Here, we report the draft genome sequences of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium phaeovibrioides strains GrTcv12 and PhvTcv-s14, isolated from the chemocline zone from meromictic Lake Trekhtzvetnoe, separated from the White Sea, in Russia. This is the first report showing the presence of plasmids containing antiphage systems in the Chlorobium sp. genome. ABSTRACT Here, we report the draft genome sequences of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium phaeovibrioides strains GrTcv12 and PhvTcv-s14, isolated from the chemocline zone from meromictic Lake Trekhtzvetnoe, separated from the White Sea, in Russia. This is the first report showing the presence of plasmids containing antiphage systems in the Chlorobium sp. genome.


Because star employees are more visible and productive, they are likely to be sought out by others and develop an information advantage through their abundant social capital. However, not all of the information effects of stardom are beneficial. We theorize that stars' robust social capital may produce an unintended side effect of information overload. We highlight the role of human resource management in minimizing the effects of information overload for stars, and we discuss avenues for future research.


Security, Professionalism and Service Performance. The purpose of this study was to describe and to determine the safety, professionalism auction service employees on organizational performance Bengkalis Procurement Unit. This research is a quantitative method, the population is bidders who numbered 256 participants and 72 samples using random sampling populasional. Data was collected by questionnaire. The results using a variable sense of safety and professionalism in partial positive and significant influence together (simultaneously) significantly affects the performance of the ULP, with a 95% confidence level. Furthermore, the results of data analysis showed that the coefficient of determination (R2) of the model is 0764, which means that 76.4% of independent variables (a sense of security and professionalism) is able to explain the dependent variable (performance ULP) and the remaining 23.6% is influenced by variables other outside variables in this study


In the past decade, Moroccan filmmaking has documented the transitions taking place in contemporary society. Whether the films are made in French, Arabic, Berber, or a mixture of all three, language becomes secondary to the images that filmmakers seek to convey to their audiences. For the most part, films made since 1999, the year marking the end of the "Lead Years" (Les Années de plomb, 1963–1999) under the dogmatic and repressive rule of King Hassan II, are socially engaging. Made in a social-realist style that seeks not only to entertain but also to educate audiences about the sociocultural and political transitions that are taking place in society, Moroccan filmmakers depict a culture on the move. History is being reviewed and retold to remind and educate Moroccans of and about the atrocities that took place during the Lead Years. Human rights' abuses, torture, women's emancipation, freedom of speech, poverty, unemployment, and the plight of urban street children in Casablanca are the themes of today's Moroccan cinema. No stone is left unturned, as filmmakers push the envelope of social consciousness to expose the challenges of contemporary Moroccan society. In the past decade, the films Casanegra (Nourredine Lakhmari, 2008), L'Os de fer (Hicham Lasri, The Iron Bone, 2007), Les Anges de Satan (Ahmed Boulane, Satan's Angels, 2007), and Casablanca (Farida Benlyazid, 2002) reveal that in the era of intense globalization, urban spaces in Morocco have become conflicted, fragmented spaces. The modern city is for these filmmakers a corrupted human space that rejects the laws of traditional life, dislocates the individual from his/her clan, and leads to the dissolution of the social contract between man and his community. In the films analyzed in this article, the urban space is one that fosters reflection on the price of modernity, technology and the hypothetical Western advances of the globalized age.


Ferrer Bassa (fl. 1324–1348) was an illuminator of manuscripts in early life, painted at least nine retables in his later years, and died, perhaps of the Black Death, in 1348. He seems to have been a king's favorite all his days: for Alfonso IV he illuminated the Usages of Barcelona and Customs of Catalonia, and for the queen of Pedro IV, a Book of Hours, to borrow which her husband wrote from Barcelona to Valencia in 1342. The retables were executed for King Pedro, excepting three in Lerida Cathedral commissioned for the great house of Moncada (1341) and his last work, undertaken for the Franciscan abbot at Valencia and never finished. Elisonda de Moncada, the queen of Jaime II, founded a Franciscan nunnery at Pedralbes (1326), and her niece, the second abbess, employed Ferrer Bassa to decorate the chapel of St. Michael there, his only surviving work and so far as we know, his only fresco painting.


Akeroyd, J. R. & Preston, C. D.: Floristic notes from the Aegean region of Greece. Willdenowia 16: 349-372. 1987. ISSN 0511-9618. Phytogeographical and taxonomic notes are provided for 53 taxa of vascular plants collected in the Aegean region of Greece, especially on the island of Samothraki. Many of these taxa are rare or have been reported infrequently in Greece. Hieracium giresunense (Samothraki) and Polygonum lanigerum (Kriti) have not previously been reported from Europe, and Isoetes durieui has only been reported once before from Greece. Apium nodiflorum, Carpobrotus edulis, Polygonum rurivagum and Rumex vesicarius are confirmed as occurring in Greece, although reported doubtfully or ambiguously in the literature. Other species are noted that were not reported from Greece in Flora Europaea, although recorded by subsequent authors. A number of the species discussed are weeds or ruderals that are frequently disregarded or overlooked by botanists in the field.


The article discusses the fin de siecle thinking of Schopenhauer, Eduard von Hartmann, and Nietzsche in late Qing China. Schopenhauer's theory of blind life force catered to both naturalists and symbolists, and found a sympathetic ear in Wang Guowei, who founded the first "modernist" aesthetics in China. The article also revises the accepted view of the alleged disjunction in Wang's intellectual career. Wang was among the earliest translators of experimental psychology in China. Yet both Kant and Wilhelm Wundt averred that the higher activities of the mind can only be studied through cultural history, and that was the path Wang pursued. Hartmann's doctrine of human evolution toward mankind's collective nirvana finds echoes in Zhang Taiyan's "co-evolution" thesis. Nietzsche deems the Superman a remedy for the decadent nineteenth century, a view echoed in China by Lu Xun out of context. The impact of fin de siecle thinking was mediated by Japan.


Measured center element gain patterns, voltage standing-wave ratio (VSWR), and mutual coupling for passively terminated arrays of horizontally polarized loop-fed slotted cylinder antennas over a ground plane are given. A seven-element hexagonal array is investigated in detail. The element gain pattern is shown to have a null at broadside with omnidirectional coverage along a constant cone angle from broadside. Maximum gain occurs close to 50\deg from broadside which provides for wide-angle phased array scanning capability. The antennas are also configured in a linear array geometry, to investigate mutual coupling effects on the element gain pattern as the number of elements is varied. The element gain pattern is shown to converge for a relatively few number of elements and there is no indication of undesired blind spots.


This course focuses on sociology of sexuality and the theoretical and methodological approaches used in this area of study in the last century. Sexuality is an important part of our behaviors and identities. It is also fundamental to the cultural, social, economic and political organization of our society. With focus on the idea of the social construction of sexualities, this course explores various dimensions of sexualities including, identities, desires and practices, morality and social control, social movements and political activism.


The invention discloses a stereo prototyping mechanism, comprising a printing assembly for spraying liquid; a quantificational powder delivery assembly for providing powders for construction; a powder spreading device for spreading the powders for construction; a constructing groove system for bearing the constructing powders spread by the powder spreading device and bearing liquid sprayed by theprinting assembly; a heating device for heating the constructing powders while spray printing is carrying out; a spray nozzle maintenance device consisting of a cleaning unit and a seal unit; a transmission part dust control structure covered on the transmission part for preventing the constructing powder from contacting the transmission part; a powder filtering device for absorbing and filteringconstructing powders raised in the operation of the stereo prototyping mechanism; and a continuous liquid feeding device for delivering liquid to a printing box so as to carry out spray printing on the constructing powders.


Objective:The hepatic hemodynamic parameters were measured by color Doppler ultrasound to investigate the characteristics of hemodynamics of the proper hepatic artery(PHA)in patients with primary hepatic carcinoma(PHC)and contrasted with those in liver cirrhosis and the normal group for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of PHC.Methods:The diameters of PHA(PHA-D)and Doppler spectrum parameters of PHA in patients with liver cirrhosis,PHC and the normal group were separately measured with Color Doppler Ultrasound.Results:Patients in PHC were contrasted with those in liver cirrhosis and the normal group:PHA-D was wider(P0.05),PSV of PHA was higher(P0.05),and RI of PHA was lower(P0.05).Conclusion:Compared with liver cirrhosis and the normal group,PHA-D in PHC broadened,PSV of PHA increased,and RI of PHA descended.Those differences were statistically significant.Color Doppler ultrasonography of the PHA-D and Doppler spectrum parameters were helpful to the early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of PHC.


Introduction: Chondrolipomas are rare, benign mesenchymal tumors characterized by proliferation of mature adipocytes associated with variable amounts of mature cartilaginous tissue. Chondrolipoma of the oral cavity is an uncommon clinical presentation.
Case Report: We present the case of a 50-year-old, male, Nigerian, type 2 diabetic presenting with a painless, slow growing swelling of the lower lip of two years duration which did not respond to antibiotic therapy. Excision and histopathologic assessment of the mass revealed a diagnosis of chondrolipoma.
Conclusion: Chondrolipoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of masses in the oral cavity.


Low socioeconomic status (SES) may be associated with increased risk of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and vice versa. Possible associations between SES, obesity and ethnicity in PCOS are undetermined.


The observations of range and time delay will be synthetically analyzed for determining time series of angular positions in the orbit measurement of Chang'E-1 satellite of Chinese lunar exploration project,and so it is necessary to discuss the relative weights between different kinds of observation data.Through data simulation the precisions of angular position determined by least squares adjustment and by Helmert method for Variance Component Estimation(VCE) are compared under various circumstances of observations.The estimated uncertainty is usually provided along with the observations and used to determine the relative weights in data processing,but it may not reflect the real precision of observation.Simulation results show that the application of Helmert method of VCE could obviously improve the solution precision.Compared with the least squares adjustment,the Helmert method is relatively complicated in calculations,however,this is almost negligible to modern computer.


Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma (PLGA) is a neoplasm that occurs frequently in the mucosa of the soft and hard palates, in the buccal mucosa and in the upper lip and is very rare within the nasopharynx. We present a case of PLGA, which presented as a nasal polyp.


Grosswald's conjecture is that $g(p)$, the least primitive root modulo $p$, satisfies $g(p) \leq \sqrt{p} - 2$ for all $p>409$. We make progress towards this conjecture by proving that $g(p) \leq \sqrt{p} -2$ for all $409 3.67\times 10^{71}$.


The Macintosh laryngoscope (MAC) is the most commonly used device for directly visualising the structures of the larynx and facilitating tracheal intubation.[1] Videolaryngoscopes (VLs) improve the visualisation of the glottis and the rate of successful oral intubation[2] and are useful aids in teaching the laryngoscopy technique to novices. The view on the screen can help the teacher guide the novice and provide verbal feedback,[3] resulting in a higher chance of success during the intubation attempt. This has also been seen with tracheal intubations with VL in infants and neonates.[4]


Christianity brings a substantial development in the concept of forgiveness when, by commanding to forgive even the enemy, it lessens the distance between divine and human forgiveness. But, while forgiving those who intentionally attempt to harm or destroy us or others, do we not condone or justify injustice; and as a result, do we not undermine our personal and the common safety and betterment? Can the State still punish the perpetrator if the victim forgives? This article discusses resentment, sin and crime, and forgiving as "letting go", "love given before" and "absolution". It also explores the significant difference between divine and human forgiveness and reconciliation.


Linkage analysis, a class of methods for detecting co‐segregation of genomic segments and traits in families, was used to map disease‐causing genes for decades before genotyping arrays and dense SNP genotyping enabled genome‐wide association studies in population samples. Population samples often contain related individuals, but the segregation of alleles within families is rarely used because traditional linkage methods are computationally inefficient for larger datasets. Here, we describe Population Linkage, a novel application of Haseman–Elston regression as a method of moments estimator of variance components and their standard errors. We achieve additional computational efficiency by using modern methods for detection of IBD segments and variance component estimation, efficient preprocessing of input data, and minimizing redundant numerical calculations. We also refined variance component models to account for the biases in population‐scale methods for IBD segment detection. We ran Population Linkage on four blood lipid traits in over 70,000 individuals from the HUNT and SardiNIA studies, successfully detecting 25 known genetic signals. One notable linkage signal that appeared in both was for low‐density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in the region near the gene APOE (LOD = 29.3, variance explained = 4.1%). This is the region where the missense variants rs7412 and rs429358, which together make up the ε2, ε3, and ε4 alleles each account for 2.4% and 0.8% of variation in circulating LDL cholesterol. Our results show the potential for linkage analysis and other large‐scale applications of method of moments variance components estimation.


Detailed structural and magnetic measurements were performed on nanostructured composite thin films of cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4-magnetostrictive) dispersed in a barium titanate (BaTiO3-piezoelectric) matrix, with different CoFe2O4 concentrations (ranging from x=20% to x=70%). The films were deposited by laser ablation on platinum covered Si(100). Their structure was studied by x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The magnetic properties were measured with a superconducting quantum inteference device magnetometer. The nanocomposite films were polycrystalline and composed by a mixture of tetragonal-BaTiO3 and CoFe2O4 with the cubic spinel structure. The lattice parameter of the CoFe2O4 phase varied from 8.26A (x=20%) to 8.35A (x=70%), and, compared with bulk CoFe2O4, it was under compressive stress that relaxed as its concentration progressively increased. In the tetragonal-BaTiO3 phase, the lattice parameter a was contracted relative to the bulk phase and decreases with x. The lattice parameter c incre...


In this paper, compression of hyperspectral images with luminance transform is explained. First, similar image bands are grouped on hyperspectral image and luminance transform is performed independently on these groups. After luminance transform, compression is carried out by using discrete cosine transform (3D-DCT), quantization and entropy coding, for each group. In experimental studies, compression performances are measured using signal-to-noise ratio and bit rates. The proposed method increases signal-to-noise ratio 10 dB at 0.1 bit-per-pixel compared to 3D-DCT based compression.


The 1920s saw some changes in American Women's marriage and family life."Partnership-like marriages" emerged.American Women asked for more in material benefits and emotional needs.Birth control was widely accepted,and the birth rate was declining while the divorce rate was rising.Housework was greatly simplified,and more and more married women worked outside the home.Women acted new roles in families,but their traditional responsibilities remained unchanged.


This method adopts double electrode perturbation spectrum,K2S2O7,NaF,Al2O3 and GeO2 are used as buffers and Ge as internal standard.Determination Of boron tin silver in the samples by Arc emission spectrometry.Determination of national level of standard reference materials,results conform with the values.


This paper was attempted to examine the effect of temperature and rainfall on the productivity of two important crops-pigeonpea and cotton in Andhra Pradesh following panel data regression approach. Using the district level time series data, the yield of each of these two crops was regressed on maximum temperature during kharif, rainfall quantity and number of rainy days for the period 1990–2002, in a one-way and two-way fixed effect models of panel regression using Least Squares Dummy Variable Method. Comparison of district specific effects revealed statistically significant differences between districts in case of pigeonpea. The response coefficients for rainfall and number of rainy days were found significant at 5 per cent level. A positive impact on yield of pigeonpea at the rate of 1.9 kg/ha was observed for a 10 mm rise in rainfall. The number of rainy days was found to have a significant negative relationship with yield. In case of cotton, half of the major cotton growing districts differed significantly in mean yield levels. A significant reduction in yield at a rate of 13 kg/ha for every 1°C rise in the maximum temperature was observed. The yield of cotton was found to increase by 0.7 kg/ha for every 10 mm increase in the rainfall.


In Australia, the COVID‐19 pandemic has caused severe social disruptions, including restrictions to the movement of people. Healthcare centres around the world have seen changes in the nature of injuries acquired during the COVID‐19 pandemic; we therefore hypothesize that social isolation measures have changed the pattern of plastic and reconstructive surgery presentations.


Cu diffused GaAs samples have been investigated using different kinds of FΠR techniques and photoluminescence. The results suggest that tne "0.15 eV" level originates from the ioruzation of a neutral, nearly substitutional Cu acceptor at a Ga site. Furthermore, the results indicate a distortion in the [100] direction. The ground state binding energy obtained from the effective-mass-like excited states is 157.8 meV at 6K.


Researchers are concerned about factors that influence participants' decisions to participate and continue in longitudinal research studies, but few empirical studies have examined the role of participant motivation and study experiences. We analyzed data from 4,216 participants enrolled in the National Children's Study Vanguard Study, a series of pilot studies for a large-scale epidemiological cohort study of children and their mothers. Findings indicated most participants joined the NCS for altruistic reasons. While our data suggest some association between reasons for joining a study and retention, they are not the strongest predictors for retention after controlling for participant demographics. Continued participation in the study was associated with demographic factors and having a positive experience in the NCS.


Axisymmetric indentation of an incompressible elastic layer by a frictionless rigid sphere is considered. Estimates of the contact radius and the force required to produce a given indentation are given when the thickness of the layer is small compared to the contact radius. The elastic layer is either bonded to or slips along a rigid substrate. The estimates are obtained by asymptotically matching a lubrication-type expansion valid in the contact region to an edge layer expansion studied using the Wiener--Hopf technique. A substantially larger force is required to equally indent a bonded layer compared to a slipping layer. In the former case the force is inversely proportional to the cube of the layer thickness, rather than to the layer thickness itself, if the layer is free to slip.


Review(s) of: Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire, by Pickles, Thomas, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) hardcover, xxiii + 386 pages, 15 maps and 28 b and w illustrations; RRP 85.00 pounds; ISBN: 9780198818779.


A flexible filter bank-based FDMA (frequency division multiple access) uplink transmitting terminal, a receiving terminal, and a receiving method are provided; each user transmitting terminal with inverse filter bank transform with less band number and a lower rate modulates to form a discrete narrow band multi-sub-band signal, and then forms a RF signal after digital to analog conversion (d/a conversion), spectrum removal specified by user and up-conversion; while at a base station a higher rate and FBT with more sub-band number are adopted so as to demodulate a synthetic wide band signal with various band widths (sub-band number) and carrier frequency offset from all users, so as to make the system have strong robustness for multi-access interference, as well as adaptable to various service requirement and terminal processing ability of multi-user well, so as to reduce complexity and power consumption of the transmitting terminal.


Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co.,Ltd.built a 250 mm×2 150 mm slab caster,which was primarily designed by China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co.,Ltd and manufactured in China.The caster is mainly used to produce automobile sheet,oriented and non-oriented silicon steel,pipeline steel,vessel steel and ship plate steel,etc.A number of advanced international technologies and key equipments have been adopted in the caster,and the consumption indexes of its products have reached the advanced world level.This article mainly introduces the technical characteristics of this continuous casting machine and presents the basic parameters,providing references for similar designs.


With the advent of flexible electronics, flexible lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted great attention as a promising power source in the emerging field of flexible and wearable electronic devices. Flexible LIBs are generally LIBs that can operate within the normal elastic range. When the external force is unloaded, it can completely restore its original state without any remaining plastic deformation. According to the different types of deformation, most of the as-reported flexible LIBs are referred to as bendable LIBs. This review summarizes the recent developments in the application of graphene in bendable LIBs. Graphene has superior electronic conductivity. Thus, graphene can act as a type of conductive phase to form composite films containing polymers, paper and cloth. In this structure, graphene has a conductive network and the substrates provide a flexible support. Because of its unique two dimensional structure and rich functional groups, graphene can form composites with other active materials. Graphene-based materials can work as flexible electrodes and can effectively improve the overall energy density of LIBs, making them highly anticipated in the near future. This review also introduces methods to characterize the mechanical and electrochemical properties of flexible LIBs. In this review, the trends of flexible LIBs are also included. Future flexible LIBs will be stretchable, enabling them to work under different conditions. Newly developed flexible LIBs should also have self-healing abilities and should be able to be charged at high rates. Although there are still many problems to overcome, the ubiquitous applications of flexible LIBs with superior electrochemical and mechanical properties in flexible electronic devices are highly anticipated in the near future.


The induction of chromosome doubling using antimitotic chemical will only be effective when the substance is applied at vegetative growth phase, as it works only during mitotic division within cells of actively growing tissues. Therefore, this investigation was carried out to determine the precise conversion time from vegetative into reproductive growth stage, that in turn can be used as a reliable reference for the application of antimitotic chemicals in doubling the chromosome number in Swainsona formosa.  The conversion from vegetative to reproductive growth in Swainsona formosa was successfully determined with particular emphasis on the effect of different photoperiods.  Although photoperiod affected the time required for first flower initiation, the number of nodes before the plant entering the reproductive stage was not affected by photoperiod and presumed to be set genetically.  It was found that under artificial photoperiods of 16, 12 and 8 hours the 12th and 11th nodes were the critical nodes for the main and side stems, respectively.  Meanwhile the 10th and 8th nodes were found to be critical for main and side stems of plants grown under natural photoperiods ranging from 12 to 16 hours during their life cycle.  Histological examination indicated that when the plants were grown under 12 – 16 hours photoperiods the first floral bud formation was initiated within 56 – 60 days after germination, thus this period was considered as the critical time for the conversion from vegetative to reproductive growth in S. formosa.

Keywords:  Sturt's desert pea, legume, ornamental plant, plant breeding.


1. Context and history of the surveys Until the 1990's, there were no reliable quantitative studies concerning homelessness in France. The population census of 1990 counted the visible homeless in the street on a given day, but this procedure includes high risk of both double counting and under estimation. In 1993, a request was made by representatives of voluntary organisations and trade unions working with the French National Council on Statistical Information (CNIS)to create a special working group to focus on homelessness. From 1995 to 2002, several quantitative surveys were initiated in France by Maryse Marpast & J.M. Firdion (INED) using a methodology adapted from American surveys conducted from 1984 to 1996 by the Rand Corporation, the Urban Institute, the RTI and the Census Bureau. Based on an indirect sampling framework involving the structures which provide services to homeless people, this method requires the cooperation of many different services. Through this necessary mediation of the services run by NGOs and institutions depending on social work and health authorities, different problems arose. Our experiences of surveys among the homeless population and drug users conducted by Ined (1995-2002) will be exposed, showing the different questions we had to cope with, and the answers provided, from sampling design to the collection of data, as well as the necessary adaptations to the field realities and to the populations we were aiming at. Studies of the homeless in the United States have been carried out since the beginning of the 1980's. The first generation of studies was based on the opinions of experts. But the estimates that came out of these surveys were severely criticised by activists working with the homeless. The second generation totally changed the procedure. Surveys took place at night time simultaneously in the streets and in the shelters (to avoid double counting). The study done by the Nashville Coalition for the Homeless (Wiegand, 1985) and those piloted by Peter Rossi in Chicago in 1986 and 1987 are examples of this method. But although they were based on a more scientific method than the procedure of the first generation, problems arose concerning the collection of data in the street. In the third generation of studies, the surveys were done in the daytime and over a longer period. They took place in the "services" provided for people in difficult situations. Works of this kind include Burnam and Koegel's on the Los Angeles skidrow area (1988), Dennis' of the Research Triangle Institute in Washington D.C.(1993), the surveys of the Census Bureau and of the Urban Institute. The main


Nitrous oxide, together with aluminium and silicon chlorides, as precursor gases, while hydrogen and nitrogen as carriers, have been fed into a cold-wall reactor, in order to produce crystalline deposited layers of mullite (3Al 2 O 3 .2SiO 2 ) on silicon carbide and aluminium nitride substrates. The corresponding deposition kinetics has been studied, for fixed flow rates of nitrous oxide, hydrogen and nitrogen, as a function: of the substrate temperature, from 1100 to 1300 °C; of the gas pressure, from 10 to 90 hPa and of the AlCl 3 to SiCl 4 input ratio.The coating's chemical composition, crystal structure and morphology was precisely determined by means of WDS, XRD and SEM. The aluminium content of the deposits increases first as a function of pressure. It reaches a maximum for P = 20 hPa, whence it decreases steadily, to finally vanish completely for P = 100 hPa. The best experimental conditions to produce mullite coatings were then interpolated, experimentally tested, and the side compounds, under such conditions, identified.


Mayer Parry Recycling ('MPR') carried out a business recovering and reprocessing scrap metal. The Environment Agency (the 'Agency') considered that MPR's activities required a waste management licence as they involved the recovery of 'waste' as defined in the EC Framework Directive on waste (75/442/EEC as amended by 91/156/EEC), the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 and the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990. MPR disagreed. In particular MPR considered that four categories of the scrap metal which did not require any further treatment prior to being resold were not 'waste' for the purposes of the relevant legislation.


This paper gives an analytical explanation of a voltage jump phenomenon noticed at the transformer termiIEEE Power Engineering Review, July 1986nal. In particular, it is proven that as a consequence of certain non-synchronous switching conditions, the voltage of the last disconnected transformer terminal will suddenly in¬ crease. Overvoltages as a consequence of non-synchronous switching are calculated and compared with measured volt¬ age waveforms. 85 SM 378-5 July 1986, pp. 156-160 Three Dimensional Flux Calculation on a Three-Phase Transformer I. El Nahas, B. Szabados, and R. D. Findlay McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada M. Poloujadoff Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Electriciens de Grenoble, St. Martin d'Hères, France S. Lee, P. Burke, and D. Perco Westinghouse, Canada Abstract.Increases in the ratings of large power transform¬Increases in the ratings of large power transform¬ ers have demanded more accurate methods of predicting leakage fields which give rise to excessive losses in the devices. This paper addresses the issue, giving the develop¬ ment of a technique which can be used with minimal computing power to determine the distribution of the mag¬ netic fluxes. Estimates for the additional stray load losses in the iron parts can be calculated with reasonable accuracy after the flux distribution has been found. For developing large transformers and reactors, it is neces¬ sary to know the distribution of the magnetic leakage field to calculate the electro-dynamic forces and the stray losses due to eddy currents in the winding conductors and in steel parts such as core, tank, pressing beams, etc. In general, the magnetic field in the transformer is calculated using the assumption that the structure is two-dimensional. But actual transformers are three-dimensional. Thus, the customary two-dimensional approximations are inadequate. In this pa¬ per, the three-dimensional magnetic flux distribution on the tank wall of a three phase transformer has been calculated. In order to perform the calculation, a finite element scheme has been adopted to obtain a two-dimensional solution at 15 meridian planes of the transformer coil of a single phase transformer for any arbitrary value of current density. Using the actual values of current densities, the magnetic field has been computed for each phase at two selected instants of time in the cycle. Then, the results are manipulated to obtain an overall solution. The whole procedure has been checked by experiment. The flux densities were measured over the tank wall using a halfeffect probe. These data were processed, along with geomet¬ rical data, and displayed, interactively, on a microcomputer screen as a simple and efficient procedure for realistic verification of the measured values. Contours of the magnetic flux have been plotted for both the simulated. Fig. 1, as well as the measured, Fig. 2, values. The comparison of these two sets of contours shows that the simulated results agree well with measured values. This technique provides an excellent practical alternative to the much more costly approaches taken with full scale threedimensional calculation routines. Discussers: R. S. Girgis, J. McWhirter, and Selwyn Palmer


We have used absorption, photoluminescence (PL), and variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE) measurements to investigate the structural changes that take place upon high temperature annealing in spin-coated films of the prototypical conjugated polymer (CP) poly[2-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-5-methoxy-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV). Absorption and VASE measurements reveal that the birefringence of the films increases by approximately a factor of two upon heating, which indicates a significant increase in the alignment of the conjugated polymer (CP) strands within the film plane. Absorption and PL spectra indicate the formation in annealed films of interchain species having lower energy transitions. But these measurements alone do not reveal the type of interchain species formed, such as excimers or aggregates. VASE measurements were used to investigate this feature and clearly reveal a new, low energy, feature with a shoulder at 650 nm in the dispersion relations of the extraordinary (out-of-plane) extinction and absorption coefficients of the annealed films, which we assign to aggregate absorption. Thus, our work shows that VASE is sufficiently sensitive to measure aggregate absorption in CP films. In the case of the ordinary (in-plane) extinction and absorption coefficients, there is an increased amplitude of the lower energy peak upon heating, owing to increased uniaxial anisotropy, along with a broadening and a longer red tail, but the well-resolved red-shifted absorption band seen for the extraordinary absorption coefficient is not observed. Therefore, we conclude that while in-plane and out-of-plane aggregation occurs in annealed spin-coated films of MEH-PPV, aggregate absorption is only clearly observed when the aggregate electronic transition dipole is oriented preferentially in a direction perpendicular to the film plane. This conclusion is consistent with the usual observation that aggregate absorption in MEH-PPV films is not easily observed using absorption spectra alone, which are typically measured at normal incidence.


The application landscapes of major companies have a complex structure each. Data has to be exchanged between or distributed to the various applications. In this paper different types of data integration are identified and categorized. Advantages and disadvantages as well as usage scenarios are discussed for each identified integration type. This paper tries to answer the question Where does redundancy make sense?, not How to avoid redundancy?.Keywords: data integration, data redundancy management, enterprise application integration, EAI


Algorithms on sequences of symbols have been studied for a long time and now form a fundamental part of computer science. One of the very important problems in analysis of sequences is the longest common subsequence problem. For the general case of an arbitrary number of input sequences, the problem is NP-hard. We describe an approach to solve this problem. This approach is based on constructing a logical model for the longest common subsequence problem.


This thesis entitled "TMJ DISORDERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TOOTH LOSS AND STUDENTS OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LOJA, MODE STUDIES CLASSROOM DURING THE PERIOD MAY-JULY 2014" is an investigation from the approach of a general objective: to determine the frequency of TMJ disorders and its relation to tooth loss with their specific objectives: to establish the relationship between the frequency of TMJ disorders and frequency of tooth loss, know the dysfunction it occurs most frequently and gender distribution. Being a research scientist, descriptive and observational character develops through the assessment and inspection of the structures involved. To which the study was conducted on 894 students at the National University of Loja, of which it was found that 375 students had clinical TMJ; 48.8% of them have tooth loss, also occurs more frequently in females in a ratio of 2: 1. In the men's population. The main clinical sign of TMJ dysfunction is represented with the click joint which may be with or without pain. Concluding that tooth loss is directly related to the presence of TMJ disorders, causing displacement of teeth present in the mouth which causes premature contacts, changing the path of travel of the articular condyle to the fossa. Just as the loss of posterior oclusal support intrusion and producing condylar compression.
Keywords: Disorders of TMJ, dysfunction, tooth loss.


A common problem faced by teachers of research methods is the difficulty of providing students with an integrated view of theory, methods, and statistics. In this paper, I offer a visual device which helps to provide such an integration. The device is borrowed from matrix algebra, in which data are organized in a rectangular structure with rows representing observations and columns representing variables. This arrangement highlights the need to clearly identify the appropriate variables to be included as columns in the matrix (a theoretical concern), the need to gather valid and reliable data to fill the matrix (a methodological concern), and the need to summarize a large array of data (a statistical concern). The paper explores the use of matrices to portray these concerns and provides a number of specific classroom exercises examining theoretical, methodological and statistical issues with the use of matrices.


Village Roopsi is situated in the rocky and sandy terrain of Thar Desert plain (Marusthali), 35 km North-West of Jaisalmer town, Rajasthan with a total population of 1430 persons (Census 2001). The settlements of this village bear a reflection of the local caste structure. Three residential clusters have been identified according to the caste hierarchy based on their traditional occupations. These are i. Upper Caste Sector on the western end of the south-eastern part, ii. Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes on the southern end of the south-eastern part and iii. Tribal Population on the northern end of the south-eastern part of the village. A comparative study on socio-economic parameters (based on Census of India, 2001 and primary sample survey on 142 households covering all three residential sectors) reveals marked disparities in various aspects of life derived from caste structure among these settlement clusters.


Using gastrula ectoderm of Cynops pyrrhogaster, the electrophoretic mobility (EPM) of cells was measured. Before EPM measurement, the cells were treated with either LiCl or swimbladder tissue, which are known to possess endo‐ and mesodermal inducing activity. The EPM of the treated cells increased after 48 hr. A significant difference was observed between the control and experimental series. In addition to the measurements of EPM, histological sections of the explants were examined. Before obvious tissue differentiation occurred in the explants, definitive changes in the EPM values were recorded at 48 and 72 hr after treatment.


that there is no general agreement that prehistoric rock art in Eurasia represents shamans in action, but deals with this simply by referring approvingly to those scholars who want it to do so. Repeatedly, he acknowledges that Hungarian academics have long disputed whether there are clear traces of Siberian shamanism in the folklore of their own nation. He never, however, lays out the arguments of those who oppose the idea and then addresses them, preferring instead to quote—briefly, repeatedly, and warmly—those who espouse it. Once again, the lore concerned is treated as completely timeless, without much regard to how and when it was collected. It is always compared with the Siberian data, similarities being highlighted at every possible point and differences brushed aside, with no attempt to see how the same activities and ideas relate to those found among other European cultures. To my mind, Hungary falls within a well-defined, supraethnic, southeast European cultural province in which certain individuals are believed to send out their own spirits in their sleep to do battle in the apparent world for the good of their communities, making a contrast with the dramatic public performances, trances, journeys in spirit worlds, and alliances with spirit-helpers of Siberian and Arctic shamans. Only a full and systematic discussion of the evidence can tackle the problem of how much the two are related. Nonetheless, the quality of Mihály Hoppál, as scholar and person, is so high that any of his work is bound to be of interest and importance, and this latest one has both.


Studies on alloy NPs are of great importance because of the optical and catalytic properties, which are usually depend on the composition and size of NPs. Formation of alloy NPs is based on the reduction of metal ions, which could take place by transient species through the photo-decomposition of water molecules caused by a high intensity optical field. This method is not only one of green routes to the synthesis of pure metal and/or alloy NPs but also possible to produce multimetallic NPs with desired compositions. The use of surfactants, which will immediately cover the particles during their formation, improves size uniformity as well as their stability. In this context, the addition of surfactants is an appropriate choice for catalytic use. In this study, we demonstrate that the use of surfactants in femtosecond laser irradiation makes it possible to reduce the mean diameter as well as the size distribution of produced alloy NPs. Sample solutions of Rh, Pd and Pt ions with 2.5×10 M concentration were separately prepared with dispersants polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and citrate and then mixed. A 3 ml of the mixed solution was kept in a quartz glass cuvette and irradiated for 30 minutes by tightly focused laser pulses at the intensity of 2.1×10 W/cm. Figure 1 shows the TEM images and XRD profiles of NPs fabricated in the mixed ion solutions with PVP after irradiation. The fabricated NPs were well dispersed and stable, and the average sizes of the NPs are 3 nm. The XRD peaks for (111) and (200) planes of fcc structure are in the range of those of pure Rh, Pd and Pt. Crystalline nature of alloy NPs is also confirmed by HR-TEM measurements. The elemental compositions of NPs measured by EDS analysis showed the particles are Pt rich Rh−Pd−Pt alloy.


[Objective] The growth rhythm of silver magpie sapling was researched for the management of reference for the nursery.[Method] In Ecological Garden Nursery of Guizhou Academy of Forestry Sciences,30 labeled silver magpie saplings in each side(total 3 small classes-like side) were selected as tested material for the periodical measurement of their plant height,subterranean stem diameter based on the a unified management of watering and fertilization and the growth rhythm(plant height and stem diameter) of 1-year-old silver magpie sapling was recorded for one year in their growth season.[Result] Through statistical analysis of plant height and subterranean stem diameter growth,both "S"-type pattern of growth was showed and the growth of silver magpie in the nursery was slow,fast and stagnation period,respectively.The fast growth period of plant height started from the middle July,lasted to the beginning of Sept.and the maximum growth point was in the beginning of August.The fast growth period of subterranean stem diameter started from the middle July,lasted to the late Oct.and the maximum growth point was in the beginning of August.[Conclusion] The plant height and subterranean stem diameter of 1-year-old silver magpie sapling was matched with Logistic equation and the results could be provided as the reference for the silver magpie tree cultivation and sustainable use of plant resources.


Let m,r be positive integers such that 2|m,2r and r1.let Ur,Vr be integers with Vr+Ur-1=(m+-1)r.Further let a,b,c be positive integers such that a=|Vr|,b=|Ur| and c=m2+1.It is proved that if b≡3(mod 4),and b or c is a prime,then the equation x2+by=cz has only the positive integer solution (x,y,z)=(a,2,r).


The thesis "A Suggestion for the Improvement of the Company Culture in the Centre of Insurance" deals with the analysis of the corporate culture in the Centre of Insurance, a company that provides financial services. The main target of the thesis is to ascertain the power and standard of the corporate culture, as well as employees' satisfaction. It aims to identify the elements of the corporate culture according to Schein's model, and based on a questionnaire enquiry suggest such measures that would improve the corporate atmosphere and thereby contribute to the increase in the productivity of labour. Klíčová slova Firemní kultura, podniková etika, dotazník, typy podnikové kultury, funkce firemní kultury, význam firemní kultury, Scheinův model, síla podnikové kultury, změna podnikové kultury, subkultura, motivace, podnikové klima, etický kodex.


The momentum-transfer dependence of the {sup 3}H and {sup 3}He knockout reactions from {sup 6}Li via exclusive electron scattering has been measured, and the two reactions are compared. In the absence of two-step processes, the ratio of the fivefold cross sections for these mirror reactions should simply scale by the ratio of the {sup 3}H and {sup 3}He electron-scattering cross sections. A significant deviation from this simple expectation is seen at low momentum transfer. Possible explanations for this dramatic difference in cross sections for these mirror reactions are discussed. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}


The clinic-neurographic study of 33 patients with renal failure and polyneuropathy is reported. The patient's age ranged between 18 and 58 years-old; 24 were males and 9 female. All the patients had blood urea levels above 100 mg/dl. and creatinine levels above 5,0 mg/dl. Ten patients were maintained by repetitive haemodialysis twice a week; thirteen with weekly peritoneal dialysis; ten with conservative methods (controls). All the patients had motor nerve conduction velocities (VCNM) measured in the median, ulnar and peroneal nerves, at same time of the clinical avaliation. According to the intensity of the neuropathy the patients were divided in four groups. Decreased vibratory sense, cramps and distal hypoestesia for fine touch were the most frequent symptoms disclosed. The peroneal VCNM was decreased in 97,82% of the cases, followed by the median (84,78%) and ulnar (82.60%). The autrors did not found a significant alteration in the VCNM before and after dialysis, and between the kind of dialysis used (peritoneal and haemo-dialysis). In 7 patients followed for years, the VCNM was stable in 2, increased in 2 and decreased in 3, when they become stable, improved or worsened theirs symptoms. Secondary hyperparathyroidism developes in the 3 patients who worsened the symptoms and decreases theirs VCNM. The authors found the peroneal VCNM studies very usefull and was the one who gave more data regarding the evaluation and follow-up of the patients with uraemia, showing a tendency of the VCNM decreased with worsening of the clinical symptoms, without relationship with the kind of dialysis procedure (peritoneal or haemodialysis).


Xiaoaiping injection is an injection solution of effective substances extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Tongguanteng, which has the effects of reducing inflammation and phlegm, clearing heat, and detoxifying. Xiaoaiping injection has no apparent side effects, and the price of Xiaoaiping injection is low. Xiaoaiping injection is commonly used in clinical anti-tumor therapy in China and is often combined with tumor therapy such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapy, and it has an excellent curative effect. Doctors and patients widely praise it. This paper summarizes the therapeutic effect of Xiaoaiping injection in treating breast cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, and esophageal cancer in clinical and animal experiments. Many studies have supported that Xiaoaiping injection can regulate the proliferation and apoptosis of tumor cells, reduce tumor angiogenesis, and improve human immunity to achieve anti-tumor effects. During combined chemotherapy treatment, Xiaoaiping injection can also alleviate the adverse reactions caused by chemotherapy and significantly improve patient's quality of life. This paper summarizes the research on the anti-tumor therapy of Xiaoaiping injection, which provides a basis for the clinical promotion of the drug and assistance in developing traditional Chinese medicine.


Purpose – This paper forms part of on‐going research project being undertaken by the authors into performance of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) (hereafter referred to as "the act"), which commenced in amended form on 3 March 2003. The aim of the research was to examine the performance of the act and observe what trends, if any, have emerged in the adjudication process in New South Wales from a claimants' viewpoint.Design/methodology/approach – A cross‐sectional survey of claimants was undertaken using a comprehensive multiple‐choice questionnaire administered by post. In answering the questions, the sampled claimants were required to draw on their experience with the adjudication process in their "most recent" payment claim dispute case. Crosstabs were used to determine a frequency distribution of selected variables. The Chi‐square test of independence was performed for the data collected to measure a degree of independence between the selected variables. The nil...


Abstract In the last 30 years, the spread of emerging and invasive fungal pathogens has had a profound impact on plants, animals and humans, causing crop losses and damaging their health with economic and social impact. Awareness of the biodiversity of these pathogens is essential for their detection, identification and control. In this article, their diversity in Italy is reviewed taking into consideration the international context. Fungal endophytes, important ecological agents whose lifestyle can be switched by stochastic events from beneficial/neutral to pathogenic, are included in this review.


The ultrafiltration water treatment system, which aims to develop the purification effect of domestic sewage and production wastewater, can achieve the expected effect of purified water treatment. However, it is difficult to guarantee its high corrosion resistance and reduce content of heavy metal in the application process. In this paper, the principle for selection of aluminum salt coagulant in ultrafiltration water treatment system is analyzed. At the same time, the method for dosing aluminum salt coagulant in ultrafiltration water treatment system is proposed, and the plan for optimization design of ultrafiltration water treatment system based on aluminum salt coagulant is comprehensively analyzed, which is designed to provide theoretical reference for the relevant research.


This grant has supported a variety of investigations all having to do with the external electrodynamics of thunderstorms. The grant was a continuation of work begun while the PI was at the Aerospace Corporation (under NASA Grant NAS6-3109) and the general line of investigation continues today under NASA Grants NAG5-685 and NAG6-111. This report will briefly identify the subject areas of the research and associated results. The period actually covered by the grant NAG5-604 included the following analysis and flights: (1) analysis of five successful balloon flights in 1980 and 1981 (under the predecessor NASA grant) in the stratosphere over thunderstorms; (2) development and flight of the Hy-wire tethered balloon system for direct measurement of the atmospheric potential to 250 kV (this involved multiple tethered balloon flight periods from 1981 through 1986 from several locations including Wallops Island, VA, Poker Flat and Ft. Greely, AK and Holloman AFB, NM.); (3) balloon flights in the stratosphere over thunderstorms to measure vector electric fields and associated parameters in 1986 (2 flights), 1987 (4 flights), and 1988 (2 flights); and (4) rocket-borne optical lightning flash detectors on two rocket flights (1987 and 1988) (the same detector design that was used for the balloon flights listed under #3). In summary this grant supported 8 stratospheric zero-pressure balloon flights, tethered aerostat flights every year between 1982-1985, instruments on 2 rockets, and analysis of data from 6 stratospheric flights in 1980/81.


Recently, the Chinese government decided to support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in a national strategic way. On this background, this paper investigates the regional integration in the technology transfer system of the YRD based on patent transfer from three levels: overall, technology supply chain, and technology sales chain. It also uses the modularity maximization method to detect the community structure of the inter-city patent transfer network in China. The results show that regional integration of the technology transfer system of the YRD at both overall level and technology supply chain level had not been realized up to 2015, but had been achieved at the technical sales chain level. Technology flow in the YRD was increasingly moving across the border, and the intra-region technology transfer network was increasingly unable to meet the needs of technological development of the cities in the YRD. This paper has several limitations concerning the representativeness of patent data, the manifestation of patent data in technological transfer and international comparison.


The Fort Munro Formation is well exposed along DG Khan-Fort Munro road, a type locality. The section was measured and sampled for the biostratigraphy, where it has a conformable lower contact with Mughalkot Formation and is underlain by the Pab Sandstone. The total observed thickness was 105 meters, and 26 samples were collected from top to the bottom at random intervals. Fifty thin sections were studied carefully, and five species of large benthic foraminifera, including Orbitoidestissoti, Orbitoidesapiculata, Orbitoides media, Orbitoideshottingeri, and Omphalocyclusmacroporus were identified along with miliolids. Gastropods, Bivalves and Echinoderms were also observed. Based on identified microfossils, the depositional environment of the formation is the inner ramp to the middle ramp deposited in the Campanian to Maastrichtian age.


Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and political context in which reorganisation takes place today is vastly different from the decades of 1950s and 1960s. Understanding these factors could provide a new framework for analylsing states reorganisation today. Report of an international conference on 'Interrogating States Reorganisation: Culture, Identity and Political Economy in Independent India'.


In this article we present and discuss the value of the ethical dimension present as an articulator in the organization of pedagogical work. Considering that Ethics is disfigured by the events and understandings of today's society, in which teachers hide behind masks as proletarians of an unnecessary and useless knowledge for the capital, to analyze the ethical dimension and its importance for the educational process and practice, presenting it as an appreciation of the human being and all its manifestations. Understanding the School as a space of interactions, the curriculum becomes a cultural artifact for the teacher to reach his goal with a humanizing education that aims at the emancipation of the human being.


This paper aims to demonstrate the close relationship between the right to inclusion of social name in the civil registry of transgender people and the full exercise of citizenship, and from this idea, defending the possibility of changing the civil registry to include the social name without need for judicial determination. Therefore, it is essential to defend depathologization of transsexuality so that transgender people be able to leave the margins of society and assume the role of their own existence.


A study was conducted at c. 110 ha of Ikokoto forest using mist-netting and general field observations. Sixty-four species were recorded of which 61% were of conservation importance in terms of forest dependence. All species were found to belong to the familiar assembly of the large Udzungwa forests. Six species, the Green-throated Greenbul Andropadus fusciceps , Spot-throat Modulatrix stictigula, African Tailorbird Artisornis metopias , Black-lored Cisticola Cisticola nigriloris , Uhehe Fiscal Laniarius marwitzi and Fulleborn's Black Boubou Laniarius fuelleborni detected are restricted range and one species Moreau's Sunbird Nectarinia moreaui is nearthreatened according to IUCN threat status. The presence of many species which are forest dependent in this tiny forest indicates that this site, though small in size and highly fragmented, retains significant conservation value for birds.


In this report, we propose GaN-based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers with a p-GaN/n-GaN/p-GaN (PNP-GaN) structured current spreading layer. The PNP-GaN current spreading layer can generate the energy band barrier in the valence band because of the modulated doping type, which is able to favor the current spreading into the aperture. By using the PNP-GaN current spreading layer, the thickness for the optically absorptive ITO current spreading layer can be reduced to decrease internal loss and then enhance the lasing power. Furthermore, we investigate the impact of the doping concentration, the thickness and the position for the inserted n-GaN layer on the lateral hole confinement capability, the lasing power, and the optimization strategy. Our investigations also report that the optimized PNP-GaN structure will suppress the thermal droop of the lasing power for our proposed VCSELs.


Data assimilation techniques are methods to limit the growth of errors in a dynamical model by allowing observations distributed in space and time to force (nudge) model solutions. They have become common for meteorological model applications in recent years, especially to enhance weather forecast and to support air-quality studies. In order to investigate the influence of different data assimilation techniques on the meteorological fields produced by RAMS model, and to evaluate their effects on the ozone and PM10 concentrations predicted by FARM model, several numeric experiments were conducted over the urban area of Rome, Italy, during a summer episode.


Recent results on stars and stellar physics from IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) observations of eclipsing binaries are discussed. Several case studies are presented, including V 444 Cyg, Aur stars, V 471 Tau and AR Lac. Topics include stellar winds and mass loss, stellar atmospheres, stellar dynamos, and surface activity. Studies of binary star dynamics and evolution are discussed. The progress made with IUE in understanding the complex dynamical and evolutionary processes taking place in W UMa-type binaries and Algol systems is highlighted. The initial results of intensive studies of the W UMa star VW Cep and three representative Algol-type binaries (in different stages of evolution) focused on gas flows and accretion, are included. The future prospects of eclipsing binary research are explored. Remaining problems are surveyed and the next challenges are presented. The roles that eclipsing binaries could play in studies of stellar evolution, cluster dynamics, galactic structure, mass luminosity relations for extra galactic systems, cosmology, and even possible detection of extra solar system planets using eclipsing binaries are discussed.


Highly phased by power regulation (converter) system having improved control mechanism is provided. Controller, such as a digital signal processor or microprocessor receives digital information from a plurality of power conversion block, and transmits the control command in response to this information. The controller can change the mode of operation of the system, and / or dynamic load requirements, can be re-phase the power block to provide opportunities for fast transient response or failure of the detection. Compensation block in the controller adjusts the output voltage is used to supply stability to the system. In one embodiment, the controller is implemented as a PID compensator controller. .FIELD 6


. The mitigation of the stiction phenomena in control valves is of paramount importance for e ffi cient industrial plant operation. Mathematical models of sticky valves are typically discontinuous and highly nonlinear. A derivative-free optimization method is applied in the context of parameter estimation in order to determine the stiction parameters of a control valve. The method successfully determines the correct parameter set and compares favorably with a previous case study of this problem that used smooth function.


Unpredictable disequilibrium syndrome and blood pressure fluctuations can occur during hemodialysis therapy. We have proposed a method for analyzing shunt sounds using EMD to predict these symptoms. The shunt sound is the sound of turbulent blood flow generated in the shunt, which can be measured from the puncture needle of the dialyzer. This shunt sound may contain elements that identify these symptoms. To identify these elements, it is necessary to decompose the shunt sound into a minimum number of components, assuming that the shunt sound is composed of a plurality of basic components. Therefore, in this report, how to decompose the shunt sound into the minimum components by dividing the shunt sound into beats and by empirical mode decomposition is explained.


The present research in his study seeks to shed light on the various dimensions and aspects of prejudice and it relationship with the other variables which are : creative activities, emotional intelligence, and linguistic intelligence . In doing so, the researcher discussed many of the definitions given to prejudice and the theories that analyzed and discussed prejudice from its different directions. More specifically, the research aims at reaching an understanding of the nature of the correlational and predictive relationships between the target variables and prejudice based on the propositions and analyses of prejudice in different psychological theories and schools. We cannot understand and combat prejudice without studying the other relevant psychological variables. Thus, it is of paramount importance to explore the relationship between target variables of the study and prejudice . Regarding to the results of the present study , the research will apply its results in the various of educational , sociological , and psychological environments as the schools , science clubs ...etc


Laws of logic Logic is the theory of entailment over a set of objects, for example the members of the set PL of well-formed formulas of the propositional logic PL. The entailment relation can be defined in terms of the form of those objects, i.e. syntactically, or in terms of their meaning, i.e. semantically. Syntactic entailment for propositional logic is generally represented in the form (A), called a syntactic sequent, where P = {p1, ..., pn} ⊂ PL is a set of premises, |(called the syntactic turnstile) is the syntactic entailment relation, and q is the conclusion. Semantic entailment is represented in the form (B), called a semantic sequent, where each pi ∈ P is an equivalence class of members of PL, |= (called the semantic turnstile) is the semantic entailment relation, and q is an equivalence class of members of PL. Since the syntactic and semantic forms of entailment for PL are equivalent, I will use the |= symbol for both relations. (A) P |q (B) P |= q Certain correct sequent schemata have achieved a special status as laws of logic, including the following.


The article is dedicated to the analyses of actual strategies of Internet users' media activity in the ecosystem of today's social media (social networks, blogs, hostings, messengers, mobile applications, etc.). The base of the author's approach that specifies the novelty of the research lies on the analyses of the users' media activity as a complex of media consumption and production which make a dialectical unity, as well as on the problematization of subject oriented research optics which draws attention to the individual as a direct media subject. The interaction of the individual and media ecosystem is analyzed with the help of a system of incoming and outcoming activity markers. The incoming activity is understood by the authors as a total of institutional and environmental factors of media activity practices realization, the outcoming one is understood as the characteristic of individual's personal activity in realizing media practices. It is shown that the configuration of the dominant types of incoming and outcoming activity forms the individual media strategy. It is theoretically based and empirically proved by the author's sociological research with the use of factor analyses (online poll of social network users, N = 1000) that there practically exist four types of individual media strategies: inclusively open, exclusively open, inclusively conservative and exclusively conservative ones. It is found out that the majority of the Internet users (38,3%) use the exclusively open strategy, estimate modern media conditions as too liberal and thus needing control and restrictions. In the conclusion there are shown the perspective directions of the following scientific enquiry on the topic of the research.


Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on earth and an important renewable resource. It is one of the oldest raw materials of the chemical industry and because of its promising properties combined with a broad synthetic potential, it is an important starting material for new approaches to advanced polymers. An important approach to new cellulosics is the discovery of novel solvents for cellulose in the recent decades, with a distinction between derivatizing and non-derivatizing solvent systems, which has created opportunities for the application of significantly more diverse synthesis pathways and derivative action. This paper also reviews the different models proposed for complexes occurring in cellulose solutions, especially on molecular interactions between hydroxyl groups of cellulose and solvent constituents. With non-derivatizing solvent systems, polymer-solvent interaction is less completely understood than with derivatizing ones, and no generalizable theory is available for guiding the search for new systems. Also, some cellulose functionalization reactions taking into account the new synthesis pathways are included.


As a young person, I have lived in Foyer Oxford since September 2012. Over the past year and a half, I have juggled work, study and independent living, I have met some of my closest friends and I have seen many different people come and go. I have managed to understand the ins and outs of a Foyer community. What works, and what doesn't. From my time here, I have found three things that Foyer offers that help me more than anything - a sense of community, support, and a window into the reality of independent living.


Donald Trump scored a stunning victory over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. This is an election that political analysts will be debating for some time to come. How did this happen and what does Trump's victory portend, both domestically and internationally? LSE US Centre Director, Peter Trubowitz, offers some provisional thoughts on these issues.


At present, public transport for mid distances is more and more covered by modern high speed railway links with many examples all over the world being already under construction or in the design process. In case of soft soil conditions or urban areas, many of these projects are being realized as an elevated railway structure utilizing regular viaducts. In seismic active regions earthquake design mainly governs the overall design concept of the bridges, particularly of the piers and foundations. Thus, on the one hand, the structure has to exhibit enough stiffness under serviceability conditions (limitation of rail stresses; safety requirements for high speed trams) while on the other hand, flexibility, energy dissipation and ductility is advantageous with respect to a severe earthquake event. Since the earthquake excitation normally governs the whole structural design in case of high seismicity it is necessary to the consider the dynamic loading as early as possible in order to come up with an optimal solution. Modem and efficient numerical simulations using e.g. the Finite Element Method are enabling the design engineers to study the bridge structures under static and dynamic loading conditions, taking into account geometrical and physical nonlinear effects. The following paper describes the design process of a highspeed train structure which has been planned in Taiwan. All results presented herein have been gained during the tender phase of the project which has been finalized in the beginning of the year 2000. The bridge structure has been designed as simply supported viaducts consisting of 35 m and 30 m spans. Each span is supported by four reinforced concrete columns at each end, which are supported by 4 piles (see Fig. 1). The bridge spans have been designed as prestressed box girders, which will be prefabricated and installed at the construction site. Hereby, two earthquake levels have been included, moderate intensity for the serviceability check (elastic response of the structure) and severe earthquake for the ultimate load limit check (elasto-plastic response). The evaluation of the dynamic response has been performed with plane and spatial beam models applying linear and non-linear time history analysis. More ,practical' methods, based on linear superposition principles, such as equivalent static loads or multiple mode response spectrum method have been used for comparison. Tjme history analyses have been performed by utilizing synthetjc acceleration time histories (one and multidimensional), compatible with the governing response spectra. The non-linear elasto-plastic analyses for the severe earthquake situation has been carried out using a single pier model. The advantages for the design by performing a full physical nonlinear analysis will be demonstrated. In addition, displacements and rail stresses as well as the influence of the wave-passage effect have been studied by means of an overall dynamic multi-span model, taking into account a non-linear rail-track bond behavior. 1NTRODUCTlON International standards require both safety of operation and structural safety of reinforced concrete bridges under two different levels of earthquake intensity. On the one hand, total collapse of the structure has to be avoided in case of the maximum earthquake intensity which has to be expected at the specific site according to probability studies. After the severe earthquake event the structure may exhibit local damage such as plastic hinges. However, this local failure must be repairable. On the other hand, moderate earthquakes exhibiting a higher probability of occurrence shouldn't damage the structure at all. The structure must be designed in a way to resist moderate earthquakes in normal operational system status. Definition of the earthquake intensity level for moderate earthquakes has to be based on risk analysis. The response of the bridge structure must remain within a specified strain interval. Analysis has to be performed as elastic simulation, probably taking into account the stiffness reduction due to tension cracks in concrete (cracked section analysis). Fig. 1. Computer simulation of the high-speed-train bridges


Biomass energy is a renewable and potential resource.In order to research the conversion of cornstalk biomass(the agricultural residues) into the fuel methanol and the effective utilization of biomass energy,the low-heat-value cornstalk gas is produced by the means of the thermo-chemical method in the down-flow fixed bed gasifier.The cornstalk gas is purified and the technical procedures such as desulfurization,catalytic cracking of tar,deoxygenation,purification and hydrogenation are performed,and the cornstalk synthesis gas is prepared.The catalytic experiments of methanol synthesis with cornstalk syngas are carried out in a tubular flow integral and isothermal reactor,the effect of the catalyst types,catalyst particle size is investigated at 235 ℃ under the pressure 5 MPa.The experimental results indicat that the proper catalyst for the synthetic reaction is C301 and the optimum catalyst size is 0.833 mm×0.351 mm.This study can provide basic data for the further studies of methanol synthesis from biomass(cornstalk) gas.


The Heck reaction of aryl iodides and bromides with allyl ethers has been investigated. Using phosphine-free Pd(OAc)2 in DMF at 90 °C in the presence of Bu4NOAc, the reaction gave cinnamyl derivatives, usually in good to high yields, with a wide range of aryl halides. The reaction tolerates a variety of functional groups, including ether, amide, alcohol, aldehyde, ketone, ester, cyano, carboxylic acid, and nitro groups. Ortho-substituted arylating agents afforded moderate yields in some cases, though good to high yields were obtained with o-iodotoluene, iodovanillin, and 1-iodonaphthalene. Several pieces of experimental evidence suggest that the observed selectivity in formation of the vinylic substitution products is kinetic in origin under these conditions. A DFT investigation has been performed to clarify the source of product selectivity and, in particular, the preference for cinnamyl ether over enol ether products. Interestingly, it was found that the product selectivity does not arise from competing...


This thesis is aimed at reporting the analysis on the ideational meaning realised in the written discourse in online newspaper on Abdul Qodir Jaelani (AQJ). Under a discourse analysis method, the data were collected through retrieving twenty texts on the discourse of AQJ from some online newspapers. The texts on the discourse of AQJ are analysed using the framework of systemic functional linguistics which is realised based on the ideational meaning as suggested by Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). The findings reveal that there are 1043 participant types (2%) involve throughout the texts. Meanwhile, there are 712 process types (3%) involve, and there are 274 circumstance types (7%) involve throughout the texts. Hence, the existence of participants is more dominant than processes and circumstances available throughout twenty texts. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the English teacher can apply discourse analysis as the approach to analyse the texts in teaching the English learners about how to analyse the clauses of the texts to enhance their ability in analysing the text both journalistic texts (hard and soft news) and classroom texts (text types).


In mice, sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei delivered by mosquito bites are significantly more infectious than those transmitted by intravenous (i.v.) inoculation, as shown by Vaughan et al. (3). Using the chicken malaria P. gallinaceum in its natural host we obtained similar results. Sporozoites delivered by bites of two to five Aedes fluviatilis mosquitoes infected 100% of 1-week old chicks after prepatent periods (PPP) of 4 to 7 days, resulting in mortality of all birds. Sporozoites injected by syringe also cause malaria, although with lower parasitemia, longer PPP (∼11 days), and lower mortality (40% to 75%). Unlike P. berghei and all other sporozoites that infect mammals (which develop in the hepatocytes), P. gallinaceum sporozoites initially invade and develop within skin macrophages at the site of injection, rather than in other tissues.

The route by which sporozoites reach the hepatocytes is still debatable although their suggested transport via the lymphoid system (3) could well be through macrophages and/or Kuppfer cells. The fact that P. berghei sporozoites enter and leave macrophages without being destroyed and that all attempts to cultivate the mammalian plasmodium sporozoites in hepatocytes have resulted in an extremely low percentage of infections supports this hypothesis. In addition, opsonized P. berghei sporozoites phagocytized by macrophages or Kupffer cells are destroyed.

In the presence of stage-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAb of ≥3 μg), sporozoite invasion and/or development in macrophages is totally abrogated (2), indicating that in vitro, the primary exoerythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum developing inside macrophages are susceptible to being killed by antibodies. A direct correlation occurs between the protective effect of MAb in vitro and in vivo. Thus, in vitro suspensions of sporozoites plus MAb injected i.v. did not cause infection when we used the active MAb. All control chicks receiving sporozoites with medium or specific MAb with no activity in vitro had patent malaria and high parasitemia (2).

In the mouse model, high doses of passively transferred specific MAb antisporozoites inactivated sporozoites given i.v. but not through mosquito bites (3). This result strongly suggests the presence of protective mechanisms other than the blocking of sporozoite invasion into the host cell by MAb. Furthermore, in mice challenged with mosquito bites, protection hardly occurred, despite MAb transfer. We propose that macrophage killing of the opsonized sporozoites did not occur because the parasites were taken up by skin macrophages in the presence of low immunoglobulin G levels not sufficient to opsonize the parasites.

Finally, since high homology between DNA sequences of the circumsporozoite genes has been described for P. falciparum and P. gallinaceum (1) supporting a close phylogenetic relationship between these two species, it is quite possible that other similarities between the life cycles of avian and mammalian malaria parasites do exist. However, the role of macrophages in sporozoite transport and/or in antibody-mediated destruction of P. falciparum sporozoites and other mammalian malaria parasites is highly relevant to vaccine development and deserves further study, since antibodies are the key to antisporozoite protection.


A time‐resolved dynamic light scattering technique is presented for measuring the velocity gradient in transient but repeatable flows. The experimental technique is verified via measurements for a Newtonian fluid undergoing a known time‐dependent flow. The method is then applied to the creeping flow of a Newtonian fluid in a corotating two‐roll mill. It is demonstrated that the flow near the stagnation point can be accurately described by an analytical creeping flow solution for a two‐roll mill in an unbounded fluid. The time dependence of the velocity gradient for a concentrated polymer solution in the startup of the two‐roll mill has also been measured, it is believed, for the first time. The measurement provides direct evidence of the modification of the flow for the viscoelastic polymer liquid, and will ultimately lead to significant insights into the polymer dynamics for concentrated solutions in strong, extension‐like flows. A second significant feature of the dynamic light scattering experiment is that the initial magnitude of the correlation function is related to the degree of optical anisotropy of the polymer molecules, i.e., to the geometric configuration of the polymer chains. Thus, it yields information on the time‐dependent degree of polymer orientation and stretch that is equivalent to birefringence, but is obtained at the ''point'' occupied by the scattering volume rather than as a two‐dimensional average across the whole fluid as in birefringence. This measurement of polymer configuration is compared with birefringence data for the exact same flow.A time‐resolved dynamic light scattering technique is presented for measuring the velocity gradient in transient but repeatable flows. The experimental technique is verified via measurements for a Newtonian fluid undergoing a known time‐dependent flow. The method is then applied to the creeping flow of a Newtonian fluid in a corotating two‐roll mill. It is demonstrated that the flow near the stagnation point can be accurately described by an analytical creeping flow solution for a two‐roll mill in an unbounded fluid. The time dependence of the velocity gradient for a concentrated polymer solution in the startup of the two‐roll mill has also been measured, it is believed, for the first time. The measurement provides direct evidence of the modification of the flow for the viscoelastic polymer liquid, and will ultimately lead to significant insights into the polymer dynamics for concentrated solutions in strong, extension‐like flows. A second significant feature of the dynamic light scattering experiment is ...


Objective: To prevent occurrence of limb's deformities and reduce deformities by allografts of cultured cartilages into old growth plate defects.Methods:Chondrocytes isolated from rabbits aged l month formed cartilages after cultivation in centrifuge tubes.Defects formed in upper tibial growth plates of rabbits aged 6 weeks underwent the second operation 4 weeks later.The tissues within defects were resected and replaced by cartilages cultured for two weeks.Left tibial defects had no graft as control groups.X ray、histological and immunohistochemical examinations were performed at 4,8,and 12 weeks after surgery.Results:Right tibiae had markedly less deformities than left ones at 4,8,and 12 weeks after transfer of cultured cartilages.Growth plate defects of right tibiae were filled with cartilaginous tissues,whose structure was intact.Immunohistochemical staining of type Ⅱ collagen was positive.The deformities of left tibiae had developed.Bony bridges formed in defects of growth plates which were early closed.Conclusion:Cultured cartilages may obviously reduce limb deformities by allograft into growth plate defects,but can't correct existent deformities.


A method of producing a lactic acid bacteria fermented beverage by inoculating tree sap with lactic acid bacteria and fermenting is provided to improve storage quality and palatability while maintaining the efficacy of the tree sap as it was. Tree sap is sterilized with an autoclave, inoculated with lactic acid bacteria and fermented for 2 to 3 days. The tree sap is sap from trees selected from a white birth, mono Maxim, Betula costata Trautv, Betula davurica Pall and Acer pseudosieboldianum(Pax) Kom. The lactic acid bacteria are selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Lactococcus, Pediococcus, Streptococcus and Bifidobacterium. Sugar or a sweetener is added to the tree sap to promote the growth of lactic acid bacteria and to achieve sweetness. The sugar is xylitol(3 to 5%(w/v), based on the weight of tree sap).


After 30 years development,later stage of high water-cut development has come.Oil production is difficult.Suggestions: 1.going on reducing the pressure and producing oil.2.A rotary production in different layers is main production method.Meanwhile,exploitation in the same layer being exploited for a long period should be stopped.3.To restore production of highlocation well,change flow direction and adjust interfere between wells on the same surface.4.To restore three kinds of wells in residual oil area located on the axle section.5.To solve the aeolotropy between wells and formations through melt-shield and block-shield way.


Recently, inconclusive results have followed the early data on the possible association between multiple sclerosis (MS) and human T‐cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV‐I) infection. For this reason, we examined this hypothesis using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to study samples of differing origin from Italian MS patients.


A new quasigroup approach to conservation laws in general relativity is applied to study asymptotically flat spacetime at future null infinity. The infinite-parameter Newman-Unti group of asymptotic symmetries is reduced to the Poincar\'e quasigroup, and the Noether charge associated with any element of the Poincar\'e quasialgebra is defined. The integral conserved quantities of energy-momentum and angular momentum are linear on generators of Poincar\'e quasigroup, are free of the supertranslation ambiguity, possess flux, and are identically equal to zero in Minkowski spacetime.


Received 25 November 1975 (Revised 9 February 1976) Abstract: Data for the (d, eLi) reaction on targets of 24Mg, 2eMg and 2sSi have been obtained at 35 MeV bombarding energy. Angular distributions were measured for low-lying statesin the residual nuclei. Tern-range distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) calculations have been used to analyze the daJ_a_, The DWBA calculations account for the shapes of the experimental distributions reasonably well. The observation of significant population of unnatural parity states implies, however, that other transfer mechanisms may be important. The experimental spectrmcopic factors are in qualitative agreement with those obtained from SU(3) theory.


The main objective of this study was to analyze the effects of dance as a tool for neuropsychological intervention. The type of this investigation corresponds to the empirical analytical model of cross section through a pre-test post-test investigation design. Participants selected for the pre measurement were twenty (20) children with auto-regulation issues, with ages ranging between 6 and 12 years old (N=9), currently in primary school who have been referred by their teachers to present auto-regulation issues within the classroom. However, only ten (10) children agreed to participate in the intervention program voluntarily. The procedure began with the design of an intervention program based on dance through task analysis, then a preliminary neuropsychological evaluation was performed with the purpose to identify the auto-regulation level of each one of the participants, subsequently this program was implemented and finally the post intervention measurement was performed which determined the effects of it.


The invention discloses a method for determining a movement direction of an RF label in a gate region. Devices which are used in the method comprises an RFID label which is worn by personnel or bound on an object and has a unique ID; RFID readers which are mounted at the gate region of an area and are used for detecting and recording the information of the RFID label; an antenna which is connected with the RFID reader and is used for transmitting or receiving an RF signal in a specific direction; a server which is used for operating a label information processing program and storing real-time position information into a database; and a display terminal which reads real-time information of the personnel or the object and displays the real-time information to a final user. The inside and outside of each gate region are respectively provided with an RFID reader. The RFID readers read the ID information of the RFID label through the antenna and transmit the read information to the server. The server determines the incoming/outgoing direction of the personnel according to the time sequence of the RFID label, thereby realizing a purpose of determining incoming/outgoing of the personnel with high efficiency and high accuracy.


Inhibitors of xanthine oxidoreductase block conversion of xanthine to uric acid and are therefore potentially useful for treatment of hyperuricemia or gout. We determined the crystal structure of reduced bovine milk xanthine oxidoreductase complexed with oxipurinol at 2.0 Å resolution. Clear electron density was observed between the N2 nitrogen of oxipurinol and the molybdenum atom of the molybdopterin cofactor, indicating that oxipurinol coordinated directly to molybdenum. Oxipurinol forms hydrogen bonds with glutamate802, arginine880, and glutamate1261, which have previously been shown to be essential for the enzyme reaction. We discuss possible differences in the hypouricemic effect of inhibitors, including allopurinol and newly developed inhibitors, based on their mode of binding in the crystal structures.


Interactions with target membrane molecules and the resultant internalization into host cells are, in general, the first and foremost steps for subsequent host responses and pathogenesis of infectious micro-organisms. For pathogenic bacteria belonging to both spotted fever and typhus subgroups of Rickettsia species, which are known for dependence on the nutrientrich environment of the host cytoplasm and fastidious growth requirements, target cell invasion is absolutely critical for subsequent intracellular replication and intercellular spread. Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, primarily affects the endothelial cell lining of smalland medium-sized vessels leading to disseminated intracellular infection of the vasculature and, consequently, characteristic pathological features during human infections correspond to vascular inflammation, damage and dysfunction (Walker, 2007).


The article deals with the activities of noble organizations in Kazan province. These activities were con-nected with the filing of petitions relating to the social, economic and political issues in 1861-1881.


Silicon diodes are commonly used for x‐ray measurements in the soft‐x‐ray region between a few hundred eV and 20 keV. Recent work by Cho et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 72, 8 (1992)] has shown that the charge collecting region in an underbiased silicon detector is the depletion depth plus some contribution from a region near the depleted region due to charge diffusion. The depletion depth can be fully characterized as a function of the applied bias voltage and is roughly proportional to the square root of the bias voltage. We propose a technique to exploit this effect to use the silicon within the detector as an actively controlled x‐ray filter. With reasonable silicon manufacturing methods, a silicon diode detector can be constructed in which the sensitivity of the collected charge to the impinging photon energy spectrum can be changed dynamically in the visible to above the 20‐keV range. This type of detector could be used to measure the electron temperature in, for example, a tokamak plasma by sweeping the appl...


This text study paper of lontar nerang ujan uses the theory of semiotics and transcendental communication. The method used in data collection uses the listening method combined with the basic technique of note taking. The Lontar Nerang Ujan text explains several ways to eliminate rain, and make the sky clear again, by combining script, mantra and banten means, besides that it also explains how to bring rain/make it rain with spells and means that are slightly different from how to stop the rain. The use of banten in stopping rain or bringing rain is a form of devotion of the rain handler to God Almighty who is in charge of the universe, with the aim of making the procession of Panerang Ujan or Pangujanan easier and smoother. The procedure of a rain handler must understand the philosophical script and the use of Balinese script in rerajahan, the concept of gods in the procession of nerang ujan or pangujanan, understand the mantras that are chanted and the use of facilities for the procession of nerang ujan or pangujanan.


In this chapter, a horse talks; pigs fly; and mice design a computer. But mainly we consider a form of memory that evolved in humans. Part of the temporal lobe expanded and added a generalization—representing the concepts and categories of cultural memory—to a specialization: representing distant signs of food. At about the same time, posterior parietal areas also expanded and added a different form of generalization—representing relations of many kinds—to a specialization: representing relations among quantities. Both the temporal and parietal lobes interact with the prefrontal cortex, especially the parts that first emerged in anthropoids. Together, these evolutionary innovations improved the ability of evolving hominins to cope with novel and challenging problems. In this sense, hominin evolution produced cortical areas with a specialization for generalization.


Ab initio total energy calculations using density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation have been performed for the chemisorption of oxygen atoms on a Pt{100}-(1×1) slab. Binding energies for the adsorption of oxygen on different high-symmetry sites are presented. The bridge site is the most stable at a coverage of 0.5 ML, followed by the fourfold hollow site. The atop site is the least stable. This finding is rationalized by analyzing the "local structures" formed upon oxygen chemisorption. The binding energies and heats of adsorption at different oxygen coverages show that pairwise repulsive interactions are considerably stronger between oxygen atoms occupying fourfold sites than those occupying bridge sites. Analysis of the partial charge densities associated with Bloch states demonstrates that the O–Pt bond is considerably more localized at the bridge site. These effects cause a sharp drop in the heats of adsorption for oxygen on hollow sites when the coverage is increased from...


In this work, we consider learning a wafer plot recognizer where only one training sample is available. We introduce an approach called Manifestation Learning to enable the learning. The underlying technology utilizes the Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) approach to construct a so-called Manifestation Space. The training sample is projected into this space and the recognition is achieved through a pre-trained model in the space. Using wafer probe test data from an automotive product line, this paper explains the learning approach, its feasibility and limitation.


ANNOTATION The paper presents the results obtained when investigating phase and structure transformations of BT3-l, BT23 and BT6 titanium alloys during rapid heating. The effect of temperature, heating rate and subsequent ageing on mechanical properties of the alloys has been studied. The paper also discusses the data on microstructure and hardness distribution of surface hardened ·alloy layers which have been subjected to quenching anq ageing. It is shown that surface hardening has a favourable effect on fatigue, wear resistance arid some specific properties of two-phase titanium alloys.


OBJECTIVE
Depressive and anxiety symptoms co-occur with hazardous drinking among Latinxs. This secondary analysis of a clinical trial to reduce hazardous drinking (motivational interviewing adapted to address social stressors [CAMI] vs. motivational interviewing [MI]) examined effects on anxiety/depressive symptoms. Discrimination and acculturation were examined as moderators.

METHODS
Latinx (n = 296) hazardous drinkers (2+ occasions/month of heavy drinking; 4/5 drinks/occasion, females/males) were randomized to CAMI/MI. Generalized estimating equations analyzed how treatment conditions and interactions were related to depressive and anxiety symptoms after controlling for covariates.

RESULTS
Baseline symptoms (anxiety, depression) exceeded clinical thresholds (Anxiety ≥8, M = 14.62, SD = 13.52; Depression ≥ 12, M = 18.78, SD = 12.57). Cultural adaptation of motivational interviewing (CAMI) showed significantly lower anxiety and depressive symptoms (6/12 months, respectively) than MI. CAMI with high baseline discrimination reported significantly less depression than MI (12 months).

CONCLUSIONS
Explicitly addressing social stressors may be a beneficial adjunct to treatment for Latinx drinkers.


In article the author focuses on the threat of cyber war and «network wars». Regular and effective exchange of information organically woven into the dynamic public relations and it is a permanent mechanism for active influence on public consciousness and influence on the sociopolitical processes. Today the post-industrial society is a strategically important springboard for the implementation of social programs and policies, because information and computer technology


Abstract The discrete form of the Volterra series is used to evaluate the response of non-linear discrete-time systems. The Volterra kernels that characterize the various terms representing the free and forced response components are defined, and a convolution-type relationship between these kernels is developed.