Contents: Introduction The Muse as immaculate beloved: Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and listening to Rossini and Beethoven Schumann, Chopin, the fan of Eros, and the beloved's kiss The Muse as temptress and redemptress: Sibelius's early symphonic narratives Mahler's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies: Idyllic fantasies, the sublime, formal mastery, and processes of mourning and reparation 'She dies': Trauma and erotic elegy in BartA^3k's pre-First World War music Names, chords and the 'pale princess' in Debussy's musical language of love Poulenc's erotics of humour, melancholy, abjection and redemption Names, chords and Lulu's portrait as Muse Fetishistic 'Inventions on a Chord': Szymanowski, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Weill and Poulenc Bibliography Index.


For current polarimetric system, the antenna usually transmits and receives electromagnetic waves with H and V polarizations which benefits the analysis and recognition of distributed targets greatly. However, for manmade target detection, the weak scattering mechanisms which characterize the structure of the target cannot be extracted with the fixed polarization. Aiming at this problem, the method proposed in this paper can be applied to suppress the strong scattering components based on target null theory. In the numerical simulation, the weak scattering mechanisms can be extracted correctly with the analysis of Cameron decomposition.


1-phenoxy-2-propanol is a common and effective anaesthetic for aquatic organisms such as bivalves and pulmonates. However, there are no data regarding its influence on fish organisms. In the present study the anaesthetic efficacy of 1-phenoxy-2-propanol and its influence on biochemical and haematological blood indices of juvenile common carp were studied. For blood profile test, fish were divided into four groups (n = 10). The haematological and blood biochemical profiles of common carp were evaluated 10 min and 24 h after anaesthesia with 1-phenoxy-2-propanol (400 mg·dm-3) and compared to non-anaesthetized control groups. Significant changes (P < 0.05) in red blood cell indices and in white blood cell count were found as well. Increased concentrations of glucose, ammonia and inorganic phosphates indicate that stress reaction occurred. No changes in total protein, globulin, triacylglycerols, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase and calcium were found. Although exposure to 1-phenoxy-2-propanol caused a moderate, temporary stress response in examined fish, we can state that 1-phenoxy-2propanol can be used as an effective anaesthetic for common carp. Propylene phenoxytol, anaesthesia, biochemistry, haematology, Cyprinus carpio The beneficial influence of anaesthetics and analgesics has been known for centuries, however, they have been used in fish anaesthesia for a particularly short period of time. First reports about anaesthetizing fish refer to anaesthesia of salmon and steelhead trout with carbon dioxide (Fish 1943). From this time several different chemicals such as MS222 (Randall 1962), 2-phenoxyethanol (Sehedev et al. 1963), quinaldine (Schoettger and Steucke 1970), benzocaine (Oswald 1978), etomidate (Amend 1982), metomidate (Stoskopf and Arnold 1985), clove oil (Hisaka 1985) and propofol (Fleming et al. 2003) were tested as anaesthetics for fish. However, because of marked anatomical, physiological and behavioral variations, there are still no anaesthetics which can be used for all fish species. So it is very important to seek new, potentially better anaesthetics. 1-phenoxy-2-propanol (PP) is the analogue of 2-phenoxyethanol (2PE). It is a glycol ether forming a clear, colourless liquid at room temperature. Although relatively hydrophobic, it can be dissolved in water, however, to a lower extent compared to 2PE. The solubility of 2PE and PP are 27 and 11 g·dm-3, respectively. 1-phenoxy-2-propanol is widely used in the study of invertebrates. It has been proved that PP can be used to relax or anaesthetize pulmonates (Runham et al. 1965), bivalves (Owen 1955; Norton et al. 1996; Norton et al. 2000) and nudibranchs (Holman et al. 2002; Redondo and Murray 2005; Wyeth and Willows 2006b). It was also used as an anaesthetic for rats (Saghir et al. 2003). However, although it was found to be effective, its anaesthetic action has not been thoroughly investigated. No data addressing its anaesthetic efficacy or toxicity to fish are available. The aim of this study was to assess the anaesthetic potency of PP and its influence on biochemical and haematological blood indices of common carp. ACTA VET. BRNO 2017, 86: 133–139; https://doi.org/10.2754/avb201786020133 Address for correspondence: Ewa Czerniak Department of Ichthyology University of Warmia and Mazury Oczapowskiego 5, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland Phone: (+48) 696 565 272 E-mail: email@example.com http://actavet.vfu.cz/ Materials and Methods


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Lactose is a very important pharmaceutical excipient used in tablet and inhalation products. It is prone to forming amorphous regions on processing however, and it can be problematical to characterize amorphic material in a sample. Differential Mechanical Analysis (DMA) with material pocket is a method which can be used to accurately determine very low levels of amorphous content in lactose (Royall 2005, Mahlin 2009), due to the high sensitivity of DMA to glass transitions. The material pocket facilitates the analysis of lactose in the powder form, resulting in a very powerful tool for the analysis of mixtures of crystalline and amorphous lactose.


Most previous work focuses on analyzing the content of the Web data,while ignores the structural information in the data.This paper introduces a massive data analysis and query tool,CWI.As a part of CWI,TLGM and TLGM-QL implement the analysis of both the content and structure of the Web data.TLGM implemented in a distributed enviorment that adopt the graph to model the Web,where both the content and structure of the Web data are stored.Based on this storage model,four basic operators and the re-construction of graph are implemented.The experiments domenstrate that our storage framework has good balance and scalability.


PURPOSE: A solvent composition having high cleaning powers containing a chlorofluoro-hydrocarbon solvent as a main component and a novel surface active agent. COPYRIGHT: (C)1977,JPO&Japio


This chapter presents a discussion of practice, education, policy, and research implications pertaining to the mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The first section centres on implications for practice in urban, suburban, rural, and remote environments and includes aspects such as working with colleagues, reporting in the workplace, and discussing the limits of confidentiality. What follows are implications for educators of future mandatory reporters. These implications explore educating students in the typology of child abuse and neglect, working in Northern Canada, and the importance of reflection. This chapter also includes suggestions for training that can be incorporated into the curriculum such as reflection, experiential exercises, case vignette, and simulation. The latter half of the chapter explores policy implications with specific attention to data collection and analysis of reported children and families in an effort to detect and respond to racial disparities in the child welfare system. At a national level, implications also include greater consistency in mandatory reporting legislation between provinces and territories. The chapter concludes with implications for research and focuses specifically on furthering our understanding of decision-making processes and disclosure within child sexual abuse.


The subject of this thesis is the study of spherical nanoparticles on iron base prepared by control precipitation in Cu-Fe alloy. The phase composition of these nanoparticles was evaluated from the X-ray diffraction measurements and the local atomic structure was characterised using Pair Distribution Function (PDF).


Developing a generic digital forensic solution in a cloud computing platform that can address the functional requirements of digital forensic stakeholders is a complex process. The solution would require a technology-independent architectural design that addresses the challenges of incident threat identification, triggering, incident threat isolation and investigation. Existing approaches are limited to the functionality that treats these four challenges individually without the due diligence to consider their interoperability. This study proposes a context-independent and technology-neutral architecture to address these issues by developing a digital forensic readiness (DFR) based on a human language communication interaction (HLI) system that could create a cybercrime language as a service (DFClaaS). The functional architectural design of the proposed DFR HLI DFClaaS system comprises microservices, layered and event/component-based architectural patterns on top of cloud architectural patterns. The DFR HLI DFClaaS system integrates flexibility and other quality requirements to separate concerns while accommodating rigid requirements like security and reliability. The developed architecture is essential for any human-centred digital forensic solution. Therefore, integrating the developed architecture presents a reliable baseline for the digital forensic community.


DURÃES, J.P. Obtaining, characterization of african catfish (Clarias gariepinus) minced fish and stability evaluation under frozen storage. 2009. 71f. M.Sc. Dissertation – Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga, 2009. Minced fish (CMS) is a product obtained from only or sereral fish species through the mechanical separation of edible section. African catfish is produced mainly in african and european countries and recently was introduced in India, China and Brazil, destined exclusively to comsumption. The aim of the present study was obtain and characterize the african catfish minced and evaluate the stability during the period of storage under -18°C. Minced fish process yield was determinated and the stability was measured for six months concerning microbiological and physico-chemical analysis (TBARS, BVT, pH and drip), from three treatments (A – CMS unwashed, B – CMS washed once and C – CMS washed twice). The beginning and after 90 and 180 days of frozen storage, the CMS was utilized for preparation of fishburger, that was evaluated for microbiological and sensorial analysis. The CMS washing process promoted changes in centesimal composition, mainly the increase of the moisture and decrease of total protein. During the storage period, the CMS kept the stability apart of washing process. The minced fish process yield was approximately 50% respecting whole fish. The CMS washed twice showed higher moisture (84,26%) than the CMS washed once (78,52%) and CMS unwashed (78,42%), occuring waste of protein, lipid and ash, by washing. During the storage, the BVT kept stable, disagree between the treatments, and the CMS unwashed exhibit higher mean value (15,79 mg BVT/100g) than CMS washed once (5,46 mg BVT/100g) and CMS washed twice (2,61mg/100g). At the zero day, the bigger value of TBARS was determinated in CMS unwashed (0,216 mg malonaldeído/kg), but in CMS washed once and twice, the values was 0,083 e 0,099 mg malonaldeído/kg respectively, signify that the washing process induced removal the majority part of compounds responsible by the lipidic oxidation. The Brazilian legislation do not indicate a limit of CMS lipid oxidation evaluated by TBARS method, however the values at the end of the storage (0,405; 0,511 e 0,420 mg malonaldeído/kg) for CMS without, with one and with two washing are low and indicate low oxidation. The CMS and the fishburger microbiological parameters kept agreed with Brazilian legislation. The fishburgers was accepted by the samplers and the fishburger elaborated with CMS washed once was better evaluated to general acceptability. The changes occured during the period of storage have not affect on CMS quality, indicating availability to products formulated by CMS with 180 days of frozen storage. The CMS process of african catfish can be a alternative to employment of a specie under-utilized, creating aquaculture products with aggregated value. Key-words: minced fish; Clarias gariepinus; fishburger; frozen stability; fishing technology.


Submitted for the DFD09 Meeting of The American Physical Society Surfactant spreading on a thin liquid layer: Modeling and Theory ELLEN PETERSON, MICHAEL SHEARER, KAREN DANIELS, DAVID FALLEST, NCSU — To model the spreading of a droplet of insoluble surfactant on a thin liquid layer, we use the lubrication approximation of the Stokes equations. The resulting system of nonlinear PDE describes the height of the fluid surface and the distribution of surfactant on the surface. The flow is driven by the surface tension gradient induced by the surfactant. Ignoring the smoothing effects of capillarity and diffusion of surfactant, the system simplifies to a pair of transport equations. These equations admit a similarity solution characterized by Jensen and Grotberg (1992) that sets the spreading rate of the surfactant layer. We employ finite difference simulations to capture the shape of the free surface and the surfactant distribution. The leading edge of the surfactant layer is treated as a free boundary, with a boundary condition corresponding to a jump in the free surface height first discovered by Gaver and Grotberg (1990). We are able to examine a solution for both the outer region as well as the boundary layer that accounts for the behavior of the film near the center of the surfactant droplet. For the full system, with capillarity, gravity, and diffusion on the surface, the leading shock smooths to a ridge. We compare simulations of the full thin film system with experimental observations of film height profiles, and with the observed spreading rate of the surfactant layer.


This article considers the management of transference and countertransference phenomena in transactional analysis—including Berne's original diagrams—in terms of crossed transactions. It is suggest...


Editor's Introduction 1. Foundations, Geoffrey Benningtin (Emory University, USA) 2. 'Rather than Nothing': Derrida, Literature, and the Resistance of Nihilism, Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) 3. Accounterability, Peggy Kamuf (University of South California, USA) 4. 'Don't Count Me In': Derrida's Refraining, J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA) 5. Reading Over a Globalised World, Samuel Weber (Northwestern University, USA) 6. Counterchange: Derrida's Poetry, William Watkin (Brunel University, UK) 7. Disagreement as (Possible) Event: Derrida contre de Man, Tom Toremans (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium) 8. The Counterpromise: Derrida on the Instant of Blanchot's Death, Allison Weiner (Yale University, USA) 9. Derrida's Transcendental Contraband: Impossible Acts, Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 10. The Entropics of Discourse: The 'Materiality' of Affect Between Marx and Derrida, Karyn Ball (University of Alberta, Canada) 11. The Grammar of Deconstruction, Stefan Herbrechter (University of Leeds, UK) and Ivan Callus (University of Malta) 12. Dislocating Derrida: Badiou, the Unthought and the Justice of Mutliplicity, Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine, USA).


The purpose of the present study was to compare the coping strategies between Volleyball and Handball university male players. Coping strategies was used as a test tool. The study was conducted on total thirty Volleyball and Handball university (15 from each game) male players of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G.).The player's age ranged from 18 to 25 and have been selected randomly as subject. The data for the purpose of the study was collected at the Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya by administering the coping strategies questionnaire. Independent 't' test was applied as statistical treatment. The statistical implementation revealed that there was significant difference between Volleyball and Handball university male players in their score of coping strategies.


The problem to be considered arises in the following way. A sample is required from a population, divided into k strata 1, w2, ..., w,k, such that mi individuals are obtained from wli, (i = 1, 2, ..., k). m, will be termed the specified quota for stratum wi. Suppose that either due to cost considerations or sampling restrictions it is necessary to sample randomly from the population without regard to stratification. A sequential scheme may then be used in which individuals are randomly and unrestrictedly drawn from the population until all the specified quotas have been obtained. When sampling finishes, the exact quota will have been drawn from one of the strata, the remaining k 1 strata having yielded at least their


A NUMBER of related groups of compounds having the 15 carbon system, such as anthocyanins and anthoxanthins, occur in nature. The differences between them depend upon the state of oxidation of the oxygen containing ring. Though a large volume of evidence indicates that they have a parallel origin from a common precursor" the possibility of one type changing into another does not seem to be altogether excluded. Consequently methods of interconversion have some interest in biogenesis besides their value for the study of structural relations and for the easy synthesis of compounds.


A breakdown saturation phenomenon of negative resistance has been observed in a bipolar transistor. The collector current becomes saturated and reaches a critical current (I/sub CC/) after avalanche breakdown. At this critical current, a negative resistance appears. I/sub CC/ is determined by the thermal condition of the transistor, as obtained from pulse measurements and temperature dependence. For the multiplication factor (M), it is clear that there are two distinct regions: 1) low voltage (Region I) and 2) higher voltage (Region II). In Region I, the multiplication factor begins to increase with increasing applied voltage and is fixed almost constant for temperature, whereas in Region II, the multiplication factor decreases with increasing temperature. As a result, (/spl part/M//spl part/V)/sub T//spl sime/0 is realized at about 20 V and 124/spl deg/C, corresponding to the saturation of avalanche breakdown.


The Century of Prose Corpus (COPC) is one of a number of compilations of texts that have been developed during the last three decades to facilitate a certain kind of linguistic analysis with computers. Unlike the Corpus Thomisticus (the whole of the works of Thomas Aquinas), for example, the kind of corpus I am talking about is a descendant of the Brown Corpus, devised in 1961 by Henry Kucera and Nelson Francis of Brown University. The Brown Corpus consists of a million words of edited American prose, all published during that one year and taken from a great variety of kinds and genres of printed materials, from humorous fiction to articles in learned journals. The devisers assumed that their corpus was large enough to represent nearly every type of linguistic unit that might be of interest to scholars. Although it was intended to be machine-readable, it has generated two large volumes of analysis and documentation in which alphabetic and rank-ordered word-lists provide a view of the American vocabulary at that period, among many other valuable pieces of information about the language, to say nothing of the other areas of knowledge thai arc served by this


Hand hygiene of medical staff plays a significant role in the prevention of nosocomial infections in healthcare facilities. Therefore, there is a need to identify approaches to facilitate proper adherence to hand hygiene. The study aims to substantiate the need for hand hygiene of medical staff, to explore modern methods for evaluating the effectiveness of hand hygiene supplies and problems associated with the use of these supplies along with their solutions. The authors have carried out the general and targeted analysis and expert evaluation of research results regarding measures for the prevention of nosocomial infections in health facilities. Analytical study of a large number of sources (over 50) on modern approaches to ensure hand hygiene of medical staff has been conducted with Content analysis and Open Source Intelligence methods. As a result of the study, authors have identified the need for further development of strategies to facilitate hand hygiene in health facilities and for the improvement of existing educational and motivational programs dedicated to hand hygiene of medical staff. Factors that may affect the effectiveness of antiseptics usage have been highlighted. The authors emphasize adverse reactions associated with the use of hand hygiene supplies (contact dermatitis and contact allergy) and the need for the development of measures to reduce risks of these adverse reactions among medical staff.


This study was carried out with an objective to investigate the antibacterial potentials of leaves of Jasminum sambac. In the present study, the antibacterial activity of methanolic extracts of leaves of Jasminum sambac was evaluated for potential antibacterial activity against medically important bacterial strains. The antibacterial activity was determined in the extracts using agar disc diffusion method. The antibacterial activity of extracts (25, 50, 100,250,500μg/ml) of Jasminum sambac were tested against four Gram-positive bacteria—Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Sarcina luteae and four Gram-negative bacteria—Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella paratyphi, Shigella dysenteriae which are human pathogenic bacteria. Zone of inhibition of extracts were compared with standard Kanamycin disc at a dose of 25μg/disc for antibacterial activity. Significant antibacterial activity was found at a dose of 500μg/ml of methanolic extract. It was found 17 mm, 14 mm, 15 mm and 13 mm zone of inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Sarcina luteae respectively and 14 mm, 15 mm, 15 mm and 16mm zone of inhibition against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella paratyphi, Shigella dysenteriae respectively. The results showed that the methanolic extracts of Jasminum sambac have the significant inhibition of the bacterial growth against the tested organisms. The phytochemical analysis of the plant was carried out. The presence of alkaloids, tannins and resins are revealed in phytochemical analysis.


_______________________________________________________________ Abstract In telecommunication companies, retaining customers is a major concern because customers have variety of choices to choose from. Previous studies have discovered that customer equity plays a significant role in retaining the existing customers as well as acquiring new customers. Nowadays, since the customers are offered with the same products and services, but from different service providers, customer equity (Value Equity, Brand Equity and Relationship Equity) will assist the customers to decide which service providers to be selected. The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between customer equity dimensions; namely, Value Equity, Brand Equity and Relationship Equity, and Customer Loyalty among customers of Telecommunication Service Providers. Analysing 400 responses using multiple regression analysis from customers of the five major Telecommunication Service Providers (Maxis, Celcom, Digi, Tune Talk and U-Mobile), shows that all three dimensions of Customer Equity contribute significantly in explaining the variance in Customer Loyalty, indicating that companies have to leverage on the brand name of company, to provide competitive prices, quality and convenience of the products and services and fostering the relationship between the customers and the company through a customer loyalty program. Trust has been included as a moderating variable and the result indicates that it has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between customer equity and customer loyalty. The implications of the study are discussed further in the paper.


At the time of writing, in the UK and Northwest Europe the wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa L., Ranunculaceae) is in full flower, as Spring gets under way. This common herbaceous perennial of woodland and hedgerows is a possibly somewhat extreme example of the challenges facing conservationists striving to preserve seeds of their native species, in all their diversity, ex situ in conventional seed banks. Its seeds will survive drying, but only after the achenes, still green when shed, are dispersed from the parent plant. Ali et al. (2007) observed an initial increase in desiccation tolerance, followed by a decline; and the proportion of seeds surviving desiccation and their increase in subsequent longevity coincided with the growth and development of their embryos ex planta. However, developmental arrest of the embryo was not required for the acquisition of desiccation tolerance, and continued growth and development of the embryo resulted in loss of desiccation tolerance, analogous to that seen in orthodox (sensu Roberts, 1973) seeds upon radicle emergence. Consequently, the window of desiccation tolerance and maximum potential longevity is comparatively short; and in nature occurs when seeds are on or close to the soil surface. Though the seeds can be air-dried with care and stored at sub-zero temperatures, high initial viabilities are difficult to achieve and their storage lives are short (ten years or less under conventional seed bank conditions); throwing doubt on the role of conventional seed banking as a means of long, or even medium-term ex situ conservation for this species. Furthermore, while A. nemorosa seeds, like those of many species from the Ranunculaceae, might be described as having morphological or morphophysiological dormancy (Baskin and Baskin, 2014), the observed lack of developmental arrest is somewhat at odds with most definitions of dormancy.


last. Refusing to take office under the Mongols he spent his final years wandering about, drinking, painting and writing poetry. He painted best when stimulated by good wine, and when his paintings were finished he thought no more about them and allowed them to be carried off by connoisseurs1. On the margins of our painting, right and left, we find sixteen seals. Three of these are the seals of Ch'ien Hsiian, while four are of a late distinguished owner, Prince Kung2 (1832-1898), an able diplomat, first President of the Foreign Office, and a collector and connoisseur ofestablished reputation. Other men of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911) whose seals are imprinted here were Liang Ch'ing-piao, a well-known collector of the early days of the dynasty and President of the Imperial Academy; Chou Tsu-p'ei, Assistant Secretary of the Academy in his time; and Wen Shih-T'ai. Four seals which cannot now be definitely ascribed, two of which cannot be deciphered, seem to belong to the Yüan dynasty. If we unroll the scroll beyond the end of the painting we come to the annotations and more seals. The latter may wait, for the present, but it may be of interest o mention the eulogies, all of X, 79


Data hiding and watermarking in digital images and raw video have wide literature. This paper targets the internal dynamics of video compression, specifically the motion estimation stage. We have chosen this stage because its contents are processed internally during the video encoding/decoding which makes it hard to be detected by image steganalysis methods and is lossless coded, thus it is not prone to quantization distortions. In the literature, most work applied on data hiding in motion vectors relies on changing the motion vectors based on their attributes such as their magnitude, phase angle, etc. The data bits of the message are hidden in some of the motion vectors whose magnitude is above a predefined threshold, and are called candidate motion vectors (CMVs). A single bit is hidden in the least significant bit of the larger component of each CMV. The data is encoded as a region where the motion estimation is only allowed to generate motion vectors in that specified region. Using the variable macro block sizes, the authors have used every 2 bits from the message bit stream to select one of the four sizes for the motion estimation process. Here we embed the data in video using the phase angle between two consecutive CMV. These CMV are selected based on the magnitude of the motion vectors. The message bit stream is encoded as phase angle difference in sectors between CMV.


We examine the behavior of a large sample of private firms before and after the elimination of an inflation adjustment system in Colombia in 2007. We find that firms avoid reporting small pre-tax losses by exercising considerable discretion in their use of inflation adjustments, and find that this discretion is greater for firms that rely more on bank financing. Furthermore, firms that manage earnings to report small positive profits issue more bank debt the year following the reporting. After the law change, firms resort to other means to report positive earnings. In particular, the use of non-operating earnings increases, attributable in part to a higher incidence of tangible asset sales.


The term 'kurator' will be a new one to most of our readers. This denotes a new sort of professional in the field of special needs that is emerging in Denmark. The role is formed by combining careers guidance, social work and teaching. The rationale, presumably, is that the needs of young adults can only be met in an holistic way.

David Lovell-Badge describes this and reaches a number of interesting conclusions for provision in this country. He calls upon decision makers to take on board four principles. These clearly run counter to present attitudes and delivery. However, now we form part of a more cohesive Europe it may take less time than one thinks before ideas from other countries permeate our own thinking and policies.


Magnetic measurements on a high‐Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 reveal new spin‐glass‐like features. At low temperatures and low fields the irreversible part of the field‐cooled magnetization Mirr rotates with the sample as a rigid entity. The rigidity is broken and part of Mirr disappears above an angle φ* which decreases with increasing temperature or field. This behavior resembles that of spin glasses and differs qualitatively from the behavior found for Nb.


Having presented the concepts of reason known from the history of philosophy, we shall concentrate on determining the place of religion within the scope of the so-called post-metaphysical reason. This expression, referring to "post-metaphysical thinking" of J. Habermas, will be of interest to us as far as the following: (I) the self-critical attitude of reason towards religious contents, (II) the possibility to translate them into the language of lay society and (III) the possibility to connect it with Christian theology.


The present invention provides for a turbine engine combustor circumferential self expanding support. Providing horn or support for a turbine combustor. The transition member support retaining member correctly positioned relative to the combustor, while still allowing some movement of the support member to relieve mechanical stresses during turbine operation. The support member is constituted by having interlocking, releasable connection of at least two parts.


The invention provides an automatic online micro-scale sample dilution and mixing device and a mixing method. The device includes a constant flow pump, a first multi-position switching valve, a second multi-position switching valve, a third multi-position switching valve, a mixer, a six-way valve, and a quantitative tube. The first multi-position switching valve comprises a first main port and three first switch ports; the second multi-position switching valve comprises a second main port and four second switch ports; the third multi-position switching valve comprises a third main port and two third switch ports; the quantitative tube and two first switch ports are respectively connected to the six-way valve, a constant flow pump is connected between the first main port and the second main port; the mixer is connected between the third switch ports and the second main port; the reaming first switch ports are connected with one of the second switch ports, and the other second switch port is provided with a plug. The invention improves versatility of the automatic on-line micro-scale sample dilution mixing system, and meets the requirements of automatic on-line sample dilution and mixing.


To improving refining result of refiner and reduce its refining energy,the relational expression of the specific refining energy and cone angle was deduced based on dynamical analysis on refiner.The contribution of cone angle was discussed by analyzing the specific refi-ning energy,the specific surface load,axial load and bars gap clearance.The analysis results show that optimum cone angle can improve the specific refining energy and refining result.


The etiology of C. difficile infection is primarily through contact of the pathogen to an intestinal milieu perturbed by exposure to antimicrobials. We have evaluated the relative abilities of 14 widely used antimicrobials to initiate a terminal infection in a modified hamster model of C. difficile disease. Animals were exposed to a highly toxinogenic strain of C. difficile for 10 days and were dosed with antibiotics for 5 days. Our results showed that orally administered clindamycin, amoxicillin, amoxicillin:clavulanate, and ampicillin initiated early onset disease that occurred during the 5 days of antibiotic dosing. Parenterally administered imipenem and ceftriaxone initiated disease within the first 2 days of dosing. Late onset disease (1–5 days after cessation of dosing) occurred in animals receiving the oral drugs, erythromycin, clarithromycin, and ciprofloxacin and in animals receiving parenterally administered piperacillin, piperacillin:tazobactam, ampicillin:sulbactam, and ciprofloxacin. No symptoms or C. difficile toxin A was evident in metronidazole treated, vancomycin treated or control animals not receiving antibiotics. Cecal antibiotic levels were below the MIC values for C. difficile but resulted in a perturbed intestinal microflora as evidenced by elevated cecal weights. This hamster model may be a useful model to study antibiotics relative to their risk of initiating early or late onset C. difficile disease in humans.


This study applies brand equity theory to a higher education marketing context. The study uses the theoretical model developed by Kevin L. Keller on building customer-based brand equity and explores its application to this context. A case study research design was used to explore how four different Universities conducted international marketing activities relevant to the theoretical model. The result was an adaptation of the theoretical model for higher education. The theories consulted in this study were those concerning brand equity, and more specifically customer-based brand equity, and marketing of higher education. The findings provide evidence that the customer-based brand equity model can be applied to the higher education context and used to guide marketing activities for Universities internationally.


[From the Introduction]. In this paper one approach to integration, as described by the neofunctionalists, is reexamined. This school of thought was popular and considered appropriate when describing European cooperation in the first twenty five years following the Second World War. In the past two decades the approach has fallen into disfavor as the actual behavior of the European Community's members failed to live up to the expectations of the neo-functiorialists. It will be argued here that this rejection, while understandable, was too harsh a judgement of the theory. While neo-functionalism failed to meet its predictions it did establish criteria by which to measure integration and the processes by which it is achieved. This paper will survey neo-functionalism's development, the weaknesses that led to its demise, and finally reexamine its relevance in light of the community's recent developments.


The invention of the wafer in which the ashing process for removing photoresist proceeds the process chamber in which a wafer is seated raised by a predetermined distance to the upper side of the wafer stage by proceeding with the next ashing process wafer upper surface as well as the wafer of the side surface and the wafer It relates to removing a photoresist to smoothly ashing even baekmyeon method, according to the present invention, photoresist removal method as described above without performing the upper surface and the side ashing of the surface and baekmyeon the wafer separately, after the wafer is loaded on wafer stage Upon reaching a certain temperature of around 210 ℃ ~230 ℃, because of the progress of the plasma ashing process was separated from the wafer stage to a wafer wafer seat using a pin to about 9mm~11mm the plasma to remove the photoresist wafer back of the upper surface and the side surface and the wafer Is the entrant is also far various photoresist located on the upper surface and the side surface of the wafer is removed and baekmyeon all without any time delay.


The wild plants in Jinta County were studied through field survey.The results showed that there were 49 families,161 genera,310 species(including 12 varieties,1 sub-species and 1 form) wild higher plants in Jinta County of Gansu Province.These wild plants can be divided into 5 groups and 23 sub-groups according to the nature and use of them.The groups include edible plants resources,medicinal plants resources,industrial plant resources,protecting and transforming the environment of plant resources and plant germplasm resources.The main wild plant resources include 134 species of medicinal plants,62 species of specific stress resistance plants,57 species of fodder plants,51 species of wild ornamental plants,40 species of nectar source plants,32 species of sand-fixing plants and 24 species of wild vegetables.


This guide was created to supplement the 'Using GIS at Your Library' presentation at the Texas Library Association 2014 Annual Conference.


We present a new catalog of 1575 contact binary stars fainter than I=18 mag identified in OGLE-I database in the selected directions toward the Galactic bulge and the Galactic bar. For completeness we recall here also the objects from the formerly published OGLE catalog of contact binaries brighter than I=18 mag.
To ease the comparison and/or distinction between contact binaries with sinusoidal light curves and pulsating stars we also give a catalog of 506 objects with nearly sinusoidal light curves which were classified or re-classified as pulsating variable stars.
Present catalog contains the most numerous, observationally homogeneous sample of contact binaries. Given are the statistical properties of the sample relating to the distributions of brightness, periods and amplitudes of the contact binaries.


In order to better utilize the broadband advantage of microwave photonic radar, a signal transmission model is proposed to analyze the transmission of electric signal and optical signal on microwave photonic link. In this model, signal transmission is divided into three processes: electro-optical conversion, optical signal process, and optical-electrical conversion. For each process, the connection of devices is established by the radar design, and the input output relationship of each device is modeled by the parameters. And for each device, its effect on the performance of the microwave photonic link can be calculated by its parameters. Therefore, this signal transmission model is able to help researchers to design and analyze the microwave photonic radar. Proven by the experimental results, this signal transmission model can explain the important phenomena of the microwave photonic link, and can effectively analyze the influence of each device on performance of microwave photonic link.


to be of mterest both to those mterested in workforce dynamics, and to those concerned with inter-group and inter-ethnic relations. There is a wealth of factual material in the book, drawn from a wide selection of literature, research and previous studies, including some original research findings. The book is made even more helpful by the inclusion of a chapter concentrating on immigrants in the steel industry and in a specific Ford factory. A number of new concepts and categorizations are offered within a context which examines Marxist theory in relation to labour and capital. One of the limitations of the book is that it, admittedly, deals primarily with male immigrants. Since, however, the data from other sources also concentrate on men, it


The purpose of this study is to identify the problems that immigrant students experience during their education. Mardin where Syrian immigrants live in intense numbers was chosen as the study group of this study. In this context, the study group of this research consists of immigrant students who recieve their education in public schools in Midyat, Mardin and teachers who witness the problems of these students' problems closely. The data related to this study were obtained from 35 participants who participated in this study willingly in 2021-2022 school year. 20 of the participants were students and the other 15 of the participants were teachers. The problems analyzed within this study were put forth by using case study design from qualitative research methodologies. The data of the research were acquired by means of a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher. In the interviews carried out with the participants, the data were collected by voice recording, interviewing in person and making notes of participants' dialogues by phone. The findings of the research were put forth by getting themes and categories, which is done by analyzing the data of the research by means of content analysis method. In the light of acquired findings and results, various suggestions were proposed in relation with the academical and social problems that immigrant students experience.


An intelligent lighting system based on 2ASK modem is designed,which takes AT89C52 as micro-controller. It mainly includes hardware circuit design and software design of the intelligent lighting system. The circuits of wireless transceiver module,infrared sensor examination,power consumption detection and relay control are designed emphatically in the hardware design. The intelligent lighting system has the functions of switching control,dimming control,power consumption display for intra-class floodlights,which can be realized by remote and local control. This system as a typical application of 2ASK in the smart home system has got some satisfactory results in the actual operation.


The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of BOPO, Market Share and inflation on profitability (ROA) on the 10 sharia banks in Indonesia. The study used secondary data in the 1st Quarter of 2015 until the 4th Quarter of 2018. The model of this study is estimated by simple linear regression analysis and used the Fixed Effect method as the panel data. The results showed that BOPO was negatively and significantly influential in the profitability of Sharia banks in Indonesia, Market Share has a positive and significant impact on the profitability of sharia public banks in Indonesia, and inflation Significant impact on the profitability of Sharia general banks in Indonesia. The value of a coefficient of determination was 0.815566 which indicates that the independent variable affected by 81 percent of the dependent variable.


The native and relict Plantago maxima species is added to the Bulgarian flora. The new geographical distribution extended its area to the south. Morphological description and new chorological data are presented.


Sodium bicarbonate plays an important role, after admixing in Magnesium Oxysulphate Cement (Sorel's Cement), on strength and durability of the product. It's incorporation in the matrix as additive in powerded form as well as saturated solution is studied in detail. Powdered form of NaHCO3 increases the compressive strength and watertightness of the product, whereas its incorporation as saturated solution does not contribute to strength and durability of Sorel's Cement. setting periods, weathering effects and linear changes were also studied for both the forms of the additive.


Purpose: Approximately 30% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can be grouped into subsets with stereotyped B-cell receptor immunoglobulin (BcR IG) displaying remarkable similarity in the heavy complementarity-determining region 3 (VH CDR3). Here, we investigated whether the consensus VH CDR3 sequences from CLL stereotyped subsets can be exploited for immunotherapy approaches. Experimental Design: Immunogenic epitopes from the consensus VH CDR3 sequence of the clinically aggressive subsets #1 and #2 and from Eμ-TCL1 mice, which spontaneously develop CLL with BcR IG stereotypy, were identified and used to generate specific HLA class I– and II–restricted T cells in vitro. T-cell reactivity was assayed in vitro as IFNγ production. Bone marrow–derived dendritic cells loaded with the peptides were used as vaccination strategy to restrain leukemia development in the Eμ-TCL1 mouse model. Results: These stereotyped epitopes were naturally processed and presented by CLL cells to the VH CDR3–specific T cells. Furthermore, we validated the efficacy of VH CDR3 peptide–based immunotherapy in the Eμ-TCL1 transplantable mouse model. Immunization of mice against defined VH CDR3 peptide epitopes, prior to the challenge with the corresponding leukemia cells, resulted in the control of CLL development in a significant fraction of mice, and increased overall survival. Conclusions: Our data highlight the immunogenicity of stereotyped VH CDR3 sequences and support the feasibility and efficacy of their use for novel cancer vaccine in CLL. Such approach has the advantage to generate "off-the-shelf" therapeutic vaccines for relevant groups of patients belonging to stereotyped subsets. See related commentary by Seiffert, p. 659


The article introduces the strategic plans,funding,management system,scientists,the key laboratories,the funding system,and the funding pattern of the basic research in Shanghai city,and then,provides suggestions for the development of the basic research in Shanghai city.


Lumbosacral transitional vertebra is a congenital anomaly which involves either the sacralisation of the 5th lumbar vertebra or lumbarilization of 1st sacral vertebra. The aim of the present study is to highlight a case of incomplete left sided sacralization of 5th lumbar vertebra found during routine undergraduate teaching for osteology.The knowledge of the possibility of presence of such transitional vertebrae will be helpful for the clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with low back pain.Also the awareness of this possible congenital anomaly is important before any spinal surgery to avoid the incorrect numbering of vertebrae and cosequently wrong level spinal surgery.


This article briefly introduced the ,character istics and technical features of bluetooth;and illustrated the application and prospect of the technology.


In this paper,Cu2+,Cd2+,Pb2+ in sea water can be quantitatively chelated by APDC and DDTC at pH=5.5.And these stable complex were extracted by MIBK to separate a large amount of coexiting elements from the aqueous phase into the organic phase,and Cu2+ can be directly determined by GFAAS.After they were back extracted by HNO3,Cd2+,Pb2+ can be also determined by GFAAS.The experimental data obtained are quite satisfactory.


Restructuring of development plan preparation and implementation process with a paradigm shift in planning approach is a pressing need for translating ever-increasing urban pressure and for achieving functional and sustainable planning outputs. The fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) method is considered most suitable for prioritizing stakeholders' expectations from development plans. It deals with incorrectness and subjectiveness in the process of pairwise comparison. The outcome of this study helps the planners and decision-makers in deciding the priority of factors that need to be addressed while restructuring the planning process. As per the outcome of the study, preparation, and implementation, both aspects of the development plan need to be addressed with equal importance. The study also concludes that the priority of criterion to be addressed are, i) to identify alternate implementation mechanisms, ii) considering financial aspects, iii) inclsion of effective public participation, and iv) plan preparation as per local needs.


The architectural historian and practitioner Robin Evans was interested in things "opposed but not necessarily incompatible."2

 The descriptions in this book are about many things but most centrally can be read as an ethnographic elaboration of this idea: how, in terms set out at the start (...


The right selection of paint-and-lacquer materials is an important task for manufacturers in the process of wood finishing. Modern market of paint-and-lacquer products has a wide assortment of materials. Рresent conditions of quality products demand not only top-notch physical, mechanical and decorative properties, but also ecological or environmentally-friendly properties. Recently, in addition to the water-soluble and with minimum percentage organic solvent paint-and-lacquer materials, local and foreign companies began to offer oil composite materials. It is known that their drying is time consuming (over 24 hours) and their protective film has reduced hardness. In order to reduce the film-forming time in oil paint-and-lacquer materials and increase the hardness of protective-decorative coatings, it is needed to create modified oil-based composite materials. The most prevailing modifiers for oil paint-and-lacquer materials are desiccants. Desiccants reduce the film-forming time, but don't significantly improve the hardness of a coating. A rosin-based modifier is proposed to be incorporated into oil composites with the purpose of coating hardness improvement. Quantitative content of modifiers in oil materials for wood finishing has been determined. The study of impacts of modifier content on reduction in drying time and increase of hardness of oil composite materials is proposed. The results of experimental study of impacts of modifiers on the drying of oil composite coatings show that incorporation of a rosin and a desiccant leads to shorter film-forming time and increase the hardness of protective and decorative wood coating. A rosin, as a modifier improves qualitative indicators of oil-based paint-and-lacquer materials.


Crystalline sediment of potassium hydrotartrate and calcium tartrate in wines is a major problem of wine industry. Reliable identification of crystals can establish the cause of their formation and facilitate appropriate technological solutions. The research objective was to study the morphological features of potassium and calcium salts of tartaric acid via microscopy.
The study featured natural crystal sediments that developed in 105 samples of white and red wines over six months after the end of fermentation, as well as when crystallization was provoked by freezing. The microscopic examination involved a Micmed-5 optical microscope and a PHENOMproX scanning electron microscope. Identification of cations in the composition of crystals followed the method of energy-dispersive spectroscopy, as well as the method of quality reaction with sulfate-anion in acidic medium.
Co-precipitation of colloidal substances was typical of potassium hydrotartrate. It violated the crystal lattice construction and determined the wine color, polymorphism (truncated ellipsoid → lanceolar → rhomboid → geometrically irregular shapes), surface roughness, and optical opacity. The expressiveness increased with the crystal growth (3–350 μm). Calcium tartrate demonstrated no evolutionary changes; it was morphologically uniform, colorless, and transparent. Its crystals had smooth faces and clear edges, regardless of their size (1–150 μm) and the chemical composition of wine.
The research systemized the morphological features of tartrate crystals formed in wines. The obtained results are important for the technochemical control in the process of destabilization diagnosis. The data can be recommended for further studies in applied research laboratories and institutes.


Let G be a finite group, OG the category of canonical orbits of G and A : OG → Ab a contravariant functor to the category of abelian groups. We investigate the set of G-homotopy classes of comultiplications of a Moore G-space of type (A, n) where n ≥ 2 and prove that if such a Moore G-space X is a cogroup, then it has a unique comultiplication if dimX < 2n − 1. If dimX = 2n − 1, then the set of comultiplications of X is in one-one correspondence with Extn−1(A,A⊗A). Then the case G = Zpk leads to an example of infinitely many G-homotopically distinct G-maps φi : X → Y such that φi , φ H j : X H → Y H are homotopic for all i, j and all subgroups H ⊆ G.


This paper documents ways in which psychology can contribute to policy discussions of freedom. Some of the more important psychological variables that are relevant to the degree to which persons are free include ability to handle unwanted experiences (fear, anxiety, etc.) and control personality processes that might undermine choice, intensity of conflicting motives and needs, degree of flexibility, and dependency. Further research is encouraged by indicating where existing disagreements between theories and present lack of research limit our knowledge about personal freedom.


We recently developed and supplied 4-pole turbine generators with a newly adopted the salient solid poles design. This development is for the increase of power and for higher efficiency. This 4-pole turbine generator is for 75MVA capacity model which is our largest production turbine generator model. In order to obtain a further compact design and higher efficiency, we developed a stator winding insulation system. By adopting thin materials and field grading, we reduced the insulation thickness of stator coils by more than 10% compared with our conventional model. Further, we developed a new insulation system that ensures a useful life of 20 years or more according to the IEEE 1553/IEC 60034 evaluation. In addition, the stress caused by the change in the structure of the stator end winding was evaluated, and we confirmed sufficient reliability. This shows the stator coils for 75MVA class 4-pole turbine generator. These are our largest coils. Fig. 1 75MVA Class Stator Coils


An extensive experimental study on mechanical properties of a sandstone subjected to cyclic loadings are presented and discussed in this study. Cyclic loading test were performed in triaxial condition at confining pressure of 4 MPa. The mechanical properties of the rock were altered by cyclic loading; dependent upon the applied stress level during cyclic loading the rock may experience damage or hardening as a result of cyclic loading. It was identified that a critical maximum normalized deviator stress (i.e. deviator stress at the beginning of unloading normalized by rock peak strength) exists between 92-95% which defines the limit between hardening and damage behavior during cyclic loading. If the cyclic loading deviator stress is lower than this critical boundary, the peak strength my increase in postcyclic monotonic loading. This increase in peak strength is directly proportional to the normalized deviator stress in unloading; the amount of increase in peak strength decreases with a decrease in cyclic loading deviator stress. In cyclic damage tests, in general, the increase of Poisson's ratio, v, and the degradation of tangent Young's modulus, Etan, indicate the progressive accumulation of damage in the rock sample over the loading cycles. In cyclic hardening tests, however, v values for the cyclic hardening test remained fairly constant and Etan values slightly increased. Moreover, it was found that in cyclic damage tests the amount of axial and lateral strains cumulated during cyclic testing in much greater than those values for cyclic hardening tests.


This article describes how Boston has been a leader in transit-oriented development (TOD) since long before the concept even had a name. Nicknamed "the Hub," Boston is the economic and cultural capital of New England. It earned that title a long time ago, but has kept it in part because the city still works well in the last quarter of its fourth century and one big reason is its transit system. Operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Boston's system is the oldest in the nation, and the fourth largest. With its network of history neighborhood centers, university and hospital campuses, and suburban downtowns surrounding that quirky, congested core, Boston simply couldn't have arrived at its current economic level, and couldn't hope to sustain a prosperous future, without transit.


Because the high voltage side of transformer outgoing line doesn't need capacitive bushing, it is directly connected to the combination of GIS and high side is closed in GIS equipment, if sudden short circuit faults occur in the operation of the transformer, the need to judge transformer winding deformation tests internal deformation degree, the traditional frequency response method won't work. This paper presents a new method to replace the injection signal at the head of the transformer bushing with the injection signal at the end of the screen. Through the comparison and analysis of the test atlas for the signal injection method at the head and the signal injection method at the end, the atlas obtained are similar by the two methods, but the amplitude is slightly different. Through the analysis of the principle for the two methods and the field test data, the end screen injection signal method can be used to test the transformer winding deformation.


Summary Two life cycle patterns predominate in thecate hydroids, those with alternating polyp and medusa stages, and those with fixed gonophores. Relatively few species release short-lived medusoids, also called swimming gonophores, that carry the gametes. In the family Sertulariidae, with its large number of taxa, this mode of metagenesis has been documented previously for only two species. It is described here for two others, Sertularella diaphana (Allman, 1885) and Sertularella n. sp., from the coastal waters of Reunion Island. Freshly collected fertile male and female colonies released medusoids near dawn, one per gonotheca. Strong contractions of the bell in the swimming movements induced the shedding of gametes. Once gametes were shed, medusoids quickly degenerated and died. The medusoids were similar morphologically in these two related species, and no obvious sexual dimorphism was noted. They were ovoid in shape, the spadix was eccentric, and a velum was present; but they lacked a mouth, tentacles, sense organs, and radial and circular canals as described earlier in Amphisbetia operculata (Linneus, 1758) and Sertularia marginata Kirchenpauer, 1864. However, the medusoids described here lacked exumbrellar nematocysts. Moreover, the spadix with its dense mass of gametes was different from all other described in being stuck from base to top on one side of the subumbrella in spite of hanging freely in the subumbrellar cavity. The hypothesis that this unusual reproductive mode in sertulariids has been underestimated is confirmed by these findings.


This document describes a mechanism for link-state routing protocols
that prevents local transient forwarding loops in case of link
failure. This mechanism proposes a two-step convergence by introducing
a delay between the convergence of the node adjacent to the topology
change and the network-wide convergence. Because this mechanism
delays the IGP convergence, it may only be used for planned
maintenance or when Fast Reroute (FRR) protects the traffic during the
time between the link failure and the IGP convergence. The mechanism
is limited to the link-down event in order to keep the mechanism
simple. Simulations using real network topologies have been performed
and show that local loops are a significant portion (>50%) of the
total forwarding loops.


The paper is devoted to the origins and semantics of the ornamental plot prevailing in the East Andronovo area. The Arkaim-Sintashta prototype of the cannelure-"herringbone" compositions was determined. The author proves the original meaning of such ornamentation dating back to the Indo-Iranian community that the universe was supported by a one-legged goat.


A 62‐year‐old man, with a 20‐year history of seborrhoeic dermatitis, presented with a worsening of his dermatitis. He had previously been demonstrated to be allergic to various topical corticosteroids, so he had been using an emollient cream (Sebclair®), containing piroctone olamine and various anti‐inflammatory substances, for 6 months, with good effect. Patch testing to the cream and its ingredients revealed positive reactions to both propyl gallate and pentylene glycol. A positive reaction to propylene glycol was also detected, whereas patch testing to butylene glycol was negative. Complete remission followed avoidance of the offending substances.


Zigaze is one of the serious desertification regions in Tibet. There are desertified lands of 332 89 ten thousand hectares. Desertification has brought about many damages to agriculture, husbandry, traffic, transportation and peoples life. The dry cold climate, abundant sand source, sparse vegetation and irrational land use are the main causes of desertification. In the coming 40 years, the positive process of desertification will not only exist, but maybe also develop. For controlling and preventing desertification, the basic strategies including controlling population inrease, establishing perfect preventing system, modifing production pattern, eliminating farmland erosion, lightenning the animal carring stress of spring and winter grasslands, as well as multiple energy complementing etc. have been put forward in the paper.


A vegetarian is a person who either does not or limitedly consume meat or animal-derived foods. Vegetarian diets can be classified as lacto vegetarian, ovo vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan etc. A vegetarian diet usually provides lower body mass index, serum total and cholesterol levels, and blood pressure; reduced heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers than do non-vegetarians. However, vegetarians should take adequate amounts of vit B12, vit D, ω-3 fatty acids, calcium, iron, and zinc due to the nutritional deficiencies in order to improve health and reduce the risk of some chronic diseases. This review deals with the impacts of vegetarian diets on health.


Effect of Ta-alloying on microstructure, martensitic transformation, mechanical property and shape memory effect of Ni54Mn25Ga17.5Ta0.5 alloy has been systematically investigated. The results show that the substructure of Ni-Mn-Ga alloy significantly changed, which was converted from the plate martensite to the lath martensite. Compression tests show that a compressive strength of 1380 MPa with a fracture strain up to 21.92% can be achieved in the Ni54Mn25Ga17.5Ta0.5 alloy at room temperature. This is no changed martensite structure with non-modulated T martensite. In addition, the martensitic transition temperature obviously decreases from 350 °C to 208 °Cand hysteresis loop increases about 20 °Cwhen Ta substituted of Ni. The shape memory effect increased with the increase of pre-deformation, nevertheless, the shape recovery ratio appeared firstly increases and then decreases. When the pre-deformation is 10%, 15%, 20%, the shape memory effect of the alloy is 5.1%, 6.8% and 10%, respectively.


Neural network models have proved capable of achieving remarkable performance in sentence and document modeling. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), two mainstream architectures for such modeling tasks, adopt totally different ways of understanding natural languages. The classical CNN, despite its wide application in image classification, is rarely used for text classification. The RNN is capable of processing texts of variable lengths and can hence facilitate text classification. In this study, we aim to analyze the performance of both neural network models on Chinese text classification. On the basis of word2vec, a commonly adopted technology in language processing, we trained two neural network models, TextCNN and TextRNN, on the HUCNews dataset, and we compared their performance with the methods of THUCTC (Tsinghua University Chinese Text Classification) [1]. The experiment results show that the accuracy of Chinese text classification can be improved from 88:60% (THUCTC) to 96:36% (TextCNN) and 94:62% (TextRNN), respectively.


A new predictor-corrector type incremental algorithm is proposed for the exact construction of weighted straight skeletons of 2D general planar polygons of arbitrary complexity based on the notion of deforming polygon. In the proposed algorithm, the raw input provided by the polygon itself is enough to resolve edge collapse and edge split events. Neither the construction of a kinetic triangulation nor the computation of a motorcycle graph is required. Due to its incremental nature, there is always a room in the algorithm for the interactive construction of the straight skeleton. The proposed algorithm is of predictor-corrector type. In the algorithm, the edge collapse and edge split events are tackled by a completely different novel original approach which is first of its kind. In the predictor step, the position of the vertices is advanced in time by direct integration assuming no event. Then predicted positions are corrected by using linear interpolation if there are edge collapse or edge split events within the same increment. In the algorithm edge collapse and edge split events are detected by, respectively, edge swap and edge penetration. The proposed algorithm has been used to construct roof topology starting from a floor plan of various complexity ranging from simple convex to highly nonconvex with holes. In order to construct, improve and test the building blocks of the underlying algorithm, a graphical user interface, Straight Skeleton Development Kit, has also been developed in parallel by the author using C++ programming language.


Phytoplankton toxins undergo trophic transport and accumulation in marine food webs, causing vectorial intoxication of upper-level consumers such as fishes, seabirds, and marine mam- mals. An entry point for phytoplankton toxins into these pelagic trophic pathways is frequently the herbivorous zooplankton. During the 1995 spring-summer red tide season in Massachusetts Bay, we examined accumulation of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins from the dinoflagellate Alexan- drium spp. in various plankton size fractions (20-64, 64-100, 100-200, 200-500, and >500 µm), and identified the relative composition of the zooplankton in these size fractions. Toxin levels were esti- mated by both high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and a receptor-binding assay, the latter based on sample toxic potency. Although no PSP toxicity was detected in nearshore shellfish by routine monitoring programs using the mouse bioassay, positive responses were detected in zoo- plankton size fractions with the more sensitive HPLC and the receptor assay methods. The toxin signal was disproportionately concentrated in the larger zooplankton size fraction, frequently domi- nated by large copepods such as Calanus finmarchicus and Centropages typicus, which comprised only a small portion of total zooplankton abundance in quantitative samples obtained with 100 µm mesh nets. By comparison, signal levels were low or undetectable in the smaller size fraction, which contained the overwhelmingly most-abundant zooplankters such as protists, copepod nauplii and copepodites and adults of small copepods such as Oithona similis, Paracalanus parvus, and Pseudo- calanus spp. The larger toxin-accumulating copepods could provide a direct trophic linkage for vectorial intoxication of baleen whales that are known to feed upon such copepods.


Two-dimensional singular value decomposition (2DSVD) is an important dimensionality reduction algorithm which has inherent advantage in preserving the structure of 2D images. However, 2DSVD algorithm is based on the squared error loss, which may exaggerate the projection errors with the presence of outliers. To solve this problem, we propose a generalized kernel risk sensitive loss for measuring the projection error in 2DSVD, which automatically eliminates the outlier information during optimization. Since the proposed objective function is non-convex, a majorization-minimization algorithm is developed to efficiently solve it. Our method is rotational invariant and has intrinsic advantages in processing non-centered data. Experimental results on public databases demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method significantly outperforms several benchmark methods on different applications.


The effect of 5 days of hypoxia on the subsequent mortality of rats breathing 99 per cent oxygen at ambient pressure was studied. Thirty-one of the 32 rats not previously subjected to hypoxia died after 64 ± 10 (mean ± SD) hours of breathing oxygen. Five of 32 rats, subjected to 5 days of hypoxia, died after 281 ± 76 hours of subsequent oxygen. Twenty-seven of the group that was exposed to hypoxia survived after breathing oxygen for 28 days. Microscopy demonstrated delayed perivascular and peribronchial edema in the group subjected to hypoxia, and pulmonary fibrosis was noted after 48 days of breathing oxygen.


Research the technology of distribution terminal that based on intelligent distributed FA, research the terminal information interaction mechanism of dynamic topology operation model, using the topological analysis algorithm of dynamic topology of ad hoc network, implementation of distributed FA line topology Ad Hoc Network Technology, improving reliability and practicability of distribution automation terminal.


This article critiques the failure to adopt and enforce procedural norms in Canadian public policy making and suggests that the failure of legislatures and courts to require appropriate procedure prior to the elaboration and implementation of regulatory policy undermines the democratic and substantive legitimacy of that policy. It supports this position through analysis of current approaches to policy making in Canada and the United States, through application of theories of deliberative democracy to policy making and, ultimately, through consideration of what appropriate procedures for policy making should look like.


The complex impulse environment of artillery firing process brings very tough impulse resistance requirement for the artillery carrier equipment. The results of the vibration test of an electrical control box with a certain rubber shock absorber show that good shock absorb effect has not been received. Based on carefully theoretical analysis and simulation, it can be sure that the rigid collision when shock absorber reaches its limit is the reason. From the point of view of the theory and simulation of the experimental results, the analysis of the experiment results is given, which can provide the necessary theoretical basis of how to choose the appropriate shock absorber.


Shadow mapping is a popular image-based technique for real-time shadow rendering. Although numerous im-provements have been made to help anti-aliasing in shadow mapping, there is a lack of mathematical tools that allow us to quantitatively analyze aliasing errors in its variants. In this paper, we establish an aliasing theory to achieve this goal. A generalized representation of aliasing errors is derived from a pure mathematical point of view. The major highlight of this representation is the ability of quantifying the aliasing error at any position for general view-light con(cid:2)gurations. On the contrary, due to the geometric assumptions used in the computational model, previous work analyzes the aliasing only along the view direction in the simplest case where the light and view directions are orthogonal. Subsequently, as a direct application of our theory, we present a comparison of aliasing distributions in a few representative variants of perspective shadow maps. We believe that these theoret-ical results are useful to better understand shadow mapping, and thus inspire people to develop novel techniques in this area.


The constrained form of a machine tool has the direct and serious influence on the working performance.As compared with five different layouts of pad iron in grinder bed,this paper finds out the best layout of pad iron;i.e.six points symmetric layout of pad iron.The six points symmetric layout of pad iron not only saves cost but also is hard to result in stress concentration and twist deformation,and it coincides with the development trend of supporting pattern.


Abstract A synthesis for (E)-4-(3 -formyl-2′ -butenyl)- indole, which essentially entails the "carboxolytic cleavage" of 5-amino-1,4-dihydronaphthalene with N-cyclohexyl-N-propenyl-nitrosonium ion, is described


of colies, their frequent sunbathing, and ocproduced fell through the platform and sank beneath a 2-cm layer of mineral oil in the bottom of the casional instances of hypothermia (often in chamber, thus minimizing fecal contributions to the birds with wet plumage), have led to the sugmeasurement of evaporative water loss. The respiromgestion that they may undergo periods of eter chamber was equipped with ports for the introtorpor (McAtee 1947; Bartholomew et al. duction and removal of air, a thermocouple, and an electic humidity sensor. Dried air was passed 1957; Cowles 1959). Their thermoregulatory through the respirometer chamber at 700 cc/min capacity, however, has never systematically at ambient temperatures of 5-40°C; at 42°C the rate been studied, and despite their abundance and was increased to 1590 cc/min. Evaporative water the many unusual features of their structure loss was determined from the change in weight of


Unibral is a program that supports research and education cooperation actions between German and Brazilian universities. This work in progress paper will describe a new version of such an old experience of Unibral, a project between the Federal University of Amazonas and the University of Stuttgart. This edition started in 2013 and joined two institutes related to the electrical and computer engineering courses. The German side is represented by the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS) and the Brazilian side by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses. The main topics of the research and technology transfer are related to the new industrial automation issues concerning modularity and flexibility, product automation (focusing on health), and cyber physical systems. The project will evaluate the introduction of new curricular directions and new subjects in both sides, as well as, joint research action that will put together people from both institutions. This paper will describe the experiences already done in this work in progress emphasizing the new directions in this project phase. Our goal is to contribute with other universities all over the world wishing to establish similar cooperation actions.


Current models for reading words often assume the existence of features or shape characteristics for distinguishing one letter from another. However, the form of these features need not be invariant, particularly as one considers variations in type font or in handwriting. In this paper, we introduce the possibility of a two-level process with one level helping the viewer to identify the style or font being used at a given time. This first process leads to the activation of a decision tree that is specialized with respect to a particular set of characteristics while a second process makes use of this decision tree to identify the letter or word being presented. The results of an experiment designed to explore empirical implications of this two-level approach are described. Results are consistent with the model although additional experimentation is needed to explore more fully the implications for the processing of letters and words.


The paper defines an assessment system for performance of IT&C audit process. The analytical models of performance indicators are provided together with the interpretation of their results. Performance levels catch the quality characteristics of the audit processes carried out for distributed informatics systems. Also, the paper presents a performance assessment framework for audit processes and a performance audit methodology. The impact of performance indicators is defined as the organization's income after performance audit recommendation implementing. Methods and techniques for performance assessment are provided for audit processes of the distributed informatics system. The impact levels of performance indicators are calculated before implementation of the performance recommendation and after that to establish whether the performance audit increases the quality of IT&C audit processes.


Antioxidant properties of teak leaves collected from Cepu, Central Java, Indonesia which was extracted using Microwave Assisted Extraction (MAE) and soxhlet extraction was identified. The antioxidant activity was measured based on total phenol content, DPPH radical scavenging activity and H2O2 scavenging activity. MAE significantly produced higher antioxidant properties in shorter time compared to soxhlet extraction, however, the antioxidant properties of teak leaves collected from Cepu, was not significantly different from that collected from Blitar and Madiun, East Java. Different types of soil seem not affect the antioxidant properties of teak.


This study has objectives to evaluate the rate of system toxicity from the chemical residues in the blood of farmers locating in Khamsaengsaeng  District, NakhonRatchasima Province, and determine the factors affecting the toxicity of the blood chemicals of farmers. A Questionnaire was used as an instrument for collecting data from 400 farmers between October to December 2016 Statistics used for data analyses were descriptive statistics presenting with frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and multivariable logistic regression. The results of chemical residues in farmer's blood found that most chemical substances caused the most toxic symptoms were the musculoskeletalsystem 30.60%, followed by  the nervous system 22.00% and  the respiratory system 19.4%. In the musculoskeletal system and tender, most symptom found was fatigue 30.9%. Nervous system found was headache 45.9% and respiratory  tract system was irritation and neck spasms 38.2%. With the toxicity of chemicals in the farmer's blood, the results from multivariable logistic regression showed  statistically signi cant at p-value <0.05 of  spray duration ( ORadj = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.15-2.41,p-value <0.001),  some weed species (ORadj  = 4.15, 95% CI = 1.47-11.70, p-value = 0.006),and chemical use behavior (ORadj = 0.45, 95% CI = 0.32-0.65, p-value <0.001).  In conclusion, toxicity in farmer's blood chemicals still a major problem. All sectors must seriously collaborate and work together to reduce chemical residues in both agricultural related work and in vegetables which may alleviate public health in general population. Keywords : farmers, chemical pesticide use, affecting factors, pesticide poisoning, blood chemical levels


Based on the greatly changed notions of the new drug evaluation in the international society, the current situation was analyzed in new clinical efficacy evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine in China and several correlated problems were investigated.New clinical efficacy evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine should base on the classification of the effectiveness and indication,underline the clinical superiority, emphasize the characteristic of individuation efficacy,and the index of the efficacy evaluation should change with the related development.


Studies about infectious-contagious diseases have stimulated the development of research on occupational injuries and biosafety among health care workers in different countries. In Brazil, there are few studies highlighting this topic in Dentistry. This study aimed at identifying the prevalence of needlestick and sharp injuries, and the post-exposure prophylactic measures in two Dentistry schools in Recife, state of Pernambuco, in Brazil. The sample was composed of 300 students randomly chosen at the professional stage of the course, who were interviewed by one of the researchers. The prevalence of the students who had had accidents was 25.3%. Among these, 34.2% informed they were oriented by teachers to take prophylactic measures. The majority (73.7%) affirmed having only washed the wound with soap and water. Only 13.2% sought medical service specialized in occupational injuries. However, 88.7% classified their knowledge on post-exposure prophylactic measures as regular or good. The authors concluded that still a high percentage of students experienced sharp and needlestick injuries, with potential risk of biological contamination. It is, therefore, necessary to enhance the compliance to prophylactic measures in order to minimize such circumstances, which are harmful to the health of those involved in Dentistry Care.


The detection of induced polarization changes can improve the sensitivity of a number of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques. We discuss in detail the technique of Doppler -free polarization spectroscopy to illustrate the basic features and the sensitivity of this approach. Introduction Present optical technology allows one to detect extremely small changes in the polarization of light. This ability can be used to significantly improve the sensitivity of a number of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques. This includes two photon absorption, CARS, optical double resonance, saturated absorption and others. In its most general form polarization spectroscopy is the observation of all of these nonlinear processes through induced polarization changes. In this paper, however, I will limit myself to discussing only the technique of Doppler -free polarization spectroscopy' although many of the general features illustrated here apply to these other cases as well. Review of Saturated Absorption Doppler -free polarization spectroscopy is the polarization version of saturated absorption spectroscopy and the Doppler -free nature of the signals is the same. Therefore, let me briefly review the basic idea behind saturated absorption spectroscopy. As shown p . _ s in Figure la, two colinear narrowband laser ,,,,, ' . < II beams pass through a gas sample going in t.. ¡ à opposite directions. The strong saturating beam "burns a hole" in the velocity nbf p s al distribution of the atoms while the weaker probe beam simply measures the absorption. If the two beams have the same frequency they will have opposite Doppler shifts as shown in vZ vo Tz Ivoci b vs=vp=v the upper half of Figure la. Thus the two } beams will be in resonance with the same atoms "bl -Aapl NE WIDTH only when they are tuned to the center of the B NATURAL LI -TALI Doppler profile (in resonance with atoms with no axial velocity) as shown in the lower half of la. At this frequency the absorption of the probe beam is decreased because of the hole burning of the saturating beam. The width of this reduced absorption is limited only by the natural (or laser) linewidth of Figure 1. Saturated Absorption the transition --hence the term "Dopplerfree." This absorption change is manifested as an increase in the probe beam intensity transmitted through the sample. The limitation of this technique is that usually this increase is a small fractional change in intensity and so in the traditional approach variations in the laser amplitude are a major source of noise. The essence of polarization spectroscopy is that by observing polarization changes instead of total intensity one can suppress the background intensity relative to the changes induced by the saturating beam. This provides a much larger fractional effect with correspondingly less noise from laser amplitude fluctuations. Later papers in this volume will discuss new high frequency modulation techniques for saturated absorption which greatly reduce the amplitude noise. Such techniques are quite compatible with polarization spectroscopy and one can combine the two approaches if necessary to further improve sensitivity. o


Accurate modeling of the circuits at different steps of design process is an essential factor for having a cost effective and high throughput final circuit implementation. In this paper an efficient system level modeling of a digital pixel sensor architecture with the capability of harvesting the energy of illuminated light is presented. For the modeling the SystemC-AMS analog and mixed signal extension to the SystemC hardware description language (HDL) 1666 IEEE standard is used. The proposed model mainly focuses on the accuracy of the photodiode model which is fabricated in a standard CMOS 0.18 μm technology. This accuracy is important for both light sensing and energy harvesting phases. The model uses electrical linear network (ELN) and timed data flow (TDF) models of computation (MoC) of SystemC-AMS. Simulation results confirm the validity of the proposed model.


The pursuit for competitive advantages demand manufacturers to increase flexibility, productivity and profitability, while reducing operational cost an idle time. The Japanese manufacturer Toyota was capable to develop a unique method to treat those issues, originating the Toyota Production System. This concept was studied, westernized and widely spread as Lean Manufacturing, predominantly by applying best practices – e.g. Kanban, A3 and Value Stream Mapping – from the Japanese facility. Through a variety of reports about unsustainability the mindset behind the improvement was researched, out coming the Toyota Kata approach. This method identified the patterns of relationship among the command chain and the way of identify and solve problems seeking improvement and knowledge, this may be described and a study-action approach. This project presents a Lean-TRIZ proposal for empower organizational level with a systematic support for Challenge creation, meaning to define long term systems operational characteristics. A method based on the state of the art Lean-TRIZ was developed and verified by simulations, hence proposed challenges were evaluated by experts according to quantity, utility and novelty of ideas. Finally, the data was statistically analyzed proving the integrated model capabilities.


Doping is provided a method, comprising: forming N + doped region (2) in the surface of the N-type substrate (1); forming a P + doped region (5) on the surface of the P-type and N-type substrate doped with transition of region (51), where, N + doped region and a P + doped region are not in contact, P type doped region in contact with the transition P + doped region, and the doping concentration of the P-type ion-doped P + region is smaller than the area . Also it provides a PN junction, and a solar cell manufacturing method thereof. This method simplifies the doping process step without purchase lithography, without the use of multiple masks, mask alignment is not a problem and reduces the manufacturing cost of the solar cell structure and PN.


Background A growing body of evidence supports the existence of an association between patient safety culture (PSC) and patient outcomes. PSC refers to shared perceptions and attitudes towards norms, policies and procedures related to patient safety. Existing literature shows that PSC varies among health professionals depending on their specific profession and specialty. However, these studies did not investigate whether PSC can be improved. This study investigates whether length of education is associated with improvements in PCS following a simulation intervention. Methods From April 2017 to November 2018, a cross-sectional intervention study was conducted at two regional hospitals in Denmark. Two groups with altogether 1230 health professionals were invited to participate. One group included nurses, midwives and radiographers; the other group included doctors. A train-the-trainer intervention approach was applied consisting of a 4-day simulation instructor course that emphasised team training, communication and leadership. Fifty-three healthcare professionals were trained as instructors. After the course, instructors performed in situ simulation in their own hospital environment. Outcomes The Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ), which has 6 dimensions and 32 items, was used to collect main outcome variables. All employees from both groups were surveyed before the intervention and again four and nine months after the intervention. Results Mean baseline scores were higher among doctors than among nurses, midwives and radiographers for all SAQ dimensions. At the second follow-up, four of six dimensions improved significantly (p ≤ 0.05) among nurses, midwives and radiographers, whereas no dimensions improved significantly among doctors. Conclusion Over time, nurses, midwives and radiographers improved more in PSC attitudes than doctors did.


This study presents an analysis and benchmarking of two construction systems used in a rehabilitation scenario, in order to assist the decision making process during the design phase. Both systems meet the same functional performance, mainly structural: reinforcement with a layer of compressed concrete, and the alternative equivalent system, made of plywood with wooden board.
The methodology of life-cycle assessment (LCA) is proposed to compare the environmental burdens associated with two different solutions for a reinforcement system. This approach allows verifying which construction system behaves best towards the environment to take a decision facing the design of the rehabilitation.
The indicators of the considered systems are similar in some cases, but regarding global warming the use of cross laminated timber (CLT) for the reinforcement is a better alternative than the concrete reinforcement, while this one stands over for acidification of soil and water.
The current regulatory European framework is helping designers to reduce the environmental impact of buildings during their use; therefore it is important to consider the other phases of the building life cycle, including the product stage and the construction phase.


The paper conducts an empirical investigation of the US meat demand system using quarterly data on per capita meat consumption and prices. SUR maximum likelihood is used to estimate a static and dynamic (error correction) linear almost ideal demand systems. Results compare static and dynamic model elasticities.


The increase in IP telephony demands an efficient tool for QoS prediction and measurement in order to allow the planning and design of the underlying networks to meet quality requirements. Among the several tools available for the traditional circuit switched telephony networks, the E-model can be adapted to modern VoIP networks. This paper discusses this adaptation in a corporate WAN scenario in which PC users can communicate with each other. Impairments related to delay and terminals are analysed to derive the proper formulae to be included in the E-model. Impact of other features of the IP networks and terminals in existing factors of the E-model have also been addressed.


QD-enhanced displays are beginning to displace LCD and OLED flat panels due to the valuable properties of QD semiconductor nano-particles. Measuring only a few nanometers in diameter, a quantum dot is quite literally a nano-sized semiconductor. Cadmium selenide, zinc selenide and other semiconducting materials with very narrow and tunable emission spectrums, are engineered to create a bright and brilliant colour response. Setting off in a novel direction, SWIR Vision Systems is determined to develop QDs for high performance infrared camera sensors. The goal of this work is to commercialize the world's lowest cost and highest resolution SWIR-band machine vision cameras. To accomplish this, the group synthesizes lead-sulfide (PbS) based QD nanoparticles, and processes these into very thin-layered photodiodes. The photodiodes and their underlying silicon CMOS circuitry form a novel photosensor, sensitive to light in the shortwave IR band. Unlike QDs for TV displays, which rely on a wavelength up-conversion process, PbS based photodiodes directly convert photons of incident light into electrons, which are subsequently read out by the circuitry within individual pixels. The QD particles are designed to provide an optimized spectral response tuned for the 400 to 1,700nm visible-SWIR wavelength band.


The present invention provides a system and method for real-time monitoring of the operating performance of the grid system; a system comprising one or more computer monitor, a computer monitor one or more synchronized phasor for receiving a sub-second measurement time stamp the number of data streams, the performance reliability index for storing operation data of power system, a wide area network is configured to monitor power grid, the grid operator indicator, power production and transmission power indicators indicators configured to be monitored in real time to a wide area network grid the data stream analysis to predict future events and operating conditions, is configured to perform the event detection logic, configured to display the event analysis. Said method comprising the step S1, the number of data streams received from a wide area interconnected power system; step S2 data, detecting the received data stream; step S3, event analysis; step S4, the grid system performance evaluation; step S5 , visual display event-related metrics and event analysis. The system and method provided by the present invention can significantly improve the overall system power management scheduling capability, effectively guarantee the reliability of the power system operation.


Using as an example potentials of the fsrm u. (r)»-D. (cosh 2 (r/R))" 1 »the binding energies as well as the root mean square radii of the orbits of the Λ particle in hypernuclei in the ground and excited states were calculated in the relativistic and non-relativistic cases and the results are compared.


The existing problems of pollution-free vegetables production in Haidong Prefecture of Qinghai Province were analyzed,and the countermeasures were put forward,so as to provide reference.


This paper describes the unprecedented storm Stephanie, which exhibited tropical characteristics over the Bay of Biscay on 15 September 2016. Remote sensing observations reveal a cloud‐free area surrounded by a circular precipitation pattern and an axisymmetric wind field, while buoy observations show an abrupt drop in wind speed during the passage of the storm centre. Model analysis further corroborates an ongoing tropical transition from a frontal cold‐core to a symmetric warm‐core system. By analogy with 'Medicanes' (Mediterranean hurricanes), we name this storm a 'Biscane' (Biscay hurricane). Weather systems of this kind may become more frequent in a warmer climate.


Associate Editor: Joel O. Wertheim Comments to the Author: Thank you very much for submitting your manuscript "phastSim: efficient simulation of sequence evolution for pandemic-scale datasets" for consideration at PLOS Computational Biology. As with all papers reviewed by the journal, your manuscript was reviewed by members of the editorial board and by several independent reviewers. In light of the reviews (below this email), we would like to invite the resubmission of a significantly-revised version that takes into account the reviewers' comments. I agree with the consensus among the three reviewers. This approach is novel and potentially quite useful. That said, the reviewers identified several areas that require attention and improvement. In particular, Reviewers 1 and 3 raise an important point about the structure and focus of the manuscript. Answer: We thank the Editor for the feedback. We have now addressed the concerns of the Reviewers. In particular, the new version of the manuscript has a new structure and additional simulations, as suggested by the Reviewers and Editor.


Urban ecological construction is the essential base-stone for building a well-off society in all-around way in China. An indicator system for eco-city in a well-off society has been established, which consists of vigor, organization and resilience. The assessment method and criteria were also developed, based on national standard and domestic as well as abroad advanced experiences. The pilot case studies of Shanghai Pudong New Area showed that this indicator system is very practical.


The genosome of the greater long-tialed hamster(Tscherskia triton) which collected from Wucun Qufu,Bolin Pingyi and Bianqiao Pingyi are amplified by the microsatellite primer of the common hamster.The segments which are about 550bp are cloned and sequenced.According to the analysis of DAMBE,DnaSP4.10 and MEGA3.10,different numbers of SNPs exist in intrapopulation and interpopulation.For example,the contents of SNPs in Bolin region are more than that in Wucun region,and Bianqiao region's contents are the least.While in interpopulation,the SNPs between Wucun region and Bianqiao region are the highest: six information sites are identified in 496bp,including 4 transitions and 2 transversions.In the contrast,just only 2 transitions are detected between Bolin region and Bianqiao region.In addition,the Gst is nearly 0.18,and the Fst is between 0.5 and 0.7,which demonstrates that the genetic differentiation exists among the three populations.