where some MSS. give vel longo murmure. It is needless to cite instances of so familiar an idiom as manus adferre = vim adferre; but it might be objected that if this had been Propertius' meaning, it would have been expressed normally by fretis vestris, not by in freta vestra. Metrical convenience might excuse a variation, in itself reasonable enough, from usage. But the following passages may be added in support:


Soil protection works have become popular due to their immense contribution to protecting the building from land sliding. A building structure requires a stable foundation to ensure best construction and durability. There are various engineering techniques in soil protection works, this paper consists of the Soil nailing procedure adopted in the Northwest Commercial multi-use (NWCM) Project of Karle Infra Pvt. Ltd Company, currently executed by the vendor Geoengineering Pvt. Ltd. Soil nailing technique is used to stabilize the existing slope and construct retaining walls from top down. Steel nails are used as a reinforcement of soil which are drilled and grouted into the soil to create a compound mass similar to a gravity wall. The Soil nailing procedure is an alleviative measure to handle unstable natural soil slopes or unstable filled slopes. Soil protection works include multiple activities that occur in a systematic and sequential manner. The critical activities influencing the duration, schedule and progress of soil protection works are identified and a time-motion study is used as a tool to identify the difference in productivity to improve the progress of the soil protection work. Each activity of grouted nailing for one lift of excavation is carefully analyzed to record the time spent for that activity and to identify areas to reduce time and increase efficiency. The study can improve planning work based on the actual duration of activities identified and help to minimize delays at the construction site.


Ecotourism related concepts and issues of conferences on biodiversity protection are briefly introduced in this paper.The relationship between ecotourism and sustainable development was discussed on three dimensions:agricultural sightseeing,forest bath and cultural preservation.It was considered that ecotourism,which was in line with the trend of tourism development,was the best joint of biodiversity protection and tourism sustainable development and the effective solution to deep contradictions on the development of today's agriculture.As an effective way to promote construction of ecological civilization and harmony between human and nature,ecotourism had a great positive impact on the healthy development of the national economy with the thriving of culture and successful transform development pattern of agricultural and rural economic.


The research aims to test the relationship between innovative marketing and sustainable competitive advantage at some hotels in Dohuk city. To achieve the research goal and complete the requirements, researchers proceeded to prepare a theoretical framework from the literature. Research sample consisted from (55) of the managers in these hotels. A questionnaire has been developed to collect field-side data. Through some statistical methods, results and hypotheses have been analyzed and tested. Conclusions represented the adoption of researched hotels to the concept of innovative marketing with high level of acceptance. Correspondingly, the research owned sustainable competitive advantage with high level of acceptance. The research found set of proposals represented the need of enhancing the attention of innovative marketing and sustainable competitive advantage, and the development and progress of innovation among workers in the surveyed hotels.


This paper reports on the design concepts of new sustainable bio-climatic roofs, called Khedari Sustainable Roofs and referred to as K-SR, which are aimed to ensure different functions to respond to the prevailing climatic conditions in residential and building site. For instance, for hot and humid climates, K-SR can reduce heat gain, admit sufficient daylighting without glare and induce significant air change, provide hot water whereas at night, it acts as a roof radiator for nocturnal cooling. For cold climates K-SR can provide space heating, daylighting and indoor air motion. For countries with four distinguished seasons, the K-SR can be operated at various modes to ensure the desired conditions according to the seasonal change with the help of controlled set of dampers located at the openings. Field performance are reported and discussed for tropical climate (Bangkok, Thailand). A comparison to a conventional roof solar collector is also reported which confirmed the high performance of the K-SR. Due to its simplicity, applicability and wide range of materials available, K-SR penetration into the commercial market, namely as part of a residential building design, is therefore promising.


We use the crystal isomorphisms of the Fock space to describe two maps on partitions and multipartitions which naturally appear in the crystal basis theory for quantum groups in affine type $A$ and in the representation theory of Hecke algebras of type $G(l,l,n)$.


Florian Baumann takes an important step forward in the economics of deterrence and group crime in "Should Leniency for Collective Acts Be Extended to Individual Crimes?" The answer to the question is a simple yes, but the answer requires a careful treatment of deterrence in a forward-looking model of both group and individual crime. To provide such a treatment, Baumann adds individual crime to the analysis of ordered leniency for group crime in Landeo and Spier (2018), who find deterrence is maximized when authorities offer leniency for self-reported crime on a first-come, first-served basis. However, if the leniency scheme is not extended to individual crime, deterrence may be weakened or reversed. Intuitively, members of a group can use individual crime as a commitment device to avoid self-reporting. If authorities tend to detect both group and individual crime simultaneously, the additional penalty for the latter reduces the efficacy of an ordered leniency scheme for the former. The deterrent effect of the leniency scheme is reinstated, and even enhanced, through its extension to individual crime. In this comment, I argue for why the implications of this work are deeper than the formal setting of the model may suggest. First, sociology and criminology widely treat crime as a group phenomenon. In fact, one of the few commonly accepted "criminological facts" acknowledges that themajority of criminal acts are committed bymultiple offenders (McGloin et al. 2008). In its preoccupationwith deterrence,


It is mostly accepted that the basic duty of biology education is to develop sensible individuals that able to understand, make comment about living things in their living environment. Only by this way individuals and society could gain and develop ethically acceptable attitude and behaviors toward to other species. It usually was assumed that the motivation's and short of basic knowledge about biological subject is the main problem to solve in biology education. It is considered that teaching the basic biological principles and laws to all pupils at the whole education levels, and making this knowledge sensible to them in the daily life may contribute to reach desired aim in biology education. So far, the level that has been already reached in biological science, makes a inadequate development for other living things, it is considered that sum of obtained biological knowledge up to now not should treated ecological values and balances, also living rights of others species in the biosphere. It is possible to advice that gradually consuming of endemic species, a decrease in the biological varieties, and changes in the ecological events in the biosphere could realize only individuals that educated sensible in the biology.


Saint Bonaventure elaborates the concept of human person starting from two contexts. One, more general: the examplarism, which explains the relationships between God and creatures in the manner of metaphysical and symbolic participation. The other, of theological characteristic, is an answer to the Trinitarian and christological question and it makes him to ask himself the concept of person. The human structure is definitively determinated by its personal characteristic. Saint Bodaventure uses the analogy in order to speak of the created person, whom defines as relationships, individuation and dignity. And in this manner he develops the biblical meaning of person.


The differences in location of the helical axis between barefoot and shod conditions indicated a large influence of footwear on the torsion axis of the foot. In the vertical direction the helical axis was lower with shoes while barefoot it lied close to the midfoot area. This indicated that the bare foot rotated about an axis that is dictated by the foot; while wearing shoes the foot was forced into a movement dictated by the shoe. The vertical location of the helical axis for the shod condition was similar to the location of the torsion element that lied in the midfoot area of the shoes. In the medio-lateral direction the axis for the shod condition was more lateral than for barefoot. This again indicated an influence of the shoe on the rotation axis. However, this location did not agree with the location of the torsion element in the shoe. The effect of the shoe on the orientation of the helical axis was smaller than its effect on the location. More subjects would be needed to determine if there were significant differences between the conditions.


We show that Compton scattering of 511 keV electron‐positron annililation radiation produces a line‐like reflection feature at ∼170 keV from backscattered photons. Assuming a simple model of an accretion disk around a compact source, we explore the spectrum of Compton scattered annihilation line emission for a range of disk geometries, opacities, and observing angles, and we find that the line‐like feature is produced under a wide variety of conditions. We further show that such Compton backscattering of slightly redshifted annihilation line emission from the inner edge of an accretion disk could account for the 170 keV line emission and higher energy continuum observed1–3 together with the 511 keV annihilation radiation from the direction of the Galactic center. Identification of the observed 170 keV line as an annihilation line reflection feature provides direct new evidence for the existence of an accreting stellar‐mass black‐hole source of annihilation radiation at or near the Galactic center.


Experimental tests were conducted to study the behavior of skirted foundations rested on dry medium sandy soil subjected to vertical and inclined loads. To achieve this goal, a small-scale physical model was designed and performed which contained an aluminum circular footing (100 mm) in diameter and (10 mm) in thickness and skirts with different heights, local medium poorly graded dry sand is placed in a steel soil container (2 mm) thick with internal dimensions (1000 mm x 1000 mm in cross section and 800 mm in height). The main objective of this study was to evaluate the response of skirt attached to the foundation at different skirt (L/D) ratios (0.0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5) and is subjected to point load at different angles of inclination (θ) (90 °, 80 °, 70 ° to 60 °) varying with the horizontal. In all tests, the relative density of sand was kept constant and equal to (60%). Four tests were conducted on a foundation without a skirt, for comparison reasons, and twelve tests were conducted on a skirt attached to foundation. The results showed that with decreasing the angle of inclination of load with the horizontal the load carrying capacity decreased due to increase the horizontal component of applied load which leads to increase the shear stresses under the foundation, however that effect decreases with increase the skirt height.


The invention provides an automated guided vehicle navigation method based on two-dimension code positioning and relates to the technical field of navigation of automated vehicles. The automated guided vehicle navigation method based on two-dimension code positioning solves the technical problems that according to an existing method, deployment is not convenient, investment cost is high, and paths are not flexible. According to the automated guided vehicle navigation method based on two-dimension code positioning, a two-dimension code label array which is arranged in a mesh mode is attached to the ground of the site where an automated guided vehicle is applied, two-dimension code labels on the ground are obtained through a camera and are recognized when the automated guided vehicle advances, the automated guided vehicle is controlled to advance according to the position information contained in the two-dimension code labels, and thus navigation of the automated guided vehicle is achieved. The automated guided vehicle navigation method based on two-dimension code positioning has the advantages that deployment is convenient, investment cost is low, and the paths are flexible.


This essay reviews and extends the arguments that James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer present in Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk. Patent Failure raises the bar for contributions to the ongoing debates over both the need for patent reform and the type of patent reform that is needed. Based on an innovative and elegant empirical analysis, Bessen and Meurer defend the counterintuitive position that, outside of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the contemporary patent regime functions as a tax on innovation. In other words, taking a world without any patent protection at all as the baseline, they argue that patents decrease the welfare of the very innovating firms that are today seeking and obtaining patents. To explain this phenomenon, they point to the poor notice of the existence and scope of patent rights that the contemporary patent regime provides to the public. Poor notice, in turn, means that innovating firms bear an unavoidable risk of infringing other innovating firms' patents and bearing the costs of litigation. Bessen and Meurer simply argue that the average benefit that an innovating firm receives from owning its own patents is smaller than the average cost it incurs to fend of allegations of patent infringement. After summarizing and critiquing the book's principal arguments, this Essay extends Bessen and Meurer's analysis by exploring the import of their findings for legal scholarship on property failures. Although they do not themselves articulate this point, Bessen and Meurer enrich the literature on property failures by positing a new model for property failure: a tragedy of property. A tragedy of property is the true mirror image of the tragedy of the commons: it is a rush to ruin that is caused, rather than remedied, by property. An innovating firm receives a private welfare benefit from obtaining and enforcing each additional patent. However, each innovator's self-interested decision to increase his or her own "herd" of patents decreases the welfare of innovators as a group because the inter-innovator externalities of patents outweigh the benefits that patent owners internalize. A tragedy of the commons results from the inefficient, externality-generating overuse of a rival, scarce resource. A tragedy of property results from the inefficient, externality-generating overuse of the institution of property itself.


If the homework you must do for a book review is any indication of its final assessment, then the paperback edition of Who Goes First? by Lawrence K. Altman, the New York Times medical correspondent for the past years, would get an unqualified A. Re-reading it 13 years after its original publication has prompted me to check my memory on Galen; finally read William Ian Miller's Anatomy ofDisgust (its book reviews had tempted for too long anyway) and Shadows in the Sun by Wade Davis [1, 2]; go on one of those hunts only library geeks can enjoy (I stopped telling my friends years ago about how much I enjoyed my occasional library research marathons since their blank faces were too painful) while researching guillotines and Lavoisier's death; and delve into recent self-experimentation, ranging from poisonous toad-licking to applying lacquer to one's skin to the effect of exercise on one's


The mobile compressor unit heat losses recovery system compactness improving possibility by means of removing the condenser from the recuperative Rankine cycle is considered in the paper. In this case circulating in the Rankine circuit heat carrier (water) losses are compensated by the humidity supplied from the compressed air, air consumed by the internal combustion engine and humidity as the ICE fuel combustion product.


This document contain provisions of the 1987 Social Security (Benefits) Regulations of Seychelles which relate to maternity benefits. The regulations detail the documentation needed to make a claim for maternity benefits, state the conditions under which a woman forfeits her entitlement to maternity benefits, and set out the period of maternity leave as eight weeks. Maternity leave can be preceded or extended by sick leave, if necessary.


Article History: Received: 31 Mar. 2014 Accepted: 26 Oct. 2014 Available online: 20 Jun. 2015 In the present study, the author's previous experimental investigations on the vortex induced vibration of uniform and tapered circular cylinders are numerically simulated. The circular cylinders have medium mass ratios (5.93, 6.1), low mass-damping parameters (0.0275, 0.0279) a mean diameter of 0.028m and an aspect ratio of about 14. A fully coupled two-way fluidstructure interaction (FSI) analysis is used to simulate the phenomena of vortex induced vibration in vicinity of the lock-in range. The 3D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model is employed to solve the incompressible transient Navier-Stokes equations. LES-Smagorinsky turbulent model is considered within all simulations. Structural displacements are calculated through transient structural analysis in mechanical application (Computational Structural Dynamics-CSD). The transverse vibrations of uniform and tapered cylinders are compared against the experimental results. The comparison reveals that the model is capable to reasonably well predict the initial and upper branches of the responses. It, however, falls short to properly predict the lower branch. The simulation results of the fixed and elastically mounted tapered cylinders indicate that the flow field, in the case of the elastically mounted tapered cylinder, is completely different from that for the equivalent fixed tapered cylinder. For the case of the elastically mounted tapered cylinder no vortex cell fond to be forming in the lock-in region and a single frequency response dominated the entire length of the cylinder.


In the first group are remains, more or less complete, of sixty-four stones; only of a few in the second ; and twenty or thirty, at least, in the third. The carving in the first group is the most finished in execution ; that of the third the least so ; while the others are intermediate. The centre stones in the first group are the largest, the round ones being here about eleven feet high, while towards the ends they are only seven feet. While the round ones were evidently free-standing, the others bore in their mortices crowning ornaments of some kind or another, all traces of which have been lost, probably through their having been made in metal or wood. The vagueness of the symbolism employed precludes at present a definite assignation to any religion. If Buddhist, as seems in some respects most likely, they were probably in connection with some central building very much as a stupa is with its rail; the beauty of their design and execution seems hardly reconcilable with any form of primitive cult; it is possible that they have some relation to the Muhammedan artists employed in Upper Assam during the fifteenth century. Local tradition refers them to rites of human sacrifice. A discussion followed, in which Mr. Sewell, Mr.. St. John, Mr. Lyon, Dr. Thornton, Colonel Woodthorpe, and Professor Rhys Davids took part.


Nigeria is Africa's largest country by population and one of the continent's largest economies. Still, growth in the West African nation has been mostly fueled by the oil sector, and has proven incredibly unreliable. This paper looks at the implementation of the Infant Industry Argument as a justification for restrictive trade policies in Nigeria, and the negative impacts that those restrictions have had in terms of the diversification of the Nigerian manufacturing economy. The paper looks at relative literature around the topic, as well as data important in understanding the effect of trade restrictions on Nigeria's economy.


An Interval numbers based particle swarm optimization algorithm (IPSO) is presented in the paper. In this work, interval numbers is used to alter real number for numerical function optimization problems. The results produced by IPSO and PSO have been compared. The results showed that IPSO outperforms PSO.


Daqing Oil Field in China is a heterogeneous multi-zone sandstone reservoir. It had serious water channelling and zonal interference troubles, therefore a set of single-tubing, separate zone production techniques were developed and used. The results reported in this paper proved to be satisfactory.


In this qualitative study, we explore how incumbent firms in traditional industries build dynamic capabilities for digital transformation. Digital transformation has been defined as the use of new digital technologies, such as mobile, artificial intelligence, cloud, blockchain, and the Internet of things (IoT) technologies, to enable major business improvements to augment customer experience, streamline operations, or create new business models. In making sense of digital transformation, we discovered that leaders in various industry circles use the term inconsistently to describe various strategizing and organizing activities; in addition, the term has gained limited scholarly attention as a context for study of strategic change. Drawing on senior executives' experiences with leading digitalization projects at incumbent firms, we propose a process model comprising of nine microfoundations to reveal the generic contingency factors that trigger, enable, and hinder the building of dynamic capabilities for digital transformation. Our findings reveal that digital transformation is an ongoing process of using new digital technologies in everyday organizational life, which recognizes agility as the core mechanism for the strategic renewal of an organization's (1) business model, (2) collaborative approach, and eventually the (3) culture.


Increased penetration of converter-interfaced renewable plants improves the current power system's resiliency. The integration of renewable plants also minimises line losses, ensuring the power supply's reliability. During a fault, the PV plant's control mechanism, which complies with grid standards, modulates the current and voltage signals dramatically. As a result, traditional protection relays are unable to give the circuit breaker a trip signal. In this article the concerns with the conventional protection system during the aforementioned circumstance are investigated and a new protection technique is devised for discriminating the internal and external fault by employing both ends current data by calculating the Phase Current Ratio (PCR). Taking consideration of the relay's reliability, sensitivity, dependability and security, threshold region is set. The proposed technique's effectiveness is demonstrated using a 100 kW solar PV array coupled to $a$ 25 kV, grid system at 50 Hz having transmission line of 50 km in software MATLAB/SIMULINK. Different shunt faults are tested and the results proves the validity and authenticity of the suggested relaying scheme in the identification of the internal fault and external fault accurately.


Viral respiratory infections are the most common childhood infection worldwide. However, even common pathogens can have significant consequences in the context of patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases. More than half or viral infections annually are due to rhinovirus/enterovirus strains. Most clinical manifestations of viral infection are mild. However 3% of cases result in hospitalization in patients who have no other known risk factors. These patients may have an inborn error of immunity, a genetic susceptibility to viral infections. Here we present the case of an adult male who suffered respiratory viral infections his whole life and developed chronic, inflammatory damage to sinuses and lungs as a consequence. Genomic sequencing identified compound heterozygous variants in the IFIH1 gene, encoding the protein Melanoma Differentiation Association Protein 5 (MDA5), a RIG-I-like cytoplasmic sensor of RNA intracellular infections. We show a dominant negative effect on these variants on the level of interferon-induced expression of MDA5 protein. This work supports that loss-of-function variants in IFIH1 affect the sensing of viral infections. Underlying genomic variants may dictate the point at which recurrent, respiratory viral infections leave commonplace experience and incur lasting damage.


The technology and method of finding optimum route used in the LuoYang 119 Urban Emergency System are introduced, including the collection and management of data ,the construction of database and the computing methods in the pathfinding. At last the importance of keeping the database updata is proposed.


Wireless sensor network is a front technology,has a promising future in such applications as military,environment,health,space exploration and rescue.As a network,its security is an important issue,Sybil attack in this network is especially serious.According to this,this paper investigates several schemes based on key pre-distribution appling for defense against sybil attack.The analysis indicates that the multi-space pairwise key distribution is the best one.


Abstract Appropriate nutrient management practices are the determinant factors for maintaining good plant growth and development. The combination of inorganic fertilizers and straw may affect soil available micronutrients. The goals of this study were to determine the effects of Si fertilizers under straw return conditions on Si accumulation, partitioning, and remobilization in spring maize (Zea mays L.). A two-year field trial was conducted to investigate Si content accumulation and remobilization in spring maize under straw return conditions in Jilin Province. We evaluated Si accumulation and remobilization using four treatments: JS3 (straw return + 45 kg/hm2 silicon), WS3 (no straw return + 45 kg/hm2 silicon), JS0 (straw return + no silicon) and WS0 (no straw return + no silicon).The experimental results showed that the highest Si accumulation stage in maize occurred between the VT and R2 stages. The JS3 treatment accumulated 20.8% and 32.1% more Si, on average, than did the WS3 and WS0 treatments, respectively, at this stage. Different organs showed the same accumulation trend as the whole maize plant, but the Si remobilization amounts in distinct organs were the highest in the WS0 treatment. The total Si contribution to the grain in the WS0 treatment was 42.2% and 104.6% higher, on average, than those in the WS3 and JS3 treatments, respectively.This outcome showed that silicon fertilizer application could significantly increase silicon accumulation in maize plants and organs. Silicon fertilizer combined with straw returning not only further increased silicon accumulation but also reduced Si remobilization from the vegetative organs.


This paper presents the development of the drive system for a four-phase Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM). The drive system are consists of the experimental and the software control scheme. The experimental system is designed for a four-phase 8/6 3Hp SRM. The control scheme are consists of the speed control and the two-quadrant control. The speed control scheme is used PI controller to calculate reference value of the phase current, the phase current can control in both soft chopping and hard chopping modes. The two-quadrant control scheme is used an analog switch to control the operation modes from motoring to generating (braking). The control schemes are implemented on the TMS320F2812 DSP which is a main controller. The SRM drive system that obtained from this research will be used in the future works.


Objective To summarize the clinical features of influenza A(H1N1) and analyze the efficacy of oseltamivir. Methods The clinical data of 560 hospitalized patients with influenza A(H1N1) were collected retrospectively,included their ages, major symptoms, test results, the times from heat to oseltamivir treatment, heating duration and the virus clearance times, to analyze the correlation between the times from heat to oseltamivir treatment and heating duration or the virus clearance times. According to times from heat to oseltamivir treatment, patients were divided into 3 groups,compared the differences of median heating duration and the virus clearance time. Results Most patients had fever (97.0%)and cough(90.0%). A few patients had symptoms of gastrointestinal(1.8%) or nervous system(0.9%);some patients had biochemical abnormalities; ECG showed non-specific changes in 16.6% patients. There was a positive correlation between the time from heat to oseltamivir treatment and heating duration or the virus clearance time(r=0.83,P<0.01;r=0.60,P<0.01). There were also statistical differences in heating duration and the virus clearance time of different groups(P<0.01). Conclusions The clinical features of patients with influenza A(H1N1) are similar to the features of seasonal influenza. Early oseltamivir treatment for patients with fever may reduce the heating duration and the virus clearance time.

Key words:
Influenza A virus, H1N1 subtype; Oseltamivir; Therapy


In a series of screening interviews for psychological distress, conducted separately by a human interviewer and by an animated virtual character controlled by a human, participants talked substantially less and produced twice as many filled pauses when talking to the virtual character. This contrasts with earlier findings, where people were less disfluent when talking to a computer dialogue system. The results suggest that the characteristics of computer-directed speech vary depending on the type of dialogue system used.


With the development of cloud computing, service computing, IoT(Internet of Things) and mobile Internet, the diversity and sociality of services are increasingly apparent. With the increasing complexity of collaborative relationships between services, service ecosystems are beginning to emerge with the characteristics of natural ecosystems, economic systems and complex networks. Under this context, how to realize systematic evaluation of service ecosystem is of great significance to promote its sound development. Based on this, this article proposes a value entropy model that links the operating state of the system with the efficiency of value creation, which helps to clarify the performance of the service ecosystem from the perspective of multi-dimensional integration. In addition, a computational experiment system is established to verify the effectiveness of value entropy model, which stimulates the competitive evolution process of two service ecosystems with different strategies. The result shows that our model can provide new ideas for the analysis of service ecosystem evolution, and can also provide decision support for the optimization of operation strategy.


Coadsorption of Na with CO 2 and H 2 O on a thin Cr 2 O 3 (111) single crystal epitaxially grown on a single-crystal Cr(110) substrate has been performed to study the effects of the coadsorbates on the electronic properties of the Na species. High-resolution electron-energy-loss spectroscopy spectra as a function of Na overlayer coverage reveal a continuous attenuation of the Fuchs-Kliewer surface-phonon loss modes with near total attenuation by ∼2 monolayers (ML)


Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology. The more than 500 species of primate range from tiny mouse lemurs to huge gorillas, and primatologists collect data in a variety of environments including in the field, research facilities, museums, sanctuaries, zoos, and from the literature. The variability in research interests, study animals and research sites means that there are no standard protocols for how to study primates. Nevertheless, asking good questions and designing appropriate studies to answer them are vital to produce high quality science. This accessible guide for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers explains how to develop a research question, formulate testable hypotheses and predictions, design and conduct a project and report the results. The focus is on research integrity and ethics throughout, and the book provides practical advice on overcoming common difficulties researchers face.


Fourteen clinically healthy buffalo calves of either sex, with age varying between 01 to 04 weeks were selected for comparative study of the two methods of disbudding viz., thermocautery (Group - I; 6) and cryosurgery (Group - II; 8). The buffalo calves between the age group of 01 to 04 weeks were found suitable for both the methods of disbudding. Cryoguard protected horn bud were cryofrozen to -40°C. The cryosurgical disbudding did not lead to any open wound at the site and so also the cryofrozen horn buds remained at the site which later sloughed off progressively providing a natural biological covering to the underlying granulating bed till the completion of the healing. The cryosurgical disbudding was found to be cost-effective, practically surgeon convenient and clinically feasible as well as advantageous and so also less stressful to the subject as compared to the thermocautery disbudding in buffalo calves.


The working principle of high-gradient magnetic separation and its application in treating wastewater are explained.Besides,the development trend of high-gradient magnetic separation is discussed.


Studying Japan's employee deposit program, we find that employees' demand deposits enhance accounting conservatism. This effect is more pronounced than that of external debt. Further, the conservatism-enhancing effect of employee deposits concentrates in firms not associated with main banks, having a high default probability, and those that are complex or financially constrained. We use multiple empirical approaches, including a difference-in-differences analysis, to address a potential selection bias and reverse causality. Our results add new insights into the debt contracting theory of accounting conservatism.


The purpose of this study is to look into differences of Leisure Satisfaction and Sports Addiction about characteristics of people playing tennis. 210 amateur tennis players in Seoul and Kyonggido area sample by objects of study. A means of survey is made use of LSS(leasure satisfaction scale) which was developed "Leisure satisfaction" (Beard & Ragheb 1980) and inspected by Lee-JongKil(1992), Song-ku soon (1998) and so on. And then a survey of sports addiction is put complemented Singuli(2000) to use. This study is based on the survey by "Recording of self-rating" was distributed to amateur tennis players directly in Seoul and Kyonggido and made out of them. I analysis general characteristics for objects of study through SPSS PC(version 11.0) and T-test & One Way ANOVA. After all, from above method I reach following conclusion. First, there are differences in Leisure Satisfaction and Sports Addiction by tennis player's general characteristics. Seond, there are differences in Leisure Satisfaction and Sports Addiction by tennis player's participating characteristics.


Objective: Vacuum pressures have long been thought to damage the lipocytes during harvest. Several studies have described this as well as the need to reduce the pressure during harvest. The goals of this article are to increase awareness of the pressures associated with the closed syringe technique and other methods of harvesting for autologous fat transfer (AFT). Methods: The closed syringe pressures are presented for 60-, 30-, and 10-mL syringes. Note that the vacuum force for any manual syringe is the plunger and the position of the plunger will dictate the pressure that will be applied to the fat. Results: The closed syringe tests on 60-, 30-, and 10-mL syringes (three brands) show that a 60-mL syringe will produce an 18.5-in mercury vacuum pressure, but only when the plunger is withdrawn to maximum. The tests also showed that when the plunger is at 30 mL, the response is 16 in of mercury; at 10 mL the response is 6 in of mercury. Thus, the smaller the syringe capacity, the lower the vacuum pressure. This lessening of the vacuum pressure is not due to the plunger losing pressure around its gasket, but it is directly related to the empty space (volume) left in the syringe. Thus, a 60-mL syringe that is half full of fat renders an identical pressure to an empty 30-mL syringe, that being 16 in of mercury. Discussion: Electrically powered vacuum sources do not respond in this manner because the motor will maintain a relatively constant pressure throughout the procedure. The economic advantages of the closed syringe technique are discussed with emphasis on the availability of generic materials and thus lessened cost. The disadvantages include the varying downward pressures during harvest, the added time to decant or centrifuge the harvested material, and the need for added transfers. Also presented are the 2 filter-type harvest units on the market today (Lipivage and TissuTrans) that will save considerable time by separating out the unwanted material during the harvest and without additional transfers. Conclusion: Knowing the pressures administered (to fat) by the syringes or reservoirs used in all types of fat harvesting equipment is important and part of the standardization process.


The editors are very grateful to the following persons for acting as referees in 2010 and 2011. The task of referee often remains anonymous and carries few rewards. We are therefore pleased to acknowledge here the considerable time, dedication, knowledge, and expertise that those listed below have freely given to sustain and improve the quality of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Norwegian Journal of Geography


This paper is a case study of the introduction of COBOL Procedure Division programming standards in Swaziland. The standards, based on modern programming theories and practice, require no modification to the syntactic structure of 1974 ANS COBOL. The standards have been used in the coding of more than forty programs. Success in enforcing standards is attributable to programmer involvement in the development of the standards and a locally developed COBOL program for monitoring the use of the Standards.


Business management training programs in post-Soviet-era Russia have largely ignored environmental, ethical, and other social responsibility topics. the authors examine how the Russian culture views these issues, provide the basics on corporate responsibility theories, and give their recommendation on how to teach the relevant topics to corporate training participants in Russia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Because of fundamental political, social, and market changes in the former Soviet Union, significant changes in education were necessary. Perhaps chief among them was the introduction of an entirely new area: professional business training. Previously, Soviet educational institutions were directed primarily toward scientific and technological disciplines, at which they excelled. Now, while the somewhat stoic institutions of higher education in Russia are reacting to changes largely driven by student expectations and political influences, a variety of independent business training programs have surfaced to meet more immediate economic development needs. Overshadowed by pragmatic business skills, environmental, ethical, and other social topics are largely ignored by these new programs. The key training areas (management, marketing, finance) command center stage, leaving "less critical" needs such as business ethics and social responsibility to some undesignated time in the future. This approach is a travesty. Now is the most opportune time to build ethical commitments into the new economic and business culture. We will look at the cultural receptiveness of Russians to these issues, provide some basics on corporate responsibility and stakeholder theory, and close with recommendations on course curricula, including an outline of possible course topics and readings. ********** Economic and business management training courses in Russia are taught in venues ranging from large universities and established classroom settings (aimed primarily at younger college students) to intensive, two- to three-day specialty courses targeted at working managers, which are similar to corporate training programs in the West. MBA programs in English and Russian are offered to younger college grads as well as seasoned managers, and both are available through the traditional university setting and Russian and international distance-learning channels. Many government sponsored programs aim at elevating the skills of managers through special programs such as the "Presidents" program, which, while less intensive than full degree programs, is still demanding and comprehensive. A full array of short or long, focused or broad, easy or hard courses supplements these. Increased need has created many programs. These programs deliver the basics of business fundamentals, and some are similar to Western professional development programs, which is not surprising. Many of the training program developers are Westerners or were trained in the West. Just like such courses in the West a decade or so ago, these programs fail to include corporate responsibility issues in their core, or even secondary, offerings. As is too often the case, they will wait for the inevitable Enrons or worse to emerge, rationalizing that ethics occupy that peculiar secondary level of "not quite essential" business training. Certainly such soft areas can mark time and be attended to more leisurely, after the more immediately pressing and pragmatic needs in the true fundamental business areas are mastered. After all, there is no time to waste--people are living in poverty, markets are stagnating, corruption is mounting.... Yes, better wait till later. This omission is not surprising--it's natural. Wrong, stupid, shortsighted, and unenlightened, it is sadly still as inevitable as the side of human nature that makes hindsight seem so effortless and uncomplicated. These training programs fill a pressing need for an economy in drastic transition, severely depressed in some areas, vibrant in others, with similarly divergent levels of ambitions and aspirations in the people. …


Four plant growth regulators namely NAA (15, 30 and 45 ppm), 2,4-D (2, 4 and 6 ppm), PCPA (25, 50 and 75 ppm) and CCC (300, 400 and 500 ppm) were sprayed on yard long bean (cv. 'Lola') at different stages of growth to evaluate its impact on flowering and fruit set. Foliar spray of NAA (15 ppm) at 15, 30 and 45 days after sowing increased fruit set and productivity, giving the highest yield of 7.49 t ha-1, followed by CCC at 300 ppm. 2,4-D and PCPA had a strong depressing effect on growth and productivity.


The large genotypic variation for salt tolerance in rice and wheat is the driving force behind efforts to identify appropriate cultivars for salt‐prone environments where large variations in salinity (electrical conductivity, EC) and sodicity (sodium adsorption ratio, SAR) levels exist. An evaluation of the commonly grown rice and wheat cultivars at different EC/SAR ratios may thus help in coping with the crop failures on salt‐affected soils. Accordingly, we evaluated some salt‐tolerant cultivars of rice and wheat for growth and yield at different soil salinity and sodicity levels in a sandy clay loam soil. Among the cultivars tested, rice 'SSRI‐8' produced the highest productive tillers and paddy yield, and wheat cultivar 'SIS‐32' produced the highest tillers and grain and straw yields. The high EC/SAR ratios proved more hazardous for rice than for wheat. Irrespective of the varieties tested, the highest levels of EC and SAR (T5 and T6) caused significant reduction in paddy yield, whereas at the lowest levels of EC and SAR (T1 and T2), paddy yield was not affected significantly when compared with the control. However, in case of wheat crop, all the levels [i.e., the lowest (T1 and T2), medium (T3 and T4), and the highest (T5 and T6) of EC and SAR tested] affected wheat yield adversely with significant differences. For both the crops, there were little or no differences in yield between the two ratios tested (i.e., 1:2 and 1:4) at all the levels of EC and SAR.


Gonadectomy performed on the 24th day of life diminished but could not entirely prevent the pubertal sexual differentiation of cortisol metabolism in rat liver homogenates and slices. Masculinization of cortisol metabolism in the male rat was, however, further decreased when castration was done on the 4th or 2nd day of life. When the testes were removed within 10 to 17 hr after birth, the cortisol metabolite pattern in liver homogenates and slices no longer differed from that found in the neonatally castrated female litter mates: when adult, neonatally castrated male rats catabolized cortisol predominantly by the Δ4-3-keto reduction to 3α-hydroxy metabolites, while the formation of 3β- and 20β-hydroxy metabolites was reduced to the same low levels found in castrated females. On the other hand, female rats castrated in neonatal life metabolized cortisol just as did prepubertally castrated litter mates and maintained their "feminine" enzyme systems. In both groups of animals the Δ4-3-keto reduction remained...


Addition of fermentable sugars or uncouplers such as CCCP to resting yeast cells grown on glucose initiates phosphorylation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase). There is good evidence that phosphorylation marks FBPase for proteolytic degradation. /sup 31/P-NMR measurements of the cytosolic pH of yeast cells demonstrated a decrease of the cytosolic pH from 7.0 to 6.5 after addition of glucose or CCCP to starved yeast. Activity of adenylate cyclase in permeabilized yeast cells increases 2-3-fold when the pH is lowered from 7.0 to 6.5. It is concluded that pH controlled activation of adenylate cyclase causes the previously described increase in cyclic AMP which leads to phosphorylation of FBPase and finally to proteolysis of FBPase.


Effects of Pb(Zr0.5Ti0.5)O3 (PZT) thickness on the residual stresses and the electrical properties of a PZT thin-film layer were discussed for the PZT/Pt/SrTiO3 or PZT/(La0.5Sr0.5)CoO3/SrTiO3 system. Bottom electrodes, i.e., Pt and (La, Sr)CoO3 (LSCO) thin films, were deposited by DC magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition (PLD), respectively. PZT thin films with thicknesses of 30nm and 60nm were fabricated using the pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) apparatus. PZT films deposited on the LSCO electrodes were all epitaxially grown. The residual stress measurements by XRD revealed that all PZT films received the in-plane tensile stress from the substrate or the electrode/substrate. When the Pt and LSCO electrodes were introduced between the PZT film and the STO substrate, in-plane tensile stress in PZT was enhanced. With decreasing the PZT film thickness, the in-plane tensile stress in PZT film was enhanced. Remanent polarization decreased with increasing residual tensile stress in PZT film in all cases. The change of residual stress in the PZT/LSCO/STO system was discussed on the basis of the thermal expansion coefficient of the constituent layers.


In this paper, technology of detecting and disposing of sulfion in sulphide waste water is studied.The sample is taken from Fluorescent Light Powder Factory in Shaanxi,China.In the process of detecting sulfion in waste water, the pretreatment of acidation-extraction-absorbtion is maded in order to extract and absorb sulfion completely and the submethyl blue spectrophometry is used to detecting the content of sulfion. In the disposal process of the waste water, polyacrylic amide,alum and ammonium supersulphate are used so that the removal rate of sulfion is 99.45%,at the same time,the sulphide waste water is letted out below the primary standard (1.0 mg/L)by using these water disposal agents.


Ni-based wrought superalloys are widely used in the hot section of aircraft gas turbine engines for their capability in retaining strength and resisting creep,fatigue,and oxidation at elevated temperature.With the development of the newer generation turbine disk alloys,it is highly imperative for aircraft engine manufacturers to substantiate the use of the materials by conducting a thorough examination of their mechanical properties.As these components are subjected to elevated temperatures and complex stress state in the service process where time dependent creep is the primary deformation failure mechanism and life-limiting factor for the component,it is of great importance to evaluate the relationship between microstructure,creep behavior and the underlying creep deformation mechanism.Therefore,the main objective of the present research aims at investigating the fundamental relationship between external creep condition and internal creep deformation mechanism in a new wrought superalloy with low stacking fault energy(SFE).In order to study the influences of the loading stress level and temperature on the creep deformation mechanism,stress range of 345—840 MPa and temperature range of 650—815℃were selected to carry out the creep experiment.The results show that two kinds ofγ' with different diameters distributed in the matrix and the larger one began to coarsen when the creep temperature increased to 725℃.Under creep temperature of 650℃, the formation of SF resulted from the shearing ofγ' by dislocations dominated the creep deformation. When the temperature range was raised up to 725—760℃,SF and microtwins were the main microstructures after creep deformation.With further increasing the temperature and load,instead of accommodating only in theγ',the SF and microtwins penetrated the wholeγ' and matrix area.When the temperature was increased to 815℃,the climb/bypass mechanism controlled the creep process.


The present invention relates to a method comprising extraction and purification of flavonoids from citrus components, extracting the crude extract (crude extract) and more particularly from tangerines; Step of continuously circulating the adsorption and desorption of flavonoid-implanting the extracted crude extract in a continuous column with filling material is filled and at the same time as injection of ethanol; The method comprising after the flavonoid is concentrated and adsorbed and desorbed extract recovery by transmitting a silica column; And a process for extraction and purification of flavonoids from citrus components, comprising drying the recovered extract was concentrated. Extraction and purification process according to the invention thus contributes to the flavonoids from citrus fruits and of high purity can be obtained at a high recovery rate, the national health promotion and production of various functional products, including citrus fruits and citrus promote consumption through industrialization. Citrus, extraction, flavonoids


A literature review was undertaken to ascertain the molecular basis for tigecycline and colistin resistance mechanisms and the experimental basis for the detection and delineation of this resistance particularly in carbapenemase‐producing Gram‐negative bacteria. Pubmed, Google Scholar and Science Direct were searched with the keywords colistin, tigecycline, resistance mechanisms and detection methods. Trans‐complementation and comparative MIC studies, mass spectrometry, chromatography, spectrofluorometry, PCR, qRT‐PCR and whole genome sequencing (WGS) were commonly used to determine tigecycline and colistin resistance mechanisms, specifically modifications in the structural and regulatory efflux (acrAB, OqxAB, kpgABC adeABC‐FGH‐IJK, mexAB‐XY‐oprJM and soxS, rarA robA, ramRAB marRABC, adeLRS, mexRZ and nfxb) and lipid A (pmrHFIJFKLM, lpxA, lpxC lpxD and mgrB, pmrAB, phoPQ,) genes respectively. Mutations in the ribosomal 16S rRNA operon rrnBC, also yielded resistance to tigecycline through target site modifications. The mcr‐1 gene conferring resistance to colistin was identified via WGS, trans‐complementation and a murine thigh infection model studies. Common detection methods are mainly antibiotic sensitivity testing with broth microdilution while molecular identification tools are mostly PCR and WGS. Spectrofluorometry, MALDI‐TOF MS, micro‐array and real‐time multiplex PCR hold much promise for the future as new detection tools.


Summary.  MC710, a combined product of plasma‐derived activated factor VII (FVIIa) and factor X (FX) at a protein weight ratio of 1:10, is a novel bypassing agent for haemostasis in haemophilia patients with inhibitors. In this study, pharmacokinetic (PK), pharmacodynamic (PD) parameters and safety of single doses of MC710 were investigated in 11 male haemophilia patients with inhibitors in a non‐bleeding state. This was a multi‐centre, open‐labelled, non‐randomized, active controlled crossover, dose‐escalation study of five doses (20–120 μg kg−1 of FVIIa) with re‐administration of different MC710 dosages to the same subjects. The active controls were NovoSeven (120 μg kg−1) and/or FEIBA (50 and 75 U kg−1) which were used to compare PD parameters. The area under the curve (AUC) and maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) of MC710 active ingredients increased dose‐dependently within the range of 20 and 120 μg kg−1. After administration of MC710, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) was dose‐dependently improved and prothrombin time (PT) was shortened to approximately 6 s at 10 min, and APTT improvement and PT shortening effects were maintained until 12 h after administration of MC710 at all doses. No serious or severe adverse event was observed after administration of MC710; furthermore, several diagnostic marker values and those changes did not indicate any signs of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). These results suggest that MC710 would have haemostatic potential equal to or greater than NovoSeven and FEIBA and was be tolerable when given at doses up to 120 μg kg−1.


Finding and quantifying microscopic features such as matrix and grains, fabrics, porosity, fossil contents and diagenesis are crucial to improving the results of a microfacies study. Moreover, the application of image processing seems essential in analysis of hydrocarbon fields. There is a wide range of available image processing algorithms. However, these algorithms are dealing with many difficulties when faced with complex microfacies study objectives.In this paper, 170 thin section photographs from a Permo-Terias formation of Salman field in South-west of Iran were analyzed. Using the suggested histogram equalization algorithm, the selected thin section images were improved in a way to be comparable with the reference photographs. Afterward, the main microfacies major features such as matrix texture, boundaries, fossil content and appearance are characterized by applying functional image processing algorithms and sensitivity analysis of the algorithm results. Accurate grain size is measured in a designed Graphical User Interface (GUI). Next, pore detection and 2D porosity values are calculated by K-means clustering of A and B parameters in L*A*B color image space. Finally, different minerals in the matrix, cement, and porosity are classified and distribution of them are visualized and plotted on a scatter plot to determine the exact facies types.


And, shunning Gazzoli's founding aversion to what she saw as a quite commercialised baby food market, but noting the peripety of her accruing hugely commercially successful financial backers with experience in global and multinational industries, the article and Gazzoli celebrate the financial and developmental success of Piccolo's first months. In fact, the company would reportedly go on to exceed predicted turnover fivefold in its first six months (BBC 23/01/17). Piccolo has continued to grow, and having introduced its products to the Republic of Ireland and China in 2017, the company will be entering the US market in 2018. If Gazzoli's unlikely, at best, optimistic and naïve kitchen table intention was actually to carve out a non-commercialised homely niche in baby food, she has failed dramatically, though possibly she is pecuniarily very happy with that failure. Moreover with Piccolo's London base, and Shanghai and Seattle nearly 17,000km apart, there will be some serious food kilometres involved. Such distances will enhance the exoticism of Piccolo's claimed Mediterraneanness, but at the same time prejudicing ingredient sourcing and processing, and having a significantly deleterious environmental effect.


In this paper, the problem of how to describe the thermal properties of the insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) module with the use of the compact thermal model is considered. This model makes it possible to calculate internal temperature of every semiconductor device included in this module with self-heating phenomena and mutual thermal couplings between these devices taken into account. A new method of measuring parameters of the thermal model of devices contained in the considered module is proposed, and the accuracy of this method is discussed. Some results of measurements of the considered parameters are presented, and uneven distribution of temperature in the investigated module in selected conditions of its power supply is evaluated. Differences between the measured waveforms of the internal temperature of components of the IGBT module and its casings are discussed.


The electronic plays a very important role in the automotive industry. It contributes greatly to satisfying the requirements of modern vehicles in terms of consumption, emissions, safety, comfort and drive dynamics. But there will be some challenges in vehicle manufacturers, e.g. 42V vehicle power supply, the integration of systems and multimedia, and the availability of soft ware. In order to adapt the "New Economy", the "classic vehicle industry" will have to familiarize the game rules and receive the new competition from the computer and telecommunications industries.


Given a family F of ordered pairs of sets {(Su, Tu): U∈V}, the intersection digraph of F is the digraph with vertices V defined by UV∈E(D)if and only if Su∩Tv ¬= O. Interval digraphs are intersection digraphs of families in which every set is an interval, and were characterized in a previous paper by conditions on the adjacency matrix. In this paper, another such condition leads to an adjacency matrix characterization of circular-arc digraphs, the intersection digraphs of families in which every set is an arc of a circle


A series of styrene-butadiene-styrene/aluminium (SBR/Al) composites have been compounded with different weight ratios of Al. The prepared SBR-Al systems have been characterized for different mechanical properties such as tensile strength, tensile modulus and surface hardness have improved with the increase in content of Al in SBR matrix. This may is because of the increase in polymer-filler interaction. The electrical properties such as volume conductivity, surface resistivity, dielectric constant, dissipation factor (tan delta), and break down voltage of SBR/Al composites have been measured with reference to volume fraction (V f ), frequency and temperature. The resistance of the SBR-Al composites is found to be ohmic. The voltage-current (V-I) characteristics for SBR-Al also exhibit a linear relationship indicating the ohmic behavior.


The clamour for equal treatment and opportunity has made women desirous in their struggle to break the shackles of cultural imperative, which they believe have enslaved them. Social indicators reveal that women deserve equal opportunity with their male counterparts. The trend of women education and the current of socialization among social crusaders, gender practitioners and women showed freedom as both a cherished goal and threat to the girl-child. Can freedom therefore be something essential in women education and socialization? Put differently, can the nourishing of the tendency towards autonomous activities in a "proper" social environment not bring about the inherent freedom and the noblest image of the girl-child? In an attempt to provide answers to this questions and other issues, the a priori-deductive method of analysis was employed in examining autonomy, human aspect of freedom, women education, and socialization. It was emphasized that to enjoy freedom without some degree of autonomy is gross abuse of freedom. The inherent freedom is realizable only if women education is refocused towards encouraging independence, self-knowledge, and rational choice.


Reversing the Great Reversal: Renewing Urban Church Planting in the WesleyanHoliness Tradition David A. Busic Doctor of Ministry School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary 2018 The purpose of this doctoral project is to develop new ways of thinking about missional strategies for church planting in the urban context. It considers how a robust missional theology, rooted in the best of the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, can take shape in a rapidly growing urban context. Additionally, it examines how these theological practices can nourish and promote a vibrant church planting movement for the Church of the Nazarene. Part One examines the urban history of the Church of the Nazarene, with a particular focus on the missional strategies of first generation Nazarene leaders. There are sociological and ecclesial reasons why the second generation of Nazarene leaders began to disengage from the great urban areas. These include the influence of the evangelical mainstream's move away from cities known as the "Great Reversal." This regression removed the Church of the Nazarene from elemental facets of Wesleyan-Holiness theology, especially pertaining to the spiritual formation of Christlike disciples and efficacy of the means of grace. Part Two defines particular aspects of Wesleyan-Holiness theology that contribute to the shaping of a Nazarene urban ecclesiology, concentrating on the importance of small groups, the means of grace, and compassion in the formation of Christian character. A biblical philosophy of Christian community is explored as a paradigm for urban churches. Part Three summarizes the vision, strategy, and goals for urban church planting in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. The strategy reviews three current models of Nazarene work in urban areas: renewal of established churches, immigrant churches, and compassionate ministries-based churches. With the practical implications of WesleyanHoliness ecclesiology as a guide, this project proposes a fourth developmental parish model evident in emerging expressions of Nazarene urban congregations. This parish church model presents transferrable methods and processes for diverse urban contexts. Content Reader: Ron Benefiel, Ph.D.


The reception history of Aristotle's Meteorology in Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic version of the Aristotelian text and in the Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy written during the thirteenth century is studied. Gershom ben Solomon's Shaʾar ha-Shamayim used Ibn Tibbon's translation as its major source, whereas Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥoḵmah and Shemtov Ibn Falaquera's Deʾot ha-Filosofim relied on Ibn Rushd's two commentaries on Aristotle's Meteorology. Because the text that underlies Ibn Tibbon's translation and Ibn Rushd's commentaries, namely the Arabic paraphrase of Ibn al-Biṭrīq, presents Aristotle's views in a very unreliable fashion, Ibn Tibbon and Ibn Rushd both compared this version to Alexander's Commentary (in Arabic translation) on the Greek text and commented on the differences. The extent to which the Hebrew encyclopedists incorporated these observations in their own surveys is discussed.


DOI: 10.21276/sjebm.2017.4.11.12 Abstract: This research aims to analyze the effect of product quality, price and service to the purchase decision at PT. Hartekprima Listrindo either partially or simultaneously. The population of this research is all customers of PT. Hartekprima Listrindo. While the sample using slovin formula obtained 98 respondents. Quantitative analysis method by using multiple linear regression analysis was followed by determination analysis (R square), partial hypothesis test (t test) and Simultan (F test) with alpha of 5 percent (0,05). Prior to further analysis, data quality and classical assumption test are done. Analysis tool applies SPSS Version 20.0 for windows. The result of research shows that product quality influences partial purchasing decision, price influences partial purchasing decision, service influences partial purchasing decision and product quality, price, and service influences purchasing decision simultaneously at PT. Hartekprima Listrindo.


Georgian Customary law embraces many types of punishments. Among them the suffering and corporal punishments are commonly known, such as cutting, cursing, stoning, public humiliation , property or compositional punishments and etc. These are forms of punishment, which were widespread in almost all part of Georgia. Some of them were characteristic for separate region, for example, cutting was characteristic for Georgian law in Pshavi.
It is undoubtedly proved with historic and ethnographic materials that in Adjara, as an administrative unit of Upper Kartli, punishments of Georgian customary law were used against to criminals. Especially before the period of Ottoman occupation, however, the norms of Georgian customary law used to continue existance even after the occupation in Adjara, but locally and under an influence of Islam. Finally, as a result of implemented law policy by the Russian governance customary law was completely exiled from active life and only occasionally was used in the public relations, mostly when an foreign law was incompatible with Georgian character or it was inaccessible for a lower social classes.


Al-substituted alpha-Ni(OH)(2) coprecipitated with the additives Mg2+ and Co2+ was prepared by a complexation-coprecipitation method. The physical properties of Al-substituted alpha-Ni(OH)(2) samples containing different amounts of Mg2+ or Co2+ were examined by X-ray diffraction, AES and ICP. The effects of Mg2+ and Co2+ on the electrochemical performance of Al-substituted alpha-Ni(OH)(2) such as charge-discharge and diffusion coefficient of the proton (DH+) measured by current pulse relaxation and cycle life were investigated. The results show that the addition of Mg2+ increases the crystal cell parameters and the charge and discharge potentials and decreases the electrochemical polarization. A higher charge efficiency and cycle life are obtained by the addition of Co2+. The addition of both Mg2+ and Co2+ improves DH+ and the stability in alkaline solution at high temperature. The DH+ and R-t of alpha-Ni(OH)(2) electrode reach their maximum and minimum values at about 50% depth of discharge (DOD) and 75% DOD, respectively. (C) 2003 The Electrochemical Society.


The purpose of this study is to examine the value relevance of accounting information (Book value and Earning Pershare) and firm size. The size of the company in this study is divided into large companies and small companies based on the market capitalization value. This research was conducted using the model portfolio-returns approach and regression approach. To test the value relevance of accounting information will be translated using a regression approach to stock prices, while to measure the value relevance of earnings per share and book value, the adjusted coefficient of determination (adj R2) is used to the company's stock price. Based on the results of this study, it shows that Book value and Earning Pershare have an influence on the company's stock price. Meanwhile, based on the adjusted coefficient of determination (adj R2) of earnings per share and book value, it shows a strong relationship to the company's stock price. The results of other studies based on company size show that book value and earning percentage in large-scale companies have an effect on the company's stock price. Based on the adjusted coefficient of determination (adj R2) value of Earning Pershare and book value, small-scale companies show a weak relationship strength, and large-scale companies show moderate strength of the relationship.


Topological Matter
Near charge neutrality and subject to perpendicular magnetic fields, graphene is expected to become a ferromagnet with edge states not unlike those in two-dimensional topological insulators. Observing this effect experimentally has proven tricky because very large magnetic fields are needed to overcome the effect of electron-electron interactions, which drive the system to competing states. Instead of amping up the field, Veyrat et al. placed their graphene samples on a substrate made out of strontium titanate, which effectively screened the interactions. Transport measurements confirmed the formation of the characteristic edge states.

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Algebraic structures are widely studied mathematical structures in abstract algebra. Enumerating higher order algebraic structures is a computationally intensive task due to large number of possible permutations and the presence of many symmetrically equivalent redundant structures. This paper describes a comprehensive methodology and a novel algorithm to efficiently enumerate higher order algebraic structures. Enumeration of these structures is performed in two steps, namely: generation of complete set of algebraic structures with given constraints, and then computationally demanding task of performing isomorphism checking to identify isomorphism classes. In this paper we choose to study inverse property loops (IP loops), a particular class of algebraic structures, but the methodology can be applied to enumerate any algebraic structure with given constraints. IP loop constraints are modeled in Google's or-tools constraint solver to generate the complete set of IP loops of given order. The paper then discusses and evaluates several techniques to efficiently identify isomorphism classes within these algebraic structures. A novel algorithm is proposed that utilizes valid mappings and a tree data structure for efficient isomorphism checking. The algebraic structures are also modeled as color graphs and isomorphism classes are determined using state of the art graph isomorphism checking tool (nauty). The performance of these proposed isomorphism checking approaches is then evaluated using a diverse set of algebraic structure problems. It also presents an efficient use of multi-core systems to further enhance the efficiency of isomorphism checking. The proposed approach was then used to solve the previously computationally unsolved problem of determining isomorphism classes of exponent 3 IP loops of order 15.


The prediction of core losses in a rotating electrical machine has been estimated by a numerical finite element method and the use of power losses measurement on a toroidal magnetic lamination (taking account of anisotropy) under sinusoidal induction. The predicted core losses are 40% lower than the mesured ones. This excess can be attribued to harmonics due to the rotor rotation and modification of the magnetic properties of the material due to the lamination punching and core assemblage. Mechanical tests and microstructural observations carried out on non-oriented 3% Si-Fe magnetic sheets showed that the magnetic domain structure is quickly destroyed under 0 to 5% deformation


Purpose: To establish the aetiology of non-clearing non-diabetic vitreous haemorrhage (NNVH) requiring vitrectomy. Methods: Retrospective chart review of 18 consecutive patients (19 eyes) presenting with NNVH to Western Eye Hospital, and requiring vitrectomy over the 24 months period. The inclusion criteria were patients with either dense or non-dense NNVH requiring vitrectomy. The exclusion criteria were patients who had vitrectomy for diabetic vitreous haemorrhage (VH). Either the vitreo-retinal consultants or the fellows were the primary surgeons. Dense VH was defined as such if there was inadequate fundal view for diagnosis. Non-dense VH was defined as such if sufficient clinical details were visible for diagnosis. Statistical software, Instat, was used for the data analysis. Results: The mean age of the study population was 58.9 years (95% CI, 47.6–70.3 years). There were 9 males (50%) and 9 females (50%). Thirteen eyes (68%) had dense VH and four eyes (21%) had non-dense VH. The mean final VA was 1.35 LogMAR (<6/120 Snellen equivalent) in the dense VH group and the mean final VA was 0.33 LogMAR (6/12 Snellen equivalent) in the non-dense VH group (p = 0.05). Nine eyes (50%) had posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) and 61.5% of dense VH eyes had PVD on B-scan ultrasonography. Mean time before surgery was 5.9 months (95% CI, 1.0–10.8months). Mean follow-up since vitrectomy was 6.1 months (95% CI, 3.7–8.2months). BRVO was the commonest cause of NNVH requiring vitrectomy in our cohort (7 eyes, 39%). 17% (3 eyes) had sickle cell retinopathy, 11% (2 eyes) had choroidal neovascular membranes, 5.5% (1 eye) had idiopathic retinal vasculitis, 5.5% (1 eye) had cytomegalovirus retinitis, 5.5 % (1 eye) had hypertensive retinopathy, 5.5% (1 eye) had retinal tear, 5.5% (1 eye) had retinal macroaneurysm and 5.5% (1 eye) had a posterior vitreous detachment. Conclusion: The commonest cause of NNVH requiring vitrectomy in our institution was branch retinal vein occlusion. Dense vitreous haemorrhage was predictor for poorer final visual outcome.


The Russian State Duma after 12 years of office in Russian Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, permanently settled in the Russian Federation after 1993. Surveys show that many Russians consider the Duma to be a non-autonomous institution, totally dependent on the executive and fulfills all of its wishes. It does not enjoy as much support or trust from the Russians as the President, the government or even the Federation Council. It also plays a much smaller role in relation to the organs referred to. The constitutional position of the Duma affects its political role and in the eyes of the Russians limited influence on the activities of the state. This role is definitely smaller than the role of the media or even the oligarchs.


Purpose
The use of social media is becoming increasingly important for entrepreneurial marketing as a way to gain psychological empowerment through female entrepreneurship. The participation of female entrepreneurs on social media has witnessed an increasing trend. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of social media participation on female entrepreneurs towards digital entrepreneurship intention and their psychological empowerment.

Design/methodology/approach
This cross-sectional study integrates the Stimulus–Organism–Response framework with uses and gratification theory to understand and determine a theoretical framework in understanding the importance of social media for female entrepreneurship in the contemporary digital era. To ensure internal consistency of the latent constructs, this study determines Cronbach's alpha for all the variables. Further, exploratory factor analysis is performed to ensure the unidimensionality of the latent constructs. Structural equation modelling is performed to test the theoretical framework.

Findings
Data analysis confirms the significant effect of social media participations on female entrepreneurs towards their digital entrepreneurship intention which further affects their psychological empowerment.

Originality/value
The practical contributions of this study highlight the importance of female entrepreneurship which is essential for attaining self-reliance by reducing the socio-economic barriers. Further, female entrepreneurs' participation in social media communities enhances the levels of empowerment.


Şêrko Bêkes was one of the poets, along with other Kurdish poets that published "Rwangah" manifesto, who played a significant role in establishing and improving contemporary Kurdish poetry. Bêkes's poetry represented social issues, and cultural and economic poverty of Kurdish society. He was one of those Kurdish intellectuals who was concerned with the history of humanity and thus used mythological signs and symbols in his poetry. In his poems and other modes of writings, he has employed national myths and those of other nations to enrich his works in order to encourage and motivate the revolutionary fighters. Ahmad Shamlou preserves his persistence in the field of Persian literature by his prose poetry. Shamlou was committed to the social ideals of people and his poetry thus included socio-political demands of the community in which he lived. In order to express the social issues, Shamlou used a great deal of symbols, particularly mythological symbols. Mythological symbols have enriched Shamlou's poetry and established a link between the present and past times in his works; moreover, these features have made his poetry more literary and figurative. Shamlou, due to the political repression of his time, took advantage of the mythological sings to express people's sufferings and problems in an indirect and artistic way. In this path, Shamlou employed both Iranian and international myths. In this research, it is attempted to explore the representation of mythological symbols in the poetry of Şêrko Bêkes and Ahmad Shamlou.


The subject. The article considers a study of regulation of countering domestic violence in Russia and Germany. The author investigates the draft of Russian federal law "On the prevention of domestic crimes" No. 1183390-6 and the law of Germany "On civil protection from acts of violence and persecution" as well as federal and lands' legislation in this sphere. Purpose of the study. The comparative study aims to identify the reasons for the draft's unviability in Russian Federation, in particular, and to search for legislative opportunities to solve the domestic crime's problems in Russia, in general.Methodology. The article is based on the comparative legal method. Due to this method, the article describes the legal protections against domestic violence in Russia and Germany (at the level of the federation and states), the advantages and disadvantages of each system.The main results. The legal measures in Germany as well as the draft federal law in the Russian Federation contain protective measures that can be applied by police and court. The main feature of German measures from Russian ones is the possibility of temporary violator's ejection from the occupied housing by issuing a judicial or police order. The simplicity of the procedure allows а victim to receive effective help at any time, even at night and on non-working days. The article analyses the allowability of these measures to the offender from the point of view of basic rights' interference; notes the position of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany about the police order on temporary eviction: the residence ejection is allowable only when the measure aims at preventing criminal acts. The article draws attention to the technique' defects of the Russian draft federal law "On the prevention of domestic crimes" No. 1183390-6, which require correction in order to improve the domestic violence' counteraction in Russia.Сonclusions. It is concluded that in the Russian Federation it is necessary to differentiate heterogeneous phenomena in the law, such as victim's protection from domestic violence and preventive family relationships' measures, unreasonably mixed together in the draft federal law "On the prevention of domestic crimes" No. 1183390-6. Besides the law about victim's protection from acts of violence and persecution should include significant consequences exactly for the violator. In this regard, the German multi-level protection system consisting of police protective measures, preliminary judicial measures as well as judicial measures can be applied. German practice makes it possible to react quickly to an act of domestic violence and provide the necessary victim's support. The experience of applying the police order on the temporary eviction in Germany as well as violator rights' interference may be appropriate for use in Russia.


The present invention provides compounds of Formula I (wherein, n is an integer from 1 to 5, R , Alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, heterocyclylalkyl or cycloalkylalkyl, m is an integer from 0 to 2; R Things and its synthesis method. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of the present invention, and asthma using the compound, rheumatoid arthritis, COPD, rhinitis, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary inflammation , acute respiratory distress syndrome, periodontitis, multiple sclerosis, gingivitis, atherosclerosis, neointimal proliferation which leads to restenosis and ischemic heart failure, stroke, renal diseases, tumor metastasis, and excess matrix metalloproteinase wherein the expression and over-activation also relates to methods of treating other inflammatory disorders. BACKGROUND OF formula (1)


The profession of an expert auditor is a public trust occupation with a distinctive feature of taking responsibility for actions in the public interest. The main responsibility of expert auditors is performing financial auditing; however, expert auditors are prepared to carry out different tasks which encompass a wide plethora of financial and auditing services for different kinds of institutions and companies. The aim of the article is first of all the description of expert auditors' services classification according to domestic and international regulations and second of all the comparison of these services. The article presents services classifications according to domestic regulations, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) regulations and according to the IFAC ethics code for professional accountants. The article uses domestic and international regulations concerning the article topic.


When the concept of measurement is introduced in basic physics and astronomy courses, astronomical measurements are often reduced to examples of order-of-magnitude. On the other hand, there are descriptive approaches that do not put in contact the students with the instruments or with the objects of study. On the contrary, this work shows how an amateur telescope and a standard digital camera can be used to take images of the Moon, and obtain the distance to the satellite from them. The technique is based on a simple correlation analysis between two images taken from the same place with interval of some hours. The small variation in the angular size of the Moon due to the fact that the Moonobserver distance varies when the Earth rotates can be put in evidence, and serves to obtain the basic data to deduce the distance to the satellite.


We begin our forty-third year of publication with an essay on the ways that two contemporary writers have engaged with one of the most famous horror films ever made. In "Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Cinematic Novels of Don Delillo and Manuel Munoz," David Banash examines the respective authors' Point Omega and What You See in the Dark for the ways in which they explore Psycho as "a cultural fantasy about the overwhelming powers of cinema"; Banash sees in both novels an attempt to evoke "the film's powerful immersion in cinematic prose styles while at the same time offering a suspicious critique of the cinema image" (4). Revisiting some of the well-known history around Psycho's original exhibition before beginning his analyses of both books, Banash reflects, "At a moment of crisis for the forms of attention demanded by both classical cinema and the novel too, it makes sense that writers would want to use ekphrasis to evoke and even vampirize the profound power of Psycho as a way to reanimate their cinematic novels" (6). Next, in "Mrs. Rochester's Story: Franco Zeffirelli's Adaptation of Jane Eyre," Kirsten L. Parkinson considers two scholarly histories of the novel's reception-notably, feminist and postcolonial critiques-and argues that both traditions often rest on the immediacy of the novel's first-person narration, which ends up soliciting a sympathetic reading of that narrator, even in cases where larger elements of tne novel are being taken to task. As a result, the character of Bertha is often misunderstood, and Parkinson argues that Zeffirelli's adaptation seeks to redress the balance through a shift to a more distant form of narration, so that, "[i]n losing Jane's 'narrating self,' at these moments, viewers can see Bertha differently .... When Bertha becomes a person rather than a metaphor, it becomes harder to demonize her" (20). As a result, Parkinson argues, the film becomes a critique of past treatments of Bertha, in a way that addresses some of the scholarly history and perhaps suggests that the "real proto-feminist" may be Bertha herself.Following that, in "Making the Milk into a Milkshake: Adapting Upton Sinclair's Oil! into P. T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood," Gregory Alan Phipps argues that the film's large departures from the original source text might be construed as a profoundly self-conscious dramatization of the process of adaptation itself, in order to reflect on "the ontology of capitalism" (45). Working off of Linda Hutcheon's theorizing of adaptation as evolution-for her, a conceptualization relying on a highly self-referential work, Adaptation (2002)-Phipps argues that There Will Be Blood "develops a self-conscious portrayal of adaptation that both incorporates and reformulates notions of evolutionary development" (36). Phipps's essay reveals this evolutionary model through a careful analysis of the film, and he eventually complicates Hutcheon's original metaphor, with its more positive associations, since evolution here becomes "a terminal path," a line drawn between source text and film that "only emphasizes its essential purposelessness" (45). …


During the 2003-2004 winter season, the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR, Arlington, VA), sponsored a detailed in situ study of the mine burial process resulting from wave-seafloor-mine interaction at Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO, Edgartown, MA). In total, 16 mine shapes were deployed. Six were the Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr fur Wasserschall und Geophysik (FWG, Kiel, Germany) burial registration mines using optical sensors, four others were equipped with acoustical sensors, and six were simple shapes. Repeated acoustic surveys and detailed sediment sampling were conducted to characterize the site and the burial status of all objects. This paper focuses on data from three recovered optical systems. The records show three roll events at all three registration mines, which are necessary for scour burial. Two systems experienced a fourth roll event. Results from earlier experiments suggest only three (four) stages of progressively increasing burial despite frequent successive burial and exposure cycles (some as short as 1 h). During these burial-exposure cycles changes of buried mine volume reached up to 80%. The only reasonable explanation is a change of sediment height of up to 40 cm relative to the stably lying mines. This requires new concepts. Cyclic burial changes that were observed simultaneously at different positions cannot be explained with existing models. The least difficult explanation is ldquounderwater sand stormsrdquo which are characterized by a high sediment suspension.


Schlieren photography is widely used for visualization of acoustic or shock waves, e.g. in ballistics and aerodynamics. Due to the low molar refractivity of air the visualization of acoustic waves requires sensitive equipment or high sound pressure levels. We present a Schlieren system utilized in a nondestructive test setup, that is capable to visualize leaky Lamb waves, radiating from a steel sheet specimen. The Lamb wave is excited with our air-coupled ultrasonic phased array. Image processing includes averaging, substraction of a phase-shifted image and filtering in the frequency domain. We analyze the detection limit of our setup and discuss measurements with two different specimen. Leaky Lamb waves with SPLs down to 101.5 dB can be visualized. The exit angles above and beneath the specimen, measured in the Schlieren images are in good agreement with the excitation angles for 0.5 mm and 0.8 mm thick steel sheets.


In the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians we find a list of 10 unjust ones that will not be part of the reign of God (6:9-10). What was the necessity for Paul to use such a list in the Corinthian correspondence? This list has become a controversial passage today because there is the tendency of understanding some of the elements in it – like the mention of homosexuals – with a contemporary knowledge. Is the preacher of the Good News to the gentiles rejecting the possibility for some specific groups of people to inherit the reign of God? To answer these questions, it seems necessary for me to read this passage with a socio-rhetorical lenses, finding those cultural phrases and images found in the first century Mediterranean word and portrayed in Corinthian correspondence.


Objective To investigate the mechanism of action for taurine on apoptosis of human retinal pigment epithelial cells(RPECs) induced by oxidative injury.Methods RPECs cultured medium were used to establish the model of oxidative injury in human RPECs with adding 600 μmol·L-1 H2O2.Meanwhile,taurine of 20 mmol·L-1 was also added into the cultured medium for 24 hours.The expression of caspase-3 and the effect of taurine were observed by cellular immunochemical technique and ELISA.Results Caspase-3 was not obviously expressed in RPECs in control group,while positively expressed in the nucleus of RPECs with specifically yellow staining in oxidative injury group,and increased gradually with the prolongation of time.The expressive pattern of caspase-3 in taurine group was similar with that of oxidative injury group,but significantly more decreased(P0.05).Conclusion Caspase-3 may play a role in the apoptosis of human RPECs induced by oxidative injury.While taurine has protective effect against oxidative injury.


Objective: To analyze the rationality of drug use of inpatient electronic medical records in our hospital. Methods: Six hundred and sixty inpatient electronic medical records were randomly selected from Oct. 2011 to Sept. 2012 for evaluation of the rationality of drug use. Results: There were 6 214 medication orders in 660 inpatient electronic medical records, in which 6 147 medication orders were rational and 67 medication orders were irrational. The ratio of monthly percentages in irrational medication orders accounted for 1.37%, 1.05%, 2.09%, 0.95%, 1.39%, 0.98 %, 0.78%, 1.22%, 1.14%, 1.09%, 0.37% and 0.57%, respectively. In 67 irrational medication orders, the use of antibacterials which are irregularly used in accordance with the regulations for clinical antibacterial application accounted for 19.40%, inappropriate selection of drugs 8.96%, inappropriate drug dosage form or route of administration 16.4%, inappropriate dosage 50.75%, the repeated administration 1.49% and selecting drugs with incompatibility or adverse drug interaction 2.99%. Conclusion:Medical staff should work together to ensure the safety, effectiveness and economy of drug use.


Generally Tax benefits Policy plays one important role during the arrangement of Beijing Olympic Games.But in some aspects,the policy has some shortages in controlling Beijing air pollution and in supporting the Paralympic Games.To promote greatly the international Olympic movement in China,we should properly adapt our present tax-free policy.We should pay enough attention to callan and handicapped people and use tax-free policy prudently and try to construct one equilibrium tax benefits policy between government,enterprises and international organizations.


The demand for specialized human resources capable of bringing about highly advanced logistics systems and the integration of logistics centers situated in local hubs, has been on the rise. Logistics industry requires more of a systematic mind set, endless innovation, and the navigation of uncharted waters than the logistics industry. This study lays out the reasons for the importance of developing human resources in the logistics industry, and then carries out an evaluation of the current state of human resources development in that particular field in Korea. This study found that there is not only a shortage in terms of the courses needed to develop the skills required to carry out the core activities associated with the logistics sector, but also that students' ability to speak English and Chinese, which are ubiquitous in the international logistics industry, was also wanting. There is a need for the study of logistics at the university level to be based on practical applications rather than theoretical ones.


A simple method is derived to improve the accuracy of the predicted neutron flux in and around control rods by coarse mesh difference diffusion scheme in fast reactor criticality calculations. In a two-region slab lattice, a simple polynomial function is used to approximate the flux in the integral transport model, and the coefficients in the polynomial are determined by the variational method. From this approximate transport solution, the terms of net current into the control rods are corrected in the difference diffusion scheme before treatment by iteration in the criticality calculation. The results represent an appreciable improvement over those obtained with the conventional diffusion scheme, without any increase of computer time in the iteration. This improvement is confirmed in comparison with the results obtained with the usual fine mesh transport scheme as the standard reference.


Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common cancer worldwide, with increasing numbers surviving and living with long‐term side effects from treatment. Physical exercise during or after treatment may have several beneficial effects, but knowledge of CRC patients' reflections on exercising during adjuvant therapy is limited. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of CRC patients participating in a supervised exercise program during adjuvant chemotherapy.


Rupture or erosion of an underlying atherosclerotic plaque, triggering superimposed subocclusive or occlusive vessel thrombosis, represents the most common pathological substrate for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) [1]. By restoring flow in the infarct-related artery, primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is able to reduce the amount of myocardium undergoing irreversible injury, which in turn translates into better ventricular function and improved patient outcomes. However, due to the large thrombotic burden and despite achieved patency of the epicardial artery, myocardial salvage is suboptimal in a substantial proportion of patients, due to distal embolization of thrombotic material and consequently impaired microvascular perfusion; MRI studies have confirmed microvascular obstruction to be a strong independent predictor of poor long-term clinical outcomes following STEMI [2].


The study aims to understand how collected data from the Assembly Wire Bond manufacturing line and enterprise systems can lead to insights regarding the relationship of overtime rate to manufacturing KPIs: output attainment, utilization, and absenteeism. Using CRISP-DM as the data mining methodology, approximately 3.8 million records for attendance, 25.7 million for lot transactions, and 546.2 million for machine utilization were extracted, transformed, and summarized into weekly buckets, resulting in three hundred fifteen (315) samples from the five (5) selected packages, representing 97% of the total volume. The samples were subjected to Multiple Linear Regression and Pearson Correlation to determine whether there was a significant relationship between Overtime Rate and the manufacturing KPIs. Results show that Overtime Rate exhibits a statistically significant relationship with all the variables (P < 0.05) for the overall setup. Violations of the regression assumptions are probably due to model misspecification: other variables can more effectively explain the behavior of the overtime rate, as indicated by the low R-squared values. In contrast, only selected variables are considered significant across the results by package. These differences can be attributed to the different environmental conditions of semiconductor processes and manufacturing lines.


In this reported work, the authors optimised a dielectric dot as a radiator, studied its emission properties, verified the far-field pattern multiplication and obtained high directivity from the proposed dot antenna. Also the effect of the dot radiator on the extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) was studied through optically thick metal film with a periodic array of subwavelength apertures as well as a single circular aperture surrounded by finite periodic concentric annular grooves (bull's eye). With dot radiators a high-intensity focused electric field beam and polarisation-independent EOT were obtained through periodic arrays of holes in metal film. Interestingly, the bull's eye structure with an optimised dot radiator has transmission threefold larger and suppressed side lobes of the light beam emerging from it. These features might open a new pathway in the field of nanophotonics for multiple applications such as designing better near-field imaging devices, biosensors and improving the efficiency of solar cells etc.