Refined rice bran oil (RBO) was blended with PUFA rich Soybean oil (SBO), MUFA rich Mustard oil (MO) and SFA rich Palm Olein oil (POO) to make a blend that had sufficient amount of Omega-3 fatty acid by mixing two or more oils in the ratio of 60:40 and 60:20:20 respectively. RBO and its blends were subjected to deep fat frying of potato chips at 180±10C for 24h. Oil samples were withdrawn after every four hours of frying and evaluated for peroxide value (PV), p-Anisidine value (p-AV), Total polar component (TPC) and oil stability index (OSI) for the RBO and its blends. In general, frying stability of RBO was improved by the blending, the Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio of the blend of RPM and RSM was in the recommended range (1:5-10), and in both cases it was observed to be 1:6. The OSI of RBO deteriorates 66% and it improved by blending with POO and it decline only 53% and 54% for the blend RP and RPM respectively. It was concluded that the blend having more than two oils (RBO+PO+MO) was better in oxidative stability, nutritional value and also contain sufficient amount of Omega-3 fatty acid than that of the RBO and its other blends.


This study discusses the practice of disaster journalism in applying the principles of disaster journalism when covering disasters. The object of this research was Liputan 6 SCTV, the researcher chose Liputan 6 SCTV because Liputan 6 SCTV became the leading news program in Indonesia and often occupied the highest rating. The formulation of the problem raised by the researcher is how the practice of disaster journalism Liputan 6 SCTV applies the principles of disaster journalism when covering the Palu disaster. The method in this study uses descriptive qualitative. The technique of collecting data uses interviews, observation and documentation. This research refers to the principle of disaster journalism in the P3SPS and the circulation of KPI.

 The results of this study show, in taking pictures of deceased victims, disaster journalism Liputan 6 SCTV takes pictures at close range and does not display images of the body in full. Disaster Journalism Liputan 6 SCTV often interviewed survivors with questions about the sadness experienced by victims, disaster journalism Liputan 6 SCTV also often took pictures when the victims were crying and made minors as speakers in several shows.
The conclusion of this study is that disaster journalism Liputan 6 SCTV still presents dramatized news. It aims to raise Liputan 6 SCTV rating, to bring in many advertisers. So that can be said, if disaster journalism Liputan 6 SCTV has not applied the principle of disaster journalism correctly.


. From June to August 2020 an observational network of 103 meteorological ground-based stations covered the greater area (50 km × 35 km ) of Hamburg (Germany) as part of the Field Experiment on Sub-mesoscale Spatio-Temporal variability at Hanseatic city of Hamburg (FESST@HH). The purpose of the experiment was to shed light on the sub-mesoscale ( O (100) m – O (10) km ) structure of convective cold pools that typically remains under-resolved in operational networks. During the experiment, 82 custom-built, low-cost APOLLO (Autonomous cold POoL LOgger) stations sampled air temperature and pressure 5 with fast-response sensors at 1 s resolution to adequately capture the strong and rapid perturbations associated with propaga-ting cold pool fronts. A secondary network of 21 weather stations with commercial sensors provided additional information on relative humidity, wind speed and precipitation at 10 s resolution. The realization of the experiment during the COVID-19 pan-demic was facilitated by a large number of volunteers who provided measurement sites on their premises and supported station maintenance. This article introduces the novel type of autonomously operating instruments, their measurement characteristics, 10 and the FESST@HH data set (https://doi.org/10.25592/UHHFDM.10172; Kirsch et al., 2021b). A case study demonstrates that the network is capable of mapping the horizontal structure of the temperature signal inside a cold pool, as well as quanti-fying a cold pool's size and propagation velocity throughout its life cycle. Beyond its


We give an expository discussion of recent work using Berglund-Huebsch-Krawitz mirror symmetry to describe the structure of point counts on algebraic varieties over finite fields.


Previous research has demonstrated the superiority of a Simultaneous Oral Spelling method for young children beginning to learn to spell words. In this technique, children learn words by repeating a word spoken and written for them, writing the word while pronouncing the name of each letter, and then repeating the whole word again. In two experiments, we manipulated the motoric element of this training


The Smart Grid (SG) technologies greatly enhance the electrical grid by providing more energy security, increasing efficiency, reliability and economically benefitting the supplier which translates to reduce prices to the end customer. This is significant, as most of the current available energy comes from non-renewable sources. Economic development of nations result in increased demand for energy resources and as the world moves forward, the rate at which these resources are being spent is increasing. The SG poses numerous challenges in the fields of communication, engineering and policymaking. An aspect of the SG Technologies like Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) enables the collection of valuable information that can be used to increase energy efficiency and gain deep insight on energy statistics. Novel software approaches like Deep Neural Networks, Markov models and Support Vector Machines play an important role for solving the NILM problem. In addition, researchers are delving into other aspects of the implementation such as privacy, price, and resource usage that coming from the paradigms of cloud and edge computing. Expert analysis on all of these topics is essential for the adoption of SG technology. In this paper, the merits of the various AI/ML techniques are expanded upon in a literature review. Then the previous and current state-of-the-art methods in the field of Deep Learning are evaluated and a conclusion is reached on their performance and viability. Furthermore, a case is made about relevant computing paradigms and how they may impact fundamental areas of the technology.


Literature about Chinese students studying abroad is a portrayal of their souls and language embodiment of college concept. It symbolizes their ability about local dialects. The literary material about them, as a carrier of Chinese intellectuals' aesthetic position, owns a sense of the scene.


In this paper a new technique for designing totally self- checking finite state machines is presented using convolutional codes. In order to correct the fault, we propose a novel scheme which can not only detect, but also correct errors occurred in FSM transition. More specifically, we demonstrate the FSMs hardware which can be reused based on convolutional code partitioning and we formulate the optimization problem of maximizing hardware reusability. Synthesis results produced by our proposed procedure for the MCNC'89 FSM benchmark circuits show an average 20% reduction in literal counts compared to previous techniques. Moreover, we realize the IP core of the self-checking module by SMIC 0.25 mum technology and also simulate its function in FPGA.


We propose a new wide-viewing-angle polarizer that has extremely low light leakage in all directions and a large wavelength range. In this paper we discuss the design procedure for this wide-viewing-angle polarizer and its properties, in the interests of achieving high-quality liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with a wide viewing angle and high contrast ratio.


1 The behavioural responses of drugs known to act through central 5‐hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT) mechanisms have been investigated in rats receiving a neuroleptic (trifluoperazine) in their drinking water for 4 to 6 months. 2 5‐Hydroxytryptophan (5‐HTP) induced 5‐HT‐dependent behaviours including head bobbing and lateral head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading, tremor, backward walking, body writhing and 'wet‐dog' shakes. In doses of 50 to 150 mg/kg, 5‐HTP induced more intense behavioural effects in neuroleptic‐treated rats than in the control animals. 3 Similarly the putative 5‐HT agonist, quipazine (1 to 20 mg/kg) and the 5‐HT releasing drug, fenfluramine (5 to 20 mg/kg), both induced significantly greater motor responses in the chronically neuroleptic‐treated rats. 4 A 5‐HT uptake inhibitor (femoxetine, 2.5 to 10 mg/kg) had little behavioural effect in either control or trifluoperazine‐treated rats. 5 Total specific high‐affinity binding of radiolabeled 5‐HT was significantly increased in crude membrane fractions prepared from the cortex, striatum and substantia nigra of neuroleptic‐treated rats compared to control animals. 6 High‐affinity uptake of radiolabeled 5‐HT into striatal slices was similar in experimental and control animals. 7 Behavioural and biochemical data would indicate that postsynaptic 5‐HT mechanisms are enhanced in rats treated chronically with trifluoperazine. Chronic neuroleptic therapy may thereby induce cerebral 5‐HT receptor supersensitivity in addition to the well‐documented cerebral dopamine receptor supersensitivity.


We have proved that homeomorphisms of domains of Euclidean space, inverse of which distort the modulus of families of curves by Poletskii type, have a continuous extension to isolated boundary point.


Compute-and-Forward (C&F) has been proved to be an efficient approach for multiuser, multihop wireless networks. It allows intermediate relays to infer and forward linear combinations of the transmitted messages, in order to achieve high computation rate. The coefficient selection for each relay is a shortest vector problem (SVP). The most common solutions for such a problem are exhaustive search and the Lenstra-LenstraLovsz (LLL) lattice reduction. The former has a high complexity and the latter proves to be suboptimal for large numbers of users. In this paper, we propose two novel algorithms, of which one can be regarded as a simplified version of the exhaustive search, while the other one selects the coefficients iteratively. Numerical results reveal that both methods achieve the same computation rate as the exhaustive search with much lower complexity. Both outperform the LLL algorithm (especially with a large number of users), and the complexities are lower than the LLL except in the very high SNR region.


1. A method for a competitive assay for the analysis of humanized antibody Campath-1H (alemtuzumab), which is associated with the CD52 cell membrane receptor, in a biological sample, the above method comprises the steps of: (A) obtaining a sample to be analyzed for the presence of antibodies; ! (B) binding the cells or cell membrane preparations containing the CD52 receptor to the membrane of the filter plate; ! (C) contacting the analyte antibody, Campath-1H, labeled with a detectable label and the test sample with the filter plate membrane, thus allowing the labeled antibody and the antibody in the test sample compete for binding to cell membrane receptors in the filter plate membrane; ! (D) washing unbound reagents through the filter plate membrane; ! (E) registering the presence of the label and determining the amount of Campath-1H (alemtuzumab) by comparison with a calibration standard curve. ! 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the labeled antibody is Campath-1H labeled with a fluorescent label. ! 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the labeled antibody is Campath-1H labeled with europium. ! 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the biological sample is a sample of serum, plasma, whole blood, cerebrospinal fluid or synovial fluid. ! 5. Use of the method according to any of the preceding claims in pharmacokinetic studies or for monitoring purposes. ! 6. The assay kit of the humanized antibody, Campath-1H (alemtuzumab), which binds to the CD52 cell membrane receptor, the above-mentioned assay kit comprises! a detectable label attached to the analysis of


Ruptures like the recent global financial crisis are inherent elements of our global ?securitised? financial system. Re-regulations and the maturing of the financial industry have led to re-organisation processes within the industry with far-reaching implications on international financial centres (IFCs). Surprisingly, little is known about the IFCs? localised organisational nature, social, and structural power relations. Despite the controversy about ?tax heavens?, empirical evidence suggests that IFCs without an economic hinterland have developed strong local competencies and competitive advantages besides regulation aspects. Although dependent on foreign national economies, their specialisation capacitates them to offer finance-related services to a favourable cost-benefit ratio. The IFC Luxembourg seems to exemplify such a case. It has specialised in administrating a particular type of securities: (cross-border) investment funds. The paper does not only employ the GPN approach on finance but also innovatively links it with social network approaches, suggesting a new perspective to analysing locally anchored practices and dynamics in order to better understand ?the global? of today?s financial system.


The article describes the author's methodology of organizing independent work of technical colleges students at the stage of the reforming of the national education. One of the teacher's task to developing an atmosphere of creative research is emphasized


Deep VLA 1.4 GHz radio continuum imaging of Abell 2255 is presented. This cluster is among the better nearby candidates for rich cluster-cluster merger systems, with evidence including an elongated X-ray morphology, the presence of a radio halo, and substructure present in its galaxy distribution. Our radio observations reach an rms sensitivity of ∼40 μJy beam-1, enabling us to detect (at 5 σ) star formation rates as low as 1.4 M⊙ yr-1 from the center of the cluster out to a radial distance of 3 h Mpc. The radio data are complemented by optical imaging and a large spectroscopic database, allowing us to separate all galaxies with M ≤ -20 into cluster members and foreground/background galaxies. The spectra are also used to associate the galaxies' radio emission with either star formation or active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We compare the resulting cluster radio galaxy population with those of 19 other nearby Abell clusters and find strong evidence for an increase in the frequency of radio galaxies in Abell 2255. This increase is seen in two separate types of galaxies: powerful radio AGNs and optically faint star-forming galaxies. The optical spectra of the latter often indicate current or recent starbursts, and these galaxies appear to be distributed along an axis perpendicular to the probable merger axis. We assess these factors in light of models of galaxy evolution and suggest that the cluster-cluster merger is responsible for triggering galaxy activity in Abell 2255.


This study aims to investigate the impacts of procurement strategies on the growing proportion of construction small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and whether the size of the construction company moderates the effect.,This study adopted a quantitative research approach and a cross-sectional questionnaire survey in achieving its objectives. The survey requires the respondent to identify both the most successful and most outstanding project that the respondent was involved in between 2010 and 2016.,The study found that only traditional and management-oriented procurement strategies ensure the achievement of all growth plans for construction SMEs in South Africa; and that medium-sized construction enterprises achieve social growth such as community empowerment, managerial skills and advancement on the cidb Register of Contractors.,The findings of the study imply that policymakers should base their decisions regarding macroeconomic issues and growth plans for construction SMEs on the internal and external factors such as differences in the sizes of construction SMEs and differences in the suitability of procurement strategies affecting the growth of construction SMEs.,In past studies, the diversity amongst SMEs is often overlooked and SMEs are erroneously assumed to share similar objectives, possess equal capabilities and face challenges of the same magnitude. The original contribution of this study is shown in the investigation of the moderating effect of SMEs' diversity (in terms of company size) on their growth proportion as influenced by procurement strategies.


Object of attention in the present work is the profitability and efficiency of banks in the Republic of Northern Macedonia. The subject of the study is focused on the strength and direction of influence of the new Basel III regulatory framework on their final financial results. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the effect of using modern regulatory requirements on the profitability of the country's banking system. The study includes observations on developments in the banking sector for the period 2007-2018. A coefficient of analysis is applied using a system of appropriately selected indicators: cost / income ratio, ROA, asset yield, earnings margin, unit costs, net earnings per share unit cost of staff efficiency factor. An analysis of real empirical data reveals that the implementation of the new regulatory measures does not have a negative effect on the final financial results of the banks, but rather a trend towards improvement of a number of their key financial indicators.


The use of qualitative research in sociolinguistic studies has attracted a considerable number of sociolinguists. The studies have yielded many interesting findings that could not be found satisfyingly in the use of conventional research. This paper will present one of the studies in sociolinguistics which concerns with politeness in Indonesian context. It is suggested that the study of Asian politeness especially, is best suited in using qualitative research method than traditional research method. I will present my own experience in dealing with the problems I encountered during the process of doing the research. Among other things are the problems of looking for the purposeful sampling, the presentation of myself in the research setting, and the ethical issue of lying or not lying in interacting with the respondents.


Through Zhoushan marine ecological environmental monitoring station in Zhejiang province published Zhoushan environment bulletin and Zhoushan oceanic fishery administration published Zhoushan marine environmental bulletin to understand information about Zhoushan petroleum marine pollution.This paper introduces the present situation and sources of Zhoushan port petroleum marine pollution,discusses the petroleum marine pollution existence forms,characteristics and harm;Presents petroleum marine pollution in Zhoushan influence and prevention suggestion.


A two-stage upflow biological aerated filter was designed as an advanced treatment process to optimize the operating parameters and study the correlative factors influencing the efficiency of nitrification, denitrification and phosphorus removal. The experimental results showed that the foal effluent of the two-stage upflow biofilter process operated in series could meet the stringent limits of the reclaimed water for the total nitrogen of 2 mg/L, and total phosphorus of 0.3 mg/L. The high treatment efficiency allowed the reactor operating at very high hydraulic loadings and reaching nearly complete nitrification and denitrification.


The CuS04-catalyzed reaction of hydrogen peroxide with thiocyanate ion is the first example of a homogeneous, liquid phase, halogen-free system that oscillates under batch conditions. A detailed mechanism is proposed consisting of 30 reactions and 26 variables. The mechanism is constructed from two nonautocatalytic mechanisms for the subsystems alkaline H202-CuS04 and H202-KSCN, coupled through various intermediates to construct a feedback network, which leads to oscillatory behavior in both batch and flow configurations. The integrated mechanism simulates very well the experimentally observed oscillations in absorbance and O2 evolution and two of the three kinds of bistability in a continuously stirred tank reactor. Two alternative mechanisms are also considered, providing insight into the general properties of oscillatory mechanisms. Since the systematic design of homogeneous liquid-phase chemical oscillators beganZ a decade ago, reaction families based on oxyhalogen species have dominated the field. The advantage of using halogen or oxyhalogen species in constructing chemical oscillators lies in their fast reaction rates and multiple oxidation states. Only recently has progress been made in finding halogen-free chemical oscillators, providing further evidence of the generality of nonmonotonic behavior, which had long been denied or ignored by many chemists. Although they are fewer in number than the halogen-based systems, the known halogen-free (or non-halogen-based) chemical oscillators already show a wide range of behavior, opening up further opportunities for systematic design. Important examples include the oxidation of benzaldehyde by oxygen in glacial acetic acid with a CoBr, ~ a t a l y s t , ~ the oxidation of methylene blue by oxygen in strongly alkaline medium in the presence of sulfite and sulfide: and two permanganate-reductant oscillators.5 A group of oscillators discovered by Orban and Epstein involves the hydrogen peroxide oxidation of sulfide,6 thiosulfate,' (catalyzed by CuSO,) and thiocyanate8 (catalyzed by CuSO,). Despite the apparent similarity of their constituents, these systems are mechanistically quite different. The H202-KSCN-CuSO, system oscillates only above pH 9, and its pH is Brandeis University. 'L. Eotvos University essentially constant during the oscillation in color and Pt potentiaL8 The other two systems, in contrast, are driven by pH changes of several Another special feature of the HzOz-KSCNCuS04 system is the slowly damped oscillation under batch conditions. Such batch oscillations are quite rare, even among the much larger group of halogen-based chemical oscillators. Mechanisms for oscillatory chemical systems have been pursued almost as soon as chemists finally recognized the possibility of oscillation in a homogeneous medium. Understanding why and how such complicated behavior arises in terms of chemical species and the interactions among them is a fascinating subject in itself. In addition, this understanding facilitates the further design of new chemical oscillators. A successful mechanistic study also contributes to knowledge of the general chemistry and kinetics of the chemical species that are involved. A good example is the (1) Part 51 in the series Systematic Design of Chemical Oscillators. Part 50: Ribai, Gy.; Beck, M. T.; Kustin, K.; Epstein, I . R. J . Phys. Chem. 1989, 93, 2853. (2) De Kepper, P.; Epstein, I . R.; Kustin, K. J . Am. Chem. SOC. 1981, 103, 2133. (3) Jensen, J . H. J . Am. Chem. SOC. 1983, 105, 2639. (4) Burger, M.; Field, R. J. Nature (London) 1984, 307, 720. (5 ) (a) Nagy, A,; Treindl, L. Nature (London) 1986, 320, 344. (6) Orbin, M.; Epstein, I. R. J . Am. Chem. SOC. 1985, 107, 2302. (7) O r b h , M.; Epstein, I. R. J . Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 101. (8) Orbin, M. J . Am. Chem. SOC. 1986, 108, 6893. (b) Treindl, L.; Nagy, A. Chem. Phys. Lef t . 1987, 138, 327. 0002-7863/89/1511-4541$01.50/0


Background: Copanlisib is a novel pan-Class I PI3K inhibitor with potent preclinical inhibitory activity against both PI3K-δ and PI3K-α isoforms. In a phase II study of copanlisib monotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent or aggressive lymphoma, an overall response rate of 53% was seen in patients with iNHL (Dreyling et al., ENA 2014). Rituximab in combination with chemotherapy is standard first-line therapy for indolent iNHL and is a therapeutic option for relapsed patients who cannot tolerate chemotherapy or who had a long response following the last rituximab-based therapy. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of copanlisib in combination with rituximab versus placebo plus rituximab in patients with iNHL who relapsed after one or more lines of therapy, including rituximab and alkylating agents, and who are either unfit for chemotherapy or had a treatment-free interval of at least 12 months following last rituximab-based therapy. Methods: Patients must meet the following criteria: histologically confirmed diagnosis of iNHL, with follicular lymphoma (FL) grade 1-2-3a, marginal zone lymphoma (splenic, nodal, or extra-nodal), small lymphocytic lymphoma, or lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma/Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, and who have previously received at least one line of therapy including rituximab and alkylating agents. Patients must be not refractory to rituximab during any prior line of therapy (response Citation Format: Pier Luigi Zinzani, John F. Gerecitano, Marius Giurescu, Rodrigo Ito, Katharina Mueller, Barrett H. Childs. CHRONOS-3: A phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluating the efficacy and safety of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) alpha/delta inhibitor copanlisib in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed indolent B-c [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr CT221. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-CT221


English) ................................................................................................................................ 2 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Method ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Results ................................................................................................................................................ 10 Discussion .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................... 18 Affidavit ............................................................................................................................................. 22 Declaration of any eventual publications ........................................................................................... 23 Curriculum Vitae ................................................................................................................................ 25 Complete list of publications .............................................................................................................. 26 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................ 28 Selected publications .......................................................................................................................... 29 Shape and function of the lumbar spine and the pelvis in the laboratory, in daily life and in the workplace


Objective: To study the expressions of vascular endothelial growth factor D (VEGF-D) and its receptor fms-like tyrosine kinase-4 (Flt-4) and to determine whether the presence of VEGF-D and Flt-4 was associated with the clinicopathologic characteristics and prognosis of pancreatic cancer. Methods: The expressions of VEGF-D and Flt-4 proteins were examined by immunohistochemical staining in 48 pancreatic cancer tissues, 32 adjacent pancreatic tissues, and 13 normal pancreatic tissue samples. Differences in distribution of VEGF-D or Flt-4 were analyzed using the χ2 test. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to estimate survival time and log-rank test was used to compare differences in survival time between the patients with or without VEGF-D or Flt-4 expression. Results:Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the positive staining rates of VEGF-D and Flt-4 in pancreatic cancer tissues were significantly lower than that in para-cancerous tissues (P0.05), but significantly higher than that in normal pancreatic tissues (P0.05). Pancreatic cancer tissues with lymph node metastasis had higher expression of VEGF-D and Flt-4 compared with those without lymph node metastasis (P0.01). The median survival time and 1-, 2-, 3-year survival rate of VEGF-D-or Flt-4-positive patients were significantly decreased compared with VEGF-D- or Flt-4-negative patients (P0.05). Conclusion: VEGF-D and Flt-4 may contribute to lymph node metastasis and may serve as a prognostic factor for pancreatic cancer patients.


Some artists and scientists in physics and animation originating from research on its form of expression thanks to the rapid development of the example in the late 20th century image production technology integrating existing media feature, perform a re-creation and pop culture content has been recognized as a key factor. animation of the modern emphasis is also commercial and artistic activities as show whether the artist can not be excluded that also target audience. The audience does not want only to receive offers simply `seeing` and `hearing` in the animation requires a more indirect mental met. the other side, the director should lead the audience to immerse myself in work as intended mystification induce the world. where a conflict occurs between the audience and the director and The director needs to have its troubleshooting point to `Technology of the communication`. Which is reduced to `How will tell,` is technology communication technologies that are abbreviated representations of animation director is accessible to the audience and it is a close relationship between the psychological aspect of audience. Because, the audience is reproduced in a limited space, but he called on the board of directors and the same time the screen, the audience located at reception and the director located at provide. It is given. led force is given to the director. for this reason, The director needs to pay attention to the psychological aspect of audience this can be explained based on psychoanalytic theory. In this paper, "How can you lie to the audience and the director is the same line?" put down logic that is the animation audience under the logic that takes place visually capture phenomenon "selective attention" and sub-concept of "goal-directed selection` and `stimulus-driven capturel` for theory of psychology. also, Induction device to elicit selective attention of the audience accordingly, let`s consider whether and how they apply in animation.


Marketing education has responded, to some extent, to the academic challenges emanating from the Big Data revolution. To provide a forum to specifically discuss how business analytics has been integrated into the marketing curriculum, we developed a Special Issue for Marketing Education Review. We start with a call to action that underscores the importance of including analytics in developing marketing students' skill sets and competencies. In response to the call for integration, five articles discuss analytics based on four pillars of the marketing curriculum: content, pedagogy, structure, and purpose.


The growth temperature curve of the growth system for the potassium lithium niobate (KLN) has been measured and the temperature decrease program has been calculated. KLN crystals with a size up to 30mm 15mm 5 mm have been grown by flux method. The primary factors of the cracking of KLN crystal have been discussed. A blue laser light output has been obtained by optical parametric oscillator pumping.\=


The paper attempts to set up an analytical framework in which an individual is defined as citizen,consumer and private person on the state,market and social dimensions.Therefore,the individual's three identities observe respective operating logic.The state needs to exercise varied intervention into different housing consuming groups, which indicates a freshly new understanding of housing and financial systems for the public.The research shows that a clear definition of the financial responsibilities taken by the central and local governments is a prerequisite for the national intervention in housing consumption and the local government's intervention is also required of efficient supervision in this sphere.


In this work the optical properties of Yb:YAl3(BO3)4 have been studied for a concentration of 2 at%. The low temperature polarized absorption and emission spectra, together with site selective spectroscopy, show the presence of different Yb3+ sites in the YAB crystal host.


The brown adipose tissue of cold adapted hamsters has an approximately 35% higher phospholipid content than that of the controls. The basal turnover rate of phosphatidylinositol is higher in cold-adapted animals than in the controls, whereas 32P incorporation into phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine and diphosphatidylglycerol is not changed. Administration of norepinephrine increases the incorporation of 32P into both control and cold-adapted animals by 200% and 220% respectively. The 32P incorporation into other phospholipid fractions is not modified.


A 70-year-old man complained left supraclavicular pulsatile tumor. Angiography and CT revealed the left subclavian arterial aneurysm that was just behind the clavicle. The aneurysm was resected through a cross-clavicle incision and an 8 mm Hemashield graft was implanted. The pathological study showed change of fibromuscular dysplasia. The post-operative course was uneventful.


Remarks on Intended Models of Mathematical Theories This note is a summary of the talk given on June 10, 2010 at the University of Opole during a meeting of The Group of Logic, Language and Information. We limit ourselves to some major points of the talk, skipping all the minor details. The main hero of this note is the notion of the intended model of a theory. Some emphasis is put on the role of extremal axioms in the characterization of such models. The notion of the intended model seems to be of some interest for linguists, too. This is one of the reasons for which this paper is published in a linguistic journal.


Retransmission is an important technique to ensure the error correction of wireless broadcasting.The combination between network coding and wireless broadcasting scheme was extended to the multi-node mode.The combination strategy of multi-node based on network coding was studied.By combining several packets,the retransmission was accomplished.One retransmission with coding packets could achieve the goal for numerous original retransmissions.Simulation results indicate that compared with existing schemes,the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the average number of transmissions and is feasible and effective.


Selective reduction of phenol to cyclohexanone over the Pd/C catalyst in the presence of a hydrogen source of HCOONa/H2O has been studied. Surprisingly, phenol was transformed efficiently to cyclohexanone in an excellent yield of above 98% under microwave irradiation. The influence of some parameters like reaction temperature, time and amount of hydrogen donor, as well as the reaction pathway has been discussed. The combination of microwave irradiation and HCOONa/H2O was certified to be effective for the reduction of phenol as well as its derivatives to their corresponding cyclohexanones.


ii Abstract The report presents results from the development of a cloud-based, Big Data analysis framework for power systems. The computational pipeline uses the Apache Spark framework running in an OpenStack cloud infrastructure. A real-world phasor measurement unit (PMU) dataset has been used to carry out the analysis. Several Machine Learning (ML) methods have been developed and implemented for event and anomaly detection and classification. Actual examples of power system events detection and analysis using synchrophasor data are presented. It has been shown that applications of the cloud-based computing environment and the Apache Spark framework enable a significant increase in the computational efficiency of large-scale PMU data analysis.


changes. Changes in the international system including increased multipolarity after World War II are viewed as having encouraged new adaptive foreign policy strategies aimed at maximizing national autonomy. A central focus of their analysis is the question of whether this movement toward greater autonomy will extend through the 1980s in light of the deepening regional economic crisis and increased U.S. propensity to intervene (e.g., the Falklands/Malvinas, Grenada, Central America). The body of this book consists of a series of essays that further specify the nature of the regional systemic context and examine the foreign policy behavior of individual countries. Jack Child provides a thought-provoking examination of emerging conflict patterns in the region, arguing that the early post-World War II period of Latin American interstate relations was unusually tranquil. He sees it as being rapidly replaced by a more difficult period of ideologically motivated conflict in the Caribbean Basin and geostrategically motivated middle-power conflict in South America. Yale Ferguson traces the sporadic and perhaps reversible movement toward regional integration, and Paul Sigmund examines changing patterns of U.S. behavior toward Latin America.


The author identifies three distinct mediation sequencing strategies used in intractable communal conflicts: the gradualism model; a "boulder-in-the-road" approach; and the "committee" strategy. Using case examples of contemporary mediation efforts, he describes the three approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. A wider-angle approach to the differences in how mediators and conflicting parties achieve peace in these destructive conflicts is useful for both scholarly inquiry and practice.


Using the code RELAP5/MOD3.3 to model and calculate the natural circulation of single-phase flow for the PWR,this paper provides the distribution of forward flow and reverse flow in the inverted U-tubes of the steam generator(SG) under some typical operating conditions in the natural circulation case,and analyzes the cause,occurrence condition and judgment principle of reverse flow phenomenon.The calculation results show that the occurrence conditions for reverse flow phenomenon are that the steam generator outlet pressure is higher than the inlet pressure and gravitational pressure drop is lower than the total of frictional pressure drop and area change pressure drop.As to the nuclear power plant described in this paper,if the water level of steam generator keeps normal,the mass flux of the shorter U-tubes will drop more quickly and reverse flow will occur.The temperature distributes uniformly in U-tubes with reverse flow and it is almost identical with that of SG in secondary side.


The hexavalent chromium contained in wastewater of some industries is toxic to most microorganisms and potentially harmful to human health. The application of photochemical reduction of Cr( vi ) in the treatment of wastewater from the electroplating industry was studied, and a continuous reactor in spiral shape made of borosilicate was designed and constructed (SSR). The statistical model of a circumscribed central composite design (CCCD) was used to investigate the influence of the amount of ethanol and the initial concentration of hexavalent chromium on total Cr( vi ) reduction. A total Cr( vi ) reduction of 46.0% was achieved under the optimal conditions established by the experimental design, using a synthetic Cr( vi ) solution. In addition, the photochemical reduction of Cr( vi ) follows pseudo first-order kinetics. The SSR exhibited similar behavior to that of the plug flow reactor (PFR), and presented higher photonic efficiency than the batch reactor. Finally, the designed reactor was effective when applied to real wastewater, showing a total Cr( vi ) reduction of 51.8%, and its configuration is suitable for scale up.


To implement the management of data quality control in laboratory,we developed the laboratory quality control system.This system is based on.NET development platform and B/S mode.The system uses the open-source OFC(Open-Flash-Chart) framework that generates quality control chart and displays detailed information about the chart with flash format.The system also uses jQuery framework that saves the quality control chart as picture and prints the web page as report.The managers of laboratory can real-time monitor the quality control process and master the data and chart about quality control.The workers of laboratory can print the report instantaneously by means of the system,instead of drawing the report by hand.At the same time,the design can be extended to other application in which the system generates statistical chart.


The confiscation of property is a conventional measure of criminal law impact, therefore, it is included in different normative interpretations of all European states. The legal regulation of the confiscation of property changed in Belarus on July 19, 2019, when it was excluded from the system of punishments and ceased to be applied as a measure of additional punishment. The legislation preserved special confiscation of property acquired as a result of a crime or connected with committing a crime; at the same time, the scope of its application was broadened to include cases of exemption from criminal liability. Special confiscation is determined as a compulsory measure of criminal law character, and not a criminal law measure. A measure that is similar in its content — the confiscation of property — has been in force in Russia since 2006. The authors of the article describe the dual nature of confiscation provided for in the norms of the Criminal Codes and the Criminal Procedure Codes of both countries, as well as the legal ambiguity of these norms. They analyze the legal positions of the Constitutional and the Supreme Courts of Belarus and Russia on the problem of the correlation and application of competing criminal law and criminal procedure norms on confiscations, as well as the court practice of their application, which is contradictory and lacking in uniformity. They recommend how the above-mentioned norms of the Criminal and the Criminal Procedure Codes of Belarus and Russia could be amended. The authors also identify the positive and negative sides of normative regulation of confiscation in both countries and show how Russia and the Republic of Belarus could draw on the positive experience of one another: they give a positive assessment to the absence of a link between special confiscation of property and concrete articles of the Special Part of criminal legislation, as well as to the possibility of using the analyzed measure in cases of exemption from criminal liability without exoneration in Belarus law; Russian law poses a good example of regulating the possibility of seizing not only the property to be confiscated, but also money and other property whose value is proportionate to the value of the property to be confiscated in cases of its absence. It is proven that only the norms of criminal law could act as grounds for the confiscation of property in the Russian Federation (special confiscation in the Republic of Belarus). Criminal procedure norms should just regulate the procedure of applying the norms of criminal law on the confiscation of property (special confiscation).


Precision agriculture (PA) is a combination of latest technologies planned to increase the productivity and profitability by retaining the quality of the fertile land and surrounding environment. Crop monitoring in precision agriculture will be achieved by implementing innovative techniques; however the utilization of Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) results in low power and low cost utilization arrangements thus turning into a predominant alternative. It is likewise outstanding that harvests are additionally influenced adversely by interlopers (human or animals) and by insufficient control of the production process. Crop surveillance through drone is one of the technical approaches to capture and distinguish the crop patterns, which helps in early detection of the crop damage, leads the farmers to take care for crop yield. Drone is also termed as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). These vehicles are equipped with required electronic sensors, cameras and a flight control system to simulate the UAV, with small in size and flexible to handle and operate, These Aerial Vehicles can operate within indoor as well as at outdoor. The goal of the research is to contribute to the implementation and deployment of remote sensing technology with UAV. This paper enumerate on the applications of UAVs for crop scouting and analyzing the transmitted images using NDVI to predict the crop growth and yield


This study was aimed to compare estimation methods of crop water requirement and irrigation scheduling for major crops using different models and compare the significance of models for adoption in different situations of the Metekel zone. Crop water requirement and irrigation scheduling of maize in selected districts of Metekel zone were estimated using CropWat model based on soil, crop and meteorological data, and AquaCrop based on soil, crop and meteorological data including Co2, groundwater, field management, and fertility status. Model performance was evaluated using Normalized Root mean square errors (NRMSE), model by Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), Prediction error (Pe), and Model efficiency (MF). It is observed that the maximum reference evapotranspiration in the study area was found to be 7.1 mm/day in Guba and the minimum reference evapotranspiration was 2.9 mm/day in Bullen district. In all cases, the maximum ETo in all districts was fund to in March and the lowest in August. The maximum ETc of maize was found to be 702.4mm in Guba district and the minimum ETc was found to be 572.6mm in Bullen district using CropWat but the effective rainfall (Pe) for maize was determined as 185mm respectively in Wembera district. However, using the AquaCrop model the maximum ETc of 565 mm was recorded in Guba but 425 mm was recorded as a minimum in the Wembera district for irrigated maize in the study area. The study revealed that the irrigation scheduling with a fixed interval criterion for maize 10 days with 12 irrigation events has been determined. Moreover, furrow irrigation with 60% irrigation application efficiency was adjusted during irrigation water applications for all districts. The performance of the irrigation schedule and crop response was evaluated by the analysis results in the simulation using different models. It has been observed that there were a strong relationship and a significant relation between the simulated and observed values for validation. Hence, Normalized Root mean square errors (NRMSE), model by Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), Prediction error (Pe), and Model efficiency (MF) showed that the AquaCrop model well simulated in all parameters considered. AquaCrop model is the most suitable soil-water-crop-environment management model, so future studies should suggest a focus on addressing deficit irrigation strategy with different field management conditions to improve agricultural water productivity under irrigated agriculture for the study area for major crops.


Based on the theory of multi-body system dynamics,the finite element model of vehicle's body,the rigidflexible coupled model of the vehicle and the acoustic boundary element model of the vehicle of an ambulance carriage were established by applying a variety of simulation codes.Road roughness and engine vibration were simulated and the weighted SPL of field points in the carriage under these excitations were computed in the frequency range of 20~150 Hz.Considering the magnitudes and the positive/negative nature of wall panels'acoustic contribution,damping treatments were taken on different combinations of panels to reduce the SPL peak values at several field points.Finally,the optimal damping treatment was confirmed.The results show that the magnitudes and frequency distribution of the SPL peaks of the field points depends on the frequency distribution of the exciting force's energy.The adhesive damping materials can reduce the noise as well as change the frequency distribution of the SPL.The noise reduction measures can also reduce the SPL around the crew of the ambulance.


PurposeUnder the big data background, there are many influencing factors for investors of new energy vehicles (NEV), and government subsidies promote the sustainable development of the new energy vehicle industry. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to provide solutions for the sustainable development of NEV.Design/methodology/approachThe sustainable marketing strategy of NEV in China is put forward. This paper first analyzes the subsidy policy effect of NEV under the background of big data. It then establishes the online optimal leasing strategy under multiple strategy choices and the online leasing strategy of multiple vehicles under the inflation market.FindingsWith the fixed cost of NEV in each lease period, the optimal competition ratio of online decision-makers will continue to decrease with the increase of the difference between prepaid funds and government subsidies. In the decision-making of renting and purchasing multiple vehicles, the general strategy competition ratio is 2.922, while the optimal competition ratio of the online renting and purchasing strategy proposed by the research is 2.723.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is limited by the limited data and information collected, so the optimal decision-making model has some limitations. The authors need to find more representative data to optimize the model.Practical implicationsAs an emerging industry, NEV have developed rapidly in recent years. Based on the online algorithm and competitive ratio theory, this paper solves the decision-making problem of operators and gives the optimal strategy to promote the green development of the new energy vehicle industry.Originality/valueThis paper proposes the optimal strategy for online investors of new energy vehicle operators by combining online algorithm and competitive ratio theory. The numerical analysis results of the optimal online model under multi strategy selection show that with the same difference between prepaid funds and government subsidies, the time point will be delayed and the time point will be advanced as the cost of leasing NEV in each period increases.


Autonomous agents are designed to take actions on behalf of users, acting autonomously upon data from sensors or online sources. However, the performance and actions of such agents are liable to uncertainties. As such, the design of interaction mechanisms that enable users to understand the operation of autonomous agents and flexibly delegate or regain control is an open challenge for HCI. Against this background, in this thesis we report on three studies designed to better understand how to help users interact with autonomous agents. In particular, we begin by understanding how people deal with uncertainties when delegating agency to autonomous services. We then examined the impact of different agent-designs and feedback mechanisms, inspired by the factors that encourages people to delegate agency in an everyday setting. Based on our findings, we discuss key implications for the design of future autonomous technologies and the design of interaction mechanisms to help users make the best use of such systems.


Fundamental mechanistic features of copper mediated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) are presented together with a discussion on radical intermediates involved in atom transfer process. Rate constants of racemization of optically active methyl 2-bromopropionate, of halogen exchange, of trapping with TEMPO and with methyl methacrylate are very similar, confirming free radical intermediates. Rate constant of reaction of propionate radical with methyl methacrylate under model ATRP conditions at 22 °C (k= 5.6 10 4 mol -1 L s -1 ) is nearly identical to that measured by time resolved EPR (k= 6.0 10 4 mol -1 L s -1 ).


INTRODUCTION: The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) is a self-administered questionnaire that assesses pain, joint stiffness and disability in patients suffering from osteoarthritis of the hip and knee. The WOMAC index is validated for patients with osteoarthritis and is endorsed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Committee on Outcome Studies for lower extremity arthoplasty evaluation. However, the WOMAC index has limitations; it does not measure the actual function of patients. Standardized functional testing of patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) has never been established and is currently being evaluated via the physical functioning domain of the WOMAC and Short Form 36 questionnaire (SF-36). Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate the relationship between pre-operative performance-based tests with the WOMAC index and SF-36 questionnaire of those patients undergoing THA.


Machine learning and data-driven algorithms have gained a growth of interest during the past decades due to the computation capability of the computers which has increased and the quantity of data available in various domains. One possible application of machine learning is to perform unsupervised anomaly detection. Indeed, among all available data, the anomalies are supposed to be very sparse and the expert might not have the time to label all the data as nominal or not. Many solutions exist to this unsupervised problem, but are known to provide many false alarms, because some scarce nominal modes might not be included in the training dataset and thus will be detected as anomalies. To tackle this issue, we propose to present an existing iterative algorithm, which presents potential anomaly to the expert at each iteration, and compute a new boundary according to this feedback using One Class Support Vector Machine.


An increasing number of elderly people are remaining at home long into their senior years. This is a highly vulnerable population, at risk of loneliness, isolation, depression and associated adverse health outcomes. Intergenerational social programs are intended to enable social contact, promote active participation and sharing, as well as provide a sense of meaning for seniors. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine social and health outcomes of long-term senior participants at the intergenerational organization, LINKages. Twenty-one participants completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Engagement in Meaningful Activities Scale, MOS Social Support Survey, the Short Form Health Survey and participated in a semi-structured interview. Results indicate that intergenerational programs do target lonely seniors, who have an average sense of engagement in meaningful activities compared with standardized norms. A stronger bond with a younger volunteer was associated an increased sense of social support. Finally, decreased loneliness, engagement in meaningful activities and sense of social support were all related to increased vitality. The study findings indicate that intergenerational programming is successful in targeting lonely older adults and that improvements in the social outcomes, such as loneliness, support and sense of meaning are associated with better health.


I did some studies and found out that all pipe instruments produce sound from vibration of the standing sound waves in a column of air in the pipe. Frequency of the tone played depends on the length o f the pipe. I also found out that vibrations of the air column is set up by the vibrating lip o f the player of brass instruments and by the airstream directed against one edge of an opening for woodwind instruments. The air within the tube vibrates with a variety of frequencies, but only certain frequencies persist. They are called resonant.


Objective To study the structure of new CTXφ and nct-CTXφ genomes coexisted in O139 serogroup Vibrio cholerae(VC) strains.Methods Genes including end of core region of CTXφ or nct-CTXφ and start of genome were gotten by using PCR method,and were digested with RsaI and BglII differentially,and tested with PCR using specific primers to indentify type of rstR-ig2.Genes including part of TLC and RS region,and genes including part of RTX and core region of CTXφ or nct-CTXφ,were gotten by using PCR method.Results The typical O139VC strains with rstR-ig2 types of CTXφ and/or nct-CTXφ were FJ9510 strain including CTXETφ,FJ98352 strain including CTXETφ and nct-CTX calcφ,FJ99364 strain including CTXETφ and nct-CTXnewO139φ and nct-CTXcalcφ,JS9803 strain including CTXETφ and nct-CTX newO139φ,and JX94484 strain including CTXETφ and nct-CTXnewETφ.46 bp of 3′ part of zot genes of CTXφ and nct-CTXφ were compared and 20 different sites were observed,and 11 of presumptive 15 AAA were different.Genes near CTXφ genomes of O139VC strains were TLC and RTX clusters,but genes near nct-CTXφ genomes were new or unidentified genes.Conclusions Changeable genes of CTXφ and nct-CTXφ of O139VC and insertion genes in chromosome were elucidated.


T HE open area known as " The Herms " at the extreme northwest corner of the Agora and the colonnade that faced on to it, the Stoa of the Herms, were prominent in the life of Classical Athens as the focus of the colorful activities of the Athenian cavalry.2 Area and stoa both await excavation, but discoveries in their vicinity have already produced substantial evidence of the cavalry's presence. Until very recently, such evidence was limited to monuments of stone: bases and a sculptured relief erected by victors in the annual cavalry competitions and two


1. Abstract This paper presents two approaches developed at the Australian National University for modelling the transient response of a parabolic dish steam cavity receiver. Both approaches are based on a heat transfer model for a cylindrical pipe using a moving-boundary formulation, and feature the ability to model multiple phase flow that changes dynamically. A model simulation is implemented in TRNSYS 16 and compared against an experimental run for the ANU 500m² "SG4" system. Whilst much work internationally on dish concentrator systems has looked at their application with Stirling engines, they are also well suited to the operation of direct steam generating receivers that can produce the highest temperatures and pressures that commercial steam turbines operate at. It is envisaged that plants based on large arrays of dishes would operate by collecting the steam from all the dishes and transporting it to a central power block via a steam line network. Transient modelling for a solar thermal energy plant is crucial for the accurate estimation of its performance. Furthermore, an accurate model can provide insights into the plant's design and possibilities for optimisation. Another feature of a transient model is its usefulness in developing an automatic control system. This paper reviews the transient model of a dish steam cavity receiver developed by Siangsukone [1] and compares it with a new model currently under development at the ANU Solar Thermal Group. Both models are described and compared. A qualitative analysis is also included discussing the relative merits of each approach. Experimental results of the new dish are compared with a simulation, which is part of ongoing work by the authors. 3. Dish Systems at ANU


Results are presented from monitoring and predicting changes in subgrade resilient modulus with season of the year for test sites on the U.S. Forest Service road system. Data collection involved measuring deflection, subgrade moisture content, and soil suction over an 18-month period at four test sites located in Washington and Oregon. In addition the pavement materials (asphalt concrete and base and subgrade materials) were sampled and a series of laboratory resilient modulus tests was conducted on each sample. The laboratory and field data were used to develop methods of predicting changes in subgrade stiffness (strength) over time. The two most promising methods were those obtained from regression equations developed from the laboratory test data for the pavement materials and appropriate elastic-layered computer programs and a hand-calculation method based on deflection measurements.


The flank glands commonly present in genera of Meocricetus, Cricetus and Cricetulus are specialized sebaceous glands and important sources of chemical signals. We studied the size, tissues structure and chemical characteristics of secretions of flank glands between male and female ratlike hamsters (Cricetulus triton). We found that the flank gland weights in males and females were significantly positively correlated with body weights, respectively. There were not significantly sexual differences in flank gland weights of juveniles, while adult males' flank glands were significantly heavier than those of adult females. The sebaceous alveoli of adult males' flank glands were larger than females'. Further more, there were sexual difference in gas chromatograms obtained from the flank gland secretion. Our results demonstrated that the mechanism the flank glands may function as sex recognition organs in ratlike hamsters.


Methods for measuring onset latency contrasts are evaluated against a new method utilizing the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. This new method allows latency to be measured across a region instead of single point. We use computer simulations to compare the methods' power and Type I error rates under different scenarios. We perform per-participant analysis for different signal-to-noise ratios and two sizes of window (broad vs. narrow). In addition, the methods are tested in combination with single-participant and jackknife average waveforms for different effect sizes, at the group level. DTW performs better than the other methods, being less sensitive to noise as well as to placement and width of the window selected.


This article summarizes the experience of research on the processes of resourcing, analyzes current data for 2020–2021 in order to predict the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on international production chains, and also provides an analysis of Russia's position in the post-pandemic world economy.


Since Solow and Wan (1976), the least cost principle has been generally accepted as a rule for natural resource use. Although numerous subsequent papers reexamined the validity of the least cost principle from several perspectives, none of them investigated this rule in presence of uncertainty. As manifested Dixit and Pindyck (1994) among others, a decision for which resource should be utilized at first is in fact irreversible in a sense that it incurs sunk cost. Hence, in the presence of uncertainty along with irreversible cost, investment decision should be analyzed in a real option framework. This paper provides stylized real option models to analyze the optimal utilization of natural resources. Various forms of uncertainty is separately introduced such as environmental damage uncertainty, electricity price uncertainty, and fuel price uncertainty. The first part of presented model suggests that the least cost principle is still valid even when environmental damage is taken into account. The second part considers a fuel switching problem when electricity price or fuel price follows a stochastic process. It provides an optimal rule at which the least cost principle determines optimal intertemporal allocation of fuels.


The most important skills employers are looking for in engineering are creativity, ability to work in teams and critical thinking. However the most used teaching methods at universities, based on individual assignments or group projects while do address the creativity, fall back on the critical thinking and even in team work skill. Collaborative learning was long suggested as a good alternative for enhancing these skills and recent evolution in social coding sites and collaborative software development give a new opportunity to employ such teaching method. This paper presents the results of a collaborative learning experiment carried out by using GitHub in laboratory assignments, where the main focus was on the direct interaction of the students on each other's learning process. Results were analyzed in comparison with traditional methods and also perspectives of enhancing the learning experience in the vision of current workforce requirements.


Consider baclofen toxicity in the differential diagnosis of appropriate clinical scenarios such as patients presenting with otherwise unexplained coma, absent brainstem reflexes, and myoclonus, given the potential, reversibility with appropriate treatment and supportive care.


The equilibrium structures, vibrational spectra, and relative energetics of the FNO2, cis‐FONO, and trans‐FONO isomers have been investigated using high‐levels of ab initio theory. These methods include second‐order Mo/ller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2), singles and doubles coupled‐cluster (CCSD) theory, and the CCSD(T) method, which incorporates a perturbational estimate of the effects of connected triple excitations. FNO2 is determined to be 36.9±2.5 kcal/mol (0 K) more stable than cis‐FONO, which is more stable than trans‐FONO by 2.5±1.0 kcal/mol (0 K). The molecular structure of cis‐FONO is shown to have typical F–O and central O–N single bond distances, indicating that cis‐FONO has a structure analogous to HONO. The computed vibrational spectrum of cis‐FONO is shown to be consistent with infrared matrix isolation experiments, including isotopic shifts. The experimentally deduced structure of FONO (based on a normal coordinate analysis), however, is shown to be incorrect because one of the vibrati...


The ivory tower is the home of academic law librarians who teach legal research. But, because of the practical nature of legal research, legal research professors must make sure they reach outside of the ivory tower to connect with contemporary legal research practice. This connection to the "real world" allows legal research professors to better prepare law students to research in the "real world." This desire to stay connected to current legal research practice outside of the academy led the authors to form the Practitioners' Council. This Council, made up of seven practicing attorneys, acts as an advisory board regarding current legal research practice and provides "real world" insight and experiences that enhance legal research instruction. This connection has helped the authors improve their legal research curriculum, better motivate students, and align legal research instruction with current legal research practice.This article explores the need for academic law librarians teaching legal research to connect with contemporary legal research practice and examines how the Practitioners' Council meets that need. It also details the creation and use of the Council, including the benefits derived from the Council. Finally, the authors offer tips for running a successful Council and other ways in which they plan to use the Practitioners' Council in the future.


Bark and leaves of Ficus mollis Vahl (Moraceae) are reported as folk medicinal plant parts. The samples of bark and leaves of ficus mollis (vahl) are subjected to HPTLC analysis. Heavy metal contents such as mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and minerals like Iron, copper, manganese, zinc, cobalt analysis using atomic absorption spectroscopy and pesticide residues by GCMS were carried out. The study revealed that heavy metals are within the permissible limit. The data evolved in the present work will aid in identifying these drugs in dry form and in standardization of the drug.


Down's syndrome (DS) patients show accelerated Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, which consists of preamyloid lesions followed by the development of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The major constituents of preamyloid and neuritic plaques are amyloid β (Aβ) peptides. Preamyloid lesions are defined as being Aβ immunoreactive lesions, which unlike neuritic plaque amyloid are Congo red-negative and largely nonfibrillar ultrastructurally. DS patients can develop extensive preamyloid deposits in the cerebellum, without neuritic plaques; hence, DS cerebellums are a source of relatively pure preamyloid. We biochemically characterized the composition of DS preamyloid and compared it to amyloid in the neuritic plaques and leptomeninges in the same patients. We found that Aβ17-42 or p3 is a major Aβ peptide of DS cerebellar preamyloid. This 26-residue peptide is also present in low quantities in neuritic plaques. We suggest that preamyloid can now be defined biochemically as lesions in which a major Aβ peptide is p3.


The Inspection System Division has traditionally performed 3D measurement of printed mounting boards and inspected them according to quantified quality standards. AOI (Automated Optical Inspection) and AXI (3D-CT method) inspect the shape of solder. The automated x-ray inspection, Q-upNavi, analyzes quality data and production information from each process inspection device, and Q-upAuto cooperates with a mounter to contribute to production that does not create defects, and many at the production site contribute to the prevention of defective outflow and the maintenance and improvement of quality. The Q-upSystem, which consists of Q-upAuto and Q-upNavi, is being developed while adding data and processing, and in order to apply step-by-step function expansion to the production site, uses a high-speed server. You need a foundation to realize the function. In this paper, we developed a Q-upSystem data collection/analysis platform that adds knowledge of linking/ accumulating/analyzing manufacturing data and quality data based on the method of constructing a data analysis platform, such as big data. Based on the quality data of the final process, we evaluated the performance of data search/acquisition for the function that optimizes the inspection criteria of the previous process and obtained sufficient high speed without introducing a high-speed server.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of firm size and sales growth against tax avoidance. The population which is the object of this research is manufacturing base and chemical industry sectors listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2013 - 2015. The population of 201 companies, then the sample is obtained by using purposive sampling which then generates a sample of 81 companies for further investigation. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. For accuracy in the calculation if the research data using SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solution) version 22. The results of this study show that company size and sales growth positive effect on tax avoidance. Keywords: firm size, sales growth, tax avoidance


This chapter discusses some questions thrown up by anarchism as it is transplanted in political, social and cultural/intellectual environments different from the one that gave rise to it in the first place. The issue is ultimately the relationship between anarchism and place. Anarchism in China is best grasped through a regional perspective that makes it possible to glimpse the many translocal ties within which anarchism flourished for a period of three decades. Political and ideological differences among the Chinese anarchists were visible in the different readings they placed on anarchism and, by implication, on the question of its relationship to Chinese cultural legacies, which were themselves in the process of radical re-evaluation in the early part of the 20th century. Keywords:anarchism; Chinese cultural legacies


Patients with implanted stents who develop an allergic reaction elsewhere in the body from various different causes are prone to develop intrastent thrombosis. Stent thrombosis has been associated with allergic symptoms such as glottis edema, cold sweat, and tongue enlargement following a flaxonate/propyphenazone administration a week after stent implantation. [1] Acute myocardial infarction in the stented area coincided with allergic reactions following intravenous administration of the non-anionic contrast material iopromide during a routine excretory urography.[2] Late drug eluting stent thrombosis defined as a type III variant of Kounis syndrome[3] has occurred following an allergic reaction to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent acemetacine.[4] Intrastent thromboses have also been reported following insect and larvae stinginduced allergic reactions.[5] Even allergies to clopidogrel,[6] the drug given to prevent stent thrombosis, has induced stent thrombosis. All above reports concerned patients who were receiving multiple medications following stent implantation. Therefore, one can assume that stents, like magnets, attract inflammatory cells and constitute the area of possible mast cell and platelet activation.


Fieldwork is an important method in geography and one of geographical traditions.Although it is very difficult to inquire the relationship between methodology and methods on fieldwork,human geographers have started to focus on it.The Chinese book,"Fieldwork Methods in Human Geography" edited by Prof.Zhou Shangyi,not only explores this issue,but introduces many methods and cases on fieldwork.Because methodology is concerned about practice of discipline,it can and must conduct fieldwork.As a kind of technique and art,works on human geography should be "IUPA",which means interesting,useful,powerful,and aesthetic.


This paper provides a review of the recent advancements in technologies for Smart Home Automation and Hierarchical Wireless Multimedia Management systems (such as Hierarchical Mobile IP) and its potential application and integration to Smart Home systems. The principles of Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 are adopted for providing mobility on the design of the architecture for MIP-Based Smart Home. Smart Home technology is the integration of technology and services through home networking for a better quality of living while Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 introduces a new node called the Mobile Anchor Point (MAP) to improve the handover speed performance of Mobile IPv6 by reducing the amount of signaling in the ongoing connection between the mobile node, its correspondent nodes, and its home agent.


Law "On Police" is analyzed from the point of view of authorities' formalization of this organ of executive power in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Constitution of the RF allocates three levels of legal regulation: federal, regional and municipal, on which law enforcement activities of OVD is implemented.


An interesting, but little explored, problem is the degree to which clinical and counseling psychologists stereotype their patients and clients, i.e., assume that those seeking help are drawn from the same or similar diagnostic populations, reflect roughly equivalent degrees of psychopathology, and are universally amenable to a single treatment modality. To assess, in part, individual biases, the test protocols (WAIS, Rorschach, MMPI, and Strong Vocational Interest Blank) of two neuropsychiatric parients were duplicated and distributed to 100 Ph.D. psychologists actively engaged in test evaluation. Ss were instructed to review the protocols and record quantitative judgments for each of the two patients on mimeographed sheets provided for that purpose. Those judgments examined were considered to be of typical concern in psychological reports. Arranged on 5-point scales, they included the extent of psychopathology, the patients' readiness to work, the prognosis (ranging from very poor to very good), the subjective certainty with which Ss judged the patients to be psychotic or neurotic, and the certainty with which each of four types of treatment would be proposed. Of the nine judgmental categories examined, significant Pearsonian correlations between patients were found in five: extent of psychopathology ( r = .37, p = .Ol ), present work readiness ( r = .16), prognosis ( r = 3 0 , p = .01), psychotic reaction ( r = .07), neurotic reaction ( r = .06), counseling as a recommended treatment ( r = .49, 9 = .01), short-term psychotherapy (r = .37, p = .Ol), long-term psychotherapy ( r = .18), inpatient hospitalization ( r .21, p = .05). The reader is reminded that "factual" similarity between the two patients could not contribute toward positive correlations since, whatever the patients' "true" scores, r is a function of systematic, rather than randomized, errors in judgment. The results are interpreted as indicating little or no tendency for psychologists to affix the same diagnostic label on different patients. Similarly, there is flexibility in adjudged readiness to work. However, while some psychologists consistently ascribe little psychopathology to patients, others consistently ascribe more. Whereas some are typically optimistic in their prognoses, others are characterized by pessimism. Personal biases are also reflected in the recommendations of various methods of treatment. The implications for the use of testing in clinical and counseling practice are extensive and warrant further research.


The soils on submediterranean part of the Karst are a very important natural potential. People living on the karst were forced to modify soils. In the submediterranean region terra rossa and lessivated (noncarbonate) soils, rendzinas, calcocambisols on limestone and dolomite are very important for farming. Stony and rocky karstic lands prevent the growth of the herb vegetation due to the fact that adequate water is very low in the surface. Using the evaluation of the ecological soil properties (the depth, the porousness for water, the cation exchange capacity, the soil modifications due to the human activities) the classification of the observed types of soils regarding to their appropriate usage is designed.


It has been difficult for me to know what to make of Caspi and Moffitt's target article. It brings together an impressive array of experimental studies from diverse areas of psychology, suggests mechanisms underlying the coherence of personality, and makes interesting references to anthropological ideas and evolutionary theory. On the other hand, the reasoning underlying the structuring of all this evidence seems to me arbitrary and unsound. The first confusing premise is that individual differences, after early childhood, are very hard to detect because they are masked by social roles. Therefore, a pressing problem is to devise a strategy for removal of masks. It is true that, after early childhood, most of us do not sing songs to our physician or try to take turns with the stethoscope. We conform to the role of patient. But, we do not hide our hypochondriacal concerns, tension and irritability, intellectual curiosity, or stoic acceptance. Caspi and Moffitt quote Block (1981), but they do not listen to his full message, to McCrae and Costa (1990), or to many others. There is massive evidence for the validity and longitudinal stability of individual differences in personality. Individual differences (as assessed by inventories and other personality measures) are indeed affected by our work roles (Kohn & Schooler, 1978) and by other role configurations over time (Helson & Picano, 1990), but they are not "masked," and they continue to influence behavior in important ways. The next step in Caspi and Moffitt's argument is to show what personality psychologists already knowthat differences in personality are more apparent in situations that do not pull for the same behavior from everybody. Caspi and Moffitt cite many pages of evidence that individual differences in dogs, monkeys, babies, and children are conspicuous in novel, ambiguous, and threatening situations. They do not mention that personality differences might also be reduced in such situations or that personality differences are apparent without such emergency. Rather, they fix on the idea that, to find personality differences when they are clear-cut, we should study them in life transitions that are novel, ambiguous, and threatening. This idea represents a "fundamentally different perspective" that Caspi and Moffitt describe as paradoxical. Although transitions have hitherto been regarded as times when people change, the authors say, transitions actually are times when people show their stripes. In my view, this apparent paradox is maintained by shifting meanings of terms. When it is suggested that people change in connection with the "transition to parenthood," for example, one is referring primarily to mean level change in personality characteristics (Feldman & Aschenbrenner, 1983) or perhaps to general processes of adaptation to change (Stewart & Healy, 1985). The question of rank-order change in personality over the course of transitions, which is what Caspi and Moffitt studied in girls before and after menarche (if behavior problems count as an adequate assessment of personality), has received less attention, perhaps because, as these authors say, rank-order stability tends to be high. I know of no consensus or major theory holding that rank-order change is pronounced in transitions, so I have trouble seeing the paradox. It is true that some studies report less rank-order stability from adolescence to young adulthood than over other periods of the life span (Finn, 1986; Haan, Millsap, & Hartka, 1986; Helson & Moane, 1987). The change from the structured and sheltered environments of home and school to the heterogeneous wide world has often been an unprotected transition in which some young people do better and others do worse than previous adjustment leads one to expect. This evidence goes against Caspi and Moffitt's argument. Although there was less stability from ages 21 to 27 than from ages 27 to 43 in the Mills Longitudinal Study (Helson & Moane, 1987), stability was still high, and individual differences among the women in the senior year of college showed highly significant relations to subsequent role patterns. We have pointed out that our findings might be particularly striking because the participants were members of a transitional cohort for whom there were strong pressures to marry and have children along with new opportunities in the labor force and the gathering storm of the women's movement (Helson, Elliott, & Leigh, 1989; Helson & Picano, 1990). However, it was the social change in the whole country that made it possible for differences in personality among these women at their time of transition to the adult world to be expressed in different life-paths. Thus, the consequences (importance) of individual differences in a life transition depend on the social and historical context. The experimental model adopted by Caspi and Moffitt throughout most of their target article does not seem to me sufficient for the study of personality in


from among the words that might sum up Saul Bellow in the way that "The South" does William Faulkner or "courage*' does Ernest Hemingway, I would choose "sensuality''?surprisingly, I admit, since we seldom think of Bellow in this light. Bellow treats sex with neither the explicitness of John Updike nor the mysticism of Norman Mailer. His protagonist struggles not to get the girl but to get over her or away from her. Because sex is something Bellow's women impose on the men?I think of Stella tempting Augie in The Adventures of Augie March or Ramona in Herzog entertaining a distracted and resentful Moses?the Bellow protagonist is really something of a prude. If the mere existence of this theme is striking, however, Bellow's use of it and the degree to which it has shaped his work are even more so. By "sensual" I mean that area of life that encompasses both intense sensation and sexuality, the first somehow becoming the second. And in these terms the sensual in Bellow's work is not a matter of human relations (a subject explored by Victoria Sullivan) nor of sexual hygiene (see Robert Boyer's "Attitudes toward Sex in American 'High Culture' "), but a matter of setting and metaphysics. Sex is everywhere and nowhere; it permeates Bellow's imaginative world with an overwhelming presence and yet is seldom remarked by the protagonist. In a very real sense Bellow's protagonists are all the same character and suffer the same predicament: they are victims of the forces that lie behind sexuality, so that the anger of their women is nothing compared to the threat that lies just beyond the vision?the threat of an immense and angry force to which sexuality belongs. Bellow uses sex, in short, to define our place in the universe. To his imagination, most interestingly, the sensual exists on a continuum with the energies that drive the universe and so is related to them: the sensual may hint at what we are, may dramatize at times our creaturely existence, which we must accept to be healthy?a central fact Bellow makes concrete in his master ly evocation of faces and bodies?and may at other times remind us of our perishable physical being, which the mind or the spirit sees as a cosmic putdowrr, the dying animal to which our consciousness is tied. Is man really an accident of nature? Bellow doesn't think so for a minute, and the special potential in sex for tenderness and force, love and exploitation makes it a litmus test of reality. And what kind of evidence exists for such a reading? The best evidence lies in the structuralist approach, as we seek the central tale to which Bellow returns, dressing old bones in new clothes. Sensuality provides a remarkably coherent explanation of the evolution of Bellow's fiction. But Bellow's imag


[Objective] To understand pathogen distribution in patients with lower respiratory tract infection and characteristics of bacterial resistance,and to guide the rational antibiotics administration in clinic.[Methods]2853 strains of pathogens isolated from the lower respiratory tract of patients in Dandong Municipal Central Hospital were conducted analysis of drug resistance.[Results] Of the isolated pathogens,gram negative(G-)strains accounted for 67.74% and gram positive strains(G+)occupied 21.92%.Among the isolated G-strains,the major pathogens were Klebsiella pneumoniae(20.19%),Enterobacter cloacae(9.57%),Escherichia coli(8.83%),Bowman /hemolytic Acinetobacter(7.33%),Pseudomonas aeruginosa(6.66%).Among the isolated G+ strains,the major pathogens were Staphylococcus aureus(5.04%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis(4.52%).The G-strains were most sensitive to Aztreonam and imipenem;the G+ strains were most sensitive to vancomycin and Rifampicin.[Conclusion] G-bacteria are the main pathogen involving in respiratory tract infection.Drug resistance test should be carried out according to the variety of pathogenic bacteria(including fungi) so as to use antibiotics rationally and decrease drug resistance and fatal dual infection.


[Extract] Today's media contains the sobering news that an asylum seeker known as Latifa has been detained separately from her week old infant Farus, who is suffering respiratory problems. She is permitted to visit him between 10am-4pm but is otherwise detained with her husband and two other children. Farus' father has not been permitted to visit.

The reaction to the treatment of Latifa, Farus and their family has focused on the cruelty of separating a mother and sick infant. I agree with this assessment, but I am always interested to observe the essentialising of women's role as mother. I think that it is worthwhile to look more deeply into this picture to tease out what values are at stake in our government's treatment of this woman, her child and the child's father.


This paper presents a new static approach for termination analysis of the active rules, based on Petri nets. It consists of the detection of cycles in a graph called ECPN (Extend Colored Petri Net). In this approach, not only composite events can affect the termination of a set of active rules but also the condition and the priority of a rule. A comparative study of the suggested method with the most known approaches was made to show our contribution in the field considered.


Chalk squeal is a common phenomenon encountered in the classroom. The sound radiated from a chalk/blackboard system is possible because of two physical characteristics of the system. The first characteristic is that the frictional forces at the board and chalk interface are not constant when (stick‐slip phenomenon) steady, normal, and shear forces are exerted on the chalk. The second characteristic is that the resonances of the chalk are excited by the stick‐slip forces at the interface. A positive feedback system exists between the two characteristics and the vibrations are reinforced with the result that tonal squeal is generated. The resultant vibrations are called relaxational vibrations. Impedance measurement results are presented and compared to the radiated sound. The influence of the board characteristics are discussed. Methods of reducing chalk squeal are discussed. This work is important to the study of sound radiation from machinery operations, such as the honing of cylinders, which also exhibi...


While numerous investigations of the structure and interface of amorphous SiO{sub 2} thermally grown on Si, theoretical as well as experimental, have been carried out over the years, a definitive picture of this thin gate oxide and its interface remains lacking. We have explored this issue using synchrotron x rays in grazing incidence geometry. In this geometry a fourfold modulation in the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP) from thin vitreous SiO{sub 2} of 100 and 500 A thickness can be observed. While the FSDP exhibits a modulation throughout the entire film, this modulation decays away from the interface. Reflectivity measurements were also performed, which reveal an interfacial layer of 3% density increase in the SiO{sub 2} film over the bulk (film) density.


A charged particle moving in a harmonic, symmetric double well, a square well, or a Morse potential is allowed to interact with a discontinuously reversing spatially homogeneous electric field. Randomly reversing field is seen to cause localization in the quantum system. A critical reversal frequency is seen to exist below which no localization is manifested in the harmonic, double and square well. In the Morse case, there is dissociation if the upper limit of the interval between random kicks exceeds τmax. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2010


The digitalized campus breaks through the former campus management system and management mode,which brings many-sided changes to a school by using information technology in every part of a school.With the further development and continuous practice of digitalized campus construction and management,the study of digitalized campus has transferred its focus from technology research to management research.


Abstract : An experimental and theoretical investigation of the mechanisms of fragmentation has been conducted for explosive-filled cylinders of Armco iron and HF-1 steel. Dynamic fracture nucleation and growth parameters for HF-1 steel were determined from gas gun experiments for use in computer modeling of the fracture and fragmentation processes. Calculated fragment mass distributions are compared with experimental results.


The paper is based on the wide application of configuration software in the industry automation field and this technology is used in the electrical design of CNHTC assembly line,to realize teledata call between supervisory and configuration system.


Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technology field which is the buzz word everywhere. It is playing a role in the various fields study such medicine, education, gaming industry and cinema industry. The use of such technology in the field of medicine has been minimal in the UAE. The focus of this research is towards the field of medicine and it has investigated and identified the ways in which VR can be used in the field of medicine; especially focusing on the doctors, patients and medical students. Hence, the research has identified and proposed effective methods of using VR technology by the above three categories of users. It has used both primary and secondary data which were collected through interviews and literature review respectively. Interviews were carefully conducted with experts so that quality data was obtained, and literature review mainly identified articles from authentic sources so that the data that is collected is qualitative. The result of this research would be beneficial to the three categories of users. The research is a combination of exploratory and analytical in such a way that it tried exploring the numerous ways of using virtual reality by the three categories of users and analytical, hence to propose effective methods of using such technology in UAE.


In the traditional theory of Arabic morphology, words are made by the interleaving of roots into patterns, both of which are abstract unpronounceable units. The root, often made of three consonants, carries the core meaning of the word and the pattern, made of the root consonant slots, vowels and consonant affixes, holds the syntactic meaning. The more recent etymon theory proposes that the root should be replaced by the bi-consonantal etymon, which is the segmental manifestation of the more abstract notion of the phonetic matrix. The two segments of the etymon or the two feature bundles of the matrix can be reversible, i.e. (x, y) or (y, x). This study examined the role of roots, etymons, and matrices in lexical processing in three lexical decision experiments. It also examined how abstract the processing of these units could be. Finally, the implications of the results for theories of morphology and lexical processing are discussed. The results suggest that roots and etymons are used in word recognition. Yet, there seems to be a limit on how abstract the processing of etymons and phonetic matrices could be. Most theories of Arabic morphology propose that Arabic word-formation is based on the nonlinear mixing of very abstract morphemes. They, however, disagree on which units are at play. The traditional Root and Pattern Theory and Prosodic Morphology suggest that words are made by the interleaving of roots into patterns, both of which are abstract unpronounceable units. The Etymon Theory proposes that the root should be replaced by the bi-consonantal etymon and the related notion of the phonetic matrix. These three units are abstract. The root and the etymon are both discontinous unpronounceable units. Besides, some etymons can have reversible segments, i.e. allomorphs like (b, t) and (t, b). The phonetic matrix is not made up of segments but two feature bundles like {(labial), (coronal)}, which can also be reversible. The present study examines the cognitive validity of roots, etymons and phonetic matrices in lexical processing. The second objective is to see how abstract the processing of these abstract morphemes could be. That is, the study tries to find out whether priming could be achieved with units with discontinous segments (roots and etymons) or with just shared bundles of features. Furthermore, it examines whether processing could access the underlying order-


A fundamental step in medical diagnosis for patient follow-up relies on the ability of radiologists to perform a trusty diagnostic from acquired images. Basically, the diagnosis strongly depends on the visual inspection over the shape of the lesions. As datasets increase in size, such visual evaluation becomes harder. For this reason, it is crucial to introduce easy-to-use interfaces that help the radiologists to perform a reliable visual inspection and allow the efficient delineation of the lesions. We will explore the radiologist's receptivity to the current touch environment solution. The advantages of touch are threefold: (i) the time performance is superior regarding the traditional use, (ii) it has more intuitive control and, (iii) for less time, the user interface delivers more information per action, concerning annotations. From our studies, we conclude that the radiologists still exhibit a resistance to change from traditional to touch based interfaces in current clinical setups.


ALLEN & UNWIN: G. G. Bolam and others, The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan Puritanism to Modem Unitarianism, 1968, 298 pp., 50.; Elaine Kaye, The History of the King's Weigh House Church: a Chapter in the History of London, 1968, 176 pp., 21s. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (PHILADELPHIA): William E. Lunt and Edgar B. Graves (eds.), Accounts Rendered by Papal Collectors in England, 13171378 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 70), 1968, liv + 580 pp., $10.00.