridizing male SRC-3-/-mice with female heterozygote(SRC-3+/-) mice and their genotype were identified accurately by PCR.The expression level of SRC-3 in spleen tissue was significantly higher than that in hepatic tissue in SRC-3+/+ mice,but no expression of SRC-3 was observed in both hepatic and spleen tissue in SRC-3-/-mice.Conclusion:Hybridization of male gene knock-out mice and female heterozygote mice is an effective way to acquire considerable SRC-3-/-mice,and PCR is a simple and accurate method of identification of genotype.


Four kinds of edible coatings preservatives solutions were confected with carrageenan,CMC,sodium alginate and konjak. By determining changes of weight loss,respiration rate,TA and total sugar content,protein content,chlorophyll,carotenoid and appearance,the fresh-keeping effects of these four kinds of edible coatings preservatives on Chimonobarnbusa busa utilis shoots were studied. The results showed that all the four kinds of edible coatings preservatives can elongate the fresh time of Chimonobarnbusa busa utilis shoots. The 0.6% carrageenan and 0.3% konjak showed the best effects,25d after banmboo shoots were treated,the effects of these two coating preservatives were better than the others. The carrageenan and konjak,which were fit for the trend of natural coatings preservatives,being used in keeping bamboo shoots fresh would have good market prospects.


In order to adapt to the present situation of our country's social and economic situation of postgraduate education structure,and to cultivate talents from academic type mainly to train applied talents to give priority to the need for a transition,through the development of medical degree system with some sort of reform processes,this paper analyzes the medical degree and focuses on the need for education reform,as well as the degree of high-level medical personnel rethinking of the reform.


Abstract. Irrigation water is limited in many regions of the world. Accurate estimation of crop water requirements allows proper irrigation management and water conservation. A method used for estimating crop water requirement is the use of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and crop coefficient (K c ). The objectives of this study were to generate K c and estimate actual evapotranspiration (ETc) in forage crops using remote sensing in Northern Mexico. Monthly clear sky imagery from Landsat 5 (path/row 30/42) from March to November 2011 were used. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was calculated from reflectance of the red and near infrared bands. The relationship between NDVI derived from satellite images and K c from literature was established. This relationship was used to create new K c values for corn and alfalfa using additional overpass dates. The actual ET was estimated using new regional K c and reference ET, which was estimated utilizing meteorological information from local agro-climatic stations. Results showed high coefficient of determination (r 2 ) (0.97) between NDVI and K c FAO-56, this relationship helped to generate new K c curves for forage crops. The output of K c values were multiplied by reference ET to estimate actual ET. The estimated crop water consumption on actual ET were 476 mm ha -1 for corn and 945 for alfalfa, saving 25 and 32% of irrigation water respectively. Remote sensing was a useful tool for generating local K c and estimate accuracy of actual ET. Using this technology we can improve water management and conserve irrigation water.


The following 40 pages offer a debate on the question of whether women are fairly represented and depicted in prime time television dramatic programs. Taking up the opening position is Ms. McNeil, a master's candidate in radio and television at the University of Illinois. This article is based on research undertaken for her thesis, and the author wishes to acknowledge the help of her advisor. Dr. Edward Douglass. Ms. McNeil has been a lecturer in communications at California State University, Fullerton.


movement in England, the United States, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and France 1 Mr. Neill, in attempting just this, has been forced to rely heavily on texts and general surveys. The result is a series of quite unoriginal essays. He concentrates mainly upon "Anglo-Saxon Liberalism" because, he thinks, "continental Liberalism did not make a major contribution to our way of life" (p. viii). Believing this, a wiser man would have done well to skirt the Continent completely. Mr. Neill does not; he shows with reference to France especially, a country of major importance in the development of liberal ideologies, a surprising ignorance of his field. The Enlightenment is dismissed with a few airy generalizations. Its towering achievement in philosophy, humanism, and political and economic thought is presented as nothing more than a forerunner of the narrow antidemocratic outlook of the doctrinaires. And the Enlightenment, it seems, finds its true shrine and resting place—in the Constitution of 1791I As for the development of the great liberal-democratic republican movement from 1830 till 1914, Mr. Neill does not even find it necessary to mention it. He is better informed about English history, but there is little in his book that is new for the study of English economic and political theory and its .development during the nineteenth century. An interesting statement of the theoretical basis of the "Lib-Labs" will be found in Chapter 13; but it is surprising and almost incomprehensible that this material is in no way related to Fabianism. In the final chapter, Mr. Neill turns to the job of evaluating Liberalism and its significance from a Catholic humanist standpoint. This is the most suggestive part of the book because it attempts to relate the achievements of the past to living needs. If only this had been the central theme of the study! The jacket blurb tells us that this chapter "elevates the' work above the level of redundant summary." This is not so. This chapter is tacked on as a kind of postscript. It is not a theme that gives relevance and meaning to the whole.


Under the new situation, as the total amount of social investment continues to increase, the requirements for engineering construction have increased significantly. The systematic error is an important factor affecting the development of China's engineering consulting industry, so the whole process engineering consulting is imperative. During the actual project process, the first problem encountered by most construction companies is how to select the whole process engineering consulting company, which can also be regarded as selecting a general contractor for the whole process engineering consulting service. On the basis of introducing the current market situation of whole process engineering consulting, the article puts forward the implementation path of the development model of whole process engineering consulting under the new situation in order to provide practical experience for practitioners.


This research is conducted to analyze the impact of national income, savings interest rate, and inflation on consumption of Indonesian society for the period of 2010-2014. This research uses analysis common effect model from pooling regression to get the objectives. This research uses probability test with t-test and regression coefficient test together with F-Test. This empirical results show that: (1) National income, savings interest rate, and inflation, together give impact on consumption of Indonesian society. (2) Based of partial test, national income and savings interest rate give significant impact on consumption of Indonesian society, whilst inflation doesn't give significant impact on consumption of Indonesian society. Keyword: Consumption, National Income, Saving Interest Rate and Inflation


A MAJOR concern of the body of economic analysis surrounding the theory of the firm is whether the pricing behavior of oligopolistic industries differs from that of competitive industries. Theory suggests that where small groups of sellers account for a substantial proportion of an industry's output, the recognition of mutual interdependence will result in the absence of price competition. Furthermore, the prices and profits are expected to be above the level that would obtain under competitive conditions. Empirical investigations of the relationship between seller concentration and profitability have produced results generally in accord with the theory. However, neither theory nor the empirical evidence provides a clear insight into the specific nature of the concentration-profitability association. The unanswered question is whether or not there is a 'threshold' level of concentration which separates groups of industries earning significantly different profit rates. The purpose of this study is to examine empirically whether a dichotomous functional form of the concentration-profitability association presents a better explanation of the underlying relationship than the continuous linear form: and, if it does, how concentration and profitability are related within the separated groups. The results suggest that there is a critical value for concentration and that there is no significant association between concentration and profit rates within high and low concentration groups.


The paper explores some of the key tenets of teacher education as put forth by Dewey, traces their impact on the current approaches to teacher development and surveys the benefits of non-prescriptive models in generating lasting changes in teacher behaviour. The paper finally touches upon some of the practical consequences of the teacher-as-reflectivepractitioner paradigm, highlighting the equal validity attached to the individual teachers' diverse experiential knowledge and the multiple manifestations of the teaching and learning process.


Contents Foreword by Suzie Boss INTRODUCTION Project Based Learning, the Common Core, and the 4Cs Experts weigh in The Relationship Between PBL and Teaching Writing How to Create Your Own PBL Unit Focusing on ELA and/or History How This Book Is Different From Other PBL Books PART I: PBL UNITS CHAPTER 1: THE SUPERHERO UNIT: A unit based on superhero science, science-fiction narratives, and advocacy writing, culminating in an issues-based presentation to the "United Nations" Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons ELA 1st Quarter Checklist -- Narrative ELA 2nd Quarter Checklist -- Advocacy Student Exemplars CHAPTER 2: THE LIVING MUSEUM UNIT: A unit based on role-play, historical perspectives, and informational writing culminating in a student-created living museum Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons Student Exemplars CHAPTER 3: THE MOVIE CRITIC UNIT: A unit based on literary analysis, biography, and film appreciation culminating in a persuasive argument and student-taught lesson Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons Student Exemplars CHAPTER 4: THE CAREER QUEST UNIT: A unit based on persuasive cover letters, developing resumes, interview skills, culminating in a school-wide Career Day event Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons Student Exemplars CHAPTER 5: THE GRIT AND MOTIVATION UNIT: A unit based on vital academic life skills and persuasive letter writing Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons Student Exemplars CHAPTER 6: THE TEACH THEM TO BE TEACHERS UNIT: A unit based on the highest level of communication of all...the ability to teach Facts Overview Step-by-Step Lessons Student Exemplars PART II: MIX AND MATCH LESSONS Bulwur-Lytton Contest Assignment Hooks for Essays or How to Get a Reader's Attention Narrative Outline Character Traits Chart Google Advanced Search 6 Steps of Being an Internet Detective How to Write a Newspaper Article The Problem Statement Writing with Numeracy Lesson Collaboration Constitution Assignment Online Ethics and Copyright Activity Understanding Infographics Lesson Executive Summary Outline Norms for Backchanneling and using Twitter Internet Literacy: Verifying the Evidence Lesson Cornell Notes Literary Analysis Outline Oral Presentation Rubric Cover Letter Outline How to Conduct an Interview QRF format Oral Conference Feedback Sheet Norms for Video Conferencing Developing a Student-Created Assessment How to Annotate Text Visual Presentation (PowerPoint) Guidelines Advocacy/Argument Outline REFERENCES


The article presents a study of individual-typological features and psycho-emotional disorders in servicemen with neurotic and psychosomatic disorders. It reflects the influence of the mentioned factors on reducing the level of social functioning in patients of the selected clinical circle. The study was conducted on the clinical base of 411th Central Military Clinical Hospital, it was attended by 232 patients with psychosomatic and neurotic disorders. The study of features of individual-typological features in servicemen with neurotic and psychosomatic disorders was carried out by using K. Leongard — G. Shmishek methodology. Definition of features of psycho-emotional disorders in servicemen of the selected clinical group was conducted using the technique of self-diagnostic of anxiety by C. D. Spielberger and Y. L. Hanina. A comparative evaluation of reactive anxiety (RA) and personal anxiety (PA) was also carried out. It was discovered that selected clinical groups differed by a number of features. Servicemen with neurotic disorders were distinguished by a tendency to change the emotional background, level of activity, a high level of reactive anxiety, and a moderate level of personal anxiety. Servicemen with psychosomatic disorders differed by emotional and behavioral outbursts, high level of personal anxiety, a tendency for pessimistic assessment of the prospects of their own life, successful course of treatment. Persistence and perseverance characteristic of this type of people make it difficult for them to adapt in situations that require switching to another method of solving the problem, another type of activity, etc. Observed swings in mood, activity, desire for solitude during periods of «recession» contribute to the destruction of the established social contacts, make socialization difficult for the subject in general.


The sound radiation patterns of musical instruments represent a considerable part of the perceived room acoustics. The directivities of fourteen common symphony orchestra instruments and a soprano singer during performance are investigated. For this purpose, each instrument was recorded with the musician in an anechoic room with 22 microphones distributed around the player. As the result, directivities of the strings and woodwind instruments are noticed to change with the played tone while the brass instruments radiate constantly in the direction of the bell. Playing dynamics was not found to affect the directivity although the spectrum of the sound changes considerably in particular with the brass instruments. The results can be utilized with source modeling in room acoustics simulation and in research on musical acoustics.


In this study,an L9(34) orthogonal array design was employed to optimize homogenization conditions for use in the sample pretreatment for quantitative detection of meat adulteration by PCR.Meanwhile,the effect of sample homogeneity on the accuracy of PCR detection was examined using three different sampling amounts: 30,10 g and 3 g of rump pork.The optimal homogenization conditions were found to be: 1:4(m/V) meat/water ratio,12000 r/min homogenizer rotary speed and 8 min homogenization time.Under these conditions,a good homogeneity was obtained for pretreated samples,and the results of determination of sample mass,DNA concentration and real-time PCR Ct also showed a good homogeneity and no significant difference.Further,the optimized homogenization conditions were used to detect pork at the three sampling levels above,with the result that sampling amount had no effect on sample homogeneity.


A family of 3D metal–organic frameworks Na2Ln2(ox)3(suc)·(H2O)2, (Ln = Nd 1, Eu 2, Gd 3, Tb 4, ox = oxalate, suc = succinate) have been hydrothermally synthesized by self-assembly of succinic, sodium oxalate and Ln3+. They were characterized by X-ray crystallography, revealing that they crystallize in monoclinic groupP21/c. Ln3+ cations adopt a 9-fold configuration. Ox ligands play a unique dual role. These salts bear extraordinary structural features which result from host–guest interactions. Ln3+ cations, ox anions and succinate anions construct a host 3D framework. Guest Na+ cations are connected by ox ligands to construct a 3D alkali metal guest lattice, which is incorporated in the host 3D framework. Na+ cations adopt a fairly rare 7-fold configuration. The host–guest interaction would be more evident when sodium oxalate is displaced by oxalic acid, leading to an open framework [Nd2(ox)(suc)2·(H2O)4]·4H2O (5), where Nd3+ cations are 8-fold. Complex 5 bears a layer-pillared 3D structure, orthorhombic groupFddd, distinct from that of complex 1. Their thermal behavior, luminescence properties, and magnetic properties have been studied.