A multicolour photometric data basis is compiled for SU Dra from 356 Johnson UBV and 228 UBV(RI)C observations reported in this paper, in addition to 483 BV , 289 UBV ,a nd 85UBVRI ob- servations found in the literature. Mean period, period change (4:40:14) 10 10 day/day, and phase noise are derived from the V light curves by a variational procedure minimizing the length of the folded light curve (string length minimization, SLM). From variation of string length in the neighbourhood of minimum, observational error of photometry, observed amplitude, number of observations formulae are derived for the error of period and phase noise by statistical and analytical considerations. Secondary periodic variations are excluded to a few mmag level, indication of amplitude variation (Blazhko-eect) has not been found, however, systematic segrega- tion of light curve segments is reported from dierent epochs in the descending branch before the brightness rise. Mean light and colour curves are derived from photometry and they are compared with those from integration of spectrophotometric observations. The period change is interpreted in terms of mixing events in the stellar interior.


The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, to a method for forming a gate electrode surrounding and more particularly, vertical transistor channel (vertical channel transistor). The present invention includes the steps of forming a plurality of pillars on a substrate; Forming a gate insulating film results in the front pillar is formed; Forming a conductive film on a side wall of the pillar and the gate insulating film is formed; Forming a sacrificial film for filling a gap region between the pillars on the entire structure of the conductive film has been formed results; As a planned height of rounding the gate electrode and removing the sacrificial film until the sacrificial film is retained; And forming a conductive film by removing standing surrounding the lower sidewall of the pillar revealed by rounding a gate electrode on the sacrificial film. According to the invention, it is possible to prevent the inclination and fall of the pillar and to improve the degree of integration of the semiconductor device. In addition, there is a surrounding gate electrodes of the plurality of the pillar can be formed to have a uniform profile, it is possible to improve the uniformity of the channel length. In particular, the use of the sacrificial film is made of a SOC or SOD, it is possible to minimize damage to the hard mask. A vertical-channel transistor, the gate electrode surrounding


A 70-year-old lady presented with left eye subretinal mass, diagnosed as posterior uveitis previously. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy via transvitreal route proved to be a minimally invasive and effective diagnostic modality for sample collection with minimal complications and of high diagnostic potential.


In this paper, the focus is on the discussion on the guidelines of the election of principais in the educational system in the city of Santa Maria, RS. The purpose is rellecting upon the limits and responsibilities in the election of principais in the ambient of democratic construction in the school context from the Lei Municipal de Gestao Democratica - lei n. 4740/03, which is related to the election of principais and the organization and functioning of the School Boards. For achieving that, a theoretical and history review is made about the processes of election of a principal - - political nomination, public contests and direct election - analyzing in which way those processes result in a shift in the dimensions of te school management. Defending the principais' election in the process of democratization of the school management, we point that such mechanism, exclusively, does not guarantee democracy, however, that means an advance in relation to the other ways of electing principais. Key-words: democratization of the management, election of principais, participation.


This article discussed the common failures and maintenance methods of Sysmex XT-1800i Analyzer,which helped to provide new ideas for peers in daily use and maintenance of such an equipment.


A knowledge elicitation technique selection for a knowledge elicitation from an expert still represents a problem in a KBS development. In this paper is presented an original computer program for technique selection and a changed program that was aimed at improving the selection. Both programs use certain factor values as a starting point, but the first program is based on a technique grading and the second on decision trees. Comparison and testing results for both programs are presented.


From acyl Meldrum′s acid (I), intermediary formed β-keto esters are used for the microwave assisted one-pot synthesis of diverse heterocycles.


and their implications discussed—absolute and relative time as they affect change; the interplay of political events and cultural patterns ; the geography of the Islamic world and its relation to time and artistic form; the existence within the Islamic world of other religious communities. Finally, Grabar suggests that there must be a hypothesis behind the study of works of art if such a study is to be meaningful. ' The hypothesis must explain a sufficiently high number of perceptible phenomena or documents without being compelled to explain them all; it has to be meaningful both in terms of individual monuments and in terms of the wider historical setting in which they were created; and it has to be a perfectible statement in the sense that its acceptance is not a final conclusion but one that seeks and leads to further explanation and research.' Hence throughout his work we find hypotheses put forward which are both revealing and stimulating. The general premise which Grabar first adopts is that there had to be a way in which the new Muslim culture expressed itself visually. On the basis of this premise he first discusses the form and degree of islamization in the various areas conquered by the Arab armies, and the ' climate' of things and monuments found there by the Muslims. For obvious reasons the Fertile Crescent claims most attention. A number of conclusions emerge, of which the most relevant for the ensuing argument is that owing to the lack of destruction during the Muslim conquests the sum total of the art and culture of the preIslamic world remained, along with an immensely complex set of collective memories, myths, and such like. Islamic art is related to these latter aspects as well as the former, and upon the needs of Islam depended the use to which these forms of expression were put in the ensuing period, and hence the form which Islamic art eventually took.


In the low-current positive column measurements of the electron energy distribution function show considerable changes in radial direction. At any point of the positive column of the Ne-discharge under investigation it is possible to approximate the energy distribution function by the Druyvesteyn-standard form. For the case of standard energy distribution functions a theory of positive column is developed which takes into account radial changes of electron temperature. Formulae for the calculation of radial behaviour of electron temperature, space potential, and radial electric field strength are given and compared with experimental results.


Although fractures of the proximal part of the femur are much more common in adults than in children, complications after such fractures are more frequent and more devastating in children78"'52>'24 2>' 9>4'>42454752. Generally. high-energy trauma is required to produce this fracture in a healthy child. Fractures of the proximal part of the femur in children also differ from those in adults because of the presence of the physis and the vulnerability of the blood vessels that suppty the femoral head. The over-all rates of complications have been reported in the literature as ranging from 20 to 92 pen cent. in series ranging from eleven42 to 132 patients4546. Because of the vulnerability of the vascular supply to the proximal femoral epiphysis. avascutar necrosis is a frequent and serious comptication of proximal femoral fractures in children. Injury to the physis (premature


As new digital technologies emerge to improve living style, at the same time, it also lead to increase crimes. Unlike existing approaches that use content of handwriting for fraud/forged document identification, in this paper we propose a novel approach that explores the quality of handwritten documents by considering both foreground and background information to identify whether it is old or new. The proposed approach works based on the fact that if a fraud document is created with some gaps after the original one, the fraud document happened to be a new one and the original happened to be an old one in this work. To identify whether a given handwritten document is old or new with gaps, we propose to divide Fourier coefficients of the input image into positive and negative coefficient images, and then reconstruct respective images to conquer two reconstructed ones. The contrast of the reconstructed images obtained before and after divide-conquer is studied to analyze the ages of the document based on image quality. The proposed approach finds a unique relationship between reconstructed images, obtained before and after divide-conquer, to identify the input image as old or new. To evaluate the proposed approach, we conduct experiments on our own handwritten dataset and a standard database, namely, Google-LIFE magazine. Comparative studies with the existing approaches show that the proposed approach outperforms the existing approaches in terms of classification rate.


Objective To evaluate the value of superior mesenteric artery CTA in diagnosis of small intestinal disease from the change of SMA and superior mesenteric vein(SMV).Methods 362 patients clinically suspected intestinal disease were collected from January 2008 to December 2010.Dual phase MSCT scan was performed and source images of a 0.625 mm thickness were used for image reconstruction.The reconstruction technique of MPR(Multiplanar Reconstruction),MIP(Maximal intensity projection) and VR(volume rendering) were used.The diagnostic accuracy of reconstruction imaging was compared with the source images.Results A total of 101 cases with intestinal disease were proved by operation or pathology,which included intestinal tumor(29 cases),inflammatory process(25 cases),intestinal diverticulum(12 cases),arteriovenous malformation(AVM,5 cases),intestinal volvulus(7 cases),intestinal entocele(3 cases),enterolith intestinal obstruction(6 cases),adhesion intestinal obstruction(6 cases),stomal stenosis after surgery(3 cases),intussusception(4 cases),oblique inguinal hernia(1 cases).In the 101 cases of intestinal disease proved by operation or pathology,64 cases were diagnosed correctly with source image,and 94 cases were diagnosed correctly with reconstruction MSCTA image.There was significant difference between source image and reconstruction MSCTA image in diagnostic accuracy.Conclusion MSCT source image with reconstruction techniques are helpful for evaluation of small intestinal disease,and also helpful to differential diagnosis and decide treatment planning.


11528 Background: In the US there are an estimated 11 million survivors of cancer diagnosed at ≥65y of age. Description of the morbidity in these survivors has been limited to single complications or to prevalence of comorbidities. The cumulative burden of CHCs remains unstudied, and is critically needed to inform healthcare delivery in this burgeoning population. Methods: Using SEER-Medicare, we identified 300,082 patients with breast (34%), prostate (33%), colorectal (16%), non-small cell lung (NSCLC 10%) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL 7%) diagnosed between 2000 and 2011 at age > 65y (mean age at diagnosis: 75y; 47% males, 88% non-Hispanic whites). An age-, race-, and sex-similar non-cancer cohort (n = 97,842) was assembled. New-onset non-malignant health conditions (n = 109) were consolidated into 10 organ-specific CHCs. Inpatient CHC visits were used to describe severe CHCs. The cumulative incidence (CI) and cumulative burden (CB) of CHCs was described up to 10y from cancer diagnosis and by attained age – up to six months prior to death or until 12/31/2013. Subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMNs) were described 10y from primary cancer diagnosis. Results: The 10y CI of any CHC and severe CHC was 98% (95%CI 98-99%) and 73% (72-73%) in cancer patients and 92% (91-92%) and 55% (54-55%) in non-cancer controls (hazard ratio [HR10y]: 1.65, 95%CI 1.64-1.66). Cardiovascular conditions were the largest contributor to severe non-malignant CHCs (10y CI: 49%-69%). Prostate cancer survivors had the highest 10y CI for SMNs (19.4%). The CI for severe CHCs was 44% by age 80y and 85% by age 90y, compared to 34% and 54% in controls (p < 0.001). The 10y CB of CHCs was highest among NSCLC (42 CHCs/survivor) and NHL (41 CHCs/survivor) survivors; in comparison, the 10y CB was 31 CHCs/individual in controls. Colorectal cancer survivors had greatest overall burden at age 80y (27 CHCs/survivor) and 90y (36 CHCs/survivor), compared to 13 and 16 CHCs/individual in controls. Conclusions: The cumulative burden of new-onset multimorbidity among older cancer survivors is substantially greater than that of their non-cancer counterparts, providing quantifiable evidence that survivor-adapted healthcare management policies and risk-based interventions are needed.


The invention relates to a solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof. The solar cell comprises two photoelectric conversion assemblies which are connected in parallel, wherein the photoelectric conversion assembly comprises a plurality of fan-shaped solar cell units which are connected in series; the shape of the solar cell is round; and positive electrodes of the two photoelectric conversion assemblies are internally connected, and negative electrodes of the two photoelectric conversion assemblies are internally connected. The method comprises the steps that a round substrate is provided, and the round substrate is divided into a first region and a second region; the first photoelectric assembly is formed in the first region, and the second photoelectric conversion assembly is formed in the second region; and the positive electrode of the first photoelectric conversion assembly is internally connected with the positive electrode of the second photoelectric conversion assembly, and the negative electrode of the first photoelectric conversion assembly is internally connected with the negative electrode of the second photoelectric conversion assembly. According to the solar and the manufacturing method thereof, the shape of the manufactured solar cell is round, the positive electrodes of the two photoelectric conversion assemblies are internally connected, and the negative electrodes of the two photoelectric conversion assemblies are internally connected, thereby saving external connecting wires, then simplifying manufacturing procedures of the solar cell, and reducing the cost.


We consider the problem of compression via homomorphic encoding of a source having a group alphabet. This is motivated by the problem of distributed function computation, where it is known that if one is only interested in computing a function of several sources, then one can at times improve upon the compression rate required by the Slepian-Wolf bound. The functions of interest are those which could be represented by the binary operation in the group.


English is a foreign language in Bangladesh, and the tertiary students of private universities of different departments come with different vocational needs. General English courses cannot cater to the specific needs of the students of different departments. Moreover, at a tertiary level, English language courses should be designed not only to help students receive good grades, but also cater to their future workplace needs. In these cases, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is more applicable than General English language courses. On the other hand, teaching ESP courses is more challenging and difficult than teaching General English courses. The article aims to characterize ESP, analysing its need in Bangladesh and identifying teachers' roles in its teaching. A survey was conducted for data collection in which two different sets of questionnaires were used for teachers and students. Twenty English language teachers and 64 undergrad students from the Department of Civil Engineering from different universities participated in the survey. Results of the survey have been presented with some recommendations for its pedagogic management.Journal of NELTA ,  Vol. 22, No. 1-2, 2017 December, Page: 76-88


In this paper,we prove that Lusin area integral s(f)has such a property that if∈Lipa(R ̄m)(0αmin{e,2 ̄-1}),and there exists xo∈R" so that s(f)(xo)+∞,then s(f)∈Lipa(R ̄n) and where e denotes a constant depending only on n and α.


A block cipher encrypts data one block at a time. For bulk data encryption, a block cipher is usually used in a mode of operation. Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode encryption is one of the most commonly used modes of operation. The security properties of CBC mode encryption have been studied extensively. One well-known attack against CBC mode encryption allows an attacker, with some restrictions, to flip abitrary bits in the plaintext. In this thesis we present attacks using the bit flipping technique, in the presence of a side channel, to recover plaintext with varying degrees of efficiency. A side channel is a means by which confidential information about the plaintext is inadvertently leaked to an attacker, who then exploits the information to further his attacks. Error reporting is a common type of side channel in real cryptographic systems. We first examine the use of CBC mode encryption with some padding methods specified by ISO standards, and analyse the security of those combinations in the presence of a padding oracle as a side channel. A padding oracle, first introduced in a paper by Vaudenay, is a type of error oracle that reveals padding correctness information to an attacker. We show that, in a relaxed attack model in which initialisation vectors (IVs) are public, we can exploit a padding oracle to efficiently extract plaintext bits. We then show that in a stricter attack model (secret and random IVs), the padding schemes are still vulnerable to padding oracle attacks and therefore still weak. Putting theory into practice, we go on to investigate the applicability of error oracle attacks to IPsec, a suite of protocols commonly used to implement Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to secure the exchange of IP datagrams at the network layer. When IPsec is configured not to use integrity protection, a usage mode supported by IPsec standards, we show that a variety of efficient attacks are available for an attacker to recover plaintext datagrams, sometimes highly efficiently. By carefully manipulating encrypted IP datagrams, the attacker triggers the generation of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages which he then intercepts. The ICMP messages, providing an error reporting side channel, contain plaintext information which can then be used to reconstruct plaintext datagrams in full. Finally, we present our view on the future of CBC mode encryption in the light of our attacks, and conclude with reflections on our experience of cryptography in theory and practice.


Since ancient Greece,the philosophers and the ethicists in the western always have defined "goodness",and with great effort pursued "goodness".It is very important for us to distinguish and appraise "goodness and evil".The idea of goodness and evil has been developing,not that each says he is right.In Marxist view,only if in line with the development social history people's behavior is of good value or meaning,otherwise,it is evil.


We measured the complex dielectric constant in mats of single-wall carbon nanotubes between 2.7 K and 300 K up to 0.5 THz. The data are well understood in a Drude approach with a negligible temperature dependence of the plasma frequency ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{p}$ and scattering time $\ensuremath{\tau}$ with an additional contribution of localized charges. The dielectric properties resemble those of the best ``metallic'' polypyrroles and polyanilines. The absence of metallic islands makes the mats a relevant piece in the puzzle of the interpretation of $\ensuremath{\tau}$ and ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{p}$ in these polymers.


In order to determine the design of a distribution system a planner must determine three aspects of design simultaneously: layout (the manner in which the distribution pathways are split and resplit on their way from a few sources, or substation buses, to many customers), line size (the selection of conductor size, number of phases, and line type for each segment), and radial switching pattern (determining the normally open points within the network that force an electrical flow into a radial pattern). These three aspects of design interact heavily with one another, and generally the true least-cost plan can be found only by considering all three simultaneously. In most real-world situations, the number of possible combinations of layout, line sizing, and switching is so large that the probability of a smart, experienced engineer finding the very best configuration unaided is rather remote. Optimization methods that analyze all three aspects simultaneously to minimize cost can provide a real benefit. But no optimization method encompasses all aspects of distribution design, and no method is completely free of approximations and limitations. They are merely tools that can provide great help in distribution design if properly applied. Their good performance depends on proper selection and fitting to the problem and engineering CAD environment. This article focuses on selection and application of optimization methods for distribution design. The methods are numerical optimisation (both nontransshipment and transshipment), genetic algorithms, and null point load flow.


In this paper we discuss for the first time the transfer of amplitude and phase modulated signals through a phase conjugating lens and show that multiple amplitude or phase modulated dipole sources can be distinguished in the far field with subwavelength resolution without the necessity for numerical post processing of the received data. Further we show that the system operates in a manner similar to an advanced MIMO system but without the need for any numerical processing of the receive data in order to separate channel information.


Real systems rarely store all their data in one large table. To do so would require maintaining several duplicate copies of the same values and could threaten the integrity of the data. Instead, IT departments everywhere almost always divide their data among several different tables. Because of this, a method is needed to simultaneously access two or more tables to help answer the interesting questions about our data. This paper visually illustrates how a join process works and then shows how a PROC SQL query is constructed so some or all of the specified tables contents can be brought together. Introduction Joining two or more tables of data is a powerful feature found in the relational model and the SQL procedure. Information in a database system is rarely stored in a single table because it would result in the duplication of data values. A duplicated data value is not only inefficient, but also makes for more complex queries and updates. As a result, data is split between two or more tables. The SQL procedure is a simple and flexible tool for joining tables of data together. This paper presents the importance of joins, how joins are performed without a WHERE clause, with a WHERE clause, using table aliases, and with three tables of data. Certainly many of these techniques can be accomplished using other methods, but the simplicity and flexibility found in the SQL procedure makes it especially interesting, if not indispensable, as a tool for the information practitioner. Why join Anyway? As relational database systems continue to grow in popularity, the need to access normalized data that has been stored in separate tables becomes increasingly important. By relating matching values in key columns in one table with key columns in two or more tables, information can be retrieved as if the data were stored in one huge file. Consequently, the process of joining data from two or more tables can provide new and exciting insights between data relationships. SQL Joins A join of two or more tables provides a means of gathering and manipulating data in a single SELECT statement. A "JOIN" statement does not exist in the SQL language. The way two or more tables are joined is to specify the tables names in a WHERE clause of a SELECT statement. A comma separates each table specified in an inner join. Joins are specified on a minimum of two tables at a time, where a column from each table is used for the purpose of connecting the two tables. Connecting columns should have "like" values and the same datatype attributes since the join's success is dependent on these values. Example Tables A relational database is simply a collection of tables. Each table contains one or more columns and one or more rows of data. The examples presented in this paper apply an example database consisting of three tables: CUSTOMERS, MOVIES, and ACTORS. Each table appears below.


Chemical vapor deposited silicon carbide (CVD SiC) is an excellent material for use in first mirrors for synchrotron radiation beam lines. We have developed methods to grind and polish flat samples of CVD SiC down to measured surface roughness values of 1 Å RMS. This paper describes the removal rate of CVD SiC during free abrasive grinding and during polishing. The removal rate during grinding with boron carbide was found to be about 29 times slower than that of fused silica and about 58 times slower than that of BK-7 glass. The surface roughness was also measured after each grinding step in order to estimate the amount of material to be removed in subsequent operations. The measured ground surface roughness of CVD SiC was about 4 to 5 times finer than that of BK-7 and Fused Silica, respectively. At the time of the presentation, additional data on polishing rate, as well as subsurface damaged depth, will be provided.


Matthias, Miller and Remeika1 were the first to observe that triglycine sulphate becomes ferroelectric below 47° C. The dielectric properties and the specific heat of this crystal have been studied through the transition temperature by Hoshino, Mitsui, Jona and Pepinsky2. The observed variation of the dielectric properties as a function of temperature in this crystal shows that the transition is of second order. Hoshino et al. concluded that the anomaly is not of the λ-type, since their specific heat – temperature curve showed only a hump. It was decided to investigate the thermal expansion of this crystal as it might throw some light on the nature of the transition.


other judgements into question. Unhappily, the bibliography has not been expanded to include several English-language studies which could be helpful to the student not fluent in Dutch. Generally, not even the English translations of Dutch texts are noted. Obviously, all scholarly libraries must have this work, but it is recommended with reservation to young church historians who cannot bring their own critical evaluation to the text.


The article examines the impact of political and economic freedom on inbound tourism for more than 110 countries during 1995–2012. Panel country fixed-effects techniques are utilized to examine the relationship after controlling for other factors that contribute to inbound tourism. The results show that civil liberties and economic freedom (among several other freedom measures) are positively and significantly associated with inbound tourism. Examination of the moderation effect reveals that civil liberties (economic freedom) tend to play a more influential role on inbound tourism when the level of economic freedom (civil liberties) is relatively low.


Scratch, peel, and pull methods for adhesion measurement were applied to deposited thin film/solid substrate combinations. Scatter in the experimental data was observed and its origin is discussed. The interface between the thin film and the substrate was investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), and the correlation of the interface structure with the adhesion strength was investigated. Ion bombardment and heat treatment were carried out to enhance the adhesion. Accumulation of bombarding gas ions at the interface was observed and the role of ion bombardment in improving adhesion is considered.


Research held in Peranakan Etawa (PE) Goat's Farmers Group of Gedong Tataan, Pesawaran Regency Lampung on July--August 2017. It is purpose to know prevalence of Gastrointestinal Worms at Peranakan Etawa (PE) Goat in Farmers Group of Gedong Tataan, Pesawaran Regency Lampung. The research using the survey method. Sampling is done by proportional method. The number of samples obtained is 77 samples. Data was analyzed by descriptive analyzed. Faecal samples examination checked with Mc. Master and Sedimentation test at Balai Veteriner. The result showed that the prevalence of gastrointestinal worms at PE goat who maintained by farmer groups in Gedong Tataan about 85.71%. There are 66 PE goats positively infested gastrointestinal worms. Prevalence is the total number of individuals or percentage of the population infected with a disease in an area over a period of time. The highest prevalence is found in PE goat which is maintained by Sehati Jaya Farmer Group that is 88.24% , while the lowest prevalence is found in PE goat which is maintained by KWT Sekar Mawar farmer that is 72.73%. The type of Gastrointestinal worms that found in PE goats which is maintained by farmer groups in Gedong Tataan came from the nematode class ( Haemonchus sp., Oesophagostomum sp., Mecistocirrus sp., Syngamus sp., Trichostrongylus sp., Bunostomum sp., Strongyloides sp., Ostertagia sp , Capilaria sp., and Trichuris sp.), cestoda class (Moniezia sp.), and trematoda class (Paramphistomum sp.). Keywords: Gastrointestinal worms, Prevalence, Peranakan Etawa Goat.


The highly-adhesive ZnO:Al thin films were deposited on polyethylene terephathalate(PET) and glass substrates by DC magnetron sputtering process.The structure and optical properties of the thin films were comparatively investigated.It was found that the samples are polycrystalline with a hexagonal wurtzite structure and have a strong crystallographic preferred orientation(002) perpendicular to the substrate surface when substrate is at 100℃ with sputtering pressure 1.0Pa and oxygen/argon ratio 1/2.58.The average transmittances of the films on PET and glass substrates are up to 82% and 77.6% in visible region,respectively.


Inositol requiring 1 (IRE1), a component of the unfolded protein response signaling pathway, has been found to be correlated with sorafenib resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The present study aimed to investigate the effects of lentivirus vector mediated short hairpin RNA interference knockdown of IRE1 on hepatoma Hep3B cells and explore the possibility of IRE1 silencing as a therapeutic target for HCC. Firstly, three pairs of human IRE1 targeted specific interference sequences tagged with green fluorescent protein were designed, synthesized and subcloned into lentiviral vectors(pL‐shRNA‐IRE1‐GFP) successfully, which were further identified by PCR and sequencing. Then, recombinant and lentiviral packaging plasmids were co‐transfected into 293T cell lines effectively in order to produce lentiviral particles using fluorescence determined the titer. After stable infected Hep3B cell lines established with pL‐shRNA‐IRE1‐GFP and pL‐GFP‐Negative control at the optimum multiplicity of infection, flow cytometry was used to sort green fluorescent protein‐positive cells which showed a very high degree of positive rate. QPCR and western blot analysis were employed to identify the interference silencing sequence with the most efficient silencing profile. Results showed that the expression profiles of IRE1 mRNA and protein were significantly lower (P<0.05) in the specific interference group (LV142‐pL‐shRNA‐IRE1‐GFP) than that of the control group with a maximum of 90% inhibition. Although there was no significant difference of proliferation, growth as well as apoptosis in basal condition, sorafenib (5μM) was found to cause a substantial increment about 50% on cell death in IRE1 silencing LV142 cells vs control. Interestingly, mechanistic investigations showed that such a stronger sorafenib lethality was coupled with decreasing expression of autophagic molecule light chain 3 (LC3)‐II as well as accumulation of p62 in these cells. Collectively, these data suggests that RNA interference mediated IRE1 knockdown might enhance sorafenib lethality in hepatoma Hep3B cells involving autophagy inhibition, which brings insight into a novel and potential HCC therapeutic strategy in the future.


Clothing is an important product category through which people express their interests, status, and lifestyle. With the advance of consumerist culture in India, expression of identity and social standing through clothing is becoming imminent. In this context, we have identified the factors relating to selfconcept, like the need for uniqueness and clothing interest are insignificant, but the perceived quality of foreign brand apparel is a significant factor in determining the purchase intention. The construct of perceived quality forms a significant component in the modified Ajzen (1991) Model, which along with its traditional constructs suit the Indian consumer. We also find that perceived behavioural control (PBC) if split into external PBC and internal PBC become insignificant to the model. We therefore recommend that foreign entrants into the Indian market adopt suitable segmentation, distribution and operational strategies to leverage on the high quality perception of foreign brand apparel in the Indian market.


The present invention relates to a brush cover for a brush-commutated electric motor. The brush cover comprises at least one lever brush which is mounted rotatably about an axis at the brush cover by means of a bolt. According to the invention, the bolt is surrounded, at least in sections, by at least one damping sleeve of an elastomer.


Mitchell, E. L. D. and Hill, R. S. 1987. The activation of amplified rihosomal genes in the oocytes of Xenopus laevis: an electron microscope analysis. —Hereditas 107 219–227. Lund, Sweden. ISSN 0018–0661. Received February 16, 1987

The Miller spreading technique has been used to study the ultrastructure of chromatin from the inactive, amplified ribosomal RNA genes found in the previtellogenic oocytes of Xenopus laevis and to see how this inactive structure is modified during the transcriptional activation of the genes in early vitellogenesis. Inactive, nucleolar chromatin fibres from 300 pm oocytes are packaged into nucleosomal and supranucleosomal structures of 20—-22 nm in diameter. However, where visible, the chromatin axis in active ribosomal genes has a smooth appearance and a diameter of 24 nm. By contrast, the axis of transcription units from lamphrush chromosomes, found in the same preparations, has a distinctively nucleosomal-type of organization. During transcriptional activation, in oocytes of 350–400 pm in diameter, the morphological appearance of the newly-activated genes varies considerably with respect to the length of the gene, the number of RNA polymerase molecules per gene and the amount of RNA transcript associated with the polymerases. However, in oocytes of at least 450 pm, the genes in most, but not all nucleoli, have the classical "Christmas Tree" appearance, consisting of densely packed RNA polymerases and transcripts which show a distinctive gradient in their length from the beginning to the end of the gene.


We present an algorithm for multi-objective optimization of computationally expensive problems. The proposed algorithm is based on solving a set of surrogate problems defined by models of the real one, so that only solutions estimated to be approximately Pareto-optimal are evaluated using the real expensive functions. Aside of the search for solutions, our algorithm also performs a meta-search for optimal surrogate models and navigation strategies for the optimization landscape, therefore adapting the search strategy for solutions to the problem as new information about it is obtained. The competitiveness of our approach is demonstrated by an experimental comparison with one state-of-the-art surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm on a set of benchmark problems.


Recently environmental protection have been responded to by people. In this experiment, nonwoven selvages were smashed and then secondary used to prepare water-retaining geotextiles for achieving recovery effect. The geotextiles consisted of 6D recycled high-strength PET (RPET) fibers taken from nonwoven selvages. The RPET composite geotextiles were prepared after the 1000 D high-strength PET was blended with different ratios of the RPET fibers. Afterwards, their busting strength, air permeability and porosity were mainly discussed to acquire the best blending ratio. The result shows that, the bursting strength is reinforced but the air permeability is decreased with addition of high-strength PET. The optimal blending ratio of 1000 D high-strength PET and 6D RPET is 40 %/60 % on account of comparison with strength of commercially available geotextiles.


TiO 2 thin films containing Ti-OH bonds have been fabricated using dc reactive sputtering of Ti in a H 2 O ambient. The structures of these films and their photocatalytic characteristics were analyzed. The structures of the TiO 2 thin films were analyzed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic analysis, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope inspection, nuclear magnetic resonance, and photoluminescence. To evaluate the photocatalytic characteristics of the TiO 2 films, we used a wet methylene blue method and pure-water contact angle measurement. We found the following: (i) The total quantity of OH groups decreases as the substrate temperature is increased. (ii) OH groups can be either densely or sparsely distributed in the TiO 2 film. (iii) The abundance ratios of the concentrated and sparse OH groups to the total quantity of OH groups change as the substrate temperature is increased. Measurements made with nuclear magnetic resonance and photoluminescence show that the sparse OH groups ([0H] n ) are effective in removing oxygen deficiency and other deficiencies, while the localized, concentrated OH groups ([OH] w ) are ineffective. We concluded that the distribution of OH groups in the TiO 2 thin film is an important factor that must be considered for improvement of photocatalytic characteristics.


Summary Plasminogen activators are inhibited by plasminogen activator inhibitors-1 (PAI-1) and -2 (PAI-2). We describe the synthesis of PAI-2 by human vascular endothelial cells (EC) cultured from umbilical vein, saphenous vein and foreskin microvasculature in response to interleukin-1α (IL־1α) and tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) and compare it with that of PAI-1. Both PAI-2 and PAI-1 were quantitated by ELIS As. PAI-2 was cell-associated while PAI-1 was secreted by EC. IL-lα and TNFα increased the synthesis of PAI-2 and PAI-1 by EC in a dose-dependent manner. IL-1α was a stronger stimulus for PAI-2 synthesis than TNFα, while both cytokines were equally effective for PAI-1. Northern blot analysis revealed similar changes in mRNA levels to those in antigen levels. PAI-2 synthesis by cytokine-stimulated EC may be important in thrombus formation and inflammation.


An alternating current (ac) magnetic field or spin current can reduce the switching field of a ferromagnet through resonance excitation of a large-angle precession of magnetization. The nonlinear magnetization dynamics of this switching scheme completely differ from the general ferromagnetic resonance phenomenon, which is linearly excited by a small ac magnetic field. To understand these dynamics, it is necessary to evaluate the effective potential barrier height for switching, $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{U}^{\mathrm{eff}}$. However, most previous studies have measured the consequent precession angle in the nonlinear dynamics by magneto-optical methods and/or by applying a magneto-resistive effect. Here, we applied the cooperative switching method, which evaluates the $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{U}^{\mathrm{eff}}$ of the nonlinear dynamics under a sub-ns-wide magnetic field impulse, and observed a nontrivial reduction of $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{U}^{\mathrm{eff}}$ in a submicron-wide NiFe strip. The strong reduction of $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{U}^{\mathrm{eff}}$ under a negative magnetic field was caused by a saddle-node bifurcation in the nonlinear dynamics. In a micromagnetics simulation, we also confirmed that the magnetization is nonuniformly excited at the shallowest $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{U}^{\mathrm{eff}}$.


Background The Haematology and Oncology departments care for around 5000 inpatients a year with four-monthly rotations of 10–12 junior doctors. These doctors start with little or no specialty experience and their apprehension is increased by working with non-resident registrars. To address this, junior doctors have an induction at the start of their rotation to gain knowledge, confidence and integration into the hospital team, however, there are no standards regarding content or delivery.1 Summary of work Our previous departmental induction had become cumbersome and didactic, resulting in little engagement and failed to adequately prepare juniors for the wards. We considered that redesigning induction to include Simulation Based Education (SBE) may enable us to overcome these problems. The new programme included SBE to improve junior doctors' confidence in handling haematology/oncology emergencies, provided clinical context for specialty specific learning and consider the human factors that may be involved. We also included a prioritisation exercise to prepare the doctors for the decisions they would need to make when on-call. Questionnaires using a Likert scale (0=not very confident, 5=very confident) evaluated junior doctors' self-reported confidence at managing a variety of Haematology and Oncology scenarios. Primary outcomes were evaluated immediately following the new induction training and secondary outcomes evaluated confidence one month after. Summary of results At time of abstract submission, 31 junior doctors have completed the new induction training. Paired t-test analysis has shown a statistically significant improvement (p<0.00001) in confidence at managing haematology/oncology emergencies immediately following the SIM and this was maintained in 84% of juniors one month following the SIMS (p<0.00001). Discussion Overall feedback from SBE has been hugely positive; doctors felt that the new induction helped prepare them for working in the department. 83% of doctors rated this induction programme as excellent compared to other departmental inductions. Conclusions SBE is considered to provide a safe environment to learn specialty specific skills and can be used not only to test clinical skills but also human and ethical factors.2 We have shown that delivering an induction that utilises SBE and a prioritisation exercise significantly increased doctor's confidence and thereby improves their ability at managing a complex patient population. Recommendations Future innovative projects include simulation for haematology specialist registrars, inter-professional simulations and consolidation of learning with micro-SBE throughout the rotation. References Koshal S. Induction training for senior house officers in oral and maxillofacial surgery: Literature review and local evaluation. British Dental Journal2012:213(2):73–6. Gosai J, Purva M, Gunn J. Simulation in cardiology: State of the art. European Heart Journal2015;36:777–83.


Every human being has some limited necessities and unlimited wants which (motivate him him) to pursue his motive to fulfill desire. The level of motivation depends on the will power that one has towards his goal.Talking about motivational theories given by various pioneers of management, they have played a good role for understanding and motivating behaviors. In this paper we are going to discuss about the importance of motivation and its application on students enrolled in higher education. This paper is also an attempt to explore and present a new emerging theory of motivation of the present time in a modified way which has been experienced much but explored (less. A) theory which can be more adopted and exercised (by the) youth of developing economies.


We have derived a nonlocal theory of thermal conductivity for the case in which the heat is carried by phonons. There is a nonlocal relation between the heat current J(r) and the temperature gradient delT(r'). The nonlocal theory is needed whenever the phonon mean free path is long compared to the distance scale of the variation in delT. The theory is used to explain some previous experiments in silicon.


The room temperature Mossbauer spectra of the spinel compounds Fe2(1-y)Mg1+yTiyO4 with compositions y = 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9 must be described by a sum of two doublet spectra. The two subspectra are assigned to actahedral and tetrahedral ferric ions. The cation distribution calculated from the doublet intensities, is in close agreement with the results obtained from other techniques. The isomer shifts of both subspectra remain constant with y, whereas the quadrupole splittings increase with increasing y. Thermal vacancies, introduced by quenching the samples from 1 150 °C, have no influence on the isomer shift but make the quadrupole splitting to incrase. The contributions of monopoles and oxygen dipoles to the electric field gradient (EFG) at the B sites are estimated. From a comparison with the results obtained in the normal spinels ZnFe2O4 and CdFe2O4, it is concluded that the oxygen polarizability depends on the space occupied by the oxygen ion.


The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked destruction worldwide.Due to Coronavirus, there is a serious crisis in the whole world. Meanwhile, many global institutions are also anticipating a huge decline in the economy. It is believed that due to Coronavirus, the world's business is being adversely affected. The Southeast Asian region has also been impacted by this. From the beginning, the outbreak of Novel Corona Virus Disease or Covid-19 in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province of China, given its geographical proximity and high travel flow between the region and China, poses a major threat to Southeast Asia. The economic system of the region will decline strongly. Economic activities in the Southeast Asian region are at a stoppage, the banking sectors and economies are under pressure and business is down. This region will hurt the main hindrance due to Covid-19.This paper mainly focuses on the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Southeast Asian Region.


The interaction of dilute aqueous A/sub 2/O/sub 2/ and ion exchange resins was investigated. A mechanism of absorption and decomposition of H/sub 2/ O/sub 2/ on anion exchange resin is proposed. (auth)


A simple heating method was used to synthesize the ZnO/PAA composites.Y-2000 X-ray diffractmeter was used to measure the XRD spectra of the composites,TU-1901 Vis-UV spectrophotometer was used to measure the transmittance of the composites,WFY-28 fluorescence spectrophotometer was used to measure the photoluminescence of the composites.The results show that ZnO particles loaded in PAA are well rimed,the average diameter of ZnO particles is 10.8nm;the transmissivity of composites declines after ZnO is loaded in,the transmissivity at 550 nm is only 45%;there is only one strong photoluminescence peak at 430 nm when excited with short wavelength,the photoluminescence peak moves toward red and divides into two peaks of 410 nm and 460 nm respectively while excited with longer wavelength.


(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions to radically change their teaching and learning methods. Many institutions found it a challenge when they opted to deliver classes online. Given the success of several EduTubers, this study aimed to identify their best practices. (2) Method: The research was qualitative in nature and descriptive in scope and analyzed three angles, namely the perspective of EduTubers, their videos, and the assessment of the audience. Moreover, the results demonstrated that the level of awareness of these practices varies among actors. (3) Results: The study identified 12 practices divided into four categories, namely (a) resource management, (b) communication strategies, (c) content management, and (d) pedagogical strategies. (4) Conclusions: Followers were aware of the most evident practices, such as tone of voice and length of explanation, whereas EduTubers clearly convey practices such as anchoring in prior knowledge and use of associations. However, when analyzing the videos of EduTubers, the study found that they used other practices with low levels of awareness, such as mental representations, balanced use of different resources, or management of topics in a logical and hierarchical order.


To understand recent climatic trends and possible future climatic change, it is necessary to examine the nature of past climatic variability. Proxy measures of past climatic fluctuations can be used to extend this record beyond the limited period of instrumental measurements. Regression-based techniques are generally used to define transfer functions, which describe the statistical relationship between these proxy estimates of past climate and measured climatic parameters. Although these regression-based techniques have been extremely successful, they can engender bias in the estimates if not used with care. More significantly, we show that if regression errors are explicitly calculated they are often similar in magnitude to the total range of the parameter being estimated, implying that such reconstructions of past climate cannot be regarded as truly precise. A novel approach based upon Bayes' theorem is introduced which appears to increase the statisti cal veracity of such climatic reconstructions.


Cinema is a general purpose animation package designed to work intimately with the SIMAN simulation language. Cinema consists of two parts. The first, called CINEMA, is used to define the graphical images used in the animation. The second, called CSIMAN, is used to execute the animation. Both programs have a user-friendly graphical interface which does not require any programming. Cinema is available on microcomputers as well as Sun, VAX, and Apollo workstations.


We attempt to constrain the kinematics of the thin and thick discs using the Besancon population synthesis model together with RAVE DR4 and Gaia first data release (TGAS). The RAVE fields were simulated applying a detailed target selection function and the kinematics was computed using velocity ellipsoids depending on age in order to study the secular evolution. We accounted for the asymmetric drift computed from fitting a Stackel potential to orbits. Model parameters such as velocity dispersions, mean motions, velocity gradients, were adjusted using an ABC-MCMC method. We made use of the metallicity to enhanced the separation between thin and thick discs. We show that this model is able to reproduce the kinematics of the local discs in great detail. The disc follows the expected secular evolution, in very good agreement with previous studies of the thin disc. The new asymmetric drift formula, fitted to the Stackel potential described in Bienayme et al (2015), fairly well reproduces the velocity distribution in a wide solar neighbourhood. The U and W components of the Solar motion determined with this method agree well with previous studies. However we find a smaller V component than previously thought, essentially due to the inclusion of the variation of the asymmetric drift with distance to the plane. The thick disc is represented by a long period of formation (at least 2 Gyr) during which it is shown that the mean velocity increases with time, while the scale height and scale length decrease, very consistently with a collapse phase with conservation of angular momentum. This new Galactic dynamical model is able to reproduce the observed velocities in a wide solar neighborhood at the level of quality of the TGAS-RAVE sample, allowing to constrain the thin and thick disc dynamical evolution, as well as determining the Solar motion.


The transition from sail to steam in the Spanish merchant marine in the 1870s and 1880s meant that by the last twenty years of the century its steam fleet was one of the five largest in the world in both absolute and relative terms.' As in other countries, the increased need for fixed capital forced a modification of systems of finance and ownership that had sufficed in the age of sail, as partnerships were replaced by limited liability companies. Nevertheless, shipping investment continued to rely upon a narrow ownership base until the final years of the century. Lacking a modern shipbuilding industry, Spanish owners purchased new technology from Britain, the most advanced maritime nation of the time. But the British provided not only technology but also capital and new patterns of business organisation and finance. As this essay will demonstrate, the transformation of the Bilbao merchant marine was financed using methods previously employed by the British. There are two parts to this article. First, I will present various estimates of fixed capital formation in the Spanish and Bilbao merchant fleets and analyze their evolution. Second, I will examine in more detail


This paper considers a broad class of differential games of prescribed duration in which the players obtain no information about the state variables. It is shown that such games always have a value when the players can choose their controls by means of a mixed strategy.It is further shown that a player can always implement a mixed strategy by drawing a random number from the uniform distribution on the unit interval and then using a control which is determined by the number so chosen.


In the theory of the vibration galvanometer with one degree of freedom certain specified conditions are assumed to hold. If these conditions are not satisfied in a galvanometer, the instrument will show multiple resonance. This indicates the need of a more general theory. The theory of vibrations of a system with two degrees of freedom is briefly given, expressions for the amplitudes of the forced vibrations are deduced, and the conditions for resonance ascertained. The results are applied to a galvanometer in which the moving system is asymmetrically hung on a laterally yielding axis, and it is shown that the formula for the amplitude is capable of reproducing with fair accuracy the sensitivity curve of the galvanometer, which shows multiple resonance. Asymmetry always lowers the sensitivity of the resonance, and the loss can be ascertained by the help of the sensitivity curve. The analogy to the vibrations in coupled circuits is pointed out. I wish to express my gratitude to A. Campbell for helpful criticism, advice and references.


A comparison between the Phase Doppler Analyzer and the combined measurements from the Particle Measuring Systems Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe and the Optical Array Probe was conducted in an icing wind tunnel using NASA Icing Research Tunnel spray nozzles to produce the icing cloud. Clouds with a range of volume median diameterss from 10 to greater than 50 microns were used for the instrument comparisons. A comparison of the volume median diameter from the Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer and only the Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe indicated agreement up to 18 microns. A combined volume median diameter was calculated from the droplet distribution of the Optical Array Probe and the Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe. A comparison of the combined volume median diameters and the Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer volume median diameters showed agreement up to 30 microns with the agreement deteriorating rapidly above 30 microns. Droplet distributions from the Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer, the Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe, and Optical Array Probe are presented.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily produce a seamless relief printing sleeve used in flexographic printing by providing a photosensitive thermoplastic seamless layer with specific thickness and a self-adhesive layer or a self-adhesive accelerating surface to the outer peripheral surface of a hollow cylindrical support composed of a polymeric film with specific thickness. SOLUTION: A relief printing sleeve has a member 102 wherein at least one seamless photosensitive thermoplastic layer 106 with a thickness of 0.04-0.72cm is provided on a support 104 and, if necessary, a self-adhesive layer is provided between the support 104 and the photosensitive thermoplastic layer 106. The support 104 of which the outer peripheral surface is a self-adhesiveness accelerating surface is composed of a polymeric film with a thickness of 0.03-5.08cm constituting a hollow cylindrical body and a polymeric material substantially pervious to actinic rays and having dimensional stability and non-reactive and stable during a treatment state, pref. polyethylene terephthalate(PET) is used. The self-adhesiveness accelerating surface is obtained by flame treatment or electron treatment.


Global participation in space activity is growing as satellite technology matures and spreads through technology transfer. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are creating or reinvigorating national satellite programs. These countries are building local capability in space through technological learning. This paper analyzes implementation approaches in small satellite programs within developing countries. The study addresses diverse examples of approaches used to master, adapt, diffuse and apply satellite technology in emerging countries. An original framework examines implementation approaches and contextual factors using the concept of Systems Architecture. Further analysis examines the progress in capability building via technology transfer. In order to master the knowledge base underlying satellite engineering, both individuals and organizations must capture a broad knowledge base which includes both tacit and explicit knowledge about technical and managerial topics. The framework also defines capability building as a process. Capability building is achieved when individuals or organizations experience new topics or they achieve new levels of application, complexity or autonomy. This capability building framework is applied to in-depth analysis of four countries in Africa and Asia. The results show that in the short term individuals grew in their levels of autonomy via technology transfer partnerships. A key question to consider is how countries adapt, master and diffuse technology over the long term. Several countries stand out for their effort in this area, but this is a long term challenge.


A gilded statue surmounts the dome of the parliament building in Victoria. It represents Captain George Vancouver, navigator and explorer. This figure, surveying all below it, can be seen as a symbol of the supervision exercised by the government of the province over the University of British Columbia during its first quarter century. These years witnessed the progressive undermining of the autonomy of UBC. Acquiesced in by the Board of Governors, this process was the result of overt and covert pressure by the government. It included several amendments to the University Act that increased the powers of the Board at the expense of those of the Senate, the former being clearly more amenable to government pressure than the latter. The outcome of the process, if not its original purpose, was to enable the government to limit its expenditures on UBC while maintaining the desired degree of student accessibility to the institution. During this period there was a budgetary crisis of a size scarcely imaginable today, as the government grant fell by 60 percent between 1929-30 and 1932-33. The crisis prompted an inquiry into the affairs of the university in 1932; the commissioner's recommendations included the elimination of the Senate. The government did not act on this, but the Board of Governors used the occasion to assert its sole responsibility for everything that touched the institution's budget. In 1933 the faculty at UBC effectively obtained the right to run for public office. Other provincial universities in Canada denied this right in order to keep professors and their institutions from becoming too involved in party politics. UBC's governors wanted to adopt the same policy, but circumstances led them into another direction. Far from being evidence of tolerance, the decision to permit involvement in party politics to mem-


The Appellate Body decision in the steel dispute is the latest in a line of unsatisfactory decisions in the safeguards area. The problem stems from the fact that the treaty text regarding the preconditions for the use of safeguard measures is badly deficient. The Appellate Body with its usual emphasis on textualism has done little to resolve the puzzles that the text creates. WTO members are left with little guidance about the proper use of safeguards beyond some confusing and sometimes incoherent standards. We review these issues as they have arisen in prior decisions, and then discuss the details of the steel dispute. Our emphasis there is on the panel decision more than the Appellate Body report, as the latter breaks little new ground. World Trade Review (2007), 6 : 1, 89–122 Printed in the United Kingdom


ASEAN countries are rich with natural resources and historical heritage. The high number of Muslim
populations in ASEAN countries can be a potential revenue to promote Islamic tourism. This study aimed to
examine the potential industry of Islamic tourism as an alternative revenue and it seeks to investigate the effective
and efficient way in promoting Islamic tourism in ASEAN. There are many factors that promote Islamic tourism
in ASEAN countries. Push and pull factors influence Muslim tourists is deciding which place they want to visit.
Collaboration and coordination among ASEAN countries can enhance Islamic tourism in developing Islamic
tourism which can provide economic benefit to enhance the countries' revenue.


RESOCIALIZING FINANCE? OR DRESSING IT IN MUFTI? Calculating alternatives for cultural economies Bill Maurer Critical accounts of the financialization of the world economy decry the depersonalization and abstraction effected by finance in the service of extraction, expropriation and dispossession. Analysts and activists alike seek to re-socialize finance so that those whose interests it serves can be identified and so that new, socially embedded forms of exchange can emerge. They also seek to re-ground finance in a 'real', presumably material and social, fabric so that its excesses can be tamed and the sources of value made apparent. My essay questions these paired critiques and their supposed aims. It will argue that the continual attempt to reassert the social in economy points to a limit to the critical imagination, and that the critique of calculative rationality misses some of the other functions and practical effects of numbers besides commensuration and abstraction. KEYWORDS: finance; money; quantification; abstraction; qualitative reasoning; Islamic banking; offshore Someone who sets out to organize a closet arranges the things in it. If you are told not to organize the shoes and shirts, but the closet itself, you would be bewildered. How would you organize the Pacific Ocean? Straighten out its shores, perhaps, or relocate its islands, or destroy its fish? (Davidson 1973/74, p. 14) In his utopian appendix to Spaces of Hope, David Harvey imagines a new economic geography precipitated by environmental and financial collapse. Currencies play a central role in his story. When central banks attempt to prop up the markets by providing easy credit and liquidity, the result is such high inflation that paper currencies become worthless and 'cans of tuna and bags of rice become more legitimate' forms of money than 'dollars, yen or euros' (Harvey 2000, p. 259). Pension funds evaporate, along with banks and other financial institutions. The military takes over. Localized oppositional movements form and, though they are put down promptly, somehow they coalesce, rise up, and eventually usher in a world historical era of matriarchally organized hearths and neighbourhoods loosely organized into larger semi-autonomous units and federa- tions. Like Thomas More's Utopia a half millennium earlier, Harvey's utopia is charac- terized by occupational plurality and labor exchanges among and within hearths and Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2008 ISSN 1753-0350 print/1753-0369 online/08/010065-14 – 2008 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913668


This paper deals with the elaboration of the method of definition of primary and secondary parameters of the rail circuits on the base of the measuring car-laboratory with the help of special program microprocessor apparatuses. It was proposed advanced mathematic model of the information channels (rail circuits) for scientific substantiation of a method of the code parameters measurement. The measurement of current in the rail circuit is carried out in the regime of automatic locomotive signaling. The parameters of the rail circuits are defined by the value of code current of the rail circuits in the beginning and the end of the rail path. The results of modeling are presented for the 50 Hz code rail circuit.


The study involves understanding the behaviour of shares listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) over a period of six years (1998 to 2004). Constituents of eight sectors were studied to identify if the shares followed random walk. QQ Plots, Runs Test, Serial Correlation Tests and Ljung Box statistic were used for analysis. Several stocks individually tested were found to have followed a random walk across the sectors.


One can locate incoherent sources of light even when they are very close together within an error bound. This thesis contributes to knowledge by presenting progress towards experimentally realising the super-resolution of two incoherent point sources of light, using Fisher information gleaned through image-inversion interferometry measurements. The diffraction limit has been a limiting construct in optical physics for centuries without it being a fundamental physical law. This study is important because it highlights what rich knowledge is within reach while still working with optical wavelengths. Techniques in fluorescence microscopy previously bounded by Rayleigh's criterion can be enhanced using interferometry, enabling the non-destructive study of smaller and smaller biological samples. At the other end of the length scale, astrophysical applications include resolving binary star systems and discovering exoplanets. What is common in all these cases is that localisation is possible using quantum estimation theory even if the point spread function for each incoherent source is unable to be obtained. Here we tackle a experimental super-resolution technique, superlocalisation by image inversion interferometry, alongside advances in construction of optical devices that can act as light sources with sub-Rayleigh separations. Beyond the successful operation of an image-inversion interferometer, future work in this sphere may add in a directional element to this separation through interferometry in multiple dimensions.


Food safety is a cultural construction, culturally and temporally specific. This paper is concerned with the particular food safety issue of food adulteration in the city-state of Singapore. Taking the five-part definition of food adulteration, published in a local newspaper in 1913 ahead of new legislation, as its structure, this paper examines how food adulteration was understood, subverted, regulated, prosecuted and eventually updated, to trace the institutional constructions and performances of food safety knowledges and their popular responses.


The present communication deals with the result of the Schiff base ligand 3-amino 2 ethyl quinazoline 4(3H) Semicarbazone (AEQS) with bivalent transition metal ions, Cu(II), Co(II) and Ni(II). The ligand and its metal complexes are characterized on the basis of molar mass, elemental analyses, IR, electronic spectra, molar conductivity, magnetic moment measurement. The reaction of the ligand with Cu(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) resulted in the formation of the complexes have the general composition [M(AEQS) 2 ]X 2 where M= Cu(II), Co(II) and Ni(II). AEQS=3-amino 2 ethyl quinazoline 4(3H) semicarbazone and X = Cl , Br or I . The studies proposes a distorted octahedral geometry for Cu(II) complexes whereas octahedral geometry is assigned for Cu(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) complexes.


The main objective of this thesis is to develop a linear flexible wheel model that, implemented in a multibody model of the ExoMars rover, allows to simulate and predict the real behavior of the rover on the Martian surface. ExoMars is the mission managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), with the aim to deliver a surface platform and a rover on Mars, in search of a sign of life. The Martian soil is not regular, but rocky and mostly covered with loose soil. Therefore, the study of the rover mobility becomes a crucial aspect for the mission success. ExoMars rover is equipped with flexible wheels that facilitate the overcoming of obstacles. Multibody software is a fundamental tool to simulate the static and dynamic behavior of the rover on the Martian surface. ??First, a non-linear static analysis is performed on a finite element model (FEM model) of the rover wheel to obtain the static radial stiffness curves. The numerical data acquired are thus compared with the available experimental data on the wheel stiffness, to verify the "goodness" of the FEM model. The FEM model of the rover wheel is built using HyperMesh, a finite element pre-processor, and analyzed through OptiStruct solver. In the second part of the thesis work, starting from the FEM model, using OptiStruct, a Component Mode Synthesis (Craig-Bampton Method) is carried out to obtain the linear flexible wheel model, which is then implemented in a Multi-Body System (MBS) model of the ExoMars rover. Subsequently, to verify the validity of the modal reduction operation carried out, the deformation of the flexible wheels, due only to the action of the rover weight, is checked and compared with the numerical data obtained from the FEM analysis. Finally, a multibody simulation of a real test in which the rover is engaged in overcoming an obstacle is performed. The multibody model of the ExoMars rover is made with MotionView pre-processor and simulated through MotionSolve solver. As result, the simulation reproduces in a rather faithful way the real rover behaviour. The positive comparison with the experimental test validates the goodness of the linear flexible wheel model realized. ??The thesis has been developed at the Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A., Prime Contractor for ESA contributions to the ExoMars mission.


Preoperative staging in patients with malign gastric disease is of crucial importance for its multimodal treatment. The research included a group of 65 patients with gastric carcinoma. Targeted preoperative diagnostic procedures were performed as a basis for determining the preoperative and postoperative (TNM) degree. The diagnostic techniques used for the clinical and statistical examinations included ultrasonography (US), multi-slice computerized tomography (MSCT) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). The sensitivity of MSCT used for preoperative T status, compared to the postoperative findings, amounted to 39%, while the EUS sensitivity used for an assessment of the depth of tumour infiltration for T status amounted to 83%. The ultrasound examination could not detect enlarged lymph nodes in 58 out of 65 subjects with gastric carcinoma who had intra-operatively detected enlarged nodes, while a realistic positive finding of spreading malign process was detected in lymph nodes N1 in three patients and N2 in four patients. Ultrasound examination proved to be the least sensitive, with the detection rate of the affected lymph nodes in gastric carcinoma patients of only 11%. The MSCT proved as a reliable diagnostic technique in 43% of the preoperative assessments of malign process spreading into lymph nodes. Preoperatively, M0 status was found in 67.21% of the patients, while it was intraoperatively confirmed in 62.29%. The M0 status was preoperatively underestimated in 8.1% (M0 into M1) of patients. Acta Medica Medianae 2018;57(1):5-11.


Photodynamic therapy relies on the bioavailability of photosensitizers with suitable photophysical, chemical and biochemical properties. Although the photophysical properties, stability and high water solubility of the chromium(III) complex [Cr(ddpd)2][BF4]3 (ddpd = N,N'-dimethyl-N,N'-dipyridin-2-ylpyridine-2,6-diamine) are very favorable, its photocytotoxicity against cancerous and non-cancerous cell lines has not yet been elucidated. We now report the cytotoxicity and photocytotoxicity of the complex [Cr(ddpd)2][BF4]3 against human cervical cancer cells, human primary glioblastoma cells, human glioblastoma astrocytoma cells and non-cancerous retinal pigment epithelium cells.


In order to improve both resolution and stability of single bit high order Sigma-Delta Modulators, quantization noise suppression should be carried out not only at DC but also within the bandwidth of interest. This noise suppression at frequencies different from zero is carried out with the use of resonators. Switched-Capacitor resonators at fS/n can be designed using integrating or delaying elements. In this work, both resonator structures are analyzed with respect to their robustness against the main imperfections presented in a SC implementation. The effect introduced by the operational transconductance amplifiers non-idealities was analyzed together with the effect of capacitor mismatch.


Biogenesis of different classes of eukaryotic RNAs proceeds via different pathways that require strict spatiotemporal resolution. The intracellular organization has evolved to provide order for RNA processing to coordinate different maturation steps with specific enzymatic reaction. In higher eukaryotes, processing of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) is postulated to be almost entirely intranuclear, while in lower eukaryotes like yeast, tRNA maturation is both nuclear and cytoplasmic. Here, we show that tRNA processing is largely cytosolic event in human cells. After transcription, unprocessed precursors of tRNAs (pre-tRNAs) bound by La protein are exported from the nucleus into the cytoplasm. Using cell fractionation analysis and pre-tRNA-specific fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) protocol, we show tRNA splicing/ligation and end-processing takes place in the cytoplasm where majority of processing enzymes is also located. We propose here a model where processing of intron-less and intron-containing pre-tRNAs is cytoplasmic similarly to the observed in lower eukaryotes, although tRNA splicing precedes 5'- and 3'-end processing in human cells unlike in yeast.


Introduction 1. Virtue in action 2. Piety and patriotism 3. The founding fathers of liberty 4. Uniting all men 5. The apostle and martyr of liberty 6. Our brave defenders Conclusion Bibliography.


Thionyl chloride is conveniently obtained in a high state of purity by atmospheric distillation of commercial material over 10 weight per cent. of triphenyl phosphite.


This thesis analyses patterns of growth, decline, clustering and dispersal of live music in Sydney and Melbourne between the 1980s and 2000s. It demonstrates the use of historical Geographic Information Systems, combined with interviews, as a methodologic


Can haptics be effective in low power and hand held applications? Inevitably a haptic device which meets the strict weight, power and volume requirements of a hand held device will be capable of only very small forces and displacements compared to existing desktop devices. This leads to two aspects to the question. What are the weakest haptic effects that can be effectively used by humans interacting with a haptic device? And how can haptic devices be designed to operate at or just above these low levels while maintaining both the weight, power and volume constraints and effective outputs? This paper will describe experiments involving exploration of 1-D surface profiles using a single finger in the flexion extension plane and the (Finger-tip Haptic Display) FHD, a 2 DOF, low friction, direct drive, planar haptic display capable of high fidelity representation of virtual surfaces. Using a forced-choice experiment incorporating an adaptive threshold algorithm, we measured the weakest haptic effects that are detectable via the haptic interface. In the first experiment, the subject is presented with two targets 5 mm wide, spaced 10 mm apart, and located on a horizontal line. The haptic force on one randomly chosen target consists of a tangential force beginning at each edge of the target, and pointing inward, toward the target center. We use the converged adaptive force threshold value as characteristic of the smallest detectable haptic effects that can be communicated by our specific haptic device (FHD) to a specific subject. Data for 7 subjects indicates an average human/machine threshold of 30 mN.


The interpretation of the enhancement of the electric dipole sum rule due to the rho exchange potential in terms of virtual rho photoproduction is discussed. In deriving the rho photoproduction amplitude, it is shown that invariance under local gauge transformations of the SU(2)*U(1) (isospin*hypercharge) group necessary for a unitary theory, requires a Higgs mechanism to generate the rho masses. In such a scheme which intrinsically connects on the electromagnetic and strong interactions, linking part of the NN potential to the electromagnetic properties of hadrons, the vector meson dominance prescriptions automatically result, universality is explained and the desired rho photoproduction amplitude (which differs from that obtained via the minimal electromagnetic substitution in the Proca Lagrangian) is obtained. In addition 'genuine' three-body rho rho rho forces (as well as four-body ones) originating from the nonAbelian structure of the group are predicted. The free parameter of the theory is the mass of the Higgs boson which might show up in the reactions gamma N to N rho H and e+e- to rho 0H.


We describe a time-of-arrival-(ToA-) based localization system for smartphones. In this system, the transmitter emits modulated light-emitting diode (LED) light and sound waves, then the smartphone catches them. The smartphone measures the time of flight of sound waves and localizes its position using multilateration. The LED light is used for visible light communication, which also conveys the time reference of the sound emission. Using the time reference, we can synchronize between the transmitter and the receiver, then the ToA-based localization can be available. The precision of time synchronization is the key factor for localization based on ToA. Hence, we have proposed the SyncSync method using a modulated LED light and a smartphone video camera, which enables ToA localization by measuring the time of flight of sound waves. This method gives better results than those of time-difference-of-arrival localization. However, we had to use a dedicated light synchronization device for our method. Visible light communication (VLC) is becoming a popular application of smartphones. If VLC demodulation could be used for time synchronization in acoustic localization, VLC and indoor localization would be integrated into a single application. In this paper, we examined the feasibility of VLC time synchronization for localization. Then, ToA-based localization was performed using a smartphone application. The standard deviation of the 3D localization was around 100 mm in a dark room, which is sufficiently precise for practical applications.


The microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg-Gd-Y-Nd/SiCP composite fabricated by stirring casting and vacuum re-melting were investigated by OM,SEM,EDS and tensile test.The results show that the vacuum re-melting results in the increase of grain size,and the re-aggregation of SiCP,and the absorbed gas during the stirring casting discharges.These microstructure has genetic effects on the extruded material,which can make the increase of strength and the decrease of elongation of the material.REmSin particles can be formed by reaction between SiCP and rare earth elements of Gd and Y.However,the strength effect of REmSin particle is not enough to cover that of the loss precipitation particles including the elements of Gd and Y,and the reinforcement of SiCP to Young's modulus.


Brazil is a Federal South American Republic, in which there are 27 federated states divided into 5 regions and Brasília, the federal capital. In 30 years, the country has almost doubled its population. From 93 millions people in 1970 to 182 millions people in 2004. Nowadays, more than 80% of Brazilian population lives in the urban centers, from which 30% are concentrated on the Metropolitan Regions, which there are in the country. That gathering deals with the rising necessity to promote the daily urban mobility, through the use of a large variety of means of transportation. Although this situation has aggravated through the last years, because it was verified a decrease of number of passengers taking the public transportation by bus, mainly due to the others reasons, the big competition done by the non-regulated transportation, done by people which take Short-Sized Vehicles SSV.


Algeria is a country that many in the oil and gas industry view as a politically difficult and challenging region to operate in. Although commercially attractive contracts have been available since 1986, the impact of fundamentalist activities has had a limiting effect on major inward investments. Despite this, at least 30 international oil and gas companies are now active in its as yet under-explored and immature hydrocarbon provinces that cover roughly two-thirds of the country.


A meromorphic solution to Burgers' equation with generic initial data and complex viscosity $\nu$ is analyzed. For 0 $ $ 0, a new application of Burgers' equation is found as an analogy to Schrodinger's equation, for which the poles describe intricate spiraling trajectories centered slightly off from the real axis. A weak, zero-dispersion limit of the solution as $\nu$ = $i\epsilon, \epsilon \to \ 0\sp+$ is captured by reconstructing the solution numerically from the pole expansion, displaying unbounded oscillations which are verified via a classical stationary phase analysis. The asymptotic behavior of the solution as $\nu \to \ 0\sp+$ is also derived, yielding a positive limiting density of poles describing their condensation on the imaginary axis. The inviscid solution is explicitly recovered via the pole expansion and the limiting density up to the critical time $t\sb{\*}.$ A uniform (in time) asymptotic expansion as $k \to \ +\infty$ of the Fourier transform $\ u(k,t)$ of the inviscid solution is also found.
In the second part of this work, the asymptotic behavior as $y \to \ +\infty$ of Fourier integrals of the form $f\sb{n}(y)$ = $\int\sbsp{-\infty}{\infty} e\sp{-t\sp{2n}\sb{+iyt}}dt,n \ge$ 2 is derived. A general formula is found for the coefficients of the expansion of $f\sb{n}(y)$ in the sector $\vert$ arg $y\vert\ {<2n-1}\over{2n 2}\ {\pi}\over{2}$ centered about the anti-Stokes line $y \in\ \IR$, together with high order asymptotic approximations of its zeros. The asymptotic estimates of the zeros are compared to numerically computed values which are used as initial data in the numerical resolution of the Calogero dynamical system introduced in the first part.


LCL filter is more effective in reducing high order harmonic frequency, but it brings stability problems. In order to assure stable operation, different passive and active damping methods have been proposed. The passive damping methods need damping resistor and reduce the efficiency of the system, and active methods usually need extra sensors. This paper proposed a sensorless active damping method with proportional resonance controller for LCL-based gird-connected inverters. Theoretical analyses and control structure of the selected method are presented in this paper. The proposed method is verified by simulation results.


Focusing on Turner's painting The Burning of the House of Lords and the Commons, the present essay analyses the effect produced by its pictorial discourse, also discussing the philosophical character of its figurativeness. In other words, this work analyses the plastic quality of verbal manifestations which symbolize a meaning for painting and the world.


KOBRA (KOrea Broad acceptance Recoil spectrometer and Apparatus), a new generation recoil spectrometer, has been designed at the Korean heavy-ion accelerator facility, so called RAON. It will allow many nuclear scientists to explore so-far hard but very interesting questions relevant to lowenergy nuclear physics. Especially, in nuclear astrophysics where the unstable, short-lived nuclei are usually involved and the high background rejection power is required, its high performance will come into significantly important role. As a particular case to see its capability, in this article, calculational results of 12C(α, γ)16O reaction which was studied with the COSY-INFINITY is presented.


When it comes to disability, it is usually understood that anthropology offers the knowledge that disabled people have more potential than others have often imagined. How this different perspective on disability is produced and what exactly are its claims? In this commentary on Chapter 17 by Anne Kohler, "Assuming Competency," it is suggested that the answers to this question lie not on the theories and methods of anthropology, but in a constant quest led by the studies for a perspective in which the interlocutors are not interpreted through stereotypes or preconceptions socially impinged on them. This quest is an epistemological, ontological, political, and ethical position of anthropology that can result in storytelling populated by everyone that has participated in the realization of the story that is being told.


In Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, the spleen commonly enlarges during the first two decades of life but then undergoes auto-splenectomy due to repeated attacks of vaso-occlusion and infarction. This, however, is not the case in Saudi patients with SCD, where Splenomegaly sometimes persists into adult life. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the commonly inherited diseases in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia where Splenomegaly with high frequency in the adolescent, predisposes the patient to have Splenic abscess. A 10-year (January 2000 December 2010) retrospective review of twenty nine cases of sickle cell disease patients complicated withSsplenic abscess records was performed. Information regarding demographics, clinical presentation, etiological agents and management was gathered and analyzed. Splenic abscess is a rare complication of sickle cell disease but is the most serious complication. Splenic infarction is one of the most predisposing causes for splenic abscess. There are different modalities for the management of splenic abscess as ultrasound or CT guided aspiration or splenectomy. In conclusion, patients with persistent Splenomegaly should be followed closely for development of complications which may necessitate splenectomy. Splenectomy remains the treatment of choice in sickle cell disease patient with splenic abscess.


The girl's education is a difficult point in the entire national minority area.It is not only the comprehensive reflection on education concerning population,women and poverty problems but also an important symbol of measuring social progress of a country.The main purpose of this article is try to do some research on girl's education of Yao nationality,Wenshan,and try to find a way to promote girl's education of Yao nationality,hoping it can play a positive role throughout the minority areas on girl's education.


Schottky Barrier IR detection is based on the principle of internal photoemission at the surface between a Si substrate and a deposited metal. In a multi-element focal plane array (FPA), this phenomenon provides very high pixel-to-pixel uniformity, so the requirement for corrective signal processing is minimal. The use of standard silicon design and fabrication techniques simplifies detector readout and multiplexing functions and permits practical realization of sensors that contain very large staring focal planes. This report summarizes the status of FPA and camera development and includes typical imagery. For surveillance applications, the high sensitivity obtainable with these large staring arrays offers both signature and background phenomenology opportunities in the medium wavelength (MWIR) band which could not be exploited previously with scanning-type sensors. Examples of predicted surveillance sensor performance include (1) a near-term ground-based system for Day/Night detection of low-altitude space objects and (2) a future space-borne system for space missions. It is concluded that significant potential exists for future application of this technology.


REZA MUHAMMAD. The correlation between organizational culture with organizational citizenship behavior at employees of Giant Supermarket branch Pondok Timur. Skripsi. Jakarta: Study Program of Commerce Education, Department of Economic and Administration, Faculty of Economic, State University of Jakarta, 2014.
Purpose of this research is to find valid and reliability, data and facts about the possibility a positive correlation between organizational culture with organizational citizenship behavior at employees of Giant Supermarket branch Pondok Timur.
The period of the research was four months, since March until June 2014. The research used survey methods by correlation approach. The population of this research are all of employees at Giant Supermarket. The reached population are all of clerk at Giant Supermarket branch Pondok Timur. The sampling of the research are 36 employees. The sampling technique is the simple random sampling technique.
The analysis test by finding regression equation, that is Ŷ= 46,01+0,53X. The analysis conditional test proved the validation on variable Y to variable X is normal distributed, and at the linear regression test are using analysis of variance table (ANAVA) is linear. At the hypothesis test, the significant regression test are using ANOVA is significant.
The coefficient of correlation counted by product moment formula by Pearson indicates rxy = 0,511 while the result of correlation coefficient significant test indicates tcount = 12,01 and ttable = 4,13. Because the result shows tcount>ttable, the research indicates there is a significant correlation between organizational culture with organizational citizenship behavior at employee of Giant Supermarket branch Pondok Timur. The counted of determination coefficient test is 26,10%, this is indicates the variance of variable Y is determined by variable X.
The conclusion of research shown that a positive correlation between organizational culture with organizational citizenship behavior at employees of Giant Supermarket branch Pondok Timur.


The pseudo tetrasaccharide 2 was designed to mimic ganglioside GM1, the membrane receptor of both the cholera toxin and of the heat-labile toxin of E. coli. Compound 2 retains the Gal and Neu5Ac recognition determinant of GM1 and uses as the scaffold element a new, conformationally restricted cyclohexanediol (DCCHD 3), with the same relative and absolute configuration of natural galactose. The diol 3 was enantioselectively synthesized by an asymmetric Diels–Alder reaction, followed by dihydroxylation of the resulting cyclohexene. Glycosylation of 3 with the sialyl donor 17 and the Galβ(1-3)GalNAc donor 15, followed by removal of the protecting groups, completed the synthesis of 2.


This scenario describes the problem of restoring rangelands that were once open and grassy (figure 9.1) but have lost their groundcover and have become dense with unpalatable shrubs (figure 9.2). These dramatic changes are usually the result of many years of heavy grazing by livestock and, in numerous cases, by feral animals, such as rabbits, goats, camels, horses, and donkeys. Because of low groundcover, these disturbed rangelands are now eroding. They include former grasslands and grassy shrublands, such as the chenopod shrublands in southern Australia and the sagebrush shrublands in the western United States.


The reaction of N-cyanocarbonimidodithioic acid di(alkyl and aralkyl)esters with different alkyl-, aralkyl- and arylhydrazines to yield 1-substituted-3-R-thio-5-amino-1H-1,2,4-triazoles (3) and 2-substituted-3-R-thio-5-amino-2H-1,2,4-triazoles (4) was studied. Isolation of the different types of isomeric pairs of 3 and 4 helped to prove the structure of products obtained which made possible correction of some confusion in the literature. The 3 (R = H) tautomeric structure of the non-substituted derivatives was supported by comparison of their uv and cmr spectra with those of the alkylated and aralkylated derivatives 3 and 4, respectively, again correcting confusion in the literature. An hplc determination of the ratio of products 3 and 4 formed in the above reactions with different hydrazines made it possible to prove the mechanism of the reaction.


On the blogs, in the newspapers, in restaurants, there has been so much discussion of the New Deal lately that the chatter could seem like that at a historians' convention. Conservatives express panic about socialism and argue that the New Deal experience proved government intervention into the economy does not work. Liberals talk of the New Deal as if it had been a panacea. By contrast, in the 1930s the opposition to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal came from the Left as well as the Right. A Popular Front of politicized citizens ranging from liberals to communists complained that programs were inadequate both in reach and funding.


The article deals with the realization of the subject of game in the creative work by K. I. Chukovsky whose works remain the classics of the children's literature. The paper investigates the influence of folkloric traditions on the wonder tales by K. I. Chukovsky and the originality of these pieces of literature. The author identifies the addressing of Chukovsky's works up to now in-demand in various age groups of readers. The researcher investigates the multifunctionality of the creative activity of the writer whose works perform esthetic, educational and cognitive functions.


This bachelor?s thesis is focused on the topic of old age and aging process. In the theoretical part it characterizes senior citizens, their tasks and deals with their place in the contemporary society. It examines relations between quality of life and old age, refers to principal psychological and social aspects and outlines a concept of healthy aging. It then discusses the social services provided in the Czech Republic and their significance. The practical part is devoted to the social residential service, specifically to the Sheltered housing for the elderly St. Agnes. It specifies this environment as well as differences between sheltered housing for the elderly and persons with disabilities. It also examines the impact on the quality of life of elderly people living in this unit.


The article proposes a supporting program of the development of vocational identity for college students. The efficiency indicators of the program are discussed. The program has passed approbation in Federal State Educational Institution Secondary Professional Education the Ural state college, during 2008-2009 academic years.


The present invention discloses a kind of road weather condition method for supervising, and based on a kind of road weather condition supervisory system, this supervisory system comprises highway weather data acquisition system, road weather data handling system and road conditions executive system; This highway weather data acquisition system gathers the weather information on road surface and uploads to road weather data handling system, Meteorlogical Data Handling System judges meteorological condition by road, according to needing by the running environment early warning of road conditions executive system issuing traffic and control measure.Method for supervising of the present invention uses Multi-sensor Fusion identification, greatly improves the accuracy of road conditions identification, low cost, install convenient.


In a related hands-on workshop (Nelson, 2008 - Building OLAP Cubes with SAS 9: A Hands on Workshop), we demonstrated how to use OLAP Cube Studio to build and manage an OLAP cube. In this workshop, we will take those cubes and learn how we can view them in a variety of SAS tools which might include: SAS Enterprise Guide, Microsoft Excel with the SAS OLAP Data Provider, and the SAS Information Delivery Portal. Finally, we will discuss best practices related to delivering cubes to your end users and we will learn how you can build web interfaces to exploit your OLAP cubes. In addition, we will discuss how you can secure your OLAP cubes so that you can restrict what data users/ group can see.


A novel predictive rotor current control scheme for a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is implemented to perform the DFIG grid synchronization with a fast dynamic response. With this control strategy applied to an experimental setup, the rotor currents swiftly follow the necessary reference for grid synchronization in the range ±30% of the generator rated shaft speed. The DFIG and converter discrete models are used to predict the behavior of the rotor currents. By minimizing the error between the references and the predictive rotor currents for each of the valid states of the converter, the best-suited switching state is selected and applied at the next sampling time. To validate the feasibility of implementing this approach, simulations and experiments were carried out for various shaft speed profiles.