The purpose of the financial audit is to ensure the credibility of the financial statements presented to the shareholders, investors, send to the financial institutions and to the public but also to contribute to the good operating of the company. Users needs for financial audit, review the historical financial statements, review of interimediar financial statements, procedures, have increased lately due to requests of regulators or as a result of shareholders interests to protect their business. Only a quality financial audit, which assumes conformity with International Standards on Auditing, Ethic Code and valid national regulations, will achive the objectives and fulfill its purpose.


As one approach to high-speed high-density magneto-optical disk systems, we studied the application of pit-edge record ing by magnetic field modulation, in which data overwriting is possible. In overwriting, the erase behavior of the old data is crucial. Here, we trial-fabricated magneto-optical disks with the effective land width, which affects read/write performance, limited to about 0.8 ¿m, and confirmed that efficient erasure is possible. Moreover, on the basis of read/write characteristics, we clarified the relation between linear velocity and the magnetic field reversal frequency required for stable edge formation.


The invention discloses a measurement device and a measurement method for measuring posture of a rotary aircraft. The method comprises the following steps of: measuring a transverse rolling angle velocity, a pitching angle velocity and a yawing angle velocity of the aircraft by using a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) gyro to output a gyro signal; and outputting an accelerator signal of the aircraft by using an MEMS accelerator, and decomposing a gyro signal acquired by a signal sampling circuit through a digital signal processing module by using the accelerator signal of the MEMS accelerator acquired by the signal sampling circuit as a reference. The measurement device and the measurement method for measuring the posture of the rotary aircraft decompose the gyro signal output by the MEMS gyro by using the accelerator signal output by the MEMS accelerator as the reference so as to acquire the transverse rolling angle velocity, the pitching angle velocity and the yawing angle velocity of the aircraft in real time; and the measurement device has low cost, small volume, large measurement range and strong interference resistance. The measurement method is simple and practical, and has high reliability.


Every manufacturing system has its increasing demand for well planned and scheduled operations for various products. A Genetic algorithm observed its great application for finding the best schedule for the flexible manufacturing System (FMS). But these flexible operations are having big limitations for real time processing in wide industries. Every real time operation demands non-flexibility with tasks dependent on each other, for this case the machine is fixed for a particular operation jointly called as Task. Hence, for this case we can generate the optimal solution showing the Tasks which can be executed in parallel. This paper gives an iterative genetic algorithm (IGA) for achieving solution for these limitations and to find optimum schedule for the various tasks to minimize the total makespan.


Tomato (Lycopersiconesculemtun) is an important vegetable crop produced and consumed worldwide. Tomato production in Liberia is on the decline due to serious disease problems. Introduction of improved varieties is usually difficult due to the effect of these diseases. The crop is mostly affected by one of the most devastating plant pathogenic gram negative bacterium Ralstoniasolanacerum causing major yield losses up to 100% in susceptible varieties worldwide. In the dry season of 2017 a trial was established to screen 10 tomato varieties and evaluate the effect of four organic pesticides against BWT disease. The trial was repeated in the wet season of 2018. The experimental design was a randomized complete block in a factorial arrangement with four replications. Four of the varieties; Mozat, Icrixina, Gaytayeah-2 and Petomech all perished before the end of the trial. Two of the 10 varieties, Nimba-1 and Gaytayeah-1 were resistant (0.0% incidence rates) to BWT disease. Boufolo variety showed good resistance (23.7% incident rate) which was significantly better than the other varieties which had over 50% incident rate. All the pesticides gave similar efficacy levels as the Control hence in effective in controlling the disease. Gaytayeah-1 and Nimba-1 gave the highest fruit yields which were significantly higher than the other varieties. A strong correlation between disease incidence and total fruit yield was observed. Introduction of new varieties for screening and the evaluation of more pesticides is recommended.


Production the high-quality ohmic contacts to AlGaAs layers with high contents AlAs (more than 25 - 30%) is a complicated and still incompletely resolved problem. This is connected with the presence of a thick surface layer of native oxide. The possibility of producing contacts to AlxGa1-xAs with the use of preliminary cleaning of the surface in atomic hydrogen has been investigated. Used in the experiment were n- type (approximately 65% AlAs) and p-type (approximately 35% AlAs) AlxGa1-xAs substrates. The cleaning of the specimen surface in atomic hydrogen (T equals 300 - 400 C, t equals 10 - 90 min) and the deposition of the contact metal (Au/AuGeNi/AuGe for n-type, and Au/AuZn/Au for p-type) were conducted in a unified vacuum cycle. Annealing in the ambience of hydrogen was produced under T equals 400 - 520 C. The technological conditions required to realize the cleaning of the surface of AlxGa1-xAs in a thermal film deposition system with a moderate vacuum has been investigated. The AES method was used to find the cleaning modes that allow removal of the oxide film with the stoichiometric composition of AlxGa1-xAs retained. It has been shown that the operations of cleaning and metal deposition combined in a unified vacuum cycle make it possible to produce a high-quality low- resistance contact showing high adhesion.


THE pathogenesis, clinical features and the management of cases of portal hypertension have aroused widespread interest. Recent advances in radiological and biochemical methods of investigation have brought to light some important aspects of this problem. The clinician can at present obtain a fairly accurate idea of the anatomical or even the pathological abnormalities that are present in a particular case even prior to operation. The behaviour pattern of many cases can be predicted with or without operation with reasonable certainty. However, in some areas, the syndrome still remains obscure.


The developing coordination in the fetal nervous system can be evaluated from heart rate and movement patterns. According to universal principles of development and self-organization heart rate indices of fluctuation amplitude, complexity, and pattern formation constitute a fetal autonomic brain age score (fABAS). The formation of fetal body movement related heart rate accelerations represents a particular aspect of the developing central nervous coordination. The work aims at the analysis of those types of maturation characteristics based on magnetocardiographic recordings of normal fetuses.


This report describes the preparation of a calibration solution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (ERMAC213) containing benzo[a]pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, cyclopenta[cd]pyrene, chrysene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[j]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[ghi]perylene, dibenz[a,h]anthracene, dibenzo[a,l]pyrene, dibenzo[a,e]pyrene, dibenzo[a,i]pyrene, indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene, 5-methylchrysene and benzo[c]fluorene and the certification of their content (mass fraction) in the solution. The preparation of the calibrant, homogeneity and stability studies and confirmation measurements with a discussion of the results are described hereafter. Uncertainties were calculated in compliance with the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) [1] and include uncertainties due to the processing, purity assessment and possible instability. How to obtain EU publications Our priced publications are available from EU Bookshop (http://bookshop.europa.eu), where you can place an order with the sales agent of your choice. The Publications Office has a worldwide network of sales agents. You can obtain their contact details by sending a fax to (352) 29 29-42758. The mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national. L A -N A -2 4 6 4 4 -E N -C


The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of labor migration behavior for off-farm jobs on the willingness of farmland transfer.Method employed is empirical analysis.The results indicate that the distance from home and the period length of the labor emigrant affect the willingness of farmland transfer.Besides,the labors that obtain off-farm jobs in their home counties have relatively less willingness to transfer their farmland.Furthermore,there was also a finding that nearly half of the rural households said that they had not considered the transfer issues at all.It is concluded that in order to accelerate rural land transfer it is necessary to enhance the training of emigrant labors,establish regional labor market,and form and meliorate the rural social security system.


We have studied analytically and numerically a nonlinear diatomic lattice with a cubic nearestneigbbor interaction potential. Our system is a one-dimensional chain of pairs of atoms interacting through a «hard» interaction, each pair being bound to the neighboring pairs by a «soft» interaction. This is a simple model for hydrogen-bonded molecular chains, like the spines in an a helix. We have used a multiple-scale reductive perturbative technique to transform the equations of motion, and derived a nonlinear Schrodinger equation describing the time evolution of localized solitonic excitations


The kinds of the rhizome soluble protein and the conformation difference of single ice crystal of wild Elytrigia repens(L.) Desv.from Harbin areas were comparatively studied after chilled treatment taking the plants growing in the 10℃ as the CK.The result show that the rhizome protein had a deletion of two protein bands with molecular weight of 33 and 13 kda and an addition of two protein bands with molecular weight of 53 and 35 kda after chilled treatment.The protein of 53 and 35 kda appeared spindly or conoid ice crystal indicating a high antifreeze activity.


A deeper understanding is needed of the process used by owners and contractors to evaluate the quality and reasonableness of construction schedules. The work described in this dissertation contributes an additional step to this understanding by articulating a subset of scheduling principles, thus enabling models of the construction schedule evaluation process to be created for subsequent automation.
This research recommends that construction schedule criticism be assigned a higher project management task priority. Acknowledgment of importance to this task should further motivate large, medium, and small firms to perform schedule criticism with the same formality as is currently done by only a few large corporations. This thesis also gives guidelines as to how schedule criticism should be carried out.
The methodology utilized in this research is aimed first and foremost at extracting, formalizing, and articulating a subset of judgmental knowledge about construction schedule analysis. This objective is accomplished by investigating knowledge acquisition techniques capable of eliciting and structuring an amorphous mass of scheduling knowledge. The lessons learned during this process, as well as the synthesized expertise represent major contributions of this dissertation.
This study also adapts an overall knowledge metamorphosis process, the results of which represent scheduling knowledge in three different styles: (1) English form; (2) English-like notation; and (3) computer language syntax. The study concludes that the first two knowledge representation formats are particularly necessary if an operational system is to be maintained by its users.
This research also makes contributions of an applications nature. The prototype systems developed endorse the proposition that knowledge-based systems technology offers programming techniques which facilitate the representation and manipulation of scheduling knowledge. The infrastructure of knowledge representation schemes provided by these prototype systems will be of value during the future development of an operational system. Such a critic system can be designed at a sufficiently generic level because there is a large body of construction scheduling knowledge that has been categorized and structured.
This study does not represent a final solution by itself, so much as another step in the process of learning how computers can better assist construction managers, freeing them to tackle difficult problems.


Deep learning-based approaches for diagnosing bearing faults have attracted considerable attention in the last years. However, in real-world applications, these methods face challenges. For proper training of these models, a considerable amount of labeled data are necessary, and due to limitations in industry, obtaining this amount of data may not be possible. Because of load variations, the distribution of training and test data may vary, which reduces the accuracy of the trained model for various working conditions. Furthermore, noise has a significant impact on bearing fault diagnosis performance in real-world industrial applications. This study introduced the deep subdomain adaptation convolutional neural network (DSACNN) method to overcome these challenges in real scenarios. The local maximum mean discrepancy (LMMD) method reduces the difference between each class distribution in the source and target domains. We validated our proposed method by CWRU bearing dataset under various loads and noise with different SNRs. The results show that DSACNN outperforms other comparative methods in anti-noise performance and reduction of domain distribution discrepancies.


Austenitic phase 316L stainless steels (SS) have excellent behavior in corrosion resistance, mechanical strengths and weldability that allows for wide applications. Depends on working temperature, carbides, intermetallic phases, precipitates and martensitic transformation can be present in 316L SS [1]. Although electro-jet-polishing has been a popular technique in preparing SS TEM specimen, selection of proper electrolytes and adjusting etching/polishing conditions can be challenging [2]. Alternatively, SS TEM specimens can also be prepared with ion milling technique, but ion beam heating during Ar beam bombardment causes artifacts and phase transformation [3]. Thus, it is important to identify a suitable TEM specimen preparation technique for 316L SS. This paper contrasts the application of electro-jetpolishing to ion milling techniques in preparation of 316L SS TEM specimen.


This paper presents a reduction method of power consumption and an asynchronous communication scheme for spiral-inductor based wireless chip-interconnect. The power reduction is achieved by utilizing positively resonance phenomena between two spiral inductors. Further, employing dynamic circuits and self pre-charging technique realizes an asynchronous communication without any clocking. The methodology was verified and evaluated by measuring a test chip in 0.18/spl mu/m 6 metal CMOS technology. The performance of 0.95 mW/1.0 Gbps/ch was achieved without any clocking.


The human β‐amyloid protein may play an important, possibly primary, role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and it appears to potentiate the susceptibility of neurons to excitotoxicity. AD is associated with alterations in the W‐methyl‐D‐aspartate (NMDA) and a‐amino‐3‐hydroxy‐5‐methylisoxazole‐4‐proprionic acid (AMPA) subtypes of glutamate receptors, and it has been suggested that excitotoxicity may play a role in neuronal damage in AD. In this study, we have used quantitative receptor autoradiography to examine NMDA and AMPA receptors in transgenic mice that contain the gene for the carboxyl‐terminal 100 amino acids of the human amyloid precursor protein, beginning with the β‐amyloid region, which is under the control of the JC viral early region promoter. Reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction confirmed that the brains of transgenic mice expressed β‐amyloid mRNA and that control mice did not. NMDA receptors, assessed with [3H]MK‐801, were unchanged in the transgenic compared with the control mice. In the transgenic mice, there were no significant changes in [3H]AMPA receptor binding compared with controls. This study represents the first attempt to evaluate in transgenic mice the in vivo interaction between β‐amyloid expression and excitatory amino acid receptors.


sigma 1 receptor ligands have potential pharmacological significance as antipsychotic drugs, as tools in the study of drug-induced motor function disorders, and as radiopharmaceutical imaging agents for the noninvasive imaging of malignant tumors in human subjects. A series of substituted N-benzyl-N-normetazocines were synthesized and their binding affinity at the sigma 1 receptor evaluated in order to examine the details of the structure--affinity relationships (SAR) of a previously determined high-affinity lead compound, (+)-cis-N-benzyl-N-normetazocine (Ki = 0.67 nM). Variation in the benzyl substituents of these compounds produced a 1590-fold range in affinity at the sigma 1 receptor from the unsubstituted benzyl analog to the lowest affinity p-tert-butylbenzyl analog (Ki = 1066 nM). The nanomolar binding affinity for the sigma 1 receptor of (+)-cis-N-(4-fluorobenzyl)-N-normetzocine suggests that this analog may be a useful PET imaging agent.


The end of the year provides a great opportunity to audit the performance of the journal and to plan for the future. The beginning of 2010 witnessed a great and timely initiative as we launched GM Crops, the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on genetically modified crops. The journal serves as a forum for open discussion based on scientific evidence, between supporters and opponents of GM crops.


The author shares his experience over the last 40 years of the design, monitoring and final evaluation resulting from 23 purpose-built road experiments consisting of over 200 individual sections plus many observation sections in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The purpose-built LTPP experiments and the lengths of existing road selected as observation sections are of four types. The first three are intended to show how to make the best use of local, low-cost materials for low to medium volume roads in the dry and moderate macroclimatic zones of southern Africa – some two-thirds of the region: • Bases and subbases of marginal to substandard (mostly G5-G7) calcrete, weathered granite, weathered basalt, neat (G7), cementand bitumen-treated Kalahari sands, and sulphideand acidic sulphatecontaminated gold and copper mine waste rock. • Brack, saline and sea water for compaction of all layers including the base and in the slurry of a Cape seal. • Selected calcrete as chippings in various types of seal coats in the Kalahari where conventional stone does not occur. The fourth type is intended to provide proven countermeasures to eliminate or at least mitigate the damage to roads on expansive clay roadbeds – apart perhaps from drainage-related failures the most common form of roadbed-related distress in southern Africa. In all cases control sections of G3 crushed stone, G4 gravel, stabilized gravel, fresh water, or with no countermeasures as appropriate were included as part of the experiments. These experiments are proving – by means of monitoring over periods in excess of 20 years – that, for example, and depending upon traffic, substandard calcretes with PIs of 20, sulphidic and acid-saline mine rock, seawater and even unsound basalt can all be used successfully in the base course, and that the effects of expansive clays can be greatly reduced without incurring increased maintenance costs provided that certain precautions are taken. The design requirements and the problems of preserving and monitoring such long-term experiments are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of LTPP vs HVS trafficking are discussed and it is concluded that a judicious mix of both is necessary. 279 ISBN Number: 978-1-920017-64-4 Proceedings of the 35th Southern African Transport Conference (SATC 2016)


This excavation was made during the years 1936-37 for a modern bank building to take the place of the one erected on the same site between the years 1772 and 1778. The old bank building had a sunk flat extending to about eight feet below street-level, and when it had all been cleared away, boulder clay was exposed over the whole area. The excavation was 88 feet wide fronting St Andrew Square, and 168 feet in length along the northern side of West Register Street. Reckoning from the street-level, it was 43 feet in depth at its eastern end and about 30 feet at its western end. A thickness of some 15 feet of boulder clay was found overlying the solid rock along its southern side, and of about 30 feet along its northern side; this was nearly all removed, and the solid rock laid bare over the greater part of the area. The boulder clay was of the usual type found in Edinburgh, dark coloured, tough, and charged with well-rounded stones, often striated. Several rounded whinstone boulders between one and two tons in weight were obtained. A well was found penetrating the boulder clay. It was lined with stones and had a diameter of about 4 feet. Its depth was between 25 and 30 feet, and just reached the solid rock. When Princes Street and neighbourhood was built between 1767 and 1800, it was still the custom for private houses to have wells of their own. The very greatly


Background: The influence of Islam is increasing in Western societies due to different migration waves. Migrants originating from Islamic countries are confronted with a dominant right to self-determination mentality in the West, which affects attitudes regarding a number of issues, such as those surrounding death. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 30 first-generation Muslim women who migrated to Belgium from Turkey and Morocco between the early 1960s and early 1980s, with the aim of eliciting their attitudes toward active termination of life. Results: We found a huge contrast with the secular right-to-die discourse, which is quite dominant in the West. Among the participants, we elicited a predominantly negative attitude toward (non)voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. We observed that participants displayed a theological line of reasoning when dealing with these bioethical issues similar to the one offered in normative Islamic guidance (e.g., fatwas). Conclusions: The study shows an important and complex impact of religion, specifically one's image of God, on attitudes toward active termination of life, and points to the danger of adopting a simplistic and non-nuanced approach to Islam.


This paper explores housing development in the Greater Seattle area in the context of the Washington State Growth Management Act. To establish an accurate picture of the workings of the Greater Seattle housing market, recent trends in regional employment growth, housing production, and home price movements are analyzed. Because the GMA imposes restrictions on development at portions of the region's urban/rural fringe, close attention is paid to the probable effects of constricting the region's supply of developable land, and to identification of development costs associated with denser housing typologies. Because the GMA envisions a network of Greater Seattle "Urban Centers" having high employment and household densities together with good access to roads, high levels of infrastructure and community resources, and good access to mass transit, two specific urban centers are reviewed: the Uptown Queen Anne Urban Center near downtown Seattle, and the Downtown Redmond Urban Center in Seattle's eastern suburbs. Thesis Supervisor: Henry 0. Pollakowski Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Real Estate Title: Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to. from "Distance"by Raymond Carver


DOW CHEMICALS BOARD OF directors has ousted Michael D. Parker, 56, as president and CEO after just two years in the job and has named Chairman William S. Stavropoulos to fill the vacant slots, as well as to continue as chairman. The 63-year-old Stavropoulos was president and CEO from 1995 to 2000, when he was succeeded by Parker. A Dec. 13 statement from Dow says, "The board reached this decision solely in light of the disappointing financial performance of the company over the last eight quarters, with this year's results expected to show no improvement over last year." Along with declining earnings, the company's long-term debt has soared until, at the end of the third quarter, it was 6% higher than stockholders' equity. Kyle Loughlin, analyst with Standard & Poor's, however, points to Dow as one chemical company that has performed well in preserving its credit quality. John Roberts, a ...


The carbon storage of Picea schrenkiana forest of south mountain forest was studied.The results showed that: the total forest biomass carbon storage in South mountain forest is 332664.4305 t.The average carbon density of forest is 59.5492tC/hm2,higher than the national average level;the carbon storage of conifer forest accounts for 96.16% of the total forest biomass carbon storage,Picea schrenkiana accounts for 95.67% of the total forest biomass carbon storage in the forest.Mature forest accounts for 95.09% of the total forest biomass carbon storage.This note that: Picea schrenkiana is the main source of carbon storage in the forest,but this forest is in a decline in the rate of carbon accumulation mature stage.It is necessary to intensity update young trees in the mature forest and artificial upbringing to young forest,make sure that when the forest carbon storage decline sharply,the young forest has to grow up,so that this forest reserves of carbon storage in a more stable condition.


Examines the resistance to creasing of a group of clothing wool fabrics by measuring the crease recovery angle in a definite time interval. Determines the boundary zones of elastic, viscoelastic and plastic deformation component values as well as the relaxation velocity. Describes through results the behaviour of clothing wool fabrics in conditions to which they are exposed during wearing.


This article reviews the history, significance, necessity in the demolition and whole situation of main countries, synthetically describes current situation of the development and research on demolishing blasting at home and abroad. In addition, it also refers to its existent problems and tendency in the future.


This study was conducted to analyze factors influencing the compressive strength test. The purpose is to introduce various factors affecting the accuracy of the compressive strength test in accordance with current standards and evaluate the effect of some effective parameters such as equipment (loading rate of automatic compression machine, jolting or vibrating), mortar preparation, sample preparation, etc. To check the reproducibility of the compressive strength test a program was developed to assess the possible modes through changes in loading rate, standard sand, sample preparation, and operator. The changes of each parameter were measured within 2, 7 and 28-day interval, while other conditions were considered as constant based on the EN 196-1 and ISIRI 393 standards. According to the test results, the most important factors in creating the difference in results are the type of the sand and loading rate. The changes in the reproducibility percentage using different sands with softer grains increases the coefficient of variation and reduced performance of the test. Also in some cases, with increasing the loading rate up to 40%, the compressive strength of 28 days is increased by 13%.


Dark tourism,particularly in European and American areas,has been an emerging tourism hot field for research in recent years.The paper,from the perspective of tourists,selected three aspects for questionnaire design: the tourists' characteristics,tourism preference and tourism attitude toward dark tourism,then collected data through the web survey and carried on the analysis via SPSS19.0 statistical software.The study found that the travel preferences,cognizance of dark tourism and the perceived colour shade of dark tourism are the influencing factors of tourists' intention to dark tourism.Hope this conclusion could be of some help to the dark tourisms' resources development and marketing.


Accidental and deliberate PDD poisoning is not uncommon. The toxic effects of the dye on kidneys, liver and muscles are not fully understood and the cardiac toxicity is far poorly understood and ignored. A prospective descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in ENT hospital, Khartoum , Sudan to investigate the level of troponin, CKMB, CKtotal, LDH, AST, ALT and myoglobin in patients presented with parapheneylene diamine poisoning. A total of 40 patients were investigated. Levels were measured according to manufacturer protocols and normal values were taken accordingly. Among the study population the majority were females38 (95%) in the age group more than 32 years. The presenting symptoms were laryngeal edema, neck swelling and muscular swelling, the main presenting symptom was neck swelling which Was encountered in 22.5% of the population. There were 24 patients (40%) having no symptoms. The average values for troponin, CKMB, CKtotal, myoglobin, LDH, AST and ALT were found to be 0.018 (ng/ml), 566.8 (U/L), 1775 (U/L), 404.4 (ng/ml), 1800.5 (U/L), 636 (IU/L) and 305.4 (IU/L) consecutively. Troponin was found to be increased in 10% of the pateints, where lower reading was found to be 0.021 (ng/ml) and upper reading was 0.05 (ng/ml) normal value was taken up to 0.014. Thus in this study cardiac rhabdomyolysis in parapheneylene diamine poisoning was documented, the findings were not correlated with plasma level of the dye.


ABSTRACT. An attempt is made to give a 10,000‐year perspective on the relations of history, culture, and the nonhuman world called nature. A Holocene narrative of processes separates human societies and their cultures: things that individuate and pull apart to the point of fragmentation versus those that are binding. These tendencies toward convergence may coalesce, as with the natural sciences or global electronic technology. Equally, they may involve centrifugal processes, as in the creative arts or in forms of representation accessible only to certain groups or cultures. The environment resonates in a series of segmented channels, considerably complicated by a binary Western culture, often with 1 as acceptable and o as the Other. Is a purposeful path laid down by someone else and followed to its predetermined end in Utopia, or do we cherish something more open and contingent?


The steel formwork support with couplers is the most commonly used form in construction,and is also one of structural forms in which accidents happen mostly in construction.To study the safety of steel formwork support in project management,a hierarchy system of safety assessment that applied analytic hierarchy process(AHP) was established on basis of survey made by formwork support experts,security experts,technicians and construction personnel.After investigation on technicians and construction personnel in 10 construction sites in terms of questionnaire,the weight of various factors in the system established.Employing fuzzy evaluation,a method and also the standard of safety assessment of formwork support construction was obtained.An illustrative example was made to show the process of this method.


The aims of nurses' career development is to promote the development and benefit both for the organization and nursing staff.This paper introduced the training and career development of hospital nurses in Singapore,including the qualification authorization system,promotions system,the levels of nursing staff and their duties and responsibilities.The system of careere development for nursing staff is beneficial for the improvement of quality of nursing as well as work efficiency,which not only can meet the demands of constant improvement of quality of nursing,but also can meet the requirement of nurses' personal development.


Off-site prefabrication systems continuously gain attention in the building industry as they combine fast construction with fewer and more sustainable resources as well as minimize disturbance for occupants. In this direction, adaptable off-site prefabricated envelope components with embodied HVAC systems have been developed as an effective renovation solution. They can minimise thermal losses through the envelope while at the same time integrated HVAC systems efficiently maintain indoor thermal comfort conditions. In this study, a "Plug-and-Play" prefabricated envelope component incorporating HVAC systems is examined as a solution for the deep renovation of a typical single-family residence in Berlin, aiming to reach NZEB state. This versatile modular system, called SmartWall, can be installed either to the exterior or the interior side of the external wall, incorporating timber-based frame, boards and insulation, high-performance windows and a slim-type fan coil. The evaluation of this prefabricated system is investigated with respect to its energy performance both at component and building level, as well as its calculated embodied energy. The results indicate a reduction of 89% total primary energy highlighting that NZEB state can be ensured if the SmartWall application is combined with sufficient photovoltaic modules. The climate change potential contribution of such retrofit indicates a significant amount of embodied energy, which is nevertheless counterbalanced by the operational energy savings within the first few years after the implementation.


The effective use of nutrient-rich crop straw is an important way to use resources efficiently and to sustain agricultural development. This meta-analysis study collected and analyzed the data of 6788 observations published in 238 peer-reviewed papers to investigate differences in soil C-N fractions and yields of paddy soils under different straw-return amounts. This large dataset was also used to quantify the degree of influence of factors such as climate characteristics, soil properties, N fertilizer application rates, straw-rotting agent addition, rice varieties, and straw return methods. The results showed that straw return amounts improved soil alkaline-hydrolysable N (7%), total N (10%), organic C (11%), the C:N ratio (8%), rice N accumulation (12%), and overall yield (18%). The most significant effect was in northeast China fields for total soil nitrogen (TN) content and yield with increases of 13% and 22%, respectively. We also found more effective N utilization and a greater rice yield when 220–260 kg ha−1 N fertilizer was applied with 20–30 kg ha−1 straw-rotting agent with the total amount of straw return. These findings have important implications for choosing appropriate conditions and field management practices and to improve rice yield in China.


Seven hundred 5‐lb charges were set off at ground level and simultaneously recorded in four directions at distances of 1000, 2000, and 5000 feet and 2, 5, 10, and 15 miles. A specially equipped airplane gathered meteorological data, including wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, and turbulence as a function of altitude. Complete radio communications ensured that recorders were turned on and off at the proper times. The purpose of the experiment is to correlate blast noise propagation including the associated blast spectra with various meteorological conditions. Initial results are presented.


Abstract The complete set of third-order elastic constants of neutron-irradiated single crystal nickel at 298°K were determined from the changes in the natural sound velocities under uni-axial compression. The experimental method employed was the pulse interference technique at 10 MHz, and was capable of measuring changes in velocity to a few parts in 106. The specimen was placed in a transverse saturation magnetic field in order to eliminate the pressuredependent magnetoelastic effects and the ultrasonic attenuation due to the presence of magnetic domains. The measured values in units of 1012 dyn/cm2 are;


Aimed at the problem that it is easy for buses to roll in the extreme-turn conditions, the paper finished a series of analysis. First, bus turning driving dynamics model was established based on the effect of suspension motion on roll angle. In the extreme-turn conditions Roll stability and critical roll angle threshold were analyzed, and formulas of roll angle prediction and roll angle threshold of rollover prevention were derived; Second, taking the roll angle prediction and roll angle threshold as judging condition of extreme-turn rollover prevention warning and active control, active safety control of extreme-turn rollover prevention was achieved through changing speed. At last, taking the bus parameters as an example, correctness and effectiveness of the method was validated through joint simulation of Matlab/Simulink and TruckSim. The results show that the method can achieve bus rollover prevention control to some extent in the extreme-turn conditions.


The work theoretically and experimentally investigates the kinetics of air entrained into the water caused by a jet of water falling vertically on the open water surface. A theoretical model of this phenomenon has been developed and verified by experimental tests to evaluate the role of air uptake, its removal through the air-water interface, the expulsion of water droplets from the water surface and the backflow process. The findings of both the theoretical and experimental study of the distribution of the air amount in the water below the air-water interface reveal an agreement between the data.


Describes how there are unsolved problems within the philosophy of the social sciences, which cannot provide a coherent account of a style of science which is based on either explanation or understanding. No easy combination of elements from the empiricist and hermeneutic approaches is possible because of radically different epistemologies. Shows how, against this background of philosophical insecurity, action science seems to offer new possibilities by incorporating a form of practice of research which is aimed at understanding meaning, while at the same time retaining enough of the characteristics of the ideal of scientific reliability (hard data, explicit inference, public testing) to free it from the danger of uncritically adopting the internal viewpoint of participants. It is free from commitment to empiricist epistemological principles, so that it can combine elements of the explanatory and interpretative poles in a coherent way. Argues that it is a valuable contribution which can advance the discus...


J Clin Exp Invest www.jceionline.org Vol 3, No 2, June 2012 Correspondence: Dr. Nilgün Güdücü İstanbul Bilim University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology İstanbul, Turkey, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Received: 06.03.2012, Accepted: 05.05.2012 Copyright © JCEI / Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations 2012, All rights reserved JCEI / 2012; 3 (2): 1858 Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations doi: 10.5799/ahinjs.01.2012.02.0141


The biomass and root distribution of 9-year-old Alnus cremastogyne plantation were studied in Dongting Lake area using hierarchical digging method.The results showed that,the biomass was 44.39 kg per plant with the organs biomass order for stem rootsbranchbarkleaf.The forest biomass was 96.06 t/hm2,and the annual net productivity was 10.67 t/(hm2·a).The root system of Alnus cremastogyne developed with depth 60~ 80 cm.The proportion of pile and coarse root were the most in the total roots biomass,which reached 84.27%.In vertical distribution,root mainly distributed in 0~40 cm soil layer,its biomass was 84.51% of the total root biomass.In horizontal distribution,root mainly distributed in vitro stump within the range of 0~50 cm,accounting for 84.49% of the total root biomass,especially coarse roots,accounted for 29.47% of the total root biomass.The biomass of the total amount of root rhizobia accounted for 0.39% of the total root biomass,mainly distributed in the 50~100cm range from stump level,in which the biomass of root accounted for 70.97% of the biomass of the total amount of root rhizobia.


BACKGROUND: The storage of RBCs results in a time‐related decline in 2,3 DPG that may reduce the ability to unload oxygen (O2) to tissue. The objective of this study was to compare the effect that transfusion of stored 2,3 DPG‐depleted rat blood (7 days in CPDA‐1) had on the O2 reserve in conscious rats, with that of the transfusion of fresh blood (<2‐hour storage).


KABUL, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilise the country. Security has worsened in Afghanistan since the Taliban insurgency re-grouped in 2005. Following are key facts about the security situation in Afghanistan:


Two algorithms, termed schematic and naturalistic, for generating intonation contours in an English text‐to‐speech system are compared by eliciting preference judgments from a total of 21 subjects. The major problem for both algorithms, but especially for the schematic algorithm, has to do with accent assignment and with the determination of the intonation phrase rather than with the phonetic realization of accent through manipulation of F0. Due to parser errors, phrase boundaries are incorrectly identified in 30% of the sentences used in the three experiments. Moreover, the naturalistic algorithm uses a grammatical part‐of‐speech hierarchy which ranks nouns higher than verbs. Therefore, incorrect classification of verbs as nouns (the major classification error) results in an unintended accent. The results indicate that accent assignment and phrase determination are the primary areas requiring improvement in order to further increase the naturalness of synthetic speech intonation.


Epoxy material being a key in a wide range of applications has become a center of attraction for interdisciplinary research. However, the limitations so far reported in using this material has led to the development of some new pitches such as Polyacetal and Araldite. Polyacetal being currently employed in bushes, wipers, gears, etc. while Araldite composites with a potential of delivering some august properties can be an alternative approach to the former. In this work, a comparative study is carried out on the me-chanical attributes of Polyacetal and Araldite (Epoxy) material. Various ASTM standard specimens casted with these materials are subjected to some exploratory assessments such as Tensile Test, Izod Impact Test, Charpy Impact Test, Three-point Bending Test and Vicker's Hardness Test in order to determine the respective properties.


Introduction: Posterior polar cataract (PPC) is a relatively uncommon form of congenital cataract accounting for around
0.5% to 2% of the total cataract. A posterior polar cataract presents a special challenge to the phaco surgeon because of
its predisposition to posterior capsular dehiscence during surgery. Incidence of posterior polar cataract ranges from 3 to
5 in 1000.
Methodology: Prospective descriptive study done at Biratnagar Eye Hospital from December 2016 to March 2017. A detailed
slit-lamp biomicroscopy of the anterior segment, intraocular pressure and dilated fundus examination was performed in all
patients after checking for visual acuity and refraction.
Result: Total of 60 eyes of 59 patients was included in the study, out of which only 5% had posterior capsular rupture
during surgery. Mean age of patients in our study was 49.35 +_ 9.5yrs (range 35-73yrs). There were 34 male patients
and 26 female patients. Mean axial length was 23.40mm. Out of 60 eyes, 12 eyes had bilateral posterior polar cataract.
Mean preoperative visual acuity was 0.949 while first post-operative day visual acuity was 0.5137, which was statistically
significant (P < 0.0001) (paired t test).
Conclusion: Intraoperative complications during posterior polar cataract surgery can be minimized by careful and
appropriate surgical procedure.


The fiscal year 2009-10 began as a difficult one. There was a significant slowdown in the growth rate in the second half of 2008-09, following the financial crisis that began in the industrialized nations in 2007 and spread to the real economy across the world. The growth rate of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008-09 was 6.7 per cent, with growth in the last two quarters hovering around 6 per cent. There was apprehension that this trend would persist for some time, as the full impact of the economic slowdown in the developed world worked through the system. It was also a year of reckoning for the policymakers, who had taken a calculated risk in providing substantial fiscal expansion to counter the negative fallout of the global slowdown. Inevitably, India's fiscal deficit increased from the end of 2007-08, reaching 6.8 per cent (budget estimate, BE) of GDP in 2009-10. A delayed and severely sub-normal monsoon added to the overall uncertainty. The continued recession in the developed world, for the better part of 2009-10, meant a sluggish export recovery and a slowdown in financial flows into the economy. Yet, over the span of the year, the economy posted a remarkable recovery, not only in terms of overall growth figures but, more importantly, in terms of certain fundamentals, which justify optimism for the Indian economy in the medium to long term.


A compliance device is often used in robotic assembly process for absorbing position and angular errors to facilitate the process. An elastic part is a key element in the device. In the work presented here an elastomeric rod made of metal and rubber is used in the device. Describes its laminated structure and manufacturing method. Calculations of its longitudinal compression and lateral shear spring rates are presented and the main factors of influence on its performance are discussed. Lastly a compliance assembly table including the rod is introduced and a method for the measurement of the table performance and measured results are given.


Purpose Smoking and at-risk drinking are each associated with lower primary care utilization, but the influence of their co-occurrence is not known. The current study compared associations of endorsement of one behavior vs endorsement of both with primary care utilization. Design Cross-sectional telephone survey. Setting All United States and Territories. Subjects 246 801 adults aged 18–64. Measures The outcome was endorsement of attending a past-year primary care visit. Predictor variables included drinking and smoking status examined individually and combined. Analysis Multivariable logistic regressions, adjusted for socio-demographics and number of chronic health conditions. Results The odds of attending a past-year primary care visit were 24% lower for persons who drank at risk levels compared to the odds of persons who did not drink and 36% lower for persons who smoked vs those who did not smoke. Among persons who endorsed at least one risk behavior, the odds of attending a past-year primary care visit were 25–35% lower for those who engaged in multiple behaviors compared to the odds of persons who engaged in one behavior. Conclusion Substance use screening and intervention services in primary care may not be reaching individuals with the greatest need for services. Proactive outreach and identification of primary care utilization barriers are needed, with special consideration of those with co-occurring substance use.


Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infection causes acute enteritis with lethal watery diarrhea resulting in a high mortality rate in piglets. As with the other members of group 1 coronaviruses, PEDV also utilizes the host aminopeptidase N (APN) as the major cellular receptor for entry into target cells. The coronavirus spike (S) protein is known to interact with the cellular surface for viral attachment and the S1 domain of all characterized coronaviruses contains a receptor-binding domain (RBD) that mediates a specific high-affinity interaction with their respective cellular receptors. Although the RBDs of several coronaviruses have been mapped, the location of the PEDV RBD has to date not been defined. As a first step toward the identification of the region of the S protein of the PEDV that is critical for recognition with the cellular receptor, we generated a series of S1-truncated variants and examined their abilities to bind to the porcine APN (pAPN) receptor. Our data indicate that the N-terminus of the S1 domain is required for pAPN association. The results from the present study may assist in our understanding of the molecular interactions between the PEDV S protein and the pAPN receptor.


PURPOSE: To provide a contact structure of a side wall-shaped control gate in a MONOS type nonvolatile semiconductor memory. CONSTITUTION: The nonvolatile semiconductor memory comprises a word gate 14 formed on a semiconductor substrate 10 via a first gate insulating layer 12, a source region or a drain region 16, 18 formed on the semiconductor substrate 10, and side wall-shaped first and second control gates 20, 30 formed along one side surface and the other side surface of the word gate, respectively. Two control gates are arranged via a second gate insulating layer 22 to the semiconductor substrate and via a side insulating layer 24 to the word gate, respectively. In addition, the two control gates each are arranged in succession in a column direction, and a set of the first and second control gates next to each other with respect to a line direction are connected to a common contact part 200.


By the methods of documentation,questionnaire and statistics,the article focuses on the status quo of the social sports instructors in Anhui Province.The result shows that the contradiction exists between the vocational structure,vocational training,practice effects and the demands of the society.Suggestions are put forward.


Evolutionary strategies is a new method when it comes to solve the optimal solution of the global optimization issues;at the same time,the study of optimization design in the pit supportings by using the theories and methods of evolutionary strategies is carried out.Considering the optimization design's disadvantages in convergence and convergence speed when it deals with optimization issues of nonlinear function and high-dimension optimization,a sort of faster evolutionary strategy is presented by combining the tabu search(TB) with the beam search which can effectively overcome the downbacks mentioned upon.Taking the studies and analysis of some cases of construction as background,which indicates that evolutionary strategies are not confined by the differentiability,continuity of design space and so on;but especially fit for calculating the issues of the supporting projects which relating to discrete design variables and uncertain factors.The new improved evolutionary strategy presented has a better convergence as well as the capabilities of the global optimization which avoids local optimum solutions effectively.


In a method and device for camera-assisted determination of the direction of forces acting on a motor vehicle, solar radiation, at least one camera is used for observing the environment of the motor vehicle, the direction of the solar radiation due to the position of a shadow image of an object in relation to a further optical image of this is determined object or at least one other object in the image of the at least one camera. When using at least two cameras arranged respectively looking to the left and right sides, alternatively, the position of the sun by means of the exposure conditions of the cameras can be determined.


The integration of the various hardware and software components of a newly developed system can be a difficult and time consuming task. In many cases, the factory test equipment and test programs are not normally available for testing of the first few printed wiring boards (PWBs)/subsystems/systems built. The time taken to diagnose encountered problems can mean the difference between meeting or failing to meet product delivery schedules. Well planned design for test (DFT) and test development can significantly reduce the risk and overall cycle time of the integration and testing of these early PWBs/subsystems/systems. On a recent DoD program at Texas Instruments the Built-in Test (BIT) designed for field support of the weapon system, and the boundary scan intended for factory test support, were utilized to provide improved accuracy and reduced cycle time for processor board acceptance test (AT), hardware/software integration, environmental stress screening (ESS), and for the diagnosis of problems encountered during PWB/subsystem/system Integration. This paper briefly describes the weapon system, the diagnostic requirements, and the functionality of the BIT, boundary scan and DFT implemented. These details are followed by a discussion of problems encountered and lessons learned in utilizing these field and factory test capabilities as integration and diagnostic tools in a development environment.


A LTHOUGH cotton is only one of the textile raw materials, it is probably the most important. Wool and flax have doubtless been used by man for a much longer time than has cotton; silk is a more aristocratic fibre; rayon and the other chemical fibres are newer; and jute and the hemps are cheaper. The fact that cotton has to a considerable extent replaced wool, flax, and silk; has, in turn, held its own against jute and hemp; and is threatened by the chemical fibres only in minor details, suggests that it has properties which make it preeminent as a textile raw material. Among these properties are the suitability of cotton for mechanical spinning and the wide range of yarns and cloths which can be made from cotton; compared with fibres which will give comparable results cotton is relatively cheap; cotton is an annual crop which can be grown in quantity in many countries and, since the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, has been produced at less cost than any other textile fibre except jute and the hemps which are unsuited for most of the goods normally made from cotton.


A 53-year-old obese male with a past medical history of idiopathic acute pancreatitis was referred to our centre with 3 years of pale watery diarrhea up to 20 times per day and an undetectable faecal elastase level. The severity of his symptoms had resulted in him leaving work and was significantly affecting his quality of life. He had been trialled on pancrelipase without effect. An extensive nutritional work-up was unremarkable with the exception of vitamin B12 deficiency, likely due to R-factor deficiency. Gastrin and VIP levels were normal. Endocrine function was preserved with a normal plasma insulin and C-peptide level. Panendoscopy andbiopsies did not reveal pathology.MRCPand endoscopic ultrasound imaging demonstrated complete fatty replacement of the pancreatic parenchyma and onlymild fatty liver disease. Fatty pancreas is widespread, clinically under-recognized and poorly understood. It can occur following pancreatic injury (such as pancreatitis or bile duct obstruction), disease processes such as diabetes, Cushing Syndrome, as a drug reaction or rarely associated with the metabolic syndrome. There is a high correlation between fatty liver and fatty pancreas. It can result in both exocrine and endocrine deficiency which is often clinically underdiagnosed and/or underappreciated. Pancreatic lipase functions optimally at pH 8, and it was hypothesised that acinar cell insufficiency from fatty pancreas was resulting in insufficient bicarbonate production. To offset this, pancrelipase was reinstituted with high dose pantoprazole to increase stomach and small bowel pH. This resulted in a rapid reduction in symptoms and improvement in the patient's quality of life. This case highlights the importance of an understanding of pancreatic cellular function and pharmacology in the context of pancrelipase replacement. Simple intervention can have marked impact on quality of life. It also highlights the need to consider a possible new entity of fatty pancreas disease as a consequence of the metabolic syndrome.


This book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community development, and proposes ways forward for community building.


The fight over the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Summer/Fall 2007 highlights the fragility of the U.S. safety net. Ballooning federal deficits threaten all social spending in this country, but programs for vulnerable women and children may be most at risk. Unlike Social Security, most of these programs must be periodically reauthorized in order to continue to exist. Most Americans do not realize that the majority of aid to poor families is offered in the form of in-kind programs such as SCHIP, rather than in cash. Currently, less than 10 percent of the support received by poor families is in the form of traditional cash welfare, while over 30 million people participate in in-kind safety net programs including Medicaid, school nutrition programs (the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast programs), WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), Head Start, and child care subsidy programs. In recent years, safety net programs have been systematically attacked as they have come up for renewal. The attacks are remarkably similar and hinge on three fallacious arguments: (1) the programs don't work, (2) they are riddled with fraud and abuse, and (3) support for the poor would be better handled by the states. As I will argue below, each of these arguments is incorrect. Take the argument that in-kind antipoverty programs don't work. SCHIP is the latest in a series of social programs that have, in fact, worked remarkably well. Indeed, it is thanks to them that the war on poverty, contrary to widespread belief, has not failed. Instead, we have redefined what it means to be poor—for the most part, poverty in America no longer means starving in a slum without medical care. One reason for the perception of failure in the war on poverty is a statistical artifact: Official poverty statistics do not include in-kind benefits, so no matter how much aid is given to a family in this form, it will never raise them above the poverty line. In fact, families do effectively rise above the poverty line—or at least, linger much less far below it—as the result of inkind programs. More substantively, many commentators focus on the wrong question. If we see, for example, that children who attended Head Start are still more likely to drop out of school than the average child, this tends to confirm our worst suspicions about the futility of intervention to break the cycle of poverty. However, the more relevant question is: Are these particular children less likely to drop out than they would have been without Head Start? That is, a sensible analysis of the effects of government antipoverty programs has to take account of the fact that these programs typically serve the most disadvantaged families and target children who would be expected to have the worst outcomes in the absence of any intervention. Sensible analyses do find significant positive effects of in-kind antipoverty programs (see Currie, 2006 for an in-depth discussion of the evidence). Head Start has lasting effects on the prospects of many children, increasing the probability of graduating from high school and attending college, and reducing the probability of being involved in crime. Expansions of Medicaid to low-income children and pregnant women have reduced infant mortality and improved access to medical care for millions of children. In 1960, more than 25 children out of every 1,000 born died before their first birthday; those who died were disproportionately poor and African American. By 2004, this rate had dropped to fewer than seven deaths per 1,000 live births. Much of this improvement was driven by improved access to medical care, paid for by


Frank Macfarlane Burnet was the greatest biologist that Australia has produced. He spent virtually all of a long working life in Australia. His experimental work on bacteriophages and animal viruses, especially influenza virus, resulted in major discoveries concerning their nature and replication, and he was a pioneer in the application of ecological principles to viral diseases. He proposed two concepts in immunology, acquired immunological tolerance and the clonal selection theory of antibody production, that proved to be of critical importance in stimulating research and led to a more complete understanding of immune processes. In the later stages of his life he wrote about problems of ageing and cancer.


SELENE (SELenological and Engineering satellite) is a Japanese lunar orbiter that will be launched in 2007. The main purpose of this satellite is to study the origin and evolution of the moon by means of global mapping of element abundances, mineralogical composition, and surface geographical mapping from 100km altitude. PACE (Plasma energy Angle and Composition Experiment) is one of the scientific instruments onboard the SELENE satellite. The scientific objectives of PACE are 1) to measure the ions sputtered from the lunar surface and the lunar atmosphere, 2) to measure the magnetic anomaly on the lunar surface using two ESAs and a magnetometer onboard SELENE simultaneously as an electron reflectometer, 3) to resolve the moon - solar wind interaction, 4) to resolve the moon - Earth's magnetosphere


Applications of photochemistry are becoming very popular in modern-day life due to its operational simplicity, environmentally friendly and economically sustainable nature in comparison to its thermochemistry. In particular photoinduced radical polymerisation (PRP) reaction is finding more biological applications and especially in the areas of dental restoration process, tissue engineering and artificial bone generation. Type-II photoinitiator and co-initiator promoted PRP turned out to be a cost effective protocol, and herein we report the design and synthesis of a new efficient co-initiator for PRP reaction via barrierless sequential conjugate addition reaction. Experimental mechanistic observations were further complemented by computational data. Time for newly synthesised 1,2-benzenedithiol (DTH) based co-initiator promoted polymerisation of diurethane dimethacrylate (UDMA, 70%) and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA, 30%) in presence of 450 nm LED (15 W) under the aerobic conditions was 38 seconds. High glass transition temperature, improved mechanical strength (860 BHN) and longer in-depth polymerisation (3 cm) was observed.


Diseases of the digestive tract, such as ulcers, pose a serious threat to human health. In fact, many types of endoscopy are employed to examine the patient's gastrointestinal tract. Recently, wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is presented as an excellent diagnostic tool for evaluation of gastrointestinal diseases compared to traditional endoscopies. This diagnosis usually takes a long time, which is tiring, and so the doctors may miss parts where abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract may present. Therefore, automated diagnostic technics to detect symptoms of gastrointestinal illness in WCE images is adopted as an excellent enhancement tool for these doctors. In this work, a new computer-aided diagnosis method for ulcer detection in WCE images is proposed. After a preprocessing step, fine-tuned convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to extract deep features from these images. Since the number of ulcer images in the available data sets is limited, the CNN networks used in this work were pre-trained on millions of labeled natural images (ImageNet). After the deep features extraction, a random forest classifier is employed to detect ulcer from WCE images. The proposed approach demonstrates promising results (96.73 % and 95.34 % in terms of precision and recall respectively). Those results are satisfactory when compared to recent state-of-the-art methods.


The Great Recession of 2009-10 was deeper and more extensive than any economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the United States, an estimated one out of every ten individuals in the labor force was out of work by the end of 2009. The Recession was not only an unemployment crisis. It was also a global financial crisis – marked by the threatened collapse of large financial institutions, bank bailouts, and restricted credit – plus a housing market crisis – marked by an epidemic of mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures, and "underwater" mortgages.


ABSTRACTThere has been an increase in use of series connected controllers for dynamic power compensation and enhancement of active power transmission capacity. A thyristor controlled series capacitor (TCSC) is a series FACTS device, which can be employed to enhance power transfer capability of transmission line. This paper presents a conceptual study about the operation and different mode of TCSC device. It can govern the power either in inductive or capacitive operating region by selecting proper value L-C parameters and properly conduction angle. Mismatch in selection of parameters cause multi-resonance condition. This paper represents various steps to be followed in selection of TCSC parameters. A three phase transmission system is developed using MATLAB/simulink.


In the mid-nineteenth century, the Colombian government found it necessary to incorporate the indigenous peoples of the border territories into the economic system and Colombian civilization. Catholic missionaries were considered suitable for this undertaking. This research examines the Capuchin missions in Caqueta and Putumayo between 1893 and 1929. It has three chapters. The first chapter is about the trials of incorporation that occurred in the Colonia. The second chapter covers the first period of the Capuchin mission (1893-1905). It examines the history and the first Capuchin missionaries and the methods, tactics and indigenous manifestations of cultural exchanges that took place in the missions. The third chapter analyzes the Apostolic Prefecture of Caqueta (1905-1929) and explores the strategies of the Mission, indigenous cultural tactics and some of the results of this cultural exchange.


Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in an open cylindrical annulus heated from the inside wall is investigated numerically. Results for aspect ratio of 1 and Prandtl number of 30 are obtained to compare the simulations with available space experiments. The influence of surface heat loss as quantified by a Biot number (Bi) or spacecraft or orbital rotation through the Coriolis force, as quantified by a vector Taylor number of magnitude Ta, on the critical Reynolds number (Rec) and pattern of convection is investigated. The flow is steady and axisymmetric at sufficiently low values of Re. In the absence of rotation, we observe a two-lobed, isotherm pattern travelling clockwise at the free surface near Rec. A two- or three-lobed pulsating or a three-lobed rotating pattern is observed with increasing Re beyond Rec. Isotherm patterns on the free surface are in good agreement with experimental results. With Ta less than 1, which is relevant to the experiments, the effect of rotation on Rec and flow field is ...


Recent years have witnessed a number of population genetics studies aiming to explore the 'genetic profile' of the South Asian population and to cast light on the 'ethnic' composition of the caste system. This paper examines four genetic studies and their mass media representations, as well as discusses interviews with leading historians and social scientists whose work focused on issues of the caste system. Similar to earlier commentators – from colonial scholars and administrators to Hindu reformers and nationalists – who provided different explanations for the origin of the caste system, recent genetic studies have offered conflicting inferences on the nature of castes and tribes of the subcontinent. These studies, the way they were received on the subcontinent, and assayed by historians of caste, tell a story about agendas of geneticization competing with forces of resistance. On the one hand, they signal a new interest in the debate about the relationship between caste and 'ethnicity'. On the other hand, they are used selectively by different social groups to strengthen their own political agendas, are denied cognitive validity by historians of caste, and they never reached a consensus about the history of caste formation.


Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Critical Analysis and Reconstruction of Participatory Theory 3. The Structural Mobilization of Bias 4. Workplace Democracy in Europe 5. Workplace Democracy in America 6. Power and Utopia 7. Public and Private Space: A Democratic Perspective 8. Class Struggle: A Key Concept of Democratic Theory 9. Democracy as Praxis Notes Bibliography Index


The economic, social and environmental impact of water main failures impose great pressure on utility managers and municipalities to develop reliable rehabilitation/replacement plans. The annual number of breaks or breakage rate of each pipe segment is known as one of the most important criteria in condition assessment of these pipelines. A model is developed in this research to predict the annual number of breaks in water pipes. The developed model utilizes Evolutionary Polynomial Regression (EPR), which is intuitive data mining technique. The model is applied to a case study to test its effectiveness. The case considers the water distribution networks of in the cities of Doha in Qatar; Montréal, Moncton and Hamilton in Canada. The results indicated that the developed models successfully estimated the breakage rate for the city of Montréal and the number of breaks for the city of Doha with a maximum coefficient of determination of 88.51% and 96.27% respectively. This demonstrates the accuracy and robustness of the developed models in forecasting the number of breaks and breakage rate in water distribution networks.


Streptococcus pneumoniae (Strep. pneumoniae/pneumococci) is the most common cause of Community acquired pneumonia, however it rarely manifests as cellulitis. Typically the patients with cellulitis due to Strep. pneumoniae (pneumococcal cellulitis) present with chronic underlying diseases like diabetes mellitus, alcoholism, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), nephrotic syndrome and haematological disorders. Early recognition, surgical intervention with appropriate antibiotic therapy plays a vital role in decreasing the rate of morbidity & mortality of the patients. Here we present a case of primary pneumococcal cellulitis of dorsum of the hand in a known diabetic patient without blood stream invasion. Key-Words: Streptococcus pneumoniae, pneumococcal cellulitis, diabetes mellitus INTRODUCTION Streptococcus pneumoniae (strep. pneumoniae/pneumococci) are Gram positive lanceolate shaped capsulated diplococci which are normal inhabitants of human upper respiratory tract. It is the most prevalent cause of pneumonia, otitis media, sinusitis, bronchitis, bacteremia and other infections. [1-3] Although Strep. pneumoniae remains the most common cause of Community acquired bacterial pneumonia, its involvement in skin and subcutaneous infection is notably infrequent. [4] Strep. pneumoniae is a rarely diagnosed etiology of cellulitis in adults though frequently associated with blood stream invasion. Cellulitis due to strep.pneumoniae (Pneumococcal cellulitis) can present itself as two distinctive clinical syndromes. First, is involvement of extremities in patients with diabetes mellitus. Secondly, involving head and neck in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), nephrotic syndrome and haematological disorders. [5] Skin and soft tissue infections due to pneumococci is rare and is more prone to occur in people with chronic illness like diabetes mellitus or alcohol abuse. [6] CASE HISTORY A 76 year old male patient, known diabetic on treatment from past 40 years presented with complaints of fever,


A dual-polarized paralle-plate waveguide slot array antenna operating at 24.5 GHz band is proposed in this paper. The radiating panel using a 5mm-thick expanded dielectric substrate (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\epsilon _{r}=1.12$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) consists of two orthogonally oriented <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$20\times 19$ </tex-math></inline-formula> radiating slot arrays, where the slots are positioned collinearly. The centered longitudinal feeding slots are introduced into the feeding waveguides, which offer improved aperture efficiency and higher cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) compared to the conventional tilted feeding slot approach. The antenna achieves a remarkable simulated radiation efficiency of over 95% within the operation bandwidth. A prototype antenna is fabricated and verified through measurements. The measured results demonstrate an impedance bandwidth of 13%, with reflection below -10 dB. Moreover, the antenna achieves a simulated peak aperture efficiency of 54% and a measured peak antenna efficiency of 40%. The measured XPD of the antenna prototype exceeds 26 dB.


This papers review the history of the development of sorghum brewing industry,which point out that the development of Northeastern sorghum liquor stimulate the local economy with outstanding contribution.This topic mainly ascertain the parameters of fermentation to increase the yield of liquor from temperature for pit entry,water for pit entry,feeding capacity,time of fermentation and so on,the topic identify northeastern local sorghum liquor-making processes and critical sequence with Xin Huai De wine production management.


This chapter examines a practice of burying children with adults who suffered from some form of impairment in Anglo-Saxon England. It should be considered that concepts of ?childhood' or impairment may have changed during the almost seven hundred years of Anglo-Saxon history. The burial of the dead may not be a reflection of living populations, but it may tell us about aspirations of the living and the relationship that the living felt with the deceased members of their society. Some objects are more likely to occur with child inhumations and may carry an inherent age symbolism. The complexities of burial space seem to suggest that people, who are buried together, seem to share similarities, be at age, status, or even kin relation. The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons may have introduced a concept of life after death, in which physical death was separated from the death of the soul. Keywords: Anglo-Saxon England; child burial; dead children


An in situ process which includes electron cyclotron resonance plasma etching and molecular beam epitaxial regrowth is applied to the fabrication of buried heterostructure vertical cavity surface‐emitting laser (SEL) diodes and edge‐emitting laser (EEL) diodes. The buried SEL with a 7.5 μm diameter has a pulsed laser threshold current of 1 mA, and a threshold voltage of 4 V with a peak power of 0.9 mW. The buried EEL with 2.5 μm stripe width and 800 μm cavity length has a threshold current density of 500 A/cm2.


The reserves and the factors, which ensure stabilization and subsequent steady development of agro-economic system are examined and are analyzed. Is separated the priority direction of the policy of the steady development of agro-economic system, which is been based on five interconnected components, based on the ecological use of natural resources, and also on the use of economic tools) the stimulation of the nature-conservation activity of agricultural tenant farmers.


The atom probe tomography(APT) is a developing technique to characterize and analyze materials with atomic-scale spatial resolution and high analytical sensitivity.Recently,the substantial progress has been made in technical improvement of APT equipment and data analysis software.In this paper,the new development of APT is introduced,and its unique apphcations in characterization of traditional structural materials of high-strength low-alloy steel and Al alloy are discussed.


On the basis of COMECON archive stored in Moscow the author for the first time analyzes mechanism of common decision making among socialist countries regarding UNIDO — the UN body in charge of industrial development in 1970s — 1980s. The article is in a scientific first to represent the story of the Permanent Working Group (PRG) of the COMECON Executive Committee as a special body responsible for working out of collective politics in UNIDO. For the first time the reader can grasp the concept of World economic security which had been worked out and promoted in UN structures by the COMECON member states in the second half of 1980s. On the basis of the PRG materials author comes to the conclusion that the International economic security concept had been seen by socialist states as "elastic mutually acceptable compromise" — part and parcel of the New world economic order, promoted by the Third World countries in 1980s. The author believes that "new thinking" in international economic relations which caused the appearance of the International economic security, strategy of COMECON in UNIDO and other program documents was the idealistic attempt to build the failed socialist project of globalization of which one heard in various publications about alternative scenarios of more fair world order, yet without analysis of key strategic documents of 1980s before. The nowday search of a new model of global development invite the readers to throw a new light at the theoretical baggage of 1980s and allow us to come to new conclusions about the rise and fall of collective actions by COMECON members at the world stage.


Suppose that a and 1u are two distinct order types for which o<,U-(2). The question of the existence of an order type r for which o <r </.I is hereafter referred to as "problem P." Whenever such an order type r exists we shall say problem P admits of a solution. The two purposes of this paper are (a) to study the order types of simply ordered sets of solutions to problem P, as applied to the cases where (I) ais any linear order type and ,=X(3), and (II) a =0, ,u is any linear order type of power 28o, and r is of power 2Vo; and (b) to study pairs of simply ordered sets whose symmetric difference contains just two elements and whose order types are incomparable. 1. Exact sets. DEFINITION. A simply ordered set E is called exact if E is similar to no proper subset of itself. If E is exact, then the order type of E is called exact. It is easily seen that E is exact if and only if each point of E is a fixed point of E(4). It is also easily seen that if B is exact and A CB, then A < B. The following two facts on exact sets are known [1 ]: A. There does not exist an exact set of N0 elements. B. There exists a dense subset of R, of power 2Vo, which is exact. The following result is immediately obtained from (I) of ?2 of [31].


AR is a rule-based event-driven language designed for programming interactions needed in such applications as propagation-based constraint solvers and graphical user interfaces. AR is a result of evolution from delay constructs in early logic programming systems and it supports events on domain variables available in several constraint programming systems for programming constraint propagators. AR is compiled into a spaghetti-stack machine which facilitates fast switching of subgoals between suspended and active states. This architecture has been shown to be vital for the high performance of the finite-domain constraint solver and the CHR (Constraint Handling Rules) compiler in B-Prolog. This tutorial is based on the papers [1,2,3,4].


Line x tester analysis involving 15 females and 3 males from diverse origin was carried out in maize inbreds. Analysis of variance and estimates of the components of genetic variance revealed that significant differences existed among the lines and lines x testers for all the traits. Based on estimated, higher magnitude of s sca in relation to s gca implied the greater importance of nonadditive gene effect than additive gene effect for all traits thus favour by hybrid production. None of the parents/crosses was found to be good general/specific combiner for all traits, 1391, 151A and 142A were good general combiners for grain yield. Crosses viz., 139A x 153A, 106C-2 x C-6, 106C-1 x Super 1 and 106C-1 x 153A showed significant and highest sca effects as well as better parent heterosis. Such crosses are suited to be used directly in hybrid production programmes in order to utilize the hybrid vigour. The promising crosses were the result of High x Low or High x Medium general combiners as parents.


O nce each decade, California Management Review (CMR) publishes a special issue that features research by faculty at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. Our 40th anniversary issue, published 20 years ago, highlighted research on Knowledge Management. CMR's 50th anniversary issue featured cutting-edge research on Innovation. In our 60th anniversary issue, we present new research that focuses on Leadership.


This paper discusses the soil resistivity variation with salinity. The variation with concentration and time is helpful for designing better grounding arrangements. Soil resistivity box is made of plexiglass and it is based on ASTM standards. The results obtained from the experimental data and from the equation are very close


This paper uses the dictionary learning of sparse representation algorithm to detect the arc fault. Six kinds of characteristics, that is, the normalized amplitudes of 0Hz, 50Hz, 100Hz, 150Hz, 200Hz, and 250Hz in the current amplitude spectrum, are used as inputs. The output is normal work or arc fault. Increasing the number of training samples can improve the accuracy of the tests. But if the training samples are too many, it is difficult to be expressed by single dictionary. This paper designs a multidictionary learning method to solve the problem. Firstly, n training samples are selected to form s overcomplete dictionaries. Then a dictionary library consisting of s dictionaries is constructed. Secondly, t (t≤s) dictionaries are randomly selected from the dictionary library to judge the test results, respectively. Finally, the final detest result is obtained through the maximum number of votes, that is, the modality with the most votes is the detest result. Simulation results show that the accuracy of detection can be improved.


The two studies reported here demonstrated that a combination of anger and disgust predicts moral outrage. In Study 1, anger toward moral transgressions (sexual assault, funeral picketing) predicted moral outrage only when it co-occurred with at least moderate disgust, and disgust predicted moral outrage only when it co-occurred with at least moderate anger. In Study 2, a mock-jury paradigm that included emotionally disturbing photographs of a murder victim revealed that, compared to anger, disgust was a more consistent predictor of moral outrage (i.e., it predicted moral outrage at all levels of anger). Furthermore, moral outrage mediated the effect of participants' anger on their confidence in a guilty verdict—but only when anger co-occurred with at least a moderate level of disgust—whereas moral outrage mediated the effect of participants' disgust on their verdict confidence at all levels of anger. The interactive effect of anger and disgust has important implications for theoretical explanations of moral outrage, moral judgments in general, and legal decision making.


At low temperatures α,α,α′,α′,2,4,5,6-octachloro-m-xylene exists as three conformers in solution and the proton resonance spectrum can be assigned by comparison to the spectrum of α,α,α′,α′,2,4,6-heptachloro-m-xylene. The temperature dependent spectra of the former in toluene-d8 solution are fitted to computed spectra based on a set of coupled Bloch equations. The activation parameters for the rotation about the sp2–sp3 carbon–carbon bonds are Ea = 14.93 ± 0.13 kcal/mol, log A = 12.45 ± 0.09, ΔH≠ = 14.30 ± 0.14 kcal/mol, ΔS≠ = −2.0 ± 0.5 e.u., ΔG≠ = 14.9 ± 0.05 kcal/mol at 298 °K. The quoted errors are standard deviations.


Neoliberalism was originated in the 1930s,and has been popular in the 1970s.With laissez-faire for the principle,against excessive intervention from government to the economic activities,it stresses the role of the market in the resources disposition.Neoliberalism is a two-edged sword,which means it had done harm to some countries' economy,and had saved some countries from the economic crisis as well.Neoliberalism has something to do with economic crisis,but it is not the root cause of it.The primary reason causing economic crisis is the basic contradictions of the capitalist countries.


As firms focus on their particular competencies, they are increasingly using contingent but highly skilled workers. This increased use of externalized labor permits firms in dynamic environments to modify and upgrade their specific technical skills, while retaining and developing skills at organizing outsourced competencies. This increased externalization of highly skilled work in competitive markets raises an important question as noted by Uzzi (1996, p. 64). Do organizations successfully compete on internally generated firm based competencies, or on their ability to access and reconfigure external resources and partners? This research examines the contributions and interactions of firm-based architectural knowledge and network-sourced component knowledge to performance. Our results suggest that architectural knowledge influences project performance through a lead firm's social capital, specifically a firm's brokerage position that enhances its ability to access and configure unique combinations for a project. Component knowledge, on the other hand, influences project performance through human capital, i.e. the experience and expertise of outsourced project members. These results suggest that architectural and component knowledge are complementary and requires the social capital of a lead firm and the human capital (e.g., experience and expertise) of outsourced project members.


Abstract: In this study, we have investigated the effect of mivazerol, [3‐(1H‐imidazol‐4‐yl)methyl‐1]‐2‐hydroxy‐benzamide hydrochloride, a new α2‐agonist lacking hypotensive properties and a potential anti‐ischemic drug, on the evoked release of norepinephrine, aspartate, and glutamate in tissue preparations from hippocampus, spinal cord T1–T5 section, rostrolateral ventricular medulla, and nucleus tractus solitarii of the brainstem of rat. A simple and efficient in vitro procedure to study pharmacologically the release of norepinephrine and glutamate is described. Tissues were chopped into (0.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 mm3) sections and the resulting minces were used for this study. Exposure to KCl (10–75 mM) for 5 min served as a stimulus for the release response. One, S (for aspartate and for glutamate release), or two such stimuli, S1 and S2 (for norepinephrine release) were conducted. The release of norepinephrine (+150% above baseline) was inhibited in a dose‐dependent manner by mivazerol in hippocampus (IC50 = 1.5 × 10−8M), spinal cord (IC50 = 5 × 10−8M), rostrolateral ventricular medulla (IC50 = 10−7M), and nucleus tractus solitarii (IC50 = 7.5 × 10−8M), and by clonidine in hippocampus (IC50 = 5 × 10−8M), spinal cord (IC50 = 4.5 × 10−8M), rostrolateral ventricular medulla (IC50 = 2.5 × 10−7M), and nucleus tractus solitarii (IC50 = 10−7M). This effect was counteracted by the selective α2‐antagonists yohimbine and rauwolscine. A significant glutamate and aspartate release response was also induced by KCl (35 mmol/L) in hippocampus (+250 and +135%, respectively) and spinal cord (+120 and +55%, respectively), in vitro. However, neither mivazerol nor clonidine, at doses up to 10 µM, had any significant effect on KCl‐induced glutamate release in spinal cord, whereas mivazerol blocked completely the release of both amino acids in hippocampus and only the release of aspartate in spinal cord. On the other hand, clonidine (1 µM) was only effective in reducing by 40% the release of aspartate in hippocampus. These data indicate that (1) inhibition of KCl‐induced norepinephrine release by mivazerol is mediated by its action on α2‐adrenergic receptors; (2) at concentrations selective for α2‐adrenergic receptors, only mivazerol was effective in blocking the KCl‐induced glutamate release in hippocampal tissue; and (3) at the same concentrations, both mivazerol and clonidine were unable to inhibit glutamate release in the spinal cord. These data suggest that prevention of hyperadrenergic activity by mivazerol in perioperative patients may be mediated through its effect on the release of norepinephrine and/or the release of glutamate and aspartate in regions of the CNS that are involved in the control of cardiovascular homeostasis.


Dopamine receptor gene plays an important role in central nervous system and helps in the proper functioning of neural circuits in the human brain. Polymorphisms of this gene affect the functioning of brain activities. Association of Dopamine receptor D2 gene (DRD2) polymorphisms with cognitive disorders and alcoholism has been reported in various studies now-a-days. The interest on DRD2 polymorphism is not only limited to psychiatric disorders or alcoholic behaviors or pharmacology but it is also a promising gene for evolutionary genetic studies and studies on genetic variations among populations. The present study is an attempt to understand the extent of genetic variations in four tribal populations by using the allele frequencies, haplotype frequencies and the distribution patterns of the three Taq I polymorphic sites of DRD2 gene. 197 unrelated blood samples were collected with individual informed consent and analysed by using standard protocols. All the three sites were found to be polymorphic among the four studied populations. The allele frequency distribution patterns and sharing of haplotypes in this study suggest genetic proximity among the populations.


A system for detecting whether trailer wheels of a cooler for cooling of sintered ore are abnormal or not is provided to prevent generation of a large accident by allowing an operator to recognize the sensed abnormal state after early sensing the abnormal state such as separation of wheel shafts of a trailer, deflection phenomena of the trailer wheels and the wheel shafts, etc. during operation of the cooler for cooling of sintered ore. A system for detecting whether trailer wheels(109) of a cooler(100) for cooling of sintered ore are abnormal or not comprises: a first sensing part installed on at least one spot of the cooler for cooling of sintered ore to sense rotation of the cooler; and a second sensing part installed on at least one spot of the trailer wheels of the cooler to sense abnormality of wheel shafts(110) of the trailer wheels and whether the trailer wheels are normal or not. The first sensing part comprises: a sensing wheel(224) engaged and rolled along a drive rail(105) of the cooler; a pulse detection sensor(225) for sensing rotation of the sensing wheel; and a supporting frame(220) for elastically supporting the sensing wheel. The second sensing part comprises: a first sensor(226) for sensing separation of the wheel shafts of the cooler; a second sensor(227) for sensing normal rotation of the trailer wheels of the cooler; and a third sensor(228) for sensing abnormal rotation of the trailer wheels.


Last year, Nando's pitched for the creation of a new iconic bottle for its marinade range. Top players in the industry were invited and Strategic Communications, trading as Stratcom, known for its work developing South African legends like the Oude Meester bottle and graphics, the Klipdrift bottle upgrade and graphics, and Flight of the Fish Eagle, won the business.


This paper proposes a hardware realization of the crossover module in the genetic algorithm for the travelling salesman problem (TSP). In order to enhance performance, we employ a combination of pipelining and parallelization with a genetic algorithm (GA) processor to improve processing speed, as compared to software implementation. Simulation results showed that the proposed architecture is six times faster than the similar existing architecture. The presented field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of PMX crossover operator is more than 400 times faster than in software.


The state of health of a battery characterizes its performance in terms of loss of capacity compared to the beginning of its life. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning algorithm for identifying the capacity of lithium-ion batteries. The training phase of the algorithm is based on data derived from constant current and constant voltage charging operations. The technique exploits a state observer based on a dynamic model of the battery and on the capacity estimation obtained with the reinforcement learning technique. The reward is defined as the error between the estimated and measured battery voltage. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is validated by considering different C-rates battery charging.


Affiliate partnership is a popular and effective method of online marketing through affiliate partners. The thesis describes the development of a product, which allows us to easily integrate affiliate system into an existing platform (e-commerce or service). This kind of functionality opens up growth opportunities for the business. The system is designed in a way that it requires minimal amount of changes for the implementation into an existing application. The development of the product is based on the modern development methodologies, which are used so that we get the minimum viable product in the most efficient and quickest way.


A novel method for feature extraction in wideband T/R-R bistatic radar is proposed. With wideband signals, the T/R and R receivers obtain the monostatic High-Range Resolution Profile (HRRP) and bistatic HRRP of the target, respectively. Combining both of the monostatic and bistatic HRRPs and the bistatic geometry, the length and slope angle of a cylindrical target are estimated. Then the experimental simulations are conducted to validate theoretical analysis. This work is helpful to exploiting the capability of wideband bistatic radar systems and enhancing their information acquiring capacity.


Data are reported for Gore's advanced PRIMEA® membrane electrode assembly (MEA) series 5561 exposed to relatively high concentrations (500, 3,000 and 10,000 ppm) of CO in hydrogen at 202 kPa and at 70 and 90°C. The steady-state and transient measurements obtained in this study at low reactant stoichiometry and 202 kPa are compared with earlier results 1 for atmospheric conditions to show the effect of temperature and pressure on the poisoning and recovery rates. All data are reported for a 25 cm 2 laboratory-scale proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) using CARBEL GDM CL gas diffusion media (GDM) for conditions with and without air-bleed treatments. For 500 ppm CO/H 2 mixtures without air-bleed, the performance at 202 kPa and 0.6 V provides a steady-state current density of 1.0 A/cm 2 at 90°C but only 0.4 A/cm 2 at 70°C. At 101 kPa and 70°C, exposure to 500 ppm CO/H 2 mixtures requires 5% air-bleed to obtain this performance. Transient experiments with these CO levels indicate that there is up to a four time decrease in the poisoning rates at 202 kPa vs. 101 kPa. Further at 202 kPa, increasing the cell temperature from 70 to 90°C results in approximately a fourteen time decrease in the poisoning rate for 3.000 ppm CO/H 2 mixtures and approximately four time decrease for 10,000 ppm CO/H 2 mixtures. The data discussed in this paper are suitable for verifying numerical models of a PEMFC and establishing a baseline for new recovery schemes using new MEAs with enhanced CO tolerance. In addition, the results have implications for the design of reformate fuel-processing systems and the use of effective control schemes to prevent CO transients.


Established in the late Qing Dynasty,Jiaozuo Railroad and Mining Industry College is the predecessor of China University of Mining and Technology.Sponsord by the British Peking Syndicate Limited,it was one of the first groups of private colleges and universities founded by foreigners in central and western China,and the first private engineering college and university and China's first institution of higher learning in mining. From the 4-year learning system and school students' age in Jiaozuo Railroad and Mining Industry College,we know that it was the institution of higher education.Four years after the abolition of the imperial examination system,Jiaozuo Railroad and Mining Industry College was established in 1909,which in teaching content,teaching methods and management methods etc.mainly adopted the advanced,scientific knowledge,scientific methods and management system introduced from the western capitalist countries.At that time,the College as a window and a bridge on Western Learning is no doubt a subject worthy of study.


We review interactions between certain 7-planes which are composed out of mutually non-local (p,q) 7-branes and which correspond to specific Kodaira singularities. We discuss in particular how to compute certain moduli-dependent terms in the effective action. These do not only probe the local Chern-Simons terms on the world-volumina, but also certain global aspects of plane interactions that can be attributed to ``torsion'' (or \ZZ_N-valued) D-brane charges.