The system developed in this project, IOT Maintenance System, provides a simple and efficient way of facilitating maintenance service. Achieving this objective is difficult using a manual system due too redundant and collecting relevant malfunctioned materials information may be very time consuming. All these problems will be solved by automating the manual system. This document contains the introduction, methodology that uses tools like Notepad++, Wamp Server and VISIO, data sources like site observation, interview and document analysis, and for design methodology we use object-oriented. For analysis model, we use sequence and activity diagram.


by sending home his horses and his familia: those who disputed with the perfecti must not only be, but must be seen to be, poor. The adoption of mendicancy was suggested to Diego and Dominic by the situation in the Midi, but the idea was more than a piece of brilliant improvization; the author links it in a most interesting and suggestive way with the vita apostolica movement of the twelfth century of which the two men, as canons regular, were representatives. A few emendations may be proposed for future editions. Cassian was not an Italian (p. 43). It is most unlikely that it was the sacristan's business "to organize the whole liturgical life" of Osma cathedral (p. 45). To speak of the "foundation" of the university ofParis is slightly misleading and while student numbers at Paris in the early thirteenth century have been variously estimated, they certainly cannot have amounted to "thousands of students" (p. 197). A reference to "the original" of the bull ofconfirmation of 1216 in the archives of Haute-Garonne (p. 219) suggests a slight archival misconception. It is not clear what is meant by referring toJordan of Saxony as a "former professor ofliterature" (p. 314), but perhaps this is a translator's slip. It must regretfully be said that the author has not been well served by the translator. Verbal infelicities and strange sounding Gallicisms abound. An important appendix on St Dominic's parentage is marred by a bad printer's blunder causing the omission of some lines (p. 404). It is a pity that the publishers have relegated the lavish and valuable footnotes to the back, thus making it an exasperating book for the serious student to use. There are some excellent illustrations, but the binding and cover design suggest nineteenth-century devotions from SaintSulpice rather than a work of scholarship. These are small matters, however, beside the author's impressive achievement. With great skill he has welded together the crowded events ofDominic's career and the constitutional growth of the Order to make a sustained and compelling narrative. The result is a most readable book as well as a defmitive work of scholarship.


To develop a rapid detection procedure for Listeria monocytogenes in infant formula and lettuce using a macrophage‐based enrichment protocol and real‐time PCR.


Seabird ornithologists have generally paid little attention to the possible roles played by long-term climatic cycles or air-ocean interactions on population changes at established colonies or on the processes of colony establishment or extinction. Yet, a rapidly expanding literature in the physical sciences suggests that seabird numbers are not naturally stable at particular colonies for any great length of time. It is suggested that the establishment of new colonies at one end of the range may counter the decline of colonies at the other end. Perhaps these changes in small marginal colonies are important, and they may be more indicative and significant (when detected and explained) than are much larger changes in numbers in bigger reproductive units in the center of a species' range. Fluctuations in seabird numbers must in future be first considered as possible responses either to short-term, or turnarounds in longer term, natural climatic or oceanographic cycles, or to trends ranging in length from a few years to at least several


Silver nanowires are the favorable material in many applications based on their plasmonic double resonance in the visible region. In this paper, thin films of Poly-vinylpyrrolidone (PVP) doped with Silver nanowires (Ag NWs) in different concentrations have been prepared. The plasmonic imaging system using a high numerical aperture objective lens excite the Surface Plasmon in these structures. The hot spot results from reflected light intensity of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) proved that increasing of concentration of Silver nanowires yields to get better hot spot in plasmonic imaging systems by choosing the appropriate wavelength. These obtained results accompanying with third order nonlinear investigations show the ability of samples usage in thermoplasmonic applications.


An experiment was carried out in EMEPA, Joao Pessoa, Brazil between September 98 and June 99 to quantify the dry matter, starch and ash content of yam rhizomes, cv. Da Costa, in relation to harvest time and organic fertilization. The area consisted of a red-yellow podzolic sandy soil. Four levels of cattle manure (5; 10; 15 and 20 t/ha), four levels of chicken manure (2.8; 5.6; 8.4 and 11.2 t/ha), and two harvest times [seven and nine months after planting date (APD))] plus a treatment without organic residue, were studied, arranged in a factorial cheme 2x4x2+1 in randomized blocks, with four replications. Dry matter was of 33% and 36% in rhizomes harvested seven and nine months APD, respectively. At seven months APD, dry matter decreased from 35.80% and 34.71%, without cattle or chicken manure, respectively, to 30.03% and 29.25%, for highest levels of cattle manure (20 t/ha) and chicken manure (11.2 t/ha). Starch content increased from 26% at seven months APD to 29% at nine months APD. Nine months APD, starch content in rhizomes increased (31.6%) with increasing levels of chicken manure (4.8 t/ha). Ash content was not affected by harvest dates. However, applying 12.8 t/ha of cattle manure and 6.7 t/ha of chicken manure, rhizomes presented increase in ash content of 0.78% and 0.67% respectively, when harvested nine months APD.


This study is based on filed research conducted in a Portuguese-American community in New Bedford, Massachusetts from February 1973 through May 1976. During the summer of 1976, background research was also conducted on the Portuguese islands of Madeira and Sao Miguel, Acores, where members of this particular Portuguese community originated. (Beginning of the Introduction)


The purpose of this paper is to explore child sexual abuse as a site of contemporary government, exemplifying producivity of the approach to the study of political rationality suggested by Michel Foucault. It gues, firstly, that the government of chil sexual abuse is achieved through a complex of discourwses and practices which are a form of government we can chracterize as liberal welfare rationality, secondly, that the dicourses surrounding and articulating this rationlity are regualated through the constitution and reconstitution of a public/ private distinction and, thirdly, that this distinction is based on the mobilization of a range of expert discourses of science and of law. The paper examines aspects of the Public Inquiry into the Cleveland child sexual abuse case, showing how the Inquiry forms a technique through which government reflects on itself and demonstrating that, in its contemporary form, the 'government' of families is achieved through the regulation of a productive relationship betwee...


The thesis analyzes the relationship between Wronsky determinant and linear equation relativity of function in order to get the common solution determinant of linear differential coefficient equation.


Background: In India, the preclinical subjects - anatomy, physiology and biochemistry are taught during the 1st year of medical curriculum, as per the norms of Medical Council of India. Physiology is one of the preclinical subjects that form the basis for core knowledge in medical field to improve and deliver the better health care.

Aims and Objectives: The aim and objective are to study the awareness of applied clinical physiology concepts among medical interns in a southern tertiary care center.

Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a pre-validated questionnaire on interns in a southern-based medical institution. All the principles of bioethics were adhered throughout the study period. The obtained data were analyzed and expressed in frequency and percentage.

Results: This study showed that the study participants were not able to give the correct responses to the questions describing the different domains of applied clinical physiology concepts, and the percentage was found to be low (


— The main purpose of this study is to describe the relation between Frobenius manifolds by N. Hitchin and manifolds over algebras (shortly A -manifolds). Furthermore, we provide an overview of various aspects related to the subject of A -manifolds: we consider the case of manifold where for every point the cotangent space is a comodule over a coalgebra A ∗ ; also, for a smooth action of a fi nite group G on a manifold, we consider the generalization of A -manifolds to a G -version where A is a direct sum of vector spaces indexed by G . Additionally, we introduce the Weil coalgebras and the G -equivariant graduated versions of Weil algebras, and the corresponding bundle structures.


The paper incorporates experimental results on comparative performance of various types of coatings normally applied on steel reinforcement bars embedded in chloride contam-inated concrete structures. It is observed that a new type of coating based on galvannealing of galvanized coating performs excellently well in comparison to the other coatings.


The paper analyzes the experience of corporate management in the joint stock companies of Primorski Krai of the Russian Federation. The corporate management system is represented as a cluster of concentric circles. The author proved that corporate management, as a system, is a combination of procedural and institutional, economic and financial interrelations of all members of a corporation; it defines the mechanisms and methods of interaction of concerned parties – the stakeholders who use these mechanisms to represent their interests and interact with a corporation and with each other. The author determined the distinctive features of interrelations between the actors of internal and external corporate management systems and suggested using complex approach to the formation of corporate management system in a joint stock company. This approach is based on three directions: process aspect, vertical and horizontal agreement. Process aspect promotes the improvement of corporate management system effectiveness, the ensuring of information openness for management, and the administrative decisions making aimed to neutralization of external environment changes. The vertical agreement means the formation of corporate management system in accordance with the stock company development strategy and the identification of basic competences. The horizontal agreement is a transformation of every suggested component of the system based on the complex approach. The author determined the components of the system that help to evaluate its effectiveness: the structure of ownership and the influence of owners, the relations with stakeholders, financial transparency, and the information disclosure, the structure and methods of work of the board of directors and management. The author developed the methodological approach and suggested using it to evaluate the effectiveness of the corporate management system according to the following directions: corporate procedure, corporate culture, the effectiveness of financial, economic and investment activities, the assessment of the stock companies risks.


Low-loss sleeve resonators can be used for accurate microwave dielectric characterization of rod-shaped test specimens. The test specimen is inserted into the dielectric sleeve resonator and placed centrally in a metal cavity. With the use of additional sleeve resonators having differing external diameters or permittivities, a single specimen can be characterized at multiple frequencies. Sleeve resonators can also be employed for accurate dielectric characterization of high-permittivity specimens having dielectric loss factors greater than 0.001. Closed-form solutions for TE/sub 0np/ resonant mode structure are given. Uncertainty relations for permittivity and dielectric loss are also shown, which demonstrate that when sample electric energy filling factors are greater than 0.4, relative uncertainties in measured permittivity and dielectric loss tangent are less than 1% and 4%, even for relative permittivities greater than 600. Example measurements are given that illustrate how this dielectric resonator system can be employed for dielectric characterization of ferroelectric materials at temperatures both near or far from their Curie temperatures.


Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease, where dementia symptoms slowly worsen over time. Brain cell connections, the cells themselves degenerate and die, slowly destroying memory and other mental functions. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), the early stage of Alzheimer's (AD), is used for clinical trials. Different imaging techniques have been used to help diagnose the disease. A few of them are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography, positron emission tomography. Each of these offers something different towards the detection and possible treatments for Alzheimer's disease. The primary role of MRI image in the diagnosis of AD is the assessment of volume change in characteristic locations which can yield a diagnostic accuracy of up to 87%. The special PET scans use radioactive tracers to highlight amyloid protein plaques in the brain, which are a hallmark of AD. These features from MRI and PET images are extracted for diagnosis. Fusion of these features can improve the accuracy of diagnosis. Fusion can be done using Pulse coupled neural network (PCNN). A PCNN is a two dimensional neural network. Due to some defects of original PCNN for data fusion, the dual channel PCNN is used to implement multimodal image fusion. This method gives additional features for better diagnosis of AD.


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The objective of the Hydrometeorology Modernization Project for Central Asia is to improve the accuracy and timeliness of hydromet services in Central Asia, with particular focus on Kyrgyz Republic and Republic of Tajikistan. The changes respond to official requests from the Executive Committee-International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (EC-IFAS), the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tajikistan to: update the results framework to reflect project activities and outcomes more accurately; extend the project closing date by 22 months, from August 31, 2016 to June 30, 2018, based on the best estimation of time required to complete all project activities.


The paper examines both theoretically and empirically the factors determining the demand for regular labour in seasonal agriculture. In an implicit contract framework it is argued that there are 'hoarding costs' of regular labour in the slack period when there is not much work to be done. Consequently, the number of regular labour employed is constrained by the hoarding cost where larger employment-intensive farms tend to hire more regular labour. Evidence from the ICRISAT villages in India, too, show that though the marginal costs of regular labour are zero, there are significant hoarding costs of regular labour among small farms so that larger farmers are the major demanders of regular labour. Estimates of the double-hurdle model jointly determining the probability of hiring regular labour and demand for regular labour-hours (if a regular labour is hired) are shown to be an improvement over univariate tobit estimates of the demand for regular labour-hours only.


Direct Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer analysis of light gas extracted from drilling mud can be used to identify the hydrocarbon components of produced gas; and from these results, prediction of the character of the production is made possible. This discussion is related to two studies performed using data from over a hundred lateral wells across several United States basins. When performed on DQMS-derived data, scores for component ratios are shown to confidently differentiate shale wells that will produce significant liquids. In shale exploration lateral wells, guidelines for the interpretation of DQMS-derived component ratios are suggested directly by these data.


Work on the creation and testing of inbred lines in Siberia on a scientific basis has been conducted since the mid-ies and 60-ies of the last century. As source material to create lines wide appeal were samples of maize from the world collection of ARIP, foreign and domestic early hybrids, mutant forms, hybrid populations. The cultivation of maize in Western Siberia to produce high quality silage or fodder grain is only possible thanks to the use of early hybrids. For breeding these hybrids requires the early inbred lines with valuable economically useful traits and properties. The creation and testing of inbred lines continues in the Siberian branch of the Institute of maize. For the period 1999-2009, was created more than 50 lines. Testing of inbred Siberian lines of corn on a complex economic-governmental valuable traits. Dedicated lines that can be used to create hybrids of the new generation. The description of the best promising lines of Omsk selection.


We have been developing a series of experimental machine translation systems called LUTE (Language Understander, Translator & Editor) [1] to support the examination of our theoretical work on computational linguistics. Since we are mainly interested in the theoretical aspect of natural language understanding, our objective is not to develop practical systems but to develop fundamental theories applicable to the design of a high ability machine translation system [2]. There is no question, however, that some of these experimental systems may in fact provide practical application to our daily work as tools for manipulating large amounts of linguistic and non-linguistic data as well as for examining such data through programs. We have thus been focusing part of our effort on developing a computer environment we collectively call the Reciprocal Environment for the Study of the Language Understander, Translator & Editor (RESOLUTE) which consists of many facilities for supporting text analysis, dictionary maintenance, and program and knowledge-base development and testing [3],[4].


The nature of authenticity and the role of originality are perennial subjects of debate in heritage. The role of originality is arguably to anchor the imaginative reconstruction of the past in reality, underpinning affective understandings of the past with accurate physical and sensory evidence. In practice, however, the term "originality" is used rather haphazardly, to mean many different things and many different ways of preserving and interpreting heritage objects. It is particularly problematic in the field of large technology heritage, where objects typically reflect historical evidence of multiple owners and service contexts, and extensive functional and aesthetic change. This article uses interviews with large technology heritage producers and visitors to examine how different understandings of originality influence the ways in which people conserve, restore, interpret and view this type of heritage, and the crucial role these different approaches can have in the success or failure of large technology heritage projects. The very practical difficulties of defining and preserving originality in large technology heritage are brought into focus with a discussion of the HMAS Brisbane display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.


The emission of light from a sonoluminescing bubble may depend on whether shock waves launched each acoustic cycle by the imploding surface of the bubble focus on to a sufficiently small volume at the bubble centre. This in turn may depend on whether the shock maintains its stability as it travels inwards. With this application in mind, the linear stability of an imploding spherical shock was studied in Part I, using a van der Waals equation of state for the gas. Conditions for instability were determined, but the subsequent fate of the perturbations of the bubble surface was unknown. Would the instabilities grow and persist at finite amplitude or would they disappear during implosion? The answers to such questions are sought here by integrating the gas dynamics equations using the finite-difference essentially non-oscillatory method of Shu and Osher. The shock is initiated by a nearly spherical 'piston' and its subsequent evolution, including its finite-amplitude deviations from sphericity, is determined. Two types of behaviour are found depending on the parameter b = bp 0 , where b is the van der Waals excluded volume and p 0 is the initial uncompressed density of gas ahead of the shock. When b is sufficiently large, an initially smooth shock front remains smooth as it focuses and, although it is impossible to continue the integrations up to the moment of implosion, it appears that it will focus on a small volume at the centre of the bubble. This is in sharp contrast to what happens at smaller values of b for which the initial distortion of the shock front, if sufficiently large, becomes and remains polygonal shaped. This is consistent with experimental results for cylindrical imploding shocks as well as with earlier theoretical investigations of imploding cylindrical and spherical shocks in an ideal gas (b = 0) that used the Chisnell, Chester and Witham (CCW) approximation or the geometrical shock approximation of Whitham. Plausibly, the polygonal distortions reduce the volume on to which the imploding shock in a sonoluminescing bubble focuses.


"Resumption of the same situation . . . in a manner which at first leaves the reader in doubt as to whether he is confronted with a new scene or a complementary treatment of the first" was described by Auerbach as "very frequent in the Chanson de Roland (as well as elsewhere in the chansons de geste)." The present note suggests two instances of the same method of exposition in the Poema de Mio Cid."


The aging resistances of natural rubber(NR) vulcanizates from two tapping system of rubber trees were investigated by the conventional method of hot-air aging combined with thermogravimetry(TG),differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) and rubber processing analyzer(RPA).The results showed that the aging-resistance of NR vulcanizate from tapping system A is better than that of tapping system B.


To find out whether the effect of Caffeine on regulating the GLUT4 expression was related with Caffeine-Ca2 +- CaMK Ⅱ-HDAC5 signal pathway. 48 male Wistar rats which were 8-week-old were randomly divided into four groups( n = 12),named as HGC group,HGK group,LGC group and LGK group. The rats were fed with different diet and induced by Caffeine or KN62. And CaMK Ⅱ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) phosphorylation and GLUT4 protein expression were tested by western blotting. Compared with the LGK group,both CaMK Ⅱ( Thr286) and HDAC5( Ser259) and HDAC5( Ser498) phosphorylation increased significantly in skeletal muscle cells in LGC group. Compared with the LGK and LGC group,CaMKⅡ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) phosphorylation decreased obviously in HGC and HGK group. Meanwhile,the changes of CaMKⅡ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) phosphorylation in HGC group had no significant difference with that in HGK group. Therefore( 1) Caffeine could remarkably increase the expression of GLUT4,and increase the CaMKⅡ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) phosphorylation and exist a remarkably positive correlation. While KN62 could significantly decrease the CaMKⅡ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) phosphorylation and the expression GLUT4. They demonstrated that the effect of Ca2 +signal which was induced by Caffeine on increasing the expression of GLUT4 was possibly related with Caffeine-Ca2 +- CaMK Ⅱ-HDAC5 signal pathway.( 2) Whatever the rats were fed with,the expression of GLUT4 was corresponded with CaMKⅡ( Thr286) 、HDAC5( Ser498) and HDAC5( Ser259) in skeletal muscle cells. So the effect of CaMK Ⅱon regulating the expression of GLUT4 in skeletal muscle was related with inducing HDAC5 and regulating its( Ser 498) site and( Ser 259) site.


One of the main goals of ecology is to quantify distributions and abundances of organisms and to elucidate the processes that influence population and community dynamics. Population dynamics are dri ven by the inputs to (birth and immigration) and outputs from (death and emigration) a population. The latter can be affected by numerous, often interacting, physical and biological processes. In marine systems, many species have a dispersing larval phase, which is a key determinant of population dynamics, espe-


University entrepreneurship education courses are not only intermediaries which put entrepreneurship education philosophy and educational principles into concrete practice but bridges which achieve the goal of university creative talents training.This paper mainly discussed the philosophy,principles and goals of university entrepreneurship education curriculum design,and then make a preliminary exploration of content choices and formation of entrepreneurship education curriculum.


Chapter three examines Reid's elevation in the Party. When he finished his national service, Reid became a full-time officer of the YCL which entailed a move from Govan to London. From the provincial working-class culture of Govan he found himself rubbing shoulders with the metropolitan elite which include Michael Foot, Claude Cockburn, James Cameron and others. The first test of his commitment to the party came with the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. The event provoked high profile resignations of some leading Marxist historians, such as EP Thompson and Christopher Hill, but was not enough to shake Reid's belief in the party and its leadership; indeed, it strengthened it. The chapter also deals with Reid's domestic life in London as he married in 1958 and became a father soon after. A full-time official's salary was too meagre to raise a family forcing Reid to resigned his post and return to Glasgow.


Holocene. Robert Edward Tepel was born in Ohio in 1937, the first of three children of George and Thelma Tepel. Bob's father was an electrical engineer, as was his father before him. His mother was a traditional homemaker of the times. The vonTepel's emigrated from Germany during the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm II; it seems that Christian vonTepel, Bob's great-grandfather, who was an inventor at the Krupp works, was bit too outspoken in his criticism of the Kaiser, and found it wise to emigrate. He settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There, he helped found a Presbyterian church and got together with inventor friends to build their own automobile. Moving forward in time, early in the Great Depression, as a young single man, George Edward Tepel had two very different stints in the military. He enlisted in the Army, where he was trained as a court reporter for courts martial, and he later enlisted in the Marine Corps, which stationed him in Panama, where he played saxophone in the Marine Band, and contracted malaria (which he survived). His military background served him well in two ways: as an engineer, he could take excellent meeting notes in Gregg shorthand and type them in final form accurately and quickly, and after his Marine Corps service he augmented his depression era income by playing saxophone in dance bands. Growing up in northeastern Ohio, Bob came to share his father's interest in science, especially astronomy, as well as his appreciation of classical music. His mother thought that taking her children to a museum was an excellent Sunday afternoon outing. Bob's childhood introduction to geology originated in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The family moved to Pasadena, California, in the mid-1950s, and Bob attended Pasadena High School. At PHS, he worked in the school library, which led to summer jobs in the rare book vault of the Huntington Library in nearby San Marino. He found the researchers and librarians to be sociable group, and briefly considered a career as a librarian. Family weekends and longer vacations often involved automobile trips throughout the desert southwest, and Bob soaked up the geology exhibits in national parks and monuments. On many summer weekends he backpacked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with the Sierra Peaks Section of the Sierra Club. He has climbed Mt. Whitney twice, first by the mountaineer's route pioneered by John Muir, and second by the trail with a childhood friend from Ohio; they stayed


AMR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS,Few things are more difficult than to preserve alive for many years the spirit of an anniversary celebration. The memory of even a national deliverance grows faint; the horrors of war, the contest with the oppressor, are alike forgotten; a long peace effaces the recollection of the struggle to attain it, and of the hero by whom it was wvon. But still more quickly fades the remembrance of private benefactors. HoIw quickly wre all have realised who in one of our cathedrals, or of our college chapels, have listened on some Sunday or festival day to the bidding prayer, and have heard mentioned with thanks to Almighty God the names of men and women gone ages since to their last home, of whom all we know, and almost all that we can learn is, that " they rest from their labours and their works (1o follow them". There is, however, something peculiar and indifferent from most in this celebration. It was instituted by the very man whom we commemorate: instituted not for his own glory, but " to make mention of the benefactors of this College, and to encourage its members to search out the secrets of nature by way of experiment".* A compendious theme this, and one making large demands upon the heacl and heart of him who would aspire to treat it. When your commands, Sir, were first laid upon me to undertake this most honourable, most arduous office, I studied, as a preparation for its accomplishment, all the Harveian Orations that I could meet with. But the study yielded me scant comfort. I found that the first Harveian orator lhad inicurred grave displeasure for having indulged in unseemly criticisms on the control of the army, and the government of the country, at a time when Oliver Cromwell was Lord Protector.t There was much need, doubtless, that the performance of so indiscreet a person should be submnitted to the censors for revision,+ and a rule was then adopted that thereafter no Oration should be given in public unless at least a month beforehand it had been submitted to and approved by the President and Censors. I do not know how long it is since this rule was allowed to fall into disuse. Its existence, however, proves how responsible a post that was felt to be which I novwhave the honour to occupy, and I could wvish, for my own sake, that instead of having simply to throw myself on the indulgence of my hearers, I could plead that my poor attempt to do


In this work, from YouTube News-show multimodal dataset with dyadic speakers having heated discussions, we analyze the toxicity through audio-visual signals. Firstly, as different speakers may contribute differently towards the toxicity, we propose a speaker-wise toxicity score revealing individual proportionate contribution. As discussions with disagreements may reflect some signals of toxicity, in order to identify discussions needing more attention we categorize discussions into binary high-low toxicity levels. By analyzing visual features, we show that the levels correlate with facial expressions as Upper Lid Raiser (associated with 'surprise'), Dimpler (associated with 'contempť), and Lip Corner Depressor (associated with 'disgust') remain statistically significant in separating high-low intensities of disrespect. Secondly, we investigate the impact of audio-based features such as pitch and intensity that can significantly elicit disrespect, and utilize the signals in classifying disrespect and non-disrespect samples by applying logistic regression model achieving 79.86% accuracy. Our findings shed light on the potential of utilizing audio-visual signals in adding important context towards understanding toxic discussions.


Films of polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blend have been annealed at a temperature above their glass transition temperatures for up to 48 h. Surface chemical compositions of the cast and annealed films were measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) while surface topographical changes were followed by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The blend films spin-cast from chloroform produce nonequilibrium surfaces with a significant excess of PMMA. The polymer component with a lower surface free energy, PS, is shown to segregate to the surface upon annealing. The PS surface concentration of the films, containing 50% PS:50% PMMA in the bulk, was evaluated using the ester peak in XPS C 1s spectra (sampling depth ∼ 9 nm) and found to increase from ∼5% (freshly spin-cast film) to a saturated level of ∼47% after 17 h of annealing. AFM imaging reveals evolution of blend morphology with annealing time. The spin-cast films prior to annealing exhibit pitted topography with typical pit size of ∼...


There are four main therapies to cure peripheral nerve injury, which is a common injury disease, microsurgery, autologous nerve graft, nerve allograft and tissue engineering technology. The main block of current treatment process is the serious shortage of donor nerves. Existing research points out that the main factors affecting the repair process include: Schwann cells, growth factors, extracellular matrix, etc. At present, due to the lack of donor nerves and the limitation of surgical precision, tissue engineering technology combines seed cells, nutrient factors and scaffold mate通讯作者。


Knowledge of past rates of transfer of rock‐forming materials among the principal geologic reservoirs is central to understanding causes and magnitudes of change in earth surface processes over Phanerozoic time. To determine typical rates of global sediment cycling, we compiled information on area, volume, and lithology of shallow‐water sediments by epoch for both terrigenous clastics and marine carbonates. Data on amounts of surviving continental terrigenous rock (as opposed to deep oceanic, and including "terrestrial," "marginal marine," and "marine" deposits) exhibit positive age/area trends wherein greatest areas and volumes of conglomerate, sandstone, and shale are represented by younger sequences. Global volumes of terrigenous‐clastic sediment yield a mean cycling rate of 0.00124/m.yr., similar to that determined for Eurasian (0.00127), North American (0.00058 [A. B. Ronov], 0.00352 [T. D. Cook and A. W. Bally]), African (0.0017), and South American (0.0021) clastic sequences. Surficial erosion results in the mean destruction of ∼0.124% of terrigenous rock volume per million years of reservoir age. In contrast, surviving epicratonic and shelf‐margin carbonate sequences yield negative cycling rates of about −0.164%/m.yr. Surviving areas and volumes increase with sequence age; that is, the amount of limestone and dolostone preserved in shallow‐water settings increases back in time to maximal areal extents in the Middle and Upper Cambrian. Mass/age data on terrigenous‐clastic successions indicate generally constant rates of crustal erosion over Phanerozoic time. Decrease in size of the shallow‐marine carbonate reservoir forward in time therefore suggests generally invariant rates of global limestone accumulation and a shift in sites of accumulation from shallow‐cratonic to deep‐oceanic settings over much of the past 540 m.yr. Causes of this eon‐scale depositional translocation of carbonate sediment from shallow‐ to deep‐marine settings cannot be satisfactorily linked to either changes in global sea level or the evolution of carbonate‐producing plankton because neither exhibits a pattern of unidirectional change in position or abundance since the Early Phanerozoic. However, tabulation of long‐term variation in areas of continental shelves from paleogeographic maps reveals a generally uniform decrease in low‐latitude (<30°) platform area with decreasing age over most of the Phanerozoic. Moreover, rate of change of low‐latitude shelf area (∼
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\end{document} km2/m.yr.) over the same interval. This agreement suggests that poleward movement of the major continents over the past 540 m.yr. has had a substantial impact on patterns of global carbonate accumulation. The long‐term effect of decreasing low‐latitude shelf area has been augmented, particularly over the last 100 m.yr., by eustatic sea level fall and the diversification of open‐ocean calcifiers. The evolution of calcareous plankton in the Late Paleozoic or Early Mesozoic may have been facilitated, or at least permitted, by increasing saturation state of the oceans associated with progressive decline in shallow‐water carbonates.


A field experiment was conducted during summer 2010 at Instructional farm, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh (Gujarat) on clayey soil to study the effect of phosphorus and bio-fertilizers on growth, yield and economics of green gram. Twelve treatments comprising all possible combinations of four levels of phosphorus viz ., 0, 20, 40 and 60 and three levels of bio-fertilizers viz., control, with liquid PSB (Phosphate solubilizing bacteria) inoculation and with liquid Rhizobium inoculation were tried in factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. The result of the experiment indicated that application of 60 kg P 2 O 5 /ha and seeds inoculated with Rhizobium significantly increased the growth parameters viz ., plant height, branches per plant, dry weight of nodules, leaf area index and dry matter accumulation as well as yield attributes like number of pods per plant, grain yield per plant, stover yield and test weight. The significantly highest seed (1140 kg/ha) and stover (5890 kg/ha) yields recorded by application of 60 kg P 2 O 5 /ha which was at par with 40 kg P 2 O 5 /ha level. The highest seed yield (1100 kg/ha) was recorded by application of Rhizobium inoculation over liquid PSB inoculation and control.


In order to study the impacts of the bolt length, inclination and spacing on the pitbottom rebound and ground wall deformation, and considering the joint role of soil, retaining structure and anchor support system, a complex pit model is built by using three-dimensional finite elementmethod.The results show that the pit bottom rebound has a significant spatial effect and relates to the deformation of the groundwall; the pitbottom rebound is less affected by the bolt inclination, bolting segmentlength and boltfreedomsegmentlength,and the boltspacing increaseswith the decreasingof the pit bottom rebound; the bolt parameters have a greater impacton the groundwall, and the deformation of the ground wall increaseswith the decreasing of the bolting segment length and bolt freedom segment length; the deformation of the ground wall decreases firstly, then increases with the inclination increasing; the ground wall deformation increases with the bolt spacing increasing.


Near-infrared reflectance analysis was used to measure protein and moisture contents of UK wheat samples over five harvests (1975–1979 inclusive). The use of universal constants produced stable instrument calibrations valid for both hard and soft varieties and all growing locations in the UK which required no more than an annual bias adjustment except for 1976, a year when unusual climatic conditions prevailed in UK. The universal calibrations were achieved by the statistical selection of stable subsets of wavelengths. The accuracy of the calibrations when compared with classical methods (oven drying and Kjeldahl) was 0.25% or better for both moisture and protein.


We employ the Klemm-Clem transformations to map the equations of motion for the Green functions of a clean superconductor with a general ellipsoidal Fermi surface (FS) characterized by the effective masses $m_1, m_2$, and $m_3$ in the presence of an arbitrarily directed magnetic induction ${\bm B}=B(\sin\theta\cos\phi,\sin\theta\sin\phi,\cos\theta)$ onto those of a spherical FS. We then obtain the transformed gap equation for a transformed pairing interaction $\tilde{V}(\hat{\tilde{\bm k}},\hat{\tilde{\bm k}}')$ appropriate for any orbital order parameter symmetry. We use these results to calculate the upper critical induction $B_{c2}(\theta,\phi)$ for an orthorhombic ferromagnetic superconductor with transition temperatures $T_{\rm Curie}>T_c$. We assume the FS is split by strong spin-orbit coupling, with a single parallel-spin ($\uparrow\uparrow$) pairing interaction of the \textit{p}-wave polar state form locked onto the $\hat{\bm e}_3$ crystal axis normal to the spontaneous magnetization ${\bm M}_0\perp\hat{\bm e}_3$ due to the ferromagnetism. The orbital harmonic oscillator eigenvalues are modified according to $B\rightarrow B\alpha$, where $\alpha(\theta,\phi)=\sqrt{m_3/m}\sqrt{\cos^2\theta+\gamma^{-2}(\phi)\sin^2\theta}$, $\gamma^2(\phi)=m_3/(m_1\cos^2\phi+m_2\sin^2\phi)$ and $m=(m_1m_2m_3)^{1/3}$. At fixed $\phi$, the order parameter anisotropy causes $B_{c2}$ to exhibit a novel $\theta$-dependence, which for $\gamma^2(\phi)>3$ becomes a double peak at $0^{\circ}<\theta^{*}<90^{\circ}$ and at $180^{\circ}-\theta^{*}$, providing a sensitive bulk test of the order parameter orbital symmetry in both phases of URhGe and in similar compounds still to be discovered.


Valeant Pharmaceuticals International recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Bausch + Lomb ULTRA contact lens manufacturing lines and solar array assembly at the company's Optics Center in Rochester, NY.


According to the flexibility prediction equation of composite with interphase,based on the microstructure of ceramic eutectic rod,the effective elastic constants and their size dependence of ceramic eutectic rod are gotten by using the equivalence relations under different simple loads.The results show that the Young modulus and shear modulus will decrease when the diameter of fiber inclusion increase,and Poisson's ratio will increase when the diameter of fiber inclusion increase.


Vibrotactile feedback is one of the most favored haptic feedback methods to provide tactile information to users. In spite of its popularity, vibrotactile feedback has been used in a limited range of VR applications. In the present study, we suggest two methodologies incorporating fingertip vibrotactile array interfaces for 3D Virtual Interaction. Our proposed methods use only four and five actuators while they can render continuous motion of contact points as well as the collision depth. We evaluated the feasibility of our fingertip interface systems with an experiment on the human perception of virtual object size. The experimental results indicate that the participants' ability to perceive the size of a virtual object with our methods is comparable to the one rendered with a force feedback interface.


The article considers modification of the critical chain method for scheduling under risks. The modified method uses fuzzy sets to calculate the time reservation taking into account the risks. We explain the criticality of correct risk consideration needed for the project success. The work describes the main project entities: risks and risk management. The paper includes classification of risks. The article contains a list of choices for solving the problem. The work contains the brief definition of the critical chain method. We explain the main advantages of using the fuzzy sets approach for tasks estimation. The agreement index is used to calculate buffers of the critical chain. The article includes the example.


The invention provides an on-line browsing method and system of an electronic file, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving an electronic file access request sent by a client through a server, and analyzing the access request; if the analyzed format of the electronic file is not a portable document format (PDF), converting the electronic file into a PDF file in real time; outputting a WEB page with page turning and/or page skipping control to a client; sending a request for accessing an appointed page number or page number range to the server by the client; and according to the appointed page number or page number range requested by the client, outputting a page corresponding to the appointed page number or page number range to the client by the server. By means of the invention, the defect in the prior art that in the on-line browsing process, the file (especially multiple larger electronic files with thousands of pages) is integrally transferred to the client so that the on-line browsing performance is poor is solved.


As the project implementer, consultant and technical supervisor, the
contractor�s knowledge upon the road pavement construction method is one of the
factors related to the road pavement condition of the project. The objective of this
study was to analyze the correlation of contractor�s knowledge level and
perception to the road pavement condition in District of Sumba Barat.
The research instruments used in this study was questionaires distributed
to 102 respondents to obtain the comprehension level and perception of the
respondent. To obtain the data of road pavement surface condition, this study
applied the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) method, which included visual
inspection to 26 road sections. The Chi Quadrate testing was used to identify the
difference of respondent's perception to the road pavement work implementation
method. The Rank Spearman correlation coefficient analysis method and Partial
Correlation were used to analyze the relation, significance and hypothesis of this
study.
Based on this study, it can be concluded that the calculating results of the
correlation coefficient test indicated strong correlation between the contractor�s
comprehension level to the condition of road pavement surface. Based on the
Rank Spearman calculation, it was indicated that when hot mix pavement = 0,74,
the significance degree was Zhitung (1,28) � Ztabel (-0,063), and when lapen
pavement = 0,89, the significance degree was Zhitung (0,89) � Ztabel (-4,08). The
Partial correlation testing showed that when controlled by the road age, the hot
mix pavement indicated very strong correlation (0,90 approaching zero), but it
was insignificant when the calculation analysis showed Zhitung (0,90) � Ztabel
(0,950) . A lapen pavement was categorized as strong (0,7804) when the
calculation analysis was Zhitung (0,7804) � Ztabel (0,423). When controlled by the
contractor�s knowledge level, road with hot mix pavement indicated very low
correlation (-0,323 approaching zero) and it was insignificant when based on the
hypothesis testing of Zhitung (-0,323) � Ztabel (0,950). The same was applied for
lapen pavement, the correlation was very low (0,0153 approaching zero) and no
significant value obtained based on the hypothesis testing due to Zhitung (0,0153)
� Ztabel (0,432).


The supposed cyprinid genus 'Gonorhynchus McClelland, 1838' does not exist; the name refers to Gonorhynchus Cuvier, 1816, which is a junior objective synonym of Gonorynchus Scopoli, 1777. The correct family-group name, authorship and date are: Gonorynchidae Fowler, 1941 (1848). Tariqilabeo Mirza & Saboohi, 1990 is the valid genus name for the South Asian species earlier placed in Crossocheilus or 'Gonorhynchus'. The family-group names Garrae Bleeker, 1863 and Labeonini Bleeker, 1859 are declared nomina protecta and Platycarinae Macleay, 1841 is declared nomen oblitum.


Informed migration, uninformed migration and improved information are the three main potential effects of derivative introduction that, alone or combined, may generate significant changes on volumes, bid-ask and volatility on the underlying asset. Some combinations of these three effects are highly likely to generate observational equivalence making it quite difficult to identify their relative impact in the empirical evidence. This paper aims to provide a marginal contribution to the identification of the prevalent effect by devising an implemented (SSC-GARCH) measure of volatility which evaluates changes in excess reaction to shocks before and after index option introduction in six different countries. The paper finds that the introduction of stock index options: (i) significantly reduces the impact of negative (and, to a lesser extent, positive) shocks on conditional volatility in five out of six countries, (ii) has no significant impact on relative unconditional volatility of stocks belonging to the optioned index in four out of six countries. These results seem compatible with a joint realization of the uninformed migration and the improved information effects.


Srinivas group of colleges has come into being from a humble beginning in1988, into a chain of institutions due to its visionary founder Sri CA A Raghavendra Rao. Today it spreads over 18 colleges with 70 courses and over 12000 students generating livelihood to 3500 employees and their families. His leadership qualities and values are distinct. He is wired like business people but bottom line oriented and extraordinarily committed to results. The steep ascend from humble person to an accomplished connoisseur speaks of his leadership style which could be emulated for young business aspirants. His vision for future is reflected in transforming society through education and human service.


Preterm infants may become apneic during the immediate postoperative period. To define this risk, the authors studied prospectively the breathing patterns of 47 preterm infants less than 60 weeks postconception with pneumocardiograms before and after general inhalational anesthesia. Eighteen infants


Minimal-nuclearity vanadato-tungstate clusters in [{V(IV)(dien)}4WO14]·4H2O () and [{V(IV)(dien)}4WO20]·6H2O () feature cores of edge-sharing WO6 octahedra, surrounded by a ring of four vanadyl groups. Surprisingly, the V(iv) centers in both and are ferromagnetically coupled, in contrast to all other known vanadato-polyoxotungstates featuring the ubiquituos V-O-W-O-V exchange pathways.


Methods for synthesizing quantum dot light-emitting diode by providing a glass substrate. QD-LED stack is formed on a glass substrate. The QD-LED stack is diffused by the active reagents. QD-LED stack is enclosed with a curable resin. Curable resins are cured with UV light. .FIELD 1


In this paper, the concept of Riemannian warped product submersion is generalized to the conformal case. We introduce the notion of conformal warped product submersion. It is a submersion between warped product manifolds that preserves angles between the horizontal vectors. The fundamental tensors of submersion are derived for conformal warped product submersion.


Psyche and soma, interrelated, contribute to the "reaction of delirium" in toxic-organic psychoses. Delirious behavior is determined more by the type of personality of the individual than by the somatic changes in the brain. Since the psychogenic psychoses showing delirious behavior appear to respond best to shock therapy, this method was employed in the treatment of acute toxic-organic psychoses. Non-convulsive electric (faradic) shock therapy, a safe, simple and, inexpensive procedure, was given daily in conjunction with psychotherapy and the usual routine therapeutic measures. Thus "reaction of delirium" and the underlying organic disturbances were treated concurrently. In 67 cases of psychoses associated with alcohol and other drug intoxications, the duration of "reaction of delirium" was definitely shortened. In five cases of psychoses associated with syphilis of the central nervous system (general paresis), the acute delirious reactions responded favorably to this type of treatment. One patient show...


A novel architecture of n-way active topology for RF/microwave module applications is developed. This architecture is based on the use of active cell composed of a field effect transistor (FET) in cascade with shunt resistor. A theoretic analysis illustrating the S-parameters calculation was established. The expressions of the n-way power divider output gains were demonstrated. A synthesis method of active power-splitter or/and 180° balun in function of the considered FET stage number constituting each outer branch was proposed. A simple active power-splitter was designed using an even number of FET between the input–output branches. In addition, a variable gain active power-splitter was simulated. The FETs are biased at Vds  = 6 V and Ids  = 25 mA. So, insertion losses above −1.5 dB, return losses better than −15 dB and excellent isolation below −30 dB at all three ports were obtained from 0.5 to 5.5 GHz. Using odd number of FET stage, an active balun was realised. Then, simulations of active balun showing a perfectly constant differential out-phase (180° ± 5°), insertion losses above −1.5 dB and an excellent isolation below −30 dB for all three ports, from 0.3 to 4.5 GHz were performed.


Background: Time-of-Flight (TOF) is a leading technological development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners. It reduces noise at the Maximum-Likelihood solution, depending on the coincidence–timing–resolution (CTR). However, in clinical applications, it is still not clear how to best exploit TOF information, as early stopped reconstructions are generally used. Methods: A contrast-recovery (CR) matching rule for systems with different CTRs and non-TOF systems is theoretically derived and validated using (1) digital simulations of objects with different contrasts and background diameters, (2) realistic phantoms of different sizes acquired on two scanners with different CTRs. Results: With TOF, the CR matching rule prescribes modifying the iterations number by the CTRs ratio. Without TOF, the number of iterations depends on the background dimension. CR matching was confirmed by simulated and experimental data. With TOF, image noise followed the square root of the CTR when the rule was applied on simulated data, while a significant reduction was obtained on phantom data. Without TOF, preserving the CR on larger objects significantly increased the noise. Conclusions: TOF makes PET reconstructions less dependent on background dimensions, thus, improving the quantification robustness. Better CTRs allows performing fewer updates, thus, maintaining accuracy while minimizing noise.


Objective: To explore opportunities to improve perfusion of the brain in hypertensive and obesity patients (pts) after 6 months therapy. Design and Methods: The study sample consisted of 45 pts. They all had moderate hypertension (SBP = 153 ± 11 mm Hg; DBP = 93 ± 9 mm Hg) and obesity (body mass index 35 ± 5). All patients underwent overnight polysomnography (EMBLA Flaga (Iceland)). They were divided into three groups (gr). Gr.I and gr.II had severe OSAHS, apnea-hypopnea index (AHI 56 ± 23), gr III without OSAHS. Continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) was administered to 17 patients of gr.I. Gr.II (11 pts) hadn't received CPAP therapy. All pts received the same antihypertensive therapy. rCBF was analyzed in 8 regions of interests by Ceretec-99 M on single photon emission tomography (SPECT) in initial phase and after 6 months of therapy. Figure 1. No caption available. Patients of first gr. had significantly increased cerebral blood flow in all regions of interests after 6 months of therapy (p < 0.0001). Patients of second gr (p < 0.05) and third gr. (p < 0.0001) had increased rCBF only in temporal lobes. Conclusions: CPAP-therapy improves regional cerebral blood flow in patients with moderate hypertension, obesity and severe OSAHS.


Dear Editor, Malaysia is a country with an intermediate burden of tuberculosis (TB) with a prevalence of 121 cases per 100,000 population per year.1 TB usually presents with fever, chronic cough, weight loss and lack of appetite, dypsnoea and night sweats. Hypercalcaemia is a well known but rare complication of TB. The prevalence of hypercalcaemia in patients with untreated TB varies widely between countries. In Malaysia, the rate is in the range of 2.3% to 27.5%.2,3 The development of hypercalcaemia depends on the total intake of calcium and vitamin D, the amount of sun exposure, degree of renal impairment and extra renal production of vitamin D by the alveolar T-lymphocytes and macrophages.4 The intensity of each of these factors play a role as not all patients with similar factors will go on to develop hypercalcaemia. The production of vitamin D is also related to the degree of immune and infl ammatory response of the host.4 Despite being a nation with an intermediate disease burden of TB; surprisingly, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of TB still occurs. We describe a patient who presented with hypercalcemia and renal failure who underwent haemodialysis. Unfortunately although the hypercalcemia was the clue to the diagnosis of pulmonary TB, this link was missed.


An electric transformer comprising: a magnetic core; at least one coil assembly which is positioned around a portion of the magnetic core and comprises a plurality of windings; a structure adapted for applying a clamping force on the magnetic core and/or the windings; and a cooling circuit adapted for conveying cooling fluid directly inside the coil assembly.


We demonstrate a simple digital coherent transmission system with an injection-locking technique for next-generation mobile fronthaul. With this system, both up- and downlink 80 Gbit/s, 256 QAM-data were bi-directionally transmitted over 26 km with a loss budget of 10 dB.


We developed a key informant interview script to collect data on the information accessing behaviors, needs, and barriers to information access of public health professionals working in the domain of communicable disease control in a state health department. The interview script included questions about the types of work tasks public health professionals performed that required access to information, currently used and preferred information sources, preferred formats for research information, current barriers to information access, and desired enhancements for information access (Appendix 7). of individuals who most often needed access to information multiple sources. interviewees from the program areas of tuberculosis prevention and control; epidemiology and immunization; sexually transmitted disease prevention and and library services. Pelle, NR, EH, Luckmann R, ER. Enhancing evidence-based information access to inform public health practice . Abstract 108127, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 14, 2005. Hathy Simpson, Project Coordinator, has been invited to be a presenter with Dr. Sharon Telleen, Project Consultant, at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) 2006 Annual Conference. They will deliver a Skills Building Session, Identifying Evidence-Based Practices in Public Health , March 5, 2005 in Washington, DC. Ms. Simpson has been selected to be an invited speaker at the Medical Library Association 2006 Annual Meeting for the Public Health/Health Administration Section Program "Evidence-Based Public Health Librarianship. " She will present an oral paper, Improving Access to Public Health


Long term sustainability of energy is a critically important goal of sustainable development globally. In light of new initiatives such as the UN's Agenda 2030 or the Paris Agreement, assessing the progress of EU countries towards reaching ambitious sustainability goals is inevitable. The aim of the paper is to assess the progress of EU countries toward meeting sustainable development goal on affordable and clean energy. The results of the analysis can be described as balanced and stable, although differences between individual countries are significant in cases of some indicators. Each EU country must, however, take a comprehensive view of SDG7 implementation. Sweden, being the first on the list, as well as Luxembourg, being the last one, both have strengths, yet also areas of improvement. Multi-criteria analysis has thrown a spotlight on the Achilles heel of the EU countries disregard of which might cause serious problems in the future

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Abstract Let A1 denote the algebra generated by one pair of canonical operators. It is shown that the realizations of sl(2) in A1 divide into two non-empty classes determined by the spectrum of the semisimple element of sl(2) in A1.


Purpose
This paper aims to provide an overview of the Italian Ministry of Justice response to COVID-19 in Italian prisons, with particular focus on the conditions of super-maximum security (supermax) prisoners.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is presented in the form of viewpoint and involves the reconciliation of peer-reviewed publications, technical documents and experts' opinions.

Findings
The paper poses critical challenges on the risk of social inequalities and substandard of care for supermax prisoners.

Research limitations/implications
Because the COVID-19 emergency represents an evolving situation, the research describes an instantaneous scenario of the problem, possibly subjected to further dynamics.

Practical implications
The paper rises relevant challenges in terms of equalities and human rights, which should be considered by policymakers.

Social implications
The research highlights the importance of the health protection for supermax prisoners during COVID-19 as it is a State responsibility.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors' knowledge, the paper contributes to the development of subsequent studies on the topic owing to its unique knowledge that was so far not available from previous research.


Myopes demonstrated larger accommodation error for near visual targets than emmetropes. This study was to investigate the comparison of accommodation error among myopes with different color component of visual targets. Four different colored rectilinear crosses; black, blue, green and red, on white background were used as visual target at the distance of 40 cm (+2.50 Diopter of accommodation demand). Accommodation error was calculated from the difference of the demand and response, measured using dynamic cross-cylinder procedure. One- way ANOVA showed a significant difference in accommodation error when subjects viewing different coloured targets (F(3, 92) = 16.72, p<0.001), while Tukey HSD test indicated the accommodation error with red color was significantly lower than the black. The finding implied that longer wavelength color affected accommodation greater than shorter wavelength.


This paper deals with the modeling and performance evaluation of different Code Divi- sion Multiple Access schemes suitable for applications in terrestrial and satellite mobile cornrnu- nication networks. The use of particular propagation channel models and the relative sensitivity of different demodulation schemes to their parameters are the subject the paper is focused on. In par- ticular, an extension to the case of wideband communications of Lutz's satellite channel model is presented. The main goal is to analyze how the increased interference level, typical of a multipath environment, can influence different demodulator architectures in different propagation condi- tions. Perfectly coherent and differential modulation methods are employed with conventional and RAKE receivers to derive the error rate performance by computer simulations. Some issues con- cerning the characterization of the propagation channel models in the case of the RAKE receiver are also investigated and discussed.


The present invention relates to the following general formula, the compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof: wherein: R


Combined with the project general situation,it introduces the conduit construction technology of municipal drain concrete pipe,and represents the conduit construction technology of each construction process municipal drain concrete pipe,gives a reference to the similar projects.


One of the most remarkable challenges concerning global migration policies nowadays has to do with impeding the trafficking of migrant workers for the purposes of labour exploitation. This paper aims to examine whether Spain has adequately fulfilled its obligations to prevent and prosecute labour trafficking and protect trafficking victims. To do so, it offers a critical analysis of public policies concerning labour trafficking, contrasting them with case-law and data regarding its implementation in practice. Thus, the most recent available data concerning inspection, investigation and prosecution of labour trafficking cases, as well as the identification and protection of labour trafficking victims in Spain is evaluated here. The results highlight the invisibility of human trafficking victims for the purposes of labour exploitation, partly caused by the lack of measures that specifically address this form of trafficking.


Armagh Pipers Club (APC) has been at the forefront of the traditional music revival since its foundation in 1966. Its innovative teaching programmes have evolved and developed throughout almost 40 years and are highly regarded in the field of music education.APC has contributed to the promotion of traditional music through its publications, its teaching, both in Armagh and at numerous summer schools and festivals worldwide. This is particularly true in the case of uilleann piping, where Armagh has now the largest number of uilleann pipers in the north of Ireland.
Sector: Culture
Address: Palace Stables, 12 Victoria Street, Armagh, Armagh, BT60 4EL, Northern Ireland
Phone: +44 (0)28 3751 1248
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The ring-opening polymerization of strained, ring-tilted metallocenophanes represents a new and versatile route to high molecular weight poly(ferrocenylsilanes). In this presentation the properties of poly(ferrocenylsilanes) will be described together with the relationships between the monomer structure, strain energy, and polymerization behavior. In addition, the extension of the ring opening route to the preparation of poly(ferrocenylgermanes) and poly(ferrocenylphosphines) will be outlined and the unusual properties of the polymers will be discussed.


A parallel program often defines a relation not a function. The program constrains the output to lie in some relation R to the input, but the particular output produced during a computation can depend on the time behaviour of component processes. This suggests the use of a relational language as an applicative language for parallel programming.
 The Horn clause subset of predicate logic is a relational language with an established procedural interpretation for non-deterministic sequential computations [Kowalski 1974]. In this paper we modify and extend that interpretation to define a special purpose parallel evaluator.


This research offers a new framework for assessing social vulnerability to climate change. A social vulnerability assessment trial was carried out for Chinese coastal cities at the county level. First, the 10 factors having the most influence on social vulnerability were identified. They are "House with no lavatory", "House with no bath facilities", "Employees in primary industry", "Houses with no tap water", "GDP in primary sector", "Children", "House with no kitchen", "Rate of natural increase (RNI), "Employees in management sector", and "Highly educated". Second, indexes of social vulnerability, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptability were evaluated and mapped to examine their spatial pattern. The results demonstrate that the distribution of exposure index (EI) is similar to that of social vulnerability index (SVI): many counties are categorized at the medium level while a few counties belong to the high or low categories. The distribution of adaptability proves that it should be paid more attention, as 30.14% of its counties belong to the lowest level. After calculating the Getis-Ord Gi* statistic of SVI, two cold spots and two hot spots are identified. Third, the relationship between urban development and social vulnerability are discussed. During urbanization, there are evident differences of SVI between urban and rural areas. Urbanization can help city districts reduce social vulnerability, while creating more social vulnerability in the coastal counties. For the districts, more adjustment strategies and work should be applied in the dimension of exposure during urbanization. For the counties, the prominent problem to be faced is an increase in sensitivity.


Connecting all devices through Internet is now practical due to Internet of Things. IoT assures numerous applications in everyday life of common people, government bodies, business, and society as a whole. Collaboration among the devices in IoT to bring various applications in the real world is a challenging task. In this context, we introduce an application-based two-layer architectural framework for IoT which consists of sensing layer and IoT layer. For any real-time application, sensing devices play an important role. Both these layers are required for accomplishing IoT-based applications. The success of any IoT-based application relies on efficient communication and utilization of the devices and data acquired by the devices at both layers. The grouping of these devices helps to achieve the same, which leads to formation of cluster of devices at various levels. The clustering helps not only in collaboration but also in prolonging overall network lifetime. In this paper, we propose two clustering algorithms based on heuristic and graph, respectively. The proposed clustering approaches are evaluated on IoT platform using standard parameters and compared with different approaches reported in literature.


In this paper, we investigate recoverability of discrete-event systems with faults. For a discrete-event system, recoverability is defined as the ability to fire recovery events after the occurrence of a finite number of events for any event sequence which leads the system to faulty modes. By constructing the observer of the system, we discuss how to check whether the system is recoverable or not. Furthermore, we propose one more efficient approach to check recoverability. Finally, all the results are illustrated by a practical example.


Abstract— Band gap illumination of TiO2 (anatase) dispersions in weakly alkaline solutions of nicotinamide‐adenine‐dinucleotide (NAD+) leads in the presence of rhodium trisbipyridyl complex [Rh(bipy)3+3], to continuous generation of biologically active cofactor NADH. Effects of pH, NAD+ and Rh(bipy)3+3 concentration on the efficiency of this photoconversion process are investigated. The reaction proceeds already in aqueous solution in the absence of external electron donors but it is enhanced significantly in the presence of 10% methanol.


In three experiments, we investigated how preventing the explicit encoding of conditioned stimulus–unconditioned stimulus (CS–US) pairings by imposing a secondary task at learning influences evaluative conditioning (EC) effects in a paradigm claimed to be conducive to implicit EC. We additionally used a multinomial processing tree model to examine how the resource depletion manipulation affects explicit and implicit memory contributions to EC. In all experiments, the EC effect largely vanished when a secondary task was employed that severely reduced participants' explicit memory for the CS–US pairings. Furthermore, no evidence obtained for an implicit memory contribution to EC effects. In conclusion, the present research yields evidence for explicit learning, but no support for the contribution of implicit processes to EC in a paradigm claimed to facilitate implicit EC.


In order to optimize the diagnosis of eye disease, the authors want to propose the combination of Support Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm to Optimize Diagnosis of Eye Disease. This is a combination method of SVM to get a better classification to diagnose the eye disease. The problem is how to get a better classification to diagnose eye disease. In this research, the hybrid of SVM-KNN is more accurate to classify the eye disease than SVM itself. The accuracy using the combination SVM-KNN algorithm is 94.67%.


The article is devoted to personal crimes in the native law of Wales The Law of Hywel Dda. Analysis of «The justice's test book» allows to describe some features of the criminal law in medieval Wales. The author tries to classify the crimes, punishments and penalties, typical for medieval Welsh law.


A light conductor with an input coupler which couples in light in such a way that inside the light conductor it is distributed into a first layer, parallel layers and into second layers, whereby each second layer is spanned by a perpendicular of the first layer and by a line located in the first layer, and with a light emitting area. Light is coupled such that it has a lower divergence in the second layers than in the first layers. There is a first deflection area between the input coupler and the light emitting area, which redirects light emitted from the input coupler incident on it in an angle bigger than the double of the critical angle of the total internal reflection. Further deflection areas are illuminated with light emitted from the first deflection area and direct the incident light into a preferred common direction for the further deflection areas.


We suggest that increases during precipitations are caused by the bremsstrahlung X-rays, created by the electrons accelerated in an electric field of clouds. It is necessary to emphasize that our results differ from similar results of works related with thunderstorm clouds. In the arctic (Spitsbergen) and subarctic (Apatity) regions where observations are carried out, thunder-storms are almost not observed. The NaI(Tl) detector is sensitive not only to the gamma and X-ray radiation, but also to the charged particles. Besides, the instrument can register a gamma radiation from the atmospheric radionuclides scavenged by precipitation s. We carried out additional studies to estimate the contribution of hindering factors (charged particles, radioactivity) in the data of NaI(Tl) detector for deriving true data on X-rays. Simultaneous with NaI(Tl) detector measurements by the instrument on the basis of Geiger counter tubes showed the insignificant contribution of charged particles to composition of the radiation caused the increases. The radiochemical analysis of precipitations collected during a number of great increase events showed only trace amounts of the natural and induced radio nuclides. And anyway they could not cause the X-ray increases registered. A possible mechanism of the electron acceleration and generation of X-ray photons is suggested and simulations of the X-ray spectra compatible with observations have been carried out.


Power grid enterprises supplier relationship management is closely linked with purchasing supply business, complement each other, both the front end of the bidding procurement, and late for supplies to provide further support. Shanghai municipal electric power company centralized purchasing in public bidding way, the winning number of suppliers, the scope is big, especially in the low voltage equipment factory, the quality management level is uneven, weak part of the plant quality management, supply risk. Through supplier management and bidding procurement linkage, further expand the centralized bid procurement, purchasing management specification; Ability to further enhance supplies and improve the supply response speed and service level further; Deepen the material quality control, strictly the quality of equipment entrance, from the source to ensure the quality of power grid construction; To further enhance the level of risk prevention and control, increasing material strength of the supervision and inspection, improve the working mechanism of supervision and inspection, and ensure the quality of bidding procurement, continue to strengthen the company centralized purchasing brand


The advancement of stem cells research has pushed the fronteir of regenerative medicine to a different level where range of diseases including liver diseases could be potentially treated using cell therapy. The usage of stem cells offers alternative treatment to organ transplantation, wherein, organ shortage issue and possibility of rejection are major limitations. Dental pulp stem cells from deciduous teeth (SCD) have been identified as a source of adult stem cells with high proliferation activity and multilineage differentiation. Current studies showed that SCD have potential to differentiate into hepatic lineage and they usually cultured in fetal bovine serum (FBS) supplemented media. Thus, this may expose SCD to the possibility of contamination to virus, prions, mycoplasma and transmission of disease. It is necessary to identify animal-free serum media if cell therapy is to play a major role in regenerative medicine. Human platelet lysate (HPL) appears to be a suitable substitution to FBS for stem cells culture as it is a non-animal origin and has a lot of natural growth factors to support stem cells proliferation and differentiation. The aim of this study was firstly to evaluate HPL as an alternative culture media to FBS in the culture, expansion and differentiation of SCD. Secondly, the ability of SCD to differentiate into hepatocyte differentiation when cultured in FBS and HPL will also be assesed. The properties of SCD cultured in both media were examined through growth kinetics, trilineages differentiation and expression of specific surface markers. The differentiation potential of SCD in FBS and HPL into hepatocyte-like cells was investigated from the morphological formation, periodic acid Schiff (PAS) staining and the expression of hepatocyte specific marker with urea secretion assay at day 0, 7, 14 and 21. Results showed SCD cultured in HPL has higher proliferation rate compared to FBS and displayed similar potential of trilineage differentiation and phenotypic expressions. SCD cultured in both media also displayed potential to form hepatocyte-like cells based on the morphology changes from fibroblast to hexagonal-shaped cells and positive staining for PAS. The expression of hepatocyte specific markers and the urea secretion increased proportionally with the day of hepatocyte induction. Within the limitations in this study, it could be conclude that HPL could be an alternative to FBS as the proliferation of SCD cultured in HPL is statistically higher and exhibited similar characteristic to FBS. SCD in HPL also showed potential to differentiate into hepatocyte cells and thus may become a hope for alternative treatment of liver diseases.


Summing up considerations presented in three previous papers the Author adds some thoughts concerning the problems omitted there (e.g. legal status of urban real properties situated beyond the scope of land designated for building purposes). He also gives his suggestions as to the new regulation and legal status of urban real properties designated for construction purposes and of summerhouse lots. Generally, the Author's opinion of basic principles of such regulation is favorable but at the same time he also points out to the need of changes as far as some paricular solutions are concerned. According to the Author's view several detailed solutions are too rigorous for the owners of real properties and do not guarantee the respect of their justified interests. In relation to summer-house lots the Author points out to the urgent need of regulating their legal status. The lack of such regulation causes many negative phenomena from the point of view of general interest as well as from the point of view of the interest of the growing number of citizens who wish to organize their individual recreation. Taking into consideration significant relation between the housing and recreation needs of urban population the Author suggests regulation of the problems of real properties designated for building purposes and those concerning summer-house lots in one normative act.


The conversion from functional requirements (FRs) to design parameters is the foundation of product customization. However, original customer needs usually result in incomplete FRs, limited by customers' incomprehension on the design requirements of these products. As the incomplete FRs may undermine the design activities afterwards, managers need to develop an effective approach to predict the missing values of the FR. This study proposes an integrative approach to obtain the complete FR. The k nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm is employed to predict the missing continuous variables in FR, using the improved distance formula for two incomplete FRs. Support vector machine (SVM) classifiers are adopted to classify the missing categorical variables in FR, combined with directed acyclic graph for multi-class classification. KNN and SVM are then integrated into a multi-layer framework to predict the missing values of FR, where categorical and continuous variables both exist. A case study on the elevator customization is conducted to verify that KNN-SVM is feasible in accurate prediction of elevator FR values. Furthermore, KNN-SVM outperforms other five single and five composite methods, with average reduction in root mean squared error (RMSE) of 39% and 21% against KNN and KNN-Tree, respectively.


The influence of surface roughness on diffusion of wall-injected, drag-reducing polymer solutions within a turbulent boundary layer was studied with a 0.94 m long flat-plate test model at speeds of up to 10.6 m s−1 and Reynolds numbers of up to 9×106. The surface was hydraulically smooth, transitionally rough, or fully rough. Mean concentration profiles were acquired with planar laser induced fluorescence, which was the primary flow diagnostic. Polymer concentration profiles with high injection concentrations (≥1000 wppm) had the peak concentration shifted away from the wall, which was partially attributed to a lifting phenomenon. The diffusion process was divided into three zones—initial, intermediate, and final. Studies of polymer injection into a polymer ocean at concentrations sufficient for maximum drag reduction indicated that the maximum initial zone length is of the order of 100 boundary layer thicknesses. The intermediate zone results indicate that friction velocity and roughness height are impor...


For solving the problem that the corrosion rate of the weld is higher than the base metal in a absorb tower, some specimens using different welding materials were prepared. Comparing them by testing in the laboratory and tower, the best welding material and the thickness of covering weld were obtained.


Recently, intensive studies have been conducted on technical and design developments for the deformation processes of billets to provide significant (even tenfold) improvements to single drawing (in one pass or groove). These apply, in particular, to continuous rolling mills with transverse-screw rolling stands or three and four high stands and are especially useful for rolling difficult to form materials. Research into the process of rolling in four-high stands using the all-round compression of billets for small sections is already known, but the study of rolling in such stands using billets with greater sections has not been reported. In order to assess the feasibility of the using four-high stands in continuous billet mills (CBM) the deformation and powerforce parameters required for rolling billet oflarge square section in all-round compression have been examined [I].


A distributed network self-optimization algorithm is proposed in this paper to support the automation of network reconfiguration in overlapping heterogenous access networks. As a large number of reconfigurable network elements coexist heterogeneously and network condition changes dynamically, distributed self-optimization in such complex environments can bring high system performance with minimum operation expenditure but also great challenge. This is because both quick respondence to the environment variation and global coordination among the heterogeneous reconfigurations are highly desired at the same time. In the proposed algorithm, the distributed optimization problem is mapped into a Mixed Strategy Game. According to equilibrium-oriented Mixed Strategy, the operating parameters of every network element can be refined efficiently without suffering impact from the heterogeneous neighboring reconfiguration within overlapping area. Simulation results show that both system blocking probability and average session bandwidth can be significantly improved using the proposed algorithm.


Background Acceptorless dehydrogenation (AD) reactions can result not only in simple removal of hydrogen gas from various substrates but also, importantly, in surprisingly efficient and environmentally benign ("green") synthetic methodologies when intermediates resulting from the initial dehydrogenation process undergo further reactions. Advances Traditionally, dehydrogenation/oxidation reactions of organic compounds have been performed using stoichiometric amounts of inorganic oxidants, in addition to employing various additives, cocatalysts, and catalytic systems that result in generation of copious stoichiometric, often toxic, waste. Catalytic transfer hydrogenation methods, in which stoichiometric amounts of sacrificial organic acceptor compounds are used, also generate stoichiometric amounts of organic waste. Recent developments in catalysis by metal complexes have resulted in acceptorless dehydrogenation reactions that release hydrogen gas and in related reactions in which dehydrogenation is followed by in situ consumption of the generated hydrogen equivalents and no net hydrogen gas is liberated. These reactions circumvent the need for conventional oxidants or sacrificial acceptors and provide an assortment of applications in organic synthesis, including several methods based on further reactivity of the dehydrogenated intermediate compounds. Moreover, the evolved hydrogen gas is valuable in itself. Outlook Further development of new ADs for green, efficient chemical synthesis is expected to be greatly influenced by fundamental organometallic chemistry as a basis for catalyst design. Such processes are highly desirable and are expected to gradually displace elaborate conventional laboratory and industrial synthetic methods. They may also provide opportunities for hydrogen storage cycles, because the dehydrogenation reactions can be reversed under hydrogen pressure using the same catalyst. In general, AD and related dehydrogenative coupling reactions have the potential for redirecting synthetic strategies to the use of sustainable resources, devoid of toxic reagents and deleterious side reactions, with no waste generation. Dehydrogenation strategies in organic synthesis. (A) Successive AD with release of hydrogen gas. The catalyst liberates H2 from both starting compound and intermediate, exemplified by dehydrogenative coupling of primary alcohols with amines to form amides. (B) AD with H2 and water release. A dehydrogenated intermediate couples with nucleophiles, exemplified by dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols with amines (liberating water) to form imines that can be isolated or carried on to products such as pyrazines. (C) Borrowing hydrogen. The catalyst dehydrogenates the substrate and formally transfers the H atoms to an unsaturated intermediate, exemplified by coupling of ammonia or amines with alcohols to form new amines, liberating water, but not H2. (D) Coupling of redox pairs. Dehydrogenation generates an electrophile and a nucleophile that react to form C−C bonds. Neither H2 nor water is evolved. Setting Hydrogen Free Oxidation of organic compounds has traditionally been considered to involve the transfer of hydrogen atoms in the molecular framework to an oxidant such as O2, peroxide, or a metal oxide complex. Gunanathan and Milstein (p. 1229712) review the ongoing development of an alternative process, in which a catalyst coaxes the H atoms to depart on their own in the form of H2. These acceptorless dehydrogenations are appealing because they generate so little waste. In one class of reactions, the liberated H2 gas is actively expelled from the reaction mixture and collected for potential use elsewhere. In another class, the H atoms return to the source molecule after it has undergone an intermediate transformation in their absence. Conventional oxidations of organic compounds formally transfer hydrogen atoms from the substrate to an acceptor molecule such as oxygen, a metal oxide, or a sacrificial olefin. In acceptorless dehydrogenation (AD) reactions, catalytic scission of C−H, N−H, and/or O−H bonds liberates hydrogen gas with no need for a stoichiometric oxidant, thereby providing efficient, nonpolluting activation of substrates. In addition, the hydrogen gas is valuable in itself as a high-energy, clean fuel. Here, we review AD reactions selectively catalyzed by transition metal complexes, as well as related transformations that rely on intermediates derived from reversible dehydrogenation. We delineate the methodologies evolving from this recent concept and highlight the effect of these reactions on chemical synthesis.


The Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy and Culture of the USSR in 1971-1975 is a convincing expression of the triumph of Lenin's nationality policy, which is aimed at the comprehensive and harmonious development of all fraternal republics of the Soviet Union. It personifies the communality of socialist nations and the unity of the tasks and goals confronting all peoples in our multinational state.


A 71-year-old woman presented with severe upper abdominal pain and vomiting for one day. She had undergone a left-sided hemi-hepatectomy due to liver metastases of a neuroendrocrine tumour of an unknown primary three weeks earlier. One week later, she received a percutaneous biliary drain due to a bile leak, and underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with stent placement. Her medical history included cerebral vascular accident, appendectomy and mild pancreatitis. At presentation, the physical examination showed tachypnoea, direct and rebound tenderness of the right upper quadrant of the abdomen and normothermia. Laboratory analysis showed haemoglobin 6.6 mmol/l (reference range 7.5-10.0 mmol/l), leucocytes 40.1 x 10/l (reference range 4-10 x 10/l), neutrophils 37.9 x 10/l (reference range 1.5-9 x 10/l), bilirubin 179 μmol/l (reference range < 17 μmol/l), lactic acid 5.0 mmol/l (reference range 0.5-2.2 mmol/l), creatinine 119 mmol/l (67 mmol/l two weeks earlier) (reference range 50-90 μmol/l) and free haemoglobin 358 μmol/l (reference range < 0.16 μmol/l); due to massive haemolysis, liver enzymes and lactate dehydrogenase could not be measured. Haptoglobin was unfortunately not available either. The biliary drain produced some pus, but no bile. Blood cultures were drawn, an chest X-ray and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen were performed (figure 1).


industrial estate is a long way from the hospital. Rehabilitation is not always a continuous process, as it should be, and in graduating from hospital to an I.R.U. the patient passes from the care of one team to another. This problem was recognized by the Piercy Committee in 1956, for they recommended that two or three experimental comprehensive rehabilitation centres should be set up. Such a comprehensive centre would be associated with, and located as closely as possible to, a general hospital, and would provide within its boundaries a variety of services, including physiotherapy department, gymnasium, occupational therapy department, and industrial workshops provided by the Ministry of Labour. Specialist services would be readily available and staff would be shared with the hospital. The Ad Hoc Committee on Rehabilitation set up by the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (1962) was convinced that comprehensive rehabilitation units should be established in all major clinical areas to serve a minimum population of 250,000 and that I.R.U.s should be incorporated in such centres. Experience of medical rehabilitation at Garston Manor Medical Rehabilitation Centre over the past nine years has convinced me of the need to transfer the patient progressively from a medical programme to a work programme and thus expedite his return to work. This can best be achieved in a comprehensive rehabilitation centre. It is surely time that the experiment took place.


The present paper aims to analyze John Donne's poem "The Good-Morrow" stylistically. Being a branch of applied linguistics, Stylistics scrutinizes the literary and non-literary texts in terms of their tonal and linguistic style. Donne's poem, being rich in hyperboles and conceits, depicts the universal theme of undying love where Donne welcomes new dawn and is optimistic for upcoming years of adoration and is exuberant over the magical union of two soulmates. The paper in hand adopts the stylistic analysis as a research methodology to unveil the basic theme of the poem and analyses the poem on the grammatical, phonological and graphological levels. The theoretical framework incorporates the main tenets of Geoffrey N. Leech (1969) from his well-known work "A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry", and also this work focuses on the notions of Mick Short (1996). Stylistic analysis of the chosen poem portrays how the poet, via the use of striking stylistic devices, communicates the central concept of the poem and how the poet has adorned the poem with various elements of style on the levels of grammar phon and graphology.


Picture spring contacts 15, which is patterned in a lithography is formed on the substrate 14, electrically connecting the contact pad 3 on the two devices. The spring contacts (15) also compensates for thermal and mechanical variations and other environmental factors. Inherent stress gradient in the spring contact is bent so that the document removed from the substrate on which the free portion 11 of the spring contacts the top. Anchor portion 12 is electrically connected to the first contact pad 3 on the nameumyeo substrate 14 remain fixed to the substrate 14. The spring contacts 15 are formed of an elastic material the free portion (11) and flexibly contacts the second contact pad 3, thereby electrically interconnecting the two contact pads.


Men and women's relationship to risks seems to be different: perceptions of risk may be linked to gender stereotypes but also to the different work activities carried out by men and women. In this presentation, two intervention requests are examined from the point of view of sex and gender and the relationship to an emerging risk, that of nanoparticles, whose health effects are poorly understood by workers.


Basal cell carcinoma of the prostate is a rare prostate malignancy. Its diagnosis and treatment have not been well established yet.


Factored models of multiagent systems address the complexity of joint behavior by exploiting locality in agent interactions. History-dependent graphical multiagent models (hGMMs) further capture dynamics by conditioning behavior on history. The hGMM framework also brings new elements of strategic reasoning and more expressive powers to modeling information diffusion over networks. We propose a greedy algorithm for learning hGMMs from time-series data, inducing both graphical structure and parameters. To evaluate this learning method, we employ human-subject experiment data for a voting consensus scenario, where agents on a network attempt to reach a unanimous vote. We empirically show that the learned hGMMs directly expressing joint behavior outperform alternatives in predicting dynamic voting behavior.