Nigeria continues to experience animal protein shortages for human consumption due to many challenges facing the livestock industry. Snails as a member of the livestock group constitute an important source of animal protein which can take care of this shortfall if feeding and other management practices are properly addressed. It contains about 18-20% protein in wet weight basis, high iron content of (45-59mg/kg), low in fat (0.05-0.08%) and contains almost all the amino acids needed for human nutrition. The effect of different level of Gmelina arborea leaf meal (GALM) and enzymes supplementation on the growth characteristics of Juvenile land snail (Archachatina marginata) was investigated in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) which lasted for ten weeks. Three levels of GALM (0, 25 and 50%) and two supplementation levels (no enzyme, enzymes supplementation) were studied. A total of two hundred and seventy (270) juvenile snails were used for the experiment with six diets, three replicates and fifteen animals per replicate. Final body weight (g) recorded were 101.64g, 96.90g, 89.18g, 95.32g and 96.50g for 0, 25, and 50% GALM inclusions, no supplement and enzymes supplement respectively. The result indicated that rate of gain (g/day) and daily fed intake (g) decreased consistently with increase in level of GALM, while supplementation with enzymes increased the rate of gain and daily feed intake. It was observed that up to 25% level of GALM level inclusion pose no harm to the growth and development of juvenile snail. Therefore, up to 25% GALM inclusion level in snails diet is recommended and in the same vein enzyme supplementation in the diets of snails should be encouraged since it improves growth characteristics.


Rainstorm waterlogging disaster, as one of the most devastating natural hazards in Shanghai, has badly affected residents' lives and operation of urban system. As the accumulation of population and wealth, in the background of global climate change and sea level rises, the vulnerability of coastal city show an increasing trend which may lead a very serious situation of rainstorm waterlogging disaster risk. From the point view of scenario analysis, the vulnerability of the indoor property and structure of the buildings to rainstorm waterlogging disasters in central urban area of Shanghai was analyzed and evaluated combined with the previous studies. The main conclusions were as follows: 1) The vulnerability of different building types presents significant difference. The warehousing and the old-style residence are the most vulnerable building types when exposure to waterlogging disasters. 2) The loss rate, number, and types of damaged buildings increase as the precipitation intensity increases. 3) The structure of buildings was more vulnerable than the properties in the buildings, but the loss rate of building structure was lower than that of the properties in the building in the same condition. 4) The number of building with damaged structure was higher than that of building with damages property under the same scenario. 5) The spatial difference of the vulnerability of buildings is obvious. Over all, the rainstorm waterlogging disaster has the most serious effects on the buildings in Yangpu, Putuo and Xuhui District; the buildings in Changning, Hongkou and Zhabei District have medium vulnerability rank; the buildings in Luwan, Jing'an and Huangpu District have low vulnerability rank.


From the purpose and requirements of slope stability monitoring departure,the article detail described the entire process of the application of GPS,including the reference point of GPS monitoring network setting,monitoring network observation methods,field observation,data processing,deformation analysis,and so on.GPS monitoring technology have high monitoring precision,fewer restriction,can be well used in slope stability monitoring.


Based on analyzing the research status of the evaluation index system of enterprise informatization, the paper puts forward new principles for constructing the evaluation index system of enterprise informatization, which are taking the enterprise as the core and changing the subject of the evaluation, with fully reflecting the competitive power of the enterprise as the starting point. Then, the paper compares the constructing thoughts of the new and the previous index systems. Finally, according to the new principles, the paper proposes a set of evaluation index system of enterprise informatization, including four first grade indexes: informatization quality, construction of cooperative systems, application level and informatization environment. In addition to the breadth and the internal environment of enterprise informatization, the depth and the external environment are also taken into considered comprehensively in this index system, which is beneficial to measure informatization level and competitive power of the enterprise.


Obstetric high technology is being increasingly exported to developing countries where more often than not it is eagerly received. The traditional view that childbirth is a normal event to be handled by family and community is superseded by the aims of universal hospital delivery. The replacement of indigenous methods and technology can lead to new health risks for mothers and babies due to shortages of drugs and adequately trained staff. Modern obstetrics often serves the economic and social interests of elites rather than those of the great majority of women in need of basic care. High technology hospitals consume vast resources and are decidedly wasteful. High technology also tends to produce a hierarchical distribution of decision-making power and the transformation of social relationships. Appropriate technology in health care has never been clearly defined. What is needed is a radical questioning of the effects of technologies on the social systems into which they are introduced.


Abstract : This report presents a suite of application-oriented benchmarks, and the methodology supporting it. This document describes the development of a benchmark suite that can be used to quantify the performance gains likely to be achieved for defense computer programs when implemented using approaches and architecture developed under DARPA's Data Intensive Systems (DIS) program.


I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions. We would be surprised by our time-visitor's memory, broad range of ideas and clear-sighted view of important issues. I would also guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues. I do not mean to imply something special about this time in history or the location, but would also make this wager for the ancient inhabitants of Africa, Asia, India or the Americas of perhaps 2,000 to 6,000 years ago. I mean to say simply that we Homo sapiens may have changed as a species in the past several thousand years and will use 3000 years to emphasize the potential rapidity of change and to provide a basis for calculations, although dates between 2,000 and 6,000 years ago might suffice equally well. The argument that I will make is that new developments in genetics, anthropology and neurobiology make a clear prediction about our historical past as a species and our possible intellectual fate. The message is simple: our intellectual and emotional abilities are genetically surprising fragile.


To implement a calling party number anonymous service in an IP telephone service. An IP telephone terminal adds the setting of requesting a Pool IP address along with a normal IP address to a REGISTER message directed from the IP telephone terminal to an SIP server and requests the assignment of a temporary IP address if receiving an anonymous call incoming request message. The SIP server makes the temporary assignment of the Pool IP address and notifies the temporary IP address to a called party IP telephone terminal by adding it to an INVITE message, if the called IP address of the anonymous call incoming request INVITE message is the IP telephone terminal. The called IP telephone terminal receiving the assignment of the temporary IP address can make the connection, communication and disconnection processes employing the temporary IP address as the self IP address in the following dialog.


Acid whey inhibited up to 90% of iron-catalyzed oxidation of phosphatidylcholine liposomes. Ultrafiltration, dialysis, heat treatment and chloroform extraction indicated that the primary antioxidant(s) in acid whey were polar, heat-stable compound(s) with molecular weights between 500 and 5,000. Lipid oxidation catalysts, including iron, lipoxidase, photoactivated riboflavin and hydrogen peroxide-activated metMb, were inhibited by acid whey and its ultrafiltration permeate. The antioxidant activity of the UF permeate increased with increasing pH (5.4–7.0). These data suggest that acid whey and its UF permeate could be used as a "natural" antioxidant.


This report has been created to summarize the different current results of the work done on the Shelter project. This report, deliverable 5.1, is to be used as reference document for the writing of recommendations for Public Authorities, what is the expected output of WP5. The report consists of four parts: · A short summary of the outputs of WP3, extended information can be obtained from the report "WP3.1 Coordination of Professionals" available on the Shelter website. · A summary of the data obtained by the questionnaire addressed to European SHOs. · A summary of the information obtained by the interviews to a selected group of experts on housing from different European countries. · Conclusions extracted from the three previous points.


A new electron deficient building block, difluorobenzothiadiazole (FBT) was designed and synthesized for the first time. Two low band gap polymers containing this unit or benzothiadiazole (BT) and an electron rich unit, benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDT) were synthesized by Stille coupling reaction. It was found that fluorine substitution significantly lowered the energy levels but did not affect the UV absorption properties of the polymer. Comparatively, the fluorinated polymer showed a higher melting point and a reduced solubility. The electrical and photovoltaic properties of these polymers were studied by fabricating thin film transistors and polymer solar cells. The solar cell based on FBT polymer and PC71BM gives power conversion efficiency up to 3.4% under AM 1.5 G illumination (100 mW cm−2).


Our lab has previously demonstrated that estrogen (E2) downregulates the expression and function of voltage‐gated, L‐type Ca2+ channels (CaL) in coronary arteries in vitro. In this study we hypothesized that the in vivo depletion of E2 would generate an increase in Ca2+‐dependent arterial tone. Mice (C57BL/6) underwent an ovariectomy (OVX) or sham surgery at 8‐wks of age. Biotelemetry measured a drop in heart rate (p=0.002) and blood pressure (p=0.09) in OVX mice within 2‐wks post‐surgery suggesting a baroreceptor reflex compensation. Mice were sacrificed 4‐wks post‐surgery and the mesenteric arteries isolated. The OVX mice demonstrated atrophied uteri and low E2 plasma levels. In the mesenteric arteries, Western blots demonstrated a slight (p=0.12) increase in CaL expression from OVX mice. Mesenteric arterial reactivity experiments indicated no difference between groups in their spontaneous tone and response to the CaL agonist, FPL64176 (3×10−7 to 1×10−6). This suggests that, while E2 depletion alone does not promote hypertension, other underlying pathologies in conjunction with E2 depletion may lead to hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. Support: NIGMM of the NIH, Grant #P20 GM103429–11


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Selkirk was not a literary diarist. It is plain that he had no intention of committing his reflections to posterity. His only purpose was to compile a volume of memoranda that would aid in the proper conduct of business. For this reason the picture that emerges is fresh, homely, and candid. The Highlanders who settled on the shores of Hillsborough Bay and who so downrightly refused to settle away from tidewater, the Stewarts who refused to place any value whatever on land without frontage on the coast, Father Burke of Halifax who said that he could carry his congregation to Canada on his back, convey in a very vivid way the kind of thing people were saying and doing in this interesting but relatively little known period in the history of the Atlantic provinces. Though ,Mr. White's purely local knowledge is not so remarkable as that of other scholars who have produced volumes for the Champlain Society, his footnotes invariably indicate the proper way to ,tlnd such information.


This study aims to describes the ability of communication, organizational climate, and work motivation on the create of employee performance in the Yapen Selatan District. The research method used is quantitative research using statistical procedures. The research instrument was a questionnaire with a Likert scale. The sample in this study were 52 employees in the Yapen Selatan District. Multiple linear regression test with the help of SPSS 22 software is used to determine the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable. The results showed that the variables of communication and work motivation had a significant positive effect on employee performance. While the organizational climate variable has a significant negative effect on employee performance. Communication, organizational climate, and work motivation together have an effect on the performance of South Yapen District employees.
Keywords: Communication, Organizational Climate, Work Motivation, Employee Performance.


GE Energy's Jenbacher reciprocating engine subsidiary, which last year sold its 500th gas engine in The Netherlands, has successfully developed a specialist niche market using CHP systems to generate light, heat and fertilising CO 2 for horticultural operations.


This paper deals with a new control method for an atmospheric-pressure discharge plasma generator. The plasma generator consists of a voltage-source inverter, a step-up transformer, a resonant inductor and two parallel electrode plates. The high-frequency high voltage induced by series resonance between the equivalent capacitance of the plates and the resonant inductor generates glow plasma between the plates. However, a continuously-applied voltage may cause streamer or arc discharges instead of glow plasma, when the plates are under atmospheric pressure. This paper discusses an application of pulse density modulation (PDM) to the plasma generator, and proposes a new PDM method suitable for atmospheric-pressure plasma. A conventional PDM method repeats alternate run and stop to adjust the output power. The switching pattern is designed to minimize power variations. In contrast, the switching pattern of the proposed PDM method is designed to achieve a quick decrease in discharge current and electrode voltage during the inverter is stopped. As a result, the proposed method makes it possible to eliminate the streamer or arc discharges, leading to stable glow plasma. Experimental results are shown to verify the viability of the proposed PDM method.


ABSTRACT Principal eigenvectors of adjacency matrices are often adopted as measures of centrality for a graph or digraph. However, previous principal-eigenvector-like measures for a digraph usually consider only the strongly connected component whose adjacency submatrix has the largest eigenvalue. In this paper, for each and every strongly connected component in a digraph, we add weights to diagonal elements of its member nodes in the adjacency matrix such that the modified matrix will have the new unique largest eigenvalue and corresponding principal eigenvectors. Consequently, we use the new principal eigenvectors of the modified matrices, based on different strongly connected components, not only to compose centrality measures but also to identify bowtie structures for a digraph.


The effects of a video vignette on the treatment acceptability ratings of four behavioral interventions were evaluated. Two interventions involved positive reinforcement (DRO and DRI) and two negative consequences (contingent physical restraint and contingent electric shock). Seventy-four undergraduate psychology students were randomly assigned into two groups. The experimental group (n=36) viewed a video vignette of a self-abusive individual whereas the control group (n=38) did not. Acceptability ratings prior to the video showed no differences between the experimental and control groups. The post video ratings indicated significant acceptability increases for physical restraint for the experimental group. There also was a significant group by testing effect because the means for the experimental group rose whereas the control group's means were stable. These results replicated and extended Foxx, McHenry and Bremer (in press) who showed that treatment acceptability is alterable through video.


This publication brings together papers from SPIE's 1998 annual meeting. They focus on image intensifiers and their applications and the charcteristics and consequences of space debris and near-earth objects.


This thesis studies loss aversion and reference-dependent preferences. The second chapter and the fourth chapter analyze the price strategy for the monopolist with a loss-averse consumer following the reference-dependent model of K®szegi and Rabin (2006). The second chapter takes into account the happiness of not paying at the highest price and the disappointment of not paying at the lowest price and nds that this happiness has a positive e ect on the monopolist's revenue and this disappointment has a negative e ect on the monopolist's revenue. The fourth chapter proposes a two-period pricing model and shows that the monopolist could make use of two-price strategy to earn a revenue that is greater than the product value. The revenue of the two-period model is higher than one-period model when the weight of gain-loss utility is big enough. The third chapter studies the winner's regret with bidders when they have reference-dependent preferences in the sealed-bid rstprice auction, second-price auction and all-pay auction and shows that the optimal bid is smaller with regret than without regret for loss-averse bidders, is greater for gain-seeking bidders and is the same for risk-neutral bidders.


Objective To study the prophylactic effect of fludarabine in graft versus host disease (GVHD) after bone marrow transplantation in rat models. Methods SD rats were transplanted with Wistar rats allogeneic bone marrow transplantation model. SD rats were divided into 4 groups. In group A and B, fludarabine was given as prophylaxis against GVHD. Group A and B were under condition with fludarabine for 4 days at a dose of 1 mg/kg per day 1 prior to transplantation, and received TBI 2 Gy and 6 Gy 4 hours prior to BMT; Group C and D were exposed to doses of 2 Gy and 6 Gy TBI at the same time. All these recipient rats were injected with donor bone marrow cells at a dose of 3.8×10 7 bone marrow cells per mouse by tail vein. Afterwards we observed GVHD of the four groups. Results Survival periods of rats received fludarabine were longer than that of rats only received TBI ( P 0.05), and the severity of graft versus host disease was also milder. Conclusion Fludarabine can effectively prevent GVHD and alleviate complication associated with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.


We sintered Sr 2 Fe x Ni 1-x MoO 6 perovskites by means of improved ceramic technology, adding a specific reduction agent, between 1100 ÷ 1200°C in air. Some test treatments were performed in O 2 or vacuum. The sintered/treated samples were investigated by means of XRD by using a DRON 2.0 diffractometer, with an acquisition data system. The magnetic measurements were performed between 77 and 600 K by using a Foner-type magnetometer. In the same range of temperatures we made the transport measurements. The XRD data were handled with DICVOL©/Check Cell©/Powder© programs. The structure of the sintered sample in the presence of the reduction agent is different relatively to those treated in H 2 + Ar atmosphere samples with the same chemical composition. The test performed by means of FullProf© program indicated a smaller oxygen concentration, as comparing with the stoechiometric double perovskites, which leads to a change of the compounds crystalline symmetry. All sintered phases have the same structure characterized by the GS 117 (P4b2). The volume of the unit cell and the lattice constants increases with the Fe concentration in the sample. Large values of magnetoresistance were observed near room temperature.


The goal was to examine values-related assessments as potential organizational predictors.
The participants were bank cashiers (N = 300) from a large banking organization. The predictors
were two sets of measures related to values: ratings of the importance of 20 values (as
measured by WIS Values Scale), and ratings of the degree to which these values are perceived
attained in an individual's job. The criteria were performance ratings assessed by the superiors
and self-assessed job satisfaction. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to
examine the extent to which the two sets of assessments predicted each of the two criteria.
The predictors were unrelated to the performance ratings. However, job satisfaction was well
predicted, primarily by the value-attainment ratings. Significant predictors included: perceived
opportunities for participation in decision, perceived attainment of ability utilization, and the
importance of life style that was negatively related to job satisfaction of bank cashiers. It was
concluded that value-based measures might enhance organizational assessment.


The article notes that publicity and retrieval, not disposition and competitiveness are inherent in our legal system in whole and first of all, in criminal proceedings.


People with down syndrome, is very difficult to socialize due to significant communication difficulties. It is difficult to give any of the organizational actions in your daily life. To solve these problems so people recommend sports activities, which contribute to the development of many necessary for living in society skills – punctuality, neatness, discipline and diligence. Very suitable in this case the sport is football. This is a team sport that can generate team spirit, sense of camaraderie, mutual support, creating the basis for rapid adaptation in the team. So, in football, people with down syndrome, become healthier, active socializers, develop their talents and become more sociable. The analysis of the views of parents of children with down syndrome showed a high significance of sport in their child's life. This section, such children get valuable experience. Here they take an example and try to be polite. Sports activity socialize a child gives you the opportunity to prove himself as an athlete and help them overcome internal barriers. Sports trigger in children with down syndrome the physical and psychological indicators. According to parents, it is football changing the lives of their child in a better way children adapt to life in the team, reveal their mental capacity, making whiter confident and more disciplined.


Nowadays, the traffic type and behavior are extremely diverse due to the appearance of various services on Internet, which makes the need of traffic identification important for efficient operation and management of network. In recent years traffic identification methodology using statistical features of flow has been broadly studied. We also proposed a traffic identification methodology using payload size distribution in our previous work, which has a problem of low completeness. In this paper, we improved the completeness by solving the PSD conflict using IP and port. And we improved the accuracy by changing the distance measurement between flow and statistic signature from vector distance to per-packet distance. The feasibility of our methodology was proved via experimental evaluation on our campus network.


Abstract : The ntensities of the primary cosmic ray heavy nuclei, Z equal to or greater than 3, have been studied during several Forbush decreases. Fifteen values of the intensity were measured using nuclear emulsion detectors flown during a balloon cosmic ray monitoring program. These values are those observed before, during or after four of the largest Forbush decreases that occurred in the last solar cycle. Examination of this data, together with that previously available in the literature suggests that the heavy nuclei are modulated in a similar manner to the alphaparticle and protons of the primary radiation, showing that the modulation process is not a strongly charge dependent one. (Author)


Agricultural waste can be an interesting possibility to be applied as reducing agent instead of coal-based used in steelmaking which is considered to be one of the largest energy intensive sector. As a result of enormous amount of wastes generated by agricultural sectors, numerous research on application of waste as energy source have been conducted. Utilisation of these wastes as valuable materials could provides solution to environmental problems. This present study investigated the reduction of iron oxide with agricultural waste from palm shells in a horizontal tube furnace. Composite pellets of iron oxide (96.0 % Fe2O3) with palm char in three different proportions were rapidly heated up to 1550 °C under argon gas flow. The reduced sample after reaction time, 30 minutes was examined using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) equipped with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and measured for degree of reduction. The results indicated that iron oxide which composed primarily Fe2O3 can be effectively reduced by palm shells as reductant where a significant improvement in the degree of reduction. The initial hematite powder could successfully reduced to metallic iron after a complete reduction process. This finding indicates that carbon from palm shells could be used as reductant in steelmaking processes.


Background: Type of study: Experimental. Study design: Case series. Place and duration of study: It was conducted in surgical unit-4 DHQ Hospital, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad from January 2009 to December 2011. Objectives: To evaluate the safety of total thyroidectomy for benign disease in terms of permanent complications i.e. Hypoparathyroidism and Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (RLN) damage.


Multiblock copolymers of polystyrene (PS) and poly(tert-butoxy styrene) (PtBOS) with a two-length-scale architecture were synthesized through sequential anionic polymerization. The copolymers, with polydispersities between 1.18 and 1.28, are composed of two long end chains and multiple short middle diblock units: PS-b-(PtBOS-b-PS)n-b-PtBOS. Hydrolysis of this material resulted in the first successful formation of polystyrene-block-poly(para-hydroxy styrene) (PS-b-PpHS) multiblock copolymers. The phase behavior of two dodecablock copolymers (with a different end block length) was investigated, revealing a lamellar morphology for both systems. The limited degree of phase separation is supposedly induced by the short chain length of the middle diblock units (N = 90), and the lamellar structure arises from self-assembly of the end blocks. The scattering pattern of a hexadecablock copolymer indicated nanoscale ordering as well, although phase segregated microdomains were not distinguished in the transmission electron micrographs. The degree of microphase separation is low, due to the large number of middle diblock units (n = 7) in combination with their short chain length (N = 90). Esterification of PS-b-PpHS resulted in polystyrene-block-poly(para-trifluoroacetoxy styrene) (PS-b-PpTFAS) multiblock copolymers. The aromatic ester moieties in the copolymers were found to be unstable, and are thought to undergo UV radiation induced rearrangement. Nonetheless, the phase behavior of the converted copolymers was still investigated. The degree of microphase separation was not improved compared to the PS-b-PpHS system, and similar repeating distances were determined. A unique two-length-scale lamellar morphology with multiple periodicity was observed for an octablock copolymer consisting of longer middle diblock units (N = 180). The hierarchical Synthesis and self-assembly of multiblock copolymers 3 nanostructure includes one thick lamellar domain of PS, another thick lamellar domain of PpHS, and two thin lamellae of PS and PpHS in between, all in excellent agreement with the two-length-scale architecture of the multiblock copolymer. The repeating unit of the large length scale was determined to be 44 nm, although the degree of long-range order was


Manure is composed of feces, bedding, wasted feed, and runoff water. Most of manure nutrients
come from urine and feces excreted from animals that contain undigested components from their
diets, excretion end products from normal metabolism, and bacterial cells from indigenous bacteria
in the digestive tract. The amount and composition of freshly excreted manure can vary and is primarily
influenced by the original composition of the diet. Diet ingredient sources, forms and levels
can influence nutrient availability, excretion levels and forms. Because ruminants (including beef
cattle and dairy cattle in this paper) have different digestive systems compared to nonruminants (including
poultry and swine in this paper) excreta volume and composition differs. The digestive tract
of a ruminant includes a multi (4)-compartment stomach that possesses a microbial population capable
of digesting and releasing nutrients from highly fibrous feeds (forages) or highly digestible
grains for the animal's use. The nonruminant has a simple stomach (one compartment) that does not
efficiently digest highly fibrous feeds, but requires highly digestible grains readily digested by enzymes
to release nutrients for the animal's use. Understanding the bioavailability of nutrients from
feed sources used in the diets is critical for formulating a diet that will meet the productive needs of
the animal. Feed management practices can also influence the efficiency of nutrient utilization in
livestock and poultry operations. Odorous and gaseous compounds are emitted immediately after
excretion due to microbial metabolism in the digestive tract of the animal. Further decomposition
during storage can occur resulting in gaseous emissions and odors that have an impact on air quality.
Since the animal is the initial source of nutrient excretions and odors from animal operations,
diet manipulation is a practical and economical way to control excess nutrient excretions and reduce
gaseous emissions. This paper summarizes key research approaches and results related to using
diet manipulation to reduce nutrient excretions and minimize odors from livestock and poultry
operations. In addition, this paper identifies some information gaps and needed research to fill the
voids in information to maintain livestock and poultry production while sustaining environmental
stewardship.


The concentration of affluence has been on rise in Sweden during the last couple of decades. Meanwhile, the new housing construction is said to mainly be constructed for high-income earners, and th ...


The end of the century offers an opportunity to reflect on legal responses to changes in social and economic organisation. Increasing reliance on sophisticated technology, the developing popular vocabulary of risk, and attempts to deploy the resources of criminal law against business enterprises are some of the manifestations of those changes. This paper argues that the debate about potential criminal liability for 'Millennium Bug' disasters captures these key features of contemporary life. After discussing the broad theoretical framework of disaster and risk, the paper moves to a detailed analysis of recent developments in corporate criminal liability in England and Wales, and in other jurisdictions.


Diversity, understood in a multiplicity of ways, has been a focus of attention in education in recent years. As in many other countries, recent post‐school education policies in Aotearoa/New Zealand have emphasised previously under‐represented ethnic groups, such as Māori and Pasifika. The intention has been to widen participation in further and higher education (FHE) as a means to improve the country's economic performance in a global market. However, the same policies imply a deficit discourse – where diversity is perceived as a problem or deficit to be 'fixed'. As part of a larger study into FHE student retention, 137 teachers were surveyed to identify what they did to cater for the learning of these 'diverse' students. The responses varied. For example, some insisted that, to be fair, all students had to be treated the same; others described teaching/learning approaches they used to ensure students succeeded. Five positions were identified in the data: universal, universal/group, group, group/individual, and individual. These positions are discussed and linked to Banks's cultural‐pluralist and assimilationist ideologies. It is argued that FHE teachers could draw on strategies from each of the three main positions to enhance student learning.


XML is spreading quickly as a format for electronic documents and messages. As a consequence, greater importance is being placed on the XML security technology. Against this background research and development efforts into XML security are being energetically pursued. This paper discusses the W3C XML Signature and XML Encryption specifications, which represent the fundamental technology of XML security, as well as other related technologies originally developed by NEC. Web Service Transactions are done mainly through plain-text XML formats like SOAP and WSDL, hence hacking them is not a tedious task. XML Signature and XML Encryption ensure security to XML documents as well as retain the structure of the documents, thereby making it easy to implement them. These two methods are evaluated on the parameters of authentication, authorization, integration, confidentiality and non-repudiation.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of losartan and perindopril on ventricular remodeling and left ventricular function after AMI in rats.METHODS Animal models of AMI were made in rats and randomly divided into 5 groups: sham-operated group (S), control (C),losartan treatment(L),perindopril treatment(P) , and combined treatment (LP).After 6 weeks,the heart length, periphery, left ventricular weight,heart rate,blood pressure,left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP),left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and± dp/dt were measured.RESULTS The SBP, SDP, MAP and LVSP were significantly decreased in all the treated groups( P 0.01 or P 0.05) .Compared with S group,LVEDP was significantly increased in C( P 0.001)and the treated groups( P 0.05) , ±dp/dt was significantly decreased ( P 0.01) . LVEDP in the treated groups was lower than that in C group (P 0.01) .±dp/dt in the treated groups was higher than that in C group ( P 0.01) . The heart length and periphery and left ventricle weight were significantly increased in C groups( P 0.05). CONCLUSION Losartan and Perindopril could improve the left ventricular remodeling and heart functions in AMI rats.


TiO_2 nanoparticles were loaded on the Fe-MCM-41 mesoporous molecular sieves after the surface chemical modification of Fe-MCM-41 with KH-550 under different conditions. It was found that the polarities of the solvents in the silylanization have great influences on the adsorbability of photocatalyst composite. X-ray diffraction (XRD), diffuse reflectance ultra-violte-visible spectrum (UV-Vis), Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR) and N_2 adsorption/desorption isotherms were used to characterize the TiO_2-Fe-MCM-41 composite. It was shown that Fe-MCM-41 has different silylanization extent with KH-550 in the different solvents. Comparing with those modified in polar solvents, the composite modified in hexane has much stronger adsorbability and better dispersive ability to TiO_2 nanoparticles.


Many historical sites in Italy suffer severe damages to wood structures, works of art and ancient books due to well established subterranean termite populations ( Reticulitermes sp., R. lucifugus lucifugus, R. lucifugus corsicus). In six field tests, termite colonies were treated with a baiting procedure based on the delivery of cellulose matrix impregnated with hexaflumuron, a slow acting chitin synthesis inhibitor. Six different large structures, in ancient towns, were chosen for their high historical value: a church, a museum, a monastery, a library, a cellar and a school. Treatments took place between 1995 and 1998, by means of baiting in underground and above ground stations. Different problems in contacting colonies, implementing networks of bait stations, finding effective concentration of hexaflumuron, managing reinfestation were overcome, and different decreasing trends were observed depending on the colonies features. In all sites total elimination of termite activity was reached in a period of between 3 and 12 months, delivering minimal quantities of hexaflumuron (0.3-3.4 g) to termites colonies.


Mixed flow pumps are a combination of both axial and radial flow pumps. In present days, they are having a wide range of applications. The impeller blade designing of mixed flow pump has always been a difficult task, the reason being it requires a lot of designing parameter to be considered for successful designing. When compared with radial and axial flow turbomachines, the mixed flow type of turbo-machines always get less importance for these complexities in their designing process. This complexity arises because of the complicated blade and geometry of fluid flow passage. Impeller is considered as one of the most important components in a mixed flow pump for the flow passage. The main objective is to improve the mixed flow pump efficiency and power up to 5-10% by using the method of varying the inlet and outlet blade angle. The three dimensional flow field of the whole flow passage of mixed flow pump in existing impeller and new impeller was optimally designed and numerically simulated using CFD software. The numerically simulation results show that the hydraulic performance of the mixed flow pump. By varying inlet and outlet blade angle with increasing and decreasing 10-20% with respect to design angle, the performance of pump has been analyzed. The modified eight blade design has improved efficiency of 5% when compared with existing six blade design.


In view of that no definite demonstrations of description of supplements are displayed in GB/T7714—2005 Rules for content,form and structure of bibliographic references,this paper studies the marking status of supplements in various major databases,the descriptive style of supplements in bibliographic references in articles and the descriptive style of supplements in bibliographic references presented by periodicals publishing houses,analyzes the deficiencies existing in marking and description of supplements at present and makes concrete proposals for solutions.


The location of a neighbourhood near an urban transformation zone causes physical and social changes in its housing-built environment. To date, many urban and social researchers have examined changes in neighbourhoods before and after urban transformation. However, few have studied the effects of transformation on nearby neighbourhoods. The purpose of this study is to examine changes in this kind of effect in Yalı Quarter (İzmir, Turkey). The methodology includes participant observation for 7 years, temporal photograph comparison, and interviews with residents. The findings on physical and morphological changes in the built environment show the changes from one or two-storey houses to 5-7storey apartments, new streets, public spaces, facilities, and new modes of transportation. The findings on the perspectives and daily lives of neighbourhood residents include both the difficulties of sustaining some habits (e.g., washing carpets and feeding animals become more difficult in balconies of apartments than terraced roofs and house gardens) and relationships with neighbours and the advantages of "new life" (e.g., physical durability of the new buildings and improved heating systems). The decision-makers are recommended to consider the people living in the transforming and nearby neighbourhoods, their daily life practices, and social processes while making changes in the physical environment and to prefer gradual changes rather than the transformation of the whole neighbourhood at once.


Abstract Donsker-Varadhan's type large deviation will be discussed for the pinned motion of a radial random walk on a homogeneous tree. We shall prove that the rate function corresponding to the large deviation is associated with a new Markov chain constructed from the above random walk through a harmonic transform based on a positive principal eigenfunction for the generator of the random walk.


Through the years, the LGBT community has established a universal network of social relations for homosexual people, defying social, cultural and political borders. What is promoted is a global community that shares a common historical past and an array of invented/established traditions that venerates it. Historically, the LGBT community has valorized the Stonewall riots of 1969 as the nodal point of gay and lesbian politicization and June has been set up as the month of LGBT Pride in order to keep the memory of homosexual revolution and liberation alive. Yet, the Stonewall riots along with the impulse of the LGBT movement and its subsequent traditions have been defined as solely Western practices that predominantly derive from the American experience of the incidents, thus excluding non-Western perspectives. Furthermore, the ideal global community often requires a common, unified identity based on codes and symbols of LGBT history. In my paper, I would argue that the politics of the gay community, despite its Western-oriented milieu, have managed to promote and affirm a universal gay identity through invented traditions in order to provide a "home," to project an imagined community that evades cultural, social, and racial frontiers, but above all to make this idea of "home" an available option.


Metastatic involvement of the pituitary gland is a very unusual presentation of prostatic cancer. We report a favorable response to medical treatment in such a patient.


This work introduces a strategy to improve the performance of visual ship hull inspection using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) as its underwater vehicle platform. The proposed method is aimed at developing a system that will maintain the camera viewing angle parallel to the ship hull surface. This system consists of four main units, namely, camera, laser pointers, pan-tilt platform and Cartesian platform. The position of the camera and the laser pointers are fixed. The system integrates laser beam tracking and underwater vehicle guidance technique. Initially, the region of interest (ROI), based on laser intensity input, is tracked with dynamic ROI estimation technique. Then, the feature extraction process will acquire the position of each laser points in the frames, and calculate the distance of the laser source and the surface. The range measurement was performed using the modified laser triangulation technique. This application focuses on binary images with extension of gray level concept. A closed-loop control system has been developed to classify the camera positions. An algorithm for overall system control has also been developed, using Intel Open CV and Visual C++. This system has been applied to the Cartesian platform. Several experiments using scaled-down ship hull structure are carried out. The test results are given and analyze to show its significant result The tracking system is able to perform horizontal and vertical slices within the range of 17 cm and 100 cm from the camera to the hull surface and the respond time is about 1 – 3s from the arbitrary surface to parallel surface on flat surface and 2 – 4s on curve surface. . In short, the system is found to be very practical and have great potential usefulness for ship hull inspection technology.


This study seeks to inform science education practitioners and researchers in the West about apparent attempts to reconcile science and religion in Pakistan's public school curriculum. We analysed the national high school science curriculum and biology textbooks (English) used in the Government schools in Pakistan, where Islamic faith is the cornerstone of the national curriculum, and we found that both religious and scientific perspectives are treated in relation to the origin and evolution of life. The religious text presented in the curriculum draws on the relevant Quranic verses about creation, while the scientific text discusses naturalistic, evidence-based theories about the biochemical origin of life and evolution. Evolution by natural selection is discussed in detail along with the evidence supporting the scientific understanding of evolutionary history. Interestingly, where scripture is presented in the biology textbooks, it is generally interpreted to be compatible with evolutionary understandings of the living world.


Physical processes which involve nucleation and growth or relaxation phenomena are analysed to arrive at the class of distribution functions which should characterize the terminal state of replicates. Confirmatory examples are cited and fields of potential application posited.


Brian Brady of the U.S. Bureau of Mines has altered his prediction that three major earthquakes will rock Lima, Peru, this summer (Eos, March 31). He had predicted that a magnitude 7.5–8.0 event would occur on or about June 28, followed by a magnitude 9.2 event (Kanamori scale) on or about August 10, and a magnitude 9.9 event on or about September 16. No such earthquake occurred in June.

Without the occurrence of the first quake, the other two 'are very improbable,' Brady told Eos. He communicated the update in a personal letter to Alberto Giesecke, the retired head of the Peruvian Geophysical Institute. Brady said he has not made a substitute specific prediction.


To reduce electromagnetic disturbance of nanopositioning caused by direct actuation of cylindrical permanent magnet synchronous linear motor(TPMSLM),the actuation mode of rotor and stator's eccentric installation of TPMSLM is studied.The actuation mode changes the interior space magnetic field distribution of TPMSLM,therefore the axial electromagnetic force containing electromagnetic disturbance is decreased and the radial electromagnetic force containing electromagnetic disturbance is produced.When guide damping is added,a large amount of electromagnetic disturbance can be absorbed.Further more,to prevent large positioning overshooting,a PI control algorithm with variable coefficients is studied,which changes dynamical and static actuation characteristics of system in real-time to supply optimal control parameters for large travel range actuation and nanopositioning actuation.Experimental results indicate that,using the eccentric actuation mode and variable coefficient PI control algorithm,large travel range positioning actuation without overshooting and accurate positioning with errors less than 10 nm are achieved.


Laser hardening or laser peening involves the interaction of an intense laser pulse
with the absorbing surface of the metal under water. An ablation shockwave is
produced which, depending on the geometry and laser beam area, induces residual
stress on the surface layer of the metal. The aim of the research work presented in
this thesis is to investigate optically the laser peening method by analysing the
ablation shock waves using high-resolution Schlieren photography. [Continues.]


This study examined the validity of the Korean version of the Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL) with 180 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in South Korea. Rasch analysis was applied to examine item fit, item difficulty, suitability of the response scale, and person and item separation indices of the K-CBCL. The results indicated that, with the exception of six out of the 119 items, the K-CBCL had a good item fit. Suitability of the rating scale was supported. Both Attention Problems and Aggressive Behavior factors differentiated two strata of behavior problems of children with ASD, whereas six other factors only captured one stratum of behavior problems. The item separation index indicated that the items were distributed well with high reliability. We demonstrated that statistical item analysis with the Rasch model could provide valuable information related to psychometric properties.


Mutagenic activity of water treated with chlorine dioxide was investigated, focusing on its stability. Chromosomal aberration test using Chinese hamster lung (CHL) cell was carried out to evaluate mutagenic activity. Activity inducing chromosomal aberrations of water treated with chlorine dioxide could be detected after the concentration of chlorite ion decreased. Activity inducing aberrations of humic acids treated with chlorine dioxide at neutral condition was in a range of one third to one half of that of chlorinated solution. It was found that activity inducing aberrations of water treated with chlorine dioxide decreased with hydrolysis reaction. While chloroform was produced with hydrolysis reaction, activity inducing aberrations decreased. The observed hydrolysis rate constant at neutral pH at 20•Ž was determined to be 0.15day-1, and half-life was estimated to be 4.5 days, which were one-eleventh as large as those of chlorinated water. These findings suggest that it is necessary to evaluate the varying mutagenic activities in distribution systems when mutagenic activities of waters treated with chlorine and chlorine dioxide are compared. KEYWORDS; chlorine dioxide, chloroform, mutagenic activity, chromosomal aberration test, hy-


Due to gravity function,interpretation technique in vertical wells is not fit to horizontal wells,which brings new challenges to production logging. Coventionally speaking,log data from horizontal wells are not easily interpretated because flow regimes in the horizontal wells,compared with that in the vertical wells,change more greatly due to dynamic undulations and borehole dimensions.On the basis of the predecessors' studies and two-phase flow dynamic conservation equations,horizontal flow model is set up to analyse the laminar flow, annular flow and turbulent flow, and then figure out the parameters needed. Trial research on quantitative interpretation of horizontal well logging is made and practical interpretation measures are given.


(1993). Oxford's Language learning strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know (Rebecca Oxford) Bilingual Research Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1-2, pp. 117-121.


With the rapid development of freeway construction,it has not been sufficient to the legal benefits of freeway in assigning tolls only by the method of the shortest path. Therefore,it is necessary to exactly estimate the path flow when we rationally disassemble these paths. However,for exactly calculating path flow,the detection points should set up rationally. This paper firstly elaborates the necessity of researching the distribution of the detection points,then,based on the former groundwork and present development of road network,we bring up some basic principles which set-up of the detection points must be followed. After then,we engaged in some major researches in the aspects of the model establishment,calculating algorithm and algorithm simulation. Finally,we come to a conclusion that it is the only way to rationally arrange the detection points for solving the problem of multiple path disassembling successfully.


The foreign trade volume of the Siberian Federal Zone kept increasing for a few years and even with a high speed in 2004-increasing 37 percent by September compared with the same period of the last year,more than the all-Russian increase percentage(26.4%).The Siberian trade volume had a small proportion in the all-Russian trade volume,but enjoyed a bigfavorable balance of trade.Since Russian economic situation took a turn for the better,Siberia's trade will remain an increase in the years to come.


A scalable and robust process was developed for the preparation of pexacerfont (2), a pyrazolotriazine corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 antagonist (CRF1). The formation of the core hydroxypyrazolotriazine moiety was achieved through two consecutive cyclizations of a semicarbazide, employing reaction conditions that are significantly milder than those reported in the literature. Further conversion to the key chloropyrazolotriazine intermediate was accomplished through a novel catalytic process using phosphorous oxychloride as the chlorinating agent. The active pharmaceutical ingredient 2 was obtained in >99.5% purity with a 68% overall yield for the six synthetic steps.


Risk factors for intrapartum neonatal infections are urinary tract infections, choriomanionitis, febrility states, colpitis gravis and premature rupture of membranes. The aim of this study was to examine the intrapartum maternal risk factors as predictors of the occurrence of early neonatal infection. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study included 957 mothers with one or more risk factors for early neonatal infection and their inewborns with gestational age of 37-42 weeks, both sexes, from singleton pregnancies and without visible anomalies. Results : Out of all newborns with intrapartum maternal risk factors 74 % were healthy newborns, 24 % with probable and 2 % proven neonatal infection. Colpitis gravis was the most common risk factor in all three groups of newborns. A model for prediction of early neonatal infection proved to be statistically significant (p <0.05) and explains between 24.60% and 34.20% of variance in the occurrence of early neonatal infection. The strongest predictors of probable neonatal infection is urinary tract infection, whose probability quotient is 20.55 and premature rupture of membranes with probability quotient 12.80. The strongest predictors for the occurrence of proven neonatal infection were chorioamnionitis with probability quotient 307.76 and febrile states with probability quotient 54.98. Conclusion: Knowing the risk factors for the occurrence of intrapartum infection prepares obstetricians and neonatologists for early identification and effective treatment, and therefore reduces morbidity and mortality both mothers and their newborn. Key words: n ewborn, r isk factor, intrapartum neonatal infection


As the necessary nutrient of ruminant, mineral element impact on the performance and health. Research advance of mineral elements from 2008 to 2009 has been reviewed in this article. The major elements are calcium, phosphorus and the trace elements are selenium, copper, manganese and molybdenum in recent research. The contents of research are involved in the effects of mineral elements on ruminant growth and development, the maintenance of physiological function, rumen fermentation, milk yield and product quality, immune function.


This paper aims to discuss a collection of empirical studies examining the impact of electronic supply chain management (e-SCM) processes on customer satisfaction. A review of the relevant literature has shown that a limited number of previous studies has attempted to identify the impact of e-SCM processes on customer satisfaction. Thus, the obtained data from the secondary source will be discussed and explained here. Findings of this study show the impact of e-SCM processes on customer satisfaction. This study has been based on a literature review and opens the door for future researchers to further expand this field.


Economists have paid close attention to economic development in Southeast Asia, where corruption and bribery are believed to be ubiquitous. In this article, we study the reasons why firms bribe. Specifically, we study the effects of the competition encountered by Southeast Asian firms on their bribing behavior. This article focuses on two types of bribing behavior: (1) informal payments given to the government so that it will ignore rule violations and (2) informal payments to the government to secure a contract. Using firm-level and country-level data from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam between 2009 and 2014, we find that the market competition will increase bribing behavior, while political competition within the country will reduce the likelihood of bribing.


The oxidation of methionine residue in position 35 of Ab to sulphoxide (Ab‐sulphoxide) has the ability to deeply modify wild‐type Ab 1–42 (Ab) neurotoxic action. Our previous studies suggest that in nucleated cells, lower toxicity of Ab‐sulphoxide might result not from structural alteration, but from elevation of methionine sulphoxide reductase A (MsrA) activity and mRNA levels.


A circuit according to an example includes an immitance converter amplifier based on a plurality of transistors of a first conductivity type and a supply transistor coupled between an output of the immitance converter amplifier and a supply for a supply potential, the supply transistor being a transistor of a second conductivity type complementary to the first type.


In view of different opinions on the issue of reconstruction of the historic buildings in the landscape and famous scenery,the background of the issue of the fake antique was analyzed by reviewing the reconstruction of Huanghe Building.The principle of truth of Venice Charter were restudied.Finally,significance and necessity of reconstruction of the historic buildings were described and the value of reconstruction of the historic buildings are proposed in this paper.


This paper describes our ongoing work for automatically generating multiple-choice questions for English vocabulary tests. Vocabulary-type questions consist of four components: a target word, context sentences, a correct choice and distractors. To generate such type of questions, identifying the word sense of a target word in a context is crucial to create a correct choice in the context sentences. We propose a novel Backward method that utilizes the existing search engine API to obtain context sentences for a given target word sense and further applied word sense disambiguation to confirm the retrieved context sentences. Our preliminary experiment showed that the proposed method achieved 0.951 in accuracy in collecting word sense-context pairs.


The method of searching for complementary surfaces of proteins was used to evaluate the modes of beta Bp crystallin autoassociation. The dimer structure of beta Bp is predicted and characterized.


Although dosing schedules are still being worked out, ceftriaxone has been shown to be effective in both primary and secondary syphilis. In our experience, ceftriaxone was the drug of choice for the treatment of Lyme disease.


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The clinical and histopathological session of the Third Research Meeting on Melanoma, Milan, Italy, held in May 2003, highlighted several key topics, including clinical, dermatoscopic and computer-aided diagnosis and the use of immunohistochemical, immunological and biochemical approaches to diagnosis and monitoring. This report is a brief summary of the main themes covered.


The Private Sector-Large Firms The Private Sector-Small and Intermediate Firms The Public and Academic Sector Conclusion: Project Management Appendix of Firms and Individuals


EXPLOITING VIRAL TRICKS Interferon (IFN) mediated defense works by giving cells the ability to resist viral replication. NS1 is a virulent protein of the influenza A virus that can counteract this IFN-mediated defense. Influenza viruses that lack the NS1 protein delNS1 are considered attenuated and can replicate in IFNdefective cells but not in normal cells. Interestingly several melanoma and lymphoma cell lines have a reduced expression of a STAT1, a downstream protein of IFN signaling and are, therefore, IFN defective. Muster et al. hypothesize that such delNS1viruses could be used to infect, replicate and ultimately destroy tumor tissue via viral-mediated oncolysis, whereas they are unable to harm healthy cells. On pages 15–21 the authors investigate the growth and oncolytic properties of delNS1 virus and a virus with partial deletion of NS1, NS1-99. IFN resistance in various tumor cell lines such as SK-MEL1 could be correlated with viral growth in these cells and the lack of expression of the STAT1 isotype p84. Treatment of SCID mice with both delNS1 and NS1-99 viruses could reduce the growth of SK-MEL1 tumors cells, i.e., induced oncolysis. Therefore, this study demonstrates that with these viral mutants, IFN resistance in tumor cells can be exploited to allow selective viral tumor ablation. Finally, the lack of STAT1 p84 may be a convenient marker of tumors suitable for this therapy.


The authors have been observing that a-Si:H and a-SiGe:H films deposited under high chamber pressure or close to powder regime (500 to 2,000 mT for a-Si:H and 200 to 1,000 mT for a-SiGe:H) show many new features: the mobility lifetime product is 10 to 100 times higher and the density of states above Fermi level of a-Si:H and a-SiGe:H ([Ge] {le} 0.20) is lower than that of standard samples. This enhancement in photoconductivity can neither be attributed to autodoping nor to creation of sensitization centers in the samples. Hydrogen bonding of these films, is mostly monohydride and the density of microstructural (polyhydrides and microvoids) defects is low. Evidence for the presence of nanocrystals is noted. Though the films seems amorphous by all conventional techniques, they crystallize easily under low laser intensity. Kinetics of light induced degradation is very fast (less than 20 hrs), for a-Si:H and the value of photoconductivity in the light soaked state is comparable to that of the standard samples in the annealed state. The process gas utilization efficiency in this regime is also higher than in the low power and pressure regime.


We would like to share an interesting case of a 53 year old female, who presented with history of seizures, multiple episodes of vomiting and altered sensorium. On neurological examination, her Glasgow coma scale was E3V3M6 and pupils were normal. Her biochemical parameters were normal. Immediate computed tomography scan of brain was taken and it showed a well-defined hypodense lesion in left parietal region with perilesional edema and significant mass effect, suggestive of intracranial space occupying lesion, most probably high grade glioma. MRI brain with contrast was suggestive of well-defined hypo to hyperintense lesion in left parietal region, masquerading a human footprint with mass effect. Condition of the patient was explained and surgery was advised but patient's relatives were not willing for any surgical intervention, hence patient was discharged against medical advice in a stable condition.


In this paper, we present a new deformable model — 2.5D Active Contour— that is capable of directly extracting shape geometry from 3D unorganized point cloud datasets. The reconstructed surfaces are either open or closed. Furthermore, the new model can reconstruct and discover non-manifold geometry hidden in the point-cloud dataset. Our algorithm starts from a simple seed (e.g. a triangle) that can be automatically initialized, and always enlarges the model boundary outwards along its tangent direction suggested by the underlying dataset. This mechanism ensures that our novel models "flow" directly over the data boundary through the expansion of its bounding contour. To maintain the regularity of the model and the stability of the numerical integration process, commonly used mesh optimization techniques are employed throughout the deformation process. In addition, the new model can recover fine details of the underlying shape through local/adaptive refinements. We demonstrate both the accuracy and the robustness of our algorithm through a number of experiments on both real and synthetic datasets.


Based on the institutionalized agency theory, this paper aims to analyses the role of earnings management (EM) in mediating the relationship between ownership structure (OS) and the cost of equity capital (COE).,The authors test the above relationship by investigating a sample of 249 European non-financial listed companies during 2005-2012. The authors adopt different measures for both EM and COE and identify three main types of ownership by the majority share of the ultimate owners. Path analysis is used to explore the role of direct, mediated (i.e. EM) and total effects of OS on COE.,While OS directly affects COE, the results support the idea that an EM-mediating effect contributes to further explain this relationship in some ownership structures. Particularly European listed family-owned firms experience lower COE owing to the prevailing direct and negative effect of OS, despite the fact that both accrual and real EM mediate and have a positive effect on COE. In financial institutions-owned firms, only a direct and positive effect can be observed on COE while state-owned firms do not have a direct influence on the COE, although they do reduce real EM, which, in turn, decreases the COE in a mediated effect. Further analysis comparing the Anglo-Saxon context with Continental Europe shows more detailed results.,The study marks its entry into the international debate on the evolution in the value relevance of accounting information by arguing that the COE implications of EM depend on institutional factors such as OS and the context investigated.,The paper contributes to extant finance, accounting and corporate governance literature by providing new, robust evidence on the mediating role of EM in defining COE for different ownership types and their diverse risk-taking propensities in Continental Europe, which differs from the Anglo-Saxon context both institutionally and legally.


Purpose
This paper aims to document the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis, thereby contributing to the history of an organizational idea.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors draw on published sources and interviews to reconstruct the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis and its traces.

Findings
Cellular manufacturing was applied and further developed at Scania-Vabis in the 1940s and 1950s. Nevertheless, it seems to have fallen into oblivion. The key idea resurfaced in the 1970s.

Practical implications
The authors argue that such "proven technology" should be considered a classical insight in organization design rather than old and thus outdated.

Originality/value
The authors demonstrate that this form of flow-based organizing is much older than commonly assumed and point to barriers in accumulating knowledge on organizing.


Differences in the assimilation of individual organic compounds (5 mM sugars and L-asparagine) under mixotrophic growth conditions were described for three naturally occurring Haematococcus strains.The effects of assimilation were measured by the growth intensity and size of algal cells, and the effect of colour changes in the cultures was observed. Some compounds caused the cell colouration to change from green to yellow, being the result of chlorophyll disappearance and the accumulation of yellow secondary carotenoids. In the present experiment none of the cultures turned red, thus excluding the intense accumulation of the commercially interesting carotenoid, astaxanthin.


Previous research on the features of ComputerMediated Communication, the bulk of which comes from educational settings, has focused in a very general sense on the differences between written and spoken interaction. Because it is communication in a written mode, but interactive in its delivery even if this does not occur in real time, traditional ways and forms of communication are being challenged. Indeed Smith (2003), while noting how ComputerMediated Communication shares similarities with both written and spoken texts, pointed out that it also has characteristics which are unique to it. For example, there is an absence or reduction of paralinguistic and nonverbal features and a greater reliance on the bald written word which can lead execuTive summary


Background: There is a shortage of trained genetic counselors (GC) and often long wait times for appointments, resulting in other specialists frequently ordering genetic testing. However, non-genetic specialists, including breast surgeons, find it difficult to stay current in genetics due to rapid advances in gene discovery, expanded panel offerings, and frequent changes to professional guidelines. We tested a novel model for hereditary cancer risk assessment where breast surgeons had "on demand" access to a remote laboratory-based genetic counselor for peer to peer consultation. In this study we sought to determine the impact this model has on breast surgeons9 routinely ordering genetic testing including test identification, ordering patterns, and medical management. Methods: An IRB approved multi-center prospective study involved 14 community-based breast cancer surgeons experienced with hereditary cancer risk assessment without a genetic counselor as part of their practice. Cases were all discussed with a remote Invitae GC to determine testing eligibility and selection. Physicians had the option to utilize remote GCs to discuss results or to refer to traditional genetic counseling services. Pre and post-test surveys were completed for each patient by the testing physician. To protect patient privacy, a unique case ID was used to link patient test data with identifying data. Results: A total of 192 patients were evaluated with median age of 52. Risk assessment via BRCAPRO and the Hughes Risk model were performed on 98% of patients by the physicians. 65% of patients met NCCN guidelines for testing. Pathogenic mutations were found in 14% of patients. Breast surgeons changed their test selection 21% of the time after discussion with a GC. They called to discuss results in 47% of cases and medical management changes were incorporated in 15% of these cases based on discussion with a remote GC. Conclusions: Remote GC provider support assisted physicians in facilitating customized test selection, aided in navigating challenging counseling cases, and impacted clinical management. This service may serve as a viable, effective model for 9on demand9 genetic counseling support and may be a novel opportunity to expand genetic testing in a breast surgery setting. Citation Format: Rosen B, O9Leary E, Shan Y, Pat W, Peter B. Addition of a remote genetic counselor to the breast specialist9s team improves clinical decision-making [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5-9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-06-09.


Rationality leads people to imitate those with similar tastes but different information. But people who imitate common sources develop correlated beliefs, and rationality demands that later social learners take this redundancy into account. This implies severe limits to rational imitation. We show that (i) in most natural observation structures besides the canonical single-file case, full rationality dictates that people must "anti-imitate" some of those they observe; and (ii) in every observation structure full rationality dictates that people who do not anti-imitate can, in essence, imitate at most one person among predecessors who share common information. We also show that in a very broad class of settings, virtually any learning rule in which people regularly do imitate more than one person without anti-imitating others will lead to a positive (and, in some environments, arbitrarily high) probability of people converging to confident and wrong long-run beliefs. When testing either the rationality or the efficiency of social learning, researchers should not focus on whether people follow others' behavior—but instead whether they follow it too much. (JEL B49) ∗We thank Paul Heidhues, seminar participants at Berkeley, DIW Berlin, Hebrew University, ITAM, LSE, Oxford, Penn, Tel Aviv University, and WZB, as well as the editor and referees, for their comments. We are grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for its hospitality, and Katie Winograd and especially Claire Gabriel for their help with the historical literature on treating syphilis and other medical practices, and Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch and Min Zhang for excellent research assistance. †Eyster: Department of Economics, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Rabin: Department of Economics, UC Berkeley, 530 Evans Hall #3880, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880, USA.


The material TAS is a ternary chalcogenide salt with space group symmetry R3m, transparent between 1.3 and 17μm. Its large nonlinear optic coefficient and high damage threshold make TAS a promising candidate for nonlinear frequency conversion processes throughout the infrared.1 Recently, large, good quality crystals of TAS have been grown, cut, polished, and coated for CO2 laser second harmonic conversion by Westinghouse Research Laboratory. At NRL, a 2.5-cm diam 6-cm long crystal was pumped by a Lumonics 822 H P CO2 laser operating on the 9-μm P(20) transition with energy of 350 mJ in a 100 ns FWHM pulse. In type I doubling conditions, we have observed up to 25% total energy conversion to the second harmonic at 1 J/cm2 with no apparent crystal damage. Additionally, in a second similar TAS crystal we have observed both type I and type II sum frequency generation to the third harmonic with an overall total energy conversion of 1.5%. Progress toward a TAS-based OPO in the 8-12-μm range is also reported. (12min)


The separate and combined impacts of aluminium and selenium ions on different barley cultivars and onion (Allium cepa L.) seedling as well as ions copper, zinc and nickel on onion have been studied. The experiments have been performed in several series with different solutions of ions: aluminium have been used in concentration of 0.5 mg/l (Russian MPC for cultural-domestic water), ions of Fe, Mn, Se, Ag and their combinations with ions of Al have been used in concentrations corresponding to the values of Rus MPC for cultural-domestic water. At the same condition were chosen the concentrations of copper, zinc and nickel. The phytotoxic and genotoxic effects (as mitotic index – MI and aberrant cell frequency – ACF) were estimated. It was showed that aluminium ions promote higher phytotoxic and genotoxic effects, but in combined with another ions the negative effects on barley and Allium cepa reduced. This confirms that the universal mechanism the interaction between two metals (aluminium and other) and their detoxification effect in plant. The essential metals Cu and Zn and the toxic metal nickel provide a strong cytogenetic effect which results to ACF increasing and MI suppression. We assume that the mechanisms of detoxication should be initiated by metals themselves.


The report reviews electric and magnetic field (EMF) exposures from electrical transportation systems, including electrically powered rail and magnetic levitation (maglev). Material also covered includes research concerning biological effects of EMF exposure, with special emphasis on broad spectrum or broadband magnetic fields. A primary objective of the report was to consider, based on present knowledge, the potential for adverse health effects from maglev-associated EMF. Because maglev technology is known to generate magnetic fields at a variety of frequencies, the document addresses the broadband EMF frequency characteristics (including pulses, intermittent fields, and other transient phenomena).


The well-established tool to help manage the company's ERP system. However, due to the division of the production process of co-operate with each other to form a network of logistics. In general, these networks do not have an identified organization. Individual enterprises are completely autonomous in establishing new relationships. An important problem of the management is the dynamics of such networks. Due to the exchange of information between companies this network shows inertia. Prevention of inertia increase the competitiveness of companies in the network. In response to this problem, presented in the publication, is to control a network of enterprises using the method of ATP. We show that this can be applied to existing technologies, information technology – ERP systems supporting the management of enterprises. This allows to improve the manage with possible small costs of reorganization and implementation of new technologies.


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Summary form only given. Bit-precise reasoning (BPR) precisely captures the semantics of systems down to each individual bit and thus is essential to many verification and synthesis tasks for both hardware and software systems. As an instance of Satisfiabiliy Modulo Theories (SMT), BPR is in essence about word-level decision procedures for the theory of bit-vectors. In practice, quantiers and other theory extensions, such as reasoning about arrays, are important too. In the first part of the tutorial we gave a brief overview on basic techniques for bit-precise reasoning and then covered more recent theoretical results, including complexity classification results. We discussed challenges in developping an efficient SMT solver for bit-vectors, like our award winning SMT solver Boolector, and in particular presented examples, for which current techniques fail. Finally, we reviewed the state-of-the-art in word-level model checking, and argued why it is necessary to put more effort in this direction of research.


The papers of the thesis are not available in Munin:
 1.: Al-Saad S, Al-Shibli K, Donnem T, Persson M, Bremnes RM and Busund L-T: «The prognostic impact of NF-κB p105, vimentin, E-cadherin and Par6 expression in epithelial and stromal compartment in non-small-cell lung cancer», British Journal of Cancer (2008) 99, 1476-1483 (publisher's restriction - Nature Publishibng Group). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604713 2. Al-Saad S, Donnem T, Al-Shibli K, Persson M, Bremnes RM and Busund L-T: «Diverse prognostic roles of Akt isoforms, PTEN and PI3K in Tumor epithelial cells and stromal compartment in non-small-cell lung cancer», Anticancer Research 2009 Oct;29(10):4175-83 (publisher's restriction - International Institute of Anticancer Research). Available at http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/29/10/4175.full 3. Al-Saad S, Al-Shibli K, Donnem T, Sigve Andersen, Bremnes RM and Busund L-T: «High HER2 gene copy number evaluated by silver in situ hybridization (SISH) is associated with worse outcomes in females with non-smallcell lung cancer» (manuscript). Published with altered title in Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Volume 5, Number 10, October 2010, and available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ea510a


We present ab initio calculations for the solution energies of 3d impurities in Cu and Ni hosts. The calculations are based on density-functional theory and the KKR Green's-function method. We apply a grand-canonical energy functional which is extremal against non-particle-conserving charge variations and give an extension of Lloyd's formula for complex energies. The full nonsphericity of the charge density is used in the double counting terms. Test calculations show that it is sufficient to take the perturbation of one shell of host atoms around the impurity into account. The calculated solution energies of 3d impurities in Cu and Ni are in good agreement with the experimental data and with the values predicted by Miedema's model.


Shear walls have very high in-plane stiffness and strength, which can be used to simultaneously resist large horizontal loads and support gravity loads, making them quite advantageous in many structural engineering applications. Structures must perform safely when subjected to numerous types of loading while still remaining aesthetic and fully functional. The nature of shear wall design in building structures is a difficult task, particularly if one wants to place the shear walls in such a way that the cost is minimal while still satisfying specific performance objectives when subjected to natural and human-induced loads. This paper presents the concept and formulation of an evolutionary algorithm for shear wall placement for several different load types under competing objectives and several simplified illustrative examples are presented for demonstration purposes. The example applications include cases for (1) static wind load; (2) dynamic blast load for a small car load of explosives; and (3) dynamic blast load for a semitrailer load of explosives. A three-dimensional finite-element model was developed and applied to analyze the performance requirements and was fully coupled in time with the evolutionary algorithm in order to identify the optimal solution. The evolutionary algorithm coupled with the numerical structural model presented herein shows promise for many different building subassemblies and components beyond shear walls. It is envisioned that this type of algorithm can be extended to include all types of building assemblies (i.e., columns and beams), resulting in an increased general robustness of building regardless of hazard type.


A method for processing the request of position information from a user equipment, the method includes: the objective UE sends a request of the position information to the LCS system, and requests the LCS system to provide the position information of the objective UE; the LCS system locates the objective UE, obtains the position information of the objective UE, and judges if the real identifier of the objective UE needs to be concealed, if it is, the LCS system sends the pseudo code and the position information of the objective UE to the request end; if not, the LCS system sends the real ID and the position information of the objective UE to the request end. According to this invention, the LCS system can determine whether or not to conceal the real ID of the objective UE based on the user's request, and it can enhance the flexibility of the position service; and the LCS system can enhance the safety when the user uses the position service according to concealing the real ID of the objective UE.


This study aims to characterize water table fluctuations and estimate groundwater recharge in the Tougou catchment located in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso. Water table fluctuation and groundwater budget approaches are developed on an experimental site equipped with observation wells. The trends of water fluctuations in the different layers of the weathering profile are similar. There is a time-lag response of groundwater recharge to the daily precipitation occurrences. The interaction between the upper (clayey alteration) and lower (transition zone-fractured schist complex) parts of the weathering profile shows that generally the hydraulic head in the upper part is higher than that of the lower part due to difference in drainage porosity. The latter varies at the catchment scale between 0.006 and 0.009 and is inversely proportional to the saturated thickness of the clayey alteration layer. The groundwater recharge is annually estimated between 36 and 49 mm, which correspond to 6% and 9% of mean annual rainfall in the catchment. Annual evapotranspiration was estimated to be about 223 to 443 mm.


The purpose of this study was to report the results of the vertical apical suture Bankart lesion repair. Fifty-nine patients (52 men and seven women) with a mean age of twenty-seven years (range, 16–53 years) underwent this procedure. The mean duration of instability was 4 years and mean follow-up was 42 months (minimum of two years). A laterally based T-shape capsular incision is performed with the horizontal component directed towards the glenoid neck and into the Bankart lesion. A vertical apical suture through the superior and inferior flaps of the Bankart lesion, tighten the anterior structures to allow them to snug onto the convex decorticated surface of the anterior glenoid. At final review, according to the system of Rowe et al., 94.9% (56 patients) had a rating of good or excellent. Three patients had a recurrent dislocation due to further trauma. The mean loss of forward elevation was 1 degree, external rotation with the arm at the side was 2.4 degrees and external rotation in 90 degrees abduction was 2.2 degrees. Of forty-four patients participating in sport, thirty-five (79.5%) returned to the same sport at the same level of activity, even returned to the same sport at a reduced level of activity and two patients did not return to sport. The vertical apical suture repair offers a 94.9 percent success rate in terms of stability, a maintained range of motion and a 79.5% return to pre-injury level of sporting activity. It is technically less demanding than the Bankart procedure. All sutures used are absorbable. Complications related to non-absorbable implants and absorbable anchors and tacks are avoided.


The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine the design of competency-based sustainable professional development training management model to improve competence and culture of researching SMP teachers in Pematangsiantar City; (2) determine the effectiveness of the competency-based sustainable professional development training management model to improve competence and culture of researching SMP teachers in Pematangsiantar City. This research is a development research with ADDIE model. The subjects of this research population were all SMP City Pematangsiantar teachers totaling 1,094 people and the sample subjects of this study were SMP City Pematangsiantar teachers totaling 80 people where the sample was determined by purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques were carried out by observation, interviews, documentation, questionnaires and tests. The results of the research are: (1) The competency-based sustainable professional development training management model to improve competence and culture of researching junior high school teachers in Pematangsiantar City was developed using the ADDIE model which includes analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation; (2) The competency-based continuous professional development training management model is very effective in improving teacher competence and research culture.


[Purpose] We investigated the effect of a multi-layered approach to education on the practice of the physical therapy process. [Subjects] The subjects were 3rd and 4th year students attending Advanced Physical Therapy II lectures. [Method] In practice, the 4th year students assisted the 3rd year students. At the end of the course, a questionnaire survey was conducted regarding the efficacy of the lecture style. The questionnaire survey was conducted after explaining the results would be anonymous and participation would have no consequences for individuals. [Results] The survey response rate was 100%. The 3rd year students considered that identifying the problem points was the most difficult issue, and the majority responded that the presence of 4th year students in the practice was "very effective". [Conclusion] We consider that the multi-layered style of eduction in physical therapy eduction is effective at raising students' understanding as well as being an effective method for raising their motivation.


A sample computer program obtained from a previous author on this topic has been modified and extended to produce an output as illustrated in the featured table.


Drug repurposing is an attractive option for identifying new treatment strategies, in particular in extraordinary situations of urgent need such as the current coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid‐19) pandemic. Recently, the World Health Organization announced testing of three drugs as potential Covid‐19 therapeutics that are known for their dampening effect on the immune system. Thus, the underlying concept of selecting these drugs is to temper the potentially life‐threatening overshooting of the immune system reacting to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection. This viewpoint discusses the possibility that the impact of these and other drugs on autophagy contributes to their therapeutic effect by hampering the SARS‐CoV‐2 life cycle.


A self-organizing map (SOM) neural network algorithm is applied to the epipolar line nearest-neighbor particle matching of the 3-D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV). Then, the same algorithm is again applied to the time-differential particle matching of the 3-D PTV for completing the 3-D particle tracking process. The principle of the self-organizing map method seems especially effective even if there are loss-of-pair particles between the two spatio-differential or time-differential frames because of the competitive learning strategy.


Secure file sharing is application that enable sharing of files between mobile devices with least involvement of external http server. Generally QT is a framework used for development of embedded applications such as Elevator control panel, Washing Machine program selector and Router management system etc. With release of QT5 the domain of application development has broaden to personal computers and mobile devices.I have used this framework to develop and generate apk for this application.The core part of this study has been dedicated to development of communication model and defining a protocol and flow of file sharing process, I have also developed some custom components to fill the gap of QT framework in realm of android application. I have developed light encryption method and authentication mechanism to keep the file sharing


In this paper, we study the symmetry of figures in elementary geometry. First, we investigate the historical and mathematical background of symmetry of figures and we explore the suitable teaching and learning methods for symmetry in elementary geometry. Also we study the major problem of geometry education that occurring in elementary school.


This article discusses the development of transatlantic German studies and the waning presence of literary studies within the field. In the 1960s, Pierre Bertaux suggested a rad ical reformation of German studies by shifting the focus from literature to contemporary politics and history. Bertaux had a significant influence on the development of German Studies in the following decades, as the German Studies Association, founded in the United States, stressed the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and further supported the shift from literary to social, cultural, political studies and related fields. This has led to an overall decline of contributions concerned with literature in conferences and in anthologies. Moreover, the lingua franca tends to be English instead of German in conferences held by the GSA, which causes a disadvantage for German scholars and other non-native speakers of English. In conclusion, a heightened awareness of the importance of literature for German studies in and especially outside Germany is desirable.


Public policy decision making can be affected by changes in governing coalitions, resource distributions, social structure, and other factors external to a particular policy subsystem. Social and economic factors external to the wildlife policy subsystem have experienced dramatic change in recent years, particularly in the western states. Wildlife watchers comprise a well-defined target population within the western wildlife policy subsystem. The present study applies aspects of Blau's quantitative model of social structure to obtain measures of group membership, status position, and overlapping social affiliations exhibited by wildlife watchers in the West. Data were obtained from the follow-up phases of the 1985, 1991, and 1996 National Surveys of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Longitudinal analysis of three indices of social diversity provides a method for assessing the structural stability of a policy target population with readily available federal survey data.


The invention provides a preparation method of a mycete and agricultural and forestry waste mixed bio-adsorbent, and relates to a preparation method of an adsorbent. The preparation method aims at solving the problems that in the prior art, the cost of the adsorbent for processing heavy metal is high, and the secondary pollution can be easily caused. The preparation method comprises the following steps that agricultural and forestry wastes are dried, and then are smashed and sieved; then, the sieved agricultural and forestry wastes and water are mixed according to a mass ratio being 1:1; next, mycotic spores are inoculated; then, the fermentation cultivation is carried out; the mycete and agricultural and forestry waste mixed bio-adsorbent is obtained, and the preparation is completed. The preparation method has the advantages that green and environment-friendly effects are achieved, the industrial production is easy, and meanwhile, the adsorbing quantity is great. The preparation method is applied to the field of the adsorbent.


IN the western world epidemic keratoconjunctivitis frequently originates in a physician's office or dispensary.1 , 2 Epidemiologic and laboratory observations have suggested that contamination of instruments (such as tonometers) coming in direct contact with the corneal and conjunctival epithelium is the most common means of disseminating the infectious agent.2 The office outbreak reported below involved at least 26 persons, including the physician himself. The course of the epidemic was reconstructed from office records. Seven affected patients were examined by us, and 6 of these had serologic evidence of recent infection. In adults, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis has an incubation period of seven to eleven . . .


The utility model discloses a training device of a disconnecting switch electric operating mechanism. The training device comprises a background computer and a training cabinet, a fault simulator, a disconnecting switch, a disconnecting switch operating mechanism and a disconnecting switch control loop which is in a control connection with the disconnecting switch operating mechanism are arranged in the training cabinet, the fault simulator comprises a group of fault setting relays and a relay control circuit which is in the control connection with the fault setting relays, the fault simulator is connected with the background computer through a communication line, and a contact of each fault setting relay is connected with a control branch circuit required to simulate faults in the disconnecting switch control loop in a series connection mode or a parallel connection mode. The training device of the disconnecting switch electric operating mechanism has a circuit structure, a logical relationship and an external representation which are same to those of a real electric operating mechanism disconnecting switch secondary loop, a primary wiring portion is absent, the operating mechanism, the control loop of the operating mechanism and the like are reserved, and the fault simulator which is in a communicating connection with the background computer is added.


Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR), as the most popular view synthesis method, is commonly used in the application of multi-view and free-viewpoint videos. However, the quality evaluation of DIBR-synthesised videos remains largely unexplored, which may hinder the development of more advanced view synthesis technology. With this motivation, this Letter presents a new quality metric for DIBR-synthesised videos. Speci fi cally, the disoccluded regions are fi rst detected based on an adaptive threshold to quantify geometric distortions. An energy-based sequence mapping strategy is proposed to portray spatiotemporal inconsistency by calculating fi rst-order and second-order similarities in the gradient magnitude domain and the Laplace-of-Gaussian domain, respectively. Finally, the overall quality score is generated by pooling the scores of geometric distortion and spatiotemporal inconsistency. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed metric outperforms the state-of-the-art metrics dedi- cated to DIBR-synthesised images and videos.