A drug delivery platform for enhancing lung cancer treatment with controlled drug release, magnetic targeting and specific cancer cells targeting.


A fuzzy neural control approach applied to the three-axis stabilized satellite is presented.In order to solve the problems of online learning and tuning of the fuzzy neural network parameters,the method of Q-learning combined with BP neural network is proposed and studied so that the training samples for the selflearning controller are not needed.Simulation results showed that the proposed control method with Q reinforcement learning architecture could not only improve the accuracy,(stability) and(robustness) of the system,but also deal with uncertainties and external disturbance efficiently.


Abstract This paper presents employers' opinions concerning competencies they expect of graduates of Faculties of Economics with elements of environmental protection. In order to provide empirical input, we conducted a questionnaire-based study among 200 top managers of (mostly) businesses located in the Lodz region (voivodeship), including 194 enterprises and 6 entities do not involved in business but whose activities are, directly or indirectly, linked with environmental protection. The findings of our study demonstrate that while both soft and professional competencies acquired in the course of university studies are important to employers, the respondents valued soft competencies more. They found foreign languages to be the most important, although surprisingly they also attached high importance to a good command of Polish. When assessing university curricula, employers indicated that general courses, the foundations of a university education, remain important as a basis to improve the professional skills of university graduates and to reinforce their position in the labour market.


PURPOSE: To provide the manufacturing method of a minute electrode that will not be affected by the number of connection between chips and has high dimensional accuracy, and the manufacturing method of a semiconductor device that has the electrode. CONSTITUTION: This manufacturing method includes a process that forms an insulating film 11 on the wiring pattern of a semiconductor chip, a process that forms a mask layer 12 having an opening at a position where the electrode is formed on the insulating film 11, a process that eliminates the insulating film in the opening with the mask layer 12 as a mask for exposing a portion of the wiring pattern, a process that forms a conductor layer over the entire surface, a process that eliminates the conductor layer formed on the mask layer 12, while leaving a conductor layer 14a on the wiring pattern, and a process that eliminates the mask layer 12.


Vicuña Vicugna vicugna are an emblematic species of one of the major arid ecosystems of the neotropics: the puna or altiplano. Excessive commercial hunting of vicuña for their valuable fleece in the past caused a severe decline in the population, with the vicuña almost becoming extinct by the mid 20th century. Effective protection resulted in the recovery of some populations and, recently, limited vicuña exploitation has been allowed. Research is urgently required to underpin the design of the management systems used for this exploitation. We present the results of a 2-year study on habitat utilization of vicuña in Laguna de Pozuelos UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Argentina. Vicuña did not use the study area homogeneously but preferred vegetation communities dominated by grasses (known locally as pajonal and esporal) and with high overall plant cover. Vicuña were less selective in 2003, when overall habitat quality decreased, than in 2002. This change is predicted by habitat selection theory. We also found that members of family groups spend more time foraging than members of non-reproductive groups. Solitary vicuña spend more time standing up than members of groups, consistent with the observation that herding behaviour is related to protection against predators. Heterogeneous use and habitat selectivity suggest that exploitation of vicuña needs to take spatial behaviour into account in the establishment of the optimal location of capturing sites.


The centennial of the marriage of Georg and Vera Leisner is commemorated in this article in light of the fact that they contributed greatly to the knowledge of the Megalithic Iberian Peninsula. As well, the lost opportunity of the appointment of Georg Leisner, and Portugal, to become a professor at the University of Coimbra is highlighted.


The aim of the research work was to compare the quality of slaughtered cows of two age categories, depending on the degree of marbling of meat. Marbling degree in meat of slaughter cows was compared in two age categories: Category 1 – cows up to 4 years old; Category 2 – cows over 4 years old. Samples from musculus longissimus dorsi on the level of 9 th – 11 th ribs were evaluated. We used 10 points scale to estimate the marbling degree (degree 1 – very abundant marbling, degree 10 – practically devoid of marbling). Besides the marbling degree we evaluated the quantitative parameters of meat (fat, water, proteins, pH, colour L, water holding capacity and grilling losses) as well as some parameters of slaughter value (age at slaughter, carcass weight, class of conformation). We found no significant difference between both categories on the basis of marbling degree in meat. We noticed highly significant differences in the parameter age at slaughter in all marbling degrees of meat. Significant differences were found only in marbling degree 6 with the parameters carcass weight and meatiness.


Hypophosphatemic rickets (HR) is a genetically heterogeneous disease that is accompanied by hypophosphatemia, skeletal (rickets-like) disorders, growth retardation in children and adults and by damage of other organs and systems. Its incidence is 3.9 cases per 100.000 live births, and the prevalence ranges from 1.7 per 100,000 children to 4.8 per 100,000 people (children and adults).
The study was aimed on the investigation of diagnostic features and treatment strategy of different HR subtypes and evaluation of the effectiveness of therapy. Three cases of patients with HR from two families have been described. Laboratory and instrumental investigations were used to confirm the HR. Genetic diagnosis was done using next-generation target sequencing (tNGS) (skeletal dysplasia panel).
General clinical features of skeletal disorders (e.g. severe deformity of the lower extremities from early childhood) and growth retardation were observed in patients with HR. All patients had hypophosphatemia with normal/slightly elevated or decreased PTH levels. All patients underwent repeated surgical treatment (without appropriate laboratory and genetic testing and correction of phosphorus-calcium metabolism), which turned out to be ineffective and led to disability. In two patients from one family, genetic testing confirmed the presence of heterozygous pathogenic PHEX variant, and in one — a homozygous SLC34A3 variant. Normophosphatemia was achieved in a girl with SLC34A3 after starting therapy with the phosphorus supplements. In patients with PHEX variant, treatment with calcitriol, cholecalciferol and phosphorus supplements had little effect (P levels increased but normalization was not achieved), thus only burosumab proved to be rational therapy for such patients. Prior to any corrective surgery, a thorough laboratory and genetic examination should be performed to compensate the phosphorus-calcium metabolism. Timely initiation of pathogenetic conservative treatment can improve bone structure and final growth, as well as reduce the need for corrective surgery.


The present study aims to understand the treatment that has been given to the Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in the German language (Untertitel fur Gehorlose und Horgeschadigte, UGH) and in Spanish (SPS) throughout the last decades. To do so, we analyze the modality of audiovisual translation in several films produced between 1981 and 2018, focusing on the parameters most characteristic of this type of subtitling. From the diachronic point of view, the analysis will allow us to see the evolution that Subtitling for Deaf and Hard-of Hearing people has undergone in each of the languages over these years. On the other hand, we will observe the behavior of this variant of subtitling from a diatopic perspective throughout these decades in Germany and Spain, two countries that traditionally practice dubbing instead of subtitling.


Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is one of the largest urban parks in the world, and is one of the most popular sites within the national park system. Due to a high number of visitors, GGNRA wanted to improve traveler safety and decision-making for motorists visiting Stinson Beach and Muir Woods, both park sites in southwest Marin County. To accomplish this, GGNRA and the California Department of Transportation agreed to place portable changeable message signs north and south, one in each direction, of the US Route 101 and state Route 1 interchange. Therefore, motorists traveling both northbound and southbound on US Route 101 would have the benefit of these signs. These signs would broadcast messages about real-time parking and congestion information during the parks' congested periods from April through September. This project evaluated the success of these improvements, and this report summarizes the results of the evaluation.


The author holds that there are two matters running through the whole process of the development of the Chinese civilization.One is the unbalanced development of the Chinese culture in various regions;the other is that the regional cultures spread to the Central Plains and the Central Plain culture spread to various border lands.The process of the unification of the east and west and the north and south is no other than the process of the unification of the unified,multi ethnic China. [


In this article, the author made an attempt to present and analyze issues related to global environmental problems, and in particular, the role of carbon dioxide in global warming.


This paper presents a commentary on lines 20–21 of Theognis' "Elegy of the Seal" ( Theogn .19–26), intending to show how Theognidea refers to procedures appropriate to the poetic performances on Ancient Greek Symposium.


Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is a low grade B cell lymphoma that, occurs in numerous sites including the stomach, ocular adnexa, thyroid, lung and breast; however, primary hepatic lymphoma is extremely rare. Only about 20 cases have been reported world wide. We recently experienced a case of primary hepatic B-cell lymphoma of the MALT type in a 63-year old female patient. She presented with abdominal pain. The CT, ultrasonogram and PET-CT showed a hepatic nodular mass. A biopsy specimen of the liver revealed MALT lymphoma. There was no evidence of the lymphoma in the extrahepatic lesion. She received segmentectomy of liver and was then treated with CVP (cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisolone) chemotherapy. She has been followed up for 6 months since the therapy, and she remains asymptomatic.


Utilizing ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the surface segregation and the oxidation dynamics of platinum (Pt)-3d transition metal (M) alloys, Pt3M (M = Ti, V), are investigated. Under oxygen-rich conditions, i.e., P(CO)/P(O2) = 0.1, Pt3V surface forms Pt skin layer while Pt3Ti shows the presence of both Ti and Pt atoms. As temperature increases to 450 K, V atoms make surface segregation to form oxide while Ti atoms start to form various Ti oxides (Ti2O3 and TiOx) on the surface. When CO oxidation occurs at 600 K, the oxidation continues on both surfaces of Pt3M (M = Ti, V), showing the enhancement of TiOx for Pt3Ti and V2O5 and VOx for Pt3V. Also, during CO oxidation, a sign of pure metallic Pt state is found at Pt 4f spectra in both surfaces, suggesting the redistribution of electrons from the transition metals during the oxide formation.


IN "KNOWLEDGE BY Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description", Russell appears to distinguish two kinds of knowledge of things, knowledge by acquaintance, which is clearly the primary form, and knowledge by description, "where the object is known as 'the so and so.''' I While there has in recent times been some questioning of the possibility of a direct cognitive relation such as Russell's notion of acquaintance, it is clear that Russell thought we had knowledge by acquaintance, although it was restricted to certain universals, memories and the immediate data of sense, and he did not extend it to physical objects and other people. What is less clear is whether Russell held that there really was knowledge by description or whether all such knowledge should be analyzed away in terms of acquaintance. Russell's work does not give us a clear answer to this question, or rather, it answers the question in both the affirmative and negative. Let it be clear that I am hot questioning whether Russell thought that all cases of descriptive knowledge had to be explained in terms of acquaintance. I am rather questioning whether he thought there really is descriptive knowledge of things and, more importantly, whether a person can have knowledge of truths that are about things with which he is not acquainted. The issue is important since knowledge by description is central to so much of Russell's analysis of knowledge, because he held


Apoptosis contributes to immune-mediated pancreatic β cell destruction in type I diabetes. Exposure of β cells to interleukin-1β (IL-1β) causes endoplasmic reticulum stress and activates proapoptotic networks. Here, we show that nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways regulate the expression of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homologous protein (CHOP), which mediates endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis. Both CHOP mRNA and protein increase in β cells treated with IL-1β. In addition, prolonged exposure to high glucose further increases IL-1β-triggered CHOP expression. IL-1β also causes increased expression of C/EBP-β and a reduction of MafA, NFATc2, and Pdx-1 expression in β cells. Inhibition of the NF-κB and MAPK signaling pathways differentially attenuates CHOP expression. Knocking down CHOP by RNA interference protects β cells from IL-1β-induced apoptosis. These studies provide direct mechanistic links between cytokine-induced signaling pathways and CHOP-mediated apoptosis of β cells.


The paper, by the example of training for the railway industry in Uzbekistan, focuses on the experiences and characteristics of Uzbekistan's integration into the international system of education, a framework of qualifications of the European Commission. Tashkent Institute of Railway Engineering has: rated the students' knowledge of the possibility of mutual recognition and accreditation based on the comparability of disciplines and curricula; included in its institutional strategy doctoral program, which has national features aimed at providing career opportunities for young researchers and university teachers based on the fundamental nature and the humanization of education, providing the preparation of the highly qualified specialists, ensures the interconnection and interdependence at all levels of technical education: secondary, undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and post-graduate training and re-training to maintain the knowledge and skills of teachers at the level of requests engineering and production of the XXI century.


African animal trypanosomosis or nagana is a tsetse fly-transmitted disease, caused by Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and to a lesser extent T. brucei brucei. The disease causes major losses in revenue in many livestock-producing African countries. The available control methods, including chemotherapeutic drugs and insecticidal spraying, have become
environmentally unacceptable. Antigenic variation displayed by the parasites has hindered vaccine development efforts. In this context, rather than focusing solely on the parasite itself, efforts in vaccine development have shifted towards targeting pathogenic factors released by the
parasites during infection. Congopain, the major cysteine protease of T. congolense, has been shown to act as a pathogenic factor in the disease process. Analysis of the immune response of trypano-tolerant cattle revealed that these animals have the ability to control congopain activity in vivo. Therefore, congopain is an attractive vaccine candidate. To test the protective potential of congopain, immunisation studies had been conducted in cattle using the baculovirus-expressed catalytic domain of congopain (C2) in RWL, a saponin-based proprietary adjuvant from SmithKline-Beecham. Immunised animals were partially protected against a disease caused by an infection with T.congolense. Unfortunately, subsequent attempts to reproduce these results were disappointing. It
was hypothesised that this failure could be due to the different expression system (P. pastoris) used to produce the antigen (C2), or the different adjuvant, ISA206 (Seppic), used, thus hinting towards an epitope presentation problem. Congopain had been shown to dimerise at
physiological pH in vitro. Sera from trypano-tolerant cattle preferentially recognised the dimer conformation, advocating for protective epitopes to be dimer associated. For that reason, the present study aimed at improving the antigenicity of congopain through firstly, the elucidation of
the protective epitopes associated with the dimer, secondly, the determination of the 3-D structure of the protease in order to map protective epitopes to later design mimotopes, and thirdly improve the delivery of congopain to the immune cells while maintaining the
conformation of the protease by using a molecular adjuvant, BiP. A dimerisation model was proposed, identifying the amino acid residues forming the dimerisation motif of congopain. In the present study, particular amino acid residues located in the dimerisation motif were mutated by PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis to generate mutants with different dimerisation capabilities. The congopain mutants were expressed in yeast and their dimerisation capability was assessed by PhastGel® SDS-PAGE. The mutations altered both the electrophoretic mobility of the mutants and their enzymatic characteristics compared to wild-type congopain. This advocated for the involvement of these amino acid residues in the dimerisation process, although they seem not to be the only partakers. Wild-type C2 and mutant forms of C2 were…


Abstract We use connections between conjunctive game formulas and the theory of inductive definitions to define the notions of a coinductive formula and its approximations. Corresponding to the theory of conjunctive game formulas we develop a theory of coinductive formulas, including a covering theorem and a normal form theorem for many sorted languages. Applying both theorems and the results on "model interpolation" obtained in this paper, we prove a many-sorted interpolation theorem for ω1ω-logic, which considers interpolation with respect to the language symbols, the quantifiers, the identity, and countably infinite conjunction and disjunction.


Objective:To study the related dangerous factors OB affecting secondary infertility.Methods:With Logistic method,to find out the impact of artificial abortion on secondary infertility,by review the 368 cases patients of secondary infertility and 370 cases women of antenatal care at the same times.Results:Through analysis,the primary dangerous factors were found,they were:artificial abortion(OR:22.12,b':0.701),pelvic inflammatory disease(OR:7.21,b':0.532),fallopian tube disease(OR:7.02,b':0.514).menses disorder(OR:3.59,b':0.418),endometriosis(OR:4.55,b':0.425),earlyperiodsexual intercourse(OR:2.54,b':0.412),ureaplasma urealyticum(UU)infect(OR:2.23,b':0.413).Conclusion:Artificial abortion,pelvic inflammatory disease,fallopian tube disease were main dangerous factors of secondary infertility.For this reason,reduce the rate of artificial abortion and prevent infect were important measures of reducing secondary infertility.


A method is proposed to compute the theoretical estimation of physical parameters and stability of differential rotation for polytropic stars including mass variation. The law of differential rotation is assumed to be in the form 4 3 2 2 1 2 ) ( s b s b b s     , the angular velocity of rotation (ω) is a function of distance (s) of the fluid element from the axis of rotation. Utilizing the concepts of Rocheequipotential and averaging approach of (Kippenhahn and Thomas, 1970) in a manner, earlier used by (Saini, et al., 2012) to incorporate the effects of differential rotation on the equilibrium structure of polytropic stellar models. The inner structure of differentially rotating polytropic models of a star is demonstrated by calculating various physical parameters for suitable combinations of parameters. KeywordsRoche-Equipotential, Equilibrium Structure, Tidal Distortion, Differential Rotation, Mass Variation.


The people anticipate to receiving more humanitarian and professional medical service,especially the modern medical model has been shifted to the "bio-psycho-social medical model".To adapt to this trend,we should renew the management ideas and management mechanism.The social work service mode will hit this require.In this paper,the management mode of social work service was introduced from five prioritized working areas.Meanwhile,the relative management measures were discussed in detail.


high-resolutionimaging,algorithm-basedevaluationofspines,andliveimagingwereusedtodeterminespinechangesandneurodegeneration. We report that A but not tau induces spine loss and shifts spine shape from mushroom to stubby through a mechanism involving NMDA receptor (NMDAR), calcineurin, and GSK-3 activation. In contrast, A alone does not cause neurodegeneration but induces toxicity through phosphorylation of wild-type (wt) tau in an NMDAR-dependent pathway. We show that GSK-3 levels are elevated in APP transgenic cultures and that inhibiting GSK-3 activity or use of phosphorylation-blocking tau mutations prevented A-induced toxicity of tau. FTDP-17 tau mutants are differentially affected by A. While R406W tau shows increased toxicity in the presenceofA,nochangeisobservedwithP301Ltau.WhileblockingNMDARactivityabolishestoxicityofbothwtandR406Wtau,the inhibitionofGSK-3onlyprotectsagainsttoxicityofwttaubutnotofR406WtauinducedbyA.Tauaggregationdoesnotcorrelatewith toxicity. We propose that A-induced spine pathology and tau-dependent neurodegeneration are mediated by divergent pathways downstreamofNMDARactivationandsuggestthatAaffectswtandR406WtautoxicitybydifferentpathwaysdownstreamofNMDAR activity.


ABSTRACT The progressive twist and displacement in the sand are investigated for a set of pile groups (1,2; 1,3; 2,2) corresponding to the application of the torsional loads. A novel numerical model supported by a set of experimental observations has been considered to capture pile-soil interaction for the pile groups subjected to torsional load. The torque mobilization, progressive twist, and displacement have been computed for a range of the initial shear modulus ratio for the entire set of pile groups. As a result of twisting, the torsional energy zones are set into the soil, and there is the formation of a heave and cavity around the pile group. The torsional energy and twist rigidity parameters were evaluated for a range of shear modulus ratios of the soil. It has been observed that the torsional energy of the pile group (1,2) is significantly higher than pile groups (1,3; 2,2). A classification for torsional energy zones associated with twist rigidity and displacement rigidity factor has been suggested to set the limits for twist and displacement of the pile groups relative to a single pile. A relationship of the torsional energy with progressive twist and displacement is obtained. The components of torsional energy associated with progressive twist and displacement were obtained in the range of 0.43–0.50 and 0.50–0.57 respectively Graphical abstract


Dynamin is a large GTPase essential for various intracellular processes such as synaptic vesicle recycling, caveolae internalization and trafficking into and out of the Golgi. It is also involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis, and is believed to assemble at the necks of clathrin-coated pits and assist in pinching vesicles from the plasma membrane upon GTP binding and hydrolysis. Purified recombinant dynamin self-assembles into rings and spirals in low salt conditions [1]. A dynamin mutant lacking the c-terminal proline rich domain (APRD) also assembles into rings and spirals, however unlike wild type dynamin APRD constricts in the presence of GTP analogous such as GMP-PCP [2] or GTPγS. to explore differences in the behavior of the wild type and mutant dynamin we dialyzed them into different salt solutions containing various types of nucleotides and studied their assembly over time using negative staining and cryo-TEM.


In multi-component silicate glasses, under the UV-excitation, time-resolved luminescence spectra were observed. These spectra occupied the region of 350-700 nm. The dynamics of changes in radiation induced absorption and spectral-kinetic characteristics of luminescence of y-irradiation glasses at the expiry of prolonged time were studied. It is assumed that the luminescence in these glasses is caused by quasi-molecular compelxe centers which include the elements of base substance and impurity atom. These centers can appear in the glass both in the process of its melting and under the action of ionizing radiation. It it shown that, the centers of different origin are characterized by different spectral-kinetic properties of their photoluminescence.


This article aims to analyse evidences of the sensemaking process as a result of communicative practices promoted by the middle management in an organization from the Information Technology (IT) industry, regarding the focus on technical skills development. We studied communicative processes from the perspective of interaction and social organization, which goes beyond the mere transmission of information (CASALI, 2005), a concept grounded in James Taylor (2004) on verbal action, and from the understanding of sensemaking (WEICK, 1995). A qualitative research strategy was used and a case study (YIN, 2001) was conducted at Teevo S/A, an IT company headquartered in Caxias do Sul (RS) and branches in five other cities. Eight interviews were conducted using a semi-structured research protocol, as well as seven hours of observation, which were subsequently analyzed using Content Analysis (BARDIN, 1977). The results indicate that middle management seeks to accomplish constant interactions and they establish a frequent communicative process with each employee about their performance, expectations and career development. These meetings promote a communicative process that may be triggering a process of sensemaking by increasing the ambiguity between the knowledge that employees need and the current knowledge (knowledge gap). To reduce the ambiguity, middle management and employees conduct a sensemaking process that can be observed from the seven properties of sensemaking perspective. Moreover, these conversations can be considered as the basis for collective action in defining a career path to the employees involved. Suggestions and limitations are then specified.


The electronic properties of a 'distorted‐bonds defect' embedded in a macroscopic solid have been studied by means of a self‐consistent Green's‐function technique. The defect consists of a central silicon atom and its four nearest neighbors, connected either by stretched or compressed bonds. We have calculated the change of the density of states and the charge density due to the variation of the bond length. We find strong resonances, and bound states within the gap of the host silicon. The density of states is strongly enhanced at the band edges by bond stretching, whereas compression leads only to minor changes within that energy range. We consider the possibility of these states to be the origin of the localized band‐tail states of amorphous silicon, which strongly influence the optical and transport processes in this material.


(57) Abstract: The present invention provides a bladder assembly for use in electroplating bath (100) (130). Bladder assembly (130) mounting plate (132), and a bladder (136), an annular manifold (146). Wherein the mounting plate (146) one or more inlets (142) are formed, these inlets is coupled to a fluid source (138). Manifold (146) is received in the mounting plate (132) in the lower surface formed recesses (140) and secured thereto bladder (136). Manifold (146) outlet (154) formed in, in order to inflate the bladder, and communicates fluid fluid source (138) and the inlet (142) for flowing into the bladder (136) within. On the contact ring (114), the substrate (121) disposed on the opposite side of the bladder (136) is selectively energized toward the mounting surface of the contact ring (119). Pumping system (159) is attached at the rear surface of the substrate (121), to provide a pressure or vacuum.


This review is based on data in the literature also including clinical and laboratory observations rep orted by one of the review's authors 38 years ago, de monstrating increased plasma factor XIII activity i n patients with hyperlipoproteinemia type IIb and type IV dis playing features compatible with the concept of met abolic syndrome. Factor XIII activity was correlated with serum triglyceride levels and also with serum choli nesterase activity, a marker of hepatic protein synthesis. Im paired hepatic protein synthesis subsequent to L-as paraginase therapy in leukemic patients led to an important de crease of both plasma factor XIII and serum choline sterase activities. It was considered that enhanced hepatic synthesis of factor XIII subunit B occurring in su ch hypetriglyceridemic subjects would assemble with monocyt e-derived subunit A of this factor endowed with tra nsglutaminase activity, thereby stabilizing, transpor ting and increasing the plasma levels of factor XII I (A2B2) zymogen. Increased plasma factor XIII activity was as sociated with delayed fibrinolysis in such hypertri glyceridemic patients and in vitro inhibition of facto r XIII by parachlormercuribenzoate led to an accele ration of clot lysis. High plasma levels and activity of fact or XIII were later reported by British authors in i nsulin resistant patients. It was also demonstrated that in vivo gly cation of fibrinogen occurring in diabetic patients would render a plasmin resistant fibrin clot. The presump tive protection against myocardial infarction exert ed by the Val34Leu polymorphism in the subunit A of factor XI II incited many studies with rather controversial rthis protective effect being diminished in insulin resis tant patients. Factor XIII exerts bivalent effects on atherogenesis, enhancing thrombotic tendency by reducing fibri nolytic activity, while by the crosslinking of extracellular matrix protein exerted by subunit A in monocytes an d histiocytes an atheroma's fibrous cap would be strengthened thereby reducing its vulnerability and preventing plaque's rupture.


This article introduces the background of the formation of learning organization theory and the its features, as well as the practice of constructing learning organization in Legend Group. The relationship between learning organization and human resources management is discussed and it is believed that learning organization serves as an innovative method for human resources management. And more importantly, it has been involved in the content and goals of the human resources management.


The given article exposes the specific of the use of the educational-supervisory programs, in particular at the study of graphic disciplines. Considered problems of introduction of the educational-supervisory programs in an educational process and credible ways of their decision.


We performed a genome-wide association study of melanoma in a discovery cohort of 2,168 Australian melanoma cases and 4,387 controls, confirming several previously characterised melanoma-associated loci and identifying two novel susceptibility loci on chromosome 1. The most significant genotyped SNPs in the novel loci were at 1q21.3 nearby several genes including


Applied Liouvlle Formu la of linear homogenous equation set, solves its special problem, gives the known solution which isnt zero and discusses how to find another particular one that is linear independent.


The evaluation and use of the Bible by young people is minimal. Today there is little familiarity with the Gospel. It is a proposal for training and spiritual growth, in light of the Parables of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, and bearing in mind some documents of youth ministry for young people to wake up, sit down and make concrete choices made within the Church and society. At first was carried out with the youth group for a survey analysis of their reality, their contribution was very significant because for the process is essential pastoral from reality.
The focus for this work, was five parables of Jesus taken from the Gospel of Matthew, which reveals that Good News which is the Kingdom of God. The primary aspect of the parables is the announcement of the reign of God, their characteristics and their values.


There is a general consensus in dentistry that successful local anesthesia is frequently difficult in habitual drinkers and alcoholic patients. Neuro-active tetrahydroharmans increase in human body fluids and tissues by consuming alcoholic beverages. To understand such reduced anesthetic efficacy by the drug interaction hypothesis, we studied the influences of drinking-related tetrahydroharmans on membrane fluidization as one of local anesthetic mechanisms. Lipo- somal membranes prepared with phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol were treated with lidocaine and different tetrahydroharmans separately and in combination, followed by measuring fluorescence polarization to determine their induced changes in membrane fluidity. In contrast to 0.1-2 mg/mL lidocaine, tetrahydroharmans decreased the fluidity of membrane preparations at ∼ 25 μg/mL with the potency being


Water is essential for life. It makes up about 60% of your body weight. We need to get enough water every day from the fluids and foods in our diet to keep our bodies functioning at their best. We get about 20% of the water our bodies need from the foods we eat (Kant, Graubard, & Atchison, 2009). The remainder comes from beverages, including drinking water. With our busy lifestyles, it is no surprise that bottled water has become a popular way to meet these needs; half of all Americans now consume bottled water regularly (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2000). As the popularity of bottled water has increased, so have the questions about its safety. This publication addresses some of these concerns.


This paper proposed context based annotation model and annotation ambiguity correction methods. The proposed model provides various annotation types, semantic models, and pen-based free drawing interface. Annotation correction method that is specifically based on the context which includes various textual and structure information between free-form marking and annotation. Also, interface for XML environment using the proposed model and correction methods is proposed and possibilities of application is looked at. The results from the implementation of the proposed method show that the annotated areas included in the free-form marking information are more accurate, achieving more accurate exchange results amongst multiple users in a heterogeneous document environment


This study aims to improve students' ability to dribble by doing sprint running exercises, with this exercise the researchers hope that the speed of students in playing ball while carrying the ball will increase, the research conducted was classroom action research which was carried out in two cycles, namely in cycle 1 the lowest score is 64, the highest score is 80 and the average grade is 72.2 with sufficient category. this can be shown by classical completeness of classical completeness of 80%, and after the second cycle the results obtained are very satisfactory, namely increasing with the lowest value of 75, the highest value of 80 with an average value of 78.2 classical completeness to 100%. In this study, it was seen that with the 50-meter sprint practice the students' ability to dribble the ball better, this also increases the students' ability to play ball.


Ombrotrophic bogs (called raised/blanket bogs), which are one of the special habitats that host bryophytes, are acidic and poor in mineral salts, and very limited numbers of organisms can cope with such extreme conditions. There are very limited blanket bogs in Turkey such as the Agacbasi Peatland, Barma Yaylasi Peatland, Yilanlitas Yaylasi Peatland (Trabzon), Kabaca–Petek Yaylasi Peatland, Sazak Peatland (Artvin) and Ciger Golu Peatland (Canakale). Except the Ciger Golu Peatland, all of them are located at the north-eastern part of Turkey. Among them Yilanlitas Yaylasi and Ciger Golu are almost extinct. Although the diversity of moss on peatlands is poor, Sphagnum is the most known and remarkable taxon of these areas. A total of 21 taxa belong to genus Sphagnum were collected from these peatlands. S. subsecundum, S. platyphyllum, S. nemoreum, S. girgensohnii, S. compactum, S. centrale and S. angustifolium were found as the most common taxa.


This paper deals with all phases of field work, from planning through monumentation, observation and computations, of an integrated survey to establish control for subsequent photogrammetrical comp...


Abstract Compaction of soils by heavy earthmoving equipment is an endemic problem in the rehabilitation of land after strip‐mining. Accordingly, special tillage operations and other precautions to reduce the severity of compaction are practised on strip coal mines of the Anglo American Coal Corporation. There is, however, a lack of information in South Africa on the extent to which soil penetrability is affected by such compaction (which is different from that occurring in agricultural situations), its effect on plant growth, and the efficacy of tillage operations. In a study carried out on one of Amcoal's collieries, dry matter production of Eragrostis tef and penetrometer data were used to quantify the compaction effects.


Following the death of Michael G. Burke, MD, his long-time collaborator Marian Freedman and other colleagues shared their rememberances of Dr. Burke and the impact he had on pediatrics.


Exchanges for the method and apparatus disclosed in the handheld device (210). Associated method comprising the steps of: access on a handheld device (210) virtual operating systems and automatic teller machines (ATM) application (175), and the use of virtual operating systems and ATM applications (175) execute client on a handheld device (210) transaction.


This paper presents the design of a high power RF window for X-band megawatt class pulsed coaxial magnetron. In this proposed design, overmoded cavity, with $\mathbf{TE}_{012}$ like mode (mixed with $\mathbf{TE}_{312})$ is considered instead of conventional pillbox cavity. Frequency domain simulation is carried out in CST and return loss, insertion loss, VSWR are obtained as 51.52 dB, 0.07 dB, and 1.005, respectively at 9.3 GHz. Mixed mode operation makes the bandwidth broad, and 40.8 MHz bandwidth is achieved for VSWR less than 1.05. The multipactor analysis is carried out in SPARK3D, and multipactor threshold is obtained as 16 MW. This makes the window suitable for the operation up to 16 MW peak power at 9.3 GHz.


This paper introduces the architecture of PCI's interrupt,including PIC and APIC.Regarding Linux as the example,probes into the configuration space of PCI,shareable interrupts and interrupt serving in detail.


The forage digestion characteristics can better be understood when associated with studies of tissue anatomy of forage species. Aiming at new focus to this issue, the area of several tissues present in leaves and stems of B. brizantha and B. humidicola, were determined at three different regions of the plant. The assay was carried out at greenhouse, with plants growing in pots with sterilized sand, receiving nutritive solution of macro and micronutrients. After 70 days of growing period, the segment of leaf and stem localized in the center of each of three different insertion planes was collected. The samples were fixed in FAA, embedded in GMA, sectioned in microtome, stained and photographed. The pictures were digitalized and the areas measured with Image Tool software. It was observed that the limbo at bottom plane presents lower area of lignified vascular tissue. On the other hand, at the sheath and stem of B. brizantha, a larger area of parenchymal tissue is found. Compared to B. humidicola, B. brizantha showed greater area of lignified vascular tissue at the limbo, sheath and stem, while the greatest distance among bundle sheath is found at the limbo and sheath, where the number of bundle sheath was higher at the limbo and stem.


A large, and growing, part of the Nation's economy either serves or depends upon the information technology industry. These high-tech or "digital" enterprises are characterized by a dependence on electronic devices, need for completely reliable power supply, and intolerance to any power quality problems. In some cases these enterprises are densely populated with electronic loads and have very high energy usage per square foot. Serving these enterprises presents both electric power and equipment cooling challenges. Traditional electric utilities are often hard-pressed to deliver power that meets the stringent requirements of digital customers, and the economic and social consequences of a service quality or reliability problem can be large. New energy delivery and control options must be developed to effectively serve a digital economy. This report explores how distributed energy resources, partnerships between utility and customer to share the responsibility for service quality, innovative facility designs, higher energy efficiencies and waste-heat utilization can be coupled to meet the needs of a growing digital economy.


Childbearing Poster Presentation Background Though rare, maternal cardiac arrhythmias can have significant clinical repercussions for the mother and fetus. Proper preparation is key to preventing adverse outcomes. Collaboration of all potential services that may be involved in the care of complex patients can lead to positive patient outcomes. By remaining an advocate for patient- and family-centered care, the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) plays a crucial role in assisting staff, patients, families, and medical systems to reach these outcomes. Case A woman presented to the Regional Perinatal Clinic for high-risk obstetric (OB) care because of her history of a cardiac arrhythmia during a previous pregnancy. Care management was complicated by the inability of staff to review the chart from her previous pregnancy. During her prenatal course, the plan of care was flexible and changed several times. She was seen as an inpatient for her cardiac arrhythmia and was followed up by cardiology as an outpatient. Care, which included planning multidisciplinary meetings and phone conferences and coordinating delivery plans for the team, was managed by the maternal–fetal medicine (MFM) specialists who consulted multiple disciplines during prenatal care. Interventions included meetings attended by cardiac and perinatal case managers, nurse managers, assistant nurse managers, OB patient placement facilitator, MFM, medical director of labor and delivery, anesthesiologist, and cardiac intensivist. Close monitoring of maternal cardiac status before, during, and after delivery was maintained. Constant contact with the woman was available through text messaging to the CNS and facilitated prompt response to her questions. The care coordination that included medical specialists and inpatient and outpatient nursing teams led to a healthy mother and newborn at discharge, an improved patient and family experience, and decreased confusion during the delivery of care. Additionally, staff were able to understand the role of the CNS in direct patient care as a nurse educator and as a change agent in the organizational sphere of influence. Conclusion Evidence-based care and multidisciplinary care planning are central to producing positive patient outcomes in complex OB cases. The CNS can affect three spheres of influence: patient, staff, and organization.


An advanced electric multiple unit (AEMU) has many advantages in terms of maintainability, reliability, energy efficiency. It is the new urban railway technology that enables to reduce the repairing and maintaining costs. and it offers convenient and useful services to the customers with lower costs based on IT technology. If the development of a test vehicle for AEMU is finished, it will be used for the test of the entire AEMU system by checking its sufficient performance and reliability before the operation in a commercial line. The test vehicle will be also verified for its efficiency, safety, punctuality and energy efficiency Therefore, it is necessary to review safety management plan to enhance safety of worker and AEMU system during the period of the comprehensive evaluation on the operation of the developed vehicle in Daebul test line.
In this paper, test condition and operation environment of AEMU in Daebul test line was analyzed. and the
safety and security management plans of AEMU were investigated in Daebul test line.


Abstract Traditional real negative selection algorithms (RNSAs) adopt the estimated coverage (c0) as the algorithm termination threshold, and generate detectors randomly. With increasing dimensions, the data samples could reside in the low-dimensional subspace, so that the traditional detectors cannot effectively distinguish these samples. Furthermore, in high-dimensional feature space, c0 cannot exactly reflect the detectors set coverage rate for the nonself space, and it could lead the algorithm to be terminated unexpectedly when the number of detectors is insufficient. These shortcomings make the traditional RNSAs to perform poorly in high-dimensional feature space. Based upon "evolutionary preference" theory in immunology, this paper presents a real negative selection algorithm with evolutionary preference (RNSAP). RNSAP utilizes the "unknown nonself space", "low-dimensional target subspace" and "known nonself feature" as the evolutionary preference to guide the generation of detectors, thus ensuring the detectors can cover the nonself space more effectively. Besides, RNSAP uses redundancy to replace c0 as the termination threshold, in this way RNSAP can generate adequate detectors under a proper convergence rate. The theoretical analysis and experimental result demonstrate that, compared to the classical RNSA (V-detector), RNSAP can achieve a higher detection rate, but with less detectors and computing cost.


Widely tunable optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) are attractive sources for applications in mid-IR due to the scarcity of direct-emitting conventional lasers in this spectral region. Recently, two new chalcogenide compounds BaGa4Se7 (BGSe) and BaGaGe2Se6 (BGGSe) having relatively high χ(2) nonlinear optical coefficient were successfully synthesized and large single crystals were grown using the Bridgman-Stockbarger technique [1, 2]. Recently the first BGSe nanosecond OPO pumped by a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (1.064 μm) [3] and pumped at 2.09 μm by a Q-switched Ho:YAG laser [4] were demonstrated. Lastly, an intracavity pumped cascaded OPO based on BGGSe was reported [5]. The continuous development and power-scaling of BGSe and BGGSe — based OPOs require study of their damage thresholds. This paper is devoted to a comparative analysis of optical damage of the BGSe and BGGSe nonlinear elements pumped by 1-μm or 2-μm laser radiations.


\ Abstract: The analytical characterization of the nonlinear interference that results when passing more than one high-order modulation carrier through the same nonlinear transponder high-power amplifier. A Volterra filter is proposed which is novel in its implementation of this analytical characterization and modeling of inter symbol interference and adjacent channel interference. The focus is on adaptive algorithms with pilot-based training so that the solutions are completely blind to unknown transponder HPA characteristics, and can rapidly respond to varying operating back-off level. Furthermore, two families of adaptive solutions are provided to compensate for nonlinear ISI and ACI. The first set performs adaptive channel inversion and then applies equalization. The second set of solutions performs adaptive channel identification and then applies cancellation. The effectiveness of the proposed analysis and techniques is demonstrated via extensive simulations for high-order QAM and APSK modulations. It is also included the coded performance with selected LDPC codes designed for the DVB-S2 standard. Finally, computational complexity is assessed and performance impact is quantified when complexity is reduced by decreasing the number of Volterra coefficients.


The current several classes of intrusion alert have various formats and semantics. And it is transferred using a variety of protocols. The protocols that transfer intrusion alert are IDXP, SNMP trap, SYSLOG protocol, etc. These varieties of intrusion alert formats make it difficult to use that together. Intrusion alert normalization makes various intrusions alert to same structure data and same semantics. We need this normalization process to unify alerts from a variety of security equipments. This paper describes how to normalize alerts from several IDS and security equipments.


Collaboration has become an important goal in modern ventures, across the spectrum of commercial, social, and intellectual activities, sometimes as a mediating factor, and sometimes as a driving, foundational principle. Research, development, social programs, and ongoing ventures of all sorts benefit from interactions between teams, groups, and organizations, across intellectual disciplines and across facets and features of the inquiry, product, entity, or activity under consideration. We present a survey of the state of collaboration and collaborative enterprise, in the context of papers and presentations at the International Symposium on Collaborative Enterprises 2011 (CENT 2011), and the extended papers appearing in this special issue.


Results of an analysis of the propagation and radiation characteristics of elliptical dielcore (dielectric core) horns are presented. It is shown that the aperture electric field is nearly straight for each fundamental hybrid mode. The radiation patterns of this structure possess extremely low values of cross-polarization over wide bandwidths.<<ETX>>


The developmental ecology and temperature-dependent growth model were calculated to develop the Scotinophara lurida control technology, which is mainly affected by environmentally friendly rice cultivation. The survival rate of S. lurida after overwintering in 2019 showed that 167 of 224 survived and the survival rate was 72.8%. Overwintering adult of S. lurida occur in rice fields in mid-June, spawn in early July, and first-generation adults develop in mid-August. In order to determine the temperature-dependent growth model, the growth periods by temperature and development stage were investigated in a incubator at 18, 21, 24, 27, 30℃ and 14L: 10D. The period from egg to adult at the temperature of 18, 21, 24, 27, 30℃ was 119.8, 73.1, 53.5, 39.4, and 82.0 days, respectively. The best development temperature was at 27℃. The regression curve was obtained by analyzing the relationship between temperature and growth rate using the Excell program, and the base temperature threshold and effective cumulative temperature for each development stage were calculated. From eggs to 5 nymphs of S. lurida the base temperature threshold was 17.9℃ and the effective cumulative temperature was 380.2 DD.


I. DESCRIPTION OF COMPETITOR General Central Illinois Public Service Company (CIPS), a neighboring investor-owned public utility, has been providing electric energy since 1902. CIPS, a utility subsidiary of CIPSCO Incorporated (CIPSCO), supplies electricity which it generates, transmits, and distributes to a 20,000 square mile region of central and southern Illinois. This area includes 66 of 102 counties in Illinois (representing over 557 communities and has an estimated population of 820,000 people which represents about 7% of Illinois' population and 35% of its surface area. CIPS also sells natural gas, which it purchases from producers and suppliers and distributes through its system, and transports customer-owned natural gas. A second subsidiary, CIPSCO Investment Company (CIC), directs the Company's non-regulated investments, including leases, securities and energy projects. CIC was incorporated on October 2, 1990 for the purpose of managing non-regulated investments and providing investment management services to CIPSCO and its affiliates. CIPSCO Incorporated is a holding company incorporated under the laws of Illinois. As of February 1, 1997, CIPSCO has 34,069,542 common shares outstanding without par value. CIPSCO's common stock is publicly held and traded on both the New York and Chicago Stock exchanges. CIPS has 25,452,373 shares outstanding of common stock that is all owned by CIPSCO. In addition, CIPS has two subsidiaries: Illinois Steam, Inc. and CIPS Energy Inc. as well as owning 20% of Electric Energy, Inc. (Union Electric company also owns 40%). Electric Energy, Inc. owns and operates a 1,015,000 kilowatt coal-fired power station located in Joppa, Illinois. CIC has four first tier subsidiaries: CIPSCO Securities Company (invest in marketable securities), CIPSCO Leasing Company (makes long-term investments in leveraged lease transactions), CIPSCO Energy Company (invests in energy-related projects), and CIPSCO Venture Company (makes investments within the CIPS utility service territory). Merger in Process On August 11, 1995, CIPSCO entered into an agreement and Plan of Merger providing for a business combination with Union Electric Company (UE) of St. Louis, Missouri. Shareholders of both companies approved the merger agreement on December 20, 1995. As a result of the merger, a newly formed holding company, Ameren Corporation, will become the parent of UE, CIPS, and CIC. The merged entity is expected to realize over $700 million in net savings over 10 years from combining certain operations of the two companies and is expected to adopt UE's dividend payment level, currently at $2.54 per share. The Missouri Public Service Commission (MSPC) gave its approval February 21, 1997. They still need approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission and five federal agencies. The MSPC will require that Ameren join a regional electricity transmission group, known as an independent system operator (ISO), to protect the public's interest. Final approval of the merger is expected to be completed by the end of 1997. Once in place, the new parent company, Ameren will serve 1.5 million electric customers and 300,000 natural gas customers in Missouri and Illinois. Ameren's consolidated assets will total nearly $9 billion, and its generating capacity (11,369 megawatts composed of: UE 8,307 mw and CIPS 3,062 ms) and kilowatt hour sales will place the company among the nation's top 20 investor-owned utilities. TABLE 1 CIPS UE NATIONAL ILLINOIS COOPS Residential 8.01 cents 7.13 cents 8.90 cents 10.43 cents Commercial 6.76 5.90 7.86 8.60 Industrial 4.67 4.29 4.92 5.74 TOTAL RETAIL 6.55 5.92 7.12 9.35 Customer Data and Sales Data As of 12/31/96, CIPS has 322,000 electric and 169,000 gas customers which produced $554 million (78%) and $155 (22%) million in retail revenue, respectively. …


The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the creativity of folk-instrumental ensembles in the second half of the XX — the beginning of the XXI centuries in the cultural locus of Kharkiv.
The relevance of the article is determined by the dissonance between the intensity of artistic practice, the variety of ways of testing innovations, the permanent reinvention of genre, style, timbre, expressive parameters of folk-instrumental ensembles in the cultural locus of Kharkiv, and the discreteness of researching their activities in the musicological discourse. Comparative methodology is based on the guidelines of system analysis, historical approach, musical interpretation method and generalization method.
The results. The article outlines the conceptual, genre and stylistic, repertoire guidelines of such poly-timbral and mono-timbral folk-instrumental ensembles of Kharkiv of the second half of the XX–XXI centuries, such as "Korobeinyky", "Rozmai", "Yarmarok", "Stozhary", "TsymBanDo", "3+2", "Hrotesk", "Grey Folk", "Vesela Banda", "Koloryt", duets of accordionists I. Lypnytskyi and L. Hura, O. Mishchenko and I. Sniedkov, female bandurist trio "Kupava" and "Zoredana", Kharkiv Guitar Quartet.
The scientific novelty of the article lies in identifying such specific features of the creative activity of folk-instrumental ensembles of Kharkiv, such as: variability of forms and compositions; virtuosity; the trend to expand timbral, sonorous, textural horizons, reinventing the technical and performing arsenal; testing of new improved modifications of traditional instruments and timbre-textural versions of classical world and national heritage; expansion of genre and stylistic horizons with original works of modern Ukrainian, in particular, Kharkiv artists; preservation of authentic music-making guidelines, establishment of the significance of the folklore and repertoire dominant idea; the significance of the academicization trend and the establishment of new sound images of folk instruments; timbral experi-mentalism, acting theatricalization of performance, tending to the aesthetic dimensions of World music and crossover, that are consonant with multiculturalism and ironic metamodernism; combination of perfor-mance, composition, research, pedagogical and methodical activities of its representatives.
Conclusions. The revealed peculiarities of the creative activity of folk-instrumental ensembles in the cultural space of Kharkiv testify to the establishment of the academic status of the national folk-instrumental ensemble art as a bearer of mentally marked traditional guidelines for instrumental music-making and a reflection of the multicultural essence of metamodernism, the sphere of transformation of aesthetic, genre and stylistic, timbre and technical and performative parameters of folk-instrumental ensemble art based on the diffusion of folklore, academic and variety music, a mediator between cultures in diachrony and synchrony, the bearer of the mission of raising folk-instrumental traditions and finding innovative ways of their embodiment.
The practical significance of the article is outlined by the heuristic application of its results in pedagogical-methodical, theoretical-practical and performance activities.


The authors lay a foundation for the development of consultancy-based competences for specialists of caring professions, in particular, psychology practitioners who work with problem families. Their provisions are suggested to rely on interactive (social-adaptation) approach. The article reveals the importance of it for "Psychology" and "Psychological and Pedagogical Education" bachelor and master programs so as to equip students with the knowledge of behavioral mechanisms and models for effective interactive strategies.


In Malabar for autumn rice, occupying about three lakh acres in double-crop lands, broadcast sowing is the rule in more than 75 per cent of the area. Preparation of the land begins immediately after the harvest of second-crop paddy in January and repeated ploughings are given with the receipt of every summer shower thereafter. The soil is thus brought into a fine tilth before the seeds are sown in April-May, following a soaking rain. This practice precludes raising of a green manure crop on the lands. Other bulky organic manures are also not applied usually, for fear of wash of the added manurial ingredients in the torrential rains of the South-West monsoon. The good tilth that is produced by bringing the soil into a fine state of division by a scrupulous attention to preparatory cultivation, brings in a normal yield, provided the distribution of pre-monsoon showers remains normal. Increased yields are also obtained by top dressing with ammonium sulphate; this practice having come into vogue in recent times.


Single-halogen CsPbI3 is a promising candidate for red light-emitting diodes due to its high photoluminescence quantum yield, narrow emission line width, and facile solution processability. However, the bandgap of CsPbI3...


Abstract We consider the semilinear wave equation on a Lorentzian manifold (M, g) with timelike boundary. We show that from the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map one can recover the metric g and the coefficient a up to natural obstructions. Our proof rests on the analysis of the interaction of distorted plane waves together with a scattering control argument, as well as Gaussian beam solutions.


The experiences of a peer educator who joined the YWCA's Peer Approach Counselling by Teenagers (PACT) program in 1993 are related. She learned youth-to-youth counseling skills pertaining to contraceptives, relationships, decision-making, problem solving, leadership, and AIDS education. In 1994 she started working for Population Services International (PSI), a social marketing program for condoms whose main target groups are youth and young women. In Botswana almost 1/5 of 13-15 year-old youth have already had sex. Early sexual activity contributes to the high rate of teenage pregnancy (approximately 10-15% of 13-18 year olds are parents); and the alarming HIV infection rate (15-20% of the sexually active population). Choices and responsibilities are the themes that provide youth with the education to make informed decisions by which they can be better parents. Sometimes work involves other non-governmental associations (NGOs) such as the Botswana Welfare Association, the YWCA, or the Red Cross, but most of the work takes place at events such as fashion shows, radio programs, concerts, and festivals. A demonstration team travels across Botswana to stage serious condom demonstrations, which are followed by games and competitions, and a few questions about AIDS awareness. Youth are much more likely to participate in this informal setting. The existing institutions that teach youth about reproductive health, such as schools or clinics, are not being used efficiently. Research has shown that teenagers actually do think about using condoms but lack the negotiating skills, therefore responsible sexual behavior should be the basis of education in all schools. Unfortunately, many adults find correct condom usage and teenage sexuality sensitive topics. Although PSI and other NGOs have been successful in Botswana, much education is still needed. More support from parents and teachers could contribute to reaching more youth.


In one embodiment, a method of forming an out-of-plane electrode comprises providing an oxide layer over the upper surface of the device layer, providing a first cap layer portion above the upper surface of the oxide layer extends through the first cap layer portion, and the step of etching the first electrode periphery defining trenches that stops at the oxide layer, the first material portion in the first electrode periphery defining the trench depositing a, depositing a second capping layer portion above the first material portion, and a step of vapor phase release a portion of the oxide layer, the first above the second cap layer portion depositing a third capping layer portion, comprising the steps of a second electrode periphery defining a trench extending through the second cap layer portion and the third cap layer portion is etched, the second conductive Comprising the steps of: depositing a second material portion in the peripheral portion defining the trench, whereby, as the spacer comprising a first material portion and second material portion defining a peripheral portion of the out-of-plane electrode to become, and a step. .FIELD 1


Analog ICs simulations using space charge waves in two-valley semiconductor for microwave and millimeter range signal processing is presented. The formulation incorporates the full set of Maxwell's equations and the equations of motion of carriers based on a two-valley fully specified model providing a quantitative description of the space charge waves in thin-film n-GaAs. Numerical solutions to the system of equations indicate that the propagation and amplification of space charge waves in the thin film for four signals with different frequencies is possible. The present formulation can also find application where we need to know the interaction of electromagnetic waves and charge carriers.


A field experiment was conducted during Rabi 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2012–13 at Research Cum Instructional Farm of Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh to study the most effective herbicide for weed control and their effective level and time of application in Rajmash. Hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 days after sowing followed by pre emergence application of pendimethalin 30 EC + imazethapyr 2 EC at 1.0 kg/ha recorded lesser weed dry weight at 60 days and higher weed control efficiency. The said treatments also resulted in taller plants, higher number of branches and pods/plant, longer pod and higher seed and stover yield, net return and B:C ratio in comparison to the rest of the treatments.


Cropmarks of a square, double-ditched Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, a Roman temporary camp and  another sub-rectangular enclosure were excavated in advance of road building. All the monuments were plough damaged. The square enclosure had three main enclosure phases. It contained six
intersecting circular buildings, one of which was surrounded by a large ditch and three large sunken features  with complex, charcoal-rich fills. A cobbled surface (probably a Roman road) crossed its south-east corner. Radiocarbon dates from the enclosure ranged from 145 BC to AD 415; earlier activity was dated
to between 1285 and 230 BC. A brooch, sword, and sickle, deposited probably in the ninth or tenth century AD,
were found within the enclosure.

The primary fill of the Roman camp ditch was redeposited turf. A group of internal post-holes was rich in  charred barley and wheat. The third and earliest enclosure was defended by a ditch and palisade; the  temporary camp re-used part of its ditch. An oven found within the third enclosure was probably associated  with the temporary camp.

Three cremation burials were found north of the square enclosure. Two were contained in collared urns, which were found in small cists. The third was in a pit, and unaccompanied. The excavation was arranged and funded
by Historic Scotland.


This work analyzes the design of a multirate sub-sampling front-end for software radio systems. This front-end is well suited for software radios due to the limited dynamic range of ADC in today's technology. It provides low power and high integration. The front-end also incorporates programmable digital decimation stages to accommodate variable bit rates. The impact of nonidealities in the ADC on the system performance requirement is also addressed.


This paper proposes three schemes for three scenarios to realize 4-D beampatterns. The synthesis of the unconventional arrays is based on the time-modulated optimized frequency offset. The retrodirectivity and harmonics are also used for multi-targets. Simulated results validate the proposed ideas.


"There are fewer sources of error and bias in a randomized study than in a non-randomized study, but even with proper randomization misleading results can emerge" [1]. "Perhaps, the major accomplishment of the introduction of randomization in modern clinical research has been the control of (patient) selection bias" [2]. "In cause-effect studies, the problems of achieving similarity in the compared components are particularly thorny. When the compared components are not sufficiently similar, the comparison is said to be biased" [3].


Abstract Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a Neotropical species found from Argentina to the United States of America. In its distribution area, two genetically distinct strains are found that differ in their plant host distribution. The strains are morphologically identical, and they can only be reliably distinguished by molecular markers. In this study, we characterized caterpillars collected in corn, Zea mays L., and rice, Oryza sativa L., plantations in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The mitochondrial haplotype typical of the rice strain was found in 100% of the caterpillars collected from that crop, whereas 83% of the caterpillars obtained from corn were of the corn strain haplotype. A sex-linked tandem repeat element called FR was previously shown to have a strain-biased distribution in North American populations. We demonstrated that the same element is found in Brazilian fall armyworm and that it also organized in large tandem repeat clusters that are most frequently observed in caterpillars collected from rice and that display the rice strain mitochondrial haplotype. These results indicate that the Brazilian and North American fall armyworm populations are virtually indistinguishable with respect to the known genetic markers that are diagnostic of strain identity. Furthermore the data are consistent with other studies suggesting substantial gene flow between these widely separated populations. The strain-biased distribution of the FR element makes it a potentially useful marker to estimate interstrain hybridization frequencies of this species in Brazil.


AT the present time, when all nations are faced with many difficult problems in economics as well as in their political relations with one another, they are being compelled to organise their resources to the best advantage, and this may lead, and in certain cases has led, to preferring a nationalised system to the international co-operation that many would rather aim at. This influence must also be felt by scientific men, and may tend to, make them visualise tho problems with which they deal from a more restricted point of view.


The invention discloses a parking charge method and system. The parking charge method is applied to the parking charge system which comprises at least one stall monitoring device arranged on a corresponding stall, a vehicle-mounted device arranged on a vehicle and a back-stage management center in communication with the stall monitoring devices and the vehicle-mounted device. The parking charge method comprises the steps that the stall monitoring device corresponding to a stall where a vehicle is parked is in communication with the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle parked at the stall; the back-stage management center controls the vehicle-mounted device on the vehicle parked on the stall to charge according to stall occupying information sent by the stall monitoring device corresponding to the occupied stall and/or the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle parked at the stall, and vehicle identification information and / or charge account identification information of the vehicle parked at the stall. By means of the technical scheme, the technical problem that a parking charge scheme in the prior art is not perfect is solved.


A method for manufacturing an O-ring is provided to reduce costs by eliminating the necessity of increasing the size of a mold even when the diameter of the O-ring varies. A method for manufacturing an O-ring includes a step(A) of preparing a thin and long unvulcanized rubber material(2) in consideration of the size of the cross section of an O-ring; a step(B) of inserting the rubber material into a lower mold(4) which has both ends opened outward from the mold and a thin and long molding groove(8) corresponding to the size of the cross section of the O-ring, in such a manner that both ends(5) of the rubber material are protruded outward from the open ends of the lower mold; a step(C) of covering the lower mold with an upper mold(6) having a molding groove corresponding to the molding groove of the lower mold, and obtaining an O-ring semi-product(3) by heating the mold and vulcanizing the mold except both ends of the rubber material; and a step(D) of extracting the O-ring semi-product from the mold, inserting the O-ring semi-product into a connection mold(20,21) having both ends(23) opened outward from the mold and a molding groove(22) such that unvulcanized both ends of the O-ring semi-product contact each other, closing the mold, and heating both ends of the O-ring semi-product such that both ends are vulcanized and integrally connected with each other.


Abstract The post‐spawning movements and distribution of 15 brown trout (Salmo trutta Linnaeus 1758) and 21 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Richardson, 1836) were monitored weekly between August 1996 and March 1997 in the hydro‐electric reservoir, Lake Otamangakau, New Zealand, using radio‐telemetry. The most frequently used areas were the vicinity of the main inflow and the channel running through the main body of the lake. After spawning, brown trout regained rapidly their usual habitat. Rainbow trout were using the inlet intensively before recolonising the main channel of the lake. Brown trout made greater use of the weedy parts of the lake and littoral margins, had a more confined home range, and were less mobile than rainbow trout. Rainbow trout occupied the main body of the lake by day, and moved nearer the surface, and closer to the margins, at night. High lake levels allowed brown trout to exploit wetland margins of the lake.


The two 370-meter tower foundations of Luotou watercourse large crossing of Zhoushan-Mainland transmission project are located in sea islands. The four sides of foundation pits are excavated and embedded,and the foundations are characterized by deep foundation pit, large depth of excavation and large earthwork. In order to prevent landslide due to damage on rock of upper pit wall by excavation at the pit bottom and ensure forming quality of foundation pit and body safety during construction, the static blasting technology for excavation is adopted in construction of foundation pit bottom of two 370-meter towers by combining geological condition and forming character of foundation pit.


Over a period of 15 years, Schistonchus was collected from sycones of Ficus subgenus Urostigma section Malvanthera in eastern Australia, and was found to occur widely. Here, Schistonchus macrophylla macrophylla is redescribed from F. macrophylla and F. superba, and a new subspecies, Schistonchus m. lightfooti subsp. n., from F. rubiginosa and F. superba. Schistonchus m. lightfooti subsp. n., is characterised by having a long post-vulval uterine sac (PUS) with thickened walls and a narrowly rounded or pointed distal tip, procorpus which is usually longer than the stylet length, pyriform metacorpus, trapezoid-shaped head capsule, papillae arranged as one large pair adcloacal, a large pair at mid-tail length, and a small pair near the tail tip, no caudal alae, and a spatulate tail tip in females; and was collected from Sydney in New South Wales (NSW) to southern Queensland. Schistonchus m. macrophylla is characterised by having a procorpus shorter than or equal to the stylet length, an ovoid metacorpus, rectangular-shaped head capsule, long PUS with thickened wall only at its distal tip, caudal alae, and papillae arranged as one pair precloacal, one small pair adcloacal, and a large pair at mid-tail length. It was collected in NSW.


This paper aims to explore how and when a business' transparency leads to greater willingness to engage in sustainable and responsible consumption by consumers.,Data were collected in two studies. Study 1 collected data from 219 consumers in a large shopping mall. Study 2 followed an experimental approach and used data from 327 participants.,The current research contributes to theory by hypothesizing and demonstrating when transparency is associated with higher willingness for sustainable and responsible consumption. Critically, the positive benefits of transparency vary according to a business' future orientation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and levels of customer involvement.,An important societal and practical implication of the current research is that business should not be expected to only focus on transparency in isolation but rather also needs to consider levels of perceived future orientation, CSR and levels of customer involvement to strengthen sustainable and responsible behavior effectively.,This research builds on and extends current knowledge by exploring the key role of business' transparency in influencing sustainable and responsible customer behavior and examines critical boundary conditions for the observed effects.


Through experiment,the "Farm-yard Production Model of Virus-free Potato Minituber",applied to centralized and/or decentralized production management,was developed.Based on the Intermittent Rise-Fall Nutrient Depth Technique,combining with natural adjustment of temperature,light,humidity in different altitudes,and artificial adjustment of ventilation and formula of nutrient solution,adopting several times undisturbed harvesting to extend the production period of potato minituber,hence to increase the minituber production capability of plants.The experiment showed that: minituber yield and production capacity of unit area of this production model were 2 518~3 002 minitubers/m2(100plants/m2) and approximately 1.0~1.2 million/667m2(400m2 effective area as average),respectively.Index of seed tuber supply was 1∶250~300.The unit cost,average diameter and weight of the minituber was 0.04~0.05 yuan/minituber,5.07~6.65 cm(≥5 cm)and 5.13~7.54g/minituber(≥5 g),respectively,with strong adaptable ability.The minitubers could be used as the original seed for seed tuber propagation,or directly used as seed tubers for commercial potato production.


The fast development of computing multimedia has led to the demand of using digital images. The manipulation, storage and transmission of these images in their raw form is very expensive, it significantly slows the transmission and makes storage costly. In this paper, a brief review of wavelet transform theory is given using filters as examples to show the related multiresolution analysis. Advantages over Fourier transform is investigated and several results are derived. The pyramid algorithm is also presented and some features of wavelets in image data compression are given. A modified version of Lind Boze and Gray (LBG) algorithm using Partial Search Partial Distortion (PSPD) is presented for coding the wavelet coefficients to speed up the codebook generation and the search required for nearest neighbour codevector of input image. The proposed scheme can save 70 - 80 % of the Vector Quantization (VQ) encoding time as compared to fully search VQ and reduced arithmetic complexity with less sacrificing performance. Key Words: Image compression, Wavelets transform, Vector qQuantization


Evaluation of Early Measures of Body Composition as Related to Beef Carcass Traits. (December 2009) Richard Paul Maulsby B.S., Oklahoma State University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Chris L. Skaggs Dr. Andy D. Herring Two similarly managed trials were conducted to investigate serial ultrasound measures of body composition (longissimus muscle area (ULMA), 12 – rib fat thickness (UFAT), and percentage of intramuscular fat (UIMF)) early in the lives of feeder calves as they compared to carcass traits. Group 1 cattle were Charolais-sired by Brahman-British crossbred dams whereas Group 2 cattle were purebred Beefmaster. Both groups were fed at the same commercial feedlot (Graham Land and Cattle Co.) in Gonzales, Texas. In both data sets classifications were developed for ribeye area of Lower (less than 70.95 cm, Middle (between 70.95 cm and 90.3 cm) and Upper (over 90.3 cm) based on a range that fit within the ribeye specifications of such branded beef programs as Certified Angus Beef and Nolan Ryan's Tender Aged Beef. Differences among ribeye area and quality grade (Choice vs. Select) categories were evaluated for ultrasound and carcass traits. As reported previously, correlations between ultrasound measures and carcass traits became larger at times closer to harvest. In both sets of cattle, there were no differences in fat thickness or intramuscular fat at the ultrasound scan sessions or in these carcass traits due to ribeye area category. The same trend for


When Joyce Nicholson Thorpe - the daughter of this magazine's founder D W Thorpe - died in late January aged 91, we lost someone who had played a large and influential part in our company's history, and the Australian book trade lost one of its great characters. Joyce's oldest son Peter Nicholson provided this eulogy on behalf of the Nicholson family.


The term E-nursing has been used to refer to the incorporation of ICT into nursing. Point-to-point connections using private networks are used by hospitals and clinics that deliver services directly or contract out specialty services to independent nursing service providers at ambulatory care sites. Radiology, mental health and even intensive care services are being provided under contract using Tele-nursing and telemedicine to deliver the services. An autonomous system manages complexity and improves the system complexity without interfering expert humans. The purpose of this paper is to present an autonomous virtual organization for e-nursing describing their characteristics, effects on quality factors, their building blocks architecture, and challenges.


The beginning of the twenty-first century has been described as a time of development for social innovations through which people use, share, and create knowledge in ways that differ fundamentally from those of previous eras. The topical and widely accepted focus of education should be toward twenty-first-century skills. However, there is no consensus regarding in which kind of environment these skills can be practiced and neither is there consensus on how to organize the instruction for learning these skills. To enhance our students' chances of becoming active agents in their own lives and learning in settings far beyond classrooms, a design-oriented learning system is proposed as a context for practicing twenty-first-century skills. A learning system is understood as a system that extends the network of resources, communities, and tools. Respectively, a design-oriented pedagogy has been developed for organizing the ways that diverse people, resources, and tools interact with each other, and for developing the best opportunities for learning from the system. The presented research-based design perspectives may help educators in different institutions to facilitate connected learning across spaces and communities.


A blind equalization algorithm based on fuzzy neural network is proposed.Blind channel estimation and fuzzy neural network classifier are utilized to realize blind equalization.Firstly blind channel estimation is used to identify the character of the channel.Signals are rebuilt by de-convolution,and the original judgment equipment is replaced by fuzzy neural network classifier.Simulations indicate that the novel algorithm improves convergence and bit error rate and so on.


Originally,personality was considered as the decisive factor in coping research.With the development of situation theory and cognitive-phenomenological-transactional theory,the old traditional coping research model had been influenced,by shocking the study on personality from the extents and the thinking.This article introduces developments on personality-orientation research in coping,such as type A personality、Big Five personality、self-esteem、pessimism/optimism、self-efficacy and perceived control.According to the deficiency of the current research,it proposed some corresponding suggestions.That is to use longitudinal study and cross-situation study,to combine multiple methods,to lay stress on the interaction between coping and personality,to use cross-culture research,and to strengthen the interference research on coping.


This study is the development of an automated laboratory asset with an inventory system and security features using passive Radio Frequency ID (RFID). The RFID, in combination with bar code, is used to log-in and log- out borrowed equipment during laboratory and non-laboratory classes or even during research class. With the automated system, the dispensing process is reduced. A real-time inventory of equipment, as well as utilization reports, is easily generated and accessed by the authorized personnel. From the manual system with a cycle time process of 15.45 minutes for dispensing of equipment, the dispensing time was reduced to 2.92 minutes, and 5.17 minutes of returning of equipment to 4.54 minutes, which are 81.10% and 12.19% improvement respectively. The inventory report that requires a day to prepare generated in a minute. A user-interface survey was deployed to the students to determine the acceptability of the system. Sixty respondents had high acceptability in terms of user-interface, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use. The system has been tested for three semesters now in the Engineering Laboratory.


The deal between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Iran over the latter's nuclear program lifts an ominous shadow from a region already ravaged by bloodshed and conflict.


The paper is devoted to the modeling of porous silicon matrix, the study of its mechanical properties in the Ansys virtual design environment at different indices of porosity and comparison with the experimental data taken in the laboratory [3]. Testing in software systems using the finite element method is universally used in various applied industries: construction, medicine, materials science. In this paper, we tried to use Ansys Material Designer to simulate the microstructure of porous silicon with different percentages of pore filling. After constructing the microstructure, we used this model in the Static Structural module to investigate the mechanical parameters of a sample made of a previously calculated material. The mechanical properties of the porous structure were simulated using the Static Structural module.


The rapid development of the coastal area for settlement and commercial service could increase vulnerability to natural hazards. This study aimed to analyze the settlement development management in the coastal area of Pangandaran Regency of West Java toward tsunami disaster risk mitigation. This study is essential because Pangandaran coastal area faces directly toward the subduction zone between Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates, which lead to tsunami hazard. For vulnerability analysis, spatial analysis was done through existing buildings and spatial planning documents. Recommendation for future management and mitigation to minimize tsunami impact on residential areas was formulated. The results showed that commercial and service zone dominated the land use in Pangandaran coastal area, followed by low-density residential zone, community forests, and mixed-use zone. The spatial analysis also showed that the existing land-use and spatial planning document did not consider the tsunami disaster risk. Hence, our recommendation provided the possible design solution for every potential impact of tsunami and mitigation approach to reduce vulnerability.


Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO2) may play an important role in management of sport injuries: in football and hockey players, and after other sport activities. When HBO2 is applied together with physical therapy and rehabilitation procedures, it can accelerate the healing and thus to decrease the costs of treatment.


This study is aimed at analyzing the corruption inside the Vietnamese society whose economy has been growing drastically after Doi Moi...


In Brief The authors' objective was to determine whether Broca's aphasia is associated with resections of anatomically defined Broca's area (Brodmann's areas 44/45). They found that Broca's aphasia is not associated with resections of Broca's area. Instead, transient Broca's aphasia is associated with resection of the ventral rolandic cortex and supramarginal gyrus, and also the underlying white matter tracts. These findings have significant implications for understanding the risks to language that are associated with surgery in eloquent brain areas.


Myosin II from the soil amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii is a member of the largest of the 35 classes of the superfamily of molecular motors that, together with actin filaments, convert the energy of hydrolysis of ATP into force or motion that drives numerous cellular and intracellular processes. In this paper (pp. E23–E32) we show that the actin-activated ATPase of Acanthamoeba myosin II is regulated by phosphorylation of a specific serine in a region of the myosin motor domain that is known to be at the myosin–actin interface. No other myosin has been shown to be regulated in this way.


With the development of cellulosic ethanol industry,the generated problems of treatment and recycling of wastewater are becoming more and more prominent,and it is of great significance to explore appropriate methods to treat and recycle the wastewater.The source and characteristics of cellulosic ethanol wastewater were introduced.The approaches to treat high concentrated organic wastewater and starch ethanol wastewater were summarized.The research progress on the treatment of cellulosic ethanol wastewater was reviewed,and an economical and effective process to deal with cellulosic ethanol wastewater was suggested.


In order to deal with performance of software systems, it is important to introduce approaches that work in the early phases of the software life-cycle, even before the code is developed. In fact, if performance requirements are not met, there may be negative consequences on significant parts of the project. Some work has been done in the last few years to tackle the problem of automatically interpreting model-based performance analysis results and translating them into architectural feedback. In this context, software and performance models are typical artifacts involved in the interpretation, and architectural feedback consists of refactoring that can take place either on the software or the performance model. We present here this problem context, by means of a unifying framework that supports model-based software refactoring driven by performance analysis.


BACKGROUND
The prevalence of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 deficiencies and their role in the development of recurrent oral ulcerations is not well known. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these deficiencies in our patients.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
Iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 levels were studied in 80 patients with recurrent oral ulcerations (ROU) and the results were compared with a control group of 29 patients with different oral diseases.

RESULTS
In the recurrent oral ulcers patients, deficiencies were detected in 21/80 patients (26.2%). In 18 cases they were pure: iron (4), folic acid (10) and vitamin B12 (4). In 3 patients, combined deficiencies were detected, being secondary to pernicious anaemia in two patients. In the control group, deficiencies were observed in 4/29 cases (13.7%). In three cases they were isolated (one case suffered from ferropenic anaemia and two patients of pernicious anaemia).

CONCLUSIONS
Patients with recurrent oral ulcerations have more frequently iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 deficiencies than those with other diseases of oral mucosa. However, there were not significant differences when the frequency of deficiency of each one of such elements were taken into account separately.


Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of SF-36 in patients with pacemaker.Methods Two hundred thirty patients with pacemaker were investigated by SF-36.Reliability and validity of SF-36 were evaluated.Results Cronbach α coefficients for physical functioning,role physical,body pain,general health,vital,social functioning,role emotional,mental health were 0.872,0.814,0.856,0.789,0.779,0.819,0.763 and 0.754 respectively.There were significant correlation between every item and its dimension.Conclusion SF-36 is of better validity,reliability and can be used in patients with pacemaker.


The trends presented in this issue have the potential to impact the dental profession profoundly. As stated repeatedly, we all can know what has happened if we dig into the data a little. Part of the task of this issue is to relate that recent history in terms of its potential economic implications


Abstract:It is said that "A word is more powerful than a letter but an image is more powerful and sound than thousand words". That means an image is stronger than a bunch of words but creating an image is not simple as it looks. The image is passes through many processes that constitute to create an image through image processing. The image processing is the process that constitutes processes varying from image capturarion to image representation. The image taken is then processed, segmented, restored, etc. this is about digital image processing. for that purpose we need the image processing algorithms which are classified on the basis of their use such as face recognition or feature extracting, etc. In today's time we have the algorithm which works in both areas such as Haar, Eigen faces, fisher faces, PCA, violajones, LBPS, etc., but even for better result as these algorithm suffers from some drawbacks, we need advance algorithm. For that purpose we use advance PCA algorithm which is the combination of PCA along with some feature of haar and Eigen faces as both were basic blocks of PCA. After simulating we find that this algorithm is very much useful for the face recognition and also provides the better result with the moderate-to-high varying efficiency. On that basis we have create the advance security system based on advance PCA algorithm which consists of Raspberry pi as a controller. The pi camera and image database are also the major part of this designed system. The efficiency for this designed system is much higher than other designed system in the same area. The impact of this system is that, it allows the direct interface of authorised user from remote place and also provides control by android application. The uses and its implications on the society is that this will become superior, flexible and optimized, reliable security system.


Siti Aminah. K7113202. IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILL AND OUTCOME LEARNING OF SCIENCE ABOUT FORCE THROUGH GUIDED INQUIRY LEARNING MODEL USING MULTIMEDIA FOR THE THIRD GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 1 MANGUNWENI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017. Thesis, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University of Surakarta.May 2017. The objectives of this research are: (1) ) to describe the steps on the use of guided inquiry model using multimedia; (2) to improve critical thinking skill of science about science through guided inquiry model using multimedia; (3) to improve learning outcome of science about force through guided inquiry model using multimedia for the third grade students of SDN1 Mangunweni in the academic year of 2016/2017. This research is a collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted within two cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. Subjects of the research were teacher and third grade students of SDN 1 Mangunweni. Data were collected were qualitative data and quantitative data. Techniques of collecting data were observation, interview, and test of students' learning outcome. The validity of data in this research was analyzed using triangulation of sources and triangulation of technique. Data were analyzed using qualitative data analysis namely data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion or verification. The results of this research show that: (1) the steps on the use of guided inquiry learning model using multimedia, namely: (a) orientating by presenting multimedia, (b) conceptualizing by using multimedia, (c) investigation, (d) drawing conclusion, (e) and discussing and explanation by using multimedia; (2) the use of guided inquiry learning model using multimedia can improve critical thinking skill. It was proven by the percentage of first cycle 74,08%, and in the second cycle 86,81%; (3) the use of guided inquiry learning model using multimedia can improve students' learning outcome. It was proven by the increase of learning outcome in the first cycle 77,72% and the second cycle 94,56%. The conclusion of this research is the use of guided inquiry learning model using multimedia can improve critical thinking skill and students' learning outcome of IPA about force for the third grade students of SDN 1 Mangunweni in the academic year of 2016/2017. Keywords: guided inquiry, multimedia, critical thinking, learning outcome, science


Procedure for manufacturing cams for assembled camshafts with steps. - hot transformation of a cam (11) forming an outer cam contour and punching a cam bore (13) and - calibrated axial and radial cam (11), wherein the calibration comprises substeps of - inserting the cam in an undivided die (21) defining the outer contour calibrated cam (12), - introduction of a mandrel (23) in a cam bore (13), which defines the calibrated hole of the cam (13), and - axial shortening of the cam (11) between a lower die (22) seated between the die (21) and the mandrel (23), on which rests the cam (11 ) with a first front surface (14) and an upper die (25) guided between the die (21) and the mandrel (23), which drives the second front surface (15) of the cam (11).