Underbody of a passenger car, with the bottom longitudinal members and mounted therebetween floor panels, wherein three bottom longitudinal beams are provided which extend as straight, approximately parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction of the floor rails (2, 3, 4; 56, 57, 58) are formed and two of which (in each case as side rails 2, 3; 56, 57) and one (as a middle rail 4 are disposed 58), and said bottom rails (2, 3, 4; 56, 57, 58) at a lower area with floor panels (5) are connected, so (2; 56) that in connection with the left rail and the center rail (4; 58) has an elongated left floor pan (7) and correspondingly in connection with the right side rail (3; 57) and the center rail (4; 58) an elongate right floor pan (8) are formed, on the ground rails (2, 3, 4; 56, 57, 58) preferably over the entire length of the seat longitudinal guides (31, 32, 33, 34; 59, 60, 61, 62) are mounted in which the left and right side vehicle seats (37) are held in longitudinally adjustable, with at the left and (on the right bottom rail 2, 3; 56, 57) at least in each case a seat longitudinal guide (31, 32; 59, 60) and (on the center rail 4; 58) at least two spaced-apart seat longitudinal guides (33, 34; 61, 62) are mounted, wherein a center tunnel as a center rail (4; 58) is formed, and both sides of the center tunnel (4) respectively on a side wall a seat longitudinal guide (33, 34) is mounted, characterized in that formed on the (as middle rail 4) central tunnel, at least one extending from a front seating area to a rear seat area function part longitudinal guide (40, 41) attached to or integrated in a functional part (43) is held longitudinally displaceable.


1 Nuala O'Connor herself calls it "a bio-fictional novel" in a piece written in Ireland's Sunday Independent—see O'Connor, "An Exploration of the Sensual, Erotic Love of Nora and Her James; Nuala O'Connor on Her New Novel Which Reimagines the Letters of Nora Barnacle," Sunday Independent (18 April 2021), <advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=ur n:contentItem:62G5-8101-DYTY-C26X-00000-00&context=1516831> (accessed 9 September 2021). 2 Brenda Maddox, Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988), p. 27. 3 See Stanislaus Joyce, Recollections of James Joyce (New York: James Joyce Society, 1950), and My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Viking Press, 1957). 4 Ellmann, James Joyce (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1959). 5 Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the "Wake" (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).


Between November 2007 and June 2009 an international project aimed to establish, run and evaluate anti-bullying peer support systems in one secondary school in each of England, Italy and Spain. School anti-bullying peer support systems typically involve some pupils being selected and trained to help pupils. Using a 2 group pre-test post-test control group design, we have helped train school peer supporters and establish peer support systems in the intervention schools. For the evaluation of the programme, 248 involved and non-involved students and 35 involved and non involved teachers were surveyed using an open-end questionnaire. Here we report the outcomes of this evaluation study based on data already gathered in Spain. The results point at the positive evaluation of the programme by teachers and students, who both alike stress the positive impacts on the victims and peer supporters and see it as a resource for improving schools' daily life.


Objective To investigate the impact of aid on the prognosis of patients with hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage before school. Methods 200 cases to justice Coal General Hospital for treatment of patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage, all patients to confirm the diagnosis by brain CT. According to treatment is divided into pre-hospital emergency treatment by a combination of pre-hospital care, without a control group. Patients with clinical follow-up of the above observations, comparing two groups of patients after 15 days of treatment and prognosis, and for statistical analysis. Results The treatment group and the control group of patients in general(including gender, age, etc.) There was no significant difference(P0.05). Treated hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage patients to assess the prognosis of neurological deficit scores were significantly lower than in the control group(P0.05). Conclusion The pre-hospital care can significantly improve the prognosis in patients with hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage cases, to improve the quality of life of patients is important.


In this contribution, we present a detailed study of the analogue performance of deep submicron strained n-channel Si/SiGe (s-Si) MOSFETs. The study was carried out using a 2D device simulator based on the hydrodynamic model and the impedance field method to self-consistently obtain the current noise at the device's terminals. The analysis focused on the possible benefits of the gate scaling on the ac and noise performance of the transistor for low-power applications while keeping constant the oxide thickness equal to 2 nm to guarantee negligible level of the gate tunnel current. For a drain to source bias of 50 mV, it was found that a pure scaling of the transistor's gate length under 32 nm is detrimental for subthreshold operation in terms of the subthreshold slope (S) and transconductance (gm) but would lead to reasonably low values of the minimum noise figure (NFmin). For the sake of comparison, SOI MOSFETs with the same layout and operating under the same conditions were simulated. The SOI MOSFETs showed better immunity against the gate scaling in terms of S than the s-Si MOSFETs, but lower values of gm and a higher value of NFmin at the same level of the drain current. Finally, the devices have been studied in the saturation region for a drain to source bias of 1 V. In this region, it was found that the dependence of the current level SOI or s-Si MOSFET may outperform its counterparts.


Part I. The Cosmological Observations: 1. Type Ia supernovae and their cosmological implications A.V. Filippenko and A. G. Riess Part II. High Redshift Environments: 2. The Universe at z ~ 1: Implications for type Ia supernovae A. Dressler 3. Probable effects of interstellar extinction on searches for SNe at z ~ 1 D. G. York Part III. Progenitor Models: 4. The progenitors of type Ia Supernova M. Livio 5. Type Ia supernova progenitors, models, and their cosmological signatures P. Ruiz-Lapuente et al. 6. Type Ia supernova progenitors, environmental effects, and cosmic supernova rates K. Nomoto et al. Part IV. Explosion and Light Curve Modeling: 7. On the evolution of type Ia supernovae with redshift P. Hoflich et al. Part V. Cosmological Perspectives: 8. Why cosmologists believe the universe is accelerating M. S. Turner 9. The Sloan Digital sky survey and supernovae Ia J. A. Frieman 10. Type Ia supernovae and cosmology: can L = 0 models be salvaged? W. Hillebrandt.


This paper describes a novel distributed quasi-Newton-based robust training using the normalized risk-averting error (NRAE) with the gradual deconvexification (GDC) strategy. The main purpose of the computation is accomplished by optimizing the NRAE criterion parallely across different computing units, thereby two big advantages such as faster computation and global convergence can be obtained. The key idea is to replace the log partition function of the NRAE with a parallelizable upper-bound based on the concavity of the log-function. As a result, it is confirmed that the method is robust, and provides high quality training solutions regardless of initial values. Furthermore, the CPU time is drastically improved by the proposed distribution method without losing the quality of solutions.


The use of porous silica nanoparticles (PSN) offers new perspectives in drug delivery and cancer therapy. PSN exhibit considerable potential for biological applications because of their biocompatibility, biodegradability and tunable porous nanostructure for drug delivery. The aim of this study was to define the biocompatibility of the PSN and to settle a suitable experimental protocol to functionalize PSN (size up to 450 nm). Because PSN are particularly susceptible to air or water oxidation, to stabilize PSN we performed a partial chemical oxidation of the nanoparticles with Piranha Solution (2M H2SO4, 10% H2O2) and tested their effect on human epidermoid cancer cells (H1355) and human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL). We then settled a PSN functionalization procedure. After oxidation, the PSN surface was treated with the chemical linker APTES [(3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane] in order to introduce a free functional ammino group. The functionalization of PSN before and after APTES treatment was examined using FT-IR Spectroscopy. The increase in intensity and slight change in the position of the peaks indicated that the PSN surface was functionalized and thus ready for the subsequent covalent binding of fluorochromes, peptides or drugs. The results obtained for biocompatibility of PSN-treated cells evaluated by MTT assay after 48 and 72 h treatment showed substantially no cytotoxic effect on both PBL and H1355 cell, on the contrary a slight increase of vitality was observed already at 48 h incubation. To evaluate instead the cellular uptake of the nanoparticles, APTES-functionalized PSN labeled with TRITC (tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate) were incubated with H1355 for 24 h. Analysis by confocal laser scanner microscopy revealed the presence of a large amount of PSN inside the cells and a smaller amount also into nucleous. These preliminary data highlighted that PSN are suitable vectors for cellular delivery and might provide further insights for clinical applications in cancer therapies.


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The study was conducted to determine the critical climatic factors influencing sporulation of Mycosphaerella fijiensis and progression of black Sigatoka severity in Cavendish banana. The highest numbers of ascospores and conidia per cubic meter of air were observed during the months of August, October and December 2005. Increased production of ascospores and conidia was significantly influenced by maximum temperature. The correlation between maximum temperature especially those occurring the previous 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 weeks and cumulative number of spores was higher than that compared between the former and amount of rainfall. Black Sigatoka severity was highly correlated with cumulative number of spores. Maximum temperature had the highest correlation with disease development. Increased disease severity appeared to be the result of the combined effects of cumulative number of spores, maximum temperature, relative humidity and amount of rainfall. The effect of leaf wetness and number of rainy days on disease severity was not significant.


The rapid growth of e-Commerce amongst private sectors and Internet usage amongst citizens has vastly stimulated e-Government initiatives from many countries. The Thailand e-Government initiative is based on the government's long-term strategic policy that aims to reform and overhaul the Thai bureaucracy. This study attempted to identify the e-Excise success factors by employing the IS success model. The study focused on finding the factors that may contribute to the success of the e-Excise initiative. The Delphi Technique was used to investigate the determinant factors for the success of the e-Excise initiative. Three-rounds of data collection were conducted with 77 active users from various industries. The results suggest that by increasing Trust in the e-Government website, Perceptions of Information Quality, Perceptions of System Quality, and Perceptions of Service Quality will influence System Usage and User Satisfaction, and will ultimately have consequences for the Perceived Net Benefits.


This paper articulates the challenges in the thermal modelling of surface-mounted permanent magnet motors for automotive brake-by-wire systems, which operate by injecting high dc currents in two of the three phases for short time intervals. This unconventional operation requires dedicated thermal models for the prediction of uneven heat distributions inside the machine. This study extends a previous work conducted on slender-shaped motors to a disk-shaped machine where the edge effects could compromise the model accuracy. Additionally, here efforts have been made to minimize the number of experimental tests needed for the correct calibration of the proposed phase-split lumped-parameters thermal models.


In this study, the result of systematic measurement of activity concentration of 222 Rn in drinking water from sources of public water supply along the coastal regions of Kerala is discussed. The 222 Rn concentrations in water were measured using the emanometry method and it was found to vary from 0.03 to 1.31Bq l −1 . The associated effective doses were computed for the population of the region.


Occlusion is defined as "manner in which the upper and lower teeth intercuspate between each other in all mandibular positions and movements". The development of occlusion is based on the neuromuscular control of the components of the mastication system namely: teeth, periodontal structures, maxilla and mandible, temporomandibular joints and their associated muscles and ligaments. It may lead to gingival recession, mobility of teeth and tooth wear. One such consequence that affects the young individuals was the tooth wear. The aim of the study was to correlate the prevalence of tooth wear among young individuals with malocclusion.The individuals of age group 18-25years (1000students) were included in the study. Out of 1000 Students, 500 were males and 500 were females. The traditional angle's classification was used to access the prevalence of malocclusion and tooth wear was measured with Smith and Knight Index.Our study population showed that tooth wear is more common in participants with class II malocclusion. Among the participants, around 44.8% of males and 37% of females having class II division I malocclusion were affected by tooth wear. Chi square test was used which shows statistically significant association of tooth wear and malocclusion. (p value<0.05). The main etiology of the tooth wear is found to be malocclusion. So we the dental team all around the world should enhance and motivate the young individuals.


The goals of the research are to find out: (1) the relationship between partial holy living and spiritual growth, (2) the relationship between praise and worship based on Ephesians 5:18-20 partial and spiritual growth, (3) the relationship between holy life and worship while at the same time spiritual growth. This type of research is descriptive quantitative research using correlation techniques. The study population consisted of active members of the Jordan River Regensi 2 Tangerang GBI cell group totaling 34 individuals, with an overall sample of 34 individuals drawn using the saturated sampling technique. The research instrument was a closed questionnaire for collecting data on holy life with a total of 10 items and worship with a total of 10 items and spiritual growth with a total of 10 items. The instrument's validity technique relates to the product-moment correlation formula and reliability based on Cronbach's alpha. The data analysis technique uses multiple regression with a significant level of 0.05. The results of the research show: (1) There is a connection between holy living and spiritual growth, (2) There is a connection between Ephesians 5:18-20 worship and spiritual growth, (3) There is a double connection between holy life and worship based on Ephesians 5:18-20 with spiritual growth.


The advancement of control technology based on microcontroller able to

exploited in designing a system which is capable to activate solar cell panel

automatically to trace the highest intensity of solar energy, so the solar cell can

always yield optimum voltage.

This research is designing a system which is aplicable to trace the highest

intensity of solar energy as resources of electrical energy, with panel can move

automatically to trace from east to west the highest intensity of solar energy or on

contrary (dynamic), based on input from solar cell

In this system design there are several things must be considered, among

other selection or use of components that build the system, such as member of

solar cell as a sensor module, a system contoroller and a motor. The system

designed use the motor dc as activator of solar cell panel and solar cell

fuctionally as sensor.

The result from designing and testing at this research is proven good

enough as expected, solar cell panel succeed to trace the highest intensity of solar

energy which is equivalent with 1,06V dc (max. on solar cell)


The present invention provides a method for decoding a video signal by using a graph-based transform, comprising the steps of: parsing a transform index from the video signal; generating a line graph on the basis of edge information on a target unit; aligning transform vectors for each of segments of the line graph on the basis of a transform type corresponding to the transform index; acquiring a transform kernel by realigning the transform vectors for each of segments of the line graph according to a predetermined condition; and performing an inverse transform on the target unit on the basis of the transform kernel.


This article proposed three innovative and heterodox ways to aid understanding and unleashing a sustainable economy in Three Essays on Environmental Justice: First, behavioral insights are presented about real-world relevant, easily-implementable nudges to steer human into future-oriented discounting. Second, macroeconomic modelling highlights countries' different economic prospects on a warming globe in order to find a redistribution of benefits and burdens of climate change to share the gains and losses of a warming globe equally within society, between countries and over time. Third, a creative financialization strategy is introduced in bonds that help weight the burden of climate change more equally between today's and tomorrow's society.


This paper documents the outcomes of the first 174 patients enrolled in a recently established community-based antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. Many people are living with HIV/AIDS and are in need of ARVs. Access to ARVs can pose many logistical difficulties for poor and sick persons, particularly in rural areas. This communitybased treatment programme aimed to overcome these challenges, providing transport and nursing care, as well as actively seeking persons too sick to leave their homes. This led to the inclusion of many persons with advanced HIV in the treatment population. The study used routinely collected CD4 counts, viral loads and patient observation. The results show that the majority of patients responded well to treatment. There was higher mortality among the population with advanced disease, but a considerable proportion responded well. Only 4 patients were lost to follow-up. This study details how community-based ARV programmes can be useful adjuncts to the facility-based system. Effective treatment programmes must address the needs of the communities they serve.


In this paper we analyze the degree of satisfaction of university students regarding the use of so-called "Self-Employment Guide". It is a tool that will play a fundamental role in the current studies of university degree. By developing a satisfaction survey that has been answered by students from different degrees of the University of Granada, they have drawn some interesting conclusions that can shed some light on how to address the development of the University Degrees.


Non-electromagnetic emission from cosmic ray particles accelerated in extreme environments has been studied using different variations of semi-classical formalisms. As the energy loss mechanisms of such particles is of great interest, one must improve in some sense the previously intuitive description of classical sources in the presence of fields. In this brief note we evaluate the role played by the classical and dimensional proper acceleration of a particle in radiation processes. One intends to show that the introduction of the acceleration as a measure parameter gives an adequate scale for considering the processes of massive particle emission. If the acceleration threshold is not attained one is considering a regime where the processes of massive particle production are suppressed. The analysis is performed in a semiclassical formalism once applied in different contexts and already checked for consistency in a serie of papers. As a further application of the results we evaluate the possibility of a non negligible meson production by protons accelerated in the framework of polar cap models operating in electromagnetic fields of pulsars. It is shown that inside a systems endowed with magnetic fields B ≥ 1012 G the meson emission by protons must not be disregarded


The present study was performed in Musa bay (northern part of the Persian Gulf) around the coastal area of BandareImam Khomeini and Razi Petrochemical Companies. Sediment samples and effluent samples were collected from the selected stations, from June 2009 to June 2010. The samples were analyzed to determine the degree of hydrocarbon contamination. The average level of TPH concentration in the study area was more than the natural background value at all of the stations, especially at station BI1 which was the main effluent outlet of Bandar-eImam Khomeini petrochemical company. Also the concentration of total petroleum hydrocarbon was monitored in the effluents of aforementioned petrochemical companies and the results showed that the concentration of TPH in the effluents of Bandar-eImam Khomeini petrochemical company was greater than Razi petrochemical company which is may be related to the products of Bandar-eImam Khomeini petrochemical company (aromatics, polymers, chemicals, fuel). Keywords—Musa bay, Bandar-eImam Khomeini and Razi Petrochemical Companies, TPH


We have measured the nuclidic production cross sections and recoil properties for intermediate mass fragments, fission fragments, and heavy residues from the interaction of 21 MeV/nucleon {sup 129}Xe with {sup 197}Au. From these measurements, we have deduced the fragment mass distributions and fragment velocities, momenta, etc. The fragment {ital N}/{ital Z} ratios, isomeric state populations, and mean fragment energies are similar to those observed in low energy, deep inelastic scattering. The stochastic nucleon exchange model correctly predicts the shape of the heavy residue mass distribution, but overestimates (by a factor of 2--3) the fragment longitudinal velocities as does the dissipative fragmentation model, perhaps due to the lack of preequilibrium emission in these models.


In a nuclear accident, the source term which contains the release rate of atmospheric radionuclide leakage is a key issue of the nuclear emergency response. One effective way to obtain the source term is the inverse modelling method that is based on radionuclide transportation process and environment radiation monitoring data. However, the inverse modelling method may be sensitive to specific site conditions. Therefore, a case-by-case validation is important. In this study, a source term estimation method based on the Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) data assimilation technique was proposed for source term estimation and a wind tunnel experiment that simulated a highly heterogeneous Chinese nuclear power plant site was performed to validate this method. The EnKF method takes the concentrations measured at different positions as input parameters and iteratively refined the source term estimate by reducing the discrepancy between the experimental measurements and the concentration prediction that is obtained by certain atmospheric transport model based on the estimated source term. In order to improve the accuracy of the transport model, CALMET was used to generate the wind field that is necessary to drive RIMPUFF. A 1:2000 wind tunnel was performed to comprehensively evaluate the performance of the proposed method, which simulated both ground and stack release scenarios with a dominant wind direction at a typical Chinese nuclear power plant. The incoming flow in the wind tunnel is adjusted according to the annual mean wind speed and vertical profile that has been measured in recent years near the NPP site. The experiment simulated a ground release scenario by using CO as the tracer gas, which the release position is in the center of the nuclear power plant site. Concentrations are measured at 264 positions in the downwind direction of the release, which equals to 6500m away from the source in a real world scale. The estimated release rate was compared with the true release rate that was used in the wind tunnel experiment, in order to assess the convergence and accuracy of the proposed method. Meanwhile, the concentration measured in the wind tunnel was both qualitatively and quantitatively compared with the simulation values that are calculated by CALMET-RIMPUFF using the estimated release rate. The validation results demonstrate that the proposed method has a fast convergence rate. The estimated release rate matches the real one used in the experiment well for both release cases, which the bias is less than 50% for the worst case estimate. As for the concentrations predicted with the estimated release rate, they are not only qualitatively consistent with the spatial distribution of the measured concentrations, but also show satisfactory results with respect to statistical evaluation metrics for both release cases. The Pearson correlation coefficient is higher than 74~87%, the FAC2 is 42~54% and the FAC5 is 77~80% for all the experiment cases. The source term estimation of the stack release case slightly outperforms that of the ground release case, due to the better atmospheric transport modelling. The experiment also reveals that CALMET-RIMPUFF tends to underestimate the concentrations, which are the primary source of the bias in the estimates. Therefore, the atmospheric model is critical for the performance of the source term estimation, which shall be our future work focus. MGI29-08 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017


This paper reports simulation results for free‐stream flow past an oscillating square cylinder at Re=100 and 150, for oscillating‐to‐natural‐shedding frequency ratios of 0.5⩽fr⩽3.0 at a fixed oscillation amplitude of 0.2 of the cylinder width. The transformed governing equations are solved in a non‐inertial frame of reference using the finite volume technique. The 'lock‐in' phenomena, where the vortex shedding becomes one with the oscillation frequency, is observed near the natural shedding frequency (fr≈1). Beyond the synchronization band, downstream recovery of the wake to its stationary (natural) state (frequency) is observed in cross‐stream velocity spectra. At higher forcing frequencies, a phase lag between the immediate and the far wake results in a shear layer having multi‐polar vortices. A 'Vortex‐switch' accompanied by a change in the direction of energy transfer is identified at the 'lock‐in' boundaries. The variation of aerodynamic forces is noticed to be different in the lock‐in regime. The velocity phase portrait in the far wake revealed a chaotic state of flow at higher excitation though a single (natural) frequency appears in the spectra. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Ultrafast fluorescence upconversion measurements were carried out on the peripheral (LH2) light harvesting antenna complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides isolated in the detergents N-octyl-β-d-glucopyranoside and lauryl dimethylamine oxide. The B800 and B850 bands were excited in separate experiments, and the B850 emission was detected in each case. We make use of the recently determined crystal structure of a purple bacterial LH2 complex to simulate our data and to calculate the exciton level structure of the B850 aggregate. The B800 to B850 excitation transfer occurs with a 650 fs time constant. The depolarization of B850 emission follows a wavelength dependent, biexponential decay with time constants 50−90 and 400−500 fs. We can reproduce the non-exponentiality of the depolarization by assuming incoherent hopping between dimeric sites with a 250 cm-1 full width at half-maximum (fwhm) Gaussian distribution of site energies (inhomogeneity). We calculate the homogeneous hopping time between dimers in B850 to ...


1. 1880-1900: realism, naturalism and symbolism 2. 1900-1920: sex, suffrage, and scandal 3. 1920-1940: metatheatre and modernity 4. 1940-1960: salesmen , southerners, anger and ennui 5. 1960-1980: absurdism, protest and commitment 6. 1980-2000: bearing witness 7. 2000-present: contemporary theatre


In order to monitor land subsidence and land fissure in Xi'an,a high precision GPS reference network was established.This paper includes the fundamental of GPS reference network,observation outside and data processing,and recounts some key technology.Though the practice,it's proved that which have mentioned above are feasible.Information about the activity of land subsidence and land fissure is obtained by GPS monitor,and the result has a good coherence with precise leveling.


An experiment was conducted to determine what volumes of water/acre and what insecticides must be used to kill 3rd, 4th and 5th instar tufted apple budmoth larvae. Trees used were 'Golden Delicious' pruned to a height of 5.5 m. Treatments were randomized in a complete block design with 4 replicates of single tree plots. Sprays were applied to both sides of the trees and treated trees were separated by buffer trees. Treatments were applied on Jul 31 with sprayers driven at 2 mph. For the Lannate treatments, the amount of chemical/acre was the same but the amount of spray volume/acre varied. Treatments were evaluated by collecting all rolled leaves tree on Aug 5 and determining whether the larvae were live, dead or sick or whether they had pupated or were not present. Larval density was high in all trees.


UNIX* 4.2BSD(Berkeley Software Distribution) provides many remote access commands such as rep, rsh and ruptime so as to construct a distributed system. This paper presents the implementation of a new command 'rjsh' (remote job shell) that can be used to transfer a file and execute in a remote host without specifying a host name. In this environment, the distributed system can take advantage of load sharing and the user who wishes to use rjsh can execute his file without knowing the detail load status information for remote hosts. The specified source file will be transferred automatically to the least loaded remote host. So, from the users point of view the set of resources that constitutes the distributed systems operates live a single virtual system. When requesting a service, the user should not be required to be aware of the physical location or the instantaneous load of the remote sites.


Performance Coaching for Medium and Large Organizations. Step wise method creating a standard of Performance across the Organization. Leveraging the best performers practices and the Best Practices from the Industry with additional inputs from the Client and the Consultant.


In this paper the NP-hard problem of scheduling jobs in a single machine with sequence dependent setup times is considered with the objective of minimizing the total tardiness with respect to the due dates. An Iterative Local Search (ILS) heuristic is proposed which uses a GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure) algorithm to generate an initial solution. The ILS heuristic is compared with the GRASP algorithm proposed by Gupta and Smith (2006) and with the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm of Ching and Hsiao (2007). These algorithms obtained better solutions than other algorithms from the literature. Computational tests, on a set of test problems involving up to 85 jobs, show that our ILS heuristic is very efficient and competitive.


Nonclinical (including in vitro , preclinical, and other) and clinical are the two major categories of investigational studies in drug development. Clinical trials may be sponsored by pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device companies (industry-sponsored trials); by government, academic, or


Intelligent techniques have been designed to learn relying upon complete data. However, sensing error, connection failures, hardware fault, meteorological extremes, etc. lead data to be incomplete, making incomplete data value is a crucial problem in every research domain, including cybersecurity. Incomplete analysis lacks various useful information resulting in poor analysis and estimation. Multiple imputation has been potential solution, which accounts for uncertainty and unbiased results. To enhance the accuracy of the imputed data, this paper proposes a new iterative ratio based imputation (IRBI). Results achieved from the RBI technique is used to update the imputed data values obtained through iterations. Experimental results prove that the IRBI can perform well not only on a high missing amount of data but also on the high missing gap by preserving the data trends and structure.


Financial performance has become one of the most important issues for investors before they investing their fund inside the company. There is so many factors affect the financial performance and affect their decisions. Therefore, this study examines the effect of Current Ratio (CR), Firm's Size (TA), Debt To Equity Ratio (DER), and Total Asset Turnover (TATO) of the Dividend Yield with the Return On Assets (ROA) used as intervening variable.
The sample used in this research consists of 25 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) 2010-2014. This study used the purposive sampling methods. Data obtained from the Indonesian Capital Market Directory (ICMD) and Annual Report. Data analysis method used is multiple linear regression analysis and also path analyisis for analyze the indirect effect of independent variables.
The result indicates that CR, and TATO has significant positive effect on ROA, while DER has significant negative effect on ROA, while Size is the only one variable that has no effect on ROA. In the second regression, the result indicates that ROA, Size, and TATO has significant positive effect on Dividend Yield, while CR and DER has significant negative effect. More further, path analysis result indicates that CR and TATO has significant positive effect on Dividend Yield through intervening variables (ROA) while Size and DER has no significant effect on Dividend Yield through intervening variables (ROA).


Elasticity of nonionic and weakly ionized acrylamide-based hydrogels was studied as a function of swelling degree Q and initial total monomer concentration c0. The shear modulus decreases as Q-m at...


The targeted anti cancer therapies include Monoclonal antibodies and Small molecules, for example tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Biologic therapy with Monoclonal Antibodies includes Rituximab, Trastuzumab, Bevacizumab, Alemtuzumab, Cetuximab, Panitumumab etc. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the Monoclonal antibodies drug prescription patterns in cancer hospital and to generate data on the extent of rational/irrational prescribing in this institute. It was a hospital based prospective observational study with follow up during the study period. Feedback from the study would help both the prescriber and institutional authorities to review their prescribing practices and modify if necessary to facilitate better health care delivery. In our study, Out of the 15 subjects, 9 were males (60%) and 6 were females (40%). Majority of the study subjects were in the age group 51-60 years (40%) followed by >60 years age group (26.6%). Out of 15 patients, 3 patients on Bevacizumab, 2 patients on Cetuximab, 5 patients on Nimotuzumab, 4 patients on Rituximab and 1 patients on Trastuzumab therapy. Out of these, 2 patients on Monoclonal antibody monotherapy, 2 patients on Monoclonal antibody along with radiotherapy (RT), 6 patients on Monoclonal antibody along with chemotherapy (CT) and 5 patients on Monoclonal antibody along with chemoradiotherapy (CRT).


431Background: Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) intravesical instillation is the most effective immunotherapy for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), however there are few reliable markers to...


The textile industry in Nigeria is the third largest in Africa after Egypt and South Africa. It is the largest employer of labour in the manufacturing sector. The industry is mainly controlled by large private-sector firms, often with substantial foreign participation. Low productivity levels limit Nigeria's export possibilities. Nevertheless, the substantially liberated economic environment and the opportunity Nigeria offers to avoid quota restrictions under the Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA), which is not applicable to Nigeria have induced some foreign entrepreneurs, mostly from Asian countries, to establish export-oriented plants. The bilateral trade between Nigeria and China has grown steadily since 1971 as the volume of trade between the two countries in 2009 hit $6.373billion. In order to analyze the effects of higher imports over exports on the textile industry and the aggregate economy, the complete structural model is constructed with market equilibrium identity, such that total supply of agricultural, industrial, and oil sectors equal aggregate demand. The effect of imports on other macroeconomic variables was tested using nth order vector-regressive model. More private investments are highly needed in the Nigerian textile industry to make it internationally competitive.

 Key words: Competition, innovation, dependency theory, price stabilization, economic growth, research and development, investment, imports.


Monochamus alternatus microsporidium is a newly discovered pathogen whose scientific name is Nosema alternatus . The pathogen has a strong pathogenicity to the longhored beetles. According to the field investigation, about 7.7% of the real pathogens for naturally dead longhorned beetles were microsporidiums. The Results of bioassey showed that the mortality of longhorned beetle larvae is 44.1%, at 25 ℃ after 20 days. The microsporidium possesses the ability of vertical dissemination and hopefully to be an effective natural organism to control the M. alternatus beetles.


In this study Na 2 CO 3 modified betel nut husk fibre was used as an adsorbent for the removal of Acid scarlet 3R (AS 3R) dye by analysing fixed-bed column. Experiments were carried out to obtain the effect of initial concentration of dyes or influent concentration, the depth of bed and the effect of the rate of flow of influent solution with influent concentration of 55, 150, and 250 mg/L, the depth of bed of 12, 22, and 32 cm and rate of flow of 15 and 25 mL/min respec- tively. The time of exhaustion corresponding to C / C 0 = 0.85 and the time of breakthrough corre - sponding to C / C 0 = 0.15 is given by the breakthrough curve. The studies were conducted at the room temperature of 27°C ± 2°C and the influent of pH were adjusted at 7.0 ± 0.2. Cost analysis for removal reveal that modified betel nut husk fibre has effectively employed for the removal of AS 3R dyes using fixed-bed column analysis.


Annual report GROWNS, I.O.Astacopsis gouldi Clark in streams of the Gog Range, northern Tasmania: the effects of catchment disturbance DARTNALL, H. J. G. -The rotifers of Heard Island: Preliminary survey, with notes on other freshwater groups DARTNALL, H.J.G. Rotifers, and other aquatic invertebrates, from the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica KIRKPATRICK, J.B.The vegetation of Dover and Erith Islands, Kent Group, Bass Strait WILSON, R.J.S. & HANNAN, D.G.From ice to ice-free: Glaciation in the Lake Ayr Valley, central Tasmania HARRIS, S. & DAVIS, G.The vegetation and flora of Deal Island, Kent Group AUGUSTINUS, P.C. & COLHOUN, E.A. --Weathering and morphostratigraphic evidence for four glaciations in the Henty River Basin, western Tasmania ROZEFELDS, A. C.Miocene Wilkinsonia fruits (Hicksbeachiinae, Proteaceae) from the base of the Yallourn Formation, Latrobe Valley, Victoria ELIX, J.A. & KANTVILAS, G.New taxa and new records from the Tasmanian lichen flora Instructions to authors


This paper presents a method for estimating a random walk which is observed subject to additive noise. The method is based on an optimal weighted average, conceptualized as defining a fuzzy set of "recent" data. A Monte Carlo experiment compares the method's effectiveness against the naive method, ordinary least squares regression, and regression with fuzzily recent data.


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Black pod rot (BPR), caused by several species of the genus Phytophthora, is one of the most limiting diseases for the production of cocoa as it appears in all of the producing regions of the world and generates significant losses. The aim of this study was to establish the response to this infection in six cacao clones (EET8, IMC67, TSH565, PA46, ICS95, and CCN51), through an inoculation test on detached fruits using five P. palmivora isolates from five producing regions. The incidence and severity of the disease in the detached pods were evaluated at six and ten days after inoculation (DAI). Clone CCN51 was classified as susceptible, and clones IMC67 and PA46 as moderately susceptible at six DAI. All the clones evaluated were categorized as susceptible at ten DAI. The HURV19 isolates of P. palmivora showed the highest aggressiveness compared to ANYA228, which was found to be the least aggressive.


Board evaluation is a best practice required on voluntary bases by Code of conduct. Despite its voluntary nature, companies very likely adopted this recommendation because the failure to adopt could have a negatively impact on company legitimation and reputation. Moreover, the implementation modalities of BE, however, could be negatively influenced by the specific companies' ownership structure. The ownership concentration and the search for corporate legitimacy can lead at two possible situations: the BE have only formally adoption or BE have adoption in form and substance. What prevails in the context of ownership concentrated firms? Companies adopt the recommendation to comply with other companies (mere conformism) or it is a real assessment tool? We analyse the Italian non-financial listed companies, a market typically characterized by the presence of firms with high concentration of ownership, over the year 2011-2013. Our results reveal that, generally, BE is adopted but, in our sample, when ownership structure in concentrated, BE is more likely it is a result of mere conformism. The contribution is, as far as we know, the first to analyze the BE with reference to the context characterized by high concentration of ownership that can influence the quality of recommended best practice.


We have used near IR pump – Mid IR probe techniques to compare the feasibility and potential of using free standing nano-porous and micro-porous silicon (ordered hole arrays) as optically controlled modulators operating in the Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) covering the range from 3.3-5 μm. We employed 800 nm pumping pulses with the duration of 60 fs to reduce 4 μm light transmission modulation to about 25% and 45% for both silicon structures, respectively, at excitation powers of 50mW (4 mJ=cm2). However, at 5 μm both structures shown similar contrast of about 60%. The time resolved measurements revealed a fast sub-picosecond rise time for both structures suggesting that the optically generated carriers are a dominant mechanism for the modulation. However, the measurements demonstrated a significant difference in the relaxation dynamics. The nanoporous silicon demonstrated recovery as fast as a few tens of picoseconds and a possibility to effectively work in the GHz regime, while hole arrays shown almost three orders of magnitude slower response making it suitable for the MHz regime.


The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented changes in day-to-day life. In families of youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D), preliminary studies suggest impacts on physical/mental health and diabetes self-management. The COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Survey (CEFIS) assesses the impact of the pandemic. Parents of youth with T1D (mean age 11.6 yrs, mean T1D duration 5.3 yrs, 57.4% male) completed the CEFIS. Outcomes include exposure (range 0-25), family impact (range 0-4, scores >2.5 indicate negative impact), and distress (range 1-10). Data were collected at baseline (Sept to Nov 2020) and 3-month follow-up (Dec 2020 to Feb 2021). Exposure scores were relatively low (baseline 7.63±2.56, 3-months 7.50±2.93), however, a negative impact on families was reported at baseline (2.74±0.57) and 3-months (2.71±0.60). Distress was present at baseline and 3-months (range 4.26±2.03 to 4.86±2.05). There were no significant group differences when stratifying baseline scores by age or T1D duration. Despite relatively low exposure, COVID-19 had a negative impact on families of youth with T1D. Similar family impact and distress scores at baseline and 3-months highlight the enduring impact of the pandemic on families almost a year into the pandemic. Additional information is needed on how COVID-19 has impacted T1D management. However, clinicians need to be mindful of the significant distress families may be experiencing as a result of the pandemic. Disclosure E. C. Cobry: None. T. B. Vigers: None. L. Pyle: None. L. J. Meltzer: None. Funding National Institutes of Health (K12DK094712)


The aim was to explore patients' experiences of the rehabilitation process after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Ten participants were enrolled in the study. Semi‐structured interviews were performed, focusing on challenges during the post‐operative rehabilitation to 1 year after ACL reconstruction. The participants perceived no real choice between operative and non‐operative treatment. Only surgery symbolized a full return to the pre‐injury level of sports, and surgery was understood as the only way to become a completely restored "functional human being." A major source of frustration was that the meaning of and progress during the rehabilitation did not match their expectations. Three different responses to the challenge of a prolonged rehabilitation were expressed: "going for it,""being ambivalent," and "giving in." Fear of re‐injury was common; however, some participants decided not to return to their pre‐injury level of sports due to reasons other than physical limitations or fear of re‐injury. From a patient perspective, it seems important that the choice of operative or non‐operative treatment should be discussed in terms of the meaning and extent of the post‐operative rehabilitation and the expected outcomes. There also seems to be a need for more guidance in realistic goal setting and coaching throughout the rehabilitation process.


This thesis has as its subject of study the woman in the Bom Jesus da Lapa Pilgrimage by emphasizing gender relations and analysing pilgrimages as a social reproduction of the ideology of patriarchal family and feminine gender identity. It is set in Bom Jesus da Lapa festival, which has been taking place for 323 years in the city located in western Bahia. The subjects of the research are pilgrim women from 50 to 70 years old that have been participating for more than five consecutive years in the aforementioned festival. They are from Bahia, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Goias and Espirito Santo. Five Brazilian estates that report a higher rate of female participation in this religious event. We used the following methodologies as means of data collection: research of the literature, qualitative approach, and field and desk researches. We also applied techniques such as participant observations and semi-structured interviews. We aimed to analyse how the socio-cultural changes that are taking place in society articulates with the gender relations and the dynamics of Catholicism in popular Catholic devotions, especially in the Bom Jesus da Lapa pilgrimage. It emphasises the impacts of such articulations in the conceptions of gender and its relations to the pilgrimage itself or even beyond it as, for instance, in the pilgrim women's everyday relationships. It also asks what their roles in the pilgrimage are and what place they occupy in relation to the socio-cultural changes that occur in society. It finally examines how the pilgrim women perceive the space of pilgrimage in relation to a daily domestic life that challenges them as, in some moments, they become closer to or more distant from the gender identity that arises in a society where the submission of women to men is a key feature. According to the interviews and to the theoretical frameworks we used, we concluded that Bom Jesus da Lapa festival is a space of social reproduction of family structure as well as of feminine gender identity. In this pilgrimage, we can see a contrast in the redefinition of the role and profile of pilgrim women once it alternates between permanence and transformation of the gender identity proper to patriarchy.


The electromagnetic gun fired by electromagnetic energy as an entirely novel category of armor-piercing weapon is a path of future expansion of military science and technology in the globe, since the fuel formula of current artillery has posed an impasse of technical progress. This system investigates a simulated electromagnetic gun system with an STM32F103 processor as its main processing component, employing the OpenMV camera for image recognition of the red marking target, outfitted with a two-dimensional PTZ so that the electromagnetic gun can be moved freely within a certain range, and establishing an oblique throwing motion model to simulate the running trajectory of the projectile in the air, which enables the calculation of the launching angle of elevation and declination. The electromagnetic gun's automatic target shooting function is carried out by the laser sensor, which measures the distance between the projectile's barrel and the target. The electromagnetic force generates when the capacitor discharges to launch the projectile. In addition to the automated firing mode, the Bluetooth module allows for data transfer between the microcontroller and the cell phone, as well as direct modification and modification of the electromagnetic gun system's modes and situations from the cell phone side. Testing of the system has demonstrated that the system is capable of carrying out the operations of automatic target identifying and projectile launch to shoot projectile to the target with the electromagnetic gun.


The multiuser detection is a signal processing tech- nique which enhances the performance and capacity in DS- CDMA technology. Since its complexity issue was too expensive to handle, there was focus on the suboptimal detectors. In this paper we propose a hybrid method called adaptive differential interference cancellation method (ADIC) which is a hybrid of the differential interference cancellation method and which is then combined in a adaptive way to determine a weight matrix which will map the outcome of the differential interference cancellation method to come out with a better performance. This paper also looks into the computational cost of different methods using the floating point operation (flops) which is a good estimation of the comparative computational cost if not the exact one. I. INTRODUCTION The conventional DS-CDMA match filter detector fails to combat these issues due three prominent drawbacks: unrealis- tic ucorrelated code, near-far problem (even with strict power control (1)), and tough multiple access interference (MAI). Many advanced signal processing approaches have been made to improve the performances of these kinds of detectors. In this paper we will study the different approaches that were made in this field and implement these methods to reach a conclusion about the detection methods. As the name of the topic suggests the focus of our work will be study and propose cost effective better performing multiuser detection method. We will explore Multiuser Detection Techniques in Synchronous CDMA environment. Multi-user detection deals with the development and ap- plication of joint demodulation and interference cancellation cancellation techniques for improved detection of a desired set of digital signals in the presence of multiple access interfer- ence, intersymbol interference and noise. Since veterbi forward dynamic algorithm (2) is used in case of Optimum multiuser detection (3) the complexity grows in with the increase in the number of users. Hence the complexity is immense which increases exponentially with the increase in the number of users. Looking ahead for lower complexity hence lesser cost of implementation, the paper proposes the use of sub-optimal linear detectors (4). The sub-optimal detector the paper next focuses on is Decorrelator type of Detector (5) which is optimal in least squares. This detector out performs the optimal detector in many respects. Then the Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) linear detector is proposed which tries to minimize the squared error from the required transformation. It is one of the most popular detectors in use due to its easiness to implement and its lower complexity. But then in the above detection methods the decisions made were based on certain linear transformation criterion and there are missing efforts to check the performance in between the detection process to improvise the transformation method better detection. So then the paper proposes Adaptive multiuser detection. Then the paper focuses on Interference cancellation methods which utilize the feedback to reduce Multiple Access Interference (MAI) in the detected bits. Under the Interference Cancellation umbrella the Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) (6), (7) method is explored and simulated to observe the results. Then the next method which performs better than SIC and more commonly used in real life, called Parallel Interference Cancellation (PIC) (6), (8) is also implemented. Before going ahead to implement the final proposed detection method, this paper implements Differential Interference Cancellation (DIC) (9) method. And then this paper finally proposes an Inter- ference Cancellation method called the Adaptive Differential Interference Cancellation Multiuser Detection method which is cost effective in comparison to other Interference Cancellation methods as we will require lesser hardware (multipliers as in the SIC or Parallel Interference Cancellation (PIC)) for that matter. More ever since we are using adaptive method the desired BER can be further reduced. This proposed method will be discussed in detail in the following section.


: In the studies relating to seed quality in terms of seed germination, some terms or expressions can sometimes be used incorrectly. Filled seed, empty seed, sound seed, viable seed and dormancy are frequently used terms during determining the quality of seeds. Seed with embryo and endosperm (or megagametophyte) is called filled seed; seed without these two tissues is called empty seed. Seed having germination capability is called sound seed or viable seed. While empty seed and filled seed are opposite terms, sound seed and viable seed are synonymous terms. Dormancy is the inability to germinate in sound or viable seeds. The terms or expressions filled seed-sound seed, live seed-viable seed and germination barrier-dormancy are not synonymous. While live seed is an expression that states the seed having life; germination barrier is an expression stating a reason that prevents the germination. In the researches and practices related to seed quality, the terms and expressions in question should be used accurately and in place.


Defects in crystalline silicon consisting of a silicon self-interstitial atom and one, two, three, or four hydrogen atoms are studied within density-functional theory (DFT). We search for low-energy defects by starting from an ensemble of structures in which the atomic positions in the defect region have been randomized. We then relax each structure to a minimum in the energy. We find a new defect consisting of a self-interstitial and one hydrogen atom (denoted by ${I,\text{H}}$) which has a higher symmetry and a lower energy than previously reported structures. We recover the ${I,{\text{H}}_{2}}$ defect found in previous studies and confirm that it is the most stable such defect. Our best ${I,{\text{H}}_{3}}$ defect has a slightly different structure and lower energy than the one previously reported, and our lowest-energy ${I,{\text{H}}_{4}}$ defect is different to those of previous studies.


The contact parameter in unitary Fermi gases governs the short-range correlations and high-momentum properties of the system. We perform accurate quantum Monte Carlo calculations with highly optimized trial functions to precisely determine this parameter at T=0, demonstrate its universal application to a variety of observables, and determine the regions of momentum and energy over which the leading short-range behavior is dominant. We derive Tan's expressions for the contact parameter using just the short-range behavior of the ground-state many-body wave function, and use this behavior to calculate the two-body distribution function, one-body density matrix, and the momentum distribution of unitary Fermi gases; providing a precise value of the contact parameter that can be compared to experiments.


This paper investigates the degree of return volatility persistence and the time-varying behaviour of systematic risk (beta) for 31 market segments in the UK real estate market. The findings suggest that different property types exhibit differences in volatility persistence and time variability. There is also evidence that the volatility persistence of each market segment and its systematic risk are significantly positively related. Thus, the systematic risks of different property types tend to move in different directions during periods of increased market volatility. Finally, the market segments with systematic risks less than one tend to show negative time variability, while market segments with systematic risk greater than one generally show positive time variability, indicating a positive relationship between the volatility of the market and the systematic risk of individual market segments. Consequently safer and riskier market segments are affected differently by increases in market volatility.


PCT No. PCT/US95/00939 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 12, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 12, 1996 PCT Filed Jan. 20, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/19986 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 27, 1995Disclosed are novel DNAs encoding polypeptides related to opioid receptors, methods for expressing and isolating such polypeptides, and methods of use thereof. Also disclosed are vectors for expressing the novel DNAs of the invention.


Abstract The research intends to show the effect of service marketing mix conducted by CV King Tour and Travel simultaneously and partially to the purchasing decision of transportation services. This research was conducted at CV King Tour and Travel company. This research uses descriptive quantitative with sampling technique with non probabilty sampling technique. The type of data used in the study is the time series with data collection procedures through the delivery of questionnaires to selected consumers as a sample. The result of data analysis and hypothesis shows that marketing service mix consisting of (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, Process, People, and Physical Evidence) have a positive effect on purchasing decision. And that shows the significant result of each marketing mix variable that is Promotion and Physical Evidence). Keywords: Service Marketing Mix, Purchase Decision.


Enterprise Public Relations (RPE) provides an interface within any organization and its stakeholders. RPE seeks to create credibility and trust. This paper presents the process of introducing Enterprise Public Relations to institutions of higher education. The Escuela Superior y FundaciA³n Universitaria ESERP de Barcelona successful introduced the RPE to work with its stakeholders in crisis situations. The Universidad AutA³noma de Coahuila, Unidad TorreA³n en su Facultad de ContadurAa y AdministraciA³n is working to introduce RPE with the objective to built trust, and credibility in today's Mexico economic and social crisis. The Role of RPE is analyzed in the presence of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and globalization.


The recognition of State for the indigenous rights in the constitution as well as in the implementing regulations, but the land conflict between the state with the customary law communities is still common. As it turns out in practice, however, it has certain weaknesses, particularly in view of the accountability and legitimacy aspects of its establishment. Land problems in Papua have led to physical violence everywhere between indigenous Papuans and the government and indigenous Papuans with non-Papuans. The type of research is a legal-normative research. The outcomes of the research indicate that the legal policy for the customary right protection of indigenous people in the border area of southern Papua by the creation of new legal regulations in order to encourage the fulfillment of the indigenous peoples' right in the border areas. Currently, the national legal system has not been able to accommodate the existence of customary rights of indigenous peoples, especially in the border areas. Keywords: Customary Right, Indigenous Peoples, Legal Policy, Special Autonomy


The relativistic theory of elasticity is reviewed within the spherically symmetric context with a view towards the modelling of star interiors possessing elastic properties such as the ones expected in neutron stars. Emphasis is placed on generality in the main sections of the paper, and the results are then applied to specific examples. Along the way, a few general results for spacetimes admitting isometries are deduced, and their consequences are fully exploited in the case of spherical symmetry relating them next to the the case in which the material content of the spacetime is some elastic material. This paper extends and generalizes the pioneering work by Magli and Kijowski [1], Magli [2] and [3], and complements, in a sense, that by Karlovini and Samuelsson in their interesting series of papers [4], [5] and [6].


There is several delivery position that can be applied in second phase of delivery such as lithotomy, dorsal recumbent , lateral position and squat position. Those position delivery solely purpose for mother´s comfort and shortening of the delivery phase.  Lithotomy position is still a preffered position in the delivery process.  However in shoulder distosion the Mc.Robert position is believed to shorten the 2nd phase of delivery.To know the efectiving of Mc.Robert position and lithotomy position in second phase of delivery for primipara in RSU Banyumas in 2009.This research´s using quasi experimental design by comparing the time duration for second delivery phase for efektifitivy.  The population of the study was all primipara in second delivery phase in RSU Banyumas maternal ward.  Sample sich 60 people divided in to 2 groups, 30 mother´s using lithotomy and the other 30 using Mc.Robert´s position. The everage of 2nd phase time in lithotomy was 44,9 minute and Mc.Robert´s position average time was 33,3 minute.  There was significant difference  for 2nd delivery phase time using lithotomy compare to Mc.Robert´s position ( Mc.Robert´s 33,33±SD 8,74 minute, lithotomy 44,9±SD 9,96 minute´s).  Shortened by 11,57 minutes in this study, Mc.Robert´s position in second phase more effective than lithotomy´s positions in second phase of delivery for primipara with p = 0,000 Keyword : Second delivery phase Mc.Robert´s position, Lithotomy´s position, primipara


By considering the evolution of some technical aspects of film culture and industry, the idea was on the one hand to concentrate on the role and place of mechanical aspects in our discipline, and on the other hand to demonstrate how technical choices could help us to resolve the challenging question of the representation of time in a documentary narrative manner. I will examine how fieldwork, feedback and analysis of a few specific rituals organized in the Dogon country forced me to reconsider the treatment of the representation of time and space in my ethnographic documentaries. After realising how deeply these contradictions forced me to reconsider my methodology and my technical choices, I chose to concentrate on digital programming as a possible language to address this challenging topic and to offer possibilities to propose new forms of representations.
In the event, by considering the role and place of digital programming as a language to create new forms of representation, I realized how techniques had been isolated from the social and cultural context they emerged from.
By comparing the notion of grain that came from the analogue film industry to the one of pixels which came out of the digital era, the purpose was to underline the aesthetic and political choices embedded in this technical criteria and how the spectators, whatever their age, could create or recreate their time perception according to the resonance of the grain or the pixel, from the viewpoint of a personal and social imaginary construction.


Objective To study the factors influencing the hearing loss of children. Methods 367 controls with normal hearing, including 144 boys and 223 girls, were sampled randomly in NO.4 Primary School of Pinggu District, Beijing.18 cases were selected in China Rehabilitation Research Center for Deaf Children. Logistic regression analysis was carried out to analyze the results by using SPSS13.0 softwar Results Univariate analysis revealed that father's drinking, X-ray examination,smoking and computer use e. of mother during pregnancy, premature delivery were associated with the hearing loss of children.Multivariate analysis showed that smoking, drinking, X-ray were the risk factors related to hearing loss of children.Conclusion Mother's smoking,father's drinking and X-ray were related with hearing loss of children.Preventive measures in these aspects could reduce hearing loss and improve the quality of life for children.


Automized scene layout generation gives the opportunity for saving time and scaling up variations in 3D city models. In this contribution, a method for combining structure from motion with semantic segmentation to obtain the street network and bounding boxes of scene objects as parts of the scene layout is proposed. Tests with an image sequence of a suburban scene show the potential to obtain the street network and bounding boxes of multiple objects belonging to different semantic classes.


We describe a case of concomitant Vibrio fluvialis and V. alginolyticus bacteremia in a patient on hemodialysis via indwelling vascular catheter after swimming in seawater, with subsequent recurrences of V. alginolyticus bacteremia that resolved with catheter removal. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of this type of bacteremia. (Infect Dis Clin Pract 2007;15:129–131) V ibrio species are free-living bacteria that are commonly found in aquatic environments. A small subset of these species can cause disease in humans, including gastroenteritis, wound infections, and septicemia in susceptible hosts after exposure to seawater or ingestion of contaminated seafood, especially raw oysters. Vibrio fluvialis is a halophilic organism mainly associated with gastroenteritis, – 11 with only 2 documented cases of bacteremia reported previously. Vibrio alginolyticus is commonly associated with ear infections (otitis media and otitis externa) and superficial wounds, although cases of bacteremia have also been reported. – 19 We present the first case of concomitant V. fluvialis and V. alginolyticus bacteremia, and review relevant English literature.


A sample of patients with palatally displaced cuspids and a sample of subjects with normally erupted maxillary cuspids were examined as far as arch dimention and tooth size are concerned.


In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, Agustí et al. [1] present the Executive Summary of the updated Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) report for 2023. The updated report includes a number of important changes to the group's recommendations for the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of COPD that have immediate relevance for the practising clinician. The current changes might also represent the most consequential shift in overall strategy since GOLD's inception, and the report follows on the heels of a number of provocative publications suggesting new approaches to the definition and nomenclature of stable COPD [2] and exacerbations [3, 4], as well as a wholesale rethinking of the disease [5]. GOLD 2023: key updates and potential missed opportunities https://bit.ly/42egTLx


The results of surgery in a group of 7 patients with lymphangioma circumscriptum are presented. Lymphangiography was carried out in 5 of these patients and in 1 further patient who was not submitted to surgery.


Many philosophers from Nietzsche via Heidegger to contemporary communitarian thinkers like Sandel and MacIntyre criticized nihilism and identified it with many problematic attitudes and behaviours. My central goal of this essay was to explain why I regard nihilism as a wonderful achievement and one, which is worth defending. In this way, I stressed both that nihilism leads to a reduction of violence against individuals as well as to the possibility that individuals get placed in a position such that they can realize a radical multiplicity of concepts of the good life.


INFILTRATION-CAPACITY was first defined 1 by the author as the maximum rate at which a given soil when in a given condition can absorb rain as it falls (6, 7). Infiltration-capacity is usually designated by f, and since f varies with time, especially during the early part of rain, it is to be understood that the condition of the soil and hence the infiltration-capacity, vary with time, until a certain minimum infiltration-capacity fc is reached. It would be better to use the term "terrain" rather than the term "soil" in discussing infiltration-capacity, for the reason that infiltration-capacity is governed not only by soil in the ordinary sense— comminuted mineral matter, with more or less organic matter—but in the broader sense of the soil as involving not only its mineral composition, texture and micro-structure or ordinary crumb-structure but also its macro-structures, including root systems, root perforations, sun-checks, earthworm perforations and other biologic structures, and its vegetal cover. Certain other factors, such as temperature of the air, and of rain and soil surface, rain intensity, initial soil-moisture, initial and residual rain occurring at intensities less than the infiltration-capacity, also require consideration. In a previous paper the author showed that f has an initial value fo at the beginning of rain and that if rain is continued at an intensity i> f, the infiltrationcapacity will decrease with rain duration in accordance with the equation (8) -K£t f = f.+ (fo-f c )e . i This was originally given as an empirical equation. It can, however, be derived from the simple assumption that the processes involved in the reduction of f as rain continues are of the nature of exhaustion processes. These processes include rain-packing, inwashing, breaking down of the crumb-structure of the soil, the swelling of colloids and, in cases where they occur, the closing of sun-checks. The graph of an inverse exponential equation can be represented over a considerable range by a hyper-


Limitations in obtaining superior varieties of red chili that are suitable to be planted in the highlands are one of the causes of the low yield of red chili in Rejang Lebong Regency. However, the availability of red chili germplasm as a genetic resource (SDG) in Rejang Lebong Regency is a good potential to be utilized to overcome problems in increasing the yield of red chili plants through the assembly of superior varieties. Assembling superior varieties of red chili has been done by researchers in order to get the desired plant character. This study aims to obtain information on the variability and heritability of growth character and yield of 18 red chili varieties in Rejang Lebong Regency. This research activity is the initial activity of developing the potential of germplasm that will be carried out so as to be able to overcome the problems in increasing the production of red chili in Rejang Lebong Regency. A series of research activities will produce superior varieties of red chili specifically for the highlands. The material used in this study was eighteen (18) varieties of chilli collections from various regions. The experimental design used was a Complete Randomized Block Design (RCBD) with a single factor, namely red chili plant varieties. The red chili varieties to be investigated for genetic variability and heritability in this study amounted to 18 and each treatment was repeated three times. The results showed that the highest estimated heritability was indicated by the leaf width variable at 96.69% and all observed variables had broad genotypic and phenotific variability.


Before biomedical researchers can test a new therapy in humans, a review panel is typically asked to consider not just the risks, but also the potential benefits. This "therapeutic potential" is almost always based on preclinical studies in animals. But a new study suggests that review panels may have a hard time evaluating those studies because they don9t receive nearly enough information. Researchers examined more than 100 brochures provided to three institutional review boards in Germany and found that the vast majority included animal efficacy studies that were unpublished or potentially vulnerable to bias. And less flattering studies seemed left out frequently, the team reports. But researchers not involved in the study are divided on the severity of the problem.


Dear Editor, Serum level of adiponectin is increased in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and inflammatory bowel disease during infliximab treatment. In the present study, we examined the serum levels of adipokines during various treatments of psoriasis. Psoriatic severity was determined by Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score. A total of 37 plaque-type psoriasis patients, including 25 men and 12 women aged 35–71 years (mean age, 46.3), with PASI scores ranging 12.3–22.3 (mean 14.5) and body surface area of 9–45 (mean, 14.3) were enrolled. The patients were treated with infliximab, adalimumab, ustekinumab and narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) irradiation in addition to topical glucocorticoids or active vitamin D3 treatment. Signed informed consent was taken from all the patients and controls according to the guideline of the Asahikawa Medical School Ethics Committee. Serum levels of adiponectin, leptin and resistin were measured by enzymelinked immunosorbent assay kits (R&D System, Oxon, UK). The serum levels of cytokines were presented as an arithmetic mean standard deviation. Mann–Whitney U-test was used for statistical analysis. A total of 37 psoriatic patients were treated with infliximab (seven cases), adalimumab (10 cases), ustekinumab (seven cases) and NB-UVB (13 cases). All treatments significantly decreased PASI scores (Table 1). There was no significant difference in patients' body mass index between before (26.2 2.5) and after the treatments (26.3 3.3). At 12 weeks, serum levels of adiponectin, leptin and resistin were not significantly different compared with the pretreatment levels. At 24 week, however, serum levels of adiponectin were significantly increased in all the treatment groups (Table 1). In contrast, serum levels of leptin and resistin were significantly decreased in the treatment groups at 24 weeks (Table 1). There was no significant difference in serum levels of adiponectin, leptin and resistin among the psoriasis treatments groups at 0, 12 and 24 weeks (Table 1). Although serum levels of adiponectin and leptin were not affected at 12 weeks, significant improvements were observed at 24 weeks. Shibata et al. showed increased serum levels of adiponectin in psoriatic patients at 8 weeks following antitumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a treatment. In their study, the patients responded well to the treatment and the PASI clearance rate at 8 weeks was 72%. In contrast, the PASI clearance rate of our patients at 12 weeks was 53% and that at 24 weeks was 74%, which is close to the value of Shibata et al. at 8 weeks. In contrast, Peters et al. showed lack of the effect of onercept, an antibody against human soluble p55 TNF receptor on the serum levels of adiponectin in psoriatic arthritis patients despite the significant improvement of 28-item Disease Activity Index score. The difference in the treatment target and clinical type of psoriasis may explain the difference in adiponectin serum levels. The present study demonstrated that serum levels of adipokines alter during ustekinumab and NB-UVB irradiation treatments. Previously, we reported that serum levels of adiponectin are inversely related with serum TNF-a levels in psoriatic patients, which is compatible with the present results. Because adiponectin does not directly bind with anti-


Limited data have been published on the epidemiology and outcomes of breakthrough COVID-19 in patients with hematological malignancy (HM) after anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
 Adult HM who received at least one dose of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and diagnosed with breakthrough COVID-19 between January 2021 and March 2022 and registered in EPICOVIDEHA were included in this analysis.
 A total of 1548 cases were included, mainly with lymphoid malignancies (1181 cases, 76%). After viral genome sequencing in 753 cases (49%), Omicron variant was prevalent (517, 68.7%). Most of the patients received at least two vaccine doses before COVID-19 (1419, 91%), mostly mRNA-based (1377, 89%). Overall, 906 patients (59%) received specific treatment for COVID-19. After 30-days follow-up from COVID-19 diagnosis, 143 patients (9%) died. The mortality rate in patients with Omicron variant was of 7.9%, comparable to that reported for the other variants. The 30-day mortality rate was significantly lower than in the pre-vaccine era (31%). In the univariable analysis, older age (p<0.001), active HM (p<0.001), severe and critical COVID-19 (p=0.007 and p<0.001, respectively) were associated with mortality. Conversely, patients receiving monoclonal antibodies, even for severe or critical COVID-19, had a lower mortality rate (p<0.001). In the multivariable model, older age, active disease, critical COVID-19 and at least 2-3 comorbidities were correlated with a higher mortality, whereas the administration of monoclonal antibodies, alone (p<0.001) or combined with antivirals (p=0.009), was observed protective.
 While mortality is significantly lower than in the pre-vaccination era, breakthrough COVID-19 in HM is still associated with considerable mortality. Death rate was lower in patients who received monoclonal antibodies, alone or in combination with antivirals.


Basic principles and characteristics of the photovoltaic energy as well as the maximum power point tracking(MPPT) were studied.Based on the MPPT principle,a new control method of solar tracking was put forward,to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic power generation.At first,a solar tracking system based on fuzzy control algorithm was built and simulated.With the help of the Matlab software and the feasibility of the program was verified.Then using Altera Company's CycloneII 2C70 FPGA as the processor,stepper motor as executive mechanism,the intelligent sun tracking system was realized,having important meaning and application value to improve the utilization of solar energy.


Banana breeding has several unique challenges that sets it apart from other crops. Inherent sterility, low seed set, poor germination, polyploidy, etc. lend themselves to a lengthy breeding cycle fraught with the potential for multiple errors and traceability. While research continues to resolve these various issues across the breeding pipeline, improvements in tracking, data collection and data analysis is also critical.


What is the central question of this study? What is the relationship between prostacyclin and cerebrovascular reactivity to hypercapnia before and after administration of a cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin, in healthy young and older adults? What is the main finding and importance? Serum prostacyclin was not related to cerebrovascular reactivity to hypercapnia before or after administration of indomethacin. However, in older adults, serum prostacyclin was related to the magnitude of change in cerebrovascular reactivity from before to after indomethacin administration. This suggests that older adults with higher serum prostacyclin may rely more on cyclooxygenase products to mediate cerebrovascular reactivity.


The invention relates to and is applicable to a formula of a chloroprene rubber (CR) sponge sheath which is produced by a microwave curing technology. The rubber components in part by weight are as follows: 100 parts of chloroprene rubber (CR), 30-60 parts of semi-reinforcing furnace black, 30-50 parts of light calcium carbonate, 5-10 parts of white factice, 30-50 parts of dioctyl phthalate, 1-3 parts of paraffin, 2-8 parts of rubber moisture absorbent, 1-2 parts of antiager A, 1-2 parts of antiager 4010NA, 4-6 parts of magnesium oxide, 6-10 parts of zinc oxide, 0.5-2 parts of ethylene thiourea and 6-10 parts of foaming agent AC6. The invention can produce the chloroprene rubber (CR) sponge sheath which has uniform foaming, good elasticity and excellent performance through adjusting the formula, and the production efficiency can be greatly improved because of adopting the microwave curing technology.


To manufacture the low-salt anchovy, Engraulis japonicus, sauces with and NaCl, anchovy sauce with NaCl was diluted with sterilized water and then heated at for 10 min, 20 min, 30 min, and 40 min. The chemical and microbial changes of the heat-treated low-salt anchovy sauces stored at were analyzed at different storage periods. Lactic acid and total nitrogen contents of and NaCl anchovy sauces decreased slightly during storage, but pH, VBN and amino nitrogen contents were almost constant. The amino nitrogen content of NaCl anchovy sauce was higher than that of NaCl anchovy sauce. Total viable cell and lactic acid bacteria were not detected in the anchovy sauce heated at for more than 20 min and only proteolytic bacteria was determined less than 10 CFU/mL. The 17% NaCl anchovy sauce heated at for 30 min was relatively good for the taste and odor by sensory evaluation.


Based on the data of four seasonal oceanographic censuses in the East China Sea (26°00' - 33°N, 120°00' - 127°E)in 1998 - 1999, this paper discussed the variation of a swimming crab Ovalipes punctatus resources in the East China Sea with mathematical analysis. Results showed that there was clearly seasonal change of resources density of the crab that was the highest in spring(2 076 ind·km-2and 65.00 kg·km-2) ,then summer(395ind·km-2 and 43.71 kg·km-2), winter (643ind·km-2 and 26.27 kg·km-2) and the lowest in autunm(7ind·km-2and 0.36 kg·km-2). The yield of O. punctatus, whose dominance and occurrence frequency were higher than other waters of the East China Sea, was equal to 50% of total crab in weight at northern offshore water area where the resources of 0. punctatus are mainly distributed in spring and winter. The central fishing ground, which was the greatest ground in the East China Sea, lay in water area of 31°30'-33°00'N, 122°30' - 124°00'E where the crowd of the crab is mainly composed in spawn group in spring. Besides this, other two high abundant fishing ground of the crab lay in 26°00' - 26°30'N, 122°00' - 123°00'E and 30°00' - 31°00'N, 124°30' - 126°30'E. They are both potential fishing ground of the crab in East China Sea because their resources were not exploited fully by now. The fishing season of the crab was from March to June in spring. Because draw net and crab cage were used widely in crab fishing, proper net mesh should be adopted to protect supplement group of the crab in the fishing. Summer was also a good fishing season like spring because the crab resources had greatest individual size, highest ecomonical value and amount of the crab resources in this fishing season. Though it can adapt to wide temperature and salinity as an eurythermic and euryhaline species the crab showed a character of temperature-water species and tended to distribute in low salinity waters. Ovalipes punctatus was a most imporant species in crab community in the East China Sea because the change of amount would affect total resources of crab remarkably in this water area.


IL-1 b plays a critical role in promoting IL-17 production by gd and CD4 T cells. However, IL-1–targeted drugs, although effective against autoinflammatory diseases, are less effective against autoimmune diseases. Conversely, gain-of-function mutations in the NLRP3 inflammasome complex are associated with enhanced IL-1 b and IL-18 production and Th17 responses. In this study, we examined the role of caspase-1–processed cytokines in IL-17 production and in induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the immunostimulatory component in CFA used for inducing EAE, stimulated IL-1 b and IL-18 production by dendritic cells through activation of the inflammasome complex and caspase-1. Dendritic cells stimulated with M. tuberculosis and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein promoted IL-17 production by T cells and induced EAE following transfer to naive mice, and this was suppressed by a caspase-1 inhibitor and reversed by administration of IL-1 b or IL-18. Direct injection of the caspase-1 inhibitor suppressed IL-17 production by CD4 T cells and gd T cells in vivo and attenuated the clinical signs of EAE. gd T cells expressed high levels of IL-18R and the combination of IL-18 and IL-23, as with IL-1 b and IL-23, stimulated IL-17 production by gd T cells, but also from CD4 T cells, in the absence of TCR engagement. Our findings demonstrate that caspase-1–processed cytokines IL-1 b and IL-18 not only promote autoimmunity by stimulating innate IL-17 production by T cells but also reveal gd T cells and CD4 T cells experimental autoimmune induced by immunization with in component of of activating casapse-1 via the NLRP3 inflammasome, both the production and proteolytic cleavage of pro–IL-1 b and pro–IL-18, and secretion of the mature cytokines. Inhibition of caspase-1 in DC IL-1 b and IL-18 production by and IL-17 by gd T cells and the


Whilst until the late 1980s most migration issues developed in a parallel manner but
with national specifics, important differences showed up during the 1990s and at the beginning of this decade. Since the middle of the 1990s, there has been an obvious change in policy towards migrants and foreigners in the Netherlands, and those changes have been more or less "exported"
to our neighbouring countries and even to the level of the EU. Integration into society with the maintenance of the immigrant's own culture has been replaced by integration into the Dutch society after passing an integration examination. The focus of this article is to investigate those changes and to compare the implementation of those policies in the Netherlands/Limburg and Germany/NRW, where the official understanding of not being an immigration country was dominant until the end of the 1990s, and where integration has only recently become an important political issue. Both countries are now facing similar challenges for better integration into the society,
especially into the educational system.
Firstly, the autors describe migration definitions, types, the numbers of migrants and the backgrounds of migrant policies in Germany and the Netherlands up until the middle of the 1990s.
Secondly they discuss the integration policies thereafter: the pathway to a new policy and the Action Plan Integration in Germany, and the central ideas of the Civic Integration of Newcomers Act (WIN) in the Netherlands. Integration policy in the Netherlands is highly centralised with little differentiation on the local governmental level when compared to South Limburg.
Thirdly, the autors investigate the cross-border cooperation between professional organisations
and educational institutions in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and the involvement of social work institutions and social workers in their process of integration into the local society and the exchange of each others' experiences (the ECSW and RECES projects).


The central aim of this study is to verify, under a dialogical perspective of language, how others' discourse holds traces of its origin, when actualized in other discourse, and is covered with disparate ideological accents at the same time. The selected corpus consists of two advertisement utterances. In both, Simone de Beauvoir's words are reported by quotes. To address this issue, assumptions discussed by the authors related to the Bakhtin Circle, the discussion proposed by Authier-Revuz and the notion of object memory, according to the contributions of the researcher Marilia Amorim, were highlighted.


This paper deals with the philosophic implications present on the symbolization of death given by the maleku speeches on felines. First, this symbolization of death will be approach from two aspects: 1) the feline as a warning to third parties of the death of a relative, in order to which it will be contextualized the symbolic significance of the roar; and 2) the feline as a deserved punishment towards to whom is considered a reprobate. Second, it will be exposed that that symbolization has an impact on the moral acting, because the representation of the feline as a death giver works as a moral incentive for a "good" acting according to the general norms given by the gods.


Prof. B. Mahadevan (BM): Spirituality is one's ability to connect with oneself and engage in an 'inner' journey to discover one's true nature. It is also about seeing the axis of interconnectedness with other living beings and entities that make up this Universe. Finally, spirituality is also about recognising that there is a larger force beyond every one of us which plays a significant role in our lives, situations and events that unfold.


A new steam temperature control logic for supercritical once-through boilers was developed from the view point of simplicity similar to that of the conventional sub-critical drum type boilers. Water wall outlet steam temperature can be controlled more easily due to the specific heat capacity of steam being larger than the superheater outlet steam temperature. By dividing temperature control into two parts, one at water wall outlet by fuel flow and another at superheater outlet by SH spray flow, boiler steam temperature control was much improved.


The paradigm of sustainability, the lack of resources, the awareness of the ecological footprint or the loss of environmental biodiversity force us to analyse territories in a multidimensional fashion in order to be able to foresee or solve the different problems or struggles generated within them. Thus we recognize the Lake Basin Space as a unique space of particular interest and vulnerability which presents certain cultural, historical and landscape values; a defined and fragile area where the concepts of interaction and/or interdependence of the uses and activities it supports are crucial when their capacity, quality and integrity are connected and implicated. A lake by itself does not constitute a Lake Basin Space; nor do its shores or hydrographic basin do so on their own. It is the socio-temporal construction and the perception of the common area, added to the use and activities carried out in this specific territory, which constitute this unique, interdependent, finite and specific spatiality (Folch, 2003). This is a category which is different from that of shoreline, river basin or rural area; it is a space composed of dimensions which are dependent among themselves (Castillo, 2010). Today the Lake Basin Space is modified by man's activities, intensive agriculture, seasonal tourism or the industrial use of the land; there are new spatial requirements which are not being visualized, with complex and systemic interactive properties, involving all the resources of a Lake Basin Space. The Lake Basin Space presents itself as: polysemic, with different social, historical and cultural meanings, with a multi-scalar tradition and identity , with overlapping uses of different intensities and at different levels of activity on the Lake Basin Space, multi-functional in the diverse economic activities it supports, timeless and synchronous, since even though the Lake Basin Space transforms in time, it continues to be the integration and the relationship of the four dimensions which comprise it Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles N.o 73 2017, págs. 501-504


Node heterogeneity such as different transmission range, battery backup and mobility leads to several issues for the network. To concentrate on these issues, we need some alternatives which are able to adapt to different characteristics and make decisions for smooth functioning. In a few years, numerous efforts have been dedicated to clustering methods for wireless mobile ad-hoc networks in order to results e�cient and correct routing procedures. In the context of clustering devices of a cluster nominated as cluster member, cluster head and cluster gateway on the basis of different roles. Clustering leads to cluster-head and gateway selection overhead that requires focusing by researchers. The motive of the work is to study and analyze effects of heterogeneity properties. With this, an e�cient gateway selection method is also proposed. The result of the proposed method is evaluated by considering several network performance parameters such as routing overhead, throughput, network lifetime.


Used birefringent effects of uniaxial crystal and the interference principle of polarized light,a birefringent filter which contained four plates of quartz crystalline is designed,and the principle of filtering and the parameters characters of birefringent are analyzed.The transmission curve of birefringent filter is given experimentally.Its transmission bandwidth is very narrow and all the sub-peaks are suppressed fewer than 10%.When used in pulsed laser,there is broad-tunable range of 450nm.The line width range is 5nm when used F-P interferometer to compress.


The outcome of Norway's largely voluntary 2014–2020 structural local government reform relied heavily on positive citizen' attitudes towards merging with neighboring municipalities. In the present chapter, we investigate how citizens assessed the potential outcomes of prospective mergers, in terms of service delivery, local democracy and local identity. Contrary to assumptions about "rational" voters, the largest group of respondents reported a set attitude towards merger although they did not foresee any significant consequences. Because a stated aim of the reform was to counter societal and demographic developments that could otherwise jeopardize service delivery and local democracy, the "no consequences" assessment can be interpreted as trust and support in the government's arguments in support of the reform. A key point in the analysis is that citizens' assessments of the consequences of a merger were related to whether their own municipality was set to become a center or a periphery in the new, merged unit. The implication is that perceived distributive outcomes affect support for a given merger.


Developmental instability has been used to monitor the well-being of natural populations exposed to physical, chemical and biological stressors. Here, we use developmental instability to assess the impact of grazing on Chrysothamnus greenii and Seriphidium novum shrubs, and Oryzopsis hymenoides grass, common in the arid intermountain west of the U.S.A. Statistical noise in allometric relations was used as an indicator of developmental instability arising from grazing-induced stress. Unpalatable species that are not grazed (Chrysothamnus greenii) or species that are dormant during the winter‐spring grazing period (Oryzopsis hymenoides) show lower allometric variability under high grazing pressure. Palatable species (Seriphidium novum) exhibit high developmental instability under low and high grazing pressure. Grazing pressure imposed by presumably co-adapted wild herbivores enhances developmental stability in species habituated to moderate grazing, like Oryzopsis hymenoides, but stresses plants such as Chrysothamnus greenii that prefer disturbed environments. These grazing effects are probably due to the impact grazing has on competitive relationships and not to the direct action of the herbivore on the plants.