This study examines specific concepts of the psychoanalytic approach related to dream interpretation and defense mechanisms within Surah Yusuf in the Holy Quran. These concepts are reevaluated from an Islamic perspective, based on the teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad. This article aims to discuss the psychoanalytic approach in Surah Yusuf from an Islamic viewpoint and how these concepts can be interpreted in the context of providing solace to Prophet Muhammad during challenging times. Specifically, this research investigates the tumultuous journey of Yusuf, his psychological suffering, and traumatic experiences, as well as how the Quran portrays dream interpretation and defense mechanisms in Surah Yusuf as an example of Prophet Muhammad in endurance and patience during his mission. The findings of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of psychoanalytic concepts, particularly dream interpretation and defense mechanisms, within the framework of a realistic and accurate Islamic perspective. The Islamic perspective demonstrates a strong balance between dreams and their interpretation tools, as well as between unconsciousness and defense mechanisms, ultimately fostering security, peace, and the ability to overcome traumatic experiences for individuals who hold firmly to faith and religious principles.


A fresh wave of globalisation since the early 1990s has created both hope and despair. Failure of state has reaffirmed faith in market based institutions. Expansion in trade across national borders and opening the national markets to the world is recommended for speedy and sure economic growth. Gandhiji in the beginning of the 20th century had visualised such a pressure on the British colonies. He warned the developing societies of the cultural onslaught of westernised concept of development and wrote a critique titled Hind Swaraj. Gandhiji also formulated his own thoughts on economy and economics. In this paper Gandhi's economic thoughts and mainstream economic thought on economic development are examined. Some of the apprehensions that Gandhiji had about the possible negative impact of the western concept of economic development on the developing societies are likely to be true even today when the wave of globalisation is sweeping the developing world. It is argued that solutions for some of the serious problems that arise due to economic behaviour, perhaps lie outside economics. It is also argued that sustainable development is not possible by considering only economic parameters. The author tends to agree with the Gandhi's thought that if economic development is material progress then it is not real progress and that real progress is not possible with economic considerations alone.


The growth rates of crystal interfaces have been measured by using a new technique — the laser diffraction metering technique. It is simple, visualized, fast and has high precision. This paper describes the basic principle, operation method and the precision of the technique.


With the example of a southern city,the prediction method was established through field sampling and laboratory analysis according to the main factor,and the relation between the measurement and calculation of Cd was compared based on the different used manners and the different types of soil.The result indicated that the relation of the woodland was higher than the plantation;the relation of the paddy soil developed from the fluvial sediment,the red soil and the purple soil was marked(R=0.618,0.916,0.595;a=0.01);and the relation of the paddy soil developed from the quaternary red earth and the purple rock was unmarked(R0.3,a=0.01).


According to China 2000 Census, this paper compares the differences of housing marketization in the four megalopolises: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. A Logistic Model is constructed to understand the determinants of housing marketization in the four megalopolises. The results indicate that birth cohort and occupation of the householder are the most significant factors. Family structure, industry of the householder and the household registration status of householder etc. are also the important variables affecting the process of housing marketization.


The Christian church today remains shockingly bereft of a prophetic and authoritative message in bearing witness to a capitalist society. Christian teachings are ad hoc, emphasizing altruism, honesty, and perhaps social justice, as if we have already conceded the autonomy of the economic system to which Christianity has these few reminders to offer. This essay seeks to understand the essence of capitalist society through a normative theological lens of creation and covenant. It offers a critical interpretation of liberal capitalism and in particular its current state of affairs as part of a historical process of increasing deviation from the Christian norm.


Cross layer cooperative protocol which exploits the benefits of physical layer cooperative communication, is one of the widely recognized MAC layer protocol design strategies for future wireless networks. This paper presents performance analysis of a cooperative mac and these performance parameters are compared those of the legacy IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC. Appropriate relay station selection is the main hurdle in designing efficient cooperative MAC protocol for wireless networks.  This cooperative mac demonstrated that intermediate relay nodes themselves can initiate cooperation for relaying data frame to the receiver on behalf of the sender. This procedure makes the selection process of a "helper node" more distributed in nature as well as it contributes to increase throughput of a wireless network by reducing the overheads that are usually incurred in the helper selection process. It has been shown by thorough analytical analysis that the proposed cooperative MAC protocol offers higher throughput and lower frame transmission delay in both ideal and error prone wireless environment. These performance metrics are also evaluated while the wireless nodes are mobile as well.


This research is based ons a phenomenon related to married young women who experience changes in body image in Air Hangat Barat. Changes in the body image of married young women if they cannot accept it will have a negative impact, especially lack of confidence. This study aims to see the contribution of body image to self confidence in married young women. This study uses a correlational quantitative design. Subjects were taken using a purposive sampling technique with criteria for age at marriage 17-22 years, current age 17-22 years years in Air Hangat Barat. This study obtained 60 respondents. Data collection using a body image and self-confidence scale by distributing questionnaires then analyzed using a simple linear regression formula. The results showed that the value of r = 39.349 (p (p <0.05) means that there is a positive relationship between body image and self-confidence. The more positive the body image, the more positive the self-confidence and vice versa, the more negative the body image, the more negative the self-confidence.
 Keywords: body image, self confidence, young women married


Background:  The association of raised serum uric acid levels with various cardiovascular risk factors has often led to the debate of whether raised serum uric acid levels could be an independent risk factor in essential hypertension. Hence we carried out a study to examine the possibility of hyperuricemia causing hypertension, to see if there is a relationship between the serum uric acid levels and severity and duration of hypertension. Methods: The study was carried out in Smt. SCL Hospital, Saraspur, Ahmedabad, India, the study period from September 2012 to June 2014, a total of 100 patients were studied. The patients were included if they satisfied the JNC VII criteria for hypertension. They were excluded if they were having any other condition known to cause raised serum uric acid levels and secondary hypertension. Results:  With the result based on the study carried out we concluded that there can be a direct relation between hyperuricemia and hypertension. Also the study showed that the SUA levels were significantly increased in patient with stage 2 hypertension in comparasion with those with stage 1 hypertension, showing that the severity of hypertension also related to the SUA levels. Conclusions:  Based on the study carried out we concluded that SUA can be used as an early biochemical marker to determine the severity and duration of hypertension.


The host plants of Bemisia tabaci in Fuzhou and Zhangzhou of Fujian province were investigated from 2001 to 2002. 62 species of host plants, which belong to 17 families, damaged by Bemisia tabaci were found, among them there were 7 species belonging to Leguminosae,6 species to Solanaceae,8 species to Cruiciferae,9 species to Cucurbitaceae,10 species to Compositae,4 species to Chenopodiaceae, 4 species to Amaranthaceae, 2 species to Convolvulanceae, 2 species to Malvaceae,2 species to Euphorbiaceae, 2 species to Onagraceae, 1 species to Polygonoceae,1 species to Sarophulariaceae,1 species to Aizoaceae,1 species to Cannabinaceae,1 species to Cuscutaceae,and 1 species to Umbelliferae respectively. Vegetable crops and broadleaf weeds were the main hosr plants of Bemisia tabaci.


Six 30 cm mercury thrusters were modified to the J-series design and evaluated using standardized test procedures. The thruster performance meets the design objectives (lifetime objective requires verification), and documentation (drawings, etc.) for the design is completed and upgraded. The retrofit modifications are described and the test data for the modifications are presented and discussed.


My talk today, Methodological Challenges in Comparative Constitutional Law, has two parts. The first part focuses on the relationship between the purposes of comparison and the methodological challenges of comparison. The second part asks whether there are particular methodological challenges in comparative constitutional law as compared with other comparative legal studies.


Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, government authorities have responded by issuing new public health policies, many of which were intended to contain its spread but ended up limiting economic and social activities. The citizen responses to these policies are diverse, ranging from goodwill to fear and anger. It is challenging to determine whether or not these public health policies achieved the intended impact. This requires systematic data collection and scientific studies, which can be very time-consuming. To overcome such challenges, in this paper, we provide an alternative approach to continuously monitor and dynamically make sense of how public health policies impact citizens. Our approach is to continuously collect Twitter posts related to COVID-19 policies and to analyze the public reactions. We have developed a web-based system that collects tweets daily and generates timelines and geographical displays of citizens' "concern levels". Tracking the public reactions towards different policies can help government officials assess the policy impacts in a more dynamic and real-time manner. For this paper, we collected and analyzed over 16 million tweets related to ten policies over a 10-month period. We obtained several findings; for example, the "COVID-19 (General)" and "Ventilators" policies engendered the highest concern levels, while the "Face Coverings" policy caused the lowest. Nine out of ten policies exhibited significant changes in concern levels during the observation period.


The high sensitivity of composite materials to in service accidental damage and manufacturing imperfections can often lead to oversized components design and expensive maintenance approaches. The possibility to trust on a reliable onboard structural health and usage monitoring system (HUMS), able to real-time detect damage, comparable or even smaller than the one currently assumed for design and certification, could improve, generally speaking, structural strength and simplify the maintenance philosophy. This paper resumes the results achieved by a methodology developed at the Adaptive Structures Division of CIRA, based on auto-correlation of strain map provided by distributed fiber optic on a set of 17 aeronautical stiffened carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) panels. Sensors and data processing are properly down-selected and the health monitoring system designed according to the specific goal. In this case, the bonding line integrity at skin-stringer interface is the committed target, and the capability of debonding detection after low energy impact is herein discussed. Then, probability of detection (PoD), being one of the most crucial topics in the aircraft industry for system reliability estimation, is also presented on the base of collected data, as preliminary result on the way of the procedure assessment.


Text-to-image diffusion models can generate diverse, high-fidelity images based on user-provided text prompts. Recent research has extended these models to support text-guided image editing. While text guidance is an intuitive editing interface for users, it often fails to ensure the precise concept conveyed by users. To address this issue, we propose Custom-Edit, in which we (i) customize a diffusion model with a few reference images and then (ii) perform text-guided editing. Our key discovery is that customizing only language-relevant parameters with augmented prompts improves reference similarity significantly while maintaining source similarity. Moreover, we provide our recipe for each customization and editing process. We compare popular customization methods and validate our findings on two editing methods using various datasets.


In 1989, the province of Neuquen created the Neuquino Editorial Fund (FEN, by its initials in Spanish) by Law number 1809, with the aim of publishing, spreading and selling the works of local writers. The functioning and evolution of FEN was uneven, and there were several proposals to modify it over time. The last modification was sponsored by the Department of Culture (which today has the level of Ministry) in 2018, leading to the passing of Law number 3164, which replaced Law number 1809.
During its 30 years of existence, this editorial project overlapped with other contributions from state entities to publish books from Neuquen. In its beginnings it overlapped with other similar provincial laws in North Patagonia: the Rio Negro province in 1984 created the Rionegrino Editorial Fund, and The Pampa province implemented the Pampeano Editorial Fund in 1985.
The present article describes and analyzes the FEN, highlighting the particular features of the way the law was drafted and implemented. It also aims to discuss some weaknesses in its implementation in order to help strengthen the state's strategies for book publishing, given the important role of the state in designing active policies to promote and increase the bibliodiversity of the Argentinean book ecosystem.


A nine-year study involved content analyses of five types of national media. Using stratified random samples, television, magazines, daily newspapers, college newspapers, and comic books were studied. Emphasis was placed on drinking patterns as well as on quantitative frequency and distribution measures. Alcohol appearances took a variety of forms. Depictions and discussions of alcoholism were infrequent; more common were alcohol appearances as unplanned and "taken for granted." Many appearances were minor. Frequency was considerable; however, in television series, use of alcohol was more frequent than use of coffee, tea, soft drinks and water combined. Each medium had its own manner of presentation. Using a process called "cooperative consultation" intervention with media personnel to change alcohol-relevant materials was shown to be possible.


Nowdays, with the development of mathematical education and waves of mathematical curricular reforms in the world, a new research task of educational mathematics is put forward,which together with pure mathematics and applied mathematics becomes a third field of research.Compared with "new mathematics" and "popular mathematics",educational mathematics not only adjusts the relation between education and mathematics but also promotes the healthy development of mathematical education reform.To explore on educational mathematics,we could start from the realities,difficulties and new points in mathematics and then construct theory systems.


The French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) is currently building the Laser Megajoule (LMJ), a 176-beam laser facility, at the CEA Laboratory CESTA near Bordeaux [1], [2], [3], [4]. It is designed to deliver about 1.4 MJ of energy to targets for high energy density physics experiments, including fusion experiments. The assembly of the first amplification lines is almost achieved and functional tests are planned for next year. The first part of the presentation is a photo album of the progress of the assembly of the bundles in the four laser bay, and in the target bay. Then, we will focus on the general software integration strategy. Sub-systems controls software applications are first independently commissioned with each contractor on its own site and then assembled with others on the LMJ software integration platform, before at last being installed on the LMJ hardware platform to drive the first bundles. The LMJ commissioning strategy is then to have several steps towards full energy by successively commissioning each bundle from a secondary control room inside the LMJ building, and at the same time, using the commissioned bundles for shots and fusion experiments from the main control room.


Human red blood cells can be stored for three months or longer at temperatures below —80 C if they are mixed with glycerol. Before the red blood cells can be used, however, they must be washed free of glycerol. Both the initial equilibration with glycerol before storage and the removal of the glycerol from the cells after storage involve fractional centrifugation. In order to accomplish this without bacterial contamination and with a minimum of hemolysis, the apparatus here described has been developed. Experience with 175 units of red blood cells so processed showed that sterility had been maintained, loss by hemolysis did not exceed 20%, and the time required for the processing had been significantly shortened.


Arecoline induces oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) via promoting the reactive oxygen species (ROS). Angiotensin (1–7) (Ang‐(1–7)) protects against fibrosis by counteracting angiotensin II (Ang‐II) via the Mas receptor. However, the effects of Ang‐(1–7) on OSF remain unknown. NOD‐like receptors (NLRs) family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is identified as the novel mechanism of fibrosis. Whereas the effects of arecoline on NLRP3 inflammasome remain unclear. We aimed to explore the effect of Ang‐(1–7) on NLRP3 inflammasome in human oral myofibroblasts. In vivo, activation of NLRP3 inflammasomes with an increase of Ang‐II type 1 receptor (AT1R) protein level and ROS production in human oral fibrosis tissues. Ang‐(1–7) improved arecoline‐induced rats OSF, reduced protein levels of NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4) and the NLRP3 inflammasome. In vitro, arecoline increased ROS along with upregulation of the angiotensin‐converting enzyme (ACE)/Ang‐II/AT1R axis and NLRP3 inflammasome/interleukin‐1β axis in human oral myofibroblasts, which were reduced by NOX4 inhibitor VAS2870, ROS scavenger N‐acetylcysteine, and NOX4 small interfering RNA (siRNA). Furthermore, arecoline induced collagen synthesis or migration via the Smad or RhoA‐ROCK pathway respectively, which could be inhibited by NLRP3 siRNA or caspase‐1 blocker VX‐765. Ang‐(1–7) shifted the balance of RAS toward the ACE2/Ang‐(1–7)/Mas axis, inhibited arecoline‐induced ROS and NLRP3 inflammasome activation, leading to attenuation of migration or collagen synthesis. In summary, Ang‐(1–7) attenuates arecoline‐induced migration and collagen synthesis via inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome in human oral myofibroblasts.


During the last few years, there has been much discussion in North Carolina concerning the fiscal constraints and problems of the state ports at Wilmington and Morehead City, and two substantially state-owned railroads--the North Carolina Railroad and the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. This report shows that privatization can (a) reduce many of these problems and constraints and (b) relieve North Carolina taxpayers of the need to provide continuing subsidies and from suffering opportunity costs due to lower-than-market rates of return on these state-owned enterprises. In applying the concept of privatization to the state ports and railroads, it is necessary to comprehend and appreciate the overall transportation problems of North Carolina as well as a number of very important issues and concerns. For example, the economic viability of the railroads and ports (Morehead City in particular) are interrelated to a very significant degree; and any solution to fiscal problems and constraints must take into account this fundamental reality. In addition, any proposals to drastically change the current operations of the ports and railroads must also take into account the need to ensure continued access for shippers and the future transportation needs of North Carolina's citizens. This report is predicated on such considerations. Recommendations presented in this report are as follows: (1) Conditional sale of Port of Wilmington as a port; (2) Conditional sale of North Carolina Railroad as a railroad; (3) Conditional sale of Port of Morehead City and Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad as a port/railroad enterprise package; and (4) As part of sale, the state should consider the concerns of port employees and should consider the possibilty of employee stock benefits.


In Turbo Code theory,the main function of an interleaver is to reduce the relativity of check bit,thus reducing the bit error rate.This paper improves Golden Interleavers and Relative Prime Interleavers,to which a few new elements have been introduced.The simulation results show that the interleavers selected by our method can improve the performance of Turbo Codes.


To analyze the polymorphism of chromosome DNAs of Toxoplasma gondii isolates,the pulsed field gel electrophoresis(PFGE) technique was used to analyze the molecular karyotypes of chromosome DNAs of 8 Toxoplasma gondii isolates,in which 7-8 chromosome DNAs at size range from 2.0 Mb to 6.0 Mb were separated from T.gondii isolates by PFGE and the molecular haryotypes of chromosome DNAs were almost similar among various isolates of T.gondii.However,different migration speed and co-migration of the chromosome DNAs by electrophoresis separation existed in certain strains of isolates,thus making the 8 isolates to be divided into 3 different groups.It is apparent that the polymorphism in chromosome DNAs exists in T.gondii isolates,although certain degree of homology is present in some strains.This may be potentially due to the difference in biological characteristics of these isolates including their virulence.


Variousamorphouis rare earth- Ni (ferrimagne tic)films wereprepared,and the temperaturedependencesof their Hall loopsstudied,to elucidate themechanismby which theHall polarityis suddenlyreversedat the compensationtemperature Tcomp. The polarity of VH,was found to changefrompositiveto negativeat Tcompin all cases, in contrast withRE-Co(Fe) films,whichchangefrom negativeto positive.At temperaturesbelow Tcomp,where the Gd spindominates,PH > 0, lendingsUpportto the h.ypothesis that the transition metal spin plays a dominant role in the Hall effectmechanismin RE-TM films.


Periodically witnessing various disentanglements in the ordinary rhythm of daily life, urban public space is constantly reproduced by tactical practices or strategic interventions that can interfere the established power structures. In all respect, art production practices pave the way for daily activities, collective activities, common spaces and neighborhood organizations. Focusing the productions of Darağaç Collective, this study aims to examine the ways in which art production practices reproduce urban space and everyday life in the neighborhood. The potential of these interventions, which are considered together with the productions of the initiatives in which the collective cooperates, to create great changes are examined by associating them with their permanence-temporariness qualities in terms of their strategic-tactical goals.Within the scope of this study, the Darağaç Collective's exhibition Darağaç IV: Lüzum, together with the projects, Spinning Triangles (by SAVVY Contemporary), New Alphabet School (by Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Mahalle@İzmir (by Kültür için Alan and Geniş Açı Project Office), Bellek Haritaları (by Karantina), and İyi Saatte Olsunlar (Hayy Open Space, Darağaç Collective, and Pelesiyer) are examined. In line with the data obtained by the case studies method, these art practices are analyzed through five main points: ways of changing the rhythm of everyday life, the characteristics of the thresholds they create; ways of creating an atmosphere for social participation, emphasizing creative activism; and the place and scale of collective practices. Through these examples inquired within the framework of the rhythm of everyday life, thresholds, social interventions, creative activism and forms of intervention, the potentials of creative activist art production practices to transform urban public space is revealed.


The article analyses the notion «moral behavior». The author differentiates moral behavior and moral activity and proves that moral behavior is a set of person's actions.


In my thesis ([35]) I present different notions of special subsets of the real line and their properties, in particular of those related to measure and convergence. We search for answers to some open questions in this subject and we consider generalizations of wellknown facts in the case of a larger cardinality, i.e. in the generalized Cantor space 2κ, for an uncountable cardinal κ, equipped with the topology generated by sets of extensions of partial functions. In this document, I describe the motivation behind this work and provide a summary of the main results.


We begin with two speculations about the influence of teacher affects on student thoughts and self-perception. First, there are times when sympathy from a teacher, which is thought to be a positive affect, might lower the self-esteem of a failing student and lead to the belief that trying has no instrumental value. And second, there are some situations where anger from a teacher, typically viewed as a negative affect, will enhance self-perception of ability and lead a failing pupil to believe she should try harder.


The invention provides a maintenance method, maintenance device and maintenance system applied to labyrinth lubrication channels of a wind turbine generator. The method comprises the following steps: during running of the wind turbine generator, gap information representing gaps of the labyrinth lubrication channels located in the wind turbine generator is detected through distance detection sensors; the gap information is converted to gap electric signals; and each gap electric signal is compared with a preset gap threshold value interval, and if the gap electric signal does not fall into the gap threshold value interval, the wind turbine generator is triggered to adjust a current running state, so that the subsequent gap electric signals fall into the gap threshold value interval. According to the technical scheme of the invention, maintenance for the labyrinth lubrication channels in the wind turbine generator during running is realized, and thus control for the air gaps of the labyrinth lubrication channels within a reasonable range is ensured.


Foreign words are commonly used in all countries and languages. This is a sociohistorical phenomenon rather than a linguistic one. Interlanguage contact is regarded by anthropologists äs an aspect of cultural contiguity, and linguistic interference äs a form of acculturization. No language is ever immutable, and words are added denoting new objects and ideas äs well äs fresh attitudes to familiär concepts. These are parallel to social innovations and newly acquired values and serve äs a mirror to society. The use of foreign words is influenced not only by in-language factors but by others, such äs the prestige of the lending language. The bewildering dimensions reached by word borrowing today are due to two main reasons: the accelerated changes in the sciences and a growing tendency to follow fashions in language which, in turn, makes it into a creation of fashion. The influence of American English, so conspicuous in Europe, has also reached Hebrew. American English and the Americanization process in particular proliferate in a Situation reminiscent of the growing domination of Latin in the Middle Ages or of the influence of Greek in the days of the Second Temple. Foreign words (those of European origin that have infiltrated Hebrew since its revival from 1880) are not integrated into Hebrew. They tend to avoid förmations such äs verb inflections, the construct state, and possessive pronominal Suffixes. Etymologically and morphologically they remain extraneous to the language. The importance of describing the phenomenon äs it exists among Speakers of Hebrew in Israel lies in the extensive use of foreign-language words in Hebrew today, an important and natural element in the development of Hebrew and its revival process.


A 4-year-old boy with extensive papules and nodules with arthritis was evaluated and followed up. In spite of the initial worrisome presentation, the lesions showed near-complete resolution over a 2-year follow-up period.


The invention belongs to the field of research of emulsifying agents of polymer emulsion, and provides a novel reactive emulsifying agent and a preparation method of the novel reactive emulsifying agent. The preparation method includes the steps of adding diisocyanate, hydroxyethyl methacrylate, solvents and catalysts into a flask, then, adding polyethylene glycol for reaction after diisocyanate, hydroxyethyl methacrylate, solvents and catalysts are completely reacted under the ice-salt bath condition, judging whether reaction is completed by detecting whether -NCO groups exist, conducting leaching and removing the solvents under the low-temperature condition, and then obtaining the reactive emulsifying agent. The reaction preparation method is simple in step and few in side reaction, and the prepared emulsifying agent is good in amphipathic property control.


This paper describes SenseText, a wearable device that provides performers with real-time control of text visualization. SenseText measures the performer's hand gestures and uses those measurements to determine what visual behaviors get applied to a projected stream of text. The goal is to enhance, expand and augment the performance of audio and visual poetry as well as other works that incorporate visual text.


This study was to investigate how young children's interpersonal problem solving thinking is related to their autonomous behaviors in kindergarten daily activities according to their gender. Participants for this study were 120 five-year-old children attending 13 classes of 12 public kindergartens in A and B cities, Gangwon. According to this study, the relationships between young children's interpersonal problem solving thinking and autonomous behaviors in kindergarten daily activities according to young children's gender revealed that boys' result predicting and causal thinking and girls' result predicting thinking had positive correlations with their autonomous behaviors. Alternative solution thinking didn't have any significant correlations with autonomous behaviors in both boys and girls.


The invention discloses a method for planting corn, which comprises the following steps of sowing and seedling raising, transplanting, fertilizing, weeding, hilling, moisture management, pest control and timely harvesting. The method improves abilities of soil conservation, fertilizer conservation and water conservation of soil, and corn plants are good in light transmission and ventilation, deep in the root system, and strong in lodging-resistant performance; under the premise of ensuring national food security, applying quantity of chemical fertilizer is reduced, so that cost reduction and income increase are realized for farmers, energy conservation is realized for the country, the environment is protected, and agricultural sustainable development is promoted.


The relationship between the molecular structure of [1.6]metacyclophanes (calix[6]arenes) and the extractability of trivalent lanthanides and americium was studied by solvent extraction from weekly acidic aqueous into chloroform solutions. The ligands differ in number and position of the ionophilic carboxymethoxy- and (diethylcarbamoyl)methoxy-groups, as well as in their hydrophobicity. The separation of Am(III) from Ln(III) is achieved due to cooperative binding of different ionophilic groups. The separation factor, DAm(III)/DNd(III), is 15 for an unsymmetrically substituted ligand (4) and 61 for an symmetric ligand (6) bearing the same ionophilic groups. Extraction constants were calculated for the ligands and compared with reference data.


Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) or Hemophagocytic syndrome is a potentially lethal disorder due to an uncontrolled immune response to a triggering agent. It can be primary or secondary to neoplastic, infectious or autoimmune processes. It is characterized by theproliferation of histiocytes with phagocytosis of formed elements of blood.A ten-year-old boy, developed a progressive multiorgan failure due to septicemia. The bone marrow study was performed which showed atypical lymphoid cells and moderate hemophagocytosis. Prolonged fever, hepatosplenomegaly, hypofibrinogenemia, hyperferritinemia and hypertriglyceridemia confirmed HLH diagnosis. The childreceived intensive care support therapy but eventually succumbed to sepsis. Hence, anearly diagnosis of HLH is quintessential for a better outcome.


ion irrelevant to practice. Edgar Schein is Sloan Fellow Professor of Management at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is one of the early collaborators of the National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine, where the T-group method was developed, and has served many business companies both inside and outside the U.S.A. as a top management consultant. Two of these, nicknamed 'Action' and 'Multi', are used throughout the book as reference case studies. They are described in the first chapter which also provides the necessary definitions, essential for a topic on which there is much confusion and loose thinking. The remainder of the book is divided into three parts: (1) what culture is and what it does; (2) how cultures begin and develop and (3) how cultures change. In the latter two parts, Schein puts a heavy stress on leadership, which provides the justification for the book's title. On the one hand, he argues that leadership is the fundamental process by which organizational cultures are formed and changed; on the other hand, he sees the manipulation of culture as the unique and essential function of leadership. In spite of, or maybe because of, its solidity, Schein's book makes one realize how much we do not know yet about organization cultures how many questions remain unanswered. For one thing, the book does not answer what is unique about organizational culture as opposed to, say, national, regional, tribal, occupational or family cultures; unless we take the role attributed to leadership as the answer. Where Schein quotes anthropological sources in particular, Marshall Sahlins about the role of Captain Cook as a culture change agent in Hawaii in 1778-1779, I find his parallels with present-day organizations less convincing. An integrative concept like culture is almost by definition too big for one single author its coverage is limited by the author's personal experience and interest areas. Schein makes this point himself, and the fact that the book is based on information obtained in a consultant role, and mainly illustrated with only two cases, reinforces the limitations. To me, these limitations are most evident in the neglect, as I see it, of contextual factors. Schein's orientation is to


The objective of this study was to evaluate gas exchange and photochemical efficiency of cotton cultivars under leaf application of silicon. Therefore, the experiment was conducted in a completely randomized in a factorial 3 x 5, three cotton cultivars ('BRS Topazio', 'BRS Safira' and 'BRS Rubi'), five silicon concentrations (0, 50, 100, 150, 200 mg L-1) and four replications. Gas exchange and photochemical efficiency were determined by measuring the rate of CO2 assimilation, transpiration, stomatal conductance, internal CO2 concentration, instantaneous efficiency in water use, instantaneous carboxylation efficiency, initial fluorescence, maximum quantum efficiency of the variable and photosystem II (PSII). The data variables were subjected to analysis of variance and regression test comparison of means. There were significant differences in gas exchange and photochemical efficiency in response to concentrations of silicon. There were also significant differences among cotton cultivars evaluated. In cultivar 'BRS Topazio', the application of silicon increased CO2 assimilation rate and quantum efficiency of PSII. In 'BRS Safira' silicon reduced the rate of assimilation and internal CO2 concentration. In 'BRS Rubi' element increased the fluorescence of chlorophyll 'a' and quantum efficiency of photosystem II, and reduced the rate of assimilation and internal CO2 concentration and stomatal conductance. Silicate fertilization provided 'BRS Topazio' to express better photosynthetic rate in relation to 'BRS Safira' and 'BRS Rubi'. No damage occurred in PSII when 'BRS Topazio', 'BRS Safira' and 'BRS Rubi' cultivars received silicon as supplementary nutrition.


AbstractMost of the hydrological models developed and used previously in sediment yield modeling are complex and lack general applicability. Moreover, the availability of sediment data for the development and calibration of such models is very scarce. Therefore, there is a need to study and develop models that can handle easily measurable parameters of a particular site, even with short length. In recent years, multidisciplinary artificial intelligence techniques—namely, artificial neural networks (ANNs)—have shown the capability to solve such complex nonlinear systems. This study investigates the suitability of an inductive group method of data handling polynomial neural network (GMDH-NN) technique in estimating sediment yield. The data on various meteorological and geomorphological features—namely, river length, watershed area, erodible area, average slope of watershed, annual average rainfall, and drainage density—from 20 subwatersheds of the Arno River Basin in Italy were used for model development. T...


Time Domain Vibrational Spectroscopy: Principle and Experimental Tools,G. Cerullo and C. Manzoni Coherent Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Liquids Studied by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy,T. Elsaesser Coherent Phonon Dynamics in pi-Conjugated Chains,G. Lanzani Coherent Phonons in Bulk and Low-Dimensional Semiconductors,M. Forst and T. Dekorsy Coherent Dynamics of Halogen Molecules in Rare Gas Solids,M. Guhr Coherent Vibrational Dynamics of Exciton Self-Trapping in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems,S.L. Dexheimer Index


A Virtual Enterprise is a virtual environment where participants can use management applications to improve enterprise performance. The environment emulates an organization with five positions occupied by individuals. The production operations are simulated by a model receiving the actualized data. After model runs, results are used in a balanced scorecard indicating how key performance indicators were affected with the changes made. After completing the training cycle, participants mentioned how difficult was at the beginning to be involved in order to achieve the challenge of improving profitability, but after well understood the production process, with a well communication system among them, and analyzing the key indicators, they could find the causes of low productivity and improved it. In this way, they were able to understand how strategies help to improve profitability. Considering this tool as a serious game, it is expected to reach an approach to situated learning in management field.


Purpose—The role of cerebrovascular dysfunction in seizure disorders is recognized. Bloodbrain barrier (BBB) damage in epilepsy has been linked to endothelial and glial pathophysiological changes. Little is known about the involvement of pericytes, a cell type that contributes to BBB function. Methods—NG2DsRed mice were used to visualize cerebrovascular pericytes. The pattern of vascular and parenchymal distribution of platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRβ) cells was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. Status epilepticus was induced in NG2DsRed or C57BL/6J mice by intraperitoneal kainic acid (KA). Animals were perfused intracardially using FITC-Dextran or FITC-Albumin to visualize the cerebrovasculature. Colocalization was performed between NG2DsRed, PDGFRβ and microglia IBA-1. Confocal 3D vessel reconstruction was used to visualize changes in cell morphology and position. PDGFRβ expression was also evaluated in vitro using organotypic hippocampal cultures (OHC) treated with kainic acid to induce seizure-like activity. Co-localization of PDGFRβ with the vascular marker RECA-1 and NG2 was performed. Finally, we assessed the expression of PDGFRβ in brain specimens obtained from a cohort of patients affected by drug resistant epilepsy compared to available autoptic brain. ©2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Corresponding Author: Dr. Nicola Marchi. Cerebrovascular Mechanisms of Brain Disorders, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (CNRS UMR5203, INSERM U661) 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34094 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France. email@example.com. Conflict of interest. The Authors have no financial or conflict of interest to declare. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Neurobiol Dis. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 November 01. Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Dis. 2014 November ; 0: 151–158. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2014.07.010. N IH -P A A uhor M anscript N IH -P A A uhor M anscript N IH -P A A uhor M anscript Results—In vivo, severe status epilepticus (SE) altered NG2DsRed vascular coverage. We found dishomogenous NG2DsRed perivascular ramifications after SE and compared to control. Concomitantly, PDGFRβ+ cells re-distributed towards the cerebrovasculature after severe SE. Cerebrovascular NG2DsRed partially colocalized with PDGFRβ+ while parenchymal PDGFRβ+ cells did not colocalize with IBA-1+ microglia. Using in vitro OHC we found decreased NG2 vascular staining and increased PDGFRβ+ ramifications associated with RECA-1+ microvessels after seizure-like activity. Cellular PDGFRβ and NG2+ colocalization was observed in the parenchyma. Finally, analysis of human TLE brains revealed perivascular and parenchymal PDGFRβ+ cells distribution resembling the murine in vivo and in vitro results. PDGFRβ+ cells at the cerebrovasculature were more frequent in TLE brain tissues as compared to the autoptic control. Conclusions—The rearrangement of PDGFRβ+ and vascular NG2DsRed cells after SE suggest a possible involvement of pericytes in the cerebrovascular modifications observed in epilepsy. The functional role of vascular-parenchymal PDGFRβ+ cell redistribution and the relevance of a pericyte response to SE remain to be fully elucidated.


From the design of sensors,weight choice and load standard etc.,the paper discussed the strain plan design of using optical fiber strain sensor to measure bitumen pavement structure.


A two-level (village or town, household level) characterization of inland-valley areas was undertaken in order to assess the potentials and constraints associated with inland-valleys agriculture production in a croplivestock system in 3 west african countries (Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Nigeria). User groups and opinion leaders in 71 villages and towns and over 630 farm households were surveyed. Results show that information obtained from the village or town level (semi-detailed) substantiates those from the household level
(detailed). In the three countries, 89 - 95 % of the villages/towns surveyed were located at less than 10 km to major roads or highways and 55 - 90 % at less than 20 km from commercial centres, except in Mali (25 %). In Nigeria, 38 and 88 % of the villages/towns had population size greater than 5000 inhabitants, whereas few village or town had that size in Mali (22 %) and Cote d'Ivoire (5.3 %). Flooding of the valley bottom occurs almost every year, with a period extending from june to december or january, depending on the
country). Farmers were aware of benefits drawn from the use of the inland-valleys to increase food and livestock production, as well as increasing cash incomes and the health status of children. They were also aware of the constraints associated with their use. These included inadequate animal feed, livestock respiratory diseases, trypanosomosis, limited animal genotype capacity and the lack of appropriate technologies. Household utilization of inland-valleys for livestock varied within and accross the three countries. Nevertheless, results showed the presence of livestock in the inland-valleys and the existence
of a growing market oriented dairy activities. Des caracterisations semi detaillees et detaillees pour definir les potentialites, opportunites et contraintes liees a l'utilisation des bas-fonds pour la production laitiere dans un systeme d'association agriculture -
elevage, ont ete faites aupres des chefs de groupes de 71 villages ou villes et de plus de 630 chefs de menages au Nigeria, en Cote d'Ivoire et au Mali. ). Les villages ou villes enquetes sont situes pour la plupart (89 - 95 %) a moins de 10 km des routes principales et a moins de 20 km des centres urbains (55 - 90 %), sauf au Mali (25 %). Au Nigeria, 38 et 88 % des villages ou villes ont une taille de populations superieure a 5000 ; alors que peu de villages ou villes ont cette taille au Mali (22 %) et en Cote d'Ivoire (5,3 %). L'innondation
des bas-fonds a lieu presque tous les ans avec des periodes allant de juin a decembre ou janvier, selon le pays. Les informations fournies par les chefs de menage confirment celles des chefs de groupes. Ainsi, les fermiers reconnaissent le role benefique des bas-fonds dans l'accroissement de la production vegetale et animale, du revenu, et de la sante des enfants. Ils sont aussi conscients des contraintes liees a leur utilisation, a savoir, le manque d'aliment pour le betail, les maladies respiratoires, la trypanosomiase, les limites de
production des races d'animaux et l'absence de technologies de production appropriees. L'utilisation des bas-fonds et de leurs ressources varie entre les trois pays et a l'interieur d'un meme pays. Cependant les resultats ont montre la presence de cheptel dans les bas-fonds et l'existence d'activites croissantes de production laitiere a but commercial. Ceci montre les potentialites des bas-fonds en production laitiere. Keywords : Inland-valley, crop production, cattle, dairy, West Africa. Agronomie Africaine Vol. 18 (2) 2006: pp. 105-116


The integration of simulation tools into development processes of reacting CFBs creates process understanding and optimisation opportunities at very early stages and thus helps to avoid costly wrong decisions. It can significantly reduce time requirements while increasing the quality of the resulting process.


The determination of collision free grips is an important aspect of random bin picking, which describes the separation of unordered workpieces stored in bins by an industrial robot. Heuristic search algorithms are an appropriate approach to this problem. In this paper, we analyze the influence of relative height and lateral position of workpieces as well as orientation of tool center points on finding valid grips. From these results, we deduce heuristic functions, which can be used to improve the aforementioned heuristic search algorithms. Being able to reduce the calculation time for grip determination reduces overall cycle time and therefore makes bin picking more applicable for the producing industry.


The main purpose of this study is to identify online customer behavior characteristics of online/offline purchasing customers. Identified online customer behavior characteristics may provide new research directions. Which eventually give the opportunity to try out new ways to improve customer experience and performance across channels and can help omni-channel retailers.
A website can provide customers with information about products, opening hours, driving directions, showrooms stock information, etc. Further the website usability and visual design can influence the behavior of customers. But when a website is usability friendly and has an attractive visual design is no guarantee for success. This is because customers have the ability to use different online marketing touchpoints to find and visit the right website.
To identify online customer behavior characteristics, there are 16.919 customers invited to participate in a survey. All invited customers were from a retailer operating with an e-commerce website and two physical showrooms. In total, 857 customers who purchased at the website and 737 customers who visited the website and purchased at the physical store completed the online survey.
Analysis of the results under the respondents gave insights into identifiable online customer behavior characteristics of online/offline purchasing customers. For example, customers most often used website information such as the product description, size, photo's and product price. Further product reviews are valued more relevant, useful and more often contain the right information compared with company reviews. And this study also indicate that search engines are most often used online marketing touchpoints to visit the website.
The conclusion and recommendations in this study, allow click and brick retailers to further optimize their omni-channel strategy across channels. Furthermore this study gives research direction to researchers to further explore the effects of integrating website information and features across channels.


The current study endeavors to examine the learning and comprehension patterns of English aspect categories by Yemeni EFL students in the different levels of undergraduate program at the English department, faculty of arts at Sana'a University. The data of the study were collected from a total of 120 students covering the four levels of undergraduate program. From each level, a group of thirty students were considered. The data on aspectual categories were analyzed by using statistical models like one-way analysis of variance ANOVA in SPSS 16.0 and Tukey Post Hoc test. The statistical analysis indicates that (1) there is significant differences in the correct uses of the various English aspect categories across the four levels and (2) errors were not equally distributed within all English aspect categories. (3) the use of Tukey Post Hoc test further suggests that performances at specific levels are significantly different from each other. Furthermore, present perfect tense has received the lowest correct answers across all levels, hence it is considered to be the most problematic among the other categories. The role of Arabic influences has been noticed to be negatively affecting the process of learning and comprehension of aspect categories in the initial years, especially in level one students. Some pedagogical implications have been given.


The Productive Migrant Village Program (Desmigratif) is a breakthrough effort by the Ministry of Manpower in collaboration with various institutions to empower, improve services and provide protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers/Migrant Worker applicants in villages that become migrant worker enclaves. Empowerment through Desmigratif program applies 4 (four) main pillars as a reference for community empowerment. The purpose of this study is to find out the empowerment of the Productive Migrant Village (Desmigratif) program. The research method used in this research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. Data collection methods used were interviews, observation and documentation. The analytical method used in this study is data collection, data condensation, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The focus of this research is the process of empowering post-migrant family empowerment through the Desmigratif program and the stakeholders involved in this empowerment process. The results showed that the empowerment process included the implementation of the Desmigratif program in Bedali village, is providing information and migration services, developing productive businesses, facilitating the formation of a parenting community and facilitating the formation and the development of cooperatives / financial institutions. The stakeholders also involve in the development of the Desmigratif program are the local village government, the person in charge or the companio. And the postIndonesian Migrant Worker community can succeed and maximize this Desmigratif program. Keywords—empowerment, Indonesian migrant workers, the productive migrant village program


This study was carried out to examine the concentration of heavy metals in fishes, sediments, and their associated human health implications from Bonny Estuary, Rivers, Nigeria. A total of twenty-four (24) fish specimens and four (4) sediment specimens were gathered and tested using standardized procedures for essential and non-essential trace metals. Simple descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. In fish specimens, health risk indices for both carcinogenic as well as non-carcinogenic impacts of heavy metals were evaluated. The result of metal concentrations in Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias Gariepinus revealed Pb (10.88±3.24 to 37.12±0.42 mg/kg) and Cd (0.94±0.66 to 1.16±0.10 mg/kg) were greater than Food and Agriculture Organization allowable limits. The bioaccumulation variable revealed Pb as the greatest metal accumulator in both O.niloticus and C.gariepinus from sediment specimens. Pb had a hazard quotient (HQ) greater than 1.0, indicative of non-carcinogenic side effects. Cancer Danger (CR) values of Lead (Pb) in Oreochromis niloticus varied from 1.1 × 10−2 to 2.7 × 10−2, while those in Clarias gariepinus ranged from 1.5 × 10−2 to 3.3 × 10−2, showing that both breeds are carcinogenic. The CR values of Cd were as well discovered to surpass the standard parameters of 1.0 × 10−4. The results of this study reveal worrisome levels of Pb and Cd, which need an immediate awareness and quick response to mitigate their associated health risk.


This study aims to 1. Understand how to make breadfruit leaves beverages with apple  and  mango flavoring  2.  Determine  whether  using  breadfruit  leaves  with  apple  and mango  flavorings  are favorable  to consumers.  This  study  uses  a  two-way  ANOVA  to determine  the  level  of  organoleptic  significance,  namely  the  hedonic  test  and  hedonic quality,  while  for  the  consumer  test,  researchers  used  the  Friedman  test  to  determine  the level  of  consumers  to  the  breadfruit  leaf  beverage  product  with  the  addition  of  flavor. Results of organoleptic tests are as follows; breadfruit leaves beverages with the addition of apple flavor by 5% has the highest yield for hedonic tests with an average value of 43.1 and for  mango  flavorings  the  highest  value  for  mango  flavoring  is  7%  with  a  value  of  43.4. After  conducting  a  consumer  test  using  the  Friedman  Test,  it  can  be  obtained  that  the breadfruit leaf beverage with the addition of mango flavoring by 7% has a high average of navigation level compared to the other 16.5.


The fishing ground surrounding Wangdol-cho is not only overexploited by the littering of dilapidated fishing net and equipment, but also by fishermen's overfishing, surpassing optimum fisheries resources. In addition, increasing fishing efforts (number of fishing vessel and fishing net, etc) contribute to the deterioration of fishing ground, and it is urgently required that schemes to tackle the problems should be taken. To effectively address the problems as such, this paper aims to propose sustainable utilization and management scheme of fishing ground through classification of fishing ground surrounding Wangdol-cho as one area which is less than 50m deep, measuring and the other, permission fishing area of Gill Net fishery, measuring . The analysis shows that, for the water area less than 50m deep, implementation from a short-term perspective includes autonomous management fishery by gill net and trap fishery. For the permission fishing area of Gill Net fishery, implementation includes limit on fishing period, real name system of fishing equipment and limit on fishing equipment. Implementation from a medium and long-term perspective includes limit on scuba diving, designation of underwater sightseeing zone, sea farming, facilities of surveillance, adoption of approval system for the permission fishing area of Gill Net fishery and introduction of report system for fishing.


The conventional setup for electrospinning has been modified to generate uniaxially aligned arrays of nanofibers over large areas. By using a collector with conductive strips separated by an insulating gap of variable width, these arrays could be directly fabricated during the electrospinning process. Directed by electrostatic forces, the charged nanofibers were stretched across the gap in a uniaxially aligned fashion. It was also versatile to stack the nanofibers into multilayered architectures with well-controlled hierarchical structures by using multiple electrode pairs patterned on an insulating substrate. Both methods have been applied to nanofibers consisting of organic polymers, carbon, ceramics, and composites. The facile formation of uniaxially aligned arrays of nanofibers with controlled positions and orientations on a solid substrate makes it possible to fabricate electrospun nanofiber-based devices and systems.


Results of a 1989 study of behavioral science requirements in the preparation of secondary social studies teachers are compared with those of a similar study reported in 1984. Results indicate a substantial decline in the role of behavioral sciences in the preparation of secondary social studies teachers compared to history, geography, and other social sciences.


Peri-sinusoidal portal hypertension with frequent episodes of upper gastro intestinal variceal bleeding are hallmarks of hepatic-splenic schistosomiasis (Mansoni or Japonicum). This a prospective study compromise of 306 consecutive patients at North Gezira State between 2016 to 2019, aimed to characterize the portal hypertension &to minimize potentiallysevere and deadly complications. Using  B-mode grayscale ultrasound, The images done by portable Sono- Scape- A6 machine using convex probe with frequency range from 3.5 to 5 MHz and the data analyzed by SPSS version 15.The result showed that the majority of patients were male and portal hypertension had high incidence associated with peri portal fibrosis(schistosomiasis), the result also showed that : out of 360 patients under study, there were 209(58.1%) had portal hypertension, 106(29.4%) had PPF, and 45(12.5%) were normal patients.  The study concluded that the portable ultrasound machine is the most frequently used imaging modality to assess patients for the presence of portal hypertension especially in the endemic area.


C omplete tracheal disruption is an uncommon injury (1) that may be lethal because of the difficulties of accurate anatomical diagnosis and perioperative airway management (2). We report a case of complete tracheal disruption associated with huge bilateral pneumothoraces. The percutaneous cardiopulmonary support system (PCPS) was used during the reconstruction of the trachea without chest drainage for pneumothoraces.


Assessment of the state of the environment with observational data is one of the most urgent modern issues. Such an assessment can be made using forecast models based on data assimilation systems. One of the most popular algorithms for data assimilation is the ensemble Kalman filter, in which the forecast error covariance is estimated using an ensemble of forecasts for perturbed initial fields. Parameter estimation is an important part of atmospheric chemistry modelling. In particular, pollutant emission may be a parameter to be estimated. A single-time estimation based on observations may not give the required accuracy. In this context, the method of ensemble smoothing (EnKS), which uses data from the entire time interval to estimate the parameter at a given time, is becoming increasingly popular. In this paper, we consider a generalization of a previously proposed method called the ensemble π-algorithm, which is a variant of stochastic ensemble Kalman filter. The generalized algorithm is an ensemble smoothing algorithm in which ensemble smoothing is performed for the sample average value and then the ensemble of perturbations is transformed. The proposed algorithm is stochastic. Numerical experiments with a 1-dimensional advection-diffusion model are carried out with the smoothing algorithm proposed in the article.


Assay of products of degradation is important to evaluate the economic value of the possible by-products of the fermentation process as well as to get a suggestive idea for the mechanism of degradation. Four native keratinase producing isolates identified as Bacillus sps. and producing < 10KU/ml were subjected to strain improvement and optimization of parameters of fermentation to yield 500KU/ml. The four improved isolates (MBF11, MBF20, MBF21, MBF45) were analysed for degradative products of fermentation. The results clearly indicated a significant increase in the amounts sulfur containing amino acids with optimum levels observed on 5th to 6th days of fermentation. Maximum concentration cysteine was in the range of 12.5-14μg/ml whereas that of cystine reached 18.1-15.7 μg/ml for all the isolates. Maximum concentration of methionine reached 2.1-2.9 μg/ml. Quantity of inorganic sulphur is significantly lower than organic sulphur. Highest concentration, 3.1-3.7 μg/ml of free aminoacids was recorded for the four improved isolates. Sulfitolysis along with cleavage at other aminoacyl sites is the suggestive mechanism of degradation.


According to the estimate for 1946-47 of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO),only people of Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Eire, and Sweden were consuming 95 per cent or over of their prewar calorie intakes. At the low extreme, people of Austria, Germany and Rumania were getting only 80 per cent or less. Residents of remaining European countries consumed between 80 per cent and 95 per cent of their prewar amounts. The figures refer to urban populations. Farmers, even in countries hardest hit, still consume as much as, or more than, they did before the war. Low levels of con-


In power systems, there exists a continuous challenge to improve dynamic performance of power system. The Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) is a power electronic based device that has the capability of controlling the power flow through a line. This study applies the Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) to control the power flow during dynamic period. To verify the effect of the STATCOM on dynamic performance, the mathematical model and control strategy of a STATCOM are needed to be presented. The converters of STATCOM are represented by variable voltage source with associate transformer leakage reactance and the voltage source and the reactance are transformed into current injection. The current injection model of STATCOM are modeled into power flow equation and thus it has used to determine control strategy. This study applies the PI control to determine the control strategy of STATCOM. The Harmonics elimination and THD values are arrived and displayed in results using MATLAB Simulink.


Quality education, humane education and creative education are the final goal of the education of this century .The basic aim of school education is how to train the students' comprehensive quality. Music appreciation has many uses in the trining of the students' comprehensive quality. The following things should be paid more attention to in the teaching of music appreciation: enrich the content, arise the students'phychological activities, create harmonious and democratic teaching environment; try to use more teaching skills and provide the students with the chances to join in and show themselves


Throughout this century, engineer-managers have emphasized the need for improved engineering curricula which would train students to be effective communicators, as well as competent engineers. And throughout this century, administrators and faculty in engineering schools have devised ways to meet this challenge from industry. Yet as we approach the close of this century, we find engineer-managers still calling for improved curricula to integrate communication and engineering instruction. In the January 1998 issue of the Prism, for example, Rodger Payne reiterated this oft-heard recommendation from industry to academe: "[I]ndustry representatives told [engineering deans] time and again that while engineering graduates are intelligent and possess technical skills, they need to be better prepared to communicate, work in teams, and contribute to problem solving—all on their first day on the job." 1 It seems that the problem of how to integrate communication and engineering instruction is at least persistent, if not insoluble. If engineer-managers are calling for stronger ties between industry and academe, this refrain is echoed by professional communicators. Writing in the February 1998 issue of Technical Communication, George Hayhoe called for the same type of collaboration that Payne recommended in an engineering context: "Technical communicators in the academy and industry need to explore a new model of education for the next millennium, one that fosters, promotes, and actively pursues learning—and learning to learn." 2


In this paper, a modified Legendre rational method is discussed for the Burgers equation on the half infinite interval. A fully discrete spectral approximation scheme which possesses the essential conservation properties is established. The stability and the convergence of the discrete scheme are proved by the prior estimate and the error estimate, respectively.


Thermal addition reactions of 2-substituted tropones and 8, 8-dicyanoheptafulvene with benzocyclobutadiene proceeded stereoselectively to produce endo-[2π+4π]-type cyclo adducts, where the troponoid compounds acted as 4π components. Molecular orbital calculations were employed to explain the selectivity.


The invention relates to a pneumatic embrittlement method for shale gas exploitation, wherein the method comprises the following step of: applying a high-temperature compression gas with at least two different pressures to a shale rock stratum repeatedly and alternatively until a crack structure is formed for the shale rock stratum, wherein the temperature of the high-temperature compression gas is at least 80 DEG C, the highest pressure is at least 25MPa, and the lowest pressure is 1/4-1/3 of the maximum pressure. According to the method, high-temperature compression air or high-temperature compression carbon dioxide gas is preferably selected as the high-temperature compression gas. When the high-temperature compression gas is the high-temperature compression air, the temperature of the high-temperature compression gas is at least 150 DEG C, and the highest pressure is at least 45MPa; and when the high-temperature compression gas is high-temperature compression carbon dioxide gas, the temperature of the high-temperature compression gas is at least 80 DEG C, and the highest pressure is at least 25MPa.


The present invention discloses the management method of the latitude and the longitude of a base station. The method comprises the following processing processes: A, an operation maintenance center sends request to the base station, and informs the base station to report self latitude and longitude; B, the operation maintenance center gets the latitude and the longitude information reported by the base station and allocates the information to a latitude and longitude information management module. The present invention reports the latitude and the longitude through the base station, the operation maintenance center allocates to the latitude and longitude information management module, thus the latitude and the longitude information can be effectively input and managed, the manual workload is reduced, and the manual input error is avoided.


Abstract In some Bantu languages of western Uganda, we find an interesting construction in which typical transitive verbs such as "to cut (a tree)," "to bend (a wire)," "to smoke (meat)," "to tear (paper)," "to open (a door)," etc., are used intransitively, without any additional suffixes such as passive and neuter. I call this construction the syntactically intransitive construction of transitive verbs, and illustrate it with examples from Tooro, a Bantu language of western Uganda. However, two important restrictions apply regarding the use of this construction. One is that among transitive verbs, only those causing a change of state that take human agents and inanimate objects may be used intransitively, with inanimate objects being promoted to the subject position. The second restriction is that this construction may only be used with the perfective ending -ire/-ere. This last point indicates that this construction is distinct from typical labile verb constructions that, in principle, occur in all tenses, aspects and moods. The analysis of the intransitive construction of transitive verbs inevitably raises the issue of the stative nature of perfective actions.


This document examines several applicable methods to ensure privacy of data gathered in the health care sector. To ensure a common understanding of the topic, the introduction explains the need for anonymization methods based on an example. Next, reasons for data collection are introduced in connection to the purpose to protect mentioned data, as well as currently applicable privacy laws to enforce this privacy. The question"What kind of privacy we are talking about and what conditions have to be fulfilled?"is dealt with in the subsequent chapter"Differential Privacy". Thus being established, common anonymization methods are explained and reviewed for their use in the healthcare sector. The RAPPOR algorithm and its differential privacy is dealt with in more detail before coming to a conclusion.


Estimating the contact angle of a virus infected saliva droplet is seen to be an important area of research as it presents an idea about the drying time of the respective droplet and in turn of the growth of the underlying pandemic. In this paper we extend the data presented by Balusamy, Banerjee and Sahu ["Lifetime of sessile saliva droplets in the context of SARS-CoV-2," Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 123, 105178 (2021)], where the contact angles are fitted using a newly proposed half-circular wrapped-exponential model, and a sequential confidence interval estimation approach is established which largely reduces both time and cost with regards to data collection.


Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how social forces are imposed on fund managers when they do their jobs of observing company information, in particular intellectual capital (IC) information. Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses a qualitative research approach involving interviews with 14 fund managers in Stockholm. The empirical analysis and the theoretical discussion are influenced by a combination of system and network theories where social networks are built up by communication. Findings - Fund managers are influenced by the rationale of social networks when they reduce the complexity in company information. Three social forces emerged from the empirical data which influence fund managers when they deal with corporate information; the involvement of the organisational code, the market price and rationale, and the agenda surrounding a company. Furthermore, increased complexity of IC information does not seem to bother fund managers. The rationale of interacting social networks reduces this complexity in order for the information to make sense in its meaning-based reproduction. Originality/value - This paper argues that in order to deepen our understanding about the communication between companies and actors on the capital market we need to open up the issue of how complexity is dealt with. Based on the theoretical framework used in the study, information barriers become variables between the rationales of social networks.


This chapter reviews user studies to look at the early era (roughly 2001-2007) of camera phone and MMS (multimedia messaging services) use. It then considers the role played by one of the main regional and global industry actors (Nokia) in shaping the technology and then responding to user trends and innovation. The studies reviewed show that early camera phone users embraced this technology as a significantly enhanced form of the portable analog camera, as opposed to being more enthralled with photo messaging as industry players like Nokia had hoped. The chapter concludes by arguing that technological innovation and use are impacted by many factors besides industrial design and marketing.


THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISEMENT, COMMITMENT, AND TRUST TOWARD RELATIONSHIP MARKETING
(The Studies of consumer Ladyfameshop in Bandar Lampung)

purpose of this study is to determine how the effect of advertisement (X1), commitmenT (X2), and trust (X3) toward relationship marketing (Y) on consumer ladyfameshop. This study uses quantitative methods with sample of 100 consumer ladyfameshop in Bandar Lampung who have made transactions in online shop of ladyfamehsop. Techniques of data collection uses questionnaires. The instrument test uses validity and reliability test. Techniques of data anaysis uses classic assumption test, multiple linier regression test, hypothesis test with t test and determination (R2) test.
Based of the result of study parcially, gets results from advertisement variable has value of tcount equal to 4,764 with ttabel equal to 1,661 which is mean tcount > ttabel. Then X1 and X3 are said have a significant effect toward Y variable. The commitment variable has value of tcount equal to 1,470 which is mean tcount > ttabel, then X2 are said no effect toward Y variable.

Keywords: Relationship Marketing, Advertisement, Commitment, and Trust.


S. Goldberg, J. Grusec, and J. M. Jenkins (1999) provided a thorough review of J. Bowlby's (1982) work and offered a persuasive argument to consider confidence in protection as the roots of the parent-child attachment system. In an attempt to explore implications of their work, confidence in protection is examined from a developmental psychopathology perspective, with issues highlighted specifically about the role of family functioning, as well as the notion of risk and protection mechanisms. Questions are raised in the spirit of responding to and extending S. Goldberg et al.'s (1999) thought-provoking analysis.


The basic purpose of this article is to form suitable terminology and definitions for musical talent that include important fields of evaluating the characteristics of musical talent. It also aims to carry out research into some characteristics of a sample of musically talented Slovene pupils in the area of musical abilities at the elementary school level, especially from the aspect of finding possible differences related to gender and age. The research involved 86 elementary school teachers from twelve Slovene schools (city and rural) who teach first to fifth grade (6-10 year-old pupils). 86 musically talented pupils were evaluated. It is surprising that of the musically talented pupils nominated, 72.1% were girls and only 27.9% were boys. Based on the results, we tried to prove the hypothesis that gender is not a differential factor of the characteristics of most musically talented pupils in the area of musical abilities. There were only two characteristics that showed a statistically significant difference between boys and girls: the variable of listening with directed attention was expressed more by girls and tonal stability was expressed more by boys. Contrary to our expectations, age (6-10 years old) was not found to be an important differentiation factor in the characteristics of musically talented pupils in the area of musical abilities.


...................................................................................................................................... vii Chapter One: Introduction ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Statement of the Problem ...................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Significance of the Study ..................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Research Questions. .............................................................................................................. 4 1.4 The Structure of the Thesis ................................................................................................... 4 Chapter Two: Review of Literature ............................................................................................ 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Historical Overview of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary ................................................ 6 2.2 Depth and Bredth of Vocabualry Knowledge ...................................................................... 9 2.3 Approaches to Vocabulary Leanring Process ....................................................................... 9 2.3.1 Explicit Vocabulary Learning .......................................................................................... 10 2.3.1 Implicit Vocabualry Learning .......................................................................................... 11 2.4 Assessment in Language Teaching and Learning ............................................................... 14 2.5 Summative vs. Formative Assessment ............................................................................... 17 2.6 The Purpose and Benefits of Formative Assesment .......................................................... 20 2.7 Elements Involved in Formative Assesment Practice ......................................................... 28 2.7 The Application of Formative Assesment in Vocabualry Learning ................................... 36 Chapter 3: Methodology............................................................................................................. 42 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 42 3.1 Research Design.................................................................................................................. 42 3.2 Setting and Participants....................................................................................................... 42 3.3 Materials ............................................................................................................................. 44 3.4 Instrumentation ................................................................................................................... 45


With the narrowing of Congress' Article I power to regulate interstate commerce and to authorize private suits against states, Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment provides Congress with an increasingly important alternative source of power to regulate and police state conduct. However, in City of Boerne v. Flores and subsequent cases, the Supreme Court has tightened the doctrinal test for prophylactic legislation based on Section Five. The Court has clarified Section Five's legitimate ends by holding that Congress may enforce Fourteenth Amendment rights only as they are defined by the federal judiciary, and the Court has constrained Section Five's permissible means by holding that Section 5 measures must be "congruent and proportional" to a legitimate end thus defined. This article argues that the means-ends test for Section Five legislation should be the same as the conventional "rational relationship" test established by McCulloch v. Maryland, not the "congruence and proportionality" test that the Court has recently adopted. The textual language and the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment support this argument, while neither separation of powers nor federalism principles persuasively justify the Court's contrary position. Finally, this article speculates about the significance of Section Five's tightened means-end scrutiny for other sources of congressional power.


Introduction Insight into the epitopic recognition pattern for polyclonal antivenoms is a strong tool for accurate prediction of antivenom cross-reactivity and provides a basis for design of novel antivenoms. In this work, a high-throughput approach was applied to characterize linear epitopes in 966 individual toxins from pit vipers (Crotalidae) using the ICP Crotalidae antivenom. Due to an abundance of snake venom metalloproteinases and phospholipase A2s in the venoms used for production of the investigated antivenom, this study focuses on these toxin families.


can be difficult to manage in the classroom as students struggle with their identity and "voice," negotiate relative privilege, and cope with negative emotions. Similarly, the chapters on mentoring (Chapter 9) and educational institutions (Chapter 10) provide good reviews of the relevant literature and identify prominent issues as teachers strive to approach their work in ways that are consistent with feminist and multicultural perspectives, despite substantial interpersonal and institutional pressure to operate hierarchically. In describing current literature, the authors highlight the need for additional research focused on diverse populations of students. It is significant in the evaluation of the pedagogical theories described in the first part of the book that they suffer from lack of empirical support. Minimal research has been conducted to evaluate whether feminist and multicultural pedagogical models are effective for students in classrooms (p. 110), or for teachers and students in mentoring relationships (p. 150). I found the second part of the book less satisfying because it did not provide guidance for practice as therapists or teachers. However, Teaching and Social Justice achieves the stated purpose— theoretical review and integration. In discussing academic contexts, the authors call for integration of the described theories in interactions with students, but provide little guidance on how this can be done. Whereas other books exist that are more explicitly focused on providing teaching guidance (e.g., Adams, Bell, & Griffin, 1997; Bronstein & Quina, 2003; Fisher, 2001), these previous volumes do not succinctly describe the connection between the techniques and specific theory, and do not address teaching in a way that integrates theory. The beauty and frustration of this book is that it accurately describes the complexity of problems facing teachers who wish to integrate and use multicultural and feminist theory in their classrooms but does not explain how this could be done. The readability and style of Teaching and Social Justice are very good. Although the writing tends to rely on complex terminology, this cannot be helped. The content is dense, but the authors have been as clear as possible. Moreover, the editors have done an exceptional job of maintaining a consistent structure and style throughout the chapters, enhancing the quality and readability of the text. Although individual chapters could stand alone (e.g., to explicate theoretical perspectives), presented together they create a unified whole. The book is an excellent resource for creative teachers who can build on the substantial theoretical foundation laid out here as they work toward social justice.


The portrait of Alexander Murray, 8th Baron Elibank, by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), the recent gift1 of Mr. Edward F. Fisher, adds to our collection an admirable example of this famous Scottish painter. It possessès all those qualities the ease, largeness and deceptive simplicity of style, the warm, dusky luminous line which distinguish him as a painter. At first glance, nothing could seem more natural and uncomplicated than this kind of painting. It is only as one tries to analyze what produces this effect of transparent simplicity that one discovers the stylist and the student of human nature, or in short, the artist in Raeburn the portrait painter. The man sits before you, the embodiment of vitality and masculine firmness; yet there is a relaxation, almost a softness in his mood. It is so that one appears who speaks in a mood of reminiscence, half to himself, half to another, of one's memories and inner life. It is the image of a human being seen in a revealing moment. One has only to look about to discover how rare this quality is in portrait painting. The man thus seen is Alexander Murray, 8th Baron Elibank (1780-1830). He was the eldest son and carried the courtesy title of Master of Elibank until September, 1820, when he succeeded his father in the Barony. In 1797 he received a commission as Ensign in the Coldstream Guards and served in this regiment for eighteen years, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1803 he married Janet, daughter of John Oliphant of Buchhilton, County Perth.


Intereconomics, July/August 2009 246 Three nights of street battles, arson and looting across central Athens, generally major street incidents/riots that became headlines in the international press. This is what we had in Greece in December 2008. Since then, extended violence, attacks to the stores in downtown Athens and almost daily illegal and lawless activities within University campuses have become an everyday reality. As students, and generally the youth, are the main "street riot protagonists", we shall proceed to a detailed analysis regarding this social and political turbulence by focusing on its economic roots and causes.


This paper provides dates, transcriptions, captions, and some context for eighty-four postcards that L.M. Montgomery mailed to George Boyd MacMillan during the years of their long-term correspondence. This inventory also includes four postcards that MacMillan sent to Montgomery.


In the coming future, it is obvious that the wireless networks will be congested with massive amounts of data traffic with the increasing number of users. Current multiple access techniques will certainly not have the capability to efficiently serve in the massively congested scenarios. In recent times, nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recognized as an immensely potential technique for 5G and beyond communications that can increase spectral efficiency to a greater extent serving a vast number of users. However, several circumscriptions are observed in NOMA such as the requirement of a perfect channel state information in the transmitter and high computational complexity in the receiver. The use of deep learning (DL) techniques is a great resolution to deal with the challenges. This paper discusses the applications of the DL methods in NOMA for 5G and beyond communications. Firstly, the deep neural networks that are employed in NOMA are listed up and discussed. After that, their functions are studied specifically focusing on how to improve the NOMA performance. Finally, the possible future challenges and research issues are identified at the end of the paper.


Although LQG regulators have been used in many engineering fields, the relevant control technique still requires further development, particularly when the disturbances are random and non‐stationary. Therefore this paper presents a new method for non‐stationary seismic random excitations in which LQG control is applied to adjacent tall buildings which are connected together by active hydraulic actuators. The ground motion is induced by non‐stationary uniformly modulated white noise excitation of the bedrock which passes through a single layered soil which is regarded as a single‐peak filter. This represents an advance on other papers in the literature, which use stationary random white noise or filtered white noise as the ground excitation. The method uses the pseudo excitation method in conjunction with two different precise integration schemes to analyse structural non‐stationary seismic random responses via solution of the differential Riccati equations of this transient LQG control process. Unlike previous work in the literature, the performance index used has a finite time region, rather than an infinite one. Reasonable control effects are demonstrated via numerical simulation for two adjacent 20‐storey buildings which are connected by hydraulic activators. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Purpose For cervical carcinoma, the presence of persistent disease after radiotherapy (RT) is a significant predictor for survival. To date, no standard protocol is available to evaluate a response. This study was performed to assess magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate presence of local residual disease during and after RT for Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage Ib1-IVa cervical cancer. Material and methods Forty-two patients were included. Patients underwent MRI before external beam RT, at final intracavitary brachytherapy (BCT) and 2-3 months after completion of RT. Two blinded radiologists (observer 1: experienced, observer 2: less experienced) scored the likelihood of residual tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging was evaluated by means of (a) 'subjective' visual evaluation of T2 weighted MRI images, and (b) 'objective' visual evaluation of T2 weighted MRI images according to predefined imaging criteria. Results Seven patients had residual disease. Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) for 'subjective' visual assessment was 0.79/0.75 (observer 1/observer 2) after RT and 0.75/0.43 at final BCT. The combined 'objective' MRI criteria (isointense, nodular, and irregular) resulted in improved prediction of residual tumor (AUCs of 0.91/0.85 after RT). For the less experienced observer, the MRI criteria set significantly improved prediction of residual tumor compared to 'subjective' visual assessment. Observer dependency decreased, kappa of 0.41 compared to 0.84 for the MRI criteria set after RT. Conclusion Compared to 'subjective' visual assessment, predefined 'objective' MRI criteria increase diagnostic performance and decrease observer dependency for assessing residual tumor after RT in cervical cancer.


The salt-finger phenomenon was numerically studied for the hot block solution near the top surface in water. Calculations were carried out at the Prandtl number Pr=6, the Lewis number Le=100, the Rayleigh number Ra=10 and the buoyancy ratio N=0 to 2. In the case of small light hot block solution(0<N<1), the block solution developed to a single salt-finger with a head and a tail. In the case of middle light hot block solution, a single main finger with four head fingers was formed after the diffusion of heat. However, in the case of large light hot block solution, the solution spread widely beneath the top surface and many salt-fingers occurred with time.


We deal with accurate complex multiplication in binary floating-point arithmetic, with an emphasis on the case where one of the operands is a "double-word" number. We provide an algorithm that returns a complex product with normwise relative error bound close to the best possible one, i.e., the rounding unit u.


The real estate industry has become an important pillar industry of the national economy.But the non-equivalence between estate developers and buyers in the aspects of economic status and the specialized knowledge has damaged buyers' benefits.Especially the unfair articles hiding in the advance sale contract of the commercial houses by technical terms violate not only the principle of contract freedom and the principle of balanced bilateral benefits,but also the contract justice,the highest pursuite.


Social media is an online media, with its users can easily participate, share, and create the contents of blogs, social networks, wikis, forums and the virtual world. Blogs, social networks, and wikis are the most common forms of social media used by people around the world. In the modern era like now social media is not a something strange to everyone. Social media continues to grow rapidly in line with the increasing number of internet users as well, one example of social media is Instagram. With many users and continues to increase, Instagram can be used as a business opportunity and a tool to promote and introduce a culture that is owned by a region so that culture is not lost and continues to grow. one example is the promotion of Klaten's lurik culture using Instagram. Klaten's Lurik is one of the original cultures of Klaten Regency which is made with non-machine looms and is a legacy from ancestors that must be preserved so that it is not lost in the times. The writing of this article aims to describe the form of utilization from the Instagram account @kabarklaten and @luriqo. The research method used was descriptive qualitative with content analysis on marketing strategy and promotion of Klaten's Lurik. The results of this study indicate that Instagram can be an interesting medium for the promotion and development of the Klaten's lurik culture. Instagram can be a solution to the problem of the fading of the original culture which is a legacy of ancestors.


The lifetime of the zero voltage state of a current-biased Josephson junction is reduced by the application of a weak microwave perturbation at a frequency near the plasma frequency of the junction. We call this process "resonant activation". The experimental data are in good agreement with numerical simulations.


The paper analyses the developing characteristic of a torrential rain in Wuhan,and theoretically discusses the dynamic mechanism of the torrential rain.The results show that the low-level jet(LLJ) occurred before the torrential rain,and when the torrential rain is the strongest,the LLJ is also the strongest.The existence of non-thermal wind gradients on the right side of the entrance region of the upper level jet (ULJ) and the left of the LLJ,leads to the unstable amplitude of mesoscale waves.The unstable amplitude increases towards the torrential rain area,which tallies with the maximum amplitude area of waves due to the overlapping of the two unstable waves.Under the circumstance of the coupling of the upper and low level jets,the non-thermal wind mesoscale convection-symmetric instability might be one of dynamic mechanisms resulting in torrential rain.


A necessary and sufficient coindition for the existence of positive solutions of a class of singular boundary value problems of higher order differential equations is given by means of the method of lower and upper solutions with the maximum principle.


This paper studies the construction of Frobenius algebras. We begin with a description of when a graded -algebra has a Frobenius algebra as a homomorphic image. We then turn to the question of actual constructions of Frobenius algebras. We give a, method for constructing Frobenius algebras as factor rings of special tensor algebras. Since the representation theory of special tensor algebras has been studied intensively ([6], see also [2; 3; 4]), our results permit the construction of Frobenius algebras which have representations with prescribed properties. Such constructions were successfully used in [9].