The Amvrakikos Gulf is located in the Ionian zone and was developed in the Middle Terrarium. During the last glacial period, the eastern part of the bay occupied a lake while the western part of the gulf remained. The following rise in sea level flooded the sea with sea water and shaped its present form during the Holocaust. The limited connection of the bay with the Ionian Sea through the Straits of Preveza gives the study of the marine geophysical stratigraphy of the bay a special interest.
This diploma thesis aims at identifying and exploring the stages of evolution of palegogeography of the Amvrakikos Gulf. For this purpose, marine geophysical data was collected and processed using a 3.5 kHz bottom-of-the-range infrastructure tomograph from the western part of the bay. The collection, processing and interpretation of the data was carried out with specialized software packages and led to the construction of paleogeographic maps in a GIS environment.
The synthesis of the results and their comparison with previous corresponding work showed a sequence of paleogeographical changes in the gulf that result directly from the fluctuations of the sea level and the climate. During the last glacial period, when the sea level was about 55m lower than today, the study area was a terrestrial environment. There was a well-formed hydrographic network that ended up on the eastern side of the study area. The gradual rise in sea level has led to temporary filling of existing channels and the early development of small basins both in the west and east of the study area. Then fluctuations in sea level as well as river runoff result in a general advance of fine sediments from the east to the west. Specific events are identified in seismic records as seismic phases with different acoustical characteristics that cover the whole or part of the study area and are progressing either gradually or inconsistently in earlier phases. The upper seismic unit based on its acoustic characteristics was attributed as a result of marine sedimentation due to the total sea cover in the bay, which seems to have finally been completed about 6,000 years before today.
The data of this diploma was collected by E.ΘΑ.ΓE.ΒΩ. during the rural work of the Amvrakikos Bay Anvakakos Bay: Impact and Management Program, co-funded by the EEA Program 2009-2014 and by the National Public Investment Program (SAE 075/8), with Professor K Koutsikopoulos. The diploma thesis was elaborated in the framework of the postgraduate study program of the Department of Geology of the School of Sciences of the University of Patras in the direction of 'Environmental Oceanography'.


The paper attempts to establish the direct current overhead contact system (OCS) pole grounding criteria and configuration based upon personnel safety. The maximum expected dc touch and step potentials that a person may experience in case of light rail transit OCS pole fault are derived using different values for the OCS pole grounding system resistance. Tolerable touch and tolerable step potentials applicable to a dc LRT system are reviewed and discussed. Recommendations for the dc pole grounding and the dc surge arrester grounding are included in the paper.


The incidence of epithelial skin cancer has continuously increased in recent years [ 1 ] . Given their predilection for the face and scalp, the majority of these tumors require micrographically controlled surgery. Various techniques for repairing the resultant skin defects have been described, including local fl aps and skin grafts [ 2, 3 ] . Advancement or rotation fl aps are associated with the formation of excess skin at the base of the fl ap, which can be excised in the form of a 'compensatory triangle' (Burow's triangle). In case of multiple skin tumors in a localized area, optimal placement of Burow's triangles (using rotation and advancement fl aps) (Figure 1 a-d) can help achieve relatively simple and cosmetically appealing repair, even of multiple defects. For this purpose, the second defect is incorporated into the Burow's triangle [ 4 ] . Herein, we describe the practical application of this procedure in two of our patients.


[1] The distribution of Late Pleistocene to Holocene diatom assemblages from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 178 Site 1098 (Palmer Deep) is described and compared using multivariate statistical methods (cluster analysis and analysis of variance). Five assemblages are identified from Site 1098, which are correlated with the climatic zones identified previously in the Palmer Deep [Domack et al., 2001]. A Thalassiosira diatom assemblage characterizes the "deglaciation phase" (13.2–11.0 ka) and was deposited during glacial retreat at the end of the regional Last Glacial Maximum. A well-preserved Rhizosolenia assemblage was deposited during a "climatic reversal" (11.0–9.0 ka) and indicates periods of seasonally open water with diatom blooms. An open water Fragilariopsis kerguelensis assemblage characterizes the mid-Holocene climatic optimum (9.0–3.7 ka). In the Neoglacial (late Holocene, <3.7 ka), climatic cooling, increased sea ice cover, and increased wind are inferred from a Cocconeis assemblage. During the climatic optimum/Neoglacial transition (4.4–1.8 ka), laminae characterized by Corethron criophilum were preserved. It is uncertain whether the laminae represent short-lived (interannual) bloom events with high settling rates or have been deposited over longer time periods.


In search of new potent NSAIDs, It was considered of interest to investigate a 3D QSAR analysis of some antiinflammatory 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxystyrene derivatives. To investigate relationship molecular shape analysis has been used as a 3D QSAR formalism. Molecular modelling software Cerius2 was used to study 3D QSAR. The analysis resulted In the following 3D QSAR equation which can be used for prediction of antiinflammatory activity of new molecules. log (BA) = 0.827(0.283) Fo + 0.007 (0.002) Energy - 0.489(0.156) ROG - 0.114(0.038) DIPOLE + 3.756 n=17 r2=0.762 r=0.873 f=9.604 s=0.197 press=0.921 cvr2=0.622 bsr2=0.764.


Besides phagocyte‐derived oxidative autoaggression, proteolytic destruction of functional proteins in the peritoneal cavity may also be involved in the pathomechanism of secondary peritonitis. To evaluate the pattern of proteolysis, 43 patients undergoing initial operation for acute peritonitis (n = 30) or scheduled abdominal lavages (Etappenlavage) for resolution of persistent peritonitis (n = 13) and 16 surgical patients with abdominal exudation without peritonitis were enrolled in our study.


With the increasing proportion of close-distance coal seam mining in China, the problem of strong mining pressure during the mining of close-distance coal seams is becoming more and more severe. This article focuses on the complex stress environment and severe mining pressure encountered in the mining of thick coal seams under the multi-coal-seam goaf of Zhunnan Coal Mine. By using research methods, such as similar material simulation, theoretical analysis, and numerical simulation, it studies in depth the instability characteristics of the overlying rock structure of the W1701 working face, the inducing factors and mechanisms of strong mining pressure during the mining process, and control measures. The results show that the roof structure of the W1701 working face can be divided into "high-level key layer (hard rock)–giant thick soft and weak rock group–low-level key layer (hard rock)", and the law of mining pressure manifestation presents a small cycle formed by the instability of "masonry beam" structure and a main large cycle formed by the periodic penetration and step-down of the giant thick soft and weak rock group, with the load on the support during the large cycle up to 5.4 times the rated working resistance. In addition, this article proposes the strategy of using layered mining to control the manifestation of strong mining pressure under the "hard sandwiched soft" overlying rock condition of the Zhunnan Coal Mine, optimizes the thickness of the layered mining of the thick coal seam, and finally, determines the upper layer thickness of 2.8 m and the lower layer thickness of 4 m, inducing the giant thick soft and weak rock formation to undergo incremental damage and releasing the fracture energy incrementally, effectively controlling the manifestation threat of strong mining pressure in the mining of thick coal seams under the close-distance coal seam goaf. As the proportion of close-range coal seam mining increases in China, the problem of strong mining pressure during the mining of close-range coal seams becomes more severe. This article focuses on the complex stress environment and severe mining pressure in the mining of thick coal seams under multiple mined-out areas in the Zhunnan coal mine. Similar material simulation, theoretical analysis, and numerical simulation methods were used to conduct in-depth research on the unstable characteristics of the overlying rock structure of the W1701 working face, the causes and mechanisms of strong mining pressure during the mining process, and control measures. The results show that the roof structure of the W1701 working face can be divided into "high-level key layer (hard rock)–thick soft weak rock group–low-level key layer (hard rock)." The law of mining pressure manifestation presents small cycles of instability formed by "block beams" and main cycles of pressure formed by vertically cracked periodic penetration and step sinking of the thick soft weak rock group. Moreover, during the main cycle of pressure, the load-bearing capacity of the support is up to 5.4 times the rated working resistance. Furthermore, it is proposed to use hierarchical mining to control the manifestation of strong mining pressure in the "hard-inlaid soft" overlying rock condition of the Zhunnan coal mine and optimize the thickness of layered mining of thick coal seams. Ultimately, the upper layer thickness was determined as 2.8 m; the lower layer thickness was determined as 4 m, and the layered mining induced the thick soft weak rock group to undergo gradual damage and energy release, effectively controlling the threat of severe mining pressure during the mining of thick coal seams under the close-range coal seam mining.


The plugged-in steel cylinder plays a key role in building a fast quay wall of the man-made island. The installed steel cylinder will be partly removed to establish a better construction environment in practical cases. This paper analyzed the movement of plugged-in cylinder during remove stage with numerical simulation method. The data from a practical case was calculate to exhibit the analysis procedure.


The current unit of transportation, the ton-mile (megagram- kilometer), must be reevaluated. This paper traces the origins and uses of the ton-mile, exposes its shortcomings, and examines its current misuse as a measure not only of tons and miles (megagrams and kilometers) but also of efficiency, competition, and productivity. The use of the ton-mile as a measurement has been responsible for many problems in transportation policies and is probably the principle reason that so much confusion and controversy exist with respect to the national transportation system today. The paper recommends gross freight revenue (or the value of transportation) as a far better measurement because it more accurately reflects the relative worth of the various modes to the national effort of moving goods. It is suggested that the Transportation Research Board address the matter as a problem deserving its full and immediate attention.


The rise of populist radical right parties in the last decades is one of the most significant political developments in Europe. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) which was founded in 1956 is considered as a remarkable example in terms of using anti-immigrant and xenophobic discourses and affecting Austrian politics for more than half a century. In this article the FPÖ's anti-Türkiye rhetoric is investigated by using discourse analysis. The Turkish community in Austria growing since the 1960s, the cultural differences and Türkiye's EU membership discussions are the main topics used by the FPÖ to influence the public opinion. Therefore, it is aimed to reveal how and why FPÖ relates its nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam rhetoric to Türkiye and Turks. The FPÖ's anti-Türkiye discourse is a noteworthy example of how a radical populist right-wing party targets another country, part of its own population and its cultural identity for its political pursuits.


A practical and accurate procedure for translating the current–voltage (<italic>I–V</italic>) curves of photovoltaic devices for irradiance and temperature is proposed. The procedure requires only a single experimental <italic>I</italic>–<italic>V</italic> curve with no advance information of the translation parameters when the devices follow the single-diode model. The parameters used in the translation, such as the series resistance <italic>R</italic>s and diode ideality factor <italic>n</italic>, are extracted from the experimental <italic>I–V</italic> curve. A voltage-dependent temperature coefficient of the <italic>I–V</italic> curve, which was recently proposed by the authors, is used for accurate temperature translation. The procedure is shown to be applicable to many commercial crystalline silicon PV modules in wide irradiance and temperature ranges of 0.15–1.1 kW/m2 and 10–65 °C, respectively, with typical accuracy within ±1%–2%.


Due to its great productivity and profitability, rice (Oryza sativa L.) is farmed in alluvial irrigated tracts of northwest India. For half of the world's population as well as in our country, rice serves as the main source of calories. However, excessive groundwater use in rice farming has resulted in an alarming decline in water table, indicating overuse of groundwater. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate alternative, resource-conserving methods that can sustain rice production. Direct seeded rice presents a compelling option when the future of rice production is in jeopardy due to worldwide water constraint and rising labour costs. The oldest method of crop establishment in this regard, direct seeded rice (DSR), is becoming more and more well-liked constraints minimal input requirements. It has certain benefits, including labour savings, a reduction in water and manpower requirements, early crop maturity, cheap production costs, improved soil physical conditions for crops, a reduction in methane emissions, and greater options for being the best match in various cropping systems. For dry-seeded rice, management strategies that cut irrigation water use and boost crop-water production are needed. Some of the interventions in this respect include cultivars with short growing seasons, tillage, and irrigation scheduling. High crop-water productivity is ensured with optimal yields thanks to irrigation scheduling that aims to eliminate over- or under-irrigation. Tillage changes the edaphic environment of the soil, which impacts crop development. Because of their shallow root systems, rice plants are unable to use the water in the deeper layers of the soil. In order to increase the deep root growth of rice cultivars, deep tillage has become the preferable method. The present research evaluates irrigation management options to raise crop-water productivity and grain quality of DSR in northwest IGP based on the available evidence.


Aerial photography of three fields of lucerne in the spring of 1978 and 1979 were used to monitor the spread of a seed-borne infestation of Ditylenchus dipsaci. Analysis suggests that there was an aggregated distribution of the foci two months after sowing with a better fit to a negative binomial than to a Poisson distribution over the subsequent 3 years. Results from using an image analyser suggest that the infestation develops by the generation of additional colonies from the original foci and by the progressive expansion of the area damaged by an established colony. There was a four to five fold annual increase in the number of foci, their mean size and the area of the field that was damaged during the initial years of the infestation. In these fields moving seemed to be the main factor in dispersal but higher rates of colonization may occur when surface drainage or the wind contribute to this process.


The method of choosing a wireless access network in a heterogeneous environment based on the theory of fuzzy sets has been improved. This method allows for a centralized, well-founded decision to carry out a horizontal-vertical handover procedure based on a group of QoS-dependent criteria that depend directly on the properties of the radio interface of the network system. The method also allows adaptation decision-making rules, depending on different telecommunication conditions and network policies. A simulation model of the heterogeneous network has been developed. The model allows to automate investigation of the proposed method of selecting an access node based on the theory of fuzzy sets. The model enables configuration of a large number of simulation parameters using auxiliary mathematical models, in particular for describing and predicting user traffic processes.


Contemporary spiritualties are often portrayed as a turn to a subjective and individualized form of religion, consisting of individually held truth claims or private peak experiences that are generated sporadically at retreats and workshops. The portrayal is ultimately related to a perception of everyday life in contemporary Euro-America as mundane, rationalized, and secular, but also the exclusion of practices centered on the body, the home and the everyday from what is deemed properly religious. This article explores the sacred technologies of the everyday among women in England who identify as Goddess worshippers. The purpose is to further the understanding of religion and the everyday, as well as the conceptualization of contemporary Goddessworship as lived religion. Through examining narratives on the intersection between religion and everyday activities, the technologies of imbuing everyday life with a sacred dimension become visible. The sacred technologies imply skills that enable both imagining and relating to the sacred. The women consciously and diligently work to cultivate skills that would allow them to sense and make sense of the sacred, in other words, to foster a sense of withness through the means of a host of practices. I argue that the women actively endeavor to establish an everyday world that is experienced as inherently different from the secular and religious fields in their surroundings; hence it is not from disenchantment or an endeavor with no social consequences. The women's everyday is indeed infused with different strategies where the body, different practices, and material objects are central in cultivating a specific religious disposition that ultimately will change the way the women engage with and orient themselves in the world. Trulsson, Åsa: "Women on the Path of the Goddess: Sacred Technologies of the Everyday", Culture Unbound, Volume 12, issue X, 2020: XX–XX. Published by Linköping University Electronic Press: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se


C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Solinska JS (2014) Therapeutic Targeting of Structural RNA Motifs in Viral RNA Genomes. Int J Virol AIDS 1:001e Received: July 16, 2014: Accepted: July 18, 2014: Published: July 19, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Solinska JS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Solinska, Int J Virol AIDS 2014, 1:1 ISSN: 2469-567X


Land degradation is usually associated with land use practices. However, the choice of those practices is often influenced by factors outside the spatial confines of the farm or village. By examining land degradation problems through a multiple-scale approach, it is possible to better understand the interconnections and drivers. Such knowledge can be used to inform policies to reverse degradation and help ensure that new policies do not have unintended consequences.


It discussed wool dyeing by chitosan with different concentrations,then dyed with active dyes.It studied the influence of variables such as chitosan with different concentrations,pH,temperature,concentrartion of dye on the axhaustion rate,K/S value and fixation rate.It obtains the optimun procedure of wool dyeing treated with chitosan.That is,the dyeing temperature is 65 ℃,the dyeing time is 40 minutes,pH value is 5.0,the concentration of chitosan is 0.2 g/L.It includes that chitosan has exhausting function in wool dyeing.But neutral salts does not be displaced with it completely,and the research has provided valuable theory basis and experimental datum for the use of chitiosan in dyeing.


Revolution is not an international legal category. The golden jubilee of the global protests and rebellions identified with 1968 presents an opportunity to reconsider the usual formula from the angle of the protagonist of the French upheavals and its critic, Hannah Arendt. The soixante-huitard strikes a provocative figure for the humanist achievements and celebrations of the world community in 1968: its youthful songs, playfulness, dissatisfaction and anxiety for things to come tied it, temporally and symbolically, to the moving reel of protest across the post-industrial world and to the thematic heartbeat of international law in the first International Year of Human Rights. The catch is the imperfection of the connection. Arendt's writing about revolution and international law does not resolve the dissidence between the two phenomena or its reiteration by the United Nations in 1968. What Arendt does do, however, is to measure the success or failure of each against its mission to humanize the world. This article takes inspiration from Arendt to refigure the usual relation between international law and revolution as paired projects that do not yoke, but, rather, relate and separate, along a single, humanist seam. 1 Twin Esprit de Corps International legal thought traditionally agrees with political theory to leave the processes and outcome of revolution alone. Hannah Arendt's mid-century political writings about revolution agree with the juridical views of her contemporaries, including Hans Kelsen, his student Hersch Lauterpacht, and Carl Schmitt, who decline any part for the law of nations in shaping parochial dreams for change. Each defer to the choices of citizens or peoples because revolution is a technique of statecraft from which new regimes and constitutional realities spring and reify in law. Despite its longevity and sense, this formulation does not account for the humanist impulse that conditioned law and protest across the post-industrial and still decolonizing world in 1968. The student rebel known as the soixante-huitard was the protagonist of the * Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney, Australia. Email: email@example.com. 1378 EJIL 29 (2018), 1337–1407 French upheavals associated with Mai 1968 and remains the pin-up for a year of transnational protest that coincided, but never merged, with the projects of global law. Its example challenges the juridical presumption not by dissolving urban protest or revolution into a legal category but, rather, by making the sideward glance of internationalists less assured. Arendt's political thought, including her response to the student movements of 1968, offers suggestive clues by explaining how each phenomenon succeeds or fails according to its own measure, which, pared back to its central theme, is simply the shared longing to humanize the world. Her separate analyses about the disappointed ambitions of humanist law and humanist revolution elucidate in the figure of the soixante-huitard. A variation of its humanist chant echoes in the multiple missed encounters between the two phenomena in 1968 to become a tracing line between the seeming disaggregated projects and actors. To follow its beat through the juridical and civic dramas of 1968 notices paired projects that never yoke but, rather, move along a single humanist seam. International histories of 1968 rarely begin with protest. Then, international lawyers and international organizations paid attention to the fantastic frontiers made proximate by new technologies (outer space, the deep ocean floor, nuclear proliferation, human mobility); the fallout from a decade of decolonization (succession, recognition, new sovereigns); the refinement of the mechanisms of regulation (treaty interpretation, diplomacy, tribunals, organizational life) and danger (war, intervention, rebellion and progress towards détente).1 These agendas left a narrower margin for internationalists to wonder about the significance for them of local disruptions. Allegiance to the sovereign state prioritized the choices of peoples and allowed internationalists to witness urban upheaval without responsibility for what comes next. Nevertheless, what happened in the civic margin impressed itself on the collective imagination shared by diplomats, politicians, citizens and activists because it occurred alongside their daily lives in their countries, cities and neighbourhoods. Assassinations, of a statesman and a human rights activist, straddled the remarkable moment remembered as Mai 1968 to create a clarifying sequence when questions of 1 A brief glance at relevant United Nations (UN) records as well as the contents of volume 17 (1968) and volume 18 (1968) of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) and volume 62 (1968) and volume 63 (1969) of the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), identify a diverse range of topics attracting international legal attention in 1968 addressing 'frontiers' of multiple kinds. Specific examples include the legality of foreign interventions in Vietnam (USA) and Czechoslovakia (Soviet Union) and an emergent commitment to the protection of human rights and treaty making in previously unthought of zones of influence; see also International Conference on Human Rights (Tehran, 22 April– 13 May 1968) (Tehran Conference); Final Act of International Conference on Human Rights, Doc. A/ Conf.32/41, 13 May 1968 (Final Act of the Tehran Conference); Proclamation of Tehran, in Final Act of the Tehran Conference, at 3–5 (Proclamation of Tehran); UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful uses of Outer Space (Vienna, 14–27 August 1968); Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Doc. GA A/7285, 23rd Session, 1968; Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, GA Res. 2345 (XXII), 19 December 1967; UN Conference on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 26 March–24 May 1968); Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons, GA Res. 2373 (XXII), 12 June 1968; and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees 1967, 606 UNTS 267. The International Prospects of the Soixante-Huitard 1379 states and rights and revolution were of contemporaneous and worldwide concern.2 Mass protest movements spontaneously linked cities across the post-industrial world. Cold War distinctions changed the object of political resistance, though neither socialist nor liberal regimes were immune from the revolutionary and anti-authoritarian wish that referenced back to the felt injustices and optimisms of the human being. The protagonists of the Prague Spring asked for 'socialism with a human face'; the anthems of American, Australian and British protest sought an end to foreign intervention in Vietnam, racial inequality at home or apartheid abroad and the soixantehuitard – the subject who anchors this study – resisted the conservative and exclusory frames of higher education in France. The soixante-huitard epitomizes the French experience of protest and remains an important emblem for the inaugurating processes of its generation.3 The student rebel from the outskirts of Paris rioted in the streets around the Sorbonne between 3 and 10 May, before inspiring solidarity among millions of workers across France in a general strike on 13 May. These would-be revolutionaries quickly conceded their different aspirations to bourgeois reform though not before Charles de Gaulle fled to Germany on 29 May, leaving France momentarily without a leader. Although syncopated and incomplete, the historical fragment identified with the soixante-huitard demonstrates, as the French sociologist and witness Henri Lefebrvre observes, the new possibility where 'each country has conjuncturally become a bearer (support) of the worldwide' as an experimental site of new forms of interrogation and alliance.4 The soixante-huitard typified a haphazard pattern of progression when, according to writers like Lefebrvre, 'the worldwide and mondialisation present themselves as a becoming that is full of contradictions and highly unequal, with regressions, displacements, and leaps, from the market and production to so-called "cultural" creation'.5 Lefebrvre's assessment represents the standard view that memorializes 1968 as an extraordinary instant that failed to follow through.6 The assessment may explain popular nostalgia for the drama identified with Mai 1968 but does not elucidate the subtleties of the connections between the soixante-huitard and other protesters nor the international juridical significance of protest. The link between the distinct phenomena and actors arises from noticing the humanist tones that define the performative gesture and the abstract prototype of rights. The multiple types of humanist expression demonstrate 2 The student riots in Paris climaxed violently on 'Bloody Monday' (6 May 1968) after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in Memphis (4 April 1968) and before the fatal shooting of J.F. Kennedy's brother and politician Robert Kennedy (4–5 June 1968). See, e.g., '1968: Timeline', available at https://cds. library.brown.edu/projects/1968/reference/timeline.html. 3 For historical details of Mai 1968 in France, see, e.g., Gilcher-Holtey, 'France', in M.  Klimke and J. Scharloth (eds), 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977 (2008) 111; Craiutu, 'Thinking Politically: Raymond Aron and the Revolution of 1968 in France', in V.  Tismaneanu (ed.), Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion, and Utopia (2011) 103; G.-R. Horn, The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976 (2007), at 100–110; T. Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (2005), at 413. 4 H. Lefebrve, 'Revolutions', in N. Brenner and S. Elden (eds), State, Space, World: Selected Essays of Henri Lefebrve (2009) 290, at 302 (emphasis added). 5 Ibid. (emphasis added). 6 W. Shannon, 'The Year That Failed to Turn', New York Times (30 December


The study was carried out to investigate the histomorphology of hemal lymph nodes of camel (Camelus dromedarius) . The results showed that the hemal lymph node was conical in shape with convex wide base and narrow apex. It was encapsulated by a thick fibrous connective tissue capsule from which long trabeculae emerge. The stroma of hemal lymph node consists of randomly distributed lymphatic nodules ,lymphatic cords and hemal sinuses. Presence of erythrocytes, leukocytes especially lymphocytes ,monocytes, plasma cells, macrophages and megakaryocytes were seen . Megakaryocytes or giant cells possess an irregularly lobulated nuclei with course chromatin and unapparent nucleoli.


Radar cross section histograms will be presented for various depression angles and terrain types using various semi-empirical clutter models generated by Monte-Carlo simulation. The calculation includes terrain parameters such as roughness, ground humidity and thickness of vegetation cover.


In this paper, we propose a method for reducing the energy loss of photosensitive structures based on nanocrystalline silicon using passivating coatings of dysprosium fluoride. Since this material has good optical and photoelectric properties, when preparing Si/DyF3 structures, the dielectric film makes it possible to reduce the number of recombination centers and increase light absorption. Methods for creating and studying photosensitive structures with coatings are shown. A technique for determining the thickness of a dysprosium fluoride coating due to light interference is described. The results of studying the photosensitivity spectra and the reflectance of the obtained photosensitive structures are presented. The positive effect of silicon nanostructures, as well as dysprosium fluoride films on the photosensitivity spectra of the structures, is shown. With the help of the data obtained, it is planned to improve the existing technology for creating photosensitive structures based on porous silicon in order to increase their output characteristics.


A system was developed for the creation of urban scenarios produced on large screen displays using laser pointers as input devices and supporting collaborative usage. A novel interface had to be developed to support interaction with such input devices, based on the concept of gates and circular menus with a non-intrusive interface. Users can navigate on a virtual world using a set of comprehensive navigation modes, namely: first person, bird's eye view and examine modes, along with a multimodal flight mode controlled by speech commands and arm tracking. Simple shapes can be created and modeled using a minimalistic set of modeling tools, defining a novel modeling interface. Buildings can be instantiated from a library of facade styles by drawing the desired blueprint and setting the facade height to generate unique buildings. Additional styles may be implemented by making use of a developed XML format for defining façade layout rules. Buildings and other shapes can be transformed and cloned. Objects in the scene can have notes attached to them to aid in reviewing sessions. An alternative building creation work flow is proposed to take advantage of this system for early prototypes and showcasing projects.


Communication of the humanities and sciences is a very important task for the contemporary innovative leadership research. Based on this, it is not only necessary to interpret it from cultural point of view, but also from the logical angle and pay more attention to the integration of the humanities and sciences in the intelligent age. The Continuing Engineering Education of Tsinghua University adopts the model of experimental study and practice, helping the learners understand how to promote business success and social responsibility by innovative leadership. Looking back on the growth experience of Tsinghua University Science Park and Tsinghua Holdings, as well as enterprises that have more competitive advantages with their supports, it is the innovative leadership that keeps them alive and prosperous. Based on summarizing the innovative leadership both in the east and the west, this article attempts to identify the key factors that determine the effectiveness of innovative leadership and its formation mechanism, and reveal the thoughts and practices of innovative leadership that are practical for today's society. Through the experimental study on the dialectical logic of innovation, a new theory of innovative leadership and practical skills combining the advantages of the east and the west will be born.


Based on kinetic characteristics of vehicle-track system,new types of vehicle and track elements were presented.Stiffness matrix,mass matrix and damping matrix of these two kinds of elements were deduced by means of finite element method and Lagrange equation.The integral vehicle-track system were discreted into vehicle elements and track elements.The track system was seperated into track elements and each car is taken as a vehicle element.The model has advantages of convenience for programming and high efficiency for computing.As application examples,two cases of dynamic response analysis of vehicle and track system were provided:passage of a single wheel and passage of a whole car.In the second example,the track vertical profile is assumed as pure smooth and random irregular respectively.


A textbook for teachers-in-training that emphasizes teamwork and hands-on skills rather than theory. The author introduces interprofessional collaboration as a style of professional interaction; talks about issues such as communal trust and the student as priority; examines the factors that are bene


The purpose of our studies has been to identify the signalling cascades that are involved in N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-mediated long-term depression (LTD) in the hippocampus. We wish to use this knowledge to establish how dysregulation of components of these pathways leads to synaptic injury and cognitive deficits in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. Experiments were performed on acute and organotypic hippocampal slices prepared from juvenile rats. Proteins were targeted pharmacologically and using RNAi. Working with a variety of collaborators, we have identified the following pathways in NMDAR-LTD. GluA2 / NSF / hippocalcin Akt1 / GSK-3beta / tau PI3K JAK2 / STAT3 GIT1 / Arf-1 / PICK1 / Arp2/3 We propose that synaptic injury, an early event in AD, is caused, at least in part, by dysregulation of NMDARLTD. This process is normally involved in physiological synaptic pruning but in response to a variety of genetic or environmental influences can prune synapses in an aberrant manner. We propose that a fuller understanding of this mechanism should lead to better therapeutic strategies. Title: Pain chronification and amygdala plasticity


The copper oxide (CuO) nanostructures have been successfully synthesized from copper sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO4.5H2O) and NaOH as a stabilizing agent using simple hydrothermal chemical route. The prepared samples were characterized using x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and UV-visible spectroscopy. The x-ray diffraction study of CuO nanostructures shows a monoclinic structure with average crystalline size 22 nm as calculated from the Debye-Scherrer's equation. The hydrothermal technique used for the synthesis of CuO plays an important role in the formation of rod-like morphology. Optical study of CuO nanostructure facilitated estimation of bandgap to be 1.3 eV. The humidity sensing properties of CuO nanostructure are studied at a room temperature. The maximum sensitivity response was found to be 82.03 % which was stable and reproducible. The CuO nanostructures were successfully demonstrated as good candidate for humidity sensing application.


There may be no failure when the number of the aerospace electromagnetic relay samples is few during accelerated storage.An accelerated degradation testing technology was used to solve this problem.The accelerated storage degradation plan for aerospace electromagnetic relay was given.And the accelerated storage degradation test system was designed and developed.The test result shows that the system has high accuracy of contact resistance and time parameters,large amount of tested samples,direct curve of degradation parameters' variation.


As an important carrier of rural revitalization strategy in Sichuan, the protection and development of landscape resources in western Sichuan are very important. This paper analyzes the core characteristics of forest landscape resources in western Sichuan, conceiving the protection and development of forest landscape resources in western Sichuan, and puts forward the protection strategy of forest landscape resources in western Sichuan, so as to realize the three-dimensional protection of forest landscape resources in western Sichuan from multiple angles and directions. The development strategy of landscape resources in western Sichuan forest pan was put forward, and the landscape resources in forest pan were transformed into the material space carrier of industrial development.


Measuring the effects of teaching on a larger scale is a promising approach in educational research. However, the costs for manual or semi-manual methods are prohibitively large when dealing with larger groups of students. Automated system are needed therefore, to assist in the process of collecting and evaluating the data. To this end, we propose a system of 3 components that allow the large scale assessment of concept-maps in order to detect the development of knowledge and misconceptions of larger groups of students.


INTRODUCTION Iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) affects approximately 2 billion people globally making it the most common of the nutritional deficiencies (1,2). Iron is essential for normal biological function and untreated IDA has been associated with developmental delays in the young (2). Iron deficiency can be difficult to diagnose using traditional biochemical markers of iron metabolism and the presence of the morphologically characteristic hypochromic microcytic red blood cells (RBC) in the blood film are typically only apparent once iron deficient erythropoiesis is advanced (3).


The objective of this work was to evaluate the qualitative and sensory characteristics and the fatty acid profiles of the meat of lambs fed with silages of two saccharine sorghum varieties and compare them with forage sorghum and maize silages. Twenty non-castrated male Suffolk lambs were arranged in a completely randomised block design, and the treatments consisted of the following silages: forage sorghum (FORSOR), saccharine sorghum ('BRS506'), saccharine sorghum ('BRS511') and maize (MAIZE). The animals were slaughtered after 70 days in the feedlot. The carcasses were cooled at 4 °C for 24 h. The longissimus thoracis et lumborum muscle was removed for analysis. No differences (p > 0.05) between treatments were found for chemical composition and qualitative and sensory characteristics of the evaluated meat. Lambs fed with 'BRS506' presented muscles with higher total unsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids and with higher percentages of oleic acid. The BRS506 saccharin sorghum silage increased the meat total unsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acid contents, which are beneficial to human health; thus, this silage can replace maize silage in the feed for finishing lambs.


Aiming to word similarity research based on HowNet, domestic scholars have proposed various calculation methods. But these methods have the shortcomings that word similarity is not high, and the difference of disposition relationship concepts is not obvious. This paper adopts the thought of "words similarity layer calculation" mentioned in the references, does further perfect to make the layer calculation more clear and rigorous, and brings forward an improved algorithm aiming to the shortcomings.


(57) Abstract: The present invention, in a suitable support for dyeing, contains in the presence of at least one donor (a) at least one 2-electron oxidoreductase type enzyme the enzyme, ( b) a cosmetic composition for the treatment of keratinous fibers containing at least one anionic amphiphilic polymer containing at least one allyl ether unit comprising at least one hydrophilic unit and fatty chains, the composition using, hair dyeing, a method for performing a permanent reshaping or bleaching process.


ABSTRACT Like no other medium, virtual reality (VR) offers new possibilities to alter the perception of reality. These possibilities are mainly related to the feeling of presence in a virtual environment. With the VR performance 'The Machine to be Another' (TMTBA), we find an innovative embodiment system that enables a virtual body swap between two users. Hence, we conceptualise the performance as some kind of breaching experiment in order to alter self- and body perception. With the use of TMTBA and a qualitative research approach, we hope to gain a closer insight into the formation, alteration and persistence of body images. This challenges the phenomenological idea that our sense of bodily presence is essentially anchored in our physical or 'objective' body as we know it and seems to potentially expand our notion of what bodily presence can mean.


The presence of spores in the granulomata with an absence of mycelial developinhnt has been noted-by all observers. Whether the explanation put forward to account for this phenomenon in our case is generally applicable we cannot say.It has been recorded, as stated above, that certain strains grow best at 370 C., but, so far as the published accounts go; little attention appears to have been paid to the relationship of the tem erature factor to the microscopic characters of the fungus. Serum Reactions.-In sporotrichosis, as in other diseases, the properties of the serum have been studied-in this case by Widal,18 who recommends that a portion of an agar culture, faur to six weeks old, should be emulsified and filtered through filter paper, so as to give a concentration of from 130 to 150 spores per field of a microscopic magnification of about 400 diameters. With such an emulsion a reaction has been observed with serum in a dilution of from 1 in 200 to 1 in 400, or even higher. Complement deviation has also been observed, the antigen being the above emulsion of spores, used in a proportion of 1 part of emulsion to 2 parts of serum. In the case of botb the agglutination and complement deviation tests, however, the position is complicated by the fact that the serum of patients suffering from other mycotic infections-for example, thruish, actinomveosis-reacts to Sporotrichton beurmanni.


Thin film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) with high operating frequencies and the higher quality factor are preferred for many sensing applications. This paper presents FBAR device geometry for the different electrodes material optimize for the frequency range of 2.17 GHz to 4.49 GHz with the thickness of 1 μm of the Aluminum nitrite (AlN) as a piezoelectric layer. The effective couplings of range 5.88% to 6.89% have been achieved. The quality factor for the different electrode materials varies from 360 to 820 for the same boundary conditions. Aluminum electrodes results in higher operating frequency as compared to platinum and tungsten. However, use of Al electrodes leads to lower coupling coefficient and quality factor as compared to platinum and tungsten. The equivalent Butterworth Van-Dyke (BVD) electrical parameters are also extracted. FBAR's flexibility of operating frequency, coupling coefficient and quality factor are achieved by different electrode configuration. Keywords— Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR), Quality Factor (Q), Coupling coefficient, CoventorWare, Aluminum Nitrite, Butterworth Van-Dyke (BVD)


We generalize the projection to orthogonal function basis (including polarization modes) method for nonlinear (Kerr medium) fiber and use this method in a case of two-mode waveguide. We consider orthogonal Bessel functions basis that fit the choice of cylindrical geometry of a fiber. The coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations (CNLS) are derived. Analytic expressions and numerical results for coupling coefficients are given; the fiber parameters dependence is illustrated by plots.


INTRODUCTIONCurrent Supreme Court free speech doctrine is relentlessly speaker-centered.1 Even the government, usually the villain in any First Amendment story, is granted highly favorable legal status the moment it dons the speaker's mantle.2 Why? It cannot be because the speaker is the only game in First Amendment town. As I have noted,3 a census of Mr. Madison's First Amendment neighborhood reveals at least five prominent categories of residents: (1) speakers; (2) hearers; (3) conduits; (4) the subjects/targets; and (5) regulators, both private and public; as well as two less prominent players: the general audience and disinterested bystanders. Measured by the relative amount of Supreme Court ink they command, however, speakers have all but monopolized the Justices' sympathy and attention.Beginning with the classic Holmes/Brandeis rhetoric in Abrams v. United States,4 Gitlow v. New York,5 and Whitney v. California,6 the Supreme Court Reports are full of rhetoric about heroic speakers involved in dignitary self-realization, and/or earnest instrumental speakers pumping useful information and ideas into the information marketplace. Occasionally, the Court's efforts to characterize a particularly appalling or pathetic speaker as heroic or instrumental borders on the risible. Witness the Court's treatment of the pathetic liar in United States v. Alvarez,7 whose false claims about having received a Congressional Medal of Honor were recycled by the Court as dignitary efforts at self-definition;8 or the Court's characterization of the ugly antigay bigots in Snyder v. Phelps,9 who hijacked the funeral of a young soldier killed in Afghanistan as a launching pad for their messages of hate directed at the soldier's grieving family, as instrumental speakers commenting on public issues.10 And then, there is the wise guy in Elonis v. United States11 who terrified his ex-wife on the Internet by quoting violent rap lyrics aimed at her on his web site, and got away with it because the Court did not want to burden Internet speakers with a criminally enforceable duty to avoid speech that they knew or should have known would frighten a particular target;12 and the teenage cross-burners who frightened black families newly arrived in a white neighborhood by burning crosses on sidewalks abutting their homes, but were treated by the Court as protected speakers in the absence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a subjective intent to frighten their new neighbors.13I do not recall in the intensely speaker-centered opinions anything but a passing reference to the interests or concerns of the other participants in the process. in Alvarez, did the families of genuine Medal of Honor winners feel that their husband's or father's heroic act of self-sacrifice had been cheapened? Did the grieving parents of the dead young soldier in Snyder weep? Did the terrified ex-wife in Elonis miss work? In R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul,14 how did the black kids react to the burning of a cross on their doorstep? Did the other black families reconsider whether to move into the neighborhood? Did the Supreme Court care?Perhaps the intensely speaker-protected First Amendment doctrine emerging from such cases is correct, but not because the speakers were either heroic or genuinely instrumental; or because the hearers were unworthy of concern. In fact, the speakers were instrumentally useless, loathsome, harmful, and pathetic. The hearers, on the other hand, were entitled to be treated with dignity, and received utterly no instrumental benefit from the speech. Why, then, did the speakers win all four cases so easily?one possible explanation is that, apart from the speaker, none of the other residents of Mr. Madison's neighborhood have fully developed judicial personalities. on those relatively rare occasions where a hearer makes a featured appearance in a Supreme Court First Amendment opinion, it is usually to be lectured on how important it is to have a thick skin,15 or to be conscripted as a First Amendment standin for a speaker who can not make it on its own. …


Despite significant declines in population smoking rates and effective policies to ban smoking in public places, environmental exposure to nicotine remains prevalent among children. Environmental smoke exposure affects children's respiratory, immune, and metabolic health but is also implicated in children's cognitive and behavioral development. Nicotine's chemical properties mimic naturally occurring chemicals in the brain. When nicotine is present during brain development (prenatally through the first five years of life), it alters developmental processes that affect systems involved in cognitive control, impulsivity, and sensitivity to rewarding substances, increasing risks for obesity. Because nicotine is the specific toxin underlying these outcomes, vaping is unlikely to be a safer alternative. Given the rise in vaping among young adults generally, and pregnant women specifically, this exposure represents a public health concern that warrants additional attention. Policies including modernized public health messaging and routine screening could reduce children's inadvertent exposure.


A numerical study of the reflectivity at a nonlinear interface is presented. We analyze situations in which the self-reflected wave appears inside the nonlinear material for various values of the incidence angle. The change of the incidence angle makes it possible to study the range of nonlinear dielectric functions for which the self-reflected wave may appear.


The overall objective of this project is to study the trace element attenuation characteristics of various overburden sediments from Texas and the Northern Great Plains. Soil trace element attenuation was measured using batch experiments. These batch attenuation experiments are being carried out on carefully selected soils which have been characterized with respect to both chemical and mineralogical properties. The key soil factors are mineralogy and buffering capacity. Special attention is being given to the buffering capacity since many trace elements are sensitive to pH with respect to attenuation. The neutralization capacity is being used as the reference rather than a target pH of the system. It was found that the alkaline buffering capacity of the Texas sediments used in this study were lower than that of North Dakota sediments which were used in a previous study. Attenuation experiments are being conducted using select cations and anions. The elements which are being used to measure attenuation are As, Cd, Fe, Hg, Mo, Pb, and Se. During this quarter characterization of the sediments by physical methods and by x-ray diffraction was completed. Experiments were performed to determine chemical and physical properties of the sediments. X-ray diffraction was completed to determine the claymore » mineralogy of the samples. The work to determine the alkaline buffering capacity of the sediments was completed. The buffering capacity is used in the design of the trace element attenuation experiments. The major effort during this quarter was the generation of data to measure the trace element attenuation properties of the Texas sediments. During this period the final samples were received and the emphasis was on bringing these up to date with respect to samples received earlier. 2 refs., 6 tabs.« less


This paper presents a practical present-time approach for surveillance robots at remote locations and enemy territories using a remote controller based robotic vehicle on wireless technology that can be used for defense and military applications. This is used for detection of bombs, since detecting bombs manually contains high risk. So, in order to save their lives this is used. The camera is used to detect and identify human, objects etc. This vehicle is designed to work in limited area with better efficiency for example In Armed forces. They can use these types of robot vehicles in hostage situations to determine the number of terrorists in the building, types of weapons used, bombs etc. It also contains a two axis arm to hold objects. The processing unit used in proposed system is Arduino working on Embedded C. The Arduino controls the movement, gather information from camera that is used to stream the real time video of surrounding to the


Background: The innate immunity plays an important role in the host response to transplantation by Toll-like receptors and results in development of acute allograft rejection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of TLR2 and CD14 (co receptor) gene polymorphisms with acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients. Methods: The study was conducted in a population of 239 subjects consisting of 71 patients with acute rejection, 71 patients without acute rejection (SGF) and 97 Healthy Control (HC). The allele and genotype frequencies of TLR2 (R753Q, rs5743708) and CD14 (-159 C>T, rs2569190) polymorphisms were genotyped by Real-time PCR in the study groups. Results: Genotype distribution of CD14 -159 polymorphism was significantly different in AR vs. SGF and HC. CD14 -159 TT genotype was more prevalent in rejection than SGF and HC (P<0.0001, P<0.007, respectively). Also Graft loss, defiened as need of dialysis after acute rejection, was occurred in 24 patients (33.8%) from AR group. The frequencies of three genotype in CD14 (TT, CT, CC) in rejection With Graft loss were 75.0%, 20.8% and 4.1% respectively, While 25.5%, 31.9% and 42.5% in rejection without Graft loss (P<0.0001 for TT vs. CT, CC). Many recipients with AR were involved with graft loss had CD14 -159 TT genotype, whereas only a few recipients without graft loss had TT genotype (p<0.0001). Conclusion: Therefore, due to the importance of CD14 polymorphism (-159 C/T, rs2569190) in disease progression and also as a biomarker, could be considered as a crucial therapeutic target in early prognosis of acute rejection.


The design of optimal control architectures and the optimal selection of controlled variables represents a critical task for maximizing the economic profitability of operating plants. Traditionally, controlled variables are selected based on heuristics or past experiences. For cyber-physical systems (CPS), where physical and virtual components can be integrated in the same unit to evaluate the dynamic response of innovative power cycles past experiences may not be available. Trial-and-error methods can be time-consuming and costly. Besides, the selected controlled variables may not be optimal from the economic perspective. A systematic approach to the selection of controlled variable for cyber physical systems is presented here. The method is applied to a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-gas turbine (GT) CPS at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, WV. The main result of this work is the synthesis of optimal controlled variable sets for a cyber physical system exhibiting trade offs between economics as well as controllolability of variables.


Left: Two 1.0 kW wind turbines supply electricity to the dormatory of the Villa Tehuelche Rural School, a remote boarding school located in southern Chile. FOREWORD A few years ago, during my tenure as the United States ambassador to the small African nations of Rwanda and Lesotho, I was responsible for administering the Ambassador's Self-Help Funds Program. This discretionary grants program, supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds, allowed the ambassador to selectively support small initiatives generated by local communities to make their schools more efficient, increase economic productivity, and raise health standards. These funds were used to purchase equipment and materials, and the communities provided the labor necessary for construction. During this time, I was reminded of my earlier training in a one-room school in rural Bellair, Florida, in the United States. The school, which was without heat and hot water and dependent solely on kerosene lamps for lighting, made me wonder how much more I might have learned had today's advanced renewable energy technologies for rural schools been available to my generation. Following this diplomatic tour, I was asked to serve as chair person for Renewable Energy for African Development (REFAD)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to the application of renewable energy technologies in the rural villages of Africa. In South Africa, with support from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), more than one hundred college teachers and representatives from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have participated in renewable energy capacity building programs. As a result, several institutions initiated research projects. In Port Elizabeth, the technikon now offers a bachelor's degree in renewable energy studies. In South Africa, the government collaborated with industry and awarded concessionaire funds to implement a country-wide rural electrification program. In several South African countries, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provided 2-year funding to establish university chairs in renewable energy. In Botswana, REFAD conducted a careful evaluation of the government's 40-home photovoltaic (PV) pilot project. The evaluation showed that the introduction of solar technology to this rural village had a decided positive impact on microeconomic development, health improvements, and school performance—each of which plays an important role in ensuring continued sustainability in rural villages. Perhaps one of the most satisfying achievements of REFAD's work was the establishment of a "Living Renewable Energy Demonstration Center" in the KwaZulu/Natal region near Durban, South Africa. The …


Development of the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS) is described. In Study 1, a set of 17 items was selected on the basis of responses by 125 postpartum women. Analyses of the reliability and validity were then conducted. In Study 2, these analyses were replicated using data from an independent sample of 130 postpartum women. Study 3 involved an analysis of the ability of scores on the IIFAS to predict duration of breast-feeding among a sample of 725 women who had initiated that method of feeding their babies while in the hospital. Limitations of this research and possible future uses of the IIFAS in studies addressing the determinants and consequences of infant-feeding attitudes are discussed.


ABSTRACT It is presented a system that applies a Neural Network to a video surveillancesystem. It consists of a pre—processing unit that extracts high level informationfrom images and intruduces it in the Neural Network. This system can learn in operational conditions while under the supervision of an unskilled operator. It was used the error backpropagation learning algorithm in a multilayer perceptronstructure. The results obtained show that the system performs well and with a high degree of efficiency. INTRODUCTION In the last two years we have been developing an image processing system in order to make easier the task of surveillance [1]. In the present state the system hasimplemented in hardware the capacity of signalizing ,in real time, the movement ofany object (that we shall call intruder). It can also accumulate in the same image the signalization made in past images. To this charcteristic it has been noticed the necessity of joining one other: the possibility of an unskilled operator teaches the system how to diferenciatte between"friendly" intruders and "unfriendly" ones. From the several possible aproaches thechoice has fallen in a Neural Network because it's ease to teach. The chosen Neural


In this study, silk fibroin in hydrogel form is analyzed as an eco-friendly alternative to conventional polymers for lens applications in light-emitting diodes. The intensity profile was controlled via dome- and crater-type lenses.


We report on recent progress to develop an industrially relevant, robust technique to bond highly dissimilar materials using an ultrashort pulsed laser micro-welding technique. Tight focusing of light from a picosecond (ps) pulsed laser (in our case a 5.9ps, 400kHz Trumpf laser operating at 1030nm) at, close to, the interface between two materials allows for simultaneous heating of both. This absorption rapidly, and locally, heats the material leading to plasma formation from both materials. With suitable surface preparation this plasma can be confined to the interface region where it mixes, cools and forms a true weld between the two materials. In this presentation I will provide an overview of the ultrashort laser welding process and concentrate on our recent results. Results are presented for fused silica glass to aluminium, copper and stainless steel; borosilicate glass to silicon; and sapphire to stainless steel. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH


Ontologies play a pivotal role in the Semantic Web by providing metadata for distributed and automated information processing. The standard ontology language OWL does not apply Unique Name Assumption. This lack leads to misunderstandings among users and complicates databases and software modeling. The paper presents ways to overcome it without increasing both computational and conceptual complexities of the standard formats. Weaker forms of name assumptions are also proposed which are more appropriate for the Semantic Web.


The new £92 million Jubilee Wing of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently unveiled a reproduction of a painting depicting A&E services in Leeds in the late Eighteenth century.


Based on Švelch's recent book Gaming the Iron Curtain, this talk will show how computer hobbyists in Cold War era Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism. In the 1970s and 1980s, Czechoslovak authorities treated computer and information technologies as an industrial resource rather than a social or cultural phenomenon. While dismissing the importance of home computing and digital entertainment, they sponsored paramilitary computer clubs whose ostensible goal was to train expert cadres for the army and the centrally planned economy. But these clubs soon became a largely apolitical, interconnected enthusiast network, where two forms of tactical resistance could be identified. First, the clubs offered an alternative spaces of communal hobby activity, partially independent of the oppression experienced at work or at school The club members' ambitious DIY projects often substituted for the deficiencies of the state-controlled computer industry. Hobbyists not only built joysticks and programmed games, but also introduced new standards for data storage and ran large-scale bottom-up education programs. Second, especially in the late 1980s, local authors started making games that were openly subversive. Several anti-regime text adventure games were made in 1988 and 1989, including The Adventures of Indiana Jones on Wenceslas Square, January 16, 1989, which pitted the iconic Western hero against riot police during an anti-regime demonstration. These games rank among the world's earliest examples of activist computer games.


tlle ('XpOl't of our Iiidiaii opium is continued; and (5) tlle li;lbit of opiuin sinokint, is onie of thle gi-eatest, if not the greatest, hidiancllee to tlr( wroirk of CIli-stiail missionaries in Clliiiia. Tl1ese uneomproinising statements represent summarily aiid elearly tlle extrenle viebw of tile pliilantliropists and missionaries. A brief ezxamination of thesm suecessivelyr will exliibit in general terms the eirvet, of t}1e testimony of tlle various classes of ivitnt-sses wlio were examined. The first proposition contaiins tlle essence of tile wliole question. If opium smoking is-, ill realify, "one of t)le most awful vices that ever atIlicted the world," thlle any actionpolitical, commercial, or socialtlsat lias in tlse past, or does in the present, tend to encourage or facilitate it must of necessity be reprehe?nsible, and aniy effort to prohibit or suppress it in t}le future Iiighlyr meritorious if not absolutely b)indiDg onl iiidividuals, communities, or natioins. All witnesses agreed tllat opium may be Cand is smoked to excess ill Clhina, andl that suCll excess enltails injurious consequences to liealtli and morals; but a large aiid important section of tlsem testified that tlle moderate use of opium is liarmless if not be?neficial, andl evPen some of the missionaries admitted tllat tlse wealtby and well-fed classes do not display the baneful physical and moral effects of the drug so plaiiily as tlle poor and starving, if at all. It is evident that it is with these lower classes thlat missionaries come most in contact, aild their experience is apparently drawn from the street, the hospital, and the slum rather tha from the office or home. On every point the evridence is vague, and positive or statistical facts weak or wanting. Tlle average proportion of moderate and excessive consumers is nowhere stated; tliough from.the medical and general evidence tendered the former must largely preponderate. Opiulm is said to make men liars, thieves, sluggards, and debaucliees; but, granting the exristence of these vices among the lower classes in Clsiiia, it nowhere appears to what extent they prevail independenltly of opium or in what measure they are generated


It is possible that a plaintiff uses information about delegation contract as a means of responding strategic interactions between his lawyer and the defendant. We induce this possibility within the class of two-player contests with delegation. In detail, we have the following main results. (i) If the defendant's total hourly fee rate is not large, the plaintiff who becomes the underdog wants to hide information on delegation contract. (ii) If the defendant's total hourly fee rate is large, the plaintiff wants to release the information so that the defendant is the leader and the plaintiff's lawyer is the follower, while enjoying being the favorite. In addition, we show that if the plaintiff can choose whether to disclose the information, the total expenditure will be reduced.


Detailed analysis of influence of infeed current and double circuit transmission lines in distance relays is presented in this work. In addition, is investigate the teleprotection scheme that allows the rapid and accurate fault extinction best suited for the system addressed with these complex topologies. The modeling stages of the test system and coordination studies of protection were carried out in commercial software designed to simulate protection studies of power electrical systems, where multiple fault scenarios have been applied, considering influence of infeed current and double circuit transmission lines separately. The results revealed the presence of inaccuracies in the apparent impedance measurements, which should be considered when planning distance protection zones in complex power grid topologies. Furthermore, permissive overreach transfer trip teleprotection scheme proved to be more efficient in relation to the directional comparison blocking teleprotection scheme, since the former lead more accurate and faster faults extinction for the scenarios under study.


Use of transmittance matrices offers a straightforward method for simplifying a polynomial matrix multiplication problem into an ordinary matrix multiplication problem. The transmittance matrix formulation can be very useful in per forming state estimation. This appendix discusses the vector formulation of the transmittance matrix and its application for state estimation.


Digital system automatically guides welding torch to produce squarebutt, V-groove and lap-joint weldments within tracking accuracy of +0.2 millimeter. Television camera observes and traverses weld joint, carrying welding torch behind. Image of joint digitized, and resulting data used to derive control signals that enable torch to track joint.


Abstract Artifact peaks have been observed when samples of the detonation products of a number of U.S. Navy explosives were collected on Tenax-GC, desorbed with pentane, and analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). We have shown that the formation of these spurious peaks takes place slowly when Tenax-GC is stored in the dark, but the formation is greatly accelerated when air flows over this polymeric absorbent.


The invention provides a strain namely a pseudomonas fluorescens strain (2)-16' for controlling tomato bacterial wilt by using pathogenic bacteria antagonistic microbes, wherein the preservation serial number of the strain is CGMCC NO.3330. The invention also provides a microbial inoculum prepared from the pseudomonas fluorescens train (2)-16'. The invention further provides use of the pseudomonas fluorescens strain (2)-16' for controlling the tomato bacterial wilt, particularly as a seedling culture medium for controlling the tomato bacterial wilt. The pseudomonas fluorescens strain (2)-16' is directionally separated and selectively cultured, is cultured for propagation first, and then is prepared into a product of the microbial inoculum; mushroom residues after culturing edible fungi are fermented and thoroughly decomposed and then are used for preparing the seedling culture medium together with other base materials in certain proportion; and a raw anti-microbial agent is organically combined with the seedling culture medium directly. The pseudomonas fluorescens strain (2)-16' has a large number of advantages of abundant available resources, low cost and capacity of avoiding secondary pollutions, and provides an effective way for solving a soil-borne disease namely the tomato bacterial wilt.


Strobilae having no  scolex  of diphyllobothriid tapewDrms   were fQund from both a kiUer whale , Orcinus orca  captured   off  the Kii  Peninsula, Japan  and   a bottlenose dolphin, T 舘 rsiops   truncattts born in a sea water  pool of Taili Whale Museum . These animals  have been artificially maintained  in the sea  water pool for several  years. Two  kinds of strobilae   obtained  appeared  to be identical species  of  di− phyllobothriid tapeworms  morphologically , and  the strobila  fromコ 「 . trnncatzrs was   considered  in  somewhat immature form. The strobilae  in the present  study  were  identified as ヱ)φ勿〃obothrium /blhmaanni Hstt 1935 based on   morphological   characteristics of transverse and  sagittal  sections   of  segments   and  the  eggs  despite lack of  the  scolex . Two   mar 面e marnmals , Orcinus orca   and TurSioPs tntncatus are  the  new  record  of  natu − ral defin 辻ive host for D .fahuaanni . Moreover, the authors  also mentioned  this important point  in  regard to the marine mamnlalian sources  of infection . Key  Words :Diphyllobothn ' um fuhrmanni , Orcinus  orca , Tursiops tntncatbls , Diphyllobothriidae , Cestoda Jpn.J .Zoo  Witdl,Med ,4'1丿,53・60,1999


This research aimed to analyze how Pre-school teachers conduct group writing process in their classes. Essentially, the socio-interactionist perspective by Schneuwly's (1988) was followed, which conceives texts production as an activity encompassing cognitive and social dimensions. Two teachers from public schools in Recife and their respective children groups took part in the study. The children were between 5 and 6 years old. The process of writing three texts by the children from each class was video recorded and literally transcribed. During the group writing activities it was observed 11 types of teachers' interventions. Such interventions varied on its complexity level and were also related to text genres besides the situation from which stemmed the written texts.


Based on his comprehension of the human nature,life meaning and value,Frankl Viktor E·has applied his own meaning theory to the treatment on mental illnesses and developed a set of methods of mental treatment, namely meaning treatment.The core of the meaning treatment is to help the visitors look for the lost aim of life and value,and build up an explicit,firm and optimistic attitude toward the life.


Preoperative assessment of deep endometriotic (DE) nodules is necessary to inform patients about the possible treatments and provide informed consent in case of surgery. This study aims to investigate the diagnostic performance of rectal water‐contrast transvaginal ultrasonography (RWC‐TVS) and sonovaginography (SVG) in women with suspicion of posterior DE.


Base isolation systems generally perform well under design-level ground motions to reduce both interstory drift and acceleration demands. During a larger than anticipated earthquake, however, large displacements in the base level may cause pounding between the structure and perimeter moat wall, which can lead to very high acceleration in the superstructure. A phased passive control system, or 'gap damper', was conceived to control base isolator displacement during extreme events while having no effect on the isolation system performance for earthquakes up to and including the design level. Providing passive supplemental energy dissipation at a specified gap greater than the design displacement allows the base isolation system to act traditionally in design level events while activating the secondary system in extreme events. Use of this gap damper device eliminates undesirable effects associated with large amounts of supplemental damping at lower intensity motions. This paper presents the experimental validation of a prototype gap damper developed for practical implementation in a seismically-isolated building. The gap damper device uses four viscous dampers, two in each direction oriented around and attached to a contact surface at one end and a fixed point at the other end. An isolation nub extends down from the base of the building to sit inside the contact surface. An initial gap is provided between the isolation nub outer surface and the inner contact surface. When subjected to earthquake loading, the isolation nub moves within the contact surface and the dampers are not activated until the displacement amplitude exceeds the system initial gap. When the gap is closed, the dampers are activated and impact forces transferred from the isolation nub to the contact system are absorbed. Shake table testing was performed at the University of Nevada, Reno to simulate the gap damper system functioning within a base isolated building during large motions. Two test configurations consisting of a base isolated building without and with a gap damper system were tested. To the extent possible, the same trials were carried out in both configurations to quantify the influence of the gap damper on isolator displacements and superstructure accelerations compared to the isolated building without a gap damper. The gap damper is found to be more effective in limiting isolator displacements during pulse-type motions compared to long duration cyclic motions, and in predominantly unidirectional motions compared to motions with a strong bidirectional component. In addition, several factors are identified that limited the effectiveness of the gap damper relative to predictions from numerical simulations, which are possible to overcome in the design process. Superstructure accelerations increased as a result of activation of the gap damper, but these high frequency acceleration spikes are not seen to be detrimental to the overall structural performance relative to a conventionally designed building without special seismic protection.


As thermochromic compounds, tetraiodomercurates show phase transitions, which have been investigated by impedance spectroscopy. In the case of Ag2HgI4 and Cu2HgI4 we found clear changes of conductivity not present with HgI2. In all cases the main resistance is caused by the grain boundaries between the single crystals of the powder sample. Also diffusion in the double layer in front of the surface of the electrodes influences the spectra. Single crystal measurements of Hgl, show the different ionic mobilities along the various crystallographic directions.


Kerberos is an authentication protocol in which client and server can mutually authenticate to each other across an insecure network connection, to ensure data integrity of the message and privacy of channel communications. In this paper, a new novel is proposed to improve Kerberos authentication protocol by using Secret Image. This proposed modification in Kerberos will be modified to yield better security solutions and to provide centralized access control policy for each user with different parameters like authentication, speed of encryption and decryption and efficiency of transactions. This modified approach enhances the secure authentication of users with non-reputation feature by incorporating public key cryptography and hiding the message of differential access control for each user by using secret image. This differential access control policy is being enforced directly to the clients while doing the authentication of users through Kerberos protocol. The GnuPG has the capability to generate the key pair (ie, private key and public key) in the client itself. So this proposed system used this key pair for encryption and decryption of messages and takes the advantage of non transferring or non importing the private key from any devices or any nodes.


Set up usual perpendicular coordinate axes in the plane and consider a force having resolutes (resolved parts) a and b in the positive directions of the xand j-axes respectively. Then a constant c may be chosen so that ay = bx + c is the equation of the line of action of the force, since such an equation is of a line having the same direction as the force. Note that the equation describes the force in magnitude, direction and line of action and so represents the force completely: henceforward the force represented by ay = bx + c will be referred to as "the force ay = bx + c". (The force — ay = — bx — c would have the same line of action and magnitude but act in the opposite direction; in general the force kay = kbx + kc would have the same line of action but k times the magnitude.) In general the resultant of the two forces aly = b1x + Cj and a2y = b2 x + c2 is (a1 + a^y = (bl + b^x + (c, + c2), since this force has the correct resolutes and its line of action passes through the point of intersection of the lines of action of its component forces. The resultant of any number of coplanar forces may be similarly expressed. Should the lines of action of the two forces be parallel the above result may be seen to remain valid provided a, + a2 and bY + b2 do not both vanish, because the preliminary addition of two equal but opposite forces one to each can reduce this to the non-parallel case. If a, + a2 and bl + b2 both vanish, the two forces have no resultant and are said to form a couple. The addition of two forces forming a couple to a system thus affects only the c-term. We are now in a position to solve many statics problems as in the following example:


Enhancing democratic legitimacy in the multilevel European polity is an important challenge. The results of eurobarometer, the outcome of referenda on EU-related topics, demonstrations at European summits etc.: they all show a weakening of the legitimacy of the European political system. In our traditional view on democracy 'parliaments' contribute towards the legitimacy of political projects. In this regard, the European Parliament has a crucial part to play. The Laeken Declaration states that national parliaments have an important role as well. But one needs to be careful. When talking about 'democratic legitimacy' one has to distinguish between input-oriented legitimacy (government by the people) and output-oriented effectiveness (government for the people). There are elements of conflict: involving national parliaments more closely in the decision-making procedures (one way to enhance democracy at the input-side) will probably complicate the decision-making process. This could have a negative impact on the institutional capacity for effective problem-solving at the EU-level and prevent European institutions from conveying output-oriented legitimacy. This paper examines the different proposals submitted to the Convention on Europe's future on strengthening the influence of national parliaments. Specific attention is paid to the tension between input- and output-legitimacy. Our conclusion is that although most proposals would have adverse effects on effective policy-making, there are still possibilities for national parliaments to get more grip on European policies (thus enhancing democracy at the input-side), without complicating the decision-making process (thus not restricting effectiveness).


This folio consists of four electroacoustic works: A.L & Rossler, Chucker, Cycles and Concretion Study: remix. The following commentary is provided as an introduction to these pieces and the processes involved in their making. Instrument design is addressed as a part of my own practice, with an exploration of issues raised by musical activity with automata in the fields of computer music and live electronic performance.


A study was made of the influence of lakes and urban areas on the development of precipitation, as observed by radar. The study included five cases over the southern portion of Lake Michigan and 500 hr of records over urban areas and small lakes within 100 mi of the radar location. Lake Michigan, in general, discouraged the formation of air mass showers while the small lakes and urban areas caused no noticeable change in the form of echoes.


Based on an own model, the authors have realized the analytical calculus of the temperatures in the characteristic points of the thermodynamic cycle for a GDI engine. These temperatures were calculated depending on the engine's rotational speed and on the environmental temperature (considered to be equal to the one in the intake valve port) and for an excess air factor λ=1. The first step was the development of the mathematical model of the engine's cycle. The model includes the presentation of the initial data for the thermal calculus and the correlation between the expressions of the parameters in order to develop the computing programs. The calculated data were compared with experimental data acquired at environmental temperature, at maximum power and at the rotational speed corresponding to the maximum power (full load). The results show that the proposed model is accurate enough to be a useful tool for the study of GDI engines.


A kind of mimetic biomembrane-cast lipid film was made onto a glassy carbon electrode. Dopamine can be incorporated into the film. The oxidation of 2.0 x 10(-3) mol/L ascorbic acid with dopamine in the film was investigated. The oxidation overpotential of ascorbic acid was reduced by about 260 mV.


Carbapenems are considered to be the choice for the therapeutic management of multidrug resistant gram-negative bacterial infections. Currently, the spread of carbapenem - resistant bacteria are in alarming state due to the limited choice in antibiotics for treating infections caused by them. We detected the antibiotic susceptibility pattern using most routinely used antibiotics and found higher percentage resistance pattern and also checked for the presence of carbapenemase in our isolates by Modified Hodge test method and we found there were no isolates found to be positive for carbapenemase production. We conclude that more number of isolates needs to be screened for the presence of such resistance mechanism to validate the actual resistance status and prompt treatment.


One actinomycete strain GAAS2507(stored in the China Center for Type Culture Collection,CCTCC),producing a new agricultural antibiotic wanlongmycin,was isolated from a soil sample collected from Malaysia.According to the colour of its spore stacks,it was tentatively classified to the cineteus group.Based on its morphological,physiological,biochemical characteristics,and 16S rDNA sequence analysis,it was classified as a new subspecies and name as Streptomyces griseovariabilis subsp.bandungensis subsp.nov.


HIV-associated lipodystrophy has become a major challenge in the treatment of HIV infection. Recombinant human growth hormone has shown clinical effectiveness in therapy for growth hormone-deficient disorders and HIV-associated lipodystrophy, but its association with a variety of adverse effects has led to the development of human growth hormone-releasing factor analogs. Tesamorelin, a synthetic growth hormone-releasing factor, has been developed for the potential treatment of HIV-associated lipodystrophy. A multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase III clinical trial demonstrated that tesamorelin was a beneficial treatment strategy for HIV-associated lipodystrophy with a good safety profile and a positive effect on reducing visceral fat and improving lipid profiles.


www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.010316 1 June 2020 • Vol. 10 No. 1 • 010316 The high-level summit on universal health coverage organized by the United Nations (UN) was recently held in the context for the revision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (ASD). One of the main challenges discussed was the need to develop a global reference framework with key guidelines to ensure equal access to health services and achieve better universal coverage in both communicable and non-communicable diseases [1].


This research developed in the province of Riobamba in Canton Chambo, aims to propose a draft pastoral care for youth in this sector.
In the structure of this work are three chapters. In the first chapter the context of the reality of young people in the various educational, psychological, socio-cultural spheres and the priority of spiritual accompaniment is analyzed.
The reflection of the socio-cultural youth world will help better understand its dimensions: political, cultural, religious, emotional that give meaning to life.
In the second chapter the environment of young people and the various types of young people who are in urban and rural areas, in order to clarify the key issues in the final product to be developed in the fourth chapter is studied.
In the third chapter the social vision of the Diocese of Riobamba mainly Canton Chambo, which determines the need for support through surveys of the population of the same addresses.
The fourth chapter provides the overarching themes to set the accompaniment through activities such as camps, retreats, youth Easter and workshops for parents, encouraging pastoral youth work with the community in human growth, spiritual and social.


The nanometer TiO2 powders doped with La3+ in a molar fraction of 2% was prepared from Ti(OC4H9)4 and La(NO3)3 by sol-gel processing.The influence of thermal treatment processing on the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 was investigated through degradation of TNT.The results showed that the fitting thermal treatment temperature of sample is 500℃,the temperature rising rate is 10℃/ min and the activation time is 2 h,the degradation of TNT is 96% within 60 minutes.


This paper looks at stick number of links and knots. We find an upper bound for n-integer Conway links, and classify all two component links with stick number of eight or less.


Abstract A total of 72 male Sprague‐Dawley rats were assigned to three groups using a 3 X 3 factorial design. Animals were injected IP every three days for 29 days with 0, 1.0 or 2.5 mg CdCl2/kg of body weight. Total cumulative CdCl2 doses were 0. 9.0 or 22.5 mg/kg of body weight. Animals were sacrificed on day 1, 7 or 21 following injections. Liver and kidney tissues were collected and analyzed for Cd concentrations. The Cd‐treated groups exhibited significant increases in Cd concentrations in both tissues. An average of 0.85, 19.86 and 48.44 μg/g of wet liver tissue and a mean of 0.78, 11.53 and 31.14 μg/g of wet kidney tissue for the 0, 1.0 and 2.5 mg CdCl2/kg of body weight groups, respectively, were observed. The amount of Cd in these tissues remained significantly high over the 21‐day observation period.


In an effort to enable reusable, high-performing liquid rocket engines, a comprehensive experimental and numerical investigation of the thermal performance (thermal stability and heat transfer characteristics) of RP-2 is underway at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Edwards AFB, CA. In the current work, the High Heat Flux Facility (HHFF) was demonstrated as capable of providing initial RP-2 thermal performance information under conditions simulating the cooling channels of a real engine. RP-2 was thermally stressed under asymmetric heat flux while flowing through circular copper tube test sections. Shortduration thermal stressing tests provided heat transfer information which closely followed existing empirical correlations for RP-1. Effects of wall temperature, bulk temperature, and flow rate on heat transfer were observed and were consistent with expected behavior. Longer-duration tests at elevated wall temperatures provided the first steps in elucidating the conditions under which solid carbon deposits form. The test sections were analyzed posttest with optical and scanning electron microscope and carbon deposition burn-off for signs of coke formation. The results from these analyses indicate the presence of solid carbon deposition for high-wall temperature tests exceeding 30 min in duration. However, further testing is required to make definite conclusions regarding coking temperature and deposit formation rate.


Delusional infestation has been described since 1894. The variety of treatments of delusional infestation has been administered in different atypical antipsychotic agents. Here, we present a case of first treatment with lurasidone on the delusional infestation in a 68-year-old female with vascular dementia, and the literature reviews of the related delusion infestation management.


The two-wave approximation is used to analyze the design of linear resonance ion accelerators with a focusing axisymmetric accelerating field in several cases of practical interest. Special features and characteristics are described, such as the length of the region of phase focusing, acceleration rate, maximum current, and type of accelerated ions.


The thermoelectric response of 80 nm-thick strained HgTe films of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) has been studied experimentally. An ambipolar thermopower is observed where the Fermi energy moves from conducting to the valence bulk band. The comparison between theory and experiment shows that the thermopower is mostly due to the phonon drag contribution. In the region where the 2D Dirac electrons coexist with bulk hole states, the Seebeck coefficient is modified due to 2D electron–3D hole scattering.


Through studying the time images,the natural scenery and the flying-birds' images,the paper shows that one worries about the life and the other is sorrow for the society in their respective poems .


A field experiment was conducted to study the "Effect of nutrient management practices on soil health and crop response under different cropping systems in a Vertisol of Northern transition zone of Karnataka" at Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during 2007-08. The experiment was laid out in strip plot design with nutrient management practices as main plots and cropping systems as subplots with three replications. Among the nutrient management practices organic plots recorded significantly higher soybean (2790 kg/ha), groundnut (3709 kg/ha) and chilli (1001 kg/ha) equivalent yields where as integrated plots recorded significantly higher maize (4330 kg/ha) and potato (4723 kg/ha) equivalent yields and were found superior over inorganic plots. Both organic and inorganic fractions of nitrogen in soil increased over time under organic followed by integrated nutrient management practices during both kharif and rabi seasons. Nitrogen fractions under inorganic nutrient management practice increased up to 60 DAS and later declined. The dehydrogenase, phosphatase and urease activity were found to be maximum under integrated followed by organic nutrient management practice and their activity increased up to 30 DAS and then sharply declined. After harvest of rabi crops the soil organic carbon in organic plots increased by 32.6 per cent. Similarly, in integrated plot it increased by 17.1 per cent whereas in inorganic plot soil organic carbon decreased by 11.0 per cent over the initial value. The available N, P2O5, K2O and S content of soil increased by 19.1, 46.3, 9.6 and 54.0 per cent respectively, and DTPA extractable Zn, Fe, Mn and Cu increased by 18.6, 30.6, 36.5 and 30.0 per cent, respectively under integrated nutrient management practice over their initial values. Legume based cropping system at the end of their crop cycle improved the soil fertility status with respect to available N, P2O5, K2O, S and micronutrients content of soil.


This presentation covers the experiences of one instructor and three graduate students at the University of Oklahoma School of Library & Information Studies participating in the Digital Public Library of America OMEKA pilot project for student digital exhibition creation during the 2013 fall semeste. Although our exhibit on the History of American Literature was not selected by the DPLA for national exposure, we learned a lot along the way!


Techniques to predict the properties of on-board antennas and their coupling with other antennas and vehicle systems would provide significant benefits for the automotive industry and for similar applications in many other industries. For complex geometries, like those of vehicles, these effects cannot be assessed without using numerical techniques. This paper presents the transmission line modelling (TLM) method, which has many advantages in tackling problems with complex geometry and material composition, and has been developed for general automotive electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) modelling applications. As part of the associated validation work, TLM Models of EMC test antennas have been created, to enable the simulation of radiated immunity tests. The TLM method is attractive for automotive EMC applications, because it is a time-domain technique, permitting the derivation of broadband frequency-domain results obtained from Fourier transformations of time series. The paper discusses the modelling of vehicle EMC and on-board antennas, and some of the results obtained. It illustrates the use of the TLM method in predicting the installed performance of vehicle-mounted antennas, and shows that their positions on the vehicle can significantly affect their behaviour. For the covering abstract see ITRD E107095.