Abstract— High‐resolution displays are now needed for mobile equipment, not only for cell phones but for other devices such as ultra‐mobile PCs (UMPCs) and mobile Internet protocol televisions (IPTVs). A new low‐cost and low‐power driving method for high‐resolution in‐plane‐switching (IPS) liquid‐crystal displays (LCDs) on a low‐temperature polycrystalline‐silicon (LTPS) thin‐film‐transistor (TFT) platform has been developed. Because this method drives common electrodes separated by each line, it can reduce inversion frequency, unlike "dot‐inversion" or "column‐inversion" methods. On the other hand, it was found that horizontal smear is an obstacle to achieve this method. To solve this problem, techniques to optimize the timing of RGB time‐sharing are proposed. A 5‐in. WXGA (1366 × 768) prototype using the new driving method was fabricated, and it was found that the horizontal smear is less than ±1% of the luminance and that the power consumption of the display discharge and charge is 0.245 W.


Cordylomyia semicircula sp.nov,collected from China,is described as new to science.The type specimen is deposited in the Department of Biology,Nankai University,Tian-jin,China.


The economic losses and deaths caused by natural disasters are growing worldwide. Earthquake, which can be considered the most damaging natural disaster, do not occur in Brazil; In fact, flood is the most common disaster, although landslides are responsible for disasters with the most victims and economic losses. The tropical climate contributes to forming thick soils and heavy rainstorms, which is why landslide disasters are very common in countries such as Brazil.


Objective To study the protective effect and mechanism of breviscapine on rat cerebral damage after ischemia-reperfusion.Methods 40 male Wistar rats were divided into five groups: sham group,I-R group,MgSO4 treatment group,breviscapine treatment group Ⅰ and Ⅱ.The brain artery was ligated and then infused.Apoptosis of brain cells and changes of Fas positive cells was identified by TUNEL method and immunohistochemical method respectively.Results ① Apoptosis of neurons cells in brain was reduced: Compared with I-R group,MgSO4 group,Bre Ⅰ group and Bre Ⅱ group showed lower hippocampus apoptosis neurons / hippocampal neurons 23 hrs after ischemia-reperfusion,and Bre group was lower in apoptosis neurons than MgSO4 group,the difference was significant.② The number of Fas positive cells in cerebral was reduced: Compared with I-R group,MgSO4 group,Bre Ⅰ group and Bre Ⅱ group were lower in hippocampus Fas-positive neurons / hippocampal neurons 23 hrs after ischemia-reperfusion,and Bre group was lower than MgSO4 group in apoptosis,the difference was significant.Conclusion Breviscapine could significantly protect the brain from ischemia reperfusion brain injury,what might be related to inhibition of Fas protein expression.Its effect was better than MgSO4.


The theory and method of system integration are discussed in this paper, including the concept, steps of system integration, connection, selection of network system and so on. The theories, standards and characteristics of some popular network technique are introduced. It may be useful for a enterprise to build up its network.Finally, how to use TCP/IP protocol to realize network interconnection is discussed.


Catharanthus roseus is a shrub from the Apocynaceae family, which is used in the treatment of many diseases including hypertension. The triphytochemistry of the aqueous extract of the leaves of this plant revealed the presence of numerous molecules including alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins and polyterpenes. The present study showed that the consumption of 60% fructose by rats of the wistar strain during the first ten days of the experiment, very significantly increased the activities of catalase and malondialdehyde in the kidney and heart, then reduced them by highly significant at the end of the experiment. On the other hand, the activities of superoxide dismutase in the kidney and heart, and of nitric oxide in the aorta, increased significantly during the first two weeks before gradually decreasing until the end of the experiment. Treatment of 60% fructose-induced hypertension with aqueous extract of Catharanthus roseus leaves increased serum levels of catalase, superoxide dismutase, malondialdehyde, kidney and heart, and oxide nitric in the aorta. This increase was observed at doses ranging from 200 to 1000 mg/kg bw compared to the batch of patients treated. Compared to nifedipine and metformin, the aqueous extract of the leaves of Catharanthus roseus appears to have interesting antioxidant activity implicated in the treatment of hypertension induced by fructose.


In another product of German Grundlichkeit, Martin Faber shows himself to be a more than thorough historian. This study aims to provide an exhaustive survey of all protectorates held by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V (1605–1621). It is part of Professor Wolfgang Reinhard's micro-politics project, which aims to research Paul V's papacy on a minute level to unearth the explanation for the remarkable success the Borghese family had as a papal dynasty. This micro-political approach is not only used to study Scipione's protectorates, but covers many aspects of papal foreign politics and internal power-wielding during Paul's reign. Faber is able to refer to many colleagues who have studied the same era, especially Birgit Emich who has recently studied the workings of the bureaucracy under Paul V. Faber's aims are modest. He directs our attention to the protectorates and the role they played in the system of the Roman Curia. He views the protectorates from the viewpoint of the protector: what did it mean for a cardinal to hold a protectorate? How did he acquire one? What activity was expected of him? And how intensively did he busy himself with it? These questions are answered with admirable accuracy. Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, is chosen as a typical protector during Paul V's papacy. The protectorates he held were many and diverse. Faber discusses all of them and orders them into three categories: protectorates of religious orders, of nations and cities, and of pious foundations (luogi pii). The above questions are asked of each category, though the answers are very different. Not only because of the differences in quantity and quality of source material at his disposal, but also because the protectorates were so different in nature that they can hardly be compared. In Loreto, where Borghese protected the luogo pio of the Holy House, he wielded spiritual and worldly power, and was virtually governor. As protector of the Holy Roman Empire he was totally ineffectual though, always caught


Aim: Excessive use of antimicrobials has resulted in broad antimicrobial resistances in bacteria as well as problems in their infection treatments, which lead to increased case mortalities and medical costs. One of the alternative treatments includes use of bacteriophages. Therefore, the major aim of the current study was to isolate bacteriophages from sewages on bacteria from biological samples to potentially use in infections. Materials & methods: Urban wastewater samples were used to isolate bacteriophages on streptococcal isolates. Bacteriophages were characterized using phenotypic and genotypic methods. Results: Five bacteriophages were isolated on Streptococcus agalactiae, mostly belonging to Caudovirales order. Conclusion: As emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria has created medical problems, identification of novel bacteriophages for use in infection treatments seems an appropriate solution.


This article describes differential diagnosis of personality states and evil spirits. The Apostle Paul and Satanic High Priest, Anton LaVey, each instructed followers to engage the Holy Spirit or the Powers of Darkness, respectively, in spiritual warfare. We are all involved in the struggle, particularly when we aid satanic ritual abuse (SRA) survivors. Confusion surrounds SRA; the interrelatedness of satanic ritual abuse, multiple personality disorder, and spiritual warfare adds to the confusion. Both the psychological and spiritual realms are considered important for healing and should be carried out together. Evil spirits are presented as oppressive supernatural states, not as personality states. Treatment may require unifying personalities and casting out evil spirits. A diagnostic category is proposed: Oppressive Supernatural States Disorder, with identifying guidelines. The confusion about SRA may diminish if this category leads to improved diagnosis and treatment.


Using the analogy of the double-slit experiment developed by Young and using interferometric technique developed by Chalmers, we built an interferometric arrangement that can analyze local defects of an optical surface. With a reflective spatial light modulator (RSLM) controlled by a PC, two apertures are open each time, and the apertures became as secondary light sources, producing interference pattern for specific zones for the surface under test. The interference pattern is observed, and storage into a computer by using a CCD camera. Finally the results are compared with the results obtained using a Fizeau commercial interferometer.


A control strategy is described for globally stabilizing ANCBI linear plants subject to input constraints in the presence of persistent arbitrarily large but bounded disturbances. Unlike the disturbance-free case, the presence of persistent disturbances imposes critical structural conditions on the disturbance-to-state map of the system in order to achieve global internal asymptotic and global external BIBO finitegain stability. The proposed technique is based on a weaker concept of robust positive invariance, referred to as positive quasid-invariance, which allows the achievement of global results more directly than other concepts of robust positive invariance.


This dissertation is dealing with marketing communication in LINEA NIVNICE, joint-stock company, which belongs among the best producer of beverages in Czech Republic. In the first part of the dissertation are elaborated theoretical findings about marketing communication and its importance for companies in present setting. The second part is focused on particular company LINEA NIVNICE, joint-stock company, its production range of goods, the most significant customers and hereafter is an elaborated analysis of internal marketing communication in this company. Source materials were gathered on the basis of questionnaires. Employees of LINEA NIVNICE, joint-stock company, were used as a selective group. Tagret of this analysis was to find out the state of present marketing communication, drawbacks and options for the improvement. I have processed, according to these analysis results, a suggestion leading to reenginnering of internal marketing communication in the company.


This paper discusses the control problems of singular linear time-invariant delay systems with uncertainties. A new adaptive variable structure control strategy is given by Lyapunov stability theory. The invariance of sliding mode is proved in the circumstances of the external disturbance and parameter perturbation with matching conditions. Through memory and memoryless of the linear state feedback, the control strategy ensure that system reaches sliding mode in finite time and the closed-loop system is global asymptotic stable. Simulation results further show that the strategy is feasible and effective.


Arsenic exposure from drinking water has been linked to subclinical and clinical endpoints of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, no large-scale studies have evaluated whether the cardiovascular...


Information management will be a key to improving farm practices in the coming decades. It makes sense to organize farm information in spatial databases because agricultural systems are inherently spatial. Biological and physical aspects of agricultural systems create spatial heterogeneity, and as a result, patchiness is the rule in the occurrence and distribution of plant pathogens and disease (3). Plant disease management practices can be improved by putting epidemiological information in the same format as other farm information using a geographic information system (GIS). A GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying data referenced by geographic coordinates (45). GIS can now be installed on any recent model desktop computer (e.g., a Pentium personal computer with at least 32 MB of RAM is adequate for most applications) and does not require an in-depth understanding of the statistical and mathematical basis of the technology. The large commercial push toward precision farming is based on combining GIS with sophisticated hardware for geographically referenced yield data and variable rate applications of fertilizers and other farm chemicals. GIS can be adapted to any size operation, and data can be incorporated at any scale from a single field to an agricultural region. Many problems should be studied at more than one scale. Part of the art of GIS database development is to decide what scale to use and which kinds of information to include at each scale. The ability of government institutions, the nation's agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and private enterprise to provide spatially referenced information will open the way to farmers, pest control advisors, extension workers, and others to evaluate plant disease problems in a spatial context. New tools, including global positioning systems (GPS) and geostatistics, are available to use in connection with GIS. While these tools can be used at any scale, our efforts have been at the regional scale in generally arid irrigated agricultural areas. We focus on spatial relationships of landscape features that interact with the progress of an epidemic to refine cultural management strategies for plant disease control. Examples from this work will be used to illustrate the application of GPS, GIS, and geostatistics following a general


In 2008 the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its guidelines on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). I had been on a "panel of experts" and was appointe...


The automatic person re-identification (re-id) problem resides in matching an unknown person image to a database of previously labeled images of people. Among several issues to cope with this research field, person re-id has to deal with person appearance and environment variations. As such, discriminative features to represent a person identity must be robust regardless those variations. Comparison among two image features is commonly accomplished by distance metrics. Although features and distance metrics can be handcrafted or trainable, the latter type has demonstrated more potential to breakthroughs in achieving state-of-the-art performance over public data sets. A recent paradigm that allows to work with trainable features is deep learning, which aims at learning features directly from raw image data. Although deep learning has recently achieved significant improvements in person re-identification, found on some few recent works, there is still room for learning strategies, which can be exploited to increase the current state-of-the-art performance. In this work a novel deep learning strategy is proposed, called here as coarse-to-fine learning (CFL), as well as a novel type of feature, called convolutional covariance features (CCF), for person re-identification. CFL is based on the human learning process. The core of CFL is a framework conceived to perform a cascade network training, learning person image features from generic-to-specific concepts about a person. Each network is comprised of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a deep belief network denoising autoenconder (DBN-DAE). The CNN is responsible to learn local features, while the DBN-DAE learns global features, robust to illumination changing, certain image deformations, horizontal mirroring and image blurring. After extracting the convolutional features via CFL, those ones are then wrapped in covariance matrices, composing the CCF. CCF and flat features were combined to improve the performance of person re-identification in comparison with component features. The performance of the proposed framework was assessed comparatively against 18 state-of-the-art methods by using public data sets (VIPeR, i-LIDS, CUHK01 and CUHK03), cumulative matching characteristic curves and top ranking references. After a thorough analysis, our proposed framework demonstrated a superior performance.


Responsive photonic materials are of great interest owing to their broad applications that are relevant to the controlling of colors. Being efficient and inexpensive, colloidal self-assembly has been widely studied for the fabrication of photonic crystal structures, especially for applications that can tolerate defects. The ideal case is to fix individual magnetic particle chains, which will produce the smallest possible photonic nanostructures that can effectively diffract at visible spectrum.


Software effort and cost estimation has turned out to be the major challenge in IT industries. In this paper, different software effort and cost estimation techniques like algorithmic methods, expert judgment, analogy based estimation and soft computing methods and their various aspects are discussed. All these techniques are discussed in detailed manner in this paper. Software effort estimation is followed by cost assessment that is useful for both customers and developers. Effort estimation is further converted into cost estimation by converting effort/ person per month into dollars. In this paper we made a comparison of various software effort estimation techniques on the basis of their input, output, biasness, pros, cons type of method. No single model is good or best for effort estimation we can choose a method based on the requirements and conditions of our system to get good results. We can use the combination of two or more different techniques for better estimation results.


HTML5 is very much a work in progress, and that is part of its appeal as the environment continues to evolve. The ideas in HTML5 evolved over the years as browsers competed. Various libraries, such as AJAX and JQuery, were written to give programmers the ability to take advantage of the new features despite the differences in the capabilities of each browser.


It seems odd these days for a young graduate student to suggest a dissertation project which does not include a multimethod research design. The multi-method movement in political science has become central to the way we structure our research. A carefully executed multi-methods project is the holy grail to which many a scholar aspires. And yet, graduate students have only limited advice in carrying out this kind of research. My goal in this article is to lay out the inner workings of a multi-method project. By presenting the components of my dissertation, which combined a large-N analysis of 589 districts in India with 15 months of archival research and elite interviews carried out in six case studies, I explore: (a) how a multi-method project is created and implemented, and (b) its potential pitfalls and payoffs. My project (Verghese 2012) examines the puzzle of why ethnic conflicts in multi-ethnic states revolve around one identity rather than another. So, for example, why do conflicts sometimes revolve around religion but at other times around language? What explains patterns of ethnic conflict in a multiethnic state? This is an important question for plural states around the world struggling to limit ethnic violence. I had chosen this research question in part because of important recent work published on ethnic violence in India (Brass 1997, 2003; Varshney 2002; Wilkinson 2004). While these books had advanced our knowledge of ethnic conflict in the country considerably, I was rather surprised that they all omitted a large potential explanatory variable: the legacy of British colonial rule. After all, India was the crown jewel of the British Empire, and the political science literature linking colonialism and contemporary ethnic violence is immense, much of it focused on African cases (Horowitz 1985; Laitin 1986; Young 1994; Mamdani 1996; Posner 2005). Furthermore, India presented a unique opportunity to study the impact of colonialism on ethnic conflict because only three-fourths of the population of the country ever came under direct colonial rule. These areas, known as provinces, were governed by British administrators. But the rest of the country remained under the control of independent native kings in territories called princely states. By comparing conflict outcomes across provinces and princely states, I hoped to isolate the effects of colonialism on ethnic conflict. But first: why use multi-methods in this project at all? I admit that my initial intentions were hardly honorable; I wanted to utilize multi-methods because that's what you were supposed to do, especially if you wanted to write a well-received dissertation. Luckily, I later came to realize that a project as broad as this would have suffered had it utilized merely one methodology. Imagine only a statistical analysis—you would instantly say, "But you never spent a day in the field or in the archives!" Likewise, imagine fieldwork in two case studies; you might here rightly ask: "But does the argument travel?" Multi-methods have achieved a place of prominence in political science research not because it is simply the newest fad, but because it allows researchers to examine questions in a more complete and exhaustive fashion. But the larger problem with combining methodologies was that the kind of work I really admired and wanted to do— comparative-historical analysis—was rarely married together with statistics.1 What interested me was colonialism in India. But how exactly did one go about combining, for instance, archival research on the colonial period with a regression analysis? The answer was not obvious to me. An especially vexing problem was collecting data. I quickly realized that finding reliable figures on ethnic conflict during the colonial period in India would be almost impossible, so I would have to restrict my statistical analysis to the contemporary (post-independence) period. However, there is no inherent contradiction between doing comparative-historical work and statistically-oriented research. I planned to run a statistical analysis of the broad pattern of ethnic conflict in contemporary India, but the comparative-historical analysis, on the other hand, would be situated within a number of targeted case studies, aimed at uncovering the mechanisms at work in producing specific violence outcomes. The two methodologies seemed complementary rather than conflicting, and together could help explain not only contemporary outcomes but also their historical causes.


An efficient and reusable catalyst was developed by loading palladium (Pd) nanoparticles on a ceramic membrane modified with a ZnO nano-coating. The microstructures of the as-prepared Pd-loaded ceramic membranes were characterized by FESEM, EDS, ICP, XPS and HRTEM. Their catalytic properties in liquid-phase p-nitrophenol reduction to p-aminophenol were evaluated. A comparative study was also made with the Pd nanoparticles deposited onto the ceramic membrane without any modification. The XPS and HRTEM results indicate that the ZnO coating can provide strong Pd–Zn interactions on the ceramic membrane, resulting in higher catalytic stability with similar catalytic activity as compared to that without modification. It was found that the leaching and agglomeration of Pd nanoparticles should be responsible for the deactivation of Pd-loaded ceramic membranes. This work would aid the development of membrane catalysts with higher catalytic performance.


The utility model discloses a reusable auxiliary turnover device for a large beam slab component. The reusable auxiliary turnover device comprises a flat plate, wherein the bottom of the flat plate is provided with at least a semicircular turning plate; the diameter edge of the turning plate is welded on the bottom of the flat plate; the symmetric axis of the turning plate is vertical to the flat plate; vertical plates and clamp plates are connected at two sides of the flat plate in sequence; screw holes are formed on the clamp plates; and clamping bolts which are matched with the screw holes are arranged in the screw holes. According to the reusable auxiliary turnover device, a bottom plate is fixed with an H-type component through adjusting the clamping bolts without point welding, so that no superfluous processing trails are existent on the component surface, and meanwhile the whole device is convenient to assemble and dissemble, therefore the purposes of practicability and convenience are achieved; and no welding operation is carried out between the device and the component, and successive cutting operations are unnecessary, so that the device can be reused owing to the freeness from cutting operations, therefore steels are saved, the use amounts of welding rods and cutting knife gas are also saved, and the use cost is lowered disguisedly.


We have studied the microwave field phase inside several cavities in the scope of optimizing the cold atoms interrogation scheme in a space clock. Numerical calculations are performed by a 3D finite elements method. This leads to a precise map of the field phase and amplitude, and to its sensitivity to geometrical defects. Experimentally, we have used our space clock prototype to assess the numerical results. Thanks to cold atoms, it is possible to obtain local information on the field phase by pulsing the microwave field. We have tested a cylindrical TE/sub 013/ cavity. It exhibits large phase inhomogeneities and is not compatible with a 10/sup -16/ relative frequency accuracy. To refine the measurements, we have added a second detection area in our prototype. Then, we can operate the clock in two different modes: one pass through the cavity as in a space geometry or two pass through the cavity in a fountain geometry. We can also slice the atomic cloud to improve the spatial resolution of the field phase measurements. We plan to use this configuration to study the phase distribution of the micro-wave field inside a TE/sub 011/ cavity. In a fountain geometry operation, the measured frequency stability is 1.4/spl times/10/sup -13//spl tau//sup -1/2/ and a preliminary frequency comparison with the BNM-LPTF FO1 indicates an absolute frequency agreement better than 2/spl times/10/sup -15/.


Forty years ago this month, September 1946, there was a panel discussion at an APS meeting in New York with Alvarez, Lawrence, McMillan, and R.R. Wilson discussing "The Relative Advantages of Proton and Electron Accelerators." l) It is amusing to speculate whether there will be another meeting 40 years from now at which this question will be discussed again and, if so, whether that discussion will be as incomprehensible to us now as our discussion today would have been in 1946.


Insect kind of spring planting rape field in east agri-region of Qinghai province were investigated.There are 72 species of insects belonging to 30 families of 7 orderes.Among them,there are 50 species belonging to 21 families of 6 orderes was pest and dominant species were Flea beetles,Ceuthorrhynchusasper,Aphides,Leafminers,Meligethes aeneus,Plutella maculipennisand so on.There are 22 species belonging to 9 families of 5 orderes,they are natural enemy and primary insects are ladybirds and hover flies.Pesticide kinds of poison low and effect high would be elected use for controlling dominant pest.


Linear position sensors are essential parts of linear motion control systems. Among different linear sensors, linear resolvers are an appropriate choice for harsh environments. Design optimization of linear resolvers needs an accurate, but computationally fast model for their performance prediction. Slotting effect of the cores and end effect are two important phenomena that must be accurately involved in the model to ensure its reliable results. Therefore, in this paper a semi-analytical model based on subdomain modeling technique is proposed for linear resolvers. Then, according to the developed model, the induced voltages in the signal windings of the resolver are calculated and consequently, the position error of the resolver is determined. Numerical results are subsequently obtained by time stepping finite element method (TSFEM) to verify the proposed model. Finally, experimental tests on the prototype sensor are conducted to verify the success of the simulations.


Objective To evaluate the safety of cefpirome sulfate for injection.Methods Four experiments were used,including initiative and passive allergic tests induced by cefpirome sulfate for injection in SD rats,haemolysis and blood cell agglutination test in vitro and stimulation test to blood vessel and muscles in rabbits.Results No stimulation and pyrogen reactions were seen in rabbits after given cefpirome sulfate for injection.Initiative and passive allergic reactions were not occurred in SD rats.Conclusion Cefpirome sulfate for injection is safe for intravenous injection.


Since micro-organic chemistry experiment has appeared,it has been used many kinds of schools. This paper mainly discuss the characteristic of micro-organic chemistry experiment according to the practice of university,also propose assumption and outlook about micro-organic chemistry experiment.


The purpose of this study is to estimate quantitatively soil loss and sediment yield in alpine farmland. For this purpose, Naerinchon watershed in Gangwon province was selected as our study area and total annual soil loss and sediment yield was estimated respectively by the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model and the Sediment Delivery Distributed (SEDD) model. The results of this study clearly show that dry field areas have significant impact on the total soil erosion and sediment yield compared with other land use. Dry field areas represent only of the total area of the watershed but soil loss and sediment yield account for and of the total amount respectively Especially as with alpine farmland, this result is more clearly shown. These areas account for of the entire watershed but contribute to and of the total soil loss and sediment yield respectively. From the above results, we can know that alpine farmland is important source of soil loss and sediment yield and it is need to prevent and control. soil erosion from alpine filmland urgently.


We report self-consistent Green's-function calculations of two defects in diamond. The unrelaxed neutral vacancy and unrelaxed substitutional nitrogen are compared. The vacancy shows a partially empty ${T}_{2}$ state at 1.53 eV above the valence edge which should in analogy to silicon drive a Jahn-Teller distortion. Substitutional nitrogen induces a "hyper-deep" ${A}_{1}$ state below the diamond valence band and an antibonding ${A}_{1}$ state just below the conduction-band edge. The situation is similar to substitutional oxygen in GaP. Our calculations thus contradict the so-far-accepted picture of a ${T}_{2}$-state Jahn-Teller instability driving the off-center distortion of nitrogen. We believe that the observed distortion is a result of strong chemical rebonding that cannot be described by a simple Jahn-Teller effect.


A "web-classroom" model of Autonomous Learning was experimented in a school-based college English practice by combining the website with the regular classroom teaching and learning.Research findings suggest that the model,to some extent,realizes the re-set target of guiding preparation in face-to-face teaching and autonomous learning on line,which helps improve the learners' capacity of learning independently and spontaneously and foster their autonomy.


—This paper presents an interphase engineering technique suitable for grafting silane-modified polymers onto glass fibres to be used in composites with enhanced impact tolerance. The silane-modified polymers include ethylene polymers grafted with γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) and a copolymer of butyl acrylate (BuA) and MPS. The grafting of functionalized interphase materials onto glass fibres is performed in solution. By changing the concentrations of the solutions, different amounts of polymer can be deposited on the fibres. Water crosslinking of the polymer gives the possibility of producing stabilised interfacial polymer coatings over a range of thicknesses. It is concluded that acidic conditions (1) promote the grafting of silane-modified polymers on glass fibres and (2) for a given reaction time, increase the amount of crosslinked polymer in the interphase, i.e. yield more stable interphases. It is also likely that preserving acidic conditions at the fibre/polymer interface is important ...


The homotopy perturbation method (HPM) to predict the pre- and post-buckling behaviour of simply supported steel beams with rectangular hollow section (RHS) is presented in this paper. The non-linear differential equations solved by HPM derive from a kinematics where large twist and cross-sections distortions are considered. The results (linear and non-linear paths) given by the present HPM are compared to those provided by the Newton–Raphson algorithm with arc length and by the commercial FEM code Abaqus. To investigate the effect of cross-sectional distortion of beams, some numerical examples are presented.


A new species of rock bass, Amblopiites constellatus, is described from the upland section of the White River in Arkansas and Missouri. It is compared with the closely related northern rock bass {A. rupestris) from Missouri and Meramec river populations, the southern rock bass {A. ariommus) from the Ouachita and Little river drainages, and with other western rock bass populations of undetermined status. Amblopiites constellatus is distinguished from its congeners by its freckled color pattern and slender body form. Amblopiites constellatus occurs throughout the upper White River. There are two records of the species from the Osage River drainage in Missouri. from other Missouri populations. Based on our examination of mate- rial from throughout the Ozark Upland province, as well as other western rock bass populations, we describe the upper White River population as a new species, Amblopiites constellatus, the Ozark rock bass. The new form differs from its closest relative, A. rupestris (Rafmesque), the northern rock bass, in color pattern, finer squama- tion, and higher average number of dorsal and anal fin rays. We can find no evidence of intergradation between the new form and either A. rupestris or A. ariommus Viosca, both of which have close geographically associated populations. Amblopiites ariommus is regarded herein as a full species. Methods for meristic procedures generally follow Hubbs and Lagler (1947), except for fin elements, which are expressed as a total number, and diagonal scale rows, in which the count includes the number above and below the lateral line row plus the lateral line scale. The breast scale count is made by counting the scale at the lower base of the left pectoral fin insertion, counting downward and forward to the ventral midline and then upward and backward to


Abstract In Colombia, as in other Latin American countries, current population genetics research is based on the understanding that Colombians constitute a mestizo nation, given the admixture process that took place between Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans during colonial times. The mestizo is a pervasive category used by geneticists to conduct, organise, and publish research studies that deal with the continent's peopling process and the genetic makeup of its contemporary population(s). It is also the dominant imaginary for the Colombian population and a key nation-building ideology. By tracing how this category moves and is used across four Colombian genetics laboratories, it is possible to discern that despite its apparently clear-cut boundaries, the mestizo is contingent, contested, and flexible, allowing for multiple understandings and usages. This flexibility and multiplicity are visible in the quantification of genetic ancestry, the divisions of geographical location, and the understanding of gender. Such understandings allow one to think about a homogeneous nation (inclusive) that is simultaneously heterogeneous (exclusive); they provide multiple but not necessarily contradictory possibilities of being mestizo, allowing the coexistence of images of the nation that could otherwise seem contradictory; and they permit navigation around contested terms such as race, while simultaneously thinking of mixed races or racialised individuals. Finally, these flexible and multiple constructions of the mestizo (re)produce various subjects as 'other', whether they are women, the Indigenous, the black/dark, or the poor.


CD11b+ cells are distributed throughout the body and act as sentinels for the immune system. The frequency of CD11b+ myeloid cells varies in different organs, ranging from approximately 48 % of the brain myeloid (microglia) cells, 30% of bone marrow and 6% of total nucleated cells in gut and spleen. The integrin CD11b heterodimerizes with CD18 to form the mature complex Mac-1. Mac-1 facilitates a variety of immune cell responses including phagocytosis, adhesion, migration and chemotaxis, all functions that are crucial for normal tissue homeostasis and inflammatory responses. CD11b+ cells are difficult and time consuming to isolate, due to their variable frequency using traditional methods. Here, we describe EasySepTM, a simple, column-free immunomagnetic method for the positive selection of highly purified CD11b+ cells from brain, bone marrow, spleen and gut. Labelled CD11b+ cells are retained in a tube in an EasySepTM magnet while unwanted cells are poured off. Selection can be fully automated using RoboSepTM. Starting with a frequency of 7.6 ± 1.3 % CD11b+ cells in spleen, purities of 93.9 ± 4.5 % (n=41) were achieved. Fully competent cells, as shown by functional assays (phagocytosis, ROS), were isolated from the above tissues. This EasySepTM technology provides a fast and simple method to access highly purified functional CD11b+ cells from a variety of tissues, facilitating their study ex-vivo.


The grinding quality assessing is a complex decision-making process,which must optimize and balance multi-influence factors.The purpose of this paper is to explore one new method of the automatic grinding process for the quality assessing online,enhance the precision and efficiency of grinding quality assessing and adopt the fuzzy synthesis assessing and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) which are combined with each other.The example analyzing result indicates that this method can be used to estimate grinding quality based on the monitor data for grinding process and the grinding conditions,and help grinding workers select optimum grinding parameters for the steady grinding quality.


Eleven species of picture‐winged flies (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Lipsanini) have been reported attacking maize [Zea mays L. (Poaceae)] ears in the Americas. Four of these species are sweet corn pests in America north of Mexico: Chaetopsis massyla (Walker), Euxesta annonae (Fabricius), E. eluta Loew, and E. stigmatias Loew. Adults of these four species appear at the beginning of each season following maize‐free periods, suggesting other plants act as food sources for maintenance and development of these flies. Studies were conducted in Florida, USA, to evaluate the suitability of several crop and non‐crop plants commonly occurring near maize plantings as developmental hosts for these flies. Laboratory trials were conducted using laboratory colonies of C. massyla, E. eluta, and E. stigmatias to determine their developmental rates and pupal survivorship on roots, stems, leaves, or fruits of 14 crop and weed species. All three fly species completed development on all tested crops (Brassica oleracea L., Capsicum chinense Jacquin, Capsicum annum L., Carica papaya L., Persea americana Mill., Raphanus sativus L., Saccharum officinarum L., and Solanum lycopersicum L.) and weed species [Amaranthus spinosus L., Portulaca oleracea L., Sorghum halepense (L.), and Typha spp.], except for Daucus carota L. roots and Solanum tuberosum L. tubers. Findings of the current study suggest that the presence of multiple host crops in areas surrounding maize fields may help explain the occurrence of these maize‐infesting ulidiids immediately after prolonged absences of maize.


An ion chromatography method was developed for determination of contents of various phosphate forms in tripolyphosphate, in the present study. Phosphates were eluted with100 mmol/L NaOH solution in gradient at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/ min. The method presented good linearities between the peak areas and concentrations of orthophosphate, pyrophosphate, tripolyphosphate, and trimetaphosphate and their detection limit ranged from 0.010 to 0.063 mg/L. The relative standard deviations (RSD) of the retention time varied between 0.38% and 0.79% and the RSD of the peak area was between 2.21% and 6.96%. The recoveries of the above phosphates in spiked tripolyphosphate sample ranged from 97.45% to106.89%. This complete analysis procedure lasted 10 min. Our results indicated that this method is rapid and accurate with a wide linear range and less consumption of chemicals.


The community management of the transitional resettlements is a very essential problem.This paper analyzes the difficulty and challenge based on the investigations and studies of the transitional resettlements in Chengdu,then sets forward several practical proposals.


Annually, the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Washington, D.C., holds an embassy open house day for its 27 member nations to celebrate European culture and educate tourists on the functions of EU politics and international relations. Amidst an ongoing debt crisis and a continuing exploration of its identity as a supranational entity, "Embassy Day" affords an opportunity to see the EU as a spatial network uneasily caught in the tensions between the often nostalgic nationalism of its constituent countries and the future-oriented technocratic transnationalism of its composite alliance. By analyzing the cultural artifacts of Embassy Day from its handouts, maps, speeches, architecture, and performances, I treat Embassy Day as a "rhetorical experience" and the EU embassies as a transnational network imposed over the city space of Washington, D.C. In the process, I argue that the very fragmented nature of the open house's complex simulation of Europe mirrors the fragmented nature of European identity itself, and thus displays the anxiety around how the EU places itself and its power vis-à-vis the global community.


A compact eight-band monopole for LTE mobile phone is presented. The antenna is mainly composed of a Tshape monopole and a coupled parasitic ground strip which are excited to cover LTE800/GSM850/GSM900 bands. Moreover, three modes of parasitic ground strip contribute to covering the DCS/PCS/UMTS/LTE2300/LTE2500 bands. The merit of the proposed antenna is to cover eight bands in the 2G/3G/4G bands without any lumped-element matching circuit under the condition of $19\times 46\times0.8$ mm3 nonground portion, which is suitable for the wideband LTE mobile phone applications. Good agreement is achieved between the measurement and simulation results.


Abstract A new adaptive two degrees-of-freedom internal model control (IMC) with reference input predictor is presented for systems with unknown time delay. The proposed controller consists of a reference input predictor, a model reference controller, a disturbance rejection controller and an internal model predictor. The unknown time-delay and the rational transfer function of continuous-time systems are simultaneously estimated by using the modified least-squares with projection. One feature of the proposed algorithm is that its structure is integrated with an online parameter estimation algorithm to form an adaptive IMC with a reference input predictor. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.


This study examined problematic eating and eating‐related psychopathology among young adults who underwent adolescent bariatric surgery including concurrent and prospective associations with psychosocial factors and weight change.


A 29-year-old woman booked for her second pregnancy at 16 weeks gestation. At 2 years of age shc had developed a seronegative juvenile chronic arthritis (Still's disease) requiring steroid therapy. Various corrective orthopaedic procedures had been performed in childhood, including staple insertions in both knees, correction of a valgus deformity and bilateral hip replacements. Steroids were stopped when she was 16 years of age, and her joint disease had been quiescent for over 10 years. However, a strongly positive anti-nuclear antibody titre had been noted with a raised IgG and a persistently raised ESR 7 years previously, although there was no evidence of active lupus. There had been no problems in the first pregnancy: labour had started spontaneously at 36 weeks, and she was delivered by elective caesarean section because of her extensive joint deformity and a suspicion of cephalopelvic disproportion. Intubation was reported to be difficult, but the procedure was otherwise uneventful, with the birth of a healthy 2.5 kg girl. In this pregnancy all appeared well at booking, and an ultrasound scan confirmed her dates. At 30 weeks she was admitted in labour. There was a persistent fetal bradycardia of 80 beats/ min, the maternal pulse being 100/min. The cervix was tightly closed. An ultrasound scan demonstrated an active, normally grown baby


By taking the MS7.1 earthquake occurring in Yushu area,Qinghai Province on April 14th,2010 as an example,the descriptive statistical features and their educational implications of the earthquake disaster awareness(EDA) in elementary school students in Yushu area were analyzed preliminarily through questionnaire survey method. The main conclusions are as follows: (1)The EDA level of the targeted students in this area is very low. Firstly,the vast majority of them do not know what the earthquake origin is,can not identify earthquake rumors,and do not know that only the government department that has the authority to release earthquake prediction. In addition,most of them do not know how to escape from dangers quickly and safely when an earthquake happens. The surveyed data show the knowing rates of each of the specific attention-required items during the earthquake emergency are all less than 50%.All of these facts prove strongly that it is very important to intensify ceaselessly the earthquake disaster education in that area.(2)The desire of most elementary school students to learn more knowledge and skills of earthquake disaster reduction has increased after the earthquake. Therefore,it is more important to improve the publicity and education on earthquake prevention and disaster reduction in the study area.(3)The main ways of getting the earthquake knowledge and the earthquake disaster coping skills are the classroom targeted education and publicity in school. The role of religious figures,government and popular science books in publicity and education of the knowledge and disaster-coping skill of the earthquake has no significant difference,which are also the important information sources of earthquake knowledge for most elementary school students. However,the effects of radio,television,newspapers,mobile phones and the internet on publicity of earthquake knowledge are very limited,which is different with that from the investigation of other areas. Therefore,it is more necessary to strengthen the publicity of earthquake knowledge by reinforcing the school education and bringing into better play the roles of the government and the monastery.


Suicide takes away a lots of life every year would wide, while accomplishment is free from punishment, failure of death after attempting, it is a punishable offence under section 309 of IPC.It is a serious offence under sec 305 and 306 of I.P.C abetment of suicide is punishable because it violates the right to life explained under article 21 of constitution of India. As attempt to commit suicide will no longer be a crime. The government has decided to delete sec 309 of the IPC. Parliament has declared the ineffectiveness of sec of 309 of IPC recently without considering the provision related to abetment of suicide under sec 306 of IPC, which clearly denotes of criminal proceeding against the person or group of person, who instigate to commit suicide. Sometimes the person, who is alleged of such cases under section 306 goes under the social stigma during the investigation and trial period. In past few years cases of student committing suicide due to examination pressure, fail in love affairs, drug addiction, depression and other social and financial pressure increases. How it would be justify to make ineffective of Sec of 309, without considering the various consequences of social impact of the Sec 306 of IPC. The basic principle of criminal law is that a person is liable for his own act, but this sec 306 of IPC infringes the fundamental rule, how some other person is said to be liable for the act done by another person. It is clear that Sec 306 cannot be denied like Sati Pratha,Dowry death and other such cases.  The government has decided to delete sec 309 of the Indian penal code 1860 on a ground of inhumanity. As per 210 th report of law commission – 'suicide is the manifestation of diseased condition of mind that needs treatment and care rather punishment' .


Soils represent a considerable part of the conditionally renewable natural resources. Consequently,
rational land use and proper soil management are important elements of sustainability and have special significance
in the national economy, environment protection, and even in rural development. The main soil functions are as
follows:
•
reactor, transformer and integrator of the combined influences of other natural resources;
•
medium for biomass production, primary food-source of the biosphere;
•
storage of heat, water, plant nutrients and wastes;
•
high capacity buffer medium, which may prevent or moderate the unfavourable consequences of various
stresses;
•
natural filter and detoxication system;
•
significant gene reservoir, an important element of biodiversity;
•
conservator of natural and human heritages;
•
basis for constructions.
Society has utilized these functions in different ways (rate, method, efficiency) throughout history, depending on
the given natural conditions and socio-economic circumstances. In many cases irrational (misguided) management
leads to "soil loss", functional disturbances and environment deterioration. The prevention or reduction of these
unfavourable consequences requires permanent care and efficient control of soil processes.


Service Prototyping can be used to experience services in the development stage. The recently started research project dimenSion seeks to provide practical methods that can be used by SMEs with a good cost benefit ratio and should secure the success of newly developed services. Through the use of service prototyping companies should be able to improve their decision-making and better evaluate alternatives. Service prototyping can be used to experience the services through their development stages. The project dimenSion aims to provide a practical method for which service prototyping can be used especially by SMEs to ensure the success of their future services at an optimal cost-benefit-ratio. The targeted service prototyping concept and accompanying techniques and technologies will enable companies to improve their service development cycle through better and faster evaluation and decision making.


Two 5-day feeding trials were conducted on two juvenile female giant pandas (Ailu ropoda melanoleuca) at the Calgary Zoo. Calculations were made to determine the digestibility of a bamboo, sugar cane, and gruel diet in juvenile giant pandas. Bamboo and sugar cane constituted 55-62% and 8-12%, respectively, of the dry matter of the daily diet. Dry matter digestibility of the bamboo-sugar cane was 19.0 and 15.2% for the 2.5-yr-old and the 4.5-yr-old pandas, respectively. Hemicellulose digestion was calculated at 23.4 and 10.2%, whereas cellulose digestion was 41.8 and 28.2% for the two animals, respectively. These figures for dry matter digestibility and hemicellulose digestion are comparable to data previously reported for bamboo utilization in adult pandas. In a similar study conducted in the Wolong Reserve, China, the younger pandas had increased efficiency, which coincides with the results of this study. Ingesta passage time was 6-9.5 hr for the younger panda and 6-11.5 hr for the older panda. A longer passage time (13 hr) was observed in the older animal within 24 hr prior to passage of a mucous stool.


This study aimed to analyze the impact of mathematics learning assisted by geogebra software on students' critical thinking skills. This research was an experimental research with a quantitative approach. There were two groups of samples used, namely the experimental group with learning assisted by geogebra software, and the control group with learning without using geogebra software. The population in this study were students of class VIII Junior High School 2 Banda Aceh with students of class VIII-2 as an experimental class and VIII-8 as a control class. The instruments used were pre-test and post-test critical thinking skills. Data analysis techniques using non-parametric statistics with Mann-Witney test and analyzed with SPSS statistics 22 software. The results showed that mathematics learning assisted by geogebra software has an impact on increasing students' critical thinking skills.


Political ads, by definition, raise questions about public issues that the candidates think will resonate with voters. Given these circumstances, an obvious question is to what extent are
those public issues covered by the local news operations of the stations on which the ads appear. This study examined that question in the Honolulu, HI television market during the 2012 campaign.


The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of an in vitro skin diffusion cell system as a model for assessing decontaminants against the chemical warfare agent sulphur mustard (SM). The in vitro absorption rates of SM through heat‐separated human (157 ± 66 µg cm−2 h−1) and pig‐ear (411 ± 175 µg cm−2 h−1) epidermal membranes were in agreement with previous in vivo studies that quoted skin absorption rates of 150 and 366 mu g cm−2 h−1, respectively.


Objective To evaluate the value of endovascular therapy in the treatment of superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS). Methods Fourteen consecutive patients (11 men, 3 women ) with superior vena cava syndrome underwent local thrombolysis and endovascular stent placement. The cause was central bronchogenic carcinoma in 9, metastatic tumor in 4, and lymphoma in 1. Results The primary recanalization rate was 86%. The symptoms disappeared or alleviated obviously in 12 patients within 24~48 hours after the treatment. During the follow up of 1 to 20 months (average 8.3 months ), there were only 4 restenosis that could be treated successfully. Conclusion Catheter directed thrombolysis and endovascular stent placement is a safe and effective treatment for superior vena cava syndrome.


Electric Vehicle (EV) owners are confronted by the limited compatibility of available charging infrastructures. Therefore, this paper is focused on presenting a Configurable Modular Multilevel Converter (CMMC) for a universal and flexible integrated charging system, where the motor windings are used as filter during the charging operation and the battery pack is split into modules. This concept is designed for a large range of charging infrastructure; from AC household basic supply to AC or DC ultrafast charging. Particular attention will be paid to the battery management system.


A serviceable bioprobe is one of the important components for the development of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip systems. In this paper, we report a novel bioprobe, fabricated by laser-induced cross-linking technology, for simple and direct screening of Gram-positive bacteria on a biochip. The AcmA′ protein is known to bind specifically to peptidoglycan (PG), which forms the thick outside layer of Gram-positive bacteria. Moreover, the AcmA′ protein has a much broader spectrum of bacterium types than do antibodies that are more specific to only one bacterium type, because the AcmA′ protein is a generic characteristic of Gram-positive bacteria. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is generally used as a molecular marker. In this study, GFP was fused with the AcmA′ protein to act as an indicator to trace the AcmA′ binding activity on PG by green fluorescence. The GFP-AcmA′ protein was three-dimensionally structured by laser-induced cross-linking photochemistry technology to fabricate a bioprobe for capturing Gram-positive bacteria. Positive and negative tests on Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae were demonstrated, respectively. Screening is readily performed using optical microscopy observation. The experiments show that only Gram-positive bacteria were bound on the GFP-AcmA′ probes after minutes of incubation and phosphate buffered saline (PBS) rinsing. No binding was observed with the Gram-negative bacteria or with reference probes composed of neutral bovine serum albumin (BSA). Repeated experiments indicate that our bioprobes are reusable. Finally, a 3D wedge-shaped GFP-AcmA′ probe was demonstrated in a microfluidic channel. This study provides a novel platform for convenient Gram-positive bacteria screening that could potentially be used in lab-on-a-chip applications.


Evaluation and mitigation of noise from vehicular sources is common as a building design criterion. In the United States of America (USA), it has been part of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) multifamily building design requirements since the 1970s. It is included in numerous state and local planning requirements, and also has recently been added to various Green Building Design Standards, including school and healthcare facility design guidelines. In California, the building codes include mitigation of traffic noise sources for all multifamily and most commercial projects. These criteria specify an allowable noise level, but do not provide a method for defining this level given the statistical variations. For sources with large variations, the method of defining the level can greatly affect the building facade design and the occupant experience. Further, it may be necessary to determine this level from relatively brief measurements. This paper examines the factors that should be considered when defining the exterior noise from vehicular sources. Methods for predicting the noise level using data are evaluated, and minimum survey requirements to determine specific exterior noise parameters are suggested.


Two kinds of sequences, which are of interest in problems of uniform distribution and dynamical systems, are considered. The rotation sequences (or Kronecker sequences) (KS) are closely related to the orbits of the rotation map and the oscillation sequences (OS) are a discrete-time form of orbits of the simplest oscillators. The discrepancy of these sequences, which is a measure of deviation of the empirical distribution of a sequence from the ideal uniform distribution, is studied.


One of the oldest uranium mining areas in the world is the spa Jhchymov in Bohemia. A study of environmental contamination began there when uranium mining was at a maximum, and continued until mining ceased 6 years later. Content of 226Ra and total beta activity of water, river sediments and water plants were estimated in the streams of this area and from the other uranium ore area, where mining reached its maximum during the study period. Radioactive pollution of the major Czechoslovak rivers during 1964-67 is described.


ABSTRACT THE previously developed method to measure sound pressure level of wheat was used for corn, milo, and soybeans. For all grains tested, sound level increased with lower grain moisture, larger grain flow rate, and smaller microphone-grain distance. The slope of the dB-MC line was highest for soybeans, lowest for milo, and intermediate for corn and wheat.


Eigenvector methods for narrow-band source location are based upon the key assumption that the spatial correlation matrix of the noise field is known. Unfortunately, these methods are very sensitive to errors upon it. This paper describes a method which performs a spatial filtering using discrete spheroidal sequences, before applying eigenvector methods. Thus, narrow spatial sectors are selected in which the noise field is easily modeled. In case of large arrays, the proposed method yields resolution properties far superior to the MUSIC technique with known noise correlation.


Social reforming,the transformation of the value system has had a significant influence on the young people's value orientation in China,and it also has emerged in new forms:the life values tend to be diverse day after day;the behavior choice is lower than the rational knowledge level,the words and deeds come apart.To remedy these things,the whole society,families and educational institutions need to team up to educate the young people about the proper value system.


Evoked responses from single neurons in auditory cortex were examined in untrained rhesus monkeys under three states: (1) monkeys' eyes open and occasionally tracking a moving object, (2) eyes closed for at least 30 sec, and (3) anesthetized with 5 or 10 mg/kg ketamine. Pure‐tone or white‐noise stimuli were presented monaurally to the contralateral ear. The subjects' heads were rigidly restrained. Marked changes in evoked response were frequently seen as the animal drifted from state 1 to state 2. Most commonly the response weakened or disappeared altogether, but occasionally more complex changes occurred in a unit's response pattern, threshold, or tuning characteristics. Ketamine produced various effects, depending on the unit observed: in some cases the evoked response disappeared while in others it became very stable. The changes in responsiveness could not be accounted for by small changes in stimulus intensity which might result from pinna movements or middle‐ear muscle contractions, since they were ...


This paper presents a novel caching mechanism based on Connectionless Edge Cache Servers in vehicular networks. The goal is to intelligently cache content within the vehicles and the edge servers so that majority of the vehicle-requested content can be obtained from those caches, thus minimizing the amount of cellular network usage needed for fetching content from a central server. A notable feature of the cache servers in this work is that they do not have backhaul connectivity. This makes the connectionless servers to be relatively less expensive compared to the usual Roadside Service Units (RSUs), and potentially moveable in response to specific events that are expected to generate content in large volumes. In the absence of backhaul connectivity in the edge servers, the vehicles ferry content across the edge servers to build optimal cached content distribution so that the cellular usage from the vehicles is minimized. We have implemented the scheme using ONE simulator and compared it with various other caching mechanisms including a manually pre-filled technique that provides a performance upper bound. It was shown that the proposed mechanism outperforms the other schemes in two different network scenarios, one based on East Lansing (MI) map, and the other based on a synthetic transportation network.


Some processes of integration include a parliamentary body in their institutional structures. This paper combines basic premises of neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism to address the origin and further evolution of regional parliaments, including the necessary precautions when applying European approaches of integration to other regions. With these postulates in mind, we outline an explanation of the way in which two regional parliaments, the European Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament, emerged and developed. The combination of approaches allows us to affirm that States are important and powerful actors, but the role of regional institutions and transnational actors cannot be ignored. However, comparative analysis shows that while in Europe the dynamics of the process of integration has feedback mechanisms beyond the control of States, in the Mercosur the influence of national Governments is overwhelming and prevents any "self-reinforcing" dynamics.


The closed ASDEX Upgrade Divertor II, `LYRA', is capable of handling heating powers of up to 20 MW or P/R of 12 MW/m, owing to a reduction of the maximum heat flux to the target plates by more than a factor of 2 compared with the open Divertor I. This reduction is caused by high radiative losses from carbon and hydrogen inside the divertor region and is in agreement with B2-EIRENE modelling predictions. At medium densities in the H mode, the type I ELM behaviour shows no dependence on the heating method (NBI, ICRH). ASDEX Upgrade-JET dimensionless identity experiments showed compatibility of the L-H transition with core physics constraints, while in the H mode confinement, inconsistencies with the invariance principle were established. At high densities close to the Greenwald density, the MHD limited edge pressures, the influence of divertor detachment on separatrix parameters and increasing edge transport lead to limited edge densities and finally to temperatures below the critical edge temperatures for H mode. This results in a drastic increase of the H mode threshold power and an upper H mode density limit with gas puff refuelling. The H mode confinement degradation approaching this density limit is caused by the ballooning mode limited edge pressures and `stiff' temperature profiles relating core and edge temperatures. Repetitive high field side pellet injection allows for H mode operation well above the Greenwald density; moreover, higher confinement than with gas fuelling is found up to the highest densities. Neoclassical tearing modes limit the achievable β depending on the collisionality at the resonant surface. In agreement with the polarization current model, the onset β is found to be proportional to the ion gyroradius in the collisionless regime, while higher collisionalities are stabilizing. The fractional energy loss connected with saturated modes at high pressures is about 25%. A reduction of neoclassical mode amplitude and an increase of β have been demonstrated by using phased ECRH and ECCD in the O point of islands. Advanced tokamak operation with internal transport barriers for both ions and electrons has been achieved with flat shear profiles and q0 > 1 or with reversed shear and qmin > 2. With flat shear a stationary H mode scenario was maintained for 40 confinement times and several internal skin times with βN = 2 and HITERL-89P = 2.4, where fishbones keep q0 at 1. βN is limited by either neoclassical tearing modes in the case of flat shear or kink modes with reversed shear.


he foundational principles of global health (GH) organizations are rooted in the recognition and ame-lioration of inequities that result in poor health. Despite capacity enhancing strategies designed as bi-lateral partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income (LMIC) settings, international organizations from high-income countries (HIC) still struggle to address the lack of opportunities for professional development amongst LMIC partners. The pursuit of equitable representation in GH meetings is crucial to capacity enhancing, as there is more to a conference than networking and knowledge transfer; presentation at a conference is often a defining career development stepping-stone. However, most international conferences favour the participation of persons from HIC by being held in expensive locations, fre-quently with strict visa requirements hindering inclusive engagement. Authors additionally face competitive abstract selection processes that may constitute barriers for junior colleagues from LMICs who often lack essential resources and mentorship; however, these are the very individuals principally involved in programs at the ground level. As a result, GH conference attendance and participation are skewed towards representatives from HIC [1]. The SARS-CoV2 pandemic presented an opportunity to re-imagine possibilities and eliminate these barriers [2-4]. We describe our efforts to address disparities and utilize technology to introduce a wide-reaching educational initiative.


Two species of tylenchid nematodes associated with olive (Olea europea L.) in the province of Jaen, Southeastern Spain differed morphologically from the original populations. Aorolaimus perscitus (Doucet, 1980) Fortuner, 1987 presents a mosaic pattern of the head annulation with many subdivisions of the basal ring while the Argentinian population shows a regular transverse annulation with a limited number of longitudinal lines. Gracilacus teres Raski, 1976 is recorded for the first time in Europe; under the light microscope it appears with two lines in the lateral field; S.E.M. showed it has four lateral lines.


Abstract
Fikri Arif Fadillah. "Connotations in English Words Beginning with the letter Sl-". An Undergraduate Thesis. Faculty of Letters: English Department. Undergraduate Degree. Gunadarma University. Depok: August 2011
Keywords: Meaning, Connotation, Negative
A connotation is commonly understood, subjective cultural and/or emotional association that some word or phrase carries. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regards to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection. Some people realize that most English words beginning with Sl- have negative connotations. The writer wants to analyze connotations in English words beginning with Sl- because the writer wants to justify whether all English words beginning with Sl- are having negative connotations or not based on the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. The aim of the study is to find out what words beginning with Sl- having negative, positive and neutral connotations. This research used qualitative method for describing the meaning of English words beginning with Sl-and quantitative method for presenting the data. As the result, the writer found that the percentage of negative connotation is 50.54%, positive connotation is 4.39%, and neutral connotation is 45.07% based on the writer's thesis "Connotations in English Words Beginning with the letter Sl-".


Final Rule for Sunscreens and Proposed Rule and Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking(ANPR) issued on 17th June 2011 by FDA were related.The usage dosage of sunscreens and the limit of SPF value were also overviewed in ANPR.Final rule initiated the new test and the marks demand.The marketers are trying to meet the requests,and cater to the demands of the consumer.


Background:Preschool children personal social development will continuously changes, systemic, andprogressive that is a reflection of relating behaviour to the ability of independent, socialize, and interactwith social environment in children aged 1–6 years (preschool) where the child lived. Parents have amain role for preschool-aged children in development  process, but in fact not all children can stay withtheir parents, because things various. Children's workhouses which has the task of providing guidanceand services for fatherless, strays, orphaned and abandoned underprivileged. Children that living inorphanages are get less appropriate likely attention required, children in orphanages have physical andmental problems, including social problems.
Objective:To know the difference of preschool children personal social development have living theirparents together with living in an orphanage.
Method:This is descriptive analytical research, with observational research methods, which use aquantitative cross sectional approach, research instrument using Denver Development Screening Test IIwith normal, suspect, and untestable interpretation. The sample in this research is overall of populationwhich totaled 39 childrens living parent together and 19 chidrens living in an orphanage . The test used anon parametric Mann-Whitney test to check the difference meaning, with a level significance of p<0,05.
Result:There is difference of preschool children personal social development have living their parentstogether with living in an orphanage. with p value 0,018 (p<0.05). Normal category children living parentstogether 89,7%, suspect 7,7%, and untestable 2,6%. While normal category children living in orphanages63,1%, suspect 31.6%, and untestable 5,3%.
Conclusion:There is difference of preschool children personal social development have living theirparents together with living in an orphanage. Where prescool children personal social development haveliving parents together is better than living in an orphanage.
Keywords: Preschool, personal social development, parenting, orphanage.


The wood cottage primary spawns from relatively hard wood was taken half the time of sawdusts of full bags of spawns.The chance of later infection was reduced and the survival rate was increased by the technique.The fully growing hypha is vigorous without aging,to prolong the storage period effectively.


The present invention relates to an earthquake-proof cast resin transformer having an energy dissipation type vibration prevention member consisting of Pro by the damper and the wire in order to increase the Y-axis seismic performance of the molded transformer, and more particularly, the upper frame and the lower portion on the side of the mold transformer to be cross-connected between the frame, the first damper is configured to at least one; A first wire rope which are respectively connected to the top and bottom of the damper connected to the lower frame is formed on the entire surface of the upper frame and the iron core is formed at the rear of the iron core; At least one second damper configured; Seismic characterized in that further comprises vibration-preventing member is configured to include; and the second is respectively connected to the upper and lower parts of the damper, a second wire rope is connected to the lower frame formed on a rear surface of the upper frame and the iron core is formed on the entire surface of the iron core It relates to a cast resin transformer.


A thought-provoking extended essay first published in National Review--along with responses by distinguished commentators--on the the ways anti-Semitism reveals itself through the work of some of America's leading journalists and intellectuals. The reactions are varied and illuminating. Most hailed the essay as the most important document relating to modern anti-Semitism published in many years.


Student Researcher: Brittany M. Brooks, Burke High School, Charleston, South Carolina Mentors: Adam Sieg, Milos Budisaljevic, MD, Michael G. Janech, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Medicine; Charleston, South Carolina Single nucleotide point mutations within mitochondrial genes are linked to a number of maternally inherited diseases. Recently, an adult female patient was referred for clinical evaluation at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and presented with hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and hypomagnesmia. These symptoms are consistent with a known mitochondrial mutation in the isoleucine transfer RNA gene (tRNA-Ile) flanking the anticodon (bp 4293). We hypothesized that the tRNA-Ile mutation underlies the symptoms exhibited by this patient. Using restriction enzyme fragment analysis and cloning techniques, we amplified the mitochondrial tRNA-Ile gene from whole blood. Restriction digestion of this product with Taq1 did not produce a pattern of restriction digestion consistent with the reported mutation. Further, DNA sequence analysis revealed no mutation at tRNA-Ile 4293. A novel mutation was discovered in one of eleven tRNA-Ile PCR clones sequenced and resulted in a T.C transition at nucleotide 4327. Although further confirmation is necessary, these data suggest the possibility of a novel mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA-Ile gene of a patient with low plasma magnesium. Identification of genetic mutations will help us to focus studies of disease mechanisms. INTRODUCTION


A twisted cord made of nylon-6 fibers having a yarn strength of not less than 12 g / d was subjected to a 1-draw heat treatment under specified temperature and tension conditions prior to application. treat with an adhesive in an immersion solution having a specific composition, then subject it to successive stages of drying in 2, stretching 3, relaxation in 4 and cooling, to significantly increase the mechanical strength and the adhesion strength of cords. Application in particular to large-size tires for motor vehicles.


The effect of soil drought (10 days) on the growth of plants, the accumulation of water and leakage of electrolytes, gas exchange, the contents of chl a + b and carotenoids in leaves and photochemical activity of photosystem II was studied at the seedling stage by transient fluorescent analysis in 20 of the popular varieties of polish spring wheat. Drought caused a particularly strong reduction in vigor of growth of seedlings, net photosynthesis rate and triggered an increase in electrolyte leakage from the leaves. Certain varieties during the drought demonstrated relatively intense CO 2 assimilation at low water loss through transpiration. The varieties tested were significantly different in terms of tolerance to drought of the processes of gas exchange and seedlings development. Photochemical processes in PSII showed high tolerance to drought and at the same time low differentiation among varieties. The results obtained suggested that tolerance of growth parameters to drought and CO 2 assimilation at the seedling stage may alleviate consequent depression of final yield of the grain.


According to the heat transfer characteristics of deep penetration,finite element model for analyzing thermal field and flow field in electron beam welding of 6.4 mm thickness magnesium alloy plate was set up.Results of simulation show that the weld is a typical "nail-shaped",and the depth-to-width ratio is relatively high.On the upper surface of the pool,the velocity of pool edge and the center of heat flow is minimum,while the velocity of the zone in front of heat source is maximum.The simulation is proved to be reasonable by comparing the calculated pool shape with experimental weld cross-shape.


There are brought data on the primary introduction of the cultivar "Rufina" in Central Yakutia. The cultivar is promising for use in landscape gardening and for cutting due to frost resistance, high decorative quality and duration of flowering.


This paper examines the structure of multi-period employment contracts in an economy with identical workers when only incomplete insurance is provided against job-related contingencies, stemming from asymmetric information. The employment contract provides implicit insurance by paying workers less than their marginal product during some periods and more during others. The paper explores how contracts are altered by increases in uncertainty, worker risk aversion, hiring costs, and the amount of specific and general training provided.


We present a powerful concept in the field of photonic crystals and metamaterials, applying the resonant-state expansion (RSE) to planar photonic crystal structures. The RSE allows us to understand and quantify optical resonances in photonic crystal structures in terms of the analytic resonant states of a homogeneous planar waveguide. The RSE provides an efficient and reliable tool for accurate calculation of a complete set of the resonant states of a photonic crystal slab, which is required for the correct description and a better understanding of its optical spectra. For the proof of principle, numerical verification of the RSE, and demonstration of its unprecedented accuracy and convergence, an infinite planar photonic crystal slab periodic in one dimension is taken as an example. To illustrate the power of this approach, we consider the mode evolution with the amplitude of the periodic modulation, revealing the role of the guided modes in the formation of bound states in the continuum.


Developing out Rümke's term of "Praecox‐Gefühl", it is described that the schizophrenic disorder in his way of being is the fundamental underlying reason for dissociation of his thoughts and feelings. This consequently leads to a distortion in his system of sign recognition and the meaning attached to the different semantic and syntactic levels. By means of the "Wahnarbeit" and other mechanisms the schizophrenic tries to build another order in which he can feel more at ease with his overwhelming experiences. The conceptualization of his thoughts is performed by using a "principle of symmetry"—attaching the meaning of one perceived object (I) of reality to another conceptualized object (II). Very often we are unable to understand the individualistic nature of schizophrenic symbolization because of this mechanism.


The utility model relates to a computer-room management system with an SMS communication function, which belongs to the field of computer communication technology. The computer-room management system comprises a PC, a switch, a server, a GSM modem and a humiture transmitter, wherein an Ethernet port of the PC is connected with the switch through a twisted pair, an Ethernet port of the server is connected with the switch through a twisted pair, a serial port of the server is connected with the GSM modem, and an Ethernet port of the humiture transmitter is connected with the switch through a twisted pair. The computer-room management system provided by the utility model effectively compensates for insufficiency of conventional computer-room management systems, enables communication modes of the conventional computer-room management systems to be diversified, provides SMS prompting, SMS query and SMS control functions, is not restricted by distance, brings great convenience to people in usage of the system and improves user experience. The computer-room management system has the advantages of small investment and low cost.


ABSTRACT Liquid crystal compound N-(4-n-pentyloxybenzalidene) 4′-n-pentylaniline is very interesting because of its rich phase variant, i.e. nematic, smectic A, smectic C, smectic F and smectic G phases. In the present work, temperature- and frequency-dependent dielectric studies on this compound in the homeotropic and planar orientation of molecules have been carried out in the frequency range of 1 Hz–10 MHz. The compound shows negative dielectric anisotropy (i.e. Δε < 0). Dielectric studies have shown three relaxation modes of different origin in various phases of the material. Relaxation frequencies of the observed modes follow Arrhenius behaviour. The relaxation due to interfacial polarisation, i.e. Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars effect has been observed in the nematic and isotropic phases. A relaxation mode due to the fluctuation of molecular tilt resembling the soft mode has been detected in the smectic A phase with pre- and post-transitional effects. Another mode due to the fluctuation of molecules about their short axes has been detected in the nematic and smectic A, C, F and G phases. Activation energies and ionic conductivity of these phases have also been determined. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


Presents an adaptive nonlinear estimation technique (polynomial model-based) that has guaranteed stability and makes parsimonious use of coefficients, thereby achieving optimal, or close to optimal, performance with reduced computational complexity when compared to the adaptive Volterra filters. Additionally the suggested structure exhibits a high degree of parallelism which makes it suitable for VSLI implementation.<<ETX>>


One of a series of 4 snapshots taken of Elgin Hall, a grand house in Armadale. Taken from Hampden Road, showing the rear of the building.


This article examines the current state of the transition process for students with developmental disabilities in New South Wales, Australia. Teachers from 75 schools were surveyed about current practices for students with developmental disabilities transitioning from primary to secondary school and from secondary school to post-school life. Teachers' responses to the open-ended survey questions were analysed using inductive content analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that although many schools had transition processes in place, such as school visits and orientation programs, many key evidence-based practices were missing. Key themes that emerged included school-specific transition practices at each level and the importance of home–school collaboration. Overall results indicated a need for a mandated, student-centred planning and support process, guided by evidence-based practice.


Maximally entangled states (MES) represent a valuable resource in quantum information processing. In N-qubit systems the MES are N-GHZ states [i.e., the collection of |GHZ{sub N}>=(1/{radical}(2))(|00...0>+|11...1>)] and its local unitary (LU) equivalences. While it is well known that such states are uniquely stabilized by N commuting observables, in this article we consider the minimum number of noncommuting observables needed to characterize an N-qubit MES as the unique common eigenstate. Here, we prove, rather surprisingly, that in this general case any N-GHZ state can be uniquely stabilized by only two observables. Thus, for the task of MES certification, only two correlated measurements are required with each party observing the spin of his or her system along one of two directions.


Taking into account the historical features of the development of the Russian statehood, the article considers the importance of having a national idea that could spiritually unite the numerous peoples and nationalities of our country. Today, many proposals are put forward on this occasion, among which there is the idea of patriotism — a sense of love for the Motherland, a willingness to sacrifice for it. However, in this capacity, according to many experts, the feeling can not be a national idea, as a driving force in the development of society; it can only be a necessary and obligatory condition for this movement and its development. Using historical examples, the author shows that the national idea cannot exist without the state ideology — a kind of soul of the nation, the value and ideological basis of society, which forms the meaning of the existence of the state and its citizens. It is the state ideology that should form the basis of the national idea and include a whole system of unifying ideals and values that derive from the entire history and culture of the country. Since today the solution of the problem of searching for a national idea largely depends on the attitude to our country abroad, the article suggests using the external image of the country as a living, visual representation of the characteristics of a particular state in the historical, military, demographic, economic, political, recreational, tourist, etc. spheres as the geopolitical contour of the national idea. In this regard, the main directions and performers of the implementation of this proposal are specified.


A polyester film can be dyed by the dye mixture was coated film layer of the mixture is at least one disperse dyestuff in an aqueous suspension of the thickener, a viscosity at ambient temperature of not more than 0.5Pa .s is preferably 5 × 10


A personalized KeyWord Spotting (KWS) pipeline typically requires the training of a Deep Learning model on a large set of user-defined speech utterances, preventing fast customization directly applied on-device. To fill this gap, this paper investigates few-shot learning methods for open-set KWS classification by combining a deep feature encoder with a prototype-based classifier. With user-defined keywords from 10 classes of the Google Speech Command dataset, our study reports an accuracy of up to 76% in a 10-shot scenario while the false acceptance rate of unknown data is kept to 5%. In the analyzed settings, the usage of the triplet loss to train an encoder with normalized output features performs better than the prototypical networks jointly trained with a generator of dummy unknown-class prototypes. This design is also more effective than encoders trained on a classification problem and features fewer parameters than other iso-accuracy approaches.


In my previous study, I proposed a new approach, based on the "branch length similarity" (BLS) entropy, to shape recognition by using the outline of an object's shape. The BLS entropy is defined on a simple branching network consisting of a single node and branches. The outline of an object's shape is composed of a series of pixels, and a simple branching network can be built by joining each pixel with every other pixel on the object's outline. Therefore, a BLS entropy profile is obtained from a series of pixels. In the present study, I explored the robustness of the entropy-profile-based method against noise. I created 20 noise-added shapes with dierent levels of noise interference and compared the original shapes without noise to the noise-added shapes by using correlation coecients. The comparison showed that the BLS entropy profile could be a strong descriptor that characterized a shape under the condition of noise exposure.


This paper first reviews early contributions to modeling and analysis of thermal aspects in grinding. The role of specific energy in the determination of grinding temperatures is then discussed with respect to both chip thickness and grinding aggressiveness. The underlying modeling of cylindrical grinding is given in general terms, enabling calculation of the instantaneous geometry, kinematics and temperature for any workpiece form. The focus is on the recently developed concept of constant-temperature grinding, which entails choosing process parameters based on a thermal model for achieving a constant temperature and then optimizing the grinding process for either shorter cycle times or higher quality while applying constant temperature. Machine limitations — in terms of maximum speed, acceleration, and jerk in the headstock and wheelhead movement — are considered in the optimization. Case studies and experimental work are presented for high-performance industrial cam-lobe grinding used in the automotive industry.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


Amid all the ballyhoo surrounding the bicentenary of the French revolution, and the explosion of scholarly writing which it has produced, the ancien regime which that revolution destroyed has suffered a certain eclipse. The lateness of this review in relation to the publication dates of some of the works it discusses is one symptom of that. The fact that most of them treat the ancien regime largely as a prelude to what followed is another. This is perhaps understandable, but for ancien regime studies it is unfortunate; because among the chief difficulties that have always bedevilled the subject has been a tendency, and temptation, to interpret three centuries of French history not in their own terms but in those of 1789. Only in the later twentieth century has learned study of the pre-revolutionary world begun to emerge from under a tricolour shadow, as something interesting and important in itself. It would be regrettable if renewed preoccupation with the revolution drove it back not least because understanding of the revolution's own origins would be one of the casualties. How much important new work recent decades have produced is reflected in Peter Campbell's concise essay. His aim is to introduce this work and show how it modifies previous views. An initial chapter, accordingly, sets out what he characterizes as ' the old orthodoxy', and subsequent chapters suggest how it has been affected by research in four areas: economy and society, the mind, politics and administration, and finally the end of the ancien regime. Reference is made throughout to a wide range of modern secondary sources, and Dr Campbell has a good eye for a lively quotation. A bibliography of further works to consult is also provided. Yet no critical appraisal is offered of this bald alphabetical list, and important names of the first rank are absent. Where are Betty Behrens, David Parker, Lawrence Brockliss, John Bosher, Michel Morineau ? Two at least of the authors reviewed below were also in print in time for account to be taken of their contributions. (One would have reminded Dr Campbell that Necker was never controller-general.) And the text proves as uneven as the bibliography. Uneasily torn between packing in information and explaining its


CARCINOIDS of the gastrointestinal tract are relatively uncommon. These tumors are most frequently found in the appendix, and Foot 1 reports that 0.46 per cent of all appendixes removed for appendicitis were found to contain carcinoid tumors. The next commonest site for carcinoid tumors is the small bowel, and especially the terminal portion of the ileum. Grimes and Bell 2 and Pearson and Fitzgerald 3 have published recent excellent reviews on the subject. Carcinoid tumors have also been reported in the stomach, duodenum, gallbladder, colon and Meckel's diverticula. The rectum is one of the least common locations of this lesion. Horn 4 in 1949 reviewed thoroughly all previously reported cases of carcinoid of the rectum and added six more to the literature. So far as is known to us, there have been 64 cases of carcinoid of the rectum reported or mentioned in the world literature up to the present


To push realistic learning processes and simulations to extremes far beyond present artificial intelligence, they must be conform with nature and have to follow mathematical logic. To see in full strength the logic structure of nature, the study of basic systems - as hadrons and leptons - is best suited, because ambiguities due a large complexity are reduced to a minimum. To describe such systems, a new quantum theory has been derived recently, in which in addition to the usual treatment of fermions bosons are considered also to fulfill energy and momentum conservation explicitly. With negative binding energies of fermions and positive ones of bosons, the total energy is zero, giving rise to a quantitative description of hadron and lepton properties with uncertainties < 1/1000. In addition, this formalism provides a mechanism, by which particles could be created out of the vacuum, indicating that the universe emerged out of nothing (the vacuum). This leads finally to a realistic view of the cosmic evolution. Further, the present theory can be taken as basis for the description of complex systems in gravity, heavy atoms, molecules, materials and even biological structures.


We present a model of image formation in scanning optical microscopes operating in the optical beam induced current mode. A perturbation analysis is used, a point spread function is introduced, and specific images of point defects obtained. It is found that the resolution is not limited by the diffusion length.


The research concern on how stock performance performs before and after stock split that seen enough through the stock value and stock trading volume or technical analysis also from earning per share and price earning ratio or fundamental analysis. Besides researching and comparing the stock performance, researcher finds which indicator that more significant for the decision making of investment. The comparison of stock performance and more significant indicator before and after stock split are better viewed from technical analysis which is stock value, because each company have quite significant differences when the stock splits. Whereas in trading volume, not every company have significant change, and for fundamental analysis, stock split is not giving any significant differences. In the previous research, written by Kevin L Kemerer in the journal Stock Split and When-Issued Trading: A Test Of The Signaling Theory stated that Although research has indicated that stock-splitting tend to outperform non-splitting firms and has shown the market reacts positively to these announcements there has been inadequate evidence that the positive reaction is related to any future earnings or increased dividends. Signaling theory suggests firms may attempt to send a signal via stock split announcements that they expect to continue to outperform non-stock-splitting firms.


Zealand Ministry for the Environment. All copyright is the property of the Crown. This information may be copied and distributed to others without limitation, provided that the Ministry for the Environment and the providers of the information are acknowledged. Under no circumstances may a charge be made for this information without the express permission of the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment.. Summary Project and Client This report on ways to influence people's behaviour to improve environmental management was prepared for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) by Landcare Research, Lincoln, in May 2002. The Ministry is looking for new approaches that work with multi-stakeholder groups and teams, in particular those which improve motivation, information flows, and collaborative learning.