Fermenting S. cerevisiae cells suspensions undergo synchronized metabolic oscillations whose amplitude and frequency depends on the population density. The asymptotic population-level dynamics is qualitatively and quantitatively accounted for by mathematical models describing the intracellular glycolytic oscillations and the coupling through the external medium. Such dynamical systems often display low-dimensional dynamics for the parameters that quantitatively fit the experimental observations. However, the high dimensionality of the chemical space and the possible existence of intermingled time scales can potentially support more complex dynamics, in particular when the system is perturbed by external forcings. Here, we explore experimentally and by means of numerical models the response of cellular populations to different kinds of periodic forcing: resonant forcing of diluted, nonoscillating populations and strongly nonresonant forcing of populations in oscillating regimes with different dynamical features. We show that, in all cases, low-dimensional semi-quantitative models reproduce the observed dynamics. Both a nonlinear analysis of the experimental time series and the models indicate that complex-looking time series correspond to quasiperiodic and not to chaotic regimes. The fact that low-dimensional dynamical systems are able to reproduce the response of biological populations in different regimes of external periodic forcing supports the use of theoretical models for inquiring the dynamical behaviour of collectively oscillating cells.


Through researching debt maturity structure of the impact on corporate governance, we find that inefficient management can be avoided by short-term debt to a certain extent, but then we should consider the company's society effects and introduce the macro-control by the government. Long-term debt can prevent operators from building operators empire. In contrast to long-term debt, short-term debt can restrict low quality item. Therefore, China's short-term debt has absolute superiority, we should pay more attention to it and give full play to its corporate governance functions. At the same time, we also can not ignore the function that effectively curb the business empire function and the advantages such as lower financing risk and stable funding sources of long-term debt. In the process of financing, we should rationally collocate debt maturity and give better play to the debt of corporate governance functions.


This model of communication is using database replication and simple database abstraction models for transmitting data from a web hosting backend to its web hosting dedicated client servers assuring an asynchronous data transmission, a backup solution and a high degree of portability.


The value of Internet short texts is increasingly prominent, and traditional classification methods cannot be applied to short texts with weak feature expression. In this regard, this paper proposes a Chinese Short Text Classification method based on Word Embedding and LSTM with feature enhancement (hereinafter called CSTCFE-WE-LSTM). This method uses word embedding learned from Wikipedia corpus as initial features for the model, and then uses category factors and TF-IDF to generate weights to enhance features. Finally, it uses a 6-layer neural network for classification, which includes a word embedding layer, two LSTM layers, a Dropout layer, and two fully connected layers. In order to verify the method CSTCFE-WE-LSTM, we collected short text sets on 3 topics, and reached following conclusions: 1. In the best model, P, F and other indicators are better than the classifier of using Wikipedia word embedding and KNN. 2. For texts with sentences average length less than 10 words, the effect of two-layer LSTM is better than that of single-layer LSTM, and the effect is better when the number of single-layer nodes is 50. 3. The effect of feature enhancement is better for the health category than the commercial category.


The present research is based on data collected in three Public Schools in Apucarana and three in Arapongas and aimed to present the nature of school violence that pervades the daily life of schools. We have adopted a narrow conception of violence, seeking to escape the conceptual hyper amplification. The desire to limit school violence to acts of violence and especially to the categories clearly marked by the Criminal Code does not have the power to underestimate the other facts that fall in trespasses and incivilities, but to characterize the acts and facts within the category that can, according to the essence, to establish a representation of what actually happens in Schools and which is called school violence. This research has a qualitative approach, but nevertheless not waived the collection of quantitative data in Schools, contained in occurrences records, which serve as reference for the qualitative analysis. Data collection in the public schools occurrences records is five years, from 2008 to 2012. In the data collected from the records of occurrences of schools, we observed widespread indiscipline. The prevalent behaviors are transgressions and incivilities. These behaviors, daily repeated and combined with a lower number of criminal conduct, form the backdrop of school violence.


We develop a method to efficiently fabricate three-dimensional multilayer polymer microchips for integrated optical applications. This method uses soft lithography to mold the core structures on top of the cladding, layers. By repeating the process, a three-dimensional multilayer integrated optical microdevice, which consists of several layers of individual planar optical devices, is fabricated. We demonstrate a dual-layer microring resonator optical filter device where the devices in the different layers show essentially identical transmission responses.


Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)Directed by Ridley ScottDistributed by 20th Century Foxfoxmovies.com150 minutesWhat makes Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) such interesting fun, even some six decades after its release, is not so much the spectacle of the slave army erecting the great obelisk or Moses parting the Red Sea. Rather, it is the joy of watching larger-than-life figures playing out an epic human drama that constitutes one of the foundational myths of three great monotheistic religions: A man discovers he is not who he always thought he was, in turn breaking the hearts of his fatherly uncle and the woman who loves him, sending a kingdom into turmoil, propelling an evil man to power, and damning one people to life under a tyrant while bringing about the liberation of another. Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, like The Ten Commandments, tells the story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of bondage in ancient Egypt as told by the Book of Exodus, but the spectacle of pharonic Egypt-replete with gargantuan pyramids, the Sphinx of Giza, and grandiose royal palaces-is essentially all the film has going for it. Even that, moreover, is somewhat tempered by the unshakable awareness that the world to which we have been transported has been mostly generated by computers rather by than artisans and thousands of extras, as it was in the day of DeMille, Wyler, and Lean.The film's screenplay is credited to four writers, but there is not even a morsel of dialogue that is in any way evocative or memorable, which has the effect of undermining the gravity of the events we are seeing unfold. The dialogue is, instead, almost entirely expositional, and the film is often confusing and generally fails to proffer believable motivations for the characters' behaviors. Throughout the first act, Christian Bale's Moses appears as little more than a respected and competent military advisor, exuding none of the beneficent humanitarianism of Heston's incarnation. Meanwhile Joel Edgerton's Rameses is a more ambivalent and sympathetic character than was Yul Brynner's, leaving viewers somewhat mystified as to why John Turturro's Seti (who is himself devoid of the natural regalness that one would expect of a supposedly benevolent and beloved king) should favor his rather ordinary nephew over his own flesh and blood. Meanwhile, as there is no Nefertari (as played by Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments) nor any equivalent, no contest for the beautiful princess's hand that, as much as the contest for the throne of Egypt, fuelled the rivalry between Moses and Ramses in DeMille's classic. In unfortunate irony, Exodus, despite making a clear attempt to play down the mystical elements of the biblical fable-the various plagues of Egypt are presented as environmental disasters rather than divine intervention-comes across more like filmed scripture than do many of the epics of the 1950s and '60s, by virtue of presenting characters that audiences can hardly understand, and with whom they can barely empathize. …


Based on the test results of vacuum degrees obtained, the relationship between vacuum degree distribution and the factors, such as sealing function, vacuum energy, depth, resistance and groundwater table indicates that these factors have different effect on the vacuum distribution. Groundwater table can completely resist transferring of vacuum degrees; the vacuum degree above the groundwater table is produced directly by pumping air, and that vacuum degree below groundwater table is produced mainly by dewatering and by escaping of sealed air from the end of flexible pipe.


Introduction. The article deals with the current trends in the development of public services which suppose minimizing personal contacts and translating them into digital space. Despite significant economic, time and social benefits in general, this phenomenon requires the development of clear legal, technical and organizational mechanisms, as well as a transparent and clear control system. Another difficulty is the need to eliminate a number of risks associated with a fairly rapid pace of digitalization and incomplete readiness and understanding of society's features.
Methods. The research is conducted on the basis of scientific literature, accessible data of the Ministry and the Committee for Digital Transformation of Ukraine. The methods of analysis, generalization and deduction are also used in the work.
Results. The research examines Ukraine's place in the European digital space (e-government development index, network readiness index, digital competitiveness index) and in the field of open data. The peculiarities of the work and achievements of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and its strategic goals have been demonstrated. A number of direct and associated risks of rapid rates of digitalization of public services have been identified. Possibilities, advantages and conditions of e-voting project implementation in Ukraine are outlined.
Discussion. Successful implementation of projects of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and full integration of Ukraine into the European and global digital space will be a prerequisite and a kind of indicator for further large-scale decisions in the field of digitalization of state functions (creation of e-state), in particular, the introduction of a government-declared e-voting system, which will reduce risks during voting and counting results, and increase youth turnout, which has been a problem in recent polls at various levels. Legal and technical possibilities of realization of such digital service element in the state can be a direction of the further scientific researches in this sphere.
Keywords: digitalization of public services, open data, e-government development index, networked readiness index, digital competitiveness index, digitalization risks, e-voting.


This paper discusses an approach to evaluating the uncertainty of edge detection using Monte Carlo Simulation.Firstly,the paper presents a method for evaluating the uncertainty associated with the intensity of a pixel.Using this method,the uncertainty associated with the intensity of a pixel can be evaluated using only one image.Furthermore,the Monte Carlo Simulation is used to evaluate the uncertainty associated with edge detection.The methods presented in this paper have been validated,and the experimental results show that the uncertainty associated with edge detection can be evaluated accurately using these methods.


The prospects of forming of corporate culture are considered on domestic enterprises. In relation to modern terms the concept of term "corporate culture" is specified. The factors of influence are worked out on development of organizational culture.


This study lays out performance assessments of sixteen personnels from the Community Prevention and Empowerment Division of the National Narcotics Agency of Southeast Sulawesi Province in counterbalancing drug abuse and traffic within society. It is a case study with qualitative approach. The data were obtained through in-depth interviews and observations. This study proves out personnels' performance to be classified as `good`.  According to the assessment scores which were identified by the number 1 to 5, most of the personnels scored 3 (good enough), 4 (good), and 5 (very good). These scores were taken from five criteria of personnel's performance being assessed that includes the performance quality, personnel's initiatives, and their communication skills. Those three criteria were so prominent that the overall performance quality of Community Prevention and Empowerment Division personnels can be classified as "good" for the following  accomplishments; completing administrative tasks as well as making effective attempts to anticipate drug traffic in the field work. Drug traffic prevention initiatives were carried out in several ways. First, advocating the danger of drug abuse to the public especially the youths. Secondly, extending the training programs to the wider audiences in order to anticipate, counteract, and stop the widespread expansion of narcotics in the community. Finally, incorporating religious values into every campaign, discussion, advocation, and anti-drug training programs initiated by government institutions, private sectors, schools, campuses, and communities to protect the public, particularly the youths from drug abuse and traffic.


Objective: To observe the cholagogic effect of Danning Tablet. Methods: We determined the gallbladder contractibility, the bile flow volume and the tensity of Oddis sphincte of rabbit. Results: Danning Tablet could increase the frequence and extent of the gallbladder contractibility and the bile flow volume, it also relaxed Oddis sphincte ( P 0.05 ~ P 0.01 ). Conclusion: Danning Tablet has obvious cholagogic effect.


The Italian government has mandated environmental monitoring of allergens, irritants and biological contaminants in the work place to ensure that bank and office workers are only exposed to those agents within limits determined by both national and international standards. To assess compliance with these standards and to determine whether there were consistent health effects associated with exposure to these agents at the regulated concentrations, 107 bank offices were monitored for dust, chemical compounds, CO2, biological contaminants, indoor allergens and physical risk from 2003 to 2008. We observed that 9.7% of CO2 samples were over the environmental limit of 1000 μg·m-3. Median concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOC) was 173 μg·m-3, (range 107 ÷ 1155 μg·m-3). There were no measurable health effects associated with these exposures. Illumination and temperature were less consistently in line with regulations with 45% of illumination measurements and 16% of temperature measurements falling outside acceptable standard values. Although ambient lighting was frequently poorly adjusted, health surveillance of 820 Visual Display Unit workers (38.7 ± 9.4 yrs), showed that only 14.5% of workers experienced occupational asthenopia. Concentrations of indoor allergens (house dust mite cockroach and cat, for example) were low overall, with higher concentrations present in the work station (chair) than in the carpet or on the floor. The most frequent health effect observed within the study population was allergic disease, representing almost 50% of the pathologies, which is consistent with observations in other western countries. These data taken together demonstrate that established standards are relatively well adhered to overall and that Italian bank workers experience relatively few health effects that could be associated with the monitored exposures.


Abstract : This report presents the results of a contract performed to evaluate the feasibility of a proposed focused synthetic rectangular array for microwave detection and imaging of mines. The proposed technique uses a bistatic antenna system with transmitter and receiver located at the angles of incidence and reflection, respectively of the radiation illuminating the ground. These angles are equal to the Brewster angle of the ground medium so that ground reflections are minimized for vertical polarization. The transmit antennas has a broad beam which illuminates the field of view on the ground. The receiver antenna is a horizontal line array, which forms a rectangular synthetic array by the forward motion of the vehicle. The results of an analytical study are presented, and experimental results are described which give high-resolution three-dimensional images of various types of buried anti-tank mines. A system design for a focused rectangular synthetic countermine array is also given.


Objectives We have demonstrated previously that angiotensin (Ang) II may upregulate adiponectin expression in hypertrophic cardiomyocytes via the angiotensin type-2 receptor/nitric oxide/cGMP signalling pathway. In this study, we further examined the combined effect of endothelin (ET)-1 and Ang II on adiponectin gene expression and secretion. Methods neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVMs) were treated with various concentrations of Ang II and (or) ET-1, adiponectin expression was measured by qPCR. Adiponectin release was measured by enzyme-linked immuosorbent assay. Results ET-1 and Ang II induced adiponectin release in a synergistic manner that can be attributed to their synergistic induction of adiponectin gene expression, as evidenced by adiponectin mRNA analysis. Both ETA and ETB receptors seem to be involved. A nitric oxide synthase inhibitor (Nx-nitro-Larginine methyl ester hydrochloride) and an analogue of cGMP antagonist (Rp-8-Br-CGMP-S) also partly blocked ET-1 -mediated up regulation of adiponectin. Conclusions ET-1 and Ang II may boost adiponectin secretion in a synergistic manner, probably through their synergistic induction of adiponectin gene expression in NRVMs. A commom mechanism via the nitric oxide/cGMP/protein kinase G signalling pathway may be involved.


When a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is designed according to the traditional motor design theory, the performance of the motor is often challenging to achieve the desired goal, and further optimization of the motor design parameters is usually required. However, the motor is a strongly coupled, non-linear, multivariate complex system, and it is a challenge to optimize the motor by traditional optimization methods. It needs to rely on reliable surrogate models and optimization algorithms to improve the performance of the PMSM, which is one of the problematic aspects of motor optimization. Therefore, this paper proposes a strategy based on a combination of a high-precision combined surrogate model and the optimization method to optimize the stator and rotor structures of interior PMSM (IPMSM). First, the variables were classified into two layers with high and low sensitivity based on the comprehensive parameter sensitivity analysis. Then, Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) is used to obtain sample points for highly sensitive variables, and various methods are employed to construct surrogate models for variables. Each optimization target is based on the acquired sample points, from which the most accurate combined surrogate model is selected and combined with non-dominated ranking genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) to find the best. After optimizing the high-sensitivity variables, a new finite element model (FEM) is built, and the Taguchi method is used to optimize the low-sensitivity variables. Finally, finite element analysis (FEA) was adopted to compare the performance of the initial model and the optimized ones of the IPMSM. The results showed that the performance of the optimized motor is improved to prove the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed method.


In previous work, a collision avoidance method for a multi-operator multi-robot teleoperation system, where each human operator drives a mobile robot with a high probability of collision, was proposed. In this work, the implementation of the teleoperation system using four real mobile robots and four master devices is carried out. Two kinds of tests are presented, for which experiments in order to evaluate the performance of collision avoidance method are performed.


Two anaerobic sequencing batch reactors(ASBR) were inoculated with anaerobically digested sludge.The reactor A(fed with polyquaternary ammonium salt) was compared with the reactor B(control) in order to contrast the development of granular sludge.Since start-up,the polyquaternary ammonium salt was added into the reactor A at interval of once per 2 d,and the mass ratio of polyquaternary ammonium salt to sludge was 1.6 mg/g.The results show that the average diameter of granular sludge in the reactor A is 0.72 mm within 73 d,reducing granulation times by approximately 25 d compared with the reactor B.The COD loading rate achieves 10 g/(L·d) in the reactor A after start-up for 56 d,and the average diameter of granular sludge is bigger than the reactor B(0.55 mm).The granular sludge has higher methanogenic activity in the reactor A.Therefore adding polyquaternary ammonium salt into the ASBR can effectively enhance granulation.


The JLEIC detector solenoid has a strong 3 T field in the Interaction Region (IR) area with a big crossing angle of 50 mrad. One of the main effects of the solenoid field is coupling of the horizontal and vertical betatron motions which must be corrected in order to preserve the dynamical stability and beam spot size match at the Interaction Point (IP). Additional effects include influence on the closed orbit and dispersion caused by the crossing angle between the solenoid axis and the ion beam orbit. Another important aspect of the solenoid is that it affects ion polarization breaking the figure-8 spin symmetry. Crab dynamics further complicates the picture. All of these effects have to be compensated or accounted for. The proposed correction system is equivalent to the Rotating Frame Method. However, it does not involve physical rotation of elements. It provides local compensation of the solenoid effects independently for each side of the IR. It includes skew quadrupoles, dipole correctors and anti-solenoids to cancel perturbations to the orbit and linear optics. The skew quadrupoles and final focus quadrupoles together generate an effect equivalent to adjustable rotation angle to do the decoupling task. Details of all of the correction systems are presented. INTRODUCTION The Interaction Region (IR) of the JLEIC (Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider) [1] includes a strong 3 T detector solenoid field. The solenoid creates coupling of the horizontal and vertical betatron motion which must be corrected in order to preserve the design ultra-small beam size at the IP. The solenoid breaks the figure-8 spin symmetry as well [2]. This should also be compensated. Additional complications are that the solenoid is not parallel to the ion beam in order to make a full-acceptance detector [3]. This leads to orbit and dispersion perturbations and additional coupling effects. The proposed correction system will provide local compensation of the solenoid linear effects independently for each side of the IR. DETECTOR SOLENOID IN THE INTERACTION REGION OFTHE JLEIC The JLEIC ion collider ring accelerates protons from 9 to up to 100 GeV/c or ions in the equivalent momentum * This manuscript is authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contracts No. DE-AC05-06OR23177 and DE-AC0206CH11357. † email@example.com range and is designed to include a full-acceptance detector [2, 3]. This brings new challenges to the design of the interaction region, including asymmetric lattice and large crossing angle. An overall layout of the detector region is shown in Fig 1. Figure 1: Interaction Region (IR) layout of the JLEIC (Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider). The detector solenoid is parallel to the electron beam, but makes a 50 mrad angle with the ion beam. A 6 mrad horizontal spectrometer dipole is placed downstream of the detector solenoid to meet the requirements of the fullacceptance detector. The longitudinal center of the detector solenoid has an offset of 0.4 m from the IP (Interaction Point). For the ion beam line, it is on the downstream side. A hard edge model of the detector solenoid is used in the simulation to represent a real main field of the detector solenoid, which is shown in Fig. 2. Also for the ion beam line, about 1.6 m of the solenoid is upstream of the IP, and 2.4 m are downstream of it. Figure 2: Hard edge model of the detector solenoid. DETECTOR SOLENOID EFFECTS Similar to Super B [4], the JLEIC detector solenoid creates the following effects: • Coherent orbit distortion in the ion ring. The vertical orbit distortion is due to the solenoid angle relative to the beam trajectory (50 mrad). The horizontal orbit distortion arises due to the vertical orbit and coupling. WEPMW015 Proceedings of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea ISBN 978-3-95450-147-2 2454 C op yr ig ht © 20 16 C C -B Y3. 0 an d by th e re sp ec tiv e au th or s 01 Circular and Linear Colliders A19 Electron-Hadron Colliders • Coupling of the X and Y betatron motions, which, in the absence of other magnets, creates a beam rotation around the S-axis by an angle BsL/(2Bρ), where Bs and L are the solenoid field and length. In a collision mode of 5 GeV electron beam and 100 GeV proton beam, the corresponding rotation angles are 359.7 mrad for electrons and 17.8 mrad for protons. • Vertical and horizontal dispersion due to the Y and X orbit bends. • Perturbation of the β functions, tune, linear chromaticity and W function due to the solenoid focusing effects. • Breaking of the figure-8 spin symmetry for ion polarization. MECHANISM OF DECOUPLING INA COMPENSATION SYSTEM A solenoid is often a source of coupling in a ring, for example, a detector solenoid or solenoids used in electron cooling and spin rotators. A matrix, which can represent a solenoid in an accelerator physics calculation, can be written as [5]. 2 2  C SC / K SC S / K  2 2 sol     KSC C  KS SC    (1) M 2 2  SC  S / K C SC / K 2 2  KS  SC  KSC C  where, C  cos(KL) , S  sin(KL) , K  Bsol /(2B) (2) It can be presented as a multiplication of a focusing part and a rotation part.  C S / K 0 0  KS C 0 0 Msol     RKL 0 0 C S / K (3)  0 0  KS C  focus  M sol R where,  I cos I sin  1 0 R( ) , I (4)   I sin I cos    0 1  Although the simplest way to compensate coupling of a solenoid is to put an anti-solenoid (a solenoid with a field integral equal in magnitude and opposite in sign) next to it, sometimes focusing quadrupoles need to be inserted between the two solenoids to keep transverse focusing. Then the compensation will not work as before. M KLM M KL a.sol ins sol (5) focus focus  M RKLM RKLM a.sol ins sol Eq. (5) above can be decoupled if the quadrupole is tilted by the solenoid rotation angle, also called a Rotating Frame Method [6], as shown in Eqs. (6) and (7): tilt M  RKLM RKL (6) ins ins tilt focus focus M KLM M KL M M M (7) a.sol ins sol a.sol ins sol In JLEIC case, nuclear physics studies are planned not only for collisions at a single energy and with a proton/electron beam, but also at other energies and many other particle species. For different energies and different particle species, the tilt angle should be adjusted according to the rotation angle of the solenoid. In this case, an effect analogous to quadrupole rotation can be effectively produced by appropriately combining a normal quadrupole component (strength: kn) and a skew component (strength: ks) as shown in Eq. (8). 1 ks BsolL   arc tan  . (8) 2 kn 2B SIMULATION RESULTS OF A COMPENSATION SYSTEM For the JLEIC, a proposed correction system provides local compensation of the solenoid effects independently for each side of the IR. It includes 2 IR triplets with skew quadrupole components or skew quadrupoles, dipole correctors and anti-solenoids to cancel perturbations of the optics and spin symmetry. Local Correction of Coherent Orbit Distortion The correction of the beam orbit in the solenoid uses two dipole correctors on each side of the IP. The resultant orbit after correction is shown in Fig. 3 for 60 GeV proton with 3 T solenoid. Here not only the orbit offset but the orbit slope is corrected at the IP as required for crabbing. The maximum offset is -3 mm at the 3 corrector in vertical. And the strength of the 3 correctors vertically is large as 1.6 mrad. Figure 3: Closed orbit in the IR of the JLEIC ion ring. Local Compensation of Coupling Effect With the effective rotation angle produced in the IR triplets by skew field components or nearby skew quadrupoles, the coupling effects can be controlled locally between the detector solenoid and anti-solenoid. A simulation result for 60 GeV proton beam with 3 T detector solenoid is shown in Fig. 4. The coupling betas without compensation can be seen in the upper sub-figure. Coupling betas (beta12 and beta21) [7] are about 5 % of Proceedings of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea WEPMW015 01 Circular and Linear Colliders A19 Electron-Hadron Colliders ISBN 978-3-95450-147-2 2455 C op yr ig ht © 20 16 C C -B Y3. 0 an d by th e re sp ec tiv e au th or s the values of beta11 and beta22, which turn into the usual beta x and beta y without coupling. With the anti-solenoid on and the effective rotation angle set to be the same as the rotation angle produced by the detector solenoid, the coupling betas (beta12 and beta21) can be controlled locally in the interaction region and compensated at the IP. Decoupling schemes for electron ring and other species are similar. Due to the requirement of different detector solenoid strengths for nuclear physics studies, field integral of the anti-solenoid should be a minus value of the field integral of the detector solenoid on each side of the IP, and the effective rotation angle of the triplet the same as the rotation angle in the detector solenoid on each side of the IP. Figure 4: Local compensation of the coupling effect caused by the detector solenoid in the JLEIC ion collider ring (top: without compensation, bottom: with compensation). Correction of Other Effects Although with effective rotation angles of the IR triplets, 3 independent values can be used for matching in the IR, for complete compensation, nearby quadrupoles are needed to do matching to compensate effects on the tune, beta function, dispersion, and linear chromaticity. Adjustments to chromatic sextupoles and their phase advances are also needed to restore the linear chromaticity compensation and W function. A result for 60 GeV case is shown in Fig. 5. In this figure, the vertical dispersion is not 0 but it is less than 0.5 m around the ring, which seems acceptable. Figure 5: Beta and dispersion functions around the JLEIC ion collider ring after correction. Opposite integrated fields of the detector solenoid and anti-solenoids can make the net longitudinal field integral zero to compensate their effect on the ion spin.


Dislipidemia is one of the main risk factors of cardiovascular diseases that contributed more than 25% of death in this world. Hypertension and DM are associated with comorbidity in chronic disease, include of dislipidemia. This study aimed to determine the effect of comorbid and type of therapy on clinical outcomes in the outpatient installation at Puskesmas Jetis, Yogyakarta. This research is descriptive observational analytic with a cross-sectional. Data derived from primary data and secondary data. The inclusion criteria were patients dyslipidemia, received antidyslipidemia at least 3 months before the study, completed medical record, willing to able respondents, and can communicate well. Those who were pregnant or breastfeeding were excluded from the study. Data analysis used the Wilcoxon test. Most of respondents were majority dominated by women (86,14%), hypertension is the most comorbid (42,46%), most of patients used simvastatin (76,24%), gemfibrozil (16,83%), and combination of simvastatin+gemfibrozil (6,93%). The analysis showed that there was a significant effect on patients with comorbid diabetes and used simvastatin value before and after therapy for 3 months (p<0,05). This result showed that there was an effect of diabetes comorbidities and simvastatin therapy on the total cholesterol of patients, So this study implies that in providing statin therapy need to consider comorbid because they will affect to total cholesterol which one comorbid management that good need to achieve optimal therapeutic and type of therapy must be correct to improve outcome.


Clustering has long been applied to the problem of image segmentation. Because of spatial connectivity constraints, several approaches have been proposed to incorporate local consistency into image segmentation by clustering. One popular method, the fuzzy local information c-means (FLICM) has been shown to produce good segmentation results. Like the fuzzy cmeans (FCM) from which it is derived, FLICM requires that pixels "share" memberships across clusters, that is, the memberships of a pixel across all clusters need to sum to one. The possibilistic c-means (PCM) clustering was introduced to relax the membership sum-to-one constraint of the FCM, and has found a place in the clustering universe, particularly in those situations where the data contains outliers, is noisy, or highly overlapped. This paper extends the structure of FLICM to possibilistic versions for image segmentation. Two approaches are proposed. The first, called possibilistic local information cmeans (PLICM) inserts the local information term of FLICM into the basic PCM model. PLICM, like PCM, can produce coincident cluster centers. Recently, a sequential application of PCM (with c = 1) has been developed to mitigate negative effects of the co-incident cluster formation. Three algorithms form the family of sequential possibilistic 1-means (SP1M). These algorithms are extended to account for local information in image segmentation (SPLI1M). After development of the approach, experiments are performed on images which show that the SPLI1M family has superior performance in image segmentation over FLICM, PLICM and other clustering algorithms that don't combine local spatial information of the image.


Many of the philosophical doctrines purveyed by postmodernists have been roundly refuted, yet people continue to be taken in by the dishonest devices used in proselytizing for postmodernism. I exhibit, name, and analyse five favourite rhetorical manoeuvres: Troll's Truisms, Motte and Bailey Doctrines, Equivocating Fulcra, the Postmodernist Fox Trot, and Rankly Relativising Fields. Anyone familiar with postmodernist writing will recognise their pervasive hold on the dialectic of postmodernism and come to judge that dialectic as it ought to be judged.


The research reports by Boyd et al. and Herman et al. provide insights about intervention research with vulnerable populations that highlight often-neglected standards of evidence. This commentary describes linkages of nonspecific therapeutic factors critical to these outcome studies as illustrative of research to practice standards we must continually promote. Embedding intervention research with iterative links to service system and implementation research provides a framework for social work to chart future contributions toward closing critical translational gaps.


There is an ever-increasing interest in the basic physiology of neonatal pulmonary disease. Without understanding it one cannot provide optimal care of the neonate in respiratory distress. During the last two decades, a great deal has been learned about neonatal pulmonary physiology and disease. However, clinical application of acquired knowledge has begun to occur only recently. Although information regarding neonatal repiratory care has been published extensively in various journals and symposia, there is a need for a book completely devoted to the topic with particular emphasis on the practical aspects of this developing area of medicine. The editors of Neonatal Pulmonary Care have successfully put together a compendium of topics related to the respiratory care of the newborn. The book offers concise, lucid descriptions of basic physiology and then goes on to deal with clinical diagnosis, the evaluation of pulmonary function, and the roentgenographic description of pulmonary insufficiency. A special


After statistics and processing of progress data of a number of community libraries both at home and abroad,and especially based on some data collected from the field in China,the author analyzed its growing status and existing issues whilst described the potential prospect of sustainable development and what a social role the community libraries should play in the future in China.


Purpose: Chrysanthemum indicum Linne (CI) has been used as a traditional medicine. Although several biological effects of CI have been reported, the precise role and function of CI as nutri-cosmetic and cosmetic materials remain unclear. Therefore, we prepared water extract of Chrysanthemum indicum ...


It is proposed and demonstrated that a novel reflectometry based on the Michelson interference measures simultaneously group refractive index and thickness of polymer samples. Such a reflectometry is a contactless measurement technique, and no damage occurs to the sample measured. Moreover, the measurement error of refractive index decreases linearly with the increasing measured sample's thickness. The ingenious planar polymer sample fabricated acts as not only the measured sample but also the fixed mirror that is necessary in other Michelson interference systems, which simplify the measurement configuration. Our reflectometry exhibits some advantages, such as simple measurement configuration, straightforward principle, easy operation, contactless measurement and high measurement precision.


The Cam-clay model revised by SMP criterion (MCC-SMP) is implemented into a commercial software by using return mapping algorithm based on two-stage schemes, which includes elastic predictor and plastic corrector stages. The algorithm for updating the stress is provided. A subroutine for implementing the algorithm is developed. Numerical simulations of triaxial compression, triaxial tension and plane strain tests are performed. The precision of the algorithm is verified by comparing predicted values with experimental results. By using the MCC-SMP model, three-dimensional finite element analysis of consolidation behavior of trial embankment on soft soil, in Australia, is carried out. The changes in pore pressure, settlement and lateral displacement are analyzed and compared with the observed data in situ.


The modification of the equilibrium morphology to expose active facets of cobalt nanoparticles is essential for tailoring and controlling its catalytic performance. Periodic density functional theory (DFT) was applied to systematically investigate the structure and stability of exposed facets of hcp Co nanoparticles induced by Ru promoter in order to clarify the facet‐dependent equilibrium morphology of hcp Co nanoparticles stabilized by Ru promoter. The adsorption and migration of Ru atom can give rise to the change of the surface energy of exposed facets, thus affecting the equilibrium morphology of the hcp Co nanoparticles. Selectively exposed the high Miller index facets, such as Co(10‐12), Co(11‐20) and Co(11‐21) surfaces, can be tuned by adding Ru promoter. Our theoretical calculation results show that Co(11‐21) becomes the predominantly exposed facet accompanied with the decrease of exposed Co(10‐10) and Co(10‐11) with the increase of Ru loading. Further experimental studies suggest that the area of selectively exposed the Co(10‐11) surface for uniform Co nanoplates loaded with 3.0 wt % Ru will be reduced, which is in agreement with the theoretical predicted result. This work is helpful to design the desired Co‐based FTS catalysts rationally with well‐controlled surface structure.


Article assessing the likely impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the volume and nature of judicial proceedings in England and Wales including changes in relation to the evidence considered by the court and the growing need for the court to order disclosure. Article by Jonathan Bracken (Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell, London and Scholar in Residence US Law Library of Congress). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.


Mobile banking requires transparent and clear policy and regulations in order to provide privacy and safety on personal data and about the precision of the transmitted data and its potential misuse while carrying out mobile electronic financial transactions. The contracting parties, therefore, should be able to count upon the law to enforce the provisions of contracts that are concluded using (mobile) electronic devices, if required. Further, the customer should be able to trust the privacy of his personal sphere. A clearly defined regulatory framework is, hence, indispensable to boost consumer confidence and increase acceptance amongst broad sections of the society as well as to ensure smooth functioning of Mobile business. In this paper, we have discussed the various legal factors and regulatory challenges which affects secure electronic financial transactions, Existing Guidelines of Indian IT Act 2000, Recommendations based on our study on Policy and Regulatory Guidelines to Indian Government for Mobile Banking, Suggested Recommendations & Guidelines to Indian Banks while providing mobile banking Services to their customers, and certain guidelines to the customers while using mobile banking services.


Objectives: To determine the frequency of hypomagnesaemia in women withpreterm labour. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Settings: Department of obstetrics &gynaecology Nishtar Hospital Multan. Duration of Study: From 10th November 2016 to 10th May2017. Subject and Methods: A total of 219 pregnant women with singleton pregnancy, pretermlabour and parity 1 – 4 were included in the study. Women with history of diabetes, hypertensionsmoking and polyhhydramnious amniotic fluid index (AFI)>25 cm on ultrasound were excluded.Venous blood was drawn from entire subjects to evaluate the serum magnesium level and sentimmediately to laboratory for analysis venous blood samples were obtained by venepunctureand collected in lithium heparin specimen bottles. Data was collected for hypomagnesaemia.Results: Age range in this study was from 20 to 40 years with mean age of 30.356±3.60 years,mean parity 1.936± 0.96, mean gravida 2.936 ± 0.96, mean gestational age 32.000±2.25weeks and mean BMI was 27.337 ± 1.67 kg/m2. Majority of the patients were from 20 – 30 years(51.1%). History of preterm delivery was 17.4%. Majority of patients belong to middle economicstatus (66.2%). Hypomagnesaemia was seen in 37.9% patients. Conclusion: it is concludedthat low serum magnesium (hypomagnesaemia) is associated with preterm onset of labour.Maternal hypomagnesaemia may be used as a predictor of preterm labour.


The paper introduces the existing status and development trend of tug boats for port oerations,analyzes and compares the calculation methods of tug boat collocation specified by relevant associations at home and abroad,and presents the statistics graphs of tug boat collocation in a number of ports around the world,which may be used as references for the design of tug boat collocation in China′s ports.


Background: Alternative splicing gives a variation from the same gene. Results: A novel alternative splicing form of Met exists in human skeletal muscle, and its depletion decreases muscle differentiation, whereas its overexpression acts oppositely. Conclusion: A novel alternative splicing form of Met regulates skeletal muscle differentiation. Significance: This is an example of regulation by alternative splicing, which affects skeletal muscle differentiation. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor, Met, regulate skeletal muscle differentiation. In the present study, we identified a novel alternatively spliced isoform of Met lacking exon 13 (designated Δ13Met), which is expressed mainly in human skeletal muscle. Alternative splicing yielded a truncated Met having extracellular domain only, suggesting an inhibitory role. Indeed, Δ13Met expression led to a decrease in HGF-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of Met and ERK phosphorylation, as well as cell proliferation and migration via sequestration of HGF. Interestingly, in human primary myoblasts undergoing differentiation, Δ13Met mRNA and protein levels were rapidly increased, concomitantly with a decrease in wild type Met mRNA and protein. Inhibition of Δ13Met with siRNA led to a decreased differentiation, whereas its overexpression potentiated differentiation of human primary myoblasts. Furthermore, in notexin-induced mouse injury model, exogenous Δ13Met expression enhanced regeneration of skeletal muscle, further confirming a stimulatory role of the isoform in muscle cell differentiation. In summary, we identified a novel alternatively spliced inhibitory isoform of Met that stimulates muscle cell differentiation, which confers a new means to control muscle differentiation and/or regeneration.


Taverna workbench is an environment for construction, visualization and execution of bioinformatic workflows that integrate specialized toolsavailablethroughtheinternet.Itisgainingpopularityfast,because of supporting the most important bioinformatic services and its simple, yetrobustgraphicalnotation.HerewepresentXQTav—anextensionof Taverna that provides full integration with XQuery (the query language for XML) engine. XQTav allows execution of XQuery scripts in Taverna workflowdiagrams.AllexistingTavernaprocessorscanbeaccessedin the XQuery scripts. This provides an alternative way of specifying sub-workflows in Taverna and is useful when one deals with query-like algorithms (e.g. filters and inner joins). Moreover, XQtav may be used to automatically generate an XQuery script that is equivalent to Taverna'sworkflow.Thisconstitutesanotherwayofcreatingandenact-ing bioinformatic workflows: overall structure of a diagram is drawn in Tavernaenvironment,XQuerycodeisgeneratedandpossiblyadjusted by hand. It can be executed by XQuery engines or incorporated into other software environments. Availability: XQtav is an open source software. It may be downloaded from http://xqtav.sourceforge.net/. The page also contains various tutorials and examples,


Six or seven years after the CRM theory came to China, many enterprises have not made clear of the demand and object of CRM running. It is important to catch the meaning of CRM correctly. The passage talks about the core of CRM in the point of the customer value based on customer lifetime value, customer level, customer satisfaction module and then analyzes the key point of real estate by its own customer value.


Some biological effects of gamma radiation on the two-spotted mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch were determined. A substerilizing dose given to a male subsequently mated to
 a normal female caused sterility in the F1 female progeny. LD50/10 values for adult males and females were established at 90
 and 110 krads, respectively. Eggs were more radioresistant as they aged; 3,000 to
 3,200 rads were lethal to all one- and two-day-old eggs, while most all three- and
 four-day-old eggs hatched after an exposure to 11,500 rads. Male protonymphs, deutonymphs,
 and adults were all rendered sterile, and eggs and larvae were killed with 20 krads.
 A dose of 100 krads did not appear to cause sperm inactivation in males. The tests
 supported the belief that males undergo multiple matings. The eggs of about 10 per
 cent of the females undergoing secondary matings were successfully fertilized by more
 than one male. A sterilizing dose for males did not detrimentally alter mating competitiveness
 or longevity.
 Control of this species in strawberries was attempted using the sterile-male technique.
 Field release of both sexes caused plant damage due to additional feeding activity.
 An all-male colony was obtained from isolated virgin females, but not enough males
 could be reared, sterilized, and released to reduce the endemic field population.


Introduction Global environmental governance is characterised by a set of dilemmas concerning capacity, sovereignty, and responsibility.We can see the effects of these dilemmas in disagreements between the North and South in multilateral negotiations. On the one hand, governments from wealthy developed countries have traditionally been the strongest advocates of international agreements to protect the global environment. These countries have typically contributed most to global GHG emissions; they have cleared their own forests; and they have transitioned to less energy-intensive service-based economies after becoming rich through dirty, poorly regulated, production-based development. In other words, wealthy countries' responsibility for global environmental degradation is great and longstanding. On the other hand, governments from developing countries have long claimed that they cannot afford to protect the environment until levels of poverty are drastically reduced. These countries have contributed least to global GHG emissions, and they claim a sovereign right to exploit their natural resources and pass through dirty phases of development before cleaning up later.What'smore, the largest stores of biodiversity and natural resources can be found in the global South. Of course, there are exceptions and not all countries fit into this neat picture. But, generally speaking, these North–South divisions do exist and have had a significant impact on global environmental governance. The global environment cannot be preserved without the South, but the South claims to have many higher priorities. As we saw in Chapter 3, the narrative of 'development first' was articulated back in 1972 at the first major international environmental conference, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Stockholm. There India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, told the international community: We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters? … How can we speak to those who live in villages and in slums about keeping the oceans, the rivers and the air clean when their own lives are contaminated at the source? The environment cannot be improved in conditions of poverty. (quoted in Rajan 1997: 25–6) This narrative has proven persuasive and has placed finance at the heart of global environmental governance. This chapter explores different forms of environmental finance, and their effects on deforestation in particular.


The purpose of this paper is to consider the challenges that Malta is likely to face in an enlarged European Union of twenty-five States ‐ not only as a micro-state but also as a micro island state ‐ a factor that distinguishes Malta from another micro-state in the EU, namely Luxembourg, as it adds insularity and peripherality to the disadvantage of small size.


The study and search for new regions of shell closure for nuclei away from stability is a topic of current interest both experimentally and theoretically. There have been few studies predicting a weak spherical subshell gap of Zr (N = 70), for example Ref. [1]. This is supported by a recent study indicating that the spherical N = 70 shell gap may not have a large effect at N = 68 for Zr isotopes [2]. It would be, therefore, interesting to know whether there is a subshell closure at N = 70 in the neutron rich region and also for the very neutron-rich nuclei, Zr. Systematic studies from measurements of nuclear masses have provided vital indications of shell closures. Ozawa et al. [3] have reported a new magic number at N = 16 near the neutron drip line by surveying the neutron separation energies and the interaction cross sections for these nuclei. In this short communication, we carry out an investigation of the neutron number dependence of one neutron separation energies in the N = 70 region, similar to that of Ref. [3]. It is of interest to know if there is a subshell closure at N = 70 and what is the strength if it exists. Earlier, we have carried out elastic scattering calculations for 50 MeV proton scattering from chain of Zr isotopes [4]. These investigations were carried out by analyzing the microscopically generated p-nucleus optical potentials in the framework of first order Brueckner theory employing Urbana V14, softcore inter-nucleon interaction along with the relativistic mean field (RMF) densities both for protons and neutrons. These calculations showed that there is a small increase in the reaction cross section as well as the magnitudes of the first maximum of the analyzing power for Zr [4]. One can check this prediction as well for Zr in the present work where analysis is carried out by studying the neutron number dependence of neutron separation energies as reported in this abstract. Results and Discussions


This research aims to build criteria for improving the text book quality and to Identify the extent in which criteria might be implied in the Biology textbook, might be implied in the Biology textbook for the 6th Grade, to achieve the research objectives, the researcher depend on the description method and the questionnaire as the research instrument which consisted of (7) fields: the introduction, the educational objectives, the scientific content, the activities, the photos - figures - tables, the evaluation methods, the artistic editing. It includes (99) criteria. Reliability and validity have been affirmed. The number of individuals is (1950) and the sample of the research is (331) as teachers and s supervisors for biology, they were chosen randomly who represented the Iraqi governorates of 2017. The research has concluded that the biology textbook has achieved most of quality criteria with admission of weakness in criteria of introduction and activities. The researcher recommends to adopt criteria of textbook quality which adopted by this research and to reconsider the reorganizing the textbook and to take in consideration of the practical aspect. The researcher suggests to n evolutions to other Biology Textbook to get the specialties in authorizing Textbooks.


Three cases of scientific research management-oriented personalized subject knowledge service,provided by subject librarian team in Shanghai Information Center of Life Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,were described,followed by a elaboration of the demands,analysis subjects and scope,data source,analysis thinking design and implement involved in the 3 cases,and a study of the process and methods of scientific research management-oriented personalized subject knowledge service through the cases.


A method of simulating SAR images affected by the ionospheric scintillation based on the multilayered phase screen model is proposed in this paper. The phase error and polarization deflection caused by scintillation are considered during simulation, which is effective in both single and fully polarimetric modes. It can be used to simulate the impact of scintillation on SAR images, as well as the error compensation algorithm of SAR scintillation effect. Simulation results show that the scheme can simulate the scintillation effect in different ionospheric environments. The performance and main error sources of the proposed modeling method are finally analyzed.


Although high resolution orthoimages have been the most popular photogrammetric derivative, the cost of orthoimaging production remains high for areas where access is difficult. This paper presents a procedure for a cost effective orthoimage production, from data (digital images, GCPs and DTMs) derived solely from Airborne Laser Scanner systems. ALS systems are designed to produce a highly accurate 3D point cloud, which can be easily rasterized in an accurate, high resolution and dense DEM. Applying a hillshade effect on that dense DEM, one can visualize the objects with great detail and thus measure 3D coordinates for points to be used as GCPs. Modern ALS systems incorporate medium format digital cameras with high resolution imaging abilities. As no ground surveying is needed, the production of high end orthoimages may be performed even in regions that are inaccessible or difficult to access, such as remote islets and mountain tops. A workflow is proposed for the production of orthoimages from low density (2.5 points/m2) laser data using an ALS II-50 system and its medium format RCD105 digital camera. The area of the case study is the northern section of the Greek island Milos. Utilizing automated processes, a series of quality control tasks and a preprocessing of the data is performed. During the data processing, an interpolation of the LiDAR data's first returns is performed, in order to rasterize a high resolution (1m) DEM. The orthorectification process is been performed with the same DEM, leading to an orthoimage with a planimetric accuracy of 1m and minimum geometric distortions. The cost analysis of the applied procedure has proved that the method is less cost demanding compared to the usual orhoimage production methods.


One objective of the National Institutes of Health strategic plan is to Bcommunicate and transfer research results into clinical, public health, and humanservicepractice.[ In addition, the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program cites the importance of nurses' involvement in research activities and requires access to knowledge-based information for Magnet designation. As a result, approximately 95% of Magnet-designated hospitals have access to a librarian. Librarians are experts in those areas that support the transfer of research findings into practice as well as providing access to knowledgebased information. They are qualified to teach healthcare professionals how to search the literature, access online services, and evaluate available evidence for methodological rigor. Nurse leaders seeking Magnet designation or improvements in patient care are actively involved in developing environments that support research activities. The literature suggests that benefits of a research-friendly environment (RFE) include the provision of optimal patient care, a nursing staff that uses the literature to address clinical issues, and a work environment that promotes continuous learning. In addition, when nursing and allied health staff are empowered to suggest clinical questions for exploration and receive support to address their questions through conducting research, increased satisfaction with their practice frequently occurs. Librarians can play an important role in developing and maintaining that environment.


Fortified wines, such as Port-style wines, can be made by choosing to ferment the juice or must to a desired sugar concentration and then adding a sufficient amount of a distilled spirit to arrest the fermentation and raise the alcohol to a predetermined level. In order to carry this out, we have to know the amount of sugar left in the juice at anyone moment in time. In small wineries, a hydrometer is often used for this purpose, because it gives an instant answer and is economical to buy. However, using a hydrometer to estimate sugar concentration is complicated by the presence of alcohol in the juice and causes the hydrometer to sink more, thus indicating a lower Brix than is actually present. One percent v/v alcohol obscures 0.47 Brix (Rankine, 1991). The true Brix is given by: True °Brix-Obscured °Brix + Measurable °Brix Measurable Brix is that which is detected by a hydrometer. True Brix is the targeted sweetness of the resulting fortified wine. Calculations for fortification have two stages. Initially we have to calculate the measurable Brix that is associated with the true Brix at which we wish to fortify (the fortification point). Then we have to calculate the gallons of distilled spirit to add using Pearsoll 's Square (Rankine, 1991). The calculation will be illustrated by considering the fortification of one barrel of wine to 19% alcohol at a true Brix of 8, using 97% distilled spirit and where the Brix of the grapes at harvest was 34. Calculating the measurable Brix at the fortification point Step 1. Calculate the amount of alcohol produced by the time the required sugar concentration has been reached (the fortification point): % v/v Alcohol produced at the fortification point = (Initial °Brix at harvest-"True Brix at fortification) x sugar: alcohol conversion factor ' = (34-8) x 0.60 = 15.6 1. To calculate the fortification point, we have to make an assumption about the efficiency of conversion of sugar to alcohol. In theory, 1 g sugar is converted into 0.511 g ethanol (Boulton et al., 1996). In practice, production of compounds other than alcohol and carbon dioxide, and evaporation change the observed conversion factor to between 0.55 and 0.63 (Boulton et al., 1996), making it difficult to predict. Some wineries overcome this problem by collecting data over several years and estimating an average value for their white and red varieties. Here, I …


to my early teens. Occasionally, the intense pain and agony had been so severe that I fainted. I tried several cures such as massage of the coccyx region, warm baths and rectally-administered laxatives, but was not able to reduce the frequency or intensity of the seizures. Finally, in pure desperation during one extremely painful episode, I showered and inserted a few deciliters of water at body temperature into the rectum. To my surprise the seizure stopped immediately. During subsequent defecation, only small lumps of faeces came out. In my years as a clinician, both as a general practitioner and as an infectious disease specialist, three patients have mentioned nightly episodes of anorectal pain. Extensive gastrointestinal investigation of the patients showed no pelvic and anorectal abnormality and the diagnosis became proctalgia fugax. Two of the patients had tried bulk pharmaceuticals, calcium channel blockers and benzodiazepines without any improvement in the frequency or intensity of the pain. One of my patients had also, in intensive despair, inserted water at body temperature anorectally. As with my experience described above, he had immediate relief of his pain. I recommended my patients to try this method whenever they had seizures. At follow-up appointments, the patients reported that the frequency of their seizures had not decreased, but that they were able to stop the attack by inserting a small amount of water anorectally. Even if the aetiology of this condition is not understood, my pragmatic view is that enema is a safe and reliable method which can be used after ruling out any organic cause. My personal view, after many ghastly hours, is that proctalgia fugax is started by a motor abnormality of the rectal smooth muscle, resulting from small lumps of faeces, and subsequently spreading to the rectal or pubococcygeal muscle apparatus. This nightmare can be brought to an end by using a small amount of water, either as a water enema or, in the worst case scenario, the shower, to dilate the ampulla and lower part of rectum.


We are the first to document and study the use of Rule 10b5-1 preset repurchase plans. Though the rule's original intent was to clarify conditions for enforcing insider trading laws, generally thou...


It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 ACM Workshop on Social Media World Sensors -- Sideways 2015, which is held in conjunction with the 26th ACM conference on Hypertext and Social Media -- HT 2015 in Cyprus, September 1st.

This first edition of the workshop aims at bringing together academics and practitioners from different areas to promote the vision of social media as social sensors. Nowadays, social platforms have become the most popular communication system all over the world. In fact, due to the short format of messages and the accessibility of these systems, users tend to shift from traditional communication tools (such as blogs, web sites and mailing lists) to social network for various purposes. Billions of messages are appearing daily in these services such as Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. The authors of these messages share content about their private life, exchanging opinions on a variety of topics and discussing a wide range of information news.

Even if these system cannot represent an alternative to the authoritative information media, considering the number of its users and the impressive response time of their contributions, they represent a sort of real-time news sensor that can also predate the best newspapers in informing the web community about the emerging topics and trends. In fact, the most important information media always need a certain amount of time to react to a news event; i.e. professional journalists require time, collaborators and/or technology support to provide a professional report. However a user can easily report, in few characters, what is happening in front of the user's eyes, without any concern about the readers or the writing style. These aspects make social services the most powerful sensor for events detection and automatic news generation. The aim of this workshop was to ask researchers to enter into such view, by studying how social platforms can be used in a real-time scenarios to detect emerging events and enrich them with contextual information.

The call for papers attracted submissions from India, Europe, Africa, and the United States.


1 Sirs,The exposure variability in post-graduate training in surgery training calls for objective competency assessment. 1,2 Research in competency-based surgical education focused on technical skills, with limited development in the cognitive domain including marking as a method of planning. The age-old wisdom of " measure twice, cut once " alludes to the surgeon ' s spatial awareness and realization of patient-speci fi c anatomy for perfect execution. As an element of safety, these markings can often demonstrate proper understanding of surgical anatomy, patient pathology, and operative approach. With the increase in requirements for objective assessments and competency demonstration in post-graduate training programs, tools that objectify, personalize, and automate the assessment process for trainees remains ongoing. Herein, the authors describe the development of a novel, two-dimensional, web-based system to cap-ture user input data, allowing for the real-time, au-tomated, and objective assessment of virtual surgical markings across different platforms. Several layouts and input methods are evaluated in serial exercises to test the model ' s computational and practical performance boundaries for further optimization. The users were asked to repeat this test three times to demonstrate input reliability and sensitivity. The three exercises were composed of drawing a linear pattern, arc shape, and a zig-zag pattern, to test the system ' s input and processing or lines, circles, and angles, re-spectively. These exercises were then repeated in three different settings, connecting the dots, tracing an incision on a fi


A multiple regression model is considered in which the density of the response variable is a member of a very wide family which includes many well-known distributions. Schemes of observation in which the response observations are grouped or type 1 right censored are examined. Results on the asymptotic variance efficiencies of the maximum likelihood estimators of the regression coefficients and standard deviation of the error distribution are presented for the two schemes.


The article considers one of the main current problems the problem of the health and of a person's healthy way of life. Existing scientific knowledge of the ways, forms, methods of the person's health improvement are presented in separate branches of knowledge, including physical culture, but the desirable result is not achieved. The author emphasizes the importance of physical training in the healthy way of life formation. Physical culture and physical activity allow to find out a way out of the situation.


The work aims to explore the surface damage characteristics of the workpiece in the compressive prestress machining process of engineering ceramics in combination with ultrasonic vibration machining method. An engineering model of ultrasonic vibration assisted machining process of engineering ceramics under compressive prestress was established. Based on the discrete element simulation results and experimental results of Al2O3 ceramic scratch process, the machined surface was observed by scanning electron microscope, and the scratch force was measured by three-dimensional dynamic piezoelectric dynamometer. The fracture of groove profile showed a periodic trend during the ultrasonic vibration under compressive prestress and the materials pilling up on the edge of the scratching-groove were constrained. When the prestress was 200 MPa and scratching depth was 10 μm, the actual scratching depth and groove width of normal scratching process were 7.58 μm and 107.5 μm, respectively, while those of ultrasonic assisted scratching process were 8.55 μm and 143.5 μm. With the simulation results, the ultrasonic assisted scratching process could decrease the number of radial cracks, but increase the depth. What's more, the tangen表面质量控制及检测 第 48 卷 第 6 期 张高峰等:工程陶瓷预压应力下超声振动辅助划痕实验研究 ·347· tial forces of the both scratching processes showed obvious discrepancy. The ultrasonic assisted scratching process had the lower tangential force which fluctuated more steadily. Ultrasonic vibration assisted machining process can reduce the cutting force in the prestress machining process of engineering ceramics and improve the machining efficiency of materials.


Pre‐oxygenation times were studied in 30 fit pregnant women during the course of their pregnancy. The mothers were studied in the supine position with a left lateral tilt and breathing through a standard Magill system with an oxygen flow rate of 8 litres/minute. Between 13–26 weeks gestation and 26–42 weeks the times needed to achieve an end‐tidal nitrogen of 2% were 104 seconds (SD 30) and 80 seconds (SD 20), respectively. A control group of young women of similar age and weight needed 130 seconds (SD 30) to achieve the same end‐tidal nitrogen concentration. A gas‐tight mask was found to be essential to achieve effective denitrogenation (end‐tidal nitrogen concentration of 2%).


This contribution investigates the MIMO channel by means of measurements at the entrance of a small pedestrian tunnel at 2.4 GHz. The wireless channel is measured within 100 MHz for a 4times4 MIMO system. It focuses on variation of the transmitter offset and on different antenna spacings, in order to understand the impact of different configurations on capacity. It will be shown that capacity is sensitive to the transmitter offset. Indeed, these measurements showed than it is possible to maintain a low distance between antenna elements for a fix correlation if the transmitting offset is increased.


Although very complete accounts of the action of morphine have been given by many observers, such as Bernard and Guinard, it is only recently that the action of morphine has been compared with that of the total alkaloids of opium. The action of individual alkaloids, especially narcotine and codeine, has been studied, but the unsuitability of opium for intravenous injection has prevented accurate work on the action of the total alkaloidal content. In 1909, Sahli' prepared a substance which he called 'Pantopon,' and which contained all the alkaloids of opium in a definite concentration and in soluble form. Since then a great deal of work has been done on the action of this preparation. Loewy2 has correlated the action of morphine, codeine, and the total alkaloids on the respiratory centre. Wertheimer and Raffalovitch9 have investigated the action of the total alkaloids on the circulatory system, Rodari,3 Bergien,4 and Dobeli, have compared the toxicity of morphine and the total alkaloids. An account of its action is also given by Rodolico,6 and Cohuheim has investigated the action on the gut. The analgesic and anaesthetic actions of the total alkaloids have been fully described by Grey7 and Trotain,5 among others.


What caused the spring bloom in the experiment? In the natural environment the spring bloom is initiated by increasing light availability in a slowly stratifying, nutrient replete water column as day length and mixing length scales change. However, the authors removed these factors from the experiment and placed their microcosms in static irradiance and mixing conditions – what happened in those first few days (1-3 days) in the microcosms? Did all the community acclimate to the new conditions at the same rate? At what point did the composition from flow cytometry analysis between the treatments differ or differentiate? It is a shame that the authors did not assess the compositional changes that occurred at the sampling site over a similar length of time to compare and contrast with their experimental treatments – acknowledging that the sampling site would not have encountered such static conditions.


Samples of processed rice from four different brands showed counts of mesophilic aerobic bacteria ranging from 1x10 2 to 5x103 CFU.g -1 for milled rice and from 1x10 6 CFU.g -1 to 6.8x10 6 for brown rice. Brown rice samples had extensive counts including presence of faecal coliforms. In cooked rice no microbial growth was noted during 4 d at room temperature (spring season, 15-20°C) and at least 2 wk at 4°C. No bacterial contamination was detected in cooked rice packs. In this work a rapid and highly reliable procedure for detection of microorganisms in cooked rice was applied.


In Sir William Wilde's Catalogue of Bronze Antiquities is described and illustrated under the heading of chariot furniture an iron-backed bronze disc, 3¾ in. in diameter, coated with white metal, projecting from which is a bronze stud in the form of a dog's head, 1½ in. long, with a human head engraved on its muzzle. The stud is threaded by a bronze chain made up of two rings and double loops (fig. 1, 1). Wilde considered this object was intended for the attachment of a trace. It was found when making a railway cutting near Navan Station adjoining the River Boyne in July 1848, associated with a quantity of human remains; the skull of a horse; a number of antiquities including a bronze bridle-bit, and harness-plate; iron rings plated with bronze; some small bronze buttons; and seven ornamented gilt-bronze plaques.


Few problems in the history of Sienese painting have given rise to such heated and intricate debate as the dating and original arrangement of Giovanni di Paolo's scenes from the life of St. Catherine of Siena (Figs. 1–10). All ten panels once formed part of the collection of Jean Antoine Ramboux, a Nazarene painter and one of the most important collectors and copyists of early Italian art. Today only one of these precious little paintings remains in Europe (Fig. g). Eight are dispersed among various collections in the United States, and the ninth, once in the Minneapolis Art Institute, cannot be traced (Fig. 10).1


Discrete wired connections can be reduced in size into printed circuit board (PCB). PCB manufacturing involves various steps such as patterning, etching, drilling, masking and legend printing. During the manufacturing process of PCB hardware, the short circuits between tracks and pads, discontinuity of track and various defects may occur. This paper presents a novel technique for identification of such defects using machine vision and image processing techniques. This system reduces the time of inspection and increases the accuracy, even though the image scale varies with respect to the reference image. The constant stand of distance between the camera and PCB need not be maintained. The result of applying this technique into PCB layout and real images are shown.


One of the eventual consequences of the global debt crisis was a wave of market-oriented economic reforms. This paper discusses the state of our knowledge on the political economy of this process. Why were inefficient, and often unsustainable policies maintained for so long? Why are so many governments reforming now, after decades of adherence to policies of an opposite kind? Have the reformers internalized the correct lessons from the East Asian experience? Finally, are there any helpful rules for reformers to follow in guiding their policies through complicated political terrain?


The state-space formulas for the usual H∞ central controller become singular when approaching the optimum γopt. A new approach is taken to circumvent this difficulty. It consists of extending the notion of central controller to include proper controllers with a feedthrough term. While such controllers are still derived from the usual Riccati solutions X∞, and Y∞, their feedthrough gain can be selected so as to neutralize the singularities near γopt. This provides numerically stable formulas for the controller parameters and eliminates the discontinuity between the realizations of nearly optimal and of reduced-order optimal central controllers. The advantages of this method are illustrated on a few examples.


Analog to digital converter (ADC) is a very useful device for extracting the digital signal from the analog one. Technically successive approximation type ADC processing speed depends largely on the fast operation of the comparator, which is one of the vital part of such structure. In today's digital ultra-tech world, speed and low power consumption are major factors that are taken under consideration. In this paper, the propagation delays, power dissipation of different comparators will be analyzed dependent on different temperature points. The readers can easily draw an analytical expression for the performance of the comparator by considering these comparisons. To design a low power and low voltage comparator voltage supply, propagation delay, power dissipation must be considered which are represented in this paper to find a better comparator which will act ideally in real environment without changing its characteristics. This paper represents a comparison of different comparators such as circuit complexity, length, CMOS technology, voltage supply etc. Simulations have been performed by using SPICE in 90 nm CMOS technology.


Total Quality Management (TQM) is becoming widely recognised as one of the most powerful modern business tools available. Many organisations are adopting TQM philosophies which are leading them to a competitive advantage and improved prosperity. As Engineers, we will find that TQM will redefine many of our work practices and responsibilities. TQM is having a major impact on job design throughout the whole of many organizations.


We recently reported an unexpected interaction between olanzapine and sertraline in a population being treated for psychotic depression. Contrary to knowledge of cytochrome p450 interactions sertraline increased apparent clearance of olanzapine by 30%. Here we examined the pharmacokinetics of sertraline in the same population. Existing studies suggest that sertraline apparent clearance is significantly increased in male subjects and suggested an age/sex interaction.


An eco-efficient bioeconomy, combining environmental sustainability and economic advantage, has been widely promoted to alleviate resource constraints of rising global demand. A sustainable future supposedly lies in an 'integrated, diversified biorefinery', which would more efficiently process various non-food biomass. Thanks to future technology, these renewable resources would be converted in more efficient, diverse ways. In parallel, the bioeconomy 'value web' concept anticipates a continuous flexibility in value chains; this has been promoted as a means to make production systems more resource efficient and economically competitive. Political-economic elites have been seeking such flexibility through a techno-market fix, converging in a future biorefinery. This more flexible future is promoted as benefiting the global South by inserting producers into global markets and thus overcoming malnutrition. Such a win-win scenario can seem plausible only by blaming resource-inefficient methods for societal problems. Yet current technoscientific innovation towards resource-efficient biorefineries has the same drivers as previous innovations expanding global markets for food, feed, fuel, etc. More efficient, flexible conversion of biomass will strengthen financial incentives to intensify resource extraction, undermine soil fertility, industrialise agri-forestry systems and dispossess nearby communities. For their economic viability, such techno-fixes depend on cheapening resource supplies without paying for their societal and environmental costs. Through a 'value web' of more flexible value chains, moreover, this agenda favours economic advantage for the upper parts of the global value chain (e.g. high-value products and proprietary knowledge), while driving the lower parts into greater competition to supply cheap biomass. Beyond any tangible effects, the sustainability promise of eco-efficient biorefineries has a performative role. It naturalises current production-consumption patterns and expanding global markets as 'consumer demand' – as an external objective force to be accommodated by agro-industry. Techno-market fixes reinforce those patterns, regardless of whether or when future technologies fulfil their promise of greater resource efficiency. For political forces resisting environmental degradation and people's dispossession, several means are necessary to contest this global agenda and counterpose alternatives.


This essay analyses Ayi Kwei Armah's novels from the perspective of contemporary myth-making process. By highlighting the synergy or affinity between classical and African mythological patterns of Armah's symbolic narratives, I contend that Armah's novels within the corpus of African literature are exemplars of the dialectical process of myth-making from the standpoint of socio-cultural construction. Anchoring my exposition on the close reading of Armah, I contend that the core of Armah's narrative novels lies in his use of myth as the structural organizing principle of his literary form which serves as provocative catalysts of positive change for the African continent.


A new method for balancing coal / air flow to individual burners connected to a mill in a pulverized coal fired unit was proposed. A generalized calculation procedure based on this method was developed for sizing the orifices needed for balancing the coal / air flow. Efficient use of commercially available computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software was suggested for the calculation of the pressure drop in pipes with unclear specifications of geometries. The current industry practice is to balance the clean air flow and accept the resulting imbalance in the coal / air flow. By this new method the clean-air flow would be unbalanced in a tailored manner so that balanced coal / air flow would result. In order to implement this new method the power plants would still have to conduct clean air tests only.Copyright © 2003 by ASME


ABSTRACT Researchers explain cultural phenomena ranging from cognitive biases to widespread religious beliefs by assuming intuitive dualism: humans imagine minds and bodies as distinct and separable. We examine dualist intuition development across two societies that differ in normative focus on thinking about minds. We use a new method that measures people's tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli using mind-body dualist thinking. We recruited 180 Canadian children (2–10 yrs) along with 42 Indigenous iTaukei Fijian children (5–13 yrs) and 38 Indigenous iTaukei Fijian adults (27–79 yrs) from a remote island community. Participants tracked a named character within ambiguous animations that could be interpreted as a mind-body switch. Animations vary "agency cues" that participants might rely on for dualistic interpretations. Results indicate early emerging dualistic inclinations across populations and reliance on "agency cues" of body proximity and appearance of eyes. "Agency cues" increase dualist interpretations from 10% to 70%, though eyes mattered more for Westernized participants. Overall, statistical models positing that dualist interpretations "emerge early and everywhere" fit our data better than models positing that dualism "develops gradually with exposure to Western cultural traditions." Fijian participants, who normatively avoid focus on minds, offered even more dualistic interpretations when they had less Western cultural exposure (via formal education).


Tobacco mosaic virus was inoculated on the midrib of the secondary developed leaf of a 10 leaf-stage tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum L. CV. Xanthi), and the movement of the virus was traced by tissue culture method. Midribs and internodes of the inoculated plant were cut into many pieces at different stages of infection. These pieces were cultured on the modified Murashige and Skoog's medium at 25C for 14 days, and developed the calluses. Each of them was homogenized in 0.01M phosphate buffer, pH 8.0 and the infectivities of the homogenates were assayed on N. glutinosa.The results showed that the infectivity was detected first in the callus developed from the stem below the inoculated leaf 6 hours after inoculation and from the upper stem after 10 hours. After 15 hours the virus infectivity was detected from the 7th leaf and the top leaves, after 24 hours from the 5th and 6th leaves and after 60 hours from the 4th leaf. Thus far, the virus was detected in calluses developed from all parts of the plant after 120 hours, except for the root which was not used in this experiment.On a tobacco plant having about 20 leaves, midrib of the 6th leaf was inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus and after 6 hours the upper part from the 4th leaf was cultured in water for 30 hours. The midribs of each leaf were then cultured and the calluses developed were tested. The virus infectivity were detected only in the callus developed from 11th or 16th leaf, but not in the stem below the inoculated leaf.These results suggest that the virus translocates in vascular bundles depending on the phyllotaxy of tobacco plant (2/5) in the early stage of systemic infection.


Sensors are used to determine a variety of health and security parameters. Pressure mats and camera analysis are frequently used to determine a person's chair posture. Measurement of parameters can be derived from a variety of different sensor types, which may already be present in an environment. This paper presents the use of the concept of "sensory substitution," where a sensor designed to measure Quantity X is used to measure Quantity Y. The concept is used to enable alternative sensing techniques for medical and security applications, such as determining chair occupancy, postural shift times, and even current postural state, without using cameras or pressure sensors. Specifically, the postural state of a subject is determined in a laboratory study using various arrays of both temperature sensors and acoustic sensors. This method can be used standalone, can augment other sensors, or can validate data from pressure or visual-based systems. These alternative sensors could also be used for other aspects of smart infrastructure. The system was tested with different types and styles of furniture, including chairs, armrests, cushions, and beds. A least mean square algorithm was deployed to remove noises enabling acoustic posture detection. Using a thresholding algorithm, postural changes are then identified using audio. In a controlled environment, over 90% of postural change events were detected. Thus, the paper shows two alternative instrumentation and measurement methods to determine occupancy, postural change timings, and even posture states of a person in a chair.


Large critical power facilities will have higher voltage, and the current mature low-voltage solution for power protection has small capacity and high cost, so facility owners are looking for a new approach. Pushing the power protection up the network to medium voltage is being considered as a good solution, but medium voltage power protection equipment is not mature. This paper describes the development of a real-scale (1 MW) single-star-bridge-cell-based modular multilevel cascade converter for power protection equipment and reports successful test results obtained from engineering applications.


Boehmite nanoparticles with covalently linked polyamine chains functionalized with naphthalene fluorophores have been prepared and characterized. The characterization of the materials by elemental microanalysis, X-ray powder diffraction, MAS 29Si NMR and electron microscopy unambiguously prove that the covalent anchorage had occurred. Steady-state fluorescence emission studies show that the luminescent properties of the modified nanoparticles are sensitive to changes in concentration of hydrogen ions, metal ions and anionic nucleotides such as ATP. The behaviour of the attached materials in aqueous solution is parallel to the behaviour of the single fluorophoric polyamines. Comparisons are established with analogous systems containing indole as a fluorophore.


A detailed analysis of the effective thermal resistance for the bump foil of air foil bearings
(AFBs) is performed. The presented model puts emphasis on the thermal contact
resistances between the bump foil and the top foil as well as between the bump foil and
the base plate. It is demonstrated that most of the dissipated heat in the lubricating air
film of an air foil bearing is not conducted by microcontacts in the contact regions.
Instead, the air gaps close to the contact area are found to be thin enough in order to
effectively conduct the heat from the top foil into the bump foil. On the basis of these findings,
an analytical formula is developed for the effective thermal resistance of a half
bump arc. The formula accounts for the geometry of the bump foil as well as for the surface
roughness of the top foil, the bump foil, and the base plate. The predictions of the
presented model are shown to be in good agreement with measurements from the literature.
In particular, the model predicts the effective thermal resistance to be almost independent
of the applied pressure. This is a major characteristic property that has been
found by measurements but could not be reproduced by previously published models. The
presented formula contributes to an accurate thermohydrodynamic (THD) modeling of
AFBs.


The Upper Delaware River management plan offers an alternative to outright purchase and subsequent management of natural recreation areas. Advantages include providing for appropriate growth, pooling agency manpower and funding, and making the private sector more responsive to finding solutions to resource issues.


| Ecological dynamics proposes that athletes and sports teams can be conceptualised as complex adaptive systems. What does this imply for practice designs developing skill, expertise and talent in athletes? Key insights provided by theoreticians like Nikolai Bernstein (1967) and James J. Gibson (1979) imply that skill, expertise and talent in sport results in coordination of actions with events, objects, structures and other performers in dynamic performance environments. Enhanced organisation of system components in athletes and sports team is predicated on a tight coupling between perception and action systems so that goal-directed behaviour is fine-tuned and information-based during performance and practice. Bernstein (1967, p228) drew attention to the relevant concept of dexterity: "the ability to find a motor solution for any external situation, that is, to adequately solve any emerging motor problem correctly (i.e., adequately and accurately), quickly (with respect to both decision making and achieving an accurate outcome), rationally (i.e., expediently and economically), and resourcefully (i.e., quick-wittedly and initiatively)" (italics in the original) Linked to Gibson's (1979) ideas of the integrated role of perception and action in supporting pick up and utilisation of affordances (opportunities for action) suggest how practice tasks can be structured in dynamic sports environments. Based on these insights, an affordance landscape continuum (Davids et al., 2017) underpins the acquisition of skill, expertise and talent in sport. The continuum proposes a landscape of opportunities for action (Rietveld & Kiverstein, 2014) in which coaches can design narrow fields of affordances (purpose-designed for novices and beginners in sport) or more highly challenging practice task designs that enhance problem-solving, innovation and creativity, adaptability and 'dexterity' in elite and developing athletes. Traditionally, coaches working on skill acquisition tend to adopt a 'reproductive' emphasis, involving an ideal template or 'classic' motor pattern that all learners need to reproduce. By default there is an over-emphasis on repetition, rehearsal and drilling of movements during practice. Using the affordance landscape can help coaches avoid too much repetition and rehearsal of specific movements and tactical patterns through over-use of drills and shadow play. Practice designs at the more variable end of an affordance landscape can be used to enhance athletic performance of elite and developing athletes by emphasising 'repetition without repetition' (Bernstein, 1967). Affordance fields can be designed for athletes to facilitate their capacity to explore, discover and exploit functional performance behaviours, rather than merely repeat the reproduction of a coach-imposed mechanical pattern (Davids et al., 2017). Karl Newell Professor, Department of Kinesiology, College of Education, University of Georgia, USA Constraints on the Acquisition of Movement Coordination ABSTRACT | In this talk I will elaborate on the perspective of Nikolai Bernstein (1967) that skill in movement tasks is, in effect, the mastery of the redundant degrees of freedom (DFs). The study of motor learning and performance has, however, been dominated by task demands to scale an already producible coordination mode thus restricting the coordination of the joint space DFs in many laboratory motor learning tasks. The acquisition of new patterns of coordination in whole-body sport motor skills, in contrast, gives emphasis to the coordination and control of multiple joint DFs and the motion and stability of the torso in every activity. It remains a challenge in the theory and practice of movement science to understand the roles of the many DFs in the formation and acquisition of movement coordination, control and skill over the lifespan. Methodologies to Enhance Sport Performance and Athlete Development: Integration of Research and Practice| In this talk I will elaborate on the perspective of Nikolai Bernstein (1967) that skill in movement tasks is, in effect, the mastery of the redundant degrees of freedom (DFs). The study of motor learning and performance has, however, been dominated by task demands to scale an already producible coordination mode thus restricting the coordination of the joint space DFs in many laboratory motor learning tasks. The acquisition of new patterns of coordination in whole-body sport motor skills, in contrast, gives emphasis to the coordination and control of multiple joint DFs and the motion and stability of the torso in every activity. It remains a challenge in the theory and practice of movement science to understand the roles of the many DFs in the formation and acquisition of movement coordination, control and skill over the lifespan. Methodologies to Enhance Sport Performance and Athlete Development: Integration of Research and Practice


The paper is concerned with solutions of Cauchy's problem for stochastic differential-operator equations in separable Hilbert spaces. Special emphasis is placed on the case when the operator coefficient of the equation is not a generator of a -class semigroup, but rather generates some regularized semigroup. Regularized solutions of equations in the Itô form with a Wiener process as an inhomogeneity and generalized solutions of equations with white noise are constructed in various spaces of abstract distributions. Bibliography: 23 titles.


AbstractRussula lateralipes sp. nov. from Papua New Guinea and R. pleurogena sp. nov. from New Zealand are described in Russula sect. Lateralipedes sect. nov. They represent the first reports of pl...