Accounting information plays a crucial role in the decision-making process given that the primary users of this information are predominantly the company's managers. Based on the financial condition, operating results, and cash flows stated within the financial statements, managers from the automotive sector had to redesign their strategies because of the COVID-19 Pandemic followed by the worldwide semiconductor supply shortage. This study aims to analyze the decisions taken by managers from the cable manufacturing subsector in Romania, based on the information provided by the financial statements in 2018-2021, considering the crisis that the automotive sector had to face since the global vehicle sales and production rates continued to be significantly below historic levels. The results show the negative effects and disruptions caused by the dual crisis in terms of profitability and performance that will probably affect the industry beyond 2022.


GPS is already a main method of positioning measurement in geodesy and is applied widely in many fields. For maintaining and ensuring the accuracy of positioning, an accurate and efficient system for calibration the GPS receivers must be established. A highly accurate GPS calibration network tied to the ITRF coordinates of IGS stations, can be effectively used to evaluate the performance of GPS receivers. This study addresses the feasibility of establishing a system for calibrating GPS receivers and the system's traceabilty in metrology. Uncertainties of the GPS calibration network established and maintained by NML (National Measurement Laboratory, Taiwan) are evaluated based on the method suggested by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). The uncertainties of NML network coordinates are obtained and used as a basis for calibration. The results of the slope distances between pillars measured by the GPS processing units and the precise EDM units are discussed. Analytical results indicate that the 3D expanded uncertainty of the main station TNML of the network in the ITRF system is around 33.2 mm at the 95% confidence level. The 3D expanded uncertainties of the calibration points of ultra-short distance network and short distance network are evaluated to be about 22.2 mm and 3.4 mm in relation to the main station TNML, respectively, at the 95% confidence level. The precision of the NML network coordinates suffices to calibrate the geodetic and navigational GPS receivers of regional users and is available through the Internet.


"Surfactant Blends for Modifying Polymers', 3M Company, by T. Klun, J. Temperante, A.J. Gasper, H. Johnson, & D. Weil; Nonwovens World, Summer 1998, pp. 57–63. * cited by examiner Primary Examiner-David W. Wu ASSistant Examiner R. Harlan (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Nancy Quan (57) ABSTRACT Adhesive compositions are disclosed that include a block copolymer that includes monomerS Selected from the group consisting of Styrene, isoprene, butadiene, and combinations thereof, from about 0.5% to about 10% by weight surfactant, and a tackifying agent. The adhesive composition has a surface tension of at least about 34 dynes/cm.


Objective To understand the situation of knowledge,practice and the HIV infection situation about STD/AIDS of female commercial sex workers(CSWs)in Yibin city,so as to develop a better health education,and develop a behavior intervention.Methods Questionnaire method was adopted and 6 ml vein blood and vaginal and cervical secretion from the CSWs were detected.Results Totally 216 CSWs were investigated.There were 44.44%-91.92% CSWs who could correctly answer the items in the questionnaires about HIV transmission routes and preventive measure.58.80% of them used condoms with their clients at their last sex activities.There were significant differences in condom use among them between high(71.88%)and low grade entertainment places(21.43%).The main reasons that they didn't use condom was their clients' unwillingness(83.15%),the prevalence of STD was 45.83% once.The HIV anti-bodies in their serum were negative all,the infected rate of Syphilis,Gonorrhoea and Trichomoonas and Chlamydia and HSV-2 was 6.94%,8.25%,9.28%,24.23%,38.43%.Conclusion The awareness of STD/AIDS prevention among CSWs is quite low and condom use rate is low too.The prevalence of STD was high consequently.To conduct health education and introduce behavioral intervention for female sex workers would be an important work in the future,especially for those in cheap prostitution places.


Efficient visible light-responsive photocatalyst has been a hot research topic in the field of photocatalyst.In this paper,nitrogen doped TiO2/rectorite composite photocatalyst was prepared by the sol gel method,and the effect of preparation conditions according to the visible light catalytic performance was analyzed.When N/Ti is 1∶4,Ti/Rectorite is 15mmol/g,the race of the pump is 3rpm,the pH after centrifugation is 2.0~2.5,and calcined at 400℃,the sample show better photocatalytic properties.


Articles of Wikipedia crowdsourcing encyclopedia, which is one of the most popular Internet resources in Russia and in the world, are considered as a source of data for research of mass representations about geographical objects. The article analyzes statistical data on the number of views of Wikipedia pages on the urban settlements of the Arctic zone of Russia, as well as quantitative characteristics such as the length of the article (number of characters) and the frequency of updates. These indicators for 57 articles on the largest settlements of the Russian Arctic are collected in the database, and on their basis, we have made calculations of integrated indices (separately for small towns from 4 to 25 thousand inhabitants and for larger ones), which characterize the level of provision of information about the studied settlements for readers of Wikipedia. The lower the value of the calculated indicator, the more «faceless» the urban settlement is in collective representations, and the more attention should be paid to its image policy.


Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of humorous video on the depression and stress responses in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Methods: The quasi-experimental study was designed with a nonequivalent control group pre-post test. Research participants were assigned to a treatment group (n=23) and a control group (n=21). Treatment was watching humorous video tapes 30 min each time, three times a week. The depression level and state anxiety level were assessed using a questionnaire. Cortisol was measured by a blood test. The data were analyzed using -test, and t-test. Results: Depression and anxiety were decreased significantly in the treatment group. Conclusions: Humorous video tape could be a usefull tool at home and clinical setting as a nursing intervention to decrease depression and anxiety among the patients on hemodialysis.


Spin potential, spin hardness, spin-philicity, and spin-donicity indices have been extensively studied on a large set of carbenes, silylenes, germylenes, and stannylenes at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. The effect of the substituents and that of the central atom have been investigated. The sum of the spin potentials calculated in the singlet and triplet states correlates excellently with the vertical singlet-triplet energy gap. A very good quadratic relationship between the spin-philicity and spin-donicity indices and the vertical singlet-triplet energy gaps is obtained. The analogy of the spin-philicity and spin-donicity indices with the electrophilicity index is discussed in detail.


Economic development ofSingaporehas become one of the vivid examples of transition of a developing country to the group ofFirst Worldeconomies.Singapore's economic success was achieved mainly due to the interventionist measures implemented by the government and embodied in industrial policy. This positive experience can be also of interest toRussiapursuing to modernize the economy and to shift away from raw materials export dependency. This article contains analysis of the main stages, instruments, results of industrial policy ofSingapore, and policy implications forRussia.


Performance enhancements of a microstrip antenna with multiple layer substrates a small size broadband microstrip patch antenna for 5 GHz WLAN applications with multi-layer substrate has been fabricated using MEMS process. A microstrip antenna fabricated on top of silicon substrate can be realized in small size but has limited bandwidth while a microstrip antenna fabricated on top of glass substrate results in large size with moderate bandwidth. Multiple layer substrates of silicon and glass have been implemented to realize small size and broadband characteristics. The size of the proposed antenna is larger that the antenna fabricated on silicon substrate but it showed broader bandwidth compared with the antenna fabricated on glass substrate. The size of the microstip antenna is 8*12*2 mm3 and the size of the ground plane is 15*15 mm2. The experimental results show that the proposed antenna has the gain of 1dBi and bandwidth of 400 MHz at 5.3 GHz.


We present predicted full-sky maps of submillimeter and microwave emission from the di(cid:134)use interstellar dust in the Galaxy. These maps are extrapolated from the 100 k m emission and 100/240 k m (cid:209)ux ratio maps that Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis generated from IRAS and COBE /DIRBE data. Results are presented for a number of physically plausible emissivity models. The correlation of COBE /FIRAS data with the simple Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis ( l 2 emissivity power law) extrapolation is much tighter than with other common dust templates such as H I column density or 100 k m emission. Despite the apparent success of the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis extrapolation, the assumed l 2 emissivity is inconsistent with the FIRAS data below 800 GHz. Indeed, no power-law emissivity function —ts the FIRAS data from 200 to 2100 GHz. In this paper we provide a formalism for a multicomponent model for the dust emission. A two-component model with a mixture of (cid:147)(cid:147) silicate ˇˇ and (cid:147)(cid:147) carbon-dominated ˇˇ grains (motivated by Pollack et al.) provides a —t to an accuracy of D 15% to all the FIRAS data over the entire high-latitude sky. Small systematic di(cid:134)erences are found between the atomic and molecular phases of the ISM. COBE /DMR has observed microwave emission that is correlated with thermal dust emission. However, this emission is higher than our model predicts by factors of 1.2, 2.4, and 20 at 90, 53, and 31 GHz, respectively. This provides evidence that another emission mechanism dominates dust emission at frequencies below D 60 GHz. Our predictions for the thermal (vibrational) emission from Galactic dust at l \ 3000 GHz are available for general use. These full-sky predictions can be made at the DIRBE resolution of 40 @ or at the higher resolution of from the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis 6 @ .1 DIRBE-corrected IRAS maps.


Efficiency in basic reading processes can be discussed in terms of accuracy and speed. In this longitudinal study, the development of accurate and fast reading processes was studied in a group of 66 children learning to read simultaneously in English, their first language (L1), and Hebrew, their second language (L2). Children's speed and accuracy were compared in Grade 1 and Grade 2 on parallel L1 and L2 tasks of letter naming, reading isolated words and the same words in text. Results indicated that corresponding accuracy and speed across the two languages are highly correlated. Despite differences in language familiarity and different orthographies, accuracy and speed rates of isolated word reading in L1 and L2 were highly similar. Yet, in L1, children were more efficient (faster and more accurate) in reading text than isolated words, but in early stages of L2 reading acquisition, text reading was not more efficient than the reading of isolated words. In terms of efficiency components in L2 language, ac...


Based on our recent study of the Tremadocian graptolites from the Dayangcha section of Jilin, China, as well as a reinvestigation of the graptolites collected from North China and stored in NIGPAS, a revised Tremadocian graptolite succession of North China is suggested, including in ascending order four zones: Rhabdinopora flabelliformis parabola Zone, Anisograptus matanensis Zone, Psigraptus jacksoni Zone and Aorograptus victoriae Zone. The former misleading Adelograptus-Clonograptus Zone is abandoned. In South China, the graptolites collected from the top of the Tungtzu Fm. at Gulin of southern Sichuan include Hunnegraptus novus, H. sp. etc., and accordingly indicate an age of latest Tremadocian (Hunnegraptus copiosus Zone). Meanwhile a re-examination of Tremadocian graptolite specimens previously collected from many other localities in South China is conducted. On this basis, a new scheme of Tremadocian graptolite biozonation of the South China Palaeoplate is proposed, which includes seven zones. They are in ascending order: Rhabdinopora? taojiangensis Zone,R. flabelliformis parabola Zone,Anisograptus matanensis Zone,R. flabelliformis anglica Zone,Aorograptus victoriae Zone,Acanthograptus sinensis Zone and Hunnegraptus copiosus Zone. A correlation of the revised graptolite biozonation of South China and North China with those of other continents is proposed. The GSSP established at the Green Point section of Newfoundland for the base of the Tremadocian (i.e. Ordovician System), and the GSSP approved at the Diabasbrottet Quarry of Sweden for the top of Tremadocian (i.e. the base of the second stage), are also briefly reviewed, and their identifications discussed.


Background: Leptospira are the parasitic bacterial organisms associated with a broad range of mammalian hosts and are responsible for severe cases of human Leptospirosis. The epidemiology of leptospirosis is complex and dynamic. Multiple serovars have been identified, each adapted to one or more animal hosts. Adaptation is a dynamic process that changes the spatial and temporal distribution of serovars and clinical manifestations in different hosts. Serotyping based on repertoire of surface antigens is an ambiguous and artificial system of classification of leptospiral agents. Molecular typing methods for the identification of pathogenic leptospires up to individual genome species level have been highly sought after since the decipherment of whole genome sequences. Only a few resources exist for microbial genotypic data based on individual techniques such as Multiple Locus Sequence Typing (MLST), but unfortunately no such databases are existent for leptospires.


There used to be four kinds of ideas about "wording" and "meaning" in early Qin dynasty more than two thousand years ago. They were: the extreme linguistic view of belief that "Sentiments must be true and sincere and wording skillful"; the view of analytic structure which holds one is too proud with eloquence; the Confucious' view of moderation that "words should be used for expressing one's ideas only"; the structural view that "I have much more to say than I can write here" "I'd like to say more" and therefore "Saints invented symbols to fully express their ideas" which come from "Yizhuang" - an ancient philosophic work. The last two views influenced greatly the arising aesthetics of ancient poetry, of which the expressing tactics of Saints invented symbols to fully express their ideas having got rid of the antagonistic relation between the subjective and the objective in poetic art, made Chinese poetic aesthetics and Chinese philosophy of 'combining nature and human and humanity become integrated.


The research was aimed to describe any formulation, among them was describing Firdaus' unconsiousness, sexuality violence, soul conflict experienced by Firdaus, death insting felt by Firdaus. The research was used descriptive qualitative methods explaining all element deal with psychoanalysis, study literature in aspect of psychology. The research data was in the form of text of the novel Perempuan di Titik Nol/Women at Point Zero written by Nawal el Sadaawi, issued by Yayasan Obor Indonesia. The technic of data tabulations used was mapping data in the form of table of elements deal with psychoanalysis to be analized. In the phase of data analization do some steps, such as reduction, data presenting, and verification. The result of the research showed that the main character experienced several problems deal with psychoanalysis in her life, the problems experienced by the main character influenced by the conditions of the family poorness, actually the main character was from the poor family.


On the base of the immune network regulatory mechanism in the biological systems, a chaotic hypermutation immune algorithm (CHIA) was proposed. Combining clonal selection principle with chaotic theory, a novel chaotic hypermutation operation was developed in CHIA to further strengthen the searching ability of the algorithm in the solution domain. Furthermore, the stimulation level of each antibody based on mathematic model of the immune network was devised and used as the condition for antibody population regulation to maintain the population adversity. Finally, CHIA was applied to solve function optimizationn problems. The simulation results show CHIA not only has better performance than clonal selection algorithm (CLONALG), but can efficiently avoid premature convergence.


To establish human lactoferrin cDNA transgenic donor cell lines and prepare competent donor cells for the production of transgenic animals by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and detect the tissue-specific expression of human lactoferrin cDNA, Human lactoferrin cDNA was obtained by RT-PCR while 6.5 kb caprine(Capra hircus) β-casein regulatory elements were amplified by Long and Acute PCR. Subsequently the two fragments were inserted into the corresponding site of the plasmid pEGFP-C1, resulting in the construction of mammary specific expression vector p6.5hLF-EGFP. Then the caprine fetal fibroblast cells were transfected with p6.5hLF-EGFP by LipofectamineTM-2000 and selected with G418 for 3 to 4 weeks. The G418 resistant transfectants were identified by PCR and EGFP detection. The results indicated that the transgene was stably integrated into the open region of the chromatin of G418 resistant fibroblast cells. The expression of human lactoferrin was identified in the supernant of stable transfected mammary epithelial cells by Western blot. This study may provide competent transgenic donor cells for the production of transgenic animals by SCNT and improve the efficiency of transgenic cloning.


Ag-doped ZnO thin films were fabricated on silicon substrate with different Ag doping concentrations by sol-gel method.The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction,scanning electron microscopy,ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer and current-voltage measurement,respectively.The effects of Ag doping on the structure,surface topography and electrical properties of ZnO thin films were investigated.The results showed that the elemental Ag is generated in ZnO thin films with the addition of Ag and the increasing of the doping concentration,and a new absorption peak appears at 404 nm,which is probably induced by the formation of Ag nano-particles.At the same time,the conductivity of Ag-doped ZnO thin films is obviously improved and the film transmittance in the visible region is all above 85%.When the doping concentration is 7at%,the sample shows the best conductivity with visible transmittance greater than 90%.


The traffic congestion has become a worldwide problem. The current solution is to make the transportation become smart. The origin and definition of smart transportation was expounded and the basic architecture of smart transportation was discussed. A new definition human-like transportation system based on smart transportation, similar to human body system, was put forward to establish the future transportation, which included receptors and nervous system, immune system, endocrine system, respiratory system, etc. This paper was aimed at providing an efficient development direction for the future transportation.


Imagine a free business tool that is adaptable to all types of libraries and can benefit librarians at every level to become more effective and successful. It exists with a mastermind group. There are numerous examples of mastermind groups throughout history.


Results on the fragmentation of heavy quarks from analyses of inclusive lepton production in e + eannihilation are studied. The use of various fragmentation variables is closely examined and their differences resolved, providing a common basis for comparison of experimental results. The mean value of the fraction of available energy-momentum carried by the primary heavy hadron, defined as (E + Pll)hadron Z-(E +P)quark ' is determined to be ( z ) c=0 .67+0 .02+0 .02 and ( z ) b = 0 . 8 3 _ 0 . 0 1 _ 0 . 0 2 for an unknown mixture of charmed and bot tom flavoured hadrons respectively. The corresponding values of the parameter eQ of the Peterson fragmentation function are -0.01 0.01 -0.001 -0.002 ec = 0.06 + 0.02 + 0.02 and eb = 0.006 + 0.001 + 0.002" The ratio e~/e b can be approximately related to MZ/M 2 giving a value of 10 + 4 + 5 in agreement with 2 4 ' an expectation of ~ 10. Measurements of the charged multiplicity of hadronic events containing heavy quark jets are investigated in terms of the mean value of z.


The interface between science and art is often a deep uncrossable chasm.
 Shearer and Gould
 argue that this is not the way it should be or has to be. They plea for interdisciplinary sharing of methods and thought and point to people who have successfully bridged the gap--Marcel Duchamp among them.


Target detection plays a core issue in hyperspectral remote sensing, but faces serious challenges of how to deal with the spatial and spectral redundancies and spectral variations. In this article, a novel network block is developed, called RFT-MSA block (abbreviated as RM), which includes the region-of-interest (RoI) feature transformation (RFT) and the multiscale-spectral-attention (MSA) module as to reduce the spatial and spectral redundancies simultaneously and provide strong discrimination. Furthermore, a deep spatial–spectral network (DSSN) is presented by stacking several RM and deconvolutional (DC) blocks for hyperspectral target detection in an unsupervised manner, and a feature loss term is investigated to simultaneously restrict the target to be sparse and minimize the energy of the background. The proposed algorithm mainly consists of three steps. First, an RoI map is detected using a classical detector (no statistic assumption is needed) with an edge-preserving filter. Then, the hyperspectral image (HSI) and the corresponding RoI map are considered as inputs to the DSSN for extracting the spatial and spectral feature of interest (SSFI). Finally, we apply the nearest neighbors (NNs) to the SSFI for detection-map refinement. The experimental results on one synthetic and three real HSIs demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms other benchmark approaches in detection performance and robustness. In addition, further analysis also demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed RM block.


Delving into data can be by turns demanding, disconcerting, destabilizing and oftentimes, frankly, dangerous. Such conundrums, raised to the second power in the age of advanced artificial intelligence, arise from the complex antagonism between the thirst for data demonstrated by capitalist enterprises and the desire for privacy demonstrated time and again by consumers. Another way of putting this point, one more in keeping with the ideological and technological discourses of neo-liberalism, is the wellknown paradox between data sharing and data privacy. Data sharing has generated fundamental issues of data boundaries and non-controllability of data and concomitantly rendered privacy and security issues increasingly prominent.


Based on Reynolds transport equation,stress tensor expression ρvivj of momentum flow was derived.The curved surface integral was calculated along the surface of entire controlling body(sitting mark do,get the surface integral) and a joint effort,namely radiation momentum stress was attained.The results through the method was adopted to calculate decrease water equation.Compared with traditional reducing water equation,the analysis show that radiation momentum stress not only embodies the essential characteristics of "radiation stress",but also expands the application scope of radiation stress.


Simulation has become a very powerful tool because it can, in many cases, minimize the risk of FMS. This paper, on the basis of discussing methods of modeling, presents an approach to the hierarchical simulation, and sets up an FMS simulator which can be used for system simulation, cell simulation, and simulation of machining process according to described data structure and animation technique.


The structure theory for Pi-algebras is well developed. Some results of this theory are classic now. One of them is Kaplansky's theorem which asserts that a primitive Pi-algebra is finite dimensional over its centre. Another example is the theorem of Nagata-Higman which asserts that any algebra over a field of zero characteristic satisfying identity x" = 0 is nilpotent. In 1957 A.I. Shirshov proved his famous Height Theorem:


Melt inclusions were examined in plagioclase phenocrysts from the Novyi andesitic dome of Bezymyannyi volcano, Kamchatka. The examined rocks came from eruptions in 1956, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1987, and 1990. The inclusions were homogenized, and the glasses of more than sixty inclusions were analyzed on an electron microprobe. It was determined that the silicity of the melts varies over a wide range, from 56 to 81 wt % SiO 2 , and an increase in the content of SiO 2 is associated with a decrease in the contents of Al 2 O 3 , MgO, FeO, and CaO and an increase in the concentration of Na 2 O. The K 2 O contents also vary within a broad range (from 1.8 to 6.6 wt %) regardless of the bulk melt composition. The composition of the Bezymyannyi melts was compared with that of Shiveluch volcano. It was demonstrated that the current concept of the origin of the Bezymyannyi volcano rocks as the products of only andesitic melt is erroneous. The processes that resulted in the rocks were extremely complex and call for further study.


As the average life expectancy has increased with advances in the medical sciences the degenerative diseases have become a critical issue. More organs, joints, and other critical body parts wear out and need to be replaced because people wish to maintain a good quality of life in their old ages. Existing autograft materials involve harvesting a tissue from one location and transplanting it into another part of the same patient (e.g. Coronary bypass and spinal fusion). However, they generally have poor morphologies and limited resource that leads to donor site morbidity. This may impair their population with cells and vascularization. There is also risk of infection and pain. Surgical harvesting is also expensive (Ileac crest graft $1000–$9,000/procedure). Allografting involves harvesting tissue or organs from a donor and then transplanting it to the patient. Transplantation from donors is not always the solution for diseased and dysfunctioned organs because of the high risk of rejection, due to cell-mediated immune responses to transplantation alloantigens and high risk of transmission of disease and tumor development, and scarcity of donor organs. For example, in 1998, there were 22 170 organ transplants in the U.S and this number increased to 74 800 by February 2001 (some patients died while waiting for suitable donor organs) [1]. Man-made materials and devices like artificial hearts and valves, prosthetic hip, and breast implants are also widely used but they are subject to fatigue, fracture, toxicity, inflammation, wear, and do not remodel with time. They are best suited as temporary therapies until a donor organ becomes available. However, they have had limited success due to lack of living cells and slow vascularization. Three general strategies have been adapted for the creation of new tissues [2]. First method is the "cell injection" that can be applied in replacing the function of lost metabolic organs like the liver. However, its applicability to restore the function of structural tissues like cartilage or heart valve is limited. In this method, sufficient cell mass is difficult to achieve to replace lost function. Second method is "closed system" method and that can be implanted or used as an extracorporal device. In this system, cells are isolated from the body by a semipermeable membrane that allows diffusion of nutrients and wastes but prevents large entities such as antibodies, complement factors, or immune cells from destroying the transplant. Major problems of this system are fibrous tissue overgrowth and resultant reduced diffusion of metabolic products, nutrients and wastes. Finally, as opposed to implanting bioinert materials that only mimic the shape of living tissue or provide a support structure, tissue engineering, a new field in biomedical science, has been emerging as an alternative for more than ten years.


The invention discloses a gelled water/oil/water triple emulsion comprising: (A) a fatty phase comprising at least one wax having a melting point of at least 60 DEG C and forming the primary W/O emulsion with an aqueous phase; (B) a dilution oil; (C) a gelled continuous external aqueous phase comprising at least a gelling agent having a fatty chain of the monoethylene carboxylic acid or acid anhydride copolymer type with 3 to 6 carbon atoms or a fatty chain acrylic ester. In the triple emulsion, the amount of fatty phase from the W/O emulsion is from 1 to 30 % and the amount of wax having a melting point of at least 60 DEG C is from 0.2 to 10 %, based on the total weight of the triple emulsion. Said triple emulsion can be used as a carrier in cosmetic or dermatologically active compositions suitable for use on the skin or hair.


Tax revenue has an important role in national development. The government continues to pursue various policies to improve taxpay-er compliance so that tax revenues can increase. One of the efforts made by the government is to pass the Law on the Harmonization of Tax Regulations. One of the programs contained in the law is the voluntary disclosure program (VDP). The purpose of this research is to find out the effect of the Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) and Tax Sanctions on Individual Taxpayer Compliance. The type of research applied in this study is quantitative research with a correlational approach. In this study, the population studied were individual taxpayers registered at KPP Pratama Badung Selatan, using purposive sampling techniques in sampling based on predetermined criteria and using the slovin formula, so as to get a sample of 100 respondents. The data used in this study was primary data using a likert scale of scores 1 to 4. The data analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression using the SPSS v.26.00 software program. The results of this research show that the voluntary disclosure program has a significant positive effect on taxpayer compliance, tax sanctions have a significant positive effect on taxpayer compliance, and the voluntary disclosure program and tax sanctions simultaneously have a significant effect on Taxpayers compliance.


In the Spring and Autumn period,the Bureaucratic groups of the Eastern principalities were made up of hereditary Qing Tai Fu.They were in power from generation to generation,with private arms,fief and considerable independence.The Qin Kingdom,located in the far west,although with the powerful military officer like Shuzhang,however,never saw the independent Qin officials like those in the Eastern principalities.Weakening the official's power means the strengthening of the monarchical power.Till the Warring State period,the success of Shang Yang's Reformation was dependent on the strong monarchical power.The Eastern principalities also attempted to reduce the Qing Tai Fu's power,but with much retention because of the deep-rooted aristocratic clan's power.Accordingly,there must be more fetters on the way of reformation.


Stoichiometry, equilibrium constants and spectra of iron(III) complexes with noradrenaline have been determined from spectrophotometric measurements; in addition equilibrium constants of complexes with MgII, CdII and PbII have been determined from potentiometric measurements.


The aim of this article is to help frame the China–EU dialogue on energy security, formally established in 2012, yet in reality adding to decades of sustained dialogue and collaboration to address energy development and policy-making in China. The paper begins by noting that the lack of mutual energy dependence between the EU and China can place a limit to the attractiveness of the security dimension of energy as a topic for further dialogue. China's energy challenges require fast delivery of industry-level results, against ideational aspects associated with search for energy security on the global scale. Then, the article proceeds in four parts: (1) a review and analysis of European and Chinese energy security concepts; (2) an explanation of the rationale for EU–China energy security cooperation and policy coordination; (3) an overview of the past and current undertakings in the energy field between China and the EU; and (4) a set of ideas to consider in making this new layer of formal dialogue effectual.


Objective To evaluate the significance of color doppler ultrasonography (CDU) on the diagnosis of the prevalence, location of superficial macrovascular lesions in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods The thickness from intima to media of the anterior or posterior wall was detected on common carotid artery, carotid sinus, common iliac artery, femoral artery and brachial artery through broadband probe in the rated range during the diastolic period. Results 236 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were examined by CDU. 85(36%) of patients suffered from one or more angiopathy. There were 143 macrovascular lisions in all. The rates of vascular lesions occured in femoral artery and common iliac artery were significantly higher than that in common carotid artery, carotid sinus (CS) and brachial artery (P0.01). The appearence of two or more vessel lesions was much higher than that of single vessel lesion (P0.01). Angiopathy occured frequently in posterior wall and branch of vessel (includeing CS). Conclusions CDU can diagnose atherosclerosis and other angiopathies immediately and noninvasively. Multiple blood vessels measurement can help the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus and is beneficial to the therapy.


This study proposed a four-parameter continuous distribution, called the Dagum-Cauchy{Exponential} Distribution (DCED) for modelling financial time series returns using the generalized family of Cauchy distribution by Alzaatreh et al. [1]. Some structural properties of this new distribution such as quantile function, reliability measures and hazard function, and order statistics are obtained. The method of maximum likelihood estimation was proposed in estimating its parameters. Finally, the distribution was used to model some financial datasets adequately.


This is a study of the adoption of transgenic crops by 120 smallholder farmers interviewed in July 2005 in the communities of San Jose de Feliciano and La Paz in the Entre Rios Province of Argentina. Logistic regression results indicate that access to a planter is essential for smallholders to adopt Bt corn, while adopters of Roundup Ready soybeans have larger farms, access to credit, availability of all essential machinery, more years of schooling, and are primarily located in the La Paz community.


Those who hold to this view maintain that an increase in income tax rates will result in a significant reduction in the supply of effort, and conversely, that a decrease in income tax rates will bring about a significant increase in the supply of effort. The aim of the present paper is to make a critical appraisal of this hypothesis by examining the analytical and empirical evidence both for and against


Objective— Multiple studies have demonstrated that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ITGAM locus (including the non-synonymous SNPs rs1143679, rs1143678, rs1143683) are associated with SLE. ITGAM encodes the protein CD11b, a subunit of the β 2 integrin Mac-1. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of ITGAM genetic variation on the biological functions of neutrophil Mac-1. Methods— Neutrophils from ITGAM genotyped and sequenced healthy donors were isolated for functional studies. The phagocytic capacity of neutrophil ITGAM variants was probed with complement coated erythrocytes, serum treated zymosan, heat treated zymosan and IgG coated erythrocytes. The adhesion capacity of ITGAM variants, in adhering to either purified intercellular adhesion molecule 1 or tumor necrosis factor α -stimulated endothelial cells was assessed in a flow chamber. Expression levels of total CD11b and activation of CD11b were assessed by flow cytometry. Results— Mac-1–mediated neutrophil multiple nonsynonymous SNPs when assessing the functional consequences of ITGAM variation on immune cell processes and the risk of SLE. All experiments were The genotype was compared with genotype adhesion under was assessed using after of with followed by intercellular molecule 1 (ICAM-1)/P-selectin (A and or (HUVECs) (C and coupled in a flow chamber. Firm adhesion was defined as movement of the neutrophil a distance of <1 cell diameter for 5 seconds. The number of adherent cells/minute was calculated from a 4-minute video. All experiments were performed in a paired manner. For ICAM-1 adhesion, 3 different pairs of donors (donors 2, 3, 5, 20, 30, and 31 in A and donors 6–8, 21, 24, and 29 in were used. For HUVEC adhesion, 4 different pairs of donors (donors 1–4, 21, 23, 26, and 31 in C and donors 6–9, 23, 25, 26, and 28 in were used. Results are the mean ± SEM of adherent cells/minute from a minimum of 3 independent videos recorded for each used. manner. of with


Based on a statistical analysis of the graduates' choices upon graduation from 2007 to 2009,the paper discusses the number and proportion of the graduates who selected either employment,further studies or work as volunteers,and predicts the future development of CFL program before bringing up some suggestions.


A simple all optical fibre wavelength shift detection scheme, for use with fibre Bragg grating sensing systems, is described. The system is based on the use of a wavelength division coupler designed to exhibit a monotonic dependence of the splitting ratio on wavelength over a 50 nm range.


A 1980s ad campaign featuring the phrase "image is everything" underscored the particular power of visual culture. Images can do many things, and this slogan implies the numerous ways pictures can function for creators, subjects, and viewers. While this catch phrase referred to photography, it can equally be applied to portraiture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Images of people painted in this era could mesmerize, narrate, document, and do so much more. The articles in this issue of Winterthur Portfolio illustrate this point by engaging with the power of portraits in colonial America and the early republic and their entanglements with individuals and communities. The authors of the articles consider portraiture as much more than aesthetically pleasing decoration. Instead, portraits are framed as having a visual power over people's experiences. They did not simply hang on walls, they activated emotions. In her work on eighteenth-century Virginia portraiture, Janine Yorimoto Boldt skillfully demonstrates how the omission of enslaved individuals from all but three of the 500 known colonial Virginian portraits acted as an additional layer of power and control on the part of white enslavers. Virginia portraits may have been intended to commemorate or celebrate their sitters, but Boldt shows how they also excluded and controlled their viewers. Since curiosity, fear, and desire could be conjured by the painted faces that gazed out from these images, depicting an enslaved person implicitly acknowledged their humanity and threatened to undermine a system built on their forced labor. At the same time, the very people who made the paintings possible through their exertions in and around great houses and plantationswere "active spectators"whoengagedwith the portraits on their own terms in this world of objects and images. While individual early colonial Virginia portraits were seen by relatively small numbers of people in


The Architecture of Image explores the shared experiential ground of architecture and cinema through the notion of existential space. Cinema projects experientially true images of life, whereas architecture frames human existence and provides a horizon of understanding the human condition. Both art forms poeticize existential experience. The Architecture of Image opens up an unexplored territory of architectural expression, while simultaneously revealing the essential role of architectural image of cinematic expression. the writer illuminates the directors' use of architectural imagery in evoking and maintaining specific mental states. Whereas the actually built architecture of today tends to confine emotional response to the realm of utilitarian rationality, the inherent architecture of cinema projects the full range of human emotions: fear and despair, alienation and nostalgia, affection and intimacy, long and bliss. The writer suggests that the architectural imagery of poets, painters and film directors could re-sensitize the architectural profession to the inherent poetics of architecture. The book weaves architectural and cinematic experiences with images of paintings, literary descriptions as well as philosophical views.


Abstract As the global economy battles through the credit crunch, universities too, are under pressure to attract students. The way forward in these difficult economic times is for universities to become more market driven and position themselves using quality of their services as a major competitive advantage. In this paper researchers explore how service quality provided by the University of KwaZulu-Natal is perceived by staff, and strategies that may attract students using high levels of service quality offered. The study was conducted using a cross sectional design involving academic and support staff at the University of KwaZulu Natal. The main objective was to identify staff's perceptions of service quality offered at the university. Since academic and support staff are primary deliverers of the different aspects of the tertiary education service provided to the students, it is important to examine their views on service quality. Staff reported that the university needs to set itself apart from all others by strategically providing high quality service that is reliable, tangible, empathetic, assuring and responsive to students.


Objective To observe the changes and its clinical significance of plasma neuropeptide Y(NPY) and serum nitric oxide synthase(NOS) levels in patients with acute cerebral infarction(ACI). Methods By the methodes of radioimmunoassay,chemical colorimetry and enzymatic,the levels of plasma NPY,serum constitutive NOS(cNOS),inducible NOS(iNOS) and triglyceride(TG) were detected in 30 ACI patients(ACI group)(onset 48 h and 12 d) and 27 normal controls(NC group).The infarct volume was mesaured by skull MRI.The degree of neurologic deficit was evaluated by National Health Institute stroke scale(NIHSS). Results Compared with NC group,the changes of plasme NPY level in ACI group had no statistically significant.The level of serum cNOS at onset 48 h was significant lower(P0.01),which was negatively correlated with infarct volume and NIHSS score in the same time(r=-0.368,-0.457,all P0.05);and it positive correlated with the difference value of NIHSS score(r=0.466,P0.05);the level of serum iNOS at onset 48 h was significant higher(P0.01),and which was positive correlated with infarct volume,NIHSS score at same time and serum TG levels(including times)(r=0.390,0.362,0.411,0.395,all P0.05);and negatively correlated with the difference value of NIHSS score(r=-0.461,P0.05).There was negatively correlated between the difference values of NPY and cNOS(r=-0.369,P0.05). Conclusions The level of plasma NPY has no sighificantly change after ACI onset.But in the early stage of ACI,the serum level of cNOS is significant lower,and iNOS is significant higher.These changes can reflect the condition of ACI.


: We investigate both the longitudinal thermal conductivity ( 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 ) and the planar thermal Hall conductivity ( 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 ) in the Kitaev spin liquid candidate of Co-based honeycomb antiferromagnet Na 2 Co 2 TeO 6 in a magnetic field ( 𝐵𝐵 ) applied along the 𝑎𝑎 and 𝑎𝑎 ∗ axes. A finite 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 is resolved for both field directions in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase below the Néel temperature of 27 K. The temperature dependence of 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 / 𝑇𝑇 shows the emergence of topological bosonic excitations. In addition, the field dependence of 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 shows sign reversals at the critical fields in the AFM phase, suggesting the changes in the Chern number distribution of the topological magnons. Remarkably, a finite 𝜅𝜅 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 is observed in 𝐵𝐵 ∥ 𝑎𝑎 ∗ between the first-order transition field in the AFM phase and the saturation field, which is prohibited in a disordered state by the two-fold rotation symmetry around the 𝑎𝑎 ∗ axis of the honeycomb lattice, showing the presence of a magnetically ordered state that breaks the two-fold rotation symmetry. Our results demonstrate the presence of topological magnons in this compound in the whole field range below the saturation field.


EDITORS, We thank Drs Kung and Wang for their great interest in our paper and for acknowledging the new important evidence our study1 adds to the growing field of immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We are also happy to respond to the questions and points of discussion that they raised.2 First, we did not observe reactivation of hepatitis B in our co‐ hort. Only one of the three patients who experienced hepatitis and required treatment with corticosteroids had chronic hepatitis B in‐ fection as underlying aetiology. That patient was put on anti‐viral treatment years before study inclusion and remained on anti‐viral therapy during the course of immunotherapy. Second, we agree that immunosuppression with steroids may in‐ crease the risk of infections. However, it remains unclear if patients on immunosuppression for treatment of immune‐related adverse events should receive concomitant prophylactic antibiotics to re‐ duce the risk of opportunistic infections.3 Notably, the use of antibiotics may negatively affect the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors,4‐6 probably by modulating the gut microbiota.5 In our cohort, seven (11%) patients experienced different types of infections, but only one received prior systemic immunosup‐ pressive therapy to treat an adverse event. He was diagnosed with Candida oesophagitis around 3 months after steroid treatment. A causal relationship to immunosuppression may be possible. However, the fact that most patients included in our study had underlying cir‐ rhosis (half with Child‐Pugh stage B or C) could be an alternative ex‐ planation for the rate of infections that we observed. As both humoral and cell‐mediated immunity are impaired in patients with cirrhosis, infections are a common complication, particularly in those with de‐ compensated disease, and are associated with increased mortality.7 Finally, as radiation is not a standard therapy for HCC according to European guidelines,8 only two patients received prior radiation therapy in our cohort, which prevented further subgroup analyses. However, we agree that the combination of immunotherapy with treatment modalities that affect antigen release or modulate the tu‐ mour microenvironment (e.g., ablation, or anti‐angiogenic therapies) may potentially increase the efficacy of immunotherapy. Preliminary data from studies investigating such combinations have been prom‐ ising but need to be confirmed in larger trials.9 ACKNOWLEDG EMENT


In the intensive pig production in the state of Yucatan, 62 biodigesters were installed in the last 10 years. However, the complexities of the anaerobic biod...


With 30 years experience in the classroom teaching Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education I have to admit that working with young people is inspiring. It keeps me feeling young, fresh and vibrant. Every day I look forward to the engagement with my students. I feel I make a difference in their lives and relish in preparing and organizing activities which make them feel important, treasured and worthwhile.


We clarify the relation between orbifold and interval pictures in 5d brane worlds. We establish this correspondence for 2-even and 2-odd orbifold fields. In the interval picture Gibbons-Hawking terms are necessary to fulfill consistency conditions. We show how the brane world consistency conditions arise in the interval picture. We apply the procedure to the situation where the transverse dimension is terminated by naked singularities. In particular, we find the boundary terms needed when the naive vacuum action is infinite.


Under new historical condition, burgeoning computer art should carry forward both humanistic and scientific spirit. For the prosperity of computer art, absorbing new accomplishments in philosophy and humanitis is of the same importance as utilizing latest innovations in science and technology. It is crucial to train the interdisciplinary students who possess both ideal and creativity. 


The period of Weimar Republic is regarded as the turning-point of the German `Arbeiterkulturbewegung.` During this time, the workers` cultural institutions and their range of activity expanded, but their social functions changed gradually. There are three reasons for this change. First, the SPD became the most important supporter of the new parliamentary state. Second, the German labor movement divided into two opponent parties. Finally, with the expansion of commercial mass media like film, the inner disintegration of the cultural labor movement began to take place. The SPD, who should appeal to all sections of the population, had to give up its prewar principle of `class education.` In spite of their socialist ideal, the social-democratic cultural theorists developed educational and cultural movement with a concept of `mass education,` so that the dualistic character of social-democratic cultural policy was inevitable. On the other hand, the KPD, who took a completely different stand toward the state, emphasized the role of culture as the `weapon of propaganda.` Possibilities and limits of the workers` amateur theater and film can be explained in this context. The political implement of `Sprechchor` made the SPD, which mostly denied `non-artistic` culture, into a critical attitude toward it. With the same reason, the social democrat developed ambivalent perspectives on film, while this new mass media with the communist `Agitproptheater` took a great part in the cultural policy of the KPD. In this process, the cultural aim of the German labor movement before 1933 swung between two poles of `education` and `propaganda.` (Ewha Womans University)


This paper brings to light considerations about Greek classical painting, taking into account homologies that were established by Aristotle in his Poetics. This discussion is mandatory since the philosopher compares painting and poetry, like rhetorical recourses of exemplum or paradeigma, to explain the latter art by the former. However, the Greek classical pictorial doctrine which we have at our disposal today is insufficient to clarify the exact analytical categories used by him. Thus, we intend to discuss how Aristotle observed Polygnotus', Pauson's, Dionysus' and Zeuxis' paintings in order to evaluate and infer doctrinal concepts out of these kinds of paintings and painters not in an anachronistic, but in a contemporary way, which is exactly the opposite of what we can see in many handbooks on Classical Art History or scholars' papers.


Through a brief reading of four interventions by Derrida, this essay traces how they put psychoanalysis as institution under deconstructive pressure. The leverage comes from the situation of a stranger's address to the institution that nevertheless occupies the place of a question opening up from within, having been solicited there as a supplement from the outside. It is somewhat foolish no doubt to imagine one can circumscribe the extent of Derrida's engagement in writing with psychoanalysis, or with the work of Freud or Lacan or other psychoanalytic thinkers, such as Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. While numerous texts might suggest themselves right away as obviously belonging to the classification, there would remain the irradiating effects across an entire oeuvre of what Derrida calls in nominally the first of these engagements, "Freud and the Scene of Writing," la percee or la trouee freudienne, the "Freudian breakthrough" ("Freud et la scene" 296, "Freud and the scene" 199). (1) In what follows, nevertheless, I have cut out and assembled a set of four distinct texts by Derrida that are "on" psychoanalysis, as we say, but that also share a seemingly contingent feature: they were all initially addressed, in person, to a gathering of psychoanalysts by profession and at their invitation. I have already mentioned the first of these, "Freud and the Scene of Writing," which, as a brief headnote explains, is the "fragment of a lecture delivered at the Institut de psychanalyse (Dr. Green's seminar)" (293, 196). The three subsequent texts I have in mind, which each responded to invitations from Rene Major, are "Du tout," "Geopsychoanalysis 'and the rest of the world,'" and "Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul" (Etats d'ame de la psychoanalyse). (2) What interests me is this constancy of Derrida's interventions from the place of an outsider invited to address an assembled institution or constitution of analysis. Given the limits of time, I will be able to select only a few traits that are repeated, but also transformed across this corpus; I can only hope that this might be enough at least to feed a further discussion. In "Freud and the Scene of Writing," the situation of address by the putative outsider to the psychoanalytic institution is never brought to the front of the stage or the scene. Indeed, the question of whether psychoanalysis can be thought to stand outside deconstruction (or vice versa) is the framing question of the debate that this lecture sought to open, as Derrida explains in the headnote to the essay: It was a matter then of opening a debate around certain propositions that have been put forward in earlier essays, notably in Of Grammatology. Did these propositions [...] have their place within the field of psychoanalytic inquiry? As concerns that field, where did these propositions stand with regard to their concepts and their syntax? [Au regard d'un tel champ, ou se tenaient-elles quant a leurs concepts et a leur syntaxe?] (293, 196) Notice the transformation of the shape of the question: the first formulation presumes a straightforward topology and asks whether certain propositions belong within or without a given, delimited field, whereas the second opts for a more open form of the question when it asks where those propositions stand "as concerns that field," "au regard d'un tel champ." By "open form" I mean a question that can pose itself to the very constitution or institution of a "field" of inquiry, with the possible effect of opening from within an inquiry into the constitution of such within-ness. What I want to suggest is that over the next 35 years, Derrida will repeatedly remark the situation of his own address to the psychoanalytic institution as occupying this place of a question opening up from within, having been solicited there as the necessary figure of an outside supplement. In "Freud and the Scene of Writing," this structure is demonstrated propositionally or conceptually. …


The present paper reports a catalogue of insects from Dadongshan (Mt.) Management Station of Guangdong Nanling National Nature Resercve. The catalogue of Homoptera and Hemiptera includes 241 species 179 genera 41 families, and a new species ( Brachymna bificeps Chen) of Hemiptera was recorded in last gear.


Abstract : The final report contains a description of the electron beam microfabrication, transducer and matching circuit design, and packaging and testing (in certain cases) of 24 acoustic surface wave devices, including delay lines, filters and test structures. Electrode widths were varies from 0.45 to 3.0 micrometers; electrodes per transducer ranged from 7 to 274; transducers per crystal went as high as 6; and the substrates included lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, bismuth germanium oxide and quartz. A major portion of this program was the design, fabrication and evaluation of a particular bandpass filter. A set of conclusions are presented with general applicability. (Author)


[76.8%] reviewed) than those assigned to experimental groups (399 [86.7%] reviewed;P=.004). Greater reductions in PSA screening from pretest to posttest were observed among participants assigned to the traditional decision aid (�9.1%) or chronic disease trajectory model (�8.7%), compared with participants assigned to the combination (�5.3%) or control (�3.3%) groups (P=.047). Preferences for watchful waiting increased significantly in all 4 groups (baseline, 219 [35.8%]; follow-up, 303 [66.2%]; P .001). Knowledge scores were lowest for those assigned to public Web sites (mean [SD] score, 7.49 [0.19] of questions correct) and highest for the traditional decision aid (8.65 [0.18] of questions correct; P=.005). Conclusion: Public Web sites about prostate cancer provide less effective decision support than a specially designed Internet decision aid.


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It is shown that the Ray-Hora theory describes the behaviour of plasma stopping power qualitatively well only in those cases where the test ion speed is much higher than the thermal speed of the plasma electrons. Consequently, the conclusions of this theory concerning significant reheating effects in laser-driven fusion plasmas are questionable.


The article shows the methodic of areal anamorphose creation, characterizing the distribution of educational institution students by district municipalities of Sovetskiy municipal district.


The aim of this study is to investigate experimentally the effect of the combination of fine particle cement with high Blaine fineness (FC) and recycled aggregates on the engineering properties and micro structure of high volume blast furnace slag (BS) concrete with 75% BS and 21 MPa. FC manufactured by particle classification at the plant with Blaine fineness of more than 7000 cm2/g was used as additional alkali activator for high volume blast furnace slag concrete made with recycled fine and coarse aggregates. FC was replaced by 15, 20 and 25% OPC. Test results showed that the incorporation of FC resulted in an increase in the compressive strength compared to BS concrete without FC by as much as 30% due to accelerated hydration and associated latent hydraulic reaction. It was found that the use of FC and recycled aggregates played an important role in activating BS for high volume BS concrete by offering sufficient alkali.


The invention relates to an unstressed winding and unwinding device for an optical cable. The unstressed winding and unwinding device comprises a base arranged on the ground, a star-shaped bracket, an optical cable end fixing mechanism and a plurality of universal wheels, wherein the star-shaped bracket is rotationally arranged on the base, a plurality of hollow primary rods are uniformly distributed on the star-shaped bracket in the direction from the rotary center to the periphery, secondary rods are inserted into the primary rods, insertion holes are formed in the primary rods and the secondary rods respectively, a pin rod is inserted into a pin hole in each secondary rod outside each primary rod, and pin rods for limiting the inner ring of the optical cable are inserted into a pair of pin holes in the coincident part of the primary rod and the secondary rod; the optical cable end fixing mechanism is connected to the longitudinal side surface of the one primary rod. According to the unstressed winding and unwinding device, the pin rods are arranged on the star-shaped bracket with the primary rods and the secondary rods, so that the commonality of operation of winding and unwinding optical cables with different specifications is improved; the end fixing mechanism is arranged, so that the end of the optical cable can be firmly limited in the corresponding position of the star-shaped bracket as needed during cable winding, and the working efficiency of initial cable winding operation is improved.


The present invention relates to the design of lighting technology, discloses a light guide, and the parallel light illumination device, a light guide member comprising a body having a light incident side and the light exit side, the body having: located on the light incident side surface, a parallel light exit surface n parallel rays of parallel light source is introduced into the surface of the body; a light emitting surface to the body parallel rays deriving a body surface; a plurality of guide surface having, between the guide surface by a plurality of introducing into the mating surface of at least a portion of the parallel light rays in the body of the guide is totally reflected, and a plurality of guide surface mating with the surface to determine a set of guide surface guided light exit position, so that the body the light emitting surface is formed with a light bright regions derived absence of light and dark regions derived. The light guide member according to the present invention can be provided in parallel with the light emitting surface of the light source lighting device emits light in a pattern is formed, parallel to improve visual light source lighting device diversity.


This project aligns appropriate science concepts with literature and experiments for the first grade. A year-long conceptually based, meaning-centered science program is developed which consists of three units based on physical, earth, and life sciences. Each unit has three sections identifying a unifying concept (which ties the entire school district together), a first grade subconcept (which all first grade students are to construct), a piece of literature (which begins the topic of study), a science focus (a specific area of concentration), some science vo|cabulary (language which dominates the section), some science related activities (15 to 20), and other pieces of fine literature related to a topic. This program is built from a constructivist philosophy using the frameworks, district expectations, student interests, student needs, and literature. This program is designed to serve as a guide. Activities are arranged in such a sequence that new knowledge is built on past experiences. When implementing this program, students' interests and needs are to be the core of the program--not the activities themselves.


Solvent-mediated solid–solid phase transformations often result in the formation of a porous medium, which may be stable on long time scales or undergo ripening and consolidation. We have studied replacement processes in the KBr–KCl–H2O system using both in situ and ex situ experiments. The replacement of a KBr crystal by a K(Br,Cl) solid solution in the presence of an aqueous solution is facilitated by the generation of a surprisingly stable, highly anisotropic and connected pore structure that pervades the product phase. This pore structure ensures efficient solute transport from the bulk solution to the reacting KBr and K(Br,Cl) surfaces. The compositional profile of the K(Br,Cl) solid solution exhibits striking discontinuities across disc-like cavities in the product phase. Similar transformation mechanisms are probably important in controlling phase-transformation processes and rates in a variety of natural and man-made systems.


The characterization of water treatment residuals containing arsenic was examined and arsenic desorption and leachability from the residuals were focused. Solution pH is a critical variable in controlling arsenic stability in the residuals. The release of arsenic from the residuals was elevated at low and high pH due to the increase dissolution of the adsorbents such as Fe and Al hydroxides. The negatively charged surfaces of the adsorbents at high pH reduced arsenic anion adsorption. Competition with phosphate can play a significant role for the arsenic teaching from residuals because phosphate tends to compete with As(V) on the sorption sites. The cooperative effects of calcium can help to bind arsenic on metal hydroxides. Arsenic leaching from water treatment residuals was found to be underestimated by the toxicity characteristics leaching test (TCLP) due to the pH of the leachates being favorable for As(V) adsorption.


Spiritual security as a complete system of knowledge is immune to various social influences on the minds of young people. Religiosity as a system of collective ideas about the world, since its origin carried adaptive function and gave the existence of more than a certain sense. How much does religious consciousness help or hinder to form spiritual security in the younger generation and to adapt to modern society? What is the impact on the religious character and personality of the modern young man: how much are these effects constructive or destructive? On basis of the large body of experimental material, and by the example of Christian denominations, the author provides answers to these questions.


C 60 -Perdeuterated Styrene Copolymer (C 60 -DPS) was synthesized by the free radical polymerization. Thin films of C 60 -DPS were prepared by the Langmuir-Boldgett (LB) technique. The surface morphology and friction performance were characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Results exhibit the presence of spherical granules in the compact LB films, which result from self-polymerization of C 60 and showed friction of the LB films increased basically as C 60 content of C 60 -DPS decreased.


Introduction The terms catastrophe and disaster have been frequently heard worldwide due to situations like earthquakes, floods and events provoked by man as the September 11th and Anthrax attack. Catastrophe means all situations where material and human resources available in a healthcare facility are not enough to assist a large number of victims admitted at the same time. Accreditation requires having a plan to manage effectively those situations, assessing safely as much victims as possible. Objective To describe the catastrophe plan and its management in a private hospital. Methodology Hospital Albert Einstein is located close to a huge soccer game stadium and near to the State Government Hall. This was the reason to have a plan focusing on casualties with a large number of victims. The literature was revised to choose the triage methodology. Triage to identify the priority of patients' assessment based on their condition, possibility of treatment and determining discharge for those without visible risk. Simulation was implemented, followed by debriefing to register lessons learned. Results An algorithm was developed with a crisis center and defining care and support areas in the organizations to manage the victims at Emergency Room and triage field. The plan was effectively deflagrated twice: 47 victims from a bus accident and 25 from a policeman strike. Debriefing was done in all opportunities and communication is the main issue; 15 simulations have been done for training purpose, with specific goals. Conclusion Hospital is a high risk environment itself for an internal or external incident depending on its localization. A disaster plan is necessary to improve everyone safety, to organize resources, to respond effectively to such situations and take the organization back to regular operation as soon as possible. Simulations are essential to guarantee staff competency and organization support and response to adverse situations.


In the normal heart, the morphologically right ventricle supports the pulmonary trunk. The key to echocardiographic evaluation of the junction between these structures is to understand not only the arrangement of the pulmonary valve, but also the complete muscular infundibulum that supports the valvar leaflets, lifting the valvar complex away from the base of the ventricular mass. As explained in the previous review,1 it is the presence of this free-standing muscular infundibular sleeve that makes it possible for the surgeon to remove the pulmonary valve for use as an allograft in the Ross procedure.2 In this review, we will address the echocardiographic features of the junction, considering primarily the situation in which the morphologically right ventricle supports the pulmonary trunk, but making comparisons with the abnormal arrangements in which either the aorta, or both arterial trunks, arise from the right ventricle. As we will see, the basic arrangement of the free-standing complete muscular infundibulum, or conus, is preserved with these abnormal arrangements, but there can be variation depending on the precise arrangement of the inner heart curvature, or ventriculo-infundibular fold, and the morphology can be further changed depending on the relationship of the arterial trunks themselves. The key to analysis, therefore, and also to accurate description, is to analyse separately the way in which the arterial trunks are joined to the ventricular mass, the relationships of the trunks one to the other, and the precise structure of the supporting right ventricular outflow tract, or outflow tracts in the setting of double outlet connection. If each of these features is then described in its own right, avoiding the temptation to make inferences regarding one feature from knowledge of another, then it is possible to avoid many of the persisting controversies relating to nomenclature.


Pollution flashover caused multiple trips of six 500 kV lines in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces due to an unusual heavy fog from Jan. 19 to 20 of 2004. The process of the accident was introduced and reasons of the partial pollution flashover were analyzed. Aiming at this series of pollution flashover accidents relevant anti-failure countermeasures were put forward and the destination of anti-pollution work for 500 kV lines was discussed.


The present invention belongs to the natural retting hemp, chemical treatment method and a combination of mechanical treatment. Process as follows: Dry pick hemp soft → → → bundling caged scouring with hot water → dehydration → → → scutching flax shaking deoiling → → → softening → drying → shaking Ma Ramie; scouring and in hot water a step taken by applying ultrasonic waves circulating a high velocity jet. The degumming process of the invention saves time than the old more than three hours, low alkali concentration of 60%, 10% of finished products, the finished fiber strength increased by 30%, and can save a lot of equipment investment.


A family of solutions of the paraxial wave equation is found in theory,which represents a new family of ultrashort pulsed beams called Hyperbolic-sine-Gaussian ultrashort pulsed beams.The Hyperbolic-sine-Gaussian ultrashort pulsed beams and their propagation properties in free space have been studied in detail.The transversal intensity distribution of Hyperbolic-sine-Gaussian ultrashort pulsed beams is a hyperbolic sine Gaussian shape in the center of the pulse,and is a Gaussian shape at the tail or head of the pulse.The pulse shape is always hyperbolic-sine-Gaussian in propagation.In propagation the polarity reversal appears on axis,and the pulse time delay appears at the beam periphery.


The importance of the tourism industry and the level of income that it generates constitutes one of the main reasons for conducting this study. Others include the importance of cities being marketed as tourist destinations through the good planning of their brand communication, taking advantage of new communication technologies, with messages that convey the identity of the locations, transferring value and emotion to the thousands of followers Revista Investigaciones Turísticas, no 19, pp. 50-72 ISSN: 2174-5609 DOI. https://doi.org/10.14198/INTURI2020.19.03 Fecha de recepción: 18/02/2019   Fecha de aceptación: 10/07/2019 Este trabajo se publica bajo una licencia Creative Commons Attribution License Reconocimiento 4.0 Avila Campoverde, F. y Ugalde, C. Investigaciones Turísticas N° 19, enero-junio 2020, pp. 50-72 51 that brands have in the impactful world of social networks. The objective of this study is to assess the reactions to brand communication spread through the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, of five Ecuadorian tourist cities. To measure the results, we used the PRGS model (Presence, Response, Generation and Suggestion). We also measured the level of engagement each city has in the aforementioned social networks using the Fanpage Karma and Twitomony tools. The results reveal that Instagram is the ideal social network for obtaining most responses and therefore it is the best for engaging with followers; and, that brands with more followers should improve their communication to obtain a greater volume of reactions.


This paper reviews the contribution that constructed wetlands can make to Integrated Urban Water Management by increasing stormwater storage and infiltration volumes and reducing the volumes of stormwater discharged to the sewer system and to wastewater treatment systems. Examples are given of constructed wetlands as stand-alone systems or as a component of a treatment train of Best Management Practice (BMP) drainage systems in cities in Europe, Australia, Asia and the United States. The criteria for selecting constructed wetlands for retrofitting drainage systems and the influence of the level of maintenance on their whole-life cost are considered.
The benefits of the reuse of water stored in wetlands by conserving drinking water quality supplies and this reducing water treatment volumes, costs and energy consunption are discussed. An aquifer storage transfer and recovery (ASTR) programme in Australia which will provide drinking water from urban stormwater is described and examples given of cities developing the resuse of water stored in wetlands for the irrigation of public parks.


I view Botticelli's representation of war as a dialectic between active and passive, penetrator and penetrated as only part of the story. I suggest that utilizing the concept of complex trauma allows for incorporating aspects of vulnerability that can be both masculine and feminine. I introduce the role of moral injury in causing shame and humiliation and the self-imposed taboos on those who served talking about their guilt as a way the trauma is both perpetuated and transmitted intergenerationally.


The short-term deformation behavior of immersed tunnels due to daily or monthly temperature changes and tidal variations is often not monitored but forms important input for a structural health assessment of the tunnel. In this study, distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFSs) are used to monitor the short-term (daily and monthly) deformation behavior of an immersed tunnel. Joint opening and the relative settlement differences between tunnel elements are monitored simultaneously at subhour intervals. Measurements show that the variation in the joint opening is strongly correlated with temperature change, and the joint gap has a tendency to open at low temperatures and to close at increasing temperatures. Simultaneously, the entire immersed section behaves more like a rigid body and moves upwards and downwards periodically due to tidal fluctuations in the river, with an observed vertical movement of slightly less than one millimeter. The tide also causes local tilting of tunnel segments, and this tilting behavior differs between winter and summer, which implies that the (seasonal) temperature-induced joint deformations affect the robustness of the tunnel to tidal loads. A soil-tunnel structure interaction analysis reveals that the cyclic vertical movement of the tunnel is driven by retardation of the tidal wave in deeper soil layers, which can be captured by a coupled flow model. This study provides new insights into the short-term deformation behavior of immersed tunnels.


Background Domestic violence is a global issue of public health concern with detrimental effects on women's physical, mental and social well-being. There is a paucity of community-based studies assessing the knowledge and attitude of women towards domestic violence in Nigeria. Objective To assess knowledge, attitudes, prevalence and associated factors of domestic violence among women in a community in Kaduna, Nigeria. Design A descriptive cross-sectional study. Setting A selected community in Kaduna South Local Government Area in Kaduna State. Participants In total, 170 women aged 15–49 years participated in the study. Primary and secondary outcome measures The outcomes were knowledge, attitude and prevalence of domestic violence. Results The mean age of the respondents was 28.7+7.9 years. A total of 113 (66.5%) respondents had high level of knowledge about domestic violence with 114 (67.1%) having non-tolerant attitudes towards domestic violence. The lifetime prevalence and 12-month prevalence of domestic violence were 47.1% and 35.3%, respectively. The results of logistic regression identified the educational status of women as a significant predictor of knowledge of domestic violence (adjusted OR (aOR)=0.32; 95% CI 0.15 to 0.68), while marital status (aOR=0.21; 95% CI 0.05 to 0.96), occupation of women (aOR=2.49; 95% CI 1.13 to 5.49), their tolerance of wife beating (aOR=0.33; 95% CI 0.15 to 0.72) and their partners' consumption habit of alcohol/substance use (aOR=7.91; 95% CI 3.09 to 20.27) were identified as significant predictors of the women's experience of domestic violence. Conclusion Domestic violence was relatively high among women. Though a majority had high level of knowledge about domestic violence, a significant third had tolerant attitudes towards it. Appropriate health interventions need to be implemented by governmental and relevant stakeholders to target negative attitudes and address associated factors of domestic violence against women.


Traffic assignment models, as the last step to the well-known four-step urban transportation modeling system (UTMS), have been under a special research focus to better capture the uncertainty in the decision-making process of network users. Researchers' use of fuzzy costs for travel times and stochastic assignment models has each aimed at considering the variation in perception of users and uncertainty in their choices. This paper has proposed two route-based stochastic assignment models that exploit the fuzzy theory to model network users' perception of travel time and stochastic assignment to model their decision-making process. A simulation approach has been exploited to generate the routes prior to the assignment step. The models are first analyzed on Sioux Falls test network and then validated on Mashad city network as a real network with available observed volumes for selected links. The real network results show a good level of precision in estimating the link volumes with acceptable run times.


Early aspects are the crosscutting concerns that appear at the early stages of software development, i.e., in requirements and architecture design. But do these early aspects span the whole development lifecycle? How can they be traced forwards and back to other software work products? Is AO worth the effort in the first place? These and a number of other questions were discussed during the EA@ICSE workshop in 2009. The present report contains summaries of these discussions as well as a brief overview of the papers accepted for the 16th.


Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (U/S) criteria in the diagnosis of adenomyosis and to correlate the U/S feature with histopathological results. Materials and Methods: A total of 53 consecutive patients undergoing hysterectomy for adenomyosis were pre-operatively subjected to transvaginal U/S examination in this prospective study. The diagnosis was made if one or more of the following U/S findings were present: (1) A globular uterine contour; (2) poor endometrial-myometrial interface; (3) subendometrial echogenic linear striations; (4) myometrial anterior-posterior asymmetry; (5) myometrial cysts; and (6) a heterogeneous myometrial echotexture. These U/S findings were then compared and confirmed with the histopathological studies. Results: The prevalence of adenomyosis was 23.4%. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value (NPV), and accuracy of transvaginal U/S for the diagnosis of adenomyosis were 80.5, 58.6, 61.2, 81.8, and 72.4, respectively. Subendometrial echogenic linear striations, a heterogeneous myometrial echotexture, and myometrial anteriorposterior asymmetry showed greater accuracy for the diagnosis of adenomyosis. Subendometrial echogenic linear striations had the best sensitivity, positive predictive value, and NPV for the diagnosis of uterine adenomyosis (89.2, 63.2, and 88.7%, respectively). The presence of a globular uterine configuration was the most specific sonographic feature (74.3%) but showed poor specificity (48.5%). Conclusion: The presence of subendometrial echogenic linear striations, a heterogeneous myometrial echotexture, and myometrial anterior-posterior asymmetry on transvaginal ultrasonography supports the diagnosis of adenomyosis. Among the transvaginal U/S findings consistent with the diagnosis of adenomyosis, subendometrial linear striations had the highest diagnostic accuracy.


Using a critical analysis of the acquired data, this article mainly aims to present the currency composition of the foreign currency reserves of central banks in selected countries in the 1999-2007 period and, on this basis, to establish whether the euro stands any real chances of dethroning the US dollar as the global currency. Among other things, the empirical results, for the most part overlapping with the theoretical and empirical expectations, confirm the hypothesis that in the near future the euro may be regarded as a global reserve currency on a par with the US dollar or it may even become the leading reserve currency. Finally, the empirical analysis also shows that the proportion of the euro in foreign currency reserves differs by the groups of countries concerned; however, in the period under scrutiny it was mainly increasing.


Cu2ZnSn(S1–xSex)4 (CZTSSe) alloys are promising candidates for low-cost and high-efficiency thin-film solar cells. Compared to CdTe and Cu(InxGa1–x)Se2, CZTSSe uses chemicals found more abundantly on earth. This key aspect as well as its optical properties—band gap range of 1.0–1.5 eV and absorption coefficient larger than 104 cm–1—makes CZTSSe a feasible option for photovoltaic thin-film technologies scalable to TW/year. The key limitation to high efficiency in this technology remains a deficit in the open-circuit voltage with respect to the band gap: many groups have linked this drawback of CZTSSe solar cells to the presence of minor phases. This review aims to summarize what is known about CZTSSe minor phases and their impact on device characteristics.


The current work was based on the central hypothesis that grazing management strategies modulate tillering dynamics of mixed canopies composed of kikuyu-grass (C4 perennial grass) and tall fescue (C3 perennial grass). Among the five grazing management conditions evaluated, three (7, 12, and 17 cm) represented the heights up to which the grasses were kept by mimicking a continuous stocking method throughout the experimental period (from May 2016 to October 2017), and the other two consisted of the heights 12 and 17 cm with a single grazing to 7 cm in mid-autumn. Nitrogen fertilization was applied only during winter–spring. The results showed that under severe grazing (7 cm), kikuyu-grass predominated in the area and that tall fescue population predominated in the moderately lenient (12 cm) and lenient (17 cm) grazed pastures, regardless of an occasional autumn grazing to 7 cm. After two years of evaluation, kikuyu-grass tillers were reduced to 6% of the total population in those pastures managed at the heights of 12 and 17 cm. Grazing management strategies modulate species proportions in a mixed canopy composed of kikuyu and tall fescue. Moreover, our data also suggest that it seems unlikely that there is a stable association of tall fescue and kikuyu-grass when no nitrogen fertilization is applied during summer.


ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS іiv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii CHAPTER 1. LITRATURE REVIEW 1 Water potential 2 Stomatal behavior and functioning 4 Stomatal distribution 4 Factors responsible for opening and closing of stomata 5 Stomata and transpiration 7 Factors affecting transpiration 8 Water availability of rooting media 12 Relationship between photosynthesis and stomatal conductance 13 Water movement in stem severed stems 14 Literature cited.. 16 2. WATER FLUX OF POINSETTIA CUTTINGS IN PROPAGATION 23 Introduction 23 Materials and methods 25 Results and Discussion 28 Literature cited 38 3.GAS EXCHANGE OF POINSETTIA CUTTINGS (LEAVES) 39 Introduction 39 Materials and Methods 42 Results and Discussion 45 Literature cited 51


Discovery of Red Wash field was the result of a long and persistent effort on the part of many geologists and geophysicists. Surface expression of an anticlinal nose was first detected on aerial photographs and modifications were made by field mapping. Detailed stratigraphic studies along the outcrop at Raven Ridge indicated that potential stratigraphic traps existed in N. source sandstones of the Eocene Green River Formation. Gravity studies in the area, although not conclusive, furnished supporting evidence that the structural nose existed at depth. A detailed seismic program confirmed the existence of the Red Wash nose and furnished data to map its structural configuration at several horizons within the lower Green River Formation. Information now available from over 350 wells in the area indicates that prediscovery geologic concepts were remarkably accurate. The Douglas Creek and Garden Gulch members of the Green River Formation form a lacustrine delta at Red Wash and yield hydrocarbons from a complex network of discrete sandstones. The individual sandstone bodies form separate stratigraphic traps. Cumulative production at the end of 1967 was more than 57 million bbl of oil, and ultimate recovery is expected to exceed 150 million bbl. (12 refs.)


Ischemia on an exercise test (ET) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. However, the magnitude of risk of frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) on ET is often overlooked. This analysis reveals that the quantitative additional mortality risk on ET presented by frequent PVCs is similar to ischemia.


This study aims to describe the error made by students in solving Pythagoras questions, to analyse the factors that cause the students to make those errors, and to identify whether students are able to associate trigonometric concepts with Pythagoras. The subject of this study was the eleventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2018/2019. There were 31 samples of students taken as the object of the research. The data collection used was a test. The classification of students' errors type was done based on Newman process skill errors, inaccuracy, errors in understanding the questions' intention and errors in the use of notation or misconception. The data analysis technique of the research was conducted through data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that the errors percentage in the process was 38%. The less accurate percentage was 25%. The percentage of errors in understanding the intent of the problem was 10%. The percentage of errors in the use of notation was 15%. The percentage in misconception was 12%. The type of errors made by the students were: (1) students not know the meaning of symbols. (2) students not know the purpose of the question. (3) students not know the formula used in problem solving. (4) students cannot solve problems in the algorithm. (5) students cannot solve the problem according to the questions and some students are not able to associate the concept of pythagoras with trigonometry.


The sustainable tourism development has been restricted by the externality of tourist exploitations. So the externality should be internalized. Because the externality originating from the definite rationality of tourist exploiter, the insufficient structure of property right on tourism and the shortage of incentive mechanism of tourism management system, so the externality should be internalized in the following ways: the innovation of exploitation concept, government intervention and the innovation of tourism management system.


Conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based devices are approaching their physical limits to continue the Moore's law. Spintronic devices that exploit the intrinsic spin freedom of the electron in addition to its fundamental electrical charge show great potential in nanoscale technology nodes. In particular, hybrid spintronic/CMOS technology based on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has been considered as a very promising approach thanks to the high speed, low power, good scalability and full compatibility of MTJs with CMOS technology. It is also considered as a potential technology for high-reliability electronics due to the intrinsic hardness to the radiation effect of the MTJs. However, hybrid spintronic/CMOS circuits are still vulnerable to the radiation effect due to their CMOS peripheral circuits (e.g. write/read circuits) during the access operations. In this paper, we propose a radiation hardened hybrid spintronic/CMOS nonvolatile unit to address this issue effectively. By using a physics-based pMTJ compact model and a 40 nm CMOS design kit, hybrid simulations are performed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed unit. The simulation results show that the proposed unit is quite robust against radiation effects with less overhead in terms of hardware area and power consumption compared with the previous works.


The extraction of road crossings is often neglected by systems for automatic road extraction. Frequently, crossings arise as by-products of the grouping step. This leads to geometrical inaccuracies and visually and cartographically unsatisfactory results. In this paper, an approach for the improvement of extracted road crossings is presented as well as a method for the external evaluation of the extraction results.


By analyzing the essential and temporal characteristics of educational modernization,the article briefly expatiates on the pressure and essential model of innovative and undertaking education,on the inscape and characteristics of students' innovative and undertaking abilities,on the avenues of cultivating innovative and undertaking abilities in the colleges and universities.


This study aims to find out how the application and effectiveness of schoology learning media during the Covid-19 pandemic on biology learning outcomes at MTS Al-Wasliyah Tembung. This research is a qualitative research using case study method. The subjects of this study were the vice principal, teachers of science studies, and 85 students of class IX science at MTS Al-Wasliyah Tembung. The instrument used to collect data was by interviewing the vice principal and biology teachers. While the students used a questionnaire for class IX science students as many as 15 items and the results of learning biology on genetic material. Based on the results of this study, it was found from interview data, questionnaires and grades obtained by students in science subjects, especially in genetic material, which was above the KKM with a value of 70, where class IX-3 consisted of 40 students with an average value of 75.75 and class IX-3 IX-5, which consists of 45 students with an average score of 77.22 and the effectiveness of the use of schoology conducted by MTS Al-Wasliyah Tembung during the covid-19 pandemic is 72% and has been running effectively. While the inhibiting factor for learning schoology during the covid-19 pandemic was because students did not have android phones which had an impact on students' delays in joining classes. In addition, the internet network and data packages are also a problem for students at MTS Al-Wasliyah Tembung.


This paper proposes effective countermeasures to hardware vulnerability of the keyboard controller. Through the vulnerability, some possible attacker is able to snoop the password string from the keyboard even when keyboard protection software is running. However, it will be impossible for attackers to gather the exact password if the proposed policy is applied though they can sniff the keyboard hardware protocol.


1 Import Vector Selection for Kernel CRFs In the basic kernel CRF model, each clique c is associated with |y| parameters αj(yc). Even if we only consider vertex cliques, there would be hundreds of thousands of parameters for a typical protein dataset. This seriously affects the training efficiency. To solve the problem, we adopt the notion of "import vector machines" [ZH01]. That is, we use a subset of the training examples instead of all of them. The subset is constructed by greedily selecting training examples one at a time to minimize the loss function: argminkO(fA∪{k}, λ) −O(fA, λ) (1) where fA(x,y) = ∑


FIELD: tobacco industry. SUBSTANCE: low-flammability cigarette paper is intended for smoking materials. It contains a base with areal density more than 22 g/m 2 and many burning limiting areas which are spread over base cigarette paper surface. Burning limiting areas are made by application of sodium alginate with polymerisation degree from approx. 500 to approx. 900 or by application of 3% sodium alginate water solution with density degree 19000 centipoise or more at 25°C. Low-flammability base-containing cigarette paper contains filler in quantity 2 g/m 2 or more, have air permeability from 30 to 60 KOREST units and sodium alginate is applied in quantity less than 3 g/m 2 . EFFECT: flammability lowering. 14 cl, 1 dwg, 2 tbl


Objective To explore the effect of Interleukin-6 in diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian carcinoma.Methods 54 cases with ovarian carcinoma as study group,which 15 cases in Ⅰ-Ⅱ stage and 39 cases in Ⅲ stage,and 22 cases with ovarian benign and 18 normal women as control groups.All cases were selected from First Hospital of Medical College of Shantou University from 2004-1 to 2006-12.The levels of IL-6 in serum were measured by enzyme-labeled immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Results ①The levels of IL-6 in serum in study group were significantly higher than those in controls group(P0.05).②In study group,the levels of IL-6 in serum in Ⅲ stage were significantly higher than that in Ⅰ-Ⅱstages(P0.05).③The levels of IL-6 in serum were significantly lower after chemical therapy.Conclusion IL-6 has much valuable in diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma,and also in determines of clinic stage.But IL-6 was not as a tumor marker of to decide the effect of chemical therapy.


All the symptoms suggest that the crisis in general is deepening and the institution of the family is, in particular, weakening, even disintegrating in Europe and America.2 It is time to pause for a while and re-examine the foundations on which family life is built in the contemporary west and also to study alternative foundations and structures in other cultural traditions. This will include the contemporary man to identify the nature of the crisis that confronts him today and will also point to some of the possibilities that are still open to him. I would like to discuss in the following pages the concept of family life in Islam, its foundations, structure and principles.


L ET mie say at the outset that when I speak of a national park policy I wish to be understood with reference to all public reservations of land for recreation purposes, not merely with reference to the national parks legally so called. Our nationai park system, while it is just emerging into being, has already assumed the forms of permanency. The whole people are committed to the idea-heart and soul. It would be almost as hard even now to alienate any portion of the national park holdings as to move the capitol from Washington or give Texas back to Mexico. Yet the public is hardly beginning to recognize what the national parks are or what they mean. Through a considerable effort the public is slowly becoming conscious of their physical magnificence, their wide extent, their unsurpassed scenery, t heir overpowering grandeur. Still there is little popular appreciation of the significance of the national park idea itself. Nothing like this system of recreation grounds was ever established in any country in the world before, nor was there ever any similar undertaking of such tremendous reach, such high human possibilities. In the old days when we used to think that Europe was civilized, we were in the habit of making self-abasing comparisons between her art galleries and ours, between her nationalt musical enterprises and our drugstore phonographs. Yet with all the unquestionable achievements of Europe in these fields, it is still true that no undertaking was ever broached in that Old World which had such noble possibilities of esthetic culture and spiritual upbuilding as our national parks.