Two construction methods for orthonormal multiwavelets with multiplicity 2 based on scalar wavelets are given. From the point of view of the complex scalar wavelet, the relationship between the complex scalar wavelet and the real multiwavelet is established in the method 1. Based on the general short support and orthonormal scalar wavelet, we constitute the matrix conjugate quadrature filter with interpolation symmetry in method 2. The method 2 is simple and easy to realize.


The aim of this paper is to formulate strategies for Shaanxi Aviation Industrial Upgrading (SXAIU). First, a two-level index system was established by combining literature analysis and Delphi methods, which includes the key success factors and external driving forces affecting Shaanxi aviation industry (SXAI). After that, by using the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (well-known as TRIZ), these key factors were translated into critical problems and strategies were formulated to settle them. This study contributes in two ways. On the one hand, it could help to administrators of SXAI to adopt the short term strategies primarily and implement medium and long term strategies according to their own 3- to 5-year goals. On the other hand, the strategies established in this study are more operational and decision-making process is more transparent and scientific. Therefore, other industries in Shaanxi and other provinces can also adopt strategies developed in this study.


The full lac binding region peptide and its subunits were investigated as potential ligands either for the affinity immobilisation and purification of plasmid DNA or for detection purposes such as in a BioMEMS device. Affinities and mechanisms for lacI peptides binding to pUC19 plasmid DNA were examined through measurement of binding isotherm and maximum binding capacity. In addition, the effects of elution, different binding buffers and ionic strength were investigated with the aim of optimising binding and elution conditions and of assisting the affinity purification of plasmid DNA.


The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the summed emission from sources beyond the Milky Way. An accurate measurement of the EBL can be used as a benchmark to search for any diffuse components in excess of the integrated light from galaxies. We have studied archival data from the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft to assess its capability to measure the near-IR EBL at wavelengths between 1.2 and 2.5 μm. We estimate LEISAs sensitivity to diffuse brightness to be ∼105 nW m−2 sr−1 in 1.5 s exposures, which precludes the possibility of reaching EBL signals at the level of 10 nW m−2 sr−1.


The characteristics of remote sensing data are large amount, multi-source, heterogeneous and distributed storage, which have caused the difficulty of data integration and greatly restricts its application. Based on the characteristics of metadata information of remote sensing data, this paper constructs the distributed remote sensing metadata integration criterion and realizes the unified format conversion of multi-source remote sensing metadata. Secondly, it designs amulti-source satellite data fast access method based on XML to improve the capability of rapid updating of data resources of satellite data application system in a single direction; Finally, the feasibility and practicability of the research results are verified by taking the integrated water resources management and emergency demonstration system in the river basin as an example.


Frondizi's journey to Canada and Asia has to be understood in connection with his previous trips to United States and Europe and derives from his rationale that the world of that time was indivisible. Argentina had to be placed in that context. Temas de HisToria argenTina y americana, XVI (enero-Junio de 2010) pp. 147-176 148 LEONOR M. DE DEVOTO – HEBE CARMEN PELOSI The objective was to seek new markets, which derived from the vital Argentine's need to commerce and atract investments, key to the development and economic cooperation program. Peace was one of the journey's topics and Frondizi also searched to know the cultures of the visited countries to have some insight of their situation. As results commercial treaties were signed with Thailand and Japon, still in force.


In two recent NIH-supported clinical trials, investigators examined how to best use parathyroid hormone (PTH) in treating postmenopausal osteoporotic women.

As part of a randomized trial, supported in part by manufacturers of PTH and alendronate, 119 previously untreated women were assigned to receive 1 year of daily PTH (1-84) injections followed by 1 year of daily oral alendronate, or 1 year of PTH followed by 1 year of placebo. PTH increased BMD …


The popularity of Korean shows in China and the so-called "feedback" of Confucianism from Korea have attracted wide attention.The meditation,appreciation,criticism and enmity toward the issue have all over-emphasized the ethical functions of cultural capital and cultural industry in the age of "globalization" and misunderstood the way of the revival of traditional ethics in modern contexts.Not only the Korean shows featured as consumer's culture,their fashionableness and worldly concerns,but also the patriotisms that make the Korean and Chinese nations divided have made the ethical fancies like the so-called "revival of Confucianism" and "unity in Confucianism" a weak and ephemeral voice in an age of "carnival".


Interventions for strengthening, repairing, and upgrading of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures are aimed to increase/restore their structural capacity to withstand flexural, shear, torsional, and axial loads. Reasons to carry out such interventions vary from the need to upgrade the structure to current guidelines, overcome design and construction mistakes, and allow an increment in load due to a change in use. In addition, unexpected overloading events, such as earthquakes, might damage the structure, reducing its original performance. The same behavior can be expected in the case of fire or lack of adequate maintenance.
In the previous decades the use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites has gained worldwide popularity to carry out such interventions due to some of their properties such as high strength-to-weight ratio, ease of application, and good corrosion resistance. However, the use of organic resin matrix in FRP composites has been associated with some limitations of their use such as inability to apply onto wet surfaces, low resistance to relatively high temperatures, and difficulty to carry out post-earthquake assessment. For this reason, in recent years, an important research effort has been developed in order to study composites known as fiber reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) composites, in which the organic resin is replaced by an inorganic matrix. In this thesis, the behavior of RC beams strengthened in shear with externally bonded FRCM composites is studied.
The first part of this thesis summarizes the state of research on the topic of shear strengthening of RC beams using externally bonded FRCM composites with the goal of serving as a reference point for the development of future research. A detailed bibliographical review of the literature on the shear strengthening of RC beams using FRCM composites is carried out, and the major findings and main aspects that should be addressed in future research are indicated. The collected experimental evidence shows that FRCM composites are able to increase the shear strength of RC beams, modifying in some cases the type of failure from shear to a flexural mode.
Then, the results of an experimental campaign on shear strengthening of RC beams with externally bonded FRP and FRCM composites are presented. FRP and FRCM composites with two different fiber types are examined. Two different stirrup spacings were employed to investigate the internal-external shear reinforcement interaction. Considering the limited experimental evidence on the use of anchors for RC beams strengthened in shear with FRCM composites, the performance of FRCM strengthened beams with and without anchors is also compared. Results show that the effectiveness of the FRCM system depends on the spacing of theinternal shear reinforcement. In addition, internal-external shear reinforcement interaction was witnessed, but the intereaction appears to be less pronounced than in beams strengthened with FRP composites.
Design models proposed to predict the contribution of the FRCM composite to the shear strength of RC beams are assessed using the database of experimental results collected and compiled by the author and the experimental results included in this thesis. Results show that the performance of the models is highly influenced by the type of failure mode attained by the strengthened beams. In addition, the use of the FRCM composite properties instead of the bare fiber mechanical characteristics does not result in an increase in the accuracy of the models.
Strains measured by strain gauges mounted onto the internal (stirrups) and external (FRCM system) transverse reinforcement of the tested beams are used to compute the individual contributions of the concrete, steel, and fibers to the overall shear strength of the FRCM strengthened beams, and to study the possible interaction among them. It was found that the concrete contribution to the shear resistance starts to decrease after first cracking of the concrete is achieved. After this point, the stirrup and fiber contributions start to increase until the peak load is attained.
Lastly, a new analytical model based on the bond behavior of the FRCM composites applied onto concrete substrates is introduced and discussed. Although additional tests are required to calibrate the model, initial results show that the assumptions and hypothesis used during its development are appropriate.


Federal elected officials and members of the United States intelligence community have expressed concern about the security of the nation's scientific and technological information, articulating worries about China, Russia, and Iran. The fears include potential academic espionage, theft of intellectual property, and threats to academic integrity. As federal policy-makers respond, it is critical that they work with the scientific community to balance securing strategically important information with maintaining the free flow of fundamental scientific knowledge and international talent necessary for scientific progress. History is a guide to striking this balance.


The concept of absolute surface excess of adsorption accounts for the expansion of compression of the volume of a pure liquid under the influence of a solid surface. The absolute surface excess amount of substance can prove to be a powerful measure of the adsorption at a solid/binary liquid interface, too. The contributions of the composition and volumetric effects to the adsorption can be separated from each other in this concept, and both of them are experimentally accessible quantities.


The work shows that the purpose of choreographic art is to convey to a significant part of listeners the imageries, thoughts and the formation of views that become the basis for the growth of cultural perception. Choreographic art is understood by the authors of the article as part of a single process of human cultural development. The article reveals successively the technology of the formation of the choreographic process as part of the socio-cultural exchange, as well as an aspect of the formation of prerequisites for the personal growth of an individual who becomes a participant in cultural exchange. The authors showed that the use of choreographic art is understood not only as a visualized part of the basic artwork of a text plan, an artistic one, but it can also act as an object of knowledge as an independent unit. The novelty of the article is the position that the use of choreographic art as part of cultural exchange is based on the psychological perception of the individual to the cultural process.


The trajectories of dim point targets are always continuous in infrared image sequences.This can be used to improve the detection ability of the temporal based detection algorithms.In this paper,we present a spatial and temporal combined detection algorithm which utilizes both spatial and temporal information on moving dim point targets.Based on the analysis of the probable trajectories of moving dim point targets,a group of filter templates are constructed.And the trajectory of the dim moving target is obtained by using the constructed template to filter the temporal detection result.Also the target occurrence time in each pixel is extracted from the temporal based algorithm to further eliminate interference of the background.Since our new algorithm uses both spatial and temporal information on dim moving targets,it can have a better detection performance than the temporal based detection algorithm.Experiments with real infrared image sequences have proved the validity of the new approach.


1. Is there a correlation between an arbitrator's legal background and propensity to encourage a settlement? Many disputes are resolved by the parties reaching a settlement during the course of an arbitration. This article looks at the way in which such settlements are negotiated and concluded and, specifically, at the part played by the arbitrator. It may be observed that, although the law and practice of arbitration is becoming increasingly standardized across borders, there still appear to be some differences, one of which is the perception of an arbitrator's role with respect to conciliation. Can—and should— an arbitrator encourage a settlement, or should he refrain from any intervention in this connection?


It introduces the property characteristics and allocation requirements of self-density concrete,and proposes relevant quality control measures and construction methods from raw materials and production control combined with concrete engineering examples,in order to increase casting quality of sheet steel concrete composite structural concrete and popularize the application of self-density concrete in complex composite structure engineering construction.


The principle, function and implementation of an integration unit in shunt compensation device is presented in this paper. The unit integrates the functions of protection, measurement, signaling and control in it.


Background: The various types of nasal masses are due to many of the specialized tissues, each with its own aberrations that exist in the region. They may be present as inflammatory polyp or neoplastic tumors and neoplastic tumors further divided in benign or malignant types. Objectives: This study was undertaken to note the various histopathological patterns of nasal masses and relative distribution of various lesions with regard to age and sex in our setting. Material and Methods: It was a seven year retrospective study of nasal mass specimens received at histopathology section of Department of Pathology, Agartala Government Medical College and Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital (AGMC & GBP Hospital), Agartala. Results: Total 149 cases presented as nasal mass. Overall male to female ratio was 1.8:1. In our study non-neoplastic, benign and malignant nasal lesions were commonly encountered in 11-20 year, 31-40 and 51-60 year age group respectively. Ninety three (93) non-neoplastic lesions, forty two (42) benign lesions and fourteen (14) malignant tumors were diagnosed. Inflammatory polyp was the commonest non-neoplastic lesion, capillary hemangioma was the commonest benign lesion and Olfactory neuroblastoma was the most common malignancy. Conclusion: Amongst the non-neoplastic lesions, inflammatory polyp was the commonest type. Amongst the benign lesions capillary hemangioma was most commonly encountered and olfactory neuroblastoma was found to be commonest malignant nasal lesion.


Abstract : The effects of critical process variables on pressure requirements and product quality were studied for wrought and powder materials ranging from relatively high-strength easy to work materials such as aluminum alloys and steels to the relatively more difficult-to-work materials such as Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy and superalloys. With these materials, fluids and lubricants tended to be the factor controlling pressure requirements and product quality. With almost every material extruded the limit in extrusion ratio was set by the design pressure capacity of the container except for the aluminum alloys where the limit was set more by the efficiency of the lubrication system. Tubing, mill shapes and wire were produced from a variety of materials. For tubing, the floating-mandrel arrangement enabled higher extrusion-ratio capabilities than those for solid rounds. An analysis of the beneficial effects of the floating-mandrel arrangement is given. T-sections were extruded from round billets and were re-extruded into smaller T-sections. In the reduction of T-sections and wire, a technique of hydrostatic-extrusion drawing developed at Battelle was used. This method, called the HYDRAW technique, was used to reduce wire of Ti-6Al-4V alloy, beryllium, and TZM molybdenum alloy wire at single pass reductions of up to 60 percent. That reduction appeared to be by no means the limit of single-pass reduction achievable with these materials.


In this study, numerical analysis of cavitating three-blade cyclic flat-plate cascade is performed with paying attention to cavitation surge which is a type of cavitation instabilities. A numerical method employing "locally homogeneous model for compressible gas-liquid two-phase medium" is applied to solve the unsteady cavitating flowfield. From results of numerical analysis, few typical tendency of cavitation surge which is well known in experiments was reproduced numericaly, that frequency of cavitation surge decreases with lowering σ, and that cavitation surge is easy to occur at low flow rate condition. Additionaly, mechanism of pulsation phenomenon of cavitation surge in flat-plate cascade was clarified, that collapse pressure of cloud cavity in downstream of cascade propagates upstream on contact with re-entrant jet which is flowing backward inside a sheet cavity and causes oscillation in upstream pressure, also that negative angle of attack and choking of cascade throat are considered to cause of oscillation in flow rate. About dynamic transfer function of cavitation, certain degree of possibility is confirmed in quasi-steady mass flow gain factor Mquasi and cavitation compliance Kquasi for prediction of occurrence limit of cavitation instabilities. Additionally, for prediction of frequency of cavitation surge, it was confirmed that local cavitation compliance Klocal is more available than quasi-steady one.


Objective To assess the evidences of Cochrane systematic reviews of orthodontic treatment for children and the methodological quality of all randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials(RCT/qRCT) of the included systematic reviews. Methods Issue 4, 2008 of the Cochrane Library was searched for systematic reviews on orthodontic treatments for children. All randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials of Cochrane systematic reviews of orthodontic treatment for children were evaluated. Results Four systematic reviews with twelve RCT were included. The included reviews were orthodontic and orthopaedic treatment for anterior open bite in children, oral appliances and functional orthopaedic appliances for obstructive sleep apnoea in children, orthodontic treatment for prominent upper front teeth in children and orthodontic treatment for deep bite and retroclined upper front teeth in children. The risk of bias was assessed independently by two authors using the criteria which were described in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 5.0.0. The methods of 9 studies were rated of category C of the methodological quality with high risk of various bias. The methods of 2 studies were category A, and one study was category B. Conclusion Cochrane systematic reviews are received as the highest quality of research evidences. There is insufficient, consistent evidence to support orthodontic and orthopaedic treatment for children. Further high quality RCT need to be conducted. To improve the quality of RCT reporting, clinical trial registration and revised consolidated standards of reporting trial statement should be introduced into the trial design and strictly performed. Clinical evidence should be summarized in order to improve orthodontic treatment for children.


SUMMARY In this paper we consider a measure of the effect of single observations on a logarithmic Bayes factor defined via the difference in the logarithms of the Bayes factors conditional first on all the data and then omitting an observation. The measure is related to the conditional predictive ordinate. The form of the measure and examples of its use are presented for a variety of situations, normal samples, linear models, log linear models and the checking of distributional assumptions.


As part of the November issue, the European Respiratory Journal presents the latest in its series of podcasts. Deputy Chief Editor James Chalmers interviews Sarah Hiles (University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia), Peter Gibson (University of Newcastle, Callaghan, and John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, Australia) and Guy Brusselle (Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, and Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) about their individual patient data meta-analysis of the use of azithromycin in severe asthma published in this issue.


The rates at which the solar energy absorbed in the infrared CO2 bands is converted into v2 vibration energy and into heat are determined for the layers of the Venus and Mars atmospheres where the CO2 v3 vibration states have nonequilibrium populations. 12 references.


Background. Mental disorders prevention in specific professional groups is impossible without scientifically substantiated allocation of groups with increased neuropsychiatric and psychosomatic disorders risk. This fact indicates the need to study the gender, age and professional characteristics in law enforcement workers who already have problems with psychological adaptation.
Methods and materials. The study involved 1630 law enforcement officers (1,301 men and 329 women) who were evaluated with the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R). As the statistical methods were used the partial regression calculation coefficient η2, cohort calculation risk measures, φ*-total Fischer transformation method, and single-factor dispersion Fisher's analysis.
Results. According to gender characteristics, the problems with psychological adaptation in men were significantly less pronounced than in women (φ*=1.79; p=0.37). These data were confirmed by the cohort calculation and risk measures results: men – 0.261, women – 0.349 (the psychological disadaptation risk in women was 1.3 times higher than men). There weren't any statistically significant age differences between the representatives of both gender groups with psychological adaptation disturbances and healthy ones (φ* ≤1.19; p≥0.1). Among patients who suffered from psychosomatic diseases, were men over the age of 35 (φ* ≥2.28; p≤0.0001) and women over 26 years old (φ*= 2.16; p=0.014) prevailed. There were significantly fewer people among men with psychosomatic illnesses with 4-9 years of professional working experience than in a healthy group. On the contrary, there were significantly more patients in a law enforcement workers group with 10-15 years working experience than in the healthy one (φ*>1.73; p<0.0001).
Conclusion. The risk of mental health problems in female police officers is much higher than in men. Disadaptation development is not related to the age and length of working experience in the police. Men with working experience greater than 10 years should be included in the risk group for psychosomatic diseases.


Objective To explore the gene expression of human telmerase reverase transcriptase (hTERT) in peripheral blood from newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) children and the disorder of cytokine network and their mutual relationship.Methods Peripheral blood samples were obtained from 36 newly diagnosed children with ALL and 13 healthy children to determine the plasma interleukin 6 (IL-6) and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) concentration by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) according to the manufacturer's instructions.The differences of the plasma IL-6 and IFN-γ concentration between newly diagnosed ALL and healthy children group were analyzed by t-test.The relative hTERT gene expression was investigated in 24 newly diagnosed ALL children,13 healthy children and K562 cell lines using semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis.The expression level of hTERT of newly diagnosed ALL group was compared with that of healthy children group as well as K562 cell line using t-test.Moreover,the relationships between hTERT and plasma IL-6 as well as IFN-γ concentration were analyzed by the Pearson test.All statistical analysis were performed with SPSS 11.5 software.Results The plasma IL-6 concentration of newly diagnosed ALL group was significantly higher than heathly children group [(73.27±32.05) ng/L vs (28.15±15.91) ng/L,t=4.841 P=0],but the plasma IFN-γ concentration was downregulated [(14.62±7.67) ng/L vs (24.22±10.43) ng/L,t=3.505 P=0.001].The level of hTERT mRNA expression was significantly higher in newly diagnosed ALL compared with healthy children group (0.605 7±0.179 6 vs 0.077 4±0.021 9,t=4.986 P=0),but significantly lower than K562 cell line (0.605 7±0.179 6 vs 0.888 3±0.047 2,t=3.071 P=0.006).Furthermore,we found a significantly positive correlation between the hTERT expression and plasma IL-6 concentration in newly diagnosed ALL group (r=0.683 P=0.001).However,there was a significantly inverse correlation between the hTERT expression and IFN-γ concentration (r=-0.570 P=0.011).Conclusions The level of hTERT gene expression in newly diagnosed childhood ALL might be upregulated and the network of cytokines be disordered.Their interactions might play a very important role in the development and progression of childhood ALL.


The paper explores the relationship of language and thought with respect to their mutual determination or influence. Two questions are considered crucial: how do we learn the meanings of conventional linguistic signs, including those for abstract concepts, and how do we express our original insights, thoughts and feelings through not-yet-conventional linguistic means. These are followed by succinct answers and extensive elaborations referring to opposite views and linguistic examples from the history of philosophy and cognitive linguistics. It is argued that linguistic expressions, including metaphors, mostly incorporate how people represent (or once represented) the world to themselves through imagination and present (or once presented) the world to others through language. Hence language neither directly shows how we conceive and understand the world nor how we construct it in our thoughts. On the other hand, symbolization through metaphor and metonymy, as well as innovative verbalization, enable our cognition to communicate novel as well as abstract and philosophically demanding meanings.


According to the concept and characteristics of the mass personalization production mode, combined with the concept of "Internet + Manufacturing" and related technologies of the industry 4.0 strategy, this paper proposes an overall framework of a smart factory for mass personalization production, and analyzes the key technologies and functional modules of the framework in detail. Taking the production of personalization bicycles in a bicycle intelligent manufacturing laboratory as an example to illustrate the process of achieving mass personalization production.


A viscosity-splitting scheme for the initial boundary value problems of the Navier-Stokes equations is considered. In the scheme, the Stokes equation is solved in conjunction with a nonhomogeneous boundary condition which connects the tangent flow with a no-slip flow. Convergence is proved.


Summary form only given. Subsea cable technology has advanced to allow the manufacture of both single and three core cables for bulk power transfer between transmission systems in continuous lengths up to 100 km. The mechanical and electrical integrity of these cable systems is enhanced by the ability to manufacture the cable in long lengths, thereby removing discontinuities at jointing positions. Handling of long length cables is complex, requiring manufacturing facilities capable of insulating, sheathing, armouring, storing and off-loading the cable to be located on the same site. A 100 km continuous length of completed, armoured cable for example may weigh in excess of 8000 Tonnes. The installation of subsea cable presents many challenges in mechanical and marine engineering. The cable must withstand the significant mechanical forces which are generated during installation due to its own weight and the action of tidal currents. The installed cable is also at risk from damage by anchors, fishing activity, vessel impact, movement of the cable or seabed terrain. To protect the cable during laying or in service metallic armour wires are applied in one or two layers to the construction as part of the manufacturing process, however, additional protection can be offered by burying the cable in the seabed using a variety of jetting, ploughing or trenching techniques. The paper describes the choice of cable design which exists for subsea power links and the merits of these various designs. The manufacture and installation of long continuous lengths of subsea power cable is discussed with reference to some key installations.


This study explored educational persistence in the narratives of students re-engaging in secondary school, specifically relating to the messages they received from their families motivating them to succeed in school. Framed in Yosso's (2005) theory of community cultural wealth, students described the methods their families used to support them that largely diverged from traditional methods of academic family involvement. In the midst of educational reform discourse that takes a deficit view of students and families who do not follow institutionally recognized norms of family involvement, this study seeks to challenge the notion that families who use non-traditional forms of support do not care about their children's education. In fact, student narratives show that the community cultural wealth they received from interactions with their families was integral in motivating them to persist through obstacles in school.


This paper shows a self-reconfigurable planar parallel robot by coupling two 2R open kinematic chains, the first joints of which are unactuated. They can reconfigure to a 5R closed kinematic chain which has the same number of actuators as its degrees of freedom. They can also reconfigure to a 4R closed kinematic chain. We present a dynamic control for the open kinematic chain to move to a target position on the floor without making an impact.


The nature of bottom sediments in the Strait of C.,:anakkale (Dardanelles) depends on the interaction of the channel geometry and flow conditions. The sand-size sediments are found in narrow parts of the strait' s channel where high-energy conditions prevail. Such high-energy !low ~ections of the channel in clude the narrows of <;:anakkale and Nara Sand and silty sand arc.: abo distributed in narrow bands along both shores of the channel. Terrigenous mud is the m(\j or ~ediment type covering deeper and wider parts of the strait channe l where bottom wrn:nt~ are relativel y wea k. Shallow seismic profiling shows the presence of two main seismic sedimentary sequences in th e Dardanelles; late Quatemary sediments and acoustic basement. These are separated by an erosional truncation surfac.:e. The late Quaternary sediments consists of at least three sediment sub-units. These sub-units can be interpreted as Holocene posttransgression marine depos its (A1) . basin ward-prograding deltaic sediments deposited during the Wtim1 glaciation (A2) . and basal transgressive marine sediments (A3) , possibly Tyrrhenian age. The acoustic basement is fom1 ed from the Miocene shallow marine clasti c sediments di stributed widely on both sides of the strait. The lower two sub-units of the late Quaternary sediments are locally gas-charged in the wider parts of the straits channel. The origin of the gas is not adequately known: it could have heen fonm:d by fermantation reactions during the early diagenes is of sub-unit A3• The channel of the strait appears to be fault controlled with the faults being generally parallel to the coast. Some faults are s till active and cut the late Quaternary sediments.


We aimed to assess the treatment response of infantile‐onset epileptic spasms (ES) in CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) vs other etiologies.


Intake of grazing animals is influenced by several factors, and therefore it is difficult to define an appropriate methodology for its evaluation. Variables such as the animals' activities during grazing, forage digestibility and animal production help the choice of the best grazing method, which, by its turn, results in a more economic production. The main ways for estimating animals' intake are the use of direct or indirect measures and the study of ingestive behavior. Direct measures have as a principle the difference of mass before and after grazing, by measuring either the animal or the pasture. Indirect methodologies are based on studies on fecal yield and digestibility, with use of indicators. A methodology that studies ingestive behavior of grazing animals  uses as instruments the variables of bite (depth, mass, size) and the grazing time for estimating the animals' intake. Studies aiming at comparing methodologies are of great importance, but they are scarce. There are several techniques to estimate the consumption of grazing ruminants, but all of them are limited and sources of error that must be carefully analyzed in order to allow the choice of the most appropriate technique for estimative and for the availability of financial and operational resources.


Key findings from empirical studies—early design is opportunistic; critical role of pictures in design conception; impact of various cognitive limitations—have very effectively determined requirements and design for a set of tools to support early design. Key design features of the tools include respectively: (1) The (simultaneous) display of any software modules at arbitrary levels of abstraction and from any subsystems. The unrestricted, smooth navigation between these software modules. (2) Multiple design notations—pictorial and symbolic— cross-referenced, editable, and maintained consistent across all views. Integrated views of control flow, data flow, and functional decomposition. (3) Automatic layout at arbitrary levels of nesting. Visual display of execution paths in the solution. Automatic completeness and consistency check. Automatic visual indication and listing of modules with constraint violations.


As wellactual clustering algorithms have to deal with explosive growth of documents of various sizes and terms of various frequencies, an appropriate term-weighting scheme has a crucial impact on the overall performance of such systems. Term-weighting is one of the critical process for document retrieval and ranking in most search result clustering systems.In this paper we introduce a new technique forclustering algorithms that solve the problem of indexing the terms of big datasets and their characteristicswhich exist in most of current clustering approaches.The paper focus on term frequency normalization step ofclustering algorithms. Anew factor has been applied tobasic term-weighting schemes for using in clustering process. The evaluated results confirm the impact of this factor to increase the performance of clusteringtechniques.The experiments were carried out on the standard algorithms and ODP-239 datasets which validated by statistical tests.


Efforts have been done to make the textbooks suitable to the rural areas during six decades since the foundation of New China,for example,to ensure the direction of textbooks' serving the rural areas under the national aim to serve workers and peasants;to integrate textbooks into the movement of combining education with productive labour,to get to know the rural areas by respecting and listening to the peasants' calls,to attach importance to the rural areas in the process of textbook diversity,to adjust teaching objectives to fit for the rural areas,to adapt to the rurals in the process of inheriting the native culture.However,there exist some problems.Firstly,too much imitation of Soviet has made the textbooks go far away from the practice of the rural areas.Secondly,overemphasizing direct knowledge has distorted the meaning of the textbooks.Thirdly,the educational gap between the urban and rural areas has made the teaching in the rural areas more difficult.Fourthly,the excessive guarantee of the education power to the rural area has damaged the unification of the textbooks.Lastly,the poor local curriculum development in the rural areas decrease the efficacy of the textbooks in the rural areas.Therefore,comprehensive thinking,good environment of teaching in the rural areas and more efforts on increasing curriculum textbooks in the rural areas are needed to make the textbooks more adaptable to the rural areas.


Sarah McCay takes a closer look at innovations in airport dining as new celebrity chefs take up the challenge of operating airside outlets.


In two papers read before the Geological Society in 1904 I showed that the five principal lake basins of sub-Alpine Switzerland lie in a zone which is parallel to the Alps, and that this zone lies almost entirely in the Molasse formation. The conclusions which I drew from these facts as to the age and origin of these basins having, since then, been confirmed by further evidence, it will not be without interest to return to the subject.


Gaining teaching experience is an important aspect of being a psychology postgraduate. We undertook an online survey of 140 postgraduates from 50 UK institutionsto explore their experiences of teaching with a focus on research methods in orderto inform training and workshop provision. Of the sample, 91 per cent were involved in some type of teaching; the most commonly reported activity was marking. Participants reported a high level of enjoyment of teaching and thought it was an important part of their future careers. Written responses were received from 85 respondents about their experiences of teaching research methods. Qualitative analysis ofthese findings allowed us to identify the positive aspectsof this experience, suchas finding it rewarding to help students with this important area of their learning. Our findings also identified challenges in teaching research methods such as confidence, student disengagement and lack of control over content taught. The findings are discussed in light of their implications for future training provision for postgraduates who teach.


The article considers the real participation of the MES of Russia in providing our country with humanitarian aid to foreign countries, and also in connection with obtaining such assistance from foreign governments. Algorithm is considered customs clearance of humanitarian aid (intended for liquidation of emergency situations) divisions of EMERCOM of Russia. The proposals to change some of the governance mechanisms and provisions of national legislation.


A first lever (A) movable by a force FT1 or indirectly by a lever (D) is articulated with a second lever (B) which is articulated angled on the one hand by one end with a second part (P2) to move in the F1 direction orthogonal to that of the force FT1, on the other hand with one end of a third lever (C) whose other end is articulated about a fixed point (1) external to the second part (P2).


The preparation of two crystalline binary transition metal p-toluenesulfonate salts of [MII(OH2)6][OTs]2 stoichiometry, where MII = Co (1) and Ni (2), is described. Their syntheses are accomplished via an oxidation–reduction reaction using metal powders and aqueous p-toluenesulfonic acid hydrate as the reducing and oxidizing reagents, respectively. Over the span of one 4 h session, students learn concepts that include reaction stoichiometry, relative rates, complexation, crystal growth and isolation, and fractional crystallization methods. A second session allows for the origins of color and spectroscopy (UV–vis and infrared) to be investigated by more advanced students. Suitably equipped laboratories may also pursue independent student projects involving additional microscopy, X-ray solution and refinement, and magnetic susceptibility exercises.


the pineal shadow from the mid-line shows on which side is the displacing tumour. Thinning Or thickening of bone or local erosion may also supply invaluable evidence. Such a general survey of diagnosis of intracranial tumours leads to consideration of the syndromes of tumours of particular regions of the brain. It should be remembered that the local symptoms are frequently masked by the neighbouring and distant symptoms produced by such tumours. •


In order to achieve high throughput rate of the circuit, which implemented the AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, a interface circuit based on 0.6 μm CMOS technology is designed. The circuit's input is high bit-rate serial data, and its outputs are parallel data. The low power consumption is obtained by using CMOS complementary logic. The full custom layout design saves the chip's area and decreases the cost.


The present invention relates to a connector for a grouping, in particular, frame-relay network connection route reselection method. In this method, between two nodes (1,4) is reported for transmission route to be stopped from rotation of the first to the second new route. In the re-routing selected state, data packets to be transmitted to the new route, when the transmitter needs to be buffered in order to perform a check or the routing of data packets to ensure the correct order. In order to complete the route re-election as soon as possible and achieve a minimum of data loss, by sending a message to the other endpoint buffer needs to be notified, depending on the content of the information in the routing problem re-election of state.


Fullerenes are the allotropic form of carbon consisting of a cage-like structure due to which they have attained special attention of the researchers since their discovery in 1985. The unique chemical and physical properties of fullerene have attracted researchers to develop a variety of its biomedical applications. The closed cage structure of fullerenes can be used for various drug delivery applications and can also act as a medium for controlled release formulations. The development of targeted anticancer drug and drug delivery systems is one of the most challenging fields, which is widely studied and researched. In this review, we aim to be comprehensive with a broad interest to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology community to provide the most recent advances on fullerenes as targeted anticancer drug delivery systems with therapeutic applications and challenges.


A portable three-wavelength laser scintillometer (TWLS) is developed. By three lasers with wavelength of 473 nm, 532 nm and 671 nm, the TWLS system can simultaneously measure refractive index structure parameter and inner scale of atmospheric turbulence. This system is composed of a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes three lasers, a shutter and a wireless controller. Three detectors and a data collector constitute the receiver. The analysis of the noise of the scintillometer indicates that the measurement accuracy of refractive index structure parameter is 10×10-16m-2/3. By the correlation of the inverted values of any two wavelengths, the credibility of the inversion of inner scale is verified. The comparison between TWLS and a platinum resistance thermometer shows that the correlation coefficient of refractive index structure parameter reaches 0.95.


In the ambient is more than 2,000 chemical substances, some of them are absorbed on the surface of the particulate matter and may causes many health problems. Air pollution is responsible for more than 3.2 million premature deaths which classifies it as a second place environmental risk factor. Especially dangerous for health are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their nitro- and amino derivatives which shows mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. Air pollutions were also classified by International Agency for Research on Cancer to group which carcinogenic properties on human were proved by available knowledge. Air pollutions, including particulate matter are one of the biggest problem in Polish cities. World Health Organization in report published in May 2016 set many of Polish cities on the top of the list most polluted in European Union. The article presents results of mutagenicity, genotoxicity and cytotoxicity researches conducted on a particulate matter fraction 2.5 μm collected during all year long in Wroclaw agglomeration. The material were collected on filters using high-flow air aspirator and extracted using dichloromethane. Additionally it was fractionated into 2 parts containing: all pollutants and only polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Dry residue of this fractions were dissolving in DMSO and tested using biological methods. Biological methods include mutagenicity properties which are investigated by Salmonella assay (Ames assay). Other biological method was comet assay and 4 parameter cytotoxicity test PAN-I assay. Results of the conducted experiments shows differences in mutagenic, genotoxic and cytotoxic properties between seasons of collection and between volume of dust pollutions fractions. The worst properties shows particles collected in autumn and winter season and this containing only polycyclic aromatics hydrocarbons. Results showed also some correlations in results obtained during different methods and properties.


Experiencing the city of Taif urban boom and wide, and stage of prosperity shown the lack of harmony in mostly urban design for building in areas supposed to be characterized by the consolidation of architectural style. Where were built by using different types of building stones Industrial locally manufactured or imported and precious, in addition to the use of other types of plastering and cladding materials. Since that the city of Taif is rich in various types of stone construction and raw materials that can be extracted for use in all stages of construction and at a lower cost, and achieve the purpose of the use. This matter needs to a gesture from the official bodies confirming the need to unify the processes of designing and construction at these centers style, taking into account the adoption of construction pattern as old Saudi-style by using the local stone in construction processes, or building new areas within the city limits according to the master plan of the municipality. Or building new markets with special architectural style that combines authenticity and nobility of the past and present, according to the ancient architectural style, previously used by the ancestors in Saudi Arabia, and this is the purpose of research.


We compared to the productivity, water and sediment quality of shrimp aquacultural farm by changing of water drain method from July to October of 2004 at Shinan Joungdo, Westsouthern sea of Korea. The concentration of NH4+ in the old method of side water drain of shrimp farm was 0.030-2.577 ppm while the improved central water drain of shrimp farm was 0.063-2.003 ppm. Also, the DO levels in side and central water drain shrimp farm were 2.9-7.0 ppm and 3.3-6.7 ppm respectively. The concentration of H2S in the sediment of side and central water drain shrimp farm were 0.079-1.655 ㎎S/gㆍdry and 0.007-0.657 ㎎S/gㆍdry respectively. The Oxidation and Reduction Potential of sediment in side and central water drain shrimp farm were 69.5 ~ -266 mV and 75.1~ -110 mV respectively. According to the improved water and sediment quality of shrimp farm the production of shrimp in side and central water drain of shrimp farm were 227.8 g/㎡ and 302.1 g/㎡ respectively.


The literature on seat change in U.S. House elections abounds with explanations regarding the factors contributing to the biennial change in the partisan balance of the body. While a number of theoretically and empirically appealing models have been presented, many base their explanations around presidential politics and a variety of factors independent of Congress. In this article, I argue that in developing models of congressional seat change, it is worthwhile to consider how the public image of the institution impacts the electoral success of its members. I describe and test a model that captures the influence of the public's perception of Congress on party seat change. Encompassing tests suggest that this framework significantly improves upon existing models. The results underscore the importance of endogenous, Congress-specific factors in explaining aggregate seat change in the U.S. House of Representatives.


In the Integrable Weyl-Dirac theory we consider a spatially closed universe undergoing at present accelerated expansion, having a non-vanishing cosmological constant, and filled with luminous- and dark matter. During the dust-dominated period, dark matter and the quintessence pressure, the latter giving rise to acceleration: both are created by the Dirac gauge function. The behavior of F-R-W models is considered in appropriate gauges, and plausible scenarios are obtained. The outcome of the present paper, together with results of a previous work, provide a geometrically based, classical, singularity-free model of the universe. This has originated from a pure geometric Weyl-Dirac entity, passed a prematter period, the radiation-dominated era, and continues its development in the present dust period.


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This paper reports a novel application of receding finite horizon constrained optimization techniques to design an audio-band full digital amplifier. The digital amplifier using power MOSFET requires a modulator to modulate the reference signal into binary sequences. The modulator can be viewed as an over-sampled quantizer with noise-shaping requirement. One of the main issues in designing the modulator is to maintain stability while maximizing the range of the reference input signal. The quantization scheme resulting from the optimization is derived in detail to arrive at the stability condition under zero initial conditions. It shows the stability condition becomes more stringent when the relative degree of the shaping filter is high. Simulations results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the design methodology.


This study examined the interaction among parental conflict, self-efficacy, and friendship satisfaction levels. It was predicted that self-efficacy would be a mediating variable between parental conflict and outcomes, specifically ability to have successful friendships. Participants included 235 undergraduate students from a small Midwestern college. Parental conflict was measured by Straus' Father-Mother Conflict Tactics Scale. Selfefficacy was evaluated using the Friendship Self-Efficacy Scale created specifically for use in this study. Friendship satisfaction was evaluated using the McGill Friendship Questionnaire-Respondent's Affection. As predicted, results indicated that the type of parental conflict to which a child is exposed relates to the ability to have successful friendship later in life. More specifically, reasoning conflict was positively related to friendship satisfaction. In addition, it was found that a young adult's friendship self-efficacy predicted friendship satisfaction above and beyond the effects of the demographic variables and conflict levels. Implications for mental health professionals are discussed. (Contains 14 references and 2 tables.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. http://www.ericfacility.net/extra/edvaps10/DocumentResume.asp?sCHNO=CG032298 10/6/2001 The Role of Parental Conflict 1 Running head: THE ROLE OF PARENTAL CONFLICT The Role of Parental Conflict and Self-Efficacy in Friendship Satisfaction Meghan L. Guthrie Curtis R. Brant Lisa B. Green Baldwin-Wallace College U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 2 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY


A remote control and automatic control switching system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) belongs to the field of UAV flight control and is characterized by comprising a remote control command detection module and a control switching module, wherein the remote control command detection module is used for detecting and quantizing the remote control command and the remote control/automatic control switching command of each flight control channel of the UAV and transmitting the detected remote control command to a flight control computer; the control switching module is used for switching the remote control and automatic control commands and sending the commands to each steering engine of the UAV; and when remote control is switched to automatic control, the flight control computer uses the finally obtained remote control command as the equilibrium point of control and controls flight on that basis, thereby realizing seamless switching from remote control to automatic control.


The Fourier modal method has recently been improved with the idea of adaptive spatial resolution . By using a non-uniform sampling scheme that places more sampling points around the permittivity discontinuities, the total number of spatial harmonics required to achieve a given accuracy is significantly reduced. The idea of stretching thinner the space around the discontinuities is not entirely new in the larger context of rigorous numerical methods. What is new in our parametric approach as applied to gratings is that Maxwell's equations are written in the stretched coordinates under the covariant form.


The attribute of the maximum of R(ξ) in arbitrary subspace of Rn is discussed dedicatedly. The theory analysis indicates that every F.S discriminant vector is better than respective vector in other discriminant vectors sets, which consist of eigenvectors of sbζ = λSwξ. But,the fact that the F.S vectors are statistically correlated degrade the F. S vectors set. Two ways are used to obtain"good" F-S vectors set. The experiments on Concordia University CEN-PARMI handwritten numeral database suggest that the new vectors set is better than the origin. A new problem model on F-S discriminant vectors set is proposed in this paper. It's easily understanding that the problem model is superior to the original F-S discriminant vectors set problem model.


thinner on the opposite side: it is of a pinkish grey colour and at one spot contains a definite nodule, about ] in. in length. The main central part of the section consists of a coarse honeycomb structure, the spaces of which are filled partly with mucus, partly with a clear fluid. The septa separating the spaces are for the most part extremely thin and transparent, but in the less degenerated places the tissue bears a resemblance to that at the periphery. The tumour weighed 19 lb. and before section was made it had the general characters of a cyst. Microscopical examination shows the growth to be a fibromyoma (fig. 2), which has undergone extensive liquefactive degeneration (fig. 3). Before operating I thought the tumour would prove to be an ovarian cyst with a long pedicle. When I found, on opening the abdomen, that the cystic swelling was retroperitoneal I thought I was dealing with a large hydronephrosis; nd it


Novel isomeric fluorine-boron complexes with donor-acceptor architecture have been efficiently synthesized and well characterized. Significant features, such as strong solid and liquid fluorescence, unusual large Stokes shifts, and lower LUMO levels and higher HOMO levels, are observed in these potential multifunctional molecules.


A new class of solutions describing analytical solutions for compact stellar structures has been developed within the tenets of General Relativity. Considering the inherent anisotropy in compact stars, a stable and causal model for realistic anisotropic neutron stars was obtained using the general theory of relativity. Assuming a physically acceptable nonsingular form of one metric potential and radial pressure containing the curvature parameter [Formula: see text], the constant [Formula: see text] and the radius [Formula: see text], analytical solutions to Einstein's field equations for anisotropic matter distribution were obtained. Taking the value of [Formula: see text] as −0.44, it was found that the proposed model obeys all necessary physical conditions, and it is potentially stable and realistic. The model also exhibits a linear equation of state, which can be applied to describe compact stars.


Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875–1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses, he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi (1873–1961). The Swiss ophthalmologist Adolphe Franceschetti (1896–1968) died in 1968. He was professor and director of the University Eye Clinic in Geneva. His name is associated with several syndromes—notably, Naegeli–Franceschetti–Jadassohn syndrome, Franceschetti– Zwahlen–Klein syndrome, and Franceschetti–Klein–Wildervanck syndrome. The Russian biochemist Lina Stern (1878–1968) also died in 1968. She described the brain-blood barrier, or hemato-encephalic barrier, as she called it. Edwin Clarke (1919–1996) and George Charles Donald O'Malley (1907–1970) published their valuable The Human Brain and Spinal Cord in 1968, which provides many crucial excerpts in English from writings that are landmarks in the evolution of our knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. The concept of brain death was formulated in 1968 in the landmark report titled, "A Definition of Irreversible Coma," by the of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


John Campbell proposes a radical externalist thesis about shape perceptions and their phenomenal character. The central issue is "whether there is any difference between visual and tactual experience of shape itself; whether the shape perception itself has a different phenomenal character in sight than in touch". Campbell's thesis is that shape perception is amodal: "we have to think of experience of shape as a single phenomenon, in whatever modality it occurs, individuated by the external geometrical property". Now from these remarks alone one does not get a firm grip on what is being individuated. When should we count two perceptions as instances of a single phenomenon or as having the same phenomenal character? It is difficult to evaluate radical externalism merely as a phenomenological thesis about how to type-individuate experiences of shape or phenomenal character. For, as Campbell notes, even on a radical externalist view "there may still be further phenomenal differences between sight and touch", and the question is why these differences do not matter in determining sameness of experience or phenomenal character. Campbell's point is that those differences do not introduce elements of doubt into inferences between visual and


Understanding and consideration of pupil's ethno-cultural traditions is quite important for effective state administration and development of a region as a whole. Economic establishment of Donbass was executed under the influence of labor migrations that functioned as the key factor of population formation of the region with its ethno-cultural environment. Such historical preconditions also influenced the modern decision of Donbass population. The efforts initiated to dispute the choice resulted in military and political conflict and difficult social and economic situation. These present challenges as well as the implementation issues of future development strategies condition the need for analysis in demographic aspects of ethno-cultural environment formation in Donetsk Region It is established that labor migrations conducted under control of tsarist and further Soviet Government not only promoted the progress of Donbass industry but formed ethnic and cultural basis of the regional society. In various historical periods the inflow of Russian migrants, and their predominance in towns and industrial centers of Donbass conditioned the prevalence of the Russian language with culture and traditions in its ethno-cultural environment. It is found out that during the period that is relatively short for the history of mankind on the territory of Lugansk and Donetsk area there appeared a new specific community of people whose mentality and genetic memory was determined by unity with Russian world and Russian fundamentals. The complicated social and political situation, and military conflict in Donbass is the consequence of the natural response of Donbass people to the attempts initiated to deprive them of their native language, history and the right of choice of own development way that was predetermined by the historical past. The present situation demonstrates again that state administration and government policy cannot be effective and successful without taking into account and understanding of the nation's history and ethno-cultural traditions.


: This paper describes the analytical formulation of a modified consolidation theory incorporating vacuum pressure, and numerical modeling of soft clay stabilized by prefabricated vertical drains, with a linearly distributed ~ trapezoidal ! vacuum pressure for both axisymmetric and plane strain conditions. The effects of the magnitude and distribution of vacuum pressure on soft clay consolidation are examined through average time-dependent excess pore pressure and consolidation settlement analyses. The plane strain analysis was executed by transforming the actual vertical drains into a system of equivalent parallel drain walls by adjusting the coefficient of permeability of the soil and the applied vacuum pressure. The converted parameters are incorporated in the finite element code ABAQUS , employing the modified Cam-clay theory. Numerical analysis is conducted to study the performance of a full-scale test embankment constructed on soft Bangkok clay. The performance of this selected embankment is predicted on the basis of four different vacuum pressure distributions. The predictions are compared with the available field data. The assumption of distributing the vacuum pressure as a constant over the soil surface and varying it linearly along the drains seems justified in relation to the field data.


Construction waste issues have become a major concern in most countries but in Malaysia, awareness on the documentation of construction waste generated is still lacking although such record may offer a better management system. Various models in quantifying the construction waste materials have been developed in many countries to improve the management of construction waste. Therefore, this thesis intends to provide models to predict the waste's amount of timber, steel, concrete and bricks generated from a housing project. Variables contributed to the construction waste generation were identified from literature review and were arranged in a structured questionnaire survey. This survey was distributed among Grade seven local contractors in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur area. Besides, archival data comprised of taking off, delivery order and as built drawing of the residential projects within the last three years of duration were collected from contractors in these areas. The findings of the survey resulted that planning of materials was found to be the most significant factor affecting the generation of waste while total cost of the project is opposed. The models developed for timber, concrete, steel and bricks shown the adjusted R-square value of 0.851, 0.535, 0.833 and 0.418 respectively. The performances of the models were evaluated by using the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) where good model shown value less than 20% (15.478% of timber) and common for range 20%-50% for steel, concrete and brick model with percentage 23.856%, 32.71% and 35.256% respectively. The models developed are believed can assist the practitioners and contractors in estimating the waste will be generated and hence preparing the proper waste management.


The preservation of active constituents in Cassia alata through the removal of moisture is crucial in producing a final product with high antioxidant activity. This study aims to determine the influences of various drying methods and drying conditions on the antioxidant activity, volatiles and phytosterols content of C. alata. The drying methods used were convective drying (CD) at 40 °C, 50 °C and 60 °C; freeze drying; vacuum microwave drying (VMD) at 6, 9 and 12 W/g; and two-stage convective pre-drying followed by vacuum microwave finish drying (CPD-VMFD) at 50 °C and 9 W/g. The drying kinetics of C. alata are best described by the thin-layer model (modified Page model). The highest antioxidant activity, TPC and volatile concentration were achieved with CD at 40 °C. GC–MS analysis identified the presence of 51 volatiles, which were mostly present in all samples but with quantitative variation. The dominant volatiles in fresh C. alata are 2-hexenal (60.28 mg 100 g−1 db), 1-hexanol (18.70 mg 100 g−1 db) and salicylic acid (15.05 mg 100 g−1 db). The concentration of phytosterols in fresh sample was 3647.48 mg 100 g−1 db, and the major phytosterols present in fresh and dried samples were β-sitosterol (1162.24 mg 100 g−1 db). CPD-VMFD was effective in ensuring the preservation of higher phytosterol content in comparison with CD at 50 °C. The final recommendation of a suitable drying method to dehydrate C. alata leaves is CD at 40 °C.


The goal of the work described in this paper was to build a flexible framework for different replication mechanisms in distributed systems that would be suitable for a wide variety of users and applications. A framework was developed that supports multiple replication mechanisms, allows different objects to be maintained with different replication mechanisms, and enables application programmers to provide their own replication mechanisms. It will be argued that this framework allowed the needs of diverse users and applications in large distributed systems to be met. Our work has produced two significant contributions. First, after an examination of replication mechanisms used in distributed systems, a flexible framework that supports multiple replication mechanisms together was designed and developed. Second, following an examination of different levels of replication between replicas, a unified framework for them was produced. This multi-level replication allows the framework to work well with mobile computing by placing different replicas on mobile sites.


The photoconductivity and optical spectra of trapped electrons were measured at 77 K for glassy alcohols (methanol + 5% water, ethanol, 1-propanol, 1-butanol, and 2-propanol) and amines (diisopropylamine and 1,2-propanediamine). From comparison of both spectra, the optical spectrum has been assigned to bound-bound and bound-free transitions for all of the matrices studied. It has been found that excitation energies at the photoconductivity and optical absorption maxima are correlated with matrix polarity. Such a correlation has been interpreted in terms of a trapped-electron model.


The invention discloses a rice stem leaf herbicide containing cyhalofop-butyl, halosulfuron-methyl and fluroxypyr-meptyl. The herbicide comprises the following active ingredients by mass percent: 5-80% of the cyhalofop-butyl, 3-80% of the halosulfuron-methyl and 5-80% of the fluroxypyr-meptyl. The rice stem leaf herbicide is remarkable in synergism, and is especially suitable for broadleaf weeds and sedge; furthermore, the weed-controlling spectrum is expanded, the weed harm can be controlled in the whole growth season after the weeding is carried out once, and the weeding effect is remarkable.


Objective To investigate the effect of sulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) on TNF-α induced IL-6 mRNA expression and NF-кB activity in rat fibroblast-like synovial cell strain RSC-364. Methods RSC-364 cells were stimulated with TNF-α in the presence or absence of sCCK-8 (10^(-8)~10^(-6)mo1/L) and/or CCK receptor antagonist proglumide 2 mg/L. The expression of IL-6 mRNA was assayed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and nuclear factor-кB (NF-кB) binding activity was analyzed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA). I-кB protein level in the cytoplasma was detected by Western blot. Results sCCK-8, at concentrations from 10^(-8) mol/L to 10^(-6) mol/L obviously promoted IL-6 mRNA expression and NF-кB binding activity in a dose-dependent manner. I-кB protein level was inhibited by sCCK-8. The effects of sCCK-8 on NF-кB activity and I-кB protein level were attenuated by CCK receptor antagonist proglumide. Conclusions sCCK-8 promoted TNF-α-induced IL-6 mRNA expression by regulating NF-кB activity in rat synovial cell strain RSC-364, and suggested that CCK-8 is a potential regulator in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.


Miscellany of Yun Xian is one of the existing literary sketches from the Tang Dynasty in China.It is regarded as a rich literary descriptive dictionary because its main content has a certain literary value and provides the important materials for future generations to study literature in the Tang Dynasty.


This paper focuses on the analysis of language in the realm of organizational settings. We present an innovative software (EVOQ©) and the theoretical frameworks on which it is based. we also explore ways to make this software operational in the field of organization studies. An examples is used to show how EVOQ © is able to highlight organizational paradoxes which affect the semantic fields woven (enacted) in discourse.


Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric, since its publication in 1979, has established the term "Protestant poetics" as an accepted term of literary inquiry and has invested that term with an unquestioned reality that should be examined within the larger context of late medieval and Renaissance poetry, not exclusively lyric. The critical acceptance of this term ignores many problems that should deeply concern us as an academic community. One such problem is that in English literary studies we tend to set up sub-groups; we are "definers," in the Lati nate sense of "setting limits." Thus, we in Departments of English separate the Renaissance in England from the Renaissance on the Continent; separated by that narrowchannel, we further divide that English Renaissance into Sixteenth Century vs. Seventeenth Century, Elizabethan vs. Jacobean, and within those temporal and monarchical schemes, we further divide into dramatic vs. non-dramatic, epic vs. lyric, etc. The problem is further compounded by a universal law that insists on a virtually total separation between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These divisions are helpful for the clarity of our departmental curricula, but they are not helpful for a full picture of a culture at any period. Lewalski had every disciplinary right to choose the seventeenth-century religious lyric as the subject of her book, but in that choice her imposition of the term "Protestant poetics" equally forces her to disregard the work of Richard Crashaw, an English Roman Catholic poet of the period, whose similarities to the poets she chose makes his omission seriously call into question the validity of her claims for a "Protestant poetics," as Louis Martz noted in his review when


The questionnaire investigation result from big sample coronary disease Chinese medicine syndrome factors,syndrome features and syndrome pathogenesis developing rules,which through from the national six big area clinical expert,applying the statistical methods of frequency decision tree and neural network,to induce coronary heart disease's main syndrome factors(cold,sputum,qi,stasis,deficiency and so on).The cold syndrome factors penetrates coronary heart disease pathological change,indicate cold is considerable effect in the process of CHD morbidity and development.


The article deals with the results of research of influence of dentogingival safety devices on the function of breathing and visual analyzer, comfort and changing of the system of fixation depending on the method of their producing. The analyses of the received data show the advantage of individual dentogingival safety devices over safety devices of irrational constructions. For decrease of the negative effect by function of respiration and the visual analyzer, a modification of a composition of a blood and the negative operation of discomfort, it is necessary to ensure sportsmen with qualitative individual fuses.


Summary The purpose of this research was to examine if the IL1B gene polymorphism has impact on the risk of steroid-induced ONFH in Chinese population.We found that IL1B rs1143630 decreased the SANFH's risk and IL1B rs2853550 increased the risk of steroid-induced ONFH. So, we guess that IL1B gene influences the genetic susceptibility of steroid-induced ONFH. Introduction Genetic polymorphisms in IL1B gene could be related in the pathogenesis of osteonecrosis. Discusses on the relationship between the IL1B gene and steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (steroid-induced ONFH) is still less in Chinese Han population. So, in this research, we want to examine whether the IL1B gene polymorphism has impact on the risk of steroid-induced ONFH in Chinese population. Methods A total of 286 steroid-induced ONFH patients and 441 controls were recruited, and seven SNPs (rs2853550, rs1143643, rs3136558, rs1143630, rs1143627, rs16944, and rs1143623) in IL1B gene were selected; unconditional logistic regression analysis was used to research the influence on the risk of steroid-induced ONFH. Functional annotations of IL1B variants were performed by RegulomeDB and HaploReg. Results rs1143630 (A>C) in the IL1B gene decreased the risk of steroid-induced ONFH in the allele model (OR = 0.69, 95%CI 0.51–0.93, p = 0.014). Further genetic model analyses found that IL1B rs2853550 AG genotype increased the risk of steroidinduced ONFH compared with the people who are carriers of the IL1B rs2853550 GG genotype (OR = 1.69, 95%CI 1.16–2.46, p = 0.012). In the dominant model, IL1B rs1143630 GG-GT genotype decreased the risk of steroid-induced ONFH (OR = 0.62, 95%CI 0.44–0.87, p = 0.0051). And further haplotype analysis was performed, while the result was not significant. Using RegulomeDB and HaploReg, rs2853550 is likely to affect TF binding, any motif and DNase peak. Conclusions We guess that IL1B gene influences the genetic susceptibility of steroid-induced ONFH.


Pollen morphology of the Chinese monotypic genus Dichotomanthes and its out-group Prinsepia utilis were investigated from the point of view of pollen development. The SEM observation revealed that there is not any change in morphology and sculpture of pollen grains from the young pollen grain seperated from callose of tetraspore to the mature pollen grain in Dichotomanthes tristaniaecarpa. Only the volume of pollen grain increased with maturity. In Prinsepia utilis, however, the appearance of pollen grains in young and mature stage varied a great deal. The mature pollen grains are amb 3-lobed circular, equatorial outline shaped as spheroidal, exine sculpture with parallel striate. The young ones, however, have a rather special appearance: amb 3-deep lobed circular and with the angulaperturate. The volume of pollen grain is much smaller than the mature with grains. Yet the exine sculpture is not very different between young and mature pollen grains. In these two species of Rosaceae, both show obvious variation in pollen volume between young and mature grains, but not much difference in exine sculpture. This reveals that the scupture date are one of the more reliable and stable characters compared with the pollen grain size. Dichotomanthes has the typical tricoporate pollen in Rosaceae. The exine structure is striate foveolate, and the pollen exine can be divided into tectume, columellae and foot layer. Comparing the palynological data with the four subfamilies under Rosaceae, together with the morphology and cytology data, we approve treating Dichotomanthes as a primitive genus in Maloideae, but reject placing it in Prunoideae or isolating it as a subfamily. In addition, since Prinsepia utilis has angulaperturate pollen grains in the early stage of pollen development and shars the same character with two taxa Geissois montana and Cunonia capensis under Cunoniaceae, the pollen morphological data supports the viewpoint that Rosaceae may have a systematic relationship with Cunoniaceae under Saxifragales.


Health Impact Assessment Screening of Halton Borough Council's Core Strategy ( Preferred options), 2009, NHS Halton & St Helens. A screening tool has been used for some time, developed by The Devon Health Forum, based on the IMPACT model for HIA. It was proposed that a series of workshops were conducted to look at each of the proposed options of the Core Strategy using this social dimensions approach to health. A set of three half day sessions were agreed, with members of the HIA group being joined by members of the Planning department who would be on hand to answer any questions the HIA group had as they went through the Preferred Options report.


We investigate the pairing symmetry of the ordered honeycomb network superconductor BaPtSb, which has a crystal structure without inversion center. There is a preliminary μSR report which implies the broken time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state. In this paper, we classify the pairing symmetry and examine the pairing instability. Among the unconventional states with time-reversal symmetry breaking, we find that the state with a gap structure compatible with Fermi surfaces is the spin-triplet chiral p-wave state.


The small crab animal is important for the fisheries sector in Indonesia, but usually the small crab industry only takes meat and allows the crab shell to become a pile of waste.  To reduce the potential for pollution caused by a small crab shell waste, the waste can be reused to obtain chitin.  Small crab shell waste still contains quite a lot of chemical compounds, including protein, minerals (CACO), and chitin.  The study conducted chitin extraction with a process preceded by deproteination and then demineralization.  Chitin was characterized using Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).  The results showed that chitin was successfully extracted from the small crab shell through the deproteination and demineralization process with FTIR l, which results the characteristic spectrum of chitin compounds such as waves of 3433 cm 'for -OH, -NH groups.  The absorption around the wave number 3433 cm occurs because of the overlap between the absorption -NH and -OH and the wave number 701 cm 'for the b-1,4-glycosidic group.


Abstract : The remote detection of low-level chemical contamination and explosives in the ground has been achieved with a custom-designed, high-performance ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system. The system is capable of providing direct images of contamination in the low parts-per-million (ppm) to upper parts-per-billion (ppb) range at depths up to 50 feet or more. Dense, non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) can be distinguished from light, non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs). The dissolved phase can be distinguished from the liquid phase. Chemicals and explosives can be further classified as ionic or non-ionic. Experimental evidence shows that each chemical, such as the explosive nitroglycerine (NG), has a unique radio frequency (RF) signature produced by the discrete energy bands of its molecular structure. This has given rise to the creation of a new technology, electromagnetic radiography (EMR), designed to detect the unique RF signatures produced by chemicals and explosives. Work needs to be done on characterizing the specific RF response of NC and other explosives, as well as more common contaminants such as trichloroethylene (TCE). By cataloging the specific response of each chemical and explosive, it will become possible to perform in-situ identification of low-level chemical contaminants/explosives in the ground with EMR technology.


Current liquid-based cancer screening relies on massive deep NGS to detect rare cancer cell-derived genetic materials - a costly method fraught with high false-negative and false-positive rates. We aim to develop a non-NGS-centered, AI-directed liquid-based detection of GBM stem-like cells (GSC).

 Utilized a robust AI suite, NETZEN, we defined a common master regulatory gene network (MRGN) in GSC. Since master regulators (MR) in MRGN are developmentally restricted, their chromosomal loci are accessible in GSC but not in normal cells. Downstream factors in MRGN are massively overexpressed in GSC compared to normal cells. Thus, we measured 1) accessibility of MR genes using transposase/transposons carrying unique barcodes that can be detected after insertion into the MR's predetermined accessible locations, and 2) expression of downstream factors using nested qRT-PCR, in PBMC from healthy controls spiked with known quantities of GSC or patients with GBM.

 We characterized 10 MR genes in GSC with ≥1 GC-rich promoter region that is hypomethylated and accessible (ATACseq) in GBM/GSC per GSE70175/92460/52271 (19 samples) and GSE67633/96088 (14 samples), and hypermethylated and inaccessible in lymphocytes/PBMC per GSE98837 (6) and GSE74912 (13), respectively. Using barcoded transposons, we specifically disrupted 4 MR's accessible regions only in GSC, not in PBMC. We also characterized 50 upregulated downstream factors with the top 20 having 3 to 5-orders-of-magnitude higher mean expression in GSC compared to PBMC (GSE79362/86884, 451 samples). Currently our method has a detection limit of 0.2–1 GSC in 106 PBMC. Using the first iteration, we detected GSC's MRGN in blood samples of 14/14 GBM patients before resection, compared to in none of 15 healthy donors.

 Chromosomal accessibility of MR and signal amplification in MRGN of GSC provide powerful substrates for a non-NGS, low-cost, liquid-based GBM detection system with potentially high sensitivity and specificity. Further testing and optimization are ongoing.


The long span cable truss bridge is a brand new kind of long span bridges which composed of prestressed cable trusses, main towers, anchorages and stiffing girders. Since no experience can be used for reference to determine dimensions of its main parts, so static optimum study in the preliminary design stage is very necessary. The long span bridge which has the same usage characteristics as Jiangyin Bridge is imagined and first order optimum method is used to do this study.


In the present paper, the stability of Coalescence Hidden variable Fractal Interpolation Sur- faces(CHFIS) is established. The estimates on error in approximation of the data generating function by CHFIS are found when there is a perturbation in independent, dependent and hidden variables. It is proved that any small perturbation in any of the variables of generalized interpolation data results in only small per- turbation of CHFIS. Our results are likely to be useful in investigations of texture of surfaces arising from the simulation of surfaces of rocks, sea surfaces, clouds and similar natural objects wherein the generating function depends on more than one variable.


FOR the six years between 1938 snd 1944 I served in the English departments of such widely separated institutions as the Universityof Kansas, the Georgia School of Technology, and the University of Maine. Now, for the duration at least, I am the head of the Department of English in a small high school in northern Maine. Thus I believe I am in a position to judge the fairness of the vituperative criticism that college faculties delight in heaping on the secondary schools. The form that this criticism lakes is very familiar to anyone who has heen around a college. It i, typified in such remarks as: ·You may as well assume that the students learned nothing in high sehool ;" or in such sweeping statements as, "All these high school ~duates are not only Illiterate bot they have,,'t even learned the valueor technique of study." It is thesame in every department. The mathematics profeeeors maintain thattheir freshmen can't do simple division. The history instructors bowl because their entering Btudentsdon't know the ditIerence between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The language departments tear their hair because they have to spend haH their time explaining that a sentence con,ists of a sub ject and predicate. I have joined in these laments myseH and I have often wondered whatthe students did in their four years of high school or for that '1"'tter in thelr whole twelve years 01 pre-college education. I also wondered what kind of dolts the high school teachers conld he if theresnlts of their efforts appeared iO microscopic. I still have a great deal of wondering to do, hut I can now wonder sympathetically Instead of. arrogantly and narrowmindedly. I say then to the college professors that most' students do in fact learn very little in high school, but the reasons for this failure are not what they are commonly thought to he. The hlame cannot he laid wholly on the ineptitude of the teachers and the unsoundness of their methods. In fact, I hope to point out later that part of the fault is attributed to the colleges themselves.


In this paper, we propose a structure for communicating TC and TM data streams in up and down links, respectively. Then we discuss about some bottlenecks which have been resolved in our structure. These bottlenecks are produced because of using spread spectrum technique and presence of Doppler frequency.


In a recent paper (see [2]), Orrin Frink introduced a method to provide Hausdorff compactifications for Tychonoff or completely regular T1 spaces X. His method utilized the notion of a normal base. A normal base ℒ for the closed sets of a space X is a base which is a disjunctive ring of sets, disjoint members of which may be separated by disjoint complements of members of ℒ.


Recurrence and Mortality in Young Women With Myocardial Infarction or Ischemic Stroke: Long-term Follow-up of the Risk of Arterial Thrombosis in Relation to Oral Contraceptives (RATIO) Study Rates of death in the acute phase of cardiovascular events have decreased, but disease burden remains high in the increasing number of survivors.1 This finding is particularly important for those affected at a young age.2 Nevertheless, little information is available on the long-term outcome of young patients who survived a cardiovascular event, especially women. Single disease cohorts have suggested that the risk of cardiovascular disease is driven by recurrence of the index event, but, to our knowledge, this has never been investigated in a single study with multiple index groups. We determined the longterm mortality and subtype-specific morbidity in young women surviving myocardial infarction (MI) or ischemic stroke (IS) compared with a control group.


The Auger spectra of vanadium metal and of the oxides VO0.92, V2O3, and VO2 have been studied. Chemical shifts on the order of 0.6 eV per oxidation number have been observed for the vanadium inner shell Auger transitions. Relative intensities of the oxygen and vanadium Auger peaks could be used to determine the surface composition of the different oxides. Using both the chemical shifts and the oxygen to vanadium Auger peak intensity ratios for the different vanadium oxides, the oxidation of vanadium metal to VO and then to V3O5 with increasing temperature was observed.


The two-factor authentication (2FA) has drawn increasingly attention as the mobile devices become more prevalent. For example, the user's possession of the enrolled phone could be used by the 2FA system as the second proof to protect his/her online accounts. Existing 2FA solutions mainly require some form of user-device interaction, which may severely affect user experience and creates extra burdens to users. In this work, we propose Proximity-Echo, a secure 2FA system utilizing the proximity of a user's enrolled phone and the login device as the second proof without requiring the user's interactions or pre-constructed device fingerprints. The basic idea of Proximity-Echo is to derive location signatures based on acoustic beep signals emitted alternately by both devices and sensing the echoes with microphones, and compare the extracted signatures for proximity detection. Given the received beep signal, our system designs a period selection scheme to identify two sound segments accurately: the chirp period is the sound segment propagating directly from the speaker to the microphone whereas the echo period is the sound segment reflected back by surrounding objects. To achieve an accurate proximity detection, we develop a new energy loss compensation extraction scheme by utilizing the extracted chirp periods to estimate the intrinsic differences of energy loss between microphones of the enrolled phone and the login device. Our proximity detection component then conducts the similarity comparison between the identified two echo periods after the energy loss compensation to effectively determine whether the enrolled phone and the login device are in proximity for 2FA. Our experimental results show that our Proximity-Echo is accurate in providing 2FA and robust to both man-in-the-middle (MiM) and co-located attacks across different scenarios and device models.


Intestinal involvement in endometriosis is thought to occur in up to 12% of all endometriosis cases. While colorectal resection is being increasingly advocated as a feasible management option in patients with severe disease, there still remains significant resistance towards this surgery. This article aims to review the current literature to determine the pain and fertility outcomes following segmental bowel resection for colorectal endometriosis.


SUPERNUMERARY teeth arising from an extra bud of dental lamina and resembling in shape and size the normal teeth or different from them are commonly observed in dental practice. In their survey of 2,000 Indian children Parry and Iyer (1961) found that 2-5 per cent of them had supernumerary teeth. Mostly seen in the upper or lower dental arch they prevent or delay eruption of normal teeth or lead to their malalignment. Rarely they erupt into the nasal cavity and may set up chronic irritation, suppuration or sinusitis. Hiranandani and Melgiri (1968) reported two cases of ectopic supernumerary teeth; one female of 28 years having spontaneous sporadic epistaxis of 13 years' duration and another 22-year-old male with purulent rhinorrhoea since childhood. Rao (1953) has also described a case of rhinitis caseosa and septal perforation due to an aberrant canine tooth in the nasal cavity. We present a case of ectopic supernumerary tooth in the nasal cavity of a 13-year-old male.


Objective To study the incidence and the levels of depression, and to provide scientific evidence for the prevention and treatment. Methods A cluster stratified sample of 1 681 students from Jianghan University were investigated by SDS. Results Of the 1 681 students, the incidence rate of depression was 23.80% in total, and in which the incidence rates for the levels from slight to serious were 65.75%, 23.50% and 10.75% respectively. Significant differences were between students of liberal arts and those of science, but not between male and female or rural and urban. Conclusion Effective measures should be taken to enforce the psychological health education and interfere the psychological crisis among the college students since the incidence rates of college students are higher than those of the whole nation.


An extensive study of ring current injection and intensification of the storm-time symmetric ring current is conducted with three-dimensional (3-D) test particle trajectory calculations (TPTCs) in this paper. TPTCs reveal more accurately the process of ring current injection. The main results are the following: (1) an intense convection electric field can effectively energize and inject plasma sheet particles into ring current region within 1--3 h. (2) Injection ions often follow chaotic trajectories in non-adiabatic regions, which may have implications in storm and ring current physics. (3) The shielding electric field, which arises as a consequence of enhanced convection and co-exists with injection and convection electric field, leads the original open trajectories to change into closed ones, thus may play an important role in the formation of the symmetric ring current.


The goal of sustainable development is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As economies globalize, new opportunities to generate prosperity and quality of life are arising though trade, knowledge-sharing, and access to technology. The article is a part of current scientifics project at our department of marketing "VEGA No. 1/0951/12 Sustainability developments of subjects in the food chain at the condition of Slovak market." In our article we like to introduce you a term of sustainability in service ́s sector, such an ecological tourism at Slovak market throught definition of sustainability and statistical methods used in prediction of chosen datas such as GDP in service ́s sector, service export and import and total prediction of Slovak service ́s economy.


The allowed electromagnetic modes in the presence of a symmetric array of macroscopic bodies are investigated. They are systematically classified by their behaviour with respect to the different symmetry operations. In the presence of two bodies the modes are required to be even or odd, in the presence of lattices Floquet's theorem is applied, The van der Waals (vdW) energy of the array under consideration is calculated from the average quantum energy of the electromagnetic modes. Since finite boundary conditions are used, no difficulties regarding branch points and different Riemann surfaces are encountered. Closed expressions for the vdW energy in periodic lattices of spheres or cylinders are obtained which can be explicitly evaluated at a reasonable rate of effort.


Abstract:Translations can be divided into two categories, the intra-and the trans-formal. In the first, we do not exercise ourselves with the relationship between the new version and the original; in the second, where the translation crosses from one form or mode to another, we do Ballets that process literary texts exemplify the latter kind, and have to find ways of translating words into mimic gestures on the one hand and abstract movements on the other. The article documents some of the strategies that have evolved for this kind of translation, using Kenneth Macmillan's "Romeo and Juliet" as a point of reference.


The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for pumping liquids, preferably to promote medical fluids, with at least one designed as a positive displacement pump, and with at least one operation of the pump control unit which controls, wherein the pump is so controlled by the control unit that the pump aspirates for the purpose of dispensing a desired delivery in a first operating condition in a suction stroke, a the desired delivery increasing volume and the volume sucked by performing multiple part delivery strokes in the form of sub-volumes portionwise outputs, which are smaller than the volume sucked. The invention further relates to the use of the device in the field of dialysis technology.


Software Reliability Testing (SRT) is a quantificational method to estimate the software reliability, which is to test software based on operational profile. However, it is difficult to be applied in engineering projects, one of the reasons is the testing cycle is too long and the testing cost is too high. How to improve the efficiency of the SRT is an important topic. In real SRT projects, it is the execution process that takes the most of testing time in SRT, so it is a good way to improve the efficiency by shortening the testing execution time. Generally, a large numbers of faults have been removed by the regular tests before SRT, such as unit test, integration test and system test. Thus many test cases of SRT performed after regular test have found no faults. Because the test cases of SRT are generated by random sample with operational profile, some test cases can be similar. So a new method to accelerate the SRT is put forward, in which the data characters of test cases would be analyzed at first, and then the characters of test case which have been executed with different testing result (failure or not) would be accumulatively analyzed, The characters of test case preparing to be executed would be judged whether it is similar to the characters with failure or not by a fuzzy discrimination method. If it is similar to the test case that didn't find fault then it can be skipped and similar or same execution time would be recorded, else it would be tested and joined the accumulative analysis. The whole process of test cases analysis and a case study are presented in this paper.