The COVID 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown left in its wake a world -wide socio-economic disaster.  Small medium and micro-enterprises (SMME) on the African continent were pushed into financial distress and many facing financial ruin and bankruptcy.  The partial relaxation of the hard lockdown was aimed at achieving a balancing act between savings people's lives and averting a socio-economic disaster.   Entrepreneurship is key and hold the answer to kick start the economy ensuring economic growth, prosperity, employment creation and ultimately poverty reduction (Klapper, Laeven and Rajan. 2006).  It is a known fact that not all entrepreneurs are equally successful in their endeavors.  This paper is a review and synthesis of the literature in an attempt to understand in what way, if any, the institutional environment impact on entrepreneurship.   A desktop study was used to do a literature review from six journals covering the period 2013-2018.  The findings indicated that a number of factors such as liability of newness impact on entrepreneurship.  The findings are important to understand the impact of institutional environment on entrepreneurial survival and how to respond during a crisis such as COVID 19. Keywords: Institutional Environment , Institutional theory, Emerging economies, Institutional and entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, SMME DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-33-05 Publication date: November 30 th 2020


Nano-SnO_2 was prepared by microwave-assisted solid state reaction using SnCl_4·5H_2O and NaOH as raw materials.The influence of output power and reaction time on the structure and particle size of SnO_2 was investigated.The structure and properties of nano-SnO_2 were characterized by XRD,TEM and electrochemical test.The results revealed that the output power and reaction time had a significant effect on the structure and particle size of SnO_2.When microwave output power was 350 W and reaction time was 20 min,nano-SnO_2 with uniform particle size of about 20 nm was obtained.The reversible capacity of nano-SnO_2 prepared by this technique was higher than 760 mA·h·g~(-1),and after 60 cycles at current rate of 0.1 C and 0.5 C,92% and 83% of the capacity can be retained respectively,indicating that nano-SnO_2 prepared by this technique may be a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries.


Let $P_2(G)$, $\gf(G)$, and $\gm(G)$ be the 2-packing number, fractional domination number, and domination number, respectively, of a graph $G$. Domke, Hedetniemi, and Laskar [Congress. Numer., 66 (1989), pp. 227--238] showed that $P_2(G)\le\gf(G)\le\gm(G)$. Examples are given with $P_2(G)<\gf(G)=\gm(G)$ and $P_2(G)=\gf(G)<\gm(G)$. Let $G\oplus H$ and $G\cdot H$ be the Cartesian product and strong direct product, respectively, of graphs $G$ and $H$. For all $G$ and $H$, it is shown that $P_2(G)P_2(H)\le P_2(G\cdot H)\le P_2(G)\gf(H)$ and $\gm(G)\gf(H)\le\gm(G\cdot H)\le\gm(G)\gm(H)$. These relations are also independent. Relations involving $P_2(G\oplus H)$, $\gf(G\oplus H)$, and $\gm(G\oplus H)$ are examined. An unresolved issue involves a conjecture of Vizing: For all $G$ and $H$, is $\gm(G\oplus H)\ge\gm(G)\gm(H)$?


Blood tests for 2M antibodies were negative with a titre of <1:100. Muscle biopsies of the atrophied temporal muscle showed mature, hypocellular fibrous tissue, normal striated muscle, with no sign of inflammation or cellular infiltration. These findings were consistent with muscle atrophy and replacement fibrosis. MRI of the brain revealed a mass in the region of the trigeminal nerve outflow, which enhanced with gadolinium contrast (Figs. 2 and 3).The most likely diagnosis was therefore a trigeminal nerve sheath tumour.


The exciton mechanism of superconductivity is discussed with respect to a particular model, a thin metal layer on a semiconductor surface. In this model, the metal electrons at the Fermi surface tunnel into the semiconductor gap where they interact with virtual excitons, producing a net attractive interaction among the electrons in direct analogy with the phonon mechanism of superconductivity. The physical requirements for successful realization of the exciton mechanism in a metal-semiconductor system are explored in detail, and the relevant parameters are described. Estimates are made for electron tunneling and band-bending effects, and an electron-exciton coupling constant is defined and estimated. Finally, an appropriately modified integral equation for the superconducting energy gap is solved numerically to yield transition temperatures both for a pure-exciton mechanism and for the exciton and phonon mechanisms acting simultaneously.


a Bstract : The widely accepted "continuing bonds" model of grief tells us that rather than bereavement necessitating the cessation of one's relationship with the deceased, very often the relationship continues instead in an adapted form. However, this frame- work appears to conflict with philosophical approaches that treat reciprocity or mutuality of some form as central to loving relationships. Seemingly the dead cannot be active participants, rendering it puzzling how we should understand claims about continued relationships with them. In this article, we resolve this tension by highlighting two fundamental aspects of paradigmatic loving relationships that can, and often do, continue in an adapted form following bereavement: love and mutual shaping of interests, choices, and self- concepts. Attention to these continuing features of relationships helps to capture and clarify the phenomenological and behavioral features of continuing bonds. However, love and mutual shaping must also change in important ways following bereavement. Love becomes unreciprocated, and although the dead continue to shape our interests, choices, and self- concepts, we predominantly shape their legacies mind science an emphasis on perception, emotion, and interpersonal and memories in return. These changes place important constraints upon the nature of our interpersonal connections with the dead.


understandably reluctant to report crimes. At a time when the federal government is threatening "sanctuary cities" with reduced funding to mandate their cooperation with immigration enforcement authorities, Policing Immigrants makes a strong case for getting local law enforcement agencies out of immigration enforcement. This is timely and essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in policing, immigration enforcement, and immigrant–police relations.


This study investigated whether or not location based services within smart phones can actually be trusted. This was explored by capturing images activating location services on the smart phone device. Furthermore using SAS to analyse the information to figure out how accurate the location data actually is in comparison from the actual location. This was conducted by creating bar charts and figures showing the results. Furthermore this was related back to how accurate GPS actually was in comparison to previous research and findings within the literature review. Research was conducted within different areas around the city which consisted of residential, rural and urban areas to identify if the accuracy of GPS varied within different areas. The number of the overall results collected from various location showed that GPS was actually inaccurate by a considerable amount within the different areas as residentially the average error was 69.856 metres, rurally 22.417 metres of average error, and within urban areas the average of 111.111 metres. Location based services was inaccurate by considerable amount in comparison to the literature review which stated GPS is actually accurate to 7.8 metres within the worst case scenario (GPS.Gov, 2014). The research also included the accuracy of GPS within indoor and outdoor environments and showed that location based services were more inaccurate indoor compared to outdoors. This showed the different environments actually effected the accuracy of location based services.  This study also covers potential different aspects which may impact the reliability of location based services, by capturing location data in different areas and environments and figuring how much of an impact it actually had.


I n the rift-type Camamu Basin ideal models of mineral symmetry fabrics are compared with orientation patterns of the: (i) 201 planes of principal foliation (S P ) and 538 measures of stretching mineral lineation (L X ) in basement rocks, and (ii) 2,530 structural lineaments terrain digital model images and 12,421 planes of faults and fractures, obtained respectively from country rocks and basin sedimentary unities located close at the basin western border. In terms of structures are noted that: (i) the main fault/fracture sets are parallels to close parallels to N00 o -30 o -trending regional foliations (SP), and orthogonal N90 o , to diagonal N120 o to S P and L X , (ii) a combination between regional extension (E-W,NW-SE and NE-SW) and country rock mineral symmetry fabric orientations facilitated the N00 o - to 30 o -, N90 o - and N120 o -trend fault set formations, (iii) the N-S strike and subvertical E- and W-dips of the S P facilitated continental split associated to South Atlantic Mesozoic overture, and where S P were subhorizontals L X became a important option to "induce" fault propagation directions, so not only S P but a S P +L X combination was important to geometric construction of the fracturing fabric at the western border of the BC, and (iv) the lithospheric load release due thick crustal layer erosion that exposing granulite facies rocks could conduce to production of weakness planes and lines reactivated during rifting development. Is observed a combination of monoclinic-triclinic fracturing fabrics, more frequent, where S-C shear zone surfaces domain and/or there were polyphasic strain history, and (pseudo)orthorhombic fabric, less frequent, where S P and L X became subparallel under extreme mineral stretching and rotation. Both S P and L X parallel and orthogonal fault/fractures were generated during basin's formation and evolution. This way not only the far-field stress orientations but the basement rocks mineral symmetry fabrics were crucial to the basement and Camamu Basin fracturing fabric constructions.


Tracheoesophageal fistulas (TEF) caused by Candida infection are rare. Acquired tracheoesophageal fistulas are severe lesions leading to serious and ultimately fatal pulmonary complications. Treatment is made difficult by need to manage the consequences of esophagotracheal communication and of the illness responsible for the fistula. This report describes a 53-year-old man who presented with frequent choking and coughing with bloody sputum for one week. The esophagogram and bronchoscopy revealed a tracheoesophagal fistula at the level of the second thoracic vertebra. A full sternotomy was performed with one-stage esophageal repair combined with tracheal resection and anastomosis. The TEF was closed and the patient recovered well. Pathologic examinations of the TEF and trachea displayed an ulcer with candidiasis. No recurrence of fistula was detected during follow-up.


Background and Objectives:Tinnitus is the conscious experience of sound that originates in the head or neck, and without voluntary origin obvious to that person. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of dyslipoproteinemias and its correlation with subjective tinnitus in the healthy elderly men (especially in men older than 60 years). Subjects and Method: From January 2007 to January 2008, we randomly selected 150 men at our office visit. Of these men, only 102 complained of subjective tinnitus. All men underwent pure tone audiogram, pitch-match and loudness-balance test for tinnitus, simple X-ray (mastoid series), blood sampling such as total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride and lipoprotein(a) etc, and if necessary, temporal bone imaging study, and vestibular function test. Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS version 15.0, and the p-value was considered significant when less than 5%. Results:The prevalence of hyperlipoproteinemia had no significant difference between the tinnitus group and the control group. Although there was no correlation between loudness (r=0.008, p>0.05) and pitch (r=0.026, p>0.05) for tinnitus with the serum lipoprotein(a) level, the mean value of serum lipoprotein( a) was significantly different between the two groups (p


The objective of this study is to determine how the jet fuel contained in aircraft wing tanks disperses on impact with a soft terrain, i.e., soils, at high impact velocities. The approach used in this study is to combine experimental and numerical methods. Tests were conducted with an approximately 1/42 linear-scale mass-model of a 1/4 span section of a C-141 wing impacting a sand/clay mixture. The test results showed that within the uncertainty of the data, the percentage of incident liquid mass remaining in the crater is the same as that qualitatively described in earlier napalm bomb development studies. Namely, the percentage of fuel in the crater ranges from near zero for grazing impacts to 25%--50% for high angles of impact. To support a weapons system safety assessment (WSSA), the data from the current study have been reduced to correlations. The numerical model used in the current study is a unique coupling of a Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method with the transient dynamics finite element code PRONTO. Qualitatively, the splash, erosion, and soil compression phenomena are all numerically predicted. Quantitatively, the numerical method predicted a smaller crater cross section than was observed in the tests.


Understanding of the magnitude and determinants of global execution costs is important to practitioners for several reasons. These include the prediction of trading costs, determining the effect of execution costs on "live" portfolio performance, inter-market cost comparisons, and quantifying international diversification benefits. This article examines the magnitude and determinants of trading costs across 42 countries. We document wide variation in costs across and within regions. While costs have declined, they remain economically significant. We develop the central concept that costs cannot be measured in isolation from the factors that also affect the underlying investment strategy. In particular, realized equity returns depend on turnover as well as costs, and portfolio turnover is likely to be systematically related to the same factors that affect costs. Accordingly, we analyze the inter-relationships between liquidity, equity trading costs, and volatility, and investigate the impact of these variables on equity returns. The estimated models show strong relationships between the variables of interest and shed light on the degree to which liquidity and costs are predictable in practice. Our results suggest that the composition of global efficient portfolios can change dramatically when cost and turnover are taken into account.


In many SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging algorithm, the corner turning memory takes up much time during imaging processing. This paper uses VP (Vector processor) to implement CSA (Chirp Scaling Algorithm), so as to reduce time required for memory operation. So the VP is suitable for CSA imaging, and use of this method could improve the efficiency of SAR imaging. The essence is that VP could generate the appropriate address and could manage massive RAM. If a real time SAR imaging system is designed reasonably, RDA, Extend CSA will have this overhead.


Kerogen, the major organic component of sedimentary rocks, is commonly analyzed by Rock-Eval pyrolysis. Plotting the data on a graph of S[2] vs. total organic carbon (TOC) and determining the regression equation is the best method for determining the true average hydrogen index and measuring the adsorption of hydrocarbon by the rock matrix. Such a plot also indicates the type of kerogen present and avoids the problem of increasing hydrogen index with total organic carbon content. With the S[2] vs. TOC diagram, the organic component of different suites of samples may be compared and their petroleum-generation potentials established. As an example, the diagrams are used to evaluate the sedimentary environments and petroleum potential of the Paleogene evaporitic sediments of the Mulhouse basin, Alsace, France.


Haryana has been a focus of attention throughout history, including the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Because of its location in the north, it remained strategically important. During the Sultanate and Mughal periods, the Haryana district was extremely important in terms of trade and resistance. In ancient times, the Mahabharata was fought at Kurukshetra, and three skirmishes at Panipat, which completely transformed India's fortunes, were fought in Haryana. This study intends to contribute to the socioeconomic and unique situations of the Haryana region during the Mughal period in an objective and scientific manner (1707-1857). This period of Mughal history was chosen for research because it was a time of great change, replete with perplexity, curiosity, and upheaval. This time, the sunset represented the rise and collapse of the Sikhs', Marathas', and Jats' powers, as well as the rise and power of the theory British. It is concerning that the region's historical realities, socioeconomic, and religious problems are not fully recognized, despite attempts in both cases. This revelation was necessary in order to showcase a larger network of regional opportunities and to portray the genuine image of the time. The analysis attempts to close this gap in this way. It will also respond to the ever-changing demand, as well as the necessity to rewrite and recompose the regional history in light of the wide range of expertise and education now accessible.


This study evaluated symptoms of stress (Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms) and quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF Questionnaire) of 203 preschool/elementary school teachers. About 46.3% of teachers expressed some level of stress, especially in the resistance phase (73.4%) and almost exhaustion (18.1%).  There was no difference between physical and psychological symptoms (p>0.05). The mean scores of physical (57.2 points) and environment (57.5 points) domains were significantly lower than psychological (62.8 points) and social relationships (70 points) domains (p<0.0001). The mean quality of life score was 61.8 points, therefore, teachers were classified as regular with their quality of life. In conclusion, the symptoms of stress alter the quality of life of preschool/elementary school teachers.


Introduction: The global incidence of spontaneous intracranial vascular conditions such as: Spontaneous Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH); Nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (NASAH); and arterio-vascular malformation, which are low incidence conditions though lethal pathologies due to leakage of blood within the cranial cavity. Missed such conditions are mutual agony among healthcare providers. Management of these pathologies is imperative to an early diagnosis. Stimulatingly, despite the reiterated imaging studies that have been established for diagnosing intracranial vascular pathologies, 4-vessels angiography had ranked superior multidimensionally. Thus, this study targets to address the diagnostic significance of angiography in spontaneous intracranial hemorrhages as the cardinal tool of management with reference point comparison of our findings with those reported in literature. Methods: A retrospective chart review of patients presented with spontaneous intracranial hemorrhages over a period of 3-years from January 2014 till January 2017 at the neurosurgical department of King Hussein Medical Center was conducted. All patients had clinical features of sudden onset of severe headache, decrease level of consciousness of sudden neurological deficit, who were hospitalized within 72-hours after the bleeding onset. Clinical data, non-invasive radiological imaging studies confirmed the spontaneous intracranial hemorrhages presence. Patients underwent subsequent diagnostic workup. The results and complications of the Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) study were analyzed. Repeated DSA or computed tomography angiography (CTA) was performed 6-8 weeks later if initial angiographic result were negative. Results: Of 141-patients who underwent cerebral angiography following spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage in the three-year time period, 81females (57.47%), 60-males (42.55%), mean age 50.76 year. Fifty four examinations revealed aneurysms, another 26small aneurysms were diagnosed in the angiogram negative cases on the follow-up studies. Eighteen patients had non-aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, fourteencase showed arteriovenous malformation (AVM) and five-case showed dural fistula. Sixty-seven percent of the patients classified their headache as being the worst headache of their life and approximately 54 % described maximum intensity of the pain within the first 2-hours. Sudden loss of consciousness (LOC) occurred in 42% of the patients due to increased intracranial pressure. LOC often is transitory; however, approximately 15 % of the patients remained comatosed for several days. Seizures during the acute phase occurred in 16-patients (11.35%). Conclusion: Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhages is a devastating and multifarious disease which must be managed in wellestablished and dedicated centers. In our center, DSA following non-conclusive CT imaging of the brain was therefore a test of extremely high yield, utility, and also associated with decreased morbidity and mortality. Non-aneurysmal SAH cases have better neurological status compared with aneurysmalcases.


Orientation. The orientation is a positive deviant exploration of high performance team coaching. Research purpose. The main research objective was to construct and find support for a model of positive deviance for high performance team coaching. The specific research objectives were to . . identify a positive deviant team coach, and to map this person's behaviour in relation to the positive deviance model that was constructed for the purpose ofthis study. Motivation for the study. The motivation was to contribute towards coaching beyond a one-onone intervention to coaching a collective. Research design, approach and method. The approach was qualitative with a case study design. The unit of enquiry was the highly successful Jake White, coach of the 2004-2007 Springbok rugby team that won the World Cup in 2007. For the purpose of data collection a key note address on coaching by White was recorded. Furthermore White and three more participants were interviewed. Secondary sources consulted were autobiographies and a biography. The data were analysed by means ofa thematic analysis and reported in a narrative format, Main findings. The findings confirmed the qualities, facilitators and outcomes suggested by the positive deviance model. However, in the case of facilitators, three more than the seven suggested by the model were identified. Practical/managerial implications. This model may serve as a framework for the practice of high performance team coaching. Contribution/value-add. The construct of positive deviance was introduced to the practice of high performance team coaching.


This study aims to determine the effect of different stocking density on the growth and survival of fish fry carp (Osphronemus gouramy). This study used an experimental method. The design used was completely randomized design (CRD) with three treatments and three replications. Test animals used were fish seed Gurame (Osphronemus gouramy) 450 tail with an average length of initial seed ± 3 cm and weight of early ± 1.3 grams. The volume of water used 10 liters / container. Maintenance lasts for 42 days. The treatments used different stocking densities, namely (A) 3 heads / l, (B) 5 tails / l and (C) 7 mice / l. The container used in the form of 9 pieces of plastic containers synthesis with a capacity of 16 liters equipped with aeration. The results showed that the absolute growth in length and the highest weight shown on treatment A (3 heads / l) respectively of 1.09 and 0.9 g cm, followed by treatment B (5 animals / l) respectively of 0.9 cm and 0.84 g, and the lowest in treatment C (7 animals / l), respectively for 0.86 cm and 0.8 g. Gurame fish seed viability during the study showed treatment A by 82.86% whereas 72.67% of treatment B and C treatment amounting to 83.33%. The results of this study continue with the LSD (Least Significant Difference) with a confidence level of 99%. Kata kunci: Gurame seedling (Osphronemusgouramy), survival, density, growth


Background: Drug Related Problems (DRPs) in cancer chemotherapy can have severe consequences originating from the high toxicity and narrow therapeutic range of anticancer drugs.
Objective: This study was conducted to investigate drug-related problems and factors associated with it in hospitalized cancer patients at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.
Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital from January to June 2013. A total of 367 study participants were recruited by simple random sampling technique and data were collected by medical chart review using data abstraction format.
Results: Four hundred seventy four drug-related problems were identified in 274 patients among the 367 patients, which gave rise to a prevalence of 74.7%. The most prevalent drug-related problems was adverse drug reaction (45.5%) followed by dosing problem (37.9%). The risk factors for DRPs were number of medications, comorbidity and length of hospital stay.
Conclusion: Drug related problems were common among cancer patients in our set up indicating a need for intervention like involvement of a pharmacist for better therapeutic outcome.


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Image based localization is one of the important problems in computer vision due to its wide applicability in robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous systems. There is a rich set of methods described in the literature on how to geometrically register a 2D image w.r.t. a 3D model. In particular, data augmentation methods such as synthetic image generation have been shown to be useful for this task. In this work, we propose a synthetic data augmentation technique and design a deep neural network, that can be trained to estimate the absolute pose of an image from synthesized sparse feature descriptors. Our choice of using sparse feature descriptors has two major advantages: first, our network is significantly smaller than the CNNs proposed in the literature for this task—thereby making our approach more efficient and scalable. Second—and more importantly—, usage of sparse features allows to augment the training data with synthetic viewpoints, which leads to substantial improvements in the generalization performance to unseen poses. The synthetic views are further employed to augment realistic RGB images which again surpasses recent deep learning based synthetic image generation technique. A detailed analysis of the proposed networks and a rigorous evaluation on the existing datasets are provided to support our method.


Femtosecond laser-induced titanium plumes have been studied by emission spectroscopy and imaging, and time-of-flight measurements. The laser pulse is of around 100 fs (FWHM) duration and has a central wavelength of 800 nm. The sample was placed inside a high vacuum chamber. Time-resolved plume emission images were obtained by an ICCD camera. Compared to nanosecond laser- induced plumes, femtosecond laser-generated plumes are much more confined in space, which is due to the lack of direct laser energy absorption by the plume, as well as lower energy per pulse. The emission spectrum was studied with a combination of a monochromator and an ICCD camera. Individual emission lines from both titanium neutrals and ions were identified. Time-of-flight (TOF) experiment showed that extremely energetic ions were present in the plume. These high energies may affect the laser deposition of thin films. A TOF experiment using a nanosecond laser was carried out for comparison. Laser ablated craters were measured with an interferometric microscope, and ablation yield was expressed as a function of applied laser fluence. Two ablation regimes were identified for femtosecond laser ablation of titanium by time-of-flight and microscope measurements.


Low thermal conductivity of black phosphorus (BP) makes it difficult to cool BP-based electronic or optoelectronic devices. Therefore, developing a cooling strategy for BP-based nano devices is highly required. We theoretically study the near-field radiative heat transfer between BP sheets as well as between BP and graphene. We find that the heat transfer between BP sheets is determined by its electron doping. Plasmons excited by BP in different directions dominate the heat transfer for different electron doping. At optimum electron doping, heat transfer between the BP sheets increases significantly. The heat transfer between BP and graphene is dependent on both the electron doping of BP and chemical potential of graphene. Modulating the chemical potential of graphene can result in a strong coupling between graphene plasmons and BP plasmons, which will lead to a significant enhancement of heat transfer between BP and graphene. Our results are not only meaningful in controlling the heat transfer between BP-based structures but also helpful in developing cooling strategies for BP-based nano devices.


The Internet of things (IoT) is the next generation of Internet-connected embedded IT frameworks. However, IoT is still in its initial stages in the manufacturing industry and respective supply chain environment, leaving uncertainty about possible application areas and impacts. This paper explores the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on supply chain management (SCM) for warehousing through an extensive literature review. The purpose of this study is therefore to study the role of IoT technology in enabling the supply chain visibility and connectivity, and impact on supply chain performance. In addition, most studies have focused on the framework for warehousing.


This paper studies technology choice as a relevant aspect to be considered when analyzing price discrimination and welfare. Our results reinforce the traditional wisdom that an increase in output is a necessary condition for price discrim- ination to improve social welfare. But we also nd that the positive output eect does not need to be as large as previously supposed since, under some conditions, the monopoly will move to a socially preferred technology only if third-degree price discrimination is allowed.


Introduction Rolling soybeans has become very popular in the past few growing seasons, especially in north central Iowa. Reasons for its popularity include, pushing rocks beneath the cutting height of bean heads, less dirt in the combine and cleaner beans, faster cutting speeds, less damage to cutting systems, and increased soybean yields. The last claim was studied at the Northwest Research Farm in 2009 and 2010 in both tilled and no-till conditions. Both tilled and no-till studies included a control treatment and rolling the soybeans pre-emerge and post-emerge when the beans were in the V1 stage of development. Soybean plots were rolled with a 20 ft Degelman Landroller from Custom Made Products in Humboldt, IA.


Physalis minima or locally known in Malaysia as pokok letup-letup is a diploid (2n=24) plant and is one of the very important species in Solanaceae family Olmstead et al.1 It is native to warm temperate and subtropical region throughout the world. Physalis is a genus of 80 to 100 species of mostly neotropical herbs. The plant is an annual or shortlived perennial with less hairy as compared to a few other species. Physalis minima can grow well in most soil types particularly sandy soil. This plant commonly found as weeds in Malaysia Azlan et al.2 It has broad leaves and grows rapidly on disturbed area which makes it difficult to control. Whole part of the plant can be used as a treatment for ulcer and the decoction of the whole plant have the potential to decrease cancer cell activity Zakaria & Mohamad3 Extracts of the stem, leaf and unripe fruit contain photochemical substances such as flavonoids, terpenoids, vitamins, alkaloids and antibacterial substance which make it valuable as a medicinal plant Nathiya & Dorcus.4 The most interesting feature of this plant is the fruits. The yellowish edible berry is encapsulated by the calyx and it is a popular seasonal fruit in Europe. The fruit has been used as decoration in culinary, ingredient for delicious salads, desserts and also as flavoring in jams and jellies. Recently, the demand for this fruit has increased due to its potential as antioxidant and anticancer Pietro et al.;5 Azlan et al.;2 Shariff et al.6 The fruit has also reported to contain high amount of vitamin A and C and has the potential to be an alternative source for ascorbic acid for world consumption El-Sheikha et al.7 Morphological descriptions have traditionally been the means by which scientists investigate population structure and their genetic diversity. Mendel used morphological characteristics to develop his understanding of genetics and inheritance, while Darwin observed various morphological characteristics in domesticated plants and animals to develop his theory of natural selection and evolution. With recent revolutionary advances in molecular methods to characterize genetic diversity, phenotypic and molecular evaluations are now complementary practices Sattler & Rutishauser.8 Before the advent of molecular markers, morphological characterizations were the obligatory method for assessing genetic variability and systematize populations. Although morphological characterization provides only an indirect method to measure genetic variability, there are many documented studies that have used it successfully as a tool for classification of plants. Even today, morphology remains useful because germplasm curators and plant breeders usually routinely record morphological data during germplasm regeneration or evaluation Hokanson et al.9 Comparing phenotypic characteristics across populations is a relatively simple method for estimating variation and providing basic assessments of interand intrapopulation differences Parsons & Hermanutz.10 In Malaysia, Physalis minima is classified as a weeds and the numbers of Physalis species or varieties are relatively unknown. Weeds growing in cultivated areas are usually characterized as having high phenotype plasticity and genetic adaptability. They are frequently well adapted to disturbance and seed prolifically Adahtl.11 In addition, the colonization species, including exotic weeds such as Physalis minima will have low genetic variability since they have been through a genetic bottleneck effect after their introduction. However, the genetic variation of Physalis minima in Malaysia has not been reported. In this experiment, Physalis minima populations were collected from all states in Peninsular Malaysia. Qualitative characteristics of the plants were evaluated for their performance. The results were used to reveal phenotypic and genetic correlations of the traits measured, and to investigate the relationships among the populations based on their agronomic performance.


Market research can be defined as an "active form through which, by means of different concepts, methods and techniques of scientific investigation, is carried out, systematically, the specification, the measurement, the collection, the analysis and the objective interpretation of marketing information for the management of the economic unit, in order to know better the company's environment, to identify the opportunities, to evaluate the alternatives of marketing actions and their effects. The qualitative research seeks answers to questions like: "why?" and "how?", in order to find the root causes of consumers' attitudes, motives, behaviours, preferences and opinions and also the subjective, emotional or unconscious elements behind them.


Given the multidimensional approach to the study of this object, which is advertising, the author proposes a new approach – information. Article aimed at identifying promotional products information structure, which is analyzed in field representation. This approach outlines certain information matrix, which includes both nuclear and peripheral components. Information matrix promotional products in paper analyzes the example kreolizovanyh political advertising texts that were used on Ukrainian television during the campaign of 2012. The researcher explains the following information components of information structure kreolizovanyh texts of political advertising as the name of a political party, color, logo, slogan and logo party number in the electoral list of graphic signs "for", subtitle political commercials, the date of the election, pointing a web address pages and phone party. This information nuclear components TV political ads are the name of the party, the party logo, coloring party logo, slogan, and peripherals – number in the electoral list of graphic signs "for", subtitles, specifying the date of the election, pointing your web page and phone party. The author observed dependence information structure of political advertising text of socio-political situation, genre, creativity advertisers. The application of field approach to the analysis kreolizovanyh the advertising aimed at optimizing the conclusion of such texts in the future, creative use of nuclear advertiser and peripheral components advertising information in order to enhance its effectiveness. Key word: information matrix, political advertisement, nuclear informative components, peripheral devices of the informational components.


Over the last two decades, networks science has been developed into a systematic tool for the study and analysis of networks of different types. Mainly, for the analysis of complex networks, it is the first choice irrespective of the discipline. In order to design elegant systems and to understand the complexities of the nature, scientists and engineers encounter many networks. Understanding of those networks provides basis for the resolution of the underlying complexities. Communication tools and devices have become ubiquitous these days due to the proliferation of the Internet and mobile networks. Communication networks have become gigantic and their characteristics have become very complex. Their complexities can be understood using network scientific methods developed for complex networks in network science. In this article, we provide the origin, characteristics, and main utilities of network science. We explain that the models of network science can be applied to estimate the parameters of the communication networks. It can assist in the practical cost estimations as well.


: Cognitive disorders and dementia are still one of the most important cause of
death and major disability globally, having an enormous financial and social burden on
the healthcare system worldwide. Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone that has antiinflammatory, antioxidant and regulates neurotransmitters and neurotrophins, by
increasing neurotrophic factors such as nerve growth factor which further promotes brain
health. Moreover, it is also helpful in the prevention of amyloid accumulation and
promotes amyloid clearance. Besides the classical risk factors, vitamin D has been
researched and studied as an etiology, prognosis factor and maybe a treatment resource
in cognitive disfunctions, especially in dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Its
neuroprotective, neuroplasticity and neurotrophic effects have been already
demonstrated and so, the aim of this review was to focus on recent studies and trials in
order to synthesize the evidence about the possible contribution of low vitamin D in the
etiology of cognitive disorders like dementia and Alzheimer's disease and the effect of
vitamin D supplementation in prevention and treatment of these conditions.


In the present work, TiO2 fiilms supported by porous silica gel with high surface area synthesized by atomic layer deposition(ALD). Porous structure of silica substrate could be maintained even after deposit large amount of TiO2 (500 cycles of ALD process), suggesting the differential growth mode of TiO2 on top surface and inside the pore. All the TiO2 -covered silica samples showed improved MB adsorption abilities, comparing to bare one. In addition, when silica surface was covered with TiO2 films, MB adsorption capacity was almost fully recovered by re-annealing process (500C, for 1 hr, in ambient pressure), whereas MB adsorption capacity of bare silica was decreased after re-heaing process. FT-IR study demonstrated that TiO2 film could prevent deposition of surface-bound intermediate species during thermal decomposition of adsorbed MB molecules. Photocatalytic activity of TiO2/silica sample was also investigated.


Objective To investigate the pathogen spectrum and analyze the associated risk factors of pulmonary moniliasis in the patients with liver failure.Methods A retrospective analysis of pulmonary moniliasis complicating liver failure(n=150) was performed by case-control study on the data of patients admitted to PLA 302 Hospital from Jan.1986 to Nov.2007.A cohort of 154 patients with liver failure but without fungi infection(n=154) served as the control group.By analyzing the epidemiological and clinical data,the spectrum of fungi was identified,and the risk factors in pulmonary moniliasis pneumonia inpatients with liver failure were identified.Results The number of patients with acute on chronic liver failure(69/150,46.0%) were greater than patients with chronic liver failure(78/150,52.0%),while the number of patients suffering from moniliasis pneumonia was smaller than that of control group(20/154,13.0% and 129/154,83.8%,respectively,P0.05).The mean basic MELD scores of infection group were significantly higher than that of control group(25.08±6.43 vs 18.14±8.34,P0.05),and the patients in infection group showed severer illness.Candida albicans was still the main pathogen in the patients with moniliasis pneumonia complicating liver failure,but its incidence declined from 72% in 1986-1990 to 50% in 2005-2007.On the contrary,the proportion of other Candida sp.increased from 28% to 50% during the same period.Risk factors associated with moniliasis pneumonia in liver failure included aggravation of the original diseases,age,gender,neutropenia,invasive medical manipulation,artificial liver treatment,coincident with diabetes,single or combined use of broad-spectrum antibiotics or corticosteroids for long period,hypoproteinemia,and drugs with enhancing immune function.Logistic regression multivariate analysis identified the following independent risk factors in the development of moniliasis pneumonia: severity score of original diseases(OR=1.16,P0.05),use of multiple broad-spectrum antibiotics(OR=8.51,P0.05),prolonged administration of corticosteroids(OR=6.27,P0.05),invasive medical manipulation(OR=18.5,P0.05),and neutropenia(OR=1.99,P0.05).Conclusions Candida albicans remains the leading pathogen in moniliasis pneumonia in patients with liver failure,although the proportion of it declined in recent years.The severity of original diseases,use of multiple broad-spectrum antibiotics,prolonged use of corticosteroids,invasive medical manipulation and neutropenia are the independent risk factors of moniliasis pneumonia in the patients with liver failure.


Raw trimming has the potential to generate value-added product gelatin which produces the biodegradable film with low physical and mechanical properties. The chemical modifications by using the crosslinking agent improved the performance properties of the gelatin. Commercially produced leather finishing binders are mostly non-biodegradable which have an adverse environmental impact with high grain loading. The binders blended with extracted and modified gelatin can reduce the environmental burdens by replacing a part of non-biodegradable materials from leather finishing agent. In this study, the gelatin was undergone thermal hydrolysis in acidic and alkali conditions at 90°C hot water and after modification of gelatin with cross-linkers it was blended with available commercial binders in an optimized ratio and tests carried out to check whether there is any major change to the performance properties of the finished film. Prepared films showed promising results with the gelatin-protein (PGm) and gelatin-acrylic (AGm) formulation. This approach has the implication in leather finishing subject to the assessment of physical properties of the finished film.


Eastern Europe economies enjoyed in the past a rather important level of scientific and technological activity. This level is declining because of the scarcity of financial resources, but there still are capacities even if they are ill organised and directed. In this context there is room for large improvement by the mean of technology transfers. However the results can by no mean be considered as satisfactory. The paper reviews the situation of three countries, Croatia, Hungary and Poland with respect to the transfers of technology and points the many factors limiting their extent and their efficiency.


The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between the nurses' sociotropy–autonomy personality characteristics and trait anger–anger expression styles. This study was conducted in a cross-sectional design, and the sample included 776 nurses in a university hospital. The sample consisted of 370 nurses who were selected by stratified random sampling method in a university hospital. The Sociotropy–autonomy Scale and the State-Trait Anger Scale were used in data collection. The mean value of the Anger-In subscale was 16.24 point, the Anger-Out subscale was 15.38 point, and the Anger Control subscale was 22.86 point. The mean value of the sociotropy level of nurses was 66.71, and the mean value of the autonomy level of nurses was 75.41. Statistically significant relationships were observed between the Sociotropy–autonomy Scale and the Trait Anger–Anger Expression Scales scores. The higher the sociotropy–autonomy personality characteristics of the nurses are in an investigation, the higher the Trait Anger, Anger-In, and Anger-Out scores are. Furthermore, the anger control expression style was only related to the "Concern About Disapproval" in a negative way.


Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract The oxygen isotopic composition (δ 18 O) of calcium carbonate of planktonic calcifying organisms is a key tool for reconstructing both past seawater temperature and salinity. The calibration of paloeceanographic proxies relies in general on empirical relationships derived from experiments on extant species. Laboratory experiments have more 5 often than not revealed that variables other than the target parameter influence the proxy signal, which makes proxy calibration a challenging task. Understanding these secondary or " vital " effects is crucial for increasing proxy accuracy and possibly for developing new biomarkers. We present data from laboratory experiments showing that oxygen isotope fractionation during calcification in the coccolithophore Calcidiscus 10 leptoporus and the calcareous dinoflagellate Thoracosphaera heimii is dependent on carbonate chemistry of seawater in addition to its dependence on temperature. A similar result has previously been reported for planktonic foraminifera, suggesting that the [CO


Rhizomes of wetland plants are subjected to periods of hypoxia and/or anoxia by the seasonal or permanent waterlogging of their growing sites. Hedychium coronarium, the White Ginger, and Acorus calamus, the Sweet Flag, have their origin in India and were introduced into Latin America and Europe, respectively, more than three centuries ago. The White Ginger grows in humus-rich, shaded or semi-shaded areas subjected to waterlogging but it is never totally submersed, while the Sweet Flag grows at lake margins and is totally submersed during winter. Winter rhizomes of both species were cultivated in water culture in a greenhouse. The end products of fermentation (ethanol, lactic acid, malic acid), overall rhizome pH, the adenylate pool of nucleotides, the energy charge and their capacity to resume growth, were measured after periods of 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 days of anoxia and hypoxia. In all cases metabolic responses were also determined in rhizomes allowed to recover for 24 h in air. Ethanol was the main fermentation end product in both species, reaching higher concentrations in the anoxia-treated rhizomes. In H. coronarium, there was also a significant increase in the levels of lactic acid, with a considerable drop in overall rhizome pH. Anoxia and hypoxia induced, in both species, a significant drop in the energy charge values. Control plant rhizomes and rhizomes allowed to recover in air for 24 h had energy charge values of around 0.8. In rhizomes subjected to stress these values were lower, around 0.50 in A. calamus and as low as 0.3 in H. coronarium. Although in both species there is also a decrease in the amount of total nucleotides, it was much more drastic in the case of anoxia treated rhizomes of H. coronarium. The pH drop was most probably the underlying cause of the metabolic disarray that lead to a depletion of the adenylate pool and, finally, failure to regenerate after 16 days of anoxia. The results also show that energy charge values without measurements of the total adenylate pool may give a misleading impression of fitness. Thus, the anaerobic metabolism of H. coronarium is less efficient and more harmful than that of A. calamus and, although considerably tolerant to hypoxia, it does not tolerate strict anoxia as the latter species does.


This study aims to demonstrate the effects of particles irradiation on the silicon solar cell properties. A theoretical study of a silicon solar cell under multispectral illumination and particles (electrons, protons…) irradiationis presented. The relative density is presented and we show that the space charge region width depend on the irradiation parameters (energy and nature especially). We also pointed out the influence of the irradiation on the following parameters: the photocurrent density, the open circuit voltage, the fill factor, the conversion efficiency, the shunt and series resistances and the diffusion capacitance of the solar cell.


One of the main tasks facing managers is resource allocation. The allocation task is both a strategic and a financial task; neglecting the financial aspects of the decision might divert the manager from his ultimate goal of creating wealth. Financial practice includes several tools for allocating capital to investments.


The relation among city,society,architecture and human is very close.If the innovation of architecture is to build the body of the city,the humanities spirit is then to mold the soul of the city.Therefore how to combine the Chinese traditional humanities and the contemporary thought of "SHAN-SHUI City" with the architecture innovation is a problem we should think deeply and that is briefly studied in this paper,hoping to arouse concern from the academic circle.


It is generally said that Egyptian agriculture has been dependent on the Nile River since ancient times. The Nilometer (miqyas) always precisely forcast what kind of harvest might be expected. If the Nile rose to a level of 16-18 dhira' (about 9.3-10.4 meters) in the Coptic month of Tut (from 29 of August to 27 of September), the price of wheat and barley would drop, although urban prices stayed high until that time.(1) If, on the contrary, the Nile did not rise sufficiently, Egypt was doomed to suffer a crop failure. For example, the cause of the great famine which befell the country in 596 A. H. (1199 A. D.) and saw people so desperate they killed and ate their own children, stemmed from the fact the Nile rose to only 13 dhira' that year.(2) Water was considered so vital to that agricultural production that it was likened to wealth: "in Egypt a canal where water flows is the same as a canal where money flows."(3) The efforts of a succession of sultans were directed to the problem of digging and arranging canals so as to maximize the use of Nile water. The present article will explore the following two aspects of the role of water in Egyptian agricultural production: (1) how was water utilized in the agricultural production of peasants (fallahun); (2) how did the custom ('ada) of irrigation in rural communities change subsequent to the introduction of the iqta' system by Saladin (1171-1193) in the latter half of the 12th century.


Participation in problem solving court programs presents a particular challenge for accused who often have to face and resolve long-standing health and behaviouralproblems. For lawyers representing such clients there are unique professional and ethical challenges. These lawyers are called upon to support their clients through the process and take a care-based approach that re-defines the concept of the client's "best interest". For a defence lawyer steeped in the traditional adversarial system where securing an acquittal or a reduced sentence is paramount this approach is unfamiliar. Lawyers applying therapeutic jurisprudence are called upon to use communication and motivational skills that are not usually applied in adversarial proceedings to promote their client's rehabilitation. This article explores these issues in the context of a therapeutic jurisprudence based program in the court in the regional WesternAustralian town of Geraldton.


This study consists of three parts that, together, complement each other to further our understanding of the process and significance of failures in High-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRB)--where a single, very high intensity radioactive source attached to a computer-driven cable passes through hollow needles inserted into cancers. These are analysis of misadministrations, development of process trees, and assessment of treatment accuracy. Through evaluating the misadministration events and the models used in the analysis, this study hopes to both further the understanding of human performance in medical settings and hone the tools for such analyses.


TARGET AUDIENCE – Scientists and clinicians with interest in perfusion MRI, ASL and motion correction. PURPOSE – Motion correction in Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) is a crucial step, essential to accurately assess brain perfusion. Commonly it is corrected estimating rigid transformations based on intensity-related information. However, the combination of ASL with background suppression and single shot 2D EPI readout leads to a non-uniform magnetization – due to its recovery during acquisition – which might adversely affect traditional intensity-based approaches. Moreover, the control/label pairs are conditioned from the magnetized blood in the tissues (2-3% of the total signal). This difference in intensity can mislead conventional techniques. This study describes a novel motion correction technique only based on brain contour points, which are less sensitive to non-uniform magnetization intensity. METHODS – The proposed approach aims at registering to an initial volume (reference) all repetition control acquisitions and tagged acquisitions (moving volumes). The technique consists of a first extraction of brain contour points from both reference and moving volumes followed by an estimation of the roto-translation matrix mapping the acquired data onto the reference. Brain contour points are identified by means of an image segmentation procedure performed on a slice by slice basis. After applying an anisotropic filtering to the images, a split-and-merge algorithm based on quad-tree decomposition is applied, providing brain segmentation. The points extracted from all the slices of the reference and moving volumes compose two different clouds that need to be rigidly aligned. To this end, the roto-translation matrix defining the required rigid 3D transformation between the two clouds is estimated by means of the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm (fig. 1). Finally, the computed transformation is applied to the moving volume, thus obtaining a corrected volume, registered to the reference. This approach was tested on 6 volumes (2 initial control acquisition used as reference, 2 subsequent control and 2 tagged acquisitions used as moving volumes) obtained from 2 subjects retrospectively chosen from a cohort of 7 healthy volunteers (age 26±2.3) based on the presence of visually detectable motion. Image acquisition was performed on a 3T scanner (Achieva, PhilipsTM) equipped with a 32-channel coil. A balanced pCASL labelling combined with multi-slice 2D EPI single shot was used with following parameters: TE 16ms, TR 4,7s, labelling duration 1.8s, post-labelling delay 1.8s, two inversion pulses for background suppression (1.89s and 3.22s after the pre-saturation pulse, optimized to suppress the signal of the first slice), 30 axial slices, voxel size 3x3x3.3mm, SENSE acceleration factor 2.5, 30 label/control pairs for averaging, total acquisition time 4'45". To quantitatively assess the accuracy of the proposed motion correction technique, brain contours were manually traced by an experienced interpreter onto all the axial slices of reference, moving and corrected volumes. Several error metrics (i.e. Hausdorff distance, HD; mean absolute distance, MAD; Dice coefficient, DC) were computed between the three sets of contours and averaged among all the analysed images.


While Mumby (2019) chronicles effects of shifting to post-Fordist work, there are twists in neoliberal philosophy that open new avenues for inquiry and practice for industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists. Neoliberal attitudes and behavior must have an enabling platform to be credible. Just as Fordist work was built on the industrial revolution and its ultimate realization in the production line, post-Fordist work rests atop the unrelenting pace of technological advances. Two forces in developed countries have undermined the value of human capital in routine work: automation and cheaper foreign labor. As more work becomes automated, the economics of production shift increasingly from human labor to capital investment in equipment. Thus, the human capital developed through a worker's experience in and knowledge of the production process plummets. Where routine work has not been automated, it has shifted to cheaper labor in developing countries. However, the gloomy effects of post-Fordist work are not equal for all forms of labor. The dynamics of neoliberalism in post-Fordist work play out in more complex ways for many areas of nonroutine work. While advancements in artificial intelligence and other knowledgerelated technologies have automated some areas of knowledge-intense work, the displacement of human capital in cognitively complex work has not been achieved. Engineers, lawyers, doctors, programmers, and other knowledge workers have been aided, but not replaced, by knowledge technologies. To explore the post-Fordist, neoliberal ethos of knowledge workers, I will use examples from software organizations.


Cellulose fibers' complex and compact structure hinders the quantitative extraction of residual hemicelluloses from the fiber wall. In this study, hardwood kraft paper pulp was subjected to refining with a Hollander beater at different refining loads (3, 4.5, and 5.5 kg) in order to assess the impact of refining load on xylan removal by cold caustic extraction. The refined pulp showed high water retention values and specific surface area, which increased accessibility and a correspondingly high degree of xylan removal. Coupling refining and cold caustic extraction (100 g/L soda) achieved over 50% more xylan removal than the unrefined pulp (3% against 7%, respectively). Furthermore, an improvement in xylan removal (79%) was achieved by implementing a one-pot simultaneous refining and cold caustic extraction treatment at half the time required for the sequential treatment and low soda concentration (60 g/L). Finally, the benefit of beating was also observed for xylanase treatment. Overall, the combined extractions made it possible to remove 85% of xylan from a conventional hardwood paper pulp giving rise to a high purity cellulose pulp with unimodal and narrow molecular mass distribution.


A study was performed to evaluate the knowledge of Baracoa authors writing scientific articles published prospects in the Journal of Scientific Information in 2013. The sample consisted of 20 jobs and the used techniques: document review and analysis of discourse. The analysis categories were the following: writing  and style and parts of the article. Errors were diagnosed and knowledge were evaluated by expert judgment being classified three levels: Not knowing, to know and to know, doing. The authors evaluated in the range of not knowing regulations concerning publication primarily in paragraphs Results and Discussion and References. However, regarding the writing  and style are placed in the category to know, inferring that have theoretical knowledge but lack writing skills. It is planned to make in the researchers, how to know, doing.


HE glee on the faces of young children as they T investigate how many of their friends can squeeze inside a cubic metre play frame, or the amazement of older pupils as they are reminded how large a cubic metre is, provide ample proof that learning about quantities can be great fun. The importance of the practical skill of estimating quantities is recognised in mathematics and science curricula with statements such as "make estimates of weight, time, volume and length". In this article we describe a statistical activity based on the estimation of length, which provides interesting data for analysis and can develop an appreciation of experimental design. The approach taken can easily be adapted to suit the level of pupil. We have successfully used the idea as a junior secondary class activity, and as the basis of project work for senior pupils. The question of interest is "How well can we estimate length without the assistance of any measuring instruments?" In a


Significant damage to pig farms with traditional and sometimes industrial technology, the maintenance of association with bacterial infections - salmonella, pastereliosis, esherichiosis. Previously, for the control of the well-being of farms, a commercial PPD vaccine (pasteurellosis, paratyphoid, diplococcal infection) was used. Currently, the drug loses its protective capacity due to the proliferation of microorganisms in aetibic families with altered antigenic structure. To create a commercial drug of a new specimen, a number of studies have been carried out on its design and testing on a sensitive livestock. An experimental sample of an associated antigen proved to be quite competitive in immunological activity compared with commercial PPD vaccine. The protective activity of blood serum of animals after its application was 92 %, the level of T- and B-lymphocytes increased by 39.5 % and 22.7 %, respectively, the phagocytic activity in experimental group pigs increased by 7.1 % in comparison with the control (4.8 %). The survival of the pigs used by the experimental antigenic specimen in the groups after weaning was 99.5 % compared to the control group (75.4 %). Average daily gain of pigs the experimental group was at 592.4 ± 3.2 g, and at control – 412,4 ± 5,7 g. Keywords: complex associate antigen, bacterial infections of piglets, projective activity of blood serum, phagocytic activity of white blood cells


A technique for implanting multi sensor temperature probes in muscle tissue was developed to optimize the accuracy of the tissue temperature measurements and the internal localization of the probe. Real time ultra-sound imaging was used to (a) determine the best perpendicular insertion tract, (b) guide the insertion of the probe in order to avoid major blood vessels, and (c) verify the insertion point relative to discernable anatomic reference structures such as arteries and bone.


A study of plasma tocopherol levels of 379 normal adult human subjects residing in metropolitan Vancouver and in the nearby rural community of Chilliwack was conducted. The plasma tocopherol values ranged from 0.38 to 2.28 mg/100 ml and averaged 0.97 ± 0.29 mg/100 ml. No significant differences were found between men and women and between city and rural populations. However, statistically significant differences were observed between tocopherol values of various age groups studied. It was also recognized that on an average, plasma tocopherol levels of university students were significantly lower than those found for the rest of the population. About 5.9% of the university students and 1.1% of the other subjects had tocopherol values below the generally accepted deficiency level of 0.5 mg/100 ml.


This article argues for consistency in criminal law and the need for 'rational reconstruction' of the law where necessary to achieve this. It focuses Parliament's failure to respect the need for consistency by passing a statutory definition of consent in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which appears to apply only to sexual offences. As a result, the law on consent risks being a patchwork of statute and ad hoc case law, without any overarching principle to deal with new situations and different offences. The consequent lack of certainty, accessibility, predictability and fairness is compared to the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights. The statutory definition of consent in the context of the sexual offences is assessed critically as a model which could be used in offences against the person and property offences. The article concludes that until Parliament responds to the need for certainty and consistency by legislating on consent, there can be no rational reconstruction of consent under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.


ABSTRACT Urban gardening in Vienna, Austria, has gained a new significance over the last ten years. However, although demand is constantly rising and urban gardening is being marketed in many ways, a vast majority of the urban population still has no access to gardening and its various benefits. While community gardening projects in Europe are usually viewed as temporary, self-organised bottom-up initiatives on public or abandoned private land, this case study of the Roda-Roda pilot project shows that community gardening can develop and persist even when favourable conditions for grassroots community gardens are lacking. The vast green spaces separating residential blocks (Abstandsgrün) commonly found in Vienna's municipal housing (Wiener Gemeindebau) have a huge spatial potential for gardening, along with a forgotten tradition of self-organisation. Using an action research approach, this paper describes two principles for a successful implementation strategy under difficult conditions. Starting with a top-down approach, an interdisciplinary project team implemented a spatial and socio-economic framework that offered a stable basis for participatory community-building. As they "climbed" the ladder of participation stepwise – from exclusion to decision-making and true self-organisation – gardeners gained knowledge, skills and the self-confidence required to run a garden and create a well-working local community. At a more general level, the paper brings a co-creative planning perspective to the scientific discussion on community gardening in Europe and offers a practical approach to making local gardening opportunities available to suitable target groups by tapping into unused spatial potential.


Objective: To review the relationship between lateral occlusion patterns and temporomandibular disorders (TMDD) in the scientific literature.  Materials and Method: A search was performed in PubMed and EBSCO databases, using keywords occlusion, canine guide, temporomandibular disorders, and clinical evidence; selecting 15 of 65 papers in English published in the last five years: literature and systematic reviews, control, cohort and clinical cases in permanent dentition, occlusal alterations and TMDD. Those studies that were not literary or systematic reviews, cohort, controls, or clinical cases in children under 18 years of age or primary dentition were excluded.  Results: TMDD is multifactorial, although infrequently there is only one factor involved. To link just occlusion and TMDD is precipitous. Lateral occlusal patterns are influenced by mandibular excursion, age, and static occlusal relationship, in 73% of the articles. There is no relationship between lateral occlusion patterns and the development of TMDD, but there is an association with mediotrusive interferences (5%), although, this does not imply that these cause TMDD, but sequelae. 70-80% of TMDD respond to nonspecific treatments. The canine guide was found to be progressively modified with advancing age, being replaced by group function. Teething can be restored with different schemes. 53% of reviewed studies condemned total mechanical approaches in TMDD with irreversible occlusal treatments (orthodontics, prosthodontics, occlusal adjustment). For 80%, altering occlusal patterns to prevent or treat only TMDD was inadmissible.  Conclusion: There is no solid relationship between occlusion and TMDD. With an interdisciplinary team, future research should focus less on dental occlusion and more on factors such as pathophysiological, psychosocial, and cultural related to TMDD.


This study examines the settlement experiences of Bangladeshi women living in Australia by focusing on the facilitators of and barriers to successful settlement. It also explores how different settlement indicators vary across gender. Using both quantitative and qualitative data collected from 210 Bangladeshi migrants living in three states of Australia and through 52 semi structured interviews respectively, this study reveals that migration brings comfort, freedom and power for many women on the one hand, while on the other, reduced economic opportunities are also common. Aside from non-recognition of qualifications, responsibility towards young children and domestic duties is associated with downward mobility of women migrants. Unlike common literature the research argues that low qualified women may attain a better satisfaction with life compared with highly educated women.


Who says history has to be boring, especially when it's the history of one the country's wildest and weirdest states – Florida. South Florida-based author Eliot Kleinberg is back with a second volume of Weird Florida, published seven years after the first, and there's enough of the strange, the sublime and the simply shocking to stock almost 300 more accounts of Florida's oddest-but-true adventures.


The detection of malingering in the legal context frequently requires the use of psychiatric and psychological expert testimony. These experts may rely on certain clinical techniques in order to detect deception. This article addresses the problem of the admissibility in evidence of clinical procedures used by these experts. The scientific reliability and effect on constitutional rights of procedures such as hypnosis, polygraphy, "truth" drugs, and psychological tests is examined.


In order to provide service for millimeter wave terminals in environments such as a stadium, the centralized Radio Access Network system is under development. In this paper, we propose millimeter wave communication system connected by Radio over Fiber (RoF). We also introduce the dynamic cell control by the wavelength of light to create the cell size freely. In addition, we report the result of evaluation of distributing wireless signals connected by the optical network from two 60 GHz base stations to four remote antenna units.


Piezocone penetration testing(CPTu) results such as cone resistance(q c ), sleeve friction(f s ), and pore pressure(u), have been carried out at 5 sites in Honam high-speed railway areas of Korea, in order to continuously estimate the characteristics of soil layers and the undrained shear strength(S u ) in a soft ground. For the applications of the conventional CPTu results to undrained shear strength, the cone factors(N kt ) were deduced based on Field vane tests, and Monte-Carlo Simulation(MCS). Moreover the correlations of the undrained shear strength of CPTu by soil depths were compared and revised with the results of triaxial compression(UU test), field vane and Dilatometer tests(DMT). The depths of soft foundation at 5 sites in Honam high-speed railway areas were calculated based on the results of the various field tests in addition CPTu. The applicability of CPTu for a soft foundation criterion referred to the criteria of high-speed railway and related agencies in Korea was evaluated.


Many proposals and ongoing national projects exist worldwide to build a single-pass X-ray FEL amplifier in which a high-brightness, multi-GeV electron beam has a resonant energy exchange with radiation in an undulator. Because of the practical limit on the undulator period, the electron beam energy represents one of constraints on the shortest reachable wavelength. Recently the high-order harmonic FEL/IFEL interactions were considered theoretically as a technique that would allow the reduction of the beam energy without corresponding decrease in the undulator period and the magnetic field strength. We demonstrate microbunching of the 12.3 MeV electrons in a 7 order IFEL interaction, where the seed radiation frequency is seven times higher then the fundamental frequency. Strong longitudinal modulation of the beam is inferred from the observation of the first, second and third harmonics of the seed radiation in a Coherent Transition Radiation spectrum. The level of seed power is comparable to that required for microbunching at the fundamental frequency of the tenperiod-long undulator. The implications of these results for the next generation of FELs will be explored.


Berghaus, Frank "The case for preserving our knowledge and data in physics experiments" in Proceedings of the 13th "Patras" Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2017 / Maroudas, Marios (eds.), Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron : 2018 ; Patras 2017 : 13th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 2017-05-15 - 2017-05-19, Thessaloniki 13th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, AXION-WIMP 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, 15 May 2017 - 19 May 2017; Hamburg : Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY-PROC, 191-195 (2018). doi:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2017-02/berghaus_frank


: Introduction: Majority of the systemic diseases evidently present oral symptoms and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is not an exception. Persons with diabetes are at an increased risk of developing oral conditions such as gingivitis, periodontal disease, and alveolar bone loss, which has been associated with persistent poor glycemic control. Objectives: The basic aim of the study is to find the level of blood glucose in diabetic patients undergoing dental procedures among local population of Pakistan. Material and methods: This study was conducted at DHQ hospital Gujranwala, during June 2018 to December 2018. The patients selected for this study were those who suffered from diabetes. The sample included only the patients who presented blood glucose levels and HbA1c demonstrating that diabetes was under control. They should also be under continuous oral hypoglycemic drugs treatment, medical supervision and no dose alterations. Results: There is no statistically significant difference between the groups, regarding the evaluation period (p> 0.05). However, when comparing the periods statistically significant differences were observed (p <0.05) for T2 and T3 values for group. For heart rate, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups regarding the evaluation period (p> 0.05). However, regarding the comparison between the periods statistically significant differences were observed (p <0.05) for the T1 and T2 values for group. Conclusion: It is concluded that periodontal disease is the main oral clinical manifestation in diabetic patients. The anxiety level of patients neither varied significantly nor showed any correlation with the investigated hemodynamic parameters and glucose levels, regardless of whether local anesthetics were used.


Trigger finger is a stenosing tenosynovitis producing triggering/ clicking on finger movements along with pain and swelling. This condition although most often involves the thumb, however, any finger of the hand can be involved. Fibrocartilaginous metaplasia of the tendon near the A1 pulley causes nodule formation, resulting in triggering of the finger on finger movements. Treatment of this condition starts with NSAIDS, activity modification to the open surgical release of the A1 pulley. We present our outpatient-based, hypodermic needle release of A1 pulley of triggering finger for chronic trigger finger with functional recovery. In our 30 digits with triggering complaints for more than 6 months, 20 patients were females. Thumb was involved in 19 cases and Age ranged from 25 to 68 years. Using a hypodermic 18 G needle, the average duration of the procedure including local anaesthesia application was 6 minutes. We observed successful results in 97% of cases, one trigger finger needed open release after the persistence of symptoms. No complication was observed in any case during the follow-up period. Hypodermic Needle based release of A1 pulley for trigger finger is a safe, cost-effective, reliable, reproducible procedure with acceptable functional outcome, and we recommend this procedure for chronic trigger finger management.


A gas hob comprising at least one radiant gas burner disposed below a continuous cooking surface, a mixing pipe 1 for supplying the gas / air mixture, the gas / air mixture arriving at the room burner through a duct (diffuser) 2 which is connected to the mixer tube 1 and which, relative to the mixing tube diverges continuously in the direction of flow, a burner plate 4, in particular fibrous material, adjusting devices for the gas supply, as well as customary ignition, safety and temperature monitoring, and combustion gas discharge channels. the diffuser 2 which is connected to mixer tube 1 and through which the gas / air mixture reaches the burner chamber has a flat section with an upper side and a lower side parallel to the height of the diffuser corresponding to the mixing tube diameter and the outlet opening of section diffuser into the burner chamber being defined by the width of this opening. The burner chamber has regions having a smaller height than the diffuser.


Die Ikone des Realen Zur Bestimmung der Photographie im Werk von Talbot, Benjamin und Barthes Ronald Berg. Fink Verlag, Munchen 2001. 335 pp. with 29 b&w photographs. Softcover DM78, ISBN 3-7705-3553-7. Text in German. Berg examines an extensive range of approaches taken by the three practitioners towards aesthetic, theoretical, and scientific definitions of photography. These are extended into a detailed analysis of its relationship with art and reality; its pragmatic functions in police and court work, and an exploration of it in social, metaphysical, surreal, and mystical terms. The choice and justification of Talbot, Benjamin and Barthes as a tripodal matrix in time, culture, and direction are neatly developed.


The most complete sequence of late Paleocene (60 Ma) through middle Eocene (48–50 Ma) leaf assemblages in North America occurs in the coastal plain from Texas northeastward into southeastern United States (Fig. 1). This sequence, placed in the Wilcox Group, interdigitates with marine sediments and represents sedimentation on a Paleogene coastal plain at a paleolatitude within 5° of the present-day latitude of c. 30°. The leaf assemblages are in the process of being analyzed physiognomically with CLAMP (Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program). This analysis is based on c. 170 modern samples of leaves, most collected proximal to meteorological stations to provide calibration to environmental parameters (cf. Wolfe & Spicer 1999). These parameters include (and standard errors for estimates) mean annual temperature (MAT, ±1.8°C), warm-month mean temperature (WMMT, ±2.0°C), growing season length (GSL, ±1 month), mean growing season precipitation (MGSP, ±40 cm), total precipitation of the three consecutive wettest months during the growing season (3 Wet, ±17 cm), and total precipitation of the three consecutive driest months during the growing season (3 Dry, ±11 cm). Obviously if MAT and WMMT can be estimated, then mean annual range of temperature (MART) and cold-month mean temperature (CMMT) can also be estimated. At c. 59–60 Ma, the MAT in central Texas was about the same as today, i.e., 19°C. However, the climate was much milder, with a mean annual range of c. 11°C (vs. c. 20° today), and much wetter, with MGSP of c. 300 cm (vs. 80–120 cm today). This precipitation was about as seasonal as today, with the 3 Wet/3 Dry totals being 120/60 (vs. c. 30/15 today). By 57–58 Ma, MAT had increased to c. 23–24°C, and the climate had become even milder (MART 6–7°C) and wetter (MGSP >400 cm) but still maintaining a seasonal character. A maximum MAT of c. 27°C was reached between 56–57 Ma and maintained to at least c. 55 Ma, accompanied by a decrease in MART to c. 2°C. Precipitation perhaps increased to >500 cm and was still somewhat seasonal. The climatic regime at 30°N was essentially equatorial. Along the northern border of the coastal plain, extensive bauxitic laterites developed in Arkansas. If any temperature "spike" occurred, it is not evident, but considering the already high level of MAT at this latitude, any shortterm temperature increase as postulated for high latitudes might not occur at such warm latitudes. By c. 50 Ma, MAT had declined to 22–23°C in central Texas, but, just as significantly, MGSP had undergone a major decrease to c. 130 cm with a marked dry season (3 Dry = 15 cm). Indeed, this dryness appears greater than that evidenced in the overlying floras of the Claiborne Group in the middle Eocene. The only other certain lowland North American floras in the 48–60 Ma interval are those distributed along the west coast. During the late Paleocene, floras are known from south-central Alaska (Chickaloon Fm. and flora) south to southern British Columbia (Huntingdon Fm., Kanaka Creek flora) and adjacent Washington (Chuckanut Fm.: Bellingham Bay and Slide Member floras); early Eocene floras are known on the Yakutat block, then positioned off southeastern Alaska (Kulthieth, including the flora of the Kulthieth and Kushtaka Fms.), and southern British Columbia (Huntingdon Fm.: Terminal Dock and similar floras). Middle Eocene lowland floras are known from the Yakutat block (Charlotte Ridge flora), southern British Columbia (Huntingdon Fm.: Kitsilano Beach flora), south of Seattle (Franklinian floras in the Green River Canyon section of the Puget Group), and near San Diego (Del Mar flora). The main plant-bearing beds of the Chickaloon are bracketed


A SBR-VRT hybrid method combining the bouncing ray method (SBR) and the vector radiative transfer equation (VRT) is proposed in this paper. The basic idea of the hybrid method is illustrated. The composite scattering of a tank located above a rough ground surface covered by vegetation is calculated. The influence of different incident wave frequencies on the composite scattering results is discussed. By comparing the simulating results in the S-band and L-band, it can be found that: the values of ground scattering and composite scattering are in general agreement when the incident angles less than 10°. With the increasing of the incident angle, the total scattered coefficient decreases firstly and then increase, which reaching an interval peak at 25°, and finally decrease.


We have extended two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy to the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region, to accurately measure the He $^{1}1S\ensuremath{-}^{1}2S$ transition at 120 nm. Our result is 4 984 872 315(48) MHz. This yields a ground state Lamb shift of 41 104(48) MHz, in fair agreement with theory and other experiments. This approach has the potential for significantly better accuracy once improvements in the laser and the wavelength metrology are implemented.


Plant-insect relations are very diverse and aff ected by many diff erent factors. When the temperature is low, the number of pollinators is mostly limited. In our study we document Diptera taxa collected on the early fl owering, legally protected Pulsatilla grandis Wender. Diptera were collected on the Csatár Hill (near Veszprém) and Vörös Hill (at Balatonalmádi) in the spring of 2019. Th e average number of Diptera individuals collected per hour were 1.7 and 2.4, respectively. At both sites the frequency of visitations was the highest around midday, then became lower in the aft ernoon. Th e majority of the collected insects belonged to hoverfl ies, and the most abundant species proved to be Brachypalpus valgus. However, the proportion of collected males and females was diff erent at the two sites. Th e understanding of relations between rare plant species and their pollinators is important from the aspect of ecology and nature conservation as well.


AbstractThis study investigates how the eight swedish parliamentary parties arguments regarding gender quotas. The timeboundary is set between the years 2010-2014. The purpose of this study is to i ...


Provided is a method for assembling a set of bearing assemblies 100 onto a mill roll 10 and for establishing a required bearing setting. The mill roll 10 is configured to receive a set of bearing assemblies 100 at each axial end, with the bearing rolling elements 100A contained within supporting chocks 102 adapted for placement within a mill housing. The chock assembly 102R and bearing assembly 100 at a first end of the roll are positioned first, and coupled to the first end an axial center rod 22 passing through an axial bore 24 of the roll 12. The chock assembly 102L and bearing assembly 100 at the second end of the roll 12 is then positioned onto the opposite end of the roll 12, and a connecting sub-assembly 300, 400, 504A is secured to the second end of the axial center rod 22. The connecting sub-assembly engages the second chock assembly 102L and bearing assembly 100, and is adjusted to achieve a desired bearing setting for both bearing assemblies 100 through the center rod 22.


Background: Nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) is required for the differentiation of Th2 responses, so we examined its role in mouse experimental asthma and tested the hypothesis that an NFAT blockade with a decoy against NFAT can prevent asthma progression. Objective: To determine the effects of the NFAT decoy oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) on the development of airway inflammation, we designed a novel ribbon-type ODN containing two binding sites for NFAT in a single decoy molecule without an open end, which is more stable than a conventional decoy, and largely preserved its structural integrity in the presence of nucleases. Methods: Ribbon-type NFAT decoy ODNs were transfected into ovalbumin (OVA)-sensitized CD3+ T cells in vitro. OVA-immunized mice received these cells by intraperitoneal injection. Airway hyperreactivity (AHR) was measured and the transfected CD3+ T cells' responses to the airways were characterized. Results: Development of AHR after OVA challenge was effectively abolished after adoptive transfer of ribbon-type NFAT decoy ODN transfected CD3+ T cells. Transfer of ribbon-type decoy significantly reduced the number of inflammatory cells and the concentrations of IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13, but not IFN-γ, in the bronchoalveolar lavage of the recipient mice. Conclusion: These results suggest the inhibitory effect of ribbon-type decoy ODNs against NFAT on the induction of bronchial asthma. Adoptively transferred CD3+ T cells, which are transfected with NFAT decoy, may be an effective strategy for the treatment of asthma.


A quasi-three-dimensional model (quasi-3D) has been developed through the implementation of an analytical 1DV flow model in existing depth-averaged shallow water equations. The model includes the effects of waves and wind on the vertical distribution of the horizontal velocities. Comparisons with data from both physical and field cases show that the quasi-3D approach is able to combine the effect of vertical structures with the efficiency of depth-averaged simulations. Inter-comparisons with three-dimensional simulations show that the quasi-3D approach can represent similar velocity profiles in the surf zone. Quasi-3D morphodynamic simulations show that the bed dynamics in the surf zone represent the relevant 3D effects in the surf zone much more than the depth-averaged computations. It was shown that the quasi-3D approach is computationally efficient as it only adds about 15-20% to the runtimes of a 2DH simulation which is minor compared to a run time increase of 250-800% when switching to a 3D simulation


Three early Austronesian morphological innovations are identified based on evidence from FGormosan languages. They are compatible with the same tree. That tree itself is similar to the tree already presented by the author basedon innovations in the numerals system.


Chinese opening reformation started in last 1970s. When we were walking to the world, the high technology rushes at head-on. Remote sensing, geographical information system, global positioning system, information highway, sustainable development, knowledge economic, and digital earth waves following waves come in.Most of Chinese scientists who are thinking about to make tracks for following the international science forward. But the understanding on Chinese situation is not too much.The problem is thinking much more of applications,overlook basic research and basic construction, especially lacking creativity. This paper discusses fountainhead of remote sensing information, telemeter basic construction, positioning system, the software of geographical information system, the network base construct, database building, the method of science research, and how to training persons with high ability.


In the process of internationalization of higher education, the use of foreign teachers resources is very important. But at present there are still some problems. Actually, the use of foreign teachers resources means intercultural permeation. Therefore, the strategy of intercultural permeation must be carried out.


Nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals have potential uses in many devices utilizing their ability of frequency conversion, frequency mixing, electro-optic modulation etc. In the present work, single crystal growth and characterizations of NLO LArginine doped Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate (ADP) from solution by employing slow evaporation of the solvent have been reported. The inclusion of the dopant has been confirmed qualitatively by FT-IR study. UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy shows the improvement in the optical transparency. Crystal structure has been studied by powder X-Ray diffraction. The Second Harmonic Generation efficiency has been studied by Kurtz and Perry method and found to be 1.22 times more for 2mol% L-Arginine doped ADP as compare to pure ADP. Thermal analysis has also been performed on the grown crystals to study thermal stability.


The data mining-based adaptive model generation(AMG) is introduced.AMG is a real time structure for implementing data mining-based intrusion detection systems.According to the principle of structural design,the network audit data flow is picked up with open source Snort from network circumstance.Then,simple analysis of intrusion detection is carried out.The analysis result is displayed by visualization interface.


Given the existing interest, from a computational point of view, in the boundary layer aspects of the theory of thin shear-deformable plates, we undertake an asymptotic analysis of the stress boundary problem for a semi-infinite anisotropic plate. Our principal conclusion is that the effect of anisotropy can result in order of magnitude changes for the quantities of interest, relative to the corresponding quantities for orthotropic and isotropic plates.


Depression in the elderly is a major mental health problem. It may occur as the primary psychiatric disorder or in association with coexisting conditions, such as dementia, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Appropriate diagnosis and effective treatment can do much to reduce the impact of this chronic mental illness.


Visual object tracking is a fundamental task in many high-level computer vision applications. Most existing algorithms have to build complex models with expensive computation to achieve accurate object tracking, which brings significant difficulty in real-time tracking. In order to address this problem, motivated by recent success of high-speed correlation filter (CF) models, a novel real-time object tracking method is proposed in this paper based on multi-cue adaptive correlation filters (MCF). Different from conventional CF-based trackers that employ a fixed feature, our method explores multi-cue adaptation that automatically discovers the effective cues to handle specific scenarios. Specifically, our framework is built with multiple CF-based trackers using different cues, such as intensity, color, texture and edge. In a new frame, the trackers run their own tasks simultaneously and compete to locate the target. A unified measure is introduced to evaluate the tracking performance of different trackers and find out the best prediction, which will be used as the final result of all the trackers. The proposed method is evaluated with extensive experiments both quantitatively and qualitatively, demonstrating that it is robust to various challenging factors in object tracking and outperforms many state-of-the-art methods.


fter talking to many agronomists and farmers around the state today (May 30) it seems that many will have to replant a few fields because of the extensive rainfall that we have received over the last week. Looking at the weather forecast for Iowa today, it just does not seem to give us any relief with chances of rain pretty much every day during the next week. In several of those heavy rainfall areas hail also occurred. This adds a whole new dimension to crop injuries when making replant decisions. Fortunately, most soybean fields were planted 3 weeks later than we would like to see and therefore the plants were barely out of the ground when the storms came through Iowa.


Granules of fensulfothion ( O, O -diethyl O-[P -(methyl-sulfinyl) phenyl] phosphorothioate) (Dasani®) and thionazin ( O, O -diethyl O -2-pyrazinyl phosphorothioate) (Zinopho®) were applied to carrots at seeding or in the forked-leaf stage to control carrot rust fly, Psila rosae (F.). These treatments were supplemented with drenches 28 days later and at 3-week intervals up to 4 times. Samples of carrots were taken at various time intervals starting 1 day after the final drench. Analyses showed that of the maximum residue after the end of treatment, about 30% of the fensulfothion and 23% of the thionazin were still present in the carrot samples taken 56 days later.


abstract:Bermuda-born Mary Prince (c. 1787–c. 1833) is the first known Black woman to relate a slave narrative. Her story, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself, was first published in 1831. Prince, who became a Bermudian National Hero in 2012, is associated with historic Cavendish, once a grand home located in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. Cavendish presents an opportunity to explore the story of a colonial heritage structure in Bermuda that is connected to the story of Mary Prince and thus to slavery. The oldest part of Cavendish was built in the mid-1700s or earlier. It has undergone several renovations. In 1969 it was converted into a housing complex, yet historic Bermuda cedar and pine remain. Isotopic analysis of timber fragments taken from hand-hewn Bermuda cedar beams and pine planks in the oldest remaining sections of the house indicate that the pine likely originated in Georgia. This finding aligns with the narrative that Bermudians historically harvested timber from the Georgia region of the southeastern United States from the late 1600s—before Georgia was formally chartered as a colony in 1732.