Objective To compare subaxile temperature of the arteiovenous fistula side with that of the opposite side in patients with arteiovenous fistula in upper arm after kidney transplantation.Methods The study is a own control trail.Subaxile temperature of the arteiovenous fistula side and the opposite side were taken simultaneously in 200 patients with arteiovenous fistula in upper arm after kidney transplantation.Results Subaxile temperature of the arteiovenous fistula side is obviously higher than that of the opposite side(36.74±0.40 v.s.36.54±0.42,p0.05).Conclusion The subaxile temperature should be taken at the armpit without arteiovenous fistula in the homolat upper arm.


Small previous studies exploring student programming process have demonstrated behavioral metrics' (i.e., EQ, Watwin, RED) ability to predict grades. However, this relationship deteriorates when scaled across contexts [1]. This paper replicates Price et al's finding on anonymized data collected from thousands of learners across the globe that use the Codio platform and discusses the context-dependent nature of these behavioral metrics and grades noted in previous work as potential reasons for this finding. We predicted that these metrics would be more consistent across programming assignments than grades. However, we found that behavioral metrics vary more, possibly an artifact of students struggling before achieving success - a pattern not captured by grades. This shows the promise of these metrics and their ability to act as a real-time indicator of student process instead of a predictor of grade performance.


With the current expansion of universal preschool and transitional kindergarten and other early childhood programs, as well as national attention to children's health and issues of planetary sustainability, nature and environmental education is poised to play a critical role in preservice and inservice early childhood teacher education. In pursuing high-quality and accessible nature and environmental education for all teachers and children, though, teacher educators will need to redesign and create new courses and programs to strengthen conceptual knowledge and instructional expertise for novice and veteran teachers. As co-editors of this special section, we are pleased to present three articles that deepen and expand our understanding of how early childhood teacher educators can envision and implement high-quality, innovative nature and environmental education. Before we provide an overview of the articles, let us first problematize the challenge of reconceptualizing nature and environmental education in early teacher education. First, environmental education remains a relatively new field and curricular emphasis, and early childhood teacher educators have the task of learning the relevant research, policy, and practice. This necessitates a measure of professional development at the teacher-education level as well as additional research into this process. Second, since early childhood teachereducation programs typically cover a great deal of curricular ground, nature and environmental education are often not prioritized in required course offerings or even as course electives. This factor might involve both curricular and programmatic restructuring. Third, given the increasing variety of early childhood settings in terms of structure, curriculum, and expectations, teacher educators face the challenge of designing nature and environmental courses and practica for settings as diverse as small family childcare in a home to large urban preschools. Fourth, given the broad spectrum of early childhood education at the AA-, BA-, and MA-degree levels, nature and environmental education curriculum and programs will need to account for interand intrainstitutional articulation and consistency. There is growing evidence that, despite potential challenges, the need for teachers to integrate nature and environmental studies into their curriculum is essential. At a most basic level, we know that time in nature positively


The article makes an attempt to justify a special epistolary genre "letter to a ruler", i.e. high officials, addressed to "His Imperial Majesty". "Letter to a ruler" is represented by two invariants "letter to a tsar" (XIX beginning of the XX century) and "letter to a leader" (Soviet epoch). The author distinguishes the most typical texts considered as a historical document and as a literary fact. The researcher identifies the distinctive features of this epistolary genre and its genre sub-variants.


This book review and the accompanying commentary are based on the book, The Social Media Age. This book might well have been titled, 'the power of technology: social media, artificial intelligence, and the algorithm society. Social media are the dominant information technology of our time. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok invite new kinds of interaction, impacting friendships, family and peer groups, and business relationships while reconfiguring public engagement and discourse through influencers, memes, viral media, and the algorithms that drive the digital domain. The social media matrix—such as the number of likes, views, shares, and followers—shapes how individuals perceive and negotiate belonging (Roger 2015) as well as their own self-perception (Barry et al. 2019). Nevertheless, many questions remain open to answers and debate about the impact and meaning of social media (Sujon 2021). Some scholars take a broad view, arguing that all media are social (e.g., Humphreys 2016), while others take a narrower view, believing that social media include specific technology set aside for particular purposes. Despite many contrasting definitions, digital platforms enable public-facing social interaction (Sujon 2021), where social media are not just concerned with connection but also with the circulation of information and its communication. The Social Media Age (Sujon 2021), is a recent attempt to synthesize the full breadth of the current understanding of the topic. It provides a wealth of information concerning social media and the various structural elements that drive it. One such example is the meme. The meme phenomenon is grounded in the notion of "cultural evolution" and the idea that culture can be transmitted and replicated much like organic life, leaving the meme the genetic material of culture (Dawkins 1976). The author lays this argument out across three distinct sections. Part one focuses on the history and meaning of social media, examining its origins and exploring the impact such media have had on power and ideology, particularly as it relates to consumers of such products. Sujon (2021) then dissects the phenomena of social technologies and their impact on participation, culture, and protest throughout any variety of social arenas. Finally, the author discusses the influence social media has on everyday life, ranging from how we, as individuals, deal with the self to the development of personal connections and intimacy in a digital age. This book's essence is to dissect current theoretical approaches to social media. For instance, Sujon (2021) applies the Foucauldian approach to power, Theodore Adorno's work within the culture industry, and Dall Smythe's theory of audience commodity to illustrate the use of power and ideology within social media. That said, media not only works as an entertainment-oriented phenomenon but also in popularizing and normalizing class-oriented ideologies. This commentary aims not to critique the theories applied to social media but to expand understanding of technology advancement, culture, and society. Most importantly, the authors endeavor to deeply explore the "front stage" of social media and digital technologies and their impact on consumers and culture. In the following, we review some highlights of this exploration and provide a brief examination of the "backstage" in the artificial intelligence and algorithms that drive such technologies are reviewed. Finally, we discuss the potential impact of how the advancement of technology impacts individuals, culture, and society is discussed.


I. Understanding Collateral Consequences 678 A. The Formalistic Distinction Between "Direct" and "Collateral" Consequences 678 B. The Constitutional Landscape: Due Process, Effective Assistance, and Guilty Pleas 680 1. Due Process and Collateral Consequences: No Duty to Warn Defendants 683 a. Brady v. United States: The Shaky Doctrinal Cornerstone of the CollateralConsequences Rule 684 b. Varying Definitions of Brady's "Direct Consequences" Language 689 i. "Definite, Immediate and Largely Automatic" 689 ii. Punitive v. Nonpunitive Consequences . 691 iii. "Control and Responsibility" 692 2. Effective Assistance of Counsel and Collateral Consequences 693 C. The Outdated Landscape of Collateral Consequences 700


The invention concerns the production of a shaped part from a silver-based contact material. According to the invention, a powder mixture is formed from silver and a metal oxide and is processed powder-metallurgically to form the shaped part, the metal oxide being reduced to metal. Since metal oxide powders with a considerably finer grain size than metal powders are available, a contact material of which the metal incorporated as active component has an average grain size of less than 1 mu m can be obtained. Owing to the fine grain size, a contact material of this type has particularly advantageous switching properties.


The utility model relates to a self-rotation lamp ball, which is formed by a power device, a lamp arm and a transmission group matching with an electricity conducting device, wherein the power device is combined by two half case bodies, and the other side is provided with a roller without a power supply; a battery; a motor and a switch body are arranged in each half case body; the motor is additionally provided with an upward shaft center for driving a gear to rotate, and the gear is provided with a central shaft hole; the lamp arm is combined by a front and a back half case bodies, and is divided into a main body and arm bodies extending and lowering toward the side edge, wherein the main body forms a main body chamber, and forms a hollow shaft groove downwards; the arm bodies are respectively provided with an arm body chamber; the luminous body forms an electric connection with a circuit board; the transmission group is provided with a central shaft, an insulating sleeve pipe is sheathed outside the transmission group, and an electricity conducting shaft pipe is sheathed outside the insulating sleeve pipe; the electricity conducting device is combined with the power device by inserting the central shaft hole of the power device, and then is inserted in the hollow shaft groove below the main body chamber of the lamp arm so as to form steady combination; two electricity conducting brush sheets are arranged in the front and the back half case bodies of the power device. The utility model has the advantages that the integral construction is ingenious, and the visual and the recreational effects of use are novel and diversified.


The article deals with the complex of challenging issues related to the increasing influence of mass media on people's world view and value system, which leads to the reanimation of myth as the crucial component of the psychic health of humans. It is shown that the myth acquires special significance in periods of transformational changes while standing as one of the key facilities for constructing the identity and value system, as well as for the maintenance and reproduction of social order.


This article introduces the performance,sorts and processing methods of a new type of heat exchange pipe-copper-aluminum compound pipe and offers an analysis of the product's market prospect and economic benefit,which may serve as a reference for manufacturers of air-conditioners,refrigerators,freezers and heat-exchangers,etc.


This paper investigates the relationship between the creation of new firms and the properties of the local knowledge bases, like coherence, cognitive distance and variety. By combining the literature on the knowledge spillovers of entrepreneurship and that on the recombinant knowledge approach, we posit that locally available knowledge matters to the entrepreneurial process, but the type of knowledge underlying theses dynamics deserve to be analyzed. The analysis is carried out on 104 Italian NUTS 3 regions observed over the time span 1995-2011. The results show that the complementarity degree of local knowledge is important, while increasing similarity yields negative effects. This suggests that the creation of new firms in Italy is associated to the exploitation of well established technological trajectories grounded on competences accumulated over time, although cognitive proximity is likely to engender lock-in effects and hinder such process.


With increasing speed and power of next-generation combat and transport surface ships, the reduction of the magnitude of the ship acoustic signature becomes a vital task of naval engineering. Another related problem is to decrease the self-noise affecting operations of the ship's own sonar. Currently, sponsors of naval research are encouraging the investigation of new methods for noise reduction, alternative to the usual weight-increasing enhancement of damping and insulating structures. One of the advanced concepts for future marine transportation is the use of artificial cavitation on a hull to reduce hydrodynamic drag and associated power requirements. Since this concept involves the application of air layers and possibly bubbly mixtures at the hull surfaces, underwater sound radiation properties of this ship type can differ significantly from those of traditional vessels. This paper deals with some major components of ship noise originating inside a ship and on its hull surface. The effects of the presence of gaseous layers on underwater radiation of ship's noise are considered. Estimated results are presented for typical parameters of ships with artificial cavitation.Copyright © 2004 by ASME


This research includes a review of the log management of the company Telia. The research has also included a comparison of the two log management sys- tems Splunk and ELK. The review of the company ...


This chapter deals with genre recognition, in the specific case of the book of Jubilees ; it discusses literary form, not metalinguistic chronotopes. The question of function can be viewed in terms of the composition of the book of Jubilees. Were there literary models available to the author of the book? Did he conform to them or bend them to his purpose and is that purpose clarified by the literary presentation of the work? The influence of the apocalypses on Jubilees was not only formal. It also accepted key elements of the apocalyptic worldview: the agency of supernatural powers and the expectation of eventual retribution and a new creation. These elements were modified and integrated with the Deuteronomistic view of history, which emphasized above all the observance of the Torah. This hardly amounted to a compromise, reconciling Enochic and covenantal Judaism; the end product is unambiguously covenantal. Keywords:apocalyptic worldview; book of Jubilees ; genre; Torah


We developed synthetic chemistry to access the marine alkaloid rigidins and over 40 synthetic analogues based on the 7-deazaxanthine, 7-deazaadenine, 7-deazapurine, and 7-deazahypoxanthine skeletons. Analogues based on the 7-deazahypoxanthine skeleton exhibited nanomolar potencies against cell lines representing cancers with dismal prognoses, tumor metastases, and multidrug resistant cells. Studies aimed at elucidating the mode(s) of action of the 7-deazahypoxanthines in cancer cells revealed that they inhibited in vitro tubulin polymerization and disorganized microtubules in live HeLa cells. Experiments evaluating the effects of the 7-deazahypoxanthines on the binding of [(3)H]colchicine to tubulin identified the colchicine site on tubulin as the most likely target for these compounds in cancer cells. Because many microtubule-targeting compounds are successfully used to fight cancer in the clinic, we believe the new chemical class of antitubulin agents represented by the 7-deazahypoxanthine rigidin analogues have significant potential as new anticancer agents.


In the specifications of current subgrade design,the quality evaluation standard of subgrade compaction does not take the soil into account;especially the quality evaluation of fine-grain soil is not included,which needs adjustment to some degree.In this paper,using several representative soil samples as the main research object,the author studies characteristic parameters of fine-grain soil and the relationship between its and the corresponding mechanical properties,and provides a reference to further improving the quality evaluation standard of subgrade compaction.


Decadence is a polymorphous concept most often denoting decline and ruination, or pleasure, artifice, and excess. It is commonly associated with profligacy, and dredged up in times of crisis. Decadence has garnered considerable attention across the arts and humanities, particularly the late-nineteenth-century 'decadent movement' in Europe associated with the likes of J. K. Huysmans and Aubrey Beardsley; however, both the movement and the concept have gained little traction in theatre and performance studies. In the first part of this chapter, I speculate as to why. In the last part, I consider the relevance of decadence to the politics of radical theatre today, narrowing attention to a particularly illuminating focus: the appearance of hair in Lauren Barri Holstein's Splat! (SPILL Festival, Barbican Centre April 2013). I will be investigating Holstein's hair through the lens of decadence as it was imagined in the nineteenth century; however, I will also be dwelling on her radicalisation of decadent aesthetics and politics as a committed feminist. My intention is not to identify the nuances of this radicalism, so much as to provoke debate about decadence as a theme of potential relevance to contemporary theatre and politics.


Teachers and others have often noted a tendency for readers to pull words from the adjacent text into their oral reading. Such phenomena appear to indicate that the reader is influenced as he processes written language for meaning either by graphic images which are at places in his visual field other than at the point of focus or by memory of what he has already seen before the current point of focus. When someone reads, his eyes must stop and fix at points along the printed line in order for the graphic display to be in focus. At the point of fixation there is a small area of sharp focus surrounded by a larger area which is out of focus to various degrees but still seen. It is this surrounding area which is the peripheral visual field. If, as some people believe, reading involves the processing of print in an orderly sequence with words being processed one by one as the reader meets them on the line, then the peripheral field would have little effect on reading. Only an occasional miscue might appear from the peripheral field if the reader loses his place or his eyes wander in some random direction. But reading is a sampling, selecting, predicting, comparing and confirming activity in which the reader selects a sample of useful graphic cues based on what he sees and what he expects to see. The graphic symbols are not processed one by one or in a strictly serial manner. Rather the reader samples from the print on the basis of predictions he has made as he seeks meaning. As a result


The electronic structure of the NixTiSe2 intercalation compounds with disordered and ordered Ni atoms is studied using photoelectron, resonant photoelectron and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, theoretical calculations of the X-ray spectra and density of electronic states. The increase in the covalent component of the chemical bond of Ni and Ti with the nearest neighbour was found with increasing nickel concentration and its ordering. A significant charge transfer from the Ni atoms to the host lattice resulting in the transformation of Ti4+ into Ti3+ occurs, while the symmetry of the crystal lattice is lowered from the hexagonal to the monoclinic one.


The Bitter Gourd (Momordica Charantia L.) is known as a kind of vegetables for fruits and, also, of decorative climbing plants for curiousiyshaped and -colored fruits and shading materials, . It is native in the tropical regions properly and then is grown widely in the home gardens of the temperate dis.tricts for long times. In 1954 the original autotetraploid plants (2n=44) were produced by colchicine treatment and then triploid plants (2le=33) were obtained easily by cross.ing between the tetraploid and the diploid (2le=22). The tetraploid plants have larger, shalply se rrated leaves, dicker s, tems and more enlarged flower organs, andseeds than the diploid. However, they are dlstmctly later flowerlng and the fruits are more shortened with very smaller number of seeds. And their fruits have almos, t the s.ame or sometimes smaller quantity of sugars in the deepred endocarp as those of diploids.. The triploid plants can hardly bear fruits although the s.tamens contain a few qu.antity of viable pollen.


The R-matrix method is being used to determine the collisional excitation cross sections between the 2s2 1Se, 2s2p 3Po, 1Po and the 2p2 3Pe, 1De, 1Se target eigenstates of the beryllium isoelectronic sequence. The first results for the 2s2 1S3-2s2p 3Po and 2s2 1Se-2s2p 1Po transitions for C III and O V are presented and compared with earlier distorted-wave and close-coupling results. The results indicate that the use of accurate target eigenstates and a more accurate treatment of the collision problem may change the cross sections by as much as 20% from earlier work.


Classical control algorithms such as the linear quadratic regulator ~LQR! and linear quadratic Gaussian ~LQG! algorithms have been used for structural control problems over the past three decades. These algorithms suffer from a number of fundamental shortcomings. They are susceptible to parameter uncertainty and modeling error. They present optimum solutions in a narrow sense only because the external excitation term is ignored in their formulation and solution. These algorithms achieve a significant level of attenu- ation in the vicinity of the natural frequencies of the structure. But, they fail to suppress the vibrations when frequency of the external disturbance differs even slightly from the natural frequencies of the structure. In this paper, a hybrid feedback-least mean square ~LMS! algorithm is presented for control of structures through integration of a feedback control algorithm such as the LQR or LQG algorithm and the filtered-x LMS algorithm. The algorithm is applied to the active tuned mass damper system. It is shown that the hybrid feedback-LMS algorithm minimizes vibrations over the entire frequency range and thus is less susceptible to modeling error and inherently more stable.


Microtunneling is a trenchless technology method used for installing new pipelines. The inherent advantages of this method over open-cut trenching have led to its increasing use since its first introduction into North America in the early 1980s. With this technology, surface disruption can be minimized, especially in urban areas, and high accuracy of installation (usually less than 2cm over 100m) can be achieved in both line and grade. But microtunneling machines are very expensive and few contractors have extensive experience with this technology. Microtunneling can also be risky when unexpected obstacles or soil changes occur. Careful constructability analysis is needed, and an appropriate microtunneling method should be selected in order to achieve successful completion of microtunneling projects. A computerized decision support system (DSS) for microtunneling was developed to support decision making for contractors who want to bid on microtunneling projects. This paper discusses the decision-making pr...


Globalization, immigration, social welfare and policy have caused major changes in societies, resulting in many people or/and communities experiencing exclusion from the prevailing social system and its rights and privileges. On the other hand, the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations has inclusion at its core, stressing that development will only be sustainable if it is inclusive. Considering that digital storytelling as a practice has been used for different purposes, with different age groups and diverse backgrounds, in this paper, through the presentation of indicative projects, its dynamic in strengthening vulnerable and marginalized people's voices and promoting social inclusion, is studied.


Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a rare but fatal disease characterised by remodelling of the pulmonary vasculature, increased vascular resistance and right-heart failure. In patients with PAH the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin is elevated and iron homeostasis compromised. Recent research also highlights the occurrence of sub-clinical haemolysis and the presence of free haemoglobin (Hb) in PAH patients. We hypothesised, that if present on human pulmonary artery smooth cells (hPASMCs), the Hb scavenger-receptor CD163 could aid in proliferation via Hb uptake and further that expression would be modulated by stimuli of relevance to PAH. Confluent hPASMCs were challenged with increasing concentrations of hepcidin, IL-6 or Hb. RT-PCR was performed using extracted mRNA and protein expression studied by immunocytochemistry (ICC). Proliferation was measured independently by cyquant staining and BrdU incorporation. Novel findings indicate basal expression of CD163 mRNA and protein in hPASMCs. A 2-fold increase in CD163 mRNA was observed with IL-6 challenge (10ng/mL; n=3). ICC revealed minimal basal expression of CD163 that increased with hepcidin (500ng/mL) or Hb (10uM) treatment. Exposure to Hb also caused an increase in proliferation of hPASMCs by 11% (p


Role differentiations represent one type o f diagnostic data in designing community interventions. This paper focuses on four aspects o f role differentiations: the ascribed role, the attributed role, the assumed role, and the actual role. The ascribed role speaks to the formal legalistic underpinnings o f a social system; the attributed role speaks to the perceptions o f a variety o f constituencies; the assumed role reflects the values and attitudes o f the personnel o f a social system; and the actual role defines the observable behavior o f the personnel. In an ideal social system one wouM expect an almost total convergenee o f the four roles. Since the ideal social system rarely exists, the dissonance and disequilibrium among the four role dimensions produces valuable diagnostic data in designing community intervention strategies.


This paper introduces the design of a VRML-based driving simulation system. After the geometric model of the static object such as city buildings, streets, street lights, construction and maintenance equipments are created in 3Ds Max, they are transformed to VRML2.0 files. Then the Internet Scene Assembler of ParallelGraphics is used to assemble the city as a whole and other objects that have dynamic behavior and model the dynamic behavior of these objects using VRML2.0 and Java Script, such as the traffic light, walking person and car. This tool is based on VRML 2.0 and has a user-friendly graphical interface. So it is very easy and efficient to model complex virtual scene using this tool. The viatual driving system can be published and explored on Internet.


An old, simpler method of managing pilonidal cysts by a combination of conservative surgery and chemical cautery with crystals of silver nitrate is redescribed and the author's practice of and experience with it are recounted.


The invention discloses a preparation method of electro-chemical active material. A molecular formula of the electro-chemical active material is LiyMxN1-x (PO4) y, wherein M and N are transition metal Fe, Co, Ni, Mn or V, y is equal to 1-3 and x is equal to 1-3. The preparation method includes synthesizing raw materials of lithium compound, phosphorus compound, high-valence metal compound, transition metal catalyst and carbon source in a reaction furnace under inert gas protection. Rich metal simple substance nano carbon is produced during synthesis of the electro-chemical active material, highly-active nano metal simple substance is used for reducing the high-valence metal compound, and nano carbon is used for increasing final conductivity of the electro-chemical active material. The electro-chemical active material has high electro-chemical capacity and high electronic conductivity. Consumption of carbon and discharging of gas oxides of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus are omitted, and environment is protected.


This invention belongs to integration circuit process technique field and in detail is a process by use light sensitive hole to fill the Damascus. The Damascus is a new metal distribution technique. This invention uses light sensitive hole to fill the Damascus to improve the filling process greatly.


The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 1, 2015, accepted for Priority Review the Biologics License Application for elotuzumab (Empliciti) for the treatment of multiple myeloma as combination therapy in patients who have received one or more prior therapies.


A nondifferentiable multiobjective optimization problem with nonempty set constraints is considered, and the equivalence of weakly efficient solutions, the critical points for the nondifferentiable multiobjective optimization problems, and solutions for vector variational-like inequalities is established under some suitable conditions. Nonemptiness and compactness of the solutions set for the nondifferentiable multiobjective optimization problems are proved by using the FKKM theorem and a fixed-point theorem.


A light-weight, smooth, and quick-responsible accessibility to contents are truly needed for a practical usage of the mobile video services. We research on and develop a new innovative mobile video technology, which utilizes pre-download, pre-fetching and asynchronous network streaming schemes. This paper describes its innovative mechanisms, especially an asynchronous streaming technique and an asynchronous thumbnail data pre-fetching technique. Two prototype implementations of mobile video client are described in detail, and performance evaluations are given at the end of this paper.


In this study, it is aimed to examine the institutions that train teachers in the modern period in our country. One of the basic and indispensable elements of education is the teacher. The education of the teacher, who is called a teacher or teacher in history, is important in terms of the quality and efficiency of education. In the Ottoman education system, madrasas have maintained their place from the foundation years of the state until the last periods. Even II. Even during the constitutional period, reform studies were carried out in madrasas. Madrasas have continued their functioning within themselves, provided education in various branches and degrees, and teachers have been trained from madrasas. While education is continued at the primary school level in Siberian schools, ibtidaiye schools, which provide education for the new method, have also taken their place in our educational history. The presence of teachers trained in the old-fashioned way in Ibtidaiye schools affected the quality of education and thus it was difficult to achieve the desired goals in education. Therefore, the distinction between old and new in terms of educational programs and methods required the training of qualified and desirable teachers. In our educational history, the beginning of the spread of the new method during the modernization period has brought a mobility to education. We understand this from the works done by the historical figures of that period and the works they wrote. The source of the profession of the Istanbul Darûlmuallimini, which was first opened in 1848, was the rushdie branch, and graduates were made rushdie teachers. The full name of the school is Dersaadet Darûlmuallimin-i Rüştiyesi. Sultan Abdulmecid stated that education should be given importance in order for the issues mentioned in the Edict of Tanzimat to be successful. It is also understood that the Sultan's sensitivity to education manifested itself in practice from the opening of darûlöğretmen during his period. Key Words: Tanzimat, Darulmuallimin, Darulmuallimat


Through this paper I would like to identify the main reasons that encourage firms to make barters. I would also like to find out who are the more likely to do this exchange and what are the main objects or services which are the subject of barters. This kind of exchange was present in ancient economies like the ones of the egyptians or indians. Even though there was no currency, an account unit was present, generally gold. I am attracted by this subject because the barter economy didn`t disappeared totally when the currency based trading began growing. In my opinion, a healthy economy should have a strong currency economy, but the businesses should seek partners willing to make barters. This kind of trading makes both partners happy -they get what they want, they don`t have to pay any money and they reduce their stock. If all economic agents would understand the benefits of being a barter trade practitioner than the economic growth would appreciate faster. This research is a small incentive for business owners to grow their deals even more. It`s very likely that after gathering some knowledge and finding out all the benefits of barter trading more and more company owners would like to do swap goods for any kind of needed service or product. The working hypothesis is that respondents are aware and make barters in proportion of 80%.


This article discusses one school's experiences in planning, implementing, and dealing with the changes resulting from a modular flexible scheduling system.


Plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) is the new development in ion implantation techniques. This employs direct implantation of ions in the wafers while these are immersed in plasma. Ions from the plasma are extracted by applying the negative pulses to the substrate. High dose rate at low energy and cost effectiveness are the main features of this technique. With these features, PIII can be used to modify the surface properties of silicon by shallow implantation. In the present study argon ions were implanted in silicon by this technique. Implantations were carried out at -10 kV pulse voltage, at three doses, viz. 10 13 ions/cm 2 , 10 15 ions/cm 2 and 10 17 ions/cm 2 . Subsequently metal-semiconductor devices were fabricated using these wafers. Current-voltage characteristics of these devices were studied to quantify the damage produced by ion implantation. The oxidation rate of the samples was also studied. Enhancement in oxidation rate with implantation dose was observed. This paper presents these results of argon ion implantation in silicon at high, medium and low doses.


Odontomas are the most common odontogenic tumors, which have a benign character and whose etiology is unknown. They most often affect individuals in the second decade of life. They can be classified into complex and compound, differing according to morphological structure and presentation sites. Despite being generally asymptomatic, they can cause major repercussions on dental health and facial aesthetics as they begin to present progressive growth and symptoms, requiring agility in their identification and treatment.


Due to the continually growing number of motor vehicles more and more roads are reaching the limits of their capability. This has led to slowly moving traffic and longer persisting traffic blockages. In cities and conurbation centers especially this leads to complete traffic chaos. The pollutant emissions of vehicles that only move very little mostly lead to high pollutant burdens also and in some circumstances to poor air quality. Therefore in more and more cities one is attempting to get traffic moving again through efficient road tunnels and underground lines and thereby also reduce the pollutant emission. Typical examples of such developments are the Central Artery Tunnel Project in Boston, the planned Ringroad tunnel in Stockholm and the Ringtunnel projects in Paris. Tunnel constructions and underground lines in densely built-up areas are also planned in many small cities. For all these tunnel projects the following points concerning the air quality are to be observed. On the one hand, a tunnel construction can accommodate traffic and thereby reduce the traffic blockages in the vicinity of the tunnel, so long as no additional traffic is attracted. This would therefore lead to a reduction of the pollutant burden and also to an improvementmore » in the air quality in large areas of further surroundings of the tunnel construction. On the other hand, at the portals of the tunnel, alongside mobile pollutant sources from vehicles travelling on the already existing road, a stationary pollutant source of the tunnel ventilation flowing out from the tunnel portal also results. It is then to be investigated how high the emerging pollutant concentrations will be at the portal of the planned tunnel and how these pollutants will disseminate. In this report therefore, the air quality in the tunnel as well as in the vicinity of the tunnel portals will be more closely dealt with.« less


This paper analyzes how air pollution affects manufacturing productivity in India and the degree to which industries vary in their sensitivity to air pollution. Determining optimal environmental policy is especially challenging when the damages from pollution are varied and difficult to measure. I illustrate the impact of pollution on productivity and output with a model of production where pollution damages inputs and firms may adapt. With an administrative panel of manufacturing firms and comprehensive geospatial data on weather and air quality, I estimate the effect of air pollution on industrial productivity using wind velocity as an instrument for pollution. I find that air pollution substantially lowered productivity among industries with labor intensive technologies, yet it had little average effect across all industries. To understand the sources of heterogeneity in the impact of air pollution on productivity, I extend the model and show that industries' technologies can modify the damages from pollution on inputs to production. I bring the theory to the data and find that a one standard deviation increase in the labor intensity of production led to a 0.6 percentage point more negative impact of pollution on productivity. The estimates imply that regulation abating excess pollution would have raised profits 1.1% among adversely affected industries but only 0.3% on average. I would like to thank Andrew Foster, Jesse Shapiro, Matt Turner, Ken Chay, Emily Oster, Lint Barrage, Daniel Björkegren, Will Violette, David Glick, Stefano Polloni, and participants of the Brown Development Economics Breakfast and Applied Microeconomics Lunch for helpful feedback. All mistakes are my own. Contact: jamie_ email@example.com.


The invention relates to a method for recycling a said initial stream (106) of gaseous CO2 essentially consisting of CO2 molecules, the method comprising the following steps: the gaseous CO2 stream is heated to a pyrolysis temperature of the carbon-containing material (104); a load of carbon-containing material (14) that contains elemental carbon is pyrolysed by the gaseous stream, thus reducing the CO2 molecules by means of the elemental carbon and producing a first, high-temperature gaseous stream (110) essentially containing carbon monoxide molecules (CO); the carbon monoxide molecules (CO) are oxidised with elemental oxygen (O), producing a second gaseous stream (114) essentially containing CO2 molecules; the CO2 molecules in the second gaseous stream (114) are reduced, providing a third gaseous stream (120) essentially containing carbon monoxide molecules (CO). Also disclosed is a system for carrying out this method.


Human cysticercosis is an important public health problem, particularly in developing countries. The seroprevalence of human cysticercosis in Amper and  Kabwir Districts of Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau State was studied between January and March 2019. Blood samples were collected from  151 individuals in the study area. Serum was obtained and Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA) was performed to determine the prevalence of  1gG antibodies to cysticercosis. Forty-one (41) out of 151 individuals were positive for human cysticercosis giving a seroprevalence of 27.15%.  Seroprevalence was higher in females (29.87%) than in males (24.32%) however, this was not statistically significant (p>0.05). Age group 41 to 50 years  had the highest (33.33%) seroprevalence of infection while individuals 51 years and above had the lowest (16.67%) seroprevalence. Other risk factors that  influenced seroprevalence include the source of drinking water, the type of toilet system used, and the rearing of pigs. Good sanitary measures are  suggested to combat this infection.


Understanding the flow nature of non-Newtonian fluids need more studies in recent days in terms of their various aspects. Further, heat transfer analysis is an inspiring topic in non-Newtonian flows because of its dominant role in technology. With these incentives, a theoretical investigation is performed to study the time-dependent flow of a non-Newtonian fluid model with focus on heat and mass transfer. In this study, we proposed the mathematical model for the flow of Williamson fluid by incorporating the impact of infinite shear rate of viscosity. With the assistance of rheological expression of Williamson fluid, we construct the governing field equations. For physical relevance we analyzed the impacts of homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions on the flow field. The system of governing partial differential equations is transformed into a set of ordinary differential equations by adopting the non-dimensional variables. This non-dimensional ruling problem together with physical boundary conditions are tackled numerically by utilizing Runge–Kutta Fehlberg scheme via MATLAB software. The physical behavior of friction factor, reduced Nusselt number, dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration distributions for distinct estimations of leading parameters is examined with the assistance of graphs.


Introduces a methodology for the evaluation of the interference noise caused by digital switching activity in sensitive circuits of a mixed digital-analog chip. The digital switching activity is modeled stochastically as functions defined on Markov chains. The actual interference signal is obtained through the modulation of this discrete stochastic signal with real current injection patterns stored a priori in a pre-characterized library. The interference noise results from the propagation of these continuous stochastic signals through the linear network that models the chip power grid, substrate and relevant package parasitics. The interference noise power spectral density is computed by linear frequency-domain analysis. The methodology is implemented using advanced numerical techniques that are capable of tackling very large problems.


Introduction. This paper undertakes an examination of the "Austrian" approach to economic knowledge. This is at once a simple task and a difficult one. It is simple in that the theme of knowledge is an easy thread to find in all the writers of this school. But it is a difficult task in that the thread is at times so thick and complex that it can easily lead one through every area the Austrians have touched.


Vowels can be produced with static articulatory configurations leading to stable formant frequencies (targets). Here, an algorithm computes area functions according to the criterion of minimal deformation leading to maximal acoustic variations. Within this evolutionary dynamics, the deformations of the tube are not performed to reach targets, unknown during the process, but to move in the acoustic space in order to increase acoustic contrast. The corresponding formant trajectories in the acoustic space can be described in terms of formant transition rates. For example, following this dynamic approach, to produce [ae] from [a], the transition rates of F1 and F2 are necessary and sufficient to represent [e] and at the very beginning of the transition and throughout the transition there is sufficient information to detect [e]. This assertion means that the transition duration is more or less constant. Studies of V1V2 production and perception characterized by their formant transition rates are presented. Suc...


In New Idealist Philosophy,Feng Youlan proposed his negative method,the method has two gradations "express without said" and "said to achieve the goal of mollified".The "express without said" wanted to achieve the target to said by mollified,but "said to achieve the goal of mollified" tried to acquire the aim by no words,they unified in the attitude of refusing language.Jiao Ran used negative form in the method of "said to achieve the goal of mollified" in his poetics.The purpose of using negative form is to interpret positively and in his poetics is full of the room of free thinking.The evolutionary of Dhyāna from "both mind and buddha" to "neither mind nor buddha" inspires Jiao Ran to use negative form in his poetics.


A range of values of structural behavior factor q for each masonry construction system is given in the basic document of EC 8, presuming a substantial amount of ductility capacity even in the case of unreinforced masonry construction systems. Detailed values for each construction system, however, need to be determined by National Annexes according to the national characteristics of masonry structures. Since the experimental data on the basis of which the proposed q-factor values could be evaluated are lacking, a research project has been recently carried out to investigate the actual behavior of typical unreinforced masonry structures on a simple uni-directional shaking table. Six models representing buildings of two different structural configurations and two different types of masonry materials have been tested, a two-story terraced house with main structural walls orthogonal to seismic motion and a three-story apartment house with uniformly distributed structural walls in both directions. Four models of the first and two models of the second type, built at 1:5 scale, have been tested. In the case of the terraced house, two models have been built as either partly or completely confined masonry structures. On the basis of experiments a conclusion can be made that the ranges of values of structural behavior factor q, proposed in EC 8 for different masonry systems, are adequate. In the particular case studied it has been found that the value of q = 1.5 may be used for the case of unreinforced structures of both types and q = 2.0 for the confined terraced house. The study indicated that the values depend not only on the system of construction, but also on the properties of masonry materials and structural configuration of the building under consideration. Therefore, experimental research is needed for the assessment of a particular class of values of behavior factor q factor for a particular structural type. The values cannot be assessed by means of only ductility tests of structural walls.


At the turn of the millennium, professionals and wealthy suburbanites moved into the inner city—a transition that led to an influx of profit-driven urban development. In the case of San Francisco, I argue that one central factor triggering this development process has been the increasing urban vitality of the inner city: diverse populations engaged in multiple economic, social, and political activities enacting lively streets of strong character. This wide range of urban actors has produced a variety of goods and services through the broadening and strengthening of their social networks, resulting in the construction of unique places. Thus it is at the intersection of these diverse activities, multiple networks, and unique places that the inner-city neighborhoods produce major urban vitality. This study focuses on the work of two dance troupes in San Francisco, Flyaway Productions and De Rompe y Raja, as producer of urban vitality and as a window of observation for a broader development process.


Background Immunoassays are commonly used to test for drugs of abuse in patients in a variety of settings. The increasing prevalence of 'designer' drugs causes difficulties for the toxicology laboratory and may result in unexpected false positives and identification of unfamiliar compounds. Within the past decade, there have been a variety of ketamine and phencyclidine analogues identified, particularly as drugs of abuse. Method We present a case of intoxication with a novel ketamine analogue, deschloro-N-ethyl-ketamine, causing a false positive phencyclidine immunoassay. Additionally, we performed spiking studies and 2D molecular similarity calculations for deschloro-N-ethyl-ketamine, ketamine and three other analogues on the Siemens Viva-E EMIT-II phencyclidine assay to assess their cross-reactivity. Results Four of the tested compounds (deschloro-N-ethyl-ketamine, 3-methoxy-phencyclidine, 3-methoxy-eticyclidine and methoxetamine) cause false positive phencyclidine immunoassay results, while ketamine gives a negative result. The cross-reactivity data are in accord with the similarity calculations of these molecules, further validating the ability of 2D molecular similarity analysis to predict the molecular cross-reactivity in immunoassays. Conclusions The cross-reactivity data of phencyclidine and ketamine analogues presented in this study could help toxicology laboratories and clinicians in evaluating unexpected results, particularly when novel PCP and ketamine analogues are being considered.


The large amount of data generated by internet of things (IOT) has high impact values, the mining algorithms with IOT used to get the meaningful information that has been hidden in the data. In this paper a system designed to review the data in the knowledge view, technique view and application view, including clustering, classification, time series, association, outlier analysis and the application used in mining algorithm are surveyed. As more and more devices connected to internet of things, large volume of data should be analysed. At last architecture has been suggested for big data mining system.


We show that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction causes spin-twisting itinerant motion of electrons in metals and realizes the quantized cyclotron orbits of conduction electrons without an external magnetic field. From the view point of the Berry connection, the cause of this quantization is the appearance of a non-trivial Berry connection A fic = − ℏ 2 e ∇ χ ( χ is an angular variable with period 2 π ) that generates π flux (in the units of ℏ = 1 , e = 1 , c = 1 ) inside the nodal singularities of the wave function (a "Dirac string") along the centers of spin-twisting. Since it has been shown in our previous work that the collective mode of ∇ χ is stabilized by the electron-pairing and generates supercurrent, the π -flux Dirac string created by the spin-twisting itinerant motion will be stabilized by the electron-pairing and produce supercurrent.


No one has ever accused Heidegger of being just. To the contrary, perhaps more than any other thinker, Heidegger is accused of being decidedly unjust, and at precisely a historical moment when justice mattered the most. Most recently, Emmanuel Faye has resuscitated with fresh vitriol the charge, present already in France not long after the end of the second World War, that Heidegger's thought is so unjust - so racist, eugenic, and "radically deleterious to the existence of human reason" - that it ought to be pulled from the library shelves and kept at far remove from impressionable young minds.1 By no means an original thesis (though perhaps breathing new life into this old issue by presenting previously un-translated lectures and letters),2 Faye's book is symptomatic of a tendency to read Heidegger's philosophical thought in light of his political involvements of the 1930s. Heidegger's thought, it is supposed, is no less unjust than were his actions. Whether or not Heidegger was just in the sense of "morally righteous" is an exceedingly important question which this essay shall not at all address. Rather, these pages shall explore Heidegger's own rethinking of justice and the manner in which such a rethinking informed his phenomenology. Whether and to what extent such a rethinking of justice bore upon Heidegger's own political activities of the 1930s is a question that shall remain here, as perhaps everywhere, undecided. Where does one look to find Heidegger's engagement with justice? At various times and in various contexts Heidegger undertook to rethink the meaning of justice in light of his destructuring of Western metaphysics. While a rigorous analysis of Heidegger's experience of justice would require a careful consideration of each of these contexts,3 for purposes of brevity the first part of this essay shall deal only with the 1942 lecture course on Parmenides wherein Heidegger deals extensively with justice in terms of the Greek understanding of d???.4 However, to simply look for occasions where Heidegger explicitly addressed justice is to miss the very point of Heidegger's rethinking of the concept. Given that Heidegger's thoughts on justice always occur alongside his reawakening of the question of the meaning of Being, one must attempt to come to an understanding of justice as it relates to that general project. As a result, in order truly to follow Heidegger's rethinking of justice, one must turn to Heidegger's engagement with Being - that is, his fundamental ontology (or, as it will come to be conceived after Being and Time, his metontology).5 Heidegger himself intimates this path in his Letter on Humanism, wherein he argues that his thinking in general is concerned with "original ethics" as the unity of ontology and ethics that precedes the metaphysical division and delimitation of those terms.6 That Heidegger considered ethics and ontology to be intimate neighbors is evident in The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, where he claims that it is only within metontology that the "question of an ethics may properly be raised for the first time."7 The sort of thinking thus intimated (if not enacted) by Heidegger is one which seeks to experience the very ground of the ontological, the ethical, the political (cf. Letter on Humanism, 259) and hence, it shall be seen, justice. If this is so, then Heidegger's fundamental ontology - that is, his phenomenology (cf. Being and Time, section 7} - would entail a rethinking of justice along the way toward a rethinking of the meaning of Being. Accordingly, one must look to Heidegger's phenomenology to see his understanding of justice at work. It is precisely to this end that the second part of this essay shall deal with one of Heidegger's most startling phenomenological analyses, that of the wine-jug offered in the 1950 essay "das Ding."* In the third and final section of this essay the briefest of attempts will be made to consider how listening to Heidegger's phenomenology, itself an enactment of his own understanding of justice, might help place us into a more just relationship with our world. …


In this work, we have studied the influence of realistic modeling of the background in Relativistic Heavy-Ion collisions on Jet Quenching phenomena. We have used JEWEL to simulate the medium modified parton shower and coupled it with vUSP-hydro. For the initial conditions, we have studied both the effects of $\rm T_RENTo$ and MC-KLN. We have studied the influence of these models on jet shape observables and also on $v_2$. We have found no modification of the jet shape observables. We have also found that the implementation of the realistic hydrodynamical background significantly changes the $v_2$.


Research has suggested that in order to survive in the 1990's, community colleges must increase public awareness of their role in society, encourage employer-specific programs and services, and initiate closer working relationships with industry. One strategy to accomplish these objectives is through the establishment of a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for each technical program. Among TAC activities are providing relevant information on community training needs, curricular standard5, and safety requirements of the occupation. This report describes the methodology used to develop a handbook tn assist TAC members at Louisiana's Delgado Community College (DCC) in understanding and fulfilling their role. Chapter 1 reviews the history of the college. Chapter 2 discusses relevant literature on TACs. Chapter 3 presents the steps involved in the development of the handbook, which included solicitation of existing materials from other colleges, and interviews with business and industry representatives. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the results of the.handbook development process, and present conclusions and recommendations. The resulting TAC handbook is appended. The first section reviews DCC's mission and purpose, the second lists technical programs at DCC, and the third presents information on the functions of advisory committees, the selection and length of service of members, and operational considerations. The final sectioli 'If the handbook describes the scope of the TAC's work, which includes community surveys, career guidance, graduate placement, curriculum advisement, public relations, recruiting, and program evaluation. (PAA) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ***********************************************************************


An integrated medical information system should be equipped for the activation of u-healthcare service. In addition, the integrated medical information system should be based on an authentication system to be implemented in a safe environment. However, several requirements are being developed yet. In this paper, biometric authentication system will be designed and proposed for u-healthcare services for the integrated medical information system to go one step further.


The present study was conducted in Eastern Dry Zone of Karnataka state in India during 2018-19. The data was collected from 180 farmers using structured interview schedule. The collected data was analyzed and tabulated using Chisquare, ANOVA and Correlation. Profile characteristic farming experience, mass media exposure, and farm mechanization level comes under low level category. Majority 43.33 per cent of farmers had low level of climate resilience management followed by high (31.11%) and medium (25.56%) level. The chi-square test value is found to be 53.55** turn out be significant at one per cent level indicating a highly significant variation in the overall climate resilience management level among the farmers. Variables like economic motivation, mass media exposure, distance to market, innovative proneness, irrigational potential, education, risk orientation and extent of natural capital were found to have positive and significant association at one per cent level with climate resilience management level. Non-availability of labour and higher cost of the agricultural inputs were the major constraints faced by farmers. Supply inputs is the most important suggestion to mitigate ill effects of climate change. Climate resilience management in Easter Dry Zone expected to provide opportunity for the farmers to meet their needs, develop new resilience management practices with farmers to solve their problem which helps to get better management.


Large, high-performance programs are often written in Fortran. Modern Fortran supports interoperability with C, which is beneficial because many useful libraries expose a C language interface. Howe...


Would it be possible to design a one-semester introductory Spanish course for health-care personnel? Could students learn, in such a short time, to communicate professionally, "in a simple but effective way," with their Spanish-speaking patients? Could they also learn about the Latino population of the United States and, more specifically, about the attitudes toward health and health care that play such an important role in communication between Latino patients and healthcare professionals?1 These are some of the questions I was asked by our School of Nursing when several years ago they approached me about the creation of a course for nursing students and local health-care professionals. My initial response was both enthusiastic and guarded. I was well aware of the need for Anglo health-care professionals who had even a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish, but I had misgivings about an elementary language course that would be so short and so specialized. I worried that such a "crash course" might foster more confusion then communication by providing students with what could seem like a barrage of unrelated words and phrases. I also wondered if a brief introduction to only one aspect of Latino culture might not reinforce stereotypes rather than challenge them. I agreed to prepare a pilot course, but stressed its tentative, experimental nature. The first few semesters that I taught the course were indeed tentative and my reactions to it were mixed. The class was allowed to grow too large; there was not a truly adequ te text available; I saw the students o ly once a week for three hours because the nursing faculty felt that their majors could not schedule more frequent meetings. On the other hand, student response was overwhelmingly positive. Not only did my students enjoy the course itself, they were also excited by the results since there were always a few members of the class who were able to use


Offsets between the primary and secondary coils of loosely coupled transformers (LCT) are attributable to the efficiency decline of the wireless power transfer (WPT) system. To improve the misalignment tolerance of efficiency in WPT system, this paper presents a LCT system with a movable intermediate coil and adjustable system frequency, which can promote the efficiency of the WPT system under misalignment condition. First, the influences of the position and compensation parameter of intermediate coil on the system efficiency during migration are summarized. The optimal compensation parameter and optimal position selection method of intermediate coil are proposed. Then, the influence of frequency on system efficiency is studied, and the detailed control strategy of intermediate coil's position and system frequency is proposed. A 3-kW prototype WPT with the proposed three-coil LCT is manufactured and experimental validations are also performed. The results show that the efficiency declines of three-coil LCT with the proposed control strategy is 1.8% when the lateral offsets reach 300mm, namely 43% of the outer diameter of coil.


We have investigated the morphology of a heavily disordered conducting polymer, polypyrrole doped with large polymeric anions. An extensive microscopy study (scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy) together with previously obtained information on the samples' electronic properties conveys to us the following image: the observed globules of diameters between 10 and 100 nm originate from the polymeric dopants forming coils with the doping centers concentrated on the coil surfaces and the polypyrrole surrounding the whole. In this way polypyrrole-rich "sheets" run through the whole sample and guarantee the electrical continuity which prevails even in samples with polypyrrole volume fractions as low as several per cent. For the first time, the building block of the "fractal" cauliflower structure, observed also in many other electrochemically prepared conducting polymers, could be identified.


This paper proposes a clearing authentication scheme based on the bilinear map group. The scheme is a kind of incremental aggregate signature protocol, provides a solution to the identify problem of online securities trading and clearing, realizes straight through processing without complex PKI and trusted third party, simplifies the identify pro- cedure and enhances the computational efficiency.


The article is dedicated to the structure of an advertising text of audioverbal kind. The questions of interaction between formal and substantial components of radio advertising are investigated, vocabulary and syntactic peculiarities of introduction and main advertising text are described.


The $117 million Pattani hydroelectric project is expected, on the basis of feasibility studies, to meet the increasing demand for electricity in southern Thailand. The earth and rockfill dam will store 995 million cubic meters of water, and the power plant's three units will have a combined capacity of 60 megawatts. A 16 percent increase in power demand was observed during 1976 to jump sharply to 29 percent. The multipurpose Pattani project will include irrigation development, flood control, and fisheries in addition to power generation. Political unrest among Moslems and those seeking separation from the Thai government will be taken into consideration during construction, but will not interfere with the government's intention of supporting development in the Moslem-dominated regions.


A fast tracking trigger system based on a new scintillating fiber tracker is being built for the upgraded DO detector for the Collider Run II at Fermilab. This fiber tracker trigger provides a first level hardware trigger, supplies track seeds for the first level muon trigger and for the second level trigger. The physics requirements and the corresponding algorithms for the hardware trigger will be described. Particularly, PLD (Programmable Logical Device) chips are used to implement our trigger algorithms to achieve pattern recognition from scintillating fiber hits and to format that information for delivery to other trigger systems. Detector trigger efficiency studies will also be presented.


Multi-cultural monuments in the landscape of Lubelskie borderland and possibilities of their use for tourism development Lublin province in relation to its border location has a rich multi-cultural tradition arising from living in these areas, the representatives of various nationalities and religions. In the landscape of Lubelskie borderland there are many historical and cultural objects of the region heritage in the form of sacred architecture, cemeteries, industrial, farm, residential and public buildings. Especially east - border of the province is characterized by its wealth and variety of multicultural monuments. They are an excellent basis for the development of tourism, provided their adaptation for the needs of tourism. Landscape values are not the only factor, however, and sufficient to ensure the development of the tourism. This article present the characteristics of the multicultural landscape of the eastern part of the Lublin province and discussed the opportunities and obstacles for development of tourism on the basis of these resources


The stochastic morphology of a PTL can be characterized using a probability distribution of void volume size, known as a pore size distribution. Pore size distribution data can be obtained using porosimetry or tomography and is almost universally based on spherical pore volumes. This presentation discusses a methodology for transforming a spherical pore size distribution data, which is invariant with respect to sample size, into a pore-network model (PNM) that is size dependent. This methodology maintains the appropriate stochastic distribution, physical size and bulk porosity of the original PTL. The resulting PNM domain is unique to the original PTL sample; meaning that the pore-network is material or manufacturer specific. Thus, simulation of reactant and water transport is also material or manufacturer specific.


Abstract Cannibalism is common in high density larval populations of Hynobius retardatus. Because cannibals are gape-limited, possessing a wider head (mouth) may be advantageous in these populations. Field observations showed that the pre-feeding stage larvae were more vulnerable to cannibalism than feeding stage larvae in a high-density larval population. The data also showed that larvae with proportionally smaller head widths are more vulnerable to cannibalism than those with larger heads. Therefore, faster growth of head size during pre-feeding stage is predicted to be favored in a population with frequent cannibalism. A laboratory comparison revealed that head growth (proportionate change in head width to body length) during the pre-feeding stage was greater in the larvae of a cannibalistic population than in those of a non-cannibalistic population. These results support the hypothesis that a wide head is an adaptation against frequent cannibalism in larval H. retardatus.


Three experiments, the first with rats, the second with young pigs and the third with growing pigs, were carried out to compare the nutritional value of cv Lysimax, a newly developed high-lysine barley, to cv Lami, a conventional barley grown in Denmark. In the diets for rats and growing pigs the barleys were the sole protein source while in the experiment with young pigs the barleys made up to 649 g kg-1 of the respective diets. The lysine content of cv Lysimax was 52·6% higher than that of cv Lami; 4·99 g 16 g N-1 compared to 3·27 g 16 g N-1. The contents of threonine, tryptophane, methionine and cystine of cv Lysimax were 3·80, 1·41, 1·80 and 2·27 g 16 g N-1, respectively; being 18·4, 8·5, 9·8 and 5·1% higher than in cv Lami. Conversely, the contents of glutamic acid and proline in cv Lysimax were 15·79 and 7·40 g 16 g N-1, respectively, being 36·1 and 40·0% lower than in cv Lami. In the experiment with rats, the higher lysine content and the lower content of glutamic acid and proline in cv Lysimax resulted in a 34·8% increase (P 0·05) between the barleys. It is concluded that the development of high-lysine barley varieties could be beneficial for meeting the requirements of essential amino acids for monogastrics. Moreover, N excretion into the environment was substantially reduced due a reduction in the prolamine fraction which is rich in glutamic acid and proline. © 1997 SCI.


In a previous paper, higher spin gauge field theory was formulated in an abstract way, essentially only keeping enough machinery to discuss gauge invariance of an action. The approach could be thought of as providing an interface (or syntax) toward an implementation (or semantics) yet to be constructed. The structure then revealed turned out to be that of a strongly homotopy Lie algebra. In the present paper, the framework will be connected to more conventional field theoretic concepts. The Fock complex vertex operator implementation of the interactions in the BRST-BV formulation of the theory will be elaborated. The relation between the vertex order expansion and homological perturbation theory will be clarified. A formal nonobstruction argument is reviewed. The syntactically derived sh-Lie algebra structure is semantically mapped to the Fock complex implementation, and it is shown that the equations governing the higher order vertices are reproduced. Global symmetries and subsidiary conditions are discu...


An equilibrium point in game theory is a situation where a unilateral change by only one of the players does not yield an increase of his profit or "payoff" function.In this paper it will be shown that an equilibrium point exists if: the payoff functions are continuous in all the variables and are concave in the variables belonging to each relevant player, the region in which the game is played is closed, bounded and convex and satisfies a weak continuity condition.The continuity condition is automatically satisfied if the region is a convex polyhedron. It is not assumed that the region in which the game is played is the product space of the subregions of each individual player. Therefore, the existence of an equilibrium point is shown for the general case of the so-called "mixed constraints".


The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) environment in India has undergone a drastic change since the economic reforms in 1991. The positive changes can be particularly attributed to the evolving policy framework. The main thrust of the financial sector reforms has been the creation of efficient and stable financial institutions and development of the markets, especially the money and government securities market. Indian banks going global and many global banks setting up shops in India, the Indian banking system is set to involve into a totally new level it will help the banking system grow in strength going into the future. India offers attractive investment opportunities for foreign companies and has adopted a number of policies to attract foreign direct investment into the country and the country seems to offer perhaps one of the most liberal FDI regimes in Asia. It's even reviewed that the investment climate has not improved in India as a result of lack of good governance, corruption, political instability and disturbance, bureaucratic inertia, and poor law and order situation. Indian government incentives to foreign investors, particularly Special Economic Zones, the Indian regulatory environment as it affects investment, and the effect of India's global, regional, and bilateral trade agreements on investment from the United States and other countries.


One of the keys for information services to remain valuable in the eyes of their users is being able to communicate their value. Chris Olson thinks libraries must establish their value with their target market and determine how they see value. Once this is determined, information services should look at ways of communicating and branding value.


The formation situation of the bond for transition metallic halide and carboxylate Cluster compounds is analysed with the bond vanlence formula for atomic cluster compounds.This cate gory cluster compounds not only formed M-M multiple bonds,but also had empty orbits.The σ ligends can be addeing.The total of VBMO and the number of metal bonding MO is linear.


The effect of extruded brown rice flour (EBR) contents (0–50%) on antioxidant activity, phenolics, in vitro digestibility, color, and cooking quality of noodles containing mixtures of wheat and EBR was investigated. The antioxidant activity and phenolic content increased, especially ferulic and coumaric acids in bound forms, whereas the in vitro glycemic index, optimal cooking time, water absorption, hardness, and color were diminished in noodles with the addition of EBR; cooking loss increased as a function of the EBR percentage. The partial replacement of wheat flour with EBR can be favorably used in the wheat noodle formulation. The results provide the basis for the development of staple foods with nutritional characteristics for today's functional food markets.


Article is devoted to questions of mathematical modeling the rheological characteristics of hydrocarbons at high pressure. The description of the most widespread methods of a flow modeling is provided. Explicitly questions of modeling the ability of fluid mediums, resistant to shift, are considered.


Contemporaries called the period of civil disturbance in France known to historians as the Fronde a period of "troubles" akin to a civil war. The term Fronde literally means "sling." A famous contemporary engraving shows an image of David (figuratively representing the opposition) armed with a sling (fronde), apparently having triumphed over Goliath (that is, the chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin) (Carrier 1989: ii, 251). The Fronde was a collective protest against a long foreign war (France had been fighting Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor since 1635) and an increasingly heavy burden of taxation. There were secondary, but important, objections to continuing the foreign war in a period of royal minority (the infant Louis XIV succeeded his father as king on May 14, 1643) and the autocratic style of government exercised by Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister and favorite of the queen regent, Anne of Austria. There were few coherent constitutional alternatives to the absolutist style of government that had been exercised by Louis XIII, however. In particular, the 27 reform proposals of the Parisian sovereign courts in the summer of 1648, had they been accepted by the crown, would have forced France to make peace with its enemies on disadvantageous terms. In many respects, the military campaigns fall into the category of what "might have been" rather than actual events of significance. Thus, Turenne's invasion force from the Spanish Netherlands was decisively defeated at Rethel by the royalist army under Marshal du Plessis Praslin on December, 15 1650—one of only two defeats in Turenne's career. Had the outcome of this battle gone the other way, the Frondeur opposition would have taken over the government of the kingdom.

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This review work discusses the applications of xenobots in drug discovery. These are the world's first tiny robots that are living. Robots are built of metals and other things that benefit humans to solve various issues; however, in this case, small xenobots were built utilizing Xenopus laevis, frog embryonic stem cells in the blastocyte stage. Xenobots were created by combining bioscience, artificial intelligence, and computer science. Artificial intelligence constructs several forms of design in an in vitro In-silico model, after which the structure is analyzed by software; the most substantial and most noticeable forms are filtered out. Later in vivo development create the design of the Petri plate using the MMR solution and make the same form as the in silico approach. Ultimately evaluation done based on the behavior, movement, function, and features of xenobots. Xenobots are employed in medical research, pharmaceutical research to create novel dosage forms, also useful for biotechnological and environmental research. Xenobots can be utilized to cure neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and cancer-related issues because of their self-repairing properties, which allow them to repair normal damaged cells, convey drugs to its specific target, and reduce cytotoxicity in mostly malignancy circumstances. In the future, new approaches will be employed to treat chronic illnesses and their complications.


With the universality of dispersed computer, cellular cell cellphone can keep/get better individual facts from anywhere each time. As a prevent end cease result, the statistics protection hassle in flexible cloud seems to be more and more excessive and anticipates extra development of portable cloud. There are massive investigations which have been brought about decorate the cloud safety. All the same, the huge majority of them are not pertinent for mobile cloud considering the truth that cellular cellular telephone without a doubt have in fact constricted figuring belongings and energy. Arrangements with low computational expenses are in notable want for transportable cloud applications. In this paper, we endorse a slight-weight data sharing plan (LDSS) for mobile allotted computing. It welcomes CP-ABE, an access manage era accomplished in regular cloud hassle, however changes the shape of get get right of entry to to control tree to make it suitable for portable cloud conditions. LDSS relocates an expansive little littlelittle bit of the computational excessive gain get proper of get entry to toto manipulate tree modification in CP-ABE from cell cell phone to outdoor middleman internet servers. Furthermore, to decrease the purchaser repudiation fee, it acquaints building instance regions with actualize apathetic denial, this is an irritable hassle in software softwaresoftware program primarily based absolutely truly actually CP-ABE frameworks. The exploratory prevent consequences show off that LDSS can sufficiently lessen the fees at the cellular cell smartphone hassle at the same time as clients are sharing statistics in flexible cloud problems.


The article explores André Lefevere's rewriting / refraction perspective in literary translation on the basis of the Polish and English versions of Czesław Miłosz's book Piesek Przydrożny (Road-side Dog). Differences between the original and its translation identified in the analysis suggest that Road-side Dog may be seen as a Lefeverian "rewriting" of the original and as such it both confirms and strengthens a unique position of Miłosz and his oeuvre in American literary system.


AbstractThe comprehensive paper on the suspension of tapes by M. Hotine in the January, 1939, issue of the Empire Survey Review (v, 31, 2) did not contain any reference to this question, as was pointed out by A. J. Morley in a letter published on page 261 in the same volume (v, 34, 261). A brief analysis has been made by F. Yates of the theoretical effects of pulley eccentricity and misalignment ("Gold Coast Survey Department Records" VoL III, 1931, page 43) but I have not seen any further reference to the subject and have recently experienced the effects of such a defect in our own apparatus, so the followingnotes nlay be of interest. Before proceeding to details I will describe briefly those parts of the apparatus which are considered here and give a short summary of the whole paper.


Advantages of optical links like small, lightweight and power efficient terminals are practical for high data rate services of disaster preparedness and environmental research. In this paper, we demonstrate experimental results of 40-Gbit/s optical free space transmission using single-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (SP-QPSK) modulation format and digital coherent detection. The digital coherent detection enabled a high sensitivity and a tolerance to transmission impairments, which have attractive features for free space transmission system. We developed a 50-Gbit/s SP-QPSK transmitter and offline-receiver with the optical antenna system. SP-QPSK optical modulation signal with a line rate of 50-Gbit/s including 20% FEC is employed for high receiver sensitivity. A cascade by EDFAs consisting of a low noise pre-EDFA and an optical level controlled EDFA is developed to compensate for level fluctuation without degrading receiver sensitivity. Maximal ratio combining algorithms and carrier phase estimation algorithms are used at the offline-receiver for QPSK signal detection. We succeeded 4-meter indoor free space transmission having same performance as that with fiber connection using the developed system. The optical received power was -42 dBm at bit error rate of 10-3. While for outdoor 50-meter transmission, we confirmed the received bit error rate larger than FEC limit.


In this short communication, we describe the recent debate on whether the hazard function should be used for causal inference in time-to-event studies and consider three different potential outcomes frameworks (by Rubin, Robins, and Pearl, respectively) as well as use the single-world intervention graph to show mathematically that the hazard function has causal interpretations under all three frameworks. In addition, we argue that the hazard ratio over time can provide a useful interpretation in practical settings.


The heating calculation of three-phase squirrel- cage asynchronous motor on the condition of starting for a prescribed rotary angle is firstly studied with time dissection method and its corresponding algorithm is provided. Then based upon the algorithm, a new method for motor power selection is established. Motor initial power determined by load power ischecked and modified in terms of time crit erion, heating criterion,and starting torque criterion.An appropriate motor power which meets three criterions is obtained at last, in the meantime, working displacement matrix andfrequency matrix used for control are acquired. Lifting motor of MDJ1800 low-level high- speed palletizer is taken as a reaI case in the paper.


Objective: To discuss the clinical treatment of iatrogenic pulp cavity perforation.Methods: The teeth of 4 cases were treated by filling the perforations with the 3M ESPE Single Bond Adhesive and the 3M ESPE F200 Compomer through the pulp cavities,the root canals were obturated well and follow-up surveys were conducted for 3 months.Results: The teeth with perforations were cured.Conclusion: A pulp cavity perforation can be repaired by the compomer instead of silver amalgam.


The paper focus on the architecture of a self adaptive system based on massive multi agent systems. The system allows the monitoring and on-line restructuring thanks to ontology. It is dedicated to a complex system with continuous flux of information.


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* The views in this paper are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the Federal Communications Commission, any Commissioners, or staff. The authors would like to thank Jean-Paul Simon for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper.


The presence of pesticide residues in the surface water of Bertam River located amidst the agricultural areas of Cameron Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia was monitored from May to October in 2014. The sampling sites were located at 10 sampling points along the Bertam River in the agricultural areas. The method of extraction of the insecticides (organophosphate/pyrethroid) from the water samples consist of solid phase extraction followed by gas chromatography (with electron capture detector, ECD). As expected, insecticides, namely cypermethrin and chlorpyrifos were found in the surface water of Bertam River. High level concentrations of insecticides in the surface water were observed during the period from May to October 2014, a period which included both seasons (wet and dry seasons). The highest concentration of 2.66 μg/ml and 1.23μg/ml for cypermethrin was observed during the wet and dry seasons respectively. This could be due to the frequent usage of the above-mentioned insecticides coupled with contamination that could have originated from the application sites. Meanwhile, the lowest concentration detected in the surface water was for chlorpyrifos (0.11μg/ml and 0.17μg/ml) during the dry and wet seasons, respectively.


The Dinghushan natural protected region in Zhaoqing City was chosen as the regional environment background of atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pollution evaluation in the Pearl River Delta area. In the air of the background area in summer, the average PCBs content was 216.94pg/m3, of which the gas-phase content was 183.42pg/m3 being 5.47 times of the particle phase. The tri- and tetra-PCBs with total contribution rate of 86.41%. In winter, the total PCBs concentration in the air sample was 176.43pg/m3, with the concentration of gas phase 123.20pg/m3, only 2.31 times as that in the particle phase. In winter, different from the air sample in summer, the content of bi- to tetra- PCBs was only 2.94 times as that in the particle phase sample, being nearly 1/2 of that in summer. Compared with the studies at aboard, Dinghushan natural protected region had very high content of PCBs.


A long-standing controversy for relaxor ferroelectrics has been the origin of the waterfall effect in the phonon dispersion curves, in which low-energy transverse phonons cascade into vertical columns. Originally interpreted as phonons interacting with polar nanoregions (PNRs), it was later explained as an interference effect of coupling damped optic and acoustic phonons. In light of a recently discovered PNR vibrational mode near the waterfall wavevector [M. E. Manley, J. W. Lynn, D. L. Abernathy, E. D. Specht, O. Delaire, A. R. Bishop, R. Sahul, and J. D. Budai, Nat. Commun. 5, 3683 (2014)] we have reexamined this feature using neutron scattering on [100]-poled PMN-30%PT (0.6Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 0.3PbTiO3). In addition, we find that the PNR mode couples to both optic and acoustic phonons, and that this results in complex patterns in the dynamic structure factor, including intensity pockets and peaks localized in momentum-energy space. These features are fully explained by extending the mode-coupling model to include three coupled damped harmonic oscillators representing the transverse optic, acoustic, and PNR modes.


To create normative reference values for unilateral and bilateral use of the hands, using the Hand Assessment for Infants (HAI), a newly developed criterion‐referenced assessment measuring hand use in infants aged 3 months to 12 months at risk of cerebral palsy (CP).


Even when using vegetative cells, a tailing phenomenon can be observed in survivor curves in engineering researcher's papers on gas plasma sterilization. This indicates that even disinfection was not even achieved. By definition, sterilization is a process that kills all types of microorganisms including bacterial spores and vegetative cells. In contrast, disinfection kills only vegetative cells and does not kill bacterial spores. Tailing of a survivor curve is often caused by clumping of the biological indicator (BI), and engineering researchers who make their own BI without critical knowledge, appropriate techniques and confidential know-how to avoid such clumping frequently publish nonlinear survivor curves. Preparation of a monolayer of BI is quite a difficult task even for BI manufacturers and it requires proprietary information. Therefore, engineering researchers should purchase commercially available BI. Among the BIs on the market, I recommend purchasing BI from Merck Co., as clumping was found to be minimal based on results of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observation. When such a tailing phenomenon is observed, a SAL of 10-6 cannot be attained, and therefore no D value (decimal reduction value) can be determined and the exposure time for a 9 or 12 log reduction remains undefined. The D value must be determined from the straight line of a 9 log or 12 log reduction survivor curve, and there can only be one D value per microorganism; there is never more than one D value per one microorganism. The BI is defined as the most tolerant microorganism (typically bacterial spores) to the sterilization procedure being used, so if the BI is killed, then other contaminants (microorganisms) can be speculated to also be killed. Therefore, the use of a BI is essential in sterilization validation studies and routine control. Strategies to avoid clumping, tailing phenomena and to attain a SAL of 10-6 will be considered in this article.


METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELECTRO-EROSION WIRE MOBILE IN WHICH MOVES ON THE REPORT BY THE OTHER, AS A PREDETERMINED PATH AND IN THE PRESENCE OF LIQUID Machining, A ROOM AND WIRE ELECTRODE MOBILE aXIALLY. TO SET THE FLOW OF LIQUID WORKING IN THE AREA MACHINES, ON BROUGHT AN ELEMENT IN STRETCH 28 SLOT CUTTING 4A BEHIND THE WIRE ELECTRODE 3 ADVANCING, AND KEEPS ON THE Y IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE WIRE ELECTRODE AND PARALLEL HIM; ELEMENT IS ADVANTAGEOUSLY STRETCH TUBE WITH ONE OR MORE OPENINGS SAPAROI SIDE. DURING THE CUTTING OPERATION ELEMENT STRETCH BE MOVED OR ANIME AXIALLY AN AXIAL RECIPROCATING OR MAY oscillate SIDE. CIRCUIT DETECTION OF MOVEMENT CHANGE DETECTED WIRE ELECTRODE IN THE PATH OF CUTTING AND IS ON THE DRIVE UNIT FOR ADJUSTING THE ANGLE OF THE ELEMENTS STRETCH AROUND THE WIRE ELECTRODE.


To explore the new catheter-special pants design and the application for patients with indwelling catheter after transurethral prostate resection, 156 patients after transurethral prostate resection were divided into two groups randomly: experimental group wearing newly designed pants and control group wearing normal pants after transurethral prostate resection; to compare the state of restlessness and the times patients tearing the catheter secondary fixation tape and pulled out personally unplanned. Experimental group wearing newly designed pants showed only one case of catheter pulled out, none of fixation tape was teared, while in the control group, 9 cases of catheter were pulled out personally, 21 cases of tape teared, causing some degrees of urethral injury, delayed the retention time of catheter. There were significant differences between the two groups. The application of newly designed pants shielding the catheter decreases the incidence of catheter pullout after transurethral prostate resection surgery, avoids urethral injury and increased the retention time, improves the functional recovery with no increased cost, which is worth promoting the application in ordinary clinical nursing.


Students majoring in financial mathematics should not only have good financial analysis ability, but also learn to apply mathematical modeling methods to solve practical problems. Therefore, mathematics experiment teaching has become an indispensable part, and the premise of realizing effective mathematics experiment teaching is to establish a sophisticated experimental teaching course system. This paper analyzes the application of mathematics experimental course system in the teaching of financial mathematics in colleges and universities from four aspects: the status quo of financial mathematics and mathematics experiment, curriculum setting, design principles and curriculum optimization practice.


E-Governance process helps the public to learn the information and available of data's themselves rather than being dependent on a physical guidance. They have been driven through e-govern experience over the past decade; hence there is a necessity to explore new E-Governance concepts with advanced technologies. These systems are now exposed to wide numbers of threat while handling theinformation. This paper therefore designing an efficient system for ensuring security and dynamic operation, so Remote Integrity and secure dynamic operation is designed and implemented in E-Governance environment. The data is stored in the server using dynamic data operation with proposed method which enables the user to access the data for further usage. Here the system does an authentication process to prevent the data loss and ensuring security with reliability method. An efficient distributed storage auditing mechanism is planned which overcomes the limitations in handling the data loss. The content was made easy through the means of cloud computing by using innovative method during information retrieval. Ensuring data security in this service enforces error localization and easy identification of misbehaving server. Availability, Confidentiality and integrity are the key factors of the security. In nature the data are dynamic in cloud service; hence this process aims to process the operation with reduced computational rate, space and time consumption. And also ensure trust based secured access control.


The control variable and the controlled variable were redefined for the descriptor system.Kernel representations of manifest plant's behavior and hidden behavior are acquired.The sufficient and necessary conditions for the controllability and stabilization of this system are achieved by the suitable lemmas, this result make it possible to design control law for pole placement and stabilization.and can be applied in system represented in general form.


The entry of small and medium-sized Hongkong-funded banks into China has become the current trend.Whether they can be successful or not depends on how they make best use of their strengths and make development strategies.This paper,based on their strengths,weaknesses,opportunities,threats and in line with China's reality,discusses how to establish the suitable strategy for their banking development in China in terms of target customers,business development and the regional expansion.


It is important to bear in mind that the investigation outlined in this paper was designed primarily to test the effect of periodic applications of sulphate of ammonia on the yield and composition of good permanent pasture, well supplied with reserves of lime, potash and phosphate. The results have no bearing on the possible effect of manurial treatment on the yield and composition of inferior types of pasturage. The present account embraces the findings of the first two seasons of experiment, namely, 1929 (characterised by droughty conditions) and 1930 (season of ample rainfall).


This paper presents the most significant issues that describe the link between the population of Romania and the evolution of the labor market. Among the indicators analyzed, the authors focused on the resident population, the temporary international migration, the number of employees, the occupied population, the set of indicators regarding the rewards of the labor force, the unemployment, the pensioners.