Shaft Torsional Vibration Response of Vertical Axis Ocean Current Turbine Model Due to Torque Excitation. The current research aimed to study the torsional vibration response of Vertical Axis Ocean Current Turbine due torandomly torque excitation pattern, owing to the variety of ocean current velocity. The turbine model is composed of 3 aluminum blades of NACA 0018 connected to steel shaft. Turbine dimensions are 10 cm of chord, 1.8 cm of chamber and 100 cm of span. The variation of ocean current velocity is 0.5 m/s, 1.0 m/s, 1.5 m/s, 2.0 m/s, 2.5 m/s and 3.0 m/s. The Model has 2 degree of freedom which is described into two 2nd order differential equations. The eigenvalue solution yields the model's natural frequencies; 201,38 rad/s and 457.91 rad/s. Fourier series is used to define the equation of torsional excitation, whilst the vibration equation is solved using Laplace Transform. According to analysis, there is no resonance occur. That because of the system's natural frequencies is diverse to the magnitude of excitation frequencies. Model will be statically twisted first before vibrated. The response will be transient first then constantly steady. Furthermore, the bigger torque excitation will cause the bigger angular displacement as well the amplitude.


One way of interpreting the confluence of post-democratic political forces around a neo-right-wing agenda and a personality constructed in the mould of adharmika ruler is that Sri Lanka's…


The article analyses the factors of credit relations of an organisation under modern economic conditions. The purpose of the study is to find ways to ensure sustainable development and improve bank credit activities. The relevance is determined in connection with the rapid growth of the population's debts and the accumulation of multiple risks. As a result of the research ways of perfection of credit relations of the bank on the basis of consideration of dispositive factors, including creation of clear system of subordination and further development of service system and development of the bank, analysis and estimation of solvency of the client are presented.


Various 2-oxazolines were prepared from aromatic aldehydes and 2-aminoethanol with pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide in water at room temperature. 2-Imidazolines were also obtained in good yields from aromatic aldehydes and ethylenediamine under the same reaction conditions.


The voltage of the external power supply to a motor 61 with a built-in power converter 60 having a printed circuit board 1 inverter IC2 supplied to the stator 3 is converted into a high frequency voltage is mounted, the surface facing the stator 3 of the printed circuit board 1 the one end is an external power supply connected high voltage input line 17 and electrically, the high-voltage DC input and the other end is a copper foil provided on the surface of the stator side to be the high-voltage electrode 11 electrically connected to the inverter IC2 power converter built motor wiring 104 is disposed.


This work presents a collection of multimedia materials for teaching electromagnetism in first courses of University degrees. These open access materials aim to apply the theoretical concepts to real environments in order to promote students' learning. One possibility is that the students build a series of simple devices aided by the given audiovisual materials and questions that relate the experimental work done to what they learned in the theoretical lessons. In addition, the multimedia format given to the generated teaching materials allows taking advantage of its properties of accessibility, immediacy and ubiquity to promote autonomous learning of the students.


For the practical application of a loop-tube-type thermoacoustic system, it is important to improve its energy conversion efficiency. We propose a loop-tube-type thermoacoustic system with a diverging sub-loop tube. The sub-loop tube diverges from the main loop tube and rejoins it so that the sub-loop tube forms a loop. The main loop tube is 0.85 m high and 0.5 m wide, with 3.3 m total length. The sub-loop tube's length from the upper side to the lower side is 0.45 m. The sub tube position is changed so that the distance from the heater to the upper part of the sub tube is 1.73, 1.83, or 1.93 m. The pressure, the phase difference between the pressure and particle velocity, and the sound intensity were calculated using a two-sensor power method with pressure measurement results. The smallest phase difference distribution was observed when the sub-loop tube is connected at 1.93 m. The highest sound intensity of 13 kW/m 2 was obtained at the prime mover top end, when a sub-loop tube was connected at 1.93 m. Because the sound intensity was 0.65 kW/m2 when a sub-loop tube was not connected, it was increased about 20-fold by connecting a sub-loop tube. The decrease in the phase difference indicates that the phase difference in the prime mover became a traveling wave phase, and this raises the energy conversion efficiency from heat to sound.


The effects of microenvironments on hardness of Photinia serrulata cultivated in three sites in different surroundings in Dongcheng District of Beijing were analyzed though observing of winter morphology and leaf structure and measuring of leaf conductivity.The results show that the plants in semi-lee and full sunlight are harder to low temperature with higher ration of Palisade tissue and lower relative conductivity,while the plants in lee and shade are tender to cold.It is concluded that the microenvironment has affected the hardness of Photinia serrulata,and the selection of light conditions is an important way to increase the hardness of broadleaf evergreen species.


Technical losses are comprised of power dissipation in components of power system. This paper proposes a method to detect the abnormal technical loss based on situation awareness and control chart technologies. The situation awareness technology is used to perceive the future trend of the technical loss based on the predicted load data and power flow calculation. The control chart is employed to detect the abnormality of the technical loss based on the differences between the perceived technical loss and actual technical loss. Three abnormal technical loss scenarios are set and simulated to evaluate the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method effectively detects abnormal technical loss.


This new program of research explores how technology can enable smart classrooms where learning transcends traditional class boarders, engages students and teachers with Web 2.0 approaches, and supports a community of learners in developing knowledge. We report on key aspects of our open source smart classroom environment, including an online database of student-generated, tagged, and socially connected learning objects, the integration of handheld learning devices, and supports for visualizing, sorting, and sharing collaboratively generated artifacts.


We show that the global quotient stack of the projective plane by the natural action of a finite subgroup G of SL3(C) has a full strong exceptional of line bundles if and only if G is abelian.


Objective To explore the parenteral and intra-intestinal nutritional support for patients undergoing radical operation for carcinoma of stomach.Methods We retrospectively analyzed 152 patiens with stomach carcinoma from October 2003 to January 2011.The 152 cases were randomly divided into 3 groups,with 54 cases in the intra-intestinal nutrition group,52 case in parenteral nutrition group and 49 cases in common group.The values of ALB,PA,TLC,the time in hospital and exhaust and the occurrence of complications was recorded.Results There were significant differences on nutriture status and immunity,PA,TLC among EN,PN and common groups(P0.05)and reduced the rate of infection of incisional wound,anus exhaust time pharyngopathy and pulmonary infection(P0.05).Conclusion The application of the the parenteral and intra-intestinal nutritional support is very important for patients with stomach carcinoma to improve nutritional status,anus exhaust time,promote agglutination and reduce complications.Nutritional assessment and nutritional support is vital to reduce perioperative complications for patients with stomach carcinoma.


Nitric oxide, synthesized from the L-arginine by nitric oxide synthase, plays an important role in cardiovascular regulation of the central nervous system. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of nitric oxide on cardiovascular response and sympathetic nerve activity in the nucleus tractus solitarius in anesthetized cats. Microinjection of L-arginine, a precursor of nitric oxide produced decreases in blood pressure and heart rate and inhibition of sympathetic vertebral nerve activity. On the contrary, microinjection of N G -monomethyl-L-arginine, a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor into the nucleus tractus solitarius produced increase in blood pressure and heart rate and excitation of sympathetic vertebral nerve activity. This suggests that nitric oxide may involve in central cardiovascular regulation.


The design, synthesis, and bioevaluation of fluorescence‐ and biotin‐labeled CXCR4 antagonists are described. The modification of D‐Lys8 at an ε‐amino group in the peptide antagonist Ac‐TZ14011 derived from polyphemusin II had no significant influence on the potent binding of the peptide to the CXCR4 receptor. The application of the labeled peptides in flow cytometry and confocal microscopy studies demonstrated the selectivity of their binding to the CXCR4 receptor, but not to CXCR7, which was recently reported to be another receptor for stromal cell‐derived factor 1 (SDF‐1)/CXCL12.


Treating the sample with two pretreatment techniques of suspension technique and noncomplete digestion method,respectively,the contants of copper,manganese and zinc in 21 super-vita were successfully determined with FAAS method.The results indicated that in suspension technique absorbances of determined elements were markedly increased by adding suitable amount of hydrochloric acid into the test solution,the coexistence elements in sample had no chemical interference to manganese and the physical properties of test solution was identical with its blank solution.Stabilization time of the suspension solution,the condition of noncomplete digestion method,background absorption interference and characteristic concentration were studied.RSD's were less than 2.8%.The determination results were consistent with those obtained by ashing method.The relative errors between them were less than(±2.4%.) This method was convenient and accurate.


Image-based scene representation is believed to be an alternative to the 3-D model reconstruction and rendering. In attempt to compare generality of image-based and model-based approaches we argue that it is plausible to distinguish three approaches to 3-D scene visualization: image interpolation, image extrapolation, and 3-D model reconstruction and rendering. We advocate that image extrapolation is a useful trade-oo between simple but limited interpolation and general but diicult 3-D model reconstruction and rendering. Image extrapola-tion is able to visualize correctly the part of a 3-D scene that is visible from two reference images. In fact, it is equivalent to reconstructing a projective 3-D model from two reference images and rendering it. In the second part of the work, we present an algorithm for rendering a pro-jective model. Our approach is more eecient than the ray-tracing-like algorithm by Laveau and Faugeras 6]. We show that visibility can be solved by z-buuering, and that virtual images can be synthesized by transferring triangles from a reference image via a homography or an aanity. Such algorithms are often supported by hardware on graphics work stations, which makes a step towards the real-time synthesis. The results are presented for real scenes.


This paper compares implementations of FBTSeg, a recent experimental segmentation method, and of NNTree, originally a neural network tree based segmentation method, with traditional methods for the combination of classifiers, namely bagging, boosting, and the traditional segmentation using information gain to split. The tests were carried out using three data mining techniques with distinct characteristics, specifically, linear regression, logistic regression, and multilayer perceptron neural networks, in four artificially built datasets. The datasets design was aimed at understanding the specific circumstances where each method, simple or combined, would present better performance. Results from this experiment suggest that blending classifiers using segmentation is a viable solution to improve the performance of both statistic regressions, that both FBTSeg and NNTree are in general more predictive than the traditional segmentation, while bagging and boosting are more effective alternatives for improving neural networks models.


This paper introduces a boost converter with high dc gain as a solution for partial shading of photovoltaic (PV) module. Switched inductor boost converter (SIBC) is introduced by replacing the inductor of the boost converter with a switched inductor branch. As a result, the conversion gain ratio can be increased. The proposed converter is used as an interface between the PV system and the load. A Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control is applied to extract the maximum power of the PV module. Analyses, simulation, and experimental results are provided to validate the operation of the converter.


Two of the common mechanisms regulating G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signal transduction are phosphorylation and sequestration (internalization). Agonist-mediated receptor phosphorylation by the β-adrenergic receptor kinase (βARK) facilitates subsequent interaction with an arrestin protein, resulting in receptor desensitization. Studies of the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) receptor in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells indicate that βARK and arrestin proteins (β-arrestins) also regulate sequestration. Consistent with this notion, we show in HEK 293 cells that reduction in or removal of the ability of the β2AR to be phosphorylated by βARK or to interact normally with β-arrestin substantially reduces agonist-mediated sequestration. To evaluate βARK and β-arrestin regulation of β2AR sequestration, we examined the relationship between βARK and/or β-arrestin expression and β2AR sequestration in a variety of cultured cells, including HEK 293, COS 7, CHO, A431, and CHW. COS cells had both the lowest levels of endogenous β-arrestin expression and β2AR sequestration, whereas HEK 293 had the highest. Overexpression of β-arrestin, but not βARK, in COS cells increased the extent of wild-type β2AR sequestration to levels observed in HEK 293 cells. However, a βARK phosphorylation-impaired β2AR mutant (Y326A) required the simultaneous overexpression of both βARK and β-arrestin for this to occur. Among all cell lines, sequestration correlated best with the product of βARK and β-arrestin expression. Moreover, an agonist-mediated translocation of wild-type β2AR and endogenous β-arrestin 2 to endocytic vesicles prepared from CHO fibroblasts was observed. These data suggest not only that the complement of cellular βARK and arrestin proteins synergistically regulate β2AR sequestration but also that β-arrestins directly regulate β2AR trafficking as well as desensitization.


N HIS recent article "Neoaethiopica,"I' F. Rundgren discusses the origin of certain particles in modern Ethiopic. In the analysis of the development of the Semitic root tht "under, down", as of some other roots, he does not arrive at the right conclusion, so it seems to me, because of the inadequate information at his disposal. I, therefore, propose to examine in the present article the expressions for "down, under, after, below" in as many Ethiopic languages as possible so as to enable us to gain a better understanding of the development of the various roots.


Potentially, the introduction of exotic natural enemies or mass release of biological control agents may lead to unwanted non-target effects. Whether or not such effects occur will mainly depend upon the host range of the biological control agent and the presence of non-target species in the area of release. Host-specificity testing is an important aspect of host-range assessment – perhaps the most important, and the easiest conceptually for regulators. Usually, laboratory based manipulative experiments will form the core of host-range assessments, but there is little information on how to determine host ranges. Here, we present a framework for step-wise host-range testing with levels of increasing complexity that should allow to avoid overand underestimation of the host range of a biological control agent. Next, the interpretation of data obtained with host-range testing is discussed and conclusions are drawn about the importance of host-range testing in future biological control projects. __________________________________ Host Ranges of Natural Enemies as Indicator of Non-Target Risk Second International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods 585 INTRODUCTION Contrary to the thorough host-range evaluations applied in the search for natural enemies of weeds (Wapshere 1974), host ranges of biological control agents for insect or mite control were usually not extensively studied until recently. The earlier lack of concern for non-target effects combined with the fact that very few non-target effects were ever found in insect biological control resulted in hardly any host-range assessment or screening studies before the 1990s with the exception of Australia, which started in the 1980s. Several publications have appeared in which ideas or methods for host-range testing are presented; they are reviewed in van Lenteren et al. (2006a). Aspects of risk assessments have been developed and applied during the past two decades, though often in a preliminary way and not always satisfactorily (van Lenteren et al. 2006b). Decisions about release of exotic natural enemies are still often based on short term decisions strongly influenced by financial and social benefits reflecting national priorities, and tend to ignore environmental ethics especially where risks are difficult to quantify. However, there are several positive developments taking place currently, which commenced with the design of a Code of Conduct for the import and release of exotic biological control agents (IPPC 1996). A recent review in which the implementation and use of this Code of Conduct is evaluated (Kairo et al. 2003) led to the following conclusions: (1) the CoC is widely used currently, (2) with the CoC several requests for importation could be rejected based on good reasons, (3) the CoC made evaluation procedures generally more rigorous and lengthy, but did not lead to fewer introductions, (4) most users were positive about the implementation of the CoC, but also that (5) the CoC lacks procedures for, among others, host-range assessment schemes and host-range testing methods that need to be developed with high priority. Although there is still much debate on how to test host specificity, several protocols for host-range determination have been designed and used during the past decade (Barratt et al. 1997; Sands 1998; van Lenteren et al. 2003). An important conclusion from recent papers on risks of releasing exotic biological control agents is that host-range assessment should form the focus of every natural enemy risk assessment, because the width of the host range will, together with the numbers of natural enemies that are released and the dispersal capacity of the natural enemy, determine the probability that non-target effects will occur. Several sources of information may be incorporated into a host-range assessment, including literature records, field observations in the area of origin, and physiological, behavioral and ecological observations and experiments; all these aspects are reviewed in van Lenteren et al. (2006a). Usually though, laboratory based manipulative experiments to test host ranges will be performed. Developing a list of appropriate nontarget species is a difficult task and is discussed in detail by Kuhlmann et al. (2006). In addition to what one would logically select as potential indigenous non-target species, species should be included that are of conservation concern or important biological control agents, i.e. any non-target species considered to be at risk from introduced biological control agents, causing declines in distribution or density, or local and regional extinctions. Species of conservation concern may not necessarily be taxonomically closely related to the target species but their ecological, cultural or conservation significance are considered sufficient to justify an expansion of the host-range testing schedule.


Adult education is making great headway,but there are some problems in the study of theory on adult education,which is ,as it were,restricted by the loss of research subject and research target,the imbalance of research methods,and deviation of research value.


In order to understand the size of economies, stock price forecasting is now a currently fascinating research topic in the business and educational fields. One of most complicated and advanced methods of conducting business is the stock market. The vast amount of stock market pricing information is constantly in flux. It is essential to know the stock market because it's a complicated arrangement by which humans could might earn cash or forfeit everything they have invested. Automated analysis techniques are employed in numerous industries, as well as risk analysis, consumer data analysis, fraud protection, and commodities market speculations. The time of massive and Information and algorithms are far more well-known than before for estimating market prices and trends. A high degree of precision and accuracy is the primary factor in stock market forecasting. Using the stock price and closing value as a basis, we estimated the cost of a share.In this manuscript, We applied Support Vector Machine Classifiers to forecast stock prices in the (NSE) National Stock Exchange for a commodity. We used three models, like trained Logistic Regression, SVC & XGB Classifiers. From this, we concluded that XGB Classifiers gives the highest performance with an accuracy of 99%.


Sichuan 9D Salt(Group) Company is the largest well and rock salt production enterprise group with the most complete equipment.Salt Varieties Co.,Ltd.is a subsidiary wholly owned by Sichuan 9D Salt(Group) Company.It has reformed the allocation of human resources and some effects have been got;however,the optimization of the allocation of human resources is not easy.There exist many problems,such as aging,unreasonable knowledge structure,unreasonable gender structure and so on.We can adopt many ways,such as adjusting the age structure of the staff,strengthening training,and adjusting the ratio of gender allocation etc.,to solve these problems about the optimal allocation ization of human resources.


This paper attempts to approach a historical work of 18th century from the classical perspective. This is a manuscript, fortunately edited, that describes the vicissitudes of the JesusCompany in the Canary Islands, written by the jesuit born in Granada, Matías Sánchez. This workcontains many Latin quotations and various references to characters from Classical Antiquity. But also in his prologue appear the criteria followed by this jesuit in the composition of his work, where he is linked to Plutarch and especially to Josephus


Objective To investigate the application of real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography ( RTMCE ) on evaluating myocardial function and regional microcirculation in traumatic brain injury ( TBI) . Methods In 18 cases canine model of TBI,RTMCE and strain rate imaging were employed to measure the index including strain rate of different myocardial segments, the time-amplitude curves,the mean ascending slope of the curve and local myocardial blood flow with respectively 6 hours,1 day and 3 day pre and post-TBI. Results Compared with pre-TBI,the segmental myocardial strain rate,the maximal amplitude ,the mean ascending slope and myocardial blood flow decreased in 3 cases immediately 6hour after TBI. In 3 days,more significant alteration of previous index was discovered in another 12 cases. Conclusions After acute TBI,myocardial dysfunction in heavy stress responses could result in the cerebral-cardiac syndrome,which develops in 3 days post-TBI. RTMCE and Strain rate imaging clinically provide an earlier way to detect myocardial damage and dysfunction in acute TBI patients.


This chapter surveys the state-of-art of heterogeneous agent models (HAMs) in finance using a jointly theoretical and empirical analysis, combined with numerical and Monte Carlo analysis from the latest development in computational finance. It provides supporting evidence on the explanatory power of HAMs to various stylized facts and market anomalies through model calibration, estimation, and economic mechanisms analysis. It presents a unified framework in continuous time to study the impact of historical price information on price dynamics, profitability and optimality of fundamental and momentum trading. It demonstrates how HAMs can help to understand stock price co-movements and to build evolutionary CAPM. It also introduces a new HAMs perspective on house price dynamics and an integrate approach to study dynamics of limit order markets. The survey provides further insights into the complexity and efficiency of financial markets and policy implications.


Objective To explore the feasibility of 5.5?mm long clear corneal incisions,through which PMMA (unfoldable) IOLs could be implanted.Methods 60 rabbit eyes were divided into three groups.5.5?mm long superior sutureless clear corneal paracentesis was performed on eyes of group A and tunnel incision with a width of 2 mm was done on eyes of group B.In group C (as the control group),all eyes were treated with 3.2?mm clear corneal paracentesis.Results Two weeks after the surgery, incisions of all eyes in three groups were favorably self sealing.And there is significant difference between preoperative and postoperative vertical astigmatism value of group A,so is postoperative astigmatism value of group A and that of group C.There is no significant difference between preoperative and postoperative vertical astigmatism value of group B,neither is in group C,and the same is true between postoperative value of group B and that of group C.Also,the inflammatory reactions of anterior chamber were more severe in group A than in group B observed by the slit lamp.Conclusions All the three methods of clear corneal incision are easy to use and the incision is reliably self sealing.The incisions in group B have less influence in curvature of the corneal than that in group A.The experiment suggests that the 5.5?mm clear corneal incision is a possible and ideal approach,through which unfoldable IOLs could be implanted.


The equilibrium structures and energies of the 15 H3X-YH3 hydrides, comprised of all possible combinations of group 14 elements, have been calculated in eclipsed and staggered conformations. The relationships between the central bond lengths and the rotational barriers are of particular interest. The barriers decrease but do not vanish at large X-Y separations (e.g. Pq6). Each of the lighter elements (X = C, Si, Ge) gives a correlation between the barrier heights and the X-Y distances, but the slope. decreases down the group. The data for X = Sn, Pb are not as regular in this respect, but all these barriers are small. Most of the X-Y, X-H, and Y-H distances obtained from nonrelativistic all-electron and from quasirelativistic pseudopotential calculations are in good agreement. Only relativistic bond contractions for X or Y = Pb lead to significantly shorter bond distances in the pseudopotential calculations. No systematic effect of relativity on the rotational barriers is found. Stabilizing vinical a-XH+u*-YH and a-YH+u*-XH interactions in the staggered conformation are responsible for the rotational barriers of the complete series, in agreement with previous studies of ethane. The lower barriers for the heavier species appear to be due to poorer orbital overlap and to increasingly smaller differences between antiperiplanar, synperiplanar, and 1 20° vicinal overlap. While relativistic bond contraction increases the individual interactions for diplumbane and methylplumbane, it does not appear to affect the rotational barriers. Previous 3-21G(*) results, indicating the rotational barrier in hexamethyldisilane to be very close to that in dislane (ca. 1 kcal/mol), despite the presence of six methyl groups, are confirmed by calculations at higher levels of theory (MP2/6-31G*//6-31G*). When the X-Y distances are even larger, as in most of the group 14 combinations, methyl and similar substituents also should have no significant effect on the rotational barriers.


The spin echo decay of 59 Co associated with nonmagnetic Co atom in CoGa compounds was measured at 9, 5 and 2.5 MHz in wide temperature range through the spin glass transition temperature, T g . At T ≫ T g , nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time, T 1 , was also measured. Analyzing the spin echo decay and T 1 , we have deduced the average nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate, , to the system of localized moments, which shows a progressive peak like the case of the critical slowing down near T g . The temperature at the peak is somewhat lower than T g measured by magnetic susceptibility in zero field. increases rapidly with decreasing the resonance field near the temperature at the peak. Following Chen and Slichter, the electron spin correlation time, τ m was estimated from and the integrated intensity. τ m - shows a slowing down of orders three at the transition.


Part 1: Demand-Led Growth and Structural Change 1. Growth Theory from a Demand-Side Perspective 2. Transformational Growth and the Structural Dynamics of Market Creation 3. Growth, Effective Demand and the Composition of Output Part 2: The 1990s Expansion: Technology, Investment and New Markets 4. The 1990s: The Boom and the Bust of the "New Economy" 5. Information and Communication Technologies: Productivity and Structural Change 6. The Technology, Investment, New Markets Relationship: The Forward and Backward Linkages 7. The Transformation of the Consumption Sphere and Market Creation Part 3: Two Decades of Structural Transformation in the US Economy: The Path of Transformational Growth 8. From the Recovering 1980s to the Booming 1990s 9. Innovative Investment and Long Term Development: Questions from the 1990s 10. The Path of Transformational Growth


Comparing four empirical study methodology,including long-term performance study,event study,clinical study,and survey study,which are often used in research of merger performance.With some literature examples employed those methodology,characters and use of those function are reviewed,and suggestion on how to choice suitable methodology for China data are involved in.


METABOLIC PROFILING CLASSIFIES NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER CELLS INTO DIFFERENT SUBTYPES WITH DISTINCT SENSITIVITIES TO METABOLIC INHIBITIONS TING-CHUN KUO, KUO-YEN HUANG, SHUENN-CHEN YANG, YIHLEONG CHANG, TSE-MING HONG, HSUAN-YU CHEN, TZU-HUNG HSIAO, PAN-CHYR YANG National Taiwan University College of Medicine/Department of Internal Medicine, Taiwan, Academia Sinica/ Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Taiwan, National Taiwan University College of Medicine/ Department of Pathology and Graduate Institute of Pathology, Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University/ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taiwan, Academia Sinica/Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan, and Taichung Veterans General Hospital/ Department of Medical Research, Taiwan


In 1972 Cuthbertson and co-workers'demonstrated that there is a loss of zinc in the urine during muscle catabolism. This same group of workers later suggested that this might be used as an index of muscle catabolism4 but, as far as we are aware, the usefulness of this measurement has not been evaluated in patients with myopathy. We have now measured urinary zinc content and zinc balance in patients with muscle disorders and have compared these with conventional indices of muscle catabolism (i.e., nitrogen balance and urinary 3methylhistidine excretion). We have also determined the effect of this zinc loss on the zinc status of the individual patient by measuring the plasma concentration at various stages of muscle breakdown and repair. Three patients were studied using metabolic balance studies for zinc and nitrogen. Serial measurements of 24-hour urine 3-methylhistidine, creatinine, and zinc were also made in 2 other patients. Full details of all patients are given in Table l . All zinc analyses were performed by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Nitrogen analyses were performed by standard Kjeldahl methods and 3-methylhistidine was measured using an amino acid analyzer (Rank Hilger Chromaspec, Westwood, Margate, Kent, England). Figure 1 shows the balance results for zinc and nitrogen obtained from patient 1 during phases of severe muscle breakdown and regeneration. During the first part of this study the patient was in grossly negative balance for nitrogen, indicating a large loss of muscle, and was also in negative balance for zinc. The nitrogen balance became positive after period nine, indicating that muscle regeneration was occurring, but the zinc halance did not become positive for another four balance periods (16 days). The balance data from the other patients studied are not presented in detail, hut are given in abridged form in Table 2. 'The urinary zinc excretion level found in patients 1, 2, and 3 during phases of net muscle loss or increased muscle degradation (identified b y a negative nitrogen balance or an elevated urinary 3methylhistidine/creatinine ratio) was higher than normal, whereas in patients 4 and 5 the excretion level was relatively nor-mal. This difference appears to be due to ~~ ~ ~


when it became clear that it is caused by a change in the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) of lymphocytes in the lymphatic system.


A flash photolysis apparatus is described. The photoflash discharge tube forms the inner conductor of a quasi-coaxial line connected by a triggered spark gap to the storage capacitor. Some operating characteristics of the spark gap are given. The range of flash energy is 50–1500 J at pulse durations of less than 10 μs in the visible region. A capillary discharge is used for spectroflash with 150 J max. energy, triggered by a similar spark gap. Combined with a continuous light source, several types of experiments may be carried out: flash photolysis, kinetic spectrophotometry with observation of transient absorption, and emission spectra. The sample area is sufficiently flexible to allow the use of a wide variety of cells, permitting studies over a wide range of temperature.


Grundtvig's Experience in a Wood in 1811 and his subsequent sermons on the miraculous draught of fishes. By Christian Thodberg. It is common knowledge that in connection with the revival of his Christianity Grundtvig suffered a breakdown in December 1810, after which he returned with his friend, F. C. Sibbern, to his home village and his parents in Udby, South Zealand. However, in May 1811, after a stay in Copenhagen, he was again on his way to Udby to become curate for his aging father when he had an equally important experience in the wood outside Udby which has hitherto passed apparently unheeded. He describes it in a contemporary poem to Sibbern himself. In an attack of despondency, brought on by the sight of Udby church and his childhood home and by the thought of his forthcoming ministry, he knelt down in the wood and read I Cor. 15: 55-58. Grundtvig had been ordained in Copenhagen on May 29th, but in the wood two days later he experienced a special call to the priesthood. The nature of this experience is clearly visible in his sermon for the 5th Sunday after Trinity on the miraculous draught of fishes (Luke 5: 1-11), given 22 years later on July 7th 1833. In the sermon Grundtvig relates the experience and adds that the Lord Himself had spoken to him on that occasion and had called him with the words used to Simon Peter: "Let down the net. From henceforth thou shalt catch men!" A closer analysis of Grundtvig's sermons from 1811 until his death in 1872 shows that over the years it is on the 5th Sunday after Trinity that he reflects on the Lord's special call to him, and thus on his life's special destiny. He uses Peter's catch as his starting-point, both because of Jesus' words to Peter and because the frightened and kneeling Peter in the gospel story undoubtedly reminds Grundtvig of his situation and literal position in the wood on Friday May 31st 1811. In his sermon for the 5th Sunday after Trinity 1811 the call motif does not appear; on the other hand he does use the biblical themes of Ezek. 47: 8-10 and Amos 8: 11, which are repeated in the later sermons on the miraculous draught. The unfinished sermon of 1812 is of a quite different order, but the very long sermon in 1818 is such a penetrating analysis of the preacher's situation that it reveals Grundtvig's extremely personal relationship to the account of Peter's call. The same tension can be felt in the three drafts for the sermon of 1821; the last draft is continued in the major prose-poem sermon of 1822. The theme is "listening to God's Word", and the sermon is divided into five images: the first depicts the days of the ancient covenant, when the Jews refused to listen and ended up under the curse of slavery; the second is John the Baptist's sermon; the third is Jesus' teachings and works, while the fourth is the Church's enthusiastic reflection on this central vision. The fifth image is basically Grundtvig's own prophecy for the near future and for himself; for it is he himself who through his coming activity in Copenhagen, Denmark's Jerusalem, will be the crucial link in the renewal of the salvation story. So self-conscious a sermon could not but have its source in a personal revelation, that is, the experience om May 31 st 1811. The first sermon in Copenhagen in 1823 already includes the biblical themes mentioned above and describes the coming Christian revival. In the highly-charged sermon of 1824 Grundtvig clearly recalls the beginning of his ministry in 1811 and confesses that he has never preached better! This particular sermon of 1824 affords grounds for an analysis of the two central poems from that year: The Land o f the Living and N ew Year's Morn, which were most probably written in June and July 1824 respectively. The Land o f the Living contains three sequences: 1) the childhood dream, 2) the vain dream of the adult worldling, and 3) the childhood dream recovered. The same three themes are also to be found in the poem to Sibbern, and the experience in the wood in 1811 offers a plausible explanation of the break between stanzas 1-6 and 7-13, i.e. between the description of the vain dream of the adult worldling and the childhood dream recovered. In fact it is compelling to regard stanzas 7-8 as a retelling in poetic form of the experience in the wood. The same experience would also seem to have left a significant trace in N ew Year's Morn, in stanza 54 where there are similarities as regards both content and language between the Sibbern poem of 1811 and the retelling of the experience in the wood in the sermon of 1824. Among the reworked sermons in The Sunday Book we find in Vol. II (1828) a memoir of 1811 in a sermon on the miraculous draught of fishes, but the personal experience is emphasised by the stress, under the inspiration of Irenaeus, on the human as a prerequisite for the Christian. The gospel of the day must be particularly comforting to people torn between fear and hope – like Grundtvig in 1811. Jesus' calling of Peter is again recalled in 1832 as the basic premise for Grundtvig's own ministry. The sermon of 1833 - the cornerstone of this survey - has already been mentioned. In 1834 Jesus' words to Peter are underlined with a minor gloss: fisher of living men, from which Grundtvig argues for his new view of the Church: the capacious Church. People must not be forced into Christianity, and they must be allowed to choose the priest they wish to attach themselves to. In 1835 Grundtvig recalls his ordination in 1811. In 1836 the human aspect of the sermon is emphasised, as it is in The Sunday Book. In 1837 Grundtvig uses the call of Peter to consider the justification of lay preaching - presumably because he himself received a direct call in 1811. In 1838 the Irenaeus inspiration culminates. The dangerous life of a fisherman is a precise image of the rightness of Grundtvig's well-known thesis: First a Man, then a Christian. In 1839 the experience in the wood is retold, this time in even more detail than in 1833; while in 1840 Grundtvig demonstratively sets his two great "revelations" up against one another: the experience in the wood in 1811 and the "unparalleled discovery" of baptism and the eucharist in 1825. From now on it is clear to him that the later "revelation' is the greater, a belief he finally confirms in his sermon of 1842. Irenaeus continues to inspire him in the sermons of 1841 and 1844, underlining yet again Grundtvig's personal relationship to the account of the miraculous draught. In the remainder of Grundtvig's preaching life the, experience of 1811 is less strongly recalled on the 5th Sunday after Trinity, though it does happen both in 1856 and in 1861. The survey shows that the experience has been of central significance to the revival of Grundtvig's faith, and that right into the 1840s it is an important starting-point for his understanding of himself as a Christian. The sermon on the 5th Sunday after Trinity on the miraculous draught of fishes thus becomes an interesting guideline to an appreciation of Grundtvig's personal and theological development.


Health communication campaigns are a popular and widely used tool of the health communication practitioner. They are developed and implemented by local and state health departments, federal agencies, nonprofit foundations, and other health–oriented organizations. Such campaigns are also a widely studied topic among health communication researchers. One needs only to glance at journals focused on communication and community–level prevention to see the large amount of research that takes place on this topic. A critical question raised here is whether campaign research has had an impact on the practice of campaigns in the field. While the research–to–practice gap still remains large in many areas of health research (including at times in the campaigns area), we would argue that health campaign research has had a measurable impact on health communication campaign practice. As evidence of this, we discuss a prominent example—the recent national physical activity campaign (the "VERB" campaign), as well as other recent national health campaign efforts. In our view, these campaign efforts have applied the lessons of the literature, and, as a result, have often succeeded in their goals. We begin by noting that campaigns research has increasingly shown that efforts directed at large, undefined audiences are likely to fail (Rogers & Storey, 1987). Alternatively, research over the past several decades has pointed to a set of principles that, when applied, maximize the chances for campaign success (Noar, 2006). These principles begin with the critical step of dividing one's audience into one or more audience segments. Once this step has been taken, other principles can be applied, including conducting formative research with the audience segment(s),


This paper studied the long range dependence in Shanghai Composite Index,and finished statistical modeling for the corresponding financial data.The investment return of stock market was assumed to be driven by Fractional Brownian motion,and the VaR for the corresponding model was derived.Numerical examples were given to illustrate the impact of the long range dependence on VaR by comparing VaR under fractional Brownian motion model with the one under Black-Scholes model.Numerical results show that the long range dependence impacts greatly on the risk measure of financial derivatives relevant to equity index.


Foreign students will make various errors when they study Chinese. The present paper argues the reasons for errors in the view of error analysis theory, teachers' various opinions on errors and their based theories of linguistics and psychology, and produces the methods to correct those errors in the Chinese teaching course for foreign students.


The challenging restoration of form and function in radical surgery of the head and neck demands sound concepts and proper execution in reconstruction. Flaps are most frequently employed in reconstruction, following major surgery because of their rich blood supply and cosmetic superiority. Of the many types of flaps known, the midline forehead flap, tem‐poroforehead flap, mastoid‐occipital flap, tongue flap, and deltopectoral flap have enjoyed most popularity. The design and application of these flaps are discussed. Our techniques in reconstruction of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, esophagus, nose, Andy‐Gump deformities (anterior jaw complex resection), pharyngo‐orocutaneous fistulas, and radionecrosis of the mandible are presented.


This thesis reviews the development of educational system in Singapore after World War II. It focuses on the major developments and their outcomes as well as the motivations for these developments and tries to establish connections between the main objectives of education in Singapore and the first directive for national educational system proposed by the colonial government in 1949. It explains that although the British colonial government left Singapore in 1963 and the country gained its independence, education kept developing in the same direction as set by the British. The thesis also touches on the topic of economic development as this was massive and it could not have been reached without well educated workforce.


Pressure control entails the cheapest technical solution to achieve leakage reduction in water distribution networks in shortmedium time horizon. This work reports the planning of remote real time controlled (RRTC) pressure reducing valves (PRV) for the Oppegard (Norway) hydraulic network. It was achieved by using an advanced hydraulic model which integrates the pressuredependent background leakage model with the simulation of PRVs based on remote control nodes. Results demonstrate that RRTC PRVs instead of existing locally controlled ones permits the reduction of the background leakages of about 35%. This rate increases over 40% if few additional RRTC PCV are installed. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of CCWI 2015.


Online reviews sufficiently influence the behavioural intention of the individual. The evolution of social media has added a new dimension to online reviews. The user can discuss the products and services or any brands with their networks through social media. The current study aims to identify the influence of information quality and information source credibility on information adoption from social media review platforms with the mediating role of information diagnosticity and information usefulness. The current study is a quantitative correlational study. Data were collected by conducting a survey on 225 Bangladeshi social media users, and all the data were analysed by SPSS and Smart-PLS software. The outcomes of the present study revealed that the association between information quality and source credibility with information adoption is mediated by information diagnosticity and information usefulness. The user would likely adopt the information if they can evaluate the information quality and information source credibility and perceive that information as useful and having the diagnostic ability. The current study contributes both theoretically and practically. From the theoretical perspective, this study contributes to a conceptual research framework that was developed by extending Information Adoption Model (IAM) by adding information diagnosticity. Practically, the findings contribute to both marketers and consumers by providing a clear understanding of the social media review and information. Finally, several limitations and future research directions were indicated at the end of the study.


In Open and Distance Learning (ODL), the shift from synchronous to
asynchronous models of instruction is gaining momentum. Asynchronous models
in ODL enhance universities' potential to reach a larger component of the student
market as distance is no longer any issue. However, there are a number of
variables that must be considered in order for the strategy to be effective.
McKenzie points out that the transition from other forms of instructional delivery
to E-tutoring involves changing mindsets on both the tutors and students. For
effective e-tutoring to take place a number of workshops should take place in
order to change these mindsets and to prepare tutors for the complexities of the
new role. E- Tutoring involves online collaboration, posting of information on the
websites, using e-mail for communication as well as receiving students responses
via the same routes. In E-tutoring interaction between tutor and student is
facilitated by digital technology through computers, CDROM, internet and or cell
phones. E-Tutor Preparedness focused on the challenging roles of the tutor
which include pedagogical role, social role, organizational role and technical
role. In an asynchronous set up both the pedagogical and social role may be
affected by lack of training and evaluation. The study sought to establish the level
of preparedness for E-tutoring for the Zimbabwe Open University. A self report
questionnaire was sent to all e-tutors in the ZOU through e-mail. The responses
were analysed using Moonstats and Genstats for social science research to
establish the level of preparedness of E-tutors in the four domains. The findings
indicated enthusiasm in E-Tutoring, a general lack of preparedness and lack of
understanding of some aspects of it. The study recommends that thorough in-
house training and capacitation should given the selected E-tutors for the
successful and sustainable implementation of the project.


Objective To explore the possibility of acute cerebral infarction model establishment by gelfoam embolization for internal carotid artery(ICA).Methods 6 monkeys were selected for ICA gelfoam embolization with the femoral artery punctured and catheterized;DSA examination was given after the establishment of the models and CT scanning was performed 3,4,6,8,12,24 hours respectively after the embolization on the experimental monkeys.Results Anterior cerebral artery,middle cerebral artery and trunk of ICA were obliterated after embolization;CT scanning showed patchy low density areas 6 to 8 hours after the embolization.Conclusions Establishment of cerebral infarction model by gelfoam embolization is practical.


The infestation of British Columbian lakes by a Eurasian water-milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum L., s. str., became obvious in 1975. This led to an extensive survey of macrophytes in British Columbian water bodies. During this study we found several aquatic and wetland plants to add to the British Columbian flora (Ceska & Ceska, 1980), including two species of Myriophyllum, i.e., M. quitense H.B.K., which had not been previously reported in Canada, and M. ussuriense (Regel) Maxim., which had not been previously reported in North America.


Individuals in managerial and professional jobs are now working longer hours for a variety of reasons. Building on previous research on workaholism and on types of passion, the results of an exploratory study of correlates of work-based passion and addiction are presented. Data were collected from 530 Canadian managers and professionals, MBA graduates of a single university, using anonymously completed questionnaires. The following results were noted. First, scores on passion and addiction were significantly and positively correlated. Second, managers scoring higher on passion and on addiction were both more heavily invested in their work. Third, managers scoring higher on passion also indicated less obsessive job behaviors, greater work and extrawork satisfactions, and higher levels of psychological well-being. Fourth, managers scoring higher on addiction indicated more obsessive job behaviors, lower work and extrawork satisfactions, and lower levels of psychological well-being. Fifth, managers scoring higher on addiction saw their world in dog-eat-dog terms and their organizational cultures as less supportive of work—personal life balance; this pattern was in the opposite direction among managers scoring higher on passion.


This thesis applies Relevance Theory to probe into three kinds of comprehension obstacles of cultural terms — British English cultural terms and common English cultural terms in the Chinese version of Nick Hornby's About a boy. In this study, those obstacles, caused by term translation failing to achieve optimal relevance, are categorized as "ambiguity of meaning", "vacuum of meaning", and "mistranslation" , based on three different levels of damage they cause to target language readers. From macro- and micro-perspective of cognitive context, this study analyzes the contextual effect, the processing effort, and the relevance of the obstacles to explore the possible reasons why the translation of the cultural terms fail to help the readers to reach optimal relevance. This research also tries to find out a solution to achieve optimal relevance through the translation strategies and techniques proposed by Ke Ping (1994) — paraphrase, contextual amplification, adaptation, annotation, specification, generalization, and idiomization, in an effort to provide readers the same or almost the same contextual effects as the ones that the source text offers.


The academic literature on social movements is characterized by a course that started in the US and European academies in the sixties-seventies and arrived strongly in Latin America in the decades of the eighties and nineties. In our region, this category suffers a semantic displacement towards the notion of popular movement in the light of the experiences of resistance to neoliberalism. Thus, new lines of inquiry were opened; the standing out subject area deals with the link between popular movements and education by understanding that political practices are inseparable from teaching practices. This paper reviews the leading academic works on rural popular movements and education developed in Argentina and Brazil and sorts them into three categories according to the type of space-time targeted: schools spawned and driven by movements; the movement as a subject and formative principle; and finally workshops created for training purposes on various topics related to political mobilisation. The aim of the article is to contribute support and substance to an innovative and developing academic area and to emphasize the centrality of rural educational experiences to research about this subject and therefore not to be omitted.


Abstract During the period of attachment of the trophectoderm to the uterine lumenal surface in the pig, there is an increase in uterine blood flow and a localized hyperemic response induced by the developing conceptuses. The presence of tissue kallikrein in the porcine uterine lumen suggests that the kallikrein-kinin system may be functional during pregnancy in the pig. The objective of the present study was to determine the concentration of bradykinin within the uterine lumen during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy as well as endometrial gene expression and cellular localization of the bradykinin β2 receptor. Concentration of bradykinin in uterine flushings was greatest during estrus (Day 0) and Days 12–18 of the estrous cycle. However, there was a 5- to 10-fold increase in bradykinin content in pregnant uterine flushings on Days 12–18 of pregnancy compared with the estrous cycle. Endometrial bradykinin β2 receptor gene expression was greatest on Days 0, 12, 15, and 18 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy as gene expression decreased almost 6-fold on Days 5 and 10. Bradykinin β2 receptors were detected in the endometrial surface and glandular epithelium with greatest intensity of staining observed on Days 0, 12, 15, and 18 of the estrous cycle and pregnancy. Results from the present study suggest that the kallikrein-kinin system plays a role in the establishment of pregnancy in the pig.


A Hobo's Daughter 1. A Short Course in Hoe Boy History and Philosophy 2. Rail Tales: Oral Histories of American Hobos Steamtrain Maury Alabama Hobo Tumbleweed Reefer Charlie Little Hobo Cardboard Greenie Gas Can Paddy Ramblin' Rudy The Sidedooor Pullman Kid Hobo Bob Fry Pan Jack 3. From the Personal Journals of a Hobo Queen: On the Road Hot Off the Jungle Fires: Hobo Recipes Glossary: Signs of the Road References


Objective To study the chemical constituents from the roots of Urtica triangularis Hand-Mass.Methods Chemical constituents were isolated by various chromatographic methods such as silica gel column chromatography,PTLC and sephadex LH-20 chromatography and their structures were determined by physiochemical and spectral analyses.Results Ten compounds were isolated and identified as 22E-5α,8α-peroxyergosterd-6,22-diene-3β-alcohol(1),scopoletin(2),n-butyl-β-D-fructopyranoside(3),daucosterol(4),β-sitosterol(5),5-hydroxymethyl-furaldehyde(6),p-hydroxybenzaldehyde(7),4-methoxybenzoic acid(8),2,3-dihydroxypropyl heptadecoate(9),pentadecanoic acid(10).Conclusions Compounds 110 were isolated from Urtica triangularis Hand-Mass for the first time.


Today, the need for energy is increasing day by day and mankind is turning to bioenergy sources. City waste is a source of bioenergy and these wastes are not adequately marketed. The conversion of city waste into energy and marketing as biomass will contribute to keeping cities clean as a habitat. The emission standards of large cities reach dangerous levels for human health. Aware of this situation, cities are building facilities such as waste processing and waste gas. While generating energy from wastes, it is ensured that the city remains clean, and on the other hand, it contributes to meeting the energy needs of human beings. This study focuses on the conversion of city waste into energy and marketing as a source of bioenergy. Cities need to grow decently, contribute to employment and evaluate waste in the name of employment and economy for sustainable city. Bioenergy sources are increasingly important and biomass trade is being carried out that exceeds the borders of the city and country. Biomass trading is also an opportunity to evaluate vegetable wastes that have not yet gained economic value in and around the city. In this study, the literature has been examined and observations related to city wastes in Sinop province and its districts and vegetable wastes in Gökırmak and Kızılırmak deposits are included. The findings show that more research and studies should be done on bioenergy resources and that urban waste should be evaluated and marketed among biomass resources. In addition, it is suggested to dispose of plant wastes in urban areas by burning and to evaluate them as biomass instead of causing pollution in living areas.


Demographic transition cannot be considered in isolation from general social transformation and cannot be brought about by means of family planning programmes alone. In a country like India, however, programmes are necessary to popularise the acceptance and adoption of the small family norm even within the limitations imposed by the present stage of development and the slow pace of social change.


Experiments offer more reliable evidence on causation than observational studies, which is not to gainsay the contribution to knowledge from observation. Experiments should be analyzed as experiments, not as observational studies. A simple comparison of rates might be just the right tool, with little value added by "sophisticated" models. This article discusses current models for causation, as applied to experimental and observational data. The intention-totreat principle and the effect of treatment on the treated will also be discussed. Flaws in perprotocol and treatment-received estimates will be demonstrated.


The invention relates to a method for extracting alumina from fly ash based on grinding and acid leaching technology. Common methods for extracting alumina from fly ash have a long technological process, employs single furnace roasting, and do not fully consider removal of impurities. The method of the invention comprises: conducting superfine grinding on fly ash; then dissolving out the grinded fly ash in concentrated sulfuric acid so as to obtain an aluminum sulfate-containing slurry; carrying out solid-liquid separation so as to obtain an aluminum sulfate solution; removing impurity ions from the solution by a combined impurity removing method; then subjecting the aluminum sulfate leaching solution to evaporation concentration for precipitating an aluminum sulfate crystal; performing two-stage combined fluidized roasting so as to obtain alumina; and recovering sulfur trioxide from flue gas so as to form sulfuric acid cycle use. The grinding process of the invention can grind fly ash superfinely, and further reduces the fineness of fly ash, thus effectively improving the reaction efficiency of subsequent dissolution; the combined impurity removing method for removing impurity ions in the aluminum sulfate solution is characterized by simple process and high impurity removing efficiency; the two-stage combined fluidized roasting process has less energy consumption, and the roasted sulfur trioxide can be recovered for cycle use, thus reducing the cost.


This report presents the results of park-and-ride user surveys, non-user surveys, and traffic surveys performed in the Houston metropolitan area and compares those results to similar surveys performed in the Dallas area as part of previous studies. In addition to obtaining socioeconomic, demographic, and travel information, the surveys were designed to: 1) identify the features of the existing service that are most important in generating ridership; and 2) identify what additional features could be added to the existing service and be most effective in increasing ridership. The findings are intended to be of value both in planning and operating park-and-ride facilities. (FHWA)


Lentz, Richard, and Karla K. Gower. The Opinions of Mankind: Racial Issues, Press, and Propaganda in the Cold War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010. 349 pp. $39.95 By the end of World War II, America may have been basking in the glories of victory for coming to the fescue of the free wodd, but it also was learning that it was not the wot Id's darling as the Cold War began to unfold. America's flaws began to show; the freedoms that Americans of various racial and ethnic backgrounds fought for were nor necessarily available to them at home. Such a foundation is not something new, but The Opinions of Mankind takes a different tact by exploring how media coverage of racial issues affected not only domestic readers but foreign news consumers and foreign policy. The authors discovered a niche, which builds upon what public policy and media scholars have long pursued, and have filled a void associated with American media's role in how foreign allies and enemies perceived and presented racial struggles in the United States from 1 946 to 1 965. The Cold War was a war of words, and what better way to depict those words than through a media lens. Some stories are quite familiar to most Americans - the Watts riots, the lynching of Emmett Till, and the Freedom Ride of 1961, for example. Other, lesser-known incidents that are no less heinous or inflammatory also are featured. Regardless of the perceived status of issues and events, they all provide a foundation to discuss how America was perceived globally and how it was challenged to change or create new perceptions around the world. Additionally, these authors weave in the international context of the time, providing a flavor of what the Soviet anti-American propaganda strategies were, for example, or how the Brown v. Board of Education decision was discussed in African nations. Although not explicitly discussed, the book also reflects the challenges of American media in a time when the libertarian foundation of the press was being confronted with a social responsibility model that grew out of the 1947 Hutchins Commission report. This Commission on Freedom of the Press called upon domestic media to blend freedoms with responsibilities of a free society. The Commission's requirement that media report the day's events was nothing new, but the call for clarifying the goals and values of society and providing context to the day's events reflecred a newer complexity of the media's role. Much of what Richard Lentz and Karla Gower include shows how media struggled with their responsibilities to report societal failures while defending American ideals and countering foreign criticisms. …


We consider some "ideal" structure in the space of bilinear operators between Banach spaces, which is related to t he well-developed theory of operator ideals. Concrete examples of these "ideals" are defined by topological properties (e.g. compactness), summability properties or certain representations of the bilinear operators


Determination of phosphorus pentoxide in carbonate rocks by the molybdenum blue spectrophotometry was Studied.The factors of acidity,reagent dosage,color temperature and time were discussed,and the best experimental conditions was selected.The results show that the method is simple and precision.


The La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 was used as a cathode for the first time when the plasma display panel was used on the handheld personal computer. It has favorable sputtering resistance characteristic and stable discharge characteristic in gases. A cathode made from the La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 has unique electrical characteristic in early phase discharge voltage characteristics. The discharge voltage continues to decrease from the starting value.In this report, the discharge voltage shift of the La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 was investigated through an analysis of the DC plasma panel which was made as prototype. It is presumed that the discharge voltage shift is caused by the current density shift of the cathode surface, and that the current density shift is caused by the surface profile of the cathode particles. In order to find out this mechanism, the spherical form model was applied to the discharge voltage shift, and the calculated values and the measured values were compared. The calculated values correspond approximately to measured values. This spherical form model is considered of available for the discharge voltage shift.


Social and behavioral sciences have long conceived the human mind as an autonomous computational machine. However, recent developments in several fields of research including socio-cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience among others have converged to suggest that the human mind -- with all neural mechanisms underlying it -- is biologically prepared and, yet, it is fully shaped by, and thus can only be completed by, each person's active participation in the symbolic world of culture. In my presentation, evidence for this thesis is reviewed to suggest that the human agency (the self) and the neuronal component processes constituting the self (the brain) are socio-culturally conditioned and, as such, they can show remarkable different characteristics depending on the socio-cultural environments in which they are engaged. This new, more expanded view of personhood offers important implications for intercultural collaboration.


In this paper, we consider localization based on the Time-of-Arrival (ToA) of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) impulse radio pulses. We present a receiver structure for ToA estimation, which can be implemented with very low complexity and low power consumption. Standard approaches for ToA estimation of UWB pulses require very high speed A/D conversion, which makes them impractical for implementation. Although ToA estimation based on phase estimation of narrowband signals circumvents that problem, the estimation performance suffers strongly from multipath propagation. We propose to combine the advantages of both techniques by performing spectral estimation at the output of a UWB energy detection receiver. This system benefits from resolvability of multipath components due to a large signaling bandwidth, but requires only low sampling rates. The impact of bandwidth on the ToA estimation accuracy is derived analytically and a closed form approximation of the estimation variance for a multipath channel is given. Moreover, we present a performance evaluation based on measured channels and show that accuracy up to 20 cm can be reached in strong multipath environments.


This research observed and analyzed both films entitled; "Ngenest" and "Cek Toko Sebelah" to find the manifested hybrid Chineese related to inter-ethnic relationships by drawing on the concept of hybridity. "Ngenest" and "Cek Toko Sebelah" were two successful films that were both written and directed by Ernest Prakasa, a Chinese Indonesian, and also featured Ernest Prakasa in a leading role. Close readings of both films were conducted to identify relevant and recurring themes related to the research questions. The theoretical frameworks of hybridity and essentialism/stereotyping were used to help in gaining a deeper understanding of the essence of the films. The results indicate that race still plays an important role in othering and building ethnic boundaries. Many stereotypes and counter stereotypes against both the Chinese and pribumi exist in the films. In terms of lessening ethnic boundaries, both films present hybridity in action in the form of inter-ethnic marriage and the everyday relationships of the Chinese and other ethnic groups. Although the essentialized Chinese identities are present, they are constantly in negotiation with other identities, in forming a hybridized version of Chineseness.


The paper examines changing approaches to local economic development in the period since 1974. Initially, it proposes an 'orthodox' model of local economic development policies which emphasised the provision of a better industrial fabric, and of financial assistance to small, inner city firms. It suggests three recent directions of change in emphasis from this orthodox model: help in the creation of new entrepreneurs; replacement of public sector by private sector action; local authority shareholding in local firms by use of Enterprise Boards. Each approach makes different assumptions about the public/private sector relationship, the last two involve a more explicitly ideological stance on this issue.


Objectives Our study aims to investigate the safety and efficiency of the Codonics Safe Label System (SLS) in a prospective simulation study. Methods Three sets of simulated experiments involving 82 anesthetists were carried out on patient simulator mannequins. The primary outcome assessed through the simulated experiments was the effectiveness of the SLS in avoiding vial swap errors. Secondary outcomes analyzed included the efficacy of the SLS in preventing syringe swap and the difference in time taken to prepare standardized drugs as compared with conventional methods. Results The SLS was associated with a significant reduction in all 4 stages of vial swap error. The incidence of wrong ampoule breakage was significantly lower in the SLS group compared with the conventional group (12.1% versus 38.5%, P = 0.007). The number of staff who drew the wrong ampoule was similarly lower in the SLS group compared with the conventional group (4.9% versus 33.3%, P = 0.001). The proportions of staff who eventually wrongly labeled the loaded syringe were 0% in the SLS group and 17.9% in the conventional group (P = 0.005). Drug preparation time was longer for the SLS group than for the conventional group (239.6 ± 45.9 versus 160.3 ± 46.5 seconds, P < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the incidence of syringe swap with the use of the SLS. Conclusions The use of the SLS is effective in reducing vial swap error, but not syringe swap errors, and is associated with increased time taken for anesthetic drug preparation.


Fires involving PCB-filled transformers occur infrequently, but concern exists about the release of potentially toxic combustion by-products. Responding to proposed EPA regulations on PCB-filled building transformers, experts gathered to review current information on the partial-oxidation products of PCB.


Using data sourced from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, binary and multinomial logistic regression models are estimated to analyse the correlates of perceived infertility, and the relationship between perceived infertility and contraceptive use of 1,654 couples. Results show that both biological and life-course interference factors are strong predictors of the perception of infertility at the couple level, with women's characteristics more influential than their partner's characteristics. Additionally, couples with perceived infertility are less likely to use contraception, regardless of their short-term intentions or desire to have a child.


An absorbent core (54) of the apparatus for forming the absorbent core (54) comprises cellulose fluff absorbent pad (50) and the superabsorbent polymer, the apparatus comprising a forming section (12), said forming section (12) is configured to form the absorbent pad (50) of the continuous movement chain (52), said absorbent pad (50) along a transverse direction with respect to said chain (52) movement direction (X) orientation, said forming section (12) comprising a dispenser device (56), said dispenser means (56) is configured with respect to the moving direction of said continuous chain (52) (X) transverse the direction (Y) at varying concentrations along the transverse direction orientation absorbent pad (50) is applied to the superabsorbent polymer.


A range of arguments is used to justify the inclusion of the arts in schools' curricula from different parts of the world, moreover, "the arts" can mean different things to different audiences. It is therefore useful to contextualize why and how arts education contributes to such things as social utility, personal growth, and aesthetic awareness. Arts education in many countries is being marginalized, and the cognitive value of arts education is being sidelined. By reinstating the arts in education as cognitively driven, culturally relevant, and progressive, an arts offering can be formed that aligns with, and advances, contemporary perspectives and practices in education.


The present invention relates to the use of spunlace nonwoven fabric made of continuous filaments of a loop elements for hook-and-loop fastener. Further, the present invention relates to the preparation of the loop material and the loop material made of a nonwoven fabric.


We introduce a one-parameter deformation of the Wishart–Laguerre or chiral ensembles of positive definite random matrices with Dyson index β = 1,2 and 4. Our generalized model has a fat-tailed distribution while preserving the invariance under orthogonal, unitary or symplectic transformations. The spectral properties are derived analytically for finite matrix size N × M for all three values of β, in terms of the orthogonal polynomials of the standard Wishart–Laguerre ensembles. For large N in a certain double-scaling limit we obtain a generalized Marčenko–Pastur distribution on the macroscopic scale, and a generalized Bessel law at the hard edge which is shown to be universal. Both macroscopic and microscopic correlations exhibit power law tails, where the microscopic limit depends on β and the difference M−N. In the limit where our parameter governing the power law goes to infinity we recover the correlations of the Wishart–Laguerre ensembles. To illustrate these findings, the generalized Marčenko–Pastur distribution is shown to be in very good agreement with empirical data from financial covariance matrices.


The Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians (ACP) recently released the following Guidance Statements, "Clinicians should aim to achieve anHbA1c level between 7% and 8% in most patients with type 2diabetes," and "Clinicians should consider deintensifying pharmacologic therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes whoachieve HbA1c levels less than 6.5%"(1 ).


The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has commenced a project to develop a national operational storm surge forecast system. As part of this endeavour, CSIRO is assisting in providing a method for predicting the additional sea level due to wave setup.


Two classes of observables defined on the phase space of a particle are quantized, and the effects of the Yang–Mills field are discussed in the context of geometric quantization.


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Comparative patterns in thermal performance between populations have fundamental implications for a species thermal sensitivity to warming and extreme events. Despite this, within-species variation in thermal performance is seldom measured. Here we compare thermal performance both within-species and between-species, for two species of seagrass (Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa) and two species of seaweed (Padina pavonica and Cystoseira compressa) across the Mediterranean Sea. Experimental populations from four locations representing between 75 and 99% of each species thermal distribution and a 6°C gradient in summer temperatures, were exposed to 10 temperature treatments between 15 and 36°C. Experimental thermal performance displayed the greatest variability between species, with optimal temperatures differing by over 10°C within the same location. Within-species differences in thermal performance were also important for P. oceanica which displayed large thermal safety margins within cool and warm-edge populations and small safety margins within central populations. Our findings suggest patterns of thermal performance in Mediterranean seagrasses and seaweeds retain deep "pre-Mediterranean" evolutionary legacies, suggesting marked differences in sensitivity to warming within and between benthic marine communities.


Novel rare-earth contained bismuth telluride thermoelectric materials were prepared by solvothermal synthesis at 180°C using bismuth chloride, tellurium powder and lanthanum chloride or oxide as starting materials, and the following hot uniaxial pressing (HUP), 400°C, at 50 MPa for lh. TEM, SEM and XRD analyses showed that the solvothermally synthesized powders were a mixture of bismuth telluride based compound, lanthanum telluride, bismuth and tellurium with grain size of about 30 nm. The powders react further during HUP to forth a single phase of lanthanum contained triple bismuth telluride. The crystal structure of the triple alloy is the same as that of a binary bismuth telluride. The hot-pressed lanthanum contained bismuth telluride has a lamellar grain structure with a thickness of less than 100 nm. Electric property measurements indicate that the maximal power factor of the material reaches 2×10^(-4) W•m•K^(-2) at 180°C.


The positive effect of Si and Zn ions on bone formation and metabolism has already been confirmed. The aim of this study was preparation and characterization of Willemite (Zn2SiO4) for the repair of bone defects. Willemite was prepared through solid state reaction. Phase analysis and chemical compositions were investigated. The zeta potential of the nanoparticles * یکینورتکلا تسپ ،تابتاکم لوئسم : email@example.com D ow nl oa de d fr om ja m e. iu t.a c. ir at 1 8: 19 IR S T o n T hu rs da y D ec em be r 27 th 2 01 8 [ D O I: 10 .1 88 69 /a ca dp ub .ja m e. 34 .1 .7 9 ]


In vitro reconstitution fusion assays incorporating full-length membrane-anchored synaptotagmin I clarify its role in several steps in the secretory pathway.


Among the initiatives aimed at reeducation and reintegration in confinement contexts, we hardly find proposals for education in values, beyond any isolated attempt by prison volunteering; nevertheless, educating in values helps to humanize and give another face to the jail; Therefore, we present an educational proposal based on the acquisition of values, contextualized in the Albolote Penitentiary Center (Granada, Spain), and coordinated by a multidisciplinary team made up of teachers and a representation of the rest of professionals and prison volunteers. Two types of values were worked from an active and participatory methodology: some aimed at favoring the personal rehabilitation of inmates, and others with an orientation towards social reintegration.


This article deals with the problem of pedagogical potential of Russian folk tales and their role in the interaction between preschoolers and educators. The authors have developed the levels of cultural identity of pedagogical potential of Russian folk tales which are characterized by ethnic specific content and provide formation of cultural identity of modern children.


Information technology penetrates into education field continuously with development of information technology. Information technology is playing an increasingly important role in education. Information technology has changed traditional mode of education, and created a brand-new learning environment for educatees. In-depth integration of information technology and basic education is one of important approaches to improve basic education teaching quality and promote basic education reform. It is innovative development of basic education. In the paper, method of strengthening in-depth integration of information technology and basic education is mainly discussed. Traditional education mode is compared with the in-depth integration teaching mode of information technology and education for discovering their difference. The teaching development trend of information technology and education teaching deeply integrated with basic education is analyzed for discovering problems in in-depth integration of information technology and basic education. Methods of strengthening information technology and basic education in-depth integration are proposed for driving in-depth integration of information technology and basic education. Comparative analysis between traditional education and in-depth integration teaching of information technology and education China has large population, in-depth integration of education and information technology plays a very important role for economic development and education fairness in China. Traditional education mode is greatly different from the in-depth integration education mode of information technology and education. In the paper, both are compared from four aspects of educators, educatees, relationship between teaching and learning as well as education resources. Table 1 shows that educators in traditional education mode assume the responsibility of teachers, and they are responsible for teaching knowledge. Educators in the education mode under in-depth integration of information technology and education include discipline experts, education teaching top designer, teaching designer, etc. and they are intelligent and innovative guiders; educatees in traditional education mode include students in basic education and pre-school education, and they are in neglected position, such education belongs to inculcating learning. The educatees of education mode under in-depth integration of information technology and education are people of basic education, pre-school education, special education and other community groups with learning demand. Educatees can be educated according to own interest, hobby and personalized demand. They are in the center of education teaching activities. The educatees utilize information technology media for two-way communication and man-machine interaction. Teaching activities of traditional education mode aims at learning knowledge and implementing teaching and learning according to teaching outline, subject standard and course plans, etc., and teaching and learning activity under in-depth integration of information technology and education aims at guiding educator to learn how to study and cultivate talents. Teaching resources of traditional education mode include chalk, blackboard, textbooks and notes, etc., or other teaching infrastructure. However, education resource under in-depth integration of information technology and education not only includes resources of traditional education mode, but also includes MOOCs, micro course, courseware, big data 4th International Conference on Mechatronics, Materials, Chemistry and Computer Engineering (ICMMCCE 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 1774 intelligent textbooks, electronic schoolbag, digital library, science and technology innovation laboratory, Web learning analysis system, cloud education platform, etc. Tab.1 Analysis and comparative table of traditional education mode and in-depth integration teaching mode of information technology and education Traditional education mode Teaching mode under in-depth integration between information technology and education Educator (1) Educator = teachers (2)Knowledge-based lecturers (1) Educator = education teaching top designer, subject expert, teaching designer, leading teacher, teaching assistant, etc; (2) "Intelligent and innovative" guider; Educatees (1) Educatees = students of pre-school education and basic education (2) Main body function of Educatees is easily ignored. (3) Inculcating learning (4) Weak interaction (1) Educatees = people of basic education, pre-school education, special education and other community groups with learning demand; (2) Educatees is always act as main body and core of education teaching activity; (3) Educatees can select personalized learning approaches according to personal demand, interest, own learning experience, etc.; (4) Educatees utilize information technology media for two-way communication and man-machine interaction; Relationship between teaching and learning (1) Direct purpose of teaching and learning activity: To learn knowledge; (2) Teaching and learning activities can be orderly organized according to teaching outline, subject standard and course plans, etc.; (1) Direct purpose of teaching and learning activity: To guide educatees to learn how to study, and cultivate high-quality talent; (2) Double or combo education mode adapting to talent cultivation, turnover classroom teaching mode, management mode, quality guarantee mechanism, etc. Education resources (1) Blackboard, chalk, textbooks and notes, etc. (2) Other traditional education teaching infrastructure (1) Blackboard, chalk, textbooks, notes and other traditional education teaching infrastructure (2) MOOCs, micro course, courseware, big data intelligent textbooks, electronic schoolbag, digital library, science and technology innovation laboratory, Web learning analysis system, cloud education platform, etc. Teaching development trend of information technology and education teaching deeply integrated with basic education In-depth integration of information technology and education teaching will change basic education teaching development trend and basic education traditional teaching mode. In the paper, it is believed that teaching development of information technology and education teaching deeply integrated with basic education has the following features: Educatees can converted from passive learning to active learning Use of information technology: cloud computing, virtual simulation technology, 3D printing and other major information techniques can be used in basic education for enriching students' learning activities, and students can be more interested in learning. In addition, educatees act as the education center of basic education due to transformation of educator role. Educators apply information technology for guiding students in autonomous learning and immersive learning. Educatees can utilize network resources, multimedia information and other information means for creating more learning opportunities according to their own needs. Learning time and space of educatees can not be limited due to information technology. Students can learn anytime and anywhere, thereby increasing learning opportunities of educatees. Richer and richer education resources A large number of high-quality learning resources can be gathered by using information technology. More learning resources can be provided for educatees in basic education. Educatees can select learning resource suitable for own demand according to own requirement. Educatees can


The article is devoted to the evolution of the policy of the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia on the issue of Mongolia. The period under study begins with the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the 20th century and ends with the attempts of Soviet Russia to establish relations with Mongolia in 1917–1918. The authors analyzed in detail the military-intelligence, diplomatic and revolutionary aspects of Russian politics in Mongolia. The article also examines the question of the probable meeting in 1917 of Mongolian representatives with the revolutionaries of the Central Executive Committee of Soviet power in Siberia and the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).


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The rat mammary gland has unique characteristics, much similar to that of humans, which makes them, an animal model of excellence for the study of breast cancer. The N-methylN-nitrosorea (MNU) is a carcinogen that does not require metabolic activation and high specificity features for induction of tumors, in the mammary gland, leading also to the formation of tumors with characteristics similar to human. This study employed 14 samples of breast tumors, from animals chemically induced by MNU. Through Immunohistological analysis verified the existence of four patterns: papillary, adenoid, solid and spindle cell. Being more present papillary and adenoid patterns. The tumors showed high reactivity for estrogen receptor, and high mitotic index, however by Ki-67 labeling was weak. By marking smooth muscle actin was found that all tumors showed two cell types: epithelial and myoepithelial, most notably the greater proliferation of epithelial component. Induction of mammary tumors by MNU is effective, leading to the formation of aggressive, mixed neoplasias, high expression of estrogen receptor, and high mitotic index.


Abstract Background/Aim: It has been shown that the methionine-choline deficient (MCD) diet induces hepatocarcinogenesis, but not in extrahepatic organs, such as the testis, and pancreas, although may increase chemical-induced carcinogenesis in the colon, mammary gland, esophagus, and pancreas. Accumulating evidence suggests that salivary glands are very susceptible to stress conditions, such as radiation, hyperglycemia, and exposure to xenobiotics in vivo. This study aimed to analyze the histological changes on the major salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual) after MCD diet administration. Materials and Methods: Male Swiss mice were submitted to ad libitum access to the control (AIN-76) or MCD diet for 28 days. The rebound group received the MCD diet for 24 days and the control diet for 10 days. Using the AxioImager A2 microscope, the hematoxylin-eosin (HE) stained specimens (4 mm) were evaluated for tissue degeneration, nuclear hyperchromatism and atrophy. Results: In the parotid gland from the MCD group, tissue degeneration, pyknosis, apoptosis and atrophy were observed, which remained in the rebound group, associated with hyperchromatism. In the submandibular gland from both MCD and rebound groups, severe tissue disorganization was associated with cell pleomorphism, hyperchromatic cells, apoptosis, increased eosinophilia, and inflammatory infiltrate. Finally, in the sublingual gland, there were no histological alterations in the experimental groups compared to the control. Conclusion: MCD can induce pre-neoplastic changes in the mouse parotid and submandibular glands, which are not reversed by a change in the diet.


This paper is a literature survey of the primary energy consumption in China since 1978 and its impact on environment. The high dependence on fossil energy resources, coal in particular, has together with the rapid growth of energy consumption during the past decade increased the outlet of pollutants to air, soil and water. The paper focuses on air pollutions in the first hand. The development from 1978 until around 2010 is described and discussed. The scientific articles found are mostly funded or influenced by Chinese authorities. Therefore the paper also reviews some environmental NGO's and newspapers to get a counter weight. This has supported the view that there is an urgent need for action in China to stop degradation of the environment. A handful of options to reduce the environmental impact of primary energy consumption are discussed together with the challenges China faces today. The urgency for action is obvious and the question to be answered in the near future is if the government in China has the capacity to implement the options discussed.


Online course Registration System for ITSSO,TM, has been build for prepared an online registration course and online information. This project is important for saving the register time and be a paperless work environment also to reduce manual filing and sharing online information. Even though, there's a few weakness that has been acknowledged and by re-evaluating all the existing process, we can fix the problems by using the updates technology. The methodology that has been used to build this system is Rapid prototype.This approach has been chosen because it is suitable to manage the system that has been built online.Model language that has been used to represent all the activities in the system is UML. Software that involves for system interfacing is Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 with Oracle 8i to build the database. This development system is Web based where it is operated as online application. It hope that this system can contributed to the organization therefore can helps in upgrading the image of company.