Vaclav Smil admits in the postscript of this book that he had planned originally to write a biography of Fritz Haber. He does in fact include a summary of both Haber's and Carl Bosch's lives in the postscript, but the book itself is dedicated to the discovery, marketing, and consequences of the synthesis of ammonia. The book is interdisciplinary; with individual chapters being of interest to specific groups, but with its historical overview will appeal to a wide group of readers.


Simultaneous detection of 3-Indooleacetic acid (IAA) and 3-indolepropionic acid (IPA) in strong-aroma types of base Baijiu (base SAB) is crucial for elucidating the metabolic pathway of 3-MI during the base SAB brewing. Herein, a novel magnetic poly(allylamine)-modified graphene oxide (GO@PAA@Fe3O4) was synthesized as extraction sorbent followed by HPLC-MS/MS. As a surface modifier of GO, the introduction of PAA and Fe3O4 provided more adsorption sites for IAA and IPA, mainly through the generation of H-bonding sites. Moreover, modified by an activation step, the capacity of the activated GO@PAA@Fe3O4 for the adsorption of IAA and IPA was 2.1-3.4 times higher than that of unactivated material. The adsorptions of IAA and IPA on GO@PAA@Fe3O4 were fitted to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir isotherm, respectively. Under the optimal conditions, IAA and IPA were determined in 16 base SAB for the first time, and their concentrations ranged from 0.6-11.3 µg/L and 0.7-18.7 µg/L, respectively.


The successful signing of a nuclear agreement between Iran and the EU+3 has been hallmarked as a historic achievement of diplomacy. However conservative literature is far more skeptical of what role international sanctions had in attaining this result. The argument presented by these critics relies on a thesis built over decades that economic pressure only works if it is backed by a credible threat of force. This article focuses on the instruments utilized to support economic sanctions short of threatening Iran outright with the use of force. The paper presents the pivotal role of non-kinetic force measures as an intermediate solution between both extremes in the coercive process. It is the finding of this paper, that more than an overt threat of the use of force, which yields mixed results in escalating crisis dynamics, the "middle ground" measures utilized in the case of Iran have the potential to support applied economic measures for a desirable outcome. Furthermore, the paper finds that such measures, albeit diversely categorized, build coercer credibility not only within the case at hand, but also for future crisis management. The paper concludes by drawing more general conclusions about the possibility of replicating the desired outcome in altered case conditions.


Resource management issue is studied for device-to-device (D2D) communication in cellular networks to improve the overall system capacity and spectrum efficiency. Firstly, a lower bound of the interference distance is derived for a D2D user equipment's according to the transmitter density and the quality of servicerequirement of a D2D pair. By using this distance, an interference set can be chosen adaptively based on the interference condition to guarantee the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the D2D pair at a desired probability. Then, the authors propose two resource allocation schemes, the dual metric scheme and the TID (tolerant interference degree) scheme, to mitigate interference among coexistent D2D pairs. The dual metric scheme aims for uniform resource allocation to avoid excess interference in some resources. The TID scheme is designed to guarantee the interference at each D2D pair tolerable. The simulation results show that both the dual metric scheme and the TID scheme achieve more uniform resource allocation at the cost of a negligible increase of resource usage. Compared with the existing schemes such as the random scheme and the freedom degree scheme, the system performance in terms of resource efficiency is significantly improved by two proposed schemes.


This research begins with the conceptualization of Novak and Gowin on concept maps. The evaluation of the concept mapping has been a common theme in the literature on the topic and do not focus on it. They have used three different instruments: The model Novak and Gowin, the semantic evaluation rubric and the topological taxonomy, the latter two developed by Miller under the Conectate al Conocimiento Project (Panama).


In Attempts on Her Life, Martin Crimp's most experimental play to date, a series of actors try to represent a woman called Anne, and by so doing, they engage in a process of constructing and recreating a contemporary subjectivity. Anne is both the central figure and the absent figure around which the play centres, insofar as the audience does not have a referent against which to contrast the actors' verbal constructions. Neither are the actors defined as characters, since their lines do not offer any glimpses into their personalities. These structural devices are employed so that language and its ideological representations of human beings and social relations may be foregrounded. The actors, then, construct the mystery of Anne's identity verbally, through improvization, and in so doing, they lay bare the different discursive possibilities contained in the telling of a story. They make visible the different ideological twists and turns that discourse and representation can take, and depict how speakers activate and choose among a set of ideological positions as they construct meaning. Anne is fragmented into seventeen different aspects of herself, or into seventeen different women (a terrorist, a suicide artist, a porn actress) and things (a car, an ashtray). The ultimate aim of such a multiplicity of perspectives is, I will argue, to unfix discourse and to prove there is no single way of telling a story, a thesis that stands in sharp opposition to the context of global politics the play directly challenges. In this sense, the play is not the story of a character, as the title at first suggests, but the story of a process of identity construction. Indeed, the play not only encourages the audience to think that Anne might be more than one character, but also to conceive the absence of any specific "real" subjectivity at the heart of the play, reducing "Anne's" real identity to that of a linguistic artifice, with no external "reality" or fixed subject position. This article argues that the play dramatizes the construction of a fictitious subject through the regulatory and sanctioning role of language. At the same time, however, the play responds to the creation of archetypes through specific strategies of resistance (by dramatizing an actor's collapse, for example), and through deconstructive, linguistic disruptions that appear throughout the play. These strategies aim at making evident the social mechanisms of subjectification or of the creation of subjects in and through discourse, exerted through disciplinary devices. As Miguel Morey affirms in his introduction to Michel Foucault's conversations on power, Un dialogo sobre el poder y otras conversaciones, repression and ideology are only power's most extreme manifestations: "the constant of power is that it is exerted through a technical transformation of individuals ... In our societies, the technical transformation of individuals--this production of the real--receives the name of normalisation. It is the modern form of bondage" (11). (1) In the same vein, Foucault affirms in The Archaeology of Knowledge that discourses are not mere "groupings of signs, of signifying elements which remit to contents or representations, but practices which systematically form the objects of which they speak" (81). If discourses which fix significations (and thus, exert power) are socially accepted, then we can speak of institutionalized forms of power and of identity construction. When the actors talk about "Anne," every register they use in order to do so (song, Shakespearean quotations, the mythologized language that turns her into an icon, the list goes on) is a form of power through which her fiction is created. The subjective fiction the actors create is, therefore, an assemblage of different layers of affectation, and the supposed subject that emerges is the conjunction of these layers. In this context, "Anne," the absent protagonist, is a registering surface on which processes of identity construction are inscribed, both when these processes are successful and when they enter into crisis, which is expressed through various forms of collapse. …


The shortages of traditional survey technique for land reclamation are analyzed.The GPS precise point positioning(PPP)technique,its principle mathematic model are introduced.The application has shown the practicability of PPP technique applied in survey work for land reclamation in mining area.Besides,the future of application of PPP technique in other engineering survey works is forecast.


Despite the numerous books and articles on the Du Pont family's life in France and in the United States, explanations of the causes and circumstances of the family's emigration to the United States are sketchy and often misleading. The Du Ponts have as often as not been included among the 6migres or refugees of the French Revolution. William S. Dutton, in his book, Du Pont: One Hundred and Forty Years, expresses this view most explicitly when he characterizes E. I. du Pont as a "refugee fleeing from a French dictatorship."' This article tells the story behind the Du Pont family's decision in 1797 to leave France and describes the circumstances under which they actually left two years later. The story begins in Paris with the coup d'etat of September 4, 1797.2


Abstract In this paper, the evolution of space debris for spacecraft in the Sun-Synchronous orbit has been investigated. The impact motion, the evolution of debris from the Sun-Synchronous orbit, as well as the evolution of debris clouds from the quasi-Sun-Synchronous orbit have been studied. The formulas to calculate the evolution of debris objects have been derived. The relative relationships of the velocity error and the rate of change of the right ascension of the ascending node have been presented. Three debris objects with different orbital parameters have been selected to investigate the evolution of space debris caused by the Sun-Synchronous orbit. The debris objects may stay in quasi-Sun-Synchronous orbits or non-Sun-Synchronous orbits, which depend on the initial velocity errors of these objects.


Thin film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated using microcrystalline silicon (µ c- Si) deposited by cathode-type rf glow discharge method at temperature of 400° C. It was found that the µ c- Si TFTs have high mobility compared with amorphous silicon TFTs fabricated at the same temperature region. The results suggest that the present method is also suitable for low temperature fabrication of TFTs because of high mobility and simple modification of glow discharge deposition method.


YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films were fabricated using sedimentation deposition method on STO (100) substrates. Annealing temperature and flux content were varied to impose epitaxial growth while maintaining phase purity. From XRD data analysis, it was observed that the addition of 15 wt.% KCl to the precursor powder followed by quench annealing at 1010°C for 30 minutes produced highly c-axis oriented films with virtually no phase segregation.


Poster: "ECR 2012 / C-1725 / The Value of Plain Radiographs In The Investigation Of Back Pain In The Paediatric Population" by: "C. L. Rodriguez, C. X. L. Leung, S. J. Morris; Cardiff/UK"


This study was carried out to determine the effect of the addition of Moringa oleifera (Moringa) leaves powder? on the antioxidant and sensory properties of chocolate. Three formulations with different percentage of Moringa leaves powder (1, 3, and 5 percent) were studied. Through the hedonic sensory test, there is no significant difference (p less than 0.05) between the formulations for all attributes except the taste. Chocolate with 5 percent Moringa leaves showed the highest total phenolic content and antioxidant activity compared to the other formulations. The addition of moringa leaves caused decreased the chocolate hardness while increased the chocolate average particle size. After 8 weeks of storage, no bloom formation was observed on the surface of the chocolate but the hardness found to be decreased. chocolate associated with moringa leaves powder has potential with health benefit and still has good quality chocolate character.


Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) is an X‐linked dominant disorder that in most cases is considered lethal in males. IP affects the skin, hair, teeth, nails, eyes, and central nervous system. We report a case of persistent hypercalcemia (10.6–11.3 mg/dL) in a 19‐month‐old Caucasian boy with clinical IP. The proposed mechanism for his hypercalcemia is discussed.


Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) is a highly conserved transcription factor comprised of nine-zinc finger domains and a homeobox domain.1 ,2 It is highly expressed prenatally during critical stages of embryonic brain development.3 Knockout (KO) mouse embryos demonstrate severe neurodevelopmental morphological profiles.4 Although the ADNP KO is lethal, heterozygous embryos demonstrate typical embryogenesis yet display a neurodevelopmental delay phenotype including decreased neuronal survival.3 ,5

Exome sequencing in the Simons Simplex Collection autism dataset identified ADNP mutations as a putative autism gene candidate.6 ,7 Helsmoortel et al 8 recently reported 10 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and mutations in exon 5 of the ADNP gene, nine of which were confirmed de novo. These patients also exhibited intellectual disability (ID) and dysmorphic features such as a prominent forehead. Mutations in the ADNP gene are estimated to be present in at least 0.17% of ASD cases. The current report further expands the ADNP phenotype to include abnormalities in the developing visual system (such as eye movement abnormalities and cortical visual impairment). We advise appropriate screening of eye movement and visual symptoms by clinicians in patients who have mutations in ADNP .

The 6-year-old patient was the first child born to healthy non-consanguineous parents. Pregnancy was notable for placenta previa and early dilation and effacement of the cervix 3 weeks prior to delivery. The patient was born at 40 weeks via C-section secondary to failure to progress and maternal (i.e. maternal hypertension) hypertension weighing 6 pounds 14 ounces. She had a short stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for breathe holding and feeding problems. She was also hospitalised at 6 weeks for an acute life-threatening event of multiple cyanotic episodes thought to be due to breath holding. Our patient has been diagnosed with hypotonia and mixed developmental …


Differences between successful long‐term weight loss maintainers and the general population with regard to eating and weighing habits, non‐normative eating behaviors, and eating‐related and general psychopathological parameters are unknown.


We construct an ancient solution to planar curve shortening. The solution is at all times compact and embedded. For $t\ll0$ it is approximated by the rotating Yin-Yang soliton, truncated at a finite angle $\alpha(t) = -t$, and closed off by a small copy of the Grim Reaper translating soliton.


G O O D M A N A G E M E N T CAN H ELP YOU KEEP G O O D EM PLOYEES Coordinating maintenance and engineering is a management prob lem. Management is an organization of people, whether economic, political, or military, working toward a common objective. Too often management is considered to mean proficiency in such fields as engi neering, maintenance, accounting, etc. This theory seldom works out in practice. The best electrical engineer, appointed manager, soon finds out that there is a vast difference between being able to work effectively himself and getting others to work as effectively as he did. To motivate others to do quality work is a means of assuring good roads and bridges. This is good management. We who work with people and expect to get the most out of them should be guided by trust. I like to make these observations concerning an employee: first, that he is a rational being and will understand what he is told; second, that he is honest and can be trusted; third, that he should have an understanding and a voice in any order that affects him. W e must motivate capable people to work effectively, to grow in proficiency, and to want to stay with the county highway department so that we may benefit by their skill and knowledge. All too often the well-trained person goes on to another job while the one you could do without stays with you. In Allen County we have a third department which we call main tenance engineering through which we are able to apply good engi neering standards to the maintenance department. This third depart ment can give close attention to new standards, testing and inspection methods, and their application to highway maintenance practices. The maintenance engineer is responsible for a four-year program of upgrading our county roads. To do this, he made a map with every


A paramount attribute for any computer-aided design methodology, involving custom microelectronic devices, is a rapid and cost effective mask generation technique. The microelectronic device can be characterized as a discrete topological schematic which has been geometrically scaled to imply a grid structure. This topological schematic is constructed from a set of symbols which explicitly define the electrical and logical functions of the device while implying the geometrical relationships related to the process technology. Each layout symbol can be mapped into specific geometrical shapes (layer by layer) which can be defined by sizing data and subsequently subjected to appropriate modification, depending on contextual relationships with the adjacent orthogonal and diagonal layout symbols. These symbol-to-geometrical mappings can be easily comprehended by device designers and the requisite algorithms are amenable to computer implementation. These mask generation techniques provide a cost-effective means of generating mask sets for custom microelectronic devices while also providing device design portability and is ideally suited for process experimentation.


Based on $4.4~\text{fb}^{-1}$ of $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation data collected at the center-of-mass energies between $4.60$ and $4.70~\text{GeV}$ with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, the pure $W$-exchange decay $\Lambda_{c}^{+}\to\Xi^{0}K^{+}$ is studied with a full angular analysis. The corresponding decay asymmetry is measured for the first time to be $\alpha_{\Xi^{0}K^{+}}=0.01\pm0.16({\rm stat.})\pm0.03({\rm syst.})$. This result reflects the interference between the $S$- and $P$-wave amplitudes. The phase shift between $S$- and $P$-wave amplitudes is $\delta_{p}-\delta_{s}=-1.55\pm0.25({\rm stat.})\pm0.05({\rm syst.})~\text{rad}$.


Objective To study the characteristic of two methods used in genotyping of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) and provide reference for carrying out investigation on molecular epidemiology. Methods A total of 50 non-duplicate MRSA clinical isolates were collected in 4 hospitals of Guangdong Province.Special primer associated with hyper variable region(HVR) and REIC-2 were used for amplification of MRSA BY PCR and the genotypes were differentiated based on the fragments of amplified products.The difference of two genotypes was observed according to the change of the fragments of amplified products when the annealing temperature was changed. Results 50 strains of MRSA were defferentiated into the genotpyes of A,B,C,D and E based on HVR genotypes and into 10 genotypes on ERIC-2 polymorphism;Moreover,there were still genotypes by ERIC-2 primer when annealing temperature of PCR was changed to 64℃. Conclusion Either Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis(RAPD) ERIC-2 or genotype of HVR(HVR-PCR) is an rapid,reliable and effective method for epidemiological study on MRSA at molecular level.But the genotying results will alter along with the changes of annealing temperature.Therefore,the annealing temperature should be controlled strictly when RAPD is used,otherwise,the results of genotype may be not reliable.


The clamped electrooptic coefficient r 11 was measured at 1.15 microns for a selenium crystal grown from an aqueous sulfide solution. The value obtained for n_{1}^{3}r_{11} is 8.9 \times 10^{-11} m/V and, depending on the value used for n 1 , the value for r 11 ranges between 5.7 and 3.2 \times 10^{-12} m/V. These data indicate modulating efficiencies that may be more than double those calculated from earlier infrared measurements on selenium.


If K is a set of automorphisms of a group G, an endomorphism θ : G → G is said to be K-pointwise if for each element t ∈ G, there exists an element φ ∈ K such that θ (t) = φ (t). This generalizes the notion of pointwise inner automorphism. We show that in some special cases, a K-pointwise endomorphism is necessarily an automorphism (it is not true in general).


Abstract Nanomaterials and nanotechnology have been widely applied in the world in this last decade. Nanotechnology provides the tool and the technological platforms for the study and transformation of biological systems. Few studies have focused on the effects and mechanisms of nanomaterials on plants. The results of these studies have been reported with the aim to provide further insight into connections between plants and nanomaterials.


Project Objectives: The general objective of the project is to investigate the combustion behavior of single and multiple Coal-Water Fuel (CWF) particles burning at high temper_ture environments. Both uncatalyzed as well as catalyzed CWF drops with CMcium Magnesium Acetate (CMA) catalyst will be studied, Emphasis will also be given in the effects of CMA on the sulfur capture during combustion. To help achieve these objectives the following project tasks were carried over this 9rh three-month period.


In the present paper, pyrolysis process of phenol\|formaldehyde resin mixed with white carbon black(nano\|silica) and boron carbide powders was investigated. The material was used as a high temperature adhesive for graphite bonding. Based on the IR analysis results of the adhesives heat\|treated at different temperatures, the relationship between change of the composition and structure of the adhesives and the adhesive strength were discussed.


When user-centric location privacy protections are used by the public (e.g., published as a mobile application to Mac app store), they are found to be vulnerable to a novel kind of potential inference attacks. These attacks can utilize the open-use protection's input–output pairs to closely study the protection's structure and mechanism. We name this kind of attacks as knowing-and-learning (KL) attacks. Targeted at such potential but threatening deep learning-based KL attacks in local search services, we propose a novel location privacy protection framework LPP2KL. LPP2KL aims to generate an obfuscated location, which is robust to the aforementioned attacks, so that the user's current location (real) can be replaced by the generated location (pseudo) when submitted to the untrusted search server. To achieve this, we first depict a feasible net structure to implement the deep KL attack and verify its power with extensive experiments. Second, to simulate the attack-and-defense process, we develop a novel network structure with an adversary net and a protection net. These nets play a mini–max game toward privacy inference in an adversarial manner until an equilibrium is reached. Meanwhile, the protection net also achieves the balance between preserved privacy and quality of service through utility-constrained privacy optimization. We introduce a novel penalty function to handle the utility-constrained privacy optimization problem. Extensive experiments are conducted on Yelp and FoursSwarm datasets, which validate the generality of our proposed LPP2KL in protection handling and illustrate its effectiveness in utility control under the acceptable quality of service.


This paper proposes the application of a swarm intelligence algorithm called Artificial Bee Colony ABC for the feature selection to feed a Random Forest RF classifier aiming to recognise Traffic Signs. In this paper, the authors define and assess several fitness functions for the feature selection stage. The idea is to minimise the correlation and maximise the entropy of a set of masks to be used for feature extraction results in a higher information gain and allows to reach recognition accuracies comparable with other state-of-art algorithms. The RF comprises as a committee based on decision trees, which allows handling large datasets and features with high performance, enabling a Traffic Sign Recognition TSR system oriented for real-time implementations. The German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark GTSRB was used for experiments, serving as a real basis for comparison of performance for the authors' proposal.


The principles of incident pulse shaping and the design methods of ideal incident pulse were studied for the dynamic tests of quasi-brittle SiCp/Al composites with a 50% volume fraction of SiC particles under a constant strain rates loading with SHPB.The results show that a novel method by piling up the raw transit wave and the modified reflected wave to design the incident pulse is developed,and ideal incident pulses are achieved through reasonably designing the size of pulse shaper and controlling the bullet muzzle velocity.The pulse shaper designing should integrate the material properties of specimen,and the key of pulse shaping is to adjust the shape of pulse to be same with the shape of the raw transit wave.For SiCp/Al composites the strain rate depends on the amplitude of incident pulse but not loading rate,and a platform in the incident pulse is needed for constant strain rate.Adjusting the shape of incident pulse to be trapezoid and making it similar with the shape of the raw transit wave of SiCp/Al composites,lead to the composite specimen deformation at constant strain rate.


Currently, WiFi-based infrastructure and equipment are ubiquitous, which makes it promising to develop and deploy WiFi-based indoor positioning systems, such as the most popular WiFi fingerprint-based location technology. This paper discusses one of the key problems in WiFi fingerprint-based localization, namely how to sample a sufficient number of received signal strength (RSS) measurements during the offline site survey. To this end, the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) between two Gaussian distributions is proposed and is then extended to real distribution and the sampling distribution. The expected KLD between the true distribution and the sampling distribution is formulated by Central Limit Theorem. The theoretical analysis reveals that the KLD is only related to the number of samples, and decreases with the number of samples. Extensive simulations and experiments are conducted and confirm the effectiveness of this study.


Estonia inherited its social security system from the Soviet Union. Because the system was financially unsustainable and ill-equipped to grapple with the aging population, it needed fast and fundamental changes. We provide a brief overview of Estonian pension system reforms, which have resulted in a three-pillar system of 1) basic coverage, 2) mandatory participant contributions with government matching contributions, and 3) voluntary individual savings and insurance. (We focus more on the second and third pillars, because these facets of the reform are likely to be of interest to a broader audience.) Estonian multi-pillar pension reform commenced in 1998 with legislation that established the third pillar. Second-pillar legislation followed in 2001, and this pillar itself became operational in 2002. We analyze whether pension reform so far has met initial goals of securing fiscal sustainability and guaranteeing adequate pensions. We also provide an overview of Estonia's reform experience in terms of participation rates, competition among fund managers, client asset allocation, and pension fund performance. Finally, we provide an overview of the legislative and regulatory response to the deep economic recession in Estonia.


This paper deals with comparative analysis of Ibsen's Ghosts (1881) and Cao Yu's Thunderstorm (1934). In addition to other multiple similarities, both works are family plays depicting the fall and degradation of wealthy and prominent families in the time of great social turmoil. Focusing on the portrayal of family and marriage in the aforementioned plays, this paper aims to shed light on the interrelations between these two works by studying central characters and their mutual relationships based on hiding the dark secrets of the past. One of the basic assumptions of this paper is that the family in these dramas is portrayed as a repressive institution that rests on the regulatory mechanisms of a society that seeks to arrange it according to a particular hierarchical scheme where everyone is given a certain role. Consequently, relations between characters are here viewed through the prism of their family roles. Special attention is devoted to the study of the characters of wives and sons who are in these plays the greatest victims of the social systems based on patriarchal values.


This research is entitled "Vocabulary of Mother Language Variations in Acquiring Toddler Language in Marga Dauh Puri Village, Tabanan Regency: Psycholinguistic Study." The purpose of this study was to find out vocabulary categories, word variations, and factors that influence mastery and acquisition of language variations given his mother to a toddler in Marga Dauh Puri Village, Tabanan Regency. The theory used is the theory of language acquisition proposed by Chaer, the theory of language teaching proposed by Simanjuntak, and the theory of child development proposed by Chaer. To achieve these objectives, several methods and techniques are used. The source of the data for analysis was the family that had a five-year-old child in the Village of Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan Regency. Furthermore, it was chosen by quota sampling technique. The results of this study are in the form of vocabulary taught by mothers to children including vocabulary categories such as noun categories, verbs, and adjective categories. The use of the dominant language taught is Balinese. Vocabulary variations include repetition and word variations. The dominant vocabulary variation used by mothers is word variation. Factors that influence the mastery and acquisition of vocabulary by children under five, are environmental factors, formal teaching factors, and age factors. The dominant factor influencing the mastery and acquisition of vocabulary by children under five in Marga Dauh Puri Village, Tabanan Regency is an age factor.


Penetration of homologous nicotinic acid esters through the human nail and a keratin membrane from bovine hooves was investigated by modified Franz diffusion cells in‐vitro to study the transport mechanism.


WITH the death of Henry Arthur Hollond, who was generally known as Harry Hollond, the history of the formative years of the Cambridge University Law School may be said to have come to an end. In 1911 when Trinity College took the radical step of electing him to a Law Lectureship, the number of students in the University taking the Law Tripos was about 100; by 1956 it had risen to over 400 and has greatly increased since. These figures may be of interest to anyone who is concerned with the history of law in England, but they are of special interest to all Cantabrigians for in this field, as in that of the physical sciences, Cambridge University has proved to be the leader in this country. Hollond's father, Arthur Edward Hollond, was a strict moralist, as was his grandfather, the Rev. Edward Hollond, but he himself was always a liberal where the views of other persons were considered. It was in large part this lack of prejudice which accounted for his large and extremely diverse body of friends. It also gave them confidence that in reaching his conclusions he was being as fair as possible in this difficult world. He was ready to listen to their views and in return they were willing to listen to his. He was not a fluent speaker, but he carried great weight at a time when radical changes were being made in the constitutions of the University, the Law School, and the various Colleges. Hollond was head of the school at Rugby where he also took an active part in games. Unfortunately he strained his heart when playing football which bothered him from time to time during all his life and induced him to choose an academic career rather than a more active


The aerial parts of Adonis vernalis L. (Yellow Pheasant ' s Eye, Ranunculaceae family) have been used in traditional medi-cine for the treatment of cardiac disorders for a long time. Systematic clinical studies in accordance with current standards are missing. Nevertheless the cardiac e ff ects are con-fi rmed by the long lasting use and the presence of


The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the activity of private medical practices in Morocco.


The synthesis of a highly functionalized 4,5-dihydro-3H-pyrrol, namely, the D-ring fragment 5a of cobyric acid (1), is described in this letter. A very efficient assembly to 5a involves CBS-reduction of 10, a [2,3] Wittig-Still rearrangement, and a stereoselective Michael addition to a nitro olefin.


There was examined the influence of the age on the development of a compensatory hypertrophy of the heart in 4 to 16 month old masculin Wistar-rats autoradiographically. The valuation took place at various times after stenosing of the aorta and application of 3H-thymidine separatly in both ventricular walls by counting of the nuclei of the marked muscle- and connective tissue cells of the heart and their mitosis. For the connective tissue cells computation of the 3H-thymidin- and of the mitotic index. Determination of the body- and heart weight.


Participating in motor activities requires mastering the skill of swimming and adoption of principles of safe behavior. Achieving the stadium of swimming is one of the aims of Physical Education Curriculum and one of the criteria for adoption of the programme. A swimmer is an individual who has mastered the skill of swimming, diving, jump into the water, has adopted he habits (behavior which a part of self-protection and strategies of the general safety in and around the water area), gained knowledge (about swimming, self-estimation of the swimming skill and estimation of the surroundings for safe swimming, developed abilities which make him mobile and safe in water. A primary school teacher is identified a possible trainer of swimming and safety in water, and the school as an institution which can fulfill this aim. The subject of this paper is the very definition of a swimmer and the concept of training swimming and safety in water which can be realized in the Physical education classes.


Using perturbation methods, approximate formulas are obtained for zero‐coupon bonds under the generalized Black–Karasinski model. The formulas perform well regarding accuracy and calibration to available data. For a special case, which corresponds to the Hull–White model, the approximation actually yields an exact solution. Numerical simulations are presented that partially validate the asymptotic approximation. A calibration strategy is investigated in order to fit the model to given data on discount rates.


Abstract : The object of the work was to investigate the friction of polyamides on steel as it relates to the operating conditions of bearing materials, and to find the basic factors on which the value of their friction depends.


This paper presents a parallel control algorithm for pattern understanding using a sematic network formalism for knowledge representation. Anytime capabilities, which are important for real world applications, are achieved by the use of iterative optimization techniques, like e.g. genetic algorithms, and the parallel processing of knowledge. First results from an application of the algorithm in the linguistic analysis of the speech understanding system Evar are given to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.


The Phi 7.0mm1770MPa zinc plated steel wire is made through coiling inspection, surface preparation, wiredrawing, hot galvanizing, stable treatment and inspection. It adds a radius limit mold for steel wire surface friction, smoothening, limiting of the wire diameter, preventing the wire deformation, proceeding low temperature tempering and surface smoothening treatment, with the generation of zinc plated steel wire having high strength, low looseness, higher flexible and ductility and high torque feature, effectively getting over the difficulty of current technology being unable to cover the high strength low looseness, producing wire conforming to technical index.


To the Editor: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an treated with tacrolimus and followed up at 3 months or autoimmune disease involving multiple systems. In recent years, the therapeutic treat-to-target (T2T) strategy was recommended for SLE. The immunosuppressive drugs are the standard of care in SLE treatment. Tacrolimus was one of the calcineurin inhibitors which was recommended in the 2019 update of the Joint European League Against Rheumatism and European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association recommendations for the management of lupus nephritis (LN). However, few studies have focused on tacrolimus for the management of various extra-renal SLE manifestations [Supplementary Table 1, http://links. lww.com/CM9/B122]. There are also no T2T data about tacrolimus in SLE. So, we conducted this single-center, prospective, real-world study to better clarify the efficacy and safety of tacrolimus in various SLE manifestations and provide T2T evidence for tacrolimus.


The translation is of the book's 10th edition published in 2006, which includes a valuable foreword by Hussein Amin. Written twenty years after the publication of the first edition, the author added a discussion of two topics which he considered timely at the time, namely Islamic terrorism and democracy, thereby almost predicting the events of the 'Arab Spring'. In addition, he discusses ways to address both of these issues.


More and more importance has been attached to geothermal resources,which are regarded as a kind of clean energy resource.China's geothermal resources are dominated by medium-low temperature geothermal fields,and mostly belong to conduction type and convection type in genesis.Integrated geophysical exploration is a kind of geophysical exploration technique formed and developed on the basis of integrated application of varied single methods.This paper gives a brief description of the effect of applying the routine electrical sounding method in combination with radioactive survey and "mise-a-la-masse" method to stratigraphic division,rock body study and water-bearing fissure zone detection in the Wangjiazhuang geothermal field of Tongshan County.


Years of employment (and unemployment), wage inflation, a weighted insurance amount formula, mortality tables, and inflation adjustments all factor in.


Following the passage of fast ions through thin solid targets, the velocity distribution of forward ejected continuum electrons, centred at a velocity about that of the projectile, is found to be substantially independent of the emergent projectile charge state. The yield per emergent ion is also found to be independent of emergent ion charge state, arguing critically against a projectile charge-dependent, surface-layer origin for the convoy electrons in question.


The two-point autocorrelation function of ultrahigh energ y cosmic ray (UHECR) arrival directions has a broad maximum around 25 degrees, combining th e da a with energies above 4×10 eV (in the HiRes energy scale) of the HiRes stereo, AGASA, Yakutsk a nd SUGAR experiments [1]. This signal is not or only marginally present analyzing events of a singl e experiment, but becomes significant when data from several experiments are added. Both the energy dep en nce of the signal and its angular scale might be interpreted as first signatures of the large-scale s tructure of UHECR sources and of intervening magnetic fields.


Energy-Aware Batch Scheduling Jessica Chang Co-Chairs of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Samir Khuller University of Maryland Computer Science Professor Anna R. Karlin Computer Science and Engineering The subject of this thesis concerns algorithmic aspects of energy-related trends in computation. Within recent years, the computationally heaviest jobs are executed over massive corpora residing at data centers, whose energy profiles differ from those of standard desktops, and whose power consumption translates into an operational budget on the order of millions of dollars. Designing schedules to optimize notions of power consumption is sometimes at odds with standard techniques prevalent in the classical scheduling theory, which has traditionally focused on objectives capturing the interests of the scheduler (e.g., makespan) or of individual jobs (e.g., flow time). Thus, we study a fairly simple model of energy usage: the active time scheduling model. Formally, we are interested in scheduling a set of n jobs, each with release time, deadline and processing requirement, on a system comprised of a single batch machine, with batch parameter B. (The machine can be working on up to B jobs at the same time.) The cost of a schedule is simply the amount of time that the system, i.e., the machine, is working. This is akin to the magnitude of the schedule's projection onto the time axis. The underlying assumption is that the cost for the machine to be active is roughly the same, regardless of whether it is working on only one job or operating at full capacity. We give a fast algorithm for the basic case in which jobs are unit length and time is slotted. When time is not slotted, the problem still admits a polynomial-time solution, albeit of higher time complexity, via dynamic programming techniques. On the other hand, when time is slotted, but jobs may have multiple feasible intervals, the problem is NP -hard for B > 2, and otherwise can be solved via b-matching techniques. When jobs are arbitrary in length and can be preempted, but have a single feasible interval, we also show that a large class of algorithms is 5-approximate. We also empirically compare algorithms within this class with the incumbent greedy algorithm due to Wolsey; the latter algorithm is widely implemented in practice. This comparison is cast within a framework general enough to capture other canonical covering problems, most notably Capacitated Set Cover. In particular, we design a heuristic LPO that essentially complements Wolsey's algorithm and propose optimizations to both approaches. At a high level, our findings solidly establish LPO as a competitive, if not superior, alternative to Wolsey's algorithm, with respect to both solution quality and number of subroutine calls made. Finally, this thesis makes theoretical headway on the well-studied busy time problem. The key assumption that sets this apart from the aforementioned active time problem is that under the busy time model, the system has access to an unlimited number of identical batch machines. For non-preemptive jobs of arbitrary length, we give a 3-approximation that leverages important insights for the special case where the instance consists of interval jobs. When preemption is permitted, we give an exact algorithm for unbounded B; this result yields a simple 2-approximation for bounded B.


The research advance of purifying wet-process phosphoric acid with solvent extraction method was introduced.The conclusion obtained from recent research included: extraction solvent that was insoluble in water was selected,suitable adding level of diluter was 10%~30% general solvent quantity,suitable extraction phase ratio was 3∶1,cleaning phase ratio was 18∶1,adverse extraction phase ratio was 10∶1.The creative technologies of the research included: vibrating orifice column was adopted as extraction apparatus,three times desulfurization process was developed,the purification of phosphoric acid was combined with making fertilizer from acid slag,extraction diluter was cheap,chemical precipitation method was combined with solvent extraction method,desulfurization,decolourization and defluorization was carried out in the same process.


While target-side monolingual data has been proven to be very useful to improve neural machine translation (briefly, NMT) through back translation, source-side monolingual data is not well investigated. In this work, we study how to use both the source-side and target-side monolingual data for NMT, and propose an effective strategy leveraging both of them. First, we generate synthetic bitext by translating monolingual data from the two domains into the other domain using the models pretrained on genuine bitext. Next, a model is trained on a noised version of the concatenated synthetic bitext where each source sequence is randomly corrupted. Finally, the model is fine-tuned on the genuine bitext and a clean version of a subset of the synthetic bitext without adding any noise. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on WMT16, WMT17, WMT18 English\leftrightarrowGerman translations and WMT19 German\toFrench translations, which demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. We also conduct a comprehensive study on how each part in the pipeline works.


The present invention relates to a process for the synthesis of MEZCLAS oligomeric cyclopentene of formula (I), characterized in that reacting a cyclopentene, and mixtures of hydrocarbons containing monoolefins acyclic FROM THE PROCESSING OF OIL BY cracking (CUTS C 5 BECOMING A metathesis reaction catalysed homogeneously or heterogeneously WAY, ACCORDING TO OBTAIN THIS PROCEDURE IS cyclopentene oligomers of formula (I), and their use.


The Huichol Indians of western Mexico inhabit one of the most isolated and inaccessible areas of Middle America. This isolation has meant that their aboriginal culture has survived with relatively few major modifications since the period of first contact with Western culture. This situation offers a unique opportunity to the anthropologist  searching for ways to better understand native culture in the area of Mesoamerica.


Simulation studies permit com-iparison of different estiinators under conditions of (a) known parameter values and (b) perfect measuremeint (no observatioinal errors) so that -the fluctuations in the results are only due to randomlsamnplihng. In the preseInt study the empirical behaviour of the estimators commonlly used in survey work, nainely, the mean, ratio, regression and product estimators, is examined and compared in termns of their sainpling variances by simulating a bivariate normal distribution for a specified range of parameter values. The following proceduire is adopted for carryin-g out the simnula-tion experiments. Samples of size n: 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160, are drawn in pairs independen-tly by means of simple ranldom samnpling without replaceinent from thle Million Randomn Digits (4), fixing the population size at 10X000. The deviates are th-entransformeld on the computer to sainple observations froin the bivariate normal distribution, N(Y, D/(80, 55), X) wv7here


This paper presents a probabilistic model-based approach aimed at evaluating quantitative measures to assess the security risks faced by an information system in operation. The proposed approach takes into account the impact of three environmental factors and their interdependencies: the vulnerability life cycle, the behavior of the attackers and the behavior of the system administrator. Several quantitative security measures are defined and evaluated. Two different scenarios are distinguished corresponding to the case where the system vulnerabilities are discovered by a malicious user or by a non malicious user. The proposed models are based on stochastic activity networks and describe the system states resulting from the combined modeling of the three external factors. Five states are distinguished (vulnerable, exposed, compromised, patched and secure) and probability measures are associated to these states to assess the level of risk faced by the system as a result of the vulnerability exploitation process. The parameters of the models, e.g. those characterizing the occurrence of vulnerability life cycle events, are derived from the analysis of public information recorded in vulnerability databases. Several sensitivity analyses are carried out for the two scenarios, in order to quantify and illustrate the impact of various parameters, including the probability of security patch application, the attack rate, etc.


Whence and whither family history? In his bibliographic and programmatic essay, Hobsbawm (1971) did not mention family history as a subfield of what was then the relatively "new" social history. The closest he came was "demography and kinship." In 1980, by which time social history was definitely mature, and according to some critics, even in decline, the proceedings of a conference on history in the 1980s included a 37-page essay by Stone (1981b; see also Stone, 1981a, 1978) on family history. Several bellwethers of the change may be noted in passing. One year after the 1968 conference for which Hobsbawm's comments were originally prepared, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population held a meeting whose subject—the comparative history of household and family—went beyond strictly demographic history. In 1972, a family history newsletter was launched by Professor Tamara Hareven, in cooperation with the Newberry Library in Chicago; a special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History on "The History of the Family" appeared in 1971; a special issue of Annales: Economies, Societes et Civilisations devoted to "Famille et Societé" was published in 1972. By the time the Journal of Family History, edited by Hareven, began publication in 1976, two more special issues on family history of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History were required reading for those calling themselves social historians.


ABSTRACT The fierce public and scholarly debate over trigger warnings in university classrooms has often characterized the issue as one of academic freedom and ignored the social justice arguments for trigger warnings. In this essay, we argue that trigger warnings expand academic speech by engaging students more fully in their own learning. Specifically, we understand trigger warnings as a means of respecting students' intellectual, emotional, and physical boundaries. By framing trigger warnings in this way, we argue that they are tools of worldmaking to the degree that they promise to improve accessibility, engage students better in learning, and cultivate more socially just and livable campuses.


This paper presents a rigorous field theory analysis and design of a novel configuration for E-plane filters. The proposed configuration is suitable for diplexer applications and preserves the desirable features of conventional E-plane filters. The analysis is based on the mode matching technique, which allows the effect of the higher order modes to be taken into account in the optimization process. The numerical results agree well with the measured data.


The article presents the result of the analysis of the problems of maintenance of on-board pneumatic systems and units in terms of the requirements for completeness and efficiency of the requested information. It is shown that the current state of the workflow modeling tools of these systems do not fully meet the maintenance requirements at all stages of the product life cycle. An approach to modeling pneumohydraulic systems and units is proposed, as well as ways to reduce the time from the moment of setting a problem requiring the development of a new mathematical model to obtaining adequate simulation results. The efficiency of the proposed approach is demonstrated by the example of a pressure regulator operating in a dynamic mode. The possibilities and ways of implementing modeling tools based on the proposed approach are shown.


Building-related safety accidents continue to occur despite the strengthening of laws and systems to prevent safety accidents in buildings. In particular, safety accidents in buildings lead to large-scale accidents due to the density and enlargement of buildings, increasing social anxiety about the safety of members of society.
Therefore, in this study, we tried to suggest the introduction of a safety culture in building management as a method for creating a safe space. To this end, as a starting point for the establishment of a safety culture, a plan for administrative sanctions against organizations and individuals was presented to strengthen the deterrence effect at the external level, and the establishment of an education system for safety awareness and reinforcement was proposed. Through this, it was expected that the enforcement force and framework of external level laws and regulations would work normally in the field of building safety management to bring about changes in safety awareness and safety behavior of the organization level and individual safety management personnel.


Earth observation satellites such as FACSAT, equipped with embedded hardware and software systems, require interaction with physical variables such as time, energy and space for their operation. In this paper, a FACSAT is characterized conceptually as a cyber-physical system. We propose a model that, based on a series of assumptions and restrictions, describes the operating principle of the system. Using this model, we describe the development of a tool for the automation of mission planning and scheduling that is modularly integrated into the mission control software, which is validated in real operational scenarios with the FACSAT-1 satellite.


Discrepant findings have typified the research concerning the social participation of blacks in America. The bulk of the findings would seem to posit three competing theories, one emphasizing low participation levels on the part of blacks, and the later two emphasizing high levels of social participation. These theories are examined and a synthesis of the "isolation" and "compensation" models is proposed. By examining both formal and informal types of social participation on the part of blacks, it is argued that both theories are viable toward explaining variation within black participation levels in particular and toward mediating the discrepant findings as they have been previously offered in general. Some support is found for such a proposed synthesis.


Abstract : Let G sub mn(P sub 1, P sub 2) be the noisy duel in which the first player has m bullets with accuracy function P sub 1 and the second player has n bullets with accuracy function P sub 2 where m, n, P sub 1, and P sub 2 are known to both players. Results are well known for the duels in which P sub 1 = P sub 2 or when m = n = 1. The following theorem is proved: If P sub 1 and P sub 2 are non-decreasing and continuous on (0, 1) with P sub 1(0) = P sub 2(0) = 0 and P sub 1(1) = P sub 2(1) = 1, then the game G sub mn(P sub 1, P sub 2) has a value. We discuss the structure of epsilon-good strategies and introduce the concept of a good first-shot time. It is shown that although good strategies may not exist, at least one of the players always has a good first-shot time. (Author)


In order to improve the service life of the helical gear and worm gear meshing transmission,and reduce the noise in the saloon car micro motor,starting from the design parameters of helical gear and worm,the parameter calculation method of the metal worm and the plastic helical gear transmission was introduced. And through the Computer Aided Engineering( CAE) analysis of motion simulation and test,the rationality of the parameter calculation method and the parameter values were verified. Thereby the suitable parameters are found,and the vibration and noise of transmission is reduced effectively.


The paper described the periodic progress of public hospitals reform in Anhui province,and analyzed the difficulties encountered,proposing measures and recommendations.These include reasonable adjustment of medicine prices for betterment of public hospital compensation mechanism; toplevel design in supportive measures of county-level public hospital reform; breakthrough of existing personnel system to ease shortage of medical staff in primary institutions; encouragement of diversified investment in medical sector to invite private resources into public hospital reform.

Key words:
Anhui province;  Public hospital;  Reform;  Status quo;  Difficulties


To reduce mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID‐19 and cardiovascular disease (CVD), it is necessary to understand the relationship between patient's symptoms, risk factors, and comorbidities with their mortality rate. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first which take into account the determinants like risk factors, symptoms, and comorbidities leading to mortality in CVD patients who are hospitalized with COVID‐19.


With the global awareness of the need to make our energies cleaner, marine constructions, typically wind farms, and especially offshore, have multiplied in recent years, and we can expect to see these numbers increase even more rapidly. The presence of marine mammals during offshore infrastructure works (pile driving, drilling, dredging) is now a major environmental concern, as it has been proven that they could be severely harmed by exceeding noises.
 In order to safeguard species and their natural habitats, more and more local legislations impose a cap on sound levels caused by all offshore activities. As of 2023, this is the mainly the case in Europe (for instance in the United Kingdom [Joint Nature Conservation Committee - JNCC, Southall et al., 2007; Popper and Hasting, 2009], Germany [Bundesamt fur Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie - BSH (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency), Muller-BBM, 2011], The Netherlands [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek - TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), 2011], Belgium or Denmark [Danish Energy Agency - DEA, Tougaard et al., 2016]), but Asian countries (Taiwan [Environmental Protection Administration - EPA, 2019] being the best example) and American (USA, Canada) are also implementing similar rules. Wind farms developers therefore are required to measure, monitor, and mitigate noise caused by building work, and, today, underwater noise monitoring regulations are enforced as a means of protecting aquatic life.


Abstract We have calculated the global supply rates of Na to the atmosphere of Mercury either directly from depth as gaseous Na or through resupply of fresh regolith materials to the surface for subsequent placement into the atmosphere by surface-active processes. To match the supply of Na to the atmosphere of Mercury with the production of photoions (1-2 × 10 7 ions cm -2 sec -1 ), assumed to be the dominant loss process, it is necessary to assume either that the abundance of Na in the crust of Mercury is 1-2% (i.e., terrestrial), that a large fraction (80%) of the ions are recycled, or that the atmosphere is only temporary. Of these, the most likely appears to be the first. The possible rates of diffusion of gaseous Na to the surface range from 10 0 to 10 5 atoms cm -2 sec -1 , with the most likely rate less than 3 × 10 2 atoms cm -2 sec -1 , five orders of magnitude less than that required to maintain the present exosphere. This is in sharp contrast to an earlier estimate in the literature (A. L. Sprague, 1990, Icarus 84, 93-105). We also show that a system of deep, well-connected vents or fractures cannot provide any significant supply of gaseous Na to the exosphere in contrast with the suggestion by A. Sprague, R. W. H. Kozlowski, and D. M. Hunten (1991, Science 249, 1140-1143). Under the assumption that the abundance of Na in the upper crust is 0.004 by mass (lunar Na abundance), the most likely rate of supply of Na to the surface by creation of fresh regolith is 3.5 × 10 6 atoms cm -2 sec -1 . Therefore, surface-acting processes can maintain the supply of Na to the atmosphere if the abundance of Na in the upper crust is at least 0.01 by mass.


Malignant tumors of the mucous membrane of the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity are quite rare, which is from 0,2 to 1,3% of all malignant tumors of the head and neck. Melanoma of the mucous membrane of the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity is less than 5% of all neoplasms of this localization and less than 1% of all melanomas. Melanoma is one of the most dangerous, often recurrent, metastatic malignant tumors. More often, melanoma occurs in the maxillary sinus, less often it is diagnosed in the frontal sinus. The average age of patients with melanoma is 58,7 years. Men and women get sick almost equally often. The duration of the disease ranges from several months to 3–5 years. The prognosis for melanoma of the mucous membranes is unfavorable, with a three-to-five-year survival rate of 10–15%. Clinically, most often in the early stages of the development of paranasal sinus melanoma, the disease is asymptomatic. Possible manifestations depend on the location of the tumor germination. Treatment of melanoma of the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity depends on the stage of the disease.


The basic system imbedded in the model described is a partially conservative five-phase oscillator. The property of partial conservativity enables the initially linear oscillator system to possess only one oscillatory mode in steady-state, while another oscillatory mode and the bias mode both decay to zero. As a result, the related nonlinearly stabilized oscillator model is simple. It is shown that this simplicity should contribute to a tractable electronic realization. An analytical treatment of the model is presented and a proof is given to show that the system reaches a stable steady state (a multidimensional limit cycle phenomenon).<<ETX>>


Coal enterprises'emergency management is an important aspect of coal mine safety management,to establish Coal enterprises evaluation index system of emergency response capacity is important to enhance coal mine safety management and reduce the accident rate.The graph of system layers is formed using AHP,the complex evaluation index system factors are analyzed.The test results demonstrate the applicability of this model.Through the analysis,the result shows that the evaluation index system based on AHP is applicable and scientific.


This study featured how a lady local politician rose to power as a barangay captain. It aimed to: describe her leadership orientation before she became a barangay captain, analyze the factors of her success stories in political leadership, extrapolate her values based on the problems/challenges met in the barangay, unveil her initiatives to address these problems, and interpolate her enduring vision for the future of the barangay. Through a biographical research design, with purposive sampling, a key female informant named as Lady L was chosen with the sole criteria of being a female Barangay Captain of Cebu City. Interview guides were utilized in the generation of Lady L's biographic information about her political career.Lady L's experiences in waiting for the perfect time and working in the private sector destined her to have a successful political career enhanced with passion and family influence. Encountering problems concerning basic education and unwanted migrants in Barangay K did not discourage her choice to run for re-election, because of her dedication to public service. Her ways to reach out and collaborate with welfare groups mitigate the problems of parental neglect and informal settlers in her barangay. The story of Lady L implies that in Cebu City, issues arise as a result of the practice of partisan politics, gender issues have minor bearing, and she envisioned a healthy and welleducated barangay, with an improved wellness and child care development.


The ilama tree (Annona diversifolia Saff.) is an underutilized fruit species from Mesoamerica with a noteworthy variability in southern Mexico. The present study describes differences in knowledge and appreciation of the fruit among inhabitants from different communities in Southern Mexico, as well as differences among their ilama trees. The study took place in Tierra Caliente, a region located in the states of Guerrero and the State of Mexico. Interviews were administered in three different communities as an attempt to associate the natural morphologic variation of plants and locals' knowledge and use of the tree in order to identify their implications for conservation. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis, and the results suggest that the morphological variation of the plants and the commercial importance of ilama are well known by locals. Indigenous community inhabitants prefer and select only white pulp trees, whereas mestizo communities promote and conserve plants with white, red, purple, and blue pulp. Germplasm flow is dynamic in the region, and ilama fruit represents a different economic value for each community. Selling the fruit is the primary goal, but not specifically its conservation and promotion. Implications for in situ conservation of ilama in Mexico are discussed.


This study mainly examined how Korean learners' perception and production of the /?/ and /ae/ sounds are changed during their learning. The theoretical framework was mainly grounded in Flege's (1995) Speech Learning Model (SLM), claiming that L2 phonological categories for new sounds become established as L2 experience increases. For the perception test, nine native Korean-speaking subjects, assigned into the inexperienced and experienced group based on their length of residence in the U. S. (0.7 vs. 8 years), participated in a perceptual similarity rating test. The results revealed that the English /?/ is perceptually similar or identical to Korean /?/ for both groups, whereas the English /ae/ was perceived as a different sound at higher percentage for the experienced group than the inexperienced group. For the production test, the experienced subjects produced more accurately than the inexperienced group for the both sounds (86% vs. 47% for the /ae/, 47% vs. 42% for the /?/). The most important findings of this study were that L2 experience influenced the perception of the L2 vowels differently and the perceptual difference has an influence on the production of the English /?/ and /ae/.


Patient: Male, 72-year-old Final Diagnosis: Pneumoscrotum Symptoms: Dyspnea • facial swelling Medication: — Clinical Procedure: Chest tube Specialty: Critical Care Medicine • Urology Objective: Unusual clinical course Background: Pneumoscrotum is a rare clinical occurrence in which air accumulates in the scrotum. The origin of air is primarily from trauma, but spontaneous pneumoscrotum can develop from gastrointestinal or pulmonary sources. Physical examination of pneumoscrotum typically includes crepitus of the perineal region and scrotal swelling and associated findings depending on the origin of the free air. However, pneumoscrotum in the setting of a scrotal wound, which allows air to pass freely outside the body, has not been previously documented in the literature. Case Report: A 72-year-old man who recently underwent a scrotal incision and drainage for recurrent epididymitis presented to a local emergency room with chief concerns of "whistling scrotum" and dyspnea. The chest CT revealed bilateral pneumothoraces, pneumomediastinum, and excessive subcutaneous emphysema throughout his abdomen, perineum, and scrotum. His scrotum had a dehiscent wound without any gross edema or air trapping contained within the scrotum. He received bilateral chest tubes and subcutaneous air drains with complete resolution of his pneumothoraces. The pneumoscrotum and associated subcutaneous emphysema of the perineum and thighs resolved after a prolonged period, and necessitated additional scrotal surgery. Conclusions: Prompt evaluation for source control is necessary with pneumoscrotum, as the source likely requires immediate stabilization or surgical intervention. This case report describes a unique presentation of a common entity (pneumothorax) within pulmonology/critical care in a patient with an open scrotal wound from a recent scrotal procedure, which allowed the air to escape from his abdominal compartment, and resulted in his "scrotal whistling." It is unclear how the air passing through the scrotum affected the patient's presentation, such as allowing more air to build up in the subcutaneous tissues versus developing critical illness.


A series of nonlinear optical (NLO) chalcohalides AXHg3P2S8 (A = Rb, Cs; X = Cl, Br), which contain various Hg‐based building units including mixed‐anion trigonal planar [HgS2X]3− and tetrahedral [HgS3X]5−, are successfully synthesized. These compounds display good water resistance, wide infrared transparent region (0.42–17 µm), high laser‐induced damage thresholds (4.5–6 × AgGaS2), and strong phase‐matchable second harmonic generation (SHG) response close to AgGaS2. The mixed‐anion chalcohalide groups serving as functional building units in NLO materials are studied for the first time and proven to be very effective. This work opens a new avenue for new NLO material design to achieve the balance between strong SHG efficiency and large bandgap.


American String Teacher Vol. 69, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 70 –73 DOI: 10.1177/0003131318815862 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Copyright © 2019, American String Teachers Association How do you recruit the next class of instrumentalists? Do you do all the talking or do you truly captivate students' musical imagination and turn it into a reality? For many years, our middle school chamber orchestra visited our elementary school to perform an annual recruitment concert where I would speak briefly about each instrument and one middle school musician from each instrument section would play an excerpt of their solo piece to close the deal. My school district's recruitment strategies reflected Brian Cole's (2010), Mary Wagner's (2013), and Maria Stafford's (2016) teacher-led template, but only 35 percent to 45 percent of students enrolled year after year. To address this issue, I created a new studentled recruitment format that increased enrollment to 61 percent this past school year. In our traditional recruitment presentation, middle school students gained performance experience and elementary school students engaged as listeners. This interaction can be more engaging by turning performers and listeners into active participants. Another problem with my annual recruitment concert was that the middle school chamber orchestra was comprised of more advanced instrumentalists, which meant only a handful of middle school students actually performed for elementary school students. To be more inclusive, I invited all of my sixth-grade orchestra musicians to participate in the recruitment process. These are musicians in the fourth-year orchestra curriculum. The next interactive component was grouping middle and elementary school students together in a cooperative learning environment. Shlomo Sharan (1990) and Robert Slavin (1995) summarize cooperative learning as the idea of having students work in small groups to learn from each other. Robyn Gillies' (2014) research shows that cooperative learning is an effective alternative to direct instruction. Noreen Webb (2008) also notes that small group learning increases students' active interaction. Higher achievement and positive peer relationships were associated with cooperative learning (Roseth, Johnson, and Johnson 2008, 239). My students and I created a "musical petting zoo" where middle school students introduced elementary school students to string instruments through demonstration and trials. Potential recruits were encouraged to ask questions during this interaction. Under middle school student supervision, elementary school students held and plucked string instruments for an introductory experience. Elementary school students rotated from string bass, cello, viola, to violin stations. Bass and cello groups had more elementary student visitors per presentation because we had fewer bass and cello musicians presenting compared to viola and violin musicians. This event took place in the elementary school cafeteria, but can also take place in the classroom. Student-Led Lesson Plan In preparation for this event, middle school musicians created a miniature lesson plan by writing the music concept they wanted to share and teaching strategies to meet that goal. Planning prompts included the following: What do you want to show (new recruits)? What are you going to do? How do we know (new recruits) understand what you are presenting (Figure 1)? Part of this project allowed me to assess my students' understanding as well. My essential question was as follows: can students articulate their own musical understanding and instrumental practice? Once my students completed the planning organizer, they practiced teaching each other in mentoring simulations. Students rotated between various instrument presentations, experienced the introductory lesson, and traded feedback. Because of time constraints, presentations were limited to six minutes each. Middle school students also created an infomercial-type video recording to practice and review their presentations. In reviewing their recordings, students and I further discussed their musical understanding in a debriefing assessment. We reviewed students' translation of music vocabulary into layman terms, supporting beginning musician posture techniques, and pacing. In a way, students' meta-teaching experience triggered flashbacks of personal curiosities from when they themselves were elementary school prospective recruits. The video presentations were useful because some elementary students were absent on the day that the middle school students visited the elementary school. I provided the elementary school general music teacher with the middle school video practice presentations, so the general music teacher could play the middle school presentations for students who were absent in lieu of in-person demonstrations.


At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2012, long-term follow-up data from large clinical trials support a change in practice for the use of sentinel node mapping after neoadjuvant therapy and the safety and efficacy of hypofractionated radiation therapy. The duration of adjuvant therapy was further defined, with advantages reported with the extended use of adjuvant tamoxifen for 10 years and for 12 months of adjuvant trastuzumab.


Abstract : We report one- (OPA) and two-photon absorption (TPA) excitation energies and cross sections for a series of 7-aminocoumarins using time-dependent density functional theory with various basis sets and functionals, including exchange-correlation functionals using the Coulomb-attenuating method (CAMB3LYP and mCAMB3LYP), to evaluate their performance in gas-phase and in solvents. Except for the CAMB3LYP results , the computed OPA excitation energies and transition dipole moments are in good agreement with experiment. The range of errors obtained from various functionals is discussed in detail. The relationship of donor and acceptor groups with OPA and TPA resonances and intensities is also discussed.


Mexico is soon expected to be a larger supplier of sugar to the U.S. market. The magnitude of Mexican sugar sourcing depends on the profitability of the Mexican sugar milling sector. This article analyzes trends in gross returns from sugar sales and production costs for the Mexican milling sector, and analyzes the contribution of important determinants to earnings per hectare. Technological adaptions have been fundamental in making the Mexican processing sugar sector profitable since the early 1990's. Although high domestic prices that are in part traceable to supporting Mexican Government policies have played their role, the industry has done much to advance its production potential. The data show that processing mills are diverse but almost all show consistently positive rates of return. While some mills are more vulnerable than others with respect to price and supply shocks, most have potential for continuing gains in production. Analysis shows that mills that produce more relative to their rated capacities and have longer campaign lengths receive higher per-unit returns. Results also indicate that mills with lower earnings have relatively more to lose by not maintaining the pace of adapting technological improvements. An associated implication is that the marginal return to technological adaptation is higher for lower-earning mills.


STUDY of INTERACTION between CHITOSAN TRIMER SEGMENT and ASCORBIC ACID by QUANTUM AB INITIO and EXPERIMENT METHODS . The research has been done between chitosan trimer segments and ascorbic acid used quantum ab initio on theory and basis set RHF/6-31G(d,p) and experiment methods. The quantum ab initio method could be used to get the geometry structure of molecule that more stable and characteristics of intermolecular interaction in the gas phase as simulation of experiment method which too expensive. The aim of research is to determine interaction energy between chitosan trimer segment and ascorbic acid and determine encapsulation efficiency of chitosan on ascorbic acid concentration is 500 ppm. The result show that the interaction can occur between chitosan trimer segment and ascorbic acid with each energy of them were the first and the second configuration respectively -38.1538 kJ.mol -1 and -29.7388 kJ.mol -1 . The first configuration position was preferred to others because its energy was greater. Its conclusion was interaction between chitosan trimer segment and ascorbic acid was medium hydrogen bond then the experiment result also prove the interaction between chitosan trimer segment and ascorbic acid shown by free ascorbic acid, filtrate of centrifugation result with encapsulation efficiency of chitosan 64.38 % for ascorbic acid 500 ppm.


Trellis Coded Modulated (TCM)-QPSK has been demonstrated as a coherent optical modulation format. For the first time its performance is compared to BPSK on four subsea segments of different lengths, showing performance benefits of up to 1.8 dB.


This paper investigates the asymptotic synchronization for the directed and undirected dynamical networks with different dimensional nodes and nonlinearly coupled functions. Besides, the nodes in the network model discussed here are dissipatively coupled and similar and their coupling coefficients between different nodes permit negative. For this kind of network model, the synchronization manifold is defined as an invariant manifold, which is regarded as the generalized case of the network with the same nodes. Furthermore, decentralized dynamical compensation controllers are synthesized to synchronize such network asymptotically based on Lyapunov stability theorem and Babalat's lemma. Finally, numerical examples are presented to verify the effectiveness of our theoretical results.


In the pharmaceutical industry, there are challenges in topical and transdermal administration of drugs, which are sparingly soluble in water and most organic solvents. Ionic liquids (ILs) have been found to be very effective for dissolution of sparingly soluble drugs. However, hydrophilic IL-borne drugs cannot penetrate into or across the skin because of the highly hydrophobic barrier function of the outer skin. In this chapter we report a novel IL-in-oil (IL/o) microemulsion (ME) that is able to dissolve a significant amount of sparingly soluble drug, acyclovir, in the IL core while the continuous oil phase can provide the desired features for topical/transdermal transport through the skin. The ME is composed of a blend of the nonionic surfactants polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate (Tween 80) and sorbitan laurate (Span 20), isopropyl myristate (IPM) as an oil phase, and the IL [C1mim][(MeO)2PO2] (dimethylimidazolium dimethylphosphate) as a dispersed phase. The size and size distribution of the aggregates in the MEs were characterized by dynamic light scattering, showing formation of the nanocarrier in the size range 8–34 nm. In vitro drug permeation studies into and across the skin showed that the IL/o ME increased drug administration compared with other formulations. The safety profile of the new carrier was evaluated using a cytotoxicity assay on the human epidermal model LabCyte. We believe that these IL-assisted nonaqueous MEs can serve as a versatile and efficient nanodelivery system for sparingly soluble drug molecules.


An electron conductivity model for dense plasma is utilized to calculate a complete set of transport coefficients in plasma.These coefficients,applying to partially ionized and partially degenerated plasmas with arbitrary compositions,are reasonably accurate in a wide range of plasma temperature and density.They can be used in the simulations of magnetic confinement fusion,laser fusion,and Z-pinch plasma,etc.


This article explores the dilemmas of the sociology of human rights – a growing field of academic research. Sociologists are increasingly conceptualizing poverty, global economic inequality, and social inequalities of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation not as social problems, but rather as human rights abuses. The shift of emphasis from the social problems perspective to the human rights perspective demands a different set of remedies from IGOs, national governments, and local authorities. Whereas in the past sociologists tended either to recommend modifications to social policies or to propose large-scale social transformation, they now find themselves advocating the implementation of human rights on the global, national, and local levels. This has brought sociologists into the area of global governance. The process of delineating an explicitly sociological perspective on human rights is impeded by two overlapping dilemmas: (1) the tension between an approach that emphasizes the analysis of 'rights effects' on the global, national, and local levels and an approach that stresses the advocacy of rights as a palliative for social inequalities; and (2) the tension between an interdisciplinary vision, in which sociology would join other disciplines in illuminating human rights and a unidisciplinary vision, in which sociologists and their allies would push for a unified social science founded on human rights.


Objective:To evaluate the efficacy of ultrasound-guided compression repair(UGCR) for post-(puncture) femoral artery pseudoaneurysm.Methods: Twenty-four patients with post-catheterization femoral artery pseudoaneurysm underwent compression repair with a probe.Results: Femoral artery pseudoaneurysm repair was performed successfully in 96%(23/24) patients with a single compression. Conclusion: UGCR is a simple,(effective),safe and cost-effective method for treatment of post-puncture femoral artery pseudoaneurysm and has high potential in clinical practice.


PURPOSE: An electro-conductive material for a connection component is provided to provide the same with a low frictional coefficient and high minute sliding abrasion resistance in comparison with an existing electro-conductive material. CONSTITUTION: An electro-conductive material for a connection component includes a base material, a Cu-Sn alloy coating layer, and a Sn coating layer. The base material is formed with a copper alloy. The content of Cu in the Cu-Sn alloy coating layer on the base material is 20 to 70 at%, and the average thickness of the Cu-Sn alloy coating layer is 0.2 to 3.0 um. The average thickness of the Sn coating layer on the Cu-Sn alloy coating layer is 0.2 to 5.0 um. The part of the Cu-Sn alloy coating layer is exposed to the surface of the Sn coating layer, and comprises random structures and linear structures. The random structures are irregularly dispersed among the Sn coating layer, and the linear structures are extended to be parallel to the rolling direction of the base material.


This paper aims at studying the feasibility of the genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the nonlinear dynamic control problems. As an example of the problem, the swing up control of a pendulum is discussed. In the simulation, the pendulum swings up from the hanging position to the upright position by using the control input obtained by GA. From the simulation results, it is confirmed that GA is a suitable method for solving the complicated nonlinear dynamic control problems.<<ETX>>


The lower esophageal contraction ring was first described by Templeton,1 but Schatzki and Gary2 in 1953 defined it as a distinct entity. Since this initial report, a consensus about some features of the lower esophageal ring has been reached. Most authors agree that it can be either symptomatic or asymptomatic. Symptoms of esophageal obstruction or inflammation can be associated with or ascribed to this ring, and its occurrence in association with symptoms indicates some form of therapy. The ring can be found in association with hiatal hernia. It occurs at the junction of squamous and columnar mucosa,3 and histologically it demonstrates minimal inflammation involving only the mucosal layer.4


The study aims to identify the impact of value-added tax (VAT) on Saudi banks, through measuring the impact of changes in the banks before and after the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT), in all of total assets, total liabilities, customer deposits, retained earnings, total operating income, total operating expenses and net operating income. The study targeted the fourth quarter of 2017 (before the implementation of VAT), and the first and second quarters of 2018 (after the implementation of VAT). The study found that there is a slight decline in total assets, total liabilities, customer deposits and current accounts, in addition to a significant decline in retained earnings, total operating expenses after the implementation of VAT. On the other hand, the study found that there is a slight increase in the total income of operations and a significant increase in net operating income after the implementation of value-added tax. Moreover, the study found that there are no statistically significant differences between total assets, total liabilities, customer deposits, current accounts, total operating income, total operating expenses, net operating income before and after the implementation of value-added tax; while there are statistically significant differences between retained profits before and after VAT.

 Key words: Commercial banks, value-added tax (VAT).


SUMMARY: In this paper shows the way of application of ANFO and SLURRY bulk explosives and blasting methods that are characteristic for this open pit mine. According to the physical - mechanical characteristics of the working environment and condition of the blast hole are defining some parameters for each series separately. In this open pit are defined 5(five) different working environments - rocks with copper mineralization (0,25%Cu) or rocks waste. According to the effects of blasting are make certain corrections in the quality and quantity of the explosives, the amount of explosive charge and geometry of the drilling. We will presented basic drilling - blasting parameters for different types of explosives and some effects of landmines series in terms of granulation received, consumption of explosives and other normative material, impact on the environment and others.


Scylla paramamosain is a high-quality cultivar for saline-alkaline water aquaculture as a euryhaline crustacean species. However, salinity impacts the respiratory metabolism, growth, and survival of marine crustaceans. The metabolic response of crabs adapting to multiple low salinity environments has not been thoroughly studied yet, especially in inland saline-alkaline water. In this study, we analyzed metabolites in the gill and hemolymph of crabs cultured in three different low salinity environments. The results showed that membrane composition (lipids and lipid molecules) and free amino acids played an essential role in the osmoregulation of crabs, and the energy consumption accompanied as well. Meanwhile, S. paramamosain relied on ion transport and energy metabolism under acute/short-term low salinity conditions for osmoregulation. In contrast, amino acids and energy metabolism occupied a leading position in long-term low salinity. Furthermore, taurine and hypotaurine play a vital role in crabs adapting to inland saline-alkaline water. This is the first study to identify the crucial metabolites and key pathways as biomarkers to differentiate the metabolic mechanisms of S. paramamosain under multiple low salinity stress modes based on GC-MS technology, which provided novel insight into the metabolic response of S. paramamosain adapting to inland low salinity saline-alkaline water, and provided theoretical guidance for the aquaculture of S. paramamosain in the inland saline-alkaline water.


This paper studies the effect of cutting parameters on surface generation in ultra-precision turning of a contact lens polymer. Contact lens manufacture wants high accuracy and high surface quality. Surface roughness is mostly used to measure the index quality of a turning process. It has been an important response because it has direct influence toward the part performance and the production cost. Hence, choosing optimal cutting parameters will not only improve the quality measure but also the productivity. This research work is therefore aimed at investigating the effect of cutting parameters (cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut) on surface roughness of RGP ONSI-56 contact lens polymer with a monocrystalline diamond cutting tool. In this work, cutting speed (A) is found to be the most dominant factor having the highest degree of significance followed by the square of the cutting speed (A2) and the feed rate (B). However, interaction between cutting speed and feed rate (AB) has the lowest degree of significance on the surface roughness.


This paper presents an efficient regularization scheme for the single image dehazing. The transmission map has been reguarlized to retrieve a dehazed image. Usually, conventional methods try to improve the initial transmission through guided filtering without considering the potential advantage of improving the guidance as well. We have proposed an efficient regularization scheme that jointly optimizes the transmission map and the guidance. Nonconvex energy function is solved by iterative reweighed least squares. As a result, an improved transmission map is obtained that has edges concurrent with the iteratively updated guidance. The regularized transmission map results in better-quality dehazed image which has improved color fidelity and fine details as demonstrated by the experimental results.


Acetoin and 2, 3-butanediol were found to accumulate and reach a maximum in "natto" after 12h of fermentation (acetoin: 495mg/100g and 2, 3-butanediol: 748mg/100g on dryweight basis, respectively), after which these amounts decreased as a result of the action of microorganisms. Prior to this period, the level of citric acid, the major organic acid of soybeans, and glucose released from sucrose, decreased remarkably. Acetic acid increased gradually during the latter half of fermentation and showed irregular variations during storage (100-573mg/100g). Propionic acid was detected from the middle of fermentation and its increase was affected by storage temperature (8-57mg/100g). Three branched-chain fatty acids (iso-butyric, 2-methylbutyric, and 3-methylbutyric acids) were detected after 12h of fermentation and increased thereafter. During storage at 25°C, the contents of these acids were increased remarkably (iso-butyric: 313mg/100g, 2-methylbutyric: 373mg/100g and 3-methylbutyric: 131mg/100g, over 15 days, respectively). However no such change was observed during storage at 5°C or 15°C.


The explosive amount of malware continues threating the security of operating systems and networks. Traditional malware detection approaches fail to meet the requirements of detecting polymorphic and new samples. Existing neural network based detection approaches performs better, but consuming much more time in both feature extraction and training. In this paper, we propose a light-weight PC malware detection system which is based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The raw inputs of our system are sequences of grouped instructions, which were generated by our Instruction Analyzer in according to different functionalities of the instructions. The network will automatically learn features of malware from the grouped instruction sequences. The experiment results suggest that in a large dataset which contains roughly 70,000 samples, our detection system can achieve an overall accuracy of 95\%. The training time of our system with single convolutional layer was only about 10 hours, which is one order of magnitude less than traditional methods.


This research concentrates on developing a complete theoretical tool to analyze the electronic mode‐stirred reverberating chamber. A 2D modeling of the EM fields is performed, which can then readily be extended to a 3D analysis of the cavity. The finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) method is implemented to discretize the Maxwell's equations. With our newly proposed method, the electromagnetic‐field characteristics can be easily studied inside the reverberating chamber under a realistic circumstance, thus opening doors to the analysis of a large spectrum of problems related to both commercial and military applications. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2005.


The experiment with students' mental image training in skill teaching shows that the mental image training can promote the idea of acting formation, fasten the learning rate and improve the skill performance, in short, raise the teaching quality. The paper also analyzes and inquires into the theoretical bases of the mental image training , which provides scientific reference for the mental image training in optimizing the teaching effectiveness in PE


The article is devoted to revealing the legal nature of the first Soviet civil code and its role in the development of Russian positive law. The Civil Code of the RSFSR of 1922, created as a temporary one for the period of restoration of the Soviet economy after the Civil War, was in force for almost forty years. The author proves that the Civil Code of the RSFSR 1922 by his action, he refuted the assertion of Soviet lawyers about the fragility and determinism of the socio-economic conditions of the institutions enshrined in the codes. The article shows that many specific provisions of the RSFSR Civil Code of 1922 firmly entered the domestic civil law, becoming stable concepts and institutions.


How do two Swedish lower secondary school teachers relate to and make sense of history via their experiences and educational media? The study seeks to gain knowledge about history education by anal ...


This article presents a novel hypothesis on what causes an involutional entropion. The theory herein proposes that the pathophysiology of entropion is that of an idiopathic dystonia with the locus of dysfunction posed in the rostral brain stem and with stimuli for its causation mediated through the seventh cranial nerve--the facial nerve--by a cord of fibers making its path to the upper, ie, temporooculo-zygomatic ramus of the nerve. In a word, involutional entropion is but a variant of essential blepharospasm and one of the clinical entities within the oculo-oro-facial-cervical family of dystonia disorders.


Suppression or stimulation of B diffusion and activation in Si (coimplanted with F) has been investigated by anneals in a N2 ambient enriched with H2 or O2. The H2 rich ambient leads to B desorption and therefore stimulated diffusion toward the surface, thus effectively reducing indiffusion. Annealing in an O2 rich ambient promotes deeper B diffusion by injection of Si interstitials. The impact of these ambients can further be modulated by combining the B implant with a shallow or deep F coimplant acting as Si interstitial trap. Deep F coimplant and H2 rich ambient offer attractive B diffusion and activation.


A method, system, and computer program product for imple menting cloning operations in a distributed computing sys tem are provided. The method includes preparing a database component of the system for a cloning operation. The prepa ration includes stopping activities occurring on the system except for the cloning operation, identifying current system state information from the database component and an appli cation component of the system, and creating a self-contained system image of the database component that includes an image file of the database component and the current system state information. The method also includes restoring the system state of the application component by loading the self-contained system image on the database component, installing the image file of the database component on the database component, and updating the system state informa tion on the database component and the application compo nent from the self-contained system image, prior to restarting the system.