This study was conducted to investigate ewe and lamb behaviour at parturition in prolific and non-prolific sheep. Observations were taken on 16 Romanov (R), 16 Finnsheep (F) and 13 Suffolk (S) ewes at their first and second parturitions. Time intervals between displaying first signs of uneasiness and first contraction, rupture of foetal membranes bag and first contraction, sighting the first lamb and expulsion of the last lamb, and contact time between ewes and their litters were assessed and correlated with litter size, and litter weight at birth and at weaning. Romanov ewes had the largest litters (3.02), took longer to deliver (120.7 min), and interacted more with their lambs (30.9 min) after lambing. F and S ewes were similar in many behavioural traits despite significant differences in number and weight of lambs delivered. Prolific R and F ewes lambing single and twin lambs delivered them faster than S ewes with similar litter sizes. Duration of lambing was significantly correlated with ewe–lamb cont...


Cognitive Radio is a self-learning, adaptive and intelligent radio which utilizes the spectrum effectively to avoid the spectrum shortage problem. CR having the capacity to sense the spectrum holes to transfer the data. Spectrum policies are applied to select the frequency band in which the data have to transfer at presence of user. In this study, for proficient spectrum utilization, a continuous wavelet based approach for the detection of sub band edges in wide spectrum band of concern where primary users are available. Here the exact occupation of primary users and noise signal has been detected by calculating Power Spectral Density for various SNR and threshold. The threshold that decides the class has been obtained by LEACH algorithm. Simulation results show that the frequency range occupied by primary user can be computed by the proposed technique more accurately. This technique is found to be computationally attractive and suitable for hardware implementation.


Limited support for public programs to meet social needs is an impetus for psychologists to consider new roles in facilitating informal social networks. The value of social networks is supported by empirical research, and a variety of interventions have already been tried. The theoretical underpinning of these interventions is social exchange theory, which emphasizes reciprocal exchange in interpersonal interactions. This theoretical base implies difficulty in addressing problems requiring redistribution of resources, since social exchange networks tend to perpetuate existing imbalances of wealth. Problems in using informal networks as instruments of social policy also arise from their inherent elements of social control. On the other hand, these informal systems are especially suited for dealing with problems requiring exchange of highly particularistic resources such as love or esteem. Social networks might serve a broader range of needs if conceptions of equitable exchange could be expanded.


Nonreciprocal excitation of dielectric resonances has been investigated for LMmδn mode in a weakly gyrotropic ferrite resonator for the millimeter band. The waveguide cell shows nonreciprocal transmission of 10 dB and the frequency-tuning rate of 130 MHz / kOe. The possibility of numerical modeling of microwave components with weakly gyrotropic ferrite resonators has been shown in CAD Microwave Studio.


Within traditional flamencology and the world of flamenco artists, there have been numerous discussions regarding the possibility and necessity of writing flamenco music. The majority of classical arguments negate the usefulness of such writing. From our point of view, and as a result of our research, the representation on paper of the music is certainly possible and has certain advantages. While the difficulties are clear, one is not considering an especially complex music like other musical genres outside of western culture.


COVID-19 has taken a massive toll on the planet, claiming over 3 million lives and infecting nearly 150 million people. (1) This highly contagious multisystem disease is caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 strain. Originating in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the infection rapidly pervaded the globe, being declared a public health emergency by the WHO on January 30, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. (2) Despite closely resembling the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, the causative agents of two global pandemics in 2003, the SARS-CoV-2 varies widely in the presentation instead of the predicted trajectory. (3) Significant progress has been made in understanding the virus, the infection, and developing treatment protocols. Nevertheless, the long-term effects of COVID remain unknown.


Based on correlation function mean squares error criterion J r(n ) proposed by Asharif, a new correlation function adaptive filtering algorithm is proposed by replacing the previous gradient vector with the current gradient vector in the Newton gradient method and using the matrix inversion lemma. Results of theoretical analysis show that the algorithm is stable for step size factor μ0 . Simulation results indicate that the algorithm′s convergence performance is better than that of CLMS algorithm.


Ninety-nine percent of maternal deaths due to pregnancy and its complications occur in developing countries. Similarly, a large number of neonatal deaths and stillbirths occur every year. Some 95% of total maternal and child deaths occur in 75 low- and middle-income countries and countries in the Asia region are at high risk. It has been estimated that, for each stillbirth, there is one neo-natal death. However, more than 70% of newborn deaths are prevent-able with evidence-based practices. Reducing maternal and neonatal deaths is an integral part of the global agenda to achieve millennium developmental goals (MDGs)  by 2015. Despite of encouraging improvements in reducing Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in India, still more efforts need to be devoted to reduce the Maternal & Infant Mortality Rate. This paper proposed web based application mCARE system to collect maternal/Infant details and sending the SMS alerts message to reminding their check up/vaccination schedule.


Mexcio is one of the principle oil producing country with abundant marine carbonate rocks.Reservoir is the key for formation of huge carbonate oil and gas field.EPC area is located at Tampico basin and the Cretaceous marine carbonate rock is the main reservoir.Based on core,thin section,logging and seismic data and the previous research on this area characteristics of the regional strata are defined.On this basis,facies distribution and sedimentary model of the Cretaceous carbonate rock is lineated according to Wilson's carbonate rock depositional model.


The effects of a PSP producing dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense on marine bivalves at their several important life,stages: egg, D - shape larva, eyespot larva, juvenile and adult, were studied! The results show that the hitching survival, activity, filtration and! growth were adversely affected by the alga and the impact was significantly increased with the increase of algal density. The inhibitory effect on egg hatching was most significant, which the hatching rate was only 30% of the control when exposed to the alga at 100 cell/cm(3) after 36 h. Further experiments show that the algal culture, re-suspended cells and cell fragments had the inhibitory effect, while no such effect was from the cell-free medium, cell contents and standard STX. The results indicate that the alga could produce unknown toxins, rather than PSP, associated with the cell surface.


The paper introduces how to implement the high-powered DSP applications using SOPC technology,which not only can satisfy the high-powered demand,but also have better expansibility and reconfiguration.


Our country has been in cultural transformation since the beginning of 20th century. The further speeding up of the economic globalization makes the cultural transformation process in our country still more complicated. Because of its unique cultural background, its relatively low level of economy and its not-very-open regional environment, modern Xi'an has been very specific in the development of architecture. While forming Xi'an modern architecture culture, we should continue history, but more importantly, ponder over present-day Xi'an social culture in different prospects and at different levels, thus encouraging contention of different schools and making way to more exploring modes while allowing conservatism priority.


A minimum coverage method called CWSCM is presented to deal with complicated Web service composition.According to desired objectives,the minimum coverage theory that simplifies logic functions in mathematical logic is applied to the multi-level services matching process to discover the desired Web services,and establish a minimum service matching set.At the same time,an optimal sequenced service composition graph is constructed,and its formal expression is saved into the extended Web service description for reuse.Experiments show that CWSCM can compose complicated Web services successfully,and that the success rate and efficiency of Web service composition can be ensured.When the satisfaction degree of the composition reaches about 70%,the algorithm can achieve the highest success rate.However,the satisfaction degree has little impact on the efficiency of the composition.


To provide corrosion protection in adverse environments, a 7-wire prestressing strand is coated with a grit-impregnated epoxy. The effect of the epoxy coating and grit on development length for 3 different sizes of prestressing strand was investigated. The development lengths of 3 different densities of grit were studied as well. Also, some test specimens were subjected to a fatigue loading to investigate its effect on bond between pretensioned strand and concrete. Experimental and analytical results from this study were compared to the results in the literature and provisions in the ACI Building Code (ACI 318-83).


Introduction. A feature of healthcare in 2020 was the work in conditions of massive incidence of COVID-19, limited and redistribution of human resources. One of the right decisions in these conditions is to manage schools for patients, which allow simultaneous education and convey the necessary information to a large number of people. For the first time, the key aspects of the management of telemedicine schools for patients are presented. The purpose of the study is to assess the feasibility of telemedicine schools for patients as a technology of modern health care. Material and methods. The work was carried out by the method of a one-stage cross-sectional study of the questionnaire survey of participants of two schools cycles, conducted in an on-line mode. Results. One thousand four hundred three patients took part in the cycle for rehabilitation after COVID-19. Feedback from 171 listeners was received for the questionnaire based on the Google platform. The number of participants in rheumatology schools was 197 people, the results of the questionnaire were received from 36 respondents. Limitations of the study. The study analyzed two different in size and relatively small groups of participants who anonymously answered standardized questions about the appropriateness and quality of the training provided. Discussion. Ten key principles of managing online patient education at the present stage were identified as follows: the use of distance technologies, the interest of a medical institution administration, the team approach, the technical possibilities of implementing schools, adaptation of lecture material for patients, the role of a qualified specialist in the educational process, patient participation, measurement efficiency and timely correction, development and improvement of educational technology for patients, desire for cooperation and exchange of experience. Conclusion. The emergence of new opportunities related to online health education of the population, including educational activities for patients, opens up new prospects for improving clinical care aimed at promoting health and preventing disease.


In November and December, a polynya (area of reduced ice concentration surrounded by heavy pack ice) usually develops on the western Ross Sea continental shelf immediately north of the Ross Ice Shelf. This important regional feature is reasonably well simulated by the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) global ice‐ocean model, despite its coarse resolution. The model results suggest that both the wind‐induced divergence of the sea ice and the inflow of relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) onto the continental shelf are essential for the polynya formation, which supports the inference drawn from observational data.


The educational "Reports" of the 19801s are demanding change in the schools and change in the way we prepare teachers. Perhaps a marriage between some industrial practices and some education strategies is now appropriate since both are in the informational age. For the first time in history, industry has many personnel who do not physically touch their products. These people need supervision. Contingency management practices are being tried. There is a possibility that education could borrow from this theory and incorporate some of its components in our supervisory practices. This paper reviews some of these possibilities and applies them to supervision of student


Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the fifth most common malignancy in Indonesia. Diagnosis of NPC is frequently established in late stage showing regional lymph node metastasis. Tumor-stroma ratio (TSR) has recently been identified as one of independent prognostic factor for several solid tumor, which low TSR (predomination of stromal component) correlates with unfavorable prognosis and increased risk of relapse. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the correlation of TSR with tumor size and lymph node involvement in NPC. Material and Method: A total of 68 hematoxylin-eosin stained histological slides of patients with NPC who underwent biopsy were reviewed. The percentage of tumor stroma was visually estimated with cut-off value of 50% stroma percentage. Patients with Result: Based on data, of 68 patients; 36 (52,9%) had low TSR and 32 (47,1%) had high TSR.  Tumor T2 had highest percentage in both low and high TSR (44,4% and 43,75%). The low TSR patients had higher number of positive N stage than high TSR.  TSR was not significantly correlated with tumor size (p=0,410) and lymph node involvement (p=0,507). These results demonstrated that TSR itself could not clearly predict progression of T&N stage of NPC. Conclusion: Stroma percentage was not correlated with tumor size and lymph node involvement in NPC.


and psychoanalysis has produced a group of research workers equally at home in either field, though few have the knowledge and competence of Professor Russell Monroe, who is both Professor of Psychiatry and Principal Investigator of the Psychophysiological laboratories at the Maryland School of Medicine. One of his interests has been impulsive behaviour or, as he terms it, episodic dyscontrol ; this covers a wide field from compulsive touching to murder, from minor seizures to political assassinations. Monroe claims that too many neurologists and psychiatrists still tend to use Gowers' criteria, laid down some So years ago, when trying to differen tiate functional episodes from organically predeter. mined behaviour. The book falls into four sections; the first is on present-day psychiatric and psychoanalytical views on acting-out behaviour. Many destructive actions or hysterical episodes may be seen as escape mechan


Ubiquitous computing embodying the integration of computer,communication and digital media technology makes it possible to integrate the physical world we are living in and the virtual world in the information space together as the whole. As a new computing mode,Ubiquitous Computing has become one of the most attractive domains.In this domain,the security has also attracted more attention.In this paper,a new security detective model for ubiquitous computing,which is based on the nave Bayesian classifiers will be put forward.


The next step after ITER is to demonstrate the viability and generation of electricity by a future fusion reactor (DEMO). The specifications required to operate an NBI system on DEMO are very demanding. The system has to provide a very high level of power and energy, ~100MW of D° beam at 1MeV, including high wall-plug efficiency (η > 60%). For this purpose, a new injector concept, called Siphore, is under investigation between CEA and French universities. Siphore is based on the stripping of the accelerated negative ions by photo-detachment provided by several Fabry-Perot cavities (3.5MW of light power per cavity) implemented along the D− beam. The beamline is designed to be tall and narrow in order that the photon flux overlaps the entire negative ion beam. The paper will describe the present R&D at CEA which addresses the development of an ion source and pre-accelerator prototypes for Siphore, the main goal being to produce an intense negative ion beam sheet. The negative ion source Cybele is based on a...


By Gaurav K. Shah, MD; and Baseer Ahmad, MD Is scleral buckling surgery for retinal detachment (RD) repair here to stay? We believe the answer is "yes," but only if ophthalmologists continue to perform and teach these procedures. If we do not, scleral buckling procedures will pass into history. There is no doubt that pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) is an effective procedure, valued day in and day out. So are scleral buckling procedures, however, for appropriate cases. Even so, scleral buckling procedures have become eclipsed by PPV. A PubMed search revealed the following: since 1956, 2745 articles have been published on scleral buckling; since 1970, 12 341 articles have been published on PPV; since 1972, 1073 articles have been published on scleral buckling plus PPV. In the past 5 years, the difference is even more pronounced, with 395 articles on scleral buckling, 3126 on PPV, and 234 on both procedures. Medicare claims data (Figure 1) also reflect this trend. From 2000 to 2011, use of the PPV code has more than doubled, from about 15 000 annual procedures to about 32 000. Meanwhile, the use of scleral buckling has declined, from 6000 to 2000 procedures per year. Several factors may be responsible for these changes. The availability of small-gauge instrumentation, wideangle viewing systems, high-speed cutters, and better illumination have made PPV much easier. Surgeons may also lack confidence in their skills with indirect ophthalmoscopy, and there is less time spent on scleral buckling by mentors and training programs. Economic and time factors play a role. In addition, there is no industry support of scleral buckling at this point. At the same time, there is a growing list of misconceptions about scleral buckling. These include the following: • The success rate with scleral buckling is lower than that with PPV; • The choice of initial treatment does not make a difference in failure outcomes; • Scleral buckling has a high incidence of complications; • There is a significantly higher amount of myopia after scleral buckling compared with PPV; • Rates of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) are higher after scleral buckling than after PPV.


50 patients who came to the Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center (CCCRC) with various chemosensory complaints were evaluated by a dual threshold/odor identification test administered in the CCCRC and by the self-administered University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT). Agreement between tests proved high, with a correlation coefficient of 0.92. The UPSIT correlated better with the odor identification component than with the threshold component of the CCCRC test. This disparity stemmed largely from limitations in the reliability of the threshold component


The was a case control and comparative study aimed at investigating the possible effects of injectable and skin patch contraceptives on selected haematologic and haemostatic parameters in women attending primary healthcare centre at Eleme, Rivers State The study population consists of seventy-five (75) apparently healthy, non-pregnant, nonsmoking women, aged between 25 and 45years; (31 women on DEPO-PROVERA contraceptive, 14 women on Implanon, and 30 Original Research Article Eze et al.; JPRI, 32(31): 99-108, 2020; Article no.JPRI.60505 100 apparently healthy non-contraceptive users as control group). Fibrinogen, antithrombin, tissue plasminogen activator was analysed with reagents prepared by Elabscience, Wuhan, China, using an ELISA machine (STAT FAX-2100). Prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time was done manually with reagents prepared by Quimica Clinica Aplicada S.A, Spain. Haematologic parameters were analysed using SYSMEX KX-21-N auto analyser. Graph-pad Prism 5.0 was used in analysing all data, p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. For haemostatic parameters, results showed that there was statistically significant increase in mean values of antithrombin (38.48 ± 17.48/ml versus 21.02 ± 15.54ng/ml, p=0.0011) and tissue plasminogen activator (1.34 ± 1.35ng/ml versus 0.28 ± 0.46ng/ml, p=0.0047) in women using the two types of contraceptive, while activated partial thromboplastin time (28.11± 2.37s versus 29.87 ± 2.77s, p=0.0205) was statistically decreased in women on the investigated contraceptives, other haemostatic parameters were not statistically significant. For haematological parameters, the results showed that there was statistically significant increase in mean values of packed cell volume 38.13 ± 2.28% versus 36.21 ± 3.07% (p=0.0126), haemoglobin 12.35 ± 0.79g/dL versus 11.56 ± 0.99g/dL (p=0.0028), white blood cells 6.17 ± 1.22 x109/L versus 5.26 ± 1.18 x109/L (p=0.0143) in women using injectable (DEPO-PROVERA) and skin patch (IMPLANON) contraceptive, other parameters showed no statistically significance. Based on duration of use of contraceptive, there was no statistically significant difference (p>0.05) in women using skin patch; while for injectable, platelet count was high in those who had used it for more than a year. Comparing values obtained from using injectable and skin patch, there was no statistical significant difference in all the parameters. Using analysis of variance to compare values based on parity, there was no statistical significant difference. Conclusively, increase in antithrombin and tissue plasminogen activator, and a decrease in activated partial thromboplastin time in women using IMPLANON (skin patch) and DEPO-PROVERA (injectable) are the haemostatic changes that occurs while using contraceptives and these changes may likely predispose them to bleeding, therefore adequate monitoring of the blood haemostatic processes while taking these contraceptives is critical in order not to expose users to haemorrhage.


Disclosed herein are subject to a system and method for determining the spatial alignment of the inertial measurement unit (IMU). In one example, the first direction based on the vehicle is identified, the method in which the first vehicle based on the direction associated with the possible conversion with the earth-based coordinate frame the first direction is described. The spatial arrangement of the IMU based at least in part is determined in one direction.


Abstract Analytic metaphysics has taken a sharp turn away from Hume. Almost all at once, it seems, it has become acceptable — perhaps even fashionable — to believe in real causal powers. This is welcome news for those formerly lone metaphysicians who thought all along that Hume was wrong, but it is also good news for critical realists. The following is an introductory overview of some of the recent literature, via synopses (with commentary) of three anthologies and one monograph. I encourage critical realists to engage with this material, to the mutual benefit of critical realism and analytic philosophy alike.


The invention discloses a mobile terminal image rotating system which comprises a setting module, a voice input module, a voice recognition module, a comparison module and an executive module. The setting module opens or closes the image rotating function and presets at least one key word and an executive command corresponding to the key word, the voice input module receives one input voice which is input into a mobile terminal, the voice recognition module recognizes the input voice received by the voice input module, the comparison module judges whether the preset key word exists in the input voice or not, if the preset key word exists in the input voice, the executive command corresponding to the key word in the input voice is transmitted to the executive module, and the executive module controls rotation of a screen displaying image when the mobile terminal conducts shooting according to the received executive command. The invention further provides a mobile terminal image rotating method. The mobile terminal image rotating system and the mobile terminal image rotating method can conduct rotation on the screen displaying image through voice recognition when the mobile terminal uses a camera for shooting, and be convenient to use and practical.


AIM OF THE STUDY:
1. To study the clinical profile of patients with intracranial tumours presenting to the Neuro-Ophthalmology department of a Tertiary eye care centre.
2. To correlate the ocular manifestations and site of the intracranial tumour.
3. To study the behavior and natural course of the Brain tumour.
4. To study the prognosis of each tumour after treatment.
METHOD:
A prospective study of 192 consecutive patients who were proven to have Intracranial tumour clinically and radiologically from a period of June 2011 to June 2013 for a period of 2 years who presented to the Department of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Aravind eye hospital, Madurai. All these patients underwent a thorough ophthalmological and neurological evaluation.
RESULTS:
Out of a total of 192 patients, 104 (54.2%) were males and 88 (45.8%) were females. The mean age was 41.97years. Pituitary adenomas (46.9%), Meningiomas (24 %), Acoustic neuroma (8.3%) were the most common Brain tumours encountered. 156 patients (81.3%) had Defective vision at presentation, while Temporal pallor (34.9%) and primary optic atrophy (27.6%) were the commonest fundus changes. Bitemporal hemianopia is the most common field defect followed by generalized constriction. There was a statistically significant association between best corrected visual acuity at presentation and follow up best corrected visual acuity (p<0.001). Thus the visual prognosis depends upon the vision at presentation. There was a significant association between type of tumour and age group (p<0.001), but there was no association between gender and type of tumour (p=0.096).
CONCLUSION:
Any brain tumor is inherently serious and life-threatening because of its invasive and infiltrative character in the limited space of the intracranial cavity. Usually detection occurs in advanced stages when the presence of the tumor has caused unexplained symptoms. Improved diagnostic techniques are allowing Intracranial tumours to be detected at increasingly earlier stages, but cases are still seen with Neuro-ophthalmological symptoms as the presenting symptoms.


This paper argues that scenario based learning is an appropriate pedagogical strategy for business school education, both for students and for executive education. Beginning with a discussion of problem based learning, the pedagogical strategy within which scenario based learning is grounded. The approach is explained and two examples of scenarios are offered, one for students and one for executives.


A case of a fetus with cystic hygroma presenting as shoulder dystocia in second stage of labour is presented. The use of destructive operations viz. cleidotomy and decapitation, in modern day obstetric practice and the pathology of cystic hygroma is discussed.


Growing melon under temperate climate conditions is quite risky due to the high climatic requirements of this species. Vegetable growers use plastic film mulches to heat soil, to reduce weed infestation, and to maintain optimal soil moisture content. The aim of our study was to determine the suitability of white and black plastic film for soil mulching in melon cultivation under temperate climate conditions. Plants of three Polish heterotic cultivars of melon (C. melo L. var. saccharinus Naud.): Emir F1, Junior F1, and Seledyn F1, as well as of the breeding line 61/2014 F1 were the subject of this study. Two soil mulching methods were applied: black polyethylene (PE) plastic film and white PE plastic film, using for this purpose double-sided whiteon-black PE plastic film. The use of black plastic contributed to a significant increase in marketable yield of melon fruits. The content of L-ascorbic acid and carotenoids in fruits of melon grown on white mulch proved to be higher than in those grown on black mulch. The Polish cultivars studied can be considered as tolerant to temperate climate conditions.


This essay deals with the concept of al-tafseer al-riwa'i (the narrated exegesis) in the use ofcontemporary Muslim scholars; it shall argue that the term at-tafsir ar-riwa'i is not an obviousand consistent term as far as the classical tafsir tradition is concerned. The study shall alsoexamine and assess the views forwarded in favor of the viability of of at-tafsir ar-riwa'i. In theend this paper shall aim to lay down the sound principles and foundations on which the use ofal-tafsir al-riwa'i has to be based.


By combining with PHP,MySQL and Web Service technology,a two-way referral system was designed based on the HL7 V3 standard.The referral system could build and parse HL7 messages through a standard HL7 engine.Web Service technology was used to perform data transform between the client and service and the data stream used XML organizations manner based on HL7 V3 standard.Therefore,the system had good scalability as the server can support any client using Web Service and HL7 V3 standard.


The molecular hydrogens (${\mathrm{H}}_{2}$, ${\mathrm{D}}_{2}$, HD, etc.) form the simplest of all molecular solids. The combination of the light mass, small moment of inertia, weak interactions, and the quasi-metastable ortho-para species result in a fascinating low-temperature behavior that can be understood to a large extent from considerations of first principles. After discussing single molecule properties and intermolecular interactions we discuss in detail the ortho-para properties, conversion and diffusion. This is followed by a description of the crystal structures and the orientational ordering phenomena. The thermodynamic properties are reviewed. The article is concluded with a discussion of the translational ground state of the solid and the effect of the large zero-point motion on the solid state properties. A large number of data are collected in tables and graphs to provide a reference source.


[Extract] Marine reptiles are an important and well-documented component of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), comprising a single species of crocodile (Crocodylidae), six species of marine turtles (five Chelonidae and one Dermochelyidae), at least 16 species of sea snakes (Hydrophiidae), one species of file snake (Acrochordidae) and one species of mangrove snake (Colubridae). Together these marine reptile species inhabit or traverse through each of the 70 bioregions identified by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Representative Areas Program . These marine reptile species, with the exception of some of the snakes, have distributions that span large areas of the GBR. Crocodiles, marine turtles, file snakes, mangrove snakes and sea snakes all have life history traits, behaviour and
physiology that are strongly influenced by temperature. All are ectothermic except for the leatherback turtle and thus their body temperatures fluctuate with environmental temperature. For egg laying species (crocodiles and turtles), the temperature of the nest determines incubation period, hatching success and hatching sex ratio. Thus as a group they are potentially vulnerable to climate change.


A robust matching scheme for computing optical flow within a sequence of grayscale images is proposed. The technique employs the gradient information in textured images for extracting features in the form of orientation codes, which are then used for matching. The proposed method has been found to be robust in cases of matching under different ill-conditionings especially illumination variations. We utilize its robustness to compute optical flow in cases where illumination fluctuation is a problem and matching pixel brightness can introduce errors. Results of computation of optical flow field on real world scenes in the cases of translation, rotation and zooming have been presented and compared with other region matching techniques.


A neural network based on Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) is adopted to solve the problem of simultaneously analyzing As(Ⅲ) and As(Ⅴ) using Spectrophotometer Analysis.The weights of multi-layer forward neural network are trained by the PSO algorithm,which overcomes the disadvantages of error converging slowly and dropping into the local minimum inhering in traditional Back Propagation(BP) neural network.And the results show that the method improves the accuracy and stability of data processing greatly.


This paper concerns a sliding mode adaptive stabilization of a class of uncertain time-varying delay system.Based on adaptive control and sliding mode theory and linear matrix inequaliy(LMI) technique,the system state can been droved into a sliding mode plane in finite time,and the asymptotic stability condition is also derived.


Author(s): Vecchietti, Alessia; Stewart, Jonathan; Cecconi, M; Pane, V; Russo, G | Editor(s): Silvestri, Francesco; Moraci, Niola | Abstract: The paper describes the development of a non-ergodic site response model for a strategic site in the Aspromonte mountains, in Southern Italy. Fractured metamorphic rocks belonging to Calabrian complex outcrop in this area, located in a region where Southern Apennines crustal faults and subduction of the Calabrian Arc contribute to the seismic hazard. At the site, three accelerometers are installed since 2016 as part of the monitoring system of the Menta Dam, a bituminous-faced rockfill dam constructed for the water supply of the region. Ground motions recorded at the site and elsewhere from regional crustal and subduction earthquakes have been used to evaluate region-specific source and path adjustment to global ground motion models (GMMs). Those regionally adjusted GMMs have, in turn, been used to evaluate the mean bias of site-specific recordings, which is used to estimate non-ergodic site response for the dam site. This analysis highlights that site-specific site response is appreciably larger than the global average prediction of GMMs for periods lower than 0.4s. A non-ergodic GMM is developed that accounts for these effects to be used in subsequent Probabilistic Site Hazard Analysis (PSHA).


The invention discloses a double-sided tape and a gluing device of a gluing layer coater thereof. The double-sided tape comprises a release paper layer and a gluing layer in coating connection with the upper surface of the release paper layer, wherein the gluing layer consists of continuously and uniformly arranged slanted-bar independent pressure-sensitive glue film units with the same thickness and deviating with a left or right angle with the vertical line of the length direction of the release paper layer. The gluing device of the gluing layer coater for the double-sided tape comprises a gluing roll arranged on a coater rack and a press roll leaning against the upper surface of the gluing roll, one side of the gluing roll is provided with a doctor knife, the lower part of the gluing roll is provided with a glue storage tray, and uniformly arranged glue storage grooves deviating with a left or right oblique angle along the axis center line are engraved on the smooth circumference surface of the gluing roll. The double-sided tape has a simple layered structure and low production cost, and does not produce the phenomena of pulling glue and drawing silks during use; and the gluing device of the gluing layer coater for the double-sided tape has a reasonable structure, and can effectively ensure the coating quality of the gluing layer of the double-sided tape during production.


This article tries to redefine Feng Youlan's "Abstract Inheritance Method".Initially,a historical analysis was used to analyze the theoretical and historical reasons for the argument of Feng Youlan's "abstract inheritance method" before and after the 1960s.Finally,the author confirms this method by using current research achievements.


T tHIS essay is concerned with those men who were given by Statute an allbut-absolute authority to enclose and redistribute common and open fields between about I745 and the General Act of i845. It deals with Commissioners as professional men tackling problems which were novel in the first generation, and only slowly evolving standards of procedure. Criticism of the partiality (as apart from the cost) of a Commission was rare, so that the questions of proper or improper motive which surround the discussion of many enclosure problems will not arise here. The materials for this investigation are the minutes, accounts, letters and working papers of Commissioners in several Midland counties,1 and a study of the Commissioners named in all the Acts for Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire. The private diary of one Commissioner 2 and the personal account book of another 3 have survived to yield details of work' before and after the meetings recorded in the Minutes. The scarcity of these minutes has been frequently commented upon.4 The earliest Commissions (I 730-6o) were very large, and often local, giving something of the appearance of a grand jury of umpires seeing fair treatment of their fellow landowners. When the pace of enclosure quickened, and anxious eyes were cast on the expense of a Commission, a smaller appointment became the rule and the paid professional Commissioner appeared. If landowners could have agreed, an Act and a Commission would have been superfluous. The multiplicity of Acts may be read not only as evidence of dissension on the issue of enclosure5 among the gentry who flew to Parliament as an arbiter, but perhaps as showing that many who agreed that enclosure was necessary could not agree on the details of property redistribution. A Commissioner disinterested in the lands to be enclosed, but trusted by the owners who had nominated him, might produce an Award about which there might be individual complaints, but which could be accepted as being at the worst equally unfair to everyone. A Commissioner described his powers in I 766 in these terms: A Commissioner is appointed by Act of Parliament for dividing and allotting common fields and is directed to do it according to the respective interests of proprietors ... without undue preference to any, but paying regard to situation,


Using urea,boric acid,and nitrates as the matrix and mixing a small amount of rare earth oxide,green long afterglow luminescent materials were synthesized at 600 ℃ by combustion method in high temperature resistance furnace.Furthermore,by incorporating the obtained phosphorous aluminates into organic host polystyrene,the flexible green-light-emitting long afterglow composite films was prepared.The composite films were characte-rized with the scanning electron microscopy and the fluorescence spectrum,respectively.The results show that the organic-inorganic composite films can be used as green-light-emitting rollable screens in the industry of information displays.


Aiming at influence actuality of highway construction to social environment,it analyzes the influence of highway construction to social environment from some factors,social economic development,land-levying remove,fundamental facilities,historical object and site,humanity scenery and scenery,etc.,and puts forward measures of reducing this influence,in order to make constructing environment develop continually.


Upon reaction with [Ru(PPh3)2(CO)2Cl2], N-(naphthyl)-4-R-salicylaldimines (R = OCH3, H, Cl; H2L1–H2L3) and 2-hydroxy-N-(naphthyl)naphthaldimine (H2L4) readily undergo cycloruthenation by C–H bond activation at the peri position to afford complexes of the type [Ru(PPh3)2(L)(CO)] (L = L1–L4). The crystal structures of the [Ru(PPh3)2(L)(CO)] (L = L1, L2, L4) complexes were determined and the structure of [Ru(PPh3)2(L3)(CO)] optimized by DFT calculations. The thermodynamics for the reaction of [Ru(PPh3)2(CO)2Cl2] with H2L2 to give [Ru(PPh3)2(L2)(CO)] were determined. All the complexes show intense absorptions in the visible and UV regions, which have been analyzed by TDDFT calculations. Cyclic voltammetry of the four cycloruthenated complexes showed two oxidations within the range 0.50–1.35 V versus SCE and a reduction at around –1.75 V versus SCE. The [Ru(PPh3)2(L)(CO)] (L = L1–L4) complexes were found to efficiently catalyze the transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds.


Treatment of adult mice with rabbit anti‐mouse thymocyte serum decreased the number and frequency of alloantigen‐sensitive units responsible for graft‐versus‐host reactions and prolonged the survival of skin allografts. Whereas alloantigen‐sensitive units were suppressed directly in vitro, they were not apparently suppressed directly in vivo since the fall‐off of their numbers and/or function did not occur during the first day after serum injection. Treatment of prospective recipients of thymus cell grafts impaired the production of alloantigen‐sensitive units by transplanted primitive progenitors. Differentiation with proliferation of alloantigen‐sensitive units was less affected.


Patients with active implantable medical devices (AIMD) may be at risk of harm from RF-induced heating during an MRI scan. The amount of RF-induced lead heating is mainly attributed to the electric field tangential (Etan) to the lead path, which can be predicted by using an electrical field transfer function (TF) associated in different media. The objective of this study is to investigate the difference in estimating RF heating through TFs of a pacemaker system in high conductivity media (HCM), low conductivity media (LCM) and mixed media simulating in-vivo. The ANSYS HFSS was used to calculate the electromagnetic fields in a tank model built from the TF measurement set-up, with a pacer and a cardiac lead model (length=52 cm) placed inside. The tank is filled with homogenous media such as Blood (σ=1.2 S/m, ε<inf>r</inf> = 78) denoted as high conductivity media HCM or low conductivity media LCM (σ=0.47 S/m, ε<inf>r</inf> = 78). For mixed media, blood vessels (HCM) are around a lead with the cardiac dimension. Outside vessels, the space was filled with myocardium (σ =0.678 S/m, ε=106.5). Reciprocal method was used with current excitation at the tip. Currents along lead conductors are obtained by loop integrals of H fields. The TFs are the currents along the lead divided by the excitation, denoted as S(τ). The heating was accessed by integrals of tangential electrical fields (Etan) over 133 clinical pathways inside virtual human family models giving by normalized power PE ∼ σ∗Etip2 =σ |∫Etan(τ) ∗S(τ)) d τ|2. Three curves of TF magnitude S(τ) run closely to each other and TF for the mixed media was in the middle, LCM on the top and HCM in the bottom. Predicted normalized PEs at 99 percentile are 0.974 for HCM, 0.536 for mixed and 0.519 for LCM. For the scenarios evaluated, using TFs with LCM provides a closer in-vivo heating evaluation with a 3% underestimation while HCM overestimates by 80%.


In the conditions of warfare in Ukraine, the question of providing medical services to injured civilian and military is especially relevant and severe. In plastic surgeons` professional activities, the task is to restore extensive and deep wound defects in a short term and with a high degree of damaged organ`s restoration, especially supporting function. In this article the authors describe their experience with local keystone perforator island flaps, which are used to reconstruct skin and soft tissue defects of the lower limbs caused by combat injuries.
Patients and methods. The authors conducted a retrospective review of 49 keystone perforator flaps for 28 patients (26 men and 2 women) who received treatment in the clinic for bullet, shrapnel, and mine‑explosive injuries between 2014 and 2022.
Results. In all cases, extensive wound defects were completely closed during a single‑stage surgical procedure, and the patients were discharged after recovery. Non‑critical complications required secondary sutures in two cases (4%), extending the duration of treatment by 6 days. The time spent in the operating room on the transposition of one flap ranged from 40 to 95 min (mean: 67 min).
Conclusions. The findings of the study show that local keystone perforator island flaps are highly effective in the successful reconstruction of lower limb defects caused by combat wounds. The keystone perforator island flap technique requires basic preoperative preparation of the patient, is easy‑to‑use, and exhibits a fairly high level of reliability at the same time. In most cases, keystone perforator island flaps provide primary and single‑stage closure of a large defect in the thigh, in the area of the knee joint, and in the lower leg in the absence of secondary defects that are common at donor sites when alternative techniques are chosen.


To the editor, Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir received emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021 to treat COVID infections in an outpatient setting.1 Ritonavir is a strong cytochrome P450 (CYP)3A4 inhibitor, with lesser inhibitory effects on CYP2D6, and nirmatrelvir has the potential to inhibit CYP3A4 and P-glycoprotein.1 Recommendations for pharmacotherapy modifications to address drug-drug interactions (DDIs) with nirmatrelvir/ ritonavir are increasing, and the prescribing information advises caution or a temporary dose reduction when coprescribed with nifedipine.1,2 Nifedipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker extensively metabolized by CYP3A4.3 Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models showed maximum concentrations of nifedipine to increase 18to 49-fold, with area under plasma concentration-time curve increasing 63to 84-fold when combined with ritonavir, and a greater than 40 mm Hg reduction in systolic blood pressure.3 Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling showed mean CYP3A4 inhibition caused by ritonavir/lopinavir in adults age 20 to 50 is 80% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 61-91) resolved after 48 hours since stopping the medications.4 After 72 hours, mean CYP3A4 inhibition is resolved 87% (95% CI: 72-95) in age range 60 to 69, 84% (95% CI: 53-94%) in age range 70 to 79, and 81% (95% CI: 12-96%) in age range 80 to 89.4 The combination of a ritonavir-containing antiviral regimen and nifedipine has caused hypotension, generalized edema, malaise, and renal insufficiency on two separate occasions in the same patient.5 Other cases demonstrate nifedipine toxicity when combined with CYP3A4 inhibitors.6,7 We report the first DDI between nifedipine and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir. A 79-year-old woman with stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CrCl 37 mL/min), type 2 diabetes, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, nonrheumatic tricuspid valve regurgitation, status-post transcatheter aortic valve replacement, ascending aortic aneurism repair, and congestive heart failure (CHF) presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of cough and a positive home COVID test. Blood pressure in the ED was 155/56 mm Hg, and heart rate was 73 bpm. Following a second positive COVID test, and not meeting hospital admission criteria, she was sent home with directions to take 150 mg nirmatrelvir/100 mg ritonavir twice daily for 5 days. Her other medications included aspirin, cholecalciferol, clopidogrel, coenzyme Q10, colchicine, cyanocobalamin, dulaglutide, furosemide, irbesartan, nifedipine extended-release 60 mg daily, niacin, potassium chloride, and rosuvastatin; of which, colchicine and rosuvastatin were temporarily held upon initiation of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir. After 3 days of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, she returned to the ED with new swelling in extremities, a feeling of abdominal fullness, malaise, and decreased urine output, which were not resolved with self-administered furosemide. Significant laboratories upon hospital admission included increased serum creatinine (2.68 mg/dL versus baseline of 1.6-2.1 mg/dL) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) of 3688 pg/mL (reference range: 0-450 pg/mL). An electrocardiogram (ECG) report showed left anterior fascicular block. Physical exam was notable for 2+ lower extremity edema to the knees and trace edema in the hands, blood pressure of 120/54 mm Hg, and heart rate of 60 bpm. Her nirmatrelvir/ ritonavir and nifedipine medications were discontinued upon admission due to suspicion of a DDI, which presented as acute exacerbation of CHF and kidney injury. Edema and renal function normalized with minimal medical intervention over the next 2 days until the patient was discharged home. Her nifedipine and other medications were restarted upon discharge; nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was permanently discontinued. Subsequent outpatient clinic visits demonstrated continued tolerance of nifedipine. The DDI described above was determined to be probable (Table 1).8 An alternative explanation includes the possibility of a COVID-related CHF exacerbation, as myocardial damage through a variety of mechanisms, and rare de novo CHF onset have occurred following COVID illness.9 Elevated NT-proBNP has been linked to higher mortality risks among COVID patients, and is commonly elevated during CHF exacerbation.10 Notwithstanding, similar cases to ours have been reported in the absence of COVID infections.5-7 Based on pharmacokinetic studies suggesting longer time and more variability in CYP3A4 inhibition resolution in older adults 1143131 AOPXXX10.1177/10600280221143131Annals of PharmacotherapyRauser and McGrane letter2022


The response with intravenous chemotherapy using cisplatin and paclitaxel in patients with advanced ovarian cancer is often substantial. However, this regression of the malignancy is not durable, and a majority of patients succumb to this disease process. It is possible that alternative types of chemotherapy and alternative routes of chemotherapy administration can improve the results of treatment and perhaps, reduce the morbidity and mortality that patients experience.


In the past, most cultural content was in a passive state of protection. In recent years, with the popularity of digital printing and the emergence of the concept of open-source sharing, it provides a new idea for cultural preservation. Using cultural elements from the Taitung region as a sample, this study established an open-source database, and completed the production of 60 digital models and the archiving of related materials. Based on the concept of open-source sharing, our research hopes that this database can be applied in more places. Through surveys, it could be concluded that, when the models are designed in parts and are easy to print and display, it is more conductive for the models to be used in promotions and applications. It is expected that each township will have its own localized 3D model database. Through the open-source localized digital model's unrestricted and free features, under the influence of COVID-19, it can also allow people from all over the world who cannot visit these places in person to print the local cultural content remotely, so as to have a three-dimensional under-standing of Taiwanese cultural objects. It is expected that the localized 3D model databases will help promote local cultural improvement and move towards local innovation.


Abstract : To estimate the influence of reverse voltage on the movement of deionization in a gas-discharge device, we can examine the ratio of the ion concentration at a given moment at a given point in the absence of reverse voltage to the ion concentration at this same point and at that moment of time when reverse voltage is applied. Let us call this ratio the field factor. The field factor shows how much the presence of reverse voltage decreases the charge concentration at a given point.


Based on the components of machine-vision systems and the categories of viewpoint planning methods,the advances of known and unknown model-based viewpoint planning methods are first introduced,the occlusion problems,which should be resolved during viewpoint planning,are analyzed.Finally,the future directions are prospected.


Matching for HLA has been the gold standard in bone marrow donor selection. But, with the ever increasing number of identified HLA alleles, it is becoming more difficult to find a fully HLA‐identical donor other than a sibling. Retrospective analysis revealed that HLA mismatches do not necessarily give rise to acute graft‐versus‐host‐disease (GVHD). However, we have no means of defining these 'permissible' mismatches before bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Thus, we set out to establish whether functional matching by means of helper and cytotoxic T‐lymphocyte precursor frequency analysis (HTLp‐f and CTLp‐f respectively) can be applied to this end. Fifty‐five recipient–donor pairs other than HLA‐identical siblings, the recipient of which received a T‐cell‐depleted graft, were analysed by high‐resolution HLA typing and/or HTLp‐f/CTLp‐f analysis. The predictive value of the CTLp‐f assay for development of acute GVHD was confirmed. More importantly, our data indicate that the CTLp‐f assay was able to discriminate permissible from non‐permissible HLA‐A, ‐B or ‐Cw mismatches, but not for DRB/DQB mismatches. The absolute number of alloreactive CTLs present in the graft correlated with the risk of acute GVHD. Although HTLp‐f and CTLp‐f together had a high negative predictive value, HTLp‐f outcome by itself was not correlated with acute GVHD. As we have no evidence yet that HTLp‐f or CTLp‐f can identify permissible DRB/DQB mismatches, high‐resolution matching for these antigens remains the best option. The combination of high‐resolution DRB/DQB typing and the CTLp‐f assay would enable the accurate prediction of the risk of acute GVHD while extending the pool of potential donors. Furthermore, it would enable adjustment of the number of T‐ cells in the graft accordingly to improve clinical outcome.


Let ξ be a random integer sequence, having uniform distribution P{ξ = (i1, i2, . . . , in) = 1/n} for 1 6 i1, i2, . . . , in 6 n. A realization (i1, i2, . . . , in) of ξ is called good, if its elements are di erent. We present seven algorithms which decide whether a given realization is good. The investigated problem is connected with design of experiments [3, 13] and with testing of the solutions of Latin [1, 4, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 21] and Sudoku puzzles [2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27]. In this short paper (which contains the talk [15]) we have space only to de ne seven algorithms (using the pseudocode of [6]) and to summarize the basic properties of their running times (see Table 1 at the end of the paper). The proofs of the assertions can be found in [16].


ation of Social Workers. The Buffalo School, like the New York School twentyfour years ago, owes its existence in large part to the recognition by social workers of the three-fold responsibility Mr. Lee has outlined. The third statement is the biennial report of the Joint Vocational Service. It contains two paragraphs that tie up with Mr. Lee's speech and the announcement of the new School of Social Work at Buffalo:


NASR, Raoul E., 2006. Water conservation and desert large-scale farming in Jordan. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 12: 553-558 Water shortage is a serious problem in Jordan. Irrigation water consumes about 65% of the available fresh water resources. This article aims at studying partial water productivity in desert large-scale farming in Jordan and comparing it to farming practices in the rest of the country. Water is widely exported in form of crops that consumes large amounts of water without full economic consideration to the opportunity cost of water. In some cases, food imports may be a feasible option in water-poor countries instead of water import.


AFRL/RBAT was approached by AFMC 645 AESG/WIJE to investigate the problem the RC-135 Rivet Joint fleet is experiencing with antennas being damaged on the upper surface of the aircraft. A design modification to increase cooling capacity for the antenna arrays has resulted in an unfavorable flow field around the aircraft antennas. CFD analysis was performed using the Air Vehicles Unstructured Solver (AVUS) to examine the effect the exhaust of the cooling system has on the aircraft antennas which included the internal flow path of the heat exchanger, the aircraft body, wings and antenna array consisting of 27 antennas on the upper fuselage. CFD results at typical trim angles of attack and cruise altitude have been completed for the baseline aircraft. Transient pressure data at several positions on key antennas obtained from time accurate solutions were used to determine sound pressure levels and power spectral density. Analysis of the solution and visualization of the results have shown the cooling exhaust does produce an undesirable flow field that unintentionally puts several antennas at risk at low angles of attack. AVUS was then used later in this study to evaluate the feasibility of a proposed design modification.


A new and diverse range of somatic mutation signatures are observed in late‐stage cancers, but the underlying reasons are not fully understood. We advance a "combinatorial association model" for deaminase binding domain (DBD) diversification to explain the generation of previously observed cancer‐progression associated mutation signatures. We also propose that changes in the polarization of tumour‐associated macrophages (TAMs) are accompanied by the expression of deaminases with a new and diverse range of DBDs, and thus accounting for the generation of new somatic mutation signatures. The mechanism proposed is molecularly reminiscent of combinatorial association of heavy (H) and light (L) protein chains following V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin molecules (and similarly for protein chains in heterodimers α/β and γ/δ of V(D)Js of T Cell Receptors) required for pathogen antigen recognition by B cells and T cells, respectively. We also discuss whether extracellular vesicles (EVs) emanating from tumour enhancing M2‐polarized macrophages represent a likely source of the de novo deaminase DBDs. We conclude that M2‐polarized macrophages extruding EVs loaded with deaminase proteins or deaminase‐specific transcription/translation regulatory factors and like information may directly trigger deaminase diversification within cancer cells, and thus account for the many new somatic mutation signatures that are indicative of cancer progression. This hypothesis now has a plausible evidentiary base, and it is worth direct testing in future investigations. A long‐term objective would be to identify molecular biomarkers predicting cancer progression (or metastatic disease) and to support the development of new drug targets before metastatic pathways are activated.


While many education institutes use Skype, Google Chat or other commercial video-conferencing applications, these applications are not suitable for presenting architectural or urban design or archaeological information, as they don't integrate the presenter with interactive 3D media. Nor do they allow spatial or component-based interaction controlled by the presenter in a natural and intuitive manner, without needing to sit or stoop over a mouse or keyboard. A third feature that would be very useful is to mirror the presenter's gestures and actions so that the presenter does not have to try to face both audience and screen.

To meet these demands we developed a prototype camera-tracking application using a Kinect camera sensor and multi-camera Unity windows for teleconferencing that required the presentation of interactive 3D content along with the speaker (or an avatar that mirrored the gestures of the speaker). Cheaply available commercial software and hardware but coupled with a large display screen (in this case an 8 meter wide curved screen) allows participants to have their gestures, movements and group behavior fed into the virtual environment either directly or indirectly. Allowing speakers to present 3D virtual worlds remotely located audiences while appearing to be inside virtual worlds has immediate practical uses for teaching and long-distance collaboration.


Shared bicycles provide convenience for people's daily travel, relieve the pressure of urban traffic to a certain extent, and practice the concept of green travel. However, over-delivery, neglect management, random parking and damage repair of shared bicycles are the main problems that should be solved at present. It is imperative to rationally build shared bicycle parking facilities. This paper analyzes the characteristics of shared bicycles, shares the problems faced by bicycles, analyzes the problems of shared bicycles, proposes the design elements of shared bicycle parking facilities, designs and optimizes several typical roads, and prescribes the needs of people's travel. We will work out a shared bicycle park and put forward appropriate management rules and regulations.


The modernisation of steel construction beam gantry for the work of transport suspended – using the example of track length expansion by a short
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Accurate, low-noise, wideband phased array radar antennas depend on the use of true time delays between microwave elements. A photonic means of generating the required element-to-element phase shifts was developed by Toughlian and Zmuda for systems operating in the VHF frequency range, and extended by Monsay and Caccuitto for operation in the radar C band. The photonic beamformer is based on a heterodyne optical system, in which the reference beam acts as a probe of the acoustic wave in the acousto-optic (AO) cell. It is apparent that the benefits of this photonic system rely greatly on the ability of the probe beam to pick out just the right phase shift/time delay from the acoustic waveform in the AO cell. A basic limitation to system performance could come from intrinsic diffraction effects due to the finite beamwidth of the probe in the AO cell. In addition, the finite size of the photodetector in the system will have an effect on the final SNR. These effects have been studied in detail and their implications for design and performance of the photonic beamformer are discussed. © 1997 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumen- tation Engineers. (S0091-3286(97)01312-3)


Campylopus introflexus (Hedw.) Brid. sensu lato comprises two widespread, closely related species: tropical and warm-temperate C. pilifer Brid. (= C. polytrichoides DeNot.) and temperate southern hemispheric C. introflexus (Hedw.) Brid., which was recently introduced in Europe. Main differences are in the height of the dorsal lamellae of the leaves, in spore size and in seta length. In C. pilifer lamellae are more pronounced in tropical mountains than in lowland areas. An extreme form with lamellae up to seven cells high is C. pilifer var. lamellatus (Mont.) comb. nov. from Bolivia.


xi v INTRODUCTION 1 Statement of the Probl e m . . . . . . . . . . 3 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE . . . . Calculating Self-conception Disparity A Methodological Clarification o f Self-conception Disparity ... Purpose of the Study and Hypotheses METHOD . Sample Procedures Instrument Incorporated Measures Relevant 5


Being multiethnic, Ukrainian state is made up from different cultures and identities. Sociocultural modernization, which is implicative to any society, is aimed at the formation of general civil identity as a resource for development. However, it appears that civil and political reasons are not enough in Ukraine to form necessary social solidarity characteristic to each nationalstate community. Consolidation of national-state community based on the civil identity appears to be the main source for development motivation, and dilution of such identity deepens inner social-cultural separations. Unimplemented aspiration to confirm identities of groups and communities formed outside and beyond the state (membership in which is perceived by individual as significant for supporting his cultural belonging and for his individual self-identification) fuels bursts of political radicalism. Contradictions between communities representing the bearers of different identities lead to lingering conflicts. The nature of such conflicts cannot be narrowed down only to "identities conflict"; they also have social, political-institutional and economic dimensions, but the statement of their special rights and legitimization of their ambitions to be special is reasoned in public discourse by common, different from "others" self-identification landmarks of certain community or group. Aggressive policy of identity of these communities or groups, their demands for social recognition and special legal status as a rule lead to deep sociocultural convulsions. Dramatic events in Ukraine have actualized theoretic apprehension in conjunction with empiric research of identity phenomenon. Adhering to historical fairness we need to state that for the last decade the international community has experienced "veritable discursive explosion ... around the concept of "identity"" as per English sociologist Stuart Hall. 1


We reconsider the recently proposed nonlinear quantum electrodynamics effect of quantum reflection of photons off an inhomogeneous strong-field region. We present new results for strong fields varying both in space and time. While such configurations can give rise to new effects such as frequency mixing, estimated reflection rates based on previous one-dimensional studies are corroborated. On a conceptual level, we critically re-examine the validity regime of the conventional locally-constant-field approximation and identify kinematic configurations which can be treated reliably. Our results further underline the discovery potential of quantum reflection as a new signature of the nonlinearity of the quantum vacuum.


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The security issue for the next generation optical network which realizes Cloud Computing System Service with data center" is urgent problem. In such a network, the encryption by physical layer which provide super security and small delay should be employed. It must provide, however, very high speed encryption because the basic link is operated at 2.5 Gbit/sec or 10 Gbit/sec. The quantum stream cipher by Yuen-2000 protocol (Y-00) is a completely new type random cipher so called Gauss-Yuen random cipher, which can break the Shannon limit for the symmetric key cipher. We develop such a cipher which has good balance of the security, speed and cost performance. In SPIE conference on quantum communication and quantum imaging V, we reported a demonstration of 2.5 Gbit/sec system for the commercial link and proposed how to improve it to 10 Gbit/sec. This paper reports a demonstration of the Y-00 cipher system which works at 10 Gbit/sec. A transmission test in a laboratory is tried to get the basic data on what parameters are important to operate in the real commercial networks. In addition, we give some theoretical results on the security. It is clarified that the necessary condition to break the Shannon limit requires indeed the quantum phenomenon, and that the full information theoretically secure system is available in the satellite link application.


P208 Background: TAPIRSS is a randomized, double-blind, multicenter pilot trial designed to study the efficacy of triflusal for the prevention of secondary ischemic stroke conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Triflusal is an antiplatelet agent structurally related to aspirin. Methods and Results: From October 1996 to October 1999 patients were randomized to group #1 (aspirin therapy, 325 mg/daily) or group #2 (triflusal, 600 mg/daily). All patients had experienced either an ischemic stroke (80.9%) or a transient ischemic attack within 6 months prior to randomization. Patients were treated for a median of 586 days. Data for 429 patients were analyzed. Primary endpoints were: cardiovascular death 3.7%(#1)/2.3%(#2)[OR=1.6]; cerebral ischemic infarction 7.4%(#1)/8.0%(#2)[OR=0.92]; non-fatal myocardial infarction 2.3%(#1)/1.9%(#2)[OR=1.24];severe hemorrhage any kind 3.2%(#1)/0.5%(#2)[OR=7.1][p=0.068]. Secondary endpoints were: non-vascular death 2.4%(#1)/0.5%(#2)[OR=5.02]; non-severe hemorrhage 6.0%(#1)/2.3%(#2)[OR=2.66][p=0.058]; systemic thromboembolism 0.9%(#1)/1.4%(#2)[OR=0.65]. Aggregate analysis of primary endpoints showed no significant differences between aspirin and triflusal. Aggregate analysis of secondary enpoints showed a significant difference in favor of triflusal [p=0.038]. Analysis of the combination severe and non-severe hemorrhage showed a significantly reduced incidence of hemorrhagic events with triflusal [8.3%(#1)/2.8%(#2), p=0.013]. Dyspepsia and gastrointestinal discomfort were the most common adverse events in the triflusal group. Conclusions: Triflusal shows a protective effect similar to aspirin in the prevention of secondary ischemic stroke with a lesser risk of hemorrhagic complications. Also, triflusal may be safe for the primary prevention of ischemic stroke.


A segmented monopole antenna is proposed for operation at 2.44 GHz with total length of one-half wavelength. The antenna segments are interconnected by lumped reactances that are optimized to tune the monopole for either single-tuned or double-tuned performance. The antenna is analyzed as a transmitter in free space above an infinite ground plane using a method-of-moments solver. The single-tuned antenna design demonstrates a simulated impedance bandwidth of 8.5% with peak directivity of 7.7 dBi, while the double-tuned design shows an impedance bandwidth of 33.4% with peak directivity of 7.1 dBi.


Purpose: To investigate a two‐dimensional Shift‐And‐Add algorithm for three‐dimensional digital breast tomosynthsis reconstruction to correct for defects existing in the traditional Shift‐And‐Add algorithm that calculates only one‐dimensional shift amount along the axis of x‐ray tube's motion. Method and Materials: With the traditional Shift‐And‐Add (SAA) algorithm for breast tomosynthesisreconstruction, shift amounts for each projection plane are calculated only along the axis of x‐ray tube's movement. As a result, small objects such as microcalcifications appear slightly blurred in the direction perpendicular to the direction of tube motion. In this project, a two‐dimensional SAA method was developed to correct for this phenomenon. Shift amounts for every pixel location on each reconstruction plane were computed, taking into account the 2D arc projection location of reconstructed objects in each plane. Bilinear interpolation was used for partial pixel locations. Impulses at different 3‐D locations were simulated and a few human subject tomosynthesissequences were acquired for investigation. Results: Two‐dimensional SAA demonstrated the improvement in the direction that is perpendicular to the tube motion direction. For human subjects, the appearance of calcifications from 2D SAA was sharper than traditional SAA at the direction orthogonal to the tube motion direction. The out‐of‐plane artifacts of calcifications changed from curved to be straight. Conclusion: Two‐dimensional SAA is an effective method to reconstruct 3D tomosynthesisimages of the breast. Compared with the traditional SAA, the new method corrects for 2D shift amounts coming from the isocentric tube motion. This provides more accurate and reliable results compared with other SAA algorithms. Conflict of Interest: Research sponsored in part by a research grant from Siemens Medical Solutions.


Abstract The genus Andrevella (Acari: Erythraeidae) is recorded for the first time from Iran. Andrevella persiangulfia sp. nov., represented by a larva collected as free-living on soil on a Persian Gulf beach is described. It is the second species of this little known genus. A modified generic diagnosis of Andrevella is provided.


The article describes the dynamics of the use of information technology companies in Russia, proved their importance for effective economic development. From the standpoint of the functioning of IT-organization to identify the problems organization of production and management, for the partial reparation which an algorithm efficiency analysis, development and implementation of kaizen proposals for enterprises in the sphere of web-technologies of small towns of the Rostov region.


Abstract This article argues for understanding the nineteenth-century, evangelical DRC as an outward looking church, firmly positioned within the Protestant Atlantic. Not only were DRC ministers and congregations in contact with clergy, missionaries, and converts in Africa, Europe, and North America, but they drew inspiration from events and movements abroad. More specifically, this article focuses on a series of revivals which swept the DRC in 1860, 1874, and 1875, fundamentally transforming Dutch-Afrikaners' religious experience. Although the subject of specifically local forces, this revivalist movement was encouraged by ministers who had witnessed and read about similar revivals abroad. As a result, revivalism offers a way of writing a history of the nineteenth-century DRC which is attentive both to its positions within the Cape Colony as well as the wider Protestant Atlantic. In doing so, this article contributes to a growing body of scholarship which seeks to position Dutch-Afrikaners' social and cultural worlds within wider contexts, working against arguments that the DRC and its members – most of whom were Dutch-Afrikaans – existed in a state of intellectual isolation.


Thepresent thrust istodevelop aBroadband Intelligent network system whichisabletosustain alarge numberofusersanda varying amountofdatawhile maintaining highavailability ofresources andacceptable performance. In sucha scenario, Scalability isan important aspect. Inthis paperweconsider theimpact of increasing thenumberofusers supported byanetwork nodeand showthatthenetworkisscalable. Also Congestion Control isnecessary toprotect theBroadband Service Control Point during overload situations. Existing algorithms do notoperate optimally withrespect to important performance criteria suchasresponsiveness, efficiency andfairness. Herewe trytoidentify their shortcomings andpropose fewenhancements. We also showthattheproposed Enhanced call-gapping algorithm performs consistently better thantheexisting Automatic Call-gapping algorithm intermsofabove-mentioned criteria. Theeffectiveness ofthis analysis areshownusing NS-2simulator.


It is of interest that in the present case Nelson's treponemal immobilization test was negative, as this test is claimed to differentiate between true and biological false-positive Wassermann reactions. Nelson et al. (1950) state that the treponemal immobilizing antibody does not occur in the serum of normal persons or of those suffering from nontreponemal diseases. They have shown that of 57 lepers seropositive by standard tests (76% of those tested), 47 were negative with the treponemal immobilizing test. The incidence of positive reactions with the latter test was approximately the expected incidence of syphilis in the social and socio-economic groups from which the lepers were drawn. It is feasible that our patient contracted leprosy as a result of prolonged contact with coloured troops.


Water might be contaminated by different metal ions, resulting in different water-borne diseases in human and aquatic life. This research study aimed at synthesizing the diethylamine functionalized calix[4]arene based silica (DFCS) resin for the effective removal of heavy metals such as Cd2+, Pb2+, and Hg2+ from water. The DFCS resin was characterized using the FTIR spectroscopy and SEM techniques. The efficiency of the DFCS resin for the removal of metal ions was evaluated by performing equilibrium studies under the optimized conditions. Moreover, the experimental data were subjected to isotherm models; however, the Freundlich model was best-fit one as compared to the Langmuir model. The energy calculated from the D-R model was 10.3, 9.7 and 9.2 KJ/mol for Cd2+, Pb2+, and Hg2+,respectively, suggesting that the ion exchange process is involved. The thermodynamic values revealed that the reaction is spontaneous and exothermic, following the pseudo second-order kinetic model equation.


The article presents the classification of instruments for measuring distances, built-tion on the generality of the method of measuring a variable parameter in the device. Given comparative characteristics of the technical capabilities of these systems.


This paper briefly expatiated the basic method of solid modeling using AutoCAD 2006, and discussed teaching method of solid modeling which referred to some practical teaching cases.


This paper aims to conduct a study of the problems associated with the wear of the needles and fuel injection nozzles utilized in diesel engines. The wear found on the needles is mainly associated to impurities in the fuel oil and microcavitation occurred due to high pressure in the phase of the air compression for combustion of the combustible fluid. These pressures associated with the temperature and the fluid velocity results in the occurrence of vaporization, which releases shock waves that cause damage to the affected surface. The impurities solid particles from the fuel oil cause problems inside the nozzles as obstruction of the holes and wear on the needle tip and nozzle seat surface. These failures affect in the atomization of the fuel, since the deterioration of the internal passages of the nozzles interferes in the spray formation and in the end passage of the fluid. For the execution of this study it will be used digital microscopic analysis in specimens that suffered damage, in order to investigate the effects of fuel property, and the temperature conditions and pressure in the formation of the wear on the needles and injector nozzle.


This article presents conceptual results from the Interfaculty Research Cooperation "Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies" at the University of Bern. Since 2018, researchers from various academic disciplines—theology, psychology, law, religious studies, social anthropology, jewish studies, islamic studies, political sciences, history, communication studies, philosophy, gender studies and german studies—have been comparatively investigating past and present conflicts with religious dimensions.


No sport enjoys more popularity in the USA than football. However, not every college can fill their stadium. This study examined spectator typology in relationship to college football attendance. Four typologies emerged as well as a chronology of expectations for game events. Presented is PUNT a sport marketing strategy that can be an integral component of a marketing campaign to increase football game attendance.


Ocean waves can generally increase the initial dilution of produced water and
subsequently affect the ecological risk. To study the wave effects on ecological risk, a
probabilistic based buoyant jet dispersion model has been in tegrated with risk analysis
software. @ RISK, to assess ecological risk for a case corresponding to published
parameters for the White Rose field, off west coast of Canada. The ecological risks on
sheepshead minnows were evaluated by conducting Monte Carlo simulation for four
different discharge scenarios. The Hazard Quotients (HQs) method was used to
characterize the risk. Contour plots of probability distributions of (HQs) from those four
discharge scenarios were compared and discussed. The wave effects were identified
by comparison of the wave and no wave simulations.


In recent years, birth order has received particular emphasis in the study of structures and relationship in the families of schizophrenics. Several studies evidenced a higher risk of morbidity in firstborn children. The present research intends to verify the nature of this relationship in Brazil. One hundred fifty patients (69 men and 81 women), diagnosed as schizophrenics, were studied. The patients were interviewed and given a questionnaire on personal data. Non-schizophrenic, psychiatric patients were used as controls: 70 male alcoholics and 29 female, severe neurotics, all institutionalized. No significant difference was found as to birth order. Among males, 35,7% of the alcoholics are first borns, as against 24,6% of the schizophrenics; among females, the proportions were 17,2% and 8,6% for the neurotic and schizophrenic patients, respectively. There was, however, highly significant effect with respect to the sex of the preceding sibling. For schizophrenics, the sibling which precedes the patient in the birth order is, in most cases, of the opposite sex (68,2% for the males and 71,6% for the females). The converse was observed among the controle subjects; 55,7% of the male alcoholics are preceded by a brother and only 8,6% by a sister; of the female neurotic, 62,1% are preceded by a sister and 20,7% by a brother. According to these surprising results, it is not birth order which plaus a pathogenic role, but rather the relation to the preceding sibling of the opposite sex. Further study should confirm the specificity of this family relationship and analyse its pathogenic effect in the etiology of schizophrenia. 29 female, severe neurotics, all institutionalized. No significant difference was found as to birth order. Among males, 35,7% of the alcoholics are first borns, as against 24,6% of the schizophrenics; among females, the proportions were 17,2% and 8,6% for the neurotic and schizophrenic patients, respectively. There was, however, highly significant effect with respect to the sex of the preceding sibling. For schizophrenics, the sibling which precedes the patient in the birth order is, in most cases, of the opposite sex (68,2% for the males and 71,6% for the females). The converse was observed among the controle subjects; 55,7% of the male alcoholics are preceded by a brother and only 8,6% by a sister; of the female neurotic, 62,1% are preceded by a sister and 20,7% by a brother. According to these surprising results, it is not birth order which plaus a pathogenic role, but rather the relation to the preceding sibling of the opposite sex. Further study should confirm the specificity of this family relationship and analyse its pathogenic effect in the etiology of schizophrenia.


This thesis outlines a new way of presenting the theory of canonic systems, including a distinction (for methodic reasons) between simple canonic systems and general canonic systems, and probes a series of results on hierarchies of canonic systems. After a brief summary of Doyle''s results on a partial hierarchy of canonic systems, a new hierarchy is developed (Chapter II) which relates the general canonic systems not only to all 4 types of formal grammars defined by Chomsky but also to any class of formal grammars definable in terms of productions. It is also shown (Chapter III) that all attempts to define a mathematical system which exactly corresponds to the recursive sets are necessarily fruitless. Doyle''s work on how to define "non-contracting canonic systems with predicates of degree 2" (NCST) is continued, arriving at a workable definition which permits us to prove [NCST] = [Type 1] (Chapter IV), a conjecture put forth at the III''d Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. This results transforms Doyle''s hierarchy from "the union of two half-hierarchies and a dangling term (the NCST)" into a complete hierarchy of canonic systems (all 4 types represented). However, this hierarchy is heterogeneous: canonic systems corresponding to grammars of types 3 and 2 use only predicates of degree 1, while canonic systems corresponding to grammars of types 1 and 0 use also predicates of degree 2; moreover, for all types of grammars except for context-sensitive grammars the canonic systems turned out to be simple. Schematically, the form of this hierarchy may be summarized as S1 S1 G2 S2 (for types 3,2,1,0). We first show (Chapter V) how to get a hierarchy of simple canonic systems, S1 S1 S2 S2, using as base Doyle''s hierarchy, and then transform it into S1 S1 S2 S1. Since this hierarchy does not seem to lend itself to further "homogenization," we shall use the hierarchy of Chapter II to obtain a hierarchy of simple canonic system with predicates of degree 1: S1 S1 S1 S1. Several new classes of canonic systems (non-cross referencing, non-inserting, and pure canonic systems) are introduced in Chapter VI, where their properties are explored, and a classification schema and several hierarchies are developed.


In this paper, the probability of a crane ship lifting load system working safely under given conditions is calculated. First, by using Lagrange's equations, we derived the motion equations of the lifting load system, from which the nonlinear responses of the crane ship and the lifting load system under random sea wave load in time domain are achieved. Their maximum are used to calculate the required thresholds of angular displacement according to the given confirmation criteria. By modal analysis, we obtained its random response spectrums, which are analyzed by using probability statistics. The analysis resulted in the variances of the angular displacement and that of the angular velocity. Finally, the variances are used to analyze the dynamic reliability of the lifting load system according to the first-passage failure criterion.


Effects of time management of educated working housewives on their marital satisfaction was investigated in this study. Among others was the determination of effective time management on working wives' family satisfaction. A total of 435 working women were selected through the stratified random procedure with the survey method. Data collected were analysed using time management techniques and marital satisfaction. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) IBM version 23. Statistical procedure used included frequencies and percentages. Inferential statistics, Spearman rho correlation procedure along with multinomial logistic regression were used to determine the relationship between time management and marital satisfaction along with satisfaction in the family at a fixed probability level of 0.05. Result of the analysis revealed that effective time management is a significant factor of marital and family satisfaction of working wives in the study area. Based on the findings, it was recommended that working wives should adopt measures that would enable them to effectively reduce time spent on routine activities through the use of technological devices where economic power allows as a way of increasing leisure time and happiness for the family.


Background. Ischemic strokes account for 87% of all strokes in the United States. We studied ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73), an ectoenzyme present on brain tissue and leukocytes, which we have shown t...


The invention relates to a two-stage quake-proof design method of a multilayered frame in a high-violence area. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: firstly, carrying out structural arrangement and calculation according to the maximum value (alpha1max) of a horizontal earthquake influence coefficient of a site assessment report, and further carrying out correspondingly deformation calculation under small quake and reinforcing bar arrangement of frame beams; and then, recalculating structural internal force under the action of small quake according to the horizontal earthquake influence coefficient maximum value (alpha2max which is larger than the alpha1max) provided by the quake-proof specification aiming at the model and using a calculation result for reinforcing bar arrangement of frame columns. By greatly arranging beam hinges to fully consume energy and arranging column hinges with good structural ductility and strong energy-consuming capability later in an overthrust process, the frame structure designed in the invention has obviously superior quake-proof performance than a frame structure designed by using a conventional design method, also reduces the component size, effectively ensures a delay energy-consuming mechanism of the frame structure for realizing strong columns and weak beams and has good economy.


The main pumping for the vacuum system of the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider, at present under construction in the Geneva area, will be achieved by a linear getter pump. In contrast to the usual operating conditions of nonevaporable getter (NEG) pumps, which consist of maintaining the pump hot to continuously diffuse into the getter bulk the gases adsorbed on its surface, the LEP pump will be kept at ambient temperature and heated only intermittently. This difference has required a study on the behavior of a NEG pump under these unusual operating conditions, which result in a progressive reduction of pumping speed with increasing quantity of the gas adsorbed. It was found that the pumping speed reduction may be described in terms of a progressive saturation of the NEG surface inside the cracks and porosities which are present in the getter film thickness.


Unit cell homogenization techniques are applied on multiple length scales to compute the macroscopic hyperelastic stiffness characteristics of textile-reinforced polymer matrix composites. On the smallest scale (~50μm) the effective transversely isotropic properties of tows (or yarns) are computed based on both fiber and matrix properties. These position-dependent transversely isotropic effective yarn properties are then incorporated into a full textile unit cell model and the nonlinear effective stiffness properties of the textile composite are computed and discussed.


The paper sets foot on current situation of Chinese engineering talents cultivation and management,analyses the emerging new features and problems in the process of cultivating reformation,and brings forward an improvement on talent cultivation pattern based on informationization system and work flow.Bring the data processing and interactive teaching into the cultivation pattern.The project has put into effect and achieved a prominent result.


We introduce a parametrized notion of genericity for Delaunay triangulations which, in particular, implies that the Delaunay simplices of δ-generic point sets are thick. Equipped with this notion, we study the stability of Delaunay triangulations under perturbations of the metric and of the vertex positions. We quantify the magnitude of the perturbations under which the Delaunay triangulation remains unchanged.


The impact and hazards of corrosion on the buried pipelines were studied through the analysis of geographical conditions of the plant site of LP continuous catalytic reforming unit.The possible corrosion causes of buried pipelines were analyzed by investigation and expert study.The root causes of corrosion were studied in respect of metal factor,soil factor,fatigue factor,erosion corrosion factor,etc,and specific corrosion mitigation measures were proposed for each factor such as upgrading of pipe materials,strengthening of coating protection and cathodic protection,application of surface hardening and prevention of fatigue corrosion,etc.The practice showed that the conditions of each unit,the causes of corrosion,and corrosion mechanism must be known before taking effective measures for specific conditions.A detailed description is provided from material selection in design to changing of covering layer as well as prevention of fatigue corrosion etc.


Echinococcosis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects more than 1 million people, manifested mostly as cystic or alveolar echinococcosis (CE or AE, respectively) [...]


Abstract Main parameters polluting of technological wastewater (dregs from decantation and thicken of the wort) from yeast industry are: nitrogen, potassium and COD. Such wastewater are utilized mostly on agricultural fields. Unfortunately, these fields can only accept a limited amount of wastes. The basic parameter limiting there the amount of wastewater is nitrogen. When capacity of the production is large sewages are often pretreated at an evaporator station. However, due to the fairly high running costs of the evaporator station currently such a solution is applied only to a small amount of wastes (just to meet legal requirements). Replacement of the earth gas with a biomass being supplied to the evaporator station from the agricultural fields will both allow to maintain the carbon dioxide emission level and enable the production growth. Moreover, the biomass growing on the agricultural fields being fertilized with the wastewater coming from the yeast production allows consequently to utilize the greater volume of wastewater. Theoretically, the possible increase in the yeasts production, with maintaining the carbon dioxide emission level, can reach even 70%. Therefore, the solution presented in this paper combines both intensification of the yeasts production and maintaining the carbon dioxide emission level.


This is an impassioned discussion which looks at the contradictory trends of the last two decades in which one movement advocates fundamental change as the only way to avoid the complete collapse of industrial societies, and the other insists that the continuing of existing forms of social and economic organization offers the best, indeed only, hope for humanity. The authors argue that this peculiar tension has determined the atmosphere of immobilism in which we live, and that the worlds of the two consciousnesses cannot be brought together.


Most of the current network poetry researchers refer to a common phenomenon of poetry,quack.This results from the scholars' sensitivity.Further,"quack" has become a difficult topic and important phenomenon of the poetry.This paper analyzes the definition and characterization in "poetry arena",expecting a greater in-depth analysis.


The process of verifying a new microprocessor is a major problem for the computer industry. Currently, architects design processors to be fast, power-efficient, and reliable. However, architects do not quantify the impact of these design decisions on the effort required to verify them, potentially increasing the time to market. We propose designing processors with formal verifiability as a first-class design constraint. Using Cadence SMV, a composite formal verification tool that combines model checking and theorem proving, we explore several aspects of processor design, including caches, TLBs, pipeline depth, ALUs, and bypass logic. We show that subtle differences in design decisions can lead to large differences in required verification effort.


Henry Feingold is a distinguished historian of American Jewry who has contributed much to the understanding of American Jewish politics, particularly in the era of the Holocaust. In his latest book, American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion, he searches "for the sources of... [American Jewish political] engagement in the political culture of American Jewry," arguing that it was a particular political stance—namely liberalism—that gave American Jews their "distinct place in national politics" (ix). Feingold posits three major concerns at the heart of American Jewish liberalism: the belief that the "role of government is to improve the lot of its citizenry" (x); Zionism and Israel; and the Holocaust. These concerns relate to each other in complex and sometimes contradictory ways as they influence Jewish political belief and behavior. He presents his analysis in a series of interlocking essayistic chapters on each of these elements of political culture. As Feingold astutely notes, having a common political culture means that even an individualistic Jewish voter who casts her ballot based on careful consideration of the issues and candidates will often end up voting similarly to the majority of other Jewish voters, despite having no intention to do so or even consciousness of group affiliation. And more often than not, the inclination of that voter is toward positions and politicians that can be defined as liberal. The sources of that liberalism, according to Feingold, are various, reaching back at least to the American colonial seventeenth century, and combining elements drawn from the Enlightenment, Jeffersonian democracy, immigrant socialism, and elsewhere. While for the most part Feingold grounds American Jewish liberalism in modern historical experience, he sometimes extends its roots even further back in "exilic history" (x), in Halakhah, or in a transhistorical religious impulse toward "tikkun olam" (17). Whether drawing from a traditional interest in Tzedakah and communal responsibility for social welfare, or from an experience of proletarianization, early twentieth-century Jewish political culture had a strong social democratic component. According to Feingold, Jewish social democracy was brought into the orbit of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party first by New York governor Al Smith, and then by Franklin Roosevelt. Indeed, the New Deal—with its emphasis on "government as enabler, as justice seeker, as arbiter between conflicting interests, and, when necessary, as provider" (118)—resonated deeply with Jewish political culture. This, combined with FDR's internationalism and openness to Jewish participation in government, wedded the Jews to the New Deal and by extension to the Democratic Party. Over time, the definition of liberalism changed, as did the class status of most members of the Jewish community. Working-class social democracy gave way to middle-class cosmopolitanism and rights-based social liberalism based in a high level of education. Book Reviews