The wavelet transform is a signal transformation technique in which the information in the time and frequency domains can be obtained simultaneously within the range of the uncertainty principle. In this paper, identification of impulse responses is performed using the wavelet transform.

First, the system identification problem is studied by using the wavelet theory. It is shown by a numerical example that the high-frequency components of the signal can be separated in the time domain from the noise provided the weighting function is chosen suitably. Finally, the role of the weighting function is discussed theoretically.


Objective To determine the deratting and disinsecting effects of sulfuryl fluoride(≥99.8%) and their relationship with the dose and exposure time.Methods Rats and cockroaches were divided and fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride at 4,8,12,16,20 g/m3.The death time of SD rats and Periplaneta americana was recorded.Results were simulated and predicted using the response-surface model.Results All groups of subjects were killed at different concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride.The average time to death ranged from 43 to 381 minutes for SD rats and from 97 to 387 minutes for P.americana.The response-surface model for SD rats was established as: =1.57-1.16X1-0.37X2+0.05X12+0.22X1X2+0.01X22 and that for P.americana: =6.92-2.15X1-0.89X2+0.15X12+0.18X1X2+0.02X22.Conclusion Desired killing effect resulted from sulfuryl fluoride at 4 g/m3 to 20 g/m3,concentration was negatively correlated with the exposure time(i.e.the time to death increased as the concentration dropped).Time and decrease of concentration.P.americana demonstrated stronger resistance to the agent compared with SD rats.


Introduction: Childhood cancer is on the increase globally with a heterogenous distribution in the type seen in different localities, age groups, and gender. So also, is the outcome of treatment variable in different countries and is dependent on the availability of funds, drugs, medical equipment among others. Aim: To determine the pattern and outcome of childhood cancer in Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH). Methods: A 5-year retrospective study was carried out in RSUTH from January 2015 to December 2019. The case notes of all children aged 1-16years with diagnosis of childhood malignancy were retrieved and only those with histopathologic diagnosis of cancer and complete data were included in the study. Results: Thirty-two children aged 1-16years, with a median age of 6years, 24 (75%) males and 8 (25%) females were recruited for the study. The median duration of symptoms was 3 months. Majority of the care givers (75%) were of low socio-economic class. Leukaemia 8 (25%) and lymphomas 5 (18.8%) were the common malignancies seen and 50% had metastatic disease at Original Research Article Okari et al.; ACRI, 20(8): 41-50, 2020; Article no.ACRI.66160 42 presentation. Fever (62.5%), weight loss (56.3%) and pallor (46.9%) were common complaints given, while chemotherapy alone 5 (15.6%) or in combination with surgery 5 (15.6%) was the most given treatment. Three (9.4%) children completed treatment and are alive, 28.1% requested for discharge against medical advice and 28.1% died. Conclusion: Leukemia and lymphomas are common forms of childhood malignancy in our facility. Majority of the caregivers were poor and unable to complete the required treatment of their children.


Optimal Power Flow (OPF) was the most attempted problem from decades, in this paper simulations are done to study the power system with single and multiple objectives. As a part of the study IEEE 30 bus system was considered, the objectives taken are Cost of generation, Transmission Loss, and L-index. In addition Multi type FACTS device is considered for both single objective optimal power flow (SOOPF), multi objective optimal power flow (MOOPF) and the results are compared. The results obtained suggest the placement of different power system components including multi type FACTS device, the multi type FACTS device considered in this paper is Interline Power Flow Controller (IPFC) which is a Voltage Source Controller (VSC). The optimization technique used in this paper is Particle Swarm Optimization.


C-reactive protein (CRP) has been known to be highly associated with the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. However controversies were present among some clinical trials with regard to the role of CRP to be the cause or a bystander in cardiovascular disease [1-3]. Experimentally, CRP was found to cause vascular endothelial dysfunction, increase matrix metalloproteinase synthesis and impair fibrinolytic capacity, which involve the process of atherosclerosis resulting in an increased cardiovascular risk [4,5]. On the contrary, CRP could be produced from the inflamed adipocytes in pericardial and abdominal visceral fat tissues and it did not correlate well to the severity of vascular atherosclerosis [6]. Furthermore, CRP was related to the development of metabolic syndrome as well and it has been interpreted to be the underlying mediator [7]. As we know, there was no additive or multiplier hazardous effect of CRP to some classic risk factors for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary calcium score, hyperlipidemia and metabolic syndrome on the basis of subgroup analyses from the JUPITER trial, the ASCOT trial and the Framingham offspring study [8-12]. Recent genetic analyses demonstrated that carriers of CRP polymorphisms with higher serum CRP levels were not associated with higher cardiovascular risk [13] Therefore, the controversies were still unresolved regarding the role of CRP in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases.


Abstract In the context of considerable scholarly and popular attention focused on Bushman narratives over the last 30 years, much of it centred on analyses and retellings of the Bleek and Lloyd archive, there has been much less attention paid to Khoi story-telling and the comparative insights made possible by such a study. The monumental work on the ∣Xam carried out by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in the 1870s and 1880s has overshadowed Bleek's own earlier studies of Khoi folklore. Soon after his arrival in Cape Town and his appointment as Lord Grey's librarian, Bleek had started to solicit Bushman and Khoi folktales from missionaries stationed in the remoter areas of the colonies, and in 1864 a collection of 42 of these translated oral narratives was published in London as Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or Hottentot fables and tales. The book is South Africa's earliest publication of indigenous literature, and it remains one of the most important collections of Khoi orature. This article has two interrelated interests: first, drawing attention to the largely neglected area of Khoi orature, and second, developing an argument about the similarities and differences between Khoi story-telling and Bushman narratives. It is in this context that the contradistinctive idea of satire will be explored which is, in Khoi orature, associated with the transgressive trickster figure of the wily jackal. In Khoi stories the jackal is an attractive, roguish figure who is able to outwit the powerful – in particular, predators such as lions. In ∣Xam story-telling on the other hand, the jackal did not function as a trickster but was associated with negative connotations such as cunning, cowardice and selfishness, qualities that did not allow him to become a figure of identification. Such a bifurcation, this article will suggest, was not without political consequence in the often violent 19th-century Cape frontier.


Customized archwires are demanded in the lingual orthodontic treatment for patients suffering from malocclusion. Traditionally, these archwires could only be bent by experienced orthodontists manually. This pattern requires a specialized skills training and occupies long charside time, but still cannot ensure the accuracy of appliances. Therefore, a novel robotic system was developed for automatic and accurate preparation in our study. First, the implementation of hardware system was designed. Second, a modular and ROS-integrated control system was developed to control automatic bending. Third, an adaptive sampling-based bending planner with collision checker in a time-varying environment was established and realized in control system architecture. Preliminary validation of the developed robot system and its control system have been conducted both in simulation and physical robotic system. Experimental results have shown that the developed robotic system with its ROS-integrated control system was able to accomplish automatic and accurate orthodontic archwire preparation.


To promote the development and utilization of Cornus,provide a basis for determining the norms of processing drugs and founding the quality criteria of cut crude drug of cornel,this article Cornus processing methods and modern history of research reviewed.


A Mn promoter was introduced into a Cu–Cr–Zr composite oxide catalyst for the direct synthesis of ethyl acetate from ethanol dehydrogenation by means of coprecipitation method. The effects of the Mn promoter on the structure and catalytic performance of the catalyst were investigated with characterization techniques including XRD, TPR, XPS, and N2O TPD. An interaction between the Mn promoter and the CuO in the catalyst was found to exist, and it improved the dispersion of the Cu component on the catalyst surface and decreased the size of CuO crystal particles, thereby increasing the thermal stability of the catalyst. The results of long-duration activity tests indicated that the Mn-promoted CCZ (Cu–Cr–Zr) catalyst maintained its activity and showed good stability.


The usual focus in authorship studies is on authorship attribution, i.e. determin- ing which author (of a given set) wrote a piece of unknown provenance. The usual setting involves a small number of candidate authors, which means that the focus quickly revolves around a search for features that discriminate among the candidates. Whether the features that serve to discriminate among the authors are characteristic is then not of primary importance. We respectfully suggest an alternative in this article, namely a focus on seeking features that are character- istic for an author with respect to others. To determine an author's characteristic features, we first seek elements that he or she uses consistently, which we there- fore regard as 'representative', but we likewise seek elements which the author uses 'distinctively' in comparison to an opposing author. We test the idea on a task recently proposed that compares Charles Dickens to both Wilkie Collins and a larger reference set comprising several authors' works from the 18th and 19th century. We then compare the use of representative and distinctive features to Burrows' 'Delta' and Hoovers' 'CoV Tuning'; we find that our method bears little similarity with either method in terms of characteristic feature selection. We show that our method achieves reliable and consistent results in the two- author comparison and fair results in the multi-author one, measured by separ- ation ability in clustering.


One or more instances of virtual point of sales (POS) device is established physical merchant location in the cloud for use by customers. Customer by using a mobile computing device at a merchant location, and to communicate with the POS device associated with a merchant location, providing payment information and display items (s) wishing to purchase can. Using a mobile computing device, and select the merchant to select the item (s), it is possible to pay for the material (s). POS device, the customer can customer as proof that paid for the item (s) to provide an electronic receipt to the mobile computing device that may be shown to the merchant. Validation, such as an image selected by the merchant data is rendered on the client mobile device to provide the merchant confirmation valid payment.


High-quality bulk REB_a2Cu_3O_7− x (RE = Y,Eu,Gd,Nd,La) was synthesized by a solution method. Stoichiometric amounts of yttrium, barium, and copper acetates were dissolved in glacial acetic acid. The acid was boiled away leaving a glassy acetate precursor. This precursor has shown amorphous scattering in XRD, a phenomenon consistent with atomic level mixing of reactants. The glassy precursor was subsequently heat-treated with a 5 °C/min ramp to 900 °C and a 2 h soak at 900 °C in air. The final product was obtained after heat treatment under oxygen at 550 °C with slow cooling to room temperature. Final products were analyzed by XRD, SEM, and four probe de-resistivity measurements. The mechanism of both precursor and product formation was examined through substitution studies and XRD. It was found that a combination of a rare earth acetate, barium acetate, and acetic acid was necessary for the formation of an amorphous precursor.


We consider a two‐level block Gauss–Seidel iteration for solving systems arising from finite element discretizations employing higher‐order elements. A p‐hierarchical basis is used to induce this block structure. Using superconvergence results normally employed in the analysis of gradient recovery schemes, we argue that a massive reduction of the H1‐error occurs in the first iterate, so that the discrete solution is adequately resolved in very few iterates—sometimes a single iteration is sufficient. Numerical experiments on uniform and adapted meshes support these claims. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This study proposes the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) decision model employing the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to identify the critical components. A case study of a milling machine at Community College is carried out to validate the model. The developed model can be used to support the decision making of the critical component to be prioritized in maintenance activities. The finding of analysis from the developed FMEA decision model reveals that there are two critical components of the milling machine that has been identified. By holding this information, this research finding does help in minimizing the maintenance costs and time.


Considering the problem of high complexity and low efficiency on VN mapping,link-balanced bi-directional search algorithm is proposed,which is based on bandwidth-priority strategy between source node and destination node.Search layer and search space are reduced,so that the efficiency of this algorithm is improved.Simulation results show that this algorithm performs better than the traditional methods of VN mapping in acceptance ratio,construction revenue,etc.


Abstract For more than 100 years clinicians have recognized that language functions are frequently disrupted by unilateral lesions of the left hemisphere (Broca 1861). For almost the same length of time clinicians have recognized that specific emotional disorders are associated with unilateral brain injury (Kraepelin 1921, Meyer 1904). Some of these emotional disorders have also been lateralized or associated with lesions of one hemisphere. In 1922, Babinski noted that indifference or euphoric reactions can follow right hemisphere cerebral damage. This disorder was later termed the 'indifference reaction' by Hecaen (1951) and Denny-Brown, Meyer and Horenstein (1952). Depression, which is the most common emotional disorder following brain lesions has frequently, but not always, been associated with dominant hemisphere lesions (Gainotti 1972, Folstein, Maiberger and McHugh 1977).


For decades, finite element analysis (FEA) has served as a ubiquitous tool, allowing engineers and scientists to gain critical insights into the behavior of complex composite materials. Despite the wide adoption of FEA, creating a conforming mesh for the most complex composite material models, such as mesoscale models of 3D textiles or microscale models of composites with reinforcement and irregular voids, remains a significant challenge. Much of the difficulty lies in the fact that many tools that create realistic surface geometries through process simulation often result in complex interpenetrations between objects. This paper proposes a pipeline of algorithms, some adopted from the visualization community and some novel, to automatically create a conforming, high-quality tetrahedral mesh for composite materials with complex geometries that may overlap. The details of a novel algorithm used to identify volume, surface, and edge features, while avoiding the use of a tolerance, are provided. Additionally, the paper describes three different methods to remove overlaps between tows. Finally, the algorithms are applied to a simple case with two orthogonal tows that overlap where they cross, demonstrating the result at each step and revealing the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three overlap removal algorithms.


Introduction Investigative Methods and Assumptions 1. The Father and His Daughter Part 1: The Semantic Range of and Part 2: Roles and Relations Concluding Remarks: Son or Daughter? 2. The Sacrificed Daughter Part 1: Judges 11:29-40 Part 2: Feminist Criticism and Judges 11 Concluding Remarks: Son vs. Daughter Sacrifice 3. Father, Daughter and Incest Part 1: Leviticus 18 and 20 Part 2: Incest and the Narrative Texts Concluding Remarks: Father-Daughter Incest and the Hebrew Bible 4. God the Father and His Daughters Myth and Metaphor Concluding Remarks: God s Fatherhood of Daughters Conclusion


Polyester based particle reinforced composites were developed using varying weight fractions (ranging from 0 to 30 wt%, at 5 wt% interval) of microcrystalline wood charcoal powder (75µm). Quantitative, qualitative and functional characterization of developed wood charcoal (WC) particles reinforced polyester matrix composites was carried out successfully using energy dispersive x-ray spectrophotometer (EDXRF), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) enhanced with ancillary EDS for elemental identification capability. The primary elements and oxides identified in wood charcoal by EDXRF include iron, copper, zinc, calcium and CaO, Fe2O3, CuO, ZnO respectively. These elements and oxides were noted to induce improvement on the properties of reinforced polymer composites. EDS elemental mapping also confirmed the major elements identified by EDXRF analysis. Composites reinforced with microcrystalline wood charcoal exhibited strong interfacial bonding and interlocking due to even dispersion of the filler particles as revealed by SEM images. Interactions of the microcrystalline wood charcoal fillers with the polyester matrix molecules were revealed by FTIR functional characterization as minor shifts in the frequency bands of functional groups normally present in unsaturated polyester resin.


The Common Pool Resource (CPR) dilemma game is a single-stage noncooperative game in which n players share a CPR whose size, X, is a random variable with a commonly known probability distribution. We present the equilibrium solutions for CPR games in which X has a uniform distribution, players have power utility functions with a common parameter, c, and requests are made simultaneously or sequentially. Two experiments using groups of n = 5 players provide support for the major qualitative predictions of the model.


Occupational health and safety related to the work which is done in workplaces in general people full body health and safety provision. In our country, the occupational health and safety risk assessment analysis moral, legal, and indirect costs has become crucial. Located in the workplace or identification of hazards from outside intrusion. It turned into a risk of danger that led to the factors analyzed by ranking of the risks arising from the dangers with and control measures will be utilized for the purposes of risk assessment and analysis work required. These occupational accidents are a problem that must be resolved as a country reality. Any work that does not have security and supervision issues an accident invitation. Today, worker health and work safety remain a problem that needs to be resolved. In this study, the penalty and legal aspects of occupational health and safety have been examined by focusing on work accidents that have been passed on to many nominations .


We calculate the magnetic dipole moment (MDM) and the electric dipole moment (EDM) of a lepton induced by a vector unparticle with both vector and axial-vector couplings to leptons. We consider the most general scenario in which the unparticle induces lepton flavor violation (LFV) and CP violation. Some specific scenarios are examined to obtain constraints on the LFV unparticle couplings from the current limits on the muon MDM and the decay τ → 3μ. While the experimental limit on the muon MDM favor the scenario in which there is dominance of the unparticle vector couplings over the axial-vector couplings, the experimental limit on the τ → 3μ decay strongly constraints the unparticle LFV couplings. We use these constraints to estimate the EDMs of the electron and the muon, which are negligible and far from the current experimental limits.


Two-dimensional analyses of InP and GaAs m.e.s.f.e.t. structures are used to qualitatively explain relative magnitudes of parasitic element values observed in experimental InP m.e.s.f.e.t.s. Large drain-gate capacitance observed in InP is attributed mainly to substrate conduction, whereas large drain conductance at certain drain biases in InP may be unavoidable due to large velocity dropback and large high-field diffusion in this material. Low Schottky-barrier height and substrate conduction also increase gD


The development of the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has a long and diverse
history behind it. Nevertheless, the academic literature requires a systematic analysis that depicts the
development of an intellectual understanding of the concept amid the domestic and international events that
shaped social expectations with regard to corporate behaviour. The aim of this paper is to include a distinctive
historical background on CSR's emergence as a philosophical framework by examining the most critical
influences that influenced its interpretation and meaning, such as scholarly interventions, foreign policies and
significant social and political events. To do so, the approach used is a systematic literature review that
discusses the most important scholarly findings and public incidents that shaped CSR's evolutionary cycle and
how they did so. The results indicate that the definition of corporate responsibility has changed from being
confined to income creation to adding a larger range of obligations to the current assumption that mutual interest
production will be the primary obligation of the businesses. The results also show that as company behaviour,
social norms shifted, so did the Corporate Social Responsibility definition. The results indicate that CSR appears
to be important in scholarly literature and can be assumed to be part of the market language in the near term at
least, and as a consequence, the authors propose a realistic vision for CSR that takes its historical history into
consideration. Furthermore, this paper gives way to potential academic research to investigate how CSR can
help address the current social expectations of shared value creation as a major business target, which in effect
can have practical implications if CSR is applied in this regard.


The utility model relates to a cable power indicator which is used for indicating whether power in a power cable exists or not. The utility model comprises a power cable, an indicator and a resistor, wherein the power cable is provided with at least one connector and one cable. The cable comprises at least one anode wire and one earth wire, and the anode wire and the earth wire are respectively connected with the connector; the indicator at the end of the power cable is coupled with the anode wire and the earth wire of the connector and is used for indicating whether the power in the power cable exists or not; the resistor is coupled with the indicator so as to limit current flowing through the indicator. In this way, the power existing in the end of the power cable can be confirmed by the indicator.


In [1], Hirano gives a method for constructing families of curves with a large number of singularities. The idea is to consider an abelian covering of P2 ramified along three lines in general position, and to take the pull‐back of a curve C intersecting the lines non‐generically. Similar constructions are used by Shimada in [10] and Oka in [8]. We apply this method for the case where C is a conic, constructing a family of curves with the following asymptotic behaviour (see [9]): limn→∞(∑p∈Sing C˜nμ(p))/(deg(C˜n))2=34. The goal of this paper is to calculate the fundamental group for the curves in this family as well as their Alexander polynomial. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification 14H20, 14H30, 14E20.


The laboratory sessions of service-taught statistics courses are a critical component of achieving statistical capability. The laboratory sessions should challenge the students" ability to apply their knowledge to contextualised data, and equip them with the necessary tools and skills to undertake data analysis in any future course or workrelated context. Traditionally, statistics laboratory sessions are taught with a teaching/demonstration focus. Through feedback from courseware evaluations, a teaching via demonstration focus was replaced by a student self-guided learning approach with tutorial support. This approach improved interactive learning and feedback, however necessitated the expenditure of extra time and use of tutors in both supervision and assessment in the lab. In this paper we discuss the features of a completely online laboratory module system, encompassing both self-guided sessions and assessment, within a single framework. This moves the assessment process from the current subjective assessment to objective online assessment. Three years feedback from students indicates that the system provides a clearer teaching and grading process compared to classic lab systems. Results also indicate that the laboratory modules were completed faster than anticipated, with time saved leading to the ability to extend material beyond the current levels.


This paper presents the results of field measurements and computer simulation of the interference from LTE in the ISDB-TB Digital TV systems in the 700 MHz band. The measurements campaign results were used to validate the use of SEAMCAT software to simulate this interference problem. The software tool was then used for the characterization of the measurement scenarios aiming the evaluation of the coexistence of these services.


Territorial clusters of economic cooperation (PTCE) have been recognized in the Social economy law in 2014. As multi-stakeholders organization working on local projects of sustainable development, they mostly tend to be considered as bottom-up initiatives and the literature highlights their collective character. Building on the ongoing studies, we first characterize the morphology and the organizational form of the clusters from a static perspective. Then, we show the interest of a processual approach by focusing on the trajectory of the leading organization. We proceed with two case studies in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, in France.


In the face of transient market opportunities, making full use of network resources has become an important measure for organizations to execute innovation and win-win model. Due to the uncertainty of time consumed in innovation process, once the individual is faced with limited resources, the innovation process may be at a standstill. The social capital support and psychological resources supply have become an important driving force for individual innovative behavior under urgency scenarios. On the one hand, the emotion transmission runs through the formation of relational embeddedness, which means that the individual or organization is able to use the transboundary information and resources, furthermore, the degree of relational embeddedness will affect the speed and scope of emotional transmission directly. On the other hand, after consumption of certain psychological resources, individuals will take effort to plan and control their own emotions, present the emotional expression and appropriate external behavior which are beneficial to achieving organizational goals, and adjust interpersonal relationship conversely. However, does relational embeddedness lead to high innovation performance constantly? This paper focuses on the impact of relational embeddedness and innovative behavior on the perspective of emotional labor through situational experiment, combines attributive character of relational network with change extent of individual emotional labor. Results revealed substantial relationships of relational embeddedness and innovative behavior with the moderating effect of emotional labor, the conclusion can provide a theoretical basis to take full advantage of relational embeddedness and to enhance self-reliant innovation capability.First of all, this article provides several basic assumptions about relational embeddedness, emotional labor and individual's innovative behavior through literature review and deductive reasoning. After that, variables of situational experiment are carefully designed. This survey uses projective test through "dual-task experiment" as research paradigm, adopts facial expressions to induce the emotional labor and utilizes duration compression to create urgency scenario with ERP sand table training. The first phase of the pilot is mainly used to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, and to demonstrate the reliability of environment variables, control variables, independent variables, as well as the emotion inducing materials. The second phase of the experiment is mainly used for confirmatory analysis, hierarchical regression analyses indicates the interaction rules among relational embeddedness, innovative behavior and emotional labor. Implications for future research as well as pragmatic ramifications for organizational practices are discussed in conclusion. The highlight of this study lies in the re-examination of the relationship between relational embeddedness and individual's innovative behavior under urgency scenario,considering the emotional labor as moderating variable. Some useful conclusions have achieved. Experimental results showed that in the implementation of project management under urgency, relational embeddedness has reversed U shape impact on innovative behavior; employees would achieve highest innovative behavior on the condition of moderate relational embeddedness. Deep emotional acting would play an active moderating role between relational embeddedness and innovative behavior, which could make the reversed U shape more complanate. Compared with deep emotional acting, the moderating role of surfacing emotional acting is not significant. Meanwhile, this paper cannot confirm the existing research that emotional labor is good for innovation. If the entity doesn't have enough resource and spiritual support, one-way emotion regulation could only consume individual's psychological resources increasingly, which is not furtherance to individual's innovative behavior. The basic conclusion of this study may provide operable references to project innovation under task emergency. It is indicated that the programming of relational embeddedness should be an important strategic decision in project innovation management. The proper intensity level of information sharing and trust is vital to stimulate individual's innovative behavior. It is also concluded that the manager should guide and dominate deep emotional labor to induce the positive effect between relational embeddedness and innovative behavior to obtain high innovation performance.


We numerically study time-dependent quantum transport of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in a two-dimensional correlated disorder potential. The scattering- and transport mean-free-path is numerically calculated and compared with a diagrammatic approach. Furthermore we introduce the phenomenon of coherent backscattering in the context of Bose-Einstein condensates. In the limit of a vanishing atom-atom interaction, a sharp cone in the angle-resolved density of the scattered matter wave is observed, arising from constructive interference between amplitudes propagating along reversed scattering paths. Weak interaction transforms this coherent backscattering peak into a pronounced dip, indicating destructive instead of constructive interference. This agrees with results obtained from a diagrammatic theory of weak localization in the presence of nonlinearity. For intermediate interaction strength we observe intrinsic time-dependent dynamic, which leads to a suppression of coherent backscattering.


We have reviewed and analyzed recent research on the chemistry of development of grayscale, silver carboxylate-based photothermographic imaging media. Areas of investigation have included morphological studies on the developed image silver, kinetics and activation parameters for development, computational models of the development process, and electrochemistry of the developing agents. With knowledge of development chemistry inferred from these studies it is possible to construct phenomenological models for characteristic curves of photothermographic media and ultimately engineer desired sensitometric resonses.


After china joined in WTO,foreign financial groups,taking advantages in their persons with ability,products and the experience of mixed financial services,provide comprehensive financial services for domestic clients and bring intense competition to domestic commercial banks.Confronted with the impact and challenge of mixed financial services in foreign banks,it is imperative for domestic commercial banks to develop investment banking.How to seek a right mode for investment banking and make a great breakthrough is a common problem facing each commercial bank of our country.


The purpose of this essay is to propose a new diagnostic category for inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders, better known as the DSM. As noted in a recent edition (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), the DSM should be viewed as "only one still frame in the ongoing process of attempting to better understand mental disorders." The category proposed here represents a significant contribution to the composition of the next still frame by focusing on one of the most ubiquitous, yet least recognized, of all mental disorders.


This paper presents, the experimental study has been made to optimize the process parameters during machining of H-13 by wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) using Taguchi L9 orthogonal array method. Following input process parameters of WEDM [Pulse-On time (TON), Pulse-Off time (TOFF) and Wire Speed rate (WS) and Wire Tension (WT)] were chosen as variables to study the process output in terms of Material Removal Rate (MRR), Wire wear ratio(WWR),Surface Flatness(SF). In the present work, the parametric optimization method using Taguchi's robust design is proposed for wire-cut electric discharge machining of H-13. H13 has its wide application in pressure die casting tools, extrusion tools, forging dies, hot shear blades, stamping dies, plastic molds. ESR H13 is great for aluminum die-casting tools and plastic mold tools requiring a very high polish. In the present study, the zinc coated copper wire electrode is used as the best compromise of above complex needs. Experimentation has been done by using Taguchi's L9 orthogonal array. Each experiment was conducted under different conditions of pulse on time, pulse off time, wire speed, and wire tension. Result of response of material removal rate, wire wear ratio, surface flatness is considered for improving the machining efficiency. Optimal combinations of parameters were obtained by Taguchi's L9 orthogonal array and Mean of Mean approach method.


In 1930 Willard Berry published a paper on the Lepidocyclines of the Atascadero Limestone,1 for which he erected five new species, two of which were megalospheric and three microspheric.


We studied the photochemical oxidation of an organophosphorus pesticide, terbufos, in surface waters because its oxidation products are of concern. Terbufos sulfoxide and terbufos sulfone have toxicities for aquatic organisms similar to those of the parent compound. We measured a photolysis rate constant under natural sunlight conditions in distilled water of 0.68±0.17/h near Clemson, South Carolina, USA. Actinometer studies resulted in a mean reaction quantum yield for terbufos of 5.8 × 10−3. The measured half‐life of 64 min is considerably faster than any of the other chemical or biochemical oxidation half‐lives in soil or hydrolysis half‐lives reported in the literature. Photolysis should be considered in evaluating the risk of terbufos to surface waters and aquatic organisms.


2 * Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine Korean preservice science teachers' understanding of the nature of science (NOS). Thirty-one Korean preservice teachers were given an open-ended questionnaire about their understanding of NOS. The Korean preservice teachers' responses were categorized according to pattern and theme. These findings will provide information to aid in the development of curriculum and instruction to improve preservice teachers' understanding of NOS. Compared to in previous studies, Korean preservice teachers demonstrated various philosophical stances that have been suggested by philosophers of science. In addition, they were more likely to connect science to human endeavors and social needs. These results were interpreted in relation to the influence of the science methods course, secondary science curriculum, and the traditional cultural view.


Background: Preeclampsia is a heterogeneous condition, potentially involving several separate
pathophysiological pathways; currently no clinical screening test is useful for prediction of preeclampsia
development. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) holds great promise for clinical chemistry
measurements. Methods: FT-IR spectra of serum samples from pregnant women -14 patients and 31 normotensive
were obtained. Absorbance ratios, second derivative spectra, ANOVA test and personal correlation statistical
analysis were tacking in comparison studies. The parameters studied were proteins and lipids. Results: Different
absorbance ratios for specific bands were calculated and plotted versus the patient samples. These ratios yielded
statistically significant increase/decrease among the groups under investigation. The results showed that among the
normotensive control group three subjects later developed preeclampsia. The results obtained from the IR-measured
(amide A/amide B) ratio of serum confirmed, with 92.9 % confidence level, the effectiveness of this technique for
the diagnosis of preeclampsia. Normotensive pregnant women who developed preeclampsia were considered as
subjects at high risk. Conclusion: This study suggests, for the first time that FT-IR spectroscopy can be successfully
used as an accurate and rapid test, for diagnosis and early prediction of preeclampsia, starting from 20 week of
gestation.


One of the most important strategies for enhancing wheat grain productivity and physiological processes is the application of appropriate nitrogen (N) and the choice of a suitable variety in an adequate environment. The study goals were to assess the impact of various N application rates on the grain yield and some physiological traits of four wheat cultivars under two growing years as well as determine the relationship between these traits across the experimental factors. Four Egyptian bread wheat varieties (Sakha 93, Gemmiza 12, Sids 12, and Sakha 94) and four nitrogen rates including control (N0), 75 kg N fad-1 (N1), 100 kg N fad-1 (N2), and 125 kg N fad-1 (N3) were evaluated in two experimental fields during the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 growing years at Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt. Grain yield (kg ha-1), relative water content (RWC) proline content, malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activities were the traits under study. The grain yield and the majority of the physiological parameters assessed were significantly influenced by the years, nitrogen treatments, and varieties as well as their first and second-order interactions (p ≤0.05 or 0.01), according to Three-way ANOVA. Grain yield increased with N treatments increased, and N3 treatment was higher than N0, N1 and N3 treatments with values of 31.1%, 22.9%, and 10.6%, respectively. With increased N application there is a tendency for MDA content and SOD activity to decrease and then increase, while RWC, proline content, CAT, and ABX activities to increase and then decrease. The highest values were recorded for grain yield, proline content and CAT activity by Sakha 94 variety and for MDA content, SOD, CAT and ABX activities by Sids 12 variety. According to the interactions among experimental factors, the highest wheat yield and the majority of physiological measures were observed by Sakha 94 variety with N3 rate under the second growing year. The Sakha 94 variety shows a positive correlation with grain production and the majority of physiological parameters under applying N3 treatment during the second growing year based on all variables examined by principal component analysis. Finally, our results recommended using the Sakha 94 variety with 125 kg N fad-1 to increase and improve wheat productivity.


This nutritionltoxicity concept is very important because everything we come in contact with has a certain risk associated with it, even dihydrogen monoxide. Dihydrogen monoxide (water) can cut, burn, and asphyxiate-it is contained in tumors and even broccoli-yet it is essential to life. As a result, it is evident that the beneficial attributes of all materials need to be weighed against the potential risks.


The invention relates to a connecting rod of a screwdriver head, which comprises a body, a pull sleeve and a clamping assembly, wherein the outer surface of the body is provided with at least one limiting groove, and each limiting groove is provided with a limiting through hole communicated with a connecting groove; the pull sleeve is sleeved outside the body and can generate an axial displacement relation relative to the body; one end of the pull sleeve is convexly provided with at least one limiting block, the limiting blocks can be blocked outside the limiting grooves, and the pull sleeve can be shifted between the fixed position and the release position; the clamping assembly is the limiting groove arranged at the body; when the pull sleeve is located in the release position, the clamping assembly can be partly exposed in the connecting grooves by the limiting through holes and used for preventing screwdriver head falling; when the pull sleeve is located in the fixed position, theclamping assembly can be blocked by the limiting blocks so as to fix the screwdriver head.


A workshop, sponsored by Ames Research Center, was held at San Jose State University, San Jose, California, July 16-17, 1987, to discuss and correlate observations and theories relating to lighting requirements in animal habitats for rodents and nonhuman primates in microgravity (near space). This volume represents the results of the workshop. It contains a summary of the conclusions reached and recommendations for lighting animal housing modules used in microgravity related projects. The recommendations cover various aspects of habitat lighting including engineering standards for intensity, spectral properties, and light cycle controls.


A system for monitoring real-time quantity of energy use using mesh sensor network modules is provided to prevent the waste of energy use by providing information toward quantity of electricity which each instrument using electricity consume. A system for monitoring real-time quantity of energy use using mesh sensor network modules comprises one or more measurement modules(100~140) and a monitor terminal(150). The measurement module is arranged between each instrument using electricity and a power. The measurement module measures data of electricity usage of each instrument. The monitor terminal receives data of electricity usage of each instrument from a measurement module. The measurement module and the monitor terminal form wireless mesh sensor network.


The emergence of robot-based body augmentation promises exciting innovations that will inform robotics, human-machine interaction, and wearable electronics. Even though augmentative devices like extra robotic arms and fingers in many ways build on restorative technologies, they introduce unique challenges for bidirectional human-machine collaboration. Can humans adapt and learn to operate a new limb collaboratively with their biological limbs without sacrificing their physical abilities? To successfully achieve robotic body augmentation, we need to ensure that by giving a person an additional (artificial) limb, we are not in fact trading off an existing (biological) one. In this manuscript, we introduce the "Neural Resource Allocation" problem, which distinguishes body augmentation from existing robotics paradigms such as teleoperation and prosthetics. We discuss how to allow the effective and effortless voluntary control of augmentative devices without compromising the voluntary control of the biological body. In reviewing the relevant literature on extra robotic fingers and limbs we critically assess the range of potential solutions available for the "Neural Resource Allocation" problem. For this purpose, we combine multiple perspectives from engineering and neuroscience with considerations from humanmachine interaction, sensory-motor integration, ethics and law. Altogether we aim to define common foundations and operating principles for the successful implementation of motor augmentation. I. Introducing robotic body augmentation and the neural resource allocation problem With robotic body augmentation we are witnessing the rise of a new class of robotic technologies, which are designed to resemble human limbs in their functionality while being integrated with the users' physical abilities. Traditionally, such devices have been developed to substitute a missing or impaired body function, most famously bionic legs and arms for substitution of missing limbs (1, 2) or exoskeletons for restoring impaired movement (3). But in principle, from a system design perspective, once a functionality that approximately matches that of a body part can be implemented, the same technological foundation can be exploited for augmenting the sensory and motor capabilities of an able-bodied individual using extra robotic limbs. As such human body augmentation is no longer science fiction. From the engineering side, a whole spectrum of human


Weaving section is a common feature of an urban highway. A weaving area is characterized by frequent lane-changing maneuvers, which will reduce the capacity of a dual carriageway road. It is formed when a merge area is closely followed by diverge area, or when an on-ramp is closely followed by an off-ramp and the two are joined by an auxiliary lane. Current procedures and existing simulation models are inadequate for a detailed assessment and evaluation of traffic behaviour on the merging and diverging area. There is a need to develop an appropriate tool to assess the merging and diverging area accurately because such an assessment involves a large number of variables. This study aims at developing a simulation model of traffic operations at weaving sections in Malaysia based on some variables which affect weaving section performance. The microscopic time scanning simulation model developed is capable of representing and investigating traffic operations in merging areas. The model, which is written in the FORTRAN programming language, was validated and calibrated using data collected at three locations of weaving area in Kuala Lumpur. The lengths of the weaving areas considered were site1=450 m, site2=575 m and site3= 350 m, respectively. The simulation model was used to evaluate the capacity of Type A weave area with a range of traffic flow conditions. The regression model described in this thesis is based on the mainline volume, freeway to ramp volume and ramp to freeway volume. The comparison between on-ramp field data and relevant simulation results showed less than 8% disparity. The simulation results showed that for a weaving length less than 200 m the interactions between vehicles increase significantly and the capacity decrease considerably.


The article proposes a reading on human vulnerability in today's technological context offering some theological perspectives. From a broad perspective on Transhumanism and Human Enhancement, it is suggested that the so called new technologies are proposing also a new understanding of the human being. Keywords—Transhumanism; human enhancement; human vulnerability; memory


Ottawa Lectures offers researchers and graduate students a rare introduction to some of the major modern themes in the representation theory of p-adic groups: the classification and construction of their (complex) admissible representations, the calculation of their characters, and the realization of the celebrated local Langlands correspondence. Recent years have seen significant and rapid progress made toward each of these goals; the purpose of this book is to help bridge the gap from the classical literature to the forefront of research. The first part of this volume is devoted to the tools and techniques used to classify and construct smooth representations of p-adic groups: the Bernstein decomposition, Bruhat - Tits theory and filtrations of subgroups, and an overview of J.K. Yu's construction of supercuspidal representations, together with J.L. Kim's proof that it is exhaustive. The second part begins with a historical overview of character computations and continues with an introduction to motivic integration. The volume concludes, in the third part, with an introduction to the local Langlands programme and a proof of the local Langlands correspondence for algebraic tori. The chapters, written by leaders in this field, arose from lecture notes of mini-courses delivered at workshops held at the University of Ottawa in 2004 and 2007.


Negation is a fundamental element of language and logical systems, but processing negative sentences can be challenging. Early investigations suggested that this difficulty was due to the representational challenge of adding an additional logical element to a proposition, but in more recent work, supportive contexts mitigate the processing costs of negation, suggesting a pragmatic explanation. We make a strong test of this pragmatic hypothesis by directly comparing speakers and listeners. Speakers produce negative sentences more often when they are both relevant and informative. Listeners in turn are fastest to respond to sentences that they expect speakers to produce. Since negative sentences are only difficult in contexts when they are unlikely to be produced, representing negation is likely less difficult than previously supposed.


This paper is a model for the Comparing Modeling Approaches workshop. It presents the cloud component model and a Model for Variability of Refinement Processes used to model the proposed use case. Our targets are high-level and architectural design, and evolution. Runtime support will be tackled, but is not in the main focus of our paper. We introduce: A single system: on the basis of a custom component model, the cloud component model. The latter is dedicated to the modeling of distributed applications. The whole SPL: on the basis of an MDE refinement process model that has the property of being variable. Its specification is inspired by previous works on refinement and feature models dedicated to provide adaptation capabilities to component-based architectures.


Evolutionary Game Theory is used to establish an evolutionary game model of cooperation between enterprises,and research how knowledge updating affects the enterprises' selection of cooperation strategy.The model analysis shows that,the probability of choosing cooperative strategies by all the enterprises has positive correlation with the income coefficient of knowledge updating and the mutual trust,and has negative correlation with the cooperation costs coefficient and cooperation risk coefficient of knowledge updating.Based on the results,some strategy advice is put forward to promote cooperation through knowledge network.


Macau, the world's largest casino hub with the largest gambling revenues, has received increasing attention as a research focus. Macau attracts more and more Chinese outbound tourists each year due to its gambling industry monopoly in Greater China. Macau is positioning itself as a 'world center of tourism and leisure' and has set out plans to become a broader-based tourist destination with economic diversification. Thus, an understanding of people's varied motivations plays an important role in the current status of an environment with a moderate diversification of economic development. The objective of this study is to classify the outbound mainland Chinese tourists in Macau into more homogeneous subgroups on the basis of their travel motivations. Thirteen motivation items are extracted into four factors (namely knowledge and culture, relaxation, entertainment and gambling, and prestige) through exploratory factor analysis. Three distinct market segments are identified—freedom seekers, multi-purpose seekers, and fun and special interest in gambling seekers—based on a cluster analysis using k-means methodology. This study also presents the socio-demographic and trip characteristic differences among these three segments.


The role of Universities in building a sustainable society is paramount. It is therefore essential for Universities to adopt and apply tools such as EMS in creating a culture of sustainability whic ...


A novel scanning probe technique that is able to image surface magnetic and electric properties has been developed. It is based on the near-field microscopy of surface second-harmonic generation. We have demonstrated the capability of the technique by imaging the domain structure of a Ni single crystal and a piezoelectric ceramic.


The purpose of market design is to increase the efficiency of the market outcome by suppressing strategic behavior or rendering it ineffective. One part of this task is to eliminate loopholes in the procedural rules that might be exploited by a wily trader, but the more fundamental part is to devise rules that promote efficiency. In the case of an iterated multi-market auction, the key requirement is reliable price discovery. That is, the rules should encourage suppliers to reveal their costs, and demanders their values, steadily throughout the bidding process. This is necessary because any one supplier typically relies on the pattern of prices across the markets to devise its optimal bidding strategy, taking account of its variable and fixed costs of operation. Similarly, each demander relies on the pattern of prices to construct its optimal plan of purchases, taking account of complementarities and substitution among the products offered in the several markets. Efficiency of the final outcome therefore depends on early, and as the auction proceeds, progressively more accurate revelation by all traders.


Objective To study the effects of cryopreservation on the immunogenicity of human umbilical vein endothelial cells(HUVEC).Methods HUVEC were isolated ex vivo and cryopreserved.Lymphocyte stimulation index(SI)was analyzed by MTT in lymphoeyte-endothelial cell co-culture.Both HLA-ABC and HLA-DR antigen expression on fresh or cryopreserved HUVEC,and the effects of IFN-γ treatment on HLA antigen expression in both groups were determined by using flow cytometry.Results No difference in SI was observed between fresh prepared and cryopreserved HUVEC(1.716±0.181 vs 1.686±0.145,P>0.05).The percentage of HLA-ABC expression was(96.6±1.9)%and(96.0±1.4)%in fresh and cryopreserved HUVEC(P>0.05),and the mean intensity for HLA-ABC expression was 84.1±5.7 and 82.4±4.8 in fresh and cryopreserved HUVEC(P>0.05),respectively.However,no HLA-DR expression was observed in both groups.When treated with IFN-γ,HLA-ABC expression was significantly up-regulated,and HLA-DR expression was induced in a dose-dependent manner.No significant difference was found in the HLA-ABC expression between fresh and cryopreserved HUVEC(P>0.05),while the HLA-DR expression in cryopreserved HUVEC was remarkably lower than in fresh HUVEC with the increase of IFN-γ(P<0.01).Conclusion The immunogenicity of HUVEC remains stable by cryopreservation without IFN-γtreatment or treated with low concentration of IFN-γ(≤50 U/ml).However,the HLA-DR expression in HUVEC was remarkably reduced in eryopreserved cells treated with a high concentration of IFN-γ(≥100 U/ml).These data indieated that the effects of cryopreservation on immunogenicity of HUVEC may result from the decreased responses of HLA-DR expression by the stimulation of IFN-γ treatment.

Key words:
Endothelial cells; Umbilical veins; HLA antigens; Humans; Cryopreservation


In 1941 Eugene O'Neill responded to Lawrence Langner, cofounder of the Washington Square Players and the Theatre Guild, about his interest in reviving "Anna Christie." Intrigued with the prospect of Ingrid Bergman in the title role, O'Neill remained, nevertheless, skeptical: "The fact is 'Anna Christie' is the stalest of all my plays—stale from much use, and stale because it is the most conventional playwrighting of anything I've done." Underscoring the point, O'Neill urged Langner to "contrast it" with The Iceman Cometh, which "is worth a hundred 'Anna Christies.'" This dis approval of "Anna Christie" is the impetus though not the subject of this essay. Instead, I'm intrigued by what O'Neill inserts between these remarks: that while the play was conventional in its writing, "its subject matter was damned unconventional in our theatre of 1921."1 Wistful, even frustrated, this comment reflects not the resentment that O'Neill displayed for critics of "Anna Christie" twenty years earlier, but instead something about the inter play of subject, play, and period that he lamented in 1941.2 Often, the subject addressed by critics has been the "ole davil sea," connecting "Anna Christie" with the sea plays, or Anna's scandalous past, connecting the play with the fallen woman tradition. But the lengthy and complicated composition of "Anna Christie," which began with Chris Christophersen, a version that focused on the sailor O'Neill knew from Jimmy the Priest's, suggests another possibility. As Virginia Floyd has documented, the composition of Chris began in 1918, was interrupted for more than a year, and did not culminate


Steam pyrolysis of naphtha has been studied over potassium carbonate impregnated calcium aluminate (12CaO-7Al 2 O 3 ) catalysts in a fired-bed reactor at atmospheric pressure in the temperature range of 1033-1093 K. The K 2 CO 3 loading on the catalyst was varied from 0 to 8.8 wt %. Incorporation of K 2 CO 3 in the catalyst significantly reduced the coke deposited on the catalyst. Compared to 12CaO-7Al 2 O 3 catalyst, the yield of CO 2 was considerably higher whereas the hydrocarbon yields were marginally reduced due to addition of K 2 CO 3 . A significant amount of potassium loss from the catalyst occurred during the pyrolysis operation


A functional hierarchical model for fault diagnosis is presented. In this approach, the fundamental analysis of the focal point of action of an entire system serves as the root of a functional structure. The functional interrelationships between the root component and the rest of the components in the device are used as a knowledge source for the functional model. A measure based on the complexity of the change or repair procedure and the accessibility of a component is introduced as a facility index. The opinion of an expert and the facility index are combined and used to form a functional hierarchical model. A welding system with numerous functional parameters is shown as an example to illustrate the model.<<ETX>>


In this paper, we propose a collocated antenna configuration having three transmitter and five receiver arrays for automotive MIMO Radar application. The individual antenna arrays consist of a seven-element series fed array with the feed provided at the edge. We introduce a modified-binomial coefficient-based excitation scheme to achieve improved side-lobe level (SLL) in series-fed patch arrays with edge feeding. The proposed MIMO configuration exhibits low SLL less than 16 dB and a wide field-of-view (FoV) of about 80° in the azimuth plane, along with satisfactory angular resolution (5.82°) and low cross-polar level (30 dB), rendering it extremely suitable for automotive medium-range radar (MRR) application.


ABSTRACT: This research was purposed to find out the effect of difference concentration of tapioca starch on quality  chicken meatball chips with vacuum frying method based on chemical qualities (water content, water activities/A w , protein and fat content), physical quality (breaking force and brightness) and organoleptic properties (color, taste and crispness). The result showed that addition of tapioca gives a significant effect (P 0.05) on color. The best result was chicken meatball chips made with used of tapioca 30%, It has water content 4.16%;, Aw 0.42, protein 33.06% and fat content 31,39%;  breaking force 5.43 N; brightness 51.3; color 6.64; taste 6.94; and crispness 6.74. The conclusion of this research was addition of tapioca in chicken meatball chips decreased water content, A w , protein content, breaking force and increased fat content, brigtness and organoleptikproperties. The optimum addition of tapioca on chicken meatball chips were 30%. Keywords: tapioca, chicken meatballs chips, chemical qualities.


This paper extracted oil spill using three images on April,29,May,17 and May,24 2010,which happened in Gulf of Mexico base on MODIS data.It was conducted with eigenvectors built by multispectral information and spectral matching with the texture characteristics to recognize targets in consideration of mix points phenomenon between oil slick and water.Meanwhile,it also used minimum distance algorithm and support vector machine to extract oil slick.Then it used confusion matrix to verify the results accuracy.The results showed the improved Spectral Angle Mapper(SAM)had good effect of monitoring oil spill area,and the overall accuracy was up to 90%,and they could meet the extraction accuracy requirement,which could be used in oil spill dynamic monitoring and provide scientific reference and technical support for oil spill trend and dispersion area.


The life of Taj al-Saltana, daughter of the ruler of Iran, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, epitomized the predicaments of her changing era. Overcoming her limited edu-cation within the harem walls, Taj chronicled a thirty-year span in the life of a generation that witnessed a shift from traditional order to revolutionary flux. It is as though she had chosen this moment to recall her personal history--a tale filled with "wonder and anguish"--in order to record a cultural and political leap, symbolic of her time, from the indulgent, sheltered, and often petty world of her father's harem to the puzzling and exposed, yet emotionally and intellectually challenging world of a new Iran. Now almost one hundred years later Taj's memoirs are relevant and qualify her not only as a feminist by her society's standards but also in comparison with feminists of her generation in Europe and America. Beyond her fascination for the material glamors of the West at the turn of the twentieth century--fashion, architecture, furniture, the motorcar--she was also influenced by Western cul-ture's painting, music, history, literature and language. And yet throughout this time she kept her bond with her own literary and cultural heritage and what she calls her "Persianness."


A description is given of some features of the method and the results are reported of a calculation of the characteristics of a cw gasdynamic laser with an unstable resonator formed by two spherical mirrors. A simple procedure is proposed for selecting such resonator parameters which ensure a high efficiency of energy conversion. The problem of achieving a uniform distribution of the field on the mirrors is considered.


We introduce a fully 3D kinetic model performed with the Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo approach of the H2O, CO, and CO2 coma of comet CG using the Adaptive Mesh Particle Simulator code with the shape model of the Rosetta nucleus. The model allows the description of the full coma of comet CG including the regions where collisions cannot maintain a flow that can be described by a fluid. The model is constrained by Rosetta observations giving clues regarding the gas release of the different species. This constitutes the most advanced coma model of comet CG, which is critical to interpret instrument data and for further mission planning.


A short time ago (Snell, 1941), a modification of Gilbert's arrangement of the genera of the Boletaceae (1931) was presented as an improvement upon the one most commonly used on this continent -the tri-generic scheme of Peck (1889), which used as tribes of the genus Boletus the subgroups of Fries (1863 & 1874) with minor modifications and additions. Recently, Rogers (1941) demonstrated that S. F. Gray's Natural Arrangement of British Plants (1821) is post-Friesian, at least as far as the first volume of the Systema is concerned. Accordingly, Gray's generic names must be given the consideration that has been denied them by recent mycologists in the uncertainty that has prevailed concerning the priority status of the Natural Arrangement. In Gray's family Hymenotheceae, two of the subfamilies (or tribes?) are the Boletideae and the Suillideae. The Boletideae contain species that are present-day Polyporaceae. The laterally attached species, whether corky, coriaceous or woody, are placed in the genus Boletus, but obviously this use of the name is of no interest to us because in the first volume of the Systema a few months before, Fries had established that genus in the present-day Boletaceae. The Suillideae include the forms that are fleshy and have long tubes separable from the cap and either united or distinct from each other, in the four following genera: Suillus Micheli, Pinuzza Micheli,1 Leccinum Micheli,1 and Fistulina Persoon. Fistulina is obviously 6f no concern in this discussion.


All biological information is located in the genome. However, not all of the genome is available for transcription at all times. In the nucleus, genomic DNA is tightly packed around histones which are further packed into nucleosomes and chromatin. The packing of DNA inhibits transcription factors from transcribing the underlying DNA. To make the DNA more accessible, the packing can be modified in several different ways, such as the remodeling of nucleosomes. A protein complex that is involved in nucleosome remodeling is the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase complex (NuRD). The complex consists of at least 10 proteins with varying functions. NuRD is one of two complexes that has two different nucleosome remodeling activities, histone deacetylation and ATP-dependent nucleosome remodeling. There have been indications that the NuRD complex binds a protein called PWWP2A. There is not much information available about the protein but what is known is that it has a PWWP-domain. Other proteins with the PWWP-domain function as transcription factors. They are involved with cell growth, differentiation, cell division and some bind to histones. The connection between the PWWP2A protein and the NuRD complex is investigated in this project. The experimental work showed that a fragment of PWWP2A containing the PWWP-domain could be expressed in bacteria and 1D 1H-NMR experiments suggest that the domain was structured in solution. Interaction between the PWWP2A protein and MTA1, as well as, HDAC1 components of the NuRD complex was also observed.


Objective To compare the efficacy of Letrozol ( LE) regimen for ovulation induction in elderly and younger patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).Methods A total of 67 ovulation induction cycle by LE regimen in patients elderly than 35 years old or younger than 28 years old with PCOS were studied .The endometrial thickness,morphology,number of dominant follicles,ovulation on the day of injection HCG and pregnancy outcome were recorded.Results The endometrial thickness were significantly different between the two groups [(7.9 ±1.7) mm vs (9.4 ±3.2)mm,t=2.648,P〈0.05],but the endometrial morphology of AB type ,the number of dominant follicles and ovulation,pregnancy rate were indifferent [71.9% vs 77.8%,(1.5 ±1.5) vs (1.4 ±1.2),(1.3 ± 0.8) vs (1.4 ±1.2),37.5%vs 27.8%,t=2.456,1.995,1.758,1.525,all P〉0.05].Conclusion LE regimen for ovulation induction is effective for PCOS patients of all ages ,although the elderly patients with endometrial thick-ness is less than that in younger ones .The number of dominant follicles ,endometrial morphology and ovulation is no different,don′t reduce pregnancy rates .

Key words:
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Age; Letrozole


Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia 1870-1990. ANASTASIA N. KARAKASIDOU. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiv. 334 pp., maps, gallery, appendix, tables, notes, bibliography, index.


Objective: Describing the situation of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Spain from a public health perspective. Matherial and method: A manual review of books and other documents on diabetes mellitus in Spain was conduced. In addition, a specific research of articles published using MeSH terms diabetes mortality, prevalence, incidence, cost, inequalities and Spain was conduced in Medline through Internet (PubMed). Minimun Basic Data Set was utilized as source for complication description by Communities Autonomus. Results: DM is one of the leading cause of mortality and the


The surfaces of complex free-form objects can typically be modeled by a hierarchy of primary surfaces, connecting surfaces and corner patches. Within the context of digital shape reconstruction, these surfaces simultaneously approximate measured data points, satisfy fairness criteria and adhere to continuity constraints according to their dependencies. A new framework algorithm is introduced to perfect existing B-spline surfaces; the algorithm alternates --- in a stepwise manner --- between continuity constraint satisfaction and fairing by the remaining degrees of freedom. Some well-known fairing methods are adapted to this framework. Constrained fairing for n-sided corner patches, composed of quadrilaterals, is also briefly discussed. A few examples illustrate the results.


Food is the amount of the commodity that is available for human consumption during the reference period.1 There are several types of food processing methods, such as boiling, steaming, frying, microwave cooking, tempering, baking and etc. these cooking methods may lead to changes in nutrient content and weight of the food. To assess and improve the nutritional status of the population, data about the energy and nutrient content of composite foods are necessary because a large proportion of the food consumed is cooked or prepared by various cooking processing.


Purpose Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease that is heterogeneous in terms of clinical course (1). This study is performed to characterize a specific group of patients who were diagnosed with clinically definite MS, but have experienced a benign course for over 10 years. We examined the normal appearing corpus callosum region in these patients using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Our hypothesis is that benign MS has less microscopic tissue injury on MRI than patients who have a typical relapsing-remitting course of MS.


The chapter explored the impact of private tutoring on educational and social inequalities. First, an analysis of educational stakeholders' perspectives on the differences in access and affordability, patterns of PT use and function of PT for pupils from different socio-economic backgrounds is provided. The second section explores the stakeholders' perspectives on the implication of attending PT for pupils' attainment and achievement at various educational levels in the formal education system. Finally, the last section explores stakeholders' perceptions of the relevance of social equity issues in relation to the PT phenomenon and their personal willingness and capacity to deal with these issues.


In this paper we describe the properties of effective-mass excitons in quantum wells in the presence of strain, transverse electric fields, and free carriers using a nonvariational numerical technique. The technique allows us to avoid the use of a prechosen form for the excitonic wave function and can be applied to arbitrarily shaped quantum wells with external perturbations. We describe the valence band within the effective-mass approximation using a 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 k\ensuremath{\cdot}p Hamiltonian which neglects the split-off band; the conduction band is assumed to be parabolic. Results are presented for exciton binding energies, wave functions, and oscillator strengths.


ABSTRACT Scholarship has examined both gang and race violence in a variety of settings. However, there has been little research addressing the characteristics of gang and race related violence within youth correctional facilities. This article fills this research gap by utilizing 404 violent incident narratives provided by incarcerated male youth. Mixed methods analyses are conducted on gang and race motivated violence at the situational level. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences in violent incidents when comparing number of racial groups involved and participant dynamic. Qualitative analyses compare themes related to the subculture of violence and correctional setting across the different contexts in which gang and race motivated violence occurs. The results have implications for theory, policy, and programs within youth correctional facilities.


Abstract : Military weapon systems are built to satisfy requirements levied by the warfighter. These weapon systems are all manned in some sense, yet tools for quantifying the effectiveness with which a crew station must support operator performance are lacking. The Combat Automation Requirements Test bed (CART) program will provide human performance modeling methods and tools for generating objective, performance-based crew system requirements. CART will integrate readily with techniques currently used within the acquisition process to generate system requirements. CART will enable acquisition analysts to consider the crew system at the same time other key system components are being evaluated during the system definition activities that occur early in the acquisition process. This report begins with a discussion of why performance-based crew system requirements are needed, followed by a description of how modeling and simulation are currently used in the acquisition process to generate system requirements. Next, it describes the modeling requirements for developing performance-based crew system requirements and CART's human performance modeling architecture. The discussion then turns to a notional example of how CART would be applied to generate a set of crew system requirements. Finally, the last section discusses the costs associated with applying CART's capabilities and the benefits to he derived therefrom.


In this report we have made a systematic study of strangeness production in proton-proton(pp),proton-nucleus(pA) and nucleusnucleus(AA) collisions at CERN Super Proton Synchroton energies, using HIJING MONTE CARLO MODEL (version HIJ.01). Numerical results for mean multiplicities of neutral strange particles ,as well as their ratios to negatives hadrons(< h >) for p-p,nucleon-nucleon(N-N), p-S, pAg, p-Au('min. bias')collisions and p-Au, S-S, S-Ag, S-Au ('central')collisions are compared to experimental data available from CERN experiments and also with recent theoretical estimations given by others models( QGSM, RQMD, DPM, V ENUS and FRITIOF ). Neutral strange particle abundances are quite well described for p-p,N-N and p-A interactions ,but are underpredicted by a factor of two in A-A interactions for Λ, Λ̄,K0 S in symmetric collisions(S-S, Pb-Pb)and for Λ, Λ̄ in asymmetric ones(SAg, S-Au, S-W). The ratios antistrange/strange are well described for Λ̄Λ but the ratios for multistrange particles (Ξ,Ω ) and their antiparticle, could not be predicted by the model.A detailed analysis in limited rapidity range is required in order to draw some definite conclusion. A qualitative prediction for rapidity, transverse kinetic energy and transverse momenta normalized distributions are performed at 200 GeV/Nucleon in p-S,S-S,SAg and S-Au collisions in comparison with recent experimental data. HIJING model predictions for coming experiments at CERN for S-Au, S-W and Pb-Pb interactions are given. The theoretical calculations are estimated in a full phase space. The factor of two can not be explained by considering very central events (bmax = 0.0) and taking into account minijets. New ideas are necessary in order to improve the comparison with experiment for nucleus nucleus interactions. ∗On leave from absence from Institute for Space Sciences,P.O.Box MG 6,Bucharest, Romania EMAIL email@example.com(EARN);email@example.com


Abstract The average size for the various age groups is presented for seven Michigan fishes: the bluegill (Lepomis m. macrochirus), yellow perch (Perca flavescens), pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), rock bass (Ambloplites r. rupestris), largemouth black bass (Micropterus salmoides), smallmouth black bass (Micropterus d. dolomieu), and the black crappie (Pomoxis nigro-maculatus). Ages were determined for 25,723 specimens. Only two species showed consistent sex differences in growth rate. The female yellow perch grew more rapidly than did the males, and the male rock bass were consistently larger than the females of corresponding age. Sex ratio for each of the species also is presented. The percentage of males varied from 39 percent in the yellow perch to 52 percent for the pumpkinseed and black crappie. Weights for each of the age-groups were calculated from the length-weight equations.


ages the popular STC Usability SIG Web site. She is a user interface designer and usability specialist with a passion for clear communication. As the principal consultant for Whitney Interactive Design (WQusability.com), she works with companies around the world to design usable Web sites and applications. Whitney is an appointed committee member for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, where she works to ensure the usability of voting systems. Before being seduced into the world of usability by a little beige computer, Whitney was a theatrical lighting designer on and off Broadway.


On April 4, 2004, China issued a formal interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law. While the interpretation was controversial because it effectively asserted the central government's authority to control the pace of Hong Kong's democratic development, it was also significant for its implication that the Chinese national government had claimed for itself absolute authority to determine the meaning of contested provisions in the Basic Law. This article argues that the interpretation upset the balance established in the Basic Law between Chinese and Hong Kong authorities, improperly aggregating power to the national government and curtailing the autonomy that is guaranteed to Hong Kong under the Basic Law. The article argues that Chinese authorities should adopt a more restrained approach to interpretation - a so-called cases and controversies approach - that combines elements of both China's civil law heritage and Hong Kong's common law tradition


Abstract Thermal radiation plays an increasingly important role in many emerging energy technologies, such as thermophotovoltaics, passive radiative cooling and wearable cooling clothes [1]. One of the fundamental constraints in thermal radiation is the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which limits the maximum power of far-field radiation to P0 = σT4S, where σ is the Boltzmann constant, S and T are the area and the temperature of the emitter, respectively (Fig. 1a). In order to overcome this limit, it has been shown that near-field radiations could have an energy density that is orders of magnitude greater than the Stefan-Boltzmann law [2-7]. Unfortunately, such near-field radiation transfer is spatially confined and cannot carry radiative heat to the far field. Recently, a new concept of thermal extraction was proposed [8] to enhance far-field thermal emission, which, conceptually, operates on a principle similar to oil immersion lenses and light extraction in light-emitting diodes using solid immersion lens to increase light output [62].Thermal extraction allows a blackbody to radiate more energy to the far field than the apparent limit of the Stefan-Boltzmann law without breaking the second law of thermodynamics. Thermal extraction works by using a specially designed thermal extractor to convert and guide the near-field energy to the far field, as shown in Fig. 1b. The same blackbody as shown in Fig. 1a is placed closely below the thermal extractor with a spacing smaller than the thermal wavelength. The near-field coupling transfers radiative energy with a density greater than σT4. The thermal extractor, made from transparent and high-index or structured materials, does not emit or absorb any radiation. It transforms the near-field energy and sends it toward the far field. As a result, the total amount of far-field radiative heat dissipated by the same blackbody is greatly enhanced above SσT4, where S is the area of the emitter. This paper will review the progress in thermal extraction. It is organized as follows. In Section 1, we will discuss the theory of thermal extraction [8]. In Section 2, we review an experimental implementation based on natural materials as the thermal extractor [8]. Lastly, in Section 3, we review the experiment that uses structured metamaterials as thermal extractors to enhance optical density of states and far-field emission [9].


AbstractConceptual rainfall-runoff models that aim at predicting streamflow from the knowledge of rainfall over a catchment are a basic tool for flood forecasting. The parameter calibration of a conceptual model usually involves the selection of an automatic optimization algorithm to search for the parameter values that minimize the distance between the simulated and observed data. However, practical experience with model calibration suggests that traditional optimization methods, such as the Newton-Raphson, conjugate gradient, and downhill simplex methods, are easily trapped in local minimums because the objective function surface is rough, caused by model structure errors and data errors. The across-ridge calibration method (ARC), an effective and efficient methodology for searching global optimization problem, is proposed in this paper. The method searches for all local optima in a fixed boundary, which makes it less susceptible to the irregularity of the response surface. The features and capabilities...


Science is a spiritual culture, glittering the light of wisdom. Development isthe nature of science and creation is the motivation of progress. It is natural requirements ofeconomic and knowledge times to advocate scientific spirit of practice and truth, formulatecreative sense of change and innovation. The combination of scientific reason and humanisticvalues are young university students' life base and spiritual personality.


the question of whether duress may be pleaded by someone charged, as a principal in the first degree, with attempted murder. Granted, as on all sides it is, that the law of duress is in an unsatisfactory state, what is to be done about it? The principal considerations were summarised in the Note on Lynch: [1975] C.L.J. 185. The Law Commission has not yet opined on the subject: its Working Party was provisionally of the opinion that, defined in the way it proposed, the defence should be available in all cases, " even where the defendant is charged with murder or other serious offences " (Working Paper No. 55 (1974), para. 25). Most, if not all, Law Lords appear to favour making duress, like provocation, a ground for mitigating liability for homicide from murder to manslaughter, in order that the judges may take account of evidence of duress in sentencing. The corollary of this is the abolition of the defence in all other crimes, for there is no more need there for a defence of duress than there is for one of provocation. The creation of a new voluntary manslaughter, and the abolition of the defence in all other crimes, would, however, mean that while in homicide duress would be a matter for the jury, in other cases it would be a matter for the judge, and there are no good reasons for making that distinction. There will, moreover, always be cases in which evidence of the offence having been committed under duress which is insufficient to support a defence, however defined, ought nevertheless to be taken into account in sentencing. The best solution would, therefore, be to abolish both the defence and the mandatory sentence for murder. This would, it is true, remove all questions of duress from the jury, but this need not be a matter for regret. All sentences passed after conviction upon indictment are reviewable in the Court of Appeal, and that means that the proper sentence in a case where a crime has been committed under duress is potentially a matter for not one, but four, judges.


A model S(N)Ar reaction which gives a range of substituted diaryl ethers has been re-developed to function with the soluble organic base DBU in the place of insoluble potassium carbonate. Manufacture of these diaryl ethers has then been achieved by scaling-out in an automated stop-flow microwave reactor to give productivities of >0.5 kg per day. Analogous reaction partners have also been scaled up in this reactor to extend the scope of the study. Brief comparison in a scale-up batch microwave reactor is also made. Lastly, continuous 24 h processing is reported in this small microwave stop-flow reactor, which requires no manual intervention once started.


Gaussian mixture model (GMM) supervector is one of the effective techniques in text independent speaker recognition. In our previous work, we introduce the GMM-UBM mean interval (GUMI) concept based on the Bhattacharyya distance. Subsequently GUMI kernel was successfully used in conjunction with support vector machine (SVM) for speaker recognition. Besides the first order statistics, it is generally believed that speaker cues are also partly conveyed by second order statistics. In this paper, we extend the Bhattacharyya-based SVM kernel by constructing the supervector with the mean statistical vector and the covariance statistical vector. Comparing with the Kullback-Leibler (KL) kernel, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the new kernel on the 2006 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) dataset.


The fluorosis was due to excessive fluoride ingestion, which caused the multi-organs damage, and anemia was a symptom of fluorosis. Refered to some recently literatures, the possible mechanism of the anemia from two aspects caused by fluorosis was investigated in this article. Firstly, destruction and/or the inhibitory effect of the fluorine on the erythrocyte membrane, as well as the sugar metabolism in the erythrocyte membrane and the activity of enzyme in erythrocyte was summarized, and damage mechanism of fluorosis on the erythrocyte, which could cause anemia was expounded. Secondly, the influence of fluorine on hemopoietic function, which included the effect on the hemopoietic material, the hemopoietic organ and the regulations of haematogenesis was elaborated. Furthermore, this paper briefly previewed several genes which were possibly correlated with the anemia caused by fluorosis.


Production process of boiled [of] sea fish still uses the traditional technology ( boiled with the opened vessel).The business of boiled fish in Kusamba increases quite a lot although it is still traditionally applied. It is the consequence required by effort of development of design system of boiled with the pressure vessel system. System of boiled with the pressure vessel to yield the thrift energy of equal to 25 % compared to by application of boiled standard for the capacities of same and poaching temperature increase to 30? C. The application of boiled with pressure vessel compared to the opened vessel was more effective.


This paper presents in a unified way, the various strategies of optimal sensor placement for condition monitoring during discrete parts manufacturing. The objective of this paper, is to survey the current state of optimal sensor layout with two modules: sensor optimized layout for single target and sensor placement strategy under multi-targets and multi monitoring requirements. Each approach is outlined. Finally, the recommendations and challenges faced by industry and academia are discussed and several principle conclusions are drawn. Keywords-sensor deployment; optimization; condition monitoring; discrete-part manufacturing


Aiming to provide a set of empirical evidence to evaluate the costs and benefits of anti-inflationary policy is made an econometric analysis of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy between 1999 and 2008. The exchange rate has been the main transmission channel of monetary policy. Furthermore, the inflation interestsensitivity is low. Thus, an increase in Selic rate generates a benefit (given by the fall in inflation) relatively small. However, an increase of interest rate creates non-negligible costs: the slowing down of economic activity, currency appreciation and expansion of public debt. The low interest-sensitivity of inflation is interpreted as arising from problems in the transmission mechanism: failures in the transmission of monetary policy reduce its effectiveness. Thus, price stability requires a monetary policy too rigid. The final result is that, on the one hand, inflation falls little. On the other hand, the costs of high interest rates are exacerbated. It follows that the presence of problems in the transmission makes the balance between costs and benefits of monetary policy less favorable.


Waveguide photodetector was fabricated for high responsivity and low PDL when butt-coupled with 2%-Δ planar lightwave circuit devices. Optimizing the thicknesses of tapers in spot-size converter, fabricated device showed responsivity of 0.72 A/W and PDL of 0.11dB.


Ian Haines and colleagues call for access to all the publicly funded clinical trial data from two major trials to settle the controversies around screening for prostate cancer with prostate specific antigen


Shrinking semiconductor packages, increasing die densities, process changes, and the requirements for optimizing electro-mechanical assemblies are making sound thermal designs more important than ever. Depending on the application scenario, thermal considerations can be approached from two angles. Rebeca-3D, a semi-FEA based software tool, provides the ability to develop a thermal model using detailed device geometry and material characteristics. The tool's versatility allows it to be used to analyze a design in a range of application scenarios. Using this platform, this paper discusses actual examples of thermal model development and results. The results are first validated by comparing with datasheet information and experiments in an application lab. Following simulation, the platform is used to extrapolate the measurements done in the application lab. The results enable development of thermal performance profiles for different packages and for different electrical and assembly conditions. Several examples are discussed with figures and pictures. The study compares the results of simulations and tests on actual devices.


We report a highly deformable ionic gel with good flexibility and conductivity, and its application to single-electrode triboelectric devices. The output performances of the triboelectric device with pyramidical microstructures from the as-prepared ionic gels were well tunable by a novel electric-field induced strategy. Under the electric field strength from -3 V/mm to 3 V/mm, the output signals of the as-prepared devices were demonstrated to show 15% reduced response and 25% enhanced response than that of devices before electric field treating. The electric-field induced effects mechanism and working principles were proposed and discussed. This work demonstrates a significant progress toward materials polymerization and device performance tuning. It is promising to the development of human-machine interactions, soft robotics, and artificial intelligence applications.


This paper presents our on-going research into selforganizing and self-healing networks of resource brokers, for use in complex Peer-to-Peer (P2P) resource sharing and Grid computing application environments. It discusses our objectives for an efficient, robust, and decentrally controlled infrastructure, and describes our efforts to understand the co-dependencies between protocols, topologies, and continuously changing environmental conditions. Motivated by dynamic social and economic systems, our research project is nicknamed AESOP, for Adaptive Economic Society Of Peers. We discuss our specific investigations into adaptive topologies for flooding-based distributed search protocols, Genetic Algorithm explorations seeking good topological structures, and current work to develop an agent-based simulation to investigate the effects of peer transience on P2P join and topology maintenance


OBJECTIVES After participating in the continuing education activity, primary care physicians should be able to: 1. Identify the common causes of sinonasal symptoms 2. Understand symptoms and signs predictive of acute rhinosinusitis 3. Identify cost-effective strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of rhinosinusitis 4. Describe recent guidelines on the antimicrobial and ancillary treatment of rhinosinusitis 5. Understand indications for referral to allergy or otolaryngology specialist


Despite significant advances in touch and force transduction, tactile sensing is still far from ubiquitous in robotic manipulation. Existing methods for building touch sensors have proven difficult to integrate into robot fingers due to multiple challenges, including difficulty in covering multicurved surfaces, high wire count, or packaging constrains preventing their use in dexterous hands. In this article, we present a multicurved robotic finger with accurate touch localization and normal force detection over complex, 3-D surfaces. The key to our approach is the novel use of overlapping signals from light emitters and receivers embedded in a transparent waveguide layer that covers the functional areas of the finger. By measuring light transport between every emitter and receiver, we show that we can obtain a very rich signal set that changes in response to deformation of the finger due to touch. We then show that purely data-driven deep learning methods are able to extract useful information from such data, such as contact location and applied normal force, without the need for analytical models. The final result is a fully integrated, sensorized robot finger, with a low wire count and using easily accessible manufacturing methods, designed for easy integration into dexterous manipulators.


Obese children often present with somatic illness such as headache and pain. However, less well documented are the associated psychological comorbidities. The authors describe a case of a 12‐year‐old severely obese boy that highlights the need for an holistic approach to address psychiatric as well as physical needs.


Furthermore, Nygaard and Lagerway mention that 'Transparent features a transgender parent whose gender transition in body is the feminization of many HWP men who become obsessed with their homes, domesticity, and excessive emotions' (p. 110). This blatant misgendering seems to belie a misunderstanding of trans identity, going so far as to hint at "emasculation," a hurtful narrative associated with trans women. The remaining two chapters are the strongest, synthesizing the authors' argument around racial identity and feminism throughout. In Chapter 3, the subject of "Girlfriendship" is thoroughly examined as it is one of the main subjects of HWP programming. These friendships are largely contextualized through the notion of post-feminism and its explicit failures. Discussing such interrelated concepts as the privilege needed to be able to refer to yourself as a "girl," the mixed-bag feminism of messy female friendships, and the attempted inclusion of racial minorities into these "girl squads," the authors make the cogent point that focusing on the "woman" aspect of white womanhood does little to question, and much to avoid the question of the very real "white" aspect. Chapter 4 takes the focus off HWP programming and onto that of "Diverse Quality Comedies," which the authors define as 'a programming cycle running alongside HorribleWhite People shows and born from the same historical conjuncture of social, economic and entertainment industrial change.' These shows are 'generically aesthetically, and narratively similar' to HWP shows and the authors make the argument that the aesthetics that these shows embody 'an aesthetics of Whiteness,' albeit with a more diverse face in front of and behind the camera (p. 155). In conclusion, this book is a welcome addition to the canon of Television Studies, Trump-era scholarship, and politically focused pop-culture critique. Graduate and undergraduate students alike would find the analysis this book generates useful while the discussion of some of the most popular and acclaimed television shows of the day would make this an accessible read to seasoned critics as well as the avid watcher. For white people who have shows like these waiting in their streaming queues, the book is a much-needed shout-out about how far they would identify with the liberal characters of this programming cycle.