The invention relates to novel cosmetic compositions comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one fructan, at least one polysaccharide and at least one beneficial agent; a combination which gives the cosmetic compositions a velvety-smooth texture. Said compositions can be easily rinsed off. Hair treated with said composition feels soft and contains no residue. The compositions are particularly suitable for washing and/or conditioning keratinous matter, such as the hair and skin.


The resolvent H3PO4-H2SO4-HNO3 was used,the concentration of Na2WO4 and the order of adding solutions altered,and the temperature of the reduction sample TiCl3 specified.Compared with the conventional non-mercury approach,this method is not significantly different and is practical in teaching with a small random error and a high success rate.


The performance of a conventional sequence (pre-ozonation, coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation, filtration, disinfection) and two advance sequences (pre-ozonation, nanofiltration; pre-ozonation, coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation, nanofiltration) on the removal of natural organic matter (NOM) and disinfection by-products (DBPs) formation potential was evaluated. Raw and treated waters were characterized in terms of molecular weight, which includes the amount of NOM removed and the qualitative changes in the NOM characteristics (molecular weight and hydrophobicity) since they could be directly related with the DBPs formation. The results demonstrate that, for the type of raw water analysed (hydrophilic with low dissolved organic carbon content), both treatment sequences remove larger molecular weight compounds. However, the sequences with nanofiltration have a higher percentage of low molecular weight compounds removed, when compared with conventional sequence, thus the water from nanofiltration sequences will have lower DBPs formation potential.


The peer review process is the dominant system adopted in science to evaluate the quality of articles submitted for publication. Various social players are involved in this process, including authors, editors and reviewers. Much has been discussed about the need to improve the scientific quality of what is published. The main focus of these discussions has been the work of the authors. However, the editors and reviewers also fulfill an important role. In this opinion article, we discuss some proposals to improve the peer review system, emphasizing the role of reviewers and editors.


Research of background by lowering of result and activity learn PKn class student of V-B SDN 29 Batang Anai. Target of this research is to description improvment of result and activity learn student do practice, discusing, and enquiring class student of V-B at study of PKn in SDN 29 Batang Anai by using model of Think Pair and Share. This Research is Research Of Action Class ( PTK) which is executed in two cycle. this Research Subjek of class student of V-B school year 2015/2016 amounting to 26 people. Instrument the used is observation sheet activity of study of teacher, student activity observation sheet and of sheet evaluate student. Result of research obtained by mean percentage of student activity score do practice at cycle of I is 53,5% mounting at cycle of II become 80,08%, activity discuse student at cycle of I is 50,1% mounting at cycle of II become 86,03% and activity enquire student at cycle of I is 48,1% mounting at cycle of II become 76,90%. and result of learning cycle student of I mean 66,53 with complete percentage 50,0% mounting at cycle of II mean 74,5 with complete percentage 84,61%. Pursuant to result of research, please conclude that result and activity learn class student of V-B SDN 29 Batang Anai in study of PKN can be improved with model of Think Pair and Share . Researcher suggest that teacher can use model of Think Pair and Share  to increase result and activity learn student Keyword:Activity, Result, Model Think Pair


Gondwana glaciations are well known from the India, and therefore the Pole must have lingered long enough in the subcontinent to deposit some 1600 m thick glacio-marine sediments in northern Tibet. Similarities of these deposits with those of basal Gondwana Talchir rocks indicate that India and Tibet (and hence the rest of Asia) were united in the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian. Further, paleo-biogeography of the region suggests their continuity through Permian, Triassic and Jurassic, and up to Cretaceous. The collision is supposed to have taken place in the Eocene-Miocene, and there should at least have been a very short time of compression at this stage. Instead, the immense batholiths intrusion in the area strongly suggests tension. Moreover, the ophiolites along the suture have yielded two different ages of emplacement, Jurassic-Lowest Cretaceous, and then a little later in Lower Cretaceous, i.e. the emplacement took place 100 Ma before the supposed collision in the Eocene. It is believed that the Indian Plate is progressively underthrusting the Tibetan Plate, though a large part of central and southern Tibet is traversed by active normal and transform faults and rift valleys, cutting across the Bongong-Nujiang and the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone and entering the Himalayan region imply tension all over the area, and not compression, that is expected from subduction/collision zone. Thus, the modern global plate tectonic concept and subduction/collision mechanism are thus, untenable for Himalaya evolution. Alternatively the Himalayas are formed under tensional regime by vertical uplift, intrusive magmas, boudins, sills sand dykes. Gravity gliding played an important role. The various geological arguments such as structure, paleo-biogeography, paleoclimate and volcanic history, including the presence of Tibetan glacial deposits therefore, do not convincingly support the concept of collision of two landmasses, as popularly believed today or by the plate convergence and the hypothetical subduction in this part of world. Even the Paleomagnetic data is replete with contradictory evidence. The collisional along the Indus-Tsangpo suture is, therefore, doubtful in as much as India has all along been adjacent to Tibet, certainly at least since the Ordovician, and hence a part of the great Pangaea landmass. The modern global plate tectonic concept and subduction mechanism are, thus, untenable for Himalayan evolution. The Himalaya is formed under tensional regime by vertical uplift and gravity sliding.


A technique for accurate dosing of commercially available food pellets has been developed in connection with our studies on the secondary poisoning effects of the avicide DRC-1339 (active ingredient: 3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride). With this technique, described below, we prepared enough pellets to treat 1,000 starlings. The major equipment consists of a calibrated 5-ml microburette and a hair dryer (Fig. 1). The three-way stopcock of the burette is fitted with a Teflon plug and connected with a bent inlet tube. A Yale ?/2-inch needle is fitted to the Luer syringe grinding on the stem of this commercially available burette. The pointed tip of the needle is cut off. The inlet of the burette connects to a leveling bulb through Tygon tubing. The leveling bulb holds the avicide solution. Accidental overflow of the toxic solution during filling is avoided by keeping the height of the solution in the bulb lower than the top of the burette. The avicide is dissolved in a solvent in such a concentration that each division of the burette scale is equivalent to a definite amount of the avicide. Food pellets, which are of approximately the same size, are arranged on stainless-steel spatulas. The pellets are moved under the delivery tip by pushing the spatula along the edge of a guide. An exact volume of solution is applied to each pellet, and hot air is simultaneously directed from the hair dryer upon the pellet. Dosing should be done under a ventilated hood. Median-lethal dose of the avicide to starlings has been found to be in the range of 3.2-5.6 mg/kg (1). The average value is 4,4 mg/kg. In the present study, five times this average value was used. Since the average weight of starlings was 67 g, the medianlethal dose for the bird was 295 f,g and the five-times dose was 1.47 mg. We dissolved 14.7 g of the avicide in 30! ml of methanol and


Today several Institutions, organizations, companies and research centers deal with hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes of the massive amount of renewable data every day. This large volume of the data requires an appropriate algorithm to protect the sensitive data that may involve credential data. These important data may contain the username and confidential password, financial accounts numbers, social security numbers, secret one-time passwords of online access or digital certificates. The various types of data need high protection from stealing, hacking or malicious actions. In this paper, we have proposed a large block cipher model by following the principles of contemporary block ciphers criteria and implemented real designing steps of algebraic ideas. The proposed cipher is considered as an extended cipher with a big size of encryption/decryption block of 512-bits and a key length of 128-bits which are expanded to reach 512-bits fit to the state matrix. This cipher is based on Substitution and Permutation Network (SPN) structure with three layers of four iterated stages similar to the Advance Encryption Standard (AES) structure, but with an extended size. A new non-linear S-Box It has adopted, new Shifting technique and a distinct mix column of order eight as well as it uses a new technique in expanding key from 128-bits to 512-bits. The proposed algorithm accepts the key length of 128-bits as the initial input of a secret key and the ciphering key is expanded from 128-bits to 512-bits for the first round and the other expanded rounds. The key scheduling technique uses two constant vectors in addition to some shifting steps and extra of XOR bit-wise operations. Therefore, the expanded ciphering key with 512-bit will be generated recursively for each round in a fixed form.


Due to the idea of inclusion, every year there are more and more children with special needs included in regular primary school. Amongst them, there are also children with visual impairments, either blind or partially sighted, that require different approaches as well as teaching and work methods in the education-training process. Experts are aware that teachers lack proper qualifications for working with special needs children, due to a lack during their teacher training. When a teacher have a child with visual impairments in their class, need expert help and extra education. Teachers are presented with a challenge during class and literary classes, with how to include a visually impaired child in class activities and how to self-prepare themselves so they can use different activities and work methods despite this challenging situation.
The purpose of my research was to show a literature in class which also includes the student with blindness or to show the discourse of two passages, to describe the adjustments, portray the planning and flexibility that is needed with this. The curriculum must be functional in a way that class can go on in an interesting way, for this visually impaired girl, as well as for the other students. With the discourse of two works of children's literature I wanted to evolve the reception ability with my students and induce their perception of the literary works with sensible, interesting and age-appropriate repeat activities.

I used the qualitative research approach, namely a case study and conducted interviews with the pupil with blindness, her mother and the class teacher. With activity planning for the complete reading of narrative texts as well as with preparing for the whole lesson I have shown the course of literature teaching in class which also includes the student with blindness.
I have found that the student with blindness can cooperate and engage in diverse activities in the literature classes without problems. However, she needs certain adjustments, guidance and assistance.


RDS is low cost,good technique and widely loverage,As one of radio broadcasting data system Moreover,RDS gestates greal market opportunity This paper deals with the theory and application of RDS receiver


Electricity network expansion require the installation of new substations and switchgear equipment. This, in many cases, is intended to cater for electrical energy demand much needed for industrial operations. Such an increase in power available for use by consumers translates in high short circuit capacity or fault level of the network, which in turn causes the arc flash incident energy to be high in case of a fault. In this paper, the impact of network expansion on the arc flash incident energy is assessed using the digsilent software version 15.1. The influence of protective relays time setting on the reduction of arc flash energy, available during three-phase fault conditions, is also analysed for the purpose of PPE specification. The results obtained show that an increase in the short circuit capacity or fault level as well as in the fault clearing time, causes the arc flash incident energy to increase to higher level than the corresponding PPE prescribed.


Russia's economic space is an aggregate of regions that differ from one another in levels of economic development, branch specializations, and natural and climatic conditions. And despite this, they are closely interconnected not so much by trade as by modern, highly specialized high-tech production. After all, a definite social division of labor has developed among the regions over the course of their protracted joint development, and their branch specialization has become clearly discernible. This has objectively determined the high share of products produced in each region for other regions and of products received from them. At the end of the 1980s, the share of exports of produced products and of their imports in resources of consumption for eleven consolidated economic regions in Russia was characterized by the following data (see Table 1).


The Hanford Site produced half of America`s plutonium for defense, but what is most visable today are the massive concrete building that constitute a major priority of the Hanford cleanup. Among the many challenges to deactivation are bulk radioactive materials and hazardous chemicals that must be removed before the plants can be cleaned or stabilized and systems and utilities shut off and isolated. The world`s largest chemical separations plant PUREX recovered uranium and plutonium from most of the 90000 metric tones of fuel irradiated at Hanford between 1956 and 1989. Annual mortgages costs, more than $30 million, are expected to be reduced after deactivation to less than 2 million a year. This article describes the disposal of uranium contaminated nitric acid during the PUREX deactivation. An associated sidebar describes the role of stakeholder involvement in the disposition of PUREX contaminated nitric acid.


This article aims to analyse how Flemish Legends (1858) in fact announce The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak and Their Adventures Heroical, Joyous, and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere (1867), both written by Charles De Coster, the first great French-speaking Belgian writer. Charles De Coster sets the scene in his first work loosely based on Flemish tales, and first published in the newspaper Uylenspiegel , with a mixture of literary genres and an old-fashioned affected writing style, on a background of 16th century Wars of Religions. This unique combination of genres and styles will be widely misunderstood both in Legends and The Legend of Ulenspiegel , something highlighted in the analysis of Émile Deschanel's preface to Flemish Legends .


During research on material recently collected in Guyana and in Venezuelan Guiana, several specimens of the rare toad Bufo nasicus Werner, thus far only known from the holotype without known origin, were discovered. On the basis of this material the species is redescribed and some notes on its natural history are given. The species is a member of the Bufo typhonius-group.


The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, "Active Healthy Living: Prevention of Childhood Obesity Through Increased Physical Activity," addresses how physicians can encourage physical activity in children and adolescents who are currently or are at risk of becoming overweight or obese.


Improving public services in the urban transportation system consists of improving transportation facilities and infrastructure, improving inter-institutional relations and increasing human resources. The transportation system for the city of Pekanbaru in 2009 began to apply the concept of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) under the name busway trans metro Pekanbaru. Over time, the trans metro busway has shrunk to become a regular bus. This can be seen that many MRT public facilities are not maintained and neglected so that public confidence in the MRT continues to decline. Efforts to improve public services on a sustainable mass transportation system in Pekanbaru City through a public service system that is provided in the form of transportation facilities and infrastructure that exist on the trans metro busway system in Pekanbaru City, as well as providing solutions in the form of maximizing an ideal and suitable mass transportation system for the people of Pekanbaru City. With the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) model.


The goal of the present paper is the design of embeddings of a general sparse graph into a set of points in ℝd for appropriate d ≥ 2. The embeddings that we are looking at aim to keep vertices that are grouped in communities together and keep the rest apart. To achieve this property, we utilize coarsening that respects possible community structures of the given graph. We employ a hierarchical multilevel coarsening approach that identifies communities (strongly connected groups of vertices) at every level. The multilevel strategy allows any given (presumably expensive) graph embedding algorithm to be made into a more scalable (and faster) algorithm. We demonstrate the presented approach on a number of given embedding algorithms and large‐scale graphs and achieve speed‐up over the methods in a recent paper.


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Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and severe condition that may present as familial/heritable disease [1–3]. In recent years, there have been considerable advances in the management of PAH and disease-specific therapies have improved survival rates [3–5]. Nevertheless, PAH remains a devastating disease with progressively debilitating symptoms and high mortality even in the modern management era [6, 7].

Familial cases of PAH have been detected since the 1950s [1, 2]. Before the availability of modern genetic tools, studies of the genealogies demonstrated that familial PAH segregated as an autosomal dominant trait, thus leading to a 50% chance of inheriting the disease allele. More recently, mutations in the bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 gene ( BMPR2 ) have been detected in 70–80% of familial cases [1, 8, 9]. The BMPR2 mutations have an incomplete but variable penetrance (on average, 10–20% of mutation carriers develop PAH, but it can be much higher in some families). A genetic anticipation phenomenon (characterised by a younger age at PAH diagnosis in subsequent generations) has been demonstrated in familial PAH, with an increased risk of cases occurring in children and young adults. Recently, we have shown that BMPR2 mutation carriers with PAH …


. Ascorbic acid is a water-soluble vitamin, and its poor liposolubility limits the cumulative amount of ascorbic acid in the cells after per-meating through the cell membrane. Therefore, modification of the hydroxyl groups of ascorbic acid with long-chain fatty acids was developed to improve its liposolubility.


The spatio-temporal information among video sequences is significant for video super-resolution (SR). However, the spatio-temporal information cannot be fully used by existing video SR methods since spatial feature extraction and temporal motion compensation are usually performed sequentially. In this paper, we propose a deformable 3D convolution network (D3Dnet) to incorporate spatio-temporal information from both spatial and temporal dimensions for video SR. Specifically, we introduce deformable 3D convolution (D3D) to integrate deformable convolution with 3D convolution, obtaining both superior spatio-temporal modeling capability and motion-aware modeling flexibility. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of D3D in exploiting spatio-temporal information. Comparative results show that our network achieves state-of-the-art SR performance. Code is available at: https://github.com/XinyiYing/D3Dnet.


A mathematical model considering reaction and diffusion processes in biofuel cells, such as enzyme reactions, apparent electron diffusion in the redox polymer, and diffusion of a substrate in a redox polymer film, verified the effectiveness of a high‐surface‐area biofuel cell electrode with a thin, grafted redox polymer layer. The model calculation shows that the rate‐limiting step of apparent electron diffusion can be overcome by using the electrode with a thin redox polymer, even when the redox polymer used has a low apparent electron diffusion coefficient. In the electrode, increase in the second‐order rate constant for the reaction between an enzyme and a mediator above a certain value does not increase the current density, and thus the mediator used in the electrode should have an adequate second‐order rate constant and a more negative redox potential. In addition, increase in the turnover rate of the enzyme and the surface coverage of the enzyme allows an increase in the current density; the surface coverage of the enzyme has the most influence. Based on these calculations, it is important to realise high‐surface‐area electrodes with a thin redox polymer, and with high enzyme loading.


Summary form only given. In recent years, it is a trend that electric vehicles (EVs) employ multiphase permanent magnet (PM) motors because of their advantages such as high efficiency, high power density, and high torque to current ratio. Many control strategies have been investigated for PM motor drives [1-3]. However, due to the multivariable and strong coupling nonlinear system, it is difficult to meet the high requirements of EVs. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new decoupled control for a five-phase PM motor drive. A novel five-phase in-wheel fault-tolerant PM (IW-FTPM) motor was proposed by authors [4], as shown in Fig.1. It adopts an outer-rotor topology, and can be mounted to the wheel hub directly. The V-shaped inserted PMs are employed on the outer-rotor, which can improve the torque capability of the in-wheel motor. A five-phase single-layer concentrated winding set is adopted among the 20 stator slots. The fault-tolerant teeth which involve the unequal tooth widths are engaged, in order to offer prominent fault-tolerant operation capacity. Since this motor is a multivariable and strong coupling nonlinear system, the key of the control is decoupling and linearization. As shown in Fig.2, this work proposes a new internal model control (IMC) of the motor by using the radial basis function neural network inverse (RBF-NNI) system. The RBF-NNI system is introduced to construct a pseudo-linear system with original system, and internal model controller is utilized as a robust controller. Therefore, the new system incorporates the merits of the IMC and RBF-NNI methods. The dSPACE real-time control platform is developed. Fig.3 shows the simulated responses of both the d-axis current (isd) and speed (ω1) at step inputs both with PID system and proposed IMC-based RBF-NNI system. It can be seen that by using the proposed control strategy, the isd and ω1 are almost successfully decoupled, and both responses have good dynamic performances. What's more, the proposed strategy also has strong robustness to load torque disturbance and un-modeled dynamics. The more detailed analysis results, discussions and experimental results will be given in the full paper.


abstract The love women feel for their abuser is a powerful factor that has a bearing on women's help-seeking after woman abuse. The discourse of love and happily-ever-after marriages emerged in the dialogues of some abused women interviewed in South African shelters. It would seem that the discourse of love contributes to abused women both staying in abusive relationships and in leaving. In women's discussion about their abusers in most cases they said that they come into relationships because they love their partner. These feelings of love for the abuser do not disappear because of the abuse. At a critical point, however, women either decide to seek help or leave the abusive relationship when they are able to separate the notion of love from the experience of abuse, or when their love changes and they begin to despise their partners. The reconstructing of their experience allows women to begin developing what Harding (2004) refers to as oppositional consciousness, which eases the path to seeking help. This Briefing, located within feminist standpoint theories, discusses how love is a central factor that emerged in abused women's reluctance to seek help. It will also demonstrate how when women disentangled love from violence it contributed to their 'oppositional consciousness', and their ability to deal with the abusive relationships.


Twenty-five percent of individuals with long-standing type 1 diabetes (T1D) are resistant to complications, and this is not entirely explained by superior glycemic control (1–4). Although associations between clinical variables and individual complications have been comprehensively examined (1–4), analysis of total complication burden may detect previously unrecognized associations.

The Canadian Study of Longevity in Diabetes actively recruited 325 individuals who had T1D for 50 or more years (5). Subjects completed a questionnaire, and recent laboratory tests and eye reports were provided by primary care physicians and eye specialists, respectively.

Nephropathy was defined by an albumin-to-creatinine ratio of >2 mg/mmol for participants on an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) or >3.4 mg/mmol for participants not on an ACE inhibitor or ARB. Symptomatic neuropathy was defined by a score ≥3 on the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) questionnaire component. Retinopathy was defined by documentation of nonproliferative or proliferative retinopathy in the eye specialist report. Coronary artery disease was defined by self-reported …


Dr. Waite is assistant professor of psychology at Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, Connecticut 06050. Dr. Hillbrand is director ofpsychological research at Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown, Connecticut. Dr. Foster is director ofpsychology at Whiting Forensic Institute. modificationofpica in ageriatric patient. Journal ofthe American Geriatrics Society 35:79-80, 1987 5. Vaccaro FJ: Application ofoperant procedures in a group of institutionalized aggressive geriatric patients. Psychology andAging 3:22-28, 1988 6. Lundervold DA, Lewin LM: Behavioral Analysis aixi Therapy in Nursing Homes. Springfield, Ill, Thomas, in press 7. Masters R, Marks FM: The use of restraint. Rehabilitation Nursing 15:2230, 1990 8. Burgio LD, Sinnort J: Behavioral treatments and pharmacotherapy: acceptability ratings by elderly individuals in residential settings. Gerontologist 30: 811-816, 1990 9. Bourland G, Lundervold DA: Acceptability ratings for problematic behaviors of older adults. Journal of Clinical and ExperimentalGerontology 11:105-114, 1989 10. Lewin LM, Lundervold D: Behavioral treatment of the elderly in adult foster care homes. Adult Foster CareJournal 1: 238-249, 1987


Ashley Nunes, Laurena Huh and John Heywood 1 Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America 2 R Street Institute, Washington, DC 20005, United States of America 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America


The invention proceeds from a device for controlling a diagnosis and / or therapy system (2) with a portable unit (6) comprising at least one speech signal detecting means (18, 20) and a transmission means (10) for wirelessly transmitting data to a receiver unit (12) of the diagnosis and / or therapy system (2). In order to allow a higher safety in the speech recognition, it is proposed that the portable unit (6) comprises a speech recognition unit (8) which is adapted to generate dependent incoming from over the speech signal detecting means (18, 20) voice signals, control signals the transmission means (10) are transferred as commands.


A field experiment was conducted at experimental farm at Toshka Res. Station, Desert Research Center, Aswan, Egypt during two successive seasons 2010-2011,2011-2012 to investigate susceptibility of four faba bean varieties namely Roomy, Giza 40, Giza 429, Masr 1 to infestation with legume aphids, Aphis craccivora (Koch), the leaf miner, liromyza trifolii (Burgess). The four tested varieties showed different susceptibility to two insect pests. Results obtained showed the varieties Roomy and Giza 40 were susceptible to infestation by Aphis craccivora, while Giza 429 and Masr 1 were low resistance to aphid infestation. The variety Roomy showed susceptible to infestation with leaf miner while Giza 40, Giza 429 and Masr 1 were low resistance to infestation with this insect. The characteristics morphological & physiological to the variety, planting date, locality and environmental conditions, may be the main factors responsible for the variations in the susceptible degrees among the tested faba bean varieties.


Stainless steel casting alloys have been employed successfully for many years in the severe environments encountered in the chemical, petroleum, and nuclear industries. An entire class of alloys has been developed for use in corrosive environments at working temperatures below 1200°F (649°C). Unfortunately, in many cases where acceptable mechanical properties and corrosion resistance have been achieved, both castability and weldabil i ty have been poor. Since there is often a correlation between castability and weldabil ity, a better understanding of the solidification mechanics of these materials should make the design of improved alloys possible. Solidification research based on commercial alloy systems is difficult. This is both because of the complexity of the alloys and because the high temperatures involved make direct observation of the solidification process difficult. As a result, most information on the solidification mechanics of metal systems has been based upon room temperature metallographic examination of the solidification substructures of castings and weldments and upon mathematical theories. In castings, the cooling times are normally long enough for diffusioncontrolled processes to modify both the microstructure and pattern of microsegregation during cooling from the solidus to room temperature. Conversely, the cooling times for most weldments are so short as to suppress most diffusion-controlled reactions in the solid state. Thus, the microstructure and the pattern of microsegregation established during solidification of weld metal is far better preserved. Therefore, a more accurate interpretation of the mechanics of solidification can be obtained from examination of the microstructure and the pattern of microsegregation in weld metal at room temperature. The redistribution of solute during solidification has a strong influence on both the weldabil i ty and the castability of many stainless steels. "Hot tears" in castings and "hot cracks" in welds appear to occur by similar mechanisms as a direct result of the microsegregation of certain solute elements.


We generalize Hotelling's model of spatial competition with more than two firms in a two-dimensional space. Firms choose both price and location to maximize profits. The principle of minimum differentiation does not hold in general. Local duopolies emerge from the interaction between firms. Firms do not spread uniformly across the two-dimensional space, nor do they all charge the same price. Firms in more competitive locations charge lower prices. More product attributes produce more price competition.


Restoration report of the law courts of rouen, seriously damaged by the war (1940-1944). The restoration, done mostly by j. P. Paquet, followed the original style of the building: same stone, same techniques. Concrete was used to restore and consolidate the vault; the framework and windows were restored as well. With details of the technique used and photographs.


Background:  Results of liver transplantation have improved significantly over the last three decades. Hospital volume has been cited as an important outcome factor. The South Australian (SA) programme commenced in 1992 as the fourth centre in Australia.


Laser mapping has become quite popular in recent days due to its capability of providing information directly in three dimensions. These days, we observe the emergence of new demands for 'along-street' 3-D data. 'Along-street' 3-D data provide a real or true visualization of the environment that is different from virtual reality. However, there still lacks a reliable and quick method of acquiring 3-D 'along-street' data of the urban area at higher resolution. Most of the vehicle-borne systems developed so far are based on stereo photographs as the main source of data. In order to overcome the problem of acquiring 3-D data in urban area reliably, quickly and at high resolution, we have developed a vehicle-borne laser mapping system (VLMS). The system is equipped with laser scanners and line cameras for data acquisition. The system will assist in building 3-D GIS database of urban areas. In this paper we focus our discussions on auto-extraction of building faces from the laser data captured by VLMS. In an urban area we encounter many different types of features like buildings, roads, utility facilities, vehicles, trees and others. Geo-referenced raw laser data were used for extraction of urban features. The raw laser data were simply point cloud data in 3-D space without any other information like intensity value. We have classified the laser data into various classes like building faces, road surfaces, tunnels, utility poles, vehicles and trees. Our discussions will be basically limited to the extraction of building faces with some explanation on extraction of road surfaces, trees and tunnels.


The common denominator of some of the questions and problems raised by the reviewers is represented by the new technological revolution, the role of AI in this revolution, and their impact on the world today. No one doubts the fact that we are living the greatest transformation of the information environment since Gutenberg's printing press. Nevertheless, as John Naughton emphasized, "we're as clueless about where it's heading and what's driving it as the citizens of Mainz were in 1495" (Naughton, 2019). Four centuries have passed since then; during this time, the printing press shaped society and thinking, introduced new forms of communication, occasioned a massive improvement in the general population's level of education, made public schools and the mass dissemination of knowledge possible. It radically influenced everything. Now, we are at the dawn of a new era, one which will lead to least as many transformations as print did.


Diagnosis. Small, spatulate worms about 0.5 mm long and half that broad. Body divided by a slight constriction at the level of the acetabulum. All but the posterior surface covered by semicircular cutaneous scales. Oral sucker diameter about one-fifth of body length, with no dorsal anterior prolongation. Acetabulum slightly more than one-half the diameter of oral sucker, center just anterior to middle of worm. Eighteen thick, blunt-pointed oral spines evenly spaced in a single row around oral opening, length about one-third of oral sucker diameter but somewhat variable. Oval diverticulum thick-walled, straight, overlapping pharynx for short distance. Prepharynx nearly as long as oral diverticulum. Pharynx muscular, twice as long as wide, divided by circular constriction. Esophagus shorter than pharynx. Ceca


A 30‐year‐old businessman, weighing 94 kg, presented with pigmentation and skin changes extending from the calf to the dorsum of the left foot. One year ago, the patient noticed erythema around the medial malleolus and edema of the ankle, following trauma while starting a bike. The patient was afebrile during the event. He gave no history suggestive of muscle weakness, cramping calf pains at rest, intermittent claudication while walking, paresthesia, or increased sensitivity to cold. No history suggestive of systemic involvement was obtained.


Gene therapy has become a potential strategy for cancer treatment. However, the development of efficient gene vectors restricts the application for cancer gene treatment. Functionalization of polymers with functional groups can significantly improve their transfection efficacy.


Load distribution in t beam bridge systems not only occurs by flexural action but is also influenced by the fact that the slabs transfer induced direct forces. An attempt was made to assess the extent of this influence. Because of its wide practical application the guyon massonnet theory for t beam systems was used to compare the results of the present analysis. By employing stiffness coefficients and matrix notation the problem was programmed for and processed by the bendix g.15 Computer. Junction displacements were first determined and thence the lateral distribution of deflection and lower flange stresses were obtained. For the immediate automatic computing, the transverse position of the load, the guyon massonnet parameters and a term introduced to define the t beam action were selected for investigation. The validity of the theory was tested by analysing a 5 girder model for which experimental results were available. Further comparisons were made by analysing an example for which an alternative theoretical solution existed (A).


In the postwar era the Netherlands were confronted with a dramatic housing shortage aggravated by a lasting high birthrate. Local government in particular faced the herculean task of having to build rapidly and in large quantities. The prefab method invented by the Verenigde Aluminium en Staalconstructiemaatschappij N.V (Vasco) seemed to offer an easy solution. The municipalities of Kerkrade and Heerlen in the south of Limburg were eager to offer contracts to the building company. Despite the rosy prospects, however, the association with Vasco ended in bitter disappointment. The article explores the painstaking process from the first contacts between the building company and the municipalities in the late 1950s, to the eventual settlement in 1979.


MDS code has been studied for a long time in the theory of error-correcting code and has been applied widely in cryptography. Some authors studied and proposed some methods for constructing MDS matrices which do not based on MDS code. Some MDS matrix transformations have been studied and direct exponent is such a transformation. In this paper we present some new results on direct exponent transformation to show the k* number (cycle) that direct p exponent of the MDS matrix fork times results in the original MDS matrix. In addition, the results are shown to have important applications in block ciphers.


HANARO, an open-tank-in-pool type research reactor with 30 MW thermal power, achieved its first criticality in 1995. The programmable controller system MLC (Multi Loop Controller) manufactured by MOORE has been used to control and regulate HANARO since 1995. We made a plan to replace the control computer because the system supplier no longer provided technical support and thus no spare parts were available. Aged and obsolete equipment and the shortage of spare parts supply could have caused great problems. The first consideration for a replacement of the control computer dates back to 2007. The supplier did not produce the components of MLC so that this system would no longer be guaranteed. We established the upgrade and refurbishment program in 2009 so as to keep HANARO up to date in terms of safety. We designed the new control computer system that would replace MLC. The new computer system is HCCS (HANARO Control Computer System). The refurbishing activity is in progress and will finish in 2013. The goal of the refurbishment program is a functional replacement of the reactor control system in consideration of suitable interfaces, compliance with no special outage for installation and commissioning, and no change of the well-proved operationmore » philosophy. HCCS is a DCS (Discrete Control System) using PLC manufactured by RTP. To enhance the reliability, we adapt a triple processor system, double I/O system and hot swapping function. This paper describes the refurbishment program of the HANARO control system including the design requirements of HCCS. (authors)« less


Internationalization of education has become an inevitable trend in the world of education reform and development in today's China, Sino-foreign cooperative education is one important manifestation of the internationalization of higher education. To Tianjin Education and international integration, expansion of foreign influence, it must be international professional and curriculum, teachers and people of this teaching method, fine tip of the tube teacher training model, style and other characteristics of the school management in order to achieve a high level of foreign cooperative education purposes, and then expand the impact force in China Tianjin Education and the world.


Silver nanoparticles with narrow distribution were prepared by a simple route in water in presence of lauric acid as the capping agents. The morphology and crystal structure of as-synthesized silver nanoparticles were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The mass ratio of lauric acid and silver nitrate, the reaction temperature play important roles on the morphology and size of the silver nanoparticles. Well-dispersed silver nanopartilces with diameter of 8 nm were obtained when the mass ratio of lauric acid and silver nitrate was 1.2:1 and the reaction temperature was room temperature. It is also confirmed that the sol system was monodisperse nanosilver sol.


In this paper, we propose a cutting plane algorithm based on DC (Difference-of-Convex) programming and DC cut for globally solving Mixed-Binary Linear Program (MBLP). We first use a classical DC programming formulation via the exact penalization to formulate MBLP as a DC program, which can be solved by DCA algorithm. Then, we focus on the construction of DC cuts, which serves either as a local cut (namely type-I DC cut) at feasible local minimizer of MBLP, or as a global cut (namely type-II DC cut) at infeasible local minimizer of MBLP if some particular assumptions are verified. Otherwise, the constructibility of DC cut is still unclear, and we propose to use classical global cuts (such as the Lift-and-Project cut) instead. Combining DC cut and classical global cuts, a cutting plane algorithm, namely DCCUT, is established for globally solving MBLP. The convergence theorem of DCCUT is proved. Restarting DCA in DCCUT helps to quickly update the upper bound solution and to introduce more DC cuts for lower bound improvement. A variant of DCCUT by introducing more classical global cuts in each iteration is proposed, and parallel versions of DCCUT and its variant are also designed which use the power of multiple processors for better performance. Numerical simulations of DCCUT type algorithms comparing with the classical cutting plane algorithm using Lift-and-Project cuts are reported. Tests on some specific samples and the MIPLIB 2017 benchmark dataset demonstrate the benefits of DC cut and good performance of DCCUT algorithms.


Clouds are the group of resources like data storage, processors, security tools, etc. that are shared by the big resource providers like Amazon, Google, Yahoo etc. and the users of these resources. There is the requirement of privacy policy when we work in such a shared, unknown, untrusted, and pay per use environment. Computing industry is now shifted their orientation from arranging first the resources to developing new applications or application of new ideas. Because in the cloud computing world , every resource required for developing and executing an idea or application is available or pay per use basis. But even though everything is available with scalability or these resources, the data of the business transaction with authenticity is prime for all either business organization or customer. As we know that user's and transaction data is very important and unauthorized access is illegal and harmful for everyone. Because worldwide the use of online services is increasing exponentially and the use of cloud computing for these solutions is also increasing. We have considered this problem for our research work and in this paper, we are proposing a PDM privacy preserving model for more securing the cloud data.


dals from a year earlier could easily have seemed a distant memory. In the context of an awesome war, corruption might have seemed a minor domestic affair no longer relevant to our "real" national concerns. Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, and ImClone could have been relegated to the arcane workings of business. Yet the question of corruption touches every fiber of contemporary sociopolitical life, linking "domestic" and "foreign" affairs in multiple ways. The war itself is haunted by hanging chads and a biased Supreme Court that helped select a president who has since dismissed numerous international agreements and institutions, including the major arena for global diplomacy, the United Nations. The model of corporate organizational structure and modus operandi informs the management of the United States, whose CEO seems eager to establish a global power monopoly that strips international institutions of the power to make multilateral decisions and redefines the role of these institutions as merely humanitarian. Two decades after the Reagan-Bush campaign to tear down the gains of the New Deal, the Bush-Cheney regime has fostered further deregulation, enabling predatory corporate behavior. George W.'s reign, like that of his father, has resumed this vision of governing in order to undo government as the realm "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Government is conceived as a means to protect the free flow of business from so-called interest groups—a phrase the administration and the dominant media now apply to independent organizations, such as unions and environmental groups, that defend social welfare. George W. Bush has conducted his presumed fight against corruption by focusing public attention on a few "bad apples." Neoliberal efforts to rid the globe of corruption, such as that of the World Bank Governance and Anti-corruption Program, have tended to focus on Third World corruption embodied by greedy local kleptocrats. Meanwhile the bank's officers of reform are free to come and go, demanding ransoms in the form of cuts to the social economy in exchange for further aid to business, demonstrating that discussion of corruption always requires a look at the very individuals and institutions designed to combat corruption, since they can easily become facilitators of its machinery. Randy Martin and Ella Shohat Introduction


On 25 November 2010, Srdjan Spasojevic's A Serbian Film1 was classified RC in Australia by the Classification Board after being submitted for a sale/hire classification by its prospective Australian distributor Accent Films. RC stands for 'Refused Classification' and the sale, hire and public exhibition of RC films is prohibited by legislation in each Australian state and territory. These films are effectively banned. The Classification Board has no power to modify or 'cut' films, nor can it request that this be done. It does, however, supply those who submitted the film with a report detailing the reasons for the Board's decision and the scenes it found particularly problematic. This essentially provides an acceptable stencil around which to cut. On 23 February 2011, a modified version of A Serbian Film was refused classification. However, on 5 April 2011, a further modified version was classified R18+, meaning this version could be legally sold and hired to adults throughout Australia.


Heart failure (HF) is a public health problem of epidemic proportions, with a prevalence of more than 5 million in the United States, a figure that underestimates the true burden of disease, since a substantial portion of HF in the general population may be subclinical and remain undiagnosed. Despite an annual cost of nearly $30 billion dollars per year in the United States and increasingly sophisticated drug and device therapy, the death rate from HF continues to increase,1 a trend which fuels interest in comorbid disease associations which may offer alternative therapeutic avenues.


Adopted the methods of documentary and interview,this article analyzes the constructing situation of high level football teams in universities in Shanxi.The results show that the construction of high level football teams is an important way to improve the whole level of the football in Shanxi.However the condition is not ideal at present.The main problems are the unreasonable distribution,the lack of high level coaches and excellent competition resources and the lack of funds.It puts forward some suggestions to deal with these problems and gives references for the construction.


Objectives  Many countries are now adopting artemisinin‐based combination therapy (ACT) for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. In multi‐drug resistant areas in South East Asia amplifications of the pfmdr1 gene are frequent and tentatively associated with reduced susceptibility to the common quinoline partner drugs mefloquine and lumefantrine. In Africa where amodiaquine is one of the favoured quinoline partner drugs in ACT, studies on multi‐drug resistance associated pfmdr1 gene amplifications are urgent. Our aim was to determine the current prevalence of pfmdr1 gene amplifications and a possible association between pfmdr1 gene copy number and amodiaquine treatment outcome in Kenya.


The pneumatic Dosierfordervorrichtung is an evolution of Dosierforderanlage according to DE 19538622, the desulfurized> 5 million tons of pig iron already in a major German steel plant. This development not only granulates, but also the finest dust to extremely high pressures non-stop can be pneumatically metered and promoted so that the multi-injection method in desulphurisation of pig iron an extreme improvement of poor efficiency (see DE 102006046158.4) is achieved. For example, this device can for blowing pure Kaliumchloritpulver of 100 g / h to 4000 g / min to 3-5 bar for the production of titanium dioxide as well as magnesium granules of 5 kg / min to about 5 bar for the desulfurization of pig iron as well as biomass against be used 70 bar for the production of bio-oil. This device replaces screw conveyors, feeders, extruders and Staubgutverteiler. The Asutragsmenge or delivery is always exactly IS = REQUIRED. www.feldmaus-technik.de more information


For the multi-user-downlink with decentralized receivers we compare non-linear precoding schemes a la Costa's "Writing on Dirty Paper" with linear precoding. We show that suboptimal schemes like standard ranked known interference (RKI) and Tomlinson-Harashima-precoding (THP) can achieve a considerable transmit power reduction compared to linear channel inversion (LCI) or joint transmission (JT) and that joint transmit power further more, especially in bad conditioned channels or if the SINR requirements at the receiver are relaxed.


Long-lived room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) from organic molecular crystals attracts great attention. The features of the persistent luminescence strongly depend on the electronic properties of the molecular components, mainly p-conjugated donor-acceptor (D-A) chromophores, and on their molecular packing in the crystal. Here, a new strategy is developed by rationally designing two isomeric molecular phosphors incorporating and combining for the first time a bridge for σ-conjugation between the D and A units and a structure-directing unit for H-bond-directed supramolecular self-assembly. Quantum chemical calculations highlight the critical role played by the two degrees of freedom of the s-conjugated bridge, on the chromophore optical properties. The molecular crystals exhibit RTP quantum yields up to 20% and lifetimes up to 520 ms. On the other hand, the crystal structures of the efficient phosphorescent materials establish the existence of an unprecedented well-organization of the emitters into two-dimensional (2D) rectangular 'columnar-like' supramolecular structure stabilized by intermolecular H-bonding. This study provides a promising strategy for the development of molecular crystals exhibiting efficient long-lived RTP.


We investigate the superfluid properties of a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a one-dimensional periodic potential. We study, both analytically (in the tight binding limit) and numerically, the Bloch chemical potential, the Bloch energy and the Bogoliubov dispersion relation, and we introduce two different, density dependent, effective masses and group velocities. The Bogoliubov spectrum predicts the existence of sound waves, and the arising of energetic and dynamical instabilities at critical values of the BEC quasi-momentum which dramatically affect its coherence properties. We investigate the dependence of the dipole and Bloch oscillation frequencies in terms of an effective mass averaged over the density of the condensate. We illustrate our results with several animations obtained solving numerically the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation.


Abstract Support for the political and economic integration of Europe has formed an increasingly important policy issue for Irish political parties as the European Union has grown in importance at both the domestic and European level. This article examines the political positioning of Irish parties on the issue of European integration, comparing these positions across parties and across time. For data, it draws on expert surveys taken at each election since 1992, a time series of coded manifestos as well as a computerized content analysis of the 2007 party manifestos. The article also reports the results of a previously unpublished expert survey of Irish party positions on other political dimensions conducted by the author in 2007.


Hybrid sterility is the key constraint for the utilization of heterosis between rice subspecies indica and japonica.Its genetic mechanism is very complicated.Many scholars think it relate to genic control.This paper summarizes genetic basis of hybrid sterility .


Lord Jim is notoriously a novel in two parts. The first half, which describes the apprenticeship and early career of the officer Jim, his desertion of the pilgrim ship Patna, and his reactions during and after the subsequent Court of Inquiry, is generally acknowledged to be amongst Conrad's best writing, modulating skilfully between thought and speech in shifting narrative perspectives. The second part begins in Chapter Twenty One with Marlow's question NI don't suppose any of you [have] ever heard of Patusan?' Jim is now released into the dimension of romance; Marlow explains that he N left his earthly failings behind him ... and there was a totally new set of conditions for his imaginative faculty to work upon' (ZJ, p. 218). Dealing with the explorer-hero in an exotic setting, the language becomes lush, melodramatic, and essentially formulaic, following the conventions of the adventure fiction made familiar by such writers as Rider Haggard, R.L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Marryat, and James Fenimore Cooper. Many critics have commented upon the structural rift between the story of the Patna and its consequences and the story of Patusan. This transition from high modernism to popular fiction has been seen as symptomatic of a response to capitalist commodification,1 as a reversion from epistemological crisis to mythic affirmation,2 and as a failure in


The cholesterol esterase and its oxidase were respectively immobilized onto sol-gel(tetraethyl orthosilicate)and then an enzymatic reaction column was prepared.Hydrolysis of cholesterol ester took place in the presence of cholesterol esterase to form cholesterol under catalysis of cholesterol oxidase,and Cholesterol was oxidized to produce hydrogen peroxide which reacted with luminal in the presence of simulated enzyme hemoglobin to result in the emission of light.Thereupon,a chemiluminescence system combined with flow injection technology by sol-gel immobilized enzyme was developed for the determination of cholesterol including free and total amount in human serum.The CL intensity was well linear with the concentration of cholesterol;liner range of total and free cholesterol was 1.01×10-6~2.02×10-4 mol/L with a detection limit of 7.5×10-7 mol/L and 5.0×10-8~2.18×10-5 mol/L with a detection limit of 5.0×10-9 mol/L respectively.Contrasted the method with the biochemical analyzer(TBA-120FR),both the methods had no significant difference.This method has been successfully applied for the detection of cholesterol in clinic serum samples.


In autumn 1998, the Ministry of Transport and Communications launched the programme for improving the safety of Eastbound traffic by means of information, education and control. In summer 1999, the second traffic safety campaign for passenger car drivers was realised. The campaign included gigantic billboards, posters and brochures to be distributed at border crossing stations. The present report clarifies how the campaign brochure was met and what was its notice value. In August 1999, 400 Russian drivers leaving Finland were interviewed for the study at the Vaalimaa border station. The campaign brochure was noticed by 71.2% and read by 61% of drivers. Among those who had noticed the brochure 85.6% had read it. 66.9% of drivers announced that they had noticed the gigantic road side board advertising the brochures. The fact of seeing the gigantic billboard increased the probability of reading the brochure. The brochure had been of concrete use to 86.9 % of drivers during their trip in Finland. The most useful had been the information of Finland's traffic rules and Finnish-Russian glossary. Those who motored for the first time in Finland felt they got more benefit from the brochure than those who had driven in Finland before. The majority of drivers (91.2%) had motored in Finland earlier. Those interviewed were interested in receiving additional information of traffc rules in general, for example of parking and traffic signs. Among the interviewed, 64% announced that they had changed their way of driving after they arrived in Finland. Most drivers said they had driven `more nicely' in Finland than in Russia and followed the traffic rules and speed limits. 57.2% announced that the reason for changing the way of driving was Finland's different driving culture and for 23.1% big fines in Finland caused this change. Better road conditions had also an influence on the change.


Objective To explore the possibility of building tissue-engineered adipose tissue with human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) and adipose tissue extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffold,and provide experimental basis for clinical application of tissue-engineered adipose tissue for the repair of soft tissue defects.Methods ADSCs were isolated from adipose tissue by liposuction with the method of enzymatic digestion.The cells were induced for three-line differentiation and marked with DiI.Human ECM was extracted from adipose tissue obtained by liposuction.The ECM was freeze-dried,sterilized and crushed to powders.The surface characteristics of ECM were observed under the electron microscopy in vitro.The ADSCs were adhered to ECM powers,and the feasibility of ECM powers as scaffold was explorted.Human ADSCs in a density of 2 × 109/L were collected,and mixed them with ECM powers.They were transplanted subcutaneously into nude mice,and the opposite side of the same mice transplanted with scaffold only served as control group.There were 6 mice in total,and each side was transplanted by 0.5 ml.At 8th week post-transplantation,the mice were sacrificed and the implanted tissue were taken to record the wet weight,The hematoxylin and eosin (HE) sections and red oil O staining were detected.Two-sample test of SPSS 13.0 was used for statistical comparison between wet-determination.Results The ADSCs and human ECM powder were obtained successfully from adipose tissue.The ADSCs could differentiate into adipose cells,bone cells and chondrocytes.Scanning election microscopy (SEM) images showed that the powers had porous structure to which ADSCs could adhere easily,with the adhesion rate being (89.87 ±2.59)%.Eight weeks after transplantation,both experimental and control groups formed new tissues.There were significant differences between two groups ( P < 0.05 ) in the wet weight.HE and red oil O staining confirmed that the experimental group could form mature adipose tissue.Conclusion ADSCs and human ECM scaffold could form tissue-engineered adipose tissuein vivo.It can be used as an ideal method to construct tissue-engineered adipose tissue.

Key words:
Adipose-derived stem cells;  Extracellular matrix;  Scaffold;  Tissue engineering


Abstract Gage and radar methods of convective rain measurement are compared in the context of the continuing multiple cloud seeding experiment of the Experimental Meteorology Laboratory. An optimal system, combining the best features of both, is recommended.The nature of the Florida convective rainfall to be measured is documented using measurements from a dense raingage mesonet (about 3 km2 per gage over 570 km2) that was operated for a total of 93 days in 1971 and 1973, and the gaging requirements for detection and measurement of 24 h rainfalls in the mesonet are determined using the full complement of gages as the standard. For the measurement of areal convective rainfall greater than 0.25 mm within a factor of 2 on 90, 70 and 50% of the days, gage densities of 31, 91 and 208 km2 per gage, respectively, are required.Radar performance in estimating convective rainfall over south Florida is determined using two collocated, calibrated 10 cm radars (UM/10-cm of the University of Miami and WSR-57 of the Nat...


By modeling the components of oil source system,we set up the integrated model of oil source system.The effect of absorption of different frequency flow pulsation under the different throttle valve opening is studied by simulation analysis of typical electro-hydraulic servo oil source system,and the relationship of the throttle valve opening and motor rotary speed is obtained in the optimum effect of absorption of flow pulsation,which provides the theoretical basis for the self-adaption to the operation conditions of the variable throttle valve-accumulator subsystem.


Tetragonal phases for perovskite solar cells The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of all-inorganic perovskites are lower than those of materials with organic cations. This is in part because these materials have larger bandgaps. The cubic crystal phases of these materials also exhibit poor stability. Wang et al. synthesized the tetragonal β-phase of CsPbI3 from HPbI3 and CsI. The material exhibited higher stability and a more favorable bandgap, which allowed for PCEs of 15%. Passivation of the surface trap state with choline iodide boosted PCEs to 18%. Science, this issue p. 591 The more stable orthorhombic phase of CsPbI3 yields more efficient solar cells. Although β-CsPbI3 has a bandgap favorable for application in tandem solar cells, depositing and stabilizing β-CsPbI3 experimentally has remained a challenge. We obtained highly crystalline β-CsPbI3 films with an extended spectral response and enhanced phase stability. Synchrotron-based x-ray scattering revealed the presence of highly oriented β-CsPbI3 grains, and sensitive elemental analyses—including inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry—confirmed their all-inorganic composition. We further mitigated the effects of cracks and pinholes in the perovskite layer by surface treating with choline iodide, which increased the charge-carrier lifetime and improved the energy-level alignment between the β-CsPbI3 absorber layer and carrier-selective contacts. The perovskite solar cells made from the treated material have highly reproducible and stable efficiencies reaching 18.4% under 45 ± 5°C ambient conditions.


A packet-selective reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) that combines an acousto-optic wavelength-tunable filter (AOTF) and an optical packet ADM (PADM) using optical code label processing has been proposed and demonstrated. It provides more efficient utilization of wavelengths than conventional ROADMs. In this paper, we report an overview of past achievements, which include the proposal, demonstrations, related key technologies, and the developed prototype of the packet-selective ROADM. A field trial of 640 Gbit/s, granularity-flexible optical network using the packet-selective ROADM prototype is successfully demonstrated in 16-channel WDM network.


Title Studies on the differentiation of myeloid cells under the chemotherapy-treated human pancreatic cancer microenvironment [an abstract of dissertation and a summary of dissertation review] Author(s) 武内, 慎太郎 Citation 北海道大学. 博士(医学) 甲第11956号 Issue Date 2015-09-25 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/60030 Rights(URL) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.1/jp/ Type theses (doctoral abstract and summary of review) Note 配架番号:2186 Additional Information There are other files related to this item in HUSCAP. Check the above URL. File Information Shintaro_Takeuchi_abstract.pdf (論文内容の要旨)


Today there are many proposals of middlewares for sensor and actuator networks (SAN). Each of them introduces programming paradigms for creating distributed applications. There are middlewares with different philosophies in terms of architecture and organization (database, clustering, etc.). From the standpoint of the programmer these considerations influence the development process and, in most cases, determine the programming paradigm. Although these middlewares are so different, there is a common issue: they assume the SAN is logically separated from the main network. Thus, it forces the programmers to think a lot on specific stuff for the SAN and provides a dissociated vision of the whole system. In this paper we propose a new development model for SAN based on standard object oriented middlewares. Moreover, we provide a language as a new programming paradigm so that it is possible to have a homogeneous view of the whole system (including main network and the SAN).


A field experiment comparing furrow irrigated raised beds and flat beds under irrigated conditions was started in 2009. In bed planting systems,crops are planted on the raised beds in ridgefurrow system. This system is often considered more appropriate for growing high value crops that are more sensitive to temporary water logging stress. Farmers often raise crops such as cabbage, carrot, radish, okra, onion, brinjal, cauliflower, colocasia, turmeric, cotton, maize and wheat on the raised beds. Results shows that system of raised bed planting of crops may be particularly advantageous in areas where groundwater levels are falling. This tillage and crop establishment option also facilitates crop diversification and intercropping of several vegetables. The experimental results indicated that FIRB technique is not only save the resources like water and nutrients and labour but also facilitates the greater diversification of the rice-wheat cropping systems and improve the physical properties of soil.


Excavation revealed the fragmentary traces of a medieval structure a short distance to the south of Malmesbury Abbey. It is most likely to have been a chapel mentioned by John Leland in 1542. The area to the south of the probable chapel was used for the quarrying of limestone in the 12th century, perhaps associated with the construction of the Norman abbey. The quarry pits were overlaid by an extensive cemetery in use between the later 12th and late 13th century. A maximum of 91 burials was recorded including men, women and children, so the cemetery evidently included a proportion of laity. Trauma and infectious disease represented in the individuals likely derived from daily activities such as animal husbandry and craft working. The cemetery was covered with deep deposits, which probably relate to the demolition and robbing of the chapel and levelling up for the construction of 18th-century tenements.


The photo catalyst of the heteropoly salt containing Ni-Mo-Zr with Keggin structrue was prepared with the hydrothermal synthesizes reactions and characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FT-IR).The influence of the amount of the photocatalyst,initial concentration of acidic green B(AGB),pH value of solution and H2O2 added were put to study by the degradation rate of AGB under UV light irradiation.The results of the experiments show that the concentration of AGB dye solution is 10mg/L,catalyst amount of Ni-Mo-Zr,0.8 g/L,and the pH 7,with UV irradiation 160min,the degradation rate of AGB up to 92.64%.In the system,H2O2 added can enhance the degradation rate of the AGB solution.


Diagnostic studies of a series of 159 pre-school retarded children are reported with a focus on the disturbances in emotional development. It is emphasized that mental retardation is a clinical developmental syndrome which regularly includes an impairment in emotional as well as in intellectual development. Psychological characteristics which are more closely related to the degree of retardation than to any other diagnostic factor are termed the primary psychopathology of the mental retardation syndrome. The primary psychopathology is described and illustrated in terms of the developmental disturbance and special descriptive traits. Points of differential diagnosis are discussed.


In this paper, the notion of picture fuzzy subspace of a crisp vector space is established and some related properties are explored on the basis of some basic operations (intersection, Cartesian product, union, (θ, ϕ, ψ)-cut etc.) on picture fuzzy sets. Direct sum of two picture fuzzy subspaces is initiated here over the direct sum of two crisp vector spaces. Also, the concepts of picture fuzzy linear transformation and picture fuzzy linearly independent set of vectors are introduced and some corresponding results are presented. Isomorphism between two picture fuzzy subspaces is developed here as an extension of isomorphism between two fuzzy subspaces


60 injured with thoracoabdominal multitrauma and craniocerebral trauma were examined. The patients of the observational group underwent standard treatment. The main group consisted of the intensive care patients that additionally received intravenous infusion of Mexicor. The dosage was equal to 100 mg per hour; the treatment lasted 240 hours. As a result of the research it was determined that due to the developing hypercirculation and hemoglobin reduction, oxygen debt was formed together with increased lactate concentration and glucose in blood. While conducting infusion-transfusion therapy, the mechanisms of effective compensation of hypoxia begin to reveal on the 5th day and they continue functioning during the following five days. However, when Mexicor is constantly infused, they realize on the 3rd day of treatment and on the 5th day of posttraumatic period the oxygen balance is normalized and the intensity of metabolic manifestations decreases. Early reactivation of oxygen homeostasis under the influence of Mexicor is caused by the pumping function that returns to its normal condition.


Provided are a battery pack which readily and appropriately holds batteries, and a power supply device. A battery pack (200) according to the present invention is provided with: an insulating first case (241) and an insulating second case (243); and a metal restraining plate (220) which is fixed to the second case (243) to sandwich a plurality of batteries (250) between the first case (241) and the second case (243), and support the plurality of batteries (250).


Sheshop is a business activity engaged in the field of hamper making services. Since the last 2 (two) years, sales transactions in Sheshop have been increasing, the transaction data is only used as a report and is not used to regulate business strategies. The transaction data should be used to see the attachment of each type of product purchased by the customer simultaneously. The amount of sales transaction data on Sheshop can be used as an analysis of customer behavior in making purchases of hampers at Sheshop. This study performs data analysis by implementing the Apriori algorithm method because this algorithm handles data mining processes quickly on large amounts of data, from the results of this study Sheshop can make decisions on what items need more inventory compared to other items by looking at the value confidence and support by using the RapidMiner application. The results of this study indicate that the association rule formed from 568 Sheshop sales data uses a minimum support value of 10% and a minimum confidence of 50% produces 6 (six) association rules with a confidence value of 58% to 75% with all rules having a positive correlation level. Based on the 6 (six) association rules obtained, 2 products are often purchased at the same time, namely the Koran and tasbih with a confidence value of 75%.


Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs integrate a number of third party IPs (3PIPs) that coordinate and communicate through a Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabric to realize system functionality. An important class of SoC security attack involves a rogue IP tampering with the inter-IP communication. These attacks include message snoop, message mutation, message misdirection, IP masquerade, and message flooding. Static IP-level trust verification cannot protect against these SoC-level attacks. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerabilities of system level communication among IPs and develop a novel SoC security architecture that provides system resilience against exploitation by untrusted 3PIPs integrated over an NoC fabric. We show how to address the problem through a collection of fine-grained SoC security policies that enable on-the-fly monitoring and control of appropriate security-relevant events. Our approach, for the first time to our knowledge, provides an architecture-level solution for trusted SoC communication through run-time resilience in the presence of untrusted IPs. We demonstrate viability of our approach on a realistic SoC design through a series of attack models and show that our architecture incurs minimal to modest overhead in area, power, and system latency.


In this study, we examine whether Chinese Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms with more partners available to perform audit engagements deliver higher quality services. Based on a sample of 2,990 company-year observations over the period of 2002 to 2015, we find that CPA firms with smaller staff–partner ratios are associated with a lower likelihood of restatements of their clients' financial statements. Interestingly, we find that this association is less evident when engagement partners have excessive workloads, suggesting the need to balance workloads across partners within a firm. Overall, our results highlight the importance of considering partner availability and its impacts on audit quality, which echo regulators' growing concern about the inadequate mix of audit experience, expertise, and supervision within CPA firms. Our study is timely and the results are informative to the recent policy debate. From a public policy perspective, our results suggest that CPA firms should be required to disclose information about the deployment of audit partners to help financial statement users make inferences about the quality of their work.


themselves as worthy of further study. First, the regiments examined in Thunder at the Gates were very different. The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry was recruited first and had the highest percentage of freemen; the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry was organized last and recruited many ex-slaves. What difference did that make in their performance? Does it explain why the Fifty-Fourth is the best-known unit? Similarly, although the leadership of these units was often excellent, it was uneven. Adams, the commander of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, may have been a poor choice for such a difficult position. Moreover, some of these units fought in more battles and had more casualties. Partly, this may be the nature of Civil War combat—infantry units in the Civil War suffered more casualties than cavalry units did. How did the differences in level of combat and number of casualties affect the officers and men in the units? What did military service mean to black families? How did they cope when some of the men refused to accept their pay because it was much less than that of white soldiers? More can be done with these men's postwar stories. On the one hand, the men were recognized as Union heroes, honored in both the white and black community. On the other hand, military service meant that they suffered from wounds and chronic diseases that made their postwar lives a struggle. Beyond these suggestions, I cannot recommend this book enough for graduate and undergraduate classes, though its length may intimidate some students. If they do read it, they may be inspired to analyze these regiments and the families and postwar lives of the men who served in them, completing the work that Egerton has so nobly advanced. Barbara A. Gannon


Implosions of a target pellet exposed to an intense laser light are investigated numerically by using the spherically symmetric hydrodynamic equations. In order to obtain the maximum output of the fusion energy from the pellet, the following facts are pointed out: (1) There is an optimum value for the laser intensity: (2) It is effective to replace the outside part of the critical density of the target plasma by a substance with a heavier particle mass: (3) For large pellets, a larger laser power is efficient: (4) There is an optimum shape for the laser pulse: (5) More output energy is yielded from a pellet with a larger radius when the power and the pulse shape of the laser light are optimum.


A deceptively innocuous intellectual division of labor undergirds Middle East studies today. Imperial legacies, colonial missions, and nationalist as well as other liberationist projects are the subject matter for scholars who work in the conventionally defined "area" of the Middle East. Race is the purview of those who study Middle Eastern migrants "elsewhere" (i.e., the Americas, Australia, or Europe). In Between Arab and White, Sarah Gualtieri makes a landmark contribution by showing how these distinct phenomena are historically linked and that in order to gain a more complete picture of the former, one must engage with the latter as well. For example, at a time when the United States was ruled by Jim Crow laws and antiAsian immigration policies, the question that pre World War II Syrian migrants had to learn to ask themselves was, "To what race do we belong?"—and their response claiming whiteness— carried implications for homeland politics, foreign interventions, and the disassociation of the "Middle East" from Asia. With an introduction, five body chapters, a conclusion, and an epilogue, the book's main idea is that pre World War II Syrian ethnicity took shape in the United States through racial and nationalist ideologies that were in transnational circulation. Chapter 1 takes a refreshing look at the "premigratory context" of Bilad al-Sham, the land of geographical Syria now made up of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine. The author places in the same frame of analysis the "internal migration within and between provinces of the [Ottoman] empire" during the 19th century and the international mobility of persons that began in its final decades (p. 23). Underlying earlier intraimperial migratory movements from "the countryside to the city," writes Gualtieri (p. 29), was a "deeper transformation in the economy of Lebanon that would ultimately link what had been an internal migration system to an international one: the incorporation of Lebanon into a capitalist world economy." With a "high degree of flexibility" (p. 45), Syrian households in this land under economic transformation broke with earlier patterns of internal migration by sending one or more of their members abroad, mostly to the Americas. As peddlers, seamstresses, or textile manufacturers, many late 19thand early 20th-century Syrian migrants sought U.S. citizenship and struggled to comply with the racial restrictions of U.S. naturalization laws. Chapter 2 focuses on the ways that Syrianness was constructed in a U.S. racial order. The author shows that Syrians mobilized to stake their inclusion within the "white race" and thus fortify their U.S. citizenship applications. Early on, many used their Christianness to allege affinity with Europe, and later, they adopted racist attitudes toward African Americans and Asians to affirm their whiteness. Especially after the passage of U.S. xenophobic laws that prohibited or limited migration from a vague "Asiatic zone," Syrians "successfully" distinguished their homeland from "Asia." Gualtieri observes, "The exclusion of Syria from the Asiatic barred zone helped to consolidate" Syrians' claims to be part of


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Executive Summary Corporations are typically connected to two public, untrusted networks: the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN); and Wide Area Networks (WANs) or the Internet. Traditional phone stations or peripherals connect to the PSTN to enable voice calls, modem and fax communications, and video teleconferencing. Corporate computers connect to WANs or the Internet for data communications and access to information. Internet Protocol (IP) phones and soft phones either connect to the PSTN via a media gateway, or cross the corporate perimeter to connect to WANs or the Internet. Although nearly all corporations secure the Internet connection to their internal data networks with IP firewalls and related technologies, most corporations have yet to lock down their voice connection to the untrusted PSTN, or when present, bring an equal level of security to their IP telephony connections. An array of vulnerabilities in internal data networks, the traditional phone environment, and other critical corporate infrastructure are accessible through an enterprise's unsecured traditional phone network. Although attacks against an enterprise's Internet connection receive the most public attention, attacks against an enterprise through the traditional voice network are common. In a data network attack perpetrated through the traditional phone network, intruders bypass Internet-related defenses by using the PSTN to access unauthorized and poorly secured modems. Attackers exploit modems as interconnection devices between enterprise voice and data networks that enable cross-network attacks. Unauthorized modem use is prevalent in many corporations, due to the logging and filtering of Local Area Network (LAN)-based Internet sessions by IP firewalls. The only means by which an employee can initiate a private Internet session, is through an un-monitored enterprise phone line connection to their personal Internet Service Provider (ISP). Once connected over the PSTN, users can access any content, engage in any transaction, or upload and download any information—completely invisible to the enterprise security or networking team. The vast majority of unauthorized modems are non-secure and poorly configured, because access to private Internet usage is the employee's goal—not security of the corporate LAN. Beyond these unauthorized modems, nearly all enterprise's have a collection of authorized modems for uses such as vendor maintenance port access into key networking infrastructure and building systems. A typical enterprise, even one with restricted modem usage policies and procedures, has some number of unauthorized and/or poorly secured modems— open " back doors " into their data network. The traditional voice network is slowly migrating to Voice over …


ABSTRACT Three streams of corn dry-milled products (corn grits, corn cones, and corn flour) were sieved and separated according to average diameter, and some segregated fractions were ground to produce nine streams. Corn grits were separated to produce grits with diameters of 1.19 and 0.841 mm, and selected fractions were ground into grits with average diameters of 0.297 and 0.210 mm. Corn cones were separated into average diameters of 0.595, 0.420, and 0.297 mm. Corn flour was separated into fractions with average diameters of 0.297 and 0.210 mm. The original and the additional streams were extruded at constant speed (50 rpm) and at three different processing extruder barrel temperature profiles: low (LTP, 100-110-120°C), medium (MTP, 110-120-130°C), and high (HTP, 120-130-140°C). The least significant difference (P < 0.01) test showed that additional grinding of corn grits affects the expansion ratio of extrudates processed at LTP and HTP. Additional separation of corn flour affects (P < 0.01) the bulk ...


The aim of this work is to apply and evaluate different chemometric approaches employing several machine learning techniques in order to characterize the moisture content in biomass from data obtai ...


Objective To investigate clinical effects of preoperative antibiotics on infection afterperoral endoscopic myotomy ( POEM ) for achalasia. Methods This was a prospective randomizedcontrolled trial.Data for 20 patients who underwent POEM between June 2012 and September 2012 wasanalysed.POEM were finished successfully and all the patients followed inclusion criteria and exclusioncriteria.Patients in preoperative antibiotics group were administered intravenous ceftriaxone sodium 30 -60 min before operation and control group for equivalent normal saline. Complications,especially infection,were given close observation,as well as change of laboratory index.Results There was a significantincrease in leucocyte count,CRP (C reactive protein),neutrophil ratio and body temperature on the firstday postoperatively ( P 0.01 ),which then recovered to the normal level on the third day postoperatively.No infection-related complications were encountered,including significant temperature increase ( T 38.0℃ ).By contrast,the change tendency of leucocyte count and neutrophil ratio at 1 day pre-operationand 1,3,7day post-operation was of significant difference between two groups P 0.05 ),while that of CRPand temperature had a slight difference ( P 0.05 ).Additionally,leucocyte count and neutrophil ratio ofcontrol group increased more obviously than that of antibiotics group at 1 day pre-operation (P0.05).Conclusions It suggestedthat preoperative administration of antibiotics offered no clinical benefits in the prevention of infection after POEM if well preoperativepreparation and careful operation were performed.Meantime, study on a large scale are still awaited to reach the final conclusion.


Neutral Higgs bosons of the Standard Model and of the MSSM are searched for in the data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV by the ALEPH experiment at LEP, with an integrated luminosity of 176 pb − 1 . No evidence for a signal is found. A lower limit of 92.9 GeV =c 2 at 95% con(cid:12)dence level is set on the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson. In the MSSM, for tan (cid:12) (cid:21) 0 : 7 and for benchmark parameter choices, lower limits of 82.5 GeV =c 2 and 82.6 GeV =c 2 are derived for the masses of the neutral Higgs bosons h and A, respectively. An update of the general MSSM parameter scan is also presented.


Aim  We examined whether the community compositions of birds, lizards and small mammals were nested in a fragmented landscape in the Thousand Island Lake, China. We also assessed whether the mechanisms influencing nestedness differed among these taxonomic groups.


The double coincided rotating centers equipment of treating spine disease is a kind of new medical device which can cure the cervical and spine disease.It is based on principles of biomechanics and bonesetting of Chinese traditional medical manipulations.It is innovated independently in technology to avoid the defect of the similar equipment and make the rotating center of the equipment coincided with the center of body′s spine,so this equipment can imitate more accurately Chinese traditional medical manipulations such as stretching,rotary reduction,etc.This equipment can not only relieve the patient pain,but also improve the remedial effect.


An approach to study the properties of the criterion of dynamic efficiency and to develop methods of service management control of the integrity of automated information systems of information centres of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia.


Vibrio is a kind of common gram-negative bacteria, which is widely distributed in marine and estuarine environments. In the study, a novel marine phage vB_VhaP_PG11, infecting Vibrio hangzhouensis, was isolated from the offshore waters of Qingdao, China. vB_VhaP_PG11 is a double-stranded DNA phage. The whole genome proteomic tree shows that vB_VhaP_PG11 phage is related to two Vibrio phages, Vibrio phage 1.238.A._10N.261.52.F10 and Vibrio phage 1.245.O._10N.261.54.C7, but with low homology. Their amino acids identity with vB_VhaP_PG11 is 42.77 and 41.49% respectively. The prediction results of genome-blast distance phylogeny (GBDP) and the analysis gene-sharing network indicate that vB_VhaP_PG11 belongs to a new genus in Schitoviridae, named Qingschitovirus. The study of Vibrio phage vB_VhaP_PG11 provides basic information contributing to a better understanding of interactions between Vibrio phages and their hosts and helps analyze unknown viral sequences in the metagenomic database.


Following hydrothermal synthesis process, MCM-41 was synthesized by using cetyltfiethylammonium bromide as templating agent. The experimental results showed that MCM-41 with pore diameter in the range of 4-7 nm can be obtained by adjusting nSurf./nSi. It was proved that cetyltriethylammonium bromide is an effective templating agent for increasing pore diameter of molecular sieve MCM-41.


With the rapid growth of teaching scale equipments in Wuhan City Vocational College's Automobile Technology and Service College, it has become an urgent task to realize managing the instruments and equipments scientifically and applying them properly. This paper analysis the needs of Wuhan City Vocational College's automobile training base, using VC++6.0 as the development platform, base on the C/S model, and adopt network and database technology, then put forward the overall structure of the laboratory information management system based on network,design and implement a car training room equipment management information system.


Electronic medical records (EMR) have been implemented in developed countries since 1972 when the first computer-stored medical record at Wishard Memorial Hospital was designed. However, less seem ...


The notion of 'The Professional' emerged in the mid 19th century, tied intimately to the rise of the middle classes (Friedson, 1970). In this entry, I will consider briefly the history and rise of the profession, and discuss critical perspectives on the constructs of professionalisation, professionalism and The Professional. I will explore the analysis of professions as social institutions, and will also consider critically the construction of professional identities and the production of the 'Professional Psychologist'


Systematic structural and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) measurements were carried out on Cenozoic clay-rich deposits from the Transdanubian Range, central part of the Alcapa Unit. The aim was to improve the knowledge of the Neogene tectonic evolution of the area and of the connection of the stress field and the magnetic fabric of the sediments. The measurements of AMS revealed dominant foliation with weak lineation for Middle Eocene-Lower Miocene sediments. The directions of AMS lineation are aligned either with the direction of NNE-SSW extension of a strike slip phase (30–19 Ma) or with the direction of NE-SW extension of the main rifting phase of the Pannonian Basin (19–14 Ma).The studied Late Miocene sediments have foliated AMS fabric, maximum and intermediate AMS directions are intermixed, and the AMS fabrics do not show any sign of tectonic deformation. In contrast, joints and faults were observed in the same rocks. Detailed structural analysis shows two extensional phases between ca. 1...


This paper takes Xiahe dialect of Tibetan Amdo as the research object, and there is a special linguistic phenomenon in Xiahe dialect-compound consonants. The paper sorted out the compound consonant system of Xiahe dialect and showed the air flow waveform of different compound consonants. According to the analysis of the air flow parameters of different pre consonant pronunciation, it is concluded that the clarity of pre consonant has a certain impact on the pronunciation duration and average air flow speed.


The research was conducted to explore the characteristics of Ongole grade cows. The research was held in Klirong sub-district, Kebumen regency. Two hundred thirty of Ongole grade farmers were involved in this research and interviewed on cows reproduction characteristics and breeding management, while exterior characteristics and body size were measured directly on 217 head of Ongole grade cows. Data of body size and cows performance were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while exterior characteristics were analyzed descriptively and presented in percentages. Exterior characteristics of Ongole grade cows were white color in body and face, have a hump, big dewlap, long and hanging ears. Body size of Ongole grade cows at the three to four years old in terms of heart girth, shoulder height, body length, hip height, hip width and head index were 168.60±13.15 cm; 131.10±8.71 cm; 135.57±13.70 cm; 136.20±13.03 cm; 45.23±1.03 cm and 0.41±0.01, while at cows more than four years old were 170.97±11.02 cm; 130.10±5.61 cm; 136.00±9.21 cm; 136.67±5.83 cm; 45.27±0.99 cm and 0.41±0.01. The PPE, PPM, and S/C of Ongole grade cows were 4.07±0.18 months, 5.01±0.38 months, and 1.71±0.14. It was concluded that body sizes and performance of Ongole grade cows still in the normal range and relatively better than another research.


In this brief, we investigate a finite-time output regulation (FTOR) problem for linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems (LHMAS). The objective is to design protocols such that each agent can follow the reference signal within a finite time. An exosystem is given to generate the reference signal and disturbances. Only a part of agents are assumed to have access to the system matrix and state of the exosystem. First, smooth distributed finite-time observers are designed to estimate them. Then, with the help of feedforward method, smooth state feedback and output feedback controllers are designed to address the FTOR problem. By virtue of the finite-time control method and the OR technique, it is shown that the proposed smooth distributed observers and controllers can achieve the finite-time convergence of the estimation errors and error outputs, respectively. Finally, a numerical example is presented for illustration.