The invention discloses a method for treating organic chemical waste water. In the method, after the pH value of the waste water is adjusted to 2.5-3.0, the organism which is hard to degrade is efficiently removed and the biochemical property of the waste water is enhanced through the aeration microelectrolysis, Fenton oxidization and coagulating sedimentation processes, and the Fe generated after the microelectrolysis reaction can be used for subsequent Fenton oxidization reaction, thereby reducing the treatment cost. The invention can be widely applied to treating various kinds of low concentration organic waste water which is hard to biodegrade, such as chemicals, pharmacy, and the like; and the treated water can directly reach the standard and be drained. The invention can also be used as a pretreatment method of the organic waste water with high concentration to improve the biochemical property of the waste water which is hard to biodegrade.


A 73-year-old man presented with severe postprandial epigastric pain that did not radiate. He had 6 episodes of emesis followed by retching. The character of the pain was different from past anginal symptoms. At his local emergency department, a chest roentgenogram revealed air presumably within a large intrathoracic hiatal hernia (Figure 1). Computed tomography was notable for the stomach being almost entirely intrathoracic and distended with an organo-axial volvus configuration (Figure 2). A nasogastric tube was inserted, and he was transferred to our institution. His medical history included hiatal hernia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease. He had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting 26 years previously with vein grafts to his left anterior descending artery and right coronary artery. Ten years ago, he had redo surgery with a left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery. His medications included aspirin, β-blocker, angiotensin receptor blocker, statin, and nitrates. He was afebrile; his pulse was 73 bpm and blood pressure was 169/87 mm Hg. Chest examination revealed a significant systolic upper sternal …


Surgical resection of isolated pulmonary metastases has been incorporated into the management of cancer for more than 70 years. However, many questions still remain concerning indications, technique, and efficacy for this approach.


THE first description of a case of functioning acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas was made in 1908 by Berner.3 The disease is rare, and to date only seven cases have been reported.'-7 All of the reported cases had multiple disseminated foci of fat necrosis associated with a primary pancreatic carcinoma or its metastases. The present concept with respect to this lesion is that the pancreatic tumour produces enzymes, one of which is lipase; these are carried by the blood stream to distant sites where foci of fat necrosis appear.' The following case illustrates the clinical picture and pathological changes that are seen in this condition; it is the eighth so far reported.


Hydrogenation properties of Mg-Ni and Mg-Ti-Ni alloys were investigated by Pressure-Composition Isotherm (PCI) test. Those alloys were fabricated by a new alloying method, Rotation-Cylinder Method (RCM). The as-cast microstructure of Mg-10 mass% Ni alloy consists of an island-like hydride forming -Mg phase and the eutectic structure. After 350 cyclic tests, Mg-lO mass % Ni alloy was pulverized into fine particles of 100 nm. The fine particles, which have a large specific surface area, are highly reactive with hydrogen. However, extreme pulvehzation can separate Mg from in the eutectic structure, so of the eutectic structure cannot behave as a dissociated hydrogen supplier.


Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment (INTEX; http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov) is an ongoing two-phase integrated atmospheric field experiment being performed over North America (NA). Its first phase (INTEX-A) was performed in the summer of 2004 and the second phase (INTEX-B) is planned for the early spring of 2006. The main goal is to characterize the sources and distribution of gases and aerosols over NA and to understand their transport and transformation on transcontinental/intercontinental scales in order to assess their impact on air quality and climate. Central to achieving this goal is the need to relate space-based observations with those from airborne and surface platforms. During JNTEX-A, NASA s DC-8 was joined by some dozen other aircraft from a large number of European (U. K., France, and Germany) and North American partners to explore the composition of the troposphere over NA and the Atlantic in a coordinated manner. Global and regional models along with satellite observations were extensively used to plan, coordinate, and implement this field mission. Aircraft were instrumented to measure a comprehensive suite of gases and aerosols utilizing in-situ and remote sensors. The NASA DC-8 alone was equipped with some 20 instruments capable of measuring species at concentrations as low as 10(exp -15) v/v. Measurements included major atmospheric gaseous constituents (O3, NO(x), HNO3, HNO4, PANS, SO2, VOC/OVOC, CO, and CO2), free radicals and precursors (OH, HO2, H2O2, HCHO), aerosols and radiation (microphysics, composition, optical depth, radiative flux), as well as multiple tracers of pollution. Validation of instruments aboard Terra, Aqua, and Envisat satellites was given high priority. Some of the highest pollution levels were present in the upper troposphere due to widespread deep convection. Although unexpected, frequent instances of Asian pollution over NA were encountered during these summer months. The soil uptake of CO2 over NA was characterized over large regions of NA helping to understand the continents CO2-sink potential. DC-8 sampling of smoke from Alaskan fires and formaldehyde over forested regions, and simultaneous satellite observations of these provided excellent opportunities for the interplay of these platforms. Outflow of pollution from NA was sampled again over the Atlantic after several days to assess its evolution during transport. Models of chemistry and radiation are presently being employed to help in the interpretation of JNTEX-A data. The planning for INTEX-B (spring 2006) is currently underway. First results from INTEX-A and plans for INTEX-B will be discussed


Julian Dodd has recently objected to musical perdurantism-the view that a musical work is a fusion of performances-on the grounds that it entails that one cannot hear all of a musical work and that a musical work can have temporal parts that belong to different ontological categories. We defend musical perdurantism from both objections.


An examination of literature pertaining to lease (fee) hunting resulted in a description of tradeoffs for landowners, hunters, wildlife managers, and wildlife in the Central hardwood forest region. Landowner advantages associated with a lease hunting enterprise were better vandalism and trespass control, increased income, increased services, enhanced wildlife management, and farmland preservation; disadvantages were increased landowner liability, increased time and financial investment, changes in farm operation, and increased resentment. Advantages of lease hunting to hunters, wildlife managers, and wildlife were increased wildlife management, reduced hunting pressure on private land, and reduced hunter/landowner conflicts; disadvantages for these groups were increased hunting pressure on public lands, increased hunting expense, and conversion of hunting into a sport only for the wealthy. A possible consequence of lease hunting in the Central hardwood forest region is discussed. Recommendations are provided to Central hardwood forest and wildlife managers regarding the relationship between lease hunting, landowner attitudes, and private forestland management.


Large areas of peatlands have worldwide been drained to facilitate agriculture, which has adverse effects on the environment and the global climate. Agriculture on rewetted peatlands (paludiculture) provides a sustainable alternative to drainage-based agriculture. One form of paludiculture is the cultivation of Sphagnum moss, which can be used as a raw material for horticultural growing media. Under natural conditions, most Sphagnum mosses eligible for paludiculture typically predominate only in nutrient-poor wetland habitats. It is unknown, however, how the prevailing high nutrient levels in rewetted agricultural peatlands interfere with optimal Sphagnum production. We therefore studied the effect of enriched nutrient conditions remaining even after top soil removal and further caused by external supply of nutrient-rich irrigation water and (generally) high inputs of atmospheric nitrogen (N) to habitat biogeochemistry, biomass production and nutrient stoichiometry of introduced Sphagnum palustre and S. papillosum in a rewetted peatland, which was formerly in intensive


Enone cyanohydrin diethyl phosphates reacted regio- and stereo-selectively with a variety of organocopper reagents to give γ-coupling products, (Z)-predominant alk-2-enenitriles. The methodology was applied to the synthesis of (±)-nuciferal, (±)-(E)- and -(Z)-nuciferol, and (±)-manicone.


The proliferation of information technologies in our modern society offers an incentive to investigate various aspects of communication. This study is meant as a preliminary comparison of trust and control between interpersonal and mass communication. Drawing on the treatment of modernity and postmodernity, I investigate how individuals perceive their own action versus both friends' and other people's actions across two types of information sources -- the radio and a friend -- and types of messages -- going to a concert and going to a restaurant. These messages were chosen for similarities – both are enjoyable experiences – and differences, as we might expect various levels of expertise across sources on these topics. Data was taken from a college vignette study, and levels of trust in the content of the message were found to vary across sources of information, and a weak gender effect is evident when analyzing differences between perceptions of self and others' actions.


The recognition of the faults and structures in the research area was limited by the data and techniques,especially the recognition of the low-order faults was limited,and oil exploration and development were influenced.It was proposed that synthesizing many techniques were used to accurately interpret the structures in Fault Block Ying 1,the main techniques are the techniques to improve the resolution,strengthen the processing of fault margin,coherent body processing and so on.First,by the processing poststack seismic data,the resolution of the seismic data and recognition capability of fault was raised;the coherent data time slice was used to interpret the fault system accurately,interpret the structures.The process of structural interpretation is to interpret main faults first and describe the low-order fault next,there develop 32 faults in the work area,and all of them are normal fault.Two patterns of faults are established,including scraper pattern and plane pattern;two patterns of fault planes are determibned such as paralleling pattern and corner pattern.


This study investigates a prevalent assumption or argument that synergy between businesses in a multi-business firm acts as a barrier for exiting that firm's business. Using a formal model, the study situates synergy in the context where the firm can exit its business through resource redeployment or through divestiture. The model identifies six conditions, in terms of the type of synergy and of the determinants of resource redeployment and divestiture, with which synergy can actually increase, rather than decrease, the odds of business exit. Knowledge of these conditions may be useful in future empirical research on business exit and can stimulate better exit decisions by executives. The results are also instrumental for more balanced perspectives of synergy than the view that has developed since the field's formation.


It is important for the enterprises to determine the reasonable level of the fresh food.As such,this paper firstly explores the factors of the inventory and distribution of the fresh food,then one basic model is constructed and the simulation is given to verify the correctness of the model.Finally,some model are given in accordance with the fresh food distribution delay from the practice.


The pervasive and insidious institutional racism detailed in the Features News story about Richard Tapia ("Minority voice," J. Mervis, 6 June, p. [1076][1]) is consistent with what many ethnic minority faculty have experienced at predominantly white institutions. Where Tapia falters is in not attributing as also racist, in addition to elitist, his statements that "Pedigree is alive and well…. So if minority students earn their degrees at minority-serving institutions, they won't get hired by Stanford."

Minority-serving institutions continue to do the lion's share in producing minority STEM Ph.D.'s. These scientists are well qualified and on par with those graduating from the top-tier schools. The only impediment to their being recognized as such and hired by elite, predominantly white institutions is the intransigent racism that still haunts the academy. In spite of highly capable mentors like Tapia, majority institutions will not be able to fill the growing need for minority STEM Ph.D.'s without substantial input from minority-serving institutions that have been successfully producing scholars of color for more than 100 years. Rather than dismissing the accomplishments of these institutions, it makes sense to support their track record and learn from their expertise.

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This study aims to review how informative advertising, event marketing and corporate image of PT Bio Farma (Persero) as well as the influence of advertising informative event marketing to the corporate image of PT Bio Farma (Persero) either partially or simultaneously. The method used is descriptive and verification. The sample used in this study is the doctor who attended the event marketing activities of PT Bio Farma West Java as many as 200 people. Data analysis using validity, reliability, and path analysis. The independent variable in this study is informative advertising and event marketing, while the dependent variable is the image of the company. The results showed advertising informative PT Bio Farma (Persero) right, event marketing PT Bio Farma (Persero) is right, and the corporate image of PT Bio Farma (Persero) right. Informative advertising and event marketing affect the image of the company PT Bio Farma. Variable event marketing has a greater influence on the image of the company PT Bio Farma compared with informative advertising. Correlation informative advertising and event marketing is positive. This means the right advertising informative PT Bio Farma, the event marketing is also more precise and vice versa.


Sentinel-1 is an imaging radar mission at C-band consisting of a constellation of two satellites aimed at providing continuity of all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for user services. Special emphasis is placed on services identified in ESA's GMES service elements program and on projects funded by the European Union Framework Programmes. Three priorities (fast-track services) for the mission have been identified by user consultation working groups of the European Union: Marine Core Services, Land Monitoring and Emergency Services. These cover applications such as: Monitoring sea ice zones and the arctic environment Surveillance of marine environment Monitoring land surface motion risks Mapping of land surfaces: forest, water and soil, agriculture Mapping in support of humanitarian aid in crisis situations. The Sentinel 1 space segment will be designed and built by an industrial consortium with Thales Alenia Space Italia as prime contractor and EADS Astrium GmbH as C-SAR instrument responsible.


Based on the superposition principle of quantum mechanics, single particle states can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages for quantum key distribution. The main aim of these quantum communication schemes is to render an unconditionally secure key between two parties, which is today achieved e.g. with weak coherent laser pulses. In systems consisting of more than one particle, the physical phenomenon of quantum entanglement is leading to correlations between those particles over large distances. This quantum effect is suggested to be one of the main approaches for future applications in quantum computation, quantum information and quantum communication. Within this thesis I describe preparatory experiments, that are essential for the realization of two quantum free-space projects, that I have worked on at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna, which make use of the correlation effects of polarization entangled photons and weak coherent laser pulses. The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) project pursues the aim to enable an unconditional secure quantum key exchange for the first time between a satellite and different optical ground stations. This experiment is a collaboration of the Austrian and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, whereby the Austrian side is responsible to equip the ground stations within Europe with corresponding polarization analyzation modules. In order to adjust these receiving modules with horizontal optical free-space links, it was my task to develop a satellite mock-up setup, which I describe in this thesis. We have shown that the ground stations of Tenerife and Graz are already well aligned by achieving polarization visibilities that exceed a level of 98% and thus, they are well prepared for future satellite-to-ground communications. Within the second project described, an experimental Bell test is planned to be carried out for the first time with different cosmic light sources in order to close the freedom-of-choice loophole. The realization and preparation of the therefore needed polarization analyzation modules are described in detail in this thesis. In a first laboratory approach we have carried out an experiment with different sources of random numbers in order to test the violation of the Bell inequality. Within each experimental run we have violated the Bell inequality by more than 70 standard


Background and aims: Hypertension is a frequent and almost ubiquitous health disorder, prevalent both in developed and developing countries. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance have been suggested to be closely associated with the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. However there is considerable controversy in this regards. The present study was designed to explore the relationship between serum insulin and serum ionized calcium in non diabetic and diabetic hypertensive subjects. Subjects and Methods: A total of 57 hypertensive and diabetic hypertensive patients attending out patients department of the BIRDEM and NICVD were included in the study. Fasting serum glucose was measured by glucose oxidase method, lipid profile was measured by enzymatic method. Serum insulin was measured by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method and serum ionized calcium by the Ion Sensitive Electrode (ISE) technique. Results: Glucose-insulin ratios were calculated as the index for insulin. Serum insulin (pmol/ml), Mean ± SD, 147 ± 48 in DC and 170 ± 80 in DH groups vs 118 ± 21 in NC and 120 ± 41 in EH groups, p= 0.023 and p= 0.031 respectively. Although, from the serum insulin results, the diabetic groups seemed to have insulin resistance, the glucose-insulin ratios in the two groups were significantly lower compared to nondiabetic groups (Glucose-insulin ratio, mmol/pmol, 0.066 ± 0.025 in DC, 0.074 ± 0.025 in DH vs 0.044 ± 0.11 in NC, 0.043 ± 0.012 in EH, p= 0.005 - 0.0001). The serum ionized calcium in the healthy subject, first time reported in the country by an up to date method (1.17 ± 0.05 M ± SD), were within the range found in healthy subjects of the other populations. No significant difference in the serum Ca 2+ could be found between any of the study groups. Also, serum Ca 2+ did not correlate with blood pressure, glucose or insulin in any of the study groups or with all the patients as a whole. Serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDLc and LDLc levels in the DC, EH and DH group did not show any significant difference compared to NC group and among the groups. The lipid abnormality as reflected by the mean LDL-HDL cholesterol ratios was the highest in the DH group but the differences were not statistically significant compared to the NC, DC and EH group. Conclusions: The data suggest the following conclusions: a) Serum ionized calcium level in our population is similar to that reported for other population. b) Serum glucose and insulin by themselves do not have any direct influence on serum ionized calcium. c) Non obese diabetes mellitus subjects in our population do not show insulin resistance as the primary defect. Rather, there is significant decompensation of the insulin secretory capacity in the subjects. d) Insulin resistance should be measured directly in relation to blood pressure and Ca 2+ in appropriate groups of subjects to explore the relationship between insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and serum ionized calcium. Keywords: Serum Insulin; Hypertension DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/cardio.v4i1.9384 Cardiovasc. J. 2011; 4(1): 13-16


Community pharmacy is part of the health care system which is currently under economic pressure and facing changes in demands from consumers and government. In response, the pharmacy


A 30kVA dynamic voltage restorer based on TMS320F2812 is proposed in order to solve the problem of voltage fluctuation for active distribution network. The power circuit, DSP circuit, voltage and current measurement circuit, PWM drive circuit and protection circuit are also designed. The intelligent power module PM300DVA120 and 6-channel, simultaneous sampling 16-bit A/D converter AD7656 are adopted to construst power circuit and measurement circuit respectively. The output voltage of DVR can be controlled in phase or opposite phase with the voltage-oriented control based on synchronous reference frame theory. The steady state and dynamic state experimental results are given at the 10 kHz switching frequency with 5μs dead time. The DVR system presented in this paper has good performance of dynamic and static response so as to be used for the active distribution network that has the voltage stability need.


The covalent binding partners of the electrophilic natural products falcarinol and neocarzilins A-C were identified applying ABPP (Activity based protein profiling) in human cancer cells. Potential targets obtained by quantitative mass spectrometry were confirmed using activity based assays, imaging and binding site identification. The application of photocrosslinkers to identify noncovalent interactions and the synthesis of minimal photoprobes with embedded photoreactive moieties led to the identification of a whole proteome inventory of background photocrosslinker binding in human cancer cells.


Abstract : The contents of this report were prepared to give those engaged in aircraft flight test an understanding of the analysis required to arrive at standardized flight data. Toward that end, considerable attention was given to the derivation of equations. In contrast to earlier reports, simplifying assumptions were not made; rather, efforts were made to keep the derivations of all equations as nearly exact as possible. Emphasis has been placed on climbs and level accelerations since these tests, particularly for supersonic aircraft, consume a large part of a test program and require calculations which are much more lengthy than for other tests. The information in this document was the basis for the development of uniform digital computer programs which are being constructed for use in processing flight data and correcting it to standard conditions. These programs have been given the name Uniform Flight Test Analysis System (UFTAS).


Wastewater treatment plays an important role in the sustainable development of our society. A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is typically a large-scale nonlinear process composed of several interconnected operating units. To meet the strict environmental regulations, to ensure the operation safety and to reduce the operating cost, it is highly desired to monitor and operate WWTPs effectively. However, significant variations in the inlet flow rate and wastewater compositions have made the monitoring and control of WWTPs a very challenging task. Centralized economic model predictive control (EMPC) approach has been proposed to improve the control performance based on the economic considerations. However, the high computational complexity caused by solving the associated EMPC optimization problem can render the online implementation of this method intractable. In recent years, the distributed framework has been considered to be a promising framework to improve the applicability of EMPC for large-scale processes. Model linearization and model order reduction are also widely used to reduce the computational complexity of complex control problems. This thesis focuses on improving the computational efficiency of EMPC for WWTPs. Two distributed EMPC designs are presented in this thesis. In the first design, the centralized model is used in each subsystem EMPC controller design; and in the second design, a subsystem model is used in each subsystem EMPC design. The performance of these two distributed EMPC designs are compared with a centralized model predictive control (MPC) scheme and a centralized EMPC scheme from different aspects including effluent quality, operating cost, and computational efficiency. It is found through vast simulations that the distributed EMPC with subsystem controller designed based on the entire system model is more favorable in terms of control performance.


In this paper, an experimental characterization of the efficiency and linearity of resistive and outphasing combiners for linear amplification using non linear components (LINC) amplifiers is presented. The combining efficiency is measured for three combiners, i.e., one Wilkinson combiner and two Chireix combiners, with different electric stub lengths. The measured results are compared to theoretical predictions for the three cases. The nonlinear effects of Chireix combiners are highlighted and phase adjustment of one of the system's branches is proposed to linearize it. We show that linearization is feasible in this manner only at the expense of reduced efficiency.


Resource sharing as research platform,remote SSO as research object,this paper researches on Shibboleth authentication in resources sharing platform,analyses Shibboleth architecture,expounds Shibboleth principle,designs user authentication system used to Guangxi Colleges Teaching Resources Sharing Platform to solute the difficulties of cross-domain organization user authentication management.


Multiclass functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) signal classification has become a convenient way for optical brain-computer interface. fNIRS signal classification with high accuracy is a challenging assignment while the signals are produced by means of voluntary and imagery movements of the same limb. Since the activation in time and space of voluntary and imagery movement show a similar pattern, the classification accuracy by the conventional shallow classifiers cannot reach an acceptable range. This paper proposes an accuracy improvement approach with the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In this work, voluntary and imagery hand movements (left hand and right hand) were performed by several participants. These four-class signals were acquired utilizing fNIRS devices. The signals were separated based on the tasks and filtered. With manual feature extraction, the signals were classified by support vector machine and linear discriminant analysis. The automatic feature extraction and classification mechanism of the CNN were applied to the fNIRS signals. From the results, it was found that CNN improves the classification accuracy to an acceptable range, which has not been achieved by any convolutional network.


The background of data preprocessing was analyzed,methods of preprocessing were summarized and characteristics of each method were analyzed and compared.


Global changes in migration health employment and public policy are having a major impact on the sex industry. As editors of this themed issue on sex work have put together papers to document some of these changes revisit the epidemiological and social understanding of the role of sex work in relation to sexually transmitted infections and assess interventions that can reduce the burden of disease and of stigma on participants in the industry. Major drivers of change in the sex industry are economic demographic ideological and technological. Globalisation is the umbrella term used to express many of these changes which include increased economic interdependence of different countries through trade the extension of the world market to areas of the world previously isolated increased movement of people and of capital and the rapid spread of new technologies and media across wide sections of the globe. (excerpt)


Abstract Extraction and HPLC methods are described for the analysis of the anticoccidial quinazolinone drug, halofuginone (Hal), in chicken serum. Serum samples were diluted with acetic acid and Hal was adsorbed onto a Bond Elut°C8 column followed by elution and HPLC analysis. Recoveries of Hal from chicken serum spiked with 97 ng/ml Hal after 18 and 48 hours incubation were 97.6 and 96.2%, respectively, and recoveries of a 10 ng/ml spike after 18 and 48 hours incubation were 99.7 and 96.7%, respectively, with a detection limit of 1.5 ng/ml. Hal-HBr fed to chickens at 3 ppm for 10 days resulted in 3.75 ng/ml Hal in the serum.


This research aims to determine the relationship between Intelligence and Self-Efficacy of 7th grade students in X junior high school Bogor. This study is quantitative approach. Population in this research is 228 students. The sample is 150 students use from Slovin and purposive sampling methods. Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children used in this research. Correlation test result uses pearson correlation show that there is no correlation between IQ and self-efficacy. This can be caused by socio-economic factors that can inhibit the relation between Intellegence and self-efficacy.


In the light of some problems occurring in the repairing of large-power asynchronous motors,this paper makes modification of the repairing technology from five aspects,strengthens the management of construction process,and obtaines good effects.


This paper describes a process of 9FA gas turbine automate runback and quickly runback due to the power transducer fault,analyzes the causes and puts forward the measures to solve this problem.


tions in which they are embedded. While Weiss manages to show that both the rabbis and the Church Fathers were generally opposed to involvement in public entertainments, he does not account for the fact that those same men regularly employed metaphors drawn from that ostensibly illicit cultural sphere. Those looking for deep insight into the rhetorical strategies of the Jewish and Christian authors whose words Weiss uses to illustrate the archeological record might not find his selective approach adequately suited to their needs. Of like concern is the relatively small pool of literary sources at Weiss's disposal. Although Jewish and Christian commentators residing in Palestine were sufficiently aware of their incidence to acknowledge the Roman entertainments, they did not describe these events in substantial detail. Weiss therefore has to appeal repeatedly to the same rare textual selections exhibiting such incidental information. The same can be said of the relatively few well-preserved archeological sites at his disposal. In order to fill out his analysis of the Palestinian record, Weiss must frequently adduce literary and material evidences from elsewhere, predominantly Syria, Arabia, and Asia Minor. This lends a circular quality to Weiss's argument for the resemblance of Palestine's leisure culture compared to those of other areas of the Roman world. All told, however, I find in Weiss's study more to commend than to criticize. Students of Jewish and Christian antiquity not previously acquainted with the technical aspects of Roman leisure culture and its physical remains will find this book a fine primer on those subjects, while all readers will find much to acclaim in the author's incomparable wealth of knowledge on the place of public entertainments in the common cultural sphere of classical Judea-Palestine. Joshua Ezra Burns, Marquette University


It was the first time to induce the callus of Carpesium macrocephalum Franch.et Sav by taking its root as the explants from its seeds in this paper.The results indicated that the asepsis germination rate of seed amounted to 98.80% when its seeds were sterilized with 70% alcohol for 5 min,then 50% NaClO_3 for 30 minutes.It also showed that such factors as basic media,types and concentration of hormones had a great effect on the induction rate,growth and browning time of the callus.The proper callus induction media were selected by orthogonal design,more-over,the kind and suitable level of hormone were ascertained.The basic media were the critical factors to callus induction,then NAA,the optimum medium for callus induction of Carpesium macrocephalum Franch.et Sav was B_5+NAA 3.0 mg/L+6-BA 0.2 mg/L.Moreover the best effects were obtained by using NAA of 2.0-3.0 mg/L+6-BA 0.2-0.4 mg/L in B_5 solid mediums.The induction rate of the callus was 100%,and the callus was primrose yellow and loose.By adding 500 mg/L V_C or 10 000 mg/L PVP,the callus kept primrose yellow and vigorous.


To the student who wishes to identify the birds of the British Isles, this book has no message; indeed it mentions by name only a very small proportion of the birds of Britain, and in this respect its title is misleading. But it brings together and classifies from a natural history point of view many odd items of information difficult of access to the majority of amateur ornithologists, yet needful for an intelligent interest in the structures and habits of our birds. The treatment of the facts is suggestive and speculative, and while speculation appears to the reviewer to be sometimes hasty and information occasionally inaccurate, there is great merit in the way in which unsolved problems are openly laid upon the table. Works of this type are much needed, since they may suggest to the amateur naturalist lines along which he may still make valuable contributions to science, at a time when the niceties of the racial discrimination of British birds have almost barred him from a field where once he held his own.Birds of Great Britain and their Natural History.By W. P. Pycraft. Pp. 206 + 17 plates. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1934.) 7s. 6d. net.


This work reports the use of an infrared spectroscopic version of scanning near-field optical microscopy (IR-SNOM) and shows that it is possible to reveal subcellular entities via their chemical constituents in a label-free human oesophageal adenocarcinoma cell (OE33). This work presents the first high spatial resolution (∼0.15 μm) study of features imaged at various wavelengths within a cancer cell. The clear illumination of sub-micron sized moieties within a cell is a major step forward and is a key requirement for understanding cancer and for the study of other diseases and healthy tissue. The stable and tuneable light source was provided by the infrared free electron laser on the ALICE accelerator at Daresbury. The images reveal a structure with a size and wavelength absorption that are consistent with a chromosome and open the possibility of observing other localized structures, such as microvesicles, that play an important role in the development and spread of cancers.


Chromium (Cr) is required for insulin function in the control of cellular glucose uptake. Other functions of Cr relate to its effects on growth, lipid metabolism, immune responses and interactions with nucleic acids. This study was conducted to obtain information on the effect of Cr supplementation on the metabolic responses of five exercising Standardbred horses. During the experiment, horses were fed every day for a 21-day period in a randomized order either a yeast product without Cr (control) or with 4.15 or 8.3 mg Cr day −1 . Horses were exercised on a treadmill, alternating a work day of low-speed exercise at 5 m s −1 on a 3% incline for 45 min with a rest day. Each horse was adapted over a 21-day period to his or her respective supplementation before undergoing a standardized exercise test (SET). The SET comprised five incremental steps, each of 4 min duration, on a treadmill with a 3% incline; the first step was at 5 m s −1 and was followed with increments of 1 m s −1 . Blood samples were taken for lactate, plasma glucose, serum insulin and cortisol estimation before, during and after each SET (30, 120 min and 24 h post-exercise). Blood Cr was estimated 2 h after feeding the control or Cr-enriched yeast (intake 8.3 mg Cr) in two horses. Heart rate was monitored throughout each SET. Blood lactate and plasma glucose peaks were highest at 8 and 9 m s −1 during the SET when 8.3 mg Cr was supplied. Serum insulin levels declined during the SET and there were no treatment-related changes. Twenty-four hours after exercise, plasma glucose and serum cortisol concentrations returned to basal levels or lower. Serum insulin rebounded 30 min after exercise but 24 h later, serum insulin concentrations were below resting levels. During the recovery period, Cr supplementation did not clearly affect metabolic responses. These results suggest that Cr supplementation had no beneficial effect in healthy, exercising horses.


Objective:To approach the etiological factor,diagnostic method and therapeutic measure of postsurgical gastroparesis syndrome(PGS).Methods: The clinical data of 28 patients with PGS were retrospectively reviewed.The clinical manifestation,occurrence time,recovery time and causative factor were analyzed.Results: The risk factors of PGS included the senility,general anesthesia,proximal subtotal gastrectomy and postoperative patient-controlled analgesia.The diagnosis of PGS was mainly based on the clinical manifestation,upper gastroen terography with meglumine diatrizoate and gastroscopy.Most of patients could be recovered by means of conservative treatment within 9 weeks.Conclusion: Senility,general anesthesia,surgical technique and patient-controlled analgesia after operation may be the high risk factors of PGS.Combined conservative treatment is effective for this disease.


Summary.

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Grafting experiments of a preliminary nature have been carried out to throw light on the functions of the various organs of the potato plant in rendering the tubers immune or susceptible to Wart Disease (Synchytrium endobioticum Schilb., Perc).

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It is hoped that such knowledge may facilitate a biochemical study of the problem by indicating which part of the plant to investigate first, and to give some clue to the general nature of the chemical differences to be sought.

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Composite plants were built up by grafting in the following ways:

3 plants of the type Immune grafted on Immune.

3 plants of the type Susceptible grafted on Immune

4 plants of the type Immune grafted on Immune Susceptible.

2 plants of the type Susceptible grafted on Immune

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The results are in harmony with the conclusion that the character of the foliage has no influence on the immunity or the susceptibility of the tubers to Wart Disease.

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It follows that no compound synthetised in the leaves is likely to be responsible for separating potatoes into "immunes" and "suscep-tibles."

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The investigation is being continued, and it is hoped to determine whether any one part of the plant influences the immunity or susceptibility to the disease of any other part. The desirability of investigating a portion possessing such an influence is obvious. If the several parts of the plant have no such effect on each other, a search for differences in substances, such as the proteins, which are only translocated with difficulty, if at all, would be indicated.


The tea plantation is a highly labour intensive sector in Sri Lanka. The British owned tea plantation industry was nationalised in 1970s and then undergone several administrative changes and now it is manage by the private companies. The changes were attributed a significant impact on social life of the estate workers. The registered labour in the privatized large-scale tea estate has declined to 44 percent during last decades. The factors which contributed for the declining of the registered labour in the large scale tea estate is the main focus of this study. A study was carried in the selected large-scale tea estates. The study found majority of the workers have left from the estate jobs and engaging in various none estate jobs in the country. Low level of income from the estate jobs, poor housing conditions are the major attribution for the migration of the workers. A few workers are continued to engage in tea estate job under the contract farming system which was introduced by the privatized tea estate management recently.


This paper studies the detection of total bacterial amount in material milk.The oxidation-reduction dye reacts with the reductase produced by the bacterial,which makes the material milk produce colour deviation.Based on this reaction,a mathematica model is built for the chromatic difference and the total bacterial amount.According to the existing data,the curve is fitted for the colour deviation and the total bacterial amount by using the statistical analysis method.Thus the total bacterial amount in material milk can be detected expediently by the proposed method.


This paper focuses on modeling the effect of the silicide-silicon interface within a polysilicon resistor head that is typical of silicon process technologies used for precision analog circuit design. This interface introduces resistor nonlinearity over bias which can be detrimental to circuit performance, e.g. by manifesting circuit distortion. A nonlinear resistor model suitable for high-frequency circuit simulation and a methodology for obtaining model parameters are provided.


A 2D layer network was synthesized from an N-donor ligand and a new silver cluster featuring an open dendritic structure with a high coordination ratio of N atom. Both the assembly process and luminescence properties of this complex was studied.


The paper describes the major processes that contribute to the distribution of ozone in the global troposphere. It briefly reviews the components of the tropospheric ozone budget, including the photochemical mechanisms that lead to in situ production and destruction of ozone. A simplified threedimensional chemical transport model (IMAGES) is used to calculate the changes in the global abundance of ozone and its precursors since the preindustrial era, and to assess how the concentration of these gases could change in the future in response to expected changes in human activities.


Korean government declared the first National Energy Master Plan indicating that her objective to relieve dependency on imported fossil fuels through the promotion of nuclear power up to 41% of total power capacity. [1] This paper analyzes the effect of the promotion of nuclear power in Korea by 2095 compared with the scenario of maintaining nuclear power generation system in 2005 with the application of Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM).


Static analysis tools have improved significantly in recent years with advances in intermediate representations, symbolic execution, constraint solving, control flow recovery, and static data flow analysis. Scripting of static analysis has improved at an even faster pace, with new APIs allowing easy access to extend or modify the building blocks that static analysis tools are built upon. One of code obfuscation's common goals is to make it more difficult for a reverse engineer to analyze or understand the code. With today's more powerful static analysis tools, what code obfuscation techniques are still effective against static reverse engineering, and which are now easy to remove? This talk first explores how modern static analysis tools analyze binary code. An overview of how these tools recover a program's control flow from a binary is presented, as well as a look at the analysis features that are available to scripts built upon them. Various obfuscation techniques are then discussed to explore the impact of modern static analysis tools on them. Such impacts include, obfuscation techniques that have been defeated by modern tools; scripting features that have made some obfuscation techniques easier to remove; obfuscation techniques that are still difficult for static analysis to resolve; code patterns that remain difficult to analyze, even with an expert reverse engineer interacting with the tool.


(1) Conventional methods for treatment response monitoring are based on morphologic criteria, and a reduction in tumor size on computed tomography (CT) is the most important determinant. However, it is not an accurate predictor of outcome [2,3]. More importantly, because tumor shrinkage takes time and depends on several factors in the host, the rate of structural regression cannot form the basis for the adjustment of therapy until late during treatment. Functional imaging with PET enables evaluation of the early metabolic changes rather than the morphologic changes of rapidly growing malignancies occurring later during therapy. Qualitative assessment of technetium-99m-methyl diphosphonate (Tc-MDP) conventional bone scintigraphy is an insensitive method for monitoring the treatment response of bone metastases; therefore, semiquantitative fluorine-18-sodium fluoride (F-NaF) PET has been suggested as an alternative marker of the treatment response [4]. (2) The clinical utility of F-NaF PET bone scans in skeletal disorders has been demonstrated by numerous studies. F-NaF PET has been used to identify skeletal metastasis in patients with multiple skeletal metastases, as increased F-NaF uptake is demonstrated both in lesions with sclerotic characteristics on CT and in lytic lesions, with no apparent correlation between the intensity of uptake and the amount of bone matrix seen on CT [4–8]. In a report by Schirrmeister et al. [6] to compare F-NaF PET and planar Tc-MDP scintigraphy in the detection of skeletal metastases in patients with a variety of solid tumors (prostate, lung, or thyroid cancers), F-NaF PET detected 96 metastatic lesions in 15 patients, whereas Tc-MDP planar scintigraphy detected only 46 metastases. Although F-NaF PET detected all the lesions identified by Tc-MDP planar scintigraphy, Tc-MDP found only 40% of spine metastases and 82.8% of lesions identified as metastatic in the skull, chest, and extremities. In another study by the same group, in 34 patients with known or suspected metastatic breast cancer, F-NaF PET detected 64 metastatic lesions in 17 patients, whereas Tc-MDP scintigraphy correctly identified only 29 metastases in 11 patients [9]. F-NaF PET led to a clinical management change in four patients in whom bone metastases was previously undetected [9]. In another prospective study of 103 patients with a new diagnosis of lung cancer, F-NaF PET identified metastatic disease in 31 patients, two more patients than those identified by Tc-MDP planar imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography [10]. In a study by Schirrmeister et al. [6], F-NaF PET was more sensitive than conventional bone scintigraphy in detecting osseous lesions. Higher detection rates and more accurate differentiation between benign and malignant lesions with F-NaF PET was what lead these authors to suggest the use of F-NaF PET when possible. Compared with F-NaF PET and the reference methods, conventional bone scintigraphy had a sensitivity of 82.8% in detecting malignant and benign osseous lesions in the skull, thorax and extremities and a sensitivity of 40% in the spine and pelvis. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.99 for F-NaF PET and 0.64 for conventional bone scintigraphy. (3) The ability to perform quantitative analysis in the evaluation of response to treatment has been considered the key advantage of F-NaF PET over conventional bone scanning, although it has rarely been applied in clinical trials [8]. Dynamic F-NaF PET and kinetic modeling were used in breast cancer bone metastases to measure K1 and Ki, a potential technique for assessment of treatment response [7]. Clearly, the requirement for a limited field of view for dynamic F-NaF PET is undesirable. Therefore, semiquantitative analyses of standardized uptake values obtained from static whole-body F-NaF


High resolution soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation is used to study the interfaces of SiO[sub 2]/Si(111), SiO[sub 2]/Si(100), Si(111)/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4], and SiO[sub 2]/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] for device-quality ultrathin gate oxides and nitrides. The thin oxides and nitrides were grown by remote plasma deposition at a temperature of 300 hthinsp;[degree]C. Aftergrowth samples were further processed by rapid thermal annealing for 30 hthinsp;s at various temperatures from 700 to 950 hthinsp;[degree]C. The Si(111)/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] samples were air exposed and formed a thin [approximately]6 [Angstrom] SiO[sub 2] layer with a Si(2p) core-level shift of 3.9 eV, thus allowing us to study both the Si(111)/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] and SiO[sub 2]/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] interfaces with a single type of sample. We obtain band offsets of 4.54[plus minus]0.06 eV for SiO[sub 2]/Si(111) and 4.35[plus minus]0.06 eV for SiO[sub 2]/Si(100) with film thicknesses in the range 8[endash]12 [Angstrom]. The Si(111)/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] nitrides show 1.78[plus minus]0.09 eV valence-band offset for 15[endash]21 [Angstrom] films. This value agrees using the additivity relationship with our independent photoemission measurements of the nitride[endash]oxide valence-band offset of 2.66[plus minus]0.14 eV. However, we measure a substantially larger SiO[sub 2]/Si[sub 3]N[sub 4] [Delta]E[sub V] value of 3.05 eV for thicker ([approximately]60more » [Angstrom]) films, and this indicates substantial differences in core-hole screening for films of different thickness due to additional silicon substrate screening in the thinner (15[endash]21 [Angstrom]) films. [copyright] [ital 1999 American Vacuum Society.]« less


Abstract : Maintenance of water and electrolyte balance is important for sustaining optimal performance. Dehydration produces greater thermal and cardiovascular strain during prolonged work; with the magnitude of added strain proportional to the magnitude of water loss. Dehydration also degrades morale and the desire to work. Body water deficits of as little as 2% normal body mass have been accompanied by impaired cognitive and physical performance. Furthermore, water deficits of 5% to 7% of normal body mass are generally associated with dyspnea, headaches, dizziness, and apathy. This presentation will summarize work that the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine has been doing to sustain proper hydration of soldiers during training.


AbstractThis article reports on the development of the Mathematics Experiences and Conceptions Surveys (MECS), a pair of comprehensive instruments designed to measure elementary preservice teachers' dispositions, attitudes, and beliefs about mathematics teaching and learning. In addition to conceptions, MECS aim to capture elementary preservice teachers' related mathematical experiences at various benchmark stages in teacher education programs. The Rasch Rating Scale Model is used to examine the psychometric properties of MECS instruments and to establish six scales that are capable of producing reliable and valid measures. Finally, we present an illustration of how MECS might be used within elementary mathematics teacher preparation.(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) IntroductionDecades of mathematics education research suggests the strong role conceptions play in influencing the instructional practices teachers use within the classroom (Ball & Cohen, 1999; Ernest, 1989; Richardson, 1996; Wilkins, 2008), and students' opportunities to engage in significant mathematical thinking (Fennema et al., 1996; Staub & Stem, 2002). Researchers and teacher educators often look for opportunities to bring into focus conceptions of mathematics within methods courses and other important experiences within the continuum of teacher education (e.g. Charalambous, Panaoura, & Philippou, 2009; Quinn, 1997). Despite varying definitions in the literature, we follow Thompson's (1992, p. 130) umbrella description of conceptions as "a general notion or mental structure encompassing beliefs, meanings, concepts, propositions, rules mental images, and preferences." In particular, we focus attention of three specific sub-constructs: attitudes toward mathematics, beliefs about mathematics, and dispositions toward reform practices in mathematics education. In this way of thinking, more positive conceptions of mathematics entail a combination of more positive attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions. Mathematics education literature (e.g. Philipp, 2007) also suggests that while these sub-constructs are related, they not synonymous. In fact, growth in certain subconstructs may lead to growth in others.Consensus exists on the critical importance of aligning attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions, with effective mathematics teaching practices within the multidimensional preparation of preservice teachers (Metzger & Wu, 2008). Consequently, the work described here provides an important step towards understanding the development of conceptions within teacher education programs. The importance of such work is two-fold: (a) to quantitatively measure outcomes on conceptions over time, which helps shape learning opportunities for preservice teachers, and (b) to illustrate how the combined efforts of teacher education researchers and psychometricians can produce meaningful measures of critical constructs in teacher education that are missing from teacher quality narratives.Conceptions for Teaching MathematicsBroadly, our work is situated within the conceptual framework for assessment teacher education developed by Cochran-Smith and Boston College Evidence Team (2009), which was later adapted to describe the interwoven relationship between aspects of teacher learning and related teacher education experiences. This framework highlights the complex, non- linear process for learning to teach, beginning as K-12 students, continuing into the teaching profession, and influenced by classroom, school, community, and university contexts and experiences. Research in mathematics education suggests that efforts to improve teacher quality should focus on transformative learning experiences that influence teaching practices within varying contexts (Ball & Cohen, 1999). In part, this work focuses on conceptions of the nature of mathematics and how one teaches and learns mathematics (Ball, Lubienski, & Mewborn, 2001). …


Using a 1-D numerical hydrodynamic model, the evaporation shock evolution is computed in the solar atmosphere having the density profile derived from radioastronomical observations. Then the optical thickness of the 1-4.5 GHz plasma emission on harmonic frequency is computed. It is found that the optical thickness of the radio emission is reduced at the evaporation shock. With a motion of this shock the optical thickness reduction drifts towards lower frequencies with the frequency drift which depends on the evaporation shock speed. The theoretical radio spectrum caused by this optical thickness reduction is presented and discussed in comparison with the July 9, 1996 radio spectrum.


This study aims to find out: The Phenomenon of Online Gambling Clucking Online Games Among Students in Pasar V Tembung Village. The research method used in this thesis is a type of qualitative research using the phenomenology method. The data collection technique used was various data obtained from observations, interviews, and documentation at market V in Tembung Village. The results of this study indicate that the phenomenon of online gambling under the guise of online games among students is that many students are familiar with online gambling in their free time and because there is no activity either on campus, at boarding houses or at home. Online gamblers utilize information and communication technology as a means of modern gambling, making it more profitable for online gamblers because it does not require them to meet in person. The forms are: Slots, Togel, Links, Websites, Poker, Rummy, Football Gambling and Higgs Domino. Where teenagers do online gambling as a form of activity in the process of fulfilling their needs, both psychological and material. The resulting impact affects themselves personally and others, both having a negative impact on academic achievement, the economy, psychology, time and resulting in criminal acts.


This paper investigates the use of eh in New Zealand English (NZE) and takes a quantitative, variationist approach based on the New Zealand component of the International Corpus of English (ICE New Zealand). The analysis includes both sociolinguistic (ethnicity, age, gender, occupation type) and psycholinguistic variables (priming). A mixed-effects binomial logistic regression model shows that younger speakers use eh more often than older speakers, males use it more often than females, Maori people (indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand) use it more often than Pakeha people (decedents of European settlers), and speakers with academic, clerical and managerial occupations as well as speakers who work in the professions are significantly more likely to use eh compared to speakers who perform skilled manual labour. The analysis neither confirms a significant impact of priming on the use of eh nor significant interactions between predictors, which contrasts with previous studies.


The core value system as "collective consciousness" or "value consensus" plays an important role in helping form a standard social structure.In fact,every social system will form a core value system or "collective consciousness" in line with its basic nature.The understanding of the role of the core value system in helping form a standard structure of socialism relies on the adherence of Marxism.The core value system of socialism with Chinese characteristics,which is based on the emancipation of mankind and the consideration of the actual situation of China,should embody the internal logic and actual demand of socialist market as well as the basic nature and future development of the socialist system,and cooperate with all social forces to realize the shared goal.


A method is described for constructing phase-plane trajectories, based on setting bounds to the location of that portion of trajectory through a given point which is contained between two isocentric curves.


Objective: To observe the clinical effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam combined with Etimicin in the treatment of lung infection in 75 cases.Methods: 150 patients with lung infection were divided into two groups.75 cases of treatment group were given Piperacillin-Tazobactam combined with Etimicin,and control group were given Etimicin.Results: The total effective rate of the treatment group was 86.67%,that of control group was 64.00%.There was significant difference between total effective rate of the two groups(P0.05),but the adverse reaction rates of the two groups had no significant difference(P0.05).Conclusion: Piperacillin-Tazobactam combined with Etimicin have good effect in the treatment of the lung infection.


A new mathematical model is developed for an axisymmetrical coaxial-horn antenna that includes the entire class of circular smooth-wall and corrugated radiators. The multiwave scattering matrix of the longitudinally irregular structure, obtained by combining the multiwave scattering matrices of the waveguide junctions and the segments of regular transmission lines between them, serves as the descriptor of the antenna. A unique feature of the model is the fact that the calculation of the multiwave scattering matrices of the individual junctions is done on the basis of rigorous solutions of the corresponding diffraction problems by the method of integral equations. The radiation field in the far zone is calculated by the Fourier transform method


Professor Teilhard de Chardin (1927)* has called attention to the need of a revision of the British specimens of the genus Hyracotherium . As far back as the year 1901, Deperet also made a statement that there exist "interpretations diverses et parfois inexactes relativement aux characteres au limites des genres," and that "ces divergences provenaient soit d'une fausse interpretation des types, soit de l'etat encore incomplet des documents sur quelques-unes de ces formes animales." The present account of the very few known English specimens of Hyracotherium has been undertaken in an endeavour to fulfil Professor Teilhard de Chardin's request and, further, to record details of a specimen in the collection of the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge and some new material recently acquired by the British Museum (Natural History), none of which has been so far described.


First we want to thank this (and also a second) anonymous reviewer for the positive assessment of our study and the constructive and very helpful comments and suggestions. Following these suggestions it was possible to correct and improve our method in several important aspects. Especially the recommendation to include the formulation of a forward model and the analysis of synthetic spectra put our conclusions on a much more solid basis. Before we comment the reviewers suggestions on an individual basis we give an overview on the most important changes compared to our original version of the manuscript.


Tolcher, Helen Mary Forbes. Drought or Deluge: Man in the Cooper's Creek Region. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1986. xi + 267 pp. including appendices, photographs, maps, and index. $27.95 cloth. Spillman, Kenneth. Identity Prized: A History of Subiaco. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1985. x + 366 pp. including photographs, chapter references, and index. $50.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.


Aiming at improving the 3D shape measurement speed and accuracy, the design of floating point algorithm for 3-D shape measurement using FPGA, is proposed. By using four-step phase shifting method for measuring 3D measurement system, using CORDIC algorithm to achieve phase calculation of the phase shift method, the algorithm is realized by Verilog language in FPGA, and to make simulation and verification in Modelsim. The study of 3D shape measurement system have a breakthrough from the design performance and hardware.Finally, the MATLAB simulation proved its effectiveness and viability.The experimental results show that the advantages of high data processing speed, high efficiency and high precision,etc.


Recent neuroimaging research has attempted to deconstruct the cognitive components of dishonest behavior, but it often confines itself within the arena of instructed deceit and thereby fails to observe deceptive activity that bears genuine moral relevance. We report on an ERP analogue of an fMRI study in which participants are not told to lie, but rather choose to lie of their own volition after realizing that our experimental structure can be exploited for dishonest monetary gain. Subjects who were willing to act deceptively in this morally accountable atmosphere showed distinctive ERP responses preceding potential lies. Specifically, stimuli about which a dishonest participant was able lie elicited more negative Feedback-related negativities and less positive P3 waveforms. The observed patterns of activity may point to the importance and detectability of affective and motivational factors that precede real-world deception.


Abstract : In a graticular visual search task, one in which the stimuli in the visual field remain fixed in position from trial to trial and search is required for different targets each time, the subject has the opportunity to improve his performance as he learns where to look for particular targets. A series of five experiments supported the conclusions for both letter targets or arbitrary symbols that (1) grouping stimuli in natural arrangements on the display improves speed and accuracy of target location over no distinctive grouping; (2) this improvement can be attributed at least in part to improved memory for the graticule, the stored representation of the display; and (3) the characteristics of graticular search are significant in the design of control panels in which an array of buttons are present and the subject must select an appropriate response.


Baroque pearls persist inside the shells of order and decorum in English neoclassical literature. From Milton and the Court Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians, including several women wits, authors deploy baroque moments of disruption, grotesquerie, excrescence, extravagance, exuberance, encryption- even as they turn to more supposedly classical, restrained, and rational forms. Canfiled tries to ferret out the meanings of these disruptions, to read out the implications of their ambiguities; of their metaphorics, rhetorics, and misplacements; of their lucid play.


The analytical treatment of a model considering the electrooxidation of p-porous silicon layers under galvanostatic conditions is able to give account of experimental facts such as the shape and location of the electroluminescence peak as well as of the spectral shift of the electroluminescence peak produced by oxidation. The proposed model considers electroluminescence to be the result of electron injection into the conduction band by an adsorbed intermediate produced by electrooxidation of the surface coverage with hydrogen or siloxene of the silicon nanocrystallites. The access of holes to the surface is made possible by low accumulation layer conditions and is the rate determining step in the electroluminescence mechanism. In this way it is possible to give a satisfactory explanation to the shift towards the blue experimented by the electroluminiscence emission maximum as a consequence of electrooxidation.


Objective
To observe and discuss the efficacy of vision training for patients with small-angle exo deviation after surgery for intermittent exotropia.

Methods
Patients from the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University who presented with small-angle exo deviation (≤25 PD at distance and ≤35 PD at near by objective examination) after surgery for intermittent exotropia were randomly recruited for a prospective study. Forty patients who volunteered to undergo vision training at the hospital for about 2~3 times a week for 3 months were assigned to the treatment group. Forty patients who were prescribed eyeglasses only served as the control group. All patients were aged 7-14 years, had normal vision and eye disease was ruled out. The oculomotor parameters were assessed by the same doctor before the study and 3 months after the study. Testing parameters included accommodation, magnitude of deviation, vergence, stereopsis, and the Newcastle Control Score (NCS). All data were statistically analyzed by a t test or χ2 test. The criteria for cure in the experiment: no daily manifest deviation, good fusion function and stereovision at distance and near.

Results
There was no difference in the magnitude of the exo deviation between the treatment and control group before surgery or after surgery, the magnitude of the exo deviations at distance and near, the fusion function, the stereoacuity test results, NCS, or the proportion with myopia (P>0.05). The results for the treatment group after the experiment were significantly better than the results for the control group for the magnitude of the exo deviations at distance (t=-2.74, P 20 PD (χ2=4.55, P<0.05); patients with an NCS of <3 had a better improvement rate than patients whose NCS was ≥3 (χ2=4.91, P<0.05).

Conclusion
Vision training can effectively promote the contol of daily eye position, improve convergence, and have a beneficial effect on stereovision. Vision training is meaningful for patients with a magnitude of exo deviation ≤20 PD after surgery for intermittent exotropia.

Key words:
Vision trainning; Binocular vision; Operation; Intermittent exotropia


Alcohol in liquorwas firstly removed by rectification,then trace flavoring substances in liquorwere extracted by simultaneous distilla-tion extraction.Because such treatment could do betterin the extraction of high-efficiency concentrated trace flavoring substance,it was possible to make quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis of unknown trace substances in liquor.


Careful assets maintenance planning is crucial in ensuring minimal process interruptions in a chemical plant while fulfilling production demand. This paper aims to propose a systematic framework with easily comprehensible tools for effective and efficient maintenance optimisation. The first step is to identify the optimal maintenance time for the equipment depending on their failure time distributions, minimising the expected maintenance cost. A maintenance tasks clustering model is then formulated for grouping individual preventive maintenance actions, to save the production downtime and cost. The solutions from long-term planning are transferred to the short-term planning model for detailed manpower scheduling. In this work, Pinch Analysis is selected as the targeting tool to maximise the available manpower utilisation and target the extra working hours needed. The daily maintenance tasks are formulated as the 'Demand/Sink', while the workers' shifts are the 'Supply/Source'. This method not only provides excellent visualisation of the problem/results, it also enables tuneable workers' daily schedules, tasks delay and the required earliest finished date of a task. A case study of a chemical plant, namely the Tennessee Eastman problem is used to elucidate the proposed approach. The results show that extra 22 h are needed for 8 h shift (5 d/week) for a single worker, but extra 13 h for 12 h shift (4 d/week).


Pseudomonas sp.can produce relative high cholesterol oxidase.The production conditions of cholesterol oxidase by Pseudomonas sp.were optimized.Furthermore,the cholesterol oxidase was primarily purified.After optimization,the activity of cholesterol oxidase increased from 839.35U/L to 1691.72U/L.The cholesterol oxidase was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and Sephadex G-75 gel filtration,by which the enzymatic activity reached 24.95U/mg and the purification fold was 9.18.


Point-projection radiography of dense plasmas and other objects using an X pinch as the x-ray source is discussed. An X pinch, generated using two or more wires that cross and touch, in the form of an X, as the load of a pulsed power generator, reliably produces a small, bright x-ray radiation source very near the original cross point of the wires. Taking advantage of the small source size (in some cases <2 µm at energies above a few keV), radiographs of objects can be obtained without using pinholes. In addition, the short x-ray emission duration (<20 ps in some cases for energies above a few keV) of the X pinch radiation enables sharp radiographs of rapidly changing dense plasmas. Detailed measurements of the emission characteristics of X pinches made using different wire materials and in different energy ranges using a set of x-ray diagnostics with high temporal and spatial resolution are presented. A comparison of the radiated energy and the imaging properties of two and up to seven wire X pinches are discussed. The application of the X pinch x-ray source for phase-contrast x-ray radiography of low absorption objects is demonstrated.


In a wide-area distributed system it is often impractical to synchronise software updates, so one must deal with many coexisting versions. We study static typing support for modular wide-area programming, modelling separate compilation/linking and execution of programs that interact along typed channels. Interaction may involve communication of values of abstract types; we provide the developer with fine-grain versioning control of these types to support interoperation of old and new code. The system makes use of a second-class module system with singleton kinds; we give a novel operational semantics for separate compilation/linking and execution and prove soundness.


As a compromising material for future optoelectronic devices, ZnO attracted many concentrations for its wild applications. Compared with traditional LED fabrication, the technology for the nanoparticle based LED is relatively simple and less cost1, 2. But the emission efficiency needs to be increased. P-type ZnO nano particles were produced by arc-vapor technique and n-type ZnO thin film were produced by MOCVD and sputtering. The light enhancement mechanism of SPP is based on electronic waves coupling between the metal nanostructures and the semiconductor emissions. We use metal particles LSP effect on ZnO nanoparticle based LEDs which is more convenient for varied wavelength light emitting enhancement.


Abstract Mixing in co-rotating sinusoidal cavity flows is studied with period, T, and phase shift, a, as parameters. Notice that the main obstacle to uniform mixing is the existence of stable :ower periodic orbits, mixing windows, where uniform mixing takes place, are found in the T— a space u:iing bifurcation analysis. The main advantage of this method is a great saving of the computation time.


Tricarbonyl-[2,4-diethyl-1,5-bis(diphenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3,5-triphospha-2,4-diazapentane-PPP]-molybdenum crystallises in a monoclinic unit cell, space group Cc, of dimensions a= 9·26, b= 20·65, c= 18·54 A and β= 93·90°, with Z= 4. After Fourier and least-squares refinement of the atomic parameters, the final R value is 0·101 over 3598 visually estimated reflections. The molybdenum atom is approximately octahedrally co-ordinated by three phosphorus atoms of the ligand and three carbonyl groups; the Mo–P distances range from 2·425–2·528 A and the CO from 1·16–1·20 A. The P–N bonds average 1·70 ± 0·02 A, the P–C(aryl) bonds average 1·84 ± 0·02 A, and the C–C bonds in the phenyl rings average 1·37 ± 0·03 A.


Platinum(II) halide complexes of the chelating ligands CF3SCH2CH2SCF3, CF3SCHMeCH2SCF3, and C6F5SCH2CH2SC6F5 and platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes of CF3SCH2CH2SCH3, CH3SCF2, CH2SCH3, CH3SCH(CF3)CH2SCH3, CH3SCH(CF3)CH(CF3)SCH3, and C6F5SCH2CH2SCH3 are described. N.m.r. spectroscopy shows the presence of isomers for each complex with rapid ring-conformational changes but slow inversion at sulphur on an n.m.r. time scale. Detailed 19F n.m.r. studies allow specific isomers to be identified in many cases. Low-temperature 19F n.m.r. studies on [Ptl2{CH3SCH(CF3)CH(CF3)SCH3}] show a barrier to ring-conformational changes, the first such barrier observed for five-membered chelate rings.


Introduction Substantial structural changes have occurred and will continue to occur in the beef industry in the next ten years. Analysis of national beef production and marketing systems has indicated that to prevent further erosion of market basket share, the beef industry must make its priority the improvement of quality and consistency for consumers. Iowa has a future role to play in achieving this priority of quality and consistent beef for both domestic and foreign markets. Identification and utilization of superior genetics for end-products needs to be linked with Iowa-based production resources and branded beef marketing principles. By combining Iowa's resources, conscientious producers, feed, land, and cattle with the new available technologies, Iowa's beef industry could be propelled into the leadership position in the production of high-quality and value-added branded beef products. Real-time ultrasound technology has been developed at Iowa State University, (ISU) to determine ribeye area, subcutaneous fat cover, and percent intramuscular fat (marbling) on live beef cattle. ISU animal science researchers have tested this technology primarily on breeding animals, yearling bulls, and replacement heifers. These measurements, collected by 50 Beef Industry Federation (BIF)certified technicians across the U.S., will be used in the development of carcass EPD's. More recently, researchers have serially scanned feedlot cattle involved in research projects. Can this technology be transferred to the feedlot industry to help feedlot operators make marketing decisions? Two basic objectives must be evaluated to test the transfer of this technology: 1.To determine whether ultrasound images collected and processed 100 days prior to market time (at the time of re-implanting) to develop a marketing model can project specific cattle outcome groups and marketing dates. 2.To determine whether ultrasound measures can be collected and processed accurately and expediently enough chute-side on live cattle at market time to be implemented into a marketing model for decision making.


Renal acidification in the renal proximal tubule is thought to be mediated by luminal Na-H antiporter, and the HCO; generated by this antiporter is removed from the cell by a basolateral Na-HC03 cotransporter. To study the effect of respiratory acid-base disorders on these transport systems, we measured the NaHC03 cotransport in basolateral membranes and Na-H antiporter in luminal membranes in control rabbits, rabbits exposed to 10% C 0 2 (chronic hypercapnia), and rabbits exposed to 10% O2 and 90% N2 (chronic hypocapnia). Renal luminal and basolateral membranes were prepared from cortical homogenates by a sequence of differential and gradient centrifugations with ionic precipitation as described by Kinsella et a/.' with slight modifications.2 Na-HCO3 cotransport activity was measured by ?*Na uptake using the rapid filtration technique as described by Akiba et al.3 HCOT-dependent Na uptake by basolateral membrane vesicles was measured with an uptake medium containing either gluconate (control group) or bicarbonate (experimental group) at 3 seconds. There were no significant differences among membranes prepared from control, hypercapnic, or hypocapnic rabbits in enzyme markers for both luminal and basolateral membranes. In all three groups, alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyl transverse were enriched approximately 10 times in the luminal membranes, whereas Na-K-ATPase was enriched 14-fold in the basolateral membranes. FIGURE 1 (upper panel) summarizes the V,, of the Na-HC03 cotransport in experiments in hypercapnic rabbits, control rabbits, and hypocapnic rabbits. The V,,, of the Na-HC03 cotransport was significantly higher in hypercapnic rabbits than in controls (2.54 * 0.03 us 1.18 +0.21 nrnolhg protein/3 seconds, p <0.001). In contrast, the V,,, was significantly lower in hypocapnic rabbits than


In this paper, the turkey oak forest fragments occurring in the Zákány Hills of SW Hungary are described and characterized based on 10 phytosociological samples. The stands grow on pebbly hilltops covered with loess. Their species composition features subcontinental-submediterranean and Illyrian influences: Anemone trifolia, Castanea sativa, Peucedanum verticillare, Polystichum setiferum, Primula vulgaris, Tamus communis. These forests are identified with the association Asphodelo-Quercetum roboris occurring in the sand hills and pebble hills in Transdanubia. Although to some degree these fragments represent transitional stands to the surrounding oak-hornbeam forests (Anemoni trifoliae-Carpinetum), they clearly differ in species composition. The association is classified into the suballiance Quercenion farnetto Kevey in Kevey et Borhidi 2005 within the alliance Quercion farnetto I. Horvat 1954.


Objective To investigate the effect of naloxone on neuronal cells apoptosis induced by repeated febrile seizures(FS).Methods Warm water was used to induce 70 rats FS model 15 days after birth in this study; each rat was induced 7 times febrile seizures at one- day interval . Seventy rats were randomly divided into naloxone-treated group and FS control group, receiving injection of naloxone or saline at 5, 30, 60 min and 2 hours after FS each day respectively. The rats were sacrificed 24 hours after the last seizure. Neuronal cell apoptosis was determined by TUNEL methods in situ cell death kit. TUNEL positive cells(TPC) were stained and counted as apoptosis in hippocampus and cortex. Ultrastructural changes of apoptosis neurons were observed under the electron microscope(EM). Results Compared with the FS control group, naloxone treatment could significantly relieve neuron apoptosis induced by repeated FS when it was used at 5, 30, 60 min after the last FS. However there was no significant difference in neuron apoptosis between 2 groups when naloxone was used at 2 hours after FS. The comparison of different naloxone administration time showed that the earlier naloxone was injected,the fewer apoptosis neurons were induced by FS.Conclusion Naloxone,as early used in proper dosage,may significantly alleviate apoptosis after repeated FS ,and protect neurons.


This invention concerns an additive manufacturing apparatus for building a part by selectively consolidating flowable material in a layer-by-layer process comprising a build chamber (101) for building the part, a module (105, 106) for providing a focussed energy beam for consolidating flowable material in the build chamber, a gas flow circuit for generating a gas flow through the build chamber (101). At least one filter assembly (200, 201) may be arranged in the gas flow circuit, the or each filter assembly (200, 201) having associated therewith a valve (V-4, V-8)operable to seal the gas circuit upstream from the filter assembly (200, 201) and a valve (V- 5, V-9) operable to seal the gas flow circuit downstream of the filter assembly (200, 201),the arrangement allowing a filter element(E-5, E-7 )of the filter assembly (200, 201) to be changed whilst maintaining a controlled atmosphere in the build chamber (101). The apparatus may further comprise a purging device (210) configured to purge air from the or each filter assembly (200, 201) when the valves (V-4, V-5; V-8, V-9) associated with that filter assembly (200, 201) have sealed the filter assembly (200, 201) from the gas flow. Alternatively or additionally, a controller (131) may be arranged to control the valves (V-4, V-5; V-8, V-9) associated with the or each filter assembly (200, 201) such that the filter assemblies (200, 201)are closed off to gas flow from the build chamber (101) during a period in which the inert gas atmosphere in the build chamber(101)is compromised as a result of opening the door to the build chamber(101).The apparatus may comprise a pair of filter assemblies (200, 201) arranged in parallel within the gas flow circuit, the arrangement allowing a filter element (E-5, E-7) of the each filter assembly (200, 201) to be changed during a build by allowing the filter element (E-5, E-7) of one filter assembly (200, 201) to be changed whilst the filter element (E-5, E-7 )of the other filter assembly (200, 201) is connected to filter particulates from the gas flow. A monitoring device (I-3, I-5) may be provided for detecting a property associated with the gas flow and a controller (131) arranged to control the valves to switch the filter assembly (200, 201) connected in line with the gas flow based upon signals from the monitoring device(I-3, I-5).


Modern mining approaches should be able to properly deal with the increased availability of structured data. Here we focus on the problem of processing streams of trees. Specifically, we cope with classification tasks. We show that by adopting a double concept drifting reaction mechanism in the context of a kernel-based ensemble of classifiers, it is actually possible to have an effective and efficient system to process streams of trees. The original contribution consists into the introduction of a local concept drifting mechanism, specifically designed for structured data, and used to compute the ensemble score function in such a way to focus only on reliable (sub)trees belonging to the classification models which constitute the ensemble. Experimental results seem to support the relevance and usefulness of this local component for concept drifting management.


The main purpose of this article is to review the current regulation of corporate dividend and stock repurchase in the United...


Infant milk powder is very rich in nutrients,there is interference with nitrate analysis of unknown composition.In this paper,gradient elution method separate it nitrate to the accurate determination of purpose.It was found that the solution of acetic acid for milk protein precipitation and filtration column followed by RP removal of lipid material samples.After purification,the sample directly was analyzed by the ion chromatograph,the volume of external standard.Stability test sample 5 times of the peak area nitrate average were 0.2961μS·min(RSD 0.35%),the average retention time was 26.721min(RSD 0.23%).Component recoveries were 99.04% and 99.43%,RSD were 1.85% and 1.02%.


Cost calculation, its theory and practice has always been an ardently discussed question within the Hungarian State Railways (HSR). Before the political system change, an aggregate-cost-approach was used to determine the costs of a single freight shipment. With the applied coefficients announced by the Ministry of Transport, the price calculation for the railway company resulted in very strongly diversified prices: transit traffic was invoiced for more time higher prices than inland traffic. Therewith, a very heavy cross-subsidisation was discernible between passenger- and freight transport or, indeed between the several types of freight transport. This led to a quite ambiguous situation within the railway's accounting processes. In this case a serious redistribution of the transport demand (starting with the political system change) and as a result of this - a new and undesired modal split for the railways resulted in a desperate decline of railway's transport activity. Under these circumstances, the HSR is searching for adequate solutions and pricing policies that can (at least) provide better cost coverage of its activity. This paper proposes a new cost calculation scheme which can be used as an alternative for small and medium-size railway companies. There are many specialities of accession countries incorporated both in the method and in the annotation, this can be beneficial for experts focussing on this region. Furthermore, the paper can help for theoretical economists to proceed with the debate around the usage of marginal costs in the transport sector. For the covering abstract see ITRD E126595.


This research seeks to provide the ways of increasing revenue at Zimbabwe prison and correctional service to mitigate the funding gap and thereby improving its financial performance. The research's explored ways or strategies available to enhance finance, alternative ways of enhancing finance and the best practices to implement strategies to enhance finance. The researcher got relevant literature from different authors and formulated research questions and objectives which gave guidance to the researcher when the research was being carried out. Research methodology used was quantitative research method. The descriptive research design was used by the researcher where interviews were carried out and questionnaires distributed to the management and staff of Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Service. Four interviews that were planned three were conducted successfully and there was an 80% response rate for the questionnaire. Pie charts, bar graphs and tables were used to present the data gathered. The findings from the research are most respondents agreed an the problems affecting service delivery at correctional centres. The respondents also agreed on the strategies that can be used to enhance finance. The researcher recommended that Zimbabwe Prison and correctional service should make imprisonment mainly for violent offenders. Non- violent offenders who are charged with short jail terms are best considered to do community service and this will reduce the prison population and this will in turn increase the availability of funds .Recidivism should also be reduced by developing programs that will reintegrate offenders back into the society thereby reducing the chances of re-offending.


Fracture toughness transition behavior of C-Mn cast steel intended for fabrication of large transport and storage container for spent nuclear fuel (ŠKODA 440/84) has been carried out. The fracture resistance has been assessed using data from static tests of the bend CVN and pre-cracked (PCVN) specimens and from the axisymmetric notched tensile specimens. Local material parameters have been calculated arising from Beremin approach. Transferability of the crack resistance data r eceived on the small pre-cracked CVN specimens has been tested using toughness scaling models for correction. The small PCVN specimens have been thus used for the prediction of the fracture toughness. As the reference data the fracture toughness values from the 1T specimens with various crack lengths have been used. INTRODUCTION Transport and storage containers have to ensure the storage of radioactive material safely for the environment for the supposed container lifetime, in case of most severe accident loading and earthquake. For the safe enclosure of radioactive material during transportation there has to be shown that crack initiation will not occur at the tip of this postulated crack like reference flaw. For an acceptable design the applied stress intensity factor even in case of most severe accident loading (earth quake etc.) has to be smaller than the material fracture toughness at the design temperature (divided by a safety factor). For the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel an additional embrittling effects (age hardening due to service temperatures and irradiation) should be taken into account. Irradiation of steel (although comparably smaller than that in nuclear pressure vessels) decreases the fracture toughness and increases the risk of brittle fracture. The container lifetime (supposed at minimum about 60 years) is controlled by shift of transition region and due to this by lower shelf region occurrence at service temperature Several approaches might be applied or developed in order to solve the problem of the container integrity from the point of view of material fracture resistance and its prediction. Its capability to predict the fracture behavior for any configuration of defect and component could be accepted as a very hard criterion of the assessment procedure. The statistical local approach (Beremin conception) using procedure recently suggested by TC 1 within ESIS. As the local material parameters (Weibull stress and location parameter) are transferable to any component including test specimen, the shift of brittle to ductile transition curve for pre-cracked specimen (due to any embrittlement) could be directly predicted from notched ones. The methodology of master curve (MC) is currently widely used for transition behavior evaluation of fracture toughness. The verification of this concept has been performed for steel of pressure vessel and , ) ( exp 1 ) ( » 1⁄4 o « ¬ a


A segmentation of drivers is presented, based on driving style, behaviours and attitudes. Four main segments are identified and described. The segmentation was complied using the Delphi method and is based on the synthesis of the views of a range of leading experts in the field. The segmentation is an essential first step in understanding drivers and creating solutions which will enhance driving behaviour.


Individual pressure ridges were identified on both sensors: the shape on the upward looking sonar was used to obtain draft and apparent slopes and width of each ridge, while the orientation of the ridge as revealed by the side scan sonar was used to convert these figures into absolute slopes and width. The data set comprises 729 ridges. It was found that in addition to ridge spacing, ridge drafts fit a lognormal distribution better than a negative exponential; that the mean draft of ridges diminishes with downstream distance in the Trans-3Polar Drift Stream at about 0.625 m per degree, suggesting a faster melt rate for ridge bottoms than for the ice as a whole; and that ridge widths and slopes also fit lognormal distributions. An empirical relationship was found relating ridge slope to the ratio of half width to draft. The mean ridge slope varied with location but always lay in the range 21.7° to 26.5°.


Cloud storage is a new computing paradigm that allows users to store their data in the cloud and access them anytime anywhere through the Internet. To address the various security issues that may arise in the cloud storage accessed by a large number of users, cryptographic encryption should be considered. Currently, researches on revocable attribute-based encryption (RABE) systems, which provide user revocation function and ciphertext update function by extending attribute-based encryption (ABE) systems that provide access control to ciphertexts, are actively being studied. Recently, Xu et al. proposed new RABE scheme that combines ABE and identity-based encryption (IBE) schemes to efficiently handle ciphertext update and user revocation functionality. In this paper, we show that there is a serious security problem in Xu et al.'s RABE scheme such that a semi-trusted cloud storage can decrypt a ciphertext by colluding with a revoked user. Therefore, the RABE scheme of Xu et al. is not able to provide meaningful security in cloud storage.


John E. Ferneley Sr. (1815-1862) Ferneley painted numerous portraits of hunters and racehorses, and several hunt scurries. The scene shows Arran Quay with the Four Courts in the distance.


The effect of nicotinamide on the streptozocin induced early hyperglycaemia in 48‐hour fasted rats was investigated. It was shown that 240 or 400 mg/kg nicotinamide significantly attenuated the streptozocin induced early hyperglycaemia. Nicotinamide should be administered no later than 1 hour after the streptozocin administration. Lower level doses of nicotinamide such as 80 mg/kg were unable to attenuate the streptozocin induced early hyperglycaemia. The possibility of nicotinamide offsetting the streptozocin effect was discussed.


Neutronics experiments on annular blanker systems that use a pseudoline source are performed. Deuterium-tritium neutron sources are set at the center of the inner cavity of the annular blanket system, and the pseudoline source is obtained by oscillating the annular blanket system back and forth in a 2-m span. Three annular blanket configurations are examined: the reference blanket, a blanket covered with 25-mm-thick graphite armor, and an armor blanket with a large opening (376 x 425.5 mm). The neutronics parameters of tritium production rate, neutron spectrum, and activation reaction rate are measured with specially developed techniques, including a multidetector data acquisition system, a spectrum weighting function method, and a ramp-controlled high-voltage system. Measured parameters are compared among three different configurations of the experimental system and also with the results of a closed geometry with a point source. A calculation with the GMVP Monte Carlo code that uses the JENDL-3 nuclear data library is performed and shows agreement within 10%. The current experiment provides unique data for a higher step of benchmark to test the ability of neutronics design calculations for a realistic tokamak reactor. 31 refs., 20 figs., 7 tabs.


The invention relates to a cable testing device (6) integrated into a high-voltage electrical apparatus (3) equipped with a main circuit (17) comprising: at least a line connection (4) and a cable output (5); and at least one operating means including at least one switch (1a) and/or one isolator (1b, 1c, 1d). The testing device (6) is characterised in that it is installed as a first element upstream of the cable output (5) and simultaneously downstream of the switch (1a) and/or the isolator (1b)(1c)(1d), the testing device (6) being independent of the operation of the main circuit (17), such that the contacts of the switch (1a) and/or the isolator (1b)(1c)(1d) are maintained in the open position during cable testing, with voltage being injected for the testing of cables at the cable output (5) using the testing device (6).


This paper presents a novel approach to navigation in an a priori unknown, GPS-denied environment. The aim is to combine dynamic path planning with the ability to learn about the environment. The vehicle is tasked with autonomous travel from an uncertain initial position to an uncertain target, without prior mapping information. The environment is modelled using linear segments that represent boundaries between the estimated traversable and non-traversable regions. The approach integrates Receding Horizon Control (RHC) and Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). The control problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program (MILP) and explicitly includes the obstacles and vehicle dynamics.We present the results of our experiments using Pioneer robots, as well as, simulation results which clearly demonstrated the impact of each component of the system.