Bank PD BPR Tembilahan is a banking company which give credit to customers. There are so many rivals in giving credit, That's way it needs detail in giving credit to customers avoiding disadvantages to the company. Covering those problems they create a system. A system that sureness in giving credit to customers, it makes a few mistake in giving credit and time. This system is build by using decision tree method to deciding fit for credit. Implementation system using PHP and MySQL database. This system is one of alternative solution in judging fit for credit process. Keywords: Decision tree, Credit, MySQL, PHP, System.


Investigation into the effect on reducing wind under three kinds of different vegetation coverage(50%,25%,10%) in lower reaches of the Tarim River shows that their effect are respectively 49.21%,24.44% and 9.15%.Under wind velocity of 7.7 m·s-1,the sand transporting rate over vegetation coverage of 10% and 25% is respectively 64.44% and 8.37% of that over non-vegetation cover;Under wind velocity of 10 m·s-1,only slight wind erosion occurred on the land with 50% vegetation coverage.Quantitatively analysis on the relationship between different vegetation coverage and reduction of wind velocity shows the effective vegetation degree of coverage.Under the common wind velocity(10~15 m·s-1),the effective vegetation coverage should be above 50% for preventing wind erosion.


A simple HPLC method has been developed for the determination of carbaryl (NAC) deposited on the ground by spraying it from a helicopter. A Shimadzu LC-5A HPLC with a UV detector (267 nm) was used. A metal column (25 cm × 4.6 mm i.d.) was packed with 5-μm Develosil ODS(Nomura Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan). Elution was carried out with CH3CN-H2O (1: 1, v/v) at a flow rate of 1.2 ml/min. After aerial application, deposited carbaryl was collected for 1 h on a filter paper(30 cm in diameter). The paper was washed with 100 ml of acetone. The solution was concentrated and injected into the HPLC. NAC was eluted at 7 min and a linear calibration curve was obtained from 0.5 to 12.0 μg/ml NAC with a relative standard deviation of 4.5% (n=5). The detection limit was 0.05 μg/ml. Carbaryl was actually detected in the range of 35 to 5300μg/m2 within 200 m from the bundary of aerial application. The amounts found seemed to be influenced by wind direction and topography.


Introduction: Nowadays, infertility has turned to a social distress and it is accompanied by numerous psychological and social problems. This phenomenon is known as an agonizing and disappointing stressor for couples, especially for women. Infertility stress can affect personal, social and marital relationships, may cause mental instability and lead to divorce. Likewise, studies have shown IVF may be accompanied by numerous and severe psychological disorders. Considering psychosocial and cultural importance of fertility, especially in women, and the high birth rate in Iran, a closer look at this phenomenon with an emphasis on its psychosocial aspects is of importance. Therefore this descriptive study was undertaken to determine mental well-being, marital satisfaction and stress coping in infertile women. Materials & Methods: 150 infertile women attending the forth Shahid of Mehrab Hospital in Kermanshah were randomly selected during 2003. The data were gathered by the researchers, based on CRI-Coping Responses, Index of Marital Satisfaction (IMS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). For the statistical evaluation of the findings, chi-squared and t-test were calculated. P-values smaller than 0.05 were considered significant. Results: The results showed that 44% of the subjects had psychological disorders based on GHQ. Based on the findings from this questionnaire, the cases were divided into two healthy and unhealthy groups. Anxiety rates among the unhealthy group and the functional disorders in the healthy ones revealed to be significantly high (p<0.01). 34% of the infertile women, most of whom had been identified to have psychological disorders by GHQ, had excitement based reactions and 93% of the ones on the healthy group had problem-based confrontational responses. The findings also revealed that infertility had not had any unpleasant effects on the marital satisfaction of the healthy cases, whereas 35% of the unhealthy ones showed the opposite. Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study, infertility may have numerous psychological impacts on the infertile and act as a predisposing factor for psychological disorders and matrimonial problems. Therefore, a team of psychiatrists accompanying infertility treatment experts is effective in the treatment process and prevention of psychiatric problems in these patients.


Li+/Na+ exchange has been extensively explored as an effective method to prepare high‐performance Mn‐based layered cathodes for Li‐ion batteries, since the first report in 1996 by P. G. Bruce (Nature, 1996. 381, 499–500). Understanding the detailed structural changes during the ion‐exchange process is crucial to implement the synthetic control of high‐performance layered Mn‐based cathodes, but less studied. Herein, in situ synchrotron X‐ray diffraction, density functional theory calculations, and electrochemical tests are combined to conduct the systemic studies into the structural changes during the ion‐exchange process of an Mn‐only layered cathode O3‐type Li0.67[Li0.22Mn0.78]O2 (LLMO) from the corresponding counterpart P3‐type Na0.67[Li0.22Mn0.78]O2 (NLMO). The temperature‐resolved observations combined with theoretical calculations reveal that the Li+/Na+ exchange is favorable thermodynamically and composited with two tandem topotactic phase transitions: 1) from NLMO to a layered intermediate through ≈60% of Li+/Na+ exchange. 2) then to the final layered product LLMO through further Li insertion. Moreover, the intermediate‐dominate composite is obtained by slowing down the exchange kinetics below room temperature, showing better electrochemical performance than LLMO obtained by the traditional molten‐salt method. The findings provide guides for the synthetic control of high‐performance Mn‐based cathodes under mild conditions.


At 3K the calculated change in the resistivity obtained by Hayman and Carbotte (see ibid., vol.2, p.915 (1972)) using Ziman's one-iteration approximation (1961) to the solution of the linearised Boltzmann equation is three times as large as that obtained by Ekin and Bringer (see Phys. Rev. B., vol.7, p.4468 (1973)) using the variational technique with a rather simple trial function. In an attempt to resolve the discrepancy between two widely used techniques, the Boltzmann equation was iterated to convergence to determine accurately the anisotropic relaxation time tau (k) as a function of position on the Fermi surface. It was found that the variational result for tau (k) is in good agreement with the accurate one except on those parts of the Fermi surface that are least heavily weighted in a calculation of the electrical resistivity; on the other hand, the Ziman one-iteration solution is much too anisotropic, at least for the temperature range considered. The electrical resistivity calculated with the accurately determined anisotropic relaxation times is only marginally better than the variational result. The same applies to the effective number of carriers in the Hall effect.


In the presentation it is analyzed how University has developed its work as an Institution from a social assignment generated by the conditions of the different historical moments of its development; what causes that the social connection of University as concept of responsibility, has existed centuries-old, although from different emphasis. Then, to debate the conceptual aspects that derive from this subject matter, as well as ways of implementing policies and actions to this end, constitutes an important effort to establish the current challenges and future directions of Contemporary Higher Education, for this reason it constitutes one of the most relevant topics in the debate about the University we need.


semantic Web process  An abstract Web process specifies the controlflow and data-flow of an application  Does not define which Web services will be executed at runtime  Abstracting away the resource descriptions allows:  Web processes modeling dynamic packages to be portable  Reuse processes to generate different process instance at runtime Abstract semantic Web processsemantic Web process AWS Shopping AWS Golf AWS Dinner AWS Movie AWS Fishing Abstract semantic Web process AWS Abstract Web service Designer AWS Check Weather Not sunny Sunny E-Tourism Ontology A dynamic package that includes a fishing experience in the morning, takes the tourist for shopping, schedules a golf game or a movie in the afternoon, and a dinner at night. Dynamic Packaging Web Process Generator  Concrete dynamic package Web processes are automatically created using a suitable generator.  The generator may optimize the concrete process based on the availability of Web services.  Each service is turned into an executable service by specifying the locations of the Web service implementation Concrete Dynamic Packaging Web Process  An abstract Web process typically originates several concrete processes.  Each Web process invokes different Web services  The processes are valid from a functional pointof-view, but they may not generate valid dynamic package  Need to follow time or cost constraints Conditional Planning  Select a schedule that is consistent with the overall dynamic package  Conditional planning  The main objective of the planning is to schedule an appropriate timeframe during which the tourist will realize a particular activity referenced by a dynamic package Dynamic Packages and QoS  At this stage  All the dynamic packages are valid  Some packages may take more time to execute than others or be more expensive for the tourist  They have a distinct QoS (Quality of Service)  Compute the QoS  Use the SWR algorithm  Ranking and selecting  Rank and select the packages which have a set of characteristics that is more similar with the tourist QoS requirements Examples of Ontologies Examples of Real Ontologies MGED Ontology  The MGED Ontology  Provide standard terms for the annotation of microarray experiments.  Terms will enable unambiguous descriptions of how the experiment was performed.  212 classes, 101 properties.  The MGED Ontology is being developed within the microarray community to provide consistent terminology for experiments.  This community effort has resulted in a list of multiple resources for many species.  Approximately 50 other ontologies for different species  The concepts are structured in DAML+OIL and available in other formats (rdfs) The MGED Ontology is Structured in DAML+OIL using OILed 3.4 Source: "The MGED Ontology is an Experimental Ontology," 5th Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (Edmonton, Canada Aug. 2002) MGED Ontology consists of classes, properties, and individuals (instances) Source: "OntologyEntry in MAGE," MGED 6 (Aix-en-Provence, France Sept., 2003) MGED Ontology: BiomaterialDescription: BiosourceProperty: Age Source: "The MGED Ontology is an Experimental Ontology," 5th Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (Edmonton, Canada Aug. 2002) Examples of Real Ontologies OBO  OBO (Open Biological Ontologies)  Is an umbrella organization for structured shared controlled vocabularies and ontologies for use within the genomics and proteomics domains. Examples of Real Ontologies GO Ontology  Gene Ontology (GO)  Describes gene products in terms of their  Associated biological processes,  cellular components and  Molecular functions in a species-independent manner. Component ontology 1379 terms 212 KB Process ontology 8151 terms 4.82 MB Function ontology 7278 terms 1.16 MB GO format flat files, XML, MySQL


The characteristics of four kinds of oil-saving ignition technology were introduced.The system composition,the step for putting the system into operation and the matters needed attention of the tiny oil ignition system were expounded.Aiming at the problems occurred in its application process,relevant measures and solving methods were put forward.The result of successful application of the tiny oil ignition technology in boiler No.11 and No.14 of Wangting Power Plant has shown that the oil conservation effect of this technology was favorable.


In the last few years, several cases of principally psoriasiform and eczematous skin eruptions caused by β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents, including propranolol hydrochloride, have been reported. 1-3 Reports of positive epicutaneous test results to β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents in patients with cutaneous side effects from β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents are few. 1-4 Cross sensitivity between β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents has rarely been reported. 2-4 In our case, there were cutaneous side effects to a β-adrenoreceptor blocking agent. We give herein the results of the sensitivity and cross-sensitivity studies.


Density variations arising from thermal and compositional gradients in multi-component fluids can lead to natural convection flows. The double-diffusive layer is one such flow phenomenon, commonly observed in oceanic and phase change systems. The solidification of high Prandtl number fluids offers a suitable platform to study multi-diffusive convection owing to continuously evolving temperature and compositional fields. In this work, an experimental investigation was conducted to study the influence of transport phenomena on the double-diffusive layer formation, by performing full-field measurements of concentration and flow velocities during bottom-cooled solidification of a hyper-eutectic aqueous mixture. Using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the first-ever real-time, quantitative observations of solutal mixing, plume formation, and the evolution of the double-diffusive layers by forming a stepped compositional distribution have been reported. In addition, the associated flow velocities were measured using the particle image velocimetry technique which clearly characterizes the compositional and thermal natural convection patterns along the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively. The study revealed a life-cycle for the existence of the double-diffusive layers, wherein they undergo onset, development, and disappearance depending on the initial composition, and identified critical Rayleigh numbers for each of these stages. The experimental observations were further supported with analytical scale estimates of the critical length, time, and velocities of the system. The quantitative results elucidate the conditions, including a newly hypothesized threshold composition difference, which led to the formation as well as the disappearance of the layers.Density variations arising from thermal and compositional gradients in multi-component fluids can lead to natural convection flows. The double-diffusive layer is one such flow phenomenon, commonly observed in oceanic and phase change systems. The solidification of high Prandtl number fluids offers a suitable platform to study multi-diffusive convection owing to continuously evolving temperature and compositional fields. In this work, an experimental investigation was conducted to study the influence of transport phenomena on the double-diffusive layer formation, by performing full-field measurements of concentration and flow velocities during bottom-cooled solidification of a hyper-eutectic aqueous mixture. Using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the first-ever real-time, quantitative observations of solutal mixing, plume formation, and the evolution of the double-diffusive layers by forming a stepped compositional distribution have been reported. In addition, the associated flow velocities were measured usi...


We discuss the nodal structure of odd-parity superconductors in the presence of non-symmorphic crystal symmetries, both with and without spin-orbit coupling, and with and without time reversal symmetry. We comment on the relation of our work to previous work in the literature, and also the implications for unconventional superconductors such as UPt$_3$.


A novel algorithm on internal model control( IMC) based on self-constructing neural network( NN) is proposed for the nonlinear process in this paper. The structure learning and parameters learning of the neural network were realized by self-constructing algorithm. In the identification process of the internal model and the controller,the neural network can automatically increase the nodes to meet the identification accuracy requirements. Moreover,in order to prevent the over-fitting of neural network learning,the hidden layer nodes can be pruned based on the sensitivity method. In addition,parameters learning adopt the gradient descending method. Compared with conventional NN-IMC method,this scheme can effectively avoid the problem of network structure is difficult to determine. The simulation result shows that the control system has a good target tracking performance,disturbance rejection properties and robustness simultaneously.


This study reviews the overall outcome of 78 patients undergoing a short‐flap facelift with laser‐assisted lipolysis using a continuous‐wave 924/975‐nm diode laser.


Thermodynamics is the study of energy change from one state to another. The predictions that can be made using thermodynamic equations are essential for understanding fuel cell performance, as a fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidant gas into electrical energy. When a fuel cell is operating, some of the input is used to create electrical energy, but another portion is converted into thermal energy, depending on the type of fuel cell. Based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, one can write down thermodynamic potentials to specify how energy can be transferred from one form to another. This chapter examines how electrical energy and thermal energy are transferred in the hydrogen fuel cell system. It also defines how reversible fuel cell voltages, which are the maximum fuel cell performances, are affected by departures from the standard state. Basic thermodynamic concepts allow one to predict states of the fuel cell system, including the potential, temperature, pressure, volume and moles of a fuel cell. The specific topics explored in this chapter include enthalpy, entropy, specific heat, Gibbs free energy, net output voltage irreversible losses in fuel cells and fuel cell efficiency.


OBJECTIVE
Dendritic cells (DCs) play important roles in the development and perpetuation of immune responses. DCs are present in upper airway diseases such as chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. However, the mechanisms of how DCs migrate into the upper airway mucosa during upper airway inflammatory diseases remains unclear. Macrophage inflammatory protein-3alpha (MIP-3alpha) is known to be a migratory factor for immature DCs. There have been very few reports regarding cells producing this chemokine in the airways. To investigate this, we stimulated fibroblasts cultured from the nasal polyps with various toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands, which are derived from microorganisms, and IL-beta1 and TNF-alpha, which are proinflammatory cytokines, and analyzed their ability to produce MIP-3alpha.

METHODS
Fibroblast lines were established from nasal polyps and stimulated with TLR2, 3, 4, 5, 7/8 and 9 ligands, IL-beta1 and TNF-alpha. MIP-3alpha mRNA expression in nasal polyp fibroblasts (NPF) was evaluated by real-time RT-PCR and the protein levels of MIP-3alpha in the supernatants of stimulated NPF was measured by ELISA.

RESULTS
Stimulation with TLR2, 3, 4 and 5 ligands, IL-beta1 and TNF-alpha, induced MIP-3alpha gene expression and protein production in the cultured NPF This response was dose- and time-dependent.

CONCLUSION
NPF possibly play an important role in the recruitment of DCs in upper airway diseases such as chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps through the production of MIP-3alpha.


Blueberry is an increasingly important crop in Florida. Anthracnose fruit rot (AFR), mostly caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is favored by long wetness periods and temperatures from 15 to 27oC. Currently, the model in the Strawberry Advisory System (StAS) guides fungicide applications targeting strawberry AFR. Given the similarity between blueberry and strawberry AFR, we hypothesized that the model used in StAS could be used in a decision-support system built for blueberry AFR. There is no information on inhibition posed by fungicides on C. gloeosporioides isolates from blueberry. Our objectives were to demonstrate that the model used in the StAS could be used for blueberry AFR management in Florida, and to assess the sensitivity of isolates to fungicides. Four trials were undertaken in blueberry fields in Florida during two seasons to compare the effectiveness of fungicide applications following the model to the growers' standard calendar. Sensitivity of blueberry C. gloeosporioides isolates to azoxystrobin, benzovindiflupyr, penthiopyrad, pydiflumetofen, boscalid, thiophanate-methyl, fluazinam, and fludioxonil was evaluated. AFR incidence and yield were compared between treatments. Following recommendations from the model resulted in disease control as effective as the standard program and in some cases with a reduced number of applications. All isolates were sensitive to benzovindiflupyr, penthiopyrad, fluazinam, and fludioxonil. Low frequency of in vitro inhibition of isolates by azoxystrobin, pydiflumetofen, boscalid, and thiophanate-methyl should raise concern for fungicide resistance. Our results indicate that the model used in StAS could be used in a blueberry decision-support system to aid Florida growers to manage AFR.


In this paper, we propose a stochastic method to project the public pension fund in the public pension system (PPS). For this we introduce the stochastic differential equations for the three parts: the premium revenue, the benefit expenditure, and the fund process. From these we show that the solution of the aggregated fund process is the sum of log-normals, which is approximated as one log-normal for the analytic result. Related to the parameter estimations, we implement the moment matching in the first moment. For the second moment, we apply the extreme value method following Parkinson. In order to follow Parkinson, we take the maximum and the minimum range of the fund amount based on the various sensitivity result as well as the baseline one from the deterministic projection result. In this reason, it is naturally to maintain the close interrelation with the deterministic projection result, which is very important since it is still key result in the actuarial valuation of the PPS.


Currently in some colleges there is a kind of misunderstanding,that is,emphasizing to increase the rate of using existent excellent textbooks without measure.At the same time,little attention be paid to the construction of teaching materials.The author point of view is that,teaching materials are different with textbooks,they are the better representation of the school's level and characteristic to some extent.


Tom Izbicki and I co-wrote an article titled "Nicholas of Cusa and the Ottoman Threat to Christendom." It argues that Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) had a long-time interest in the possibility of dialogue with Muslims, as demonstrated in his irenic De pace fidei (1453), but over the years gradually moved away from dialogue toward supporting a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. His harsh polemical Cribratio Alkorani (1461) and some of his sermons can be considered the literary expressions of this change of mind. We submitted our manuscript to Medieval Encounters, and the peer review process resulted in acceptance (forthcoming soon), but with an objection to our use of the term "interreligious dialogue"[1] because the term is a modern one and did not exist in 15th century Europe nor in Cusanus' lexicon, nor is the phenomenon (interreligious dialogue) older than its name. While this was reviewer 2, reviewer 1 suggested a bibliographical improvement and recommended using a few additional publications, inter alia, a recent study by Kate Waggoner Karchner.[2] This study concludes that, following Riccoldo da Montecroce's Contra legem Sarracenorum, Cusanus' Cribratio attempted to create an interreligious dialogue – the term is at the core of her paper. Accordingly, while Cusanus supported the crusade planned by Pope Pius II, "he focused his efforts and his writings much more intently on finding a dialogic way for Christians to approach Islam than on promoting crusades directly. Both churchmen [Pope Pius II and Cardinal Cusanus], seem to have seen dialogue as a more productive approach to Islam..."[3] The reviewers' contradictory remarks created a confusing situation: on the one hand, we faced a demand to rule out "interreligious dialogue" as anachronistic; on the other hand, we were recommended to rely on, or at least use, a study that has "interreligious dialogue" at its heart. What to do in such a case? First, let us clear up "interreligious dialogue."


Radiation
dermatitis following radiation therapy in the treatment of early breast cancer
can lead to discontinuation or prolongation of treatment and an impaired
quality of life. Melatonin has been demonstrated to protect against radiation
injury. The aim of this study is to investigate whether melatonin can protect
against radiation dermatitis when applied topically in women receiving
radiation therapy for early breast cancer. This study will be a randomized,
placebo-controlled, double-blind controlled trial. Patients will apply the
melatonin or placebo preparation topically twice daily for the duration of
their radiation therapy. Our objective outcomes will be the Radiation Therapy
Oncology Group's acute radiation morbidity scoring criteria for skin, image
analysis of clinical photographs, and use of steroid cream for radiation
dermatitis. Subjective outcomes will be quality of life questionnaires
developed by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer.
Outcomes will be measured throughout the five weeks of radiation treatment and
be followed up for another three weeks. According to sample-size calculations
and inclusion schedule, we intend to include a total of 80 evaluable patients. We
will analyze the primary outcomes using parametric and non-parametric tests
where applicable. Secondary outcomes will be analyzed by a mixed linear model. Most
patients with breast cancer who undergo radiation therapy will develop
radiation dermatitis as a result of the therapy. Should our intervention
provide better outcomes, many patients could obtain a better quality of life.
We expect topical melatonin treatment to have little or no adverse effects, to
be easy to apply, and not to interfere with the anti-tumor efficacy of the
radiation therapy.


The accurate calculation of clay mineral formulae from chemical analyses is important because the identity of the mineral as well as its exchange properties can be readily determined from its formula (Jackson 1969). Unfortunately, many mathematical steps, all fraught with possible errors, are required to carefully convert the data from either an oxide or metal basis to the structural formula. For one analysis, hand calculations are not that ditiicult to perform and, if done carefully, will yield the accurate formula. However, the time-effectiveness of hand calculations is severely dampened when determining more than one analysis. Because several analyses may be required to fully characterize the minerals in a sample, a spreadsheet program that can quickly and accurately determine the structural formulae for these analyses would be beneficial. To this end, a spreadsheet program, n a m e d MINCALCI, that performs these structural formulae calculations for 2:1 phyllosilicates from the chemical data was developed. MINCALC 1 has been tested using many chemical analyses and structural formulae calculations from the clay mineral literature. Because the spreadsheet was designed using charge occupancy rather than atom occupancy for the octahedral layer, the structural formulae of both dioctahedral and trioctahedral minerals can be quickly and accurately calculated.


Uranium can be released into the environment from various activities such as the use of phosphate fertilizers, combustion of coal in thermal power plants, mining, and depleted uranium used in the wars. One of the talked about sources for such water contamination in Bathinda city is the fly ash from the coal-fired thermal power plants. To assess the role of fly ash and Chemical toxicity risk associated with uranium from the fly ash to the water, the coal, dry fly ash, ash slurry and water samples collected from the surrounding of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Plant (GNDTPP) in the Bathinda city of Punjab state, India. The samples were analyzed using the X-ray fluorescence set up. In the present work, we found that uranium concentrations in the dry fly ash and coal samples were higher than permissible limit i.e. < 2 ppm but the concentrations in the ash slurry and water samples was below the safe limit of 30 μg l−1 as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO, 2011). The 38Sr concentrations are also found to be 0.103-1.210 ppm and with average value 0.576 ppm in the various types of water in surrounding of the thermal power plant. The concentrations of 42Mo are found to be 0.002-0.050 ppm and the average value 0.022 ppm below the safe limit of 0.07 mg/l as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO, 2011) and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS, 2012). Chemical toxicity risk calculated in the form of lifetime average daily dose (LAAD) and hazard quotient. The lifetime average daily dose (LAAD) values of ash slurry and water samples were found to be lower than WHO (2011) recommended level of 1 μg kg−1 d−1, and the values of hazard quotient of the study samples were found to be lower than unity expect dry fly ash and coal samples were higher than permissible limit. The present study is concluded that uranium contamination in water of Bathinda city is not due to the Thermal Power Plant, and there is indicating no chemical toxicity risk due to uranium from the fly ash to the water.


The landlord‐tenant relationship is one of the oldest forms of legal agreement with us today. The last seven centuries have seen English law develop through the operation of both the courts and statute. The result for the unpaid landlord has been a bewildering array of remedies. Considers the developing range of options open to the landlord or managing agent in trying to recover rents and other dues in the face of mounting financial problems among tenants. Focuses on practicalities and selection criteria for the procedures considered


The first Cold-in-Place Recycling (CIR) project utilizing a specially formulated emulsified recycling agent as the additive was performed in 1977 on a project in Fresno County, California (Russell Avenue). The details of this project are set forth in an ASTM publication titled "Special Technical Publication 662" dated 1979 authored by D.D. Davidson, William Canessa and S.J. Escobar. The objective of this project and the research reported in the above mentioned publication was to provide guidelines for the use of a one-component emulsified recycling agent. The project indicated that a one component emulsified recycling agent was effective not only in its application but it also restored the necessary properties to the aged asphalt thereby reversing its aging process.


Relatively little attention has been paid to metal ions with the nd[sup 10] and nd[sup 10](n+1)s[sup 2] (i.e., [open quotes]s[sup 2][close quotes]) configurations. In combination with various anionic and neutral ligands, these metal ions form a wide variety of cluster compounds, some of which have been known to be luminescent when irradiated with ultraviolet light. Prominent examples of this family are cuprous iodide clusters such as Cu[sub 4]I[sub 4]-(py)[sub 4] (1, py = pyridine), which shows [open quotes]luminescence thermochromism[close quotes]; that is, they display bright emissions with colors markedly dependent on the temperature. Here the authors present an overview of recent studies carried out both independently and jointly in the authors' laboratories focusing upon the remarkably rich, but relatively unexplored, photochemical and photophysical properties of various tetra-and hexanuclear d[sup 10] and s[sup 2] metal ion clusters in solution. 74 refs., 4 figs., 2 tabs.


Through discussion on sections including raw material,mixing,transportation,constructing skill,maintenance,model-dismantling and constructing cracks process of concrete,it brings forward some skilled measures of improving concrete appearance and quality,so as to make the concrete have good appearance effect.


BACKGROUND
In the 17th, 18th and 19th century the scientists were intensively occupied with »climactericdisease« in men and it was not until 20th century when attention was paid to climacteric offemale too. In the second half of the 20th century hormone replacement therapy (HRT)became popular for alleviation of climacteric symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis.Together with beneficial effects of HRT unwanted side effects were registered.Several large scale hormone trials (Nurses Health Study, Heart and Estrogen-progestinReplacement Study – HERS, Estrogen Replacement and Atherosclerosis – ERA, Postmenopausal Estrogen/progestin Interventional Trial – PEPI, Women's Health Initiative – WHI,The Million Women Study, Raloxifene Use in the Heart – RUTH) revealed an increased riskfor the development of invasive breast cancer and cardiovascular events and decreasedrisk of colorectal cancer and osteoporosis. Overall criticism of the mentioned trials concerns the age of women included in the studies (more than 60 years on average). Recentmeta-analysis of randomized trial shows 40 % reduction in total mortality in women whostarted HRT younger than 60 years at baseline. This analysis provides a promising evidence of HRT emphasizing early start i.e., in the first years after menopause.
CONCLUSIONS
Last decade in the field of menopausal medicine is characterized by discussions aboutbenefits and risks of HRT. The experts reached consensual position statement that benefitsovercome risks of HRT when introduced in early postmenopause


Further to the question posed in analysis: 'Would you go on strike to defend your rights?' (September 14) and my letter in the same issue, yes would take industrial action to protect my pension rights.


Hydrophobins are spherical proteins with a few nanometers in diameter, a hydrophilic half and a hydrophobic half. They are also referred to as protein amphiphiles of filamentous fungi. In recent years, the use of hydrophobins has increased noticeably, but the textile applications are still limited. Due to its molecular structure and self-assembly mechanisms it is possible to use them on various surface treatments and suitable for textile materials with adhesion, surface modification or surfactant-like properties. Especially in textiles wet chemical processes; hydrophobins have found an area for using as a non-toxic eco-friendly material. For this purpose, studies on the usage of hydrophobins to improve the functional properties of textile materials have been investigated.


In the next 5 years, our health care leaders will experience unprecedented challenges and opportunities. These changes are stimulated by the current proposed national health care system changes geared toward reducing the countries health care expenditures while expanding access to health care services. In addition to health care system reform, our current presidential and congressional administration is considering insurance reform. Our national leaders are proposing the development of a strong primary care system that is expected to both reduce health care cost and improve health care outcomes. Within these proposed changes, technological advances are considered an essential component of the transformative change for the health care system. The implementation of electronic health records is expected to improve the efficiency of our current health care system while providing access to data that can be used to compare effectiveness of health care delivery models and effectiveness of interventions. Two proposed models of health care delivery within these health care changes are accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes. The accountable care organizations are organizational structures that permit hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers with the ability to collaborate and work together to provide costeffective care while maintaining accountable outcomes. The patient-centered medical home models are health care practice systems that embrace a patient-centered primary care model with an emphasis on evidence-based practice to improve both individualand population-level health outcomes. An overriding theme of both these new health care models is the integration of health care information, referral systems, and primary and specialty health care services within a well-articulated and aligned health care delivery system focusing on meeting the specific population's health care needs in a cost-effective manner based on the latest evidence-based practice standards and guidelines. The proposed health care changes and new models of health care delivery systems that are emerging are requiring health care leaders to strengthen existing partnerships with primary care providers, adopt and accelerate the use of electronic health records, invest in performance measurement systems, adopt a model of evidence-based practice, and engage community members and nonprofit organizations within the health care delivery system networks. At the heart of this transformational change in our health care system is developing integrated systems that can provide health care services to a population while considering and integrating medical advances into the standards of practice of individualized health care such as genetic testing, genetic counseling, and pharmacogenomics. In conclusion, each health care provider interested in promoting men's health will be challenged to ensure that men's health issues are considered in the dialogue of this health care reform movement. Health Care Leaders' Challenges in the Time of Health Care Reform


In the present paper the parametric amplifier is analysed in terms of its equivalent circuit. Three resonant circuits with resonant frequencies W1 W2 and W3 known as signal, idling and pump respectively are coupled to a nonlinear variable capacitance. The charge in the non-linear capacitance is assumed to vary as a quadratic function of the voltage across it. Expressions for the parametric gain, net power gain, bandwidth and noise figure for the two cases of the negative conductance amplifier, one in which the signal and idling frequencies are well separated and the other in which the two frequencies are same, have been obtained.


Context: There are severe and rare groups of genetic disorders due to defects in metabolic pathways, and they are generally called inborn errors of metabolism. Amino acids, as the building blocks of proteins, have many important structural and functional roles in the human body. The deficiencies of functional enzymes cause defects in metabolic pathways and lead to aminoacidopathies. The diagnosis of aminoacidopathies is challenging for most physicians, as they can present with multiple overlapping symptoms. Evidence Acquisition: PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and CINAHL were searched with MeSH terms: 'inborn errors of metabolism' OR 'Metabolism, Inborn Errors' (MeSH) AND 'Humans' (MeSH) AND 'Amino Acids/therapeutic use'[MeSH] AND 'Newborn, Child' (MeSH) OR 'child' OR 'newborn' AND "Neonatal Screening"[MeSH]. Results: This study summarized some important issues, including clinical and laboratory diagnoses of phenylketonuria, tyrosinemia, methionine, homocysteine and cysteine, sulfite oxidase deficiency, molybdenum cofactor deficiency, tryptophan, glycine, hyperoxaluria, creatine deficiency disorders, serine, proline, glutamine, and urea cycle defect. Conclusions: The prognosis of many metabolic disorders has improved due to recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. The biochemical knowledge of clinicians should be improved to comprehend metabolic disorders. As the diagnostic methods are based on organic acids in urine and acylcarnitine profile, it is necessary to enhance biochemistry knowledge to understand the logic.


T h e characterizat ion and evaluation o f ant igen-induced suppressor T (Ts) 1 cell networks have considerably evolved in the last several years (1-4). While there are now a variety o f ways to induce such Ts cells, one o f the most intriguing approaches has been to intravenously inject l igand-derivatized lymphocytes into naive recipients, and to later use these recipients as suppressor cell donors (1, 3). This technique has been successfully used with haptens (5-7), polysaccharides (8), and immunoglobulins (9, 10) in mice. While suppressor networks genera ted by ligand-derivatized lymphocytes can have features that are inherent ly unique to a part icular system, they also tend to share several characteristics. T h e y typically involve several sets of sequentially activated Ts cells with complementary specificities; they often opera te unde r H-2 and Igh-1 restrictions; and they usually secrete soluble suppressor factors that mediate complex interactive functions (1, 3, 11). We have used an exper imental model o f interstitial nephritis (ant i tubular basement membrane [anti-TBM] disease) to de te rmine if tubular ant igen-der ivatized lymphocytes induce or activate a disease-protective Ts cell network in an au to immune setting. Interstitial nephritis can be induced in pro to type SJL and BALB/c mice with an injection o f renal T B M in adjuvant (12-14). Ant i -TBM antibodies (Ab) appear by 10 d and interstitial lesions typically develop by 6 1 0 wk. Susceptibility to disease is def ined by genes in H-2K and Igh-1 (15), and is mediated by an ef fec tor T cell r eper to i re containing cytotoxic and delayed-type


A lifting-line theory of a wing in uniform shear flow is presented and also a critical shear parameter where aerodynamic characteristics abruptly change is found by obtaining analytical expressions of the characteristics. The governing equation with respect to potential function defined by Karman is derived and reduced to two ordinary differential equations by separation of variables. A general solution is obtained by linearly combining the fundamental solutions of the ordinary differential equations. An induced attack angle is derived from the general soultion and a condition of far downstream. A relation of a lift force to an effective attack angle is described by the Taylor series expansion in a vicinity of geometrical attack angle. From the induced attack angle and the lift force, a lifting-line equation is obtained, and solved by Gaussian elimination method. Effects of shear parameter and aspect ratio on the local lift, total lift and induced drag coefficients are clarified through some numerical calculations.


The performance optimization problem of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator at the inlet of a scramjet engine is studied. The generator performance is characterized in terms of both the net energy extracted from the flow and the flow characteristics through the channel before it enters the combustion chamber of the scramjet engine. The analysis assumes a steady-state one-dimensional flow in which the position along the channel is treated as an independent coordinate. The performance optimization problem can then be handled by optimal control theory, in which position now plays the role of time as in a standard control problem. In this work, an optimal neural-networks-based controller design technique developed in our previous work is used. The technique is well suited for this application, because the MHD system is highly nonlinear. Furthermore, the technique is data-based, in that experimental data obtained from the system can be used to design the optimal controller without requiring an explicit model of the system. Nomenclature A f = cross-sectional area of the channel, m 2 B f


Based on the comprehensive analysis of regional structure background, boundary conditions, basement properties, structural movement, unconformable surface, stratigraphic distribution, sedimentary characters, structural evolution history, it is considered that the Miozoic-Ceozoic structural evolution of Qaidam Basin has undergone two structural cycles of extension and compression, which can be divided into four evolution stages including the Early to Middle Jurassic extensional rift and depression stage, the Late Jurassic to Cretaceous compression depression and uplift stage, the Paleocene(Lulehe age) to Early Miocene(Shangyoushashan age) integer compression depression and the western Qaidam Basin regional pull-apart feeble rift stage, as well as Late Miocene(Shizigou age) to Quaternary compression inversion stage. The basin structural evolution controls the distribution and evolution of hydrocarbon resource rocks, the formation of traps, as well as the migration, accumulation and preservation of oil and gas, and further controls the distribution of oil and gas.


ABSTRACT Dr. Janine M. Bernard is a notable Counselor Educator, whose career has spanned more than four decades. Through her Discrimination Model and subsequent scholarship in supervision, Bernard has profoundly influenced the interdisciplinary training, practice, and ongoing professional development of supervisors across counseling and its sister mental health fields. In this profile, the authors illuminate the multidimensional themes exemplifying Dr. Bernard's personhood and career. Specifically, we highlight the virtues of candor, benevolence, pragmatism, industriousness, humor, and generativity that have influenced her life and career, describing how she embodies and enacts each.


Subarray design is widely applied in large planar array monopulse system to synthesize optimal sum and difference patterns at a low system cost. Based on the excitation matching principle, subarray design can be formulated as a clustering problem which can be solved by K-means clustering method. When the elements are weighted uniformly, K-means clustering method can provide the optimal beam pattern synthesis performance. However, the performance will deteriorate when the elements are weighted non-uniformly. Therefore, a weighted K-means clustering method is proposed in this paper to improve the beam pattern synthesis performance for non-uniform element weights. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulations.


A novel false data injection attack (FDIA) model against DC state estimation is proposed, which requires no network parameters and exploits only limited phasor measurement unit (PMU) data. The proposed FDIA model can target specific states and launch large deviation attacks using estimated line parameters. Sufficient conditions for the proposed method are also presented. Different attack vectors are studied in the IEEE 39-bus system, showing that the proposed FDIA method can successfully bypass the bad data detection (BDD) with high success rates of up to 95.3%.


The absence of an objective and scientific evaluation method for graduation designs lead to arbitrariness of the evaluation results for the engineering students from universities in transition and development. In this paper,a more scientific,rational,objective and quantitative evaluation method is proposed,taking the features of the graduation design of the engineering students into full consideration. And an index system of this evaluation method is further established. By adopting this fuzzy evaluation method,the evaluation process become more objective,authentic,scientific and easy to operate.


The present invention relates to an apparatus for operation sensitivity setting construction equipment, comprising: operation amount detecting means for detecting the operation amount of the operation lever; operation amount control means, which is detected by the operation amount detecting apparatus received through, the relationship between the operation amount and the driving amount is stored in advance (operation sensitivity) to output a driving amount; an actuator which performs an operation according to the drive amount control unit output; and an input unit, which is provided according to a user's key operation or change the relationship between the operation amount and the driving amount is stored in the control unit, which comprises such a system, the sensitivity setting operation to enable a user operating portion operating device can be controlled by the ratio, which makes the user can install the driving means member or working conditions of the sensitivity setting change operation in order to improve the control performance and user convenience.


Probably no other figure in history bore such a fascination for his contemporaries and his biographers alike as Ludwig van Beethoven. There is bequeathed to us a legacy of literature arguing also that there is no other great man in history of whom more is known and of whom so much of what is known is provocative. The controversy surround ing Beethoven's personal tragedy is mountainous because that tragedy was truly Promethean. Much of the greatest music which ever lifted the human spirit flowed from his pen and the most magnificent of this music Beethoven never heard.


ANASTOMOSES between pulmonary and bronchial arteries may be found, though in limited numbers, in the normal perinatal lung. Also present in small numbers are the so-called pulmobronchial arteries-branches from pulmonary arteries supplying bronchial walls and supporting connective tissue, and the bronchopulmonary arteries, arising from bronchial arteries but supplying the pulmonary tissue (Wagenvoort and Wagenvoort, 1966,1967; Robertson, 1967). In abnormal haemodynamic conditions, as in experimental ligation of a pulmonary artery (Roding, 1967) or in isolated transposition of the large arteries (Robertson, I968), the number of bronchopulmonary arteries is markedly increased, but the number of pulmobronchial arteries and anastomoses is unaffected or only slightly increased. The present study deals with the relative numbers of these vessels in cases of increased left atrial pressure, particularly in aortic atresia, with or without premature closure of the foramen ovale.


In developing the concept of assemblages, Gilles Deleuze draws at least some inspiration from Gilbert Simondon's concept of information. While his acknowledgement of Simondon's influence is almost entirely positive, Deleuze explicitly distances himself from the concept of information in order to avoid its link to the field of cybernetics. However, a Deleuzian informational ontology could instead be leveraged as an alternative to cybernetics. Drawing on the Spinozan link between the work of Deleuze and Simondon, it is possible to develop a hybrid informational ontology. This system can not only offer a different approach to information, data and technology than the essentialist concept of information embraced by cybernetics, but also aligns well with recent research in the biological sciences that has disrupted a long-held concept of individuals as entirely separate and autonomous. Shifting away from the Platonic Form to a Deleuzian/Simondonian in-formation furthers the post-human project aimed at understanding processes of subjectivation at multiple scales, including the micro (biome) and macro (city, population, planet).


Target detection is an important problem in computer vision and has important research value in the fields of pedestrian tracking, license plate recognition, and unmanned vehicles [1].The Viola-Jones algorithm is used to detect frontal face images, which improves the speed of face detection by tens or hundreds of times while obtaining the same or even better accuracy, but for special and HOG captures local shape information better and has good invariance to both geometric and optical changes, SVM solves machine learning in small sample cases, but its feature descriptor acquisition process is complex and has high dimensionality, leading to poor real-time performance, and the support vector machine algorithm is difficult to implement for large-scale training samples, while the deep learning-based YOLOv5 target detection algorithm combines the advantages of Viola-Jones algorithm and HOG+SVM algorithm to make up for the shortcomings of the above two algorithms, which is not only very stable for occlusion and complex case processing, but also can be implemented for large regular training samples, but the accuracy of YOLOv5 for target detection is not ideal, and this paper adds SENet mechanism in YOLOv5, which can make the network better to learn the locations in the images that need attention. Therefore, this paper first introduces the traditional target detection algorithm, then introduces and analyzes the Yolov5 algorithm, and improves and optimizes it, and compares it with the traditional target detection algorithm, and the results show that the improved Yolov5 algorithm has better results for target detection.


Broadband Video Streaming (BVS) with selective retransmission trades a reduced but acceptable video quality during IEEE 802.16e hard handoff (HHO) for improved end-to-end latencies. Both forms of BVS promise better video quality with an HHO than UDP transport or traditional congestion-controlled streaming.


After in quiescence for 49 years, 4U~1730--22 became active and had two outbursts in 2021 \&2022, the onset and tail of the outbursts were observed by NICER, which give us a peerless opportunity to study the state transition and its underlying mechanism. In this work, we take both the NS surface and accretion disk emission as the seed photons of the Comptonization and derive their spectral evolution in a bolometric luminosity range of 1\%--15\%$L_{\rm Edd}$. In the high/soft state, the inferred inner disk radius and the NS radius are consistent well, which implies that the accretion disk is close to the NS surface. For the decay stage, we report a steep change of the accretion disk emission within one day, i.e., the soft-to-hard transition, which could be due to the propeller effect and the corresponding neutron star surface magnetic field is 1.8--2.2$\times10^{8}$ G. Moreover, the inner disk radius is truncated at the corotation radius, which is similar to the propeller effect detected from 4U~1608--52. The absence of the propeller effect in the hard-to-soft state transition implies that the transition between the magnetospheric accretion and the disk accretion is not the sole cause of the state transitions.


The construction of elite course of university physics in University of Electronic Science and Technology is mainly discussed.And the teaching mode of "digital,structural and exploratory" is also discussed,which can help students to improve their ability of resolving actual problem,researching and innovating.


An endless band (8) is supported between two rollers (7) situated at the extremities of the vehicle load cavity. The loading and unloading installation (12) consists of a bulkhead (11) fixed to the band (8) and a motor (13) driving a transverse shaft. Pinions (14) at each end engage racks (15) secured to the vehicle sides. Whilst loading the vehicle from the rear, the bulkhead (11) and band (8) are moved progressively forwards. The reverse occurs during unloading. Load can also be position opposite a side door. The position of the bulkhead (11) is determined by counting drive shaft revolutions.


One of the most challenging problems in atmospheric science is to develop an adequate understanding of the variability of the Indian monsoon on various timescales: subseasonal, interannual and decadal, that could be translated into a predictive capability. The monsoon is strongly coupled to the warm oceans surrounding the subcontinent. Most of the monsoon rainfall occurs in association with synoptic systems, such as lows and depressions, generated over the warm oceans and their subsequent propagation over Indian landmass. The Bay of Bengal is exceptionally fertile generating these systems and plays an important role in monsoon variability.


The transition period and changes of wide scope in the 1990s, that began after the
collapse of the Soviet Union, gave rise to extensive social stratification and mobility in
the post-Soviet Estonian society – a part of the population could took advantage of the
state of obscurity, but some failed. That is why the terms winner and loser were
favourably taken into common use as indicators of welfare of individuals on the threshold of the subsequent millennium – the former one to refer to improvement (of moving
upward) or success and the second one in the meaning of downward mobility (moving to
a lower status). In common usage, the two terms refered to success or unsuccess in the
sense of incomes and indicators that can be written in figures. There and then has been
said that the rank position cannot raly only on material indicators, but also on subjective
complacency (quality of life in broader sense – for example, social relations, status, way
of life etc) has its important role at the state of welfare of individuals.
Mainstream newspapers (leadning national dailies) went by dominant ideology
(influenced by extreme liberalism in economy) in their representation of man and society
and the ideology made self-evident the point of view that an individual's rank position in
the society is determined by criteria of pecuniary achievements and competitive ability.
The aim of this research is to explore what is the conception of success and
representation of man and society in the local newspapers of Estonia during 1999-2002,
when the transformation period from centrally planned to market economy was about to
end and when the changes grew weaker.
The approach of the research is following the idea that media constructs meanings
and identities and has got the power to name and categorize objects. The theoretical basis
rely on researches carried out to analize social and media changes in the post-Soviet
Estonian society. The empirical basis are texts from the local dailies Sakala (county of
Viljandi) and Parnu Postimees (county of Parnu) and the research involved texts of all
jornalistic genres (news, features, interviews, reportages etc) where individuals were
represented. The texts in the sample were published in March 1999, September 2000,
March 2001 and September 2002 and the amount of them is 305. The method of the
research is content analysis plus qualitative analysis of more detailed features by profile
approach. The texts are grouped into three by the type of representation of man. The texts that does not allow of defining people to winners and losers are classified into the first
group – the group of positive, negative, controversial and neutral individuals and
subjects; the texts that represent winners and losers sligtly with no backround information
make up the second group; and the third group of texts consists of features by profile approach that could be studied by following the criteria of formal sceme of content
analysis. The results of the research are compeared with the gists of the similar study of
national daily Postimees, recorded by Mele Pesti and the author of the present study.
Generally, Sakala and Parnu Postimees during 1999-2002 can be caracterized as
positive, benevolent, rather optimistic and winner afectionate in subject matter and
representation of people. Almost half of the texts of the first and second group are
positive and less than third negative in subject. Thereby Sakala is more positive in its
content and Parnu Postimees more balanced. Even greater predominance of becomes
evident in representation of individuals in the texts of the first group. In the second group,
the relative importance of winners becomes evident in more than half of the texts and
losers around third, thereby the relative importance of winners is greater in Parnu
Postimees. The most widespread domains of activity in the positive texts of the first
group are releated to culture, environment, social sphere and pedagogy. Negative texts
are mostly connected to economy and enterpreneurship (malpractices, embezzlements
etc). Also the slightly represented winners (in the second group) are active mostly in the
sphere of culture, also in sports, less business and political affair. Losers represent poor
economic conditions, poverty, disability and disadvantages of rural life.
The texts of the third group (features by profile approach) can be considered as
representations of winners or carefully selected individuals – this becomses evident in the
small percentage of the texts (25 out of 305) as well as in the fact that none of them
represented losers or individuals failed in transformation of the society. Thereby 20 of
them are less than 30 or more than 60 years old. It is remarkable that being a winner
appears not in making use of the new prospects that opened in the transformation period,
but in capability, purposefulness, tenacity, prolific life, complacency and contentment to
social relations and environment, also in positive attitudes. Therefore, the social not
pecuniarial criteria of success and improvement predominate in the texts of features by
profile approach and on the basis of the criteria was the basis of posisioning the
represented individuals on the winner-loser scale. Contrarily to pecuniarial improvement
and success, the centre of the representation of man lies on everyday work and duties, thereupon reputation, fame, status, achievements and conception of the world. The other
indicator of complancency and welfare appears to be bound to family and home.
National daily Postimees pays remarkable attention to success and failures of
inhabitants during the transformation time, emphasizing the importance of tangible
suceess and comparing the achievements to the much sordid life of 10 years before.
Beside the stories of achievements and success, the other type of features represent losers
(old-age pensioners, unemployed).
Regardless of different criteria of success and welfare compared to Postimees
stereotypes play a great role in the writings of local newspapers. Those which issue from
their (social) criteria of success and the (traditional, conservative) values that
predominate in the regions (rural to a great extent).


The article studies the monuments of grave architecture of the Karakalpaks of the 18th – early 20th centuries: uishik, sagana, fence and gumbez. The most common form of such buildings is a fence of adobe walls, which does not have coatings. In fact, they were built around the burial place of the deceased, while the gumbez, or domed mausoleum, was often built next to the burial place. Sagana is a closed building, built over the burial. It essentially repeats the shape of an uishik – a tombstone made of different reeds. If the sagana and the fence have analogies among the neighboring peoples – Kazakhs and Uzbeks, then the Karakalpak gumbez is a unique monument of material culture. Fences in the region of the South Aral Sea, which includes Karakalpakstan, were formed in the Middle Ages. There is an opinion that the appearance of the Muslim mausoleum (gumbez, dome) is associated with the Arab tent "kubba" for praying over the grave of the deceased. The "mausoleum tradition" in the burial culture of Muslims spread far beyond the Aral Sea region. A special reverence for the cult of saints, strongly associated with Sufism, could be the culture of the previous period (for example, the Golden Horde), against which the construction of domed mausoleums was widely spread. The literature also mentions another type of buildings – zhai, which, from the author'a pointof view, is an intermediate type between a fence and a gumbez. Karakalpaks call the actual fences "zhai", as among the Kazakhs the word "tam" (house) is used. Kazakh fences are distinguished by the presence of corner tops – "tort qulaq" (four ears). In the 20th century in Karakalpakstan, the most common type of tomb structures became just this type – fences made of burnt bricks with four finials at the corners. Architectural monuments as objects of the material culture of the people require special attention from both the public and the state, they need measures to preserve and protect them.


Rice is the major food crop of this area, as the cultivation of rice requires huge volume of water and long term use of arsenic contaminated ground water for irrigation and arsenic contaminated soil may result into the bio-accumulation of arsenic in rice crop. Accumulation of arsenic was found in rice plant and results revealed that in rice straw arsenic content ranged from 0.006 to 0.082 mg kg with an average of 0.024±0.0198 mg kg and in rice grain, the content of arsenic ranged from 0.003 to 0.057 mg kg with an average of 0.011±0.0123 mg kg which is lower than the permissible limit of arsenic in rice plant that is 1 mg kg (WHO). It was observed that the accumulation of arsenic is high in straw as compared to grain of rice crop.


This paper proposes a reconfigurable frequency selective surface(RFSS) based on PIN diode, it has high cutoff outside the passband and certain angular stability for use in the X-band. Through the non-resonant structure cascade, a transmission zero is added to the left and right sides of the unit. After simulation, the on state can achieve 80% transmittance in the range of more than 2GHz, and the off state can achieve $\mathrm{S}_{21}< - 20\text{dB}$ in the frequency range of 1-18 GHz.


A consolidated composite sorbent made of barium chloride impregnated with expanded graphite powder was tested and the performance of a solar-powered sorption air-conditioning system using this kind of sorbent was analyzed.Experimental results showed that the heat and mass transfer were both improved by the consolidated composite sorbent.The consolidated composite sorbent could uptake 0.61 kg ammonia per kg reactive salt.Moreover,the sorption was influenced by the heating water temperature,cooling water temperature,evaporation temperature and constraint pressure.For a solar air-conditioning system using this kind of sorbent,coefficient of performance(COP)and specific cooling power(SCP)both increased with evaporation temperature raised from 5℃ to 15℃,at heating water temperature of 80℃ and cooling water temperature of 30℃.The values of COP and SCP reached 0.5 and 192 W·kg-1 respectively at evaporation temperature of 15℃.


Most state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) approaches for speaker recognition work on a short utterance level. Given the speech signal, these algorithms extract a sequence of speaker embeddings from short segments and those are averaged to obtain an utterance level speaker representation. In this work we propose the use of an attention mechanism to obtain a discriminative speaker embedding given non fixed length speech utterances. Our system is based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that encodes short-term speaker features from the spectrogram and a self multi-head attention model that maps these representations into a long-term speaker embedding. The attention model that we propose produces multiple alignments from different subsegments of the CNN encoded states over the sequence. Hence this mechanism works as a pooling layer which decides the most discriminative features over the sequence to obtain an utterance level representation. We have tested this approach for the verification task for the VoxCeleb1 dataset. The results show that self multi-head attention outperforms both temporal and statistical pooling methods with a 18\% of relative EER. Obtained results show a 58\% relative improvement in EER compared to i-vector+PLDA.


Anion exchange removed Zn(II) effectively from a spent hydrochloric acid with the practical exchange capacity of 0.62−0.76 mol/L Zn(II). The main species retained was monovalent ZnCl3- (80−90%) in ...


The need to protect and preserve the environment is no longer a debate. Governments around the world, including South Africa, have recognised that certain legislative measures should be in place to ensure that the environment is, to some extent, preserved at the expense of business.


E-books continue to thrive with e-book technology companies developing a variety of solutions for libraries, many of which offer excellent support for teaching and learning. The objective of this paper is to present the University of Auckland Library's experiences in integrating e-books into the learning environment. This is a complex issue and will be considered from different perspectives: selection, purchasing, providing access, cataloguing, and user support and satisfaction.


_ The Harrison Steel Castings Co. decided to convert its existing green sand molding line to nobake molding to produce a more consistent casting and eliminate the overhead costs of the green sand process. Detailed within is the Six Sigma program that Harrison used to complete the conversion of tooling from green sand to nobake in 18 months and increase total line savings by 14%.


Geologic materials exhibit a wide range of behavioral responses following excavation and replacement in a new environment. This is a result of various mechanisms induced by variations in moisture and stress regimes or other environmental aspects of the materials. The physical disintegration of such geologic materials caused by fundamental changes in stress conditions or strength characteristics is referred to as slaking. The most distinctive aspect of the slaking process is a relatively rapid decrease in fragment size of the material. To develop an understanding of the slaking process, a comprehensive evaluation of existing data was undertaken that included a detailed literature review of geotechnical, agronomical, and geochemical test procedures used to identify potentially problematic slakable materials. The findings from this review are incorporated into a comprehensive laboratory testing program that forms the basis for a proposed classification system and spoil management program. It is concluded that a relatively simple series of tests can be used to assess the probable impact of slaking of fine-grained materials on stability, settlement, and erosion potential. Comparisons are made between laboratory and field observations to support this conclusion. (Author)


Selected meeting notes.
[The year of the Society session is identified as 1853–4 in the printed text – likely a misprint.]


Abstract We investigate the possibility of approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating the integrand rather than using numerical methods to approximate the value of the definite integral. Particular cases considered include examples where the integral is improper, such as an elliptic integral.


Abstract The use and management of rangelands involves both ecological and social processes, and it is in the interaction of these that conservation is or is not achieved. Overall, the ecological dimensions of rangelands and rangeland management have been studied in greater detail and are better understood than the social dimensions. This paper argues that qualitative methods are necessary to understand the management of rangelands by ranchers. Existing studies using quantitative methods have found little correlation between ranchers' management practices and a variety of social factors. One consistent finding of these studies, however, is that profit is a secondary or insignificant motivation among ranchers, casting doubt on the premise that economic self-interest motivates ranchers to embrace improved management practices. The theoretical and methodological implications of this finding have not been adequately recognized in rangeland science. With its greater flexibility and attention to context, qualitative research can reveal social, historical, political, and economic factors that affect ranch management but have eluded quantitative studies. In addition, qualitative methods are better suited to capturing both the processes that generate ranchers' "mental models" and the historical information needed in light of recent theoretical advances in rangeland ecology. Suggestions for future research on ranch management include conducting case studies of smaller areas over longer temporal periods, focusing on interactions among ranchers, giving ranchers a greater role in identifying research needs, studying urbanization and other "new" rangeland issues, and drawing on research about pastoralist societies elsewhere.


A cavity-backed antenna based on substrate-integrated suspended line technology is proposed for 77 GHz applications. The antenna is designed to be self-packaged using six substrate layers with embedded air cavities. Two rows of metal holes surround the core circuit to form the cavity and reduce the leaked field loss. Patches are printed in G5 layer and G6 layer and connected by metalized holes to form the double-side substrate-integrated suspended line with part of the substrate excavation to reduce the substrate loss. Thus, the simulation efficiency of better than 93% is achieved. Because of the cavity structure, the standing wave resonant mode can be obtained and achieve broadside radiation. A predominantly TE710 aperture field is obtained by adjusting the sizes of the backing cavity. The measured result shows that the proposed antenna has a -10 dB bandwidth from 75.6-81 GHz, covering 77 GHz automotive radar band and the max gain is 14.4 dBi. Based on this antenna, we design a differential-fed antenna array with a max gain of 17.5 dBi at 79 GHz.


3901 AGING The main goal of research on aging is to understand the mechanisms responsible for the deterioration of organs and tissues with age, in order to counteract them and extend the health-span of human beings. In recent decades, the use of invertebrate model organisms has proven to be very useful in identifying genes whose mutations affect lifespan, thus helping to delineate molecular and cellular processes with a potential role in aging. Further studies in mammals have confirmed the involvement of the same mechanisms in aging and age-related diseases, leading to the identification of "universal hallmarks of aging" such as genomic instability, telomere attrition, epigenetic alterations, loss of proteostasis, deregulated nutrient sensing, mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, stem cell exhaustion, and altered intercellular communication. An important challenge is to understand how these hallmarks are coordinated between different tissues and with age. To address this question, we have recently developed a powerful tool in Caenorhabditis elegans to study the tissueand agedependent role of the DAF-2/insulin-IGF-1 receptor (IIRc) in aging [1]. The DAF-2/IIRc pathway is a paradigmatic example of a conserved pathway involved in aging from C. elegans to mammals [2]. Inactivating DAF-2/IIRc increases worm lifespan by 100% and also prevents a plethora of age-related changes, including loss of mobility and resistance to stress. Previous results have indicated that the DAF-2/ IIRc pathway functions in neurons and in the intestine to regulate lifespan [3–6]. However, whether ageassociated daf-2 mutant phenotypes rely on wholebody homeostasis and/or tissuespecific regulation had not been further investigated.


A water driven down-the-hole drilling equipment (Wassara) was developed some years ago at the Kiruna mine, Sweden, which is the largest underground mine in the world. This new drilling technology h ...


Migration patterns from Yugoslavia to France are examined from a historical perspective. The impact of France's migration policy and of social, economic, and political factors on Yugoslavian migration is discussed. The authors also consider aspects of return migration. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SCR)


Exploring the various information and communication technology measures adopted by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to ensure 'good and effective governance' of the province, this paper aims to understand how far such e-governance initiatives endorse citizen's participation in governance and what limitations are problematizing the quest for citizen engagement through such measures. The paper primarily explores and examines the service provider's perspective through in-depth interviews with officials from KP Government's IT focused departments. Applying the theoretical framework developed by Chadwick and May (2003), the paper argues that the KP government's more than 140 plus IT based applications are mostly electronic versions of paper-based information posted on the websites, which makes it an information dissemination system rather than a fully interactive technology. There is little comprehension about 'citizen engagement' through e-government initiatives among bureaucrats and e-governance is largely seen as a one-sided provision of official information; citizen access to government services; or their access to the online complaint mechanisms. Officials also recognize that shortfall of essential infrastructure; public awareness deficits; accessibility issues; a lack of public trust in online service delivery mechanisms, and doubts over timely official response; all confound meaningful citizen participation in governance through the ICTs.


A small island in the Mediterranean, Malta is rich in culture and heritage architecture spanning several thousand years – from prehistory to Roman, Arab, Norman, Medieval, Knights of St John, French, British and modern Malta. Heritage Malta is the national agency that manages several historical buildings and sites, including sites inscribed on the World Heritage List ranging from the underground Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum to the Megalithic Temples and the City of Valletta. The importance of preserving heritage buildings for all of humanity is widely accepted. Cultural heritage belongs to people from all walks of life, and each person has a right and responsibility to appreciate and conserve its universal values. Rendering sites accessible inherently implies a degree of impact; hence, this raises a number of questions: What is accessibility? What are the potential impacts and risks? Is physical accessibility a right in all cases? What solutions can be adopted to render cultural heritage accessible? This paper will focus on how Heritage Malta, through its various projects and interventions (past and future), is addressing its mission statement in rendering cultural heritage accessible to the wider public. Furthermore, the paper shall also highlight the benefits of having an agency setup managing multiple


Transverse electric-field type liquid crystal display device is the liquid crystal molecules to the electric field parallel to the substrate by application of a voltage of the common electrode and the data electrodes in a pixel region of the first substrate is formed occurs is oriented in a direction parallel to the substrate. A color filter substrate and a TFT array arrangement, each transparent conductive film is formed to prevent the liquid crystal molecules are polarized by an electric field from the external substrate. A transparent conductor film is formed on the first substrate inside the first substrate outside the second inner substrate and the second substrate outside the above light-shielding layer of the second substrate, the color filter layer of the second substrate.


Problems Hints Solutions Dictionary of the combinatorial phrases and concepts used Notation Index of the abbreviations of textbooks and monographs Subject index Author index Errata.


In this paper,the elastic plastic J.integral engineering estimation formulae in quasi 3D model segmentation in high strain zones of nozzles were derived,and the failure assessment curves in high strain zones were established.Meanwhile,it was compared with the results of 2 D and Option 1.It can provicle basis to formulate our counrtry's failure assesment curves in high strain zones of nozzles reasonably.


The polyvinyl butyral (PVB) encapsulant material is being evaluated as a candidate for use in photovoltaic solar cells encapsulation process due to high stability against UV radiation and the high adhesive force to glass. This material is used for a long time in automotive technology, building integrated vitrification and security glazing. The long experience in this sector can direct be carried over to the photovoltaic industry. The purpose of this experimental investigation is to better understand the electrical properties and thermal stability of PVB based encapsulant material and their dependence on temperature will be presented. An overview of some main electrical and thermal properties of PVB is compared to EVA.


We have investigated the influence of the ratio cement:fly-ash and the temperature of mixing water on the properties of aerated concrete mixes and aerated concrete. It was established that the rational cement-fly ash ratio is 1:1; the mixing water temperature is 40 °C. Experimental research confirmed that the introduction of waste from salt processing and metakaolin to the formulation of binding compositions leads to the formation, rather than the metastable hexagonal calcium hydro-aluminates, of the stable compounds in the structure of partitions between pores of the hydrocalumite and hydrocarboaluminate type. That allowed the targeted structure formation of partitions between pores of the non-autoclaved aerated concrete, which improves the density of partitions and the strength of aerated concrete. It is shown that the introduction of polypropylene fibers to composition of aerated concrete does not affect the kinetics of swelling of the aerated concrete array. However, the introduction of polypropylene fibers improves the strength of aerated concrete based on the modified binding composition containing metakaolin by 47 %, the modified binding composition containing carbonate-containing waste ‒ by 32 %. For the aerated concrete of the В1.5–В2 class of strength, at a density within 615‒625 kg/m 3 , the estimated coefficient of thermal conductivity is 0.16 W/(m∙K), which makes it possible to reduce heat losses through external enclosures. Thus, there is reason to assert the possibility of the targeted control over the processes of forming a strong structure of partitions between pores using the modified binding compositions containing supplementary cementitious materials. The application of polypropylene fibers enables the reinforcement of aerated -concrete array, forming a strong structural frame of partitions between pores, and ensuring greater strength of the non-autoclaved aerated concrete.


The status of contradictions between global trade and environment is firstly analyzed. The principles and strategy to coordinate global trade and environment are put forward.


In this paper, we present the results of EM field and scattering parameter spectra simulations and measurements for unit cells composed from two cylindrical resonators. The backward wave observations in such unit cells demonstrated a complicated character that has not been reported before.


Experimental studies are now underway to determine the preventive effects of IGF1 in a retroviral vector given regularly by intramuscular injection. 5


Since 2002, an extensive research of the variability of oak
forest vegetation has been conducted in four Central European
countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary). The aim
of the research is to evaluate the overall variability of
Central European oak forests, to determine the main gradients
of their species composition on different spatial scales, and
to draw syntaxonomic conclusions. The preliminary results, and
the general experience of the authors are, that the oak forests
are much similar all over Central Europe, thus the same syntaxa
could be used for the description of most vegetation types in
all four surveyed countries. The specificity of Hungarian oak
forests, traditionally assumed (BORHIDI 2003), was confirmed
only partially. On the other hand, the necessity to distinguish
between the results of the traditional local-scale
phytosociology and the numerical regional-scale phytosociology
must be emphasized.


Japan's conflict of laws or private international law rules are, generally speaking, codified in a single act: the Act on the General Rules of Application of Laws (Application of Laws Act).i This law, originally enacted in 1898, was comprehensively revised in 2006, effective as of 1 January 2007.ii This single act provides Japanese courts with the basic rules for identifying the applicable law in contract, property, tort,


To achieve security in wireless sensor networks, it is important tobe able to encrypt and authenticate messages sent among sensornodes. Keys for encryption and authentication purposes must beagreed upon by communicating nodes. Due to resource constraints, achieving such key agreement in wireless sensor networks is non-trivial. Many key agreement schemes used in general networks, such as Diffie-Hellman and public-key based schemes, are not suit-able for wireless sensor networks. Pre-distribution of secret keysfor all pairs of nodes is not viable due to the large amount of memory used when the network size is large. To solve the key pre-distribution problem, two elegant key pre-distribution approacheshave been proposed recently [11, 7].


Abbott Laboratories reports that it expects to put its Norvir (Ritonavir) capsules back on the market around July. Abbott reported a manufacturing problem with the capsule last year. The company cited the FDA requirements of 6-month stability data before re-introduction.


Objective:To investigate the appling effect of hemihepatic blood flow occlusion on hepatectomy with primary hepatic carcinoma(PHC) .Methods:67 cases of patients with PHC who would taken hepatectomy were selected and divided into reseach group and control group,total hepatic blood flow occlusion were taken in control group and hemihepatic blood flow occlusion were taken in reseach group,volume of hemorrhage in operation,time of blood flow occlusion and liver function were contrasted between the two groups.Results:Volume of hemorrhage in operation were lesser and time of blood flow occlusion was longer in reseach group than in control group,in preoperation,level of Aspartate aminotransferase(AST) ,alanine aminotransferase(ALT) ,cholinesterase(CHE) and prealbumin(PA) was identical between the two groups,in first day and seven day after operations,level of AST and ALT was lower and level of CHE and PA was higher in reseach group than in control group.Conclusion:Hemihepatic blood flow occlusion on hepatectomy can extend time of blood flow occlusion,decreasing injury of liver functions.


The reconstruction research on 3D micro-structure of the phase grating via Digital Micro-Holography(DMH) was presented.In order to improve the lateral resolution based on the Mach-Zender interference system,two modes,with Micro-Objective(MO) magnification mode and with lens-less one,were proposed for magnifying the specimen.In DMH experiment with MO magnification mode,the 3D micro-structure distribution was obtained by combining Fresnel approximation approach and dual-wavelength technique to suppress the main phase aberration.For lensless magnification mode,the subtraction method was presented to eliminate the system total aberration to get the 3D phase information of the phase gating by using Fresnel approximation approach and the convolution approach,respectively.The experimental results were compared with the measurement results provided by Veeco interferometer,the parameters,such as the period and the height structure,of the phase gating were same and then the experiment in this paper was verified.The experimental conclusions were given.


to accumulate in soil and have long persistence time through interaction with soil component and consequently enter food chain through plants or animals. Similarly, continuous disposal of these wastes and particularly in unlined surfaces can enhance their mobility at environmentally hazardous levels [6]. Soils that have proximity to dumpsites are likely to have high concentrations of heavy metals which can be easily introduced into the groundwater of that area through infiltration.


Stevens Johnson Syndrome is a rare but life-threatening skin disease and Carbamazepine is considered as one of the most common cause. The reported frequency of serious Carbamazepine hypersensitivity reaction is between 1/1000 and 1/10000 new exposures to the drug. Here, we report a case of a 40 year old female patient, who developed multiple ulcerative lesions all over the body three days after starting treatment with Carbamazepine for Trigeminal Neuralgia. (Worldwide Unique Number- 2017-58502 and AMC Report Number- BJGMC-Pune/Nov-2017/BBG-1860) Stevens Johnson Syndrome was diagnosed. Carbamazepine was withdrawn, and the patient was treated with topical and intravenous antibiotics. A biopsy was done which confirmed the diagnosis of Stevens Johnson Syndrome.


Skin is a representative model of the complex metabolism that lipids may trigger. It is known that the biosynthesis of these lipids in mammalian cells generally ensures the cell membranes stability and participates to the signaling function. In the inner layers of the skin, the "de-novo " synthesis is the driving force ensuring proliferation, development and intercellular signaling. To promote stratum corneum formation, lipid catabolism leads to the renewal of ceramides, fatty acids and cholesterol that are responsible for the cohesion of the stratum corneum, its permeability, hydration, moisturization and signalling with the outer skin layers, appendages and inner layers secretion (cytokines, neuropeptides). Some actives applied in local treatments (i.e. , peptides, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), ceramides, urea or an aqueous extract of Gromwell) and in oral treatment (i.e. , sphingomyelin, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)) promote sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) production by the sphingolipid rheostat via triggering the salvage process along with autophagy and detoxification in aged skin. This review gives some basis for using the concept of sphingolipid metabolism rheostat in skin as the driving force for the development of new cosmetic actives ingredients or for repositioning the benefits of other actives for the skin.


Organized under the auspices of the Language Learning Roundtable Conference Grant (2012), this seminar aimed to provide an interactive forum for a group of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers with particular interests in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics to discuss key theoretical and methodological issues in the roles of key human memory systems (in particular, working memory) in various aspects of SLA. The seminar consisted of a tutorial workshop (Michael Ullman), three keynotes (Michael Ullman, Peter Skehan, and Cem Alptekin), and other invited speeches addressing the more specific relationships between working memory (WM) and various aspects of SLA (e.g. vocabulary, grammar, reading, speaking, writing, and interpreting).


Image and video quality assessment (QA) is a critical issue in image and video processing applications. General full-reference (FR) QA criteria such as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and mean squared error (MSE) do not accord well with human subjective assessment. Some QA indices that consider human visual sensitivity, such as mean structural similarity (MSSIM) with structural sensitivity, visual information fidelity (VIF) with statistical sensitivity, etc., were proposed in view of the differences between reference and distortion frames on a pixel or local level. However, they ignore the role of human visual attention (HVA). Recently, some new strategies with HVA have been proposed, but the methods extracting the visual attention are too complex for real-time realization. We take advantage of the phase spectrum of quaternion Fourier transform (PQFT), a very fast algorithm we previously proposed, to extract saliency maps of color images or videos. Then we propose saliency-based methods for both image QA (IQA) and video QA (VQA) by adding weights related to saliency features to these original IQA or VQA criteria. Experimental results show that our saliency-based strategy can approach more closely to human subjective assessment compared with these original IQA or VQA methods and does not take more time because of the fast PQFT algorithm.


Based on H∞ control theory,this paper presents the results of the multimodal vibration suppression of a flexible cantilever beam with the noncollocated piezoelectric sensor/actuator.The nominal model is derived using the frequency domain identification method.Appropriate weighting functions for disturbance rejection and robust stability are selected and the robust H∞ control problem is reduced to the standard H∞ control problem.To prevent lightly damped pole zero cancellation,regional pole constraints are adopted.The control performance of the robust H∞ controller is compared with that of the non-robust H∞ controller which residual modes are not considered.The experimental results show that the robust H∞ controller can increase the damping of the first three modes of the flexible beam effectively and spillover instability doesn't happen.


MARTINS F. M., T. R. MENDONCA, A. M. P. LAVADINHO, M. M. VIEIRA. Entomofauna num pomar de limoeiros, no Escaroupim (Ribatejo), em Portugal. Bol. San. Veg. Plagas, 28: 435-443. The present paper gives an account of beneficiais, pests and other insects catched by a beating technique in a lemon tree ochard during 1996 and 1997 and of the periods of activity of the most important beneficiais. Insecta beneficiais belong to Coccinellidae, Anthocoridae, Miridae, Chrysopidae and Coniopterygidae families, Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea e Proctotrupoidea superfamilies and Dermaptera. The insect beneficiais with the highest numbers were those of Anthocoridae (Orius spp.), Coccinellidae (Sthetorus punctillum and Chilocorus bipustulatus) and Chalcidoidea. Aracnida (Aranea) was the group of beneficial arthropods with the highest numbers. Regarding pests, the most abundant species were Saissetia aleae and Aleurothrixus floccosus. Psocoptera was very important regarding other insects.


We present a new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) raw signal simulator, which is able to simultaneously generate the raw signals of the different polarimetric channels of a polarimetric SAR system in such a way that the correct covariance matrix is obtained for the final images. Extended natural scenes, dominated by surface scattering, are considered. A fast Fourier-domain approach is used for the generation of raw signals. Presentation of theory is supplemented by meaningful experimental results.


Wind power grid,due to the different power networks in different circumstances,leads to different network harmonic injection on the grid. The traditional filtering method takes a single network harmonic filter,which cannot delimit the effective filtration range for more harmonic characteristics,and cannot avoid the disturbance caused by the fan interconnection defects. This paper presents a wavelet transform filtering method for the range partition.Based on the hierarchical principle of the wavelet transform,it is applied to the wind power grid caused by harmonic suppression. Through the harmonic decomposition transformation of the interference,base wave shape can be obtained. The higher harmonic is further decomposed and filtered with wavelet packets. The layered harmonic interference filter is realized. Simulation experiments show that the proposed method can achieve the harmonic suppression fast and accurately,and has good anti- interference performance.


Abstract The efficacy of Thripinema nicklewoodi Siddiqi as a biological control agent of Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) was tested on caged impatiens bedding plants in a greenhouse. Inoculative releases of parasitized female thrips were made seven times into the caged impatiens preinfested with adult thrips. Two rates were used, one or two parasitized thrips per release date, and impacts on thrips population and flower production were compared with spinosad insecticide treatment and untreated control. Sampling began 9 January 2003 and repeated every 100 degree-days until 4 March 2003. The best thrips control was achieved in the spinosad treatment. None of the four thrips life stages was found at levels higher than 0.09 thrips per flower. Nematode release treatments also reduced thrips population up to 56% for second instars, 72% for adult females, and 62% for adult males, compared with thrips numbers in untreated control cages. However, no difference in reduction of thrips populations was found between the two nematode treatments with different release rates. Both spinosad and nematode treatment cages produced up to 3 and 1.4 times as many flowers compared with the control, respectively. A simpler rearing method for production of T. nicklewoodi also was presented. Using a "thrips-egg-embedded" rolled bean leaf as the transmission arena, 2.7 F1 parasitized female F. occidentalis were produced for each P1 parasitized thrips used for inoculum.


A new meta-homoisoflavane, 10,11-dihydroxydracaenone C (1), together with 7,4′-dihydroxyflavone (2), 7,4′-dihydroxyflavane (3), 4,4′-dihydroxy-2-methoxychalcone (4), 4,4′-dihydroxy-2-methoxydihydrochalcone (5), 7,4′-dihydrohomoisoflavanone (6), 7,4′-homoisoflavane (7), lophenol (8), β-sitosterol (9), stigma-5, 22-diene-3-ol (10), 1-(4′-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl)benzyl-ethan-2-ol (11), 3,4-dihydoxy-1-allylbenezene-4-O-α-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 6)-O-β-d-glucopyranoside (12), 1-hydroxy-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzene-1-O-α-l-apiopyranosyl-(1 → 6)-O-β-d-glucopyranoside (13), and tachioside (14) have been isolated from the fresh stems of Dracaena cochinchinensis. Their structures have been established by spectroscopic analysis, especially by 2D NMR. This is the first time compounds 11, 13, 14 have been isolated from Dracaena.