The study deals with imagination, images and their significance in the mystical doctrine of Capuchin Benedict of Canfield (1562–1611), which he discusses mainly in the third part of his work Regula perfectionis . In this context, he is particularly concerned with the analysis of apophatic moments and the abandonment of the imaginable, the figurative, which accompanies the spiritual or mystical journey and which is the subject of many texts of Western culture.


The anionic polymerization of nitroethylene was studied in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) at 0–40°C. The polymerization proceeds spontaneously when monomer is mixed with solvent in the absence of light. From the observed results of the rate of polymerization, the molecular weight of polymer, the effects of additives and solvents, the copolymerization with acrylonitrile, and the optical absorption spectra it is concluded that the polymerization is initiated by the nitroethylene radical anion generated by the slow dissociation of the electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes between the solvent molecule and the monomer. The activation energy for the rate of polymerization was 50 and 29 kJ/mole in DMF and DMSO, respectively, which seems to be determined primarily by the dissociation of the EDA complexes. The significant features of this polymerization are that the initiation proceeds slowly and there is essentially no termination.


The main focus of this article is to analyse the Danish monarchy from a gender perspective. However, the article also provides a general analysis of the Danish monarchy, the formal and informal powers of the monarch and the modern legitimisation of the monarchy. The development of the Act on Succession to the Throne, finally leading to full gender equality in 2009, plays a central role in the article. The approach is primarily legal, with an interpretation of legal sources as its point of departure, but the article goes beyond this by analysing informal power, public expressions on the monarchy and gender by members of the royal house as well as present-day legitimisation of the monarchy. Moreover, it positions this analysis in the broader historical context.


While teens in the UK and US seem to be losing interest in Facebook, its popularity in Mexico remains unrivalled. Zorana Milicevic looks at how children and parents use Facebook to 'get on' in life and to create meaningful relationships. Zorana is a freelance writer and researcher. She spent 12 months in rural Mexico conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children, their parents and teachers.


: Foundry industries developing countries suffer from poor quality and productivity due to involvement of number of process parameter. This paper also aims to provide correct guideline to quality control department to find casting defects and will help them to analyze defects which are not desired. This paper highlights development of 'draw die ' component and the changes made in product design due to manufacturing and assembly reasons considering design intent; and also the advantages using various 'CAE' software's used in designing draw tools. It helps reducing the complete product development cycle as compared to what happens with conventional methods. Lesser effort and ease to model the complete setup and important features with different design parameters, improved the product development without compromising quality. Thorough attempt is aimed for design sheet metal draw die using the latest technology to make it time and cost effective, identifying the problem areas through analysis results and Based on the analysis prepare the query report and suggest revisions modifications in the product design. Thus using the CAE software one can design economical draw die because the design changes, modifications and challenges can be observed and solved in the initial phase of the design only. Otherwise without these efforts the draw die design and the processing could end up as a costly and complicated assignment.


The QUEST (QUasar Equatorial Survey Team) Phase 1 camera has collected multibandpass photometry on a large strip of high Galactic latitude sky over a period of 26 months. This robust data set has been reduced and nightly catalogs compared to determine the photometric variability of the ensemble objects. Subsequent spectroscopic observations have confirmed a subset of the photometric variables as quasars, as previously reported. This paper reports on the details of the data reduction and analysis pipeline and presents multiple bandpass light curves for 198,213 QUEST1 objects, along with global variability information and matched Sloan photometry.


This chapter examines how a guild got privileges over particular economic activities. Though guilds are sometimes called private-order institutions, in practice they were recognized by the public authorities. They enjoyed legal entitlements and coercive power, in return for which they channelled favours to political elites, so much so that the French controller-general described guild affairs in 1776 as "one of the most abundant sources of profits for the people of the Palace." Guilds thus provide an excellent context for investigating how social networks deploy social capital to shape government action. Guilds gave people practising a particular occupation an institutional mechanism enabling them to exercise more effective political pressure than they could by acting independently as individuals.


Purpose – The key question addressed in the paper is whether creativity fostering methods increase innovation output in Croatian firms. Design/methodology/approach – By utilizing the Community Innovation Survey 2010 data and propensity score matching methods, we estimate the average treatment effect of the treated (i.e. firms that employ creativity stimulation methods). Within this framework, our measured outcome is the innovation activity of the firm and the treatment is the creativity stimulation method used by the firm. Findings – The results confirm that the creativity enhancing methods have a positive impact on innovation activity in Croatian enterprises. The empirical analysis of average treatment effect of the treated reveals that the most effective measure seems to be training, followed closely by multidisciplinary working teams. Non-financial creativity enhancing methods seem to be least effective. Research limitations/implications – The results follow some stylized facts related to Croatian enterprises. However, since this paper provides first attempt of the analysis of these issues, future research efforts are required to substantiate our findings. Originality/value – The analysis of effectiveness of creativity fostering methods for innovation activity has proved that the innovation activity can be enhanced by employing each of the method analysed in the paper.


Dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) deficiency is an autosomal recessive type of combined immunodeficiency with elevated IgE. In this report, we describe a Japanese girl of non‐consanguineous family suffering from acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) as a presenting feature of DOCK8 deficiency. Although AEP was self‐limiting, consecutively experienced recurrent respiratory infections, severe atopic dermatitis, and vulnerability to viral infections, prompted us to evaluate the possibility of DOCK8 deficiency. Immunological assessments demonstrated decreased IgM, increased IgE, T lymphocytepenia, especially in CD4 T cells, decreased PHA blastogenesis, and decreased CD27+CD19+ memory B cells. Western blotting revealed the absence of DOCK8 protein. Investigation of genomic DNA by multiplex ligation‐dependent probe amplification (MLPA) revealed a heterozygous large deletion of 77 kb spanning from intron 5 to exon 22. DOCK8 cDNA sequencing revealed a nonsense mutation at position 740 (E740X). As far as we know, this is the first Japanese case of DOCK8 deficiency. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2014; 49:E52–E55. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


In this study, we synthesized polynorbornene (PNB) dicarboximides substituted by monochlorophenyl group (PMCPhNDI) and dichlorophenyl group (PDCPhNDI) via ring-opening polymerization using a ruthenium catalyst and investigated their thermal, mechanical, and optical properties. We also discussed the performance and application of the functionalized PNB dicarboximide films as flexible substrates for organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). The polymer films exhibited good optical transparency with an average transmittance of around 97% in the visible light region and good thermal stability with a 5% degradation temperature of >440°C. The polymers were applied for flexible displays, which were coated on indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films using a radio-frequency planar magnetron sputtering system with changing the deposition substrate temperatures. A flexible OLED that was fabricated on the ITO-grown polymer substrates exhibited a performance as comparable to the corresponding ITO-grown glass substrates. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This paper is dedicated to the design, implementation and evaluation of fast FPGA-based circuits that compute Hamming weights for binary vectors and compare the results with fixed thres ...


Objective
To discuss the mechanism of xenogenic(porcine) acellular dermal matrix (ADM) alleviating the inflammatory reaction in the process of treating deep partial thickness skin burn injury.

Methods
Seventy deep partial thickness skin burn injury patients were chosen and randomly divided into two groups. The patients in experimental group were treated with ADM while other patients were treated with povidone iodine ointment in control group. To regard the day of hospital admission as the 1st day after injury, The levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α), interleukin-1beta, interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 were detected on the 1st, 3rd, 7th and 10th day post burn at all the patients and the change of patients′ vital signs as well as peripheral blood leukocyte count were monitored. SPSS 13.0 statistical software was used to process the data. Multiple comparision between groups was made using the Student-Newman-Keuls methods.

Results
The serum TNF-α level of patients in the experimental group was(1.55±0.62) ng/mL, which was lower than that of patients in the control group on the 3rd day post burn, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). In addition, the vital signs and peripheral blood leukocyte count of patients in experimental group returned to normal more quickly than that of patients in the control group. However, There were no significant differences in serum levels of interleukin-1beta, interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 between the two groups at different times post burn(P values were less than 0.05).

Conclusions
Through lowering the level of serum TNF-α of patients, ADM is able to alleviate the postburn systemic inflammatory response syndrome and reduce the occurrence of severe complications.

Key words:
Burns; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Cytokines; Xenogeneic(porcine) acellular dermal matrix


Double diffraction from a bicrystal containing a near-coincidence 〈111〉 twist boundary is analysed in some detail. It is found that a method suggested recently (Schapink and Erlings 1978) for disti...


Treatment and care of people with severe and profound learning disability have received a great deal of attention during the last two decades. One issue attracting particular research interest has been the definition of procedures for promoting independent activity engagement (i.e. activity engagement independent of staff supervision). The present paper reviews six procedures: (1) task/contingencies fading; (2) automatic prompting; (3) use of reactive objects and electrical switches; (4) pictorial, tactile or auditory cues handled by the subjects; (5) computer-aided programmes presenting instructions, reinforcement and corrective feedback; and (6) employment of peer caregivers.


The increasing use of carbon fibre composite (CFC) material for aircraft skins raises inter-related concerns regarding the operation and effects of airborne antennas operating at HF (2-30 MHz). Establishing the credibility of computed results is particularly important in a traditionally experimental subject such as EMC. To this end it is therefore useful to consider a test problem in which modelling CFC material is the dominant feature. In formulating such a problem it is, however, necessary to avoid certain complicating factors (particularly at HF) associated with the numerical methods available. In this article a particular problem was formulated so as to circumvent as many of these complications as possible, and to permit additional corroboration of the computed results both by straightforward experimental measurement and by analytical calculation. A problem which satisfies these requirements is that of determining the magnetic field screening of an open-ended CFC cylinder.


Excitation functions of quasielastic scattering at backward angles were measured for the weakly bound ${}^{6}$Li and ${}^{7}$Li projectiles on a ${}^{64}$Zn target at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The corresponding barrier distributions were derived from the experimental cross sections. The experimental data were analyzed within the coupled-channel model using a double-folding potential as the bare potential. Inelastic excitations of the target, the ${}^{7}$Li first-excited state, and ${}^{6,7}$Li resonant state(s), corresponding to sequential breakup, were included in the calculations. The comparison between the data and coupled-channel predictions shows that the effects of channels not included in the calculations, such as direct breakup and transfers, are much larger for ${}^{6}$Li than for ${}^{7}$Li.


Background and Purpose— Visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure (SBP) is associated with an increased risk of stroke and was reduced in randomized trials by calcium channel blockers and diuretics but not by renin–angiotensin system inhibitors. However, time of day effects could not be determined. Day-to-day variability on home BP readings predicts stroke risk and potentially offers a practical method of monitoring response to variability-directed treatment. Methods— SBP mean, maximum, and variability (coefficient of variation=SD/mean) were determined in 500 consecutive transient ischemic attack or minor stroke patients on 1-month home BP monitoring (3 BPs, 3× daily). Hypertension was treated to a standard protocol. Differences in SBP variability from 3 to 10 days before to 8 to 15 days after starting or increasing calcium channel blockers/diuretics versus renin–angiotensin system inhibitors versus both were compared by general linear models, adjusted for risk factors and baseline BP. Results— Among 288 eligible interventions, variability in SBP was reduced after increased treatment with calcium channel blockers/diuretics versus both versus renin–angiotensin system inhibitors (−4.0 versus 6.9 versus 7.8%; P=0.015), primarily because of effects on maximum SBP (−4.6 versus −1.0 versus −1.0%; P=0.001), with no differences in effect on mean SBP. Class differences were greatest for early-morning SBP variability (3.6 versus 17.0 versus 38.3; P=0.002) and maximum (−4.8 versus −2.0 versus −0.7; P=0.001), with no effect on midmorning (P=0.29), evening (P=0.65), or diurnal variability (P=0.92). Conclusions— After transient ischemic attack or minor stroke, calcium channel blockers and diuretics reduced variability and maximum home SBP, primarily because of effects on morning readings. Home BP readings enable monitoring of response to SBP variability-directed treatment in patients with recent cerebrovascular events.


Organic matter from plants have not been used optimally, especially paddy straw. Paddy straw was not strongly suggested to burn because it just left ash that not so useful to increase land fertility and plant nutrient. Organic matter decomposition can be accelerated by decreasing its size. This material can be more useful when it converts into organic fertilizer where some other materials were added and mixed thoroughly, and the proccess could be accelerated by adding activated microorganism. This process could made faster if the size of the organic matter is small. Several types of crusher have been designed either by big companies from the industrial countries or small companies like Indonesia. Crushers made by big countries are usually used by big companies. The main problem of the major types of crushers fabricated by big company was that the size of the crushing material was not small enough so it needed longer time to decomposite by microorganism. The classic problem encountered at the machine itself was that the blades was not strong enough that they could break if the impact was too high.
 This research was aimed to design a crusher machine that could produce a smaller size of plant residus than the other machines could do. The knives consisted of 10 rotary saws with 10 inches in diameter installed at certain distance among them. At the left and right side of every rotary saw were installed a plate with 1 cm in thick that functioned as a flywheel and made the rotary saws strong. A 7.5 HP diesel engine used as a power source and double belt-pulley as transmition power. A V-shaped hopper was installed on the left side of the concave and outlet was at the right bottom of the concave. The raw material was thrown into the crushing chamber manually. The machine was tested using 100 kg of paddy straw (10 bags).
 The results showed that the effective capacity was 206,2 kg/hr. The main result was released from the screen of 100 mesh. The weight of the machine was 191 kg (included engine) and it consumed 0,9 liter per hour of diesel fuel and the average rotating speed 812 RPM. Generally, the machine was able to operate without worrying of knives would break.

 Keywords: Plants residus, rotary saw, crushing machine, material capacity


In recent years the heritage conserva-tion and development of Luangprabang, the past capi-tal city of Laos has attracted peoples attention. Thispaper introduces the joint efforts Laos governmentand World Heritage Committee have made in the con-servation of this city especially the conservation oftraditional architecture, historic sites and culture.


To verify the effects of mixed cultivation of different cultivars on rice blast control,seven rice cultivars were used in cultivar diversity cultivation experiment herein.The results revealed that mixed plantation using different rice cultivars might considerably control rice blast.Among the tested planting methods,cultivar-mixed cultivation,especially the inter-plantation between susceptible and hybrid ones,gave significant effect on rice blast control.It also showed that mixture inter-planting could somewhat increase the rice output.


Themonoclonal antibody 5C10/66 was showntoafford strong protection inmiceagainst fulminating Plasmodium chabaudi adami infection. This wasremarkable, as immunity tothis organism isregarded tobemainly T-cell mediated. Thisantibody identified a250-kDa molecule in schizonts andan83-kDa fragment inmerozoites. AcDNAclone selected by5C10/66 wasthehomologue ofthePlasmodium falciparum precursor tothemajormerozoite surface antigen (PMMSA).Comparison withtheP.falciparum sequence showed that theP.chabaudi adami clone encoded themiddle portion ofthegene andthat itcanalso bedivided into variable andconserved blocks. Screening ofaset ofall possible octamer peptides predicted bythecDNAclone revealed that thecore epitope of5C10/66 wasGlu-Thr-Thr-Glu-Thr. Thisregion resides inavariable block ofPMMSA. Inthesearch foramolecular vaccine against humanmalaria, considerable effort hasbeenmarshalled toidentify and characterize plasmodial antigens that mayelicit aprotective immune response. There arevarious developmental stages in thelife cycle ofPlasmodium andthis structural diversity is oneofthereasons fortheoganism's antigenic complexity. During theasexual bloodphase, theparasite leaves the protection ofits intraerythrocyti c


Motivation: In this paper we report on part of a study to understand how information layering techniques can be used to reduce change blindness. Change blindness, in general, is the failure of the human to detect changes to information that occur within his or her visual field. There are several variants of failures of visual awareness known as: Change Blindness, Inattentional Blindness, Repetition Blindness, and Comparison Blindness. Failure or delays in observing changes in complex, dynamic and safety critical systems by, say, operators can lead to disastrous outcomes. Hence, drawing together the different reasons reported in the literature can provide us with a first step towards developing design techniques for reducing change blindness in the hope that we can contribute to better and safer systems.
 Research Approach: We reviewed 21 key studies on the different forms of change blindness reported in the literature between 1976 and 2005. Using an Emergent Themes Analysis approach, we identified five effects that arise across the different forms of change blindness, and the likely effects that designers need to consider when designing visual interfaces to reduce change blindness.
 Findings/Design: These five effects are (i) the effect of rate of change, (ii) the effect of eccentricity, (iii) the effect of conspicuity, (iv) the effect of significance, and (v) the effect of task's relevance. We also discuss the implications these effects have on information design.
 Research limitations/Implications: These effects were identified through a review of key literature. Not all effects occurred in every form of change blindness. The effects represent the variety of effects that a designer should be aware of that can cause change blindness to occur.
 Originality/Value: This paper provides a summary of the different forms of change blindness, and highlights their effects in a way relevant to design.
 Take away message: In designing displays to reduce the effect of the various forms of change blindness, it is necessary to factor these effects into the information design.


The paper examines the challenges met during protection relay certification and the importance of having digital certification tools that model power system equipment as realistically as possible. The paper highlights the necessity to simulate physical disturbances that occur in power systems very accurately.


Using the pulse shaping technique where the added amplitude or phase information in spectral domain modifies the pulse evolution in time domain, we could generate terahertz-rate trains with high repetition rate up to 20 THz. The advanced phase mask design was applied such that fixed energy interval constitutes one period rather than fixed wavelength interval does in spectral domain.


Population variation in maternal work schedules milk output, presence of surrogate caretakers, supplemental feeding patterns, and maternal-infant co-sleeping very likely affects suckling duration and frequency. There can be large differences, even in relatively homogenous rural indigenous populations that affect fertility, maternal-infant health, and intervention programs. Findings were presented on suckling patterns and on heterogeneity in fecundity and socioeconomic status (SES) and feeding practices among three rural Quechua communities in Nunoa, Peru. Mothers and infants were from low SES and mid SES households. The suckling time to the nearest second among 10 infants showed longer and more frequent nursing sessions in the morning and reduced feeding during the night. Duration of suckling was associated with infant's age, and declined with increasing age of the infant. Interval duration was not associated with infant's age. Mother's age was found to be associated with afternoon suckling duration. Younger mothers had shorter afternoon sessions, perhaps because there were older adolescent women who cared for older mothers' children in the afternoon or older mothers produced less milk and thus required longer suckling times. Afternoon interval duration did not vary with infant's or mother's age. Maternal recall of suckling duration and frequency was considered inaccurate, as a result of recall and observational comparisons of duration and frequency for a sample of 9 women. Postpartum amenorrhea averaged 18.8 months for median duration. Mid SES women had a postpartum amenorrhea period of 8.8 months compared to 21.6 months for low SES women. Mid SES women had shorter breast feeding durations during the day of 16.6 months compared to 23.6 months for low SES women, and during the night, 2.4 years versus 3.6 years. About 40% of both low and mid SES women used bottle feeding and began bottle feeding at the same age of 5 months. Solid food was introduced at 13 months for both groups of women.


It is a commonplace that the expansion of the Carolingian empire slowed down rapidly after 800 and came to a halt under Louis the Pious. It is also well known that both Charles in the last years of his reign and Louis the Pious experienced difficulty in raising armies. This paper will re-examine these two well-established facts and suggest some explanations, continuing lines of argument already developed in a previous article. It may be as well to begin by chronicling the end of expansion. The crushing of the Avars in the 790s was the last really large aggressive military operation conducted by the Carolingians; the final incorporation of the Saxons into the Frankish empire, marked by the peace of Salz in 803 and the de-Saxonization of Transalbingia in the following year, brought to an end what Einhard rightly described as the most serious of all the wars fought by the Franks. In the period between 802/3 and the crisis of 830 there was intermittent warfare on a number of fronts: in the south-west against the Muslims of Spain and the Basques; in the north-west against the Bretons; in the north-east against the Danes and their Slav allies; in the south-east against the Serbs and the Bulgars; and in Italy against the Byzantines and Beneventans. In addition there were invasion scares in the 800s on the north French coast, real invasions in southern Italy and Frisia, and skirmishes in the Mediterranean islands.


In this paper, we offer the spanish translation with notes of three treatises of Ramon Llull (1232-1316): Artificium electionis personarum, the chapter XXIV of book II from Llibre d'Evast, d'Aloma e de Blaquerna named «En qual manera Natana fo eleta a abadessa» and De arte electionis. These three texts show a new election technique supported on the Ars magna methods. The translations are preceded by a short introduction explaining the place that such texts occupy in the whole lullian opus and the advances of recents investigations.


The posibilities of graphic STM image simulation at atomic level are indicated. The presented procedure takes into account various types of deformation on the surface near the Fermi level. A clean Si(111)7X7 surface is considered as the representative example. Similar evolution is possible for another non-metal and metal surfaces.


History and language are the two principal categories of Andre Neher 's hermeneutical thought. The first one is here conceived as the unity of those events founding Jewish people, testified by a meaningful telling, passed on through generations, becoming an everlasting source of action and reflection. The second one, connoted in its principle by the Origin Word giving birth to the possible worlds, is here conceived in its polysemous nature, as essentially symbolic, corresponding to the sensitive-imaginative human faculty, able to catch the signs of this paradoxical language, which constitute both the world and the Book, thought the analogical-intuitive process.


Several methods for the post-synthetic modification of imidazo[4,5-[Formula: see text]]porphyrins are reported. First, a synthetic approach to the isomeric difunctionalized porphyrins, containing two [Formula: see text]-fused 2-aryl-1[Formula: see text]-imidazole cycles at adjacent or opposite pyrrole rings of the macrocycle is developed. The core chemistry of this synthetic route is the transformation of 2-aryl-1[Formula: see text]-imidazo[4,5-[Formula: see text]]porphyrins into corresponding imidazodioxochlorins followed by Debus–Radziszewski condensation with aromatic aldehyde. Next, 2-(4-bromophenyl)-1[Formula: see text]-imidazo[4,5-[Formula: see text]]-5,10,15,20-tetramesitylporphyrin was transformed into useful carboxy- and phosphonato-substituted precursors for material chemistry according to palladium-catalyzed C–C and C–P bond forming reactions.


BACKGROUND
several studies have shown the relationship between periodontal disease and chronic kidney disease, but there is little evidence to assess the impact of the amount of inflamed periodontal tissue on the levels of systemic inflammatory markers. So the aim of this study is determine the association between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and both periodontitis and periodontal inflamed surface area (PISA) in adults with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) METHODS: : Cross-sectional study was conducted with 176 adults with ESRD on regular hemodialysis. The participants were submitted to a full-mouth periodontal examination to determine the occurrence of periodontitis and PISA. Regression analysis was performed to test the independent association between periodontal conditions and serum hsCRP levels.

RESULTS
A total of 98.9% of the participants had periodontitis, with stages III and IV found in 26.1% and 52.9%, respectively. Mean hsCRP and PISA was 6.57 (SD: 6.03) mg/L and 217.15 (SD: 271.50), respectively. In the adjusted analysis, mean serum hsCRP levels were significantly higher in patients with stage III and IV generalized periodontitis compared to no/localized/generalized stages I-II (7.67 mg/L vs. 5.72 mg/L, P = 0.028). After adjustments for confounding variables, individuals with PISA > 490.56 mm² (85th percentile) had a 3.26-fold greater chance of having hsCRP above 5 mg/L than their counterparts (OR = 3.26; 95% CI: 1.25 to 8.49).

CONCLUSION
The inflammatory burden imposed by periodontitis can increase serum hsCRP levels in adults with end-stage renal disease. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


We propose that the scalar $\kappa(800)$ meson may play an important role in $K^*$ photoproduction. In the reactions of $\gamma p \to K^{*+} \Lambda$ and $\gamma p \to K^{*0} \Sigma^+$, we consider the production mechanisms including $t$-channel $K^*$, $K$, $\kappa$ exchanges, s-channel $N$, $\Delta$ diagrams, and $u$-channel $\Lambda$, $\Sigma$, $\Sigma^*$ diagrams within the tree level approximation, and find that the $\kappa$-meson exchange may contribute significantly to $K^*\Sigma$ photoproduction, while it is rather supplementary in $K^*\Lambda$ photoproduction. We demonstrate how the observables of $K^*$ photoproduction can be used to constrain the $\kappa$ meson properties. In particular, the parity asymmetry can separate the $\kappa$ meson contribution in $K^*$ photoproduction.


Woven textiles' design is part of sustainable design, and new ways are being sought to minimise energy, including human power and efforts, in order to efficiently develop new weave patterns and apply them directly in the weaving mill. The design of woven textiles is frequently associated with the used weave pattern and the effects of colours and textures, which are a balanced mixture of materials (yarns), weaves and colour combinations. A weave pattern design method based on text inspiration is presented in our paper. It corresponds to the definition of sustainability as its concept increases the design capabilities that will last in the future. At the same time, the method adds to the existing techniques for the design of new weaves, ensuring the field's long-term development.


Context. Whilst there is a generally accepted evolutionary scheme for the formation of low‐mass stars, the analogous processes when moving down in mass to the brown dwarfs regime are not yet well understood. Aims. In this first paper we try to build the most complete and unbiased spectroscopically confirmed census of the population of Collinder 69, the central cluster of the Lambda Orionis star forming region, as a first step in addressing the question of how brown dwarfs and planetary mass objects form. Methods. We have studied age dependent features in optical and near-infrared spectra of candidate members to the cluster (such as alkali lines and accretion associated indicators). In addition, we have complemented that study with the analysis of other youth indicators like X-ray emission or mid-infrared excess. Results. We have confirmed the membership to Collinder 69 of 90 photometric candidate members. As a byproduct we have determined a temperature scale for young M, very low‐mass stars and brown dwarfs. We have assembled one of the most complete Initial Mass Functions from 0.016 to 20 M . And, finally, we have studied the implications of the spatial distribution of the confirmed members on the proposed mechanisms of brown dwarfs formation.


The study of the role of prosodic breaks and pitch accents in comprehension has usually focused on sentence processing, through the use of laboratory speech produced by both trained and untrained speakers. In comparison, little attention has been paid to their role in the comprehension and production of spontaneous discourse, or to the interplay between prosodic cues and pitch accents and the generation of inferences. This article describes studies which have focused on the effects of prosodic boundaries and pitch accents in sentence comprehension. Their results suggest that prosody has an early influence in the parsing of sentences as well as the processing of the information structure of a statement. It also presents a new model of spontaneous discourse comprehension that can accommodate paralinguistic factors, like pitch and prosody, and other communication channels and their relation to cognitive processes. Stemming from the model presented, future research directions are suggested as well as the importance of including spontaneous spoken discourse materials and examining the role of prosodic cues and pitch accents in the establishment of connections among spoken statements is highlighted.


As the space of offshore platform is narrow and its bearing capacity is limited, a new polymer dissolution technology, on-line curing, is brought forward that dissolution velocity can be greatly accelerated by increasing specific surface area of polymer swelling-particles. The swelling and curing process of hydrophobically associating polymer AP-P4, as well as its rule, have been studied by micrography and weighting of swelling-particles in the lab. The relation between diameter of swelling-particle and dissolution velocity of AP-P4 was discussed theoretically. A technical assumption that compulsive shearing on swelling-particles can improve the dissolution velocity of AP-P4 was brought forward and proved by laboratory experiments. A set of on-line curing testing device has been developed, and the relation between times of cyclic filtrating and viscosity of AP-P4 mother liquor has been studied. The Experimental results show that the swelling-particles of AP-P4 has the characteristics of limited swelling, and mechanical-stirring curing in curing-tank can be replaced by on-line curing due to the compulsive shearing and cutting effects of screen mat in pipeline. At the same time, the total dissolution time can be reduced over 50.


Orton S, Bowker K, Cooper S, et al. Longitudinal cohort survey of women's smoking behaviour and attitudes in pregnancy: study methods and baseline data. BMJ Open 2014;4:e004915. The final sentence was omitted from the Funding section. The full funding section should read: "Funding This work was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grant for Health Research scheme (grant reference RP-PG-0109-10020). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department Health."


Digital micromirror device has the advantage of high resolution, fast response and high robustness which have been used in many significant fields, such as laser machining, optical imaging, photoelectric detection and so on. This work designed a right-circular-hinge digital micromirror device. The angular and linear deformation calculation of the right circular hinge is carried out and simulated. The maximum value of the stress is 305.53 MPa which is less than the ultimate yield strength of hinge materials. The result verified the rationality of the design structure.


Jeffrey Goldberg's comments in "The Color of Suspicion"' are comprehensive, factual, and an indictment of the racist practice of profiling. I found it fascinating and revealing to read that racial profiling had its genesis in practices by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's behavioral science unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration's encouragement of state officials to profile drug couriers. Such self-righteousness in white and black troopers who resort to profiling, when joined by the government's role in initiating profiling, leads to the uneasy sense that there is much more to profiling than meets the eye. "The Color of Suspicion7' is simultaneously an indictment of the American criminal justice system and an invitation to examine that system more closely. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. described the law as "a magic mirror wherein we see reflected not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been." The law, as one of many important institutions


Many researchers claimed that collaboratively produced documents are better in quality, but not many research studies have compared collaboratively produced documents and individually produced documents. Thus, this study aims to investigate whether collaboratively produced essays are better in quality than individually produced essays. The participants of this study were 24 Korean EFL college students. For collaborative writing, the students were paired based on a similar writing proficiency level. A total of 106 essays―three collaboratively produced essays and another three individually produced essays of each student ―were compared in terms of fluency, accuracy, complexity, and essay score. The results showed that collaborative writing was better than individual writing in terms of fluency, complexity, and essay score, while the results for accuracy were mixed. In the case of both higher and lower level students, the results were similar; the collaborative writings of higher and lower level students were better than their individual writings with respect to fluency, complexity, and essay score although the results for accuracy were mixed. The findings of this study may benefit writing teachers who want to adopt computer-supported collaborative writing in their writing classroom.


It is well known that fossil fuel combustion has tremendous negative impact on ecology and global climate. It is non renewable as well. The present rate of technological and economic growth of a country may be unsustainable due to rapid consumption of fossil fuel like crude oil, natural gas or coal. Thus people search for viable renewable energy sources like biomass, hydropower, geothermal energy, wind energy, solar energy, etc from time to time. Surplus biomass application for partial substitution of conventional fuel both in heat and power mode is an attractive option for developing country like India. It is normally techno-economically viable for most of small scale industrial process heat generation or allied applications. Biomass contains Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen negligible amount of Sulphur. Biomass energy conversion can be achieved through several thermo chemical processes such as combustion, pyrolysis and gasification, etc. The present work investigates the fuel characteristics of some selected locally available fast growing plants such as Bamboo (Banbuseae Tulda), Gulmohar(Delonix Regia), Neem(Azadirachta Indica), Dimaru (Ficus Lepidosa Wall) and Sisham(Delbergia Sissoo). The lower heating value of different samples were found to vary from (15.95 – 18.40) MJ kg -1 on dry basis by automatic bomb calorimeter. From preliminary gasification study of this biomass (moisture ≤ 15 % w.b.) in a laboratory scale down draft biomass gasifier, it responded well for gasification. Some more long duration gasification studies may be required before recommending these indigenous fast growing plants for commercial scale gasification in some prospective industries.


Climate targets around the globe are enforcing new strategies for reducing climate impacts, which encourage automobile and electricity companies to consider an electrified vehicle market. Furthermore, the variable electricity production in the electric power system is increasing, with higher levels of wind and solar power. Due to the increased variability in the system, the need to meet fluctuations with flexible consumption is intensified. Electric vehicles with rechargeable batteries seem to become an increasingly common feature in the car fleet. Plugin vehicles (PIVs), may therefore become valuable as flexible consumers. If so, flexible PIV owners could, if they are flexible enough, increase the value of owning an electric vehicle. This paper introduces a new PIV Mobility and Charging Flexibility Markov Model, based on driving behavior for private cars. By using the new model, it is possible to simulate the potential flexibility in a future system with many PIVs. The results from a case study indicate a potential need for usage of the batteries as flexible loads to reduce the grid power fluctuations and load peaks.


The dominant image of Africa in the colonial discourses of Western explorers has been persistently negative, stereotypical, and demeaning. The unauthenticated negative images are the largest influencer of Western perception of Africa because as long as the misrepresentation lingers on in Western media and film, the dominant white attitude toward African Americans as inferior could be rationalized and sustained. Moreover the real impact of such misrepresentations on how African Americans see and relate to their ancestral homeland remains grossly under studied. Through purposive sampling, this study interviewed 55 East St. Louis African Americans on the meaning of Africa to them. The results show that they had very positive perceptions of Africa and prided themselves as Africans despite centuries of negative Western portrayal of the continent. Their most important positive images included: Africa as the ancestral home of black people, African festivals and attire, African history and traditions, and African spirituality and belief systems. Through factor analysis, seven underlying dimensions that structure how African Americans construct their perceptions of Africa emerged – including: their Black African heritage, their fantasy of going back to Africa, their inerasable African identity, Connecting Africa to the world, African heroes, keeping the Black pride alive, and the failed stereotypic portrayal of Africa over the centuries.


In order to improve the volume stability of the concrete for civil building,the undercalcined MgO expansive agent(UMEA) was prepared at lower temperature with magnesite as raw material,and the properties of cement paste containing UMEA were investigated including autoclave soundness,expansion under water curing at 20℃,autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage.The results show that UMEA both has a large early expansion,also has the continuing micro-expansion at the late age,and can reduce the drying shrinkage as well as autogenous shrinkage of cement paste effectively.Cement paste containing UMEA has desired volume stability under autoclave condition(216℃,2.0 MPa),the expansion of cement paste with 12%(by mass) UMEA is 0.52%less than limited expansion of 0.80%,so the maximum amount of MgO in cement paste can be extended to 12%.This is conducive to the application of UMEA in the concrete for civil building.


After employed tertiary infilling,four-spot pattern was applied in part of blocks in Changyuan interior of Daqing Oilfield.Consequently,it is necessary to design appropriate fracture parameters in order to implement stimulation of hydraulic fracturing.The integral fracturing physical model and mathematical model of horizontal fractures in four-spot pattern were established,and the invalidation of fractures in the conductivity calculation was taken into consideration.The relationships of conductivity with closure pressure and time were regressed on the basis of experimental data,which were applied to the numerical simulation.It is indicated that the results of the improved numerical simulation are in good agreement with the practical performance.With the purpose of increase in oil production and oil recovery,the fracture parameters in the research section were optimized.The optimized conductivity ranges from 35 to 40 μm~2\5cm,and the ratio of fracture length to distance between wells ranges from 0.18 to 0.2.


A new adaptive data reduction algorithm is presented to display large amounts of data on the computer screen of active sonar system. This method adaptively reduces a set of samples to a single value, using the characters of the signal and the statistics of the background. A comparison between this algorithm and conventional ones shows a clear reduction in terms of signal-to-noise loss. This method is easy to apply in the real-time system.


This paper offers a reflection on the challenges that are still present today in intercultural education in Chile, focusing his gaze on the tension that thi...


The Research Program for Seismic Qualification of Nuclear Plant Electrical and Mechanical Equipment has spanned a period of three years and resulted in seven technical summary reports, each of which covered in detail the findings of different tasks and subtasks, and have been combined into five NUREG/CR volumes. Volume 2 presents a general method for correlating the severity of one seismic qualification motion of given dynamic characteristics to another motion, possibly of different dynamic characteristics. The method provides a method of measuring relative damage severity of two different motions in terms of a relative damage severity ratio.


In this paper, we identify meta architecture of the Intelligent Information Systems as an open research problem addressing some of the big challenges that the Information Technology industry is now facing in the environment of current trends on the turbulent global market. As the foundation of future research, the proposed metamodel is to be evaluated against different application areas as well as related information technologies, starting with the area of social computing. Author


This paper presents the methodology involved in the design of a bio-inspired active stereo vision system that reproduces the foveal and peripheral vision capabilities of the human eye. The design is dictated by pertinent parameters relating to the kinematics and dynamics of saccadic motions of the human eye. We expose a specific drive-train design procedure and simulate some control techniques with the designed prototype to verify the adequacy of the chosen actuators.


inserted into ears, noses, nipples and the labia of the vulva. Indeed, there is a thriving 'piercing scene' in many countries, with specialist magazines and meetings. Genital piercing in males can take a variety of forms (Figures 2 and 3). There are few references to genital piercing in the current medical literature. We believe this to be the first reported case of urethral rupture following avulsion of a penile ring.


Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to scale university education, allowing for many thousands of students to participate in a single online course. But even successful MOOC platforms like Coursera, edX or Iversity face the problem of very low completion rates. Analyzing learning activities in a MOOC, learning analytics could help to identify necessary interventions. In Iversity MOOCs, a forum is the basic communication platform, both for student-student and student-instructor communication. In this paper, features of successful students are derived from forum activities and combined to a learning profile. From this learning profile, feedback could be generated for students who are classified as "risk students". An analytics tool was developed, based on machine learning, which classifies students in Iversity MOOCs, using features like number of answers in a forum or number of up-votes. Thus, features of successful students can be determined, and visualized in an intuitive way.


The present invention relates to a sensor comprising a material which generates an electrical signal by stretching. More particularly, the present invention relates to length or volume change measuring device comprises a sensor comprising a piezoelectric material for generating an electrical signal by stretching.


In this study, we examine the effect of housing equity position, measured using the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, on the probability of home improvements. Using 2001–2011 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we find that a higher LTV ratio, in general, reduces the probability of home improvements. We also find that the probability of home improvements depends on the recent change of housing equity position and, more importantly, on the causes of the change. Probability of home improvements decreases more when a high LTV ratio is caused by falling house prices than when it is caused by equity extraction.


Analytic semiotics has always created structures for describing and analysing texts. Inevitably, ontological questions have emerged on these structures' modes of existence: are they real or abstract? Do they exist in texts, or inside people's heads? Umberto Eco reflected on the status and location of structures almost fifty years ago in his book La struttura assente, in a section of the book that became famous, Section D, which is dedicated to the epistemology of structural models (Eco 1968). In this article I take as my starting point some observations made by Eco at the end of the 1960s in order to see how some assumptions of structuralism influenced the development of semiotics over the decades that followed.


The convergence nature of conventional conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm often result in degraded system performance. This paper presents a new knowledge-aided CG (KACG) approach to the cancellation of clutter echoes in modern AEW radar systems equipped with digital beamforming. KACG use finite precision knowledge of the radar system parameters and flight geometry knowledge to perform initialization. Results of experiments indicate that the improvement in convergence can be substantial. Compared to the original CG approach, KACG can be regarded as practical solutions for robust and effective space-time adaptive processing (STAP).


Commercial UAV airborne magnetic measurement is suitable for regional geomagnetic measurement in terms of its quickness, convenience, efficiency and easy maintenance. The airborne payload performance, weight and volume are often considered for cost and load design during aviation flight. Due to the small size and limited space of commercial drones, it has a very large impact on magnetic survey. Under the constraints of limited space, the performance of the magnetic field detection payload itself and the magnetic properties of the platform become the main factors that restrict the accuracy of magnetic field detection. This paper introduces the high-precision fluxgate magnetic field detector as the three-direction vector payload of magnetic field detection, and expounds its working principle and its high-precision magnetic field detection method. Based on the analysis of payload working environment and detection modes, the on-board magnetic measurement system of the regional geomagnetic survey is designed.


A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates than those with two foreign-born parents, the relationship reverses when steps are taken to control for observable and unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision.


The vibration reason of the linear electric motor is analyzed for multi-stage linear pumping unit. A different order number expression of natural frequencies under wave action is given. Respectively, the finite element simulation software is used for linear motor and linear pumping machine of vibration characteristic analysis. Vibration quality participate coefficients of linear permanent magnet motor are provided under different frequency. Through the analysis, it shows that optimized motor structure can restrain vibration, so as to ensure the stability of multi-sections of straight beam pumping unit.


Race is, in part, made and remade through the practices of growing, selling, purchasing and eating food. Consequently, some food practices are also 'racial practices'. Drawing on a study in progress of the Minneapolis Farmers' Market, the paper covers two sub-themes of embodiment: racial division and intimacy. The corporeal feminist theory of Elizabeth Grosz offers the view that the body has explanatory power. This framework enables a discussion of the materiality of race rather than its representation or performance. Race emerges through the movement, clustering and encounter of phenotypically differentiated bodies. Through small segregations in which bodies move toward some vegetables and not others and through attractions that propel bodies to touch bitter melon and talk with growers, bodies shape the Market's meaning. This reflection on tendencies connecting phenotype, space and leaves is meant as a step toward a politics of bodily practice.


Research shows that dysphagia impacts quality of life negatively, but the nature of these impacts is not well understood. This review article aims to examine the impacts of dysphagia and its interventions on mealtime-related quality of life, participation, and inclusion for people with dysphagia.

 The protocol for this scoping review was published in July 2019 and involved a search of five scientific databases using dysphagia and quality of life–related terms.

 In total, 106 studies were included in this review article. A qualitative metasynthesis demonstrated that dysphagia had various negative impacts on quality of life, particularly in populations with severe dysphagia. Dysphagia interventions had a range of positive impacts on quality of life; however, modifying food texture also had negative impacts. Most studies (
 n
 = 95) included adults with acquired dysphagia. Only seven studies included people with lifelong conditions, including cerebral palsy or intellectual disability, and only four studies included children. Almost half of the studies (
 n
 = 44) used quantitative instruments, including the Swallowing Quality of Life questionnaire or the Eating Assessment Tool, to measure the impact of dysphagia on quality of life, and few studies used qualitative approaches.

 There are both positive and negative impacts of dysphagia and dysphagia-related interventions on quality of life, participation, and inclusion. Most research is quantitative and limited to adults with acquired dysphagia. Qualitative and longitudinal studies that include populations with lifelong disability and children are needed to determine how dysphagia and its interventions impact quality of life across conditions and over the life span.

 https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.18862292


There is disagreement in the literature regarding which scales to use in pain measurement. The difference has usually been between nonverbal scales, such as visual analog scales and verbal ones, which usually provide only a limited number of response categories. A 12‐week, randomized, double‐blind naproxen sodium (500 mg bid) and placebo‐controlled trial using the hip osteoarthritis (OA) flare‐up pain mode, in which pain was measured on both visual analog and categorical scales simultaneously, was analyzed. The authors found a good correlation (> 0.995) between the time‐series average of the unconstrained visual analog scale and a 5‐point categorical scale pain measurement in the osteoarthritis pain model in both active and placebo treatment arms. However, for individuals, there is a wide range of VAS responses for each categorical score, with overlaps between categories. The visual analog and categorical scales appear as effective in determining average osteoarthritis pain. However, a combined metric scale for pain measurement that provides the subject with multiple cues may improve communication and concordance between scales for individual pain determination.


Tropomyosin is a component of thin filaments that constitute myofibrils, the contractile apparatus of striated muscles. In vertebrates, except for fish, four TPM genes TPM1, TPM2, TPM3, and TPM4 are known. In zebrafish, there are six TPM genes that include the paralogs of the TPM1 (TPM1‐1 and TPM1‐2), the paralogs of the TPM4 gene (TPM4‐1 and TPM4‐2), and the two single copy genes TPM2 and TPM3. In this study, we have identified, cloned, and sequenced the TPM1‐1κ isoform of the TPM1‐1 gene and also discovered a new isoform TPM1‐2ν of the TPM1‐2. Further, we have cloned and sequenced the sarcomeric isoform of the TPM4‐2 gene designated as TPM4‐2α. Using conventional RT‐PCR, we have shown the expression of the sarcomeric isoforms of TPM1‐1, TPM1‐2, TPM2, TPM3, TPM4‐1, and TPM4‐2 in heart and skeletal muscles. By qRT‐PCR using both relative expression as well as the absolute copy number, we have shown that TPM1‐1α, TPM1‐2α, and TPM1‐2ν are expressed mostly in skeletal muscle; the level of expression of TPM1‐1κ is significantly lower compared to TPM1‐1α in skeletal muscle. In addition, both TPM4‐1α and TPM4‐2α are predominantly expressed in heart. 2D Western blot analyses using anti‐TPM antibody followed by Mass Spectrometry of the proteins from the antibody‐stained spots show that TPM1‐1α and TPM3α are expressed in skeletal muscle whereas TPM4‐1α and TPM3α are expressed in zebrafish heart. To the best of our knowledge, this is by far the most comprehensive analysis of tropomyosin expression in zebrafish, one of the most popular animal models for gene expression study.


Objectives/Hypothesis: The objective was to conduct a prospective randomized controlled trial describing and investigating the efficacy and safety of transoral telescopic‐assisted radiofrequency adenoidectomy in young children.


Transport phenomena in porous media has received much attention in recent years because of its important role in a large variety of engineering and technical applications which span from the transport processes in biomechanical systems, such as blood flow in the pulmonary alveolar sheet, to the large scale circulation of brine in a geothermal reservoir. There is no doubt that this new branch of convective heat transfer keeps attracting engineering and scientists from diversified disciplines such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, bio engineering, food science and geothermal physics. Porous materials are encountered everywhere in everyday life, in technology, and in nature. A material can be defined as a porous medium if the material has the following properties, Dullien (1992): a) The material must contain relatively small spaces, called pores or voids, imbedded in the solid or semi-solid matrix. The pores usually contain some fluid, such as air, water, etc., or a mixture of different fluids, b) The fluids should be able to penetrate through one face of the material and emerge on the other side. Building materials, such as bricks, concrete, limestone, sand stone, soil, lungs and bones are examples of porous materials encountered in practice. All macroscopic properties of porous media are influenced by the pore structure. Macroscopic pore structure parameters represent average behaviour of a sample containing many pores and the some important pore structure parameters are the porosity, the tortuosity and the permeability. The porosity and the tortuosity are the characteristics of a porous medium; the permeability is the mass transfer property of the porous media. Porosity, e , is the fraction of the bulk volume of the porous material that is occupied by the pore space. Depending on the type of the porous medium, the porosity may vary from near zero to almost unity. Measurement of porosity is made by using several techniques, such as imbibition, mercury injection and gas injection methods give an effective porosity value. The porosity is the most important property of a porous medium and it affects most of the physical properties of the medium. For a homogeneous porous medium, the porosity may be a constant. But in general, the porosity is space dependent. Each void in the porous medium is connected to more than one other pore (interconnected), connected only to one other pore (dead end), or not connected to any other pore (isolated) and fluid flows through the interconnected pores. Tortuosity is used for the two-dimensional simulation of the porous medium. It is not a physical constant and depends on other porous media characteristics, such as porosity, pore diameter, channel shape, etc. Also, tortuosity depends on processes occurring during mass transfer and on the kind of material being transferred. In the simplest situation a porous medium can be considered as a bundle of capillaries. In this case, tortuosity is the ratio of the pore length to the porous medium thickness. It is difficult to determine tortuosity experimentally and in general, tortuosity is calculated by using the porosity and the effective diffusion coefficient or from the Kozeny coefficient, see Mota et al. (1999). The permeability, K, is the measure of the flow conductance of the porous medium and it is defined by the Darcy law and can be written by using porosity as Equation (9), see Ergun (1952). The permeability is independent of the nature of the fluid but it depends on the geometry of the porous medium and the measurement of the permeability can be achieved in the case of an isotropic media. Both liquids and gases have been used to measure permeability. Liquids sometimes change the pore structure and so it affects to the permeability. Keywords: Poroius media, porosity, permeability, Darcy's law, conservation equations.


According to the need of data interface in Equipment Management Information System and Reliability Management Information System,the bringing forward data interface module and interrelated technology are applied to actual systems.The carrying out method of code processing technology and building technology of data logical layer and database synchronization processing technology and system function integration technology used in the systems are introduced.The system conclusion analysis pu in practice is given.


The Riemann, Ricci and Einstein tensors for N-dimensional spherically symmetric spacetimes in various systems of coordinates are studied, and the general metric for conformally flat spacetimes is given. As an application, all the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker-like solutions for a perfect fluid with an equation of state $p = k \rho$ are found. Then, these solutions are used to model the gravitational collapse of a compact ball, by first cutting them along a timelike hypersurface and then joining them with asymptotically flat Vaidya solutions. It is found that when the collapse has continuous self-similarity, the formation of black holes always starts with zero mass, and when the collapse has no such symmetry, the formation of black holes always starts with a finite non-zero mass.


Functional movement disorders (FMD) refer to a heterogeneous group of manifestations incongruent with known neurological diseases. Functional neuroimaging studies in FMD indicate the overlap between cerebral regions in which abnormal activation occurs and those considered crucial for theory of mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental states. The aim of this study was to explore whether FMD might be related to ToM disorders to the extent that they reduce the ability to make inferences about the mental states underlying motor behaviour during social interaction.


Analytical results are given for the far field of the unsteady transonic flow due to an instantaneous change in lift at the origin. These results may be superimposed to provide boundary conditions for numerical computational of unsteady transonic flows. A typical numerical experiment using these results shows substantial reductions in the size of the computational domain are possible. In two dimensions this procedure is at least as effective as the nonreflecting conditions suggested by the local characteristic relations. It is also much easier to implement in three dimensions than the nonreflecting conditions.


Abstract A numerical model was developed in order to produce more realistic simulations of the flow phenomena in fractured rock overlaid by porous sedimentary rock. This model combines the discrete fracture network (DFN) model and the equivalent porous medium (EPM) model. This coupled model was then applied to the interpretation of the RCF 3 pumping test performed in the Sellafield area of West Cumbria (UK), where crystalline fractured rock (Borrowdale Volcanic Group, BVG) is overlaid by sedimentary porous rock (Sherwood Sandstone Group, SSG).


─ Fabry-Pérot (F-P) cavity antennas with Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) ground planes and Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) superstrates have been investigated in this paper. The method of periodic imaging is used to analyze the cavity antennas, and we can calculate the working frequency and quality factor. One or two dipole antennas are utilized to excite the cavity antennas. The results demonstrate that the gain will be enhanced with the increase of the cavity size, and two exciters in the cavity will improve radiation efficiency obviously. Index Terms ─ AMC, F-P cavity antennas, FSS superstrate.


The effectiveness of various strategies for educating the growing U.S. population of English language learners (ELLs) has attracted a great deal of controversy. Bilingual education theory posits that retention and continued development of native language (L1) skills facilitate academic achievement through two mediating mechanisms. First, L1 proficiency promotes second language (L2) acquisition, which is required to succeed academically. Second, competence in the heritage language positively influences academic achievement by maintaining self-esteem. Both of these meditational chains were tested in a multivariate latent growth model of longitudinal data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88/2000). L1 proficiency was specified to predict distal math and science outcomes through its association with both L2 literacy and self-esteem. In turn, academic self-concept was hypothesized to mediate the self-esteem--academic achievement relation. Home and school characteristics were included as covariates. The full model exhibited excellent fit only in the Hispanic portion of the ELL sample. Consistent with the broader literature, ethnicity appears to serve as an important moderator of the way native language proficiency relates to self-perception, L2 acquisition, and math and science achievement.


In this paper, we characterize the novel human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQB1*0322. We found this novel allele in a hematopoietic stem cell donor. The donor and the recipient were high-resolution HLA retyped using sequence-based typing. Both, the female patient and her donor were previously typed HLA identical, which was confirmed with the exception of the novel DQB1 allele. The novel allele is characterized by a nucleotide exchange 'G' to 'A' at position 485 in exon 3. This affected codon 130-arginine (CGG), which is replaced by glutamine (CAG) in the new allele DQB1*0322. The transplant was performed because of an acute myeloid leukemia at first remission.


The purpose of this paper is to argue that gifted students need special programmes to avoid, for instance, psychological disturbances and/or being turned of school and furthermore the paper argues that successful students learn in a qualitative differently way from less successful students and that even among the successful there are differences in how they learn.


This paper discusses a practicum that was designed to provide instruction in technology integration for pre-service and in-service k-12 educators without traditional meeting time. Opportunities for face-to-face instruction were unavailable because classroom facilities with internet/multimedia capabilities were not accessible due to the lack of funding. Content for the online course was established through the use of a needs assessment survey and questionnaire, six textbooks, three websites, and a try-out learning experience (an activity similar to a test drive of an automobile). The writer developed an outcome based online delivery system promoting the use of technology in classrooms for in-service and pre-service teachers offered regardless of time and place. Pre-service and in-service teachers interacted with an instructor and each other via asynchronous communication (e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, web pages, and video tapes) and synchronous communication (audio conferencing). In-service students received credit that could be used for state recertification, while pre-service students received three hours of college credit. A CD-ROM disk with one multimedia software application and tutorial was distributed.


Housing is both a consumer and investment good. Besides being a basic human need, housing usually corresponds to the main asset in households ́ portfolio all over the world. However, housing tenure conditions vary deeply across countries, irrespective of income patterns, region of the globe and levels of development. When we analyze tenure conditions in developing countries we can find a multiplicity of housing solutions, that include homeownership and renting in formal housing markets, squatting and renting in informal settlements up to the occupancy of rent-free housing, ceded by relatives and employers.


In this work, the effect of latency for three different positive definite matrix inversion algorithms when implemented on parallel and pipelined processing elements is considered. The work is motivated by the fact that in a massive MIMO system, matrix inversion needs to be performed between estimating the channels and producing the transmitted downlink signal, which means that the latency of the matrix inversion has a significant impact on the system performance. It is shown that, despite the algorithms having different complexity, all three algorithms can have the lowest latency for different number of processing elements and pipeline levels. Especially, in systems with many processing elements, the algorithm with the highest complexity has the lowest latency.


To perform useful and interesting queries on biomedical ontologies in OWL with a reasoner, it is necessary to enhance them by populating directly their classes, properties, and adding new axioms. A substantial data source which can be exploited to populate such ontologies consists of discharge summaries since they involve most common medical concepts such as patient, disease, drug. Such a document created by clinicians for a patient leaving hospital provides semantic relationships between diseases and medications through patients. This work aims to analyse discharge summaries in raw text by combining a deductive procedure based on some explicit regularity in their structure with an inductive learning mechanism. New TBox axioms and ABox assertions resulting from this analysis process are used to enhance a selected biomedical ontology. This allows physicians, pharmacists or patients to perform queries on the enhanced ontology by using an OWL reasoner in order to obtain answers, for instance on how drugs are used for treatment of diseases in the hospitals. The relevance of the generated axioms and assertions is evaluated by using experimental results obtained from real-world discharge summaries.


Demand for Lithium-ion batteries will grow in the coming decades with the rapid adoption of electric vehicles. As electric vehicle batteries begin to reach their end-of-life, we will see an exponential growth of retired Lithiumion batteries coming out of vehicles. By 2020, we already had around 14 Giga-watt-hour or roughly 102,000 tonnes of Lithium-ion batteries retiring from electric vehicles. With such an upsurge in the adoption of electric vehicles, by 2040, the total amount of electric vehicle batteries reaching end-of-life is expected to reach around 7.8 million tonnes per year.


The implementation of silvopastoral systems (SSP) is a management option that gives good results for animal production, but the shading of the trees can alter production, growth behavior and morphological composition of the forage. The aim of the study was to evaluate the morphological composition of Urochloa brizantha cultivars Marandu and Piata under natural light and artificial shading of 30 and 60%. The experiment was conducted at FMVZ - UNESP, Botucatu. The experimental design was a randomized block in factorial arrangement 3 x 2 (three shading levels: 0, 30 and 60% and two cultivars: Marandu and Piata) with three replications and repeated measures in time (3 cuts). Sample collection occurred when the cultivars reached in 35 cm of height. Significant effects (P<0.05) of cultivar x shade x cut interaction were observed on the dry matter production of leaves and stems (Table 1). The higher production of leaves and stems (P<0.05) occurred for Piata under natural light in the third cut (3731 and 1920 kg/ha, respectively). The absence of shade favored greater leaf production, 35 and 27% higher than the reductions of 30 and 60% respectively. The increment of stems for Piata under natural light is related to the increase of inflorescences. The leaf:stem ratio was higher (P< 0.05 ) for Marandu under natural light (Table 2), with effect from the interaction cultivar x brightness level. A significant effect (P<0.05) cultivar x level of light reduction for light interception parameter was detected (Table 2). For Marandu, light levels were not influenced (P<0.05 ) light traps (Table 2), being close to the 95% criterion used for pasture management, justified by the collection at the point of balance between forage productivity and nutritional content, and strong relationship with high input grazing. The results indicate that the morphological composition of the cultivars is modified by reducing the light intensity.


The vast presence of bots on Twitter requires reliable and accurate bot detection methods that differentiate legitimate bots from malicious ones. Despite the success of those methods, they fail to address the following challenges: (1) the huge size of datasets required to train a model to detect bots, (2) the constant evolution in bot accounts to evade automatic detection leads to scarcity in ground truth real-world datasets, and (3) the complexity in learning representations of a heterogeneous attributed network like Twitter. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, ADNET, to detect anomalies in Twitter-attributed networks using the least amount of labeled data. Specifically, we address the limitations of previous methods by proposing a topology-based active learning framework that uses a deep autoencoder to train the model and is able to handle large graphs better than previous methods. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting anomalous bot accounts and reduces the annotation cost in Twitter attributed networks.


WWW.MDEDGE.COM/CUTIS A 54-year-old woman called her primary care provider to report a painful pink nodule on the left wrist 1 week after sustaining thorn injuries while weeding in her garden. She started cephalexin and noted a pink streak with additional nodules extending up the arm over the next 2 days. She was admitted to an outside hospital for incision and drainage of the wrist nodule and a 3-day course of intravenous vancomycin. Bacterial culture was negative, and she was discharged on oral clindamycin and doxycycline. Two days later, she presented to our emergency department with pain in the left axilla. Physical examination revealed 3 tender erythematous nodules in a linear distribution on the left arm with crusting at the incision and drainage site and painful left axillary lymphadenopathy. The patient was afebrile and otherwise asymptomatic.


A series of 240 bronchograms in 174 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis using Dionosil Oily is recorded. The medium is easy to administer, gives adequate contrast, and is quickly eliminated. It is relatively non-irritant and non-toxic in amounts up to 30 c.c. for each lung, although 15–20 c.c. are adequate in the average adult. It is well tolerated by patients, and complications are unusual. It is stressed that bronchography should be carried out expeditiously, and that the medium should be allowed to remain in the lungs for the minimum amount of time. Bronchography and tomography are complementary examinations. It is helpful to have bronchograms available in deciding where tomographic sections are necessary or advisable.


Between December 1983 and August 1986, 84 children were assessed for possible liver transplant. 18, mainly infants with biliary atresia, were not accepted because of features which made successful trasnplantation unlikely. 4 children were withdrawn from the programme by their parents. 9 died before a donor of suitable size or compatible blood group could be found. 9 await transplantation, 9 have been accepted for liver transplantation but are at present sufficiently well for this to be postponed. 35, aged 7mnths-16yrs, had liver grafts. Of these, 17 had biliary atresia, 5 fulminant or subacute hepatic failure, 3 malignant liver tumours and 2 metabolic disease. 15 died, 9 in the first 2 months mainly from primary graft failure or vascular thrombosis, later deaths being due to rejection, infection or dissemination of malignant disease. 2 died of disease in other organs with a normally functioning transplanted liver. 2 of the survivors have had a second liver transplant. 3 have significant hepatobiliary problems which may require retransplantation. The majority of survivors are engaged in normal activities for their age, growing and developing satisfactorily with normal biochemical tests of liver function & complete regression of cirrhosis. Their excellent quality of live is encouraging. Lack of donors, particularly for young infants & prevention of post-operative rejection & infection are continuing problems.


Recently, much research effort has been devoted to employing mobile chargers for energy replenishment of the robots in robotic sensor networks. Observing the discrepancy between the charging latency of robots and charger travel distance, we propose a novel tree-based charging schedule for the charger, which minimizes its travel distance without causing the robot energy depletion. We analytically evaluate its performance and show its closeness to the optimal solutions. Furthermore, through a queue-based approach, we provide theoretical guidance on the setting of the remaining energy threshold at which the robots request energy replenishment. This guided setting guarantees the feasibility of the tree-based schedule to return a depletion-free charging schedule. The performance of the tree-based charging schedule is evaluated through extensive simulations. The results show that the charger travel distance can be reduced by around 20%, when compared with the schedule that only considers the robot charging latency.


We report a rare case of carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 producting mucinous gastric cancer with too much secreting. A 46-year-old man was pointed out high value of serum CA19-9 by a routine health examination. So He was admitted to the hospital in order to rule out malignant disease. He was diagnosed as having advanced gastric cancer at the posterior wall on the antrum by gastrointestinal endoscopy. Distal gastrectomy with regional lymph node dissection was performed. Microscopic examination revealed that the cancer was arose from mucous nodose and immunohistochemical stain of the resected material was positive for anti-CA19-9 monoclonal antibody was positive. The value of serum CA19-9 increased after admission and remarkaably decreased to the normal range after the gastrectomy. The normalized CA19-9 level has been kept up to nou for 3 years. Patients group with high CA19-9 valeu has a poor prognosis, and hence further strict observation of his clinical course will be nesessary.


The focus of this output builds on previous RAE submissions in 2007 in which Bendon created an exhibition of new video works commissioned by a EPSRC funded research consortia Vivacity2020 and AUNT-SUE (Accessibility and User Needs in Transport, Sustainability in the Urban Environment), a research consortium studying Sustainability and the 24-hour city. Two artists were commissioned to work with their material and their test bed research areas. The artists (Bendon and Jess Thom) have contributed to the ongoing discussions with the research teams and have a blog on the viacity website. The exhibition was part of London Architecture Week and the London Architecture Biennale (June 2006), an internationally recognised event. The expected audiences for the 2006 event were in excess of 100,000 visitors.
Bendon created three new works Skirting, Flight and Cheek by Jowl based on her time with the researchers. The work looks at various issues raised by the research teams, including city fringe areas (Shaw, S.) crime (Davey, C.L., Wootton, A.B., Cooper, R.)and continuity of activities in the city fringes (Penn, A.) Bendon also expanded the research field including the London biographer Peter Ackroyd (2001); sociologist Zukin, S.(1995); and Godard's One or Two Things I know About Her (1967) to draw on wider discourses around urban development. The book brings together the work of all the work packages in a comprehensive approach to looking at sustainability in the urban environment. Bendon's chapter focuses on interdisciplinarity and questions some fundamental design solution approaches from the perspective of an artist in residence on the project.


RAS gene mutations occur in 30 – 40% of multiple myeloma (MM) patients. Farnesylation is the first step in the post-translational modification of RAS proteins. Tipifarnib is a potent farnesyl transferase inhibitor, and incadronate prevents post-translational prenylation of GTP-binding proteins such as RAS proteins. We examined the effect of tipifarnib in combination with incadronate on the growth of fresh and cloned myeloma cells in vitro. Tipifarnib inhibited the growth of myeloma cells, and this inhibition was intensified when tipifarnib was combined with incadronate. Tipifarnib, in combination with incadronate, may have some benefits in MM patients.


Felix von Winiwater described the first case of thromboangiitis obliterans in 1879 (1). A 57-yr-old man had a 12-yr history of foot pain resulting in gangrene leading to amputation. On examination of the amputated specimen, there were endarteritis and endophlebitis that were distinct from atherosclerosis (1). Twenty-nine years later, Leo Buerger described the pathology in 11 amputated limbs and called this disease "thromboangiitis obliterans," which later became more commonly know as Buerger's disease (2). The pathological description in 1908 was so accurate and detailed that little has been added over the last century.


ABSTRACT The WalRK two-component regulatory system coordinates gene expression that maintains cell wall homeostasis and responds to antibiotic stress in low-GC Gram-positive bacteria. Phosphorylated WalR (VicR) of the major human respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (WalR Spn ) positively regulates transcription of several surface virulence genes and, most critically, pcsB, which encodes an essential cell division protein. Despite numerous studies of several species, little is known about the signals sensed by the WalK histidine kinase or the function of the WalJ ancillary protein encoded in the walRKSpn operon. To better understand the functions of the WalRKJ Spn proteins in S. pneumoniae, we performed experiments to determine their cellular localization and amounts. In contrast to WalK from Bacillus subtilis (WalK Bsu ), which is localized at division septa, immunofluorescence microscopy showed that WalK Spn is distributed throughout the cell periphery. WalJ Spn is also localized to the cell surface periphery, whereas WalR Spn was found to be localized in the cytoplasm around the nucleoid. In fractionation experiments, WalR Spn was recovered from the cytoplasmic fraction, while WalK Spn and the majority of WalJ Spn were recovered from the cell membrane fraction. This fractionation is consistent with the localization patterns observed. Lastly, we determined the cellular amounts of WalRKJ Spn by quantitative Western blotting. The WalR Spn response regulator is relatively abundant and present at levels of ≈6,200 monomers per cell, which are ≈14-fold greater than the amount of the WalK Spn histidine kinase, which is present at ≈460 dimers (920 monomers) per cell. We detected ≈1,200 monomers per cell of WalJ Spn ancillary protein, similar to the amount of WalK Spn .


Abstract : The Next Generation Computer Resources (NGCR) Program is a Navy standardization effort designed to fulfill the Navy's needs for standard computer resources while at the same time allowing it to take advantage of commercial products and investments and to field new technology more quickly and effectively. The program is centered around the selection and adoption of open systems standards in several areas, including backplanes, local area networks, operating system, programming support environments, graphics, and database management systems. IDA is providing support to the NGCR Program through participation in the NGCR Operating Systems Standards Working Group (OSSWG), a group chartered to establish commercially based operating system interface standards for use in Navy mission-critical computing systems in the mid-1990s and beyond. This document is a compilation of IDA contributions to the NGCR OSSWG for the time period from January 1989 through September 1991. It includes (1) a record of IDA support of a workshop held on behalf of the NGCR OSSWG, (2) copies of IDA contributions to NGCR OSSWG documents, and (3) copies of presentations given by IDA as a representative of the NGCR OSSWG.


Synopsis In this paper we study a problem in multilinear algebra which consists of finding small values of a certain quotientμ/α. Here μ is the minimal eigenvalue of a positive definite operator determinant Δ of the type introduced by F. V. Atkinson, and α is the minimum of the quadratic form corresponding to Δ with respect to all decomposable tensors of unit norm. Our results are connected with earlier results of P. Binding.


Interpolation is one time consuming and serial operation in the fields of spatial information processing. While fast processing speed is often required in some real-time interactive scenarios. With the development of Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), it provides an opportunity to accelerate some traditional inefficient algorithms with low-cost and low-power compared to clusters. In this paper, we mapped the Inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation method to Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) parallel programming model. Taking the advantage of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) parallel computing, we build two-level indexes on GPU, then clever blocking schemes are used to assign computing task among different threads. After illustrate the parallel interpolation process, we conduct several experiments, the result shows the correctness and high efficiency of our optimized implementation. With larger influence radius and massive data, the performance can obtain dozens of times speedups over a very similar single-threaded CPU implementation.


Purpose – This paper aims to explain and analyze community‐based corporate knowledge sharing and organizational learning, the actual use of communities in Hewlett Packard (HP) Consulting and Integration (CI) and their role in leveraging and exploiting existing and creating new knowledge.Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an explanatory case study research design, qualitative interviews with top executives, middle managers and employees conducted in 2005 and 2006. Explanatory case studies were used to analyze, illustrate and exemplify major findings.Findings – The paper identified an effective approach to community‐based knowledge sharing and organizational learning at HP CI Japan's learning communities (LCs). The case study illustrates the main characteristics, features and mechanisms of communities within the framework of HP's global and local knowledge management (KM) structure and resulting activities, and illuminates effective adaptation to the Japanese working and business context.Resea...


In the article in the frameworks of social-constructionistic theory the phenomenon of political identity is examined and submitted as a project designed in a discourse. The discourse-analysis is used as a basic method. The research reveals both four types of political identity: included, estranged, conformistic and idealistic; and factors influencing on forming of these types. The results of the research have confirmed an opportunity of influence on forming of political identity through the structure of a discourse that is an actual goal in a modern situation of political estrangement of a significant number ofRussian citizens.


There are manual control and teleoperation systems in which the operator is subject to base motion. Examples are aircraft piloting and joystick control of heavy hydraulic machines such as excavators. This thesis presents a new framework for the modeling, analysis, design and evaluation of controllers for teleoperation/manual control from movable bases. First, a general model for teleoperation/manual control from movable bases is presented. Second, models for the operator dynamics are introduced and identified experimentally. Third, a novel robust ^-synthesis based control system design approach is proposed that addresses robust stability and performance issues. The approach is illustrated by a prototype single-degree-offreedom manual control task in which the operator positions his/her base, a hydraulic motion simulator, using a force-feedback joystick. The designed controllers are robustly stable with respect to parametric uncertainties in the arm/joystick as well as the feedthrough dynamics, and achieve a desired level of performance based on relevant measures. The proposed methods are compared with controllers that ignore the base motion through analysis and a set of experiments. The robust controllers suppress the operator-induced oscillations and produce well-damped responses, whereas the fixed base controllers become unstable. Motivated by the need for high performance motion simulation in the evaluation of controllers for feedthrough cancellation, the position control of mechanical systems driven by hydraulic actuators is studied. This includes single-cylinder hydraulic servo-systems and multipledegree-of-freedom hydraulic robots. Nonlinear dynamics of the actuators and nonlinear rigid body dynamics are considered in the model of hydraulic robots. For single-degree-of-freedom systems, valve dynamics are also included. Parametric uncertainties are allowed in these models. Using the backstepping technique, novel nonlinear and adaptive/nonlinear control laws are proposed that incorporate the system dynamics into their design. It is proven via Lyapunov i i


We realized 1D beam steering with field of view of > 100° and resolution number of > 1400 by using electrical-driven solid-state beam scanner with submodule size of 10mm×6mm×3mm. We also demonstrated 2D-beam steering with field of view of 35° × 15° by integration of beam scanners array.


The effects of initial conditions and system parameters on entanglement dynamics and asymptotic entanglement for a two-qubit anisotropic XY Heisenberg system in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction are investigated. We suppose that each qubit interacts with a separate thermal reservoir which is held in its own temperature. The effects of the parameters of the system and environment like spin-orbit interaction and temperature difference of reservoirs are also discussed.


Copper (Cu) ion is an essential component of enzymes involved in catecholamine (CAT) metabolism. Copper deficiency (CuD) has been shown to affect the CAT content of brain (decreased norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA)) and heart (increased DA and decreased NE). It is thus possible that plasma and adrenal CAT could be altered by CuD. The authors, then, investigated the effect of CuD on plasma and adrenal CAT in rats fed copper-deficient (0.6 ..mu..g Cu/g) or copper-supplemented (6.0 ..mu..g Cu/g) diets with either 62% starch (S) or fructose (F) as the carbohydrate source for 7 weeks after weaning. CuD was ascertained by decreased plasma Cu and ceruloplasmin activity. CuD increased the levels of all three CAT (NE, P < 0.001, epinephrine (E), P < 0.0001 and DA, P < 0.01) in plasma, but had no effect on adrenal CAT content. Dietary F had no significant effect on plasma CAT compared to S but did increase E in adrenal tissue (P < 0.001). They have previously demonstrated that CuD is accompanied by increased plasma glucose, triglyceride and cholesterol and decreased insulin. Thus, increased plasma CAT along with decreased plasma insulin may explain, in part, the glucose intolerance and abnormal lipid metabolism observedmore » in CuD.« less


The main problem in this study is how much influence leadership and work motivation have on employee performance at LAZISMU Bekasi Regency, both simul- taneously and partially. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze leadership and work motivation and employee performance and the magnitude of the influence of leadership and work motivation on employee performance at LAZISMU Bekasi Regency, either simultaneously or partially. The method used in this study is a method with a descriptive and verification approach. The population in this study were employees at LAZISMU Bekasi Regency with a sample of 40 people. The data in this study is primary data, where the data is obtained from respondents' answers to the questionnaires that the authors distribute. The results of the data analysis that the author has done, the results show that there is an influence of leadership and work motivation on improving employee performance at LAZISMU Bekasi Regency either partially or simultaneously.


The article focuses on the discourse analysis of outcomes of the All-Russia scientific conference with the international participation "Business, science, education in the context of modernization: dispute of philosophers and economists".


This paper designed and realized high strength plastics-steel composite PLC controlling system with the precision of 0.001 s,utilizing the principle of mid-frequency inverter resistance welding,in accordance with the problems that composite pipe produced by AC resistance welding can't meet the application in high-quality project in face of the increasingly stringent technological and environmental indexes.The strength of welding point enhanced about 20 kg and the capability of anti-extrusion improved approximately 3.0 MPa in contrast with AC welding.The experimental results indicated that the system in the abominable electromagnetic environment is reliable,strongly universal,accurate control and convenient operation.


This paper presents a group of strategies based on transaction mechanism for the coordination of the multi-services' dynamic updating in a service-oriented distributed system. These strategies included a selection strategy for choosing of security updating time-point and a 2PC (two-phase-commit) strategy for controlling the multi-services' updating. With the analysis of time, needed by related updating operation steps, this paper suggests that the basic updating operations (including creation of service instances, orderly execution of multiple service instances' runtime state-convertion, redirection of service-request-message and activation of new services) should be controlled in a short updating transaction, and multiple persistent data conversions should be controlled orderly under a long transferring transaction (every persistent data conversion should be controlled in a short transaction). The goal is that with the help of transaction mechanism, the world will expect to ensure system state's ACID properties before and after updating it as efficiently as possible. Furthermore, to make of the most of the correct updating of system, this paper researches about automatically producing and updating transaction, data conversion transaction, and serializing among application transactions and conversion transactions. In the last section, this paper gives a prototype validation of the strategies based on Apache CXF-DOSGi.