Using canonical (Schrodinger) quantization of spherically symetric gravitational dust systems, we find the quasi-classical (coherent) state, |\alpha^{(s)}>, that corresponds to the classical Schwarzschild solution. We calculate the ``quasi-classical Schwarzschild mertic", which is the expectation value of the quantized metric in thhis quasi-classical state. Depending on the quantization scheme that we use, we study three different quasi- classical geometries, all of which turn out to be singularity free. Their maximal extensions are complete manifolds with no singularities, describing a tower of asymptotically flat universes connected through Planck size wormholes.


Writing has long been related to communicating emotional experiences. One of these experiences is war, and the Vietnam War was a long brutal struggle divided into two periods. The first is called the good Vietnam War, covering the years from 1964 to 1968. The second spanned from 1968 to 1972, known as the bad Vietnam War, through which fighting turned into guerilla war. Battles of the second phase were characterized by savage killings of soldiers and mass murder of unarmed civilian Vietnamese. This bad war inspired many literary narratives in drama, fiction, and poetry. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is considered one of the most read and vivid works about this struggle. The text reflects combatants' engagements in foreign lands and their inability to adjust to the trauma after the war is over. The paper investigates the situations of various characters in the novel and how their experiences were influential in preventing them from normally continuing with their lives. Post-traumatic memories and permanent feelings of guilt and confusion are the main obstacles veterans face preempting them from indulging once again in society.


Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetic disorder caused by abnormal hemoglobin S production, leading to sickle-shaped red blood cells, anemia, and high morbidity and mortality rates. In Saudi Arabia, sickle-cell mutation affects 4.45% of the population, with a mortality rate of 0.73%. This case-controlled study aimed to identify mortality-associated factors among adults with Sickle Cell disease in Al-Ahsa from 2018 to 2022. Univariate analysis revealed several independent risk factors for mortality, such as gender, older age, chronic disease, SCD complications, previous surgery, CXR infiltration, and positive blood culture. Males exhibit a higher risk of non-survival compared to females, potentially due to more severe symptoms and complications. Older patients (>35 years) face an increased risk of non-survival due to age-related end-organ damage. Comorbidities, such as renal diseases and bronchial asthma, are prevalent in SCD patients and worsen with age. Lower hemoglobin levels, higher hospitalization frequency, and vaso-occlusive crises are associated with increased mortality rates. The study emphasizes the importance of comprehensive care, including specialist access, regular follow-up, and proper treatment, to improve survival outcomes. Early recognition and management of complications, such as renal failure and infection, along with interventions like vaccinations, prophylactic antibiotics, hydroxyurea, and splenectomy, can positively impact survival. Further research is needed to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms and develop more effective treatments for SCD.


The obsession Americans have with being il has led to an attitude of disdain toward all those who do not achieve the status of champion. We fail to realize that for every successful college athlete there are tens of thousands of college students. For every professional athlete there are hundreds of thousands of successful adults raising families and contributing to their communities and to society. If there is any meaning to active participation, doing one's best within acceptable criteria, it appears to have been lost since that infamous day Howard Cosell coined the word "Superstar." Parents expect. and demand success and perfection from their children. Program leaders/administrators provide the first resistance many parents face in this area. How we deal with those attitudes may make all the difference. YOUTH COMPETITION: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Competition, as we adults know it, is an acceptable form of rational, social, and athletic behavior. Adults have the experience, the knowledge, and the ability to deal with the results of competition-that is, winning and losing. Unfortunately, adults also expect young children to react in acceptable adult fashion to coaching, to competition, and to winning and losing. This expectation is too much. Very young children should not compete because they cannot compete. Children are unable to cope with these pressures and with the adult reaction to their mistakes, losses, and even to their victories. Adult expectations for young children are not their expectations or desires, nor are they within the child's scope of understanding. Remote goals and even the "carrot-held-in-front-of-the-rabbit immediate gratification objectives" can teach youngsters nothing. They are unable to understand these concepts. Adults control children; they regiment so many of their activities


This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of a fluid-structure interaction problem. The interaction of turbulent flow with flexibly supported airfoil with an aileron is considered, where the non-linearities due to the high deflection occuring for aeroelastic systems after the loss of their aeroelastic stability are involved. The motion of the airfoil is described with the aid of a system of ordinary differential equations for two or three degrees of freedom coupled with the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes system of equations completed by the k - ω turbulence model. Numerical results are shown.


The present invention discloses a mobile terminal in which a user does not need any key or pointing device can be easily operated pointer. When the input unit selection button is pressed, an accelerometer having a tilt sensor detects the tilt angle of the mobile terminal relative to the reference. Pointer calculation based on the tilt of the mobile terminal, the processor speed and moving direction to move the pointer on the display screen. If the degree of tilt increases, the pointer movement is accelerated. On the other hand, if the degree of inclination decreases, the pointer movement deceleration. When the pointer reaches the activation button to activate a desired application program, to return to the reference angle by the inclination of the mobile terminal, the pointer movement stops. Once release the button, the application is executed. That is, the pointer movement on the display screen can be controlled according to the pachinko by the inclination of the disc on the disc in a rolling manner.


The rule by law,right preservation,and equality form the mainsteam in the college enrollment.Resources are distributed in light of public power,social relations handled in accordance with law,and order and harmonious development enforced.Furthermore,the humane and legal measures combined together may provide with standardized system to protect the right of the students.


Many new apple varieties were introduced from Liaoning Institute of Fruit Tree.The performances of the growth,fruiting habits,and economic traits of fruits of 19 apple species in Linzhi of Tibet were observed and studied.Eight apple varieties with relatively good performance that were suitable for Linzhi area such as Jinaisheng were primarily selected,for future generalization of apple culture in Tibet.


In this paper ,we explored the new method of urban design modeling based on a new rule-based parametric modeling software: CityEngine. Through combining the technology of CityEngine and ArcGIS, we can solve the problems existing in traditional urban design: complex modeling process, poor 3D visualization, low efficiency of modification and poor public participation, and can expand the new technique applications in urban design.


[Objective]To observe the curative effect of acupuncture on apoplectic limb movement disorder.[Methods]using randomized controlled Methods,76 cases of outpatients and inpatients were randomly divided into two groups. 38 patients were treated with routine nursing care,including psychological,diet,body and language rehabilitation training. Acupuncture group of 38 cases of acupuncture and moxibustion,40mm needle,a depth of 0.8 to 1.2 inch. Acupuncture time 30min/ times,1 ~ 2 times /d. Acupoints:① stroke 0 ~ 2 weeks,Neiguanxue,Sanyinjiao and Renzhongxue. The upper limb Quchixue,Heguxue,Chi Zexue,Jianyuxue,Waiguanxue;lower limb Taichongxue,Taixixue,Huantiaoxue,Weizhongxue;②stroke3 ~ 12weeks,main points unchanged,upper limb acupoints with①,in addition to take,Tianfuxue,Jiquanxue,Shousanguan;lower limb,Xuehaixue,Zusanli,Taichongxue; ③ stroke 13 ~ 24 weeks,main points unchanged,upper extremity acupoints with①;lower limb acupoints with②. The two course of interval 3D. The routine nursing with the conventional group. Continuous treatment with 7d for 1 courses. Observation of clinical symptoms,life ability score,limb movement ability score,adverse reaction. Continuous 6 courses of treatment,the curative effect.[Results]The acupuncture group of 11 cases were cured,14 cases markedly effective,11 cases,2cases ineffective,the total efficiency of 94.74%. The conventional group 7 cases were cured,11 cases markedly effective,11 cases,9 cases ineffective,the total efficiency of 76.32%. The curative effect in the acupuncture group is better than the conventional group(P 0.05). Life ability score(P 0.05),limb movement ability score acupuncture group is better than the conventional group(P 0.01).[Conclusion]The effect of acupuncture treatment in patients with stroke limb movement disorder significantly,worthy of promotion.


This paper presents an effective approach to recover a high resolution image from a single low resolution input image. In this technique lifting wavelet transform and stationary wavelet transform is used to increase the spatial resolution .The wavelet domain filters support to model the regularity of natural images while the edge details of image get sharper while up sampling. An iterative back projection method is used to reconstruct the high resolution image in an efficient iterative manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is very effective in increasing resolution compared to state-of--art super-resolution algorithms. Keywords— S uperresolution; lifting wavelet transform; stationary wavelet transform; backprojection; reconstruction


Biomedical Waste (BMW) is any waste produced during the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human or animal research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biologics or health camps. Biomedical Waste Management (BMWM) is done in three stages – 1) Collection and separation, 2) Transportation to respective facilities 3) Proper treatment and disposal. Actually, BMWM has always been an issue in India. With the world in global crisis due to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic, it has put great pressure on the BMWM system in India and around the world. To control the spread of the COVID-19 virus proper disposal of the waste is also necessary as it is a contagious disease and the waste generated during the treatment and laboratory tests are highly contagious and hazardous. This article investigates the situation of BMWM in India and studies whether the Indian BMWM system will be able to handle this increased amount of generated waste. The Indian government has given various guidelines to manage this increased biomedical waste overload. Data was gathered from literature search engines such as PubMed and Google Scholar, from verified newspapers and online news articles as well as from verified government websites.


Summary A totalof32patients suffering from acutemyeloid leukaemia wereinitially treated withdaunorubicin and cytosine arabinoside, andeightwho achieved fullremissionwere givena briefcytoreduction courseof cyclophosphamide and thioguanine. Of theseeight patients sevenwerethenactively immunizedwith10' irradiated allogeneic acutemyeloidleukaemia cells and B.C.G.atweeklyintervals. Sixofthesepatients have survived inapparent goodhealth formorethanoneyear. Bonemarrowchanges suggestive ofrelapse wereusedas anindication forfurther shortcourses ofchemotherapy, andexceptonsingle occasions intwodifferent patients clinical relapse hasbeenprevented. Theaveragedurationoffirst (bonemarrow)remission appears tobecomparable withthebestachieved intrials usingregular chemotherapy formaintenance, thoughcriteria for determining relapse may bedifferent. The rateofreinduction ofremissions (bonemarrow)inthisseries was high, withasubsequent increase inoverall survival time. Possible explanations forthehighrateofreinduction include, firstly, theeffects ofactive immunization with specific leukaemia antigen; secondly, non-specific adjuvant effect; thirdly, avoidance ofdrugresistance; and, fourthly, earlydiagnosis ofrelapse byfrequent bone marrowexaminations.


The mix proportion of wet-mixed steel-fabric shotcrete is studied with test in laboratory and in-situ,the test result meets the requirement of design and construction of Laxiwa Underground Hydropower Station,a large hydroproject on the Yellow River,and is used in practice.


With a view to meeting the demand for professionals that have proficiency in handing cross-border legal affairs,the legal education of China should aim to cultivate a group of law professionals who have a good command of cross-cultural communication,law,law practice,broad vision and professional ethics.The actual demand of China and some other influencing factors determine that bilingual teaching of law is the main and feasible approach to cultivate the international law professionals.Bilingual teaching of law should be positioned as a teaching model of elite education and thus the curriculum should be designed in line with such positioning,which are justified by the aim of bilingual teaching of law and the diversified demand for law professionals in China.


In this study, the physical properties (size, mass, volume, density, geometric diameter, sphericity and friction coefficient on galvanized steel and wood surface) and some mechanical properties of flesh and skin tissue (modulus of elasticity, bioyield stress, yield strain and toughness) for small, medium and large melons of Ghasri variety were determined. Means comparison was done by Duncan's method. The results showed that the density, sphericity index and the mechanical properties of melon's flesh decreased with increasing the size of Ghasri melon, but the mechanical properties of skin increased. The highest values of modulus of elasticity, bioyield stress and toughness of melon skin were obtained for the large size of melon, these values were respectively: 22.4 MPa, 0.93 MPa and 62.18 N.mm. The highest values of density, sphericity, modulus of elasticity, bioyield stress and toughness of flesh were obtained for small size, these values were respectively: 1.11 gr/cm3, 0.624, 156.8KPa, 21.19 KPa, 31.82 N.mm


Objective: To differentiate the hysteria seizures from epileptic seizures in children. Methods: Video-EEG with suggestive provocative test was performed in 52 patients aged 7-14 with hysteria. They were divided into four groups: Group 1 (18 patients) who had a definite diagnosis of hysteria; Group 2 (14 patients) who had seizures with unknown causes; Group 3 (8 patients) who had a definite diagnosis of hysteria combined with epilepsy; Group 4(12 patients) who had a definite diagnosis of epilepsy. Result: The positiveness rate of suggestive provocative test was 94% , 62% , 38% , 0 in Groupl -4 respectively. The positiveness rate in the hysteria group was obviously higher than in the hysteria-epilepsy group(X2=9.49,P0.01) . 1、6、7、11 cases were captured the patients with interictal epileptiform discharge in Group 1-4 respectively. Conclusion: The suggestive provocative test combined with Video-EEG would be an effective means to distinguish hysteria from epilepsy in children.


This study was designed to examine whether hyaluronic acid improved development of the electro-activated porcine diploid eggs. In-vitro matured oocytes were subjected to a single square pulse of direct current for 100 μsec at 1,500 V/cm for activation. The activated eggs were treated with 5 μg/ml cytochalasin B for 4 h. Eggs with only the first polar body that were judged as diploids were further cultured either in the modified KRB solution (mKRB) or Whitten's medium, each with or without addition of 0.5 mg/ml hyaluronic acid. The frequency of eggs developed to blastocysts was significantly higher in Whitten's medium (12% at 144 h and 14% at 168 h after electro-activation) than in mKRB (6% both at 144 h and 168 h) (P<0.05). The frequency of development to blastocysts increased to 13% in mKRB and to 28% in Whitten's medium by addition of hyaluronic acid when measured at 168 h. At this time, frequencies of abnormal eggs were lower in both media in the presence of hyaluronic acid. Expanded blastocysts were observed at 168 h but only when the medium included hyaluronic acid. There were no significant differences in the mean number of cells per blastocyst among the four media, and the number of cells per blastocyst ranged from 21 to 61 at 168 h.


Educational philosophies guide decisions on curriculum, teaching and learning pedagogies and assessment. In other words, students' learning experience in a higher education institution (HEI) is deeply influenced by the underlying educational philosophy of the HEI and the academic staff. This research examines the dominant educational philosophies of academic staff in the Colleges of Technology (CoT) in the Sultanate of Oman. A questionnaire that focuses on essential features of various student-centered and teacher-centered educational philosophies is distributed online. The statements used in the questionnaire start with, "I allow my students" or "I focus on" to reflect the current teaching practices. Two hundred academic staff from the department of business studies of seven CoTs participated in the study. Two significant inferences were drawn based on the analysis. Firstly, the educational philosophy of staff is influenced by the HEI's preferred educational philosophy articulated in their vision and mission statements and not by their gender, nationality and years of experience. The second and foremost inference is the staff's preference to use the positive sides of both student-centered and teacher-centered educational philosophies in classrooms. This refutes the observation of superiority or usefulness of a single educational philosophy in enhancing student learning experience and attainment of graduate attributes


The backgrounds of individuals who had used heroin fewer than five times and those who had used it six or more times were studied to determine if there were any significant differences. The subjects were Navy enlisted men who were given an anonymous questionnaire. Significant differences were found: in general, more extensive heroin use was related to poorer relationships with family as well as more difficulties in school and in the Navy.


Organizations develop and implement Electronic Knowledge Repositories (EKRs) to support the codification, storage and reuse of knowledge. EKRs are seeing increased use in expert technical professions, such as system administration. Sysadmin.nasa.gov is such an EKR, initiated and supported by a grass-roots group of security and system administrator (sysadmin) professionals. The site supports several tools including a wiki, code repository, ticketing system, mailing lists and chat server to allow sysadmins to collaborate effectively across geographically distributed NASA centers.


On the basic of clearing foundation concepts in intellectual property rights, the paper defines the connotation of intellectual property rights of science and technology for national defense. From three angles which includes innovation ahead expense, intellectual product diffusion, outcomes application, the paper analyses the relationship between intellectual property rights of science and technology for national defense and independent innovation. According to the relationship, from macroscopic strategy, medium industry and micro-management three measures, the paper preliminary analyses the influence which intellectual property rights of science and technology for national defense acts on independent innovation.


Gear wear is a common failure mode of gears transmission. Their usual monitoring methods are influenced by the machine suffered the load, lubrication conditions and other factors. These factors affect the accuracy of monitoring. Therefore, use image recognition technology to overcome these deficiencies, research on diagnosis of gear wear. Studies obtained a better method of gray cutting which can enhance the gear profile, the tooth profile curve of geometric correction methods and formulas, tooth profile curve extraction of the optimal algorithm, and carried out the discrete studies of that extracted tooth profile curve, and made the research of extraction tooth profile curve discretization, as well as a comparative study with the curve which obtained in the analysis method. The results show that the method can obtain the satisfactory actual gear profile curve, obtained the comparison curve is more accurate, intuitive, easy to carry out comparative research, further through the image recognition to determine the degree of gear wear failure to provide possible.


In this study we have collected a corpus for training model for emotion detection in the context of monitoring artificial agent's by voice. In order to control occurrences of various range of affective state in a modeling purpose, we used acted emotional expression through dubbing play exercises. We observed that some natural affective states occurred during those exercises. We ran a perceptive test in order to validate our annotations: anger and sadness were the more consensual annotations.


Zobrazovanie struktur a meranie sil na nanometrickej urovni atomovo silovou mikroskopiou Interaction between interfaces in solution of chemical reagents is scientifically and technologically significant. Atomic force microscopy has been used to visualise structures of adsorbed surfactant molecules and measure interaction forces between surfaces with adsorbed molecules. This paper presents the results obtained by the author and associates in three major research strands, including imaging structures of surfactants adsorbed at solid-liquid interfaces, measuring interfacial forces between water-repellent (hydrophobic) surfaces and microhydrodynamic forces between an AFM colloid probe and a soft interface. The research increases our understanding of the role of surfactants and interaction forces in particle technology and interface science.


A simple and reproducible method has been developed for the classification of cigarette versus cigar tobacco. Although the tobacco used for both cigars and cigarettes may be of the same natural origin, tobacco types and processing parameters alter the relative amounts of natural constituents (e.g., carbohydrates). In this method, carbohydrates are obtained by water extraction. The extracts are then analyzed using high-performance anion exchange chromatography followed by pulsed amperometric detection. The relative amounts of glucose, fructose, and sucrose between cigarette and cigar tobaccos are used for their characterization. Complete analysis of a tobacco product is achieved in less than 60 min. Keywords: Pulsed amperometric detection; tobacco; chromatography; carbohydrates


Power spectra of spike trains reveal important properties of neuronal behavior. They exhibit several peaks, whose shape and position depend on applied stimuli and intrinsic biophysical properties, such as input current density and channel noise. The position of the spectral peaks in the frequency domain is not straightforwardly predictable from statistical averages of the interspike intervals, especially when stochastic behavior prevails. In this work, we provide a model for the neuronal power spectrum, obtained from Discrete Fourier Transform and expressed as a series of expected value of sinusoidal terms. The first term of the series allows us to estimate the frequencies of the spectral peaks to a maximum error of a few Hz, and to interpret why they are not harmonics of the first peak frequency. Thus, the simple expression of the proposed power spectral density (PSD) model makes it a powerful interpretative tool of PSD shape, and also useful for neurophysiological studies aimed at extracting information on neuronal behavior from spike train spectra.


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This study aims to determine the effect of the socio-scientific issue approach with the investigative group learning model on the critical thinking skills on environmental change. This study uses a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest control group design. The research population is the students of class X IPA SMAN 1 Batu Sopang, Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, in the academic year 2020/2021. The samples were class X IPA 1 (experimental group) and X IPA 2 (control group)
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 The test instrument used is a written test. The average pre-test and post-test of the experimental class increased by 15.86, while the average value of the pre-test and post-test of the control class increased by 8.62. the two classes have a difference of 7.24. The N-Gain test result for the experimental class is 0.33, including the medium category and the control class is 0.20, including the low category. The results of the independent samples t-test are sig. 0.08 < 0.05 and t count 2.740 > 1.99, meaning that H0 is rejected. Based on the study results, the socio-scientific approach to issues with the investigative group learning model proved to be more effective in improving students' critical thinking skills than conventional learning models


If we analyzed the trajectory of these two great personalities we can appreciate common interests. Both study medicine and they are interested in the physiology of the nervous system. Both, hypnotism and its suggestion cause a great impression in these two scientists. Freud practiced hypnotism during its return to Vienna and Cajal used it with his patients in Valencia. Cajal does not accept the Freudians interpretations of the dreams. Besides the differences in the analysis of the dreams, the psychology of Freud and Cajal explain mental life in a very different ways.


As this special issue of Russian Politics and Law makes clear, Russian views of globalization are considerably more skeptical—indeed, suspicious and deeply negative at times—than are American or European evaluations. Of course, not everyone's definition of globalization is the same. For some, it is the technologically inevitable compression of geography. Others see it as the strictly subjective phenomenon of the Americanization of world culture under the logos of Mickey D's and Disney.


The method of hydride generation for the speciation of antimony compounds was examined with respect to the problem of molecular "rearrangement'. Specifically, demethylation of trimethylstilbine during the analysis of trimethylantimony dichloride (Me3SbCl2) was studied. Previously published observations that enhanced demethylation takes place as a result of inadequate preconditioning of the analytical apparatus were found to be not reproducible. However, demethylation was enhanced as the pH decreased when using two different analytical methods: semi-continuous flow hydride generation–gas chromatography–atomic absorption spectrometry (HG– GC–AAS), and batch-type hydride generation– gas chromatography–inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HG–GC–ICP MS). Applications of the hydride generation method to environmental samples revealed differences in analytical results at high and low pH, and enhanced demethylation taking place because of the matrix in a fungal extract sample. The authors recommend that researchers using the method of hydride generation for antimony compounds carefully test the reaction conditions with standard compounds and use the method of standard addition only. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This paper introduces the removal situation for offshore jacket platforms decommissioning in China and in the world,and compares the typical foreign engineering programs.Based on the current domestic offshore conditions,the technical capability and equipments,as well as the environment conditions of the offshore area,the engineering program and solution selection were proposed for the removal of jacket platforms decommissioning in China in the near future.


In this paper, alternative adaptive observers are developed for nonlinear systems to achieve state observation and parameter estimation of nonlinear systems simultaneously. The proposed observers are derived from the perspective of adaptive parameter estimation method, which leads to the reduced-order observers to deal with partially unknown system states and unknown parameters. To be specific, the nonlinear parametric function of unknown states to be identified is first transformed into a cascade form, which is linearly independent of unknown constant parameters. This transformation is achieved by finding an unmeasurable injective mapping function. Then, the functions related to measurable states are injected into a set of low- pass filters to derive the relationship between the mapping function and unknown parameters. In this line, the observer design problem is transformed into an equivalent parameter estimation problem. Consequently, we further exploit a recently proposed parameter estimation method that differs from the classical gradient descent algorithm to estimate the mapping function and unknown constant parameters. Finally, the unknown system states can be reconstructed by inverting this mapping function. A simulation example of DC-DC Cuk converter illustrates the effectiveness of proposed method.


Visions of the Virgin Mary stand at the origin of many cult sites. At times they have led to impressive pilgrimage centres such as Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal, or Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but elsewhere they were remembered only in local chapels or by small groups of devotees. This raises the question as to what conditions are necessary for a vision to lead to a sacralisation of space. Historians and social scientists have usually focussed on the famous cult sites when researching the various processes that influenced the physicalization and development of a sacred site, while neglecting to pay attention to lesser known visions and sites. In this article the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Sister Marie Alphonsine in 1874-1875 in Bethlehem and Jerusalem will be analysed. Its effects will be compared to those of the visions in Lourdes, Fatima or Medjugorje, in order to understand better the conditions under which cult sites might flourish.


In this paper, Power generation from the foot overbridge using piezoelectric tile, which is constructed with the piezoelectric transducer, is being discussed. Often more, it is seen, people walk on foot overbridge. Installing piezoelectric tile (Piezotile), we can achieve the huge amount of power, a single piezotile, which has the capability to produce up to 7-watt power, eventually installing numerous piezotile, will provide us with much power, and so power generation from this way is an easy way out. To analyze the mechanical system of the piezotile convert to the electrical circuit and PID controller is used to making the system more stable and increase the accuracy in the piezoelectric transducer. It has the possibility to generate a huge amount of power and this power source has various applications in the home, street lighting, buildings, store energy, emergency power grid and so on. Energy is inconstant and furthermost energy has vanished in nature, the thought of green-energy is to renovate numerous energy into electrical energy. Piezotile is one kind of piezoelectric transducer, which transform foot stress into electric energy.


We consider a non-standard nonlinear singularly perturbed 2D initial-boundary value problem with Venttsel type boundary conditions, arising in homogenization of radiative-conductive heat transfer problems. We establish existence, uniqueness and regularity of a weak solution v. We obtained estimates for the derivatives Dtv, D12v, D22v, D1D2v with a qualified order in the small parameter ε.


Planar metal‐oxide‐metal diodes having cross‐sectional areas as small as 10−8 cm2 have detected optical radiation. Several possible detection mechanisms, including optical rectification, are discussed.


The main purpose of this work was to analyse the transport of a solute dissolved in a flowing liquid in upward direction at low velocity along a vertical column, in the bottom of which slugs are injected. These experiments were carried out in a column with an internal diameter of 19 mm and height of 344.2 cm. Liquid flowrales of 1.0, 2.5 and 5.5 crri'/s were utilized, and an enlarged variety of gas Oowrales were injected; in these conditions the slugs were normally formed at a frequency between 0. 78 and 88.1 s'. The scientific technics used in this study based on the measurement, at the top of the column, of a tracer solution injected in its bottom. A simplified physical model was developed to explain the results obtained, which was based on two hypotheses: (i) the now of the liquid between two slugs is laminar, being the respective profile of velocity approximate to the Poiseuille law; (ii) the stirring action provoked by each slug in the liquid is limited to a small region, the wake of slug, which can be taken as a "perfectly mixed tank". One of the most relevant conclusions derived from this work and which at first analysis would appear paradoxical, Is that, it is possible to proceed in such a way that the bubbling of gas through a liquid will provoke less dispersion in the residence time of liquid than which would be obtained in the absence of the introduction of gas. INTRODUCTION The problem of solute dispersion in flowing liquids has interested scientists and engineers for many years. Dispersion may be important in determining product yield in chemical reactors and it is certainly very important in determining levels of pollution in natural streams, following the discharge of toxic wastes. Gas-liquid contacting under conditions of slug flow occurs in many pratical situations, e.g. in air-lift systems, and it Is likely to be more easily amenable to physical modelling. The present paper deals with the problem of axial dispersion of the liquid in eo-current gas-liquid slug flow, in vertical tubes. This problem has been given some attention by van Heuven and Beek' in their study of narrow gas lifts, although the treatment given by those authors was largely empirica l. \n the present paper new experimental data are reported and interpreted in terms of a detailed physical model. EXPERIMENTAL The diagram in Fig. 1 illustrates the main features of the experimental set up in this work. Liquid was supplied at a constant flowrate to the bottom of a vertical column (at A) and it was removed by overflow, through a side opening, near its lop (at C). Air could be supplied to the bottom of this column, at a constant measured flowrate, in such a way that gas slugs formed regularly. The test section of the column had an internal diameter of 19 mm and a height of 344.2 cm. Prior to each experimental run the column was washed and filled with clean water. Following this, air flow to the system was started and adjusted to the desired flowrate (measured by a calibrated flowmeter); the three way valve was then rotated to initiate the flow of tracer solution to the column, and this was maintained at a constant measured flowrate until the end of the experiment. A large number of small bottles (typically 5 cm') was used to collect samples of the liquid leaving the column, and the time of collection, I, relative to the beginning of tracer injection, was recorded for each sample. Tracer concentration in the samples was determined by spectrophotometry. For each experimental run, slug frequency and liquid holdup in the column were also measured. Timing the passage of a set number of slugs at two locations, one near the lop of the column and the other 0.5 m above its bottom, gave the corresponding frequencies. These measurements confirmed the impression given by visual inspection, that no coalescence look place in the main portion of the column, in nearly all the runs. At the end of each run, gas and liquid supply to the column were suddenly cut off and the hold up of liquid was measured after the eruption of the last slug at the free surface.


The spin dependent tunneling (SDT) effect has been observed in thin ferromagnetic multilayer structures. In general, two ferromagnetic layers are separated by a very thin non-conductive layer. In dependence on the angle between the magnetization of the upper and the lower ferromagnetic layer, electrons tunnel through the non-conductive barrier layer. We made experiments with an SDT sensor fabricated by NVE Corporation. Four elements in the bridge configuration are used in the sensor structure. One ferromagnetic layer of each element is pinned by an anti-ferromagnetic layer. The so-called orthogonal biasing can be applied in this sensor type. We also tried to study the possibilities of ac biasing techniques in the SDT sensors of this type. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Introduction 1. Early Historical Views On Children's Play 2. Play and Play Environments in Early America 3. The Early Child-Saving Movement: Shame of the Cities 4. The Evolution of the Play and Playground Movement 5. Play and the Child Study Movement: Nursery Schools, Kindergartens, and the Developmental Approach to Play 6. Play during Hard Times: The Great Depression 7. Natural, Built, and Adventure Play Environments: Back To Nature 8. The Value of Play and the Consequences of Play Deprivation 9. Toward a Contemporary Child Saving Movement


Abstract Background Developing countries bear the burden of childhood stunting but lack resources for cohort studies to develop preventive strategies. To enable future prospective studies, we designed and tested the Child Electronic Growth Monitoring System (CEGROMS) using a readily available electronic data capture platform, the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap). Objectives To demonstrate the feasibility of using CEGROMS for data collection for a pilot study for the Kaduna Infant Development (KID) Birth Cohort Study in Nigeria. Methods CEGROMS consists of the data capture form for growth monitoring, a central cloud server, electronic tablets, and desktop computer. We implemented the pilot study in 2017‐2019 at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for completeness of baseline data (relative to individuals with incomplete data) and completion of follow‐up at different time points (relative to individuals with no follow‐up visit) by the participant characteristics. Complete data were defined as date of birth, sex, and birthweight recorded at recruitment. Results Among 3152 infant records in CEGROMS, 2789 (88.5%) had complete data. Of these, 1905 (68.3%) had at least one follow‐up visit. The main determinants of data completeness were health facility delivery (OR 19.17, 95% CI 13.65, 26.92) and tertiary education (OR 3.54, 95% CI 2.69, 4.67). Follow‐up was greater for women with tertiary education (OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.06, 1.51 for at least one visit). Maternal education is associated with completeness and follow‐up (following adjustments for parity and employment). Conclusions The CEGROMS electronic data collection system enables complete and consistent data collection. The data will enable design of strategies to improve follow‐up in the future implementation of the birth cohort study.


A control unit for interfacing a single motor-driven air compressor with both an automatic vehicle leveling control system and a headlamp washer control system. The washer and leveling system commands are serviced according to a predetermined priority schedule so that interaction between the two systems is avoided.


Oil leakage once occurred in a chemical facility and then caused soil and groundwater pollution,with light non-aqueous phase liquid(LNAPL) formed on the top of the superficial underground water.Air lifting recovery process and in situ chemical oxidation(ISCO) process were applied for soil and groundwater remediation.The results showed that the air lifting system can effectively recover the light non-aqueous phase liquid(LNAPL) from the site.In addition,it is applicable to use in situ chemical oxidation(ISCO) to remove total petroleum hydrocarbon(TPH) from sites of low or medium permeability.


In the title compound, C16H17NO3S2, the dihedral angles between the O/C/C/S group and the 2H-chromene ring system and the thiocarbamate group are 14.46 (9) and 83.30 (9)°, respectively. The bond-angle sum at the N atom is 360.0°. One of the methyl C atoms lies above the thiocarbamate plane and one lies below it [deviations = 1.264 (3) and −1.147 (3) Å, respectively]. In the crystal, inversion dimers linked by pairs of C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds generate R 2 2(10) loops. Weak aromatic π–π stacking interactions [shortest centroid–centroid distance = 3.8138 (11) Å] are also observed.


BACKGROUND
 Acceptance of digital health technologies among primary care providers and staff for various clinical conditions has not been explored.

 OBJECTIVE
 The purpose of this nationwide study was to determine differences between behavioral health consultants (BHCs), primary care providers (PCPs), and nurses in acceptance of mobile apps, wearables, live video, phone, email, instant chats, text messages, social media, and patient portals to support patient care across clinical conditions.

 METHODS
 We surveyed 51 BHCs, 52 PCPs, and 48 nurses embedded in primary care clinics across the United States. We asked respondents to mark technologies they consider appropriate to support patients in: acute and chronic disease, medication management, health-promoting behaviors, sleep, substance use, and common and serious mental health conditions.

 RESULTS
 Respondents were geographically dispersed across the nation, although most (82.9%) practiced in urban and suburban settings. Compared to other personnel, a higher proportion of BHCs endorsed live video. Similarly, a higher proportion of nurses endorsed all other technologies. PCPs had the lowest rates of endorsement across technologies. Within clinical contexts, the highest acceptance rates were 81% and 70% for BHCs and PCPs respectively in live video for common mental health conditions, and 75% for nurses in mobile apps for health-promoting behaviors. The lowest (9%) endorsement rate across providers was in social media for medication management.

 CONCLUSIONS
 The survey suggests subtle differences in the way clinicians envision using technologies to support patient care. Future work must attend to provider perceptions to ensure the sustainment of services across conditions and patient populations.


The results of the full study, involving courts in California, Florida, and Minnesota, with support from the National Institute of Justice, are covered in a separate report entitled Understanding Court Culture and Improving Court Performance: New Ideas and New Tools (NIJ 2000-IJ-CX-0030). Court managers and judges have long recognized that culture plays an important role in how courts function. A line of research beginning in the 1970s established the importance of viewing courts from the practitioners' perspectives. The influence of variable judicial and attorney expectations on the time taken to resolve disputes, known as "local legal culture," was believed to be more determinative than differences in case characteristics, resources, or procedures as to why some courts operated more expeditiously than others. The idea of cultural differences has come to be one of the most commonly held notions among researchers and practitioners on what propels courts in particular directions. Simply stated, the norms and beliefs judges and attorneys have on how cases should be resolved shape the way work gets done, which in turn influences performance. However, when people think of court culture, the concept becomes fuzzy. And for good reason— culture is not something easy to define with precision. To be relevant for court management, we need to make firm what traditionally has been a loose construct. Once culture is defined and measured, a second goal is to see whether and how different court cultures are associated with performance. The objective of this Caseload Highlights is to demonstrate how the theory and measurement of court culture provides a coherent framework and a concrete basis to describe the ways courts conduct business and how their cultural work orientations are related to variation in performance. The basic idea of culture assessment is illustrated drawing on information from seven courts in Minnesota (Dakota, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, Olmsted, Ramsey, Duluth and Virginia) that agreed to participate in the investigation of court culture in criminal cases as part of a larger National Center for State Courts study. Business school scholars, studying private-sector organizational effectiveness, have developed tools and statistical techniques to measure organizational


Dural fistulas associated with dementia are rarely reported and, among these, intracranial dural fistulas constitute an infrequent etiology. Moreover, dementia associated with dural fistulas occurs due to venous hypertension leading to ischemic neuronal dysfunction. This case report describes a male patient exhibiting unusual features of dementia with a concomitant dural fistula compromising the superior sagittal sinus. The fistula was completely occluded via endovascular embolization. Two months after the interventional therapy, clinical assessment revealed complete improvement of executive functions. Afterward, the patient returned to his daily activities without impairment.


A method for the synthesis of new C-silyl-N,N-dialkyl-N′-arylformamidines was developed. These derivatives were formed by the deprotonation of N-(trimethylsilyl)formamidinium salts to give the corresponding N-trimethylsilyl carbenes followed by a 1,2-migration of the silyl group. The reactions of C-silylformamidines with phosphorus(III) chlorides were then studied. The reactions between chlorodiphenylphosphane and the C-silylformamidines readily afforded C-phosphanylformamidines in high yields. The reactions of dichlorophosphanes and C-silylformamidines yielded previously unknown phosphanes that feature two formamidine substituents. In the reaction with phosphorus trichloride, the sterically least encumbered formamidine gave a stable two-coordinate compound through the formation of an intermediate tris(phosphane). The reactions of the sterically more encumbered formamidines led to the substitution of only two chlorine atoms to give a chlorophosphane or benzazaphosphole. The structures of key compounds were proven by X-ray crystal structure analyses.


(54) FLEXIBLE, HIGH PURITY EXPANDED (56) References Cited GRAPHITE SHEET, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, AND CARBON U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS CRUCIBLE LINING USING SAD SHEET 3,655.354 A * 4, 1972 Quandt ............................. 65.24 4,190.257 A * 2/1980 Schnitzler ...... 277/539 -?hnii 4.294,438 A * 10/1981 Nystrom et al. .............. 266,280 (75) Inventors: has sts inji (JP); Hideki 4,888,242 A 12/1989 Matsuo et al. nomoto, Kan-onji (JP) 5,288,366 A * 2/1994 Holder ............................ 117/33 5,414,927 A * 5/1995 Fiel et al. ........................ 29,825 (73) Assignee: Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd, Osaka (JP) 6,027,809 A 2/2000 Ueda et al. 6,133,178 A * 10/2000 Yamada et al. ................. 501/54 2005, 0196613 A1 9, 2005 H tal. (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OS a patent is extended or adjusted under 35 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. JP 63-156091 6, 1988 JP 04-021509 1, 1992 JP 262O606 4f1997 (21) Appl. No.: 11/124,240 JP 10-025172 1, 1998


A review is given of the various approaches to and expressions for total energy–momentum and mass in the presence of a positive cosmological constant in Einstein's field equations, together with a discussion of the key conceptual questions, main ideas and techniques behind them.


It is shown that the calculation of Dirac operator for the spherical coordinate system with spherical Dirac matrices and using the spin connection formalism is in the contradiction with the definition of standard Dirac operator in the spherical Minkowski coordinate system. It is shown that such contradiction one can avoid by introducing a canonical conjugated covariant derivative for the spinor


This is a practical guide, with worked examples, showing how to build your own webserver and mailserver, at home, using Fedora 11 Covering such topics as . . . Setting up a Router; Configuring the apache webserver; Setting up a website; Setting up an email; Maintaining firewalls; Checking for spam and viruses; Security; Backup and restore


This study examined the logic of capital accumulation by the private enterprises in China. The development process of private enterprises is divided into the stages of 'subcontractor', 'wholesaler', and 'cottage workshop'. The relation of incentive and risk in different stages of enterprise development and the factors of firm's growth is discussed.The study revealed that the formation of managerial and organizational capabilities by the introduction of outside resources is an important factor for the development of private enterprises.


To demonstrate that the time delay between phase and frequency encoding and the presence of pulsatile blood flow in high‐resolution time‐of‐flight (TOF) imaging of the intracranial arteries (especially near the circle of Willis) can distort the appearance of blood vessels and result in a cross‐hatch—appearing artifact in surrounding tissue.


Abstract Consecutive SNAr-dealkylation reactions of chlorodiazines such as 2-chloropyrimidine and 3, 6-dichloropyridazine with tertiary amines took place in a highly selective fashion.


This study was carried out at 5 sites 11 times over two years to identify the variation of benthic environments and benthic polychaetous community and analyze the benthic healthiness in Dangdong Bay, a small semi-enclosed inner bay of Jinhae Bay. The temperature of bottom water showed the typical temporal fluctuation of a temperate zone and was in the range of 5.94 ~ 23.94°C. The salinity did not change significantly during the study period and was in the range of 32.93 ~ 35.72 psu. The concentration of dissolved oxygen of bottom water fluctuated a great deal and was in the range of 0.31 ~ 10.20 mg/L. The lowest DO value was recorded in July 2015, as 0.31±0.04 mg/L corresponding to the hypoxic water mass. The hypoxic water mass was formed continuously at some sites also in July and August 2016. The mean grain size was in the range of 7.57 ~ 9.81Ø and the average was 8.89±0.20Ø. The surface sediments were mainly composed of fine sediment (mud) above 85%. The mean of TOC was 3.09±0.22% and LOI was 13.30±0.47%, showing very high levels in Korean coastal waters. The concentration of AVS was in the range of 0.33 ~ 1.28 mgS/g-dry. The high values of organic contents and AVS indicated that there had been the serious organic enrichment in Dangdong Bay. The number of species and the density of the benthic polychaetous community in Dangdong Bay were in the range of 2 ~ 38 species and 2 ~ 2,185 ind./m2 during the study period. The number of species and density were highly sustained in winter and spring, and then decreased gradually with the formation of a hypoxic water mass in summer, and the lowest number of species and density were recorded in autumn. In September and November 2015, the dead zone expanded to almost the whole study area. Dominant polychaetous species were Capitella capitata, Lumbrineris longifolia, Paraprionospio patiens and Sigambra tentaculata, each known as opportunistic species and potential organic pollutant indicator species. In particular, Paraprionospio patiens showed a very high population density of 2,019 ind./m2 in December 2016. Polychaetous communities at each sampling time were classified into 4 temporal groups according to dominant species in each period by cluster analysis and nMDS. 'Period Group AI' was formed in winter and spring of 2015, dominated by Capitella capitata, 'Period AII'in summer dominated by Lumbrineris longifolia, 'Period B' in autumn with no fauna in the dead zone, and particularly'Period C' in winter of 2016 dominated by Paraprionospio patiens. As a result of analysis of benthic healthiness, the study area was estimated to be in a Fair~Very Poor condition by AMBI *Corresponding author. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com 234 Kim, S. H. et al.


The thermal design of a multiple fixed-point cell for use in a dry block calibrator was developed at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. The design was made using thermal Finite Element simulations with ANSYS Workbench and parametrical studies with optiSLang. The multiple fixed-point cell contains three pure materials, with melting and freezing temperatures within the block calibrator`s working range from room temperature to 600 °C. They enable an in-situ calibration of the block reference temperature sensor at the phase transition temperatures of the materials. This paper shows different geometries of the fixed-point cell, their optimization, melting curves and temperature field calculations for the estimation of the best design. Index Terms – dry block calibrator, in-situ calibration, multiple fixed-point cell, thermal finite element simulation, parametrical study


Targeted cancer therapy has opened new window to treat non-small cell lung cancer. This therapy significantly effective for the patient group who has determined to be mutated in response EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (LREA deletion in exon 19 or L858R in exon 21). However, acquired resistance of EGFR (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in non-small cell lung cancer patients prevails after 10-20 months of treatment, in relation to several genetic alterations of the tumors, in which the most frequent is the secondary mutation T790M in exon 20 of the EGFR gene. In this study, we investigated 11 EGFR-mutant patients who had poor response to target therapy and also reports a typical clinical case with TKI acquired resistance;using a standard sequencing based method followed by Scorpions ARMS (Scorpions-Amplification Refractory Mutation System) method with an analytical sensitivity. The results showed thai, T790M mutation analysis of the specimens from the 11 patients detected 5 mutants (45%), including 2 mutants can detect by both sequencing and Scorpions ARMS method and 3 mutants only can detect by Scorpions ARMS.


Just as we celebrate the 79 people per day on average who receive a solid organ transplant in the united States, we as physicians must be motivated to find new solutions for the 18 who die each day due to the shortage of donated organs.1 in 2012, more than 28,000 organ transplants were performed nationally, with 646 taking place in Wisconsin. this means more transplants per capita are performed in Wisconsin than the national per capita average. However, there are more than 2200 people in our state on the waiting list for an organ transplant,2 and the statistics tell us that not all will receive one. With the need for organs outpacing supply, it is incumbent upon us to be the best possible stewards for these precious resources. through innovation in surgical techniques, treatment protocols and research, the Medical college of Wisconsin (McW), with its clinical partners, is developing new means to optimize the use of donor organs. our efforts are built on a strong clinical platform comprising a solid organ transplantation joint program among McW, Froedtert Health, children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and bloodcenter of Wisconsin. led by Johnny c. Hong, MD, the program is skilled in every type of solid organ transplantation. to help meet the needs of those requiring solid organ transplantation in Wisconsin, the partner organizations have made recent investments in growth


The ultimate luminosity (2.3 x 1034 cm-2 s-1) in the LHC can only be reached or even exceeded if a major upgrade of the CERN proton injector complex takes place. The first identified bottleneck towards higher brightness beams is the 50 MeV proton injection of Linac2 into the PS booster (PSB). Doubling the intensity in the PSB can be achieved with a new linac (Linac4), which increases the injection energy to 160 MeV. Linac4 will provide H- ions and use charge-exchange injection into the PSB instead of the present multi-turn injection. We present the current status of simulations with ACCSIM, ORBIT, and ESME for all three planes. We use different initial distributions, compare the results of ACCSIM and ORBIT and highlight their differences.


With the broad and in depth application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS),the building of GIS multi scale databases is getting more and more siginficant.Map generalization is the main solution to this issue.The concept,basic theories,state of the art and the future orientation of map generalization are introduced in this paper.


A 49-year-old man had electrocardiographic evidence of a dual atrioventricular conduction system which occurred spontaneously during the course of an inferior myocardial infarction. Retrograde concealed conduction involving both conduction systems is proposed as the mechanism to explain the varying patterns of atrioventricular conduction seen.


Several uniqueness and non-existence results on complete constant mean curvature spacelike surfaces lying between two slices in certain three-dimensional generalized Robertson–Walker spacetimes are given. They are obtained from a local integral estimation of the squared length of the gradient of a distinguished smooth function on a constant mean curvature spacelike surface, under a suitable curvature condition on the ambient spacetime. As a consequence, all the entire bounded solutions to certain family of constant mean curvature spacelike surface differential equations are found. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 53C42, 53C50, 35J60.


The utility model relates to a pneumatic sluice valve, belonging to a fluid control element. The structural members of the sluice valve are provided with two valve plates 12 and 13 which are driven by an earring 11 and a casing body 2 of the valve; the earring is driven by a piston rod 15 which is connected to a piston 3; the piston 3 arranged in an outer barrel 17 is reset by the pressure of the compressed air which is compressed in from a compressed air entrance 8 or the elastic force of a spring 18 installed behind the piston 3. The outer barrel 17 is connected with the casing body 2 of the valve, by an end cover 14; sealing members 19, 10, 16, etc. Are used to prevent the fluid for the out leakage. The utility model has the advantage of simple processing and lower cost, and can be used for the control of various fluid mediums.


Reliability of electrical insulation systems (EIS) in power distribution network and conversion chains Michel DUNAND (1), Flavien KOLIATENE (2), Mounir ABDI (3) 1: LPS Safran group, EWIS Eurasia Division, firstname.lastname@example.com 2: LPS Safran group, EWIS Eurasia Division, email@example.com 3: LPS Safran group, Power Division, firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract: When the elevation of voltages levels (±270 VDC, 230VAC) was imposed in aeronautics for reducing the mass of electrical systems, Partial Discharges (PD) phenomena occurs. These PD can lead to the appearance of destructive arcs within the Electrical Insulation Systems (EIS). The generalization of the electrical power use for the supply of the aircraft consumers requires in parallel the deployment of static converters with high speed switches (dV/dt), required for the control of actuators placed in harsh environment (high temperature, low pressure) and connected through long power cables. All these topologies and parameters favor the emergence of PD. In order to develop reliable systems, LPS has to master the physics of PD and the mapping of electric fields and electrical potential diffe


The papers in this series are to be regarded as the preliminary results of research undertaken by members of the Division of Economics at Staffordshire University Business School. They are published in this form so as to stimulate discussion and comment on work that is generally still in progress. Consequently, all findings must be considered as tentative and should not be referred to in other publications without the prior permission of the authors.


CAD technique and its software products have been d ev eloped independently of CAPP, but the market's requirements on reducing lead-t ime of a new product and promoting automation of design and manufacture processe s need integration of CAPP with CAD. The base of CAXs' integration in product d esign and manufacture is information integration. There are several information integration approaches, for example, by data format transition through special d ata interface, or by standard format file for data exchange (e.g. based on S TEP),etc, but the integrating approach based on PDM is a more advanced and effic ient one. The approach is based on a common database. The feature model data of a product created by the CAD sub-system is stored in the common database, and the CAPP or CAM sub-system can get access to the data for its own work, by whic h repeated input of the data is avoided and data redundancy is eliminated. T he integration approach of CAPP with CAD discussed in this paper is based on the approach. Solid Edge, one of the CAD software products of UGS company is a 3-D modeling software based on parametric feature modeling technique, which is easy to learn and use, so suitable for small and medium manufacturers' application. The feature data of the part model created by Solid Edge Part includes geometri c and topologic information of the part which provides basic data needed by CAPP , but like other 3-D feature-based modeling software, no precision and materia l information which is also essential for CAPP. In this paper, an approach is pr esented by which the precision features and material features of the part are ad ded into the 3-D CAD part model of geometric feature. So-called precision features include dimension tolerance, shape tolerance and position tolerance and so-called material features include material type and hardness. All these data are expressed by a set of characters which, combined with the surface t ype name of the related geometric feature, is substituted for the original syste m name of the geometric feature by using the rename function of the feature tree in the EdgeBar of "Solid Edge Part" GUI. If a feature joint of the feature tree is pointed by the mouse cursor, the related profile of the model in the working area of Solid Edge Part GUI is highlighted. In this visual way, precision featu res and material features of the part are added into the part model and for each geometric feature of a part model, the surface type and dimensions created by t he 3-D feature-based modeling software are combined with the precision and mat erial properties added. Then by a VB program, all these feature data are extract ed from the model and stored in a feature table of the common database ready for CAPP visit. The database is built by using Microsoft Access. The precision feat ures and material features data are obtained by applying "split" function of VB to the character set extracted as the name property of each geometric feature ob ject of the part model. The VB program can be made a custom-defined menu comman d running in the GUI of Solid Edge Part. All of the other related key techniques are detailed in the paper and an example is given.


Learning idioms is an uphill battle for many language learners. Thus, this quantitative study aims to shed light on English as Foreign Language (EFL) college students' attitudes towards idiom learning. Specifically, the study is interested in revealing their attitudes towards (1) the importance of idiom learning, (2) the difficulties of idiom learning and (3) the learning strategies of idioms. Additionally, the study attempts to determine if there is an influence of age and/or year of study on the students' attitudes towards learning English idioms. Participants were 218 female EFL college students at the College of Basic Education (CBE) in Kuwait. A five-point Likert-scale questionnaire was employed to obtain data for the study. Data analysis of the questionnaire uncovered the learners' preferred strategies and sources of difficulties when learning idioms. Results showed that students had positive attitudes towards English idiom learning. Significant differences in the results were found when age was taken into account.


There can be no quarrel with Dr. E. D. Greenberger (Radiology in a Small Community, Radiology 62: 88–90, 1954) if he chooses "a statistical report" of the type and amount of work that has been available to him to show that "the practice of radiology in a small community is stimulating, satisfying, and profitable," and to encourage the young radiologist toward that type of practice. This is certainly one facet of the problem. One may, however, use a different primary approach to accomplish these ends, pointing out what, for want of a better word, we may call the charms of practicing in a small community. 1. Charms stemming from the radiologist's relationship with his patients: In a practice consisting of 20 patients a day, the radiologist can see practically everyone. The patient-doctor relationship, the loss of which is so commonly lamented by radiologists, is at once established. The patients are keen to sense one who is interested in their complaints, and they respond by making him "their doctor" in a s...


Impact of PARFOR on Public Elementary Schools. This study assesses the impact of the Plano Nacional de Formação de Professores da Educação Básica (PARFOR) in public schools. Operationally, the universe of PARFOR was reduced to Pedagogia courses and, its results, to the elementary school. The differences in differences (DD) method was used to assess whether there was an increase in the number of pedagogos, working in the benefited public schools, as well as an improvement in the Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB) of those same schools. The results showed that PARFOR promoted a small increase in the number of pedagogos in school units, but about IDEB, the results were not conclusive.


By the compressed independent variables theorem,this paper gives the proof of eight equations in [1] uniformly.And the strengthening of four inequalities have been given.


Present study attempts to provide a deep understanding about the soft infrastructure and how soft infrastracture play the vital role in the competative market. We also discuss about the types of Soft-Infrastructure and mainly focuss to the social infrastructure. An overview about derivative market are risky investments only for those young and new businesses which don't have a sufficient amount of knowledge in D-Markets scenerio in India. This paper emphasis how the investor not getting actual benifits out of the investment done in Derivative Market ; this may be due to improper knowledge of soft infrastructure.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test the effects of the Tai Chi exercise on metabolic syndrome and health-related quality of life in middle-aged women. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used. Subjects were sixty middle-aged women with metabolic syndrome. All of the subjects were met the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATP III). The subjects were divided into the experiment group (n


LUNATI c AsYI Ixi RFPORTS, I875. THE annual report of the Somerset County Asylum h-is been just issued. The chief point of interest in it is the experience of the Superintendent, Dr. Maldden-Medlicott, writlh regard to the influence on the admissions of the subsidy recenitly granted by the Exchequer of four shillings a week to the uInlioins for eaclh patiect. Thouglh not saying directly that the grant hias beeni taken adlvan-tagc of for the purpose of removing the imbeciles and the chroniic inisane to the asylum, inistead of keeping them in the workhouses, still sulch a conclusion is to be drawn from the hints thrown out. From Dr. Medlicott's remarks on this subject, w'e have no hesitation in dilferiig. Ile says that "the detenltion of this latter class (imbecile and(1 clhroniic inisanie) in orkhouses, as long as they remain cleanly, quiet, ani(d harmless, is pmoper enough ; and. their remosoval to the couLnlty asylum inflicts ani unijust tax oln the ratepayers". B3ut is not this rather begging the questioni in supposinig that wror-khouses do afford the sneans for the treatment of paticiits in such a way that they shall remaini clean anld hairmless? The Comswsittec of the Sosmerset Asylum, isllee( (1). i6), did imiake the attempt of utilising wvorkhouses as lunatic asylunms by tranisferring " forty-seven selected halanless cases"; but "of these nisseteenl were retUsrned, the majority greatly deteriorated in menital, anid particulairly so in bodily coniditioni." Even when more stringent regIlations wvere enforced on the workhouse autlhorities as to diet and exercise, it wvas found(I tlhat, after a period of only five months, one out of the patients h-sd to be retur-nedl. It must be allowed that preference should alw-ays he given to the acdmissionof acute cases, and that, fautte de mtiecux, the imbecile anid chronic inisanie hladl better be kept in the workhousses uider som--e sort of suiper-vision, than in their own homes undenone ; hbst the expei-ience of the new' metr-opolitan asylums, and in this w-e arc bornle oust by the Lunacy Commissioniers, is directly in favour of tlse immnens e benefits conferred on the chronic insane, regardisig alike their bodily cond(lition, mental quietude, and useful occupationi, by removal from the wvorkhouse to a thoroulghly carriedout system of asylthm ticatmeint. It seems haidly fair to cosiplain of want of room for these patients, sinice (thotulgh the report undler notice does not mention it) the asylusn contains private platients, paying sums varying from three to five shillings per head more than those fiom the couinty of Somerset itself. Some of these patients are chargeable (or were in October IS73) to Shore(litch, anid some to IBetlhnal Green. It would be initerestis)g to hase a returni siwa(le of the mental conditioni of these inmates, so tlhat, if suitable, they might be tranlsferredl to one of the metropolitan as)ylums, in hich vacancies exist, at a savillg to the ratepayers of sesven slillissgs per head per wveek. Relieved of these " boarded-ouLt" cases forsvlhich the metropolis is both aIsle anid wililling to provi(le, anlt of a ce-ltain nun-mber of " crsiminal lunatics'', Asvhich ousght to be miiainitaissed elsew-hele (lhe swronug to other insnates of keepinig "crimissal lusnatics" inI counoty asbluins we lhave often urged, and are constanitly hearing, complainits about), tlhere ssAill be roosm provided for the tr-eatsslesst of the chlonic is)sasie, fosihom ass asylumii is as much a "hospital for the insanie" as it is for actite cases. Beyond tlsis miatter-, thei-e is nothlinig in the R,eeport calling for notice excelpt the resliarks of the chaplaiin. 'Flis gentlemiani sakes a refined distissction etwccii ''miloral" and "'physical" melancholia, expecting to meet Nsith suiccess is) his ministrations to the forswer, but ihot to the latter. WN'haltever the cxcitisig catise may be, the l)roximate osse is alsways physical, atud the absurdity of relaxing our efforts because melancholia depends on such a catise as leswmorrhoids, anld redoublingT theiiw svhen it is supposed to depend uipon sucs. a traiiscenldental hypotlhesis as a de-


With the implementation of some large sky surveys such as LAMOST, We will collect massive spectra data. The automated spectral classification becomes more and more important. In this paper, a local mean based k-nearest neighbor (LMKNN) method is used for the automated classification of galaxies and QSOs (quasars). The main idea of LMKNN is that it selects k nearest neighbors from each class of training samples firstly, and then computes the mean vectors of the k nearest neighbors in each class. Finally, classifies a sample into the class with the distance of the mean vector to the sample. In the experiment, KNN, LMKNN and SVM were compared with the real galaxy and QSO spectra data from the LAMOST-DR1. The experimental results show that the method of LMKNN performs better and at least as well as than KNN, SVM in terms of the correct classification rates. It can achieve a better classification rate as high as 98.97%, 97.58% for galaxies and QSOs respectively. The average correct classification rate can also achieve 98.33%.


The variable sampling interval (VSI) exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart which varies the chart's sampling interval according to the value of the current plotting statistic increases the speed of the standard EWMA chart in detecting shifts. Joint monitoring schemes use a single combined statistic for the mean and variance in process monitoring. To simultaneously monitor the mean and variance of a process from the normal distribution, two VSI EWMA schemes with unknown process parameters, based on (i) Maximum (Max) and (ii) Distance (Dis) type combining functions, are proposed in this paper. Each of these schemes uses a single plotting statistic. The effects of parameter estimation on the performance of the proposed VSI Max EWMA and VSI Dis EWMA schemes, in terms of the average time to signal, standard deviation of the time to signal, expected average time to signal and median time to signal criteria, are studied using Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that the proposed schemes can identify process shifts quicker than the existing Max/Dis Shewhart (SH), Max/Dis cumulative sum (CUSUM) and Max/Dis EWMA schemes. The implementation of the proposed schemes is demonstrated using a commercial dataset.


This article summarized the establishment and practice of technique development fund on our university in 2003.We emphasized the Fund's necessary and suggested that we should make full use of personel and fee to com- plete the fund's project.


Monochloro substituted indole-3-acetic acids inhibited shoot induction in tobacco tissue cultures about as much as IAA. Dichloro substituted indole-3-acetic acids inhibited shoot formation less. Other substituted indoleacetic acids except 5-fluoro- and 5-bromoindole-3-acetic acid were less active than IAA. Callus growth was quite variable and not correlated with auxin strength measured in the Avena coleoptile test.


Present experiments of direct search for WIMPs probe regions of the super-symmetric parameter space that may entail relic neutralinos of cosmological interest. This result is obtained when the main astrophysical and particle physics uncertainties, relevant for a proper comparison between theory and experimental data, are taken into account.


Objectives

Androgen signaling via the androgen receptor (AR) is the major driver of metabolic pathways in prostate cancer (PCa) cells. Androgens induce de novo lipogenesis via the master transcriptional regulator, sterol response element binding protein (SREBP) and the downstream targets acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC) and fatty acid synthase (FASN).Overexpression of FASN underpins tumor cell survival, treatment resistance and progression to castrate-resistant PCa. Current treatment of advanced PCa is based on AR targeted therapies. Yet, adaptive changes to AR activity contribute to treatment resistance, highlighting the need for alternative approaches to target AR signaling. Here we describe the discovery that FASN inhibition antagonizes critical aspects of the androgen signaling cascade.

Methods

Cell growth, viability and metabolic activity were determined in real-time with IncuCyte technology and by MTS and Alamar Blue endpoint assay, respectively. Cell death and cell cycle progression were investigated by flow cytometry. Expression of key lipogenic genes was interrogated by qRT-PCR and validated by Western blotting. Changes to lipid homeostasis were determined by Nile Red staining and fluorescence microscopy. Transmembrane androgen transport was measured by DHT-uptake assay. Androgen receptor (AR) translocation was investigated by fluorescence microscopy with an INCell 2200 analyzer. AR transcription activity was assessed by luciferase reporter assay. Secreted PSA levels were quantified by ELISA.

Results

Small molecule inhibition of FASN or mRNA silencing of FASN caused a substantial reduction of AR protein in LNCaP cells, indicating a functional relationship between AR signaling and FASN activity. Furthermore, non-cytotoxic levels of inhibitors targeting fatty acid synthesis via ACC and FASN suppressed androgen-induced proliferation, G1-S phase cell cycle progression, and metabolic activity. In addition, the androgen-induced increase in cellular lipid content (phospholipids, neutral lipids and lipid droplets) and expression of key AR-regulated genes of lipid metabolism were efficiently blocked in LNCaP cells, suggesting a functional dependence of AR-mediated transcription on active fatty acid synthesis. Indeed, AR transactivation activity and KLK3/PSA mRNA and protein expression were strongly reduced by inhibitors of lipogenesis. Moreover, FASN inhibition blocked the androgen-induced translocation of AR into the nucleus, suggesting that AR activity was interrupted early in the signaling cascade. Consistent with this notion, we discovered that the cellular uptake of DHT was efficiently blocked in LNCaP cells by the FASN inhibitor triclosan.

Conclusions

Inhibitors of de novo fatty acid synthesis suppress AR signaling in LNCaP cells, thereby providing a rationale for co-targeting AR and FASN in advanced, treatment-resistant PCa.

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Fergusobia magna (Neotylenchidae: Fergusobiinae), collected from axial bud ('stem') galls on Corymbia tessellaris growing in coastal regions of Queensland, Australia, is re-described. It is characterised by having a combination of a relatively large, variably shaped parthenogenetic female with a slender conoid tail; a relatively large arcuate infective female with a long slender tail with a pointed tip and a relatively anterior vulva; and relatively large, arcuate, open C or Jshaped males with angular spicules having manubrium and shaft forming 66% of their length, slender tail and peloderan bursa arising at 30–50% body length. Other known forms of Fergusobia/Fergusonina galls from Corymbia are outlined, and the morphology of nematodes from them and the shield morphology of their associated mutualistic fly species from Corymbia spp. are described where known. The possible phylogenetic relationships of these associations from Corymbia are discussed.


Electronic structural features of the charge ordered (CO) state in Fe2OBO3 have been theoretically calculated by using the ab initio method and analyzed in comparison with the experimental results of electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). Structural relaxations using GGA + U reveal that the CO structure has a supercell of 2a x b x c with the CO modulation along the a-axis direction. The theoretical investigations suggest that both lattice distortions and electrostatic repulsion are essentially important for understanding the properties of the CO state in the present system. This conclusion is also supported by the agreement between experimental and theoretical data for the O-K and Fe-L-2,L-3 edges in the electron energy-loss spectra. Moreover, both bond-valencesum and spectral analysis demonstrate that the CO state adopts a quasi-ionic nature in Fe2OBO3.


It designs the LVDS testing system with standby redundancy based on control of FPGA.Through experiment,the stability of LVDS with standby redundancy in POLAR data-acquisition system at different data transmission rate was studied.The experiment result indicates that LVDS with standby redundancy is stable with data transmission rate under 100Mbps,and provides a kind of reliable scheme for design of LVDS with standby in POLAR data-acquisition system.


ABSTRACT THE principal of surface heating is to apply a blanket of warm water, such as that produced by electric power plants, over the outside surface of a greenhouse to reduce the heating energy costs of the greenhouse. A mathematical greenhouse heating model was used to predict the annual heating energy consumption of a 4000 m^ glass greenhouse with and without a surface-heating system for a range of water, air and greenhouse temperatures similar to conditions at the Baldwin Power Plant experimental greenhouse. A double-layer, poly-ethylene-covered greenhouse was also studied. The an-nual energy savings for surface-heating ranged from 22.5 percent for water 5 °C cooler than Baldwin water temperatures to 80.4 percent for water 5 °C warmer than Baldwin. The highest monthly savings were in November because of relatively high water temperatures and cool air temperatures. Using 1980-81 prices, annual monetary savings cor-responding to the energy savings cited above were 11.2 percent and 71.5 percent. A present-value analysis of savings and added costs over the 20-yr life of the system showed that the surface heating system more than paid for itself under all but one of the conditions studied. Net present values corresponding to the energy savings cited above were $ — 34,100 and $360,700 which are equivalent to net annual returns of $-4,600 and $48,300.


: This article analyzes the environmental aspects of insecticides used to protect plants from pests, the chemical composition of insecticides, including the main active ingredients and additives, their production as a commodity for world agricultural markets. The problems of classification of foreign economic activity according to the Commodity Nomenclature (I ААС N) and the issues of its improvement are investigated, and relatively safe for the environment natural preparations that can replace pesticides are proposed. циперметрин


ABSTRACT The new framework introduced by the European Space for Higher Education entails the reformulation of teaching strategies, which must not only be based on the teaching process, but also on the learning process. Given the importance of teamwork in nowadays' engineering labour market, we propose a teaching-learning strategy, which applies a competency-based education approach and aims to reinforce the generic teamwork competence. Its foundations are drawn from the research on agreement technologies and multi-agent systems, which are key research topics in the field of Artificial Intelligence. General Terms Agents, Internet and Distributed Computer Systems. Keywords Teaching-learning strategy, teamwork competence, multi-agent systems, cooperative learning, continuous assessment, learning management systems. 1. INTRODUCTION In the convergence process to the European Space for Higher Education, competency-based education has become particularly relevant [1,2]. This new approach allows the student to acquire specific competences related to a certain subject, and generic competences common to several subjects of the curriculum. From the latter group stands out the


I Logical Preliminaries. 2 Definitions of Sense and Intension for L. 3 Extensionality. 4 Anomalies in the Treatment of the Logical Theory. 5 Anomalies in the Treatment of Mathematical Theories. 6 An Anomaly in the Treatment of Empirical Theories. 7 Dependence on L. 8 Equality of Sense and Intensions. 9 Definitions of Reference and Extension for L. io Innovations in the Definitions of Reference and Extension. i i Relations between Intension (or Sense) and Extension (or Reference). Iz Definitions of Meaning for L. 13 A Proposed Explication of Intension for L.


In this paper, a newly developed gateable SEC tube is presented. Structure, operating principle, and performance of the tube are introduced in detail. Features and preparation of a new mesh-supported target are described. An experiment system, in which combination of selectable switching on and integrating capability of the new gateable SEC tube is used for fluorescence image detection, is given.


Claudius Claudianus –probably from Alexandria– settled in Milan towards theend of 395 AD at the imperial court of Honorius, seeking to develop his poetic skills. Among the authors of the Roman literary canon who enjoy linguistic biculturalism, Claudian is one of the few to have verses in both Latin and Greek. The Gigantomachia, written in both languages, exposes the contextual characteristics of production, since it exhibits rhetorical techniques typical of the Second Sophistic. During the expansion of this cultural phenomenon, the use of different stylistic devices such as ekphrasis, which can be seen in the panegyric epic of the Egyptian poet, intensified. In view of the above, this paper will focus on the analysis of ekphrasis in the Latin Gigantomachia, not as a mere ornament but as a rhetorical figure that structures all the story, contributing emotionally to the vivid representation of the images according to the principles of epideictic rhetoric.The importance of the ekphrasis in the evolution of the late epic allows us to conceive of it as a genre in which the poetic voice suspends the narrative in order to divert attention from the whole to the brilliance of its parts, interweaving the different scenes of war through a variety of ekphrasis.


It is shown that a module is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay if and only if the index of reducibility for distinguished parameter ideals are eventually constant with special value. As corollaries to the main theorem we given to characterize the Gorensteinness, Cohen-Macaulayness of local rings in term of eventually index of reducibility for distinguished parameter ideals.


AIDS and the dementia associated with it have created new challenges for social workers. The authors identify unique issues around the AIDS-dementia complex. Implications for social work practice are discussed, and recommendations for assisting the growing population with this complex are made.


Several possible approaches exist for analyzing the relationship between modernization and fertility. The various aspects of modernization tend to be closely related to each other making it difficult to assess the distinctive effects. Rather than organizing this discussion in terms of selected intervening variables which are reasonably independent of each other the intervening variables were selected on the basis of 2 criteria: each variable has been reported to have either a positive or negative impact on fertility directly or indirectly; and each variable has been reported to be affected by the process of modernization in either a positive or negative direction. The 8 intervening variables or sets of variables chosen for analysis can be grouped as follows: demand for children--labor value of children childrens value as old age support and risk insurance economic costs of children and infant and child mortality; supply of children--age at marriage and proportion never married postpartum sexual abstinence and widowhood/widowerhood and infecundity due to breastfeeding malnutrition and disease; and fertility regulation--physical psychic and monetary costs. Extensive research on the value and costs of children during the past 2 decades indicates that economic dimensions are more important than others in explaining the shift from a desire for a large number of children (e.g. 6-8) to a desire for a small family (2-3 children). Changes in the following 3 economic variables are found to be relevant to this shift: labor value of children to their parents childrens value as old age support and risk insurance to their parents and economic costs of children to their parents. The reduction of mortality particularly infant and child mortality is a social goal that is worthwhile for its own sake. It should also be considered as a means of reducing fertility and population growth rates in less developed countries. The findings suggest that if fertility decline is the issue a policy of mortality reduction is a promising approach. The impact of modernization on fertility through all demand variables in consistently negative. By contrast the impact of modernization on fertility through the selected supply variables with the exception of age at marriage and proportion never married is consistently positive. If the demand for children is less than the supply couples may want to regulate their fertility . Whether or not they actually will depends on actual and perceived costs of fertility regulation. Family planning programs have contributed substantially to the decline of fertility in many less developed countries by reducing the physical psychic and monetary costs of fertility regulation to individual couples.


The head office of west region of Seventh Day Adventist Indonesia in Indonesia is located in Jakarta. Every month employees must report every transaction they have made . The report can be in the form of proof of purchase, shopping receipt, notes and other proof of transactions. The reporting system of the office is done by submitting a hardcopy proof of the transaction to the finance department. The reporting process takes a long time and allows for inaccurate proof of transactions. Another problem that is often found is the unknown status of reports. Employees often do not know whether the reports that have been received by the financial department have been approved or not. The purpose of this study is to design an E-reporting system that will make it easier for employees to report to the financial department so that reporting can be done quickly and accurately. The system to be built uses ReactJS and Firebase using an Agile Software development method. The result of this research is the creation of an E-reporting application that can help to report on the financial department every month.


The utility model discloses a pair of hair thinning scissors capable of changeable and adjustable cut and having better practical efficacy. The hair thinning scissors are mainly characterized in that adjusting blocks are arranged in positions where a bolt and a screw nut are pivoted on the assembly of two scissor bodies; and shaft holes and eccentric shaft blocks are formed on the adjusting blocks. When the eccentric shaft blocks are adjusted to have different angles, the first scissor body has displacement, so as to form a tangent plane which enables the cutting edge of the first scissor body and the cutting edge of the second scissor body to have different widths; different cutting widths are changeably set; and different thinning degrees are achieved.


This article aims to present a development of reduced-delay finite impulse response digital filters with amplitude requirements using equiripple passband, peak constrained least squares stopbands, ...


Security is an important quality goal of software engineering. Incidents of data theft, data loss, and unavailability may lead to frustration of users, contravention of laws, or financial loss. Especially in critical domains like health care, every effort must be made to minimize security related problems. The optimum method for establishing software security is to consider it during all stages of the software process. For legacy systems, however, this is not possible. In order to provide a high level of confidence in the security of existing systems, a security analysis must be conducted. In this paper, we perform a security analysis of an existing clinical decision support system called EGADSS. The major motivation for conducting the security analysis is that the operational context of EGADSS is being changed from an intranet to the Internet. This means that in addition to general considerations associated with a security analysis, particular attention must be paid to the threats and risks introduced by the new environment of EGADSS. In order to conduct the analysis, we perform a process developed and published within the open content community, called CLASP (Comprehensive Lightweight Application Security Process). We report on our experiences with applying this community maintained process and reflect on its effectiveness in modeling threats to the system and identifying appropriate countermeasures.


Steady-state transient current-transient voltage [i(t)-v(t)] analysis is introduced as a novel method for the electrical characterization of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). i(t)-v(t) analysis involves measurement of the instantaneous voltage across and the instantaneous current through an OLED when it is subjected to a bipolar, piecewise-linear applied voltage waveform. The i(t)-v(t) method provides information related to the conduction and displacement currents and to charge trapping and detrapping properties of an OLED. Charge trapping, detrapping and hole accumulation on the hole transport layer (HTL) side of electron transport layer (ETL)/HTL interface are shown to play a signi cant role in establishing the conduction and radiative recombination characteristics of OLEDs. As an extension of the i(t)-v(t) method, the total charge released from the OLED versus total charge transferred [Qdetrapped Qtransferred] is plotted as a means of assessing how charge transferred during the forward bias portion of the waveform is related to charge detrapping and hole accumulation on the ETL/HTL interface. Additionally,


Scissors-AVLB type bridges are characterized by high mobility and modular structure. A single module-span consists of two spanning parts-girders of the bridge; two main trucks and a support structure. Pin joints are placed between modules of the girders in a single bridge span. A special object – model of the main pin joint was prepared in WZInz. Deblin. A numerical study of this pin joint model was presented in this paper. A 3D model with nonlinear material properties was analyzed and stress distribution in particular elements was defined. Stresses from FE analysis were referred to the test results.


Farmer cooperatives play a huge role in anti-poverty practice, and the results are remarkable. However, there is still room for improvement in the research on the sustainability of poverty alleviation projects of farmers' cooperatives. To this end, the author uses questionnaire surveys, factor analysis and other research methods on the basis of existing research results to analyze the sustainability evaluation dimensions of farmer cooperatives poverty alleviation projects, and builds an evaluation index system. Taking 28 farmer cooperatives poverty alleviation projects in Lianghe County as an example. An empirical analysis of sustainability was carried out, and the following conclusions were drawn: ①The four common factors of the sustainability evaluation system have greater room for improvement; ②Cooperatives with poor information technology factors have relatively poor comprehensive scores for the sustainability of poverty alleviation projects. The research results not only help farmers create more material wealth, but also help realize the strategy of rural revitalization. At the same time, it may enrich the theoretical connotation of anti-poverty, and make corresponding theoretical contributions to the theory of rural revitalization and sustainable development.


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New geologic and geophysical data extend our knowledge of the complementary role of inherited zones of weakness in Precambrian basement and Late Cretaceous-Tertiary magmatism in development of the Colorado Mineral Belt (COMB). the northeast-trending ductile shear zones that localized ore-related igneous activity in COMB are more abundant than known previously, extend outward laterally to the northwest and southeast, and can account for localizing valuable ore deposits in outlying regions such as Cripple Creek, Rosita Hills-Silver Cliff, and Summitville. Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.4 Ga) as a result of transpressional tectonics. , they followed pre-existing Paleoproterozoic structures. northwest orientation, which has been poorly understood, had a secondary control on emplacement of intrusions in the central part of COMB. Colorado where the mineral belt abruptly widens from a width of about 15 to 60 km to about 140 km. Recent geochronologic data indicate that a minor late Tertiary ore-forming event was locally superposed on the two major periods of mineralization: Tertiary and mid-Tertiary. , episodic magmatism in the region spanned an interval of about 70 m.y. interpreted as long-lived magma chambers that spawned both Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary and mid-Tertiary magmas. northwest-trending basement shear zone, exposed in the Gunnison River area. by Anna Burack Wilson and P.K. Sims U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior The new data indicate that The shear zones formed in the Locally A second set of Mesoproterozoic shears of This control is most evident in central Late Cretaceous-early Accordingly Gravity data indicate that COMB overlies two distinct gravity lows (-300 mg) The gravity lows are en-echelon and separated by a prominent