Firstly studied the characteristics of materials management in constmction enterprise. On the basis of combining with data warehouse technology, studied the decision support and multi-dimensional data processing of material information system. Finally in the background of material management of some construction enterprise, did the organization and analysis of material information in construction enterprise in the view of datawarehouse.


In order to achieve favorable greenhouse environmental conditions for plant growth, modeling and simulation of greenhouse environments is very essential. In this paper, a flexile tool which called ANFIS is used to model the greenhouse climate in the North of China. A set of published data was used to train and test this model. The values predicted by the ANFIS model were compared with the measured data. The accuracy of the model is checked using several statistical and graphical criterions. The presented method in this paper is a new approach in estimating environmental factors and faster and simpler solutions can be obtained.


Objective: The aim of this study was to research the pregnancy outcomes of women with anti-beta2 glycoprotein 1 and anti-cardiolipin antibody positivity and to determine the association with pregnancy morbidity.
Materials and methods: This retrospective study contained pregnant women with anti-beta2 glycoprotein 1 and anti-cardiolipin antibody positivity and a control group without these antibodies.  Totally 190 serum samples sent from Obstetrics and Gynecology clinics between January 2019 and January 2023 were analyzed in the medical microbiology laboratory of xx.
Results: In a patient population separated into antibody-positive and antibody-negative groups, the gravida was found to be 3.8±0.1 and 3.5±0.3 respectively (p=0.333). Parity was 1.1±0.1 and 0.8±0.1 (p=0.071), abortion rates were 2.3±0.1 and 2.5±0.2 (p=0.659), and gestational age was 35.7±0.8 and 34±1.5 (p=0.047). Intrauterine fetal death was found to be higher in the antibody-positive group compared to the antibody-negative group (p=0.03). There was no noteworthy distinction noted between the two groups regarding additional pregnancy complications such as intrauterine growth restriction, oligohydramnios, gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension (respectively p=0.623, 0.074, 0.312, 0.626). However, smoking was significantly higher in the antibody-positive group (p=0.049).
Conclusion: Antiphospholipid syndrome adversely affects pregnancy outcomes. During the initial visit, a thorough patient history should be obtained, and in pregnant women with a history of poor obstetric outcomes or habitual abortions, this syndrome should be considered.


The rigorous geometric model based on the collinearity equations is the basic model for object positioning of high resolution remotely sensed imagery. The location precision is strongly relevant to the ephemeris and attitude data. However, the quality of attitude data acquired by modern stellar camera is still difficult to satisfy the requirement of direct location. In this paper a calibration model of constant angular error is introduced to enhance attitude precision by few ground control points (GCP). The calibration model was tested on SPOT-5 and QuickBird imageries and both have proved its practicality and efficiency. An object positioning accuracy of 4 pixels in planimetry was achieved after calibrating and correcting the constant angular error by using single GCP.


The deep hole processing continuously was well-known by of its high difficulty and the high cost in the manufacturing industry.Therefore,the research on international applied universally butts,BTA drills double barrel,spurts attracts drills drills the technology with DF,discusses each kind of deep hole cutting tool,the equipment work mechanism and the optimized design mentality.It promoted our country deep hole processing technology and the equipment scientific research and the modernized development.It was engaged in one of the machine design and manufacture general scientific and technical worker's important topics.This article introduced the DF deep hole processing system principle of work,and has carried on the comparison with other deep hole processing method,proposed still had to study the solution the question.


Abstract. In this paper we report the biological synthesis of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) by the reduction of gold ions using a suspension and supernatant of P. aeruginosa. The biosynthesis method was straightforward and yielded good results without using toxic chemicals. The size distribution of the gold nanoparticles synthesized by P. aeruginosa at higher temperatures was larger than that synthesized at lower temperatures. The GNPs morphology was isotropic at various temperatures. With an increase in the temperature, the stability of the GNPs decreased. The absorption and fluorescence spectra accorded well with the size distribution of the particles, with the nanoparticle size increasing as the absorption and fluorescence increased too. The optical properties of the GNPs observed in the study accorded well with the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations. The visible photoluminescence (PL) around 435 nm indicated the possible use of the obtained colloids, which consisted of GNPs and capping biomaterial, in therapeutic applications. Moreover, the synthesized GNPs showed good antibacterial activity toward E. coli indicating their potential in biological applications.


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A potentiometric titration curve was expressed as a linear equation and solved by a linear least-squares method with a non-negative constraint to simultaneously estimate the p K value(s) and concentration(s) of acid(s). Artificial model titration curves based on a continuous p K distribution were also solved using the same method. Accurate estimates were made of the p K values and concentrations of acetic, formic, fumaric, and citric acids. Furthermore, the method was used to estimate the p K distributions and concentrations for continuous p K distribution systems.


New Public Management seeks to find that how appropriate management can organize services and provide to people. In fact, the main purpose of this study is to introduce and implement the new public management in urban management. The methodology used is practical analytic and descriptive. The findings indicate that application of New Public Management in city management is faced with serious challenges because of the concentrated administrativ e state structure of Iran. The results suggest that new public management can influence the urban management effectively and considerably and its application can promote the performance of urban management.


The current pocket book published by Cambridge University Press is a handy book for language teachers around the world. In an interview with the author about the rationale behind the publication of this book (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xejkhG6H_g), Professor Jack C. Richards, an internationally recognized figure in the field of language teaching, states that far more people have over the years been involved in learning and teaching languages and that the profession has expanded with rising standards; and all this necessitates having quality teachers, with updated knowledge, to help achieve the goals of language institutions. Indeed, this highly- regarded ELT personality adds that the book is aimed at teachers and teacher trainers who want to reflect back on where they were in their teaching profession and where they need to go and suggestions are also made for program directors who are searching for activities to implement for professional development.


The relevance of the article is the research of topical issues of budgeting costs and results in management accounting on the basis of principles of the theory of constraints. The method "Throughput accounting" is one of the modern developing methods of management accounting in different countries, European and Asian. In the article, the authors observed the lack of theoretical developments and researched the sphere of accounting and costs planning and results on the basis of new theories of management. The authors researched theoretical and methodical questions of the Throughput accounting method, and deeply developed the approach to budgeting of costs and results in the method of management accounting. Budgeting is an important part of the management process at the enterprise, interacting with the management accounting system. The basic results of the research are development of budgets forms: costs and results; examples of drawing up of the costs budget, throughput budget, such as operational costs budget, general variable costs budget and the investment budget in the real production enterprises. Developing budgeting in the throughput accounting system is to be shared with new budgeting methods. Keywords— throughput accounting, budgeting, control, management, costs


of President Cleveland's message, for example, she lacked the strength to withstand United States' resources in the western hemisphere directed towards the attainment of a particular diplomatic aim. Canada, of course, complained at the sacrifice of her interests, but Britain's surrenders to the United States would do the least harm to her position in the rest of the world because aggressive American imperialism was then confined by the Monroe Doctrine and the tradition of isolationism to the western hemisphere. Moreover how could Britain take seriously a Yankee steer rampaging through a diplomatic hina shop obviously without malevolent intent? The chief rationalization for surrender, however, was pride in the successes of "Anglo-Saxon" cousins, conveniently ignoring the many Americans who did not fit that category. Thus the myth of racial solidarity with the United States had a purpose not aggressive but defensive--to assuage diplomatic defeats. On the other hand, the American attitude towards Britain was far more realistic, being based on the ideological similarity of the institutions of the two countries. The chapters on the Spanish-American War and the Far East form a kind of commentary on the f,o•egoing. Du,r, ing the war British public opinion alone sympathized with an Anglo-Saxon' power conquering an effete Latin power and acquiring its colonies; and incidentally justifying its own imperialism. American gratitude in that war did not lead to the hoped-for American intervention in the Far East, but only to a moralistic gesture, the Open-Door policy for China.


Objective To investigate the application value of CysC 、UmALB and HbA1 c in early diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy( DN). Methods The 121 diabetics in this study were divided into three different groups( DM group,Early renal injury group and Diabetic nephropathy group) according to UmAlb value,CysC、UmALB and HbA1 c were measured in all individuals and performed the comparative analysis in observation group and 45 cases of healthy control group. Results The levels of CysC,HbA1 c,UmALB in all diabetic groups were higher than that of the control group( P 0. 05),and their levels in three groups of diabetes increased with the degree of renal injury increased,It has significant difference( P 0. 05). Conclusions The positive rate and specificity in the early kidney damage can be improved by combined detection,It can provide the basis for diabetic nephropathy in early diagnosis and prognostic evaluation.


Variations of the concentration of the continuous phase in the pulsed plate column were measured in the experiments on the extraction of acetic acid from methylisobutyl ketone by means of water.In this column, the longitudinal mixing was very intensive. The variation of the concentration was approximated on the assumption that the backmixing diffusivity was constant throughout the column.Capacity coefficient eliminated from the effect of the longitudinal mixing and the backmixing diffusivity were calculated in the present work.It was concluded that the decrease of extraction efficiency in the lower range of operating condition was caused by the longitudinal mixing.


Melatonin is currently an unlicensed, "named patient only" medicine in the UK, although it is available as a dietary supplement in the United States and over the internet. It is used for a variety of sleep disorders in children who often have neurodevelopmental impairments.1,2 There remains a dearth of robust randomised controlled trials to demonstrate its efficacy, while lack of pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamics, and toxicology data limits knowledge of therapeutic dose ranges, formulations, and adverse effects.

We carried out an anonymous questionnaire survey to examine prescribing practices of members of the British Association for Community Child Health (BACCH) and the British Academy …


Industry support for training is an important contributor to national investment in human resources. In many countries, governments do not regulate enterprise training expenditure. In countries with well-developed employer commitment to human resources development (HRD), there may be no need for such regulation. In countries with so-called voluntarist systems of skills development, however, the neutral role of governments commonly results in employer under-investment in training. This paper explores three broad categories of government-employer financing arrangements designed to encourage greater levels of industry training. These arrangements vary from fiscal incentives to enterprises to strict regulations imposed on levels of enterprise training expenditures and supervisory involvement of national authorities in their implementation. The nature, advantages and disadvantages of three broad types of such arrangements are discussed in the paper: (1) Government-enterprise co-financing of training; (2) Industry voluntary training funds; and (3) Training levies.


We predict the formation of giant vortices in quasi-two-dimensional quantum dots at high magnetic fields, i.e., in rapidly rotating electron droplets. Our numerical results for quantum dots confined by a flat, anharmonic potential show ground states where vortices are accumulated in the center of the dot, thereby leading to large cores in the electron and current densities. The phenomenon is analogous to what was recently found in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. The giant-vortex states leave measurable signatures in the ground-state energetics. The conditions for the giant-vortex formation as well as the internal structure of the vortex cores are discussed.


To study the lymphocytic immune response typical of pregnancy female rats were injected with chorionic luteinizing hormone. The spleens of the sacrificed animals were subsequently observed and compared to those of nontreated animals. Results of tests showed that chorionic luteinizing hormone does not substantially change the number of lymphoid cells but it does determine a block in the antibody response through a significant decrease of PFC.


In this investigation, Nano-silica has been added in three percentages of 2%, 4% and 6% to improve the physical, rheological and mechanical properties of warm mix asphalt (WMA) containing 2% Sasobit. Several experiments have been conducted to evaluate and characterize the prepared samples. The results of investigations indicated that by increasing the percentage of Nano-silica, the qualification and functionality of the warm mix asphalt has been improved. Resilient modulus of WMA was slightly increased by increasing the Nano-silica content. So, the response of pavement to traffic loading at 25 o C has been improved. Depth of cracking at a specified load cycles was decreased dramatically by adding the Nano-silica to the Sasobit WMA. At the same time, the stiffness of modified samples was much lower than control WMA. As a result, the Nano-silica extends the fatigue life of asphalt concrete. In addition, the wheel tracking test results depicted that the rutting depth have been reduced by increasing the Nano-silica content. Regarding the results of qualification tests, 4 wt% of Nano-silica was selected as the optimum content.


The SOUSY-VHF-Radar has been used to study the diurnal variation of the echo power received from mesospheric structures in different seasons. For the first time phase coding techniques have been applied to such measurements with a height resolution of 300 m during 6 days in summer, 5 days in autumn and 3 days in winter 1978 within the height range between 51 and 118 km. The various structures observed are classified according to characteristic features such as thickness and apparent lifetime. The results indicate the existence of four main types of mesospheric structures — blobs, sheets, thin and thick layers. Their spatial and temporal occurrence, which depends on season, is discussed.


We describe a new annotation scheme for formalizing relation structures in research papers. The scheme has been developed through the investigation of computer science papers. Using the scheme, we are building a Japanese corpus to help develop information extraction systems for digital libraries. We report on the outline of the annotation scheme and on annotation experiments conducted on research abstracts from the IPSJ Journal.


It discloses a passive transponder (104) including an integrated sensor (132). The transponder receives the interrogation signal from the scanner (100) is operable to transmit the identification information and body characteristic information to the scanner. The scanner receives the identification and body characteristic information displayed (120), and / or is operable to store information. Sensor (140) is integrated into the transponder. If for detecting the temperature, the transponder determines the temperature of the host using the temperature dependence P-N junction of the integrated circuit.


A new journal published in England, Soil Survey and Land Evaluation, is providing an international forum for professionals working in those fields. The journal covers methods, content, and interpretations of soil survey and land evaluation, and the application of these activities to land use planning and soil management. The journal will be published three times a year. The first issue, published in January 1981, contains articles about land capability surveys in Zambia, the role of soil survey interpretations in land evaluation, and the soil survey program of England and Wales. Additional features include editorials and reviews of new books about soil classification and land resources. The editors are Professor Anthony Young and Mr. David Dent of the University of East Anglia. Proposed articles and other editorial correspondence should be submitted to them at University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR 4 7TJ, United Kingdom. Correspondence about subscriptions and related matters should be sent to George Booker, at the same address.


Many contend that the citizen-soldier tradition in the United States is dead. They argue that the elimination of the draft in 1973, and the establishment of the all-volunteer force (AVF), severed the link between military service and citizenship. The author maintains that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Critics of the AVF have idealized the pre-AVF U.S. military; they have failed to recognize that the AVF was more a product of change in U.S. citizenship ideals than a cause of them; and they have asserted a homology between institutional design (military recruitment system) and a cultural phenomenon (the citizen-soldier tradition) that has little historical purchase. This article reconceptualizes the citizen-soldier tradition as a set of rhetorical conventions, and it demonstrates that these tropes continue to shape political debate in the United States. From this perspective, the AVF did not condemn the citizen-soldier to death: it gave him or her a new lease on life.


This lecture note starts with a pedagogical introduction to the theoretical background and properties of perfect actions, gives some details on topology and instanton solutions and ends with a discussion on the recent developments concerning chiral symmetry.


The China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) published that internet users around the world mostly spent 10-16 hours per week online. For effective advertising and social information publishing on the internet, how to dig out the commercial value from users' online behaviour becomes a new challenge compared with the traditional recommendation system. In this paper, we propose a novel system named 'online commercial intention (OCI) detection system' using users' global web browsing history to predict potential purchasing products on an online shopping platform. A 'commercial keyword dictionary (KD)' that reveals the relationship between user queries and product categories is firstly set up by analysing the click distribution of billion queries on the shopping platform. Footprints of millions of internet users are gathered and the raw page contents are crawled. Keywords in these pages are extracted using N-gram algorithm and commercial probabilities are estimated with query frequency (QF), inverse category frequency (ICF), etc. The page OCI is estimated by merging the KD matrices of its commercial keywords. In order to increase categories' coherence and accuracy, we provide a category similarity model to observe the distance between top N categories. The experiment results show that category prediction accuracy reaches 86% with manual evaluation.


Cooling device is proposed. The cooling device is capable manufactured by die casting, the outer shell has a; (27, 28 1) (14 31) heat transfer unit surrounded by. In this case, the heat transfer unit; and (1 27, 28) outer shell; between the (14 31), a jacket which is flowed refrigerant passing (20) is formed. The jacket (20), the passage being flowed refrigerant communication is formed between the outer housing (2) of, (27, 28 1) (21; 33) the outer shell (14 31) and the heat transfer unit as the web; is divided by (3,4,5,6 29,30,34,35,36,37). To this end, as reflux is carried out in meander web (3, 4, 5, 6; 29,30,34,35,36,37) are arranged. Thus, compared to the spiral flow, the refrigerant inlet; (12 32) refrigerant outlet; degree of freedom in arrangement of the (13 38) is obtained. Furthermore, this type of cooling apparatus is capable of assembling inexpensive manufacture and has high efficiency.


ABSTRACT With the extensive use of antibiotics, multidrug-resistant bacteria emerge frequently. New antimicrobial agents with novel modes of action are urgently needed. It is now widely accepted that antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) could be promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics. In this study, we aimed to study the antimicrobial activity and mechanism of action of protonectin, a cationic peptide from the venom of the neotropical social wasp Agelaia pallipes pallipes. We demonstrated that protonectin exhibits potent antimicrobial activity against a spectrum of bacteria, including multidrug-resistant strains. To further understand this mechanism, the structural features of protonectin and its analogs were studied by circular dichroism (CD). The CD spectra demonstrated that protonectin and its natural analog polybia-CP formed a typical α-helical conformation in the membrane-mimicking environment, while its proline-substituted analog had much lower or even no α-helix conformation. Molecular dynamics simulations indicated that the α-helical conformation in the membrane is required for the exhibition of antibacterial activity. In conclusion, protonectin exhibits potent antimicrobial activity by disruption of the integrity of the bacterial membrane, and its α-helical confirmation in the membrane is essential for this action.


Cancel culture is often regarded as a witch hunt on social media, a way to harass people into silence, an excuse to bully critics but that was not always the case. This analysis traces the history of cancel culture, its appropriation by stans, and its rebirth as the commonly known petty, polarized behavior on Twitter. Cancel culture began on Black Twitter via callouts directed at public officials or celebrities for being racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. in an attempt to shed light on the abuse of power, to boycott corrupt companies, or to revoke support for problematic authority or celebrity figures. The social justice logic and activism behind cancel culture has been appropriated by Stan Twitter which is an obsessive, overzealous group of pop culture fans. Stans noticed the power that cancel culture had to end careers, twisted the activism into harassment, and restructured cancel culture as an excuse to censor anyone who questions, competes with, or critiques their idols. Today, cancel culture is seen negatively because of the deeply negative effect of Stan Twitter on this originally well-intentioned movement. This current version of cancel culture is almost always seen as an obstacle in the way of real progress in social justice activism. These two phenomena cancel culture and stan Twitter are the seeds of polarized behavior that have been planted in social media and that implicitly affect the ways that Twitter users respond to and make sense of the world in general. Polarization is the new normal, it infects everything from politics to entertainment, and it limits productive discourse by marginalizing those who do not immediately align with a dominant ideology.


AIM: To make comparative study on HPLC fingerprints of several kinds of Radix astragali from different sources. METHODS: ODS column was used,with mixture of acetonitrile and water as mobile phase in a gradient mode.The flow rate was 1.0 mL·min~(-1).The wavelength of measurement was at 203 nm. RESULTS: The fingerprints of Radix astragali were obtained. CONCLUSION: This method can be used to identify Radix astragali from different sources conveniently.


A method for controlling occupant protection devices of a motor vehicle is described in which at least one signal of at least one impact sensor and / or at least one signal derived therefrom are evaluated and compared with at least one triggering condition and the occupant protection devices are triggered accordingly, the control being dependent on a brake signal is adjusted. So far, an adjustment of the tripping threshold in an emergency brake or ESP intervention. However, it is proposed here to adapt at least one of the signals from the at least one impact sensor or at least one signal derived therefrom as a function of the braking signal and to supply the signal thus adapted for further evaluation.


Richard Nickel, an architectural photographer and historic preservationist active in Chicago from the 1950s through the early 1970s, photographed and salvaged physical fragments from architect Louis Sullivan's buildings, many of which were threatened with demolition in postwar Chicago. The photographer captured details, full-scale views, and the interiors and exteriors of Sullivan's buildings. He also photographed the progressive demolition of these structures, as well as the careful extraction, relocation, and reassembly of the ornament that adorned them. By photographically isolating architectural components, as well as collecting physical fragments, Nickel assembled a visual and physical inventory of the architect's buildings that highlighted their ornamental programs within an activist ethos of historic preservation. This body of work allows for, and even promotes, scholarly interpretations of Sullivan's work that heretofore were neglected or diminished by twentieth-century architecture critics working to promote modernism. Through photography, Nickel mounted a polemic against the destruction of buildings he believed to be historically and aesthetically valuable, and challenged received narratives of high modernism in architecture.


TENNYSON SCHOLARSHIP HAS YET TO ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPORTANT CONNECtions between the poet's lifelong preoccupation with astronomy and his larger poetic project. Astronomy fascinated Tennyson for its own sake, and also, I will argue, because it exposed a particular set of intellectual problems. (1) Tennyson's tutor at Cambridge (1828-1831) was the natural theologian William Whewell, who went on to write the 1833 Bridgewater Treatise On Astronomy and General Physics. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, Tennyson followed contemporary debates in astronomy. He owned Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Times (1837), John Pringle Nichol's popular Views of the Architecture of the Heavens (1837), John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830), and Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1835). (2) He also appears to have acquired both Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise and Robert Chambers' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1 844), which begins with an evolutionary account of the origins of the universe. (3) Later in life, he had his own two-inch telescope at Aldworth and visited more powerful observatories to view double stars, and nebulae such as those in Cassiopeia and Lyra. (4) His friend Norman Lockyer, an innovator in the recent science of spectroscopy, (5) commented that Tennyson's "mind is saturated with astronomy" (Hallam Tennyson, 2:381). In later decades, Tennyson continued to follow developments in the new field of astrophysics, building up a substantial library. (6) He was particularly interested toward the end of his life in "the spectrum analysis of light, and the photographs which reveal starlight in the interstellar spaces where stars were hitherto undreamt of" (Hallam Tennyson, 2:408). How did Tennyson's interest in astronomy infuse the form and subject matter of his poetry? A. C. Bradley has asserted that Tennyson is "the only one of our great poets... to whose habitual way of seeing, imagining, or thinking it makes any real difference that Laplace, or for that matter Copernicus, ever lived." (7) I will argue that what drew Tennyson to astronomy as a poetic resource are the lessons it teaches about the fragile relation between human sensory perception and conceptual ideas. Astronomy presents peculiar challenges to sensory perception. In astronomical observation, vision has a tendency to distort, whereas in ordinary experience, one depends on vision to judge distances accurately. To do so, Richard Gregory explains, it is "necessary that retinal images should be calibrated against direct measures, such as touching objects or walking towards them and recording the size-change of the eye." (8) Neither is possible when observing celestial bodies. At such distances, vision flattens out what one sees. Astronomy pushes discrepancies between perceptual and conceptual knowledge to their most extreme. Our senses tell us that the sun is a luminous disk that rises and sets, the ground we walk on a solid, stationary expanse. Intellectually we know that what we see is not accurate, but that knowledge does not affect our sensory perception (Gregory, pp. 104, 105). By "perceptual" I mean those mental events based on sensory perception; by "conceptual," simply abstract ideas or beliefs. While references to astronomy appear in Tennyson's poetry throughout his career, In Memoriam A.H.H. shows the most sustained preoccupation with astronomical images and ideas. Tennyson's poetry reveals an unexpected affinity between his work as an elegist and the concerns of the nineteenth-century astronomer. The elegy is famously unprecedented in both its length and in the time it took to write, the seventeen years between Hallam's death in 1833 and the poem's 1850 publication. (9) Its 133 sections address Hallam's death from a remarkable variety of perspectives. The poem encompasses wrenching portraits of different manifestations of grief, attempts at connection with the dead through memory and the imagination, the gradual internalization of the deceased, and philosophical speculations given rise to by death and loss. …


This study was conducted to estimate the concentrations of 8 trace elements including (Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ni, Ar, Cr, and Pb) and 4 anti-nutritional factors including (saponins, oxalates, phytate, and cyanogenic glycosides) in leaves and stems from Moringa oleifera. The concentrations in samples analyzed were found to be in the range of 0.88-1.88 mg/kg for Mn, 11.95-25.25 mg/kg for Fe, 0.35-1.22 mg/kg for Cu, 6.92-17.96 mg/kg for Zn, 0.03-0.07 mg/kg for Ni, 0.955-1.45 mg/kg for Cr and 0.564-0.85 mg/kg for Pb. However, Arsenic was not detected in all the samples analyzed. As for the anti-nutritional factors, the concentrations in samples analyzed were found to be in the range of 111.35-123.42 mg/kg for saponins, 69.5-509.4 mg/kg for oxalates, and 0.38-0.156 mg/kg for phytate and 316.95-325.27 mg/kg for cyanogenic glycosides. The values of all these elements were found significantly below the recommended maximum tolerable guidelines level proposed by WHO/FAO except for lead (Pb), Pb was found slightly higher than the recommended limit as described. Our findings of this study reveal that most of the trace elements found in M. oleifera are below the recommended maximum tolerable limits; therefore it is safe for both human and animal consumption as well.


The aim of the present study was to describe how teachers do when teaching primary school children in reading comprehension and how they motivate children to read and promote their interest in read ...


The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) has been reintroduced into the Carpathian Mountains and has once again become an important factor for modifying streams. Forty-three sampling sites were compared with 10 reference sites in streams not settled by beavers. Models related to the impacts of beavers on various fish life history stages and a model presenting attributes influencing the ichthyofauna structure in streams with and without beavers were generated. Significant differences in the fish species composition were found between beaver ponds versus the running sections of streams. The changes associated with pond aging caused decrease of Siberian bullhead (Cottus poecilopus) density. For brown trout (Salmo trutta), beaver ponds were the only location where large individuals were found, while the upstream parts of the beaver complexes provided spawning habitat and an area for fry growth. Common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) and stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) had higher density in ponds than in streams. The d...


By introducing certain inaudible distortion into the audio wave-forms used to modulate an s.s.b. transmitter it becomes possible to detect any frequency translations in the system. Audio frequency circuits in the receiver generate an a.f.c. voltage proportional to any such translation, and and this is used automatically to correct the frequency of the local carrier generator without the need for pilot tones or carrier. At present the system has a lock-in range in excess of ± 200 Hz, and a locked-in error of a few hertz. It may make practicable s.s.b. operation at v.h.f, as well as simplifying the operation of h.f. equipment.


produces disseminated infection in locusts and traverses the locust blood-brain barrier to invade the central nervous system – Abstract Background: Many aspects of Acanthamoeba granulomatous encephalitis remain poorly understood, including host susceptibility and chronic colonization which represent important features of the spectrum of host-pathogen interactions. Previous studies have suggested locusts as a tractable model in which to study Acanthamoeba pathogenesis. Here we determined the mode of parasite invasion of the central nervous system (CNS). Results: Using Acanthamoeba isolates belonging to the T1 and T4 genotypes, the findings revealed that amoebae induced sickness behaviour in locusts, as evidenced by reduced faecal output and weight loss and, eventually, leading to 100% mortality. Significant degenerative changes of various tissues were observed by histological sectioning. Both isolates produced disseminated infection, with viable amoebae being recovered from various tissues. Histological examination of the CNS showed that Acanthamoeba invaded the locust CNS, and this is associated with disruption of the perineurium cell/glial cell complex, which constitutes the locust blood-brain barrier. Conclusions: This is the first study to demonstrate that Acanthamoeba invades locust brain by modulating the integrity of the insect's blood-brain barrier, a finding that is consistent with the human infection. These observations support the idea that locusts provide a tractable model to study Acanthamoeba encephalitis in vivo . In this way the locust model may generate


We report nonlinear-refractive indices of ZnO films on relatively thick substrates using the dual-arm Z-scan method to remove the substrate signals and obtain values agreeing with bulk ZnO, thus verifying the sensitivity of the technique.


This study aimed to provide empirical evidence on gross profit and net income in predicting future cash flo ws by examining each variable. Through this research, we can know what income concept that is best in predicting cash flow.
The object of research is the Food and Beverage companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2010 to 2011 who do not merge during the observation period, and consecutively registered during the observation period. The method used in the selection of objects in this study was hypothesis method. Analysis model used in this stu dy is multiple regression analysis model performed with the aid of the computer program SPSS version 17.0 for Windows.
The results of this study indicate that net income has the best ability as compared with gross profit in predicting future cash flows. Partially only variable that proved significant net income affect the dependent variable (cash flow). However, simultaneously gross profit and net earnings have predictive ability for future cash flows.


Under the background of big data and information technology, The issue of how to develop higher education to fit the need of the Belt and Road national strategy and How college English education should make the most use of this background to cultivate international English talents and Great county craftsmen are becoming heated topics. College English Teacher, a key element of college English education, plays an indispensable role in college English teaching. Therefore, the paper holds that college English teachers should reconsider and reflect their roles in college English teaching and changing and reconstructing their roles from teachers to designers, coaches, directors and tour guides on the basis of cultivating students' abilities including their English application ability, self-study ability, life-learning ability, communication ability and so on. Besides, an empirical study has been conducted, which gives a positive feedback to the changing of teachers' roles. Keywords—Ability Based; College Teachers' Roles; Changes; Transformation; Reconstruction


'Changbai 20'was released by the Jilin Crops Variety Approval Committee in 2008.The new variety need about 2600℃ of active accumulated temperature.It has the characteristics of early ma-turity,high yield,good quality,lodging resistance,salt tolerance,strong resistance.


In the article the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling was presented as a way to standardize analytics of measurement results, which completes the operational and procedural standardization of determining the strength of dental composites. The traditional way of conducting studies of strength performed as services and calculations, and which do not refer to previous studies, was changed into an adaptation process of knowledge accumulation in a form of an increasing precise models. Probabilistic flexural strength models were used to create a reliability ranking of studied dental composites. Conceptualization of reliability of a biotechnological system, such as a "tooth-dental composite" required the expansion of the notion of"failure" with random events involving the occurrence of compatibility failure.


Carboniferous‐Permian volcanic complexes and isolated patches of Upper Jurassic — Lower Cretaceous sedimentary units provide a means to qualitatively assess the exhumation history of the Georgetown Inlier since ca 350 Ma. However, it is difficult to quantify its exhumation and tectonic history for earlier times. Thermochronological methods provide a means for assessing this problem. Biotite and alkali feldspar 40Ar/39Ar and apatite fission track data from the inlier record a protracted and non‐linear cooling history since ca 750 Ma. 40Ar/39Ar ages vary from 380 to 735 Ma, apatite fission track ages vary between 132 and 258 Ma and mean track lengths vary between 10.89 and 13.11 μm. These results record up to four periods of localised accelerated cooling within the temperature range of ∼320–60°C and up to ∼14 km of crustal exhumation in parts of the inlier since the Neoproterozoic, depending on how the geotherm varied with time. Accelerated cooling and exhumation rates (0.19–0.05 km/106 years) are observed to have occurred during the Devonian, late Carboniferous‐Permian and mid‐Cretaceous — Holocene periods. A more poorly defined Neoproterozoic cooling event was possibly a response to the separation of Laurentia and Gondwana. The inlier may also have been reactivated in response to Delamerian‐age orogenesis. The Late Palaeozoic events were associated with tectonic accretion of terranes east of the Proterozoic basement. Post mid‐Cretaceous exhumation may be a far‐field response to extensional tectonism at the southern and eastern margins of the Australian plate. The spatial variation in data from the present‐day erosion surface suggests small‐scale fault‐bounded blocks experienced variable cooling histories. This is attributed to vertical displacement of up to ∼2 km on faults, including sections of the Delaney Fault, during Late Palaeozoic and mid‐Cretaceous times.


After the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, surrounding the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, some Members of Congress have expressed interest in military installations named after Confederate leaders, and the process for renaming these bases. Currently, the Department of Defense (DOD) does not have a review process to reevaluate the naming of specific installations. Instead, each military department has its own naming convention that is summarized below. A list of Navy ships named after Confederate commanders and a battle is also included.


Even if the development of the systems of social currencies is important since the 1980s in the world, the majority of these alternative forms of exchanges has long historic lineage of experiences with monetary character considered as utopian andor socialist. Indeed, by using from the XIXth century a social currency (the credit with interest no.) as privileged instrument of social change, Proudhon seems to have posed the theoretical bases to explain the functioning of the current social currencies.


The Eurasian minnows of the genus Phoxinus are small cyprinid species, widely distributed across Europe and Asia. Currently, there are at least 15 species in Phoxinus , with preliminary data suggesting more to be described. Despite the discernible increase in research integrating molecular phylogenetic approaches with traditional taxonomy and systematics, inter- and intraspecific relationships in the genus Phoxinus are still poorly known. The aims of this research were to: (i) compile data on the distribution of Phoxinus species in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina from the sampling conducted by authors from 2006 to 2016 and from literature sources, and (ii) provide a detailed insight on distribution ranges of genetic clades and species of Phoxinus in the western Balkans. Additional 118 localities in Croatia and 8 locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina were added to already known 160 localities from the literature data. Molecular analyses of mitochondrial DNA indicate: (i) the presence of Phoxinus marsilii in Croatia (Drava drainage, the Papuk Mountain), around 260 km south of its known distribution range in Hungary, and (ii) an exceptional genetic variability of P. lumaireul in the Western Balkans.


Detection of outliers or anomalies is one of the vital issues in pattern-driven data mining. Outlier detection detects the inconsistent behavior of individual objects. It is an important sector in ...


Data visualization dashboards provide an efficient approach that helps to improve the ability to understand the information behind complex databases. It is possible with such tools to create new insights, to represent keys indicators of the activity, to communicate (in real-time) snapshots of the state of the work. In this paper, we present a visual analytics platform created for the exploration and analysis of performance data on entrance tests taken by Italian students when entering the university career. The data is provided by CISIA (Consorzio Interuniversitario Sistemi Integrati per l'Accesso), a non-profit consortium formed exclusively by public universities. With this platform, it is possible to explore the performance of the students along different dimensions, such as gender, high school of provenience, type of test and so on.


In order to promote the students in related special to understand the advanced manufacturing technology such as FMS better,combining with actual teaching need,according to the engineering technology center conditions,we developed a set of automatic flexible manufacturing training system.This system is of certain practical value.


This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing on impact of organizational culture on successfulness of an organization's strategies and the relationships among such factors. In fact, conceptual model of this research is specifically examining the factors impacting on successfulness of an organization's strategies. Statistical population of this study includes staff clerks and employees at Pars Khodro Co. Respondents were selected using simple random sampling method, and required data was obtained using questionnaire instruments. From the total 350 distributed questionnaires, 265 ones were adopted for final analysis. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and the software Amos were used to examine the relations among constructions of this study. Findings indicated that organizational culture leaves direct impact on organizational innovation and that organizational innovation and organizational culture have direct effects on successfulness of an organization's strategies.


Every year brings fresh proof that Africa was the center of the origin and adaptive radiation of the Proboscidea. Since 1907 numerous more or less primitive superior and inferior grinding teeth have been discovered from the Vaal River terraces and other localities of the Transvaal, South Africa. The geologic level and localities are chiefly on the (1) higher and most ancient terrace (200-300 feet) of the Vaal River; (2) middle terrace (60-80 feet) of the Vaal River; (3) lowest and most recent terrace (40 feet) of the Vaal River. Theoretically the lowest terrace may be as old as the lower levels of the middle terrace. Flint implements occur in the middle and lower terraces only (Dart, 1929). In Osborn's opinion the Archidiskodon subplanifrons, and Archidiskodon proplanifrons, new species, types found in the middle terrace were washed in from an older Pliocene horizon. Certain of the Transvaal grinding teeth surely belong to very primitive stages of Archidiskodon; others probably belong to primitive stages of Palaeoloxodon and were originally referred to Loxodonta, to Archidiskodon and to Pilgrimia.2 Only by careful comparison and analysis is it possible to separate the species belonging to these several genera from each other. Up to the present time the nineteen species described by W. B. Scott (1907), Raymond A. Dart (1927, 1929), S. H. Haughton (1922, 1932) and H. F. Osborn (1928) are provisionally referred as follows:


A white girl six years of age was referred to Children's Hospital Ain Shams University because of a fever that had been diagnosed as typhoid. She had been given chloramphenicol in a fever hospital for ten days previously in doses of 25 n~gJkg/day. The fever had not subsided and ,joint pains were distressing. Physical examination revealed a moderately built child in the 50th percentile for weight and height. She was markedly pale; her temperature was 38.5 C, pulse 90, blood pressure 100/70. There was no lymphadenopathy. She had an ejection apical systolic murmur. The liver was 2.5 cm below the costal margin; the spleen, 4 cm. The hemoglobin was 5.8 gm/100 ml, total red cells 3,200,000, white blood count 2,000 (12 per cent PMNs, 74 per cent lymphocytes, 10 per cent monocytes, 4 per cent epsinophils), platelet count 30,000, and reticulocyte count 0.5 per cent. ~'idal's test was negative. ESR was 60 mm/hour. Bone marrow aspirate showed severe hypoplasia of all series with increased fat cells. The polymorphonuclears in both blood and marrow showed intranuclear and in-


The Hopfield neural network is considered to be promising as a means to solve the paired association problem, which is to recall complete information from incomplete information by realizing the highly parallel system. However, the neural network has problems in that the already memorized basic memory (complete information) which is the closest to the input, may not be recalled or a solution other than the basic memory may be recalled. When, for example, the neural network is weighted using the sum of the autocorrelation matrices, solutions other than the basic memory are produced as the outputs for more than half of the possible input incomplete information.

This paper aims to remedy these problems and proposes a new weighting method for the Hopfield neural network. In the proposed method, the evaluation function for the weighting is defined and the weights are determined so that the evaluation function is optimized.

To determine the weights by the proposed method, a fairly complex algorithm must be executed, compared to the calculation of the sum of the autocorrelation matrices. However, the weighting process is required only once in the design of the neural network and the neural network designed by this method is expected to exhibit a better performance than the traditional network.


Despite the proven benefits of solar bifacial photovoltaic (BPV) over monofacial PV (MPV) systems, the feasibility of the technology in subtropical climate regions has not been evaluated. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive energy performance evaluation of BPV in Hong Kong using numerical simulation and on-site experimental validation. Three types of solar PV modules, i.e. monofacial PV, framed BPV and frameless BPV, are studied experimentally under different tilt angles, mounting heights and slope orientations. The obtained field measurements and simulation results show that the average bifacial gain (BG) of a BPV system can reach 7.9% and 11.6% when facing south, and up to 167% when facing east. Furthermore, it was observed that an increase in tilt angle also influences the BG performance, and the annual electricity yield can be maximised by increasing the ground albedo through white painting on the roof surface. Finally, the obtained results in this study validate previous studies' assertion that BPV is a viable option over MPV and provides a starting point for the adoption of BPV in subtropical climate regions, especially in Hong Kong.


This paper studies offshoring (dened as a change inrms' own production location from north to south) and market structure. I develop a model of dynamic oligopoly with offshoring, and estimate it using data from the hard disk industry. The results suggest the incentive to offshore increases as more rivals offshore due to competitive pressure. The possibility of offshoring sets in motion the strategic industry dynamics in whichrms become increasingly more likely to offshore or exit, thereby playing the role of adrasticinnovation (Arrow 1962) in the long run. I then assess the effects of banning offshoring and industrial policy (in the future version).


OBJECTIVE: To explore microstructural changes of spinal cord grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and compare them to those with multiple sclerosis (MS).
BACKGROUND: NMOSD and MS may affect the spinal cord differentially. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can reflect in-vivo the pathological involvement of spinal cord.
METHODS: We recruited 18 patients with NMOSD (all AQP4-antibody positive except two), 18 with relapsing-remitting MS and 22 healthy-controls (HCs). Mean age was (NMOSD=52 years[±11], MS=42[±10], HCs=34[±10]). Mean disease-duration was (NMOSD=8.9 years[±6.5], MS=8.8[±7.1]). All subjects had 3T MRI with measurement of cord cross-sectional area (CCA) and of DTI metrics (FA:anisotropy of diffusion; AD/RD:amount of diffusion along/across neural fibers; MD:average amount of diffusion) in GM and WM (posterior and lateral-columns). Physical disability was assessed using the expanded-disability-status scale, 9-hole-peg test (HPT), timed-25-foot-walk test, handgrip-strength and vibration-perception. We used ANOVA to compare imaging measures and Spearman-correlation (r) to explore association between DTI and clinical measures. Statistics with p-values<0.05 were reported as significant.
RESULTS: We detected: smaller CCA in NMOSD than HCs (mean=75.6 mm²[±11.4] vs. 85.8[±11.4]) and in MS than HCs (76.5mm²[±11] vs. 85.8[±11.4]), with no significant difference between patient groups; CCA reduced with longer disease-duration (r=-0.58) in NMOSD, and with worse disability (9-HPT test r=-0.51, handgrip-strength r=0.47) in MS. Compared to HCs, NMOSD patients showed reduced FA in GM and posterior-WM; higher RD in posterior-WM and AD in lateral-WM. MS patients had lower FA in the lateral-WM than HC. No difference in diffusion measures between patient groups was seen. In NMOSD, FA and RD of the posterior-WM were associated with worse vibration-perception (r=-0.63 and 0.52, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Pathological involvement of spinal cord, as reflected by DTI, does not differ between NMOSD and MS. In NMOSD patients diffusion abnormalities in the posterior-WM may contribute to physical disability. Disclosure: Dr. Cortese has nothing to disclose. Dr. Magnollay has nothing to disclose. Dr. De Angelis has nothing to disclose. Dr. Eshaghi has nothing to disclose. Dr. Grussu has nothing to disclose. Dr. Prados has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ourselin has nothing to disclose. Dr. Yiannakas has nothing to disclose. Dr. Distaso has nothing to disclose. Dr. Miller has nothing to disclose. Dr. Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ciccarelli has received personal compensation for activities with Novartis, Biogen and GE as a consultant.


The objectives of Hunan Integrated Management of Contaminated Agricultural Land Project for China is to improve environmental management of agricultural land contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants for safe agricultural production in selected counties in Hunan. Some of the negative impacts are includes : (i) The impacts include air-borne dust, nuisance odor and tail gas, construction wastewater and solid waste including the dredged sediments, noise and destroy of artificial vegetarian cover; Some of the mitigation measures are includes : (i) no-horn sign shall be set up in sensitive spots and measures shall be adopted to reduce noise, such as using low-noise equipment, control noise source, transmission and traffic noise; (ii) earth excavated should be used for grad filling in other contracts of the project; (iii) construction works should be divided into several sections to reduce dust. Water spray should be applied on the site; (iv) construction works should be divided into several sections to reduce dust. Water spray should be applied on the site; (v) rehabilitation or construction of irrigation ditches should be scheduled to avoid the irrigation season, and temporary pass-by ditches should be provided as necessary; (vi) settling tanks should be set up at construction sites to treat the construction wastewater for reuse on site; (vii) construction management should be enhanced to avoid the leakage of fuel from equipment; the drainage system should be established in the spoil stockpile area; (viii) contractor works should be trained on the environmental protection; (ix) domestic solid waste on construction site should be collected and transported out of the site to local landfill facility for landfill; (x) environmental awareness of farmers should be enhanced by launching comprehensive awareness outreach plans; (xi) institutional capacity for supervision and implementation of the project should be enhanced;


President Ronald Reagan's Fiscal Year (FY) 1989 budget—the final spending plan of his 8-year tenure—contains few real surprises, answers a few questions, and does not seem to have offended many in Congress. Hefty increases in money for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are proposed, while many federal programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are trimmed.

After complete silence last year, the White House renewed support for the Space Station with a big request in the new budget, along with an ambitious space program (see Tables 1 and 2). Even though Congress showed lukewarm support for this program and some other parts of the Reagan science agenda, most congressional leaders and observers are predicting that the new spending plan should make it through the legislature without a big fight, partly because of the distractions of an election year.


Objective: Today's rapidly evolving socioeconomic context makes the concept of social business models an attractive means of tackling serious global concerns without sacrificing profitability. Bringing together for-profit enterprise and social impact projects, social business models provide a novel approach to generating beneficial social and economic change. There are many obstacles that must be overcome to put into action social business models, such as determining the optimal balance between financial viability and social impact, securing initial investment and funding, negotiating regulatory complexities, encouraging stakeholder collaboration, and measuring and effectively communicating impact.

Method: An iterative process involving design thinking, impact assessment frameworks, and stakeholder engagement methodologies has been developed; it is called Triple-Bottom-Iterative Design (TBID) for Holistic Impact Assessment. This method's primary objective is to help start-ups, enterprises, and non-profits design comprehensive models that balance profit with social good and have iterative feedback loops for constant enhancement. The healthcare, agricultural, energy, educational, and technological industries represent some of the many that have found success using social business models.

Result: Optimizing resource allocation, risk management, and impact forecasting with the help of simulation analysis helps social business efforts succeed in the long run.

Conclusion: Stakeholders may improve the design and execution of these models and contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future by comprehending the significance, overcoming challenges, adopting innovative methodologies, investigating applications, and utilizing simulation analyses.


Written communication is neither systematically developed nor practised in the engineering curriculum, despite expectations by universities and employers that engineering graduates will be proficient communicators, and despite interventions to develop students' writing. The gap in the development of students' written communication calls for an investigation into the continuing invisibility of writing practices in the engineering curriculum. The lens of practice architectures theory was used to explore how engineering academics view writing in their engineering subjects, and how they develop the writing practices of their students. Practice architectures theory sees practices as shaped by and shaping cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political arrangements. A qualitative study examined engineering academics' teaching practices and the extent to which writing is practised and developed within the subjects they teach. Results show the majority of engineering academics in this study view writing as separate from technical engineering knowledge. This impacts the prevailing teaching and assessment practices by not providing opportunities for writing to be practised and developed within the context of engineering education. Unless there is conscious inclusion of writing practices, prevailing teaching and assessment practices will continue to focus on the acquisition of propositional knowledge to the exclusion of the development of writing practices.


To analyze the dynamic responses of structures, it is necessary to know the time-histories of the acting forces and the vibration characteristics of the structures, such as the vibration modes, frequencies and damping coefficients. In this paper, the damping coefficients were obtained from parametric experiments using beam structures. Recognizing the response by various impact forces on the structure as the summation of the responses by many impulsive forces on the structure, a damping model is devised based on Euler's equation in linear systems between force, structure and response, considering T.K. Caughey's model.


This article compares and synthesize four teacher leadership models to gain the domains of teachers' leadership knowledge. The domains of teachers' leadership knowledge that been synthesized are known as knowledge of improvements in instruction and student learning, knowledge of modeling leadership attributes and skills, knowledge of organizational development, knowledge of collaborative culture, knowledge of collaboration with communities and knowledge of referral leader. These domains of knowledge can be used to develop teachers' leadership knowledge in the future.


By the methods of correlation analysis and buffer analysis,and taking two main climate factors(air temperature and precipitation) and two main human activity areas(road and residential land) into account,this paper studied the effects of climate change and human activity on grassland net primary productivity(NPP) in western Songnen Plain in 2000-2009.In the past ten years,the mean air temperature in the study area was 5.39 ℃,which increased from north to south,and the mean precipitation was 378 mm,which decreased from northeast to southwest.The grassland NPP increased with the increase of air temperature and precipitation.Compared with air temperature,precipitation affected NPP more obviously,which accorded with the special climate conditions of water shortage in western Songnen Plain.The difference in the NPP was not significant at yearly scale but extremely significant at monthly scale,indicating that time scale had remarkable effects on the statistical significance.The effects of road and residential land on the NPP were completely opposite.The closer to the road,the larger area the grassland with good plant growth,which could related to the appropriate management measures and the ways of local human activities;while the further to the residential land,the weaker the human activities intensity or their capabilities in affecting the grassland,the better the plant growth on the grassland.Compared with road,residential land had more obvious effects on the grassland NPP,possibly due to the higher density of residential land and the more frequent building construction,reclamation,and grazing caused by population increase.


This paper presents an optimal design of interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPMSM) for electric spindle considering the flux-barrier shape. Four types of flux-barrier are discussed and compared to improve torque performance, which includes the average torque, torque ripple and cogging torque. The design process is accomplished by using finite element method (FEM). Moreover, the Taguchi method is taken into practice in this paper as a proposed optimal method. The simulation results will be theoretically discussed and analyzed. Finally, prototype machines are being fabricated, and the validity of the proposed design will be confirmed by experiments.


The gear can be processed by using only one clutch after the non-differential regulating method is adopted, which guarantees the processing accuracy, simplifies machine tools' regulation, increases working efficiency, and solves better the problem of the back resetting.


Laicite is both a complex concept and reality in France. After a brief review of the semantic origin of the word and its evolution, the author concentrates on the historical sequence, from the birth of the concept in 1871/73, and its development in the second half of the nineteenth century. This was the era of the struggle for the laicisation of education and the development of laic, republican morals. This leads us to the founding fathers of the Third Republic: various republican currents such as the spiritualists, the positivists and the liberal Protestants, who modifies the concept in different ways. She attempts to determine more precisely the influence of these movements and individuals on the evolution of the concept and to evaluate the importance of this period for the understanding of the current concept of 'laicite'. Keywords:France; laicite; liberal Protestants; nineteenth century; positivists; spiritualists


According to the latest estimates from the United Nations (UN) agency coordinating the HIV/AIDS epidemic (UNAIDS) at least 28.1 million Africans are living with the disease. More than 19 million Africans have already died of AIDS. At least 13 million AIDS orphans live in Africa and counting. The pervasive effect of AIDS is so significant that the average life expectancy in Sub-Sahara Africa is only 47 years instead of 62 years if the disease was not a factor. That Africa is facing a major enemy is not in doubt. Fortunately African governments and the international community are now poised to contain the epidemic. Donor nations and multilateral agencies are working with African governments and their civil society to stop AIDS in Africa. Foundations and philanthropies such as the Gates Foundation are now major players in the continent. The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS TB and Malaria is likely to have a significant influence on AIDS remedial efforts in Africa. Regional entities in Africa such as the Organization for African Unity (OAU) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are orchestrating continental approaches. (excerpt)


In this paper I investigate the relationship between the local political climate and regional heterogeneity in the portfolio composition of individual investors. I find that right-wing supporters are more likely to participate in financial markets and hold a larger share of their wealth in securities portfolios. A move from moderate left to moderate right increases the probability to be invested in the market by 10%. Consistent with the theory of political conservatism, in regions with greater support for right-wing parties, individuals invest more in safe securities (by 3% in bonds and funds) and less in risky assets (by 8% in derivatives). Together with the measures of political surprise and uncertainty, political climate has significant impact on the home bias of individual investors. My results provide evidence that political values play an important role in shaping the financial decisions of households.


It is not too unusual for a physician to have in his active years of practice a family with two or three generations of members with harelip, cleft palate or both. Recently we have observed a family in which through three generations there was a tendency to bilateral harelips and also hypertrophy of mucous cysts in the lower lip of each individual with harelip or cleft palate. We believe this unusual distribution of congenital deformities in one family to be of interest to the profession. In this family of thirteen persons there were in three generations six persons with bilateral harelips. Some of these patients had an associated cleft palate, as might well be expected, but more interestingly each had a pair of hypertrophied mucous glands on the lower lip. These glands secrete a tenacious mucous material from two very prominent excretory ducts which open just above the mucocutaneous line


Abstract : Many self-heating accidents with energetic materials have occurred when operations that have been done safely on a small scale are attempted on a larger scale. They have also occurred when a material is heated for a longer time or to a higher temperature than is normal for its processing or storage, such as might be caused by equipment malfunction or power failure. To prevent self-heating accidents, we must be able to predict the critical temperature for the size and shape of the material we are interested in. The critical temperature (T sub c) is defined as the lowest constant surface temperature at which a material of a given size and shape will self-heat to catastrophic destruction. This can be burning, explosion, or detonation, and because it is related to heat flow, it is dependent on the geometry of the system. As size increases, the critical temperature decreases. The shape also affects the T sub c, so that a sphere will have a higher T sub c than any other shape with the same radius or half thickness, as shown in Figure 2 for PBX 9501, plastic-bonded explosive.


The invention relates to a hand-held device 100 for unwinding a befindlichem in the form of an Archimedean spiral on a roll 4 tape 41 with a double sided adhesive carrier, wherein at least one of the two adhesive sides of the support is covered with a release material 42, consisting of a handle 1, which is attached to a retaining plate 2, one on the retaining plate 2 is rotatably mounted holder 21 for the roll 4 from the adhesive tape 41, one connected to the retaining plate 2 extraction device 22, in particular in the form of a roller over which the tape 41 is performed in such a way the release material 42 is in direct contact with the exhaust device 22 and the adhesive tape is peeled 41 during the dispensing operation from the roll 4, one connected to the retaining plate 2 extraction device 23, in particular in the form of a roller over which the tape 41 is performed in such a way the release material 42 in direct contact with the trigger device 23 is and the separator material is withdrawn 42 from the adhesive tape 42 during the dispensing operation, one on the retaining plate 2 is rotatably mounted pressure roller 24, which brings during the dispensing operation, the adhesive tape 41 with the substrate into contact, and one on the support plate 2 is rotatably mounted release material take-up roll 25 which receives the release material 42 after stripping from the adhesive tape 41 and which is positively connected with the receptacle 21 so that by the movement of the receptacle 21 ...


In the conventional isographic relations between K-nets which are defined by David Lewin, the transpositions appear to be more significant than inversions since only one or more common interval classes are required to produce the isographies. There are, however, passages or pieces which show the inversional context clearly in the musical surface. In these, inversional relations are necessary both to interpret the musical context and also to draw isography. Therefore, this paper examines the conventional isographies which can be organized and interpreted using twelve inversional zones and introduces new axial isographies which can provide insight into the nature of inversion as reflected in inversionally designed works. Three analyses, of sections from Schoenberg's Drei Klavierstucke, op.11, no.2, Scriabin's Vers La Flamme, op.72, and a short passage of Webern's Streichquartett 1905, each introduces a new type of axial isography for tetrachords.


Including binding thickener and at least two surface active agents, and a water-based composition that is selected to provide an aqueous solution having a type and amount of the increase in thickening property of the surface active agent is disclosed. In particular, with a specific small number of ever-modified polyether polyurethane thickener and the selected mixed surfactant mixture provides enhanced thickening properties it can not be obtained if the individual surface active agents are mixed with the thickener. How to improve the thickening properties of the mixed surfactant / binding solution using a thickener is also disclosed. The surface-active agent / binding thickener blend of the present invention is useful as a thickener in various formulations such as paints, coatings, cosmetics, personal care products and detergents.


The ultrastructure of Sarcocystis neurona sarcocysts was studied from muscle of an experimentally infected cat. The cat was killed 144 days after being fed sporocysts from a naturally infected opossum. Sarcocysts were microscopic, up to 700 μm long, and up to 50 μm wide. By light microscopy, the sarcocyst wall was 1–2 μm thick. Ultrastructurally, the sarcocyst wall consisted of numerous villar protrusions. The villar protrusions were up to 2.8 μm long and 0.4 μm wide, with a tapered end. Microtubules extended from the tip of the villus to the base and occasionally extended deep into the granular layer. The granular layer was ∼0.5 μm thick. Longitudinally cut bradyzoites were 5.2 by 1.2 (4.8–6.5 by 1.0–1.3) μm in size. Micronemes in bradyzoites were numerous and located in the anterior ⅓ of the conoidal end.


For a bulk metallic glass Zr41:2Ti13:8Cu12:5Ni10:0Be22:5, flow behavior was investigated under uniaxial pressure up to 1.37 GPa upon continuous heating. Under compression stress, flow temperature is reduced by 45 K/1.37 GPa and the processible temperature range is expected to be possibly widened by about 70 K/l.37 GPa. 2002 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


This research was aimed to find out the implementation effect of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) method on financial management course to students' enjoyment and achievement. This research was quasi experimental research. The research was conducted in Accounting Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University at even semester on academic year 2015/2016. The participants were divided into two classes. The first class was the class that got the treatment, while the second class was the control class. The result of the study showed that there was an increment of students' enjoyment level and student's achievement in the class which implemented STAD method.


The phenology of a native Tetrastichus sp. parasitic on Cystiphura schmidti on skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea L.) in Australia, is described. Data are presented on parasitoid seasonality and host age preference. Its potential impact on the effectiveness of C. schmidti is briefly discussed.


In an attempt to ensure that the Right to Information Act is implemented effectively, it is essential that provisions of this law must reach and empower the people, including the poor. It essentially requires people's participation in governance, government's accountability to the public and transparency in functioning of the entire system. Mere enactment of law cannot create a climate of democratic way of life until it is implemented with strong conviction. A strong will power is required from the part of the givers as well as seekers of information.


The application of fluidized fly ash in underground mining excavations is limited due to its significant content of free calcium and calcium sulfate. In order to increase the amount of utilized fly ash from fluidized beds, it should be converted to a product with properties that meet the requirements for mining applications. This research presents the results of an attempt to adapt fluidized fly ashes for use in underground mining techniques, by means of carbonation and granulation. Carbonation was performed with the use of technical carbon dioxide and resulted in the reduction of free calcium content to a value below 1%. Granulation on the other hand, resulted in obtaining a product with good physical and mechanical parameters. The performed mineralogical and chemical studies indicate that trace amounts of "binding" phases, such as basanite and/or gypsum are present in the carbonized ash. The addition of water, during the granulation of carbonized fluidized fly ash, resulted in changes in the mineral phases leading to the formation of ettringite and gypsum as well as the recrystallization of the amorphous substance. It was confirmed that the carbonization and granulation of flying fluidized ashes positively affects the possibility of using these ashes in underground mining excavations.


Starting with 2010 and until 2020, the VVR-S nuclear research reactor from Magurele, Romania, is in the decommissioning process. The reactor aluminum assembly contains the internal vessel which represent the main component of the reactor. In order to identify the optimum technological methods of dismantling and cutting, the initial radiological characterization of the reactor vessel was conducted. Modern methods like plasma jet, diamond wire cutting, shredding with a Brokk 160 demolition robot were used in this process. Safety aspects for optimizing radiation protection of operating personnel were analyzed and innovative solutions were identified. The lessons learned from the reactor vessels dismantling were presented.


The author believes that the employees in the new- and high-technology enterprises have the characteristics of being professional,high quality,with social responsibility,and so on.And their loyalty is demonstrated as potential and persistence for learning,maintaining image and being loyal to the brand,loving their business and devoting themselves to their duties,and so on.To improve the employees' loyalty in the new- and high-technology enterprises,we should do a better job in recruiting,encouraging them to take part in management decision making,frequently communicating with them,providing them with more opportunities to develop,and so on.


Annotation: The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is a relatively young legal institution. Its task is to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, their observance and restoration. Using normative legal acts, statistical data, publications in the media, the author demonstrates the practical implementation of the functions of a human rights body. The article deals with the most significant problems of the activity of human rights commissioners in Russia and the ways to solve them. This analysis allows us to identify the main directions of law-making in this area.


the fluorescent dye is seminaphthorhodaflor-1-isothi ocyanate, the polymer is a hydrogel selected from the group consisting of polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate, polyvinylpyrrolidone, cellulose, dextrans, and polysac charides, and the dye is chemically bonded to the poly mer. The present invention is also directed to a fiber optic sensor for analyzing carbon dioxide which com prises (a) a fluorescence-based fiber optic sensor; and (b) a fluorescent dye-polymeric-silicone elastomeric matrix in contact with the sensor, wherein the matrix con prises a fluorescent dye-polymeric premixture in a sili cone elastomer, and the fluorescent dye is selected from the group consisting of seminaphthorhodaflor-l-car boxylate (SNARF-1C), seminaphthorhodaflor-1-isothi ocyanate (SNARF-1C-ITC), seminaphthorhodaflor-ldextran conjugate (SNARF-1C-Dex), 10-diethylamino seminaphthorhodaflor-1-carboxylate (SNARF-2C), and seminaphthorhodaflor-1-carboxylate 10-acetate (SNAFL-1C diacetate), the polymer is a hydrogel se lected from the group consisting of polyhydroxyethyl methacrylate, polyvinylpyrrolidone, cellulose, dex trans, and polysaccharides, and the silicone elastomer is a polydimethyl siloxane selected from the group con sisting of hydroxy, epoxy, and vinyl terminated polydi methyl siloxanes.


According to the conversation analytic model of turn taking, the essential element for turn organization is the recognition of a turn at talk as being possibly complete – at possible completions speaker change becomes a relevant next action. This paper will examine a corpus of naturally occurring Japanese language conversations collected from 20 recordings of casual conversations between 50 native speakers of Japanese recorded in Tokyo in 2007. It will argue that the –te form is an incomplete turn construction unit (TCU), but that it is designed to be incomplete and that there are action motivations for such a design. The incompleteness of –te forms is therefore not a problem of turn construction but an interactionally relevant.


From summary: "This report was prepared for the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards for their review and consideration of the potential hazards concerning the Battelle Memorial Institute Research Reactor."


Overtraining syndrome is a condition of prolonged fatigue and decreased athletic performance caused by excessive training overload without adequate rest and recovery. Outcome can be psychological and physiological disturbances that can slow down progress or even downgrade performance.
 Prevalence of the syndrome is higher among professional runners because of setting higher demands on their bodies, indispensable for achieving top results. But syndrome also targets beginners or recreational runners.
 Excessive physical overload is considered to be the main cause of overtraining syndrome, but every other psychological and social stressors can atribute. In fact, accumulation of all the stressors causes collapse of the adaptation mechanisms and long term negative symptoms occur. Individual capacity for stress plays an important role in the development of the syndrome.
 Diagnosis of the overtraining syndrome is clinical and accomplished through history, which should demonstrate the following: (1) decreased performance persisting despite weeks and months of recovery, (2) disturbances in mood, and (3) lack of signs and symptoms or diagnosis of other possible causes of underperformance.
 Recovery last for weeks, often even months.
 It is hard to predict which runner will develop overtraining. Therefore, prevention is the key.
 Main components of prevention are education and follow up.
 Balance between optimal training and recovery is a strategy of success.
 Right amount od training overload and enough time to rest will result in an additional motivation, as psychological, and as physiological set out for new triumph.


Among the various forms of legal liability there are many points of contact reflected in their common goal - the encouragement of active members of society. Starting from the statement - the independent nature of the various forms of legal liability does not mean they are excluded - in what follows, given the legal autonomy of spheres of social relations protected by various laws, we will consider disciplinary overlapping with other forms of legal liability - criminal liability. Of course, this is possible only if the act committed by the employee is both disciplinary and criminal. This form of accumulation are possible without violating the principle of non bis in idem that since each of the envisaged legal rules protect different social relations. In addition of this applying the same principle prohibits two or more same kind sanctions for an unlawful action.


The electrical resistance of a plate pack consisted of two different metals is mathematically analyzed in this paper for better polar plate design.


Vaccines are highly effective in preventing COVID-19 associated hospitalization and deaths. Strong and persistent immune responses are critical to provide protection for patients with immunomodulatory therapies.To assess humoral and cellular immune responses following 2 doses of an anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA based vaccine in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Immune responses in patients treated with csDMARDs, bDMARDs (with the exception of rituximab) and JAK inhibitors were compared to healthy controls (HC) over 24 weeks. In addition, disease activity by CDAI and vaccine-induced side effects were prospectively monitored.The RECOVER trial (Rheumatoid Covid-19 Vaccine Immune Response) is a non-randomised, prospective observational control group trial and enrolled 77 RA patients on DMARD therapy and 21 HC. Clinical assessment and blood sampling was performed at baseline, 3 weeks after the 1st and 2 weeks after the 2nd vaccine dose and at week 12 and 24 after the 1st. Antibody response to the receptor binding domain (RBD) within the SARS-CoV-2 S1 protein was measured with the Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2-S (Roche Diagnostics GmbH) test. The seroprofiling assay ABCORA, which has been suggested as a surrogate for neutralization,1 was used to determine IgG, IgA and IgM responses to RBD, S1, S2 and N. The neutralizing activity NT50 at week 12 was assessed against Wuhan-Hu-1 pseudoviruses (HIV-based). IFN-y ELISpots were applied to detect spike-reactive T cell responses after in vitro stimulation with a spike peptide mix.Baseline characteristics of participants are detailed in Table 1. Vaccination was well tolerated with no differences between RA patients and HC. At baseline, the majority of RA patients were in remission/LDA (57/77, 74%), this proportion decreased to 51% (39/77) after the second vaccine dose (p = 0.005). Treatment adjustments were required in 11/77 patients. The immunogenicity analyses were based on 73 RA patients after exclusion of 4 patients with previously unnoticed SARS-CoV-2 infection (positive for anti-nucleoprotein). In contrast to HC, anti-S titers were lower at all timepoints with significantly reduced titers observed in patients on abatacept and JAK inhibitors (Figure 1). Potent neutralizing activity (NT50 ≥ 250)) was detected in all HC at week 12, in contrast to 62% RA patients. NT50 correlated to the results based on the ABCORA assay. Peak anti-S titers (2 weeks after 2nd vaccine) were predictive of NT50 ≥ 250 at week 12 (p < 0.0001). In contrast to marked differences in the humoral immune responses, spike-protein specific IFN-α secreting T cells were largely unaltered by different DMARD regimen.Table 1.Baseline characteristicsRA patients (n = 77)HC (n = 21)p-valueAge (yrs), mean (± SD)64 (13)44 (14)< 0.0001Female, n (%)46 (60)15 (71)NSVaccination typemRNA-1273, n (%)12 (16)0 (0)0.06BNT162b2, n (%)65 (84)21 (100)Disease activity (CDAI)Remission (≤ 2.8), n (%)17/77 (22)Low (2.9 - 10), n (%)40/77 (52)Moderate (10.1 - 22.0), n (%)15/77 (20)High (22.1 - 76.0), n (%)5/77 (7)DMARD therapyMono csDMARDs, n (%)22/77 (29)bDMARDs, n (%)35/77 (46)Mono bDMARDs, n (%)14/35 (40)JAKi, n (%)20/77 (26)Mono JAKi, n (%)8/20 (40)Prednisone, n (%)25/77 (33)Mean daily dose (mg ± SD)5.6 ± 3.6RA patients, in comparison with HC, revealed a slower kinetic and lower magnitude of humoral immune responses depending on the treatment regimen while T cell responses were largely maintained. Peak anti-S responses two weeks after the second vaccine were able to predict the development of potent neutralizing activity and should therefore be considered to individually tailor vaccination strategies.[1]Abela I et al. Nature Commun 2021. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27040-xKristin Schmiedeberg: None declared, Irene A. Abela: None declared, Natalia Barbara Pikor: None declared, Nicolas Vuilleumier: None declared, Magdalena Schwarzmueller: None declared, Selina Epp: None declared, Sabrina Pagano: None declared, Sarah Grabherr: None declared, Angelica Brooke Patterson: None declared, Madalina Nussberger: None declared, Alexandra Trkola: None declared, Burkhard Ludewig: None declared, Johannes von Kempis: None declared, Andrea Rubbert-Roth Speakers bureau: Abbvie, Pfizer, Sanofi, UCB, BMS, Lilly, Gilead, Roche, Consultant of: Abbvie, Gilead, Lilly, BMS, Sanofi


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There are some ambiguities about the status of women in Islam, andthis paper studies exemplary women in the holy Koran by content analysis, referringto valid interpretations. Its basic questions include: Koran's method in introducingmodels, gender roles in Koran, and Koran's criteria and modeling principles aboutexemplary women. The findings demonstrate that the Koran has acted very preciselyto introduce models based on certain criteria. Koran uses the term "osveh"for "model" and discusses two kinds of models: positive and negative ones; and explainstheir characteristics and behaviors in a creative manner. Most of the requiredvirtues stated in the holy Koran are common or similar for both genders, and someother virtues are embodied in women examples. The most significant of them isMary who is praised as a very great human being, a believer and also a sign of Godfor all believers including men. Koran mentions that gender is not an obstacle forhaving freewill and independence in making decisions; and presents two womenas examples for freewill; even though they usually are under greater pressure thanmen. The holy Koran concentrates on two virtues for all: standing against oppressionand leading a pious life; and introduces two women as role models with suchvirtues, not men. Furthermore, the Koran introduces and praises a female governorwho takes a different approach from men in governing a country and successfullymanages complex issues such as war and peace. Instead of confronting the armyof King Solomon, she took a diplomatic approach. Regarding women's gender roles,motherhood and women's role as a wife is greatly emphasized. In this regard, theholy Koran underlines the pivotal role of moving towards the right path; a womanaccompanying her husband in this path is a perfect spouse, and on the contrary, awoman should not obey or accompany her husband if he is going astray. Furthermore,regarding motherhood, the holy Koran mentions mothers' suffering and theirlove and protection for their children under the most severe conditions.


taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of nineteen species in Jive calicioid genera from the United States and Canada are described, and keys are presented to the North American species of Chaenotheca, Chaenothecopsis, Phaeocalicium, Sclerophora, and Stenocy


To the Editor .—An article by Pearl and colleagues 1 entitled "Early Local Complications From Intestinal Stomas" appeared in the October 1985 issue of theArchives. I am a gynecologic oncologist, and I submit to you that the conclusions drawn from Table 4 are misleading. The authors stated that gynecologic oncologists had the highest stoma complication rate and implied that this is related to amount of experience in gastrointestinal surgery. The authors failed to mention what percentage of the gynecologic oncology patients had had previous pelvic radiotherapy as compared with those in other groups. It is my belief that previous radiotherapy of the bowel and skin involved in stoma formation increases anyone's complication rate. I also think the authors underestimated the amount of training gynecologic oncologists get in gastrointestinal surgery (especially in irradiated patients).


Cereals play an important role in today's lifestyles for their various uses as ready-to-eat products, instant products, cereal bars and energy bars. The consumption of cereals has been elaborated from the breakfast table to any time of the day and these products have become an integral part of consumer's diet (Berti et al., 2005). Demand for the processed and convenience foods is increasing rapidly due to the increasing awareness about the health, changing socio-economic needs, and insufficient time to cook food with the correct/ balanced amount of nutrition. One such nutritionally balanced convenience food is the nutritious energy bars, which are gaining popularity in the global market after 1980s.

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Grounds are provided to regard mental immunity as a bio-psycho-spiritual template of identity and the basis of individual and societal safety. The functional mechanisms and resource characteristics of mental immunity are systematized. An epidemic model of acquired mental immunodeficiency is used to describe the four aspects of its phenomenology related to psychogenesis, sociogenesis, biogenesis, and animogenesis. Algorithms of providinga systemic and modular protection of public mentality and health upon identity crisis inthe hybrid reality are delineated. Its main directions and targeted levels for developing of national civil identity are outlined. Integral strategies of securing the mental safety based on a synergetic technological platform of supra-departmental service of mental health are proposed. It is reasoned that the mission of mental medicine consists of adaptive control of mentality and health believed to be the priority of national safety in the epoch of hybrid warfare.


When developing an android mobile application the androids intent is used as a mechanism to send messages between local equipment of androids application inner part and other applications. But the androids intent does not support sending messages via each android products intent. If there is a way to support each androids equipments to send messages, it will be easier to make non-stopping services. Non-stopping service is used when the user is using the android to do word or searching services and suddenly changes to a different android product but still maintains the progress what was currently being done without waiting the programs to be loaded. It is possible to send messages to each android products by using the socket, but the connection must be maintained stably which is the weak point. In this paper, I am suggesting a BRIF(Broadcasting Remote Intent Framework) framework to send messages to different android products. BRIF is a framework that uses the Googles C2DM service which services asynchronous transmissions to different android products. This is organized with the C2DM server, RemoteContext Api, web server and RISP(Remote Intent Service Provider) which is will be easy to be used for the developers since there are no big changes for coding compared to the intent code.


A sustainable housing advocacy coalition emerged in the UK in the early 1970s. It is best characterized as an advocacy coalition due to the deep green environmental values and beliefs shared by its members. Its political activities have focused on practical demonstration and life style choices: the sustainable houses can be seen as an extension of members' deep green values and government policy has, until recently, had little influence. However, during the 1990s government and other mainstream institutions have become interested in sustainable housing as a solution to a range of policy problems. This paper examines the framing of sustainable housing as 'low carbon housing', i.e. as a solution to climate change. Actors involved in the framing of low carbon housing constitute a discourse coalition: they are united by the discourse itself and not by shared values. The framing of low carbon housing is being conducted using ecologically modern discourse, primarily as a strategy to create distance from the sustainable housing advocacy coalition. Translation of the low carbon ecological modernist discourse into practice remains uncertain at present, in particular because it is unclear whether the technical aspects of the sustainable housing advocacy coalition can be divorced from the social aspects.