In this paper, we describe the development of kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers to aid the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In particular, we have to recognize if a chest pain, complained by the patient, may be considered the sign of a myocardial infarction or it is the evidence of some other causes. This is a quite difficult medical decision problem, since chest pain is characterized by low specificity (typical values between 30% and 40%) as a symptom associated with myocardial infarction. Moreover, in order to make an objective and accurate diagnosis, the physician has to evaluate a large set of data coming from the patient. These aspects motivated the use of machine learning methodologies, with the aim to support the physician and increase the quality of the diagnostic decision. To this end, we formulated the medical decision problem as a supervised binary classification problem (AMI class and not AMI class), by developing a training set with 242 cases (130 in the AMI class and 112 in the not AMI class), each case characterized by a set of 105 features. We also considered a feature selection procedure, by selecting 25 of the 105 features. By the framework of generalized SVM model, we tested and validated the behavior of three kernel functions: Polynomial, Gaussian and Laplacian. By running a 10-fold cross validation procedure, the performance of the best tested classifier was 97.5%. By the same 10-fold cross validation procedure, we tested linear and quadratic discriminant analysis classifiers, with testing correctness of 86.8% and 94%, respectively. The numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approaches for solving the relevant medical decision making problem.


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A manufacturing method of a quilt pad using a mineral mixture and the quilt pad manufactured thereby are provided to offer efficient medical treatment effects using an energy release material giving direct influences to human tissues. A manufacturing method of a quilt pad using a mineral mixture includes the followings steps of: milling and screening of a mineral composition consisting of sericite, tourmaline, titanium oxide, zirconium, sepiolite, charcoal dust, lepidolite, tin, zinc, graphite, manganese, aluminum, magnesium oxide, talcum, nickel, sulfur, copper oxide, calcium carbonate, magnet, lean, jade, magnesium, cerium, sodium, kali, calcium oxide, tin oxide, sodium, zeolite etc; mixing the mineral composition for 2 -3 hours by adding water 30-50 parts by weight and acrylic emersion 20-30 parts by weight; and coating textile with the mineral composition.


Human aldehyde oxidase‐1 (AOX1) is a cytosolic molybdo‐flavoenzyme of importance in drug metabolism and toxicity. However, it is not known how the expression of this gene is transcriptionally regulated. Estrogen receptor (ER), which is a nuclear receptor, plays important roles in physiological functions and is implicated in hormonal cancers, but it also regulates the expression of hepatic drug‐metabolizing enzymes. Conflicting microarray data show that AOX1 expression was increased or decreased in breast cancer compared to healthy tissues. We investigated whether ER agonists regulate AOX1 gene expression in a human cell culture model. As analyzed by real‐time polymerase chain reaction assays, MCF‐7 human breast adenocarcinoma cells expressed AOX1 and the basal AOX1 level varied with different types of fetal bovine serum (FBS). 17β‐Estradiol decreased AOX1 mRNA level in ER‐positive MCF‐7 cells, and this decrease was greatest in cells cultured in 10% charcoal‐stripped FBS. Time‐course experiments indicated that 17β‐estradiol decreased AOX1 expression in a time‐dependent manner with a maximum effect occurring after 72 h treatment. Non‐toxic concentrations (as assessed by a cell viability assay) of endogenous estrogens (estrone, 17β‐estradiol, estriol, and estetrol), synthetic estrogens (ethinylestradiol), and phytoestrogens (daidzein and genistein) decreased the expression of AOX1 (by 40–76%) and other known 17β‐estradiol‐regulated genes (SMAD3 and HBP1) and induced known ER‐regulated genes (GREB1 and TFF1) in MCF‐7 cells. Concentration‐response experiment indicated that estrone, 17β‐estradiol, estriol, and estetrol decreased AOX1 expression with EC50 value of 22.5 pM, 1.4 pM, 9.1 pM, and 513.9 pM, respectively, which are physiologically‐relevant concentrations in humans, suggesting that physiological levels of estrogens suppress AOX1 expression. By comparison, ethinylestradiol, daidzein, and genistein decreased AOX1 level with EC50 value of 1.3 pM, 94.6 nM, and 19.4 nM, respectively, which are clinically‐relevant concentrations after administration of the drug or phytoestrogen supplements. The EC50 values for AOX1 suppression and ERα activation by the agonists were well‐correlated. Non‐toxic concentrations of fulvestrant, a ER antagonist, negated both AOX1 suppression and TFF1 induction by estrogens, indicating that ER regulates AOX1 gene. ERα was the major ER isoform expressed in MCF‐7 cells, whereas ERβ was low or negligible, indicating that AOX1 suppression by ER agonists occurred via ERα, but not ERβ, activation in MCF‐7 cells. Suppression of AOX1 by estrogens did not occur in ER‐negative HepG2 human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. In conclusion, ethinylestradiol and 17β‐estradiol are the most potent AOX1 suppressors, followed by estriol, estrone, estetrol, genistein, and daidzein, and the suppression of AOX1 occurs by ERα activation. This is the first study showing hormonal regulation of AOX1 expression and provide insights into potential drug‐chemical interactions. Our findings also imply that interindividual variations in estrogen levels may lead to differences in AOX1 expression and AOX1‐mediated drug metabolism and toxicity.


: Methotrexate (MTX) has become the primary drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A 76-year-old woman visited our clinic for the first time in January 2017 because of ulceration and contact pain in the bilateral buccal mucosa and lingual margin, which had developed while receiving MTX therapy for RA. The patient had difficulty in dietary intake caused by intraoral pain associated with stomatitis and was thus hospitalized to undergo pain control and nutritional care. A diagnosis of MTX poisoning was made based on evidence showing an association with pancytopenia. After the withdrawal of MTX and administration of active folate, pancytopenia and stomatitis improved. Pancytopenia is an adverse side effect of MTX that is often fatal, while stomatitis is considered a prodromal symptom of pancytopenia. Stomatitis caused by MTX can be detected early by an examination performed by a dental or oral surgeon. Accordingly, to avoid an increase in severity in an affected patient, coordination with the attending physician in charge of their RA therapy is important.


We present our approach to the NTCIR-11 Temporalia challenge, Temporal Query Intent Classication: predicting the temporal orientation (present, past, future, atemporal) of search engine user queries. We tackled the task as a machine learning classication problem. Due to the relatively small size of the training set provided, we used temporaloriented attributes specically designed to minimise the features' sparsity. The best submitted run achieved 66.33% of accuracy, by correctly predicting the temporal orientation of 199 test instances out of 300. We discuss the results of the manual error analysis performed on the predicted classes, which sheds light on the main sources of error. Finally, we present some a-posteriori improvements to the best submitted run, which lead to a 6% improvement in terms of accuracy (72.33%).


The question of the efficacy of marrow purging in the setting of autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) for acute leukemia (Al) has remained open in the past decade. Present data indicate that effective means to purge marrow of contaminating leukemic cells do exist in vitro both for acute lymphocytic (ALL) and myelocytic (AML) leukemias. However evaluating purging in clinical situations is difficult and further it appears that purging brings benefit in term of disease free survival (DFS) or relapse rate to some but not all patients, which complicates the analysis


In recent years, the topic of safe human robot cooperation has become important, and with it the requirement to reliably detect humans in the work space. Capacitive sensors mounted to the robot structure can be used to measure the presence of conductive objects. This allows to detect humans, however static obstacles in the workspace also influence sensor measurements. Thus we propose to record an environment model containing the expected sensor values for relevant robot poses. Using this model, distance estimation and real-time reaction can be performed even in the presence of large metallic objects in the robot workspace. A demonstration of our approach has been shown at the Hannover Messe 2015.


The objective of this review is to evaluate the prevalence of anemia and factors associated with Anemia among pregnant women in India. A search was conducted through electronic databases PubMed, google scholar and l Medline, non-electronic databases were also search for articles published between 2017 to 2021. PRISMA guided the reporting of items. All articles were included in qualitative analysis. A total of nine (9) studies (N=7,29,485) conducted among pregnant women in India were included in this review. The overall prevalence of anemia ranged from 23.16% to 81.8%, mild anemia reported in three studies ranged from 35.0% to 60.6%, moderate anemia from 8.0% to 49.5% and severe anemia ranged from 1.4% to 6.9% only. Education status of both wife and husband, maternal age, occupation, income, residence, dietary habits, parity, child spacing, attendance of ANC services and interventions nutrition programs were the main factors associated with the hemoglobin status of the pregnant women. The prevalence of anemia was high among the study participants. Sociodemographic factors were associated with Hb levels of the women. Efforts should be made to encourage women to attend antenatal services (ANC) and nutritional programs should also cover pregnant women.


Mexico produced some of the best boxers in the world, but we know little about the early prizefighters that paved the way for Julio César Chávez, the country's most famous boxer. Thankfully, we now have a book that fills this gap. A History of Boxing in Mexico is more than a narrative history of Mexican boxing, it is an excellent analysis of how boxing shaped notions of masculinity, nationalism, and modernity. With the exception of the first chapter that situates boxing within the rise of Mexican sports culture, each chapter follows the life and career of one professional boxer, beginning with Rodolfo Casanova, continuing with Raúl Macias, Vicente Sald́ıvar, Rubén Olivares and concluding with José Nápoles. Mexican sporting history has been stuck on the 1986 Olympic Games in Mexico City, but many forget that Mexico won its first Olympic medal in boxing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Still, boxing has received little attention from Mexican historians. The late Joseph Arbena observed long ago the important role of sports in the development of Mexican nationalism (Arbena, 1991). By mining archival collections in California and Mexico City (including the World Boxing Council archives), daily sports newspapers, and interviews of former boxers, Allen reveals how Mexican boxers became a symbol of national pride on both sides of the border. It is Allen's gender and transnational analysis of Mexican boxing, however, that makes this book stand out. Mexican prizefighters performed a rough masculine identity in their public display of aggression and strength. Outside the ring, this masculine behavior continued when prizefighters engaged in excessive alcohol drinking, heterosexual relations with multiple women, and other vices. In Chapter 2, Allen discusses the career of Rodolfo Casanova, who exemplified such a life as he rose from poverty to become a boxing hero during "Mexico's First Golden Age of Mexican Boxing" in the 1930s (43). Casanova was nicknamed "El Chango" because of his "mongoloid face of an Indian" (69) and suffered from alcohol abuse that ultimately cost him his life. Later, Casanova's life inspired the 1945 movie Campeón sin Corona that, according to Allen, "served as a warning about the importance of living a disciplined lifestyle in this rapidly changing society" (72). In Chapter 3, Allen compares Casanova's aggressive masculinity with the "respectable masculinity" of Raúl "El Ratón" Maćıas who learned to fight in the streets and gyms of the working-class 120 Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos


The article examines the capacity of the Tunisian national innovation system to resist the political, economic, and social changes affecting the country. After reviewing the theoretical issues, we observe that even if the system continued to function practically unchanged demonstrating resilience, difficulties will remain in the absence of a clear policy in scientific research and technological development in the medium and long term, as well as because of an overly-centralized system. The article examines the architecture of the system and the proposals of political parties with regard to it. Finally, it examines the technopoles program and makes some proposals for its improvement.


To the Editor.— The sentence "The specialist-physician is metamorphosing into a technocrat and a businessman" in Dr Grouse's recent editorial was very interesting. I would like to recall an experience that occurred to me in July 1964, the day I opened my practice. My dad had been a general practitioner, operating out of his house, where he maintained a threeroom office for well onto 40 years. I had rented a spanking new, very efficient suite in a big medical office complex in the more plush part of town and invited my dad to come down and see the office on "opening day." The secretary-receptionist area was typical of the modern physician's office with a "cashier's-type window" that somewhat separated the staff from the patients waiting in the waiting room. This contrasted rather remarkably with my dad's practice, which had no secretaries, no nurses, no chaperones, no receipts, no bills, and


This thesis includes two volumes: The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents an alternative figuration of the childless woman. The exegesis, the second volume, is a theoretical exploration and interrogation of the process of my feminist fiction writing as manifest in the writing of Swimming.
Crucial to the development of both texts is the relationship between the real childless woman and the
desire to represent the real childless woman's experience. In this sense real is used to denote the embodied (flesh and blood) individual woman without children. However, this notion of real is not what Stuart Hall refers to as 'a traditional' view of 'the subject' whereby the individual is seen to be 'fully endowed with consciousness; an autonomous and stable entity' (Hall 1997:55). In this thesis, the individual subject is understood to be complex and multiple; woman is understood to be a 'subject-in-process' (Braidotti 2002: 12); and subjectivity an 'ongoing construction, not a fixed point of departure or arrival from which one interacts with the world' (de Lauretis 1984: 159).


We present a new holographic display system that reconstructs the complex hologram (which is free from the bias and the conjugate image) obtained from the modified triangular interferometer. This system is based on the Mach- Zehnder interferometer with modification of inserting liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and a wave plate. The information of the real and imaginary parts of the complex hologram are transferred to LCDs and the lights passed through LCDs are recombined by a beam splitter. By Fresnel diffraction, the desired image is reconstructed. We demonstrated through theoretical analysis and experiments that the image reconstruction from the complex hologram is possible using the proposed system.


The relationship between modern military geographic information system ( MGIS) and range information construction is studied on basis of the characteristics of MGIS and research of its development trend. Compared with foreign ranges'MGIS development and application experiences, a design of range MGIS system construction and several key problems are researched tentatively.


Batasio tengana is redescribed on the basis of fresh material and a neotype designated. Two new species are described: Batasio fasciolatus n. sp. is described from material previously identified as B. tengana from the Brahmaputra River drainage and can be distinguished from congeners in having a combination of five to six vertical dark brown bars on a light brown body, dorsal-spine length 13·6-16·8% standard length (L S ), pectoral-spine length 12·7-14·3% L S , and eye diameter 16·5-18·8% head length (L H ). Batasio spilurus n. sp. is described from the Brahmaputra River drainage in Assam and can be distinguished from congeners in having a short adipose-fin base (12·6-12·8 v. 14·5-33·3% Ls) and more slender caudal peduncle (5·7-6·2 v. 6·7-11·8% L S ).


Rationale: The concentration of octane and acetaldehyde in exhaled breath has good diagnostic accuracy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). We aimed to determine whether breath octane and acetaldehyde are able to distinguish the presence and absence of ARDS in critically ill patients suspected to have ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a prospective observational study into exhaled breath analysis using gas-chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry. Difference in the relative abundance of octane and acetaldehyde in exhaled breath was compared between patients with and without ARDS using the Mann-Whitney Utest and the association was quantified using logistic regression. The discriminative accuracy of octane and acetaldehyde, alone or in combination, was calculated using the area under the curve of the ROC (AUROCC). Results: We included 98 patients of whom 32 had ARDS and 66 did not. The area under the acetaldehyde peak was higher in patients with ARDS (p=0.03), and associated with the presence of ARDS (OR: 1.06 per 100000 count change (95% CI: 1.02 – 1.13), p=0.01). A combined model with octane and acetaldehyde showed a high specificity and low sensitivity (respectively, 90% and 40.6%), with a low accuracy (AUROCC: 0.65, 95% CI: 0.53-0.78). Conclusion: Patients suspected to have VAP with ARDS had a higher acetaldehyde concentration in exhaled breath than patients suspected to have VAP without ARDS. However, in this patient population, discrimination of these breath biomarkers for ARDS was poor, indicating the difficulty of translating diagnostic tests between clinical settings. Words: 298 (max. 300 words)


The article deals with the analysis of the legal mechanisms of migration policy realization proceeding within the framework of the Conception of the state migration policy of the Russian Federation for the period till 2025. The author stresses the necessity of more effective legal regulation of migration processes enabling to defend the interests of migration relations subjects (state, individual, society).


The paper discussed Business Ethics and the impact of corruption on national development. The necessity of Business Ethics is of great relevance to the Nigerian society inorder to help build a viable economy with accountability and social responsibility devoid of corrupt practices. The paper highlighted the causes of corruption in contemporary Nigeria and the impact of corruption on national development. The paper revealed that bad governance' poor management of public enterprise' poor service delivery' moral decadence' poverty and underdevelopment etc were among the impact of corruption on national development. The following recommendations were made: Nigerians should be re-oriented to a better value system; prosecution of government officials and private individuals found to have corruptly enriched themselves' religious bodies and Civil Society Organizations should organize workshops/seminars for public office holders on transparency and accountability; regular payment of wages and salaries of workers' and for the government to respect the principles of rule of law as enshrined in the constitution.


Effective contraceptive use prevents most reproductive health challenges. The aim of this study is to identify the demographic predictors of contraceptive usage in Ghana. Using a logistic regression analysis, a sample size of 4916 women of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) 2008 were selected. Results showed that religion is the most important predictor among the demographic factors. Ethnicity of the women, level of education and region of residence were also found to be statistically significantly. Contraceptive health promotion should be intensified as the best option for preventing unintended pregnancies in the respective variables.


above the centre and not largely out of focus. The effect of the one reproduced is surely quite absurd. On the other hand, every one will be grateful for the admirable reproduction of the fine slab at Middleton opposite page 182. These early slabs are not common in the district and so careful a representation is of immense interest, and it corrects a slip in the letterpress which conveys that the rector is holding his chalice. The parishes are conveniently arranged alphabetically, but it is surely not very usual to find Great Horkesley under G and Little Horkesley under L. It may be strictly ' according to Cocker', but it is a bit disconcerting at first. RALPH GRIFFIN.


Cognitive linguistics claims for metonymy a special status as an idealized cognitive model(ICM) which is the result of a conceptual mapping within a domain. In this paper, I will examine the characteristics of metonymic mapping and cognitive motivation. Generally speaking, Metonymy is a conceptual mapping within a domain which is used primarily for reference and involves a 'stand- for' relationship between the source and target domain. But Metonymy is possible to use non-referentially(ex. She is real brain.) There is a connection between the referential use of a metonymy and the 'stand-for' relationship. In this respect, Metaphor is possible to use referentially (ex. The Pig is waiting for his check.) This relativity between metonymy and metaphor derived from by distinguishing two types of metaphoric mapping; one-correspondence mapping an manycorrespondence mapping. Metonymic mapping case of one-correspondence mapping, typically. The function of one-correspondence mapping is to bring into focus one aspects of the target domain which is applied to the source. In contrast, Metaphoric many-correspondence mapping is used to structure a conceptual domain. Hence, Metonymy and Metaphor constructed by a continuum from the point of view of the nature of the cognitive mapping process.


Nanocrystal Co-ferrites were synthesized from spent lithium-ion batteries by a hydrothermal method.Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD),scanning election microscope (SEM) and Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) were used to characterize the crystallite sizes,microstructure and magnetic properties of these ferrite nanocrystals.The results show that the optimal preparation conditions are pH value of 11.0,hydrothermal temperature of 140 ℃,hydrothermal time of 12 h,the ratio of Fe to Co is 2.0∶1.0.The saturation magnetization (Ms),remanent magnetization (Mr),and coercivity (Hc) of the product synthesized under these conditions are determined to be 101.8 emu/g,50.09 emu/g and 1325.0 Oe,respectively.


The performance limitations of multi-input–multi-output (MIMO) information time-delay system (ITDS) due to bandwidth, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), and cyber-attacks are investigated in this work. The game theory methods are used to analyze the impact of intrusion detection systems on systems performance in order to deal with network attacks under incomplete information. The expression of performance limitations is obtained by using the spectrum decomposition technique, inner–outer factorization, and partial factorization techniques under the two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) compensator. The results demonstrate that the performance limitations of the system are not only influenced by the inherent properties, including time delay, nonminimum phase (NMP) zeros, and unstable zeros and their directions of the given object but are also influenced by the communication parameters, such as AWGN and bandwidth. In addition, the results show that under the cyber-attacks with incomplete information, the performance is only influenced by the payoff matrix of the defense, and not by the payoff matrix of the offense. Finally, the theoretical results are verified by performing simulations.


Roelofs, Piai, and Schriefers (Language and Cognitive Processes) test both the WEAVER++ model of word production and the response-exclusion account of performance in Stroop-like tasks against data from the word–word interference (WWI) task, and conclude that whereas the WEAVER++ successfully accounts for those data, the response-exclusion hypothesis fails. Here we show that once recent data from the WWI task are considered, both models fail.


All-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are an emerging grid-scale energy storage technology; however, enhancements in terms of performance, efficiency, durability, and cost are required before it can become commercially viable. These improvements are achievable through the development of advanced materials, superior architecture, and ultimately a deeper fundamental understanding of the influence of various phenomena and operational parameters on cell performance. There currently are a lack of in-situ experimental diagnostic techniques which can help in achieving this fundamental understanding. Two separate distributed diagnostic techniques were developed in this work: in-plane current distribution, and neutron radiography. Localized current distribution measurements can identify regions of reduced performance, and provide valuable insight regarding mass transport as a function of materials and design, and potentially localized degradation. A novel interpretation of the dimensionless Damköhler number was adapted to locally assess the relative contributions of kinetic and mass transport losses across the active area within an operating cell. Neutron radiography is an effective technique for the identification and quantification of individual phases within a two-phase fluid. This technique was implemented to determine the onset voltage of unwanted side reactions in an operating VRFB. Identification of such unfavorable operating conditions and limitations for different electrode materials can lead to a wider safe operating voltage window, which can be implemented to reduce charging times and improve cell efficiency.


Three-dimension modeling has been widely used during die manufacturing and extrusion simulation software analyzing.Three-dimensional modeling level plays a very important part in die manufacturing accuracy and coincidence with the drawing,and it has an important relation on authenticity of the extrusion simulation analyzing.A new modeling method for split-die has been introduced.The die has been divided into three parts,as contour,core head and die bridge in order to build up simulating model separately.Finally,through Boolean operations,the three parts to be integrated into the whole model.This diversion can simplify the process of three-dimensional modeling of die,can also greatly reduce modeling time and increase productivity.


The results showed that the use dosage of 2 and 3 EC of Gynaephora qinghaienisis were 300ml and 375ml per hectare respectively.The mean protection effect of two treatments were up to 94,had completely reached to national and the provincial level to insect pest prevents and control approval standard,and two pesticides were bio-pesticide that were safe to environment and non-pollution.Therefore,we can control pesticide in our province to promote the use of large area.


The analysis of efficiency of developing pig-breeding in Vladimir region is carried out, the consumer co-operative model in a pig-breeding complex is offered. The technique of making up of domestic calculative prices of a consumer co-operative is reconciled.


Objective Refractive index is an important physical parameter for optical properties of biological tissue,and to understand photon transmission characteristics in the biological tissue.The experimental result is the basis of detecting human pulmonary arterial oxygen saturation via bronchus. Methods The quartz rod was used as fiber core and the biological tissue as cladding to measure the refractive index of pig bronchus and pulmonary artery basing on the total reflection principles of optical fiber transmission. Results Experimental results:under the effect of the red light of 635 nm wavelength,the refractive index of pulmonary artery was 1.4274±0.0016 and the refractive index of bronchus was 1.4036±0.0022;under the effect of the blue light of 473 nm,the above both indices were 1.4377±0.0019 and 1.4152±0.0015,respectively. Conclusions Because pig organs are similar to human organs,they can be used as a human tissue model to measure the refractive indices. The two-point measurements of wavelength can obtain the refractive indices for two kinds of pig tissues,as a result the two kinds of biological tissues have normal dispersion.


Today production of electricity in the world is mainly fossil fuel based. Eco-friendly power generation is a burning issue for power generation. Solar Energy solves this problem very well. Scientists are trying to increase the efficiency of Solar PV modules to use them more efficiently as an alternate source of fossil fuel for power generation. But efficiency of Solar PV Cells and Modules can reduce due to faults generated inside of them. This paper tries to analyze and calculate the reduction of efficiency for faults associated with Solar PV cell and modules. Besides, different fault detection procedures are also discussed that are adopted worldwide.


Though many studies have provided only limited support for the idea of policymaker "responsiveness," the present study indicates that constituents do have some impact on public policy decisions, though not directly. With the aid of data on decisionmaking of country property appraisers in Florida, I was able to demonstrate that constituency preferences affect policy decisions indirectly through the effect of decisionmaker attitudes, thus suggesting an intervening model of decisionmaking. Copyright 1983 by The Policy Studies Organization.


Based on the large-scale distributed application supporting mobile component for adapting available resource , a fault-tolerance framework was proposed. Improved index-based quasi-synchronous checkpoint algorithm by shadow chain and notebook mechanisms, that system can take checkpoints at the lower price and was rollbacked to a latest global consistent state. Tested experimentation prototype, that fault-tolerance framework is effective.


Based on the readout and crosstalk analysis, a kind of multi-channel partial response maximum likelihood (MPRML) detection method which is suitable for photometric multi-wavelength optical disks has been brought forward, the PR mode and parameters have been discussed, and the optimal solution of the method has been given in the paper. Matlab simulation shows that the MPRML method is useful to improve BER performance and the optimal solution is proper. The experiments on the FPGA-based development board also show that MPRML is applicable for photometric multi-wavelength optical disks.


The Abnormal Catalog Update (ACU) is a goal-driven enterprise level client-server system which uses neural networks to analyze and detect abnormal events and incorrect satellite track taggings in space catalog updates of the two line element (TLE) records. Data derived from historical TLE records for each object are used to train individual neural networks to discover and learn expected deviations between an object's predicted and observed orbital state. These trained neural networks are then used to find unexpected deviations in new TLE records resulting from an abnormal orbital maneuver, from an erroneous tagging, or other causes. To accurately detect abnormalities across a wide range of objects, the neural network (NN) architectures in ACU are optimized for each Resident Space Object (RSO) to avoid dependencies on individual orbital states or specific propagation models. The ACU then characterizes and tracks the sequences of abnormal catalog updates for each RSO


Hip osteoarthritis (OA) compromises functioning. Total hip replacement (THR) is the indicated treatment and may improve urinary incontinence (UI) and symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB).


The equations of 2DOF Four wheel steering vehicle model are systemically analyzed,and the transfer functions about sideslip angle of mass center and yaw velocity to front wheel steering angle are deduced.The locomotion simulations were processed according to the parameters of the four wheel steering model vehicle in my lab whose control strategy is proportional control.The systemic analysis was done on the base of the results of simulation.And the advantages of 4WS vs.2WS were showed evidently.Finally,the developing directions of 4WS are put forward.


Asterisk, the most popular open source VoIP core software in telecommunications technology that is integrated with Radio Over IP (RoIP) and Voice over IP (VoIP) gateway devices can be cheap and powerful solution for small airports usually located in rural areas. This paper reports the configuration and implementation of Internet Protocol (IP)-based voice communication system (VCS) for air traffic control using Asterisk VoIP server integrated with MySQL database, Apache webserver and Transceiver Radio PTT devices. The radio gateway that was selected for the prototype did not fulfil several of the chosen requirements, since it was using a different frequency with airport radio frequency standard usage. The prototype is click to call and report via web interface application and allowing 2 way voice communication between Air Traffic Controller (ATC) with airport telecommunication device (PTT Radio Transceiver & telephony). At this report, we will discuss about the prototype of VCS web interface at ATC and communication of Radio Transceiver Device with asterisk VoIP server.


A Flexi-Burn CFB is a concept, in which a circulating fl uidized bed (CFB) boiler can be operated both in airfi red and oxygen-fi red modes. In the air-fired mode, the operation is similar to a conventional CFB. In the oxygenfi red mode, the fuel is burned in a mixture of oxygen and recycled flue gas. This generates CO2 rich flue gas from which the CO2 can be separated and compressed and then transported to storage. The fl exible operation reduces risks of outage in power generation due to e.g. failures in oxygen production and carbon capture and storage equipment. It also provides a possibility to determine the economically optimum operating mode depending on the price of CO2 allowances and power requirements. ENDESA Generacion together with CIUDEN is considering the promotion of a commercial CCS demonstration plant with fully integrated CO2 capture, transport and storage [1]. The OXY-CFB-300 project is based on supercritical oxy-combustion concept applying the Flexi-Burn CFB technology. The main target of this demonstration plant is to validat e a CCS technology at commercial scale, using a wide range of coals and biomass, allowing the renovation of the existing fossil thermal plants from 2020. The currently foreseen plant location is the ENDESA's Compostilla Power Plant, in El Bierzo (Northwest Spain). The development of the Flexi-Burn CFB design is supported by modelling. In a large-scale CFB furnace, the local feeding of fuel, oxidant, and other input materials, and the limited mixing rate of different reactants produce spatially non-uniform process conditions. To simulate the real conditions, the furnace should be modelled threedimensionally or the three-dimensional effects should be accounted for. Comprehensive 3D modelling of large scale CFB processes cannot yet be done by fundamentals-oriented meso-scale two-fluid CFD models but requires a simplified, semi -empirical, macro-scale modelling approach. The following paper presents the Flexi-Burn CFB concept, the 3D model, which has been applied for studying the furnace process, and modelling results of the initial design of the 300 MWe demonstration plant in oxygen-fired and air-fi red modes.


The wastewater treatment method of the present invention, the addition of fluorine ions and / or containing calcium to wastewater containing phosphate ion compounds, and then, the film was added forming agent and a complexing agent. Film forming agent mannu acid, glucuronic acid and comprises the at least one organic acid selected from the group consisting of cellulose glycolic acid in the water-soluble organic polymer electrolyte compound and the anionic polymer flocculant containing as a structural unit, the complexing agent is a cationic polymer flocculant alone or the water-soluble aluminum salt and a cationic polymer It consists of a coagulant. Waste water treatment method of the present invention can be carried out in equipment of low cost, it can be reliably applied to the strict effluent standard value for fluoride ions and / or phosphate ions.


In the aftermath of the First World War, various compositions emerged that explored the phenomenon of the modern city by translating the clamorous sounds of urban environments and reflecting them artistically in the medium of music. With the rendering of poetic and esoteric moods unrelated to practical life considered outdated, musical preoccupation with modern architecture mostly concerned social aspects, such as people's circumstances, their emotional rootedness to bygone conditions and the search for orientation in an environment characterized by technology. There is a parallel here with contemporary architectural debates in which tension between modernism and traditionalism also played a key role.


We study the ground-state properties of the spin-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the two-dimensional star lattice by spin-wave theory, exact diagonalization and a variational mean-field approach. We find evidence that the star lattice is (besides the \kagome lattice) a second candidate among the 11 uniform Archimedean lattices where quantum fluctuations in combination with frustration lead to a quantum paramagnetic ground state. Although the classical ground state of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the star exhibits a huge non-trivial degeneracy like on the \kagome lattice, its quantum ground state is most likely dimerized with a gap to all excitations. Finally, we find several candidates for plateaux in the magnetization curve as well as a macroscopic magnetization jump to saturation due to independent localized magnon states.


The human face can be used as an identification and authentication tool in biometric systems. Face recognition in forensics is a challenging task due to the presence of partial occlusion features like wearing a hat, sunglasses, scarf, and beard. In forensics, criminal identification having partial occlusion features is the most difficult task to perform. In this paper, a combination of the histogram of gradients (HOG) with Euclidean distance is proposed. Deep metric learning is the process of measuring the similarity between the samples using optimal distance metrics for learning tasks. In the proposed system, a deep metric learning technique like HOG is used to generate a 128d real feature vector. Euclidean distance is then applied between the feature vectors and a tolerance threshold is set to decide whether it is a match or mismatch. Experiments are carried out on disguised faces in the wild (DFW) dataset collected from IIIT Delhi which consists of 1000 subjects in which 600 subjects were used for testing and the remaining 400 subjects were used for training purposes. The proposed system provides a recognition accuracy of 89.8% and it outperforms compared with other existing methods.


Zhuyeqing liquor is Chinese traditional famous functional liquor.With the continuous improvement of the technology,especially with the applications of modern analytical tools and test equipment,its special composition as well as nutrition and health functions were further recognized.Through scientific experimental verification,its effectiveness of health care towards stomach,spleen and liver etc.is gradually disclosed and recognized by consumers.


The effects of alkalies in Class C fly ash on alkali-aggregate reaction were studied in this paper by using two cements, a type I high-alkali cement and a type II low-alkali cement, and three Class C fly ashes. Mortar bar expansion was measured according to ASTM C 441 and the reaction products of alkali-aggregate reaction were examined. This paper describes how (1) the significance of the standard mortar bar test in determining the degree to which high and low-alkali cement could be replaced by Class C fly ashes, and (2) effect of fly ash alkali contents on alkali reactivity. Expansion of mortar bars prepared using high-alkali cement increased at low replacement levels but decreased at high replacement levels for curing periods up to 12 weeks at 38°C; whereas expansion of mortars prepared using low-alkali cement increased at all levels of fly ash replacements up to 40% by volume. A critical equivalent Na²0/Si0² mole ratio was identified and found to characterize alkali reactivity.


This paper presents a new method for reactive power metering in non-linear circuits for non-linear current and supply voltage. For calculating reactive power by the Maewski method, we propose referring to the first voltage harmonic obtained by a special filter. This solution greatly simplifies reactive power metering compared to the Hilbert transform, as it does not require the Fourier transform or signal bias in the temporary area. This proposed metering method was verified using a controlled rectifier circuit as implemented in Simulink. The modeling error of 0.19% proves the proposed method is appropriate for metering the reactive power in non-sinusoidal circuits.


The professional competency includes the necessary knowledge and skills to be possessed by any professionals. It is crucial in case of LIS professionals also. These competencies are based on the values of the organization and not only sharpen the ability of the professional but also contributes to organizational success in the long run. The purpose of this paper is to review the perception, expectations, preferences and current status of two competencies (technical and behavioural) that are required by the library professionals. Technical competencies (sometimes referred to as professional competencies) are the ability of a person to do their job comparatively and on the same level as other professionals in their field.Behavioural competencies (also referred to as personal competencies) encompass knowledge, skills, attitudes, and actions that distinguish excellent performers.This paper is an attempt to map these competencies level among Library Professionals of Panjab University, Chandigarh. The study is based upon the response received by the LIS professionals (library assistants and assistant librarians) for which a structured questionnaire was prepared.


In this contribution, we report on a study of the self- organization of isolated polypeptides. The process is computer simulated by the method of molecular dynamics. We observed that the helical structures have a very impotent role in the protein self-organization. We have found conditions under which such structures to be stable. The process and result of self-organization under these conditions were sharply different from others, unable to maintain the helical structures. The structures obtained have a strong resemblance to the native conformations of the corresponding real proteins in a case of proteins composed by helical domains.


STRUCTURAL BIOLOGYAIRLIE HOUSE, VIRGINIA-- Last week, international leaders of the field of structural biology rejected a proposal that labs now gearing up to roboticize the study of proteins give away structural coordinates immediately, or within 3 weeks of completion. Instead, at a meeting at an estate here in Virginia's horse country, they agreed to speed up data release, but on a timetable that will allow for the filing of patent applications.


The lithography challenges posed by the 20 nm and 14 nm nodes continue to place strict minimum feature size requirements on photomasks. The wide spread adoption of very aggressive Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) and computational lithography techniques that are needed to maximize the lithographic process window at 20 nm and 14 nm groundrules has increased the need for sub-resolution assist features (SRAFs) down to 50 nm on the mask. In addition, the recent industry trend of migrating to use of negative tone develop and other tone inversion techniques on wafer in order to use bright field masks with better lithography process window is requiring mask makers to reduce the minimum feature size of opaque features on the reticle such as opaque SRAFs. Due to e-beam write time and pattern fidelity requirements, the increased use of bright field masks means that mask makers must focus on improving the resolution of their negative tone chemically amplified resist (NCAR) process. In this paper we will describe the development and characterization of a high resolution bright field mask process that is suitable for meeting 20 nm and early 14 nm optical lithography requirements. Work to develop and optimize use of an improved chrome hard mask material on the thin OMOG binary mask blank1 in order to resolve smaller feature sizes on the mask will be described. The improved dry etching characteristics of the new chrome hard mask material enabled the use of a very thin (down to 65 nm) NCAR resist. A comparison of the minimum feature size, linearity, and through pitch performance of different NCAR resist thicknesses will also be described. It was found that the combination of the improved mask blank and thinner NCAR could allow achievement of 50 nm opaque SRAFs on the final mask.. In addition, comparisons of the minimum feature size performance of different NCAR resist materials will be shown. A description of the optimized cleaning processes and cleaning durability of the 50 nm opaque SRAFs will be provided. Furthermore, the defect inspection results of the new high resolution mask process and substrate will be shared.


General Duffing equations occur in many problems of Mechanics and Dynamics. These equations include nonlinear terms of second an third order, their coefficients are finite but not small parameters. For finding analytical approximate solutions of the general Duffing equation the coupling successive approximation method (CSAM) has been proposed by the authors. In the present paper the convergence of mentioned method is proven and a condition relating coefficients of Duffing equation to provide the convergence procedure is formulated. Emphasize that the assumption of small parameters is not used in the proving. Some examples are presented to illustrate the proposed method, particularly exact solutions of some problems are compared with analytical approximate ones found by CSAM.


The following review is based on the second part of a debate entitled 'Diabetes therapy‐ focus on Asia: 2nd line therapy: GLP1/DPP4 inhibitors versus Secretagogue/insulin therapy', which was held during the '1st Asia Pacific Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy)', in Shanghai, China, 2011. As such we reviewed only insulin and secretagogue therapy despite the existence of other therapeutic options. The article aims to shed light on the circumstances most adequate for use of these as second‐line agents, despite possible drawbacks. It is important to emphasize that regardless of it being a review of published evidence, it primarily represents the professional opinion of the writers.


Think back less than 10 years ago. The Tijuana River Valley was like a war zone, with ill-equipped, outnumbered Border Patrol agents chasing wave after wave of illegal immigrants. Otay Mesa was also overwhelmed. And the San Ysidro crossing was even worse. Illegal immigrants would simply run through the checkpoints in packs. Today, all that chaos is history. And Operation Gatekeeper is the reason for the success.1


Microwave-assisted extraction was used to extract secoisolariciresinol diglucoside(SDG) from flaxseed cake.The conditions of SDG extraction were optimized as follows: ethanol concentration 70%(V/V),ratio of the solid(defatted flaxseed cake) to liquid 1:8(g/mL),pre-soaking and milling for 30 min,irradiation for 5min,microwave power 700 W.A simple and direct method for SDG qualitative analysis was established by using TLC.Identification of SDG and determination of purity of targeted fraction were carried out with HPLC.SDG content in flaxseed cake was 1.64%.SDG crude extraction rate was 6.89% and the content got to 20.23% after purifying.The result showed that microwave-assisted extraction method had merit of high extraction rate,simple operation and security as compared with the conventional extraction method.


We describe a monolithically integrated THz transceiver consisting of a Schottky diode embedded into a THz quantum cascade laser (QCL) waveguide. Besides functioning as a heterodyne receiver for externally incident radiation, the device is a useful tool for characterizing the performance and dynamics of the QCL. Here we present an overview of the device, demonstrate receiver operation, and present laser dynamics measurements especially related to feedback of the QCL's emission due to retroreflections.


Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel Bille Part I - Sustained Sainthood Contesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi`is in contemporary Syria - Edith Szanto Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo Part II: Contested Representations Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina Werbner The Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel Bille Part III: Indeterminate Sainthood Our Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas Bandak Ecstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzub in northern Pakistan - Juergen Frembgen Part IV: Secular Sainthood Imbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Turkan Saylan - Daniella Kuzmanovic The Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle


A method and device for compressing a text string into a compressed string, taking into account case sensitivity of the text string. Compression can be performed in lossy mode or lossless mode. In lossy mode, the text string is parsed to determine its case sensitivity so that a search for finding a match for the text string in a reference source is based on the case sensitivity. Alternatively, the case configuration of the characters in the text string is transformed into a target case, and a case-sensitive search is performed to find a match for the case-transformed text string. In lossless mode, a case-insensitive search is performed for finding a match for the text string regardless of its case sensitivity, and a case-info- element is attached to the compressed string so that the compressed string can be reconstructed based on the case-info-element.


To evaluate the quality of magnetic materials used in electrical machines, accurate material characterization is required. For common, solid (nonlaminated) ferromagnetic materials, characterization procedures such as the toroidal ring sample test method are capable of mapping electromagnetic properties with reasonable accuracy. This is true when the investigation is for solid materials to be used in conventional magnetic circuits, i.e., where the flux paths and induced eddy currents follow the more common "radial" characteristics, as in a standard rotating machine. When solid ferromagnetic materials are employed in unconventional machine structures, such as for transverse flux machines or tubular linear machines, classical methods are not capable of achieving an accurate representation of the flux conditions in the machine, thus resulting in inaccurate characterization data that usually underestimate the total loss prediction. In this paper, a new testing method is proposed to impose the correct flux conditions for solid materials (used in tubular linear machines) and accurately map the eddy current losses in the solid parts. The proposed method uses a simple experimental test setup to characterize the power loss of solid, ferromagnetic material. The basic experimental results from the new setup are compared to results from three-dimensional finite element analysis.


Purpose: Ball milling is a popular process for obtaining fine powders in the part and material industry. One of important issues in the ball milling is to produce particles with a uniform size. Although many factors affect uniformity of particles, this paper focuses on the choice of ball diameter. Consider a ball milling where balls can be taken with three different diameters. The purpose of this paper is to find a ball mix which minimizes the average particle size. Methods: Ball diameters are selected as 10mm, 3mm, and 0.5mm. In order to find an optimum mixing ratio, the method of mixture experiments is employed in this paper. Taguchi``s signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for smaller- the-better type is also used to analyze experimental data. Results: According to the experimental result, SNR is maximized when the ball mix is taken as either 7:3:0 or 6:4:0. Such mixing ratios can be technically validated in terms of porosity reduction. Conclusion: The ball mixing technique presented in this paper provides a useful way to improve the production efficiency with a low cost.


This study aimed to explore anatomical and hemodynamic features of atrial septal defect, which was treated by transcatheter device closure late after completion of biventricular circulation in patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum (PAIVS) or critical pulmonary stenosis (CPS).


Background: There is a strong association between comorbidity and volume and variety of health care utilisation.
Aim: The study objective is to examine the relation between socioeconomic status and multiple health care utilisation and comorbidity. Methods: Analysis of continuous Netherlands Health Interview Survey data (1990-1998). The study population consisted of adults older than 25 years (n=53,339). Socioeconomic position was indicated by educational level in four categories. Comorbidity was defined as the concurrence of multiple health conditions in the same persons. Multiple health care utilisation was measured by the number of different health care services contacted in the preceding year. Health services included were general practitioner, medical specialist, physiotherapist, home help and/or home nursing, and hospital admission. Statistical methods used are logistic multiple regression, adjusted for age, gender and year of interview. Results: The lower the socioeconomic status, the more often people used three or more different types of health care in the previous year (OR 1.46). Comorbidity - more than one chronic disease in the same person - also occurred more often in lower socioeconomic groups (OR 2.47). This socioeconomic pattern of comorbidity explained one third of the educational differences in volume of health care services. Conclusions: Socioeconomic differences in comorbidity explain part of the association between socioeconomic status and multiple health care use. Nevertheless, even after adjustment for multiple morbidity, socioeconomic differences in the use of multiple health services still persist. (aut. ref.)


The problem of unsupervised classification of 3D objects from depth information is investigated in this paper. The range images are represented efficiently as sensor observations. Considering the high-dimensionality of 3D object classification, little attention has been paid to the curse of dimensionality in the existing state-of-the-art algorithms. In order to remedy this problem, a low-dimensional representation is defined here. The sparse model of every range image is constructed from a parametric dictionary. Employing the algorithmic information theory, a universal normalized metric is used for comparison of Kolmogorov complexity based representations of sparse models. Finally, most similar objects are grouped together. Experimental results show efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method in comparison to a recently proposed method.


Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore how supply chain factors that influence decisions on reshoring have been discussed in previous research. Methodology: A structured literature review is used to analyze 139 peer-reviewed articles containing reliable and effective arguments and discussion related to the aim of the study, retrieved from the online research databases of EBSCOhost, Science Direct, Emerald Insight and Springer.


Abstract Egg shell quality deteriorates when the laying hen is exposed to high environmental temperatures. Within the continental United States, the normal spread during the summer months between the high and low temperature within a 24-hr period is 11 to 14 C degrees. Laying hens exposed to a 24-hr linear temperature cycle ranging from 26.7 to 35 C had a significantly poorer egg shell breaking strength, a thinner egg shell, and a significantly greater body-weight change than hens exposed to temperature cycles of 21.1 to 35 C and 15.6 to 35 C. No significant difference in performance existed in hens exposed to 24-hr linear temperature cycles of 21.1 to 35 C and 15.6 to 35 C. Use of ventilation fans at night reduces laying house temperatures to near the minimum daily temperature, which normally occurs just before sunrise.


A reproducible isolation method by Reverse Phase (RP) preparative HPLC technique for the isolation of one crucial impurity at 1.65 RRT (Relative Retention Time) in sulfonamide stage of Glyburide API (Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredient) was developed. Preparative chromatography was done on Luna C8, 10µm (250 mm x 21.2mm) preparative HPLC column with acetonitrile: water in 70:30 % v/v proportion as a mobile phase and 8 ml/min as a flow rate. This impurity was detected at 300 nm UV-wavelength maximum. This impurity was isolated from synthesized crude impurity of sulfonamide stage of Glyburide substance by preparative HPLC by injecting 50 mg/ml concentration over 5 ml fixed loop. Isolated impurity was elucidated as N-methyl impurity of sulfonamide intermediate of Glyburide API by means of chromatographic and spectral data. Structural elucidation carried out by spectral data was reviewed. This impurity was analyzed by reverse phase HPLC for purity analysis. A Inertsil C8 (250 x 4.6) mm, 5µ particle size was employed for separation. The mobile phase consisted of Water: Acetonitrile: Methanol in the ratio of 60:15:25 % v/v. The flow rate was set at 1 ml/min. Detection was carried out at 300 nm. 10µL of 2 mg/ml concentration of sample in methanol was injected. The column oven temperature was at 25°C.


This paper presents a novel framework for myocardial lesion classification in T1 maps. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging is the gold standard for detecting myocardial lesions, however, it requires contrast injection, which raises two main challenges: i) increased scan times and patient preparation, and ii) acute side effects in a certain class of patients. It would therefore be desirable to use a less invasive method, such as T1 mapping, however, this modality does not always present noticeably increased T1 values in the lesion. Taking into account the above challenges, we propose a two stage framework: i) the approach is able to learn associations between T1 map and LGE image during a training phase; (ii) in a test phase, only the T1 map is used, using the previously learned associations. The associations are learned following three siamese inference methodologies. Our experimental results testify the usefulness of the proposed approach on classification of the myocardium lesion in T1 maps.


FIELD: food industry. SUBSTANCE: method provides for three-stage fig and pineapple guava compote warming up in water at temperature 70, 85 and 100°C respectively 5, 5 and 15-20 minutes with following cooling in air flow during 20 minutes at speed 4-5 m/s. During heat treatment, the tin is turned upside down. EFFECT: method provides end products quality improvement, reduced process time of preserves heat sterilisation and saving of thermal energy and water.


We developed a catalytic propelled motor using the fuel source glucose, without the addition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), in an aqueous phase. The motor was composed of a Pt foil and a filter paper...


After the merging of the city and county, the new municipal system should depend on the public servants to serve as the enforcer of administrative tasks. However, since they already experience the process of organizational change several times, the public servants have a problem in accepting the new organizational pattern after the merging when faced with reorganization of human resource, adjustments in the administrative tasks, increase in work contents, adjustments in organizational culture. Thus, this study investigated on the effect of practitioner's attitude (such as trust and work involvement) and transformation pressure on the organizational identification and organizational commitment after the merging of the city and county. The results of this study are as follows:1. After merging, the employees tend to have lower trust and acceptance on the organization itself than toward their superiors and colleagues.2. The general commitment of the city government's employees are higher than their affective commitment.3. The employees has a higher mean on the negative changes such as transformation changes than other positive meaningful variables.4. Work involvement can be used as the mechanism in adjusting to transformation pressure and psychological imbalance.5. Practitioner's attitude (such as trust and work involvement) has a positive effect on organizational identification and organizational commitment.6. Different from this study's expectation, it found that moderate transformation pressure can promote the increase in the organizational psychological connection (trust and organizational identification), work involvement and organizational commitment.7. Organizational identification has a positive effect on the organizational commitment.


Background: Patients with chronic non‐malignant pain (CNMP) conditions are known to report reduced health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective of this exploratory study was to compare HRQoL between patients admitted to a multidisciplinary pain centre, palliative cancer (PC) patients and national norms.


An exact solution is found for the problem of synthesizing algorithms for robust estimation of coupling parameters under the conditions of e-contaminated multidimensional observations. Ways in which the solution may serve as a basis for increasing the operational stability of user algorithms in satellite radio navigation systems in the presence of pulse jamming and retransmitted signals are presented.


Indonesia is located in an area prone to disasters, which are various kinds of natural disasters happen. In disaster management, the geoinformation data are needed to be able to evaluate the impact area. The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-Based remote sensing technology is a good choice to produce a high spatial resolution of less than 15 cm, while the current resolution of the satellite imagery is still greater than 50 cm. This paper shows some technical notes that should be considered when using UAV-Based remote sensing system in post disaster for rapid assessment. Some cases are Aceh Earthquake in years 2013 for seeing infrastructure damages, Banjarnegara landslide in year 2014 for seeing the impact; and Kelud volcano eruption in year 2014 for seeing the impact and volumetric material calculation. The UAV-Based remote sensing system should be able to produce the Orthophoto image that can provide capabilities for visual interpretation the individual damage objects, and the changes situation. Meanwhile th...


Energy-saving air-conditioner with hot water is an air source heat pump air-conditioner,which can also supply hot water.The hot water is heated by a double pipe condenser connected with an air-cooled condenser in series in the system.This experiment of the energy-saving air-conditioner was carried out in the enthalpy-difference air-conditioner laboratory.The hot water temperature and the compressor's discharge and suction pressure were recorded in the working condition,where the ambient temperature was at 43 ℃,35 ℃,21 ℃,7 ℃,and 2 ℃ separately.The results showed that the system operated stably and reliably.This system can supply 240 L hot water at 50 ℃ in the whole year,and its coefficience of performance(COP)is much higher than the conventional air source heat pump system.Its energy conservation was proved by comparing the thermal efficiency with other sourece water heaters.


Nu main subject of the article is the stand for speeded up axial piston motor test descniption and the thenmal balance calculation method


The study examines the effects of corporate earnings announcement on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). A sample of 19 listed companies was selected from which 57 observations of earnings announcements documented from 2009 to 2012 were collected for the study. The naive expectation model was applied to determine the investor's expectation towards earnings announcements. A 15 trading days inclusive of the day of announcement of earnings was defined as the event window which includes 7 days before and 7 days after earning announcement. The market portfolio index was used in terms of its movements as a substitute for the expected returns which was compared to the actual returns generated from the changes in stock prices for the duration of the event window to determine the existence of abnormal returns. An observation was made which is that there is well built evidence which suggests that earnings announcements do carry weight when it comes to investors making decision on share prices. This shows a very clear position that the investors on the Ghana Stock Exchange rely on the signals that come out as a result of announcements made on earnings in making investment decisions. The findings of this study conform to previous findings of Aharony and Swary (1980); and the recent findings of Dasilas et al (2008).


Knowledge is the primary asset of today's organisations; thus, knowledge management has been focused on discovery, representation, modification, transformation, and creation of knowledge within an enterprise. A knowledge map is a knowledge management tool that makes organisational processes more visible, feasible, and practicable. It is a graphical representation of decision-related information. What happens, how various events can be managed, and why they happened: all can be demonstrated very precisely by a well-designed knowledge map. There are diverse knowledge-related roles; for example, each university dean's office — as an instance of a knowledge-based organisation — usually relies upon their institutional memory to make daily decisions. However, utilising a knowledge map greatly facilitates any individual's or group's decision-making process, by proposing or establishing key required information. In this study, two important managerial roles — Associate Deans of Research and Education — were selected; then we reviewed their key managerial decisions and proposed three different techniques for supporting their decisions. The chief superiority of the approach offered here was in the creation of role-based knowledge maps, including an expertness map and a collaboration map for the Associate Dean of Research, which were formed using clustering, taxonomy formation, and information retrieval methods. A third map was created for the Associate Dean of Education, including a Bayesian reasoning map based on an Improved PC (IPC) algorithm, which learned the structure and the parameters of a Bayesian network to describe decision-making in the domain of education. To evaluate the proposed approaches, structural and functional evaluation measures and standard datasets (in the available cases) were chosen. The results found that the approaches were comparable to the selected benchmarks within the real data; even after considering the challenging nature of the real data, which included problems such as incomplete and unclean data extracted from the University of Tehran's education and research management information systems.


Over the last years, industrial companies have started to use simulation software to evaluate their energy performance. Today, the main researchers are focusing on the process energy consumption, but there is a lack in the indirect energy optimization such as ventilation and heating and a lack in the use of the simulation results as a practical feedback for energy manager. The focus of this paper is the study and the development of an approach based on the industrial environment simulation to optimize the thermal energy consumption related to the heating industrial building. To validate the proposed approach a test in a real industrial case is conducted.


FexMn t_ x ultra-thin alloy films were grown epitaxially on Ag(100) under ultra-high vacuum conditions by co-evaporation of 57Fe and Mn. Structural and magnetic characteristics of the alloy films were investigated by in situ Conversion Electron MBssbauer Spectroscopy as a function of Fe content (0.4<x<1) at two thicknesses (3 and 6 monolayers). X-ray photoelectron spectra and MBssbauer spectra were characteristic of Fe-Mn alloying. As indicated by MBssbauer spectra of the 6 mono layers thick films the ferromagnetic a-FexMnt_x phase could be stabilized up to 28% of Mn content, higher than the maximum value of 20% reported previously for epitaxially grown films on GaAs(OOI) (C. Jing et aI., J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 198-199 (1999) 270.). For higher Mn contents (x<O.5) the films exhibit typical y-FexMn t_ x (and eventually &-phase) spectra. However in strained alloy films a complete distinction between the bcc and fcc phase is not possible. Most probably the films suffer an increasing tetragonal deformation with increasing Mn content, which could be responsible for the magnetic transition observed in spectra. The structural and magnetic properties of ultra-thin films of iron and iron alloys are currently object of many investigations, motivated by the need to understand their basic properties as well as by possible applications in electronic and magnetic devices. The correlation between lattice structure and magnetic behavior in strained thin alloy films is of great interest. Such systems can exhibit novel physical properties, e. g. when new phases, different from those of the bulk, are stabilized at room temperature by pseudomorphic growth. Bulk FexMnl_x alloys are found to be in the y-phase (fcc) over a large concentration range, 0.3<x<0,7, and are antiferromagnetic (AFM) around room temperature. As the Fe content increases, the alloy undergoes a fcc to hcp (y-s) transformation at x=0.7. The hcp phase exists up to x=0.9, where a transformation from hcp to bcc (s-a) occurs, i.e. according to the phase diagram of Fe-Mn, the ferromagnetic (FM) a-phase is stable only when the Mn content is <10% [1]. Epitaxy ofy- and a-FexMn1_x thin films on GaAs(OOI) has been reported for low (x=0.35) and high (x=0.8) Fe content, respectively [2]. In that case the pure single-crystal a-FexMnl_x phase was extended to 20% ofMn content. In this work we report on an in situ investigation of FexMnl_x ultra-thin films with thicknesses of 3 and 6 monolayers (ML), which were grown on a Ag(IOO) substrate by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). Besides in the alloy formation itself, we were interested in the magnetic properties of those films. We chose to grow FexMnl-x alloy films on Ag(lOO), since Fe and Mn are known to grow epitaxially on this substrate. The lattice parameter of bulk Fe (2.87 A) is just 0.8% smaller then the surface unit cell (2.89 A square) of Ag(lOO) so that a-Fe(lOO) can be grown on it. On the other hand Mn films on Ag(lOO) exhibit a body centered tetragonal (rather than cubic) structure, similar to that of quenched y-Mn [3].


Traditionally, the notion of a legal representative for sexual assault complainants has been dismissed within adversarial criminal justice systems. It has been argued that the two-sided contest between the prosecution and defence cannot accommodate a third party without violating the rights of the accused, and that the complainant's interests can be adequately protected by the prosecutor or court judge. However, the past 30 years have seen a development in 'victims' rights' which has seen several adversarial systems incorporate some form of representation. This chapter explores these developments, and the arguments for and against introducing legal representation for complainants. The chapter argues that an adversarial process does not pose an insurmountable barrier to legal representation, and that a carefully managed system of representation could do much to avoid the high risks of secondary victimisation for sexual assault complainants. The chapter outlines the recommendations made by Sir John Gillen in his review of sexual offence trials in Northern Ireland and considers whether such proposed reforms would sufficiently address the challenges faced by sexual offence complainants.


The wage curve for Turkey revisited considering the spatial spillovers of the regional unemployment rates using individual level data for a period of 2004–2013 at the 26 NUTS-2 level by employing FE-2SLS models. The unemployment elasticity of real wages is −0.07 without excluding any group of workers unlike previous studies. There is strong evidence on spatial effects of unemployment rate of contiguous regions on wage level, which is larger, in absolute value, than the effect of own-regional unemployment rate, −0.087 and −0.056, respectively. Male workers are slightly more responsive to the own-region unemployment rate than female workers. However, female workers are more responsive to the neighboring regions' unemployment rate. Furthermore, using group-specific unemployment rates in the estimation of the wage curve for various groups, we find that unemployment elasticity of pay for female workers has become smaller and lost its significance, whereas unemployment elasticity for male workers has changed slightly. However, introducing group-specific unemployment rate results in losing significance in estimates for female workers. The findings in this paper suggest that individual wages are more responsive to the unemployment rates of the proximate regions than that of an individual's own region. Also, the wage curve estimates are sensitive to the group-specific unemployment rates.


Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is many things, among them an engaging historical narrative, a well-deserved scolding of his fellow economists for their intellectual narrowness, a dystopian forecast about the future path of inequality, and a political call to arms. Above all, the book (along with the papers by Piketty and coauthors on which it draws) is an exercise in measurement. It is on a foundation of new facts, wrested from a multitude of historical and contemporary data sources, that the other elements of Piketty's intellectual edifice rest. In turn, the central element of Piketty's approach to measurement is that the concepts usually classified as productive capital (the input into production that results from past investment) and wealth (claims on current or future consumption) can both be measured by a single variable, for which he uses the term capital. Piketty defines capital as "the total mar ket value of everything owned by the residents and government of a given country at a given point in time, provided that it can be traded on some market." (Piketty 2014, p. 48). Among the items included in this total are the structures, equipment, and infrastructure that make up more conventional definitions of physical capital, land, mineral deposits, precious objects, and the intellectual property, brand recognition, and market power captured in market valuations of corporate equity. The measurement of capital— both the aggregate quantity and its distribution among the population—is the book's driving force.


Polynomial smooth techniques are applied to Support Vector Regression model by an accurate smooth approximation which is offered by Hermite Interpolation polynomial. We use Hermite Interpolation to generate a new polynomial smooth function which is proposed for the function in ε-insensitive support vector regression of interpolation functions. Their important property is discussed. It can be shown that the approximation accuracy and smoothing rank of polynomial functions can be as high as required.


ions, 'Ideal' and 'Real', might dwarf the uncapitalised 'lost' or 'good' whose littleness still must stand up from the lines of this tentative manifesto. Goodness, for these two former teachers, is as much being good in class ('the good who know') as goodness in action. In a way, for the good to act, they must become the lost: 'the guilt j Of human action'. And in a pre-echo, as it were, of Muldoon, 'what can and must be built', no matter how imperfect, is rendered in that exquisite final diminuendo of the modest, yet sacramental, claims of art, to 'act, forgive and bless'. McDonald breaks his own rule at the end of this edition, including a poem not published by the poet in his lifetime. Dodds had published 'Thalassa' at the end of the penultimate section of his Collected Poems, just before a closing selection of translations, with the appended comment 'From a recent manuscript: ?1963'. McDonald suggests that it is probably not MacNeice's final poem, and may in fact be twenty years older. But having chosen not to include translations, he allows 'Thalassa' to conclude the Collected Poems. The decision is wholly justified: as with other supposed 'last poems', like Keats's 'Bright Star' or Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar', it suggests not so much conclusion as continuation, a poem ordered for posterity. It certainly shares more than subject-matter with the latter: Put out to sea, ignoble comrades, Whose record shall be noble yet; Butting through scarps of moving marble The narwhal dares us to be free; By a high star our course is set, Our end is life. Put out to sea. Concluding the introduction to his 1988 selection,Michael Longley asked, 'What other twentieth-century poet writing in English explores with such persistence and brilliance all that being alive can mean?' Life for MacNeice was an end in itself, and at the end of his life he sought a humane art which would speak beyond that ending to those who might follow him on the voyages to which his poetry returned so frequently. Peter McDonald has given us a MacNeice as entire as we might wish it. The letters will follow soon and, as we readjust the map of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry, this edition will serve as one of its most noble records. doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfn007 4 Louis MacNeice, Selected Poems (London 1988), p. xxiii. THE CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY 284


Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing(MEC) networks provide ubiquitous communication and computing capacity for mobile users compared with terrestrial networks. In crowd management, the UAV base station(UAV-BS) collect computation tasks from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and process tasks with terrestrial MEC networks cooperatively. However, energy efficiency(EE) and user mobility are the bottlenecks of UAV performance. Therefore, it is crucial to maximizing the energy efficiency(EE) of UAVs. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient UAV-enabled MEC network composed of IoT devices, the UAV-BS, edge cloud, and the data center, and propose a Green-UAV-CoCaCo algorithm to jointly optimize communications, caching, and computation for EE of UAV. Specifically, we design a UAV trajectory model based on a greedy algorithm to predict the user's coordinates and choose the proper edge server for task offloading. Then, the UAV-CoCaCo algorithm is proposed to maximize the EE of the task caching and offloading. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


A classification scheme is developed for classifying underwater mine-like and non-mine-like objects from acoustic backscattered signals. This scheme uses a predictive network along with a neural network classifier. The results of this scheme on an acoustic backscattered data set are given.


The occurrence of epitokes of Platynereis bicanaliculata was examined in an eelgrass bed in Koajiro Bay, Miura Peninsula, central Japan, using a fish lamp to establish a convenient and reliable sampling design for environmental studies. The epitokes occurred in the period from late February to mid-November. The peak of epitokal swarming activity was in warm season, but its time in the season differed among years, i.e. late June in 1992 and early April in 1993, presumably, depending on weather conditions. The synchronous epitokal swarming was evidenced, superficially as asymmetrically semi-lunar with the major concentration of activity around a few days after full moon. The difference in the periodicity from the Californian forms exhibiting swarming activity around new moon is postulated to be attributable to populational genetic difference, if it is not due to the artificial induction of swarming by using a fish lamp in the present form. In either case, an annual relative density of the present species which may be an useful indicator of the environmental quality of coastal waters including eelgrass beds can be given by the samplings of epitokes using a fish lamp in the evening a few days after full moon and new moon in the warmer months from March to September.


Soft robot arms, driven by novel pneumatic actuators with Rotary Elastic Chambers (REC), are well suitable for assistive and service tasks. However, the control of such robots is quite difficult because of high nonlinearities in actuators dynamics in addition to robot arm models. In this paper the recently developed Simulink-based program library "SoftRob" for simulation of the soft robots with REC actuators is described. A new adaptive admittance control scheme for pneumatic soft robots is proposed. The approach imitates the human force control capacity to regulate the contact force by adapting the arm stiffness. The algorithm is assumed to be realized without explicit force measurement, i.e. without the use of expensive external force sensors. The proposed control scheme is tested in simulation on example of a planar 2DOF model.


In the Permian detrital reservoir in the underlying block of Kebai fault,the main reservoir rock is composed of fine conglomerate and sandy conglomerate,with good physical property in Xiazijie Formation and poor property in Fengcheng and lower Wuerhe Formations.Based on core observation,rock slice and scanning electron microscope(SEM),we discussed the diagenesis constrain to the physical property of sandy conglomerate reservoir as follows:Compaction is negative to physical property of reservoirs;cementation performs the double actions depending on different quantity of cement matters;dissolution is positive to make secondary porosity and fracture as well as connectivity with pores.


1. Conversation Concrete 2. Education 3. Friendship Teaching and Recognition 300 P H I L O S O P H Y O F E D U C A T I O N 2 0 0 2 Buber uses these two distinctions, abstract–concrete and one-sided–mutual, to generate three forms of dialogue. If there is a "pure" form of dialogue, then, it would seem to be friendship, which lacks neither concreteness nor mutuality. As if saving the best for last, Buber concludes his typology with friendship, which he calls the "the true inclusion." That Buber sees abstraction and one-sidedness as defects, even if non-fatal ones, is further supported by the fact that he does not even bother to name and consider the type of inclusion/dialogue that is abstract and one-sided. Buber argues that teaching involves a lofty asceticism because teachers cultivate an atmosphere in which their wills and desires are constantly checked by their experience of the other side. To manipulate or enjoy one's students, Buber reasons, involves a "falsification" of one's role, besides which "all quackery appears peripheral" (ED, 95). In hoping that teachers do not use or abuse their students, Buber says nothing very controversial. At the same time, we must wonder whether a teacher can truly rejoice in her communion with students if she never feels acknowledged by them in return? Buber knows very well that it is not only the child who longs for communion "in face of the lonely night" (ED, 88). Today's teachers are yesterday's children, longing not only for communion, but confirmation, in who they are and what they do. Does Buber imagine this asceticism as a price of maturity? Is the need for confirmation one of those "childish things" that we must "put away" once we become adults and offer our help to the next generation? Is this something that an adult can renounce? Is teaching under such conditions sustainable? These questions take on a new meaning and force when we turn from the work of Buber to that of a later intersubjective theorist, Jessica Benjamin. MUTUAL RECOGNITION IN ASYMMETRICAL RELATIONSHIPS In The Bonds of Love, Benjamin sets out to think Hegel and Freud together and to go beyond both. In particular, she wants to join Hegel's dialectical, intersubjective account of human consciousness to Freud's insight that the infant does not initially know where it ends and its mother or the world begins. According to Benjamin object relations theory from Freud to Mahler is governed by the "assumption that we grow out of relationships rather than becoming more active and sovereign within them, that we start in a state of dual oneness and end in a state of singular oneness" (ED, 18). Such theories may understand the infant's individuation as a relational process, but they remain one-person psychology, neglecting both the child's interest in the world of others, and the role of the mother's subjectivity in the process of individuation. Drawing on the work of Daniel Stern and D.W. Winnicott, Benjamin sets out to construct a genuinely intersubjective account of human development. In such a view, Benjamin writes, "the issue is not only how we separate from oneness, but also how we connect to and recognize others; the issue is not how we become free of the other, but how we actively engage and make ourselves known in relation to the other" (BL, 18). For Benjamin, this need to be known by the other, what she calls recognition, "is so central to human existence as to escape notice." (BL, 15). Comparing human development to photosynthesis, she says that recognition is akin to the sunlight fueling the process (BL, 22). Recognition is a constant and crucial presence in human interactions, though it can take many forms: "to recognize is to affirm, validate,


Young doctors with higher academic degrees are very important for the development of subject construction in hospital.But in clinic although these young doctors have received higher education,their clinical competence is not good enough.This paper provides some suggestions on how to improve their clinical competence and make them become qualified clinicians with both higher academic degrees and exceptional clinical competence.


Mangroves are one of the main considerations that might be used to mitigate the effects of climate change in coastal areas. Mangrove populations can be affected by industrial and civil activities on coasts. According to the Kyoto Protocol, protection and rehabilitation programs may play a pivotal role in conserving mangroves in industrial areas. Therefore, this study was designed to examine and evaluate the possible impact of conservation plans, implemented by the Royal Commission of Yanbu, in preserving mangrove trees' ability to store carbon in the soil. Soil and plant samples were collected from three distinct locations, including a mangrove conservation site in Yanbu and natural unprotected sites in Umluj and Ar-Rayis. Organic-carbon (OC) stock, in both soil and plants, was calculated. Our results showed that at different depths, soil bulk density (SBD) in Yanbu ranged between 0.32–0.94 g cm−3. In Ar-Rayis and Umluj, SBD ranged between 1.43 to 1.99 and 0.90 to 1.57g cm−3, respectively. The average SBD values in Yanbu, Umluj, and Ar-Rayis were 0.68, 1.71, and 1.20 g cm−3, respectively. Similarly, the average soil OC density in Yanbu, Umluj, and Ar-Rayis was 165.19, 30.82, and 18.90 g C cm−3, respectively. Generally, the conserved mangrove tress grown in Yanbu industrial city showed higher (P ≤ 0.001) soil OC stock (0.39 t C ha−1) compared to the unprotected trees grown in Umluj (0.12 t C ha−1) and Ar-Rayis (0.11 t C ha−1) cities. Similarly, the highest (P ≤ 0.001) plant OC stocks (13.93 t C ha−1) were observed in protected mangroves of Yanbu, compared to the plant OC stocks observed in Umluj (8.06 t C ha−1) and Ar-Rayis (8.80 t C ha−1) cities. The results of the current study showed that the protected mangrove trees grown in Yanbu industrial city store more carbon in their sediments than those grown in the Umluj and Ar-Rayis sites without conservation or rehabilitation. These findings may provide evidence for the beneficial role of protecting mangrove forests in mitigating the effects of climate change.


Capsule endoscopy or push enteroscopy for first-line exploration of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding? de Leusse A, Vahedi K, Edery J, Tiah D, Fery–Lemonnier E, Cellier C, Bouhnik Y, Jian R Background and aims: The position of capsule endoscopy (CE) relative to push enteroscopy (PE) in the diagnostic algorithm of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is unclear, as previous studies involved the use of both techniques in all patients. We therefore conducted a trial in which patients were randomized to undergo one or other exploration.


The article deals with both content and structure of professional competences needed by a wide range of technical specialists to do a research work. It also presents a pedagogical system model of forming the total combination of professional research work competences within primary curriculum. The paper describes criteria and levels of professional research work competences assessment tools.


David Burrows, an audio-visual artist, presents an overview of his recent work. He also provides information and discussion about the teaching structure and role of Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Art in France.


38 adult males attending the infertility clinic and vasectomy camp at the S.S.K.M. Hospital Calcutta provided semen samples to determine the influence of sperm concentration on the viscosity of human seminal fluid. The viscosity of the seminal fluids were determined and sperm counts made on each sample. Significant differences among normal azoospermic and vasectomized individuals were absent. Oligospermic seminal fluids had a slightly higher viscosity than other sample but the reasons are at present unknown.


One of the most effective way to prevent unauthorized and corrupted message from being forward in wireless sensor network. So to restrict these problems many authentication schemes have been developed based on symmetric key cryptosystem. But there is high computational and communication overhead in addition to lack of scalability and resilience to node compromise attacks. So to address these isuues polynomial based scheme[1] was introduced. But in these methods it having the threshold problem that means to send the limited message only because to send larger number of message means the attacker can fully recover. So in my existing system a scalable message authentication scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography. This scheme allows any node to transmit an unlimited number of messages without suffering the threshold problem. But these method only detect the black hole and grey hole attacks are dected but does not detect the worm hole attack. In my proposed system to detect the worm hole attack. Worm hole attack is one of the harmful attack to which degrade the network performance. So, in the proposed system, one innovative technique is introduced which is called an efficient wormhole detection mechanism in the wireless sensor networks. In this method, considers the RTT between two successive nodes and those nodes' neighbor number which is needed to compare those values of other successive nodes. The identification of wormhole attacks is based on the two faces. The first consideration is that the transmission time between two wormhole attack affected nodes is considerable higher than that between two normal neighbor nodes. The second detection mechanism is based on the fact that by introducing new links into the network, the adversary increases the number of neighbors of the nodes within its radius. An experimental result shows that the proposed method achieves high network performance..


The goal of this article is to study the behavior of sandwich structures with honeycomb core during and after an impact. In this purpose, a test program was created and afterwards was applied. It consists in the application of multiple impact energies over the multi-layered structure. Impacted specimens are subjected to a compression test in order to determine the load capacity after impact. The results are summarized at the end of the paper in a graph that shows the loading capacity of multi -layer structure depending on the impact energy.


One of the things that most surprises the student of the sixteenth century is the place held by religious literature even in the realm of vernacular publication. The product of the early English presses is religious to an extent that the modern reader finds quite outside his experience. It has been estimated that more than forty per cent of all English books published between the beginning of printing in England and 1640 belong to the various types of religious literature. That preponderance is easy to explain in the light of the ecclesiastical traditions of learning, and there is no doubt that certain aspects of the earlier body of publication as compared with that of more recent times are to be explained in terms of those origins, but the fact is that even when the machinery of religious life had been gravely disturbed, the relative predominance of the genre persisted.


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