The purpose of this article is to solve the problem of fuzzy control of iron ore pellets thermal treatment on a conveyor roasting machine, to build an automated control system of conveyor roasting machine and perform simulation and to present the results of research. According to the structural scheme of the fuzzy control an automated control system is proposed for being modelled. This is done by using the software MATLAB. The use of atomic emission spectroscopy determines the percentage of the major elements in iron ore pellets considering the main process parameters. This article uses an automated system of fuzzy control of iron ore pellets firing on a conveyor roasting machine with the introduction of atomic emission spectroscopy of the pellets. Development and practical implementation of fuzzy control will improve their quality by taking into account the basic parameters of thermal treatment of pellets such as speed of movement of the grate trucks, gas flow rate, the height of the layer of pellets and the venting speed of the pellets layer with gas-air flow, humidity, average diameter, the basicity and the iron composition in the pellets. The expediency of the developed method of using automated fuzzy control system of iron ore pellets firing on a conveyor roasting car has been proved. The system with fuzzy controller provides a reduction on average 2 m 3 /h, which is 0,3% of natural gas consumption as compared to the existing systems. This provides more uniform gas permeability of the layer of pellets, which leads to filtration rate increase of the gas flow and to heat exchange intensification in the layer of pellets. It makes it possible to introduce the atomic emission spectroscopy of non-burned pellets and to increase the productivity of conveyor roasting machine by 2,5%. At the same time the resistance of technological equipment (pallets) increases, due to more uniform distribution of the thermal field


Various dialkoxychloroethylsilyl enol ether derivatives of pinacolone, upon treatment with tributylstannane and AIBN, underwent free-radical cyclizations to yield isolable 2,2-dialkoxy-1-oxa-2-silacyclohexanes. As the bulkiness of the alkoxy groups increased, the selectivity of the reaction for forming cyclized instead of directly reduced acyclic byproducts improved.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a research framework for exploring and improving patient empowerment through the analysis of the effects produced by a satisfying physician relationship on patient involvement in the healthcare process.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors begin with a literature review of patient empowerment in healthcare, useful to highlight the importance of relational aspects. Then, the authors tested the hypotheses of the research through the analysis of 450 questionnaires. The results are analyzed through covariance-based structural equation modeling.

Findings
This paper highlights how empowerment is a more complex phenomenon, needing many dimensions to be investigated. The hypotheses were tested, and correlations computed, highlighting a medium-strong positive correlation between physician relationship and patient involvement determining satisfying patient empowerment.

Research limitations/implications
The considerations conducted in the paper are restricted to physician relationship and needs further research aimed to analyze and evaluate the changes in the patient behaviors influenced by empowerment.

Practical implications
The research points offer new insight into patient empowerment and allow the healthcare provider to create new opportunities for promoting patient empowerment through the development of quality relationship for effective patient involvement.

Originality/value
The study developed contributes new insight about patient empowerment in the healthcare management literature, proving the key role of satisfying physician relationship useful for future researches.


This study discusses different physical parameters of the Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) that is produced and available in Jordan, and their comparison with Jordan standard specifications which include Blaine, compressive strength at different ages, consistency, setting time and expansion. All the results are presented to provide both quantitative and qualitative notion of several locally produced ordinary Portland cement. However, most of the constituents that were determined experimentally were within the range of the standard values. The possible reasons for variation in physical parameters and their consequences have been discussed. It has been found that Alrajihi cement has the best quality in all the samples studied with reference to their physical parameters.


Oligonucleotides for a conserved region of the coat protein gene of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and a hammerhead structure ribozyme against CMV RNA were synthesized using a DNA synthesizer. Both strands of oligonucleotides were annealed and restricted with BamHI/SacI, then cloned into a plasmid pBS SK (+). The cloned CMV substrate and ribozyme were sequenced to verify correct constructions. In vitro transcriptions were carried out by using T7 RNA polymerase with BssHII or SspI digests of of substrate and ribozyme clones. The size of substrate RNA was 176 nucleotides (nt) containing 50 nt of CMV RNA sequence, 6 nt of XbaI restriction site and 120 nt of vector-derived sequence in the case of BssHII digest. The size of ribozyme RNA was 164 nt containing 40 nt of ribozyme RNA sequence and same sequences of substrate. Substrate RNA was efficiently cleaved into two fragments (96 nt and 80 nt) by ribozyme RNA. This endonucleolytic cleavage occurred more efficiently at than . SspI digest-derived substrate RNA (2234 nt) was also cleaved into two fragments by the same ribozyme. SspI digest-derived ribozyme RNA (2222 nt) cleaved the above substrate to two fragments. In vitro-tested ribozyme construct is being cloned into a plant transformation vector to develop virus-resistant plants.


The invention, a vehicle relates to a pressure gas container (1) as a vehicle tank, with a gas tight container wall (2) and with two connection pieces (3, 4) for compressed gas lines. DOLLAR A The invention is characterized in DOLLAR A - that the volume of the compressed gas container (1) by a partition wall into two parts (6, 7) is divided, each of said two parts (6, 7) (in each case by one of the two connecting pieces 3, 4) can be filled and emptied, DOLLAR A - that the partition, the two parts (6, 7) of the volume separates in such a way from one another that no significant direct gas exchange between the two parts (6, 7) takes place, DOLLAR A - and that the partition within the gas container (1) is arranged in a stationary variable in the manner that will be compensated by changing the filling-related pressure differences between the two parts (6, 7) of the volume by a displacement or deformation of the partition wall.


Effective and economic coating of polymeric materials onto steel protects it from corrosion. Among the choices, polybenzoxazines emerged as one of the most promising candidates for such purposes because of their low water adsorption, high thermal stability, zero volume shrinkage, and low flammability. In this current work, silane‐functionalized bisphenol‐F‐based polybenzoxazine coatings were synthesized, characterized, and successfully coated onto steel substrates to inhibit corrosion. First, the pure (4, 4′‐BPF) and mixture (4, 4′‐BPF, 2, 4′‐BPF, and 2, 2′‐BPF) of bisphenol‐F‐based benzoxazine isomers were functionalized with aminosilane, followed by thermal‐assisted polymerization onto steel substrates. The coating's corrosion resistivity was measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and also from Tafel slopes. The different corrosion behavior was also explained based on the material's dependence on the contact angles and critical surface tension. This study is expected to aid the future development of corrosion resistant coatings especially derived from benzoxazine‐based polymers.


This work addresses dynamic non-cooperative coexistence between a cognitive pulsed radar and nearby communications systems by applying nonlinear value function approximation via deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) to develop a policy for optimal radar performance. The radar learns to vary the bandwidth and center frequency of its linear frequency modulated (LFM) waveforms to mitigate interference with other systems for improved target detection performance while also sufficiently utilizing available frequency bands to achieve a fine range resolution. We demonstrate that this approach, based on the Deep <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${Q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-Learning (DQL) algorithm, enhances several radar performance metrics more effectively than policy iteration or sense-and-avoid (SAA) approaches in several realistic coexistence environments. The DQL-based approach is also extended to incorporate Double <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${Q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-learning and a recurrent neural network to form a Double Deep Recurrent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${Q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-Network (DDRQN), which yields favorable performance and stability compared to DQL and policy iteration. The practicality of the proposed scheme is demonstrated through experiments performed on a software defined radar (SDRadar) prototype system. Experimental results indicate that the proposed Deep RL approach significantly improves radar detection performance in congested spectral environments compared to policy iteration and SAA.


In this work, the thermodynamics of theophylline anhydrate and monohydrate were investigated. The solubilities of theophylline anhydrate and monohydrate in methanol–water and isopropanol–water mixtures were measured from 278.15 K to 303.15 K. Then the solubility data were correlated with the combined nearly ideal binary solvent/Redlich–Kister (CNIBS/R–K) model and the modified Jouyban–Acree model, respectively. The water activity aT that corresponds to the transformation between hydrate and anhydrate forms of theophylline was investigated. The water activity was accurately calculated by the Wilson equation and correlated by the van't Hoff equation. The transformation enthalpy and entropy were calculated as well. The ternary phase diagrams of the theophylline–methanol–water system and theophylline–isopropanol–water system thus were obtained.


tion policy aims at keeping the economy at or near the good steady state. Stabilization policy in this analysis therefore plays an important but somewhat unfamiliar role. Typically, in mainstreammacroeconomic models, stabilization policy calls for the monetary and fiscal authorities to adjust their policy instruments in response to shocks that buffet the economy around a given steady state. In Antinolfi, Azariadis, and Bullard's model, by contrast, stabilization policy works on a more fundamental level, to actually pick out the steady state toward which the economy gravitates. Hence their paper's title, "Monetary Policy as Equilibrium Selection." Here, monetary policy helps achieve this stabilization goal by reversing the properties of the two steady states, rendering the good steady state stable and the bad steady state unstable. Specifically, the authors show that active policies that call for the government to adjust its policy instruments vigorously in response to changes in the underlying state of the economy succeed in achieving this goal. By contrast, passive policies—including constant money growth rate rules—that call for little or no policy response to changes in the economy fail by leaving the bad steady state as the economy's most likely destination. Antinolfi, Azariadis, and Bullard's analysis, results, and conclusions combine to make their paper quite interesting and useful. The paper is novel in its focus on active versus passive policy rules in models of the type used in Bewley (1980) and Townsend (1980). Ljungqvist and Sargent In their conference paper, Gaetano Antinolfi, Costas Azariadis, and James Bullard (2007) develop and analyze a macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents in which individual incomes fluctuate, aggregate income remains constant, and frictions that inhibit the strict enforcement of private contracts place endogenous limits on agents' ability to borrow and lend and hence to engage in intertemporal trade. Further, because the model features only a single good, intertemporal trade is the only trade that potentially takes place in equilibrium. Bewley (1980), Townsend (1980), Kehoe and Levine (1993), Kocherlakota (1996), and Alvarez and Jermann (2000) previously and famously considered similar models. Here, however, Antinolfi, Azariadis, and Bullard go beyond all of this previous work by highlighting that these models typically feature multiple equilibria. Here, in fact, the authors' model has two steady-state equilibria under laissez-faire. In one, no trade takes place, so that equilibrium allocations are autarkic; in the other, agents trade actively. Hence, the two steady states can be Pareto-ranked: All agents prefer the good equilibrium with trade to the bad equilibrium without. The authors' policy problem then arises, because the bad steady state is stable and the good steady state is unstable, implying that even if the economy begins arbitrarily close to but not exactly in the good steady state, it will converge over time to the bad steady state. In Antinolfi, Azariadis, and Bullard's analysis, the government's stabiliza-


The problem of the low interest in being a teacher for students participating in the Economics Learning Strategy Study Program of Economics Education Study Program at the University of Economics Education became the motivation for this research to be carried out. This study aims to determine whether the use of teaching simulation methods and teaching video media for teachers can increase students' interest in being a teacher. The research method is descriptive qualitative with an open questionnaire data collection tool through the Integrated Online Learning System (SPOT) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. The research subjects were 88 students participating in the Economics Learning Strategy course. The results showed that the student's interest in becoming a teacher after lectures using teaching simulation methods and teaching video media was on average in the high classification, and a change in interest in becoming a teacher was 80.62%. It can be concluded that the use of teaching simulation methods and teaching video media in the Economics Learning Strategy course increases students' interest in becoming teachers.


Introduction Psychotic experiences (PE) are strongly associated with non-suicidal self-harm (NSA). NSA are present throughout life, but are more frequent during adolescence and young adulthood. Early psychotic episodes (PEP) are a particularly vulnerable group compared to later phases of psychosis psychosis. Objectives Analyze risk factors for suicide attempts and NSA, in order to improve early detection and prevention of suicides in adolescents and young adults with PD Methods Review in the literature of the different risk factors associated with parasuicidal behaviors in early psychosis Results Presence of positive psychotic symptoms: auditory hallucinations, Delusional ideation. Social isolation Longer duration of untreated psychosis. Comorbid symptoms: irritability, depression, anxiety, psychotic distress, insomnia. Traumatic events in childhood Difficulty in regulating emotional, impulsivity and sensitivity to reward. Consumption of substances. Psychosocial stress. Conclusions We consider essential the inclusion of early intervention programs aimed at the prevention of suicide and NSA, evaluating all risk factors for suicide and NSA among individuals with a PEP and high-risk mental states. Initial assessment and ongoing assessments of suicide risk and parasuicidal behaviors, positive psychotic symptoms, depression, and the other related risk factors mentioned are required. Integrating trauma management into PEP care is critical. Bibliography: 1.- Honings S, et al. Psychotic experiences and risk of self-injurious behaviour in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychol Med. 2016;46(02):237–51. doi: 10.1017/S0033291715001841 2.- Honings S, et al. Psychotic experiences and incident suicidal ideation and behaviour: Disentangling the longitudinal associations from connected psychopathology. Psychiatry Res. 2016;245:267–75. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.08.002 3.- Nishida A, et al. Risk for suicidal problems in poor-help-seeking adolescents with psychotic-like experiences: Findings from a cross-sectional survey of 16,131 adolescents. Schizphr Res. 2014;159(2–3):257–62. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.09.030 39. Disclosure of Interest None Declared


In this paper,uniaxial creep tests are conducted with remolded loess under 3 loading stress at 20 degree centigrade.The viscoelasticity is analyzed separately with Burgers model.After fitting the model parameters using Origin7.5 software,the constitutive equation expression of remolded loess's viscoelasticity can be obtained.The model predicted values and test results are contrasted,and the influence of model parameters to the creep equation is analyzed.The result indicates that Burgers model can reflect remolded loess's viscoelasticity well.And the stress-strain tautochrone indicates that the evolution of remolded loess displays the obvious misalignment characteristics.Besides,in Burgers model,elastic parameter E1determines the initial position(t=0) in creep process,elastic parameter E2controls curve range in the first stage,viscosity parameterη1determines the slope of the creep curve in the second stage,and viscosity parameterη2controls bending extent of the creep curve in the first stage.


—One of the most important applications for styrene-diene triblock copolymers is in the area of pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA). Tackifiers, amorphous resins with molecular weights in the 500-2000 range, are added to elastomers to make them tacky and thus create a pressure-sensitive adhesive. In this work, various levels of a C5 aliphatic resin (Escorez 1310LC) were blended into an elastomeric styrene-isoprene triblock copolymer (Shell's Kraton 1107) and viscoelastic studies and tack measurements of these polymer-resin blends were carried out. The function of the resin is to reduce the plateau modulus of the polymer and raise the Tg of the matrix phase. There is some evidence from the thermomechanical properties that two phases exist in the elastomer region, although this point is certainly not proven. However, it seems that there is none or a very minimal amount of resin intruding into the polystyrene domains. Assuming a simple and highly idealized model, a one-to-one correspondence between energy dis...


Best Practices in Photovoltaics Manufacturing presents best practices and policies that PV companies use to reduce environmental, health, and safety risks and suggests additional steps companies can take to further ensure clean production, health, safety, and fiduciary responsibility. Many PV manufacturers beat standards set for emissions, are reducing water use and reusing water, and are participating in voluntary international programs related to worker safety. Several companies are using safer materials, relying on renewable energy to power energy-intensive processes, reducing waste by developing recycling programs that recover materials for reuse, and improving relations with workers and communities throughout their supply chains.


While the indirect and direct cost of occupational musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) causes a significant burden on the health system, lower back pain (LBP) is associated with a significant portion of MSD. In Australia, the highest prevalence of MSD exists for health care workers, such as nurses. The digital human model (DHM) Siemens JACK was used to investigate if hospital bed pushing, a simple task and hazard that is commonly associated with LBP, can be simulated and ergonomically assessed in a virtual environment. It was found that while JACK has implemented a range of common physical work assessment methods, the simulation of dynamic bed pushing remains a challenge due to the complex interface between the floor and wheels, which can only be insufficiently modelle


NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) constellation consists of four geosynchronous and three geostationary satellites and it is developed by ISRO, India. It provides position, velocity and timing services. Doppler Collision (DC) is a phenomenon where tracking errors are introduced in the measurements due to cross-correlation between the satellites. If relative doppler between satellites is less than the code loop bandwidth, then DC occurs. In this paper, to analyze DC impact on NavIC, the Doppler shift of each GEO satellite is calculated, the most effected GEO satellite pair is identified. In high dynamic applications like missile launches the effect of DC is very significant. In order to investigate DC in high dynamic conditions a simulation of trajectory path of the receiver is considered. For the precise position estimation, the contribution of DC error will be high, so it needs to be minimized. An efficient algorithm is developed to mitigate the DC using narrow correlator design of the receiver. Using the proposed algorithm, the DC duration for 1C-1G satellite pair has been reduced from 50min 21sec to 2sec in static conditions. Whereas in dynamic conditions from 4h20min 28sec to 5sec with DLL bandwidth of 4Hz and 0.1 chip spacing of receiver design.


Utah contains 53 shallow tar sand deposits that contain between 19.4 and 29.2 billion bbl of hydrocarbons. This amount is nearly 100 times the total published proven reserves of crude oil in all of Utah. Over 96% of this resource occurs in eight deposits, located in the Uinta basin and in southeastern central Utah. Currently, only small production of tar sand occurs in the state and a low level of research is being done on the deposits due to low oil prices. During the period of high oil prices in the early 1980s, many companies explored these deposits, performed feasibility studies, and developed processes for extracting the oil, but much is still to be learned. New recovery processes may allow future development of this huge resource.


This paper discusses the promise of blockchain-based algorithmic governance, i.e., the ways that code enables practices of governance such as coordination, to settle contentious issues. Contentious issues can cause disagreement, debate, and growing tensions in an organization. Algorithmic governance is no different from any other governance mechanism insofar that it must provide a resolution to these issues to ensure an organizations survival, growth, and prosperity. We provide examples and initial evidence from two blockchain-based organizations that have managed to settle a critical contentious issuethe scaling issuewith varying success. We explain how algorithmic governance can be characterized by its ability to deal with three different types of uncertainties that underpin the resolution of contentious issues.


The Norton Company of Worcester, MA has reduced energy use by 12 percent and costs by $250,000 as a result of a four-year-old conservation program. A three-tier approach was taken to improve ''housekeeping'' efficiency and to undertake both modest projects and major capital improvements. Serious problems remain in the major capital areas of waste-heat recovery and rotary kiln breakdowns. To meet these problems, Norton has undertaken ''periodic'' kilns at some points in the process, a shift from electric to steam-heated ovens, and is converting its gas-fired furnaces to dual-fired furnaces that will also take No. 2 oil. Modest projects include water recirculating and air recirculating systems. Housekeeping efforts rely on individual employee efforts to be conservation conscious in their work habits. The company also installed improved insulation, sodium vapor lights, flue gas monitors, and better boiler cleaning methods to improve plant efficiency. (DCK)


The van der Waals interactions between two parallel graphitic nanowiggles (GNWs) are calculated using the coupled dipole method (CDM). The CDM is an efficient and accurate approach to determine such interactions explicitly by taking into account the discrete atomic structure and many-body effect. Our findings show that the van der Waals forces vary from attraction to repulsion as nanoribbons move along their lengths with respect to each other. This feature leads to a number of stable and unstable positions of the system during the movement process. These positions can be tuned by changing the length of GNW. Moreover, the influence of the thermal effect on the van der Waals interactions is also extensively investigated. This work would give good direction for both future theoretical and experimental studies.


The present study was undertaken to assess the production and the action mechanism of sex hormones in male dogs. The following results were obtained. 1) Plasma concentrations of LH, androstenedione, testosterone, 5 α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and estradio1-17 β were measured by the radioimmunoassay method. The level of LH increased with days of age and stayed constant from 8 years through 13 years of age in male dogs. The level of testosterone increased with days of age and stayed constant from 1 year through 10 years of age. Thereafter, the level of testosterone declined gradually. In contrast, there was no age-related increase in the level of estradiol-17β in mature dogs. 2) By measuring androstenedione, testosterone and DHT simultaneously in peripheral and spermatic vein plasma, and determining the temporal relationship between the two vein plasma levels of these hormones, it was suggested that plasma testosterone and DHT were derived mainly from the testis, while plasma androstenedione was derived from the testis and other organs like the adrenal. 3) Plasma concentrations of LH, androstenedione, testosterone and DHT in mature dogs fluctuated episodically, but neither diurnal rhythm nor annual variation of LH and testosterone concentrations was observed. 4) It was suggested that the pathway for activation of steroidogenesis in canine testes by LH was through cAMP formation. 5) In canine testes, major C19-metabolites of pregnenolone were dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione and testosterone. Following the addition of a 17α-hydroxylase inhibitor to the testis caused a significant increase in pregnenolone production, indicating that the formation of testosterone from pregnenolone by the Δ 5-pathwaywas dominant in androgen biosynthesis of the testis. 6) Hexestrol dicaprylate (H8), a long-acting estrogen, was used in an attempt to induce temporary sterilization of male dogs. H8 treatment caused significant decreases in the gonadotrophic activities of the pituitary gland and testosterone formation by the testis with the inhibition of spermatogenesis in the dog. It was suggested that H8 interfered with testosterone production by blocking the pituitary function, and also directly inhibited the testicular steroidogenesis. 7) In canine prostates, major metabolites of testosterone were DHT and 5α-androstanediols. DHT had a high binding affinity for androgen receptor in the prostate, while 5α-androstanediols had a low affinity for the receptor. The prostate was shown to contain estrogen receptor. Following injection of estrogen to dogs, it bounded to the estrogen receptor in the prostate gland and caused the enlargement of the gland.


Field experiments were conducted during the Kharif seasons of 2010 and 2011 at GKVK, UAS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India to study the influence of three tillage practices viz., conventional tillage (3 ploughings + 3 inter cultivations), reduced tillage (2 ploughings + 2 inter cultivations) and minimum tillage (1 ploughing + 1 inter cultivation) and three nutrient management practices viz., 100% N through Urea, 100% N through integrated supply (50% N through urea+ 25% N through FYM+ 25% N through Glyricidia) and 100% N through organic source (50% N through FYM+ 50% N through Glyricidia) on weed dynamics and yield of fingermillet (Eleusine coracana L.) under rainfed pigeonpea-fingermillet system in Alfisols. The results showed that conventional tillage reduced the infestation of Borreria articularis, Cynodon dactylon and Cyperus rotundus compared to other tillage practices. However, nutrient management practices did not influence weeds significantly. Among tillage practices conventional tillage recorded significantly higher fingermillet yield (3030 kg ha -1 ) compared to other tillage practices and among nutrient management practices integrated supply of N recorded higher yield of 2666 kg ha -1 compared to other nutrient management practices. More weed seeds were distributed in upper 10 cm soil depth in minimum tillage where as in conventional tillage weed seed distribution was more or less uniform in the soil profile studied.


The author uses his experience as a manager of Management Information Systems (MIS) at Bendix Corporation to outline major specifications required for implementation of an MIS. The article discusse...


Patient-clinician communication presents the views of several national authorities on the principles and expectations of shared decision-making between patients and their healthcare providers, including doctors, and nurses and oncology nurses. In this chapter authors focus on the communication challenges facing doctors who trained in medical environment in Poland, in order to prepare communications training designed specifically for doctors and to illustrate how a close analysis of professional discourse can be transferred to work environments beyond the medical world. Authors draw attention to clinical roles performed by medical staff practicing locally and trained doctors.


Decision-making concerned with managing the possible increased risk of disasters arising from climate change requires tools to forecast changes in disaster risk with time. These changes will be a function of the projected changes not only in weather-related hazard activity due to climate change but also in the vulnerability of the built environment and the aggregate value of assets exposed due to the growth of communities and associated increased concentrations of wealth. Tools developed for the insurance industry over the past three decades to assist decision-makers in estimating and managing catastrophe insurance risk can be adapted to assess the impact of these changes. This paper presents a probabilistic method for undertaking cost–benefit analyses of proposed building adaptation measures using these insurance-based models. The approach accounts for the direct and indirect cost of disasters on a community, including the transfer of risk through insurance and the associated aleatory and epistemic risks. A simplified hypothetical case study focussed on the impact of potential changes to structural design standards for tropical cyclone winds is presented to demonstrate the application of the proposed approach.


Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/05.CJON.113-114 PC-SPES is an herbal supplement containing eight Chinese herbs (see Table 1). PC stands for prostate cancer, and spes is Latin for hope. PC-SPES was formulated according to traditional Chinese medicine principles involving ingredients that may counteract cytotoxic agents, minimize toxicity, and reduce the development of drug resistance in target cells (Hsieh, Lu, Chea, & Wu, 2002). PC-SPES experienced widespread use from 1996 until 2002, when the California Department of Health Services Food and Drug Branch discovered warfarin (Coumadin, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New York, NY) and alprazolam in PC-SPES samples (U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], 2002). Separate independent laboratory analyses also discovered diethylstilbesterol (also known as DES) in some samples. At that time, PC-SPES was active in clinical trial until it was recalled by the FDA and voluntarily withdrawn from the market.


The use of direct motion vision for determining the depth of a scene is investigated. To permit direct comparison of analytical and experimental results, only translational motion and planar patches of constant depth are considered. The analysis shows that the accuracy with which depth can be determined increases with the sum of the squares of the temporal derivatives over the patch; this quantity is referred to as the apparent size of the patch. After determining the relationship between relative depth error and apparent size analytically, a number of experiments with camera-generated image sequences were performed. In nearly all of these experiments, the agreement between the analytically determined and measured values of the relative depth error is very good.<<ETX>>


Dutch government adopts an active policy to revitalize cities in general and to renew particular problematic housing areas in particular. In the majority of large cities the share of social housing is very large, mostly more than 50%. As a result we observe an increasing concentration of low-income households in the city and selective migration by middle and high income households from the city to the suburb. Official national housing and urban renewal policy is aiming at a redifferentiation of the urban housing stock: more owner-occupation, larger homes with a higher quality and a larger share of houses with a garden. This means: demolishing social housing estates, selling social housing or renovating social housing. The dominant actor in Dutch social housing is the housing association, which has a market share of 36% of the housing stock nationwide. Their position in the regeneration of Dutch urban districts is peculiar. They are supposed to take initiative and to invest in urban renewal and in the same time they are urged to reduce their market share. How are housing associations coping with this contradictory challenge? In this paper we will provide an overview of practices in Dutch cities and we will try to explain what we observe.


The members of the phylum Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, medusae) are all equipped with stinging cells (cnidocytes, nematocytes), which serve mainly in prey capture and defense. The secretory product of these cells is a most complicated extrusome consisting of a cyst containing a tubule and a liquid matrix. Mechanical stimulation of the cell's cnidocil apparatus by a prey or an offender leads via bioelectrical signal transduction to the explosive discharge of the cnidocyst. In stenoteles of Hydra this process, during which the tubule is everted out of the cyst, takes less than 3 msec. The forces involved are partly due to spring-like tensions stored in the collagenous structural compartment, and partly to an osmotically generated intracapsular pressure, which can amount to 150 bar (1.5 × 107 Pa). The osmotic machinery depends on the presence in the cyst's matrix of inorganic cations (either K+, Mg2+ or Ca2+) and rare polyanions (poly-γ-L-glutamates), which, so far, have not been reported from recently evolved eukaryotes. The discharging cyst acts like a self-reloading syringe, injecting poison and other components into the target. Since the cnidocytes are incapable of regenerating their exocytosed cysts, they have to be replaced by new cells derived by differentiation from pluripotent stem cells (interstitial cells).


The widespread availability of electronic health records (EHRs) promises to usher in the era of personalized medicine. However, the problem of extracting useful clinical representations from longitudinal EHR data remains challenging. In this paper, we explore deep neural network models with learned medical feature embedding to deal with the problems of high dimensionality and temporality. Specifically, we use a multi-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) to parameterize the model and is thus able to capture complex non-linear longitudinal evolution of EHRs. Our model can effectively capture local/short temporal dependency in EHRs, which is beneficial for risk prediction. To account for high dimensionality, we use the embedding medical features in the CNN model which hold the natural medical concepts. Our initial experiments produce promising results and demonstrate the effectiveness of both the medical feature embedding and the proposed convolutional neural network in risk prediction on cohorts of congestive heart failure and diabetes patients compared with several strong baselines.


For the problems in the real curr e nt measurement with the method of volute pressure difference,two solutions dampe d pressure regulation and auto gas purging were proposed.The methods are simple and practicable.


Transition metal oxides are desirable alternatives to precious metals based catalysts for CO oxidation si nce they are less costly. Several nanosize iron oxides were prepared by using Headwaters Technology Innovation (HTI) NxC at colloidal chemistry nanotechnology. These catalysts were applied on CO oxidation and showed better performan ce than bulk iron oxide, and comparable performance to catalyst with 100 ppm Pd loading. The particle size of iron oxide veries with calcination temperature. When ann e l temperature is below 300 C, the particle size of iron oxide is less than 10 nm based on TEM and XRD characterizations and is mainly existed as Fe 3O4. At SV=600,000 h, the advantage of nanosize iron oxide (3-5 nm) in onset activity is over 100 C compared to bulk iron oxide.


We report here about the practice of using metanil yellow, a non permitted synthetic dye, in the adulteration of some food items produced by the organized and unorganized sectors located in different districts in West Bengal, India. We considered three food items- turmeric powder, ladoo and besan for the detection of the presence of metanil yellow. We observed that 58 of the 253 samples i.e. 20.94% of total samples contain metanil yellow in which 36.21% of the positive samples contained the metanil yellow below the maximum permissible limit i.e., below the 100 mg kg -1 food samples and 63.79% of the positive samples contained above the maximum permissible limit i.e., above the 100 mg kg -1 food samples as specified in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act of India (PFA, 2008). We observed insignificant presence of metanil yellow in besan samples. We did not observe significant presence of metanil yellow in the same food samples collected from the organized sectors. We also found that all the positive samples i.e., the samples containing significant amount of metanil yellow were prepared from the food items collected from the unorganized sectors. From the study it is concluded that the unorganized sectors practice to use metanil yellow indiscriminately to adulterate the food items. We suggest strict governmental vigilance to prevent food adulteration with metanil yellow to avoid human health hazards.


Paper coating can give smoothness surface and good printability to uncoated paper. Macro roughness of base paper would be decreasing its groove and grit in view of side. Nevertheless its improving effect for paper, some kind of problem is showing in the fine coated paper. Especially, back trap mottle is one of serious problems in printing with fine coated paper. Printers can not adjust conditions to overcome the problem. Also large amounts of paper can be rejected. There are many factors that influence backtrap mottle. However it is not clear what the important parameters are in back trap mottle. Back trap mottle has some relationship with ink setting but good guidelines are not clear. Back trap mottle has been linked to non-uniform ink setting. We do not know how much variation in setting we can tolerate. Other mottle issues such as micro-picking and ink refusal are still common. his paper was prepared to identify correlation with ink setting and delta ink density obtained from experiment and then tried to find out some relationships with ink setting and back trap mottle. Basically fine calcium carbonate and clay was used for main components and coarse calcium carbonate was mixed in two fine pigments to change its porosity and ink acceptance. Micro ink tack force at KRK printing tester was adapted to measure ink setting rate. KRK units were used for back trap mottle simulation and two printed samples were prepared to check delta ink density. Clay base coating has more fast ink setting time than calcium carbonate's though smoothness of clay was better than calcium carbonate. It could be explained by that clay has finer pore in its coating than calcium carbonate. DID(delta ink density) has shown a good correlation with ink setting time from micro ink tack. The total pore volume of coating layer did not match with ink setting and DID. From the results we might conclude coating that has fine pore size around 0.05㎛ can be exposed to high possibility of back trap mottle.


Abstract Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) was employed to determine the concentration of rare earth elements (REEs) in plants and soils. Sample preparation and analytical conditions were investigated to set up a simple routine procedure for measuring rare earth elements. For prompt sample decomposition, a microwave digestion technique was successfully used with an acid mixture of HCl+HNO3+HF. Detection limits, reproducibility, accuracy and possible interference were also studied. ICP-MS provided extremely low detection limits for REEs (0.6–6ng/l). Precision was typically better than 6% RSD (relative standard deviation) for soil and 10% for plant. The potential of the method was evaluated by analysis of standard reference materials of soils and plants. A good agreement between the experimental results and certified values was observed. The spectroscopic interference of Ba with Eu and light REEs(LREEs, La-Eu) with heavy REEs(HREEs, Gd-Lu) were eliminated by the algebra correction. The results suggested that REEs in soil samples existed mainly as light REEs, and the same concentration distribution patterns of Oddo-Hakins law were observed, showing negative gradient from La to Lu concentrations. The REE contents in plants were very low, less than 20μg/g and varied with plant species. Apart from rape leaf(Brassica juncea), the REE distribution patterns in other plant leaves were consistent with soils, indicating that these plants generally absorbed REEs from soil without selectivity. Rape leaf showed selective absorption for LREEs, especially for La. The REE concentration distribution in parts of hot pepper(Capsicum annuum) was characteriaed by root>leaf>stem>fruit. The REEs absorbed by hot pepper concentrated mainly in roots and leaves, very little migrated into fruit. Transfer factors(TFs) of REEs in plants were very low. Although the contents of LREEs were relatively more than those of HREEs, no distinct difference of TFs between LREEs and HREEs was observed, meaning that LREEs and HREEs have the same abilities of transportation. However, for rape leaf, the TFs of LREEs were one or two orders of magnitude higher than those of HREEs.


Heuristic evaluation is a useful tool for non-usability experts to evaluate their product for usability and produce lists of guidelines for product designers to avoid usability problems early in the development process. However, Nielsen's 10 original us ability heuristics (Nielsen, 1990) only showed to help users find slightly over 50% of the usability problems found by experts. This highlights the need for domain-specific heuristic lists. An example of one of these domain-specific lists is VR PLAY (Desurvire & Kreminski, 2018), a heuristic list to help virtual-reality game developers evaluate their games and adhere to usability principles. The current research evaluated Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR for usability problems that were then categorized using VR PLAY. Results showed some missing usability principles in VR PLAY, including guidelines for control design, user interface elements, and navigation. This study proposes changes to VR PLAY to include the principles.


The molar mass (MM) of polymer HPAM suitable for use in polymer flood in middlle-low permeability reservoirs of Daqing is studied.Supposing that the polymer solution viscosity is of 12 mPa.s, the solution concentration for polymers of MM 2.4×106, 5.0×106, 8.0×106, and 1.0×107is ascertained to be of 1000, 800,600, and 400 mg/L, respectively, according to their viscosity (45℃, 7.34 s-1)—concentration curves.It is stated that a given reservoir might not be plugged by a polymer with coil gyration radius smaller than 1/5 of the pore radius median.On 18 reservoir cores of water phase permeability 9.87×10-3—220.2×10-3 μm2, the resistance factor and the residual resistance factor (RRF) are measured for polymers of different MM in solution of different concentration, the changes in injecting pressure of polymer solution and of successive water and theRRFvalue measured indicate whether blockages are creacted in a core or not and the above mentioned polymers with different MM are shown to be suitable to reservoirs of permeability 0.01, 0.03, 0.10, and 0.20μm2, respectively.On reservoir cores of permeability 0.130—0.214μm2 injecting ~1 PV of polymer solution of viscosity ~ 12 mPa.s leads to enhancement in oil recovery (EOR) increased with polymer MM from 6.5% for MM=2.4×106to 7.6% for MM=8.0×106meanwhile polymer of MM=1.0×107creates blockages in cores. Taking into consideration the results of preliminary pilot wells, it is concluded that polymers of MM=8.0×106can be used in most middle-low permeability reservoirs of Daqing and blockage creation will occur in some of such reservoirs with polymers of MM8.0× 106.A digital simulation investigation shows that by using polymer solutions of concentration increased from 400 to 1200 mg/L under conditions of MM=6.5×106, polymer use level 420 ( mg/L).PV and injecting flow rate 0.15 PV/a, the EOR increases from 6.75% to 7.25% merely.


The article deals with the problems of the interaction of general and professional education, the integration of professional education and production, taking into consideration historical features of development. The author considers problems of development of professional education in Russia, defines further ways of development.


T IS the purpose of this paper to examine Schiller's William Tell for evidences of an early faith in and understanding of a democratic society. Certainly the drama always has been famed for its portrayal of the spirit of independence and liberty on the part of the Swiss people. But it appears that Schiller possessed other concepts and advocated other tenets beyond those contained in a simple desire for political freedom. Within democracy as it is known and aspired to in the relatively recent histories of western Europe and the United States, there are at least five essential characteristics. These may be called the quintessence of democracy; their presence within Schiller's drama, it is contended, demonstrates that Schiller's beliefs are not wholly those of the pre-French Revolution type but instead bear implicationrs for the present struggle against totalitarian tyranny and injustice within and without the United States. The first essential of a democratic society is, of course, that of freedom. Freedom is the ability and the opportunity to do what one wants to do, but in a democratic society the freedoms of the group and of the members of the group are inter-dependent. Among the values which appear to have been of the greatest importance to Schiller was that of inner freedom. Upon this inner freedom might be built a society in reflection of the free individual. And if the individual needs freedom, both within and without, and that freedom is his right, certainly the state should be based upon freedom. For it seems clear that the development of the state largely will reflect and follow the pattern of its component individuals. The yearning for true liberty is evident throughout William Tell. Gertrude, in the second scene of Act I, insists that freedom from tyranny, even through war, is important above all. She would even burn her cherished home if that were necessary to be free.


Abstract Using a unique dataset from Australia, we investigate how individual fertility preferences translate into fertility realizations. We find consistent evidence that the wife's preference is more important than the husband's preference in predicting subsequent births, no matter whether her initial fertility desire is higher or lower than that of her partner. We also explore the effects of the introduction of the non-means-tested Baby Bonus introduced in 2004 by testing whether the hypothesis that the cash transfers from the scheme increase the bargaining power of the partner with higher fertility desire, thus leading to an increase in fertility for couples with disagreement on fertility plans. Our findings do not support this hypothesis. They also do not suggest any significant fertility-enhancing effect of the scheme.


The "individualized writing" is a phenomenon emerging in current literary field in which writers avoid or throw away the traditional stances of "grand narration" and "ultimate concern" and take individual experiences as their writing resources and value norm. This phenomenon is a reflection of changing social mentality in the literature of transforming China. "Individualized writing" overemphasizes individual perception but loses its transcending character. However, its texts are a reflection of the common plight shared by modern people.


49 Young Researchers' Forum – PGIS GEOGRAPHIC OFFENDER PROFILING M.A.P. Chamikara1 and A.A.C.A. Jayathilake2 Board of Study in Statistics and Computer Science Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science Geographic offender profiling is used to predict offender related parameters using their information about location and timing of offences. There are several ways that Geographic profiling can be used for offender profiling in crime investigation. One of the most frequently used applications of geographic profiling is to predict criminal's most probable place of residence. This is performed with the help of where they are likely to live; what sort of knowledge they have of a particular area; understanding the link between an offend and a location such as why certain places attract more crimes than others; why, even in 'high crime' neighborhoods, some addresses are repeatedly victimized and some are left alone. Therefore, geographic profiling is well suited for serial offences committed in the areas of murder, bombing, arson, rape, child abduction, sexual homicide, credit card fraud, property theft, etc. The results filtered from Geographic profiling can then be used to let police officers protect more vulnerable areas. This method has been first developed by Kim Rossmo as his Ph.D dissertation at Simon Fraser University based on the work of Brantingham, making an assumption that crime locations are not random [1].


N-shaped organic semiconductors are synthesized via four steps from a readily available starting material. Such semiconductors exhibit preferable ionization potential for p-type operation, thermally stable crystalline phase over 200 °C, and high carrier mobility up to 16 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) (12.1 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) on average) with small threshold voltages in solution-crystallized field-effect transistors.


Stress drop has important predictive value for ground motion intensity when determined reliably. Published measurements of stress drop, however, are strongly variable, even for well‐studied earthquake populations. Much of that variability arises from uncertainty in the corner frequency. In this study, we use a spectral ratio method to estimate stress drop and focus on assessing the fit to the data to understand trade‐offs among the parameters of the spectral model. We consider empirical Green's function events located within a 2‐km radius for events in the magnitude range 4.5 ≥ MW ≥ 4 near Cushing, Oklahoma, using an accurately relocated earthquake catalog from May 2013 to November 2016. We form composite S coda wave spectral ratios between mainshock–eGf pairs of events. We fit the Brune spectral model to the data over the frequency range from 0.5 to 30 Hz. To examine the characteristics of the spectral ratios, we evaluate the trade‐off among three estimated parameters—two corner frequencies and the moment ratio—from 1,000 bootstrap resamples of the data. We discard event pairs with a large trade‐off between any two parameters and assess the distribution of the residuals to test the suitability of candidate eGf events. Through these processes, we reduce the standard deviation of earthquake stress drop estimates. The stress drop estimates after the selection are similar to those of natural earthquakes in the central USA. We conclude that careful eGf event selection has the potential to increase substantially the accuracy of stress drop estimates derived from spectral ratios.


Abstract Technological change in agriculture in land-scarce developing countries is required for land use intensification to feed the growing population. The purpose of this study is to analyze factors affecting adoption decision of improved wheat variety and its effect on households' welfare in a semi-arid economy of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia. First, a correlated random effect double hurdle model with a control function approach is used to analyze determinants of improved wheat adoption decision and extent of adoption. Second, fixed effect instrumental variable method is used to assess the impact of area under improved wheat cultivation on households' welfare. Double hurdle model results indicate that access to improved wheat, landholding, male adult and access to information have strong and positive effect on adoption decision and extent of adoption of improved wheat. The impact analysis shows that extent of improved wheat adoption has strong and positive effect on households' income, consumption, and food security. Moreover, the gender and wealth disaggregation analysis show that extent of improved wheat adoption has a positive and significant effect on welfare of male and female-headed, land poor and land rich households. Thus, adoption of improved wheat is a pro-poor strategy and increasing access to the technology appears a promising pathway for rural development in a land scarce and semi-arid economy like Ethiopia.


I TAKE it that Dr. Geertz holds my interpretation of die rites and myths to be incorrect. It is then up to her to prove I am wrong. Rather than bear the onus probandi, she raises the "main question:" Why do I diink it acceptable procedure to explain features of a mydi in one society in terms of elements from a myth in another society? Her answer is : (a) because I belong to the "Leiden school," and (b) the "patterns" discerned by this school do not emerge from empirical examination of die data, but are preselected by the ethnologists. I question the fairness of such comment; I also deny its truth. As to (a), there is no Leiden school consisting of Rassers, Van Ossenbruggen, J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, and their students and associates. Neither Van Ossenbruggen nor Rassers had students. Van Ossenbruggen (b. 1869) was almost a generation older than even the most senior among the other so-called members of the "group." He was a lawyer who became interested in customary law and ethnology but was purely self-taught in these fields. Rassers and J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong were associates, Van Wouden, Held, and P. E. de Josselin de Jong were the latter's students; but neither Korn, who was a Colonial Civil Service administrator who later turned to customary law, nor Goris and Swellengrebel, who are philologists, were in any sense students or associates of the previous five. This shows that (b), too, is erroneous: the fact that the nine people mentioned came to rather similar conclusions about the symbol systems in Indonesian cultures was not and could not have been the result of a dogma they drew up in common or handed down to dieir pupils. The remarkable thing is precisely that similar conclusions were reached by individuals of markedly different training and background, many of them working quite independently of each other in different areas and with different aims and interests. It is precisely the fact that a certain "pattern" results from "empirical examination of the data" by such a varied company (and by numerous others not mentioned), that gives the lie to talk of "doctrines" and "tenets."


We report a technique for detection of sub‐cellular organelles and proteins with hard x‐ray microscopy. Several metals were used for enhancing contrast for x‐ray microscopy. Osmium tetroxide provides an excellent stain for lipid and can delineate cell membrane. Uranyl acetate has high affinity for nucleotide and can stain nucleus. Immunolocalization of specific proteins and sub‐cellular organelles was achieved by 3'3 diaminobenzidine (DAB) with nickel enhancement and nanogold‐conjugated secondary antibody with silver enhancement. The x‐rays emitted from synchrotron source was monochromatized by double crystal monochromator, the photon energy was fixed at 8 keV to optimize the focusing efficiency of the zone plates. The estimated resolution is about 60 nm. When compared with visible light and conventional confocal microscopy, the X‐ray microscopy provides a superior resolution to both conventional optical microscopes.


What is it like to be an immigrant worker in a 'hostile environment' in the UK? How does the form of discursive environment, which sees immigration as a social epidemic, impact on an immigrant worker's experience of their cultural (dis)localities and subjectivity?
 In this article, I draw on my personal, psychoanalytically informed voice to explore these questions, by foregrounding the materiality of the hosting environment as the place in which the present relational matrix takes place, in which the internal dynamics of object relations are lived in
 the present sense, and the idiosyncratic expression of selfhood assumes forms.The materialised reality of the place matters not least because it is drenched in power relations but also as it is where an immigrant worker seeks to live. The hostile host, in this sense, sees immigrants not
 simply as its guests (Derrida and Dufourmantelle, 2000), but as unwelcome yet persistent guests to be yoked to their place of otherness and inferiority. By presenting vignettes of my encounters with the Home Office, I call into question the existential conditions of the immigrant worker and
 the potentiality for object-relatedness on relational grounds problematically punctured by hostile rhetoric. Could an immigrant's sense of locality ever be anything but ‐ evoking Said ([1999] 2013) ‐ 'out of place'? To address this, I will explore 'out
 of place' not simply as an emotional, lived experience, but also as a state of being that is embodied, psychically worked on and strategically evoked in resisting the power of the hostile host.


National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) guidelines provide the information necessary for industry to ensure that equipment which produces electromagnetic fields does not expose people to fields of sufficient strength to give rise to established biological effects. At present, this is all that current scientific knowledge allows to be done to demonstrably protect people from the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation. NRPB guidelines do not state how measurements or calculations should be performed to demonstrate compliance as there are so many different sources, all of which require different approaches. Basic restrictions are given in terms of current density and specific absorption rate within the body tissues since these are the dose quantities which are related to the established biological effects. The guidelines also give investigation levels in terms of external field strength which can be used, possibly with measurements, to assess compliance, but they also allow recourse to the basic restrictions.


This paper presents the boundary-type schemes of the first-and the second-order sensitivity analyses by Trefftz method. In the Trefftz method, physical quantities are approximated by the superposition of the T-complete functions satisfying the governing equations. Since the T-complete functions are regular, the approximate expressions of the quantities are also regular. Therefore, direct differentiation of them leads to the expressions of the sensitivities. Firstly, the Trefftz method for the two-dimensional potential problem is formulated by means of the collocation method. Then, the first-and the second-order sensitivity analysis schemes are explained with the simple numerical examples for their verification.


This article is the result of a research study that discusses the Application of Reading Reading Techniques in Improving the Ability to Read the "kitab kuning" of Santri Putri at the Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Ulum Melokorejo, Jember Regency. Based on data analysis, it can be concluded that the application of reading reading techniques in improving the reading ability of the santri book is a teaching method that presents subject matter that begins with prioritizing aspects of reading, i.e. the teacher first reads the reading topics, then is followed by the santri. However, sometimes the teacher directly appoints one of the students to read an individual lesson first, and of course, the other students pay attention and follow it. The method of reading besides emphasizing reading ability also considers the importance of correct pronunciation. So this ability is seen to help the students to improve their ability to read the book.


The results of analysis of the situation with separators production in Russia and abroad are suggested. The ways to improve the serial production of centrifugal reoseparators, in order to increase the amount of parameters being capable of regulation in an automatic regime, are outlined. It is pointed out that implementation of the above targets is to reduce the scarcity of these devices, increase their performance and to improve the quality of the separation process.


This article, according to the importance andcomplexity conceptual precision has for SocialSciences, is to submit for discussion the conceptof political disaffection. This corresponds toa phenomenon that is identified in the midninetiesin Chile, after the return to democracy.Although the literature has noticed the phenomenon,it lacks a precise definition; in our pointof view, the concept has not been contextualizedin a way that presents the necessary attributesthat adjust it to Chilean reality in order to be ableto observe it clearly.


This thesis attempts to link carbon assimilation micro-processes to macro-scale chlorophyll fluorescence measurements. The Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator (BEPS), a process-based model, is adopted to simulate the hourly global-scale gross primary productivity (GPP) in 2010. The total GPP is stratified into sunlit and shaded GPP using a two-leaf scaling approach. Concurrently, the usefulness of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a proxy of GPP is also assessed. Relatively precise global monitoring of fluorescence is made possible with a new retrieval method applied to GOME-2 observations. Linear correlation analysis is used to examine the monthly spatio-temporal patterns between GPP and fluorescence. The hypothesis that sunlit GPP is better correlated with fluorescence than total or shaded GPP has been successfully tested with GOME-2 data and BEPS results. Since shaded GPP is about 40% of the total GPP globally, this result points to a limitation of using fluorescence as a proxy of the total GPP.


Reaction of RECl2 (R− =
C(SiMe3)2(6-Me-2-pyridyl)−, E = P or
As) with LiAlH4 in THF affords directly bonded aluminium
hydride–pnictide hydride complexes as weakly associated hydride
bridged dimers, [RE(H)–Al(H)2]2; a strong
solvent dependency of these reactions, which had previously been observed
with the formation of the disecondary diphosphane in Et2O (E =
P), is further confirmed by the formation of RAsH2 from
RAsCl2 and LiAlH4 in Et2O.


AIM To study the antitumor mech— anism of Z—ajoene,a simple natural compound ex— tracted from garlic.M ETHODS Cell growth inhi— bition in vitro was evaluated with M TT assay in floating U937 cells compared with HL60 cells.Z— aj oene—induced cell cycle block was investigated u— sing flow cytometry assay. W estern blot analysis was applied to determine modification of certain proteins related to apoptosis and tubulins. RE— SULTS Z—ajoene displayed quite similar growth inhibition ability on two leukemia cell lines U937 and HI 60 with the similar IC values of 10/,molL . Flow cytom etry analysis indicated that Z— ajoene induced cell accumulation in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle.Following 3 treatment of 20 /,mol·L Z—ajoene for 24 h,the percentage of cells arrested at G?/M phase was 152.5 higher than that of controls.Moreover,Z—ajoene induced apoptosis of U937 cells. The activation of pro— caspase一3 (Cpp32) and PARP cleavage were de— tectable with a time and dose—dependent manner. after exposure to Z—ajoene by means of Western blotting. Furthermore。 incubation of U 937 cells with Z—ajoene induced Bcl一2 cleavage characterized by the appearance of 3 23 ku fragment. In addi— tion,the data showed that 一tubulin was degraded after addition of Z—ajoene.However。there was no change of a—tubulin expression during the proce— dure of Z—aj oene treatment.CONCLUSION Z— ajoene exhibites high abilities to inhibit U937 cell growth。blocking the cell cycle at G!/M phase and inducing programmed cell death. M itotic blocking causd by Z—ajoene appeared earlier than apoptosis. All these fin~lings suggest that antitumor mecha— nism of Z—ajoene is related to its actions of apopto— sis induction and interruption of tubulin assembly.


Poverty is social gap problem for some people with below average income level but in Pringsewu district the poverty rate is significantly decreased so it is expected to increase the potential of Pringsewu region to be better, in increasing the potential of the region it needs a system that is expected to assist in determination of poverty level in sub district in Pringsewu by data clustering and ranking from every subdistrict in Pringsewu Regency using SAW method. Therefore, we are interested to build an application of Poverty Grouping in Pringsewu region in the form of Poverty Index of the last few years, existing data is expected to be a reference to increase the potential of the area by reducing the poverty rate every year. It is expected that the data obtained can be a reference of the government in reducing poverty level in subdistrics in Pringsewu District.


It is shown that the appearance of a flow of the superfluid portion of a liquid under the action of crossed electric and magnetic fields is produced by the Abraham force. The latter is calculated within the framework of macroscopic electrodynamics without use of model representations.


was changed in situ between two values that favour adsorption by dierent amounts. We found that although some ferritin desorbs from Au, the desorption is incomplete. When the desorption reached a constant value, we returned to the original conditions and investigated the readsorption. Our experiments show that the adsorption of ferritin onto Au is a partly reversible process. We found that for dierent initial ferritin coverages the proportion of ferritin that had been subsequently desorbed was approximately constant.


TO THE EDITOR—Lawn and colleagues [1] recently described the clinical characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who tested negative by Xpert MTB/RIF but had radiographically less advanced tuberculosis and fewer adverse outcomes compared with those who tested positive, prior to commencing an-tiretroviral therapy in Cape Town, South Africa. In a primary care clinic based in the same city, and using archived samples from a prospectively recruited cohort, we demonstrated MTB/RIF– negative tuberculosis patients to have a significantly diminished sputum bacillary load compared with those who tested positive [2]. We also described the use of different tests, including chest radiography , when further investigating individuals who are MTB/RIF-negative [3]. Given the diminished performance of this test in patients who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (approximately 1 in 10 with a negative MTB/RIF result will have active tuberculosis [2, 4]), and the different patient population in our study, there are several issues that warrant further highlighting. These gain importance as MTB/RIF is rolled out. Lawn and colleagues report MTB/RIF to possess superior sensitivity in HIV-infected patients with a low CD4 count, suggesting that these patients have a greater sputum bacillary load than those who are less immunosuppressed. This finding is contrary to the observed low frequency of pulmonary abnormalities in the former group; however, as suggested by the authors, such radiographic data do not always correlate well in patients with an attenuated immune response. A correlation of bacillary load (eg, measured using liquid culture time-to-positivity [TTP] or MTB/RIF-generated C T values) with CD4 count would have been useful for supporting this conclusion; however, these data are absent and are required to clarify the findings presented. Furthermore, wide overlap exists in the comparison of MTB/RIF sensitivity stratified by CD4 count, and several of the groups appear to not differ significantly (or possess only borderline statistically significant differences). Indeed, in our cohort of symptomatic tuberculosis patients who were HIV-infected, a trend in the opposite direction (MTB/RIF sensitivity diminishing with CD4 count) was observed, but this did not reach significance because of our small sample size [2]. However, sputum bacillary load was elevated in tuberculosis patients who were less immunosup-pressed (median culture TTP [95% confidence interval] of 12 [6–18] in CD4 count ≥200 cells/µL vs 15 [14–21] in CD4 <200 cells/µL; P = .03). Thus, our data imply that, contrary to what is suggested by Lawn and colleagues , MTB/RIF is more likely …


Did the tsarist regime in its hectic career after 1861 arrive at a coherent strategy on its working class? Soviet historiography claimed that it did, but it consisted of the repression of workers' movements, complemented by the bribery of welfare, the deceit of unions sponsored by the state, and the ideological and cultural corruption of Sunday schools, temperance societies, and rational recreation. Three generations of Soviet historians attempted to "expose" tsarist policy and purpose, continuing the tradition established by the radical intelligentsia, party organizers, union leaders, strikers, and so many rank-and-file workers before 1917. The autocracy repressed a class that was growing in consciousness as it became first a class in itself through the development of capitalism promoted by autocracy, and then a class for itself under the guidance of the Marxist intelligentsia and eventually the Bolsheviks. Capitalism was inevitable, the emergence of the working class was necessary to that process, and the contradictions of capitalism had to work themselves out through class conflict, the struggle for emancipation, and its denouement in the Revolution of 1917 and beyond. The repression of the class was not a policy choice since the state could engage in no other form of action; it was doomed to failure from the outset but fated to run its predestined course. The defects of such an account are numerous and easy to caricature, but its central inadequacy lies in its denying agency to, of all things, the Russian state. The state has become a mere automaton at the hands of Capitalist Fate; and only the Marxist intelligentsia, more specifically the Bolsheviks and Lenin, have been blessed with agency. The autocracy had no options, according to this version of what happened; its script had been written before the working class had appeared; and its performance cannot be meaningfully assessed against its ambitions or compared to that of other capitalist states. As such, there was no strategy at all; it would be hopeless to look for one; and the historian may do no more than chronicle the ceaseless conflicts that punctuated the career of the late imperial regime. With some distinguished exceptions like L. M. Ivanov, who saw the mixed bag of possibilities in the Russian proletariat, or T. K. Gus'kova who examined the peculiar features of the Urals workers, Soviet historiography has ended up being just such an exhausting and deadening chronicle sustained by an immense output of archival publications. (1) Non-Soviet accounts, however, have not proposed even a general pattern, evidently because none was discernible, and have preferred to examine the problem through discrete blocks of analysis. The first of these blocks was what constituted the "labor question" and how it was handled. Reginald Zelnik's first book has yet to be superseded in any language for its investigation of the "labor question" as it was discussed by officials, "experts," and businessmen in the middle of the 19th century. (2) But the officials and businessmen saw the problem of a new industry and new working class as one of urban degeneration, poverty, and political disaffection; and their solutions were health controls, urban development, regulation, and repression. Such definitions of the "labor question" came hot from the anvils of Germany, France, and England and focused on the challenge of a new and growing class of a class-based society. But such a definition of the "labor question" in Russia did not include the workers who for more than a century had toiled in the mining and metallurgical sector in the Urals and elsewhere, in the rural serf factories of the nobility, and in cottage industries (kustari) all over the country. Workers already comprised multiple categories of serfs, peasant craftsmen, and urban artisans when the new class in advanced factory industry multiplied so vigorously from the 1820s on. The "labor question" was almost a code or shorthand used by officials and the intelligentsia to discuss this modern working class abstracted from workers as a whole; it conveniently delimited but significantly narrowed the sphere of power relations, class structure, and social ordering; and the bureaucracy and the radical intelligentsia competed for control of this space opened up by the "labor question. …


During the year 2020, Brazil was impacted by the effects of a virus that made it impossible for face-to-face classes to continue taking place nationwide. In order for students to have access to knowledge, national legislation allowed teaching to take place remotely during the pandemic period. This had repercussions for teachers using different digital technologies (DT). In order to verify how DT were being used in national teaching processes during the COVID-19 pandemic, we carried out a qualitative investigation. We interviewed 123 teachers, using a questionnaire on Google Forms, in April 2020. The analysis of the responses obtained indicated different possibilities and difficulties for teachers. Of the main difficulties pointed out, it was found that many students do not have access to TD and teachers' limitations in articulating their use in the teaching process. As for the positive points, teachers perceived opportunities to meet and use various TDs for communication in videoconferences, with those involved in educational processes, as well as the adoption of various digital resources, providing differentiated classes to students. Finally, they indicated that the use of TD in teaching will not replace the role of the teacher in face-to-face classes, especially in Basic Education, but the adoption of remote teaching in the pandemic period, will directly impact pedagogical practices in the return of face-to-face activities.


The problem of delay-dependent asymptotic stability criteria for neural networks with time-varying delays is investigated. An improved delay dependent stability criteria are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to ensure a large upper bound for time-delay. A new class of Lyapunov functional is constructed and the known bounds of the delay interval is split in two subintervals to derive some novel delay dependent stability criteria. Finally, three numerical examples are given that our results are less conservative than some existing ones.


Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of terrestrial water cycle that plays an important role in the Earth system. Aaccurate estimation of ET is crucial in various hydrological, meteorological, and agricultural applications. In situ measurements of ET are costly and cannot be readily scaled to regional scales relevant to weather and climate studies. Therefore, there is a need for techniques to make quantitative estimates of ET using land surface state observations that are widely available from remote sensing across a range of spatial scales.

In this work, A variational data (VDA) assimilation framework is developed to estimate ET by assimilating Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) soil moisture and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) land surface temperature data into a coupled dual-source energy and water balance model.

The VDA framework estimates the key parameters of the coupled model, which regulate the partitioning of available energy (i.e., neutral bulk heat transfer coefficient (CHN) and evaporative fraction from soil (EFS) and canopy (EFC)). The uncertainties of the retrieved unknown parameters are estimated through the inverse of Hessian of cost function, obtained using the Lagrangian methodology. Analysis of the second-order information provides a tool to identify the optimum parameter estimates and guides towards a well-posed estimation problem.

The VDA framework is implemented over an area of 21780 km2 in the U.S. Southern Great Plains (with computational grid size of 0.05 degree) during a nine-month period. The maps of retrieved evaporation and transpiration are used to study a number of dynamic feedback mechanisms between the land and atmosphere, such as the dependence of evapotranspiration on vegetation and soil moisture.


Multicast transmission technology will be used in local area network digital monitoring system, to be effective in expanding the coverage of the system. In this paper, with practical applications, discussed the multicast router's settings, and based on .NET Framework 2.0 environment. Multicast technology for the inherent weaknesses in the area of security, design a set of the use of the database, digital signature provides a more reasonable solution. Practical application of better-performing.


In this paper, Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is used to analyze the effect of refuge holes on the radio wave coverage in tunnels. Different cases of single or double refuge holes located at various positions in the tunnel are analyzed to determine their impact on the received power. The influence of refuge hole shape on radio wave coverage along the tunnel is also studied. Simulation results demonstrate that the received power in the tunnel with refuge holes is different from that in the tunnel without holes, and shows a faster fluctuation. Moreover, the distribution of the fast fading points also varies with specific hole arrangements.


Traditional federated learning (FL) usually relies on static ground base stations (BSs) for model aggregation. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), due to their flexible 3D deployment, can effectively complement ground BSs, enabling the establishment of air-ground integrated FL to boost ubiquitous edge intelligence. However, for online FL under such an air-ground setting, resource-limited users need to determine the resource allocation and sample selection to enhance training performance and achieve high energy efficiency. This paper studies how to minimize the tradeoff between energy consumption and training performance of air-gound online FL, and proposes an efficient algorithm to solve the aforementioned problem. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm in terms of both training effect and energy consumption.


Property Location With a stay at Grand Bella Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Pattaya, steps from Pattaya Memorial Hospital and minutes from Central Festival Pattaya Beach. This hotel is within close proximity of Hard Rock Cafe and Pattaya Beach.Rooms..


Secondary beams from fragmentation of {sup 58}Ni have been produced with energies of (200--220){ital A} MeV, separated with a fragment separator and injected into a storage-cooler ring for half-life measurements. The relative momentum spread {Delta}{ital p}/{ital p}{approx}1{times}10{sup {minus}6} (FWHM) which we achieved allowed us to resolve the ground and isomeric states of cooled {sup 52}Mn and {sup 53}Fe nuclei in the measured mass spectra. The circulating beams were fully ionized, which rendered it possible to measure {ital pure} {beta}{sup +} branches for {sup 52{ital g}}Fe and {sup 53{ital g}}Fe and the sum of pure {beta}{sup +} and {gamma} branches in the decay of the isomers {sup 52{ital m}}Mn and {sup 53{ital m}}Fe. {copyright} {ital 1995} {ital The} {ital American} {ital Physical} {ital Society}.


(1992). Pacific economic cooperation and Australia: Some questions about the role of knowledge and learning. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 182-197.


There are many t artifact and different distortions present in the recording. The reflections of sound depend on the geometry of the room and it causes the smearing of the recording called as reverberation. The background noise depends on the unwanted audio source activities present in the evidential recording. For digital media to be considered as proof in a court its authenticity must be verified. A technique proposed is based on spectral subtraction to estimate the amount of reverberation. Also nonlinear filtering based on particle filtering is used to estimate the background noise. Feature extraction is by using MFCC approach. The feature vector is the addition of features from acoustic reverberation and background noise. SVM classifier is used for classification of the environments. Overall system performance is better than previous.


Two setup project of automatic fire alarm system were compared to discuss the network structure,execution of function and management of automatic fire alarm system in subway tunnel.A system of supervising disaster prevention and rescue compositively which integrate different kinds of automatic monitoring system was put forward to accommodate the development of subway.


This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays and community events. The film begins with an Easter celebration including hunting eggs and rides at a small carnival (00:00-01:20) and the family picnicking at a lake and children swimming in a small pool (01:20-03:52). The family then observes a December 1959 parade celebrating the opening of the Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. The parade includes marching bands and drill teams, actress Yvonne de Carlo, KRLD-TV's "The Sky King," children in Native American costume, clowns, antique cars, a military tank, the Dallas Sheriff's Posse, and a float with a large Interstate 35 (I-35) sign (03:52-07:23). The family then views an outdoor Christmas exhibit (7:23-7:47) and celebrates Christmas (07:47-15:39). The Cochran children receive jumpsuits advertising their father's business which read "Plumbing by Jay."


PURPOSE: To prevent reuse of the reservoir by a removable reservoir assembly to a motor drive member of an infusion pump, including a reservoir, a piston having a drive member thereof which engages the motor drive member and a severable stem for preventing refill. CONSTITUTION: A medicine infusion pump for family use by patients having difficulties to walk includes a hollow cylindrical reservoir 11 removably disposed in a groove 17 of a housing 16. The reservoir 11 is kept by a divided yoke 15 having a space for attaching a connector 181 and an infusion tube 18. A piston 12 having a substantially round head 13 is engaged in the reservoir 11. The piston 12 is slidably displaced by the rotation of a drive screw 14 engaged to the internal threads of the piston by the drive motor, and infuse the liquid medicine. When the infusion of the liquid medicine is finished, the piston 12 displaced in a most elongated position cannot be retracted because of the existence of a safety stem 31, refilling is thus prevented.


The present invention discloses an electronic component package and a manufacturing method of the circuit device, which is a first substrate having a plurality of bumps, the second substrate having an opening portion at a position opposite to the respective bumps. A first substrate and a second substrate by sealing wall on the second substrates were assembled and welded welded together, the electronic parts of the first substrate are encapsulated. When the gas generation welding the sealing wall. However, each of the opening portions of the second substrate can effectively remove the generated gas.


Traditional iron ore beneficiation plants using washing screening and jigging processes require large volumes of process water. Therefore, when a suitable large iron ore deposit is found in a location where rainfall is erratic and raw water sources are limited, innovative process designs are required to minimise water losses, maximise reuse of process water and minimise raw water intake to ensure the project viability.
This case study provides an overview of the Khumani paste disposal facility (PDF) located in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The plant uses a central ring main water reticulation circuit combined with a two stage thickening system to maximise water recovery.
At the process plant there are two large 90 m diameter traction thickeners and at the PDF two 18 m paste thickeners. The net raw water usage has been minimised, and water losses on the PDF are at levels between 0.43–0.69 m3/t deposited.


This indicator monitors the number of native species that are associated with forest habitats. Because one of the more general sign of ecosystem stress is a reduction in the variety of organisms inhabiting a given locale, species counts are often used in assessing ecosystem wellbeing. Data on the distribution of 689 tree and 1,486 terrestrial animal species associated with forest habitats (including 227 mammals, 417 birds, 176 amphibians, 191 reptiles, and 475 butterflies) were analyzed. Species richness (number of species) is highest in the Southeast and in the arid ecoregions of the Southwest. Since the mid-1970s, trends in forest bird richness have been mixed. Ecoregions where forest bird richness has increased the greatest are found in the West and include the Great Basin, northern Rocky Mountains, northern mixed grasslands, and southwestern deserts. Declining forest bird richness has primarily occurred in the East, with notable areas of decline in the Mississippi lowland forests, the southeastern coastal plain, northern New England, southern and eastern Great Lake forests, and central tallgrass prairie. Because monitoring species richness over large geographic areas is logistically difficult, we lack systematic inventories that permit the estimation of species richness over time for most taxonomic groups.


Machine-tool manufacturers have traditionally used position-feedback devices such as resolvers, encoders, Inductosyns, etc, to provide slide-displacement data to the control servo system. The location of the cutting tool and workpiece are thereby inferred by measuring a secondary characteristic such as the angle of the motor drive shaft or lead screw. Undesirable features of this technique arise from unstable elements that are outside the measurement loop as well as from inherent accuracy considerations. The laser interferometer position-measuring system offers an accuracy that is unsurpassed by conventional feedback systems; and, while it is more expensive, it should represent only a mall fraction of the total cost of a precision, numerically controlled machine tool. Also, it is frequently possible to measure more closely the location of the cutting tool and workpiece from a common reference, thereby avoiding some potential thermal-instability problems.


The ability to control acoustic fields is crucial in diverse applications such as loudspeaker design, ultrasound imaging and therapy, or acoustic particle manipulation. The current approaches use fixed lenses or expensive and bulky phased arrays. Here, using a process of analogue-to-digital conversion and wavelet decomposition, we develop the notion of quantal meta-surfaces. The quanta here are small, pre-manufactured 3D units - which we call metamaterial bricks - each encoding a specific phase delay. These bricks can be assembled into meta-surfaces to generate any diffraction-limited acoustic field. We then apply this methodology to show examples of acoustic focusing and steering and, after stacking single meta-surfaces into layers, the more complex bottle-shaped field required to form an acoustic tractor beam. Here, we demonstrate experimentally single-sided air-borne acoustic levitation using meta-layers at various bit-rates: from a 4-bit uniform to 3-bit non-uniform quantization in phase. This powerful methodology dramatically simplifies the design of acoustic devices and provides a key-step towards the realisation of spatial sound modulators.


Response-adaptive randomized design uses sequentially accruing data in allocation decisions to reach certain objective. It is useful in clinical research, industrial experiments, and bioassay. We review some common used response-adaptive randomized designs with emphasis on some recent proposed designs. Advantages and disadvantages of those adaptive designs are discussed. Some further research topics are directions are also discussed.


OBJECT
The authors report various techniques, and their results, after performing median and ulnar nerve transfers to reanimate the biceps muscle in C5-7 avulsion-related brachial plexus injuries (BPIs).

METHODS
Forty-three adult patients with BPIs of the upper-middle plexus underwent reinnervation of the biceps muscle; neurotization of the musculocutaneous nerve was performed using fascicles from the ulnar nerve (39 cases) and the median nerve (four cases). The different techniques included sectioning, rerouting, and direct suturing of the entire musculocutaneous nerve (35 cases); direct reinnervation of the motor branches of the musculocutaneous nerve (three cases); and reinnervation using small grafts to the motor fascicles that enter the biceps muscle (five cases). Elbow flexion recovery ranged from M2 to M4, according to the patient's age and the level of integrity of the hand. No surgery-related failure occurred. No significant difference in outcome was related to any of the technical variants. In patients younger than age 45 years and exhibiting a normal hand function a score of M4 or better was always achieved. On average, reinnervation occurred 6 months after surgery. There was no clinical evidence of donor nerve dysfunction.

CONCLUSIONS
When accurate selection criteria are met, the results after this type of neurotization have proved excellent.


Understanding the inter-relationships between traffic flow, density, and speed through the study of the fundamental diagram of road traffic is critical for traffic modelling and management. Consequently, over the last 85 years, a wealth of models have been developed for its functional form. However, there has been no clear answer as to which model is the most appropriate for observed (i.e. empirical) fundamental diagrams and under which conditions. A lack of data has been partly to blame. Motivated by shortcomings in previous reviews, we first present a comprehensive literature review on modelling the functional form of empirical fundamental diagrams. We then perform fits of 50 previously proposed models to a high quality sample of 10 150 empirical fundamental diagrams pertaining to 25 cities. Comparing the fits using information criteria, we find that the non-parametric Sun model greatly outperforms all of the other models. The Sun model maintains its winning position regardless of road type and congestion level. Our study, the first of its kind when considering the number of models tested and the amount of data used, finally provides a definitive answer to the question "Which model for the functional form of an empirical fundamental diagram is currently the best?". The word "currently" in this question is key, because previously proposed models adopt an inappropriate Gaussian noise model with constant variance. We advocate that future research should shift focus to exploring more sophisticated noise models. This will lead to an improved understanding of empirical fundamental diagrams and their underlying functional forms.


Advertisement is media of persuasive communication aimed to influencing, persuading the public. It can be found anywhere in newspaper, magazine, radio, brochure and television. Brochure is a one of adv with interesting layout that contains information about all the potential which will be promoted. In this research, the researcher has analyzed the seminar and workshop brochures of some universities in Bandung. The problem in this research then formulated into two questions: (1) What are semiotic elements in the seminar and workshop brochures of universities in Bandung (2) What is the relation between the text and the pictures on the seminar and workshop brochures of universities in Bandung.
This research used Peirce theory of semiotic to analyze the seminar and workshop brochures. Peirce theory of semiotic includes representamen, object, and interpretant. The method of this research used qualitative method because the data consist of words and pictures. The data in this research are pictures taken from the website Google Images. Technique of collecting data in this research are collecting, and identifying data which used English on the brochure. Then the step of analyzing data are (1) Analyze the semiotic element in seminar and workshop brochures of universities in Bandung, (2) What is the relation between the text and pictures on the seminar and workshop brochure of universities in Bandung.
The result of this research shows that every selected seminar and workshop brochures that analyze in this research have representament, Object and Interpretant. The representament and object from each brochure such as title, tagline, speaker, the ticket, guest start, contact person and the date. Then the Interpretant is something that comes to the reader's mind related to the representament and object. The relation between the text and the picture are related to each other. From the relation between the text and pictures, the reseacrher got a conclusion that the whole component put out signs which related to one another.


Nowadays, there is an increasing consensus that the impact of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) on healthcare organizations could be considerable due to the emergency of the Future Internet concept that is established over innovative technologies such as cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). The FI-STAR project aims to implement the next generation of healthcare supporting applications by taking advantage of FIWARE state-of-the-art services. These are cloud applications and services for healthcare provision centred based on the needs of the patient and the healthcare professionals.


This study used Family Group Theraplay (Munns, 2005) to investigate the effects of enhancing interaction between child and mother on mitigating developmental risks for children growing up in low-income households. The subjects for the study were selected from among Community Child Care Centers and Community Welfare Centers in Seoul. The children were in the first, second, and third grades of elementary school. Eleven child-mother dyads participated in Family Group Theraplay once a week for a total of 12 45-minute sessions. The control group consisted of 9 child-mother dyads. The Family Group Theraplay program improved interaction between the children and their mothers and also reduced children's behavior problems and mothers' parenting stress.


In fixing blood-slides by heat, one finds that the results of the copperplate method are so inconstant that it is difficult to get a good specimen unless one keeps in constant practice. There is no way of determining the exact amount of heat used or of keeping the heat regular. I have devised the following simple apparatus for office and laboratory use: As shown in the illustration, an ordinary laboratory standard supports an iron dish, C, resting on an asbestos plate, under which is a gas burner. This iron dish is easily made by screwing a two-inch nipple into a pipe cap. This dish is filled with petrolatum, into which is sunk a small, thin copper cup so that the end sticks out as shown at B. This cup is just large enough to admit with ease the glass slide. In the petrolatum is sunk the bulb of a thermometer, A.


It was introduced that the process technology with milling instead of grinding based on high speed cutting had been applied in impact specimen process in Jigang Group Co.,Limited.The process technology had replaced traditional surface grinder processing and changed traditional impact specimen processing.Compared with the grinding,the cutting resistance on milling instead of grinding was weak;the influence of the cutting heat was little;the deformation of cutting tools and specimens was slight;it could be achieved high accuracy and low roughness processing,and the material removal rate per unit time was three to six times as the grinding rate of grinder,which could greatly improve the processing efficiency of impact specimens.


The Blum-Blum-Shub generator has a number of interesting pseudorandom properties. The author shows how to control the linear span of the output sequences of this generator by a proper choice of the two primes.