Current regulations for organic pig and poultry production systems permit feed ingredients of non-organic origin at an inclusion rate of up to 5 per cent. This is primarily due to concerns that there is an insufficient supply of organic protein on the European Union market, in terms of quality and quantity, to meet the nutritional requirements of pigs and poultry raised on organic farms. However, 100 per cent organic diets for monogastric livestock will become compulsory in the EU from 1 January 2018, and there is therefore a need to develop sustainable feeding strategies based on organic feeds. This feed trial conducted in the UK explores the feasibility of using a silage-based feeding system for Gloucester Old Spot pigs, and compares the inclusion of soya, beans and peas as protein sources in terms of pig growth performance. No significant difference in the pen mean daily live weight gain was observed during the grower phase (pen mean age of 11-14 weeks) between the diet groups. However, during the finisher phase (pen mean age of 15-22 weeks), pigs on the soya and pea rations had significantly faster growth rates than pigs fed the bean ration. It is speculated that the slight shortfall in growth rate observed in the pigs fed the bean ration may be offset by the lower cost of production of beans in the UK. This feasibility trial demonstrates that a 100 per cent organic diet for pigs using alternative, locally-grown sources of protein as part of a forage-based ration can provide a viable alternative to a soya-based diet.


BACKGROUND
Prevention of substance use disorder (SUD) is impeded by the large number, complexity and idiosyncratic configuration of etiological factors. Effective prevention of SUD is feasible however when intervention resources are prioritized to individuals who are objectively determined as high risk and tailored to their specific characteristics and circumstances.

OBJECTIVE
This study had the aim of developing a rapid accurate screening instrument for determining current presence of and future risk for SUD.

METHODS
The sample consisted of 182 girls recruited when they were 10-12 years of age and tracked to 22 years of age. From a large item pool the Drug Use Screening Inventory Quick Screen for Females (DQS-F) was derived consisting of the Substance Involvement Index and the Problem Severity Index.

RESULTS
The DQS for Females (DQS-F) has high sensitivity for identifying girls who currently qualify for SUD diagnosis. Furthermore, accuracy of predicting future SUD with the DQS-F is in the good range at age 16 and in the very good range at age 19.

CONCLUSIONS
Requiring only three minutes for administration on the Web the DQS-F is an efficient method for identifying girls requiring thorough assessment prior to implementing individualized intervention.


An Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR)-like argument using events separated by a time-like interval strongly suggestes that measuring the polarization state of a photon of an entangled pair changes the polarization state of the other distant photon. Trough a very simple demonstration, the Wigner-D'Espagnat inequality is used to show that in order to prove Bell's theorem neither the assumption that there is a well-defined space of complete states $\lambda $ of the particle pair and well-defined probability distribution $\rho (\lambda)$ over this space nor the use of counterfactuals is necessary. These results reinforce the viewpoint that quantum mechanics implicitly presupposes some sort of nonlocal connection between the particles of an entangled pair. As will become evident from our discussion, relinquishing realism and/or free will cannot solve this apparent puzzle.


Abstract Convective heat transfer over ribbed surfaces is a very complex process that requires detailed measurements for further understanding. The experimental technique presented in this article is a viable alternative to existing methods for providing local heat transfer measurements on a surface of complex geometry. Infrared (IR) thermography was used in a subsonic wind tunnel to obtain measurements of radiant power over a constant-heat-flux ribbed surface. The results using this procedure show the development of the thermal field near the origin of the ribbed surface. Velocity and pressure drop data illustrate the significant changes in the flow field (near the first ribs), which correlate with the infrared data for the thermal field.


ABSTRACT Discrepancies in sexual desire are associated with sexual and dyadic dissatisfaction. However, to date, systematic research has been conducted with heterosexuals. Differences in sexual and dyadic satisfaction among individuals with heterosexual, gay, and lesbian sexual orientations, according to the degree of desire discrepancy, were analysed in a sample of 1383 volunteers. The main results showed that sexual desire discrepancies perceived as problematic were associated with lower sexual and dyadic satisfaction, compared to non-problematic sexual desire discrepancies and no sexual desire discrepancies. Specifically, women with no discrepancy or unproblematic discrepancy are more sexually satisfied compared to men. Moreover, lesbian women reported greater dyadic adjustment compared to heterosexual women. The current findings highlight problematic perceptions of discrepancies in sexual desire and their role in sexual and dyadic satisfaction among individuals with heterosexual, gay, and lesbian sexual orientations.


A stable diamagnetic monoanion of the La@C82 isomer was electrochemically prepared and isolated in order to disclose its cage symmetry. By measuring the 13C NMR spectrum of the anion, it was determined for the first time that the isomer has Cs symmetry, as was also confirmed by density functional calculations.


Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) consists of series and shunt active filter sharing a common dc bus capacitor. The series active filter minimizes voltage source harmonics. The shunt active filter is designed to decrease harmonic current-components generated by the nonlinear loads. Thus with compensating effectively all harmonics and reactive power improves power factor. For optimal mitigation of voltage/current source harmonics, a neural network is proposed to control the UPQC. The artificial neural network (ANN) controller has been designed to extract fundamental frequency components from non-sinusoidal. Three multilayer perceptron neural networks are used to identify and reduce the harmonics. A backpropagation algorithm trains this network. Simulation carried out by Matlab/Simulink and results verify the efficiency of the proposed UPQC.


humane achievements of medicine and wish to see them become even more effective, I don't know that I would not choose a geothermal power station or a good university site rather than say a psychiatric service for elderly introspective folk, if there were not enough money for both. Should complacency give way to vigorous national development, as we see it in Australia and Canada, we may well witness some changes.


Abstrcat (S, R, R, R)-nebivolol is a novel and effective β_1-adrenergic antagonist with antihypertensive activity. The oxidation/Wittig olefination "one-pot" and the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation/cyclization "one-pot" are adopted in this route of synthesis. 1-[6-fluoro-(2S)-3,4-dihydro-2H-2-chromenyl]-(1R)-1,2-ethanediol and 1-[6-fluoro-(2R)-3,4-dihydro-2H-2-chromenyl]-(1S)-1,2-ethanediol, the two key intermediates of nebivolol, are obtained in eight steps by the asymmetric synthesis route. The synthesis protocol is convenient and each step has a high yield, thus the overall yield can reach 19%.


"Office Automation" Teaching Students office automation required skill level, but also need to help students build awareness and modern office modern office concept, the coordination office and two more in-depth content management applications, such as document management, data management into teaching in order to improve students' comprehensive application skills to adapt to the needs of the information society.


The imbalance of the economic and social level between territorial units is a problem of many countries, including Slovakia. In addition to product losses, the absence of labor incomes of lagging territorial units and their reduced ability to develop independently appear to be a problem. The reason for such a situation may be low economic activity as well as a weak relationship between employment in some regions. The aim of this study is to identify differences in the relationship between the rate of economic growth and changes in the unemployment rate in the all regions at the NUTS3 level in Slovakia in the period 1999-2018. To examine the relationship between unemployment and the rate of economic growth, a gap version of Okun's Law was used. A simple linear regression model was constructed for each region at NUTS 3 level. By comparing the values of constructed econometric models, the regional differences and sources of these differences were identified. The results of the analyzes have indicated that there is a direct causal relationship between the change in unemployment and the rate of economic growth in the short term. The correlation coefficients confirmed the negative relationship between GDP growth rate and unemployment. The strength of the relationship across region at NUTS 3 level was differentiated, but in all NUTS 3 regions was statistically significant. The impact of the growth rate on changes in unemployment has been found to be differentiated mainly according to the size of unemployment, as well as the sources and stability of the rate of economic growth and the structure of economic activities.


An annotated comprehensive list is provided of all shallow-water sponges (down to 60 m) recently collected and previously recorded from Jamaica. Five new species are described, Plakina jamaicensis, Melophlus ruber, Agelas repens, Stylissa caribica and Hyrtios tubulatus, two of which belong to genera not recorded before from the Western Atlantic (viz. Melophlus and Stylissa). The number of species recorded from shallow waters (reefs, mangroves and lagoons) now amounts to 157 species, several of which, however, are still of uncertain status.


In 1976/77 a trial was carried out at the UEPAE/PENEDO experimental field at Penedo, Alagoas, Brasil, with the objective to study the effects of the depth of water on weed control in low land rice. Six water depths (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 cm), and three rice cultivares, (SML-5/65, Suvale-1-70 and selecao-10), were tested in a randomized split plot design, with the water dephts as main plots and cultivars as subplots. There were four replications. The weeds were identified and its population determined. It was observed that the flooding reduced significantly the weed infestation and depth of 10 cm or more gave a good control. The most common weed was a cyperaceae (Fimbristylis sp), controled when water was deeper than 15 cm. The predominance of weeds varied with the depth of water: up to 15 cm predominated the cyperaceae, and over this level, aquatic plants.


In 480 patients suffering from chronically recurring and/or therapy-resistant fluor of the outer female urogenital tract, a vaginal virbiosis was stated in 54 cases as cause of the fluor complaints lasting, for the most part, longer than five years. Aspects of vaginal vibriosis and respective therapy are discussed.


The most appealing cosmological model to date is the standard hot big-bang scenario. This model rests on the assumption of the cosmological principle that the universe is both homogeneous and isotropic at large scale (Peebles, 1991; 1993; 1994; Weinberg, 2008). Even though this model could explain observational facts such that the approximately 3-K microwave background radiation (Penzias & Wilson, 1965), the primordial abundances of the light elements1 (Alpher et al., 1948; Gamow, 1946), the Hubble expansion (Hubble, 1929; Hubble & Humason, 1931) and the present acceleration (Perlmutter et al., 1999; Riess et al., 1998), it presents some shortcomings ("puzzles") when this is traced back to very early times in the evolution of the universe. Among them we distinguish the horizon, the flatness, and the monopole problems. In dealing with these "puzzles", the standard big-bang model demands an unacceptable amount of fine-tuning concerning the initial conditions for the universe. Inflation has been proposed as a good approach for solving most of the cosmological "puzzles" (Guth, 1981)2. The essential feature of any inflationary universe model proposed so far is the rapid (accelerated) but finite period of expansion that the universe underwent at very early times in its evolution. This brief accelerated expansion serves, apart of solving most of the cosmological problems mentioned previously, to produce the seeds that, in the course of the subsequent eras of radiation and matter dominance, developed into the cosmic structures (galaxies and clusters thereof) that we observe today. In fact, the present popularity of the inflationary scenario is entirely due to its ability to generate a spectrum of density perturbations which lead to structure formation in the universe. In essence, the conclusion that all the observations of microwave background anisotropies performed so far support inflation, rests on the consistency of the anisotropies with an almost Harrison-Zel'dovich power spectrum predicted by most of the inflationary universe scenarios (Peiris et al., 2003). The different inflationary universe model could be classified depending how the scale factor, a(t), evolves with the cosmological time, t. One of the first models considered that the scale factor follows a de Sitter law of expansion, i.e. a(t) ∼ exp Ht, with H the Hubble "parameter". Examples of these models are "old inflaton" (Guth, 1981), "new inflation" (Albrecht & Steinhardt, 1982; Linde, 1982), "chaotic inflation" (Linde, 1983; 1986), and some corrections to this model (Cárdenas et al., 2003). Also, were described models in which the scale factor follows a power law, i.e. a(t) ∼ tn, with n > 1 (Lucchin & Matarrese, 1985). Models that present this sort of behavior are "extended inflation"


Microcontrollers are very popular in electronics and
computer-controlled systems worldwide. This paper presents the control of a microcontroller-based system using the computer and explains comprehensively the hardware and software parts of the microcontroller. Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC)software developed by Microchip (MPASM) is used in programming a PIC microcontroller, and Visual Basic is used in programming the user interface. The developed system showed that the auto-switching mode of transmission could be implemented via the PIC microcontroller and an RS485 transceiver. The PIC microcontroller is chosen to implement the control unit due to its advantages such as high speed, Harvard and Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture, low cost and flexibility for programming. The controller unit used in the mentioned processes is designed. The developed system showed that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the microcontroller successfully switched on and off a single-phase lamp via twisted pair cables.


N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 7 I E E E S O F T W A R E 3 9 We define a flexible process as one that can change its behavior dynamically according to variable execution contexts; an adaptive process is one that can execute a service when conditions at runtime differ from those assumed during the service's initial design. While researchers have proposed several adaptation mechanisms, none of the existing frameworks systematically couples adaptation design-time and runtime execution. Focusing only on design-time issues reduces an application's ability to adapt its behavior at runtime. In a loosely coupled environment, in fact, the actual execution context might differ dramatically from the conditions hypothesized during application design. In addition, implementing advanced process-execution mechanisms, such as service substitution, is possible only when processes and services are carefully designed in advance. To address this, we developed PAWS (Processes with Adaptive Web Services), a framework for flexible and adaptive execution of managed service-based processes. Our framework coherently supports both process design and execution. It also integrates several research results developed at Politecnico di Milano that address different aspects of adaptation, coupling design-time and runtime mechanisms in a global environment. We have two primary goals for PAWS. First, we want it be self-optimizing. PAWS should select the best available services for executing the process and define the most appropriate quality-of-service (QoS) levels for delivering them. Second, PAWS should guarantee service provisioning, even in case of failures, through recovery actions and self-adaptation if the context changes. To meet these goals, PAWS provides methods and a toolset to support design-time specification of all information required for automatic runtime adaptation of focus


A new approach for the chemical removal of pyritic sulfur from coal is described. The process is based on the discovery that aqueous ferric salt selectively oxidizes the pyritic sulfur in coal to chemical forms which can be removed by vaporization, steam, or solvent extraction. Data for removal of the pyritic sulfur from four major coals (Lower Kittanning, Illinois No. 5, Herrin No. 6, and Pittsburgh) are presented together with a detailed discussion of the process chemistry. The effect of variables, such as coal particle size, acid and iron concentration, reaction time and temperature among others, are discussed. The results show that near complete removal of pyritic sulfur can be obtained under mild conditions, resulting in a reduction of the total sulfur content of the coals from 40 to 80 percent, depending on the original pyritic sulfur content. The current development effort is being accomplished under support from the Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Control Systems.


Objective: To study the effects of Lysine on early physical and intellectual development of infants with brain injury. Methods: 85 infants with brain injury were randomly divided into two groups: treatment group(44 patients) and control group(41patients).All applied the rountine treatment, treatment group applied Lysine.The physical and intellectual development index of two groups were observed. Result: At the age of six month height and weight index、intellectual development index in treatment group were significantly higher than those in control group(P0.05). Conclusion: Lysine can promote physical and intellectual development of infants with brain injury.


Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) research has been characterized by an overemphasis on technology, while the wide variety of approaches to the uses of mobiles has painted an atomized picture of L2 instruction. This paper discusses various conceptualizations of MALL that favour areas of language learning that are anchored on different theories of learning and language learning. Drawing on the seminal work by Traxler (2018, 2019), as well as on research that has examined self-directed uses, the use of apps and Augmented Reality (AR) in MALL, the authors contend that it is essential to shift our focus away from device-oriented pedagogies to more socially situated practices that take stock of new ecologies of language use. We contend that the research field is in search of a wider theoretical perspective in the context of SLA and language education that explores what we label here as socially contextualized MALL.


This paper explores the perceived relationship between household poverty and forest dependence among the poorest residents neighboring Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework, this paper examines the influence of household poverty on forest dependence. The findings reveal that food and health security risks are primary drivers of forest dependence. Education security risks however, were found to have an indirect influence. Both food and health security risks were found to have equal influence on forest dependence. The economic security risks traditionally believed to significantly influence forest dependence were not found to have a direct influence.


This chapter seeks to explain the divergence in current account behavior between emerging Asia and emerging Europe. It identifies financial liberalization and EU integration as the main drivers of the large and persistent deficits in emerging Europe but also raises concerns about risks of abrupt endings. In contrast, less open capital accounts and financial sectors contributed to surpluses in emerging Asia. To a large extent, however, these surpluses remain unexplained, raising questions about the role of exchange rates and the desire of some countries to build high levels of reserves after the Asian crisis.


Consistency and Quality Control : Differences and similarities regarding exam task constructionand syllabus content between IB Maths SL and Maths 1-4 atthe Swedish Natural Sciences Programme


A study investigated the effects of explicit versus implicit instruction in story grammar on the narrative writing skills of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students at the university level. Subjects were 83 freshmen enrolled in English at the Faculty of Education at Suez Canal University (Egypt). The subjects were randomly assigned to explicit and implicit story grammar instruction conditions. In the explicit condition, students read, analyzed, and imitated 15 story examples; in the implicit condition, students only read the same story examples, focusing on meaning rather than form. The study lasted five consecutive weeks. Subjects were pre- and posttested on story writing. Results indicate that students in the two treatment conditions scored about equally on the pretest, but those in the explicit condition scored significantly higher in the posttest, supporting the value of explicit instruction in story grammar.


The present invention relates to a plant-based fats and oils prepared iodine value of 20-110 Method of aliphatic alcohol, the alcohol containing essentially the general formula R


The blind number method has been used wildly in different engineering fields. However,few proofs have been given on its validity. Using some simple examples and analysis methods,the author analyzes the average value and root-mean-square deviation obtained by the blind number method to discuss the characteristics and limitation of this method. As a result,a route to verifying the validity of the blind number method is put forward.


In a wide-ranging study based on legal history, political theory, and philosophical ideas going all the way back to Plato and Roman law, Robert Clinton challenges current faith in an activist judiciary. Claiming that a human-centered Constitution leads to government by reductive moral theory and illegitimate judicial review, he advocates a return to traditional jurisprudence and a God-centered Constitution grounded in English common law and its precedents.


The measure for relieving famine and disaster in Song dynasties can be categorized into tree types from the properties: the simple administrative measure, the market measure and the social measure. the simple administrative measure was used widely during the North Song dynasty, but it decreased gradually after the South Song dynasty ;the market measure increased gradually from the period Xi Feng of North Song dynasty ,then it continued through the south song dynasty, but it was not tipical than the middle and later stage of North Song dynasty; the social measure was put into practice as a supplement of the simple administrative measure from the earlier and middle stage of North Song dynasty, and then ,it was used widely since the South Song dynasy. The process of the change reflected the tendency of marketalization and socialization of the measure for relieving famine and disaster in the Song dynasties. It was also said that the government function was changed from interfering with social activities directly to regulating market ,organizing society and participating in management. It means that the measure for relief of a famine in ancient china had taken place an important transition.


This article reports the outcome of a publicly funded research project titled "Redesign of the British Sign Language (BSL) Notation System with a New Font for Use in ICT," which ran from September 2000 to December 2001.   The aim of the project was to redesign the British Sign Language variant of Stokoe notation (as used in the BSL/English Dictionary) for practical use in information technology systems and software, such as lexical databases, word-processing packages, and teaching and learning applications. The project's objectives tackled design issues, not sign linguistic system-level problems.   The project resulted in two new type designs for writing BSL Stokoe, united into a larger type family called William C., in memory of William C. Stokoe. I anticipate that the new type design proposals will make the provision of searchable BSL Stokoe notation in database designs a possible next step in lexicographic and other sign linguistic research projects.


Materials & methods. The list of 16 ACSC was chosen by a panel of experts using a modified Delphi approach. Data on incidence, prevalence and discharges, due to ACSC during a year among children (0-17 years) – residents of the Lviv region, Ukraine, were obtained from the statisticians of health care institutions rendering medical services to children. The influence of incidence, prevalence, physicians and bed supply on ACSC hospitalization rates was tested by linear regression models.


A statistical thermodynamic model is proposed to predict the vapor pressure of mixed liquid desiccant solutions near saturated solubility by re-quantifying the weight of interactions between all species in solution. The model considers that charge interaction between ions and non-charge interaction between all species are still dominant, and charge-dipole interaction between ions and solvent molecules increases with the increase of solute concentration. Rigorous expressions are given to calculate the interactions: ion-ion charge interaction is described by modifying the FowlerGuggenheim theory, charge-dipole interaction is expressed by combining the McMillan-Mayer osmotic coefficient theory with the Debye-Huckel theory, and non-charge interaction is calculated based on the extended UNIQUAC equation. The prediction accuracy comparison with two typical models shows that the new model has better accuracy for mixed liquid desiccants near saturated solubility.


Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée crcl december 2018 décembre rclc 0319–051x/18/45.4/585 © Canadian Comparative Literature Association Sound is a present absence; silence is an absent present. Or perhaps the reverse is better: sound is an absent presence; silence is a present absence? In this sense, sound is a sinister resonance-an association with irrationality and inexplicability, that which we both desire and dread. Listening, then, is a specimen of mediumship, a question of discerning and engaging with what lies beyond the world of forms. When sound, silence and other modalities of auditory phenomena are represented through "silent" media, this association of mediumship becomes more acute. Dwelling in every written text there are voices; within images there is some suggestion of acoustic space. Sound surrounds, yet our relation to its enveloping, intrusive, fleeting nature is fragile (a game of Chinese whispers) rather than decisive. (Toop vii-viii)


The invention provides a driving device of a stirring shaft, and the task is to obtain a driving device of a stirring shaft which can effectively prevent damage of a bearing of a reducer. The driving device of the stirring shaft has a stirring shaft and a rotary device which dries the stirring shaft to rotate, wherein the rotary device has an output shaft connected with the stirring shaft, a first bearing which supports the output shaft, and a second bearing which is closer to the stirring shaft than the first bearing to support the output shaft. In addition, the driving device also has a third bearing, one of the output shaft and the stirring shaft, i.e., the stirring shaft, has a hollow part, an insertion part arranged on the other shaft, i.e., the output shaft, is inserted in the hollow part, and the output shaft and the stirring shaft are connected in such a state that the internal circumference of the hollow part and the external circumference of the insertion part have a contact part and a non-contact part, and the axial center of the contact part is closer to the rotary device side than the axial center of the insertion part.


A new robust controller for a class of nonlinear system is presented in which the control law is continuous unlike that used in sliding mode control. Motivated by the recently developed synergetic control we develop an indirect adaptive fuzzy synergetic controller for a non linear system. The latter is forced to evolve according to designer chosen dynamics but without the chattering problem inherent to sliding mode control. Fuzzy inference systems are used to approximate the system model nonlinear functions in an indirect adaptive scheme to account for varying operating conditions as well as for system parameters uncertainties. Further enhancement consisting in finite time convergence is also achieved using a terminal manifold technique. Simulation of stabilization and reference tracking for nonlinear systems illustrates the approach effectiveness while stability is assured in the Lyapounov sense.


While Inglehart's post‐material model figures very prominently in the literature on new politics, the limits of its relevance have seldom been critically assessed. This article uses various inconsistencies between his model and the socio‐economic features of the Austrian and Swiss Greens to point to some of its theoretical shortcomings. Because of its psychological assumptions, the model neglects various cultural and historical structures which are essential for any full and consistent explanation of new politics in Austria and Switzerland.


For 2 consecutive days cattle were artificially wounded, and the wounds were infested with newly hatched larvae of the screw-worm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel). On the 3rd day, the cattle were individually sprayed with 2½ gal of 1 of 19 insecticides (2—4 animals/treatment). At 1 day posttreatment, wounds were examined for live larvae. Treatments were grouped according to effectiveness as follows: complete control of 1- and 2-day-old larvae 0.25% Bayer 37289 (O -ethyl O -2,4,5-trichlorophenyl ethylphosphonothioate), 0.1% Bayer 38333 (O- 2,4-dichlorophcnyl O -ethyl methylphosphonothioate), 1% bromophos (O- (4-bromo-2.5-dichlorophenyl) O,O -dimethyl phosphorothioate), 0.05% isobenzan, 0.1% fenthion, and 0.45% Shell SD- 8447 (2-chloro-l-(2,4,5-trichlorophenyl) vinyl dimethyl phosphate); complete control of 1-day-old larvae only—0.01% Bayer 29952 (O- ethyl O-[p- (methylthio)-phenyl] methylphosphonothioate), 0.25% coumaphos, 0.1% ethion, 0.25% Hooker HRS-1422 (3,5-diisopropylphenyl methylcarbamate), and 0.25% Imidan® (O,O- dimethyl S- phthalimidomethyl phosphorodithioate); incomplete control—O.1 % Banol® (6-chloro-3,4-xylyl methylcarbamate), 0.01% Bayer 38156 (O- ethyl S-p- -tolyl methylphosphonodithioate), 0.25% Bayer 39007 (O- isopropoxyphenyl carbaryl, 0.5% carbaryl, 0.05% dimetilan, 0.1% Dowco 175 (2,4-dichlorophenyl propyl methylphosphoramidate), 0.1% Shell SD-8448 (2-chloro-l-(2,4,5-trichlorophenyl)vinyl diethyl phosphate), and 0.01% Stauffer N-2790 (O- ethyl S- phenyl ethylphosphonodithioate).


A state-space technique for control of nonlinear multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems identified by an Additive Nonlinear Autoregressive eXogenous (ANARX) model is presented. Controlled system is identified by Neural Network based Simplified Additive NARX (NN-SANARX) model linearized by dynamic feedback. The neural network based model is represented in the discrete-time state-space form. The problem of finding the minimal state-space representation is considered.


A new design of broadband semi bow‐tie quasi self‐complementary (QSC) CPW series‐fed array antenna for C‐band application is presented and discussed. To realize the presented array element, miniature quasi‐self‐complementary antenna element with a coplanar CPW‐like matching technique is utilized. The proposed element provides a wide impedance bandwidth from 3.95 to 11.25 GHZ for S11<−10 dB. The QSC array antenna's operation is additionally enhanced with assembling of four elements that is designed, using symmetric CPW‐fed with matching method. The measured results illustrate impedance bandwidth from 4.25 to 9.9 GHz for VSWR < 2. The feed‐line is tapered at input section between series‐fed network and antenna because of optimum input impedance matching that leads to improve impedance bandwidth. The measured results of the proposed array also exhibit relatively good radiating pattern and gain values. The design process and the experimental results are discussed in details. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 59:95–98, 2017


Abstract : The spontaneous alignment of molecules in liquid crystalline solutions is characteristic of other materials that contain rodlike particles. We are developing a model to predict the evolution of microstructure in these systems. Its starting point is Flory's thermodynamic analysis of liquid crystalline phase separation. Our preferred method dispenses with the traditional lattice model in favor of a Monte Carlo simulation to calculate entropy. Some advantages and consequences of our approach are explored in this paper.


Abstract - Penicillin G acylase (PGA) is an important enzyme used as biocatalyst in the production of semisynthetic β-lactam antibiotics. Many microorganisms produce this enzyme and recombinant Escherichia coli has been preferred use for industrial applications. Bacillus megaterium is one of the microorganisms that excretes this enzyme into the medium. As a consequence, separation and purification steps are simplified. On-line measurement of enzyme activity during cultivation using in-situ sensors is a difficult task in the industrial environment due to the lack of robust and inexpensive instrumentation. This work presents the results of a fuzzy logic algorithm used to determine the moment of maximum enzyme concentration during Bacillus megaterium cultivations in an aerated and stirred, automated lab-scale bioreactor. The fuzzy algorithm was written in Fortran, compiled as a dynamic link library and implemented on a platform developed in MS-Visual Basic. Data were exchanged in real time between the platform and the supervisory system, which was coupled to the bioreactor. It was possible to determine the moment at which maximum enzyme activity was reached in several bioreactor assays. At this point, the end of the process was indicated to the operator. The results illustrate the importance of using reliable computational intelligence-based algorithms in biochemical reactions.


TPS7095 Background: There are limited safe and effective first-line options for CLL patients (pts) who have comorbidities, are older, and are not candidates for fludarabine-based regimens. The combination of chlorambucil with obinutuzumab is a recently approved treatment option for these pts. In a recent trial in treatment-naive (TN) pts with CLL (median age 71 y), single-agent ibrutinib resulted in an ORR of 71% (CR, 13%), PR with lymphocytosis of 13%, and an estimated 22-month PFS of 96% and OS of 96% (O'Brien, 2014). Ibrutinib was effective even in pts with poor prognostic factors. This randomized, multicenter, open-label, phase 3 trial compares the chemotherapy-free combination of ibrutinib and obinutuzumab to chlorambucil/obinutuzumab, in TN pts with CLL not appropriate for fludarabine-based chemoimmunotherapy due to comorbidity, age, or presence of del17p. Methods: In iLLUMINATE, an ongoing trial of TN pts who have active disease requiring therapy, approximately 212 TN CLL/SLL pts will be randomized...


OBJECTIVE To observe the efficacy of acupuncture treatment on tears mucin5AC expression in patients with dry eyes.METHODS Fifty patients(100 eyes) with dry eyes received acupuncture treatment on Jingming(BL1),Cuanzhu(BL2),Taiyang(EX-HN 5) and Quchi(LI 11).Before and after treatment,tear secretion volume(Schirmer I test),break up time(BUT) were observed.The expression of MUC5AC was detected by immunity histological chemistry.RESULTS The total effective rate was 89%(89/100) with acupuncture treatment.There was a significant difference in statistics in tear secretion volume(mm/5 min) 5.2±2.6 and 7.3±2.1(t=2.71,P=0.03),BUT(s)3.7±1.4 and 6.9±3.8(t=2.59,P=0.04) and MUC(μg/ml) 0.77±0.13 and 0.99±0.11(t=1.98,P=0.05) in tears before and after treatment.CONCLUSIONS Acupuncture apparently relieved the symptoms of dry eyes.Up regulation of the expression of tear Mucins5AC may be one of the underlying mechanisms.


With the limitation of shorter stopping distance, the motorcycle needs more space to break. The existence of static road hazards has a higher potential for road crashes which leads to a higher risk of serious injury to motorcyclists. Road hazards can be identified and located using the Motorcycle Object Detection system or simply known as MOD. The MOD system has the ability to detect and classify multiple objects in real-time. It employs the TensorFlow Lite framework on edge devices i.e., Raspberry Pi 4. TensorFlow Lite is the best preference for the Raspberry Pi 4 for deploying a pre-trained neural network; EfficientNet-Lite0 model. The MOD system utilizes an 8MP camera to capture the presence of the trained objects such as potholes, cones, barriers, and branches from the opposite direction which enter the motorcyclist's Region of Interest (RoI). RoI is designed based on the motorcyclist's point of view (30 meters ahead) which can reduce false object detection. Likewise, RoI can prevent excessive alert noise to the motorcyclist. MOD system serves to alert the motorcyclist to the presence of the trained objects and activates the audible and visual warning system through the built-in speaker in the helmet and the warning light installed on the handlebar of the motorcycle.


This study was aimed to investigate the total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC) and antioxidant potential of ethanolic fraction (ETH&EDI) and chloroform fraction (CTH & CDI) of crude extracts of the whole plant of Taxillus heyneanus (TH) and Dalechampia indica (DI).To achieve this, several parameters such as scavenging activity (DPPH, Hydrogen peroxide and Nitric oxide), Reducing power assay, total flavonoids (TFC) and total phenolic content (TPC) using ascorbic acid and gallic acid as standard were examined. All the four extract fractions (ETH, CTH. EDI & CDI) exhibited antioxidant activity. However, the ethanolic fraction of T.heyneanus (ETH) presented a remarkable capacity to scavenge all the tested reactive species (DPPH, Hydrogen peroxide, Nitric oxide) with low IC50 values (38.75 ±0.83, 62.67±5.23, 80.89±0.47μg ⁄ ml). It also showed the highest TPC (125.40±5.24 mg GAE/g dry extract) and TFC (89.41 ±1.21 mg RE/g dry extract). The chloroform fraction of D.indica (CDI) showed low TPC (35.29±4.36 mg GAE/g dry extract), TFC (28.51±0.52 mg RE/g dry extract) and scavenging activity with high IC50 values(477.61±0.69, 404.00±0.38 & 505.52±4.83 μg ⁄ml) values for the DPPH, Hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide. Ethanolic fractions of both plants (ETH & EDI) exhibited significant scavenging activities with good amounts of phenolic and flavonoid compared to its chloroform fractions (CTH & CDI).The results of the study show that ethanolic fraction of Taxillus heyneanus possesses better antioxidant activity compared to the ethanolic fraction of Dalechampia indica which could be attributed to the presence of high amount of phenolic and flavonoids.


This chapter tries to characterise Apatani oral tradition by illustrating the key idea, that oral stories take us both inside and between cultures. It adds new material and reaches conclusions about Apatani oral tradition from these two perspectives - its local significance and its relation to stories in adjacent regions. The first section is a comparative analysis of Apatani oral stories. As a glance at this comparative profile shows, Apatani stories have significant parallels not only in central Arunachal Pradesh but also along the India-Burma border, in upland Southeast Asia and in southwest China. The second section turns back to local culture and discusses the tradition as a whole and then its two primary themes of differentiation & exchange and alliance. The final section touches on: historical change, Abo Tani and Apatani identity.Keywords: Abo Tani; Apatani identity; Apatani oral tradition; central Arunachal Pradesh; historical change; local culture


Presenting a case report of corneal graft infection by an opportunistic fungus, , which is reported to be resistant to many antifungals. Antibiotic sensitivity of the organism and management of such infections has been discussed.


Renewable energy is one of the most discussed topics nowadays, more so than traditional combustible energy sources and nuclear energy. There is an apparent need to study its public acceptance and the general public's knowledge about it, especially in the context of more advanced inventions, such as smart grids, energy storage, or photovoltaic inverters. In this research, the results of a custom survey and those of several types of public social media datasets were processed to gain insights into the acceptance and awareness of these technologies. The second aim was to investigate technologies and related public opinions about manufacturers. One social media dataset was processed by a novel technology based on automatic data collection from popular social media sources, blogs, forums and public news. All the collected and anonymized data were restored in a custom-made data lake (unstructured database) and analyzed by a natural language processing (NLP) engine to extract the required information. The results showed that the Hungarian public's knowledge differs from the European reference values by a very high percentage. A further goal for new research in the investigated area will be to achieve a business intelligence rated system in order to predict future trends and events. Since different methods provide results from different viewpoints, the conclusion is that combined analyses have to be used for investigating popular topics related to energy, such as various technologies, issues related to energy transition, or even car sharing services for a sustainable future.


scures the far more important aspects of the macrocosmic picture. Unfortunately, the history of Eastern Europe cannot be evaluated from a Northern Epirote base any more than the story of Danubian Europe could be understood on the basis of, say, Transylvania's Szekely minority and its multiple problems. Furthermore, the documentation of this book has serious flaws. Obscure magazine articles are cited to buttress major conclusions (Collier's, Sept. 15, 1951, no author given, p. 185), while scholarly students of Balkan politics, such as Harvard University's Robert Lee Wolff, are either ignored or lightly dismissed. In a characteristic vein, Professor Stavro Skendi of Columbia University is described as "an active professional Albanian nationalist intellectual"!? (P. 190.)—• ANDREW GYORGY, The George Washington University.


Prior research reveals that the accrual component of profitability is less persistent than the cash flow component, and that investors fail to fully appreciate their differing implications for future profitability (Sloan 1996). How- ever, accruals are a component of growth in net operating assets as well as a component of profitability. Just as we can disaggregate profitability into ac- cruals and cash flows from operations, we can disaggregate growth in net operating assets into accruals and growth in long-term net operating assets. We find that, after controlling for current profitability, both components of growth in net operating assets-accruals and growth in long-term net oper- ating assets-have equivalent negative associations with one-year-ahead re- turn on assets. This result is consistent with conservative accounting and di- minishing marginal returns on investments. We also find that, after controlling for current profitability, the market appears to equivalently overvalue accruals and growth in long-term net operating assets relative to their association with


Rhabdomyosarcomas are rare neoplasms derived from primitive mesenchymal tissue expressing skeletal muscle differentiation. They often present with vague symptoms that can easily mimic other diseases. Rhabdomyosarcomas of the oral cavity are extremely rare and account only for 0.04% of all the head and neck malignancies. We report a rare case of an alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in the soft palate of a 13-year-old girl.


Objective To investigate the changes of plasma superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (Gpx) activities and malondialdehyde (MDA) level in patients with tardive dyskinesia (TD).Methods The plasma activities of SOD、Gpx、CAT and the level of MDA in normal volunteers (n=44), schizophrenic patients with TD (n=119) and schizophrenic patients without TD (non-TD, n=46) were assayed, 46 patients with TD whose age, medication, illness duration matched with non-TD were selected to make comparison.Results (1) The plasma activities of SOD [(98±11)×10 3U/L], Gpx [(143±31) ×10 3 U/L] in normal controls were significantly higher than that in patients with TD[SOD (85±15)×10 3U/L, Gpx (101±29)×10 3 U/L], and non-TD[SOD (93±16)×10 3 U/L, Gpx (117±39)×10 3 U/L], (P0.05), and the plasma level of MDA [(2.6±1.5) mmol/L] in normal controls were significantly lower than that in patients with TD[(13.5±8.8)mmol/L], and non-TD [(7.3±6.5)mmol/L]; (2) There was significant difference (P0.05) between the TD and non-TD group in the SOD and MDA; (3) The correlation coefficients between the activities of SOD, lever of MDA and the AIMS total score in all patients with TD were -0.225 and 0.225 respectively (P0.05).Conclusion The plasma antioxidants and MDA in the patients with TD were abnormal. Oxidative damages may be involved in the development of TD.


Animal law : Toulon will respond to Cambridge.
In 2012, a group of scientists, among which Stephen Hawking, affirmed that animals possess the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. This was the Cambridge declaration.
The Toulon declaration would allow animals to be granted, with their new legal personality, a coherent and efficient status.
An event not to be missed, on March 29th 2019.


This paper presents a new type of patient transfer system, in which the patient transfer apparatus and walking device are separated. The transfer apparatus can move by itself and the working space is not limited. The walking device is a height adjustable stretcher, which can realize the function of supporting transfer apparatus. The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is used to evaluate the comfortability of patient transfer system. First of all, the evaluation factor set and the weight of factor set are determined. Then, from the evaluation experiment, the working conditions matrix, the size factors matrix, the operating convenience matrix and the appearance matrix are obtained. Finally, the evaluation analysis and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation results are given. The experiment results show the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is feasible and the patient transfer system has better comfortability.


The Nose as a Target of Air Pollution, Physiological Aspects and Clinical Relevance of Nasal Trpa1 (Transient Receptor Potential A1) Receptors Worldwide more than several hundred million humans are exposed to severe air pollution, and a significant part of them also smoke. The effect of air pollution on human health has been recognized for many years. The nose, as the first portal of entry to the respiratory system is constantly exposed to a large volumes of air, which is composed of a mixture of gases, particulate matter and infectious agent, and any material other than physiological amount of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water is considered as pollutant. Being exposed to critical amount of air pollutants, nasal cavity shares sophisticated system of protective and defensive mechanisms regarding the lower airways and lungs, however the highest risk of direct exposure to relevant air pollutants is just within the nose. Air pollution is considered to be responsible for some of the pathological processes affecting airways prone to allergic reactions in predisposed subjects, onset of nasal sensorineural hyperresponsiveness, non-specific inflammation, sinonasal cancer and definitely, the risk is not limited just to the nasal mucosa, but can proceed toward the lower airways. The broad spectrum of irritants probably shares very similar molecular background of action. They are capable to activate the cation channenl tranisient receptor potential A1-TRPA1 by covalent modification of the channel protein, because many of them are highly reactive and nonstable molecules with possibilities for various chemical reactions. Activation of this channel is responsible for nociceptive reactions mediated by stimulation of afferent trigeminal nerves, retrograde release of tachykinins, activation of parasympathetic afferent drive leading to increase of mucus output and decrease of nasal patency, with subsequent alteration of nasal functions. Based on the recently described neuro-immune bidirectional relationships, air pollutants may be responsible for recruitment of immune cells with infiltration of the nasal mucosa possibly leading to the inflammatory processes and allergies. Our paper is discussing the nose as the target for air pollution, and focuses on the relevance of TRPA1 channel on trigeminal afferents in pollution mediated responses.


Cremaster and cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) exhibit heterogeneity in large conductance Ca2+‐activated K+ channels (BKCa) partly due to differences in β1:α subunit ratio. To gain insight into BKCa methods were developed for subunit‐specific knockdown of the channel. Using transient transfection approaches and small interfering RNAs (siRNA) either the α or β1 subunit was targeted in isolated arterioles. Control studies used fluorescently labeled siRNA or unrelated siRNA. After 2–3 days culture fluorescence images and whole cell K+ currents were examined in dispersed VSMC. From functional data α‐subunit expression was reduced by ~60% in both vessels. Thus, at +70 mV, IBTX‐sensitive K+ current density was significantly reduced after α‐subunit siRNA compared to control. Similarly, STOC frequency (at +20 mV) decreased following siRNA treatment while BKCa opening by NS1619 or estrogen (E2) was decreased. Cells treated with β1‐subunit siRNA showed impaired responses to E2 with a greater effect in cerebral VSMCs compared to those of cremaster. Thus transient transfection and siRNA can be used to effectively decrease endogenous BKCa activity in intact small arteries. Further, cerebral VSMCs treated with β1‐subunit siRNA exhibit a functional phenotype similar to untreated cremaster VSMCs, supporting the idea that differences in β1:α subunit ratio underlie observed heterogeneity in BKCa activity.


Normal universities in ideological and political education is the source of the middle school ideological and political education teacher training,skills development of the normal school students improves the relationship between the depth of strength and effect of the new curriculum reform.Normal students of the ideological and political education skills development process,there are many problems affecting the overall adaptability of the teachers the new curriculum reform.Explore the way to improve the ideological and political education of normal school students and develop their skills,to strengthen the ability of prospective teachers role has great significance.


ABSTRACT This study is to characterise rheological properties of sulfur-extended asphalts with/without crumb rubber at high, intermediate, and low temperatures using standard asphalt binder tests. Four dosages of sulfur (i.e. 0%, 15%, 30% and 45%) by weight of neat asphalt binder were used. The results indicated that a low level of sulfur addition, such as 15%, softened original asphalt binder. When the sulfur dosage was larger than 15%, the extra sulfur would act as fillers to stiffen asphalt binder. The addition of crumb rubber significantly increased high temperature performance grade. For sulfur-extended asphalts with/without crumb rubber, an increase in the sulfur dosage resulted in an increase of low temperature performance grade. Sulfur-extended asphalt with 15% sulfur exhibited the largest non-recovery creep compliance (Jnr) value, while the 30% and 45% exhibited the lowest values since more extra sulfur acts as fillers to stiffen asphalt binder. The addition of sulfur significantly decreased viscosity. The semi-circular bending fracture test results indicated that the mixture with the addition of 15% sulfur was softer and behaved in a more ductile manner than the others, which is consistent with the asphalt binder test results of high temperature performance grade and non-recovery creep compliance.


Hydrological drought is associated with the effects of periods of precipitation shortfalls on surface (stream-flowlevel) or subsurface water supply (ground-water level). The frequency and severity of hydrological drought is often defined on a catchement. As an important random phenomenon in hydrology, the frequency analysis is necessary in the aim to know about the drought's regime. In order to study the stream flow regime of oued Mina catchment in western of Algeria. Frequency analysis of (...)


Ga2O3, a fourth-generation ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor material, offers a broad range of potential applications in automotive electronics, electrical devices, and other high-power electronic domains. Metal–organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is an...


This report proposes solutions to address strategies for clean up of contaminated sites and steel structures. Issues addressed include requirements for clean up, laws and regulations, and current innovative clean up strategies.


We study the link prediction problem on coauthorship network induced by DBLP dataset. Each author is modeled as a node and an edge represents coauthorship. We evaluate the performance of well known predictors on this network and show that the coauthorship is not random. We also study the link prediction problem using the community structure of the DBLP network and show a counterintuitive result that most of the edges that keep getting added are not intra-community edges . We contrast this result against the high clustering coefficient of the network using a simple observation that most of the papers are coauthored by more than three authors. Finally, we show that the new incoming nodes are more likely to collaborate with prolific authors.


The credibility and felicity of the project estimates designed for an activity or duration at the planning stage is crucial for achieving success in managing risks. In this article, Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward explains a new and simple approach to determine the estimates by considering all the factors that affects them both, directly and indirectly.


The European bitterlingRhodeussericeus Pallas is a freshwater fish belonging to the Acheilognathinae, a subfamily that has an unusual spawning symbiosis with freshwater mussels. Female bitterling possess long ovipositors that they use to place their eggs onto the gills of a mussel through the mussels' exhalant siphon. Males fertilize the eggs by releasing sperm into the inhalant siphon of the mussel. The embryos develop inside the mussel for approximately am onth, eventually leaving the mussel as actively swimming larvae. Because they use a discrete spawning site that can be readily manipulated they have recently been used in studies to understand oviposition choice with respect to mate and spawning site quality, host–parasite coevolution, alternative male mating tactics, and linking behavioural decisions with population dynamics. The current state of knowledge of bitterling reproductive ecology is reviewed and synthesized, and future directions for research on this species are proposed.


The article investigates the problems of restoration and attribution of leather footwear from the Malaya Ryazan burial ground of the Golden Horde time on the Samarskаya Luka. It contains a detailed description of the main stages in restoration of archaeological leather items, overview of leather structure, chemical processes it is exposed to during archaeologization. The authors focus on study of funerary footwear from Malaya Ryazan burial ground. Male grave no. 131, by Christian rite, contained a pair of leather shoes, which was preliminarily attributed as funerary footwear. The find was then subjected to restoration. The study showed that the shoes were made of cattle hide. Due to incomplete plasticization of the leather, the restorers decided to reconstruct the cut without completely reconstructing its form. The remaining seams and sections helped recreate what was supposed to be the original cut of the shoes. The restored leather was superimposed on the duplicating material corresponding to the shape of the pattern. The study of footwear has not given any evidence of intravital usage, i.e. the shoes were made especially for the funeral. Similar ritual footwear can be correlated with the kaliga mentioned in written sources.


Although William Blake was highly eclectic and drawing from multifarious sources, religious system, philosophical thoughts and traditions, the Bible was Blake's most predominant concern. Throughout his life of meticulous and tedious composite art Blake aimed at decoding the Bible as the Great Code of Art for helping people to be imaginative and visionary like Jesus Christ. Both in his complex and sophisticated prophetic works, meant for the illuminated people, and in his deceptively simple lyrics of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, meant for the rank and file of society, Blake did keep this up. The present study is an attempt to focus on this element, by delving deep into the texts and designs of the Introductions of Songs of Innocence as well as of Songs of Experience , inevitably considering the totality of Blake's works and in the special context of their marked allegiance or affinity to the themes and symbols from the Bible. Blake visualized a blend of lamblike meekness and mildness with the ferocity of tigers of wrath for having the human form divine perfect.


This guideline focuses on how consumer engagement can be evaluated in smart grid projects, products or roll outs from the perspective of the three roles identified in the S3C project: the smart consumer, smart customer and the smart citizen. The three different types of users have different motivations and driving forces to engage in smart grid projects. The project evaluation is preferably adjusted depending on the role you consider your customers to have. What is it? The evaluation criteria proposed in this guideline take their starting point from the consumer perspective – i.e. what are the needs/motivations of people to take up more 'active' roles in the implementation and functioning of the future energy system? In order to evaluate the performance of smart grid projects regarding the engagement of consumers, well-defined criteria should be used. The criteria must, as always, be defined based on a thorough understanding of the goals of a particular strategy or intervention. If the goals to be realised (and their relative importance) are unknown, it becomes impossible to define success or failure of a strategy or intervention. However, different stakeholders often have different goals they want to realise, and they hold different views on the relative importance of these goals. The definition of success criteria is thus bound to (a) particular perspective(s). The definition of 'success' is then tied to fulfilling these needs/meeting these motivations by facilitating their incorporation in consumers' daily practices. However, there is no such thing as 'the' energy user, but rather different types of users who are all pursuing different goals in their interaction with the (future) energy system. Therefore, this guideline focuses on how user engagement can be evaluated from the perspective of three roles identified in the S3C project: the smart consumer, smart customer and the smart citizen (for definitions, see text box).


The stability and migration product of medical PVC tubes plasticized with polyadipates were investigated by ageing in phosphate buffer at pH 1.679 and water at different temperatures. Changes in the PVC tubes were studied by water absorption, weight loss, Fourier infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA). The low molecular weight migration product that was released was extracted and silylanized before gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) identification and quantification. After 70 days, the weight loss was less than 0.5% and only a small amount of adipic acid migrated when a tube was aged at 37°C in water and phosphate buffer (pH 1.679), and at 70°C in water after 56 days. However, when aged at 70 and 110°C, gradual deactivation of heat stabilizer after 21 days of ageing in buffer solution and separation of plasticizer from PVC matrix occurred. When the tube was aged at 110°C, significant degradation of both polyadipates and PVC were observed. Adipic acid and 1,4-butanediol monomers and oligomers of polyadipate were the major migration products from polyadipates in the water ageing solution, while only a relatively high amount of adipic acid was identified as the main product in the buffer ageing solution.


Experiments indicated that three-layer W-type single-mode waveguides were less sensitive than two-layer waveguides. A study was made of the spectral dependence of the additional losses due to microbending and also due to regular bending of both types of waveguide. The additional losses in the W-type waveguides depended weakly on the radiation wavelength, in contrast to the two-layer waveguides which were characterized by a strong rise in the losses on increase in the wavelength. Moreover, the three-layer W-type waveguides could be deformed to smaller radii in regular bending than the two-layer waveguides.


The ownership situation and economic valuation of water is intermediate between that of air and soil. It is neither as free and public as air nor as private and personal as is the land. Many users of water are able to secure adequate amounts for sustenance and sanitation at little or no cost. Others must go to great personal expense to pump, dam, transfer, purify, or store it. Still others buy it in bottles, or by thousands of gallons from a municipal water authority, or by acre-feet from a public or private purveyor for irrigation or industrial use.


Despite the practical need for unambiguous and consistent terminologies in professional areas characterised by emphasis on precision of expression, the English terminology of finance and accounting contains numerous semantically broad and polysemous expressions, as well as synonymic sets (frequently as a result of polysemy). The paper draws on comparison of systematic British, American and Czech terminologies of financial accounting, quoted in authoritative lexicographic publications or accounting textbooks, as well as on their confrontation with English accounting nomenclatures used in practical business life in international companies. The reasons for terminological plurality and vagueness are analysed and a convenient approach to selection of appropriate terms is sought to assist users of this professional variety of English in achieving acceptable referential accuracy.


Shattuck (2001) described the Engineering Psychology program at West Point and how its graduates are prepared to work in interdisciplinary design teams. The current research assessed the academic skills of senior Engineering Psychology cadets in ten basic areas, and compared them with similar measures taken among freshmen and senior leadership and management majors at the academy. Results indicated significant differences among the groups in seven areas including information gathering, groups/organizations, interpersonal, behavior management, critical thinking, research methods, and ethics/values. In general, seniors reported more developed skills than freshmen, and Engineering Psychology majors reported more research-related skills than Leadership and Management majors. Implications for program evaluation and development are discussed.


The increasing incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in newly industrialised countries and immigrant populations appears to outpace that which genetic influences alone could instigate. Environmental factors, in particular, the western diet, are therefore implicated in its aetiopathogenesis. Limited data exist on the dietary practices of the migrant South Asian population with IBD. We aim to describe the dietary practices of British South Asian IBD patients and information resources utilised to guide these beliefs.

 A prospective, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study is being conducted across hospitals in the UK. Two-hundred South Asian patients with IBD are being recruited to complete a questionnaire regarding demographics and dietary practices.

 Data from 118 patients are available to date. Mean patient age is 43 years (51% female). Sixty-five per cent have ulcerative colitis (UC) and 33% Crohn's disease (CD). Fifty-one per cent are of Indian ethnicity, 37% Pakistani and 10% Bangladeshi. Forty-nine per cent of patients were born in the UK to parents who were born outside of the UK and 51% of patients were born outside the UK. Mean disease duration is 10.5 years. Forty-six per cent considered diet to be an initiating factor in their IBD, based on their own experience (85%) as well as information from internet resources (31%) and other patients with IBD (19%). Fifty-nine per cent of patients felt that diet had triggered a relapse of their disease. Most commonly reported foods were spicy (69%) and fatty foods (47%), milk products (44%) and red meat (37%). Eighty-six per cent of patients avoided certain foods in an attempt to prevent an IBD 'flare'. Most frequently avoided foods were spicy foods (76%), fatty foods (69%), red meat (60%), coffee (55%), carbonated drinks (54%) and milk products (53%). One in four patients had tried a specific exclusionary diet, with 13% having tried a gluten-free diet in the absence of coeliac disease, to manage their symptoms. Just over a half of patients reported being able to find specific dietary advice for IBD, most commonly via the internet. Over half of patients avoided eating the same meal as their family or eating out to prevent relapse of their IBD. 1 in 3 consumed certain foodstuffs or nutritional supplements to prevent a relapse of IBD, most commonly turmeric in 25% of these patients.

 Dietary restriction may be highly prevalent amongst the British South Asian IBD community with a high proportion reporting diet as an initiating factor and trigger for disease flares. Studies on immigrant populations may hold valuable clues regarding the influence of migration, environmental influences and drift from traditional cultural practices on IBD aetiopathogenesis and related symptoms. A larger dataset will be presented at conference proceedings.


The present study is an attempt to study the factors affecting the decision making of the investors in depository system. The primary data are collected with the help of pre-tested structured questionnaire on five point Likert scale from 294 respondents (investors) of different age, gender, education, occupation, income from the cities like Gurgoan, Chandigarh and New Delhi, selected on the basis of convenience sampling. The data collected have been analyzed with the help of various descriptive statistics like frequency and percent and the results are tested by the use of ANOVA technique. Most of the investors are of the view that shorter settlement period, safety of securities with the depositories, attitude of the staff available with the DPs, timely services provided by the DPs to the investors, reduction in transaction cost, repatriation of sales proceeds of shares/debentures by NRIs are some of the factors which affects the decision making of the investors in depository system. Opening demat account with DPs is easy but they charge for providing this service. Converting the securities into electronic from and selling the securities on behalf of the minors are difficult in the system. But they are of the view that T+3 and ruling settlement is the result of the depository system. The education of the investors plays an important role in decision making where the difference in the opinions of the investors is found significant in most of the cases, followed by other factors such as occupation, age, etc.


In a previous article [1], we expressed concern about methods of conduction of the most important studies, related to the most significant publications about HIV natural history and its management, which, since 2008, have been based on studies conducted on a consistent number of patients from all over the world, with the main aim to obtain, in relatively short time, statistical significant data (not always synonymous of statistical clinical meaning). Moreover, these mega-studies (often retrospective analyses, or post-hoc experiences) were signed by hundreds of the so called "collaborators", all of them "elevated" to the rank of true Authors, through the placement of each single name in all major databases and search engines of the international scientific literature, right since 2008 [1]. In the following years (2009-2010) this phenomenon has, if possible, increased exponentially, leading to a multiplication of these "collaborators", who, until that date, were just listed in a note in the Acknowledgments section of the article, and were not considered as real authors. The current situation seems to lead to a somewhat unacceptable inflation of the author's role itself in biomedical publications, based on the well-known statement that should be considered as author one that has given a substantial supply to the design of the study, data results and evaluation, while those who contribute to data collection cannot be included among the Authors. As a specialist in infective diseases, here I would like only to highlight the situation of the most relevant studies in HIV infection, but obviously the same "infection" is contaminating (to use a word common in my field) the whole world of biomedical literature. Even though it is necessary to have wide databases aiming at evaluating the events that happen less frequently, to examine consistent long-term endpoints or pharmacologic safety profiles, nonetheless considerable bias and distortions happen, as a consequence of the extremely high number of the Centres and of the investigators, recruited in a planetary scale [1]. As an example, in Table I are listed the most significant and recent studies (published in 2009-2010) that have also affected the guidelines of the management of HIV-related comorbidities. These studies appear to be burdened by an enormous number of authors and collaborators that clashes especially if compared with the number of patients of cases followed, and with the times of observation and inter-


Traditional rubber screw pumps use an interference method to engage. When the pressure is less than the breakdown pressure of the pump, there is no leakage in the pump. The all-metal screw pump stator and rotor are made of metal, and the stator and rotor adopt a gap-fitting engagement method, so even when the pump is working normally, the leakage is objective. Based on the concentric annular gap flow, the pressure drop leakage caused by the fluid inertia force is fully considered, and the calculation formula of the leakage of the all-metal screw pump is studied from the three aspects of transverse leakage, longitudinal leakage, and oblique leakage. This model was experimentally verified by a commercial all-metal screw pump produced by Shihong Petroleum Equipment Company. The model results show that the leakage of the all-metal screw pump is mainly affected by the structure parameters of the pump itself and the density of the pumped fluid, and the gap height is the main factor affecting the leakage.


Rosiglitazone(Rosi),an anti-diabetic agonist for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ(PPARγ),has been recently investigated for its inhibitory role in cell proliferation involving PPARγ coactivator-1α(PGC-1α).In our study,we first studied the effects of Rosi on cell proliferation in association with the PGC-1α expression in lung cancer cell line A549.The PGC1α promoter-driven luciferase activity was determined by fluorescent intensity and the PGC-1α mRNA level was assayed by real-time PCR.Our results showed that Rosi dose-dependently repressed the activity of PGC-1α promoter and decreased the mRNA expression level of PGC-1α.As PGC-1α was also known to control mitochondrial biogenesis,we further detected the mitochondrial mass changes by Mitotracker Green staining,and the data suggested that Rosi suppressed mitochondrial biogenesis.The effect of Rosi on cell proliferation was evaluated by cell counting,which correlated well with the IC_50 of PGC-1α inhibition and the loss of mitochondrial mass.These evidences collectively suggested that the Rosi inhibition of cell proliferation might be mediated by the depression of PGC-1α expression and its activity.


Thick epitaxial CdZnTe film has been successfully deposited on (001)GaAs substrate through a simple one-step process by close-spaced sublimation with a deposition rate of up to 1 μm min−1. Well-defined epitaxial features of the film are proved by the plan view SEM, XRDθ–2θ and ϕ scan, and the cross-sectional SEM and HRTEM analysis. A novel epitaxy mode has been discovered. The film is polycrystalline at the early stage and develops into an epitaxial layer as the deposition proceeds. The polycrystalline to single crystalline transition is completed through the lateral overgrowth and the self-organization of the layer-structured grains.


Oxygen enhanced the photocurrent multiplication for p-type organic semiconductors. In contrast, oxygen suppressed that for n-type organic semiconductors. These opposite influences of oxygen can be reasonably explained by the opposite multiplication processes of photoinduced hole injection and photoinduced electron injection at organic/metal interfaces for p and n-type semiconductors, respectively. The present effects can be regarded as the multiplied detection of gas molecules.


Financial systems of industrialised countries are usually classified as being either capital market‐ or bank‐dominated. This paper tries to shed some light on the validity of this distinction. In order to do this, it analyses two specific roles of the financial sector vis‐a‐vis the enterprise sector: the role of financing or funding business and the role of capital markets and banks, respectively, in the context of corporate governance. Our analysis of the relevant findings in the literature shows that financing patterns are quite similar between countries, while corporate governance systems are quite dissimilar. The paper discusses how these divergent findings could be made compatible with existing theories and what implications they may have for the question of whether there is a tendency for corporate governance systems in different countries to become as similar as corporate financing patterns seem to be.


A headword finding system is defined as an information retrieval system using a word gloss as a query. We use the gloss as a document in order to implement such a system. Generally the gloss is very short in length and then makes very difficult to find the most proper headword for a given query. To alleviate this problem, we expand the document using the concept of query expansion in information retrieval. In this paper, we use 2 document expansion methods : gloss expansion and similar word expansion. The former is the process of inserting glosses of words, which include in the document, into a seed document. The latter is also the process of inserting similar words into a seed document. We use a featureless clustering algorithm for getting the similar words. The performance (r-inclusion rate) amounts to almost 100% when the queries are word glosses and r is 16, and to 66.9% when the queries are written in person by users. Through several experiments, we have observed that the document expansions are very useful for the headword finding system. In the future, new measures including the r-inclusion rate of our proposed measure are required for performance evaluation of headword finding systems and new evaluation sets are also needed for objective assessment.


The invention discloses an infrared sensing electronic whiteboard. An RS232 interface is connected with an MAX232 chip, wherein the MAX232 chip is further connected with a processor part; the processor part is further connected with an infrared emitting part, an infrared receiving part and a signal processing part; the infrared emitting part, the infrared receiving part and the signal processing part are connected in sequence; the infrared receiving part comprises a plurality of infrared receiving tubes; the processor part, the infrared emitting part, the infrared receiving part and the signal processing part are arranged in a control cabinet; in addition, the infrared sensing electronic whiteboard further comprises a cavity passage I for feeding a gas, a cavity passage II for discharging the gas, as well as a first supporting base and a second supporting base for positioning the processor part, the infrared emitting part, the infrared receiving part and the signal processing part; the infrared sensing electronic whiteboard overcomes the defects in the prior art that the refrigerating efficiency is not ideal, the gas distribution is not uniform, the structure is complex, and an anti-leakage structure has components falling off.


When muscles contract, chemical energy is converted into mechanical en ergy and heat, physical quantities necessary for locomotion, circulation, digestion, respiration, reproduction, and thermal regulation. The task of the muscle energeticist is to learn how much chemical energy is used [and/or heat and work (enthalpy) produced], how chemical energy utilization varies and is regulated, what the mechanism of chemomechanical transduction is, and how substrates used during contraction are restored. To answer these questions, the extent of chemical change (and/or enthalpy production) must be measured. To this end, a variety of techniques have been developed, including measurement of: (a) the muscle's enthalpy production (myother mometry); (b) chemical change by quantitative analysis of frozen muscle extracts; (c) chemical change by 31p nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the whole living tissue; (d) oxygen consumption; (e) lactic acid production; (j) the intracellular concentration of NADH; and (g) cellular pH changes. No single technique alone is wholly satisfactory as the general tool for the study of energetics. In some cases a technique lacks the requisite time resolution and/or sensitivity. Other methods require assumptions about the


The book was written because the author feels that public ownership of electric utilities may provide a solution to the private power companies' cycle of higher rates, more power plants, and greater environmental destruction. An examination of the nation's 3000 publicly and consumer-owned systems serve to shed light on the environmental and social problems of the 1970s. Six chapters are entitled: As Old As Electricity Itself (portrait of three public power pioneers); Public Works (how public power measures against its privately owned competition); Broken Circuits (a few public systems have gone haywire); People in Charge (in some municipals and co-ops, consumer-owners have a lot of power); Switching to Public Ownership (how to organize a takeover; some dos and don'ts); Beyond the Electric Field (public power: not an end, but a beginning). Additional information is included in three appendixes: Public Power References; A Legal History; and Hydroelectric Dams Subject to Recapture. (MCW)


The Peruvian government published the Supreme Decree No. 34-2004-AG in the official journal El Peruano on 22 September 2004. This decree approves the categorization of threatened Peruvian wildlife and at the same time prohibits hunting, capturing, owning, transporting, and exportation for commercial purposes. An appendix to the decree lists 301 vertebrate species in different IUCN categories. The decree will hopefully represent an important tool to implement conservation action for, and stimulate research on, threatened Peruvian wildlife. Table 1 lists the primate species included in this appendix.


The main purpose of this paper is the geometric construction, and the analysis of the formalism of elliptic Bloch groups. In the setting of absolute cohomology, we obtain a generalization of Beilinson's Eisenstein symbol to divisors of an elliptic curveE, whose support is not necessarily torsion. For motivic cohomology, such a generalization is obtained in low degrees. Our main result shows that the Eisenstein symbol can be dened in all degrees if the groups


I. I Fear No Evil: Pursuing the Good Death II. I Walk through Shadows: Hidden Death III. In the Presence of My Enemies: Death at War IV. Lead Me in Paths of Righteousness: Judges and Death V. They Comfort Me: Doctors and Death VI. He Makes Me Lie Down: Choosing Death VII. Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow: The Death Penalty VIII. All the Days of My Life Notes


Use the scientific theory systematically, analyse the realistic problem of service system of higher education in new period, In order to carry out the Party's educational policy in new period better.


In the era of knowledge economy, the essential factor that determines the enterprise performance is no longer a traditional physical capital, but is IC (Intellectual Capital) made up of the enterprise's all intangible assets. In the background of being recombined of the aviation industry of China, in order to enhance the competence of self-innovation and gain healthy development in the future for the aviation industry of China that having been considered the strategic industry, we should research these questions, such as core competitiveness of aviation industry of China, risk control of great airplane, technological innovation of great airliner, knowledge creating and sharing in the macro and micro layers of aviation industry of China, being encouraged and health of staff that do innovation work and how to realize consistent development.


The evaluation of information retrieval systems has gained considerable momentum in the last few years. Several evaluation initiative are concerned with diverse applications, usage scenarios and different aspects of ystem performance. Data for evaluation includes multilingual corpora, structure d data, scientific documents, web data and multimedia data. This paper gives a comprehensive o verview on the current activities of the evaluation initiatives. Special attention is given on the current tracks within TREC, CLEF and NTCIR. The focus lies on the evaluation tasks and i ssues. 1 Information Retrieval and its Evaluation Information retrieval is a key technology for knowl edge management which guarantees access to large corpora of unstructured text. It is the ba sic technology behind web search engines and as such, an everyday technology for many web users. Information retrieval deals with the storage and re presentation of knowledge and the retrieval of information relevant for a special user problem. Information retrieval systems need to react to queries which are typically a few words of a nat ur l language. The query is compared to document representations which were extracted durin g the indexing phase. The most similar documents are presented to the users who can evalua te the relevance with respect to their problem. The evaluation of information retrieval systems is a tedious task. Obviously, a good system should satisfy the needs of a user. However, the us ers' atisfaction requires good performance on several dimensions. The quality of the results i n respect to the information need, system speed and the user interface are major dimensions. To make things more difficult, the most important dimension, the level to which the result documents help the user to solve the information need, is very difficult to evaluate. Th e user oriented evaluation is extremely difficult and requires many resources. In order to evaluate the individual aspects of searches and the subjectivity of one users judgments on thei r usefulness, an unfeasible effort is necessary. As a consequence, information retrieval uation experiments try to evaluate only the system and to keep the user in a way as a constant. In order to do that, the user is replaced by more or less objective experts who judg e the relevance of a document to a given information need. This evaluation methodology is ca lled the Cranfield paradigma based on the first information retrieval system evaluation i n the 1960's. The growing amount of machine readable documents av ailable requires more powerful information retrieval systems for diverse applicati ons and user needs. The rise of internet search engines in the 1990's is just one example. E valuation efforts try to keep their tasks relevant for the real world and make their results in eresting for practical applications. In order to cope with these new diverse requirements a nd to account for the changing necessities of different domains and information needs, new tra cks and tasks need to be established. The paper is organized as follows. The next section briefly introduces the basic activities and the history of the three major evaluation initiativ es. The following sections present challenges recently adopted by the scientific evaluation of in formation retrieval systems. They discuss, how different document types, multimedia elements a d l rge corpora are introduced. Section 5 points to new developments regarding evaluation m ethods. 2 Major Evaluation Initiatives The three major evaluation initiatives are historic ally connected. TREC was the first large effort which started in 1992. Subsequently, CLEF an d NTCIR adopted the TREC methodology and developed specific tasks for multil ingual corpora and cross-lingual searches. 2.1 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) TREC was the first large scale evaluation initiative an d was in its 13 th year in 2004 (Voorhees & Buckland 2004). TREC is sponsored by th e National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA wh ere the annual conference is held. TREC may be considered as the start of a new era in information retrieval research. TREC achieved a high level of comparability of system ev aluations for the first time in information science. The test data and collections have stimula ted research and are still a valuable resource for development. The initial TREC collecti ons for ad-hoc retrieval based on some statement expressing an information need were newsp aper and newswire articles. In the first few years, the effectiveness of the systems approxi mately doubled. The following section will also show that TREC alwa ys responded to ideas from the community and created new tracks. In 2005, the foll owing eight tracks were organized at TREC: • In the Enterprise Track, the participants have to s earch the data of one enterprise. The model for this track is intranet search, which is b ecoming increasingly important. This track started in 2005. • The track with the most participants in 2005 was th e Genomics track which combines scientific text documents with factual data on gene sequences (Hersh et al. 2004). This tasks attract researchers from the bio-informatics community as well as text retrieval specialists (see also section 3 for domain specific data). • In the HARD track (High Accuracy Retrieval from Doc uments), the systems are provided with information on the user and the conte xt of the search. This meta-data needs to be exploited during search (Allen 2004). • The Question Answering track requires systems to fi nd short answers to mostly factbased, questions from various domains. In addition to the identification of a relevant 1 http://trec.nist.gov document, question answering systems need to extrac t the snippet which serves as an answer to the question. • The Robust Retrieval track applies new evaluation m easures which focus on a stable performance over all topics instead of just rewardi ng systems with good mean average precision (see section 5). • In the SPAM track, which started in 2005, the docu ment type is e-mail messages and the task is to retrieve relevant mails as well as t o eliminate SPAM mail. • The Terabyte track can be seen as a continuation of ad-hoc and its successor, the web track. The data collection of almost one terabyte c omprises a large and recent crawl of the GOV domain containing information provided by U S government agencies. Here, the participants need to scale information retrieva l algorithms to large data sets. 2.2 Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) CLEF developed as a continuation of the Cross Language Track at TREC (Peters et al. 2005). In 2000, the first CLEF workshop was organiz ed and the issue of multilingual systems moved to Europe. Since then, the ever growing numbe r of participants has proved that this step was right. CLEF closely followed the TREC mode l for the creation of an infrastructure for research and development including test suites and multi-lingual document collections. These consisted of national newspapers from the yea rs 1994 and 1995. CLEF bas been dedicated to include further languages. Document co llections for the following languages have been offered over the years: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Hungari an. In 2006, Polish and Arabic may be included. Some of the corpora added later cover the year 2002. All topics developed in one year are translated int o all potential topic languages. Participants may start with the topics in one language and retri eve documents in another language. There are more topic languages than document languages. S ome languages which attract less research from computational linguistics can be used as topic languages as well. These include Amharic and Indonesian. The systems return their results which are then int ellectually assessed. These relevance assessments are always done by native speakers of t he document languages (Braschler & Peters 2004). The results from CLEF have led to sci entif c progress as well as significant system improvement. For example, it could be shown that character n-grams can be used for representing text instead of stemmed terms (McNamee & Mayfield 2004). Similar to TREC, a question answering track has bee n stablished which attracted many participants. In addition to finding a short answer to a question, the system needs to cross a language border. The language of the question and o f the document collection are in most cases not the same. Like in the ad-hoc tasks, langu ages are continuously added. Furthermore, the types of questions are modified. Questions for which no answer can be found in the collection, need to be handled properly as well. Al so temporally restricted questions have been added (for example, "Where did a meteorite fal l in 1908"). The number of correctly answered questions is the m ain evaluation measure. Over the last years, systems have improved. In 2005, six systems r ached an accuracy of 40% and two could even achieve 60% accuracy. Most experiments s ubmitted are mono-lingual (61%), bilingual experiments reach an accuracy of 10% less t han he mono-lingual. There is a tendency 2 http://www.clef-campaign.org toward applying more elaborated linguistic technolo gies like deep parsing (Vallin et al. 2005). In the ImageCLEF track, combined access to textual and graphic data is evaluated (see section 3). In the Interactive task (iCLEF), the focus lies on the interaction and the user interface. Participants need to explore the differences betwee n a baseline and a contrastive system in a user test setting. The Comparison is done only with in the runs of one group. The heterogeneity of approaches does not allow comparis on between groups. In 2004, interactive included question answering and in 2005 interactive systems for image retrieval were evaluated. In the target search task, the user is p resented with one image a


Abstract In this paper, we analyze the problem of rigidly maintaining a formation of three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), whilst surveying a region of interest following, as a team, a particular pre-defined (spiral) trajectory. The UAVs in the formation are constrained to fly at constant speeds and to maintain certain pre-defined inter-agent distances. A decentralized proportional-integral (PI) control scheme (involving certain nonlinear switching terms) is developed for the surveillance and formation maintenance tasks above, based on a hierarchical (i.e. leader-first follower-second follower) sensing and control structure.


• There were sex differences: • Figure 1 shows that: • Men were more likely than women to obtain fake IDs in high school. • Men more often bought them; women were given fake IDs by relatives, non-relatives and through Greek organizations. • Figure 2 shows that: • Men used them to buy retail alcohol more often. • Also note that: • In general, men used fake IDs more often than women (OR=1.34, 95% CI=1.13, 1.58). • Men reported being caught more often than women (38% vs. 23%; OR=2.00, 95% CI=1.12, 3.57).


The definition of paste is not clear at present,affecting the development of paste filling technologies,which renders it necessary to explore a new paste definition that is simple and practical.Learning from the saturation of soil mechanics and the fluidization of concrete bleeding rate,we have proposed the definition of the paste system which contains the two key indicators,the saturation rate and the aggregate rate of bleeding.Through theoretical analysis and calculation,a qualified paste consists of the slurry saturated rate of 101.5%~105.3% and bleeding rate of 1.5%~5%.To measure and analyze Hui Ze paste materials,when the paste concentration range is 80.5%~81.4%,the saturation rate of the calculated value is 101.5%~105.3%,on-site monitoring of the bleeding rate is 3.1%~4.2%.The new paste definition can fully quantitative,and simplify the paste test method with high reliability.


The Furies and the Flame describes the struggles of parenting a brain-injured child. It is also an account of the experiences of the child's German-Mennonite family following World War II. Born in Russia, the author escaped Stalin's purges with other family members and embarked for Paraguay and an isolated, pioneer existence in the jungle. Here she spent her youth, then married and gave birth to Erwin, her first child. Erwin's handicap probably originated in an overdose of ether during an operation in a jungle hospital. After the family moved to Canada to join relatives, he suffered a head injury which caused further brain damage. Thus began seven years of hell for the author. Erwin's head injury caused him to experience "stimulus bombardment" by the thousands of irrelevant details of everyday life his brain could not sort through; they would overwhelm him, throwing him into panic and tantrums. Life with Erwin was exhausting. Rimland was also under stress from the provincial, boring, scrutinized life among her Mennonite relatives. She severed connections with her in-laws, and she and her husband drifted apart, he working long hours to pay the medical bills but showing no understanding of her difficulties. Poor English, lack of friends, and two miscarriages added to her struggles. Erwin's condition improved after doctors at the Freiburg Children's Clinic in Germany examined him and prescribed special diet and medication, but the author's struggles were not over as she began to seek schooling for her son. In those days before PL 94-142, Rimland was forced to choose between the high tuition of private schools or institutionalization. This is an emotional book, written against a colorful personal background. It presents one woman's wrenching experiences with her handicapped child and also presents her experiences with some interesting movements in the history of special education, such as the beginnings of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities and the Doman-Delecato program. In particular, the book reminds us of the struggles of parents before the Education of the Handicapped Act. Despite her struggles, the author maintains a refreshing, intelligent outlook. Karen E. Jones, MEd 3371 S.E. Charlotte Place Corvallis, OR 97333


The authors have developed design principles for physical models of the smart grid system. This system includes physical models of measurement units, control and protection devices, and provides data transfer in compliance with IEC 61850. The authors propose to use GOOSE-messages to transmit measurement results from the measuring current and voltage transformers located at remote nodes of energy network. The results can significantly reduce data transfer rate demand of the central relay protection and automation network systems.