Nonlinear magnetoplasmonics aims to utilize plasmonic excitations to control the mechanisms and tailor the efficiencies of nonlinear light frequency conversion at the nanoscale. We investigate the mechanisms of magnetic second-harmonic generation in hybrid gold–cobalt–silver multilayer structures, which support propagating surface plasmon polaritons at both fundamental and second-harmonic frequencies. Using magneto-optical spectroscopy in Kretschmann geometry, we show that the huge magneto-optical modulation of the second-harmonic intensity is dominated by the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons at the second-harmonic frequency, as shown by tuning the optical wavelength over the spectral region of strong plasmonic dispersion. Our proof-of-principle experiment highlights bright prospects of nonlinear magnetoplasmonics and contributes to the general understanding of the nonlinear optics of magnetic surfaces and interfaces.


In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the throughput of Byzantine agreement, for two cases: i. communication link's capacity is fixed; and ii. the sum capacity of all links in the system is fixed. Byzantine is a classical problem in distributed computing, with initial solutions presented in the seminal work of Pease, Shostak and Lamport. The notion of throughput here is similar to that used in the networking/communications literature on unicast or multicast traffic. In case i, we characterize the maximum achievable agreement throughput in four-node networks. In case ii, we identify sufficient condition for achieving agreement throughput R.


Hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide (a-Si1-xCx:H) films were prepared by pulse-modulated rf plasma deposition under the conditions of a constant peak-to-peak rf voltage, a constant plasma-on-time and various plasma-off-times. The infrared absorption spectra showed that the peak of C–Hn wagging mode had the highest intensity, except for that of Si–Hn wagging mode, although for a-Si1-xCx:H films prepared using a continuous wave plasma this peak is scarcely observed or very small and is always smaller than that of Si–CH3 wagging mode. The carbon content increased with increasing the plasma off time, indicating that the intake of carbon atoms occurred mainly during the plasma off time. The photoconductivity and photosensitivity slightly increased with increasing the plasma off time although the carbon content also increased.


The invention provides an energy storing device capacity computing method, which comprises the following steps of obtaining the wind energy loss of a wind power plant, wherein the wind energy loss comprises a power generation power sequence and a draught fan suspending sequence; collecting an energy storage charging and discharging capacity sequence and frequency required in each year; computing the unit charging and discharging energy profit of the energy storage device; obtaining the lowest use ratio when the energy storage device reaches a profit and loss balance point; and according to the lowest use ratio, computing the energy storing device capacity. The method is not limited to the specific type of the energy storage device or the control mode of a wind power plant or is not limited to whether the wind power plant can be put into operation, and has the universality.


I've brought Chrystos to tell you that : I am not your princess ... I am only willing to tell you how to make frybread 1 cup flour, spoon of salt, spoon of baking powder Stir Add milk or water or beer until it holds together Slap piece into rounds Let rest Fry in hot grease until golden. I've brought Cherrie to let you know that: ... the concept of betraying one's race through sex and sexual politics is as common as corn.


The Development of marine information sharing is an important basis for realizing marine sustainable development in China. This paper discusses the key technologies of WebGIS used in marine information sharing, for example, the marine base map processing, devleloping the WebGIS system of marine information service. Based on this research, a technical way is given to build the marine information WebGIS system.


At present, the concept of Smart Grid is intimately related to huge volumes of data generation, known as Big Data. These play a key role as far as the improvement of the network operation is concerned and, above all, when it comes to energy consumption. Hence the load forecast based on Big Data processing represents a reliable alternative in carrying out an accurate load prediction. As such, a new approach for the power load forecast, based on GAN data augmentation, for a hospital, within a Smart Grid, will be presented in this work.


The invention relates to a rupikang traditional Chinese medicine composition and a capsule preparation method, which is characterized in that the traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises the following ingredients in parts by weight: 200-400 parts of selfheal, 200-400 parts of bupleurum, 100-300 parts of radix curcumae, 100-300 parts of rhizoma cyperi, 50-200 parts of orange leaves, 100-300 parts of root of red-rooted salvia, 50-150 parts of safflower, 100-200 parts of red peony root, 30-100 parts of peach kernel, 50-150 parts of elecampane, 50-150 parts of corydalis tuber, 50-150 parts of leonurus, 50-150 parts of dandelion and 50-150 parts of fructus forsythiae. The treatment method gives priority to soothing the liver and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and eliminating stagnation and embodies the treatment principle of mastitis of promoting the circulation of qi, removing stagnancy, reducing phlegm and resolving masses, removing stasis and relieving pain, thereby being matched with the pathogenesis of acute mastitis, treating both symptoms and root causes and having excellent curative effect. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is particularly suitable for nodules of breast of breast collateral qi stagnation, phlegm accumulation and congestion coalesce into nuclear resulting from liver qi congestion, extravasated blood, depression and congestion of channels and collaterals, and meanwhile, the traditional Chinese medicine composition is suitable for other breast diseases.


In Glioblastoma (GBM), tumor spreading is driven by tumor cells' ability to infiltrate healthy brain parenchyma, which prevents complete surgical resection and contributes to tumor recurrence. GBM molecular subtypes, classical, proneural and mesenchymal, were shown to strongly correlate with specific genetic alterations (Mesenchymal: NF1; Classical: EGFRVIII; Proneural: PDGFRA). Here we tested the hypothesis that a key mechanistic difference between GBM molecular subtypes is that proneural cells are slow migrating and mesenchymal cells are fast migrating. Using Sleeping Beauty transposon system, immune-competent murine brain tumors were induced by SV40-LgT antigen in combination with either NRASG12V (NRAS) or PDGFB (PDGF) overexpression. Cross-species transcriptomic analysis revealed NRAS and PDGF-driven tumors correlate with human mesenchymal and proneural GBM, respectively. Similar to human GBM, CD44 expression was higher in NRAS tumors and, consistent with migration simulations of varying CD44 levels, ex vivo brain slice live imaging showed NRAS tumors cells migrate faster than PDGF tumors cells (random motility coefficient = 30µm2/hr vs. 2.5µm2/hr, p < 0.001). Consistent with CD44 function as an adhesion molecule, migration phenotype was independent of the tumor microenvironment. NRAS and human PDX/MES tumor cells were found to migrate faster and have larger cell spread area than PDGF and human PDX/PN tumors cells, respectively, in healthy mouse brain slices. Furthermore, traction force microscopy revealed NRAS tumor cells generate larger traction forces than PDGF tumors cells which further supports our theoretical mechanism driving glioma migration. Despite increased migration, NRAS cohort had better survival than PDGF which was attributed to enhanced antitumoral immune response in NRAS tumors, consistent with increased immune cell infiltration found in human mesenchymal GBM. Overall our work identified a potentially actionable difference in migration mechanics between GBM subtypes and establishes an integrated biophysical modeling and experimental approach to mechanically parameterize and simulate distinct molecular subtypes in preclinical models of cancer.


Measuring word semantic similarity is a generic problem with a broad range of applications such as ontology mapping, computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. Previous approaches to computing word semantic similarity did not consider concept occurrence frequency and word's sense number. This paper introduced Hyponymy graph, and based on which proposed a novel word semantic similarity model. For two words to be compared, we first retrieve their related concepts; then produce lowest common ancestor matrix and distance matrix between concepts; finally calculate distance-based similarity and information-based similarity, which are integrated to get final semantic similarity. The main contribution of our method is that both concept occurrence frequency and word's sense number are taken into account. This similarity measurement more closely fits with human rating and effectively simulates human thinking process. Our experimental results on benchmark dataset M&C and R&G with WordNet2.1 as platform demonstrate roughly 0.9%–1.2% improvements over existing best approaches.


Objective: The objective of the research determines to isolate the active compound from ethyl acetate fraction of roselle calyx and its activity as xanthine oxidase inhibitor. Methods: Isolation of active compound from the ethyl acetate fraction of roselle calyx was using Sephadex LH-20, and the activity of xanthine oxidase inhibitory effect was determined by measuring uric acid formation in UV Spectrophotometry Result: Isolation of active compound from ethyl acetate fraction of roselle calyx using Sephadex LH- 20 produced isolates that have a role in anti-hyperuricemia activity. Identification of isolate was based on the UV, NMR, FTIR Spectrophotometry analysis and showed that the isolate was 3 -ethyl -4 hydroxy-5-methyl benzaldehyde. In vitro assay demonstrated that the isolate inhibited xanthine oxidase and its ability as xanthine oxidase inhibitor was relatively good compared to the fraction which isolates 100 µg/ml at 34.07 % respectively, with IC50 isolate was 143.45 µ g/ml. Conclusion: 3-ethyl-4 hydroxy-5methylbenzaldehyde isolated from roselle calyx has xanthine oxidase inhibitor activity.


Taguchi concepts have been developed into an engineering method of quality improvement referred to as Quality Engineering in Japan and as Robust Design in the West, which is a disciplined engineering process that seeks to find the best trade-off of a product design. A safety optimization framework using Taguchi concepts is proposed in this paper. An example is used to demonstrate the application of the framework in maritime safety studies. Following a brief review of Taguchi concepts and techniques used in Robust Design, this paper discusses how the Taguchi concepts such as 'quality loss function', 'signal-to-noise ratio', 'orthogonal arrays', 'degree of freedom' and 'analysis of variance' may be synthesized in maritime safety engineering studies. Brainstorming, an integral part of the Taguchi philosophy, is also briefly discussed. Orthogonal arrays are used to study many parameters simultaneously with a minimum of time and resources to produce an overall picture for more detailed safety-based design and operational decision-making. The signal-to-noise ratio is employed to measure quality; in this case, risk level. The loss function is considered as an innovative means for determining the economic advantage of improving system safety or operational safety. Noise factors are considered as any uncontrollable or uncontrolled variables or any other undesired influences. Control factors are the variables that are set by the designers that will characterize the performance as well as safety level of a system throughout its life cycle. The outcomes of this paper may provide the fundamental knowledge for safety analysts to utilize the Taguchi concepts and methodologies. A hypothetical example with simple analysis techniques is used to illustrate how the Taguchi method can be used to extract from expert judgements those factors the experts judge as most vital when they perform risk estimation for a ship with the purpose of determining insurance rates.


Security is a major focus of attention for operators and users of the Internet and its many applications. Among the thorny problems still inadequately addressed is identity authentication for purposes of associating a particular user with particular services and authorizations. What we seek is a way to identify users such that forging credentials is difficult for adversaries, while providing strong authentication of their chosen identifiers remains easy and convenient for users.


Flexible and temperature tolerant nano-hybrid membranes consisting of zirconium (titanium) oxides and polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) with the different molecular mass of 4500 and 600 have been synthesized by sol-gel processes. The membrane of zirconium/PDMS=2 (in molar) showed enhanced thermal stability and flexibility up to 300 °C due to the presence of cross-linkable inorganic nano-phase in the hybrid macromolecular matrix. The membrane becomes proton conducting polymer electrolyte when doped with 12-phosphotungstic acid (PWA). The proton conducting properties of the hybrid membranes with various PWA concentration were measured in the temperature range from room temperature to 150°C under saturated humidity conditions. A maximum conductivity of 2×10 -2 S/cm was obtained at 150°C when the PDMS/zirconium oxides hybrid matrix was changed to gel state due to the higher water activity at elevated temperatures.


We present a version of Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking which preserves an R-symmetry—the gauginos are Dirac particles, the A-terms are zero, and there are four Higgs doublets. This offers an alternative way for gauginos to acquire mass in the supersymmetry-breaking models of Intriligator, Seiberg, and Shih. We investigate the possibility of using R-symmetric gauge mediation to realize the spectrum and large sfermion mixing of the model of Kribs, Poppitz, and Weiner.


The strategy of an enterprise refers to the general planning of a long-term development of a company,which,if correct,can put the company in a favorable position in both the harsh competition on the market and the complex social environment.SWOT Matrix analysis is just such an effective method in assessing the development strategies of enterprises.This paper puts forward some suggestions as a result of the practice of SWOT matrix analysis with the strategic position of Shenyang Elevator Company.


We present an overview of multi variable coded aperture (MVCA) for lensless three-dimensional integral imaging (3D II) systems. The new configuration is based on a time multiplexing method using a variable pinholes array design. The system provides higher resolution 3D images with improved light intensity and signal to noise ratio as compared to single pinhole system. The MVCA 3D II system configuration can be designed to achieve high light intensity for practical use as micro lenslets arrays. This new configuration preserves the advantages of pinhole optics while solving the resolution limitation problem and the long exposure time of such systems. The three dimensional images are obtained with improved resolution, signal to noise ratio and sensitivity efficiency. This integral imaging lensless system is characterized by large depth of focus, simplicity and low cost. In this paper we present numerical simulations as well as experimental results that validate the proposed lensless imaging configuration.


The invention relates to a copolymer dispersing agent and a carboxylate terpolymer dispersing agent and a preparing technology thereof. The carboxylate terpolymer dispersing agent is prepared from, by mass, 10-20 parts of styrene, 30-50 parts of itaconic acid and derivatives thereof and 20-30 parts of hydroxyethyl methylacrylate. The itaconic acid and the derivatives thereof comprise the itaconic acid and esters thereof; the hydroxyethyl methylacrylate comprises hydroxypropyl methacrylate, butyl methacrylate and the like. The carboxylate terpolymer dispersing agent has the advantages that the carboxylate terpolymer dispersing agent simultaneously containing the itaconic acid and hydroxyethyl methylacrylate units has the good water solubility, and has the good adaptability of the pH value of a dispersing system; the dispersing agent has the ideal polymerization degree and carboxyl, dispersed substances are stable in dispersion through the steric-hinerance effect and electrostatic repulsion, and the viscosity of the system is low; the preparing technology is simple, operating is easy, the production cycle is short, the cost is low, environmental pollution is free, and the carboxylate terpolymer dispersing agent is suitable for industrial scale production.


A metabelian group is a group whose commutator subgroup is abelian. Similarly, a group G is metabelian if and only if there exists an abelian normal subgroup, A, such that the quotient group, G / A , is abelian. The scope of this research is only for nonabelian metabelian groups of order 32. The commutativity degree of a group G is the probability that two elements of the group G (chosen randomly with replacement) commute. This probability can be used to measure how close a group is to be abelian. This concept has been extended to the co-prime probability which is defined as the probability of a random pair of elements x and y in G for which the greatest common divisor for the order of x and order of y is equal to one. Furthermore, the study of relative commutativity degree of a subgroup H of a group G which is the probability of an element in H commutes with an element in G is included in this research. Previous researchers have determined the commutativity degree of nonabelian metabelian groups of order at most 32. Meanwhile, the co-prime probability and the relative commutativity degree of both cyclic and noncyclic subgroups H are obtained for nonabelian metabelian groups of order at most 30. Since there is no nonabelian group of order 31, thus in this research the co-prime probability and the relative commutativity degree of cyclic subgroups for nonabelian metabelian groups of order 32 are determined.


This study investigates the written test results of the Indonesian undergraduate students' argumentative essay. For that reason, three research questions are made. 1). what is the level of achievement of the students in the argumentative essay quantitatively? 2). what aspects of an essay appear in respect to the argumentative essay generic structure as formulated? 3). how well did they use the rhetoric reputation and argument in their essay?. 27 handwriting' answer sheets of undergraduate English Department students enrolled at semester four of a state university in Indonesia were taken purposively. The data analysis uses a quantitative and qualitative approach. The results show that the students quantitatively achieved average score 76,74 which means good. All parts of generic structures were expressed in different quality. However; the organization of the essay is the lowest part compared to the other four parts respectively content, vocabulary, and language use seen from their segmented scores . This study is confirmed to be inline the previous study in that the majority of the students did not present the refutation section in both their English essays. This implies that teachers should be more aware of promoting this absent aspect as this refutation or rebuttal is a distinguishing marker in argumentative and discussion essays.


Objective To explore women's lived experiences of a dehisced perineal wound following childbirth and how they felt participating in a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT). Design A nested qualitative study using semistructured interviews, underpinned by descriptive phenomenology. Participants and setting A purposive sample of six women at 6–9 months postnatal who participated in the RCT were interviewed in their own homes. Results Following Giorgi's analytical framework the verbatim transcripts were analysed for key themes. Women's lived experiences revealed 4 emerging themes: (1) Physical impact, with sub-themes focusing upon avoiding infection, perineal pain and the impact of the wound dehiscence upon daily activities; (2) Psychosocial impact, with sub-themes of denial, sense of failure or self-blame, fear, isolation and altered body image; (3) Sexual impact; and (4) Satisfaction with wound healing. A fifth theme 'participating in the RCT' was 'a priori' with sub-themes centred upon understanding the randomisation process, completing the trial questionnaires, attending for hospital appointments and acceptability of the treatment options. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, this is the first qualitative study to grant women the opportunity to voice their personal experiences of a dehisced perineal wound and their views on the management offered. The powerful testimonies presented disclose the extent of morbidity experienced while also revealing a strong preference for a treatment option. Trial registration number ISRCTN05754020; results.


The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has recently entered into a marketing agreement with its counterpart, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.* An aspect of this collaboration is the receipt of review copies of the multifarious publications of our American sister institution. The volumes considered here are compilations of papers presented at the 1989 ASME Winter Meeting, specifically those relating to the subject area of the Journal of Power and Energy. They provide a snapshot of the present concerns of mechanical engineers in the United States, and it is hoped that successive reviews of this kind will provide readers of the Journal with an insight into developments there. The three volumes under the common title 'Analysis and design of energy systems' comprise a coherent group. The underlying themes of all the contributions are the rising monetary cost of fuels, combined with an increasing awareness of the environmental cost of energy use. The first volume, with the sub-title 'Computer-aided engineering', concentrates on the application of computing techniques to the optimization of the design and operation of a variety of thermal systems. These range from coal-fired power stations, through diesel engines, to individual heat exchangers. In most cases the computer has been used to analyse a system model representing the operation of actual or proposed plant. In one paper a different approach has been adopted : using search algorithms, similar to those originating in the


have shown an octahedral coordination geometry for the tungsten atom with the diphosphines acting as monodentate ligands. The electrochemical behaviour of the complexes was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and controlled potential coulometry. Cyclic voltammograms have indicated that the compounds containing diphosphines ligands are more stable towards oxidation than compound (1).


Background/Purpose: This study evaluates the toxicity after radiotherapy after mastectomy without reconstruction in patients irradiated to the chest wall using previously reported technique of PMERT.
 Materials/Methods: We included all women irradiated after mastectomy for not metastatic breast cancer with PMERT between 2007 and 2011 in the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Institut Curie. Previously reported technique using mostly electrons was evaluated in terms of efficacy and toxicity. Acute and late toxicities were assessed retrospectively using CTCAE v.4.0. A clinical exam was weekly performed during radiotherapy and one and three months following the completion of radiotherapy. Patients were then followed as recommended in Institut Curie guidelines (Senorif). Quantitative and qualitative data were described respectively as means and proportions. Statistical comparisons were computed using X² or Fischer's exact test for categorical data. Recurrence free survival (RFS) was defined as the time between the end of treatment and the date of recurrence or death. Overall survival was the same but recurrences were not taken into account. Patients who did not experienced any event were censored at the date of last news.
 Results: Among the 796 women included, 51.3% had multifocal lesions, 10.1% a triple negative (TN) status and 18.8% a HER2+ positive status; 196 (24.6%) received a neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and 208 (26.1 %) a systemic therapy during radiotherapy (chemotherapy and/or targeted therapy); 514 (64.6%) had at least one positive lymph node (LN). Internal mammary chain (IMC) was treated in 85.6% of cases, supraclavicular LN (L4) in 88.3% of cases, infraclavicular (L3-2-IP+/- L1) LN in 77.9% of cases and low axilla (L1) in 14.9% of cases. With a median follow up of 113 months [range : 2-164] locoregional recurrence-free survival and overall survival at 10 years were respectively 94.02 (IC95% : 92.13-98.94) and 79.84 (IC95% : 76.83-82.97). The median survival was not reached. In the long term, 29.6% of patients had telangiectasia (grade 1: 23.3%, grade 2: 5.2% Grade 3: 1.1%). Totally 279 patients (35.1%) had breast reconstruction, on average 21 months after the end of radiotherapy. Twenty-five patients (3%) had early esophageal toxicity, not exceeding the grade 1. Of these patients, 21 had had chemotherapy and all were irradiated on the lymph nodes (24 including the IMC). Irradiation of the IMC was not associated with an increased chronic lung toxicity (OR=1.03 [0.98-1.09]). There were 35 patients who developed heart disease after the end of the treatment. Of them, 30 patients had received anthracyclines (p=1.05) and 9 trastuzumab (p =1.09). Four patients developed ischemic heart disease, 3/4 irradiated on the left chest wall, all on the CMI and supra and infraclavicular LN, but all of them presented multiple cardiovascular risk factors (2 to 4).
 Conclusions: Our series have shown that the PMERT using the Institut Curie technique is effective and well tolerated.
 Table 1. patients and tumor characteristics (n=796). HR+ : hormonal receptor positive HER2+ : HER-2 overexpressed Cardiovascular risk factor : (smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, family history of coronary heart disease or vascular events) as described by the French Health Authority (HAS, Haute Autorité de Santé).
 Table 2. Efficiency (n=796, median follow-up: 113 months; range : [2-164]). HR+ : hormonal receptor positive HER 2+ : Her-2 overexpressed TNBC : Triple negative or basal-like cancer, OS : overall survival LRFS : local recurrence free survival LRRFS : locoregional recurrence free survival MFS : metastasis free survival
 Multivariate analysis : long term toxicity IMC irradiation : Irradiation of the internal mammary chain, OR : Odd ratio
 Citation Format: Souidi Sami, Pierre Loap, Alain Fourquet, Youlia M. Kirova. Postmastectomy electron beams radiation therapy (PMERT) : long term results [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2022 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(5 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-10-01.


Analysis of physicochemical properties of Eucalyptus citriodora gum revealed that the gum is mildly acidic, brownish in colour, ionic and has the potentials to swell four times its original volume. GCMS analysis of the gum indicated the presence of some carboxylic acids, pyran-4-one, 1,3-dioxolane, benzofuran and 1,2-ethanediyl acetate while analysis of its FTIR spectrum revealed functional groups that are common to polysaccharides. Scanning electron micrograph of the gum also revealed the existence of particle aggregations with some internal bridges within the system. Rheological properties of the gum were found to be affected by pH, concentration, temperature and by the presence of some electrolytes (KCl, CaCl2, AlCl3 and urea). Average value of intrinsic viscosity deduced from Huggins and Kraemer plots was 3.51 dL/g while the sum of their constants was 0.36 (i,e C*) and ηsp0 α C 0.95 (at C < C*) respectively) was established. Eucalyptus citriodora gum is a shear thinning, non-Newtonian polymer that is characterized by pseudoplastic behavior. The gum has some potentials for use as food additives and for other industrial applications.


Privacy right is generally based on individualistic arguments, however the solidarity principle must apply, providing privacy right a social approach. This paper argues that such understanding is found in the rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and analysis relevant evidence in that regard. It concludes that the right of information self-determination in Germany is set within its proper social place, where the person must be able to maintain his/her autonomy in a context defined socially, and remain responsible for the general good.


The article analyses the opinion of AG Kokott in N Luxembourg 1 (C-115/16) - the 'Danish' case concerning the Interest and Royalties Directive.


We show that for a system of localized electrons in an impurity band, which form an Anderson insulating state at zero temperature, there can appear quantum oscillations of the magnetization, i.e. the Anderson insulator can exhibit the de Haas-van Alphen effect. This is possible when the electronic band from which the localized states are formed has an extremum that traces out a nonzero area in reciprocal space. Our work extends existing theories for clean band insulators of this form to the situation where they host an impurity band. We show that the energies of these impurity levels oscillate with magnetic field, and compute the conditions under which these oscillations can dominate the de Haas-van Alphen effect. We discuss our results in connection with experimental measurements of quantum oscillations in Kondo insulators, and propose other experimental systems where the impurity band contribution can be dominant.


Thin films of TaSix, have been grown on Si( 111), SiO2 and graphite by LPCVD using SiF2 and TaX5(X = F, Cl) as the precursors. Thin films prepared at 190–300 °C contained polycrystalline TaSi2; 190 °C is the lowest temperature reported for the CVD preparation of TaSi2. The compositions of the thin films were found to be 50% TaSi2 and 50% amorphous silicon (a-Si).


covering. His discussion of the problem of gobbledygook in communication, for example, is persuasive, and the examples clearly illustrate the obfuscation that results from such language. In the discussion of charisma and leadership, however, confusion arises because Goldhaber does not use the standard critical definitions of hero and anti-hero. In calling John Lennon a hero because of his striking appearance and drug use and Walter Cronkite an anti-hero because he projects a fatherly image, the author distorts the discussion of leadership. Further confusion arises when Henry Kissinger is cited as an example of a &dquo;mystic,&dquo; one quality of which is that he &dquo;looks different from most people.&dquo; Charisma as a factor of leadership is a significant topic, but the nonstandard use of terms here will not help student understanding. The chapter exercises are numerous and are designed to stimulate student awareness of communication processes. One, for example, asks a student to attend a meeting and note how decision making occurs. Some


[Objective] To reveal the leaf growth rules and correlation between the agronomic traits of foxtail millet.[Method] The Chigu series of foxtail millet: Chigu No.4,Chigu No.5,Chigu No.6,Chigu No.8,Chigu No.9,Chigu No.10 and Fenggu 12 were selected as the material,10 strains were collected of each cultivar to observe the growth rules of their leaves and measure their plant height,ear length,1 000-grain weight,section number,grass weight,ear weight,per plant yield and other agronomic traits.[Result] The growth rate of seven tested varieties was basically consistent at the seedling stage,their first leaves all appeared at 3-4 d,but the growth of leaves became fast after the appearance of fifteen leaves;the leaves number of Chigu No.4,Chigu No.5,Chigu No.6,Chigu No.8,Chigu No.9,Chigu No.10,and Fenggu 12 in Chifeng area was 22,21,20,24,21-22,21-22 and 23.The leaves growth of Chigu No.6 completed the earliest,while that of Chigu No.10 completed the latest.Thus,Chigu No.6 matured the earliest,while Chigu No.10 matured the latest.Single plant yield was positively correlated with ear weight,while negatively correlated with 1 000-grain weight,plant height,ear length,grass weight and section number.Plant height and ear length were positively correlated with grass weight.[Conclusion] The study provides guidance for the breeding of new cultivars and realizes the high yield and high quality of foxtail millet.


Beginning in 2015, the University of Missouri – St. Louis Archaeological Field School has taken place at the site of Regent Spring, a popular mineral water spring in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. The previous surveys of this and surrounding mineral spring sites have left much to be desired. This is in part due to the frequent flooding and subsequent erosion of the nearby Fishing River, which has altered the landscape and topography to a great degree over the past century. Over the course of this first ever archaeological excavation at the Regent Spring site, students at the field school led by Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel Pierce were able to rediscover long forgotten features of this popular turn of the century tourist attraction and subsequently map portions of the site. This project cumulates three years of excavation and mapping, also piecing together primary source documents for the purposes of recreating the original Regent Spring pavilion site. In addition, this research provides context into the use and significance of the site in the context of the overall narrative of Excelsior Springs at the height of the town's popularity as a health retreat in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Background: Regent Spring Originally known as Empire Spring, the pavilion for this spring, with its iron manganese water, was erected in 1888 on the banks of the Fishing River. The surrounding plot of land was used for what would later become Regent Amusement Park, and included a 2100 seat auditorium. At its heyday, the Regent Spring pavilion provided thousands of visitors from across the country with draughts of the mineral water at a small charge. These patrons would often also visit the bath houses, sanitoriums, and other hydropathy centers located in town for the supposed curative properties of the various mineral waters. By the turn of the century, business was booming. In 1935, the spring was acquired by the city of Excelsior Springs and chosen to be one of 10 springs piped into the Hall of Waters, an art deco structure housing the world's largest water bar which now functions as City Hall. At this time, the pavilion was torn down, only to remain in historic postcards from the previous century.


Surses have long championed the cause of high-quality health care. They were the first provider group to argue before policy makers that it wasn't enough to provide universal access to health care; it must also be of the highest quality. In recent years, patients and consumers have concurred by educating themselves about our system of health care delivery. It should come as no surprise, then, that the latest "demand" voiced by consumers and "cause" articulated by lawmakers is that providers demonstrate competency throughout their careers. The traditional licensure


We have analysed results of examination of 63 children under 16 years of age with post-traumatic knee synovitis using general clinical and X-ray methods, MRT, and arthroscopy. MRT proved to be the most informative method making possible localization and characteristic of pathology responsible for the development of synovitis. Post-traumatic knee synovitis most frequently occurred in children with affected meniscus and ligaments and in those with a free intra-articular body or cartilage injury. Operative arthroscopy was performed in 38 children.


Summary of the research:Research aims at knowing the relation ship between the control coach behaviour and the psychological basic needs thwarting of football players in minia governorate. The two researchers used the descriptive method as it is suitable for this kind of research. The research involved the football players in minia who are members in the Egyptian football Association in the season 2020/2021. They are (287) players. The two researchers chose (130) players to be the targeted persons for the research at percent of (45.29%). The researchers used control coach behaviour scale as wellas psychological basic needs thwarting scale. On adopting thiese on the targeted persons, the most importand findings showed that there is a strong negative static relationship between the controlling use of rewards, need thwarting – autonomy and need thwarting-Competence. There is also a non-static relationship between negative conditional regard and excessive personal control, as well as between need thwarting – autonomy and need thwarting relatedness.There has been also a non-static relationship with need thwarting – competence. There is a relationship with intimidation, need thwarting-autonomy and need thwarting relatedness. There is also a negative relationship with need thwarting. Competence for the targeted persons. The most important recommendations were to study the relationship between the control coach behaviour with the other psychological changes on other different groups of players. We also assure the importance of considering the psychological needs of the players.


The voice server (4) exchanges voice messages with users and has a neural network programme (43) using biometric analysis by Markov techniques to determine the user (1) age and adapt the responses including to divert young callers to suitable officials (5,6) if access to sites not permitted to young people is requested.


Elliptic filters are optimum in the sense of providing the most ideal bandpass response, i.e. the most square response, for a given passband and stopband ripple and with the fewest number of stages; consequently, they are very attractive for (de)multiplexing and add/drop applications in WDM systems. Recently, a new optical architecture based on all-pass filter decomposition was described in theory which can exactly realize elliptic filters as well as other designs such as the Butterworth and Chebyshev. The first experimental demonstration of this architecture is reported using planar waveguide ring resonators.


It has become axiomatic that Tristram Shandy [1] is a self-reflexive text about narrative, about the construction of textuality and about its own relation to its reader. Denominated one of the first 'modernist' works, Tristram Shandy's structural anomalies have been perceived as arising from the attempt to undo the novel form itself. What has never been understood, however, is that Tristram Shandy is neither simply nor primarily a formalist text about text. Instead, this formalism is generated by, and has behind it, a political purpose: to tell, through the account of Tristram and his family, the story of the conception and birth of Ireland and the effects of religious persecution and English policies on it, from the time of Elizabeth until the period when the novel was published. From the first page, Tristram, as narrator, recounts, in very specific ways, the history of English–Irish relations. In 1659, after Cromwell's scorched-earth policy in Ireland and his six-year suspension of parliament, John Milton, Cromwell's Latin Secretary, addressed the reconvened parliament and called the preceding six years when parliament was not in session a 'short but scandalous night of interruption'. '[M]y mother's' words to her husband at the outset of the novel: 'Pray, my Dear ... have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' parody Milton's image of a six-year period as one night. It is during just such a night of interruption that Tristram (the Irish nation) is conceived by Walter (parliament) and 'my mother' (the land of Ireland). Laurence Sterne provides confirmation for the conclusion that Tristram Shandy is an allegory of the history of Ireland in a number of ways. For example, Tristram's description of himself as having 'a crack in my back,—and here's a great piece fallen off here before,—and what must I do with this foot? I shall never reach England with it' (V, xi, p. 438) makes no sense if applied to a man; it is perfectly comprehensible, however, if we realise that he is talking about himself in terms of an anthropomorphised map of Ireland with the Shannon River as the 'crack in [his] back'. Likewise, Tristram emphasises his father's concern with noses and their significance; he tells us that his own family, which has 'felt the turn of the wheel' but which 'rank'd very high in king Harry the VIIIth's time ... had never recovered the blow of my great grandfather's nose—It was an ace of clubs' (III, xxxiii, p. 261). It becomes as 'plain as the nose on a man's face' that Tristram's grandfather was sporting a trefoil, clover, or shamrock— the floral emblem of the Irish—for a nose. However, just in case the reader initially misses the import of the nose on a man's face, Tristram even includes a story, 'Slawkenbergius's Tale', which devotes thirty-six pages to problematising the meaning and signification of the nose on a man's face. Sterne was born in Tipperary and spent most of his first ten years in Ireland [2]; he was a person with a strong sense of justice, and, although an Anglican clergyman, he did not hold doctrinaire positions. It is thus not surprising that he should identify with


The causes and consequences of habitat distribution of larvae of the mayfly Paraleptophlebia guttata were analyzed in a 2nd-order stream in west-central Kentucky. Among macrohabitats, larvae were typically significantly more dense in runs and riffles than in pools. Densities were positively related to the percentage of coarse substrata in macrohabitats, but were not correlated with current velocity, predatory fish densities, or the quantity of fine particulate organic matter (food) in macrohabitats. This relationship between density and substratum coarseness was further evidenced in an in-situ colonization experiment in which larvae selected gravel and pebble substrata over sand. Among microhabitats, larvae were more abundant in leaf litter and in gravel/pebble than in silt/sand. Laboratory manipulations showed that predation rates by fish were significantly lower on mayflies in leaf litter and gravel than in fine substrata. The combined effects of substratum particle size and fish predation determine habitat distributions of larvae. Larger larvae were more abundant in runs than in riffles, but larval growth rates in artificial stream channels were similar between current velocities simulating those in riffles and runs. These results, coupled with data from drift samples, suggest that larvae shifted macrohabitats with size. Size-related differences in macrohabitat use may reflect size-related changes in microhabitat use; larvae were significantly larger in leaf litter than in other microhabitats, and leaf litter amounts were greater in runs than in riffles.


Background : indications, approach, time of surgery and use of prophylactic antibiotics in cerebrospinal fluid fistulas remain controversial. Further evidence of the therapeutic effectiveness of different treatment modalities is required. Objective : to describe the results of the treatment algorithm for cerebrospinal fluid fistula, used in patients attended to at the Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital of Las Tunas, from January 2013 to September 2016. Methods : a descriptive and prospective observational study was carried out at the hospital and during the period of time herein mentioned. The sample was made up of 46 patients admitted with a diagnosis of cerebrospinal fluid fistula. A database was created for the information processing that was analyzed using descriptive statistics, using the percentage value to report the results. Results : unilateral or bilateral direct rhinorrhea was the most frequent form of presentation, followed by fluid outflow from the surgical incision and accumulation in the soft tissues. Basilar skull fractures, surgery of posterior fossa tumors and microsurgical dissectomies were the most frequent causes. The highest number of patients benefited from the placement of a continuous spinal drainage. Conclusions : for the treatment of cerebrospinal fluid fistulas, continuous spinal drainage is a feasible option.


. In this study, we proposed a simulation method for film transverse stretching based on the finite element method using the orthogonal anisotropy plastic model. The simulation method can analyse the large deformation of film stretching and predict whether the kink band phenomenon occurs during the film transverse stretching. The validity of the simulation method was confirmed by the transverse stretching tests performed on the fluorine films with different longitudinal stretching ratios. Using the simulation method, we clarified that the plastic anisotropy index of the longitudinally stretched fluorine film has a great influence on the presence or absence of the kink band phenomenon during the film transverse stretching. The plastic anisotropy index of the longitudinally stretched fluorine film can be related to its birefringence, and the two are approximately in a linear relationship. Moreover, we revealed the change in film stretching deformation due to difference in the ratio of the stretching zone length to the width of the tenter.


Presently, fisheries are in deep crisis worldwide due to overfishing. Increasing intensity of fishing throughout the world has had impacts on the target species and their supporting marine ecosystems. Globally, the total catches are declining by some about Vi million t per year since 1988. As well mean trophic level of landings are declining at rate of 0.1 per decade. This threatens the world's food security specifically, its animal protein supply, especially, in developing countries. In order to evaluate the status of marine fisheries in India, the catches were reconstructed over the period of 1950 to 2000. This reconstruction show marine fish catches increased gradually from 0.6 in 1950 to 3.3 million t in 2000. To determine if the Indian marine fisheries trends are ecologically sustainable or not, the mean trophic level of landings were analysed over the five decades. It is found that the fishing down marine food web phenomenon is happening all over India, i.e., in each state and union territory, similar to rest of the world. This trend, however, was generally not visible when the catches of small pelagics fishes were included, i.e., their variability masked the fishing down phenomenon when this was based on the mean trophic level of all shelf species. On the other hand, application of the cut off trophic level of 3.25 (i.e., excluding small pelagics and most invertebrates) made the fishing down effect visible for all states and union territories. This analysis thus confirms the potential usefulness of the MTI (Marine Trophic Index), recently adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity as one of the 8 indicators of biodiversity. It also confirms that the use of MTI, jointly with a TL cutoff 3 25 point (i.e., MTI) better reveals underlying trend than overall mean TL. The time series of Fishing in Balance (FiB) index show an overall increase for all Indian states and union territories, suggesting a geographic expansion of the fisheries. However, in recent years, a stagnation or decline of FiB index is visible in almost all areas. This indicates a serious problem, presumably the end of the expansion phase in Indian fisheries. Overall, this historical review clearly indicates that India has suffered from sequential depletions of coastal stocks.


Three kinds of microdiets(Diet 1, Diet 2 and Diet 3, respectively) were prepared, with similar basic components and different types of added fish oils. The fish oil added to Diet 1 was natural fish oil (triacylglycerols of n-3HUFA), with added amount of 6.0%. Fish oil added to Diet 2 and Deit 3 was ethyl esters of fish oil (ethyl esters of n-3HUFA), with added amounts of 6.0% and 2.86%, respectively. The content of n-3HUFA in Diet 1 was equal to that of n-3HUFA in Diet 3. The content of n-3HUFA in Diet 2 was higher than that of n-3HUFA in Diet 1. Three kinds of prepared diets were respectively fed to red seabream (Pagrus major) larvae to investigate the effects of molecular structure of n-3HUFA in fish oil of microdiets on the growth and survival of red seabream larvae. The results of 25 days feeding experiment indicated that the growth and survival of red seabream learvae fed with Diet 1 were superior to those of red seabream larvae fed with Diet 2 and Diet 3, although the content of n-3HUFA in Diet 2 was higher than in Diet 1, and the content of n-3HUFA in Diet 3 was equal to that of n-3HUFA in Diet 1. Furthermore, the contents of n-3HUFA and DHA in bodies of red seabream larvae fed with Diet 1 were higher than those of n-3HUFA and DHA in bodies of red seabream larvae fed with Diet 2 and Diet 3. The results showed that the digestion and absorption of natural fish oil for red seabream larvae were superior to those of ethyl esters of fish oil.


Then a dramatic reversal began. GY people began to reclaim and reuse their languages. In this they were marching with Indigenous people around the world who were asserting their rights and relearning and reusing their languages. In Australia, Kaurna and Gumbaynggirr were already on the way. GY people also went to the United States of America and Aotearoa/ New Zealand to look at language revival there.


In order to make the image out glow effects and projection effects and meet the demand of the high quality and artistic visualization, this paper presents the arithmetic of producing image out glow effects and projection effects based on the method of image dilation or mean filter. The results which can compare beauty with Photoshop are proved by common instance. It is also succeeded in the application to the commercial character generator software.


The construction of pattern recognition machines may eventually depend upon the development of highly complex preprocessors. This claim is supported by a discussion of the importance of perceptual grouping. Since complex preprocessing will assess more of the basic structure of a visual scene, internal representations will have to be more descriptive in nature. Two approches to descriptive internal representation are mentioned. Two of the author's programs are reviewed. One plays the Oriental game of GO at a human level and the other can recognize digitized hand printed characters. Both programs use a geometry preserving representation of features, so that calculations involving the features can assess the original geometry of the input. In addition, the GO program calculates groups of stones and performs other types of "complex"processing. Practical and philosophical arguments are given for the use of internal representation by pattern recognition programs.


The study of the mixing method, mixing time, waste rubber powder as the amount of waste rubber powder by resorcinol (R) and six methyl four amine (H) effect on the mechanical properties of waste rubber powder /NR blend modified. The results show that, with effect of blending method, mixing time and waste rubber powder content on mechanical properties of blend vulcanizate; through modification, can greatly improve the mechanical properties of waste rubber powder blend vulcanizates, as the modifier of resorcinol and six methyl four amine mass ratio was 1/0.5, glue the material mechanical properties are the best, the tensile strength is 17.03 MPa.


In this paper, we explore the ease of tackling a communication-intensive parallel computing task - namely, the 2D fast Fourier transform (FFT). We start with a simple serial Matlab code, explore in detail a ID parallel FFT, and illustrate how it can be extended to multidimensional FFTs.


Urban construction sites require strict control of their environmental impact, which, for vibratory sheet pile driving, can include damage to nearby structures due to ground vibrations. However, th ...


Temperature monitoring and regulation is a critical power/performance feature in microprocessors. Due to the multiplicity of hotspots, a large number of on-die sensors are utilized. This requires them to be highly compact, low energy and fast. A miniaturized current controlled oscillator (CCO) sensor is described for this application. It has an area of only 700 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in the 16-nm FinFET process, with an energy consumption of 0.25 nJ in a 6.9-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> conversion. The inaccuracy is within ±1.5 °C peak-to-peak (p-p) over a 130 °C range, at a resolution of 0.32 °C. These characteristics make the circuit attractive for high-density thermal sensing.


The objective of this paper is to examine productivity changes among Ghanaian banks. The Malmquist productivity index is employed to estimate total factor productivity changes and its components on a panel of 18 banks from 2003 to 2011. The results indicate that productivity growth was attributable to the catch‐up effect of efficiency changes. We also find productivity growth across three categories of bank size to be driven by efficiency changes. From a panel regression analysis, we identify size, concentration, income diversification and risk as the factors that explain productivity differences among Ghanaian banks. Recommendations for improving bank productivity are derived from the results. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


With the wide application of GIS in resettlement design,multi- source data integration has become a core issue,but the inconsistency of data sources raises higher requirements for efficient organization and optimal integration of data. Based on the data center theory,different data storage and organization methods are proposed aiming at the data features of resettlement design by the support of ArcSDE search engine and Oracle database software provided by ESRI. At last,the multi- source data are integrated into a same geographical framework.


Introduction Above ground mineral carbonation is an emerging CO2 sequestration candidate technology with large-scale sequestration potential. The process inherently produces environmentally benign and geologically stable materials and offers the added advantages of wide, low-cost feedstock availability and rapid mineral carbonation potential. The associated mineral carbonation processes are exothermic, so energy is not inherently required for carbonation to occur. The primary goal is cost-competitive process development. Mineral carbonation is also an important factor associated with below-ground sequestration, as it can be utilized to enhance reservoir seal integrity and the carbonates that form can provide the long-term stability essential for effective sequestration. Investigating and evaluating candidate technologies that incorporate mineral sequestration, both above and below ground, is the primary focus of the CO2 Mineral Sequestration Working Group, which is managed by DOE (Fossil Energy), and consists of members from the Albany Research Center, Arizona State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Science Applications International Corporation. Serpentine [Mg3Si2O5(OH)4] carbonation is a particularly attractive sequestration technology candidate, due to the wide, large scale, low-cost availability of serpentine [1,2]. Recently, researchers at the Albany Research Center (ARC) have accelerated serpentine carbonation, which naturally occurs in geological time, to an industrial time scale via serpentine heatactivation [3]. However, the energy costs associated with the current serpentine heat-activation process are too high for process implementation [4]. Viable process development will require novel approaches to enhance carbonation reactivity. Although serpentine heat activation is presently too costly for process implementation, the associated materials characteristics and mechanisms that enhance carbonation are of keen interest for further reducing process cost. The goal is to develop the atomic-level understanding needed to engineer new materials and processes that can lower process cost. The ARC mineral carbonation process uses water/CO2 fluid reaction media under relatively modest conditions (e.g., 155 C and 150 atm). Herein, we describe the progress made during 2003 in our ongoing investigations into the mechanisms and materials characteristics that control heat-activated serpentine mineral carbonation reactivity at the Advanced Photon Source. During 2003, we extended our initial investigations using lizardite feedstocks to probe the effects of serpentine mineral type, via studies of lizardite, antigorite and chrysotile heat-activation and the activated materials that form. We enhanced the capabilities of the novel microreaction system we developed last year to further our in situ observations of the mineral carbonation reaction process [5,6]. Initial system development and the first in situ observations of the mineral carbonation process are described in last year's report [7].


August 2 ,2009 Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch has the audacity and arrogance to slam Greece (July 30) owing to the policies of Athens on asylum applications for immigrants. The fundamental root of this problem from Turkey owing to the fact that most of these people were in Turkey before the Turks shipped them off to Greece. Greece is a very small country that is trying to deal with the problem in the most humane way possible.


Since it is a deliberate imitation of the dramatic poetry of Euripides, the Christus patiens may be pardoned for being, to a considerable extent, a show-case of rhetorical figures and poetic devices of all kinds. 1 This is especially true of the prologue and understandably so, by virtue of the general tendency of literary works to commence somewhat stiff-legged and in grandiloquent style. However, in the prologue of the Christus patiens stylistic devices may be seen to play an important role in the articulation of structural elements, i.e. in the ordering of the discourse. For this reason, an interpretation of the prologue or, for that matter, of the entire play should not be attempted without due attention to the analysis of its stylistic features. The main part of this study is just such an analysis of the prologue of the Christus patiens, the interpretation that is based upon it being rather tentative, due to the scarcity of literary studies and the virtual non-existence of detailed commentaries on this play. Note that the term 'prologue' here does not refer to the hypothesis of the play (which contains an indication of its centonic nature and a short summary of the opening scene) but to the proper dramatic prologuea monologue, spoken in this case by the protagonist, explaining the essence of the tragic situation, indicating the identity of the speaking character, as well as the the precise moment within the course of the 'mythical' events at which the dramatic plot commences, and concluding with the indication of an external event that sets the action in motion. This monologue is spoken by the mother of Christ, the ElE016xoc;, presumably occupying the stage all by herself. It is a lengthy monologue (like many others in this play), comprising ninety iambic trimeter verses.


Abstract Although analyses of the 'sacred' and 'profane' tend to remain within the discipline of religious studies, categories of sacrality and profane-ness actively shape and label all bodies in the United States. Combining theories of the sacred and profane with formulations of race, gender and sexuality, I investigate the social de/valuation of specific bodies at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. During each period, three structural factors influence these categorisations: empires of hegemonic social time, dominant Christian narratives of salvation and the role of prison. A comparative analysis demonstrates both continuity and specificity in producing sacred and profane bodies.


The implications of encrypted models have been far-reaching and pervasive. In this position paper , we argue the development of wide-area networks. In this position paper we use virtual information to validate that DNS and congestion control can connect to fulfill this ambition.


The effects of the thermal parameters on the polymorph of the alite and the solid solubility of Al3+,Fe3+,Mg2+ in the alite that extracted from doping clinker and common clinker at room temperature were investigated by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and Inductively Coupled Plasma atomic emission spectrometry.The symmetry of alite can be enhanced when the burning temperature was increased.The polymorph of alite in the common clinker translated from MⅠ pattern to the mixture of MⅠand MⅢ patterns.The polymorph of alite in the doping clinker translated from MⅠ pattern to the mixture of MⅠ and R patterns.The alite in clinker which was sintered in oxidative atmosphere was more symmetrical than sintered in reductive atmosphere.In reductive atmosphere,the XRD pattern of alite was similar to the pattern of MⅢ alite,whether doping was used or not.In oxidative atmosphere,alite in the doping clinker was the mixture of R and some M pattern,and alite in common clinker was MⅢ pattern.The symmetry of the alite was enhanced in the clinker quenched in air at a higher start temperature of 1 450 ℃ than at other lower start temperature.At the higher start temperature of 1 450 ℃,doping clinker left the more contents of rhombohedron alite.At the lower start temperatures,the XRD pattern of alite was similar to the character of the MⅠpattern alite.The XRD pattern for common clinker shows all the character of the monoclinic alite at various temperatures.The alite in the clinker were the advanced polymorph at higher sintering temperature and in oxidative atmosphere,and at higher start temperature with a suitable doping technology.The quantities of Al3+ in alite increased,the quantities of Fe3+ decreased and the quantities of Mg2+ did not change distinctly with the increasing of the clinkering and quenching temperature.The ionic quantities of Al3+ in alite burnt in oxidative atmosphere are higher than that burnt in reduce atmosphere.The ionic quantities of Fe3+/Fe2+ in alite burnt in reductive atmosphere is higher than that burnt in oxidative atmosphere.


We aimed to analyse the molecular backgrounds and red blood cell (RBC) antigen expression of a male blood donor with Rhmod phenotype and his family members.


Background: Ageing is a process through which slow, spontaneous, and progressive changes occur in the body structure over time. Healthy ageing is also characterized by reduction in muscle mass, maximal strength, rate of force development and changes in the architectural and mechanical properties of the muscle-tendon unit, thus affecting balance in the elderly. Here, we sought to compare the effectiveness of Frenkel's and Cawthorne-Cooksey exercises on the balance in elderly within age group 60-70 years.
Methods: A comparative study was conducted on 32 geriatric people of age group 60-70 years with medium risk of fall. The risk of fall was considered using Berg Balance Scale (BBS: 21-40 score). The sample size (n=32) was divided into 16 subjects each in Group A and Group B respectively. Informed consent was taken and the procedure was explained to all the participants.
Results: The effectiveness of both the interventions on BBS was compared before and after 5 weeks of training. After 5 weeks of balance training sessions of both the groups, improvement in Berg Balance Scale (BBS) scores of the elderly group was seen.
Conclusions: The current study, conducted on Frenkel's exercises and Cawthorne- Cooksey exercises (Group A and Group B, respectively) used for the elderly with medium risk of fall of the age group 60-70 years for 5 weeks using Berg Balance Scale (BBS) shows that both the groups are equally effective in improving the balance.


The utility model provides a vehicle door hinge assembly with a bearing, wherein a hinge and a hinged frame are connected by a rotating shaft. The utility model is characterized in that a rolling bearing is inserted in a hinged shaft hole of the hinged frame; the hinged frame and the rotating shaft form a rolling movement pair; a rolling bearing is inserted in a hinged shaft hole of the hinged frame. Thus, the spin friction of the hinge and the rotating shaft is converted into rolling friction, the friction coefficient is raised, the abrasions of the vehicle door hinge assembly are reduced in the work process, the service life is increased and the action is flexible. The utility model overcomes the disadvantages of the existing vehicle door hinge assembly of poor wear resistance and bad flexibility.


In this paper, we give partial answers to the following questions: Which contact manifolds are contactomorphic to links of isolated complex singularities? Which symplectic manifolds are symplectomorphic to smooth affine varieties? The invariant that we will use to distinguish such manifolds is called the growth rate of wrapped Floer cohomology. Using this invariant we show that if [Formula: see text] is a simply connected manifold whose unit cotangent bundle is contactomorphic to the link of an isolated singularity or whose cotangent bundle is symplectomorphic to a smooth affine variety then M must be rationally elliptic and so it must have certain bounds on its Betti numbers.


Surveillance videos show a prominent feature of background redundancy. To full use this, we propose an adaptive background-frame based coding method for surveillance videos in this paper. In this algorithm, the adaptive background image is used as a long-term reference frame to provide better prediction for inter-frame coding. The background image is generated and updated dynamically by using layer information and reconstructed images, where layer information is obtained by background modeling and motion detection from the original sequences and encoded with Pattern Quadtree. Over the AVS2 test model RD7.0, this method can save averagely 9.7% of the coding bit-rate, equivalent to 0.25dB performance gain on the surveillance videos.


This work investigates natural light levels inside a room in Electrical & Information Engineering building, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. In order to reduce the amount of energy used on lighting, it is imperative to make the utmost use of natural daylight. The use of windows are one traditional solution, other solutions are skylights and light pipes; atria and light wells; domes and arches; structural glass which are all discussed. In high temperature regions, it is necessary to reduce the amount of sunlight entering the room because light produces heat. With the use of a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR sensor), results are presented to study the day light levels in a room by measuring the light levels at various parts of the room; by measuring the proportion of light entering through the window and measuring how the light level changes over a 24 hour period. The outcome of this work is the study and development of a system that can monitor light levels in a building. The application of this work extends to determining the period of the day when daylight is maximal in order to reduce energy cost, building an automation system for the automatic lighting of dark areas within a building as well as monitoring energy consumption used to light p a building. Further extension will be to make predictions on the natural light level based on the data available.


Highway bridges are vital links in the transportation network in the United States. Identifying possible safety problems in the approximately 600,000 bridges across the country is generally accomplished through labor-intensive, visual inspections. Ongoing research sponsored by NIST seeks to improve inspection practices by providing real-time, continuous monitoring technology for steel bridges. A wireless sensor network with a service life of ten years that is powered by an integrated energy harvester is targeted. In order to achieve the target ten-year life for the monitoring system, novel approaches to energy harvesting for use in recharging batteries are investigated. Three main sources of energy are evaluated: (a) vibrational energy, (b) solar energy, and (c) wind energy. Assessing the energy produced from vehicular-induced vibrations and converted through electromagnetic induction is the focus of this paper. The goal of the study is to process acceleration data and analyze the vibrational response of steel bridges to moving truck loads. Through spectral analysis and harvester modeling, the feasibility of vibration-based energy harvesting for longterm monitoring can be assessed. The effects of bridge conditions, ambient temperature, truck traffic patterns, and harvester position on the power content of the vibrations are investigated. With sensor nodes continually recharged, the proposed real-time monitoring system will operate off the power grid, thus reducing life cycle costs and enhancing inspection practices for state DOTs. This paper will present the results of estimating the vibration energy of a steel bridge in Texas.


Tolerance allocation for new products calls for experience and judgment. Whenever products are manufactured using production processes that are similar to existing products it is likely that the trend in production tolerances for both the new and existing products will be similar. It must be assumed that there have been no improvements to the tooling, modifications to the machines being used, or a change in process stability. The data employed to understand and exploit these trends is commonly referred to as process capability data and it is stored in a Process Capability DataBase (PCDB). There are several challenges to be addressed when creating a truly useful PCDB. A useful PCDB is of great benefit to companies because it helps them to reduce time to market by getting things "right first time" and eliminating a trial and error approach to tolerance allocation. A simple example to illustrate how a PCDB can be used to evaluate the capability of a design is presented and this shows how process capability data can be used as an integral part of the design process. The paper builds upon an experimental PCDB and describes the authors' continuing experiences in creating a PCDB for use by a multinational company that manufactures electromechanical devices. The authors' work in developing strategies on what data to include in a PCDB and prioritizing the geometry list to be used for data entry to make it as useful as possible is described. The method of indexing data in a PCDB for efficient retrieval by design engineers is explained. By correctly using a PCDB a product designer can more easily predict whether a tolerance is achievable or not based on historical process capability information.


In many scenarios services are provided in successive stages. While tandem queues appropriately reflect the structure of such scenarios, the typical assumption that service times at different stages are independent often does not fit to reality. We examine, via simulation, the impact of dependencies among service times on expected customer waiting times. The usual network simulation overhead caused by event list handling is avoided by an extension of the Lindley recursion to the two-stage case. Numerical results are presented for exponentially and uniformly distributed service times with different types of dependencies and varying server utilizations.


With the advent of Open RTB and programmatic buying, the ad ecosystem has become very dynamic in terms of supply sourced to an exchange. Since the supply sources can themselves be exchanges, the true identity of the source is very difficult to determine and therefore can open the door to a lot of fraud traffic being driven in the system. Supply side fraud can originate from applications or mobile web sites. There are well-known programs as well as headless browsers that can simulate fake traffic. This paper tries to identify ways to block such traffic based on certain known signals like IP, user agent , domain but also using post render events


The purpose of this study was to identify autophagy‐associated long noncoding RNAs (ARlncRNAs) using the kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) patient data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and to construct a prognostic risk‐related ARlncRNAs signature to accurately predict the prognosis of KIRC patients.


Products from reacting propane and air have been constructed for reactions under many different conditions. It is proposed in this paper to use C2H2 as a temperature indicator for diffusion flame. Published experimental data containing species is analyzed using the various plots to estimate the degree of mixing and sooting.


The maintenance of stringent oral hygiene practices is imperative during orthodontic treatment in order to prevent plaque from accumulating over braces and other orthodontic appliances, leading to gingivitis inflammation and periodontal disease. Consequently, an orthodontist is responsible for providing advice to patients about oral hygiene to maintain periodontal health and for monitoring plaque control measures. In spite of their orthodontist's recommendation, most orthodontic patients do not follow their recommended instructions on how to maintain a satisfactory level of plaque control. We conducted our systematic review of literature in English. During the initial re-examination phase, there were no filters applied to ensure all studies were available for subsequent screening. Filters like human studies were added later, with English language studies being the only ones added. We found nine articles related to orthodontic treatment, and their relation to dental care, during our literature review. It is essential to maintain good oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment to reduce iatrogenic demineralization and caries. When a patient's DMFS score is high, prophylaxis programs are necessary during orthodontic treatment.


According to the theories of Consumer Behaviour, consumer behaviour is the manifestation of the individual's - self-imagery. The consumer consumes what he thinks fits for his style of living and rejects other product and services. In this paper the authors attempt to understand the images associated with various brands of toothpastes available in the Kolkata market; and attempt to classify the consumers of Kolkata into behavioural groups. Out of the various brands of toothpaste available in the marketplace - Colgate, Neem, Pepsodent, Close-Up and Baboot (and their various variants) were the toothpastes that generates significant response for analysis, Based on the response the Kolkata consumers were divided into six segments (1) Old Fashioned consumers who had set ideas and were not willing to change (2) Self Assured consumers who were confident and rely on their own taste and preferences and experiences to purchase products (3) Introvert consumers who are willing to change but do not change because of inertia (4) Successful consumers who are able to meet their desired goals and fulfil their mission (5) Businessman consumers who like to try out products and services but has a streak of conservatism in them and (6) Extrovert consumers - the boldest of the lot who are willing to experiment and as such act as change leaders. The study suffersfrom some limitations and therefore the results.need to be extrapolated with care.


Lenstra's integer factorization algorithm is asymptotically one of the fastest known algorithms, and is ideally suited for parallel computation. We suggest a way in which the algorithm can be speeded up by the addition of a second phase. Under some plausible assumptions, the speedup is of order log(p), where p is the factor which is found. In practice the speedup is significant. We mention some refinements which give greater speedup, an alternative way of implementing a second phase, and the connection with Pollard's "p-1" factorization algorithm.


AbstractPolarimetric radar data obtained at high spatial and temporal resolutions offer a distinct advantage in estimating the spatial correlation function of drop size distribution (DSD) parameters and rain rate compared with a fixed gauge–disdrometer network. On two days during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) campaign in Oklahoma, NASA's S-band polarimetric radar (NPOL) performed repeated PPI scans every 40 s over six 2D video disdrometer (2DVD) sites, located 20–30 km from the radar. The two cases were 1) a rapidly evolving multicell rain event (with large drops) and 2) a long-duration stratiform rain event. From the time series at each polar pixel, the Pearson correlation coefficient is computed as a function of distance along each radial in the PPI scan. Azimuthal dependence is found, especially for the highly convective event. A pseudo-1D spatial correlation is computed that is fitted to a modified-exponential function with two parameters (decorrelation distance ...


Abstract A new concept of Mssbauer spectrometer used for material research is presented. Performance of this computer based measurement system was carefully analyzed and programming code of the application step by step optimized. By implementation of parallel data processing the control application with zero dead-time of measurement was developed.


In their seminal work on the pyramids, Vito Maragioglio and Celeste Rinaldi1 point out the curious fact that the two excavators of the Layer Pyramid at Zawiyet el-Aryan,2 Alessandro Barsanti in 1900,3 and George Andrew Reisner, working with Clarence Fisher, in 1910-1 1,4 drew sections of the substructure that differ not only in detail, but in fundamental dimensions and also in the very number of galleries (fig. 1)! Furthermore, the dimensions derived from the scale drawings (or, rather, sketches) in some cases differ from the figures mentioned in the respective excavators' texts (fig. 2; table I).5 It is not possible to check the data at present, since the pyramid is both sanded up and now lies directly adjacent to a military zone. Interestingly, the Reisner-Fisher version of the pyramid's layout has seemingly been accepted by almost all subsequent pyramidwriters, presumably on the basis of the relative academic standings of the American and Italian excavators, and is enshrined in such standard publications as those of I. E. S. Edwards,6 Rainer Stadelmann7 and Mark Lehner.8 Such partiality is instructive.


As an important part of disaster preparedness strategies, tsunami signage is one of the key elements for an effective tsunami evacuation planning and also for optimizing the emergency procedures in case of tsunami occurrence. This kind of strategy is required to assist and help communities during tsunami occurrences, especially in Banda Aceh City, Aceh Province, Indonesia, where the last tsunami in 2004 devastated the whole area and according to the United Nations (2006), the death toll stood at 130.736 with 37.000 people listed as missing in Indonesia. When another massive earthquake occurred in Aceh on April 11th of 2012, several of the available tsunami evacuations route signages in Cot Lamkuweuh village were not well-maintained and even led people to a direction which was different from the expected evacuation place. In the study area there are three types of tsunami signages: 1) Tsunami information boards, 2) tsunami evacuation route and 3) tsunami sign boards. This research focuses on describing and analyzing the physical characteristics and current conflicts associated with these three types of signages, especially those problems that provoke visual distraction and misinterpretation among the users, including lack of consistencies in the use of symbols and colors, issues of signages that either had posters for local election campaigns pasted on it or were faded due to the weather conditions, among others.
Considering the main purpose of tsunami signages, which is to guide people away from the danger of a tsunami, it is vital to find out if the current tsunami signages are already fulfilling their purpose. Therefore, two qualitative methods, observation (walk-through evaluation) and interview (focused interviews), were conducted in the study area in order to assess key issues on physical characteristics of tsunami signages that are affecting user when perceiving the signages. These methods were derived from post-occupancy evaluation methods (as a method for data collection and analysis), and were conducted with consideration for Universal Design principles. The data collected using qualitative methods were also analyzed and compared in relation to the principles of Universal Design.
This study was aimed on evaluating the three types of tsunami signages in study area, and also on identifying which visual aspects of their physical characteristics can be improved to allow people to perceive correct and pertinent information. To achieve these aims, this study presents an analysis on individual perception on four types of users: school age-children, adolescence, adults and early old-age. Also, written reports about tsunami signages from government agencies and local communities were analyzed. It was observed that there are significant differences among these 4 types of users on how they perceive and interpret signages, depending on their abilities and visual preferences.
Finally, in order to improve tsunami signages efficiency on transmitting its message, a set of recommendations were drawn, which can also be used to encourage future studies on the development of the tsunami signages system in Banda Aceh city, Aceh Province - Indonesia. These recommendations were based on Universal Design principles and also considered several cultural aspects of the local community, past experiences using evacuation signage during tsunami drill, massive earthquake events and real tsunami events, how government institutions and community members are used to cooperate in terms of signage maintenance and how the current education and training programs on the subject of evacuation are being conducted.


The temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility, χ( T ), is investigated for one-dimensional interacting electron systems at quarter filling within the Kadanoff–Wilson renormalization-group method. The forward scattering on the same branch (the g 4 -process) is examined together with the backward ( g 1 ) and forward ( g 2 ) scattering amplitudes on opposite branches. In connection with lattice models, we show that χ( T ) is strongly enhanced by the nearest-neighbor interaction, an enhancement which surpasses that of the next-nearest-neighbor interaction. A connection between our predictions for χ( T ) and experimental results for χ( T ) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors is presented.


This value of imagery in sports is widely acknowledged. The contribution of hypnosis to enhancing athletes' performance is also recognized, but the value of hypnosis in enhancing imagery has little recognition. To examine the effect of imagery technique using hypnotic state on performance, primary data has been collected through Martens questionnaire. Experimental research has been carried out to collect the data. The experiment has been performed on 22 cricket team players of two colleges of Surat and Bharuch city. The data has been analyzed by applying one sample t-test and regression analysis. From the analysis, it has been concluded that after the experiment of imagery technique using hypnotic state, the performance of cricket team players has been improved. It has been also found that imaging competing situation is more affective component on performance followed by practicing with others, watching team mate and practicing alone.


Dalits felt threatened by the economic reforms initiated in 1991, which heralded the era of liberalisation/privatisation and globalisation (LPG) in India. The reason being that whatever social mobility they have achieved has been through governmental support and the presumed retreat of the state on account of LPG, they feel, would undo all that. However the point here is that the LPG is not a matter of choice: only after the failure of the command economy model economic reforms were initiated and by doing so India was only following a worldwide trend Secondly as part of the WTO regime, India is part of globalisation process which indeed is an unavoidable and also a very rational way of being in the international economic order. Dalits must prepare for this rather to resist the inevitable. In fact the process itself is liberating. Among others, only the economic growth achieved by this process (India being one of the fastest growing countries in the world) is capable of undoing all deprivations. Deprivation and destitution are among the fundamental causes for thedenial of dignity to anyone, who may be a Dalit.


For the 1D Schrödinger equation with a mollified spacetime white noise, we show that the average wave function converges to the Schrödinger equation with an effective potential after an appropriate renormalization.


The experimental results reported in many papers suggest that making an appropriate a priori choice of an evolutionary method for a nonlinear parameter optimization problem remains an open question. It seems that the most promising approach at this stage of research is experimental, involving a design of a scalable test suite of constrained optimization problems, in which many features could be easily tuned. Then it would be possible to evaluate merits and drawbacks of the available methods as well as test new methods efficiently. In this paper we discuss a recently proposed test-case generator for constrained parameter optimization techniques. This generator is capable of creating various test cases with different characteristics and is very useful for analyzing and comparing different constraint-handling techniques.


The process of controlling mold steel level is a complex process whose model varies with time and contains non linearities and interference. This paper has accomplished the automatic control for it by the process control principle and the Fuzzy control technology. In control tactic, the method combining the Fuzzy control with the traditional control is adopted. Fuzzy Series control、Fuzzy PID control and expanding central field control have been designed respectively. And these designed control tactics have been simulated, a good result being achieved.


Somatic embryogenesis is a pre-requisite to improve agronomic traits of rice through genetic engineering. The somatic embryogenesis from embryos-derived callus of Malaysian indica rice variety MR219 was investigated. Embryogenic calli were produced from embryos and the best result was achieved using MS medium supplemented with combination of 1 mg/L 2,4Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) and 10 mg/L α-Naphthalene acetic Acid (NAA). This treatment produced 78% of the embryogenic callus which was further confirmed with a scanning electron microscopy. Embryogenic callus were pre-incubated on MS B5 medium containing 5 or 10mg/L ABA and supplemented with 6-15 g/L gelrite agar for 6-8 weeks to initiate somatic embryos prior to further application of regeneration media with or without Plant Growth Regulator (PGR). The medium with PGR (3 mg/L kinetin and 0.5 mg/L NAA) effectively increased the number of regenerated shoots. The numbers of regenerated plant on medium containing PGR and that was previously pre-treated with 10mg/L ABA, 9 gelrite agar and incubated between 6-8 weeks were the best treatment to induce shoots at 6-9 regenerated plants/ 3 gm somatic embryos. Likewise, more shoots were regenerated after subsequence sub culture on the same medium.


Several inverter faults such as open-phase or loss of the driving signals could terminate the operation of a PMSM drive. By reconfiguring the two-level three-phase six-switch inverter and employing the four-switch (B4) topology during the post-fault condition, unceasing operation of the drive is attainable. In this paper a predictive torque control (PTC) scheme is proposed to control the B4 inverter-fed permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). An extended cost function of the predictive scheme not only reduces the fluctuation of electromagnetic torque and stator flux, but also it reduces the voltage offset between the DC bus capacitors. The B4 inverter controlled by the proposed method reduces the switching losses and helps to tolerate several inverter faults. Proposed PTC method alleviates the unbalanced phase currents induced by fluctuation of DC bus center tap voltage. It provides an effective approach to reduce the harmonic distortions of the motor currents and relevant stator vibrations. It also suggests a systematic, automated approach for the tuning of applied Proportional-Integral controller in the speed control loop, which utilizes the fuzzy logic algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and potentials of the proposed PTC method to control the post-fault B4 inverter-fed PMSM drive.


One of the most important research areas in computer science in the early 1970s was the development of systems and languages for handling what computer scientists call persistent data. This term denotes data that remains in a computer system indefinitely, until it is explicitly deleted. Systems for managing persistent data were spreading quickly in the business world. A database management language proposed by the Codasyl Data Base Task Group (DBTG) was receiving a lot of attention. In this paper, the early history of SQL is discussed.


This study demonstrates the feasibility of using supercritical water oxidation to destroy ammonium picrate. Analyses of reactor effluent composition at various temperatures, residence times, and oxidant concentrations were used to design an improved reactor configuration for achieving destruction with minimum corrosion. The engineering evaluation reactor, a room-sized laboratory scale reactor, was reconfigured to incorporate this design change. Destruction of ammonium picrate with minimized corrosion was demonstrated on this reconfigured reactor. Factors that must be considered in scaling up to pilot plant size are discussed.


The 1 2 - input/1-output fuzzy controllers constructed by Einstein fuzzy implication operator intersection based on full implication Ⅲ algorithm and its response function is researched. The conclusion shows that the fuzzy controller constructed by Einstein fuzzy implication operator intersection is not a universal approximator.its response function is a constant function.


After 1492 and especially after 1571, many Arabic speakers in Spain were subject to imprisonment, forced removal, appropriation of property, and finally expulsion, explained by their persecutors in large part by their language use. Nonetheless, certain individuals, and in some cases, families, were able to use this linguistic skill and identity to protect themselves. As I analyze the hardening ideologies about Arabic and the ways these ideologies were perpetuated, I document the rising status and potential power of translators and interpreters, that is, professional Arabic speakers, readers, and writers. My analysis of how multilingual agents shaped information networks across the Mediterranean begins in the 1490s, following established practices and networks which would continue to be used for the next centuries. My dissertation begins with a study of these practices in a comparative frame between Granada and Oran, and the representations of multilingual figures and their activities in their own texts as well as texts about them or which they handled. Between the 1550s and 1570s the practices and representations of multilingual agents were affected by the tension over language use and religious identity arriving from Trent and written into the decisions of ecclesiastical and royal councils throughout Spain and especially in Granada. The arguments for and against the use of Arabic that sparked the Alpujarras revolt in 1568 would be repeated as the "morisco question," which was ultimately answered with expulsion (1609-1614). Meanwhile, Spain's Arabic speakers became ever more successful in the Mediterranean sphere. After the 1580s, an "Atlantic Mediterranean" became the staging ground for imperial, commercial, and religious rivalries between Spain, England, the United Provinces, France, the Ottomans, and the Moroccan Sa'adiens, and Spanish and Arabic were the primary languages used in this polyglot space. Despite the uninterrupted contact between Arabic and Spanish speakers in diplomatic and commercial circles, the idea of Arabic did not regain prestige or acceptance as a language of history, literature, or science in Spain until much later except through a highly ambivalent process.


In 1989, acorns were planted at three locations in northern California as part of a project to demonstrate methods for restocking valley oak on hardwood rangeland using sitespecific cultural inputs. Inputs used included protective caging, cattle exclusion, mulching, tillage, and first-year irrigation. In 1995, survival ranged from more than 80 percent in the best treatment/site combination to zero in the worst, and maximum seedling height was 288 cm. Protection from cattle was essential for seedling growth and survival in grazed fields. Seedling survival and growth in caged sites was greater in grazed fields than in adjacent nongrazed fields. Landscape fabric and wood chip mulches applied at planting favored seedling growth and/or survival. Valley oak, Quercus lobata Nee, is frequently included in oak planting projects. This species is relatively easy to propagate, particularly with intensive cultural inputs during the establishment phase. However, intensive inputs may be prohibitively expensive for large-scale plantings intended to restock formerly wooded rangelands. Furthermore, intensive inputs may not be necessary to restock valley oaks in some areas. If large areas of valley oak woodlands are to be restored, land managers will need to identify the set of cultural inputs that will permit them to restock target areas at a minimum of cost. In 1989, we reviewed the literature and evaluated previous plantings to identify factors that affect the establishment of valley oak seedlings (Swiecki and Bernhardt 1991). Using this information, we designed demonstration projects for three locations in northern California. For each project site, we determined what factors were most likely to limit seedling establishment and growth. We then selected restocking methods for each project which represented varying levels of cultural inputs, starting from the minimum deemed necessary to establish seedlings. The combinations of inputs tested in each planting differ because of the different conditions that existed at each location. We previously reported on survival and growth at these projects 9 months (Bernhardt and Swiecki 1991) and 18 months after planting (Swiecki and Bernhardt 1991). In this paper, we report on results from these projects after 6 growing seasons. A fourth demonstration project site, at The Nature Conservancy's Cosumnes River Preserve, was included in the original study (Bernhardt and Swiecki 1991, Swiecki and Bernhardt 1991). We do not include follow-up data on the Cosumnes project in this paper, because it differs in many respects from the projects at the other three locations.


Abstract A Michigan papyrus preserves one of the earliest testimonies of muscle divination (divination based on the observation of involuntary muscle movements). It is also important because a reading in a Latin translation of the 16th century is supported by the text of the papyrus.


The invention discloses a method for preparing a Ge photoelectric detector with a transverse p-i-n structure, and relates to the germanium photoelectric detector. The method comprises the steps of (1) carrying out epitaxial growth of a monocrystalline germanium layer on a substrate, growing a SiO2 covering layer on the monocrystalline germanium layer, (2) using a micro-electronics photolithography to etch an active area platform surface of a long and thin strip shape on the epitaxial monocrystalline germanium layer, (3) using the SiO2 covering layer on the monocrystalline germanium layer for masking, forming a doped p area and a doped n area on the two sides of the platform surface respectively through sidewise large-declination ion implantation, (4) carrying out thermal annealing after deposition of a metal Ni layer, forming NiGe contact electrodes and NiSi contact electrodes on the two sides of the platform surface and the bottom of the etched area through a self-alignment technology used in the forming process of NiGe and NiSi, and (5) leading out the device electrodes, and protecting a passivating layer. Therefore, the Ge photoelectric detector with the transverse p-i-n structure is obtained. The technology is simple, operability is high, and high application value is achieved.


The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of raw material requirements planning and the empirical study of raw materials quality control towards the success of production process at PT. Inkoasku in North Jakarta. The company has been established since 1974 or had been around for 40 years. The sample that will be studied in this paper is derived from the monthly report data from PT. Inkoasku in North Jakarta from the period of January 2013 to December 2015. This study analyzes the relationship between effect of raw material requirements planning and the empirical study of raw materials quality control towards production process at PT. Inkoasku in North Jakarta. Statistic method used in this study is the multiple linear regression to first test the classical assumption. The results indicate that the raw material requirements planning has a partially positive influence towards the smoothness of the production process at PT. Inkoasku in North Jakarta. The raw materials quality control has a partially negative influence towards the smoothness of production process at PT. Inkoasku in North Jakarta. Keywords: Raw Materials Requirement Planning, Raw Materials Quality Control, Production Process.